Good question, why doesn't Comcast add up all the time in the commercials I watch and subtract that percentage of time from my bill
Quite the contrary. Comcast will soon be introducing a "Promotional Materials Viewing Fee", since after all you are watching their Intellectual Property. They plan on charging you a very modest 55 cents per commercial per view. Of course for $10 a month you can view all their ads an unlimited number of times per month.
if you want to maximize your profitability you can time your share purchase precisely.
Hahahahaha I have been day trading for years and I wish Joe Average a LOT of luck with "timing the purchase" based on some "Google real time info". You know that stock that dropped 8% today? Who says it's not going to drop another 8% tomorrow too? And the day after. I've seen stocks go from $18 to $6 within a week, and stay there for months. Stocks in billion dollar companies with healthy fundamentals and little debt. Example, look up COCO (NASDAQ) from last Christmas up until about a month ago.
Never try to catch a falling knife, and never try to "time" the market. It has more money than you. The TREND is your friend. Learn that, and save yourself a couple thousand bucks.
We prefer the term "day trading". For us "investing" is a dirty word, and it usually happens involuntarily when we make a mistake. Holding stock for more than 20 mins or so is called "investing".
And it's not gambling, it's called an "educated guess". Stock movement is far from random. You just have to have enough experience to learn the patterns. If it was gambling I would be right as often as I was wrong. It turns out that although I lose money, I make a lot more than I lose.
Of course if everyone starts "day trading" once they have access to "real time quotes" that will make me very happy indeed. More people I can take money from.
And with realistic return percent, one needs a big amount of money to invest
Let's see, I work with a "realistic" amount of money ($35k), make 4k a month spending money AND grow my capital by around 10% a month... so pretty much around 25% a month is what I make. You don't need all that much money... but you DO need the right "algorithms"... especially the one that says TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN.
although if you need LII you should be able to afford the data fees anyway.
Agreed. The $60 or so a month my broker charges me for level II pales in comparison to the couple hundred dollars I pay each day in commission. There's not much point in having "realtime" and "level II" if what you're going to do is pick up your telephone and "call your broker" to "place a trade". You either day trade, or you don't. Only day traders need real time quotes. Everyone else is just going to lose more money as they panic during the typical daily rollercoaster ride. Hmmm now that I think of it, this should help volatility overall. Happy times are coming!!!
is said to be 'uncrackable by people on the internet
Yes, and I've never heard THAT one before, either. Don't the copy protection/DRM/anti "piracy" camp understand that we here on "the internets" just LOVE a challenge?
Crack/workaround for "uncrackable" chip available for download in 5, 4, 3...
Because you dont have an income or because of some weird law in your country?
It's not a "weird law", it's the country's law. It's precisely why I live here. Tax havens still exist in the world. Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jersey, some Central American countries. Oh I have to put up with holes in my roads, I have my power cut occasionally, I have a 500 gal water tank, and I carry a gun. There's always a price. But nope, no income tax. Oh, and no I'm not a US citizen. You poor guys are screwed, and have to pay income tax no matter where you live. Too bad:)
when you say it will cost "them" resources you really ought to be saying that it will cost us resources.
Well if I may clarify, you do have a point. I don't live in any of the countries mentioned. In fact, my 3rd world country has a very lazy attitude to intellectual property. It's hard to enforce when the budget doesn't even cover the basics. Oh, and I don't have to pay income tax, by the way. So yeah, what I meant to say is it will cost YOU resources. Thanks for the correction!:)
True--but you can hurt a lot of people trying to do so.
No, you can't. See if I download stuff it costs me NOTHING. If government(s) try to police the internet, it will cost them resources. If they try to take me and everyone like me to court, it will cost them resources. If they tie up enough resources persecuting "downloaders" and letting people get away with violent crime, or let their roads collapse, etc, eventually it will be a big political nightmare.
The only thing they can hope to do is try to catch the odd downloader and crucify him/her in a very high profile case to try and deter others. This can also backfire. How many thousands of dollars/years in jail because s/he downloaded one movie?
That sure sounds like a reasonable business model:
1. Publisher hires someone to pose as an individual selling copies of software on eBay 2. Track who buys what... 3. Sue for damages at x times what the software is worth, then offer to settle 4. ??? 5. Profit
No way to lose! Make money from the sale, and more from the "squeeze".
We have a farm with a satellite set up at one of the houses, and a microwave wireless connection connects the other house. The system is "line of sight", and the other house is about 1500 yards away. I can't seem to remember the set up being all that expensive - certainly less hassle than running a wire all the way to the other house.
No, you're not. I'm not a US citizen. I live outside the US. So blow all the cash you want. In fact, the weaker the US dollar, the more money I make. Why don't you buy a couple more computers?:P
Which terrorist? Are we talking about the handful of crackpots that planned and executed the Sept 11th hijackings, or all the "terrorists/insurgents/criminals/insert name of the month here" created by US foreign policy since 2003 and the invasion/occupation of Iraq? The latter aren't evil. They think they're doing the right thing by opposing the US, and - newsflash - to be honest most of the world agrees with them.
