You're going to love the musical chairs. Congresswoman Jane Harmon was JUST RE-ELECTED. Now she's leaving to join a "thinktank". and the newly elected secretary of state wants to take her position. way to WASTE our time.
What's hysterical is that if the State of Oregon had a clue, they'd be exploiting the mass suicide of California. Imagine how many businesses we could attract?
Told y'all gas prices are going to skyrocket. California is higher than Alaska and Hawaii. just wait until the carbon climate bullshit comes. $6 gas! Plus with the closing of BP refineries in Cali = mega fucked!
There will be a 3-6 month period when the Las Vegas real estate market skyrockets. That period will coincide with the mass exodus of Californians moving out of the state. When the rest of the moronic Californians all lose their jobs and can no longer buy the homes the original group was selling to leave, the bubble will burst again. I watched a rerun of House Hunters last night and saw a couple of doctors buy a 4000 sq/ft house on a nice lot for 1.8 million. The house was cool and needed upgrading but 1.8 million?????? Holy shit. You should see the mansions you can buy here for that much.
I'd move to Vegas. Gotta find a jobby job there though. I'd love to be a casino host. that would be so pimp.
Google is not a social media company - but I agree, Facebook and Twitter are overpriced - Does not mean that they do not have a real market with real revenues. I would be careful about investing in Apple stocks as well - but there should be no worries what-so-ever about their viability long term. FWIW - real-estate prices in SoCal seem to start going up. The social-network/mobile Gaming business is also going to explode and is going to take a lot of the game-console revenues.
everyone I know is buying homes (or trying to) right now. Prices are about right, now actually. Most of the desirable neighborhoods never really fluctuated though. Apple is going to get fucked if Jobs dies. They'll still have the product but much of the cult following will go with jobs. There is a bidding war with Google and Facebook in a rush to hire as many good people as possible and stealing each other. Once facebook falls on its ass it will kind of hurt the entire market again. Google will always make good money with android and their search, I think they're going to really fuck up their Chrome OS launch, personally. I do think the next boom will be in Artificial Intelligence. we'll see how that goes. I think Google will probably be big players in that. California is going to be fucked if Brown doesn't keep the high taxes for everything. They are set to expire in June and all signs point to voters probably slamming it down.
Everything fell big time - the idea that things did not fluctuated is flat out wrong. What is indicative, imho - is that you see California's real-estate market actually gaining a percent or two in the last 6 months - where most of the country is still falling. Portland, for example, fell around 10% in the last 6 months. They are at the point where they are going to, at the worst, still flat-line if not grow - they are the leader in 3 of the biggest consumer tech markets - smart phones, PC replacements and media/app purchase for mobile applications. I do not think Chrome OS is that important to them - they are just working extra hard to make a commodity of the people they consider as their competitors - Apple and Microsoft, for example. That's why they give Android and will give Chrome OS away, practically. I do not see how this is going to be anything other than a small enabling technology for things people really care about. Been around the "next big thing is AI" twice already in my professional career. Not buying it as anything more than a tool that no-one other than the geeks will care about. Where we are just starting to tap into growth is in the mobile and embedded world - you will probably see 5 - 10 more years of growth in that area.
AI will be there soon. We're in the early stages with "suggestions". Its a simple algorithm that will predict how you will think. It'll evolve more in the future for things like location based adverts, etc.
Seeing an IBM computer beat some all-time greats at Jeopardy was a real eye-opener to me at how far AI has already come. It's not that far of a stretch anymore to see how we could be able to submit a list of medical symptoms online using everyday language and get a prognosis that could rival or even surpass the quality of a trained doctor. Computers are already doing the work that thousands of attorneys and legal clerks used to do in data analysis. People tend to think of computers as something that replaces menial labor. AI is going to rapidly change all that. The really interesting question will be how AI impacts the overall economy. Say that we right now spend $100 billion/year to pay doctors to diagnose patients in this country. (This number is just my wild guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's close.) If a search engine can do 75% of that work automatically for a few billion dollars, that turns it into a $27 billion/year industry. That's a lot of highly trained people who are used to making serious cash who'll see a huge cut in pay. This could potentially make a few companies in California very rich, and a lot of individuals across the country much poorer. And not just in medicine. Engineering, legal, accounting, logistics, finance....the list goes on and on.
