They come out with numbers that cannot be relied upon.
Remember Ross Perot's pie charts 12 years ago? They were based on CBO numbers and look how wrong they turned out to be.
They are also behind the myth that the social security trust fund will go bankrupt. A few years ago, they said it would go broke in 2039. Now they say 2047. Next year it will be 2055. It's all based on bogus assumptions of low productivity growth and the senior citizen demographic being completely unwiling/unable to work into what are traditionally called the retirement years.
If the CBO cannot be trusted to accurately calculate known mathematical functions of government programs, how can they even come close to estimating the benefits and drawbacks of abstract and dynamic legal protections in a rapidly changing world economic environment?
Most universities have excessive duplication of information storage because their departments are like Chinese fiefdoms. Public affairs, publications, admissions, business services. Ask around. One of these probably has what you're looking for or knows somebody else at another nearby college/University that does. You may be just a phonecall/fax/fedex package away.
Trial licenses don't work very well. And the video game industry puts its propaganda machine to buy and pay for electronic games media which are supposed to inform. The industry thinks they are entitled to have their consumers decide based on the box? Fuck you and hell no!
Publishers make gobs of money off quality titles because MOST people know it is wrong to utilize piracy as a substitute for purchase when a game is played and enjoyed to its fullest. They lose money when a pirated low-quality title gets tried for three or four hours and ends up as a coaster.
I don't feel bad for manufacturers of poor quality titles that I have played that were pirated. For games that my friends and I did play through and enjoy, we have kept our end of the social contract and purchased. It keeps us from getting ripped off and doesn't reward deceptive advertising and packaging.
Self-serving scientific bias.
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Much of climatology is a victim of groupthink and academic bias.
My explanation for this opinion is as follows:
Approximately 9/10ths of the energy stored in the atmosphere and oceans exists in the oceans. The ratio of scientific research done on the atmosphere and oceans is just about exactly inverse to that.
Wondering why? We all live in the atmosphere, but few of us, relatively speaking, own beachfront property. We are largely ignorant about our oceans because they are not studied or funded. Academia has unwittingly co-opted this ignorance by exerting their efforts in understanding on what can be easily explained to the simple-minded (i.e. they want their importance to be justified to their dumb friends and politicians). It ignores studying the complex and mysterious deep waters of oceans in favor of having their work understood by people who want to know whether they'll need to bring a raincoat to work that day.
Just like George Carlin said, "Santtity of life? Who says? We do. You know why? We made the whole fucking thing up! You know why? Self interest. It's a man-made self-serving bullshit story."
The same man-made self-serving way of thinking plays into this much more than meets the eye.
Maybe they should go after the butthead who keeps burning popcorn in my building complex. Every couple weeks the fire engines are here. Maybe the apartment manager for setting the alarms too sensitive.
Jail Bubba: "What are you in for?" newguy: "Burnt popcorn" Bubba: "Ok. Bend over"
Seems to me that extra special zeal used by the prosecution should serve the public well as a publicized deterrent.
This is somewhat of a novel crime. Based on that, there is no such thing as standard guidelines for prosecution. The beauty of the prosecution to invoke the Patriot Act for this TYPE of crime, serves the public's best interests regardless of the severity or damages. This isn't Bart Simpson doing a denial of service attack on Moe's, it's 911! Improvised justice is fun!
"Don't fuck with 911, that's what terrorists do" makes sense on a number of different levels.
On Oct 2 2002, someone at a brokerage firm Bear Stearns entered a 4 million dollar trade as a 4 billion dollar trade and it wasn't doublechecked and caused most market indices do go down about a half percent DURING NORMAL TRADING HOURS during the last hour of trading.
This was widely reported in the financial press, and eventually the sell position was unwound.
Since the order was a sell order tied to a diversified holding, it caused this decline to happen with both the electronic Nasdaq exchange and also the auction-based NYSE.
"In October of last year, for example, a trader at Bear Stearns mistakenly entered an order to sell $4 billion in stocks instead of $4 million. And two years ago London's stock market collapsed after one hapless trader entered an extra zero into a sell order."
Mistakes have been made in market trading before by other companies.
In May last year, London's FTSE 100 index dropped by more than 2%, after a trader typed 300m, instead of 30m, while selling a parcel of shares.
