I've been advocating a "vote NO" option for a while, but until we have the option of leaving an office vacant, an Asshat is guaranteed to win the election.
If they can manipulate your emotions, cause you to perceive them as smart, cute, or friendly, or if they can even make you feel sorry for them, the interaction may be beneficial to them. Cute and fluffy gets protected.
I knew a woman with an african gray (actually found it on the street, apparently an escapee), who had been on his own for a while and stopped talking. Besides having an annoying habit of ripping the kitchen to sawdust (caused $10K+ damage), he wasn't confident in his talking, so he would wait until other people were talking before he practiced. As soon as you stopped talking, he would stop. When you start talking again, he would chatter away, or whisper or mumble. This is even more distracting than it sounds.
He also made a pretty cool "Bong!" noise, that sounded just like a big wood block being struck. Randomly. Whenever he thought it was too quiet.
Could be worse. I knew a woman whose parrot would imitate the sound of the front door, followed by "Honey, I'm home" (a perfect imitation of her husband.)
The parrot would also imitate the sound of a telephone ring, and sometimes someone answering it. It caused much confusion in the household.
That story has been referred to several times already, but I don't remember anyone giving enough details that the veracity of the story could be checked out.
All kidding aside, what I think is really going on with this, is it's part of a trend I've been seeing more and more over the last, say, 20 years. People are more and more rejecting technology and technological progress altogether..
Or maybe the luddites simply stand out more than they used to. They seem even weirder now than they would have a generation ago. Also, there is more now for them to reject.
Wouldn't it be funny if HFT traders stole everything so well, that nobody was left to trade since everyone is in destitution. Time it so everything goes to Zero.
When a gambler runs out of money, what does a casino do? Kick him out to make room for another gambler.
There will always be another sucker when the last one goes broke or quits playing.
More like I want to buy a stock, at up to 19.76, and he wants to sell a stock at 19.74, but your computer is faster than ours, sees the difference before I can deal with him directly, and buys the stock from him to sell to me, pocketing the.02 and driving up the going rate to 19.76, even if the seller would have been happier to sell direct to me at 19.75. You have sucked up money, a penny from each of us, and created a 1 cent bubble in the stock price, but you have no idea what the stock even was. You are not an investor.
When selling a car, "selling it today" usually means not getting as good a price. There are also far more markets for used cars than there are stock markets. Also private sales, local paper, etc.,
When will people understand that liquidity is a GOOD thing? How would you like to be in the situation 100 years ago where you want to sell your stock but no one is around to buy it? What happens to the price then?
If nobody wants to buy it at the price you want to sell it, it isn't worth what you think it is worth.
Or how about when you really want to buy a stock, and no one is selling?
If nobody is selling at the price you are offering, then clearly you aren't offering enough.
Traders who roll over huge volumes of stock are acting as middle-men but they are not "leeches", they are risking capital time and time again and doing you a favor by making stock available or willing to buy stock from you much closer to your desired price. This allows you to get out of a trade quickly and let me tell you that you literally can lose all your money in a matter of hours in a rough market - on days like that you are grateful that there's someone around willing to trade with you.
You don't lose the money - you lose the calculated current value of your stock. You lost the money the minute you bought in, and don't have any money until you sell everything. If things are that volatile, allowing more & faster transactions will only serve to make things more volatile.
Or you could wait 3 years to get your money back, minus inflation/opportunity cost.
Does this only apply to companies that you do business/interact with, or will this apply to all the companies that keep data about you, including your social security number, for sale to anyone? Are those data-mining companies affected at all?
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I've been advocating a "vote NO" option for a while, but until we have the option of leaving an office vacant, an Asshat is guaranteed to win the election.
Solution: TSA agents work for tips.
"I'm sorry, Edna, we're going to have to let you go. Nobody gets in your line, they all want to get frisked by Cindi"
If they can manipulate your emotions, cause you to perceive them as smart, cute, or friendly, or if they can even make you feel sorry for them, the interaction may be beneficial to them. Cute and fluffy gets protected.
I've heard stories of parrots kept in cheap bars in Mexico learning to sing in drunken spanish. Loudly. I'm sure it is amusing for a little while.
Electric weedeater.
