but there is something to be said for market fluidity. time of reaction is on the order of seconds for any trader worth their salt, even way before computers. time for meditation and reflection is for the off hours
all you do when you make the market artifically blocky with long time increments is make people's blood pressure go up and they bang their heads against the wall in impatience. and then prices would jump up and down in huge blocks, rather than small fluid ticks
the idea is to keep the marketplace human: occuring on the scale of a human reactions, on the order of seconds. meanwhile, when the market is played in computer time, in milliseconds or smaller increments, then the human beings, the ones who should actually be making the decisions, are ceding control, are really just playing catch up to the decision algorithms they have written, which of course can never be as good as an actual person
that's why we need to slow things down to the order of seconds. but even SLOWER, on the order of minutes, as you suggest, no, that's just maddening
i'm describing a simple economic truth: the marketplace is where value is honestly determined
to say otherwise is like telling a computer scientist binary mathematics is retarded or telling a biologist that dna has no meaning to biological systems
that's the simple truth, i'm sorry you have to be so strident in your ignorance of simple economic facts
99% of us carry herpes around, constantly held in check by our immune system
so when our immune system is destroyed, whether by HIV or radiation, out comes our wonderful viral friends, to lay waste to our bodies completely unimpeded
if you are unable to grasp how the stock market determines value, you really shouldn't be saying things about the economy, as you are announcing a woeful lack of understanding of the subject matter
my comment was a form of intellectual charity. take the charity, and go get your own supporting evidence. i'm not your wet nurse
or continue being willfully ignorant of what you comment on, your choice
the stock market is the only honest way to determine value. of course it is abused and obsessed over, but even with all of the shenanigans and parasites, the benefits outweigh the detractions
those with the screamiest servers the shortest fibre optic hop away from wall street get to play this game, no one else. it dedemocratizes the market. the ideal of a marketplace is that it is a meeting place of equals. if the guy with the most expensive servers and programmers money can buy is the only one who can profit though, the marketplace is now simply an oligopoly of the rich, not a place where the common investor can make his or her mark
of course, the market has never been a meeting place of equals, it has always been abused by the largest players in the marketplace. however the idea is to minimize this abuse, not excuse or accept it
what the market needs is a "tick", a "heartbeat": all trades, no matter from whom, must be made in the same 1 second or three second batch cycle. no one should be allowed to exceed this frequency. problem solved
however, they are lot better behaved than the radioactive byproducts in fission
hhere is such a thing as nuclear waste with the idea of fusion power. however we are talking about things with half lives and types of radioactivity that makes handling the waste not a permanent nightmare, more like a manageable sustained effort
is a clear definition of the context in which the power will be used
there's nothing at all wrong with what you are asking for
but how that context is defined: as intelligently as possible, is not in any way served by the adrenal gland overclocking OMGWEAREBECOMINGAFASCISTAUTOCRACY-ALLOURRIGHTSAREBEINGRAPED-THEYSEEEVERYTHINGYOUDO crowd
the fight or flight response is a potent mammalian invention. adrenal glands are wonderful survival aides in times of sudden stress. but someone who is put under immense immediate stress to every vague slight distant warning is someone who is reacting to their own psychological shortcomings, not reality, and does not help the good fight at all
if hysterical twits are the public face of the fight for liberties and freedoms then the fight for liberties and freedoms is discredited in the eyes of the public
if you are not intelligent in your advocacy for your cause, the ultimate sum total real world effect of your passion might be nothing more than to hurt your cause
"the more hysterical twits the better"
the more people who think that, the more our liberties and freedoms are doomed. really, that's the solid truth of the matter
please try to understand that when you write words like you have written above, you only aid those who wish to take away your liberties and freedoms. if you are not intelligent in your advocacy for your cause, you might as well be working for your ideological enemy, because the real world effect is the same
be smart, or shut up. because you hurt what i care about
i know everyone is freaked out about the military thoecracy of iran and the cult of personality of north korea with nukes, and that nuclear technology will inevitably trickle down to smaller and smaller states: suriname, east timor, vanuatu... and then factional organizations: al qaeda, FARC, doctors without borders, make a wish foundation, girl scouts...
