You've not contradicted me, just argued with me. Why are you being contentious over something you didn't even really disagree on?
Because pulling water from reservoirs, treating it, and delivering it to customers doesn't fit the definition of "toilet to tap". You may want to define "toilet to tap" that way, but the rest of the world doesn't.
Dallas pulls from the Trinity River (less now than when it was founded, at least percentage-wise).
Dallas doesn't pull any water from the Trinity River. It pulls water from reservoirs, and not all of them are fed by the Trinity.
It does pump the water into some city resevoirs, which are then used as settling tanks.
Dallas doesn't pump water into any reservoirs. Dallas pumps water *from* reservoirs into treatment facilities and then to customers.
The only problem with that is White Rock Lake... [snip]
White Rock Lake hasn't been used for drinking water in decades.
Toilet to tap is common. Most of the water I've drunk was toilet to tap.
The vast majority of re-claimed water in the US is used for irrigation and industrial uses, not drinking water. Unless you've lived in a few specific communities in CA or FL, you have probably never drank any re-claimed water. Toilet to tap is not common in the US, and it is non-existent in Dallas.
...what's in it for me? The answer is NOTHING. What's in it for the ATTs, Verizons, Sprints of the world is the question. If the players don't see an opportunity, this thing is dead in the water.
Name 1 reason an active port under an uncontrollable passengers seat needs to have access to avionics or any critical system?
History. As was pointed our to me in an earlier discussion on this topic, bean counters might have played a role in consolidating ALL electronic systems in an aircraft, thus tying its avionics with its in-flight entertainment systems.
As soon as an algorithm is created that can accurately predict the market, investors will start using it, thus altering the market so the algorithm no longer works.
How many stories have you heard about people who won large sums of money but ended up bankrupt a few short years later?
Haven't you seen the news stories of the guy that dies and leaves millions to charity but nobody suspected he had money?
I knew an older gentleman in my pre-teen years. He was rich, literally worth tens of millions in today's dollars but you'd never would have known.
Anecdotal. And none of those anectodes prove that those with the resources to pay others to manage their finance have more expertise than those that don't.
Rich people generally know how to manage their risks, or they don't stay rich very long. The trick to making money is not being lucky, but being smart.
Rich people generally (i.e, exclusively) pay *others* to manage their risks. I guess you could characterize that as "smart", but it has nothing to do with financial acumen.
IANAL, but wouldn't Eric Wong have to show that he was negatively impacted by the defendant in order to have standing in such a suit? Did he try to bowl at Marshall Bowl and couldn't? TFA doesn't seem to have any info on this.
... but for all intents and purposes economics shouldn't be misconstrued as a science. >
Sorry, game theory has demonstrated it's predictive ability for some time now.
But whether economics is science or not is beside the point. The discipline has proved it's utility over and over, and the marketplace recognizes this.
BTW, your comment about economics as the reason that "high speed trading systems have the ability to undo sales or purchases with impunity" is complete and "utter bullshit". Perhaps you should go back to whatever "science" you feel is valid and stay out of finance.
Well said. Meanwhile the real metric, earnings, is at a reasonable level. SP500 P/E at 17x next year's earnings is still buyable.
Nothing to see here, carry on.
I do agree with you that the best metric is P/E, but...
P/E for next year's earnings? Didn't someone use "bullshit mathematics in the art of economics" to come up with that estimate? Don't you contradict GP's main point?
The fact is, all the largest trading firms in the world employ teams of economists - and they don't do it in order to throw their money away on a "sack of magic chicken bones".
Seriously. The Breitbart bits at the end of TFS politicize what would have otherwise been a mediocre Sunday Slashdot submission. Now it falls squarely into the "troll submission" category.
Maybe not in terms of the planet's population, but in many industries and in positions of power and authority, men are still a majority.
...and those men comprise an exceedingly miniscule percentage of the male population. The rest of us in the 99.999th percentile aren't as "empowered" as those guys.
BTW, males DO outnumber females worldwide, but females outnumber males in the vast majority of the developed world.
