Although I don't agree with the parent post, here are some source about the german bank leverage :
german bank leverage
QUOTE : The critical question analysts will be seeking answers to this week is how much progress Deutsche Bank has made in cutting its leverage, which at 40 times under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, means it is the most highly leveraged wholesale bank in Europe. It has set a leverage target of 30 times.
assuming a standard practice of 1:10 in the US, that would place them at 1:400 with a "target" of 1:300.
Granted we have a sample only of 1 in the BIOchemistry statistic (earth) and we might lack som knowledge on high pressure H chemistry with other elements, but we can define what are the minimum to be needed to have life : a semi permanent structure to hold the building blocks/building plans (read : something similar to DNA) to reproduce similar constructs, a way to exchange energy with the environment, a preserved separation (cellular walls) and so on. Note that I exclude under such definition polymere globule which can grow / split but it can be debatable. That does not sound compatible with our small sample of life. Granted we could be deadly wrong due to our lack of knowledge in that P/T domain of H and other elements.
As for having a biosphere larger than earth youa re already SPECULATING on your own using the earth sample size. Who is saying that life form on jupiter if it EVER existed would not be simple organism miles long ? In such a case the biosphere of jupiter would indeed be comparatively small to earth. And again you speculate on on having a strong chance of *intelligent life* Beside nice s.f. books what can you give as evidence if ever life happens on jupiter there would be a greater chance of there having intelligent life ? Too much space odyssey books ? I hate it to break it to you, but A.C. Clark was not writing documentary books, you know....
Comparing a car driving randomly and un-securely/haphazardly with over speeding is not the same. By your own type of stupid comparison i am entitled to burn all red light if I think it is safe. Fact is, you are entitled to RESPECT THE LAW and RESPECT THE SAFETY of OTHER. As for the police doing stupid shit, you are aware that they have to respect the SAME road law as you, as long as they have no light ? Note the number of the car and escalate to the court. Get people do the same. But breaking the law (speed limit) just because other people are doing stupid shit is really unbelievably uncivil and un-caring.
Personally I think if you are caught over speeding you should get your driving license removed for minimum 3 month. You just indeed proved you are not responsible enough to respect driving law.
You can do civil disobedience if you want for stuff where the security of nobody else is involved , protest as much as you want, but if speed is set to 5mph on ALL road even speedway, you are BY LAW requested to respect it. That you feel entitled to break the law because you think you can drive safely at higher speed does not matter. In a CIVIL society you respect the law. If you can't do that you can as well go live away from the civil society. Just like burning a red light, going through a stop, parking haphazardly, etc.... Fact is, law are there to be respected. If you want to have them overturned there are legal way to do it. But braking the law and endangering other is not the way. As for "no safety involved" can you say that for *ALL* road at *ALL* speed limit in *ALL* condition and *ALL* environment ? Hint : you can't I can demonstrably show you at least 1 place where lowering the speed limit lowered the number of accident. And it might be that SOME speed limit are set to low, but YOU are not well placed to decide that on the fly for any road. By disrespecting speed limit you are possibly endangering other.
If people RESPECTED the FRIGGING speed limit, no matter what their opinion are on what the maximum speed should be at that place, then there would be NO revenue. The problem is that people think they are ENTITLED to have whatever the speed they think they can handle. I am on my side pretty sick of getting nearly killed once per year by stupid idiot which think law don't apply to them. Please : put a speed radar at every corner street....
120000 were suspected, 1200 arrested, 118800 were FALSE POSITIVE and released. It could evry well be that a random pick get a better results, depending on how many in total were looked at and "not suspected".
You have anti obscenity law. Heck in some state (was it texas?) you even had anti sodomy law, making some form of conscensual sex between adult forbidden. The Europe out of historical reason supress some freedom (hate speech) whereas the US out of other historical & cultural reasons suppress sex and obscenity.
Frankly I prefer to be forbidden to say "jew are to be killed" rather than being forbidden to have the sexual act I want with my girlfriend, or to be heavily fined because of another nipplegate or even having my neighbors being actively fought with the law to forbid him marrying with another man, HECK or even having various education board promote creationism, or even being forced to hold a money promoting a god etc... Naturally you are free to have another opinion;).
"If you purchased a copy of a game from Walmart and want to lend it to a friend after you are done, DRM is designed to prevent that."
You mean the new fnagled spore/Steam DRM with itnernet checks is designed to prevent that. The crushing majority of the DRM today is to prevent sharing BEFORE you are done (aka : make a copy and give it). Case in point, I have only 2 games out of my collection which has an internet check. For all but those two, ocne I am finished I can resell/give/share them. One person at a time can use them, no matter who.
From my own experience studying quantum mechnanic in france up to phD :
Tuition: $36k/year Around here I paid the equivalent of 500$ for a good university. Yes i know you don't like socialism/communism yada yada , but education is the FUTURE of a country, and is seen around here as something the gov should support. And it SHOWS. But even for the private school (les mines) it was not 36k$ per year.
Books: $5k/year Unless you are going to be a doctor and needs those very expansive anatomical books, you won't spend much more than 1k$ for new books, 300$ for used one if you search enough.
Rent, food, bills, etc.: $14.4k/year If you take some distance from the university, and for example travel with a bike 45-75 minutes long, you can get to cheap area. In my case it was a 120$ (600 franc in 1990) rent per month for 15 m^2 (sure it was very small, but also very cheap). food took 150% as much or roughly 180$ per month.
I can't really speak for the tuition (I think it is a waaaay inflated numbers but I don't know too much of the highiest) but for the rest, books and rent and food you are obviously not going for the cheapest.
and the stupid DRM never worked (it just go on reading and reading and do nothing). Maybe now I have hope to read my legally owned discs, I hope this come as some sort of reader for windows.
Sometimes in simple forum, for example I remember 12eat12, sure it could have been blonde girl looking very very young, but maybe not. Same on a public FTP with a man fucking a girl. Sure she could