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  1. Re:Understand the System Dymanics of Emergence on Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash · · Score: 1

    If you can't take delivery, futures markets are essentially zero-sum.

  2. Re:One problem with that. on Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash · · Score: 1

    Ah-hah-hah, Bernie made-off with their money, ah-hah-hah.

    I am a childish bad person.

  3. Re:Can somebody 'splain this? on Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash · · Score: 1

    Joe Six-Pack doesn't need to wade into complex security markets. He can buy index and other conservative mutual funds for exposure to various markets that have historical histories of growth. Your comment about putting some of your 401k into real estate is snarky, but it really isn't that difficult to figure out the risk of funds available in structured investment plans, and the risk associated with real estate isn't 'low'.

    Joe Six-Pack generally screwed himself in the current crisis, by buying a house based not on the value he placed on it (which is a great decision), but on the value that he thought someone else would place on it sometime in the near future (which is nuts).

  4. Re:Can somebody 'splain this? on Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash · · Score: 1

    In the U.S., you get more gub'mint insurance if you have multiple accounts (i.e., FDIC protection doesn't apply to a brokerage account, so even if you have checking and brokerage at the same institution, there is an incentive to have them be separate accounts).

  5. Re:Can somebody 'splain this? on Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash · · Score: 1

    A lot of people that want to live the car lifestyle need to finance a $10,000 purchase, or even less.

    They would probably be better off figuring out how to live without a car, but there you go.

  6. Re:Who says what SPAM is on CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Legislation needs sane limits, but frankly, you don't have any right to my inbox.

  7. Re:Who is receiving spam? on CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Outlook doesn't load images by default. I don't think Outlook Express did, but I don't remember anymore. Neither Yahoo! Mail or Google mail load images by default.

    If you measure by what people are using, you are wrong about most clients (at least, the current defaults).

  8. Re:Predictive power of evolution! on Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy · · Score: 1

    What process do you think explains the diversity of life on Earth?

  9. Re:Oh Noes! on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: 1

    My law is still simpler, which was my point.

    I bet you really flip out when you buy peanuts with the "This product may have been processed in a facility that processes peanuts." label.

  10. Re:Predictive power of evolution! on Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy · · Score: 1

    You clearly possess the tools to grasp the point I was making, but you are ignoring it.

    Gravity is a fact. Our explanations as to the mechanism behind gravity are merely theories (and really only hypotheses at this point).

    Similarly, evolution is a fact. Our definitions and explanations of the mechanism of evolution are a theory, and a work in progress.

  11. Re:Predictive power of evolution! on Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You bastard! I wanted 22994.

  12. Re:Predictive power of evolution! on Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Proposed text: "Evolution, like gravity, is just a theory. Please act accordingly."

  13. Re:Similarly found in West Virginian coal miners on Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy · · Score: 0

    Racism is bad, but hating blue-skins is perfectly reasonable.

  14. Re:Wow, a complete business plan. on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: 1

    I commend you on your phrasing.

  15. Re:Check Engine on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: 1

    ODBII provides more information (the car will blink out that it detected a misfire in a cylinder, a scantool will tell you which cylinder, and so on with sensors and whatnot. Also, you can clear the codes so that the light shuts off (the punter way is to disconnect the battery for 15 minutes)).

  16. Re:Oh Noes! on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some people are incredibly allergic to peanuts. As a response to this, foods containing peanuts need to be labeled. Personally, I would rather the law say "Foods containing peanuts need to be labeled '...' " and that's it, rather than "Foods containing peanuts need to be labeled '...' with the exception of '...' which can be labeled as '...' if '...' is met, or '...' if '...' and '...' are met."

  17. Re:Oh Noes! on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: 1

    Why should I pay more just so you can have an earthquake?

  18. Re:fucking post-technological bullshit on MySpace Verdict a Danger To Depressed Kids · · Score: 1

    If you think we have regressed, you simply aren't aware of the magnificent evil that the other great apes are capable of.

    I guess we might have invented malice though.

  19. Re:Care to explain? on Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead · · Score: 1

    If Jack the Ripper writes a document and signs it Joe the Plumber, and you proceed to extract that Joe the Plumber wrote the document, you aren't any better off than if Jack the Ripper explicitly marked the author as Joe the Plumber.

    Sure, semantic information added by a second party might have a different level of reliability than the original data, but if you don't have the original data, you can't tell if the implied semantics of the data have been changed, so the situation isn't all that different.

    I guess what I am getting at is that semantic information mathematically extracted from the source data might be more reliably associated with the data than externally added semantic information, but it isn't necessarily more trustworthy.

  20. Re:Care to explain? on Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead · · Score: 1

    Semantic information is not more or less trustworthy than the document itself.

    It offers a useful perspective though. If the costs of storing data in a way that preserves more information are low, why not do it.

  21. Re:About time on Realtek's Wireless Driver Drives Thoughts of an Apple Netbook · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's a horrible euphemism and you should be ashamed of yourself.

  22. Re:Obama economic advisers meet friday... on Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President · · Score: 1

    Mod parent down, it is a link spammer.

  23. Re:Simple? on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Walmart.

  24. Re:Please elaborate on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    Given that it says "Freeware" in the summary, I think you can assume free as in beer (or did I imagine the effort that the GNU folks have gone through to try and separate themselves from that term, sometimes by using phrases like 'free as in speech'...).

  25. Re:Nintendo Emulator on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Never mind willing to buy, no one is selling.