Men's rights and white power groups and other groups that "fight" for the rights of an already empowered majority exist only because they choose to ignore history.
I kinda get where you're coming from, but drawing a parallel between men's rights groups and white supremacists is a little over the top, don't you think? Certainly some of these groups are wacky - misogynistic even. But most of them seem to be reacting to what they perceive as a diminution of the value of males in society; they're not attacking women and they're not defending an "empowered majority" status.
Am I reading this right? This guy accessed the plane's avionics through the in-flight entertainment system?!? I don't believe it. There's no way that entertainment/wifi/anything-accessible-to-a-passenger could in anyway be connected to those critical systems...is there?
mmm...I had Win8.1 running in VirtualBox on a computer whose X58 motherboard failed. Couldn't replace the mobo, so I built a Z97 machine with (obviously) completely different specs. I reinstalled WIn8.1 in a VM on that box, and it's been running without complaint for over a year now.
Of course, this is not a corporate environment, but MS doesn't seem to mind what I've done with transferring between VMs on different machines.
(this was done using an OEM version of Windows BTW)
Absolutely true. And completely irrelevant. The bankruptcy proceeding is about the disposition of the corporation's assets, and has absolutely no protections for personal liabilities under state labor laws or anti-fraud statutes.
Once again, state labor laws have absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zilch to do with a bankruptcy proceeding. Repeating it over and over will not make it true, no matter how often you try.
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You've not contradicted me, just argued with me. Why are you being contentious over something you didn't even really disagree on?
Because pulling water from reservoirs, treating it, and delivering it to customers doesn't fit the definition of "toilet to tap". You may want to define "toilet to tap" that way, but the rest of the world doesn't.
Dallas pulls from the Trinity River (less now than when it was founded, at least percentage-wise).
Dallas doesn't pull any water from the Trinity River. It pulls water from reservoirs, and not all of them are fed by the Trinity.
It does pump the water into some city resevoirs, which are then used as settling tanks.
Dallas doesn't pump water into any reservoirs. Dallas pumps water *from* reservoirs into treatment facilities and then to customers.
The only problem with that is White Rock Lake ... [snip]
White Rock Lake hasn't been used for drinking water in decades.
Toilet to tap is common. Most of the water I've drunk was toilet to tap.
The vast majority of re-claimed water in the US is used for irrigation and industrial uses, not drinking water. Unless you've lived in a few specific communities in CA or FL, you have probably never drank any re-claimed water. Toilet to tap is not common in the US, and it is non-existent in Dallas.
...the ability to break that crypto is something really anyone can do with open-source software.
I asked my mom to to break crypto with open-source software...her eyes glazed over and I had to perform CPR.
...what's in it for me? The answer is NOTHING. What's in it for the ATTs, Verizons, Sprints of the world is the question. If the players don't see an opportunity, this thing is dead in the water.
Name 1 reason an active port under an uncontrollable passengers seat needs to have access to avionics or any critical system?
History. As was pointed our to me in an earlier discussion on this topic, bean counters might have played a role in consolidating ALL electronic systems in an aircraft, thus tying its avionics with its in-flight entertainment systems.
You're allowed to defend using multiple strategies even if they're logically contradictory.
True, but putting logically contradictory theories as defenses to a crime doesn't usually play well with juries.
Never said they didn't..
LOL
That's prolly why I got down modded, even though I mentioned monkeys. ;-)
As soon as an algorithm is created that can accurately predict the market, investors will start using it, thus altering the market so the algorithm no longer works.
Like LTCM.
Honestly, I think that monkeys could produce better legislation (in the same amount of time) as our current US Congress.
How many stories have you heard about people who won large sums of money but ended up bankrupt a few short years later?
Haven't you seen the news stories of the guy that dies and leaves millions to charity but nobody suspected he had money?
I knew an older gentleman in my pre-teen years. He was rich, literally worth tens of millions in today's dollars but you'd never would have known.
