All Forum Posts by: Carlton Ellis

It's amazing nobody's mentioned an effective male contraceptive similar to the pill. Of course there are too many people with "Holier than thou" solutions to make such a suggestion. The real issue here is that in many cases these children are a result of relationship where the man's primary interest was just sex, not a long term relationship. Given the choice a lot of men would opt for a greater ability to control their ability to get a woman pregnant without the encumberances of a condom. If we can get an effective male contraceptive it would go a long way toward solving the phenomena of unplanned pregnancies.

On another note so many people are against the expansion fo government but on the other hand they have no problem proposing government sanctions for people's sexual behavior. What's up with that? Or is just O.K. to use government to advance certain moral adgenda's?

That is a root of a lot of our national problems. We have become "By the corporation for the corporation" instead of "By the people for the people." In many ways we are a democracy in name only. Too many politicians are brought and paid for by business interest and no longer put the public good at the center of government policy.

Unless your real estate purchases are 100% financed by you then you are taking on debt to make a purchase. As many people have experienced in this current housing crises the asset they purchased in no longer worth the value of their mortgage. That is a risk that is inherent in any real estate purchased financed by debt.

Granted you may be more comfortable with the type of risk you are taking but in the end that is really the only signficant difference.

I was actually watching the PBS show Nova the other night and they explored the issue of emotion and the role it plays in determining market prices and how this manifested itself in the current financial crises. If people get too confident and they think prices are going to continue to rise they will keep buying at higher prices. Eventually it will reach point where that is no longer true and a sharp decline in prices will occur. So the issue isn't if prices in Sydney will decline it's when.

If you position yourself properly now you will have a great investment opportunity sometime in the future.

You bring up a good point. I have a mobile broadband card for my laptop and it's an additional expense but worth it to me when I am out and about and don't have access to a WiFi or network connection. How many people are going to willing to pay the extra money for connectivity?

Actually there are several tablet products on the market. In fact, Wired magazine did a recent review of these producs on their web site. Again I have to give Apple their props in terms of marketing. You are a perfect example. You believe there are no other products like the iPad simply because they haven't been as widely publicized.