No, you're allowed to shoot down planes flying in your airspace without permission. Of course it's usually polite to ask them to turn back or land first, and it's polite of them to do so. But it's not an act of war if they are violating your sovereignty.
At one point it becomes easier to write the damned paper than beat the algorithm. On the other hand if teachers rely so much on a few pieces of paper to assess their students then perhaps the whole assessment methodology needs to be re-evaluated. Hell I WISH my medical degree was determined by a few papers. Instead it was determined by the constant subjective evaluation by hundreds of tutors and literally thousands of patients, as well as some objective written tests. But if as a teacher you aren't able to get to know your students well enough to see if they are actually learning or just marking time in your class - then there's a problem. Perhaps in a quest to be "fair and impartial" the education system has forgotten that actually learning is highly subjective. Some people have got it and others don't get it (and don't deserve the degree).
There is no inflation, according to the Fed. Just don't look at the farm prices which have increased 30% year over year, and never at energy prices. Or technology prices. The government justifies the cost of these new hearing aids as being the same as before because today's hearing aids are _so_much_better. This is called hedonics. So while your wage hasn't gone up at all, your standard of living is being flushed down the toilet. But don't worry the government is printing lots more money for you so that you can wall-paper your house with it in a few years.
That's the theory. In practice, without middle-men you would wait a long time for your stock to sell or be bought. In the meantime the market can move far, far away from your price - usually in the wrong direction for you.
But when you place a buy or sell order on the market, through your broker or through your "large trading house", you are agreeing to a transaction at that price. When you say value is being "siphoned away" what you actually are doing is complaining because someone is willing to take you up on your offer and take the risk involved to try to make that little bit more money with what was (once) your stock.
Nothing is stopping you from trying to get a better price. In fact high frequency trading provides so much liquidity that if you wait just a little while you WILL get your price. Of course if you're impatient or panicked, then you shouldn't have been trading in the first place. But imagine this scenario - where you place a bid and have to wait 10 days to buy stock because the volume is so low. How much does that costs you in terms of lost profits/opportunity cost?
No matter how good your analysis or how closely you watch the market like a hawk, you're going to be screwed, blued, and tattooed.
I beg to differ. Trading is all about the banks taking out the stops. Once you learn where the soft stops are, you can make money, since you will be trading in the same direction as the big brokers and banks - so long as you stay small enough to not be seen as a target yourself.
Depends on how you define "ground". This is asymmetric warfare. If you say that the US can field and patrol with more tanks, helicopters and combat aircraft than the Taliban then yes, the US is the unmistakable military force. Now guess what's going to happen the minute the US decides it's fed up with policing Afghanistan. If the Taliban are killing and ambushing Afghan National Army members now, with the US present, how hard are they going to think about doing it when the US leaves? When you consider the long term and the expense, who is coming out as a winner?
The only way to deal with an insurrection is the historically tested, tried and true way. They kill one of yours, you kill 100 of theirs, until they get the message. However the US - indeed the "civilized world" - no longer has the will for such barbarous tactics. Someone somewhere decided that war had to be fought in a gentlemanly manner. This only works if you're fighting other gentlemen. However the reality of war is different. Clausewitz said that war is won by the most violent. The Taliban aren't afraid to use violence against their own people, and so the people are afraid of the Taliban. They have no doubts about who will come and slit their throats in the night if they show too much support for the Americans.
Yeah, then I think it's been 40 years and we've achieved precious little else except cargo trips to low earth orbit that blow up once in a while, and an "international space station" which no one ended up wanting to pay for, was plagued with delays and budget cuts, and despite being much more expensive has not really achieved much more than Skylab; and I get depressed. Oh and we put some toy robots on Mars.
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If God had intended man to fly, he would have given him wings.
because if so, im just going to stop gaming.
Just like the crack user - yeah yeah you'll be back. But I'll put your prices up.
Gamersgate is better.
(I do not mean to imply that they are intellectually children
That would be children with nuclear weapons...
So your response is basically "count yourself lucky - we could be a lot worse". Nice to know.
Since when do spy planes avoid enemy territory anyway?
There should be redundant systems aboard the craft,
There are. The real question is why someone is interested in putting out this disinformation.
