You're making the assumption that there aren't "micro" players in the markets that are big enough to make macro holes in it. We've given banks and corporations too much power, by fiat. We need to reverse those rules and make those fuckers work for us, not against us.
No, it takes very little magnetic field strength to distort the picture on a CRT in unpleasant ways.
A field strong enough to pick up a nail would distort the picture until it was a jumbled mess.
Take a hobby-shop magnet and hold it a few inches from a CRT; you'll see the picture and colors distort slightly, but enough to make you think the TV needs repair. Hold it a centimeter from the CRT (about the distance it can make a nail jump) and you'll see it make a hole in the picture and turn the color into rainbows.
Take any permanent magnet and bring it near the screen of any CRT.
You will see some pretty intersting distortion. Just don't do it too long or some of the magnetism will stick in your TV and you'll have to get your TV degaussed. Most CRT computer monitors have a degaussing button, or a degauss command in their OSD menu, to correct for this. Some high-end CRT TVs go through a degaussing cycle when they're powered on.
Any permanent magnet of significant size and strength near a CRT will cause misalignment and color distorion.
Steel definitely does work that way. Leave a steel stud near a persistent source of magnetism, let it get warm, bang on it a little, and you'll have a giant bar magnet. Put a few dozen of them in a house, and put a CRT right up against the wall, and you'll see the effect on the screen.
The random portions of a performance are no less creative parts of it. The rules and situation are constructed by the league, and the teams perform the random trials within it. The data produced by it are merely an expression of that.
Every newspaper has, either directly or through a parent company, obtained written permission to do so. The leagues have armies of people who do nothing but look for copyright and trademark infringement in the media, or bars or clubs that are playing games on their TVs without a proper license to do so.
Art is only worthless if you're subjective about it.
The most valuable art is actually most valuable because of all the objective data built up about it. Who painted it, why, where, under what conditions, in relation to what events, with what limitations; what's in it, what symbolism was intended, what is inferred, what secret meanings and inside jokes it contains; who's owned it, who's seen it or touched it, where it's been, how it's been treated; how its value curve is trending; and so on;
How pretty it is is actually only a small part of it, and is probably only truly significant to the artist, or to the first person to have bought it from his stall at the gallery, or to the thousands who wander past it in a museum, not knowing a thing about what it may have cost the last time it was sold.
But that's besides the point. My statement about FOSS should have clued you that by "art" I meant anything created, not merely aesthetic notions in aesthetic media.
When you take the value proposition out of producing something, you take a lot of valuable producers out of production, simply because they're not motivated to put any effort into that when they can make money picking peas in California.
Actually, they reused the acetate, and destroyed most frames by washing them off to be reused.
And while you find value in them, most people would think that such things are indeed trash, and the monetary value they now hold is mostly because they are rare.
Although it'd be interesting if one of da Vinci's brushes came up for auction, I see no reason for him to have been induced to preserve them all.
Well, Dr. Who is one of my favorites, too, and I'd be hard pressed to vote against a law requiring every VCR, DVD, and Blu-Ray recorder in the world to be tuned to it and recording it just to make sure it was kept safe from oblivion.
But that won't happen, so I have an opportunity to be reasonable.
"But Centex’s attorney, Michael Long, urged justices to trust the free market."
That "free market" shit works on a macro scale. If thousands of people were affected by this, and Centex were already going out of business because they were returning their homes for a refund, then it might be a reasonable argument. But when a couple of people are screwed by the company, they do not have enough "free market" power to make Centex change a damned thing.
Fuck Centex, and fuck their lawyer. Find for the plaintiffs and triple the damages. That's muh rulin'.
And by up-front you mean since they caught the CEO not being up-front and are now hanging him by his neck over the crowd and being up-front about what really happened that was covered up the first time they stood in front of that crowd.
it depends. If they were insiders of some sort and knew that they were getting a highly leveraged profit from an improper trade, then they would owe UBS every nickel, and the state years of hard time.
So you're saying we should have a system that puts the value of everyone's creative output at the lowest possible level because one company were a vast warren of clueless fucktards about one TV show that at the time was generally considered laughable shite for inactive children?
Nobody throws anything away, any more. Your scenario is vanishingly unlikely.
When you have a system where art is worthless, you'll get art only from people who don't value their own effort.*
This, frankly, is why most FOSS is shit.
* - or from people who have a means of leveraging their effort into other means of income. But it won't be as many people, and it won't be nearly as much income.
Being able to express a contrary opinion while retaining popular support is a skill. Being a dick about it is what gets you modded down to stay.
Targeted moderation attacks do happen, but it's easy to see when they do, and you can request that your karma be repaired and the offender be dealt with. Mod points link back to the modder.
I suppose the one change would be that you never get mod privs if you're not contributing otherwise, and the number you get starts at 1 and goes up with karma and participation. And then you can go to the marketplace and buy armor and weapons and potions and spells...
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You're making the assumption that there aren't "micro" players in the markets that are big enough to make macro holes in it. We've given banks and corporations too much power, by fiat. We need to reverse those rules and make those fuckers work for us, not against us.
No, it takes very little magnetic field strength to distort the picture on a CRT in unpleasant ways.
A field strong enough to pick up a nail would distort the picture until it was a jumbled mess.
Take a hobby-shop magnet and hold it a few inches from a CRT; you'll see the picture and colors distort slightly, but enough to make you think the TV needs repair. Hold it a centimeter from the CRT (about the distance it can make a nail jump) and you'll see it make a hole in the picture and turn the color into rainbows.
