In my city (Apple Valley, MN) they were trying to put up some municipal WiFi towers last year. I went to some of the public meetings so that I could see if it would be economical for me to switch, the speeds, and other technical stuff. The nut jobs came out of the wood work. People claiming that this was going to give everyone cancer, mess up their electronics, destroy the aesthetics of the city (never understood this one with all of the big box retailers, gravel pits, urban sprawl, and concrete pipe factory), and then there were the people who were "EM sensitive".
My wife got concerned since she kept hearing from all of these stories about how bad this was, she gets overly concerned with everything. The nearest tower to our house was about going to be just under half a mile away and I think the power rating on them was something like 100 watts. These were omnidirectional antennas, so the way I tried to explain it to my wife was that the power she would receive from these would be substantially less than that of a car with both its high beams on at the same distance (basically unidirectional) and that seemed to quite her down. As soon as some of the towers were erected some people complained about headaches and other problems even though they weren't turned on. I had mentioned at one of these meetings that you should be more concerned about your neighbors microwave oven than these thing but that will never calm those who believe they are EM sensitive.
Syndicate Wars had this feature in it as well. Killing civilians was something you weren't suppose to do and there were swarms of them that would go running in terror if you had weapons out. This game ran well on a 486 DX2 66 with 8mb ram. I am not sure if the original Syndicate (1993) had the same thing as I never played that but it ran well on a 386. Granted these were 3rd person strategy/shooter sprite based games but hardware has improved substantially in the 18 or 15 years since these games came out.
But you see this doesn't make the recording companies any money. Do you really think the government gives a crap about the artist even if they are multimillionaires where there are companies that rake in billions.
Or just drive a vehicle that looks like parts might fall off at any moment, or burns oil at a good clip. If you really wanted to get creative you could setup your own smoke screen setup and run a vacuum line into a valve attached to an oil bottle.
You have never driven a vehicle without power assisted breaks. The braking force one applies is trivial compared to the power assist that the break booster provides. If you want to see for you self, go drive up to the top of a hill, shut your car off pump the breaks 3-4 times to purge the vacuum ball until the break pedal becomes firm, now put the car into neutral (it is still not running) and let it roll down the hill. Now see how hard you have to press to get the car to stop. The same thing applies to power steering only that isn't vacuum assist, try turning the steering wheel of a vehicle that is not running.
Then do I have the device for you it is a spring loaded 2x4 that will smack them upside the head when a driver is not paying attention to the road or driving poorly.
Why the hell should you care what the people behind you think. If you really wanted to get them to not follow you so closely run a vacuum hose into the passenger compartment and have a valve connected to a bottle of oil, then when they get too close just open the valve and they will back off. Either that or just drive a really crappy car with a wood bumper a 6x2 bolted on does wonders for getting people to stop following you.
You have never driven on 494 through Bloomington/Richfield in Minnesota during rush hour. I have seen people stop in their lane so that they can get over thus blocking traffic. Apparently the people who study traffic patterns have never seen people:
1. stop at the end of on ramps
2. stop in traffic so they can wait for an opening in the other lane wile the road in front of them is now open and clear now
3. cut across 3 lanes of traffic to get off on the ramp they are about to pass
4. ride the breaks
5. drive 10 to 15 mph under the speed limit when the weather is fine on a sunny summer day
6. drive 10 mph over the speed limit when the roads are covered in ice and snow
7. be unable to stay in their own damn lane (like they are drunk or need their phone shoved up their ass)
8. pass on the shoulders
9. drive the car like it has only 2 settings, speed up or slow down, my sister drives like this the car is either accelerating or slowing down even when there is not traffic around
10. weave through traffic on a motorcycle
So tell me o wise one how does your magical system correct for all of these deficient drivers. Personally I think we need German style traffic enforcement and driver training that would solve most of these problems.
No, because the original guy isn't going any faster than you. Which means there is less space, which means you have to slow down to recover it. Which will:
1. Allow another idiot to slip in perpetuating the process
2. Piss off everyone behind you
So that is why I have a horn, and I don't care about the people behind me. If they are following too closely and rear end me my car will get fixed and their insurance will go up. Every car accident I have ever been in has been someone else hitting me, the first was some drug addict who was so high he didn't know where he was and the second was a high schooler that merged into the rear end of my car while I was turning. Apparently the high school girl didn't like that traffic ahead of her was slowing down (the cars behind me as I was making a right hand turn) and sped up past them and them merged back into the lane I was turning out of hitting the rear of my car and spinning it into a fire hydrant.
