A lot of push back here.

PS  Of course we know you were kidding . . . . . . . .  right?

I have just opted-in, 100 files, good sellers and all. I mean seriously, Im against it but what the heck, it cant get any worse? or at least thats what I keep telling myself.

Funny going through ones own shots really, I am actually a great photographer!!  possibly the best!  well at least among the 3 best, globally I mean.

You too?  Welcome to the club! 

Is Photolibrary the same company that Zoonar is partnered with . . .  I am getting all confused.

War Is a Racket

"War Is a Racket"  is the title of two works by retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley D. Butler.

In 1934 he was involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot (or White House Putsch) when he told a congressional committee that a group from Wall Street had approached him to lead a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Quote form  Smedley D. Butler:

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.�

There has been a lot of talk why it took 10 years to capture bin Laden.  First fact, the Taliban offered to turn Bin Laden over to an Islamic Court in Saudi Arabia  two weeks after 9/11 for trial but  this was refused by the Bush administration.  Bin Laden would have surely been convicted as a criminal and thus diffuse the terrible history of the last 10 years..

Like all comic books, the hero can only be defined by how bad the villain is . . .  the Bush administration needed a �face of fear� to pursue its real goal which was to privatize the Iraqi oil fields thus bringing great profits to Bush and Cheney's supporters.  Bush never wanted to capture bin Laden, he himself said �I don't know where he is and don't give him much thought�.  On the other hand it was Obama's policy from the beginning of his Administration to capture bin Laden so making it more politically possible to leave Afghanistan. It took him two years to accomplish his election promise. Good on him, so now lets get . out . . . . . .

They were showing a photo on Sky TV when I turned the TV on at 7am this morning.

There's a photo here that looks like it was taken from the TV screen.  Don't look if your squeamish.  It looks like him but he looks a lot younger than I thought he would, the photo has been dropped from the TV, perhaps because they have doubts that it's real?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-photo-of-al-qaeda-leader-s-body-115875-23101910/

edit:- looks like a photoshop job. http://i.imgur.com/dSuE6.png

Hey, you are right.  Here are two crops next to each other (a little contrast added) . . . .  just look at the highlights in each image, they are exactly the same.  Taken from http://i.imgur.com/dSuE6.png

The body has already been buried according to Islamic Law . . . . . .  conspiracies anyone?

Quote from: etienjones on April 30, 2011, 02:56

Its the National Budget Deficit and not the trade deficit that is weakening the dollar in my view...".

What evidence do you base that on?  Over the last 5 years the dollar has been higher and it has been lower against most international currencies (exception might be the Swiss Franc).  If there was any great fear of the dollar dropping badly interest rates should be going up but 10 year TBill is about as low as it has ever been in the last 40 years and the 30 year Treasury is at 4.40%!  If people are willing to lend the U.S. money at that rate for 30 years they must have some confidence in the dollar.

fred

There are doubts about the health of the country's economy even though Geithner as said �We will never seek to weaken our currency as a tool to gain competitive advantage or to grow the economy.� . . . . . .  maybe.

S&P has recently suggested that that the United States' AAA credit rating �could� be downgraded.

The second-largest holder of Treasury debt, China, has stepped up rhetoric hinting that they might diversify their massive $3 trillion of currency reserves away from U.S. dollars.

Alan Greenspan has even attributed the dollar's weakness to large Federal budget deficits.

And who is buying all those government bonds.  The Fed has bought up hundreds of billions of dollars of  long-term U.S. Treasuries (QE2)

Its the National Budget Deficit and not the trade deficit that is weakening the dollar in my view. After 30 years of Globalization, the large corporations have become trans-national with no national allegiance,  their lobbyists have bought enough politicians to rig the tax codes so they pay no real taxes, . . . . . Example: GE  had immense profits last year and payed no US taxes, in fact they claimed a rebate of $2 billion .  Exxon, which has become the most profitable company in history with immense profits,  pays not taxes . . .  they also got $150 million back from American tax payers.  That and the fact that the top 5%  of US tax payers have a effective tax rate of 16.5% says to to me that those Lobbyists have done their job over the years . . . .  the US is now a Oligarchy . . . . . .  their job now is to remove the rest of the New Deal, which the Republicans have just voted 100% to do in their latest budget in the House.

Sorry to non-Americans for this rant, but this is a family fight that does in the longer run effect everyone.

I noticed that under Photographer on Profile page you can now request addition to Yay's API program (3 sites) . . . . . Linda did promise this function.

I spoke to soon, now I have 10 . . . . . . can anybody beat that.  Maybe I sold each 10 times . . . . . . 

I had never heard of this slang, and it sounds a bit unprofessional to use a slang for something that is supposed to be a serious financial site. Paypal sounds smarter to me.  

Were Google and Skype also originated from slangs?

I always thought Google came from Googol.

A googol is the large number 10 to the 100 power, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros:

 
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

from Wikipedia:

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol,"

Nikon also . . . . . .

http://www.photoweeklyonline.com/operations-suspended-at-nikon-dslr-factory-in-japan/

"Injury is reported to some of our group employees. We are currently continuing to gather safety information of our personnel and its family members."

Our hearts go out to the Japanese people.