It's really dumb too. I would not worry about a mad physicist building a death star. All he's worried about is whether or not he'll have trouble with the peer reviews.
Market liquidity is extremely important. If you decide you want to trade your shares you want to be able to do so quickly and with a low trading fee. And you want to be able to get the same price no matter where you sell them, London, New York, Hong Kong.
A high trading volume facilitates this. A limit on how fast a broker can trade could cause people to be unable to sell their stocks if they want/need to.
Many experienced investors believe that the three most important things about an investment are liquidity, safety of principal and yield. In that order.
I remember when my father was investing in the stock market - an order to his broker would cost $150 to execute and take hours to process. And the price was fairly unpredictable. Now you can do an order at 1/20th the price, be pretty sure of what the execution will be because of the ability to place limit orders and get confirmation nearly instantly.
What we have now is much better than the olden days. Of course there are downsides but I think if you are aware of them you can avoid them.
My wife is Hispanic. She grew up in a bilingual home in Chile.
At one time she held the highest score ever recorded in South America in the Oxford English Competency Exam. After graduating from college at age 17 in Chile she was awarded a 4 year scholarship to study in Europe where she picked up 5 other languages.
She was then awarded a Fullbright scholarship to come to the US where she obtained a PhD in Medieval English Lit.
If there is a performance problem with Hispanic kids it's due to poverty, racism and the the horrific US education system which has no concept of how to teach even monolingual students.
> That said, the problem of legal immigration by false reporting by corporations is a larger problem than illegal immigration
For a certain cohort of workers that want to protect their salaries it is an issue. For the society as a whole not so much. These are highly trained workers that are definitely a positive for the overall economy.
Illegal immigration is a real problem for the society. There is a significant economic cost for the services that are required to deal with issues created by this group - crime, disease, law enforcement, etc.
$21 billion sounds like a lot, but over 5 years it's 4 billion a year.
US tax revenues are what? 3 trillion a year? That's about 0.1% we are talking about.
Betcha that there are much holes in the tax system than this.
Then of course there is the question of how much the counter-measures would actually cost, and whether or not the counter-measures would actually reduce fraud rather than just cause the crooks to find a different mode of exploitation.
As usual just throwing out a statistic doesn't provide anything more than a talking point.
The problem with looking at LOTR on a small screen is that the visual interpretation of the novels is the best part of the films. It is nearly perfect in my opinion. Not the pyrotechnics, but the world details. This is due to Jackson hiring the great illustrator Alan Lee.
For people like me who have been fans for a long time (I first read LOTR in the late 1960's) Alan Lee is the primary influence in the visualization of the books. To have this brought to film in the manner it was is what made these movies great.
1. The LOTR movies were overall great. Especially the first one.
2. The movies also had some flaws.
3. Those flaws were when the original story was messed with, for example the disasters of messing with Faramir's character, and the timeline of the reforging of the sword and the casting of Gimli as Jar Jar Binks.
4. Jackson is going to take far more liberties with the story this time. After all he now has 3 films to fill with material and THIRTEEN dwarves to call on for comic relief. Just imagine - Jar Jar Binks times 13.
It's much easier to rip now with modern amenities like batch rippers (dbpoweramp), online tag databases and USB where you easily support 6-10 drives per box.
It may even be worth it if you are fussy enough to want essentially error free rips.
Even if sale of these treatments was not regulated there is the issue of how someone is supposed to make a rational decision as to what the effectiveness and dangers of the treatment are, and a process for validating the ongoing quality of the products being used.
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.
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It's really dumb too. I would not worry about a mad physicist building a death star. All he's worried about is whether or not he'll have trouble with the peer reviews.
Now a mad engineer, that's a different story.
http://boingboing.net/2010/06/01/the-dark-side-of-eng.html
Yeah, the freakin summary is potty as usual.
They aren't upgrading the flight software. They are replacing the flight software with driving around and exploring software.
If you undertake a career as an engineer the more math you know the more problems you can solve.
The more problems you can solve the higher your pay will be.
It's that simple.
With an assault rifle you can go out and get any TV you want. And keep it too. Even in Wash DC.
The reverse, not so much.
The issue is that not one of the positive studies has been repeatable.
> So don't just water down a standard just because "everyone else is doing it." Do it on hard evidence.
But that's not the issue here. There is plenty of hard evidence.
The issue here is neo-luddites and so on holding us hostage for no reason.
Quoting aphorisms != argument.
Big single day crashes don't require HFT. They have happened before HFT was invented. Like in the 17th century when tulip prices crashed (Feb 5 1637).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania#Volatility_in_flower_prices
All that takes is more sellers than buyers.
What HFC does is give you a better chance of selling in the midst of a crash.