No, you're allowed to shoot down planes flying in your airspace without permission. Of course it's usually polite to ask them to turn back or land first, and it's polite of them to do so. But it's not an act of war if they are violating your sovereignty.
I agree. ALL aircraft have on-board inertial navigation systems as well. And when all else fails, a map and a compass works just fine too. I smell BS.
Except that is an act of war,
When has that ever stopped the US?
At one point it becomes easier to write the damned paper than beat the algorithm. On the other hand if teachers rely so much on a few pieces of paper to assess their students then perhaps the whole assessment methodology needs to be re-evaluated. Hell I WISH my medical degree was determined by a few papers. Instead it was determined by the constant subjective evaluation by hundreds of tutors and literally thousands of patients, as well as some objective written tests. But if as a teacher you aren't able to get to know your students well enough to see if they are actually learning or just marking time in your class - then there's a problem. Perhaps in a quest to be "fair and impartial" the education system has forgotten that actually learning is highly subjective. Some people have got it and others don't get it (and don't deserve the degree).
We do things differently down here in the tropics.
In the UK
A Brit commenting on beer? Call me when you discover drinking your beer cold.
Joking, I lived a while in the UK and enjoyed more than a few pints of bitter...
Better bars than kiloPascals...
And I thought you went to the bar to get more beer...
There is no inflation, according to the Fed. Just don't look at the farm prices which have increased 30% year over year, and never at energy prices. Or technology prices. The government justifies the cost of these new hearing aids as being the same as before because today's hearing aids are _so_much_better. This is called hedonics. So while your wage hasn't gone up at all, your standard of living is being flushed down the toilet. But don't worry the government is printing lots more money for you so that you can wall-paper your house with it in a few years.
That's the theory. In practice, without middle-men you would wait a long time for your stock to sell or be bought. In the meantime the market can move far, far away from your price - usually in the wrong direction for you.
But when you place a buy or sell order on the market, through your broker or through your "large trading house", you are agreeing to a transaction at that price. When you say value is being "siphoned away" what you actually are doing is complaining because someone is willing to take you up on your offer and take the risk involved to try to make that little bit more money with what was (once) your stock.
Nothing is stopping you from trying to get a better price. In fact high frequency trading provides so much liquidity that if you wait just a little while you WILL get your price. Of course if you're impatient or panicked, then you shouldn't have been trading in the first place. But imagine this scenario - where you place a bid and have to wait 10 days to buy stock because the volume is so low. How much does that costs you in terms of lost profits/opportunity cost?
No matter how good your analysis or how closely you watch the market like a hawk, you're going to be screwed, blued, and tattooed.
I beg to differ. Trading is all about the banks taking out the stops. Once you learn where the soft stops are, you can make money, since you will be trading in the same direction as the big brokers and banks - so long as you stay small enough to not be seen as a target yourself.
First of all, stocks DO have voting rights.
You need to learn the difference between share classes: common vs preferred, voting vs non-voting, etc.
Explain how value is "siphoned away".
Depends on how you define "ground". This is asymmetric warfare. If you say that the US can field and patrol with more tanks, helicopters and combat aircraft than the Taliban then yes, the US is the unmistakable military force. Now guess what's going to happen the minute the US decides it's fed up with policing Afghanistan. If the Taliban are killing and ambushing Afghan National Army members now, with the US present, how hard are they going to think about doing it when the US leaves? When you consider the long term and the expense, who is coming out as a winner?
The only way to deal with an insurrection is the historically tested, tried and true way. They kill one of yours, you kill 100 of theirs, until they get the message. However the US - indeed the "civilized world" - no longer has the will for such barbarous tactics. Someone somewhere decided that war had to be fought in a gentlemanly manner. This only works if you're fighting other gentlemen. However the reality of war is different. Clausewitz said that war is won by the most violent. The Taliban aren't afraid to use violence against their own people, and so the people are afraid of the Taliban. They have no doubts about who will come and slit their throats in the night if they show too much support for the Americans.
You just won't be able to log in. Instead you'll get a screen saying "The System Worked!"
Yeah, then I think it's been 40 years and we've achieved precious little else except cargo trips to low earth orbit that blow up once in a while, and an "international space station" which no one ended up wanting to pay for, was plagued with delays and budget cuts, and despite being much more expensive has not really achieved much more than Skylab; and I get depressed. Oh and we put some toy robots on Mars.