Well maybe if you don't have idiots passing on shoulders. Or psychos on motorcycles weaving through traffic at about 100. Every time I see these I think I should make up some stop sticks to pitch out the window onto the shoulder, or just open the car door right in front of the biker.
Really so if I am limited to only 50 trades in a lifetime then what about my monthly company stock purchase? I can only do it for 4 years and 2 months and then never be able to sell those shares that sucks balls.
My understanding is that HFT get to see incoming orders before they are processed and then react to them. So lets say that some orders come in one says I would like to sell 1000 shares of stock x at $10.00 a share and one of the other orders comes in and says I would like to buy 1000 shares of stock x at $10.01. In this case the HFT puts in an order to buy 1000 shares of stock x at $10.00 a share and then puts in an order to sell 1000 shares of stock x at $10.01 a share. They have effectively skimmed $10.00 out of the system. Now go and do this several million times an hour and bingo you now are skimming truck loads of money out of the system. they probably make even less per share but this is just an example with easy numbers.
The only problem I have is that they have access to information that I don't since they get to preview the incoming orders and execute orders based off of that information before the orders they got to view get processed. How about we just remove that ability and the problem will solve itself. Then I don't have a problem with any idiot who wants to sell a stock in the same second they bought it.
I would say the should be able to do it but with the same information that everyone else has. They shouldn't get to preview other orders coming in like they currently do. Oh wait that would remove the incentive to do crap like this as they would then be equal to us plebs then and they can't have that.
Yes and no. For those on Wall Street it is like gambling (specifically like playing black jack and knowing what the dealers down card is and what the next 10 cards in the shoe are) but for regular people who have investments for retirement and other long term goals not so much.
There was 'no direct evidence' that the computer trading in itself increased volatility, it said, but in specific circumstances it was possible for a series of events with 'undesired interactions and outcomes' to occur and cause massive damage.
Apparently they are unaware of the 1000 point drop in the Dow last year that appears to have been caused by HFT.
Have you ever tried contacting the lawyer suggesting that he use encryption. As you are in Canada and the lawyer is in the US you wouldn't be subject to the US laws. I have actually had a similar problem but where people try to send me thing but it goes to a different person in the company. Apparently there is another person with the same first and last name as mine in the company but they are over in England. If I ever get a chance to go over to England I may have to look him up. Every once in a great while I get some of his e-mail because someone selected the wrong one of us from the world wide address book.
We had some "security" training here at work about just that topic a couple of months ago. Basically what I gathered is that it is similar to the BS in EULAs that they put in there just in case case law or an actual law is written that makes it enforceable. But in general those notices carry no weight.
But how do you expect a HR drone to be able to know what an OO language is. I have never been impressed with HR people as I have talked with some on the phone who had no idea what the company actually did. They knew they did something with computers but beyond that nothing.
Usually with motor mounts I just use a hydraulic floor jack and jack the engine up. So you don't dent the oil pan get a wide board something like a 2x8 or 2x12 that is a foot or so long and put that between the jack and oil pan to spread out the force. When I pulled the engine and transmission it was both at the same time, granted it wasn't that heavy of a setup (from a 68 MG Midget) but it was an easy job, one arm to lift and lower, one arm to move it out of the engine bay. I am surprised that you actually got your wife to help you work on a vehicle I can't even get mine to check the oil on her car, or check the tire pressure.
After being in the programming field for a while now it seems that often companies that post those kind of job listings are looking for a reason to hire H1-B people. They can now legitimately go and say the couldn't find an American worker with that experience since obviously the job requires it and then hire some cheap labor. The other case is that it is a HR issue since they are told to find a senior programmer with experience with technology X. Technology x may only have been around for 2 or 3 years, but the HR drone immediately thinks they need someone with 10+ years of experience with technology x and then filter you out because you don't have that experience. I had that problem when I graduated college and companies were looking for people with 10 years of java experience even though the language had only been around for 5 years or so at that time
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In my city (Apple Valley, MN) they were trying to put up some municipal WiFi towers last year. I went to some of the public meetings so that I could see if it would be economical for me to switch, the speeds, and other technical stuff. The nut jobs came out of the wood work. People claiming that this was going to give everyone cancer, mess up their electronics, destroy the aesthetics of the city (never understood this one with all of the big box retailers, gravel pits, urban sprawl, and concrete pipe factory), and then there were the people who were "EM sensitive".