but when fashion designers have their hands on nuclear technology, i think we can pretty much declare the effort to contain nuclear technology over, and just start writing the epitaph for civilization. we're doomed
and even if there were images, it would only be of someone's uvula
but, bolstering my point about the uvula, i think someone's initial impressions of a picture of someone's pierced uvula would be that it was sort of extreme fetishistic sexual piercing on the order of goatse.cx
"But a proposed law that would give the government a so-killed kill switch to essentially turn off the public Internet is very, very worrisome, and it raises the specter of some future administration using that power to crack down on its opponents"
no it doesn't unless you are a paranoid schizophrenic
if we have some sort of warhol worm, everyone ranting against the kill switch will be begging for the president to cut off the internet
the need to cut off the internet makes perfect sense IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT. which is what the law will be tailored to. but if you take the idea of shutting down the internet, and put it in the context of your deepest fear: say, censorship based on political ideology, of course the idea is frightening. AS IF THIS CONTEXT MAKES ANY SENSE. there is no slippery slope, folks, unless you remove from the law and its invocation the existence of thinking human beings. all jokes about big government to the contrary, that's absurd
people: fight the encroachment of government onto our rights and liberties. but do it intelligently. taking a commonsense provision and imaging its usage in the most ridiculously hysterical fear-based context is NOT intelligence, and it reduces the noble instinct to defend liberty and our rights to a laughingstock
our liberties and our rights and freedoms are utterly doomed if those who defend those notions are hysterical twits who cry the sky is falling about everything. be prudent and intelligent or don't bother: you only hurt the good cause
ALL media is biased, always was, and always will be. so by your definition of evil, everyone is evil, and always was, and always will be
so, just like a teenager's basis for hating their parents, your basis for finding traditional media to be evil is in error. someday you'll grow up, and realize the reasons for hating your parents/ traditional media are trumped up, hysterical, and pointless
Slashdot Mirror
one day you look at your phone: hey, there's a bing icon
couple of months later: look at that, a skype icon
it's vaguely unsettling, to be reminded of how raped you are in terms of privacy
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
-Mahatma Gandhi
in arguing about simple economic truths on the internet with a proudly ignorant moron
if more people want something, the price goes up. if less people want something, the price goes down
if the supply of something goes down, the price goes up. if the supply of something goes up, the price goes down
this is a really basic concept to the reality of the world you live in, and this is all i mean when i say the market determines value
do you understand yet retard?
is the lazy asshole's replacement for intelligence
of course you are wrong, and ignorant, and a lazy asshole
that's cynicism, the lazy asshole's replacement for intelligence
but there is something to be said for market fluidity. time of reaction is on the order of seconds for any trader worth their salt, even way before computers. time for meditation and reflection is for the off hours
all you do when you make the market artifically blocky with long time increments is make people's blood pressure go up and they bang their heads against the wall in impatience. and then prices would jump up and down in huge blocks, rather than small fluid ticks
the idea is to keep the marketplace human: occuring on the scale of a human reactions, on the order of seconds. meanwhile, when the market is played in computer time, in milliseconds or smaller increments, then the human beings, the ones who should actually be making the decisions, are ceding control, are really just playing catch up to the decision algorithms they have written, which of course can never be as good as an actual person
that's why we need to slow things down to the order of seconds. but even SLOWER, on the order of minutes, as you suggest, no, that's just maddening
or one hell of a dangerously, willfully ignorant jackass
i'm not sure which
either way, to take you seriously would be a crime
so just fuck off and die, you low rent demagogue
i'm describing a simple economic truth: the marketplace is where value is honestly determined
to say otherwise is like telling a computer scientist binary mathematics is retarded or telling a biologist that dna has no meaning to biological systems
that's the simple truth, i'm sorry you have to be so strident in your ignorance of simple economic facts
mod parent up
i'm guessing oral technique is important when blowing her vuvuzela, or she doesn't make any noises
radiation destroys the immune system
99% of us carry herpes around, constantly held in check by our immune system
so when our immune system is destroyed, whether by HIV or radiation, out comes our wonderful viral friends, to lay waste to our bodies completely unimpeded
you'd insist on supporting evidence
if you are unable to grasp how the stock market determines value, you really shouldn't be saying things about the economy, as you are announcing a woeful lack of understanding of the subject matter
my comment was a form of intellectual charity. take the charity, and go get your own supporting evidence. i'm not your wet nurse
or continue being willfully ignorant of what you comment on, your choice
the stock market is the only honest way to determine value. of course it is abused and obsessed over, but even with all of the shenanigans and parasites, the benefits outweigh the detractions
those with the screamiest servers the shortest fibre optic hop away from wall street get to play this game, no one else. it dedemocratizes the market. the ideal of a marketplace is that it is a meeting place of equals. if the guy with the most expensive servers and programmers money can buy is the only one who can profit though, the marketplace is now simply an oligopoly of the rich, not a place where the common investor can make his or her mark
