Classic case of garbage in garbage out. If you are selling mortgages to people who can not afford them and getting them approved by using phoney income numbers is it any wonder it blew up? What caused the meltdown was not securities or CDS or quaints or a piece of software. It was fraud plain and simple. Fraud on a massive and unprecedented scale; committed by lenders banks and ordinary citizens all trying to cheat the system.
Energy savings are great but what you save in energy you may loose elsewhere. For example, lets say the average user spends 4 mins a day waiting for their computer to boot up or shut down. Over a year they have to do this 5 times a week for 22 weeks assuming 4 weeks for vacation, holiday and sick days. That is 300 times. This takes up 20 hours. If you factor in salary and benefits this far outstrips the cost of the energy to run the computer. Ultimately, for power management to be successful it has to be seamless and not inconvenience the worker.
Bell's theory states that either the universe is non-local or quantum theory is incorrect. Palmer argues that quantum theory is incorrect in so far that the measurements it makes fall outside of the possible states of the universe and are therefore invalid.
Well that's is not completely true. There are certain religious groups that specifically limit medical intervention such as the Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses. Personally I feel that many right wing groups take the sanctity of life argument way too far. The day is coming where nearly anyone can be kept alive through artificial means indefinitely. After all, what is the fundamental difference between keeping someone on life support and keeping their head in a jar like in Futurama or cryo-freezing them? The very same people would argue that the last two are a gross perversion of science yet are perfectly fine with keeping people alive far beyond their natural limits with forced feeding and artificial resuscitation.
I completely agree here. As a nation that purportedly supports family values we give very little leeway in allowing couples the leeway to actually have a family. Children are not just a woman's issue. The US falls far behind the rest of the industrialized world in both maternity and paternity leave. It seems in the US when it comes to protecting the children it stops as soon as someone has to pony up money. We defiantly have to fight letting our children see anything remotely sexual and learning about safe sex in school but when it comes to actually giving parents the support they need to properly raise children, well that is just socialist.
You have to have committed a crime in the first place for jury nullification to take place. If you haven't actually broken the law there is nothing to change.
It seems to me that one huge portion of the fallout came from using the model too far away from its underlying securities. The model is necessarily optimistic. As you apply it recursively you strip out more and more of the underlying uncertainty and move further from reality. The thing is traders need uncertainty. Uncertainty yields margins. A very safe security is safe but not profitable. To create higher margins these securities were leveraged. Leveraging creates a well defined risk if you know the underlying risk of what you are leveraging but by this time the underlying risk was so far removed from the model that people were probabilistically in the hole so deep that all it took was a small ripple for everything to fall apart.
When a trader has more risk then he is aware of he becomes underfunded. When the bad debt came to bear they found themselves leveraged so deep they could not pay. To pay they had to liquidate. This drove the stocks lower which caused more traders to default which caused more liquidations in a vicious cycle that is reminiscent of the foreclosure cycle that caused all of this to begin with.
And waits of 4 hours are not common in the US? I've been to the emergency room 3 times in my life. Not once have I waited less then 3 hours and this is with good insurance.
The US has more to lose from a space arms race then any other country. The US has a huge operational advantage in space compared to any other nation. If we were to go to war against China they would gladly sacrifice all there satellites to destroy all of ours. The same is true for any country. There is also the very real danger of space warfare leaving a cloud of debris so thick that it becomes self perpetuating and renders most of today's orbits unusable for years. Really the US have nothing to gain by starting a new space race.
Because a civilization exists for a long time doesn't mean it has spread through the galaxy. Why would a civilization want to spread out all over the galaxy to begin with?
1) Limited resources. A sufficiently advanced civilization would not need more resources. They would be able harness enough solar/fusion/bio energy to easily support themselves.
2) Limited space. On earth, societies with a high level of education tend to have negative population growth. There is no convincing evidence that an advanced society would face the problem of overcrowding. On the contrary, a sufficiently advanced civilization may have a very small population with robots doing most of the labor.