My wife got concerned since she kept hearing from all of these stories about how bad this was, she gets overly concerned with everything. The nearest tower to our house was about going to be just under half a mile away and I think the power rating on them was something like 100 watts. These were omnidirectional antennas, so the way I tried to explain it to my wife was that the power she would receive from these would be substantially less than that of a car with both its high beams on at the same distance (basically unidirectional) and that seemed to quite her down. As soon as some of the towers were erected some people complained about headaches and other problems even though they weren't turned on. I had mentioned at one of these meetings that you should be more concerned about your neighbors microwave oven than these thing but that will never calm those who believe they are EM sensitive.
Syndicate Wars had this feature in it as well. Killing civilians was something you weren't suppose to do and there were swarms of them that would go running in terror if you had weapons out. This game ran well on a 486 DX2 66 with 8mb ram. I am not sure if the original Syndicate (1993) had the same thing as I never played that but it ran well on a 386. Granted these were 3rd person strategy/shooter sprite based games but hardware has improved substantially in the 18 or 15 years since these games came out.
But you see this doesn't make the recording companies any money. Do you really think the government gives a crap about the artist even if they are multimillionaires where there are companies that rake in billions.
Or just drive a vehicle that looks like parts might fall off at any moment, or burns oil at a good clip. If you really wanted to get creative you could setup your own smoke screen setup and run a vacuum line into a valve attached to an oil bottle.
You have never driven a vehicle without power assisted breaks. The braking force one applies is trivial compared to the power assist that the break booster provides. If you want to see for you self, go drive up to the top of a hill, shut your car off pump the breaks 3-4 times to purge the vacuum ball until the break pedal becomes firm, now put the car into neutral (it is still not running) and let it roll down the hill. Now see how hard you have to press to get the car to stop. The same thing applies to power steering only that isn't vacuum assist, try turning the steering wheel of a vehicle that is not running.
Then do I have the device for you it is a spring loaded 2x4 that will smack them upside the head when a driver is not paying attention to the road or driving poorly.
Why the hell should you care what the people behind you think. If you really wanted to get them to not follow you so closely run a vacuum hose into the passenger compartment and have a valve connected to a bottle of oil, then when they get too close just open the valve and they will back off. Either that or just drive a really crappy car with a wood bumper a 6x2 bolted on does wonders for getting people to stop following you.
I laugh at those people. My wife tailgates everyone but the moment she things she is being tailgated she screams and yells.
I believe that this already exists. I think some MBs have it. It allows the cruse control to keep a safe distance from the car in front of it.
You have never driven on 494 through Bloomington/Richfield in Minnesota during rush hour. I have seen people stop in their lane so that they can get over thus blocking traffic. Apparently the people who study traffic patterns have never seen people:
1. stop at the end of on ramps
2. stop in traffic so they can wait for an opening in the other lane wile the road in front of them is now open and clear now
3. cut across 3 lanes of traffic to get off on the ramp they are about to pass
4. ride the breaks
5. drive 10 to 15 mph under the speed limit when the weather is fine on a sunny summer day
6. drive 10 mph over the speed limit when the roads are covered in ice and snow
7. be unable to stay in their own damn lane (like they are drunk or need their phone shoved up their ass)
8. pass on the shoulders
9. drive the car like it has only 2 settings, speed up or slow down, my sister drives like this the car is either accelerating or slowing down even when there is not traffic around
10. weave through traffic on a motorcycle
So tell me o wise one how does your magical system correct for all of these deficient drivers. Personally I think we need German style traffic enforcement and driver training that would solve most of these problems.
No, because the original guy isn't going any faster than you. Which means there is less space, which means you have to slow down to recover it. Which will: 1. Allow another idiot to slip in perpetuating the process 2. Piss off everyone behind you
So that is why I have a horn, and I don't care about the people behind me. If they are following too closely and rear end me my car will get fixed and their insurance will go up. Every car accident I have ever been in has been someone else hitting me, the first was some drug addict who was so high he didn't know where he was and the second was a high schooler that merged into the rear end of my car while I was turning. Apparently the high school girl didn't like that traffic ahead of her was slowing down (the cars behind me as I was making a right hand turn) and sped up past them and them merged back into the lane I was turning out of hitting the rear of my car and spinning it into a fire hydrant.