Anecdotal. And none of those anectodes prove that those with the resources to pay others to manage their finance have more expertise than those that don't.
I can see the Super Bowl commercials now. It'll be like that Farley/Sandler bit on SNL, except the gays will be substituted with heroin models.
Rich people generally know how to manage their risks, or they don't stay rich very long. The trick to making money is not being lucky, but being smart.
Rich people generally (i.e, exclusively) pay *others* to manage their risks. I guess you could characterize that as "smart", but it has nothing to do with financial acumen.
IANAL, but wouldn't Eric Wong have to show that he was negatively impacted by the defendant in order to have standing in such a suit? Did he try to bowl at Marshall Bowl and couldn't? TFA doesn't seem to have any info on this.
... but for all intents and purposes economics shouldn't be misconstrued as a science. >
Sorry, game theory has demonstrated it's predictive ability for some time now.
But whether economics is science or not is beside the point. The discipline has proved it's utility over and over, and the marketplace recognizes this.
BTW, your comment about economics as the reason that "high speed trading systems have the ability to undo sales or purchases with impunity" is complete and "utter bullshit". Perhaps you should go back to whatever "science" you feel is valid and stay out of finance.
Well said. Meanwhile the real metric, earnings, is at a reasonable level. SP500 P/E at 17x next year's earnings is still buyable.
Nothing to see here, carry on.
I do agree with you that the best metric is P/E, but...
P/E for next year's earnings? Didn't someone use "bullshit mathematics in the art of economics" to come up with that estimate? Don't you contradict GP's main point?
The fact is, all the largest trading firms in the world employ teams of economists - and they don't do it in order to throw their money away on a "sack of magic chicken bones".
...cocaine can be detected by the excreted metabolites...resulting from abuse of the drug.
What about those that don't abuse cocaine, but use it responsibly?
Seriously. The Breitbart bits at the end of TFS politicize what would have otherwise been a mediocre Sunday Slashdot submission. Now it falls squarely into the "troll submission" category.
Don't know for sure, but I would imagine it's China + India.
Well, I was on the fence about spending money on this movie
I wasn't. I would go see ANY movie with Charlize Theron scampering about in leather. I guess the MRA dudes aren't as into femdom as I am.
Maybe not in terms of the planet's population, but in many industries and in positions of power and authority, men are still a majority.
...and those men comprise an exceedingly miniscule percentage of the male population. The rest of us in the 99.999th percentile aren't as "empowered" as those guys.
BTW, males DO outnumber females worldwide, but females outnumber males in the vast majority of the developed world.
Men's rights and white power groups and other groups that "fight" for the rights of an already empowered majority exist only because they choose to ignore history.
I kinda get where you're coming from, but drawing a parallel between men's rights groups and white supremacists is a little over the top, don't you think? Certainly some of these groups are wacky - misogynistic even. But most of them seem to be reacting to what they perceive as a diminution of the value of males in society; they're not attacking women and they're not defending an "empowered majority" status.
BTW, men are not a majority in the USA (or in the vast majority of first world countries for that matter).
Am I reading this right? This guy accessed the plane's avionics through the in-flight entertainment system?!? I don't believe it. There's no way that entertainment/wifi/anything-accessible-to-a-passenger could in anyway be connected to those critical systems...is there?
mmm...I had Win8.1 running in VirtualBox on a computer whose X58 motherboard failed. Couldn't replace the mobo, so I built a Z97 machine with (obviously) completely different specs. I reinstalled WIn8.1 in a VM on that box, and it's been running without complaint for over a year now.
Of course, this is not a corporate environment, but MS doesn't seem to mind what I've done with transferring between VMs on different machines.
(this was done using an OEM version of Windows BTW)
Absolutely true. And completely irrelevant. The bankruptcy proceeding is about the disposition of the corporation's assets, and has absolutely no protections for personal liabilities under state labor laws or anti-fraud statutes.
Once again, state labor laws have absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zilch to do with a bankruptcy proceeding. Repeating it over and over will not make it true, no matter how often you try.