Take any permanent magnet and bring it near the screen of any CRT.
You will see some pretty intersting distortion. Just don't do it too long or some of the magnetism will stick in your TV and you'll have to get your TV degaussed. Most CRT computer monitors have a degaussing button, or a degauss command in their OSD menu, to correct for this. Some high-end CRT TVs go through a degaussing cycle when they're powered on.
Any permanent magnet of significant size and strength near a CRT will cause misalignment and color distorion.
Steel definitely does work that way. Leave a steel stud near a persistent source of magnetism, let it get warm, bang on it a little, and you'll have a giant bar magnet. Put a few dozen of them in a house, and put a CRT right up against the wall, and you'll see the effect on the screen.
You look it up. I had this argument 20 years ago and forgot where I left that 9-track tape.
The random portions of a performance are no less creative parts of it. The rules and situation are constructed by the league, and the teams perform the random trials within it. The data produced by it are merely an expression of that.
Every newspaper has, either directly or through a parent company, obtained written permission to do so. The leagues have armies of people who do nothing but look for copyright and trademark infringement in the media, or bars or clubs that are playing games on their TVs without a proper license to do so.
Trademark is a different issue, and indeed is why the word "Superbowl" is only used in advertising by its owners.
You can't talk about the information created by a game at all in a money-making context without making yourself legally liable to the league.
It's been tried. Sports leagues are the creators of their content, and own everything about it.
Ever wonder why they read that disclaimer in every televised game? Ever notice that it includes mere "descriptions" of the game?
Now you know. They can, and do, own it.
Art is only worthless if you're subjective about it.
The most valuable art is actually most valuable because of all the objective data built up about it. Who painted it, why, where, under what conditions, in relation to what events, with what limitations; what's in it, what symbolism was intended, what is inferred, what secret meanings and inside jokes it contains; who's owned it, who's seen it or touched it, where it's been, how it's been treated; how its value curve is trending; and so on;
How pretty it is is actually only a small part of it, and is probably only truly significant to the artist, or to the first person to have bought it from his stall at the gallery, or to the thousands who wander past it in a museum, not knowing a thing about what it may have cost the last time it was sold.
But that's besides the point. My statement about FOSS should have clued you that by "art" I meant anything created, not merely aesthetic notions in aesthetic media.
When you take the value proposition out of producing something, you take a lot of valuable producers out of production, simply because they're not motivated to put any effort into that when they can make money picking peas in California.
Actually, they reused the acetate, and destroyed most frames by washing them off to be reused.
And while you find value in them, most people would think that such things are indeed trash, and the monetary value they now hold is mostly because they are rare.
Although it'd be interesting if one of da Vinci's brushes came up for auction, I see no reason for him to have been induced to preserve them all.
Well, Dr. Who is one of my favorites, too, and I'd be hard pressed to vote against a law requiring every VCR, DVD, and Blu-Ray recorder in the world to be tuned to it and recording it just to make sure it was kept safe from oblivion.
But that won't happen, so I have an opportunity to be reasonable.
"But Centex’s attorney, Michael Long, urged justices to trust the free market."
That "free market" shit works on a macro scale. If thousands of people were affected by this, and Centex were already going out of business because they were returning their homes for a refund, then it might be a reasonable argument. But when a couple of people are screwed by the company, they do not have enough "free market" power to make Centex change a damned thing.
Fuck Centex, and fuck their lawyer. Find for the plaintiffs and triple the damages. That's muh rulin'.
And by up-front you mean since they caught the CEO not being up-front and are now hanging him by his neck over the crowd and being up-front about what really happened that was covered up the first time they stood in front of that crowd.
it depends. If they were insiders of some sort and knew that they were getting a highly leveraged profit from an improper trade, then they would owe UBS every nickel, and the state years of hard time.
And the mods would like to have a little chaat with him.
So you're saying we should have a system that puts the value of everyone's creative output at the lowest possible level because one company were a vast warren of clueless fucktards about one TV show that at the time was generally considered laughable shite for inactive children?
Nobody throws anything away, any more. Your scenario is vanishingly unlikely.
When you have a system where art is worthless, you'll get art only from people who don't value their own effort.*
This, frankly, is why most FOSS is shit.
* - or from people who have a means of leveraging their effort into other means of income. But it won't be as many people, and it won't be nearly as much income.
No, but I think about tits more because of it.
Christians make it way too easy to confuse these guys for Christians.
I wish I had this on a T-shirt:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wNJtF1XNe8Y/TFmc2jfEfrI/AAAAAAAACL8/eJVbvC6Izr4/s1600/fuck+this+guy.jpg
There's a word for that: Barratry.
They should all be jailed for it.
Sure. Build another LHC to bookend the problem.
Actually, if the result continues to hold up, that may be a justifiable use of $100e9...
I thought it was rather odd that they had nothing in place to detect this. And odder that the CEO was okay with that.
So here's the next question: if UBS lost $2e9, to whom did they lose it? Have the counterparties been identified, and do those identities still exist?
I don't see it that way.
Being able to express a contrary opinion while retaining popular support is a skill. Being a dick about it is what gets you modded down to stay.
Targeted moderation attacks do happen, but it's easy to see when they do, and you can request that your karma be repaired and the offender be dealt with. Mod points link back to the modder.
I suppose the one change would be that you never get mod privs if you're not contributing otherwise, and the number you get starts at 1 and goes up with karma and participation. And then you can go to the marketplace and buy armor and weapons and potions and spells...