Well maybe if you don't have idiots passing on shoulders. Or psychos on motorcycles weaving through traffic at about 100. Every time I see these I think I should make up some stop sticks to pitch out the window onto the shoulder, or just open the car door right in front of the biker.
And that is why I like driving my crap beater vehicle, people give it a lot of room. I think it is more out of fear of fall parts than anything else.
Really so if I am limited to only 50 trades in a lifetime then what about my monthly company stock purchase? I can only do it for 4 years and 2 months and then never be able to sell those shares that sucks balls.
My understanding is that HFT get to see incoming orders before they are processed and then react to them. So lets say that some orders come in one says I would like to sell 1000 shares of stock x at $10.00 a share and one of the other orders comes in and says I would like to buy 1000 shares of stock x at $10.01. In this case the HFT puts in an order to buy 1000 shares of stock x at $10.00 a share and then puts in an order to sell 1000 shares of stock x at $10.01 a share. They have effectively skimmed $10.00 out of the system. Now go and do this several million times an hour and bingo you now are skimming truck loads of money out of the system. they probably make even less per share but this is just an example with easy numbers.
The only problem I have is that they have access to information that I don't since they get to preview the incoming orders and execute orders based off of that information before the orders they got to view get processed. How about we just remove that ability and the problem will solve itself. Then I don't have a problem with any idiot who wants to sell a stock in the same second they bought it.
I would say the should be able to do it but with the same information that everyone else has. They shouldn't get to preview other orders coming in like they currently do. Oh wait that would remove the incentive to do crap like this as they would then be equal to us plebs then and they can't have that.
Yes and no. For those on Wall Street it is like gambling (specifically like playing black jack and knowing what the dealers down card is and what the next 10 cards in the shoe are) but for regular people who have investments for retirement and other long term goals not so much.
No I don't see gambling as wrong, but lets tax it like gambling instead of capital gains. That would put an end to it real fast.
There was 'no direct evidence' that the computer trading in itself increased volatility, it said, but in specific circumstances it was possible for a series of events with 'undesired interactions and outcomes' to occur and cause massive damage.
Apparently they are unaware of the 1000 point drop in the Dow last year that appears to have been caused by HFT.
Have you ever tried contacting the lawyer suggesting that he use encryption. As you are in Canada and the lawyer is in the US you wouldn't be subject to the US laws. I have actually had a similar problem but where people try to send me thing but it goes to a different person in the company. Apparently there is another person with the same first and last name as mine in the company but they are over in England. If I ever get a chance to go over to England I may have to look him up. Every once in a great while I get some of his e-mail because someone selected the wrong one of us from the world wide address book.
We had some "security" training here at work about just that topic a couple of months ago. Basically what I gathered is that it is similar to the BS in EULAs that they put in there just in case case law or an actual law is written that makes it enforceable. But in general those notices carry no weight.
But how do you expect a HR drone to be able to know what an OO language is. I have never been impressed with HR people as I have talked with some on the phone who had no idea what the company actually did. They knew they did something with computers but beyond that nothing.
Usually with motor mounts I just use a hydraulic floor jack and jack the engine up. So you don't dent the oil pan get a wide board something like a 2x8 or 2x12 that is a foot or so long and put that between the jack and oil pan to spread out the force. When I pulled the engine and transmission it was both at the same time, granted it wasn't that heavy of a setup (from a 68 MG Midget) but it was an easy job, one arm to lift and lower, one arm to move it out of the engine bay. I am surprised that you actually got your wife to help you work on a vehicle I can't even get mine to check the oil on her car, or check the tire pressure.
After being in the programming field for a while now it seems that often companies that post those kind of job listings are looking for a reason to hire H1-B people. They can now legitimately go and say the couldn't find an American worker with that experience since obviously the job requires it and then hire some cheap labor. The other case is that it is a HR issue since they are told to find a senior programmer with experience with technology X. Technology x may only have been around for 2 or 3 years, but the HR drone immediately thinks they need someone with 10+ years of experience with technology x and then filter you out because you don't have that experience. I had that problem when I graduated college and companies were looking for people with 10 years of java experience even though the language had only been around for 5 years or so at that time