3) Protection from planet killing events. Small scale events like asteroids would be easy for an advanced society to deal with. Large scale events like a supernova would doom every living thing within hundreds of light years. Continuing the civilization else where is a romantic idea but not really much use to those on the doomed world unless they had...
4) Faster then light travel. Easy to use faster then light travel would unlock the possibilities for having a far ranging galactic civilization but if you have faster then light travel you would also need faster then light communication. We would not be able to pick up these communications so we would be oblivious even if they were on Mars beaming right at us.
It depends on your local policy but yes you can. They are supposed to install a line filter to remove the analog channels from the internet service if you do this.
It is a myth that you can sell consoles for a large loss and make up for that in games. No console has ever had an attach rate high enough to take a $150 loss on each unit and still make money. This is not even factoring in shipping, support, development and operating expenses.
You seem to have an odd notion of tween girls. Hello kitty is going the most hardcore mmo ever seen on the face of the planet. If your friends list isn't longer then the yellow pages and you don't have every one of the latest nick-nacks to decorate your kitty house you might as well be dead.
First physical changes do not equate to behavioral changes. You can not change someones sexuality through hormones. It has been tried many times without any positive results.
Secondly Estrogen has no bearing on your voice. Vocal cords do not shrink under the influence of estrogen.
That is absolutely not true. It has been long established they you can not "Treat" Homosexuality by playing with hormones. It had been tried for years with no real success. The "Treatment" the medical community used to give homosexuals was absolutely inhumane. If constant does of mind altering drugs, hormones, electroshock "therapy", and physical and verbal abuse can not change a persons sexual preference I'm of the opinion that nothing will.
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Classic case of garbage in garbage out. If you are selling mortgages to people who can not afford them and getting them approved by using phoney income numbers is it any wonder it blew up? What caused the meltdown was not securities or CDS or quaints or a piece of software. It was fraud plain and simple. Fraud on a massive and unprecedented scale; committed by lenders banks and ordinary citizens all trying to cheat the system.
Energy savings are great but what you save in energy you may loose elsewhere. For example, lets say the average user spends 4 mins a day waiting for their computer to boot up or shut down. Over a year they have to do this 5 times a week for 22 weeks assuming 4 weeks for vacation, holiday and sick days. That is 300 times. This takes up 20 hours. If you factor in salary and benefits this far outstrips the cost of the energy to run the computer. Ultimately, for power management to be successful it has to be seamless and not inconvenience the worker.
Bell's theory states that either the universe is non-local or quantum theory is incorrect. Palmer argues that quantum theory is incorrect in so far that the measurements it makes fall outside of the possible states of the universe and are therefore invalid.
There is no reasoning with someone who believes in an omnipresent, omnipotent, infallible being.
Well that's is not completely true. There are certain religious groups that specifically limit medical intervention such as the Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses. Personally I feel that many right wing groups take the sanctity of life argument way too far. The day is coming where nearly anyone can be kept alive through artificial means indefinitely. After all, what is the fundamental difference between keeping someone on life support and keeping their head in a jar like in Futurama or cryo-freezing them? The very same people would argue that the last two are a gross perversion of science yet are perfectly fine with keeping people alive far beyond their natural limits with forced feeding and artificial resuscitation.
I completely agree here. As a nation that purportedly supports family values we give very little leeway in allowing couples the leeway to actually have a family. Children are not just a woman's issue. The US falls far behind the rest of the industrialized world in both maternity and paternity leave. It seems in the US when it comes to protecting the children it stops as soon as someone has to pony up money. We defiantly have to fight letting our children see anything remotely sexual and learning about safe sex in school but when it comes to actually giving parents the support they need to properly raise children, well that is just socialist.
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And how many billions have you made? What separates you from people like Bill Gates and Henry Ford? Timing and Luck.
Of they could be using the case as ammunition to get the laws in Sweden changed. Never ascribe to ignorance what could be ascribed to greed.
You have to have committed a crime in the first place for jury nullification to take place. If you haven't actually broken the law there is nothing to change.
