I don't know. The value of many people's lifetime work just goes astray time and time again in the highly volatile securities markets in which the pension funds and pensioners themselves heavily invest into. Has the value vaporized or been turned into the hands of speculators, market middlemen, or some other party?

How will the possible eventual dismantlement of RIM look like? Anyway, what a loss for Canada as a nation.

It's been reported that beside the presence of an Apple store knockoff in China, there's also a knavish Ikea store copycat in China. Gee.

I want to study orbs and orbits, from the mathematical perspective.

Are those termed as "spheres" in Mathematics? I did my high school in China, so I don't know the exact English names of those mathematical objects.

Pic - Tellus (a.k.a. Terra)

(By ortygia / http://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_ulrich/4187205643/ / CC)

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Ara Pacis: Tellus Relief

From the east side of the Augustan altar of Peace (Ara Pacis) in Rome. Roman marble relief of "Tellus" (the identification is controversial). A velate female holds two babies; personifications of winds (aurai) flank her.

Date: 13-9 B.C. Set up in honor of Augustus.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_ulrich/4187205643/

In Roman mythology, Tellus, a.k.a. Terra, is a goddess personifying the Earth.

By the way, I suspect that the Telus Corporation, one of the few big telecom carriers in Canada, is named after the ancient Roman goddess Tellus.

Old age comes anon. That for sure will be how I'll feel.

I'm especially intrigued by the notion of the dissipation of economic rents in Economics. That must be positively related to competition in the marketplace.

In addition, the economies of scope also somewhat intrigues me.

It's been said that lots of people experienced glee when they saw Murdoch is in trouble due to the scandal of his News of the World paper.

Has Sohu.com always been a mere knockoff?

Economic recessions and uncertainties have been mantling our Earth during last several years. Is there a proper attitude to face them?

After all, our world is a set of highly interdependent nations and individuals. People's demands for goods and services are always there to be met. People just postpone the placement of orders which would fulfill their demands sooner or later.

It's reported that Edmonton, Alberta has become the capital of crime of Canada. And it's said that many of the offenses having happened over there are related to drugs and young people from elsewhere seeking opportunities in the booming Alberta.

Well, why is the fluid group of mobile job seekers associated with drug problems?

Wry and (somewhat?) unclean industries

To some or a large degree, the Canadian government controls the gambling and lotteries industries because by doing so, it can supplant illegal activities in those areas which surely would happen due to the human nature and would usually be gang-related and gang-controlled otherwise. So the government runs those industries which inherently aren't clean. Think about the wryness of that.

裝B不是你的錯。但裝B裝到讓人有看到大海的感覺就是你的錯了。

People use tropical expressions to illustrate their points. How logical or accurate is that process?

Money is an inanimate thing. It's a token of value, or economic value, so to speak.

"But you ...", K squealed a bit, raising his voice.

I think that every programming language textbook should introduce a little bit of the stored-program concept, which is very fundamental.

Once the myth that one can get a lot of rewards from pursuing an MBA degree is debunked further and further, one can deallocate at least two years of his life by not getting into a B school.

I feel that in the moments other than now, we human beings live in our own feelings instead of in the physical world.

For instance, how much do our possessed feelings and emotions distort the memory of our real past years?

It seems that one's plasticity is negatively proportional to his path dependence. Is it correct?