In 1998 a Salomon Brothers trader mistakenly sold 850m-worth of French government bonds by LEANING ON HIS KEYBOARD.
And at the end of 2001, shares in Exodus, a bankrupt internet firm, jumped by 59,000% when a trader accidentally bid $100 for its shares, at a time when its value was 17 cents.
Somewhere, sometime, highly populated states are going to realize that they are not entitled to simply purchase energy production from other states without suffering the drawbacks of that production.
This is a major public policy and national security issue. There will be much more of this to come. Regardless of the fact that there may have been energy market manipulation, states like California fail to build a power plant for decades and complain that they have to pay an 'unfair' price. Their populace is not entitled to purchase at cost that which other states take the initiative to produce to fill their own demand, tolerate risk, deal with pollution, and expend capital.
There is no obligation for other states to acquiesce to large population states' lack of discipline, foresight, and planning.
Lastly, this type of conflict is a perfect example of why we have a bicameral legislature and the benefits of the elcectoral college system.
Given what little pure science originates from the automakers, the applied science that leads to innovation must be conceivably executable in the near future. EV may have represented applied science in the future, but hybrid is exactly what the preview says, 'where it's at'. Automakers are better suited to applying applied tech to other factors that improve economy/utility/resale value such as better interiors, value added tech such as Onstar and improvements in plastics, paint, aerodynamics, and security.
The current economic situation does not help either.
Projects such as pure EV need to justify themselves. This program can be gutted and abandoned completely and restarted for a nominal cost if it should prove feasable in 10-15 years.
For instance, in the San Francisco (no irony intended) quake of 1989, the newspapers in the area reported a 50% increase in lost pet advertisements in the classified ads sections in the week leading up to the quake.
If these earthquake prediction distributors have developed a method to monitor this, they could issue forecasts that may actually be based on relevant statistics without "resorting" to geology or any other kind of science.
Sorry if I get modded down, but people should at least hear this, even if they don't agree.
In addition to the liability issues that would be redundant to bring up, there is the issue of identification.
You don't see people who work for Schwab or Fidelity offer "good sumeritan" advice online for financial services. These guys should know better even if they haven't signed a non-disclosure agreement. Do you think your doctor's insurer for malpractice would like it if a doctor began diagnosing people outside the scope of his work environment?
These types of people can do what they do anonymously quite easily over the net, but yet they choose to identify themselves as currently associated. A pseudonym or anonymous claim of credibility as "formerly employed" or "technical consultant to" would be sufficient identification to those who would be consumers of his assistance.
I've seen it both ways, though. When I did tech support for an OEM (outsourced, though), one guy I know got led out of the building and fired immediately for posting opinions and disclosures on legitimate problems with certain system configurations and the unlawful actions the OEM was doing to stall and prevent customer returns on the defective product until the engineers came up with the solution. This info (even though unlawful) was considered to be proprietary and a breach of trade secrets according to the outsourced vendor. He got fired without due process and was unable to fight back because he was under the age of 18 at that time.
My bet is that there is more behind the scenes going on than this story reports and that because reporters are lazy, they got the sensational side of this in their back pocket and just let 'er rip.
they would find out that I will never buy a Ford because of that sheepfucker cowboy who fails to respect his own limitations and boundaries and refuses to compromise thinks (relatively speaking) highly of his pickup.
They also would conclude that the blonde woman from the Old Navy commercials is a bad mom.
They would also find negative reaction to any commercial featuring Donald Trump and Grimace plotting to take over the world in some high-rise boardroom with one dollar hamburgers.
They would take the hint and stop running these 3 commercials I don't like.
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You can't truss the CBO.
They come out with numbers that cannot be relied upon.
Remember Ross Perot's pie charts 12 years ago?
They were based on CBO numbers and look how wrong they turned out to be.
They are also behind the myth that the social security trust fund will go bankrupt. A few years ago, they said it would go broke in 2039. Now they say 2047. Next year it will be 2055. It's all based on bogus assumptions of low productivity growth and the senior citizen demographic being completely unwiling/unable to work into what are traditionally called the retirement years.
If the CBO cannot be trusted to accurately calculate known mathematical functions of government programs, how can they even come close to estimating the benefits and drawbacks of abstract and dynamic legal protections in a rapidly changing world economic environment?
AND!
THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT WE'RE TALKIING ABOUT.