of course, the market has never been a meeting place of equals, it has always been abused by the largest players in the marketplace. however the idea is to minimize this abuse, not excuse or accept it
what the market needs is a "tick", a "heartbeat": all trades, no matter from whom, must be made in the same 1 second or three second batch cycle. no one should be allowed to exceed this frequency. problem solved
however, they are lot better behaved than the radioactive byproducts in fission
hhere is such a thing as nuclear waste with the idea of fusion power. however we are talking about things with half lives and types of radioactivity that makes handling the waste not a permanent nightmare, more like a manageable sustained effort
http://www.google.com/images?q=david+hahn
what that is is kaposi's sarcoma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi's_sarcoma
if you need a hobby, radioactive materials is not your best choice
is a clear definition of the context in which the power will be used
there's nothing at all wrong with what you are asking for
but how that context is defined: as intelligently as possible, is not in any way served by the adrenal gland overclocking OMGWEAREBECOMINGAFASCISTAUTOCRACY-ALLOURRIGHTSAREBEINGRAPED-THEYSEEEVERYTHINGYOUDO crowd
the fight or flight response is a potent mammalian invention. adrenal glands are wonderful survival aides in times of sudden stress. but someone who is put under immense immediate stress to every vague slight distant warning is someone who is reacting to their own psychological shortcomings, not reality, and does not help the good fight at all
if hysterical twits are the public face of the fight for liberties and freedoms then the fight for liberties and freedoms is discredited in the eyes of the public
if you are not intelligent in your advocacy for your cause, the ultimate sum total real world effect of your passion might be nothing more than to hurt your cause
"the more hysterical twits the better"
the more people who think that, the more our liberties and freedoms are doomed. really, that's the solid truth of the matter
please try to understand that when you write words like you have written above, you only aid those who wish to take away your liberties and freedoms. if you are not intelligent in your advocacy for your cause, you might as well be working for your ideological enemy, because the real world effect is the same
be smart, or shut up. because you hurt what i care about
i know everyone is freaked out about the military thoecracy of iran and the cult of personality of north korea with nukes, and that nuclear technology will inevitably trickle down to smaller and smaller states: suriname, east timor, vanuatu... and then factional organizations: al qaeda, FARC, doctors without borders, make a wish foundation, girl scouts...
but when fashion designers have their hands on nuclear technology, i think we can pretty much declare the effort to contain nuclear technology over, and just start writing the epitaph for civilization. we're doomed
and even if there were images, it would only be of someone's uvula
but, bolstering my point about the uvula, i think someone's initial impressions of a picture of someone's pierced uvula would be that it was sort of extreme fetishistic sexual piercing on the order of goatse.cx
"But a proposed law that would give the government a so-killed kill switch to essentially turn off the public Internet is very, very worrisome, and it raises the specter of some future administration using that power to crack down on its opponents"
no it doesn't unless you are a paranoid schizophrenic
if we have some sort of warhol worm, everyone ranting against the kill switch will be begging for the president to cut off the internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhol_worm
the need to cut off the internet makes perfect sense IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT. which is what the law will be tailored to. but if you take the idea of shutting down the internet, and put it in the context of your deepest fear: say, censorship based on political ideology, of course the idea is frightening. AS IF THIS CONTEXT MAKES ANY SENSE. there is no slippery slope, folks, unless you remove from the law and its invocation the existence of thinking human beings. all jokes about big government to the contrary, that's absurd
people: fight the encroachment of government onto our rights and liberties. but do it intelligently. taking a commonsense provision and imaging its usage in the most ridiculously hysterical fear-based context is NOT intelligence, and it reduces the noble instinct to defend liberty and our rights to a laughingstock
our liberties and our rights and freedoms are utterly doomed if those who defend those notions are hysterical twits who cry the sky is falling about everything. be prudent and intelligent or don't bother: you only hurt the good cause
it's a dangling conical fleshy lobe
in other words, the uvula is a cervix, in the back of the mouth
and if you want to completely gag, click this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula_piercing
because its biased?
ALL media is biased, always was, and always will be. so by your definition of evil, everyone is evil, and always was, and always will be
so, just like a teenager's basis for hating their parents, your basis for finding traditional media to be evil is in error. someday you'll grow up, and realize the reasons for hating your parents/ traditional media are trumped up, hysterical, and pointless
sounds like some part of a woman's anatomy
vuvuzela button: sounds like some part of a woman's anatomy i'm not aware of, but should be aware of
something vaguely absurd, fun-loving, and suggestive of a shiny happy web future
how about... hmmm... something unique and original:
flooz!
or
beenz!
(for those of you lucky enough not to live through the debacle of the dot-com crash:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com )