See the problem now is that the very word "terrorist" has been corrupted far beyond its original meaning. There are almost 1 million people on the "No Fly/Terrorist watch list". And that number is increasing daily. "Terrorist" has gone from its original definition - "idiots who blow up bars, discos, train stations and movie theatres, or hijack aircraft, killing innocent civilians in high profile events to draw the world's attention to their political agenda" to a new one - "anyone who says/does something the US government does not approve of". Like failing to notice the Humvee that's headed towards you at full speed in Iraq (the penalty is summary execution - for being in the wrong lane). Or campaigning against the occupation of Iraq. Or speaking out about Guantanamo, "waterboarding", or the current US administration. Yep, even skateboarders are terrorists nowadays. Do NOT skate near a federal building, or supercops will bully you for endangering public safety through your acts of terrorism.
No, I'm sorry. If you're looking for evil, I would start with George Bush, and work my way down.
Last time I checked, people who are not citizens of these great United States of America are not entitled to protections offered under the bill of rights.
Oh ok, so you can extradite an Australian citizen for violating US intellectual property laws, yet the same, or other, citizen(s) has no protection under the US Bill of Rights?
Come on. Either you apply ALL YOUR LAWS to foreigners, or you apply NONE of them. You can't pick and choose which law a person is entitled to and which law they aren't. The Law is a package deal. However this is typical of the attitude of the current administration - manipulating, abusing existing laws far beyond their original purpose and intent, and creating arbitrary laws. "Justice" no longer exists in the US. I just hope you personally never have to find out the hard way.
we accept the first law of thermodynamics, what impact will wind farms have on the environment?
Trying to get an idea of scale when comparing our size (or the size of these engines) to the ENTIRE WORLD would be a good place to start. It's like saying that the friction from all our cars breaking will slow down the Earth's rotation. Come on.
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unless of course you also hold call options to limit your loss...
Good question, why doesn't Comcast add up all the time in the commercials I watch and subtract that percentage of time from my bill
Quite the contrary. Comcast will soon be introducing a "Promotional Materials Viewing Fee", since after all you are watching their Intellectual Property. They plan on charging you a very modest 55 cents per commercial per view. Of course for $10 a month you can view all their ads an unlimited number of times per month.
if you want to maximize your profitability you can time your share purchase precisely.
Hahahahaha I have been day trading for years and I wish Joe Average a LOT of luck with "timing the purchase" based on some "Google real time info". You know that stock that dropped 8% today? Who says it's not going to drop another 8% tomorrow too? And the day after. I've seen stocks go from $18 to $6 within a week, and stay there for months. Stocks in billion dollar companies with healthy fundamentals and little debt. Example, look up COCO (NASDAQ) from last Christmas up until about a month ago.
Never try to catch a falling knife, and never try to "time" the market. It has more money than you. The TREND is your friend. Learn that, and save yourself a couple thousand bucks.
you're not investing, you're gambling.
We prefer the term "day trading". For us "investing" is a dirty word, and it usually happens involuntarily when we make a mistake. Holding stock for more than 20 mins or so is called "investing".
And it's not gambling, it's called an "educated guess". Stock movement is far from random. You just have to have enough experience to learn the patterns. If it was gambling I would be right as often as I was wrong. It turns out that although I lose money, I make a lot more than I lose.
Of course if everyone starts "day trading" once they have access to "real time quotes" that will make me very happy indeed. More people I can take money from.
Give me "In 10 Minutes" stock quotes and I'll pay for that!
That's called the "futures" market...
And with realistic return percent, one needs a big amount of money to invest
Let's see, I work with a "realistic" amount of money ($35k), make 4k a month spending money AND grow my capital by around 10% a month... so pretty much around 25% a month is what I make. You don't need all that much money... but you DO need the right "algorithms"... especially the one that says TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN.
although if you need LII you should be able to afford the data fees anyway.
Agreed. The $60 or so a month my broker charges me for level II pales in comparison to the couple hundred dollars I pay each day in commission. There's not much point in having "realtime" and "level II" if what you're going to do is pick up your telephone and "call your broker" to "place a trade". You either day trade, or you don't. Only day traders need real time quotes. Everyone else is just going to lose more money as they panic during the typical daily rollercoaster ride. Hmmm now that I think of it, this should help volatility overall. Happy times are coming!!!
Of course there are those of us that prefer to sell high and buy low... but I guess you can't help your preference...:P
it's not unreasonable to assume that they're thinking of buying.
Oh please please please trade. Then when I have taken your money I will have shown you just how far "assumptions" will get you on the market floor.
What, they don't expect people to understand "quadrillion"?
10^12 is far too big for the average scientist to understand - oh wait.
If there is no atmosphere/air on Mars,
What? Mars DOES have an atmosphere.