Maybe wi-fi will help keep the activists from accidentally crashing their boats into the whales they purportedly show up to protect.
Most universities have excessive duplication of information storage because their departments are like Chinese fiefdoms.
Public affairs, publications, admissions, business services. Ask around. One of these probably has what you're looking for or knows somebody else at another nearby college/University that does.
You may be just a phonecall/fax/fedex package away.
If you can't design your webpage to be accessible without plug-ins, I don't need it. I don't need to see what I'm missing. Especially crappy ads.
that consumers don't have much choice.
Trial licenses don't work very well. And the video game industry puts its propaganda machine to buy and pay for electronic games media which are supposed to inform. The industry thinks they are entitled to have their consumers decide based on the box? Fuck you and hell no!
Publishers make gobs of money off quality titles because MOST people know it is wrong to utilize piracy as a substitute for purchase when a game is played and enjoyed to its fullest. They lose money when a pirated low-quality title gets tried for three or four hours and ends up as a coaster.
I don't feel bad for manufacturers of poor quality titles that I have played that were pirated. For games that my friends and I did play through and enjoy, we have kept our end of the social contract and purchased. It keeps us from getting ripped off and doesn't reward deceptive advertising and packaging.
That's it. Award karma accordingly.
Much of climatology is a victim of groupthink and academic bias.
My explanation for this opinion is as follows:
Approximately 9/10ths of the energy stored in the atmosphere and oceans exists in the oceans. The ratio of scientific research done on the atmosphere and oceans is just about exactly inverse to that.
Wondering why? We all live in the atmosphere, but few of us, relatively speaking, own beachfront property. We are largely ignorant about our oceans because they are not studied or funded. Academia has unwittingly co-opted this ignorance by exerting their efforts in understanding on what can be easily explained to the simple-minded (i.e. they want their importance to be justified to their dumb friends and politicians). It ignores studying the complex and mysterious deep waters of oceans in favor of having their work understood by people who want to know whether they'll need to bring a raincoat to work that day.
Just like George Carlin said, "Santtity of life? Who says? We do. You know why? We made the whole fucking thing up! You know why? Self interest. It's a man-made self-serving bullshit story."
The same man-made self-serving way of thinking plays into this much more than meets the eye.
"OK. What? What? What? Yayyaa! OK."
I don't understand why they just don't get Intuit to do it.
No pun intended.
Maybe they should go after the butthead who keeps burning popcorn in my building complex. Every couple weeks the fire engines are here. Maybe the apartment manager for setting the alarms too sensitive.
Jail
Bubba: "What are you in for?"
newguy: "Burnt popcorn"
Bubba: "Ok. Bend over"
Seems to me that extra special zeal used by the prosecution should serve the public well as a publicized deterrent.
This is somewhat of a novel crime. Based on that, there is no such thing as standard guidelines for prosecution. The beauty of the prosecution to invoke the Patriot Act for this TYPE of crime, serves the public's best interests regardless of the severity or damages. This isn't Bart Simpson doing a denial of service attack on Moe's, it's 911! Improvised justice is fun!
"Don't fuck with 911, that's what terrorists do" makes sense on a number of different levels.
only means that all of the solitaire games are unwinnable.
Jermaine Jackson said he was mistreated....
oops, wrong story.
On Oct 2 2002, someone at a brokerage firm Bear Stearns entered a 4 million dollar trade as a 4 billion dollar trade and it wasn't doublechecked and caused most market indices do go down about a half percent DURING NORMAL TRADING HOURS during the last hour of trading.
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This was widely reported in the financial press, and eventually the sell position was unwound.
Since the order was a sell order tied to a diversified holding, it caused this decline to happen with both the electronic Nasdaq exchange and also the auction-based NYSE.
"In October of last year, for example, a trader at Bear Stearns mistakenly entered an order to sell $4 billion in stocks instead of $4 million. And two years ago London's stock market collapsed after one hapless trader entered an extra zero into a sell order."
See
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/945909.asp?0sl=-21
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2294525.stm
for more details
Previous errors
Mistakes have been made in market trading before by other companies.
In May last year, London's FTSE 100 index dropped by more than 2%, after a trader typed 300m, instead of 30m, while selling a parcel of shares.
In 1998 a Salomon Brothers trader mistakenly sold 850m-worth of French government bonds by LEANING ON HIS KEYBOARD.