It seems to me that one huge portion of the fallout came from using the model too far away from its underlying securities. The model is necessarily optimistic. As you apply it recursively you strip out more and more of the underlying uncertainty and move further from reality. The thing is traders need uncertainty. Uncertainty yields margins. A very safe security is safe but not profitable. To create higher margins these securities were leveraged. Leveraging creates a well defined risk if you know the underlying risk of what you are leveraging but by this time the underlying risk was so far removed from the model that people were probabilistically in the hole so deep that all it took was a small ripple for everything to fall apart.
When a trader has more risk then he is aware of he becomes underfunded. When the bad debt came to bear they found themselves leveraged so deep they could not pay. To pay they had to liquidate. This drove the stocks lower which caused more traders to default which caused more liquidations in a vicious cycle that is reminiscent of the foreclosure cycle that caused all of this to begin with.
And waits of 4 hours are not common in the US? I've been to the emergency room 3 times in my life. Not once have I waited less then 3 hours and this is with good insurance.
Sure if you plan on powering your MP3 player or phone by walking in a giant wheel.
The US has more to lose from a space arms race then any other country. The US has a huge operational advantage in space compared to any other nation. If we were to go to war against China they would gladly sacrifice all there satellites to destroy all of ours. The same is true for any country. There is also the very real danger of space warfare leaving a cloud of debris so thick that it becomes self perpetuating and renders most of today's orbits unusable for years. Really the US have nothing to gain by starting a new space race.
Because a civilization exists for a long time doesn't mean it has spread through the galaxy. Why would a civilization want to spread out all over the galaxy to begin with?
1) Limited resources.
A sufficiently advanced civilization would not need more resources. They would be able harness enough solar/fusion/bio energy to easily support themselves.
2) Limited space.
On earth, societies with a high level of education tend to have negative population growth. There is no convincing evidence that an advanced society would face the problem of overcrowding. On the contrary, a sufficiently advanced civilization may have a very small population with robots doing most of the labor.
3) Protection from planet killing events.
Small scale events like asteroids would be easy for an advanced society to deal with. Large scale events like a supernova would doom every living thing within hundreds of light years. Continuing the civilization else where is a romantic idea but not really much use to those on the doomed world unless they had...
4) Faster then light travel.
Easy to use faster then light travel would unlock the possibilities for having a far ranging galactic civilization but if you have faster then light travel you would also need faster then light communication. We would not be able to pick up these communications so we would be oblivious even if they were on Mars beaming right at us.
The difference between Sony and Nintendo is Sony tried to change how games are programed while Nintendo tried to change how games are played.
Its actually a completely reasonable goal. If they stop making cars now then it will be likely that no one will be killed in one. come 2020.
It depends on your local policy but yes you can. They are supposed to install a line filter to remove the analog channels from the internet service if you do this.
Or they could just... increase the gas tax. I know. Its a maverick idea.
That is including VAT. If you assume 20% VAT the actual "cost" would be 320Ã.
It is a myth that you can sell consoles for a large loss and make up for that in games. No console has ever had an attach rate high enough to take a $150 loss on each unit and still make money. This is not even factoring in shipping, support, development and operating expenses.
Funny joke but the reality is poultry is, for the most part, artificially inseminated. This is true for most of the meat produced around the world.
You seem to have an odd notion of tween girls. Hello kitty is going the most hardcore mmo ever seen on the face of the planet. If your friends list isn't longer then the yellow pages and you don't have every one of the latest nick-nacks to decorate your kitty house you might as well be dead.
First physical changes do not equate to behavioral changes. You can not change someones sexuality through hormones. It has been tried many times without any positive results.
Secondly Estrogen has no bearing on your voice. Vocal cords do not shrink under the influence of estrogen.
That is absolutely not true. It has been long established they you can not "Treat" Homosexuality by playing with hormones. It had been tried for years with no real success. The "Treatment" the medical community used to give homosexuals was absolutely inhumane. If constant does of mind altering drugs, hormones, electroshock "therapy", and physical and verbal abuse can not change a persons sexual preference I'm of the opinion that nothing will.