Surely you mean Airstrip One.
is said to be 'uncrackable by people on the internet
Yes, and I've never heard THAT one before, either. Don't the copy protection/DRM/anti "piracy" camp understand that we here on "the internets" just LOVE a challenge?
Crack/workaround for "uncrackable" chip available for download in 5, 4, 3...
Because you dont have an income or because of some weird law in your country?
:)
It's not a "weird law", it's the country's law. It's precisely why I live here. Tax havens still exist in the world. Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jersey, some Central American countries. Oh I have to put up with holes in my roads, I have my power cut occasionally, I have a 500 gal water tank, and I carry a gun. There's always a price. But nope, no income tax. Oh, and no I'm not a US citizen. You poor guys are screwed, and have to pay income tax no matter where you live. Too bad
And when can we expect *that* to get shut down?
Just a couple months after everyone has stopped using it and is using something else.
when you say it will cost "them" resources you really ought to be saying that it will cost us resources.
:)
Well if I may clarify, you do have a point. I don't live in any of the countries mentioned. In fact, my 3rd world country has a very lazy attitude to intellectual property. It's hard to enforce when the budget doesn't even cover the basics. Oh, and I don't have to pay income tax, by the way. So yeah, what I meant to say is it will cost YOU resources. Thanks for the correction!
True--but you can hurt a lot of people trying to do so.
No, you can't. See if I download stuff it costs me NOTHING. If government(s) try to police the internet, it will cost them resources. If they try to take me and everyone like me to court, it will cost them resources. If they tie up enough resources persecuting "downloaders" and letting people get away with violent crime, or let their roads collapse, etc, eventually it will be a big political nightmare.
The only thing they can hope to do is try to catch the odd downloader and crucify him/her in a very high profile case to try and deter others. This can also backfire. How many thousands of dollars/years in jail because s/he downloaded one movie?
But most people know they'll never get caught.
That sure sounds like a reasonable business model:
1. Publisher hires someone to pose as an individual selling copies of software on eBay
2. Track who buys what...
3. Sue for damages at x times what the software is worth, then offer to settle
4. ???
5. Profit
No way to lose! Make money from the sale, and more from the "squeeze".
We have a farm with a satellite set up at one of the houses, and a microwave wireless connection connects the other house. The system is "line of sight", and the other house is about 1500 yards away. I can't seem to remember the set up being all that expensive - certainly less hassle than running a wire all the way to the other house.
I'm blowing your cash.
:P
No, you're not. I'm not a US citizen. I live outside the US. So blow all the cash you want. In fact, the weaker the US dollar, the more money I make. Why don't you buy a couple more computers?
These terrorists are evil
Which terrorist? Are we talking about the handful of crackpots that planned and executed the Sept 11th hijackings, or all the "terrorists/insurgents/criminals/insert name of the month here" created by US foreign policy since 2003 and the invasion/occupation of Iraq? The latter aren't evil. They think they're doing the right thing by opposing the US, and - newsflash - to be honest most of the world agrees with them.
See the problem now is that the very word "terrorist" has been corrupted far beyond its original meaning. There are almost 1 million people on the "No Fly/Terrorist watch list". And that number is increasing daily. "Terrorist" has gone from its original definition - "idiots who blow up bars, discos, train stations and movie theatres, or hijack aircraft, killing innocent civilians in high profile events to draw the world's attention to their political agenda" to a new one - "anyone who says/does something the US government does not approve of". Like failing to notice the Humvee that's headed towards you at full speed in Iraq (the penalty is summary execution - for being in the wrong lane). Or campaigning against the occupation of Iraq. Or speaking out about Guantanamo, "waterboarding", or the current US administration. Yep, even skateboarders are terrorists nowadays. Do NOT skate near a federal building, or supercops will bully you for endangering public safety through your acts of terrorism.
No, I'm sorry. If you're looking for evil, I would start with George Bush, and work my way down.
But it's "different" when "America" does it... /sarcasm
Last time I checked, people who are not citizens of these great United States of America are not entitled to protections offered under the bill of rights.
Oh ok, so you can extradite an Australian citizen for violating US intellectual property laws, yet the same, or other, citizen(s) has no protection under the US Bill of Rights?
Come on. Either you apply ALL YOUR LAWS to foreigners, or you apply NONE of them. You can't pick and choose which law a person is entitled to and which law they aren't. The Law is a package deal. However this is typical of the attitude of the current administration - manipulating, abusing existing laws far beyond their original purpose and intent, and creating arbitrary laws. "Justice" no longer exists in the US. I just hope you personally never have to find out the hard way.
A few years ago I used to laugh at news like this coming from the US. But now, I just shake my head. It's not funny anymore.
we accept the first law of thermodynamics, what impact will wind farms have on the environment?
Trying to get an idea of scale when comparing our size (or the size of these engines) to the ENTIRE WORLD would be a good place to start. It's like saying that the friction from all our cars breaking will slow down the Earth's rotation. Come on.