Forrest Higgs

My God, Michael! You’ve turned into such a bottom feeder since you went in the tank for Obama last year. You don’t even have the decency to say that your basis points are 0.01 degrees C and that that big 100 that the temperature has spent 120 years crawling up to is really 1 degree C. I used to enjoy reading your stuff, but you’ve turned into such a obfuscating loser that it’s pathetic.

The big problem for gays or any other combination of people wanting to live in an intimate relationship is that there is a huge overburden of family law that affects and limits such relationships. I, for one, wish the state would get out of the business of deciding how people relate to each other and let the whole shebang be dealt with by civil contract. It certainly wouldn’t be any messier than the ridiculous body of family we currently have and would force people to think very hard before entering into such a relationship.

Well, if you were rooting for the USSR as the model of how societies ought to be organised, I suspect that you’d be justified in feeling that way, hey?

The hedge funds lent money to Chrysler when nobody else would with the perfectly legal understanding that in the event of a bankruptcy they would have priority in the distribution of the proceeds from the company’s liquidation. Chrysler and everybody else knew perfectly well that that was the case.

What is trying to happen is that Obama and the Democrats, who have been bought and paid for by unions such as the UAW, have conspired to seize the company and effectively hand it over to the UAW. What Obama and his thugs are trying to do is nothing short of banditry.

The funds have taken the issue to court. I expect that it will go all the way to the Supreme Court and that the Supremes will rule in favour of the funds. There is really no other outcome.

This last year I built an analysis and training app for a client that was hugely calculation intensive. We knew we needed the app, but had been batting around how to actually enable it for the past year. Last month, my client bit the bullet and built the app into a larger cloud-based computing management package.

Insofar as cost-effectvieness goes, I suspect that going onto a cloud has saved my client perhaps 90-95% of the cost of what it would have paid to bring the kind of computational capacity needed in-house. As you might expect they are VERY happy to have got into cloud computing.

I’ve been told that depending on the cloud for baseline computing tasks isn’t really cost effective since most vendors slam you with a very hefty bandwidth charge that you don’t face when you have your own server farm. For sporadic loads, however, the economics of going to a cloud app are extremely attractive.