Market liquidity is extremely important. If you decide you want to trade your shares you want to be able to do so quickly and with a low trading fee. And you want to be able to get the same price no matter where you sell them, London, New York, Hong Kong.
A high trading volume facilitates this. A limit on how fast a broker can trade could cause people to be unable to sell their stocks if they want/need to.
Many experienced investors believe that the three most important things about an investment are liquidity, safety of principal and yield. In that order.
I remember when my father was investing in the stock market - an order to his broker would cost $150 to execute and take hours to process. And the price was fairly unpredictable. Now you can do an order at 1/20th the price, be pretty sure of what the execution will be because of the ability to place limit orders and get confirmation nearly instantly.
What we have now is much better than the olden days. Of course there are downsides but I think if you are aware of them you can avoid them.
Exactly what makes you think that a new system will be better?
Look around the world today. Mostly it's worse. Some more are essentially the same +/- certainly not worth going through the hassle to switch to.
A few are better but they are usually the size on one US state or less. Not clear that they would be scalable to something the size of the US.
My wife is Hispanic. She grew up in a bilingual home in Chile.
At one time she held the highest score ever recorded in South America in the Oxford English Competency Exam. After graduating from college at age 17 in Chile she was awarded a 4 year scholarship to study in Europe where she picked up 5 other languages.
She was then awarded a Fullbright scholarship to come to the US where she obtained a PhD in Medieval English Lit.
If there is a performance problem with Hispanic kids it's due to poverty, racism and the the horrific US education system which has no concept of how to teach even monolingual students.
Anecdotal evidence is not data.
This is like using a nuclear bomb to kill a flea.
All the IRS has to do is track a bit more information tied to the SSN and check it. Like home address and employer address.
If the return doesn't agree with data on file bounce it.
> That said, the problem of legal immigration by false reporting by corporations is a larger problem than illegal immigration
For a certain cohort of workers that want to protect their salaries it is an issue. For the society as a whole not so much. These are highly trained workers that are definitely a positive for the overall economy.
Illegal immigration is a real problem for the society. There is a significant economic cost for the services that are required to deal with issues created by this group - crime, disease, law enforcement, etc.
$21 billion sounds like a lot, but over 5 years it's 4 billion a year.
US tax revenues are what? 3 trillion a year? That's about 0.1% we are talking about.
Betcha that there are much holes in the tax system than this.
Then of course there is the question of how much the counter-measures would actually cost, and whether or not the counter-measures would actually reduce fraud rather than just cause the crooks to find a different mode of exploitation.
As usual just throwing out a statistic doesn't provide anything more than a talking point.
Set up your dish and tune into the Martian Cable News Network Phobos feed on M band for coverage of their intercept efforts.
So far the overall intercept rate has been about 70%. However the M.A.F. hasn't had much luck shooting down those pesky US built rovers.
Don't bother with trying to get audio. Martians hear in the IR band.
> If it weren't for sports I think that number would be at least 10x higher.
At least. Maybe 100x higher.
The problem with looking at LOTR on a small screen is that the visual interpretation of the novels is the best part of the films. It is nearly perfect in my opinion. Not the pyrotechnics, but the world details. This is due to Jackson hiring the great illustrator Alan Lee.
For people like me who have been fans for a long time (I first read LOTR in the late 1960's) Alan Lee is the primary influence in the visualization of the books. To have this brought to film in the manner it was is what made these movies great.
The problem is that the SEC has never been particularly good at performing their mission.
IMHO they should torch the whole organization and rebuild it from the ground up.
Because the phone company used to be clueful about such things.
1. The LOTR movies were overall great. Especially the first one.
2. The movies also had some flaws.
3. Those flaws were when the original story was messed with, for example the disasters of messing with Faramir's character, and the timeline of the reforging of the sword and the casting of Gimli as Jar Jar Binks.
4. Jackson is going to take far more liberties with the story this time. After all he now has 3 films to fill with material and THIRTEEN dwarves to call on for comic relief. Just imagine - Jar Jar Binks times 13.
5. This could be as bad as Star Wars I-III.
6. Profit!!!
It's much easier to rip now with modern amenities like batch rippers (dbpoweramp), online tag databases and USB where you easily support 6-10 drives per box.
It may even be worth it if you are fussy enough to want essentially error free rips.
Even if sale of these treatments was not regulated there is the issue of how someone is supposed to make a rational decision as to what the effectiveness and dangers of the treatment are, and a process for validating the ongoing quality of the products being used.
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.
-Thomas Paine.
Sales of Toyota cars exceeds Ford by 50%. Total sales of cars by non-US headquarted makes well exceeds US makes.
You won't see CAFE exemptions dropped anytime soon because that would crush US car makers who mostly get their money from light trucks.
http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html#autosalesE