Mockingbirds are also fun because of their audacity. Cats just don't know what to do when the bird attacks them.
Clearly that is a winner, although I am still amused by the thought of a bunch of parrots imitating ducks.
Where to abstract nouns come in?
It reflects poorly on the IT managers who are only capable of proto-language.
I knew a woman with an african gray (actually found it on the street, apparently an escapee), who had been on his own for a while and stopped talking. Besides having an annoying habit of ripping the kitchen to sawdust (caused $10K+ damage), he wasn't confident in his talking, so he would wait until other people were talking before he practiced. As soon as you stopped talking, he would stop. When you start talking again, he would chatter away, or whisper or mumble. This is even more distracting than it sounds.
He also made a pretty cool "Bong!" noise, that sounded just like a big wood block being struck. Randomly. Whenever he thought it was too quiet.
Every time one gets hit by a car, you'll have a dozen bird-lawyers harassing you. Our only defense is to teach them no latin.
Could be worse. I knew a woman whose parrot would imitate the sound of the front door, followed by "Honey, I'm home" (a perfect imitation of her husband.)
The parrot would also imitate the sound of a telephone ring, and sometimes someone answering it. It caused much confusion in the household.
That story has been referred to several times already, but I don't remember anyone giving enough details that the veracity of the story could be checked out.
All kidding aside, what I think is really going on with this, is it's part of a trend I've been seeing more and more over the last, say, 20 years. People are more and more rejecting technology and technological progress altogether. .
Or maybe the luddites simply stand out more than they used to. They seem even weirder now than they would have a generation ago. Also, there is more now for them to reject.
If it is natural, it must be good for you.
Wouldn't it be funny if HFT traders stole everything so well, that nobody was left to trade since everyone is in destitution. Time it so everything goes to Zero.
When a gambler runs out of money, what does a casino do? Kick him out to make room for another gambler.
There will always be another sucker when the last one goes broke or quits playing.
It collapses if you look at it just like the real thing. Why do you think SEC avoids doing any actual investigations?
So the people who actually hold the item being bought and sold will make money easier than the people who offer to sell things they don't own yet?
Sounds like a simpler market, and boohoo for the guys who made all their money as middlemen. Why should we protect their industry?
More like I want to buy a stock, at up to 19.76, and he wants to sell a stock at 19.74, but your computer is faster than ours, sees the difference before I can deal with him directly, and buys the stock from him to sell to me, pocketing the .02 and driving up the going rate to 19.76, even if the seller would have been happier to sell direct to me at 19.75. You have sucked up money, a penny from each of us, and created a 1 cent bubble in the stock price, but you have no idea what the stock even was. You are not an investor.
When selling a car, "selling it today" usually means not getting as good a price. There are also far more markets for used cars than there are stock markets. Also private sales, local paper, etc.,
When will people understand that liquidity is a GOOD thing? How would you like to be in the situation 100 years ago where you want to sell your stock but no one is around to buy it? What happens to the price then?
If nobody wants to buy it at the price you want to sell it, it isn't worth what you think it is worth.
Or how about when you really want to buy a stock, and no one is selling?
If nobody is selling at the price you are offering, then clearly you aren't offering enough.
Traders who roll over huge volumes of stock are acting as middle-men but they are not "leeches", they are risking capital time and time again and doing you a favor by making stock available or willing to buy stock from you much closer to your desired price. This allows you to get out of a trade quickly and let me tell you that you literally can lose all your money in a matter of hours in a rough market - on days like that you are grateful that there's someone around willing to trade with you.
You don't lose the money - you lose the calculated current value of your stock. You lost the money the minute you bought in, and don't have any money until you sell everything. If things are that volatile, allowing more & faster transactions will only serve to make things more volatile.
Or you could wait 3 years to get your money back, minus inflation/opportunity cost.
Sounds more like gambling than investing.
If the growth rate were any slower, it wouldn't even keep up with the population growth rate.
now they can steal everyone else's money more cost-efficiently!
FTFY
And no chance of it evolving to make use of available materials, what with it being intended to evolve and all....
Yes, but a quiet Harley will never sell.
Does this only apply to companies that you do business/interact with, or will this apply to all the companies that keep data about you, including your social security number, for sale to anyone? Are those data-mining companies affected at all?