And at the end of 2001, shares in Exodus, a bankrupt internet firm, jumped by 59,000% when a trader accidentally bid $100 for its shares, at a time when its value was 17 cents.
Hypocrisy of this nature is not just emotional.
Somewhere, sometime, highly populated states are going to realize that they are not entitled to simply purchase energy production from other states without suffering the drawbacks of that production.
This is a major public policy and national security issue. There will be much more of this to come.
Regardless of the fact that there may have been energy market manipulation, states like California fail to build a power plant for decades and complain that they have to pay an 'unfair' price. Their populace is not entitled to purchase at cost that which other states take the initiative to produce to fill their own demand, tolerate risk, deal with pollution, and expend capital.
There is no obligation for other states to acquiesce to large population states' lack of discipline, foresight, and planning.
Lastly, this type of conflict is a perfect example of why we have a bicameral legislature and the benefits of the elcectoral college system.
I can track lots of objects at once.
h -duh ....
The main drawback is that my ears only respond to two alternating pitches.
Duh-duh
Duh-duh
Duh-duh
Duh-duh
Duh-duh
Du
Duh-duh
"If another shuttle gets a plate damaged, and NASA can clearly see it while the shuttle is in space, what will they be able to do?"
They could at least aim it at Iraq.
-or France-
download away.
Given what little pure science originates from the automakers, the applied science that leads to innovation must be conceivably executable in the near future.
EV may have represented applied science in the future, but hybrid is exactly what the preview says, 'where it's at'.
Automakers are better suited to applying applied tech to other factors that improve economy/utility/resale value such as better interiors, value added tech such as Onstar and improvements in plastics, paint, aerodynamics, and security.
The current economic situation does not help either.
Projects such as pure EV need to justify themselves. This program can be gutted and abandoned completely and restarted for a nominal cost if it should prove feasable in 10-15 years.
Not only is the sauce 'closed', but you can only use it on the famous "Jobs Kabobs".
...Maybe
The website FAQ says that they do not incorporate animal behavior into their models.
For instance, in the San Francisco (no irony intended) quake of 1989, the newspapers in the area reported a 50% increase in lost pet advertisements in the classified ads sections in the week leading up to the quake.
If these earthquake prediction distributors have developed a method to monitor this, they could issue forecasts that may actually be based on relevant statistics without "resorting" to geology or any other kind of science.
May it be possible that now he won't be stuck in westcoast groupthink?
being that the conference is about Spam, where Ralsky et al. have set up shop.
Is there such a thing as premeditated Pavlovian response?
Sorry if I get modded down, but people should at least hear this, even if they don't agree.
In addition to the liability issues that would be redundant to bring up, there is the issue of identification.
You don't see people who work for Schwab or Fidelity offer "good sumeritan" advice online for financial services. These guys should know better even if they haven't signed a non-disclosure agreement.
Do you think your doctor's insurer for malpractice would like it if a doctor began diagnosing people outside the scope of his work environment?
These types of people can do what they do anonymously quite easily over the net, but yet they choose to identify themselves as currently associated. A pseudonym or anonymous claim of credibility as "formerly employed" or "technical consultant to" would be sufficient identification to those who would be consumers of his assistance.
I've seen it both ways, though. When I did tech support for an OEM (outsourced, though), one guy I know got led out of the building and fired immediately for posting opinions and disclosures on legitimate problems with certain system configurations and the unlawful actions the OEM was doing to stall and prevent customer returns on the defective product until the engineers came up with the solution. This info (even though unlawful) was considered to be proprietary and a breach of trade secrets according to the outsourced vendor. He got fired without due process and was unable to fight back because he was under the age of 18 at that time.
My bet is that there is more behind the scenes going on than this story reports and that because reporters are lazy, they got the sensational side of this in their back pocket and just let 'er rip.
they would find out that I will never buy a Ford because of that sheepfucker cowboy who fails to respect his own limitations and boundaries and refuses to compromise thinks (relatively speaking) highly of his pickup.
They also would conclude that the blonde woman from the Old Navy commercials is a bad mom.
They would also find negative reaction to any commercial featuring Donald Trump and Grimace plotting to take over the world in some high-rise boardroom with one dollar hamburgers.
They would take the hint and stop running these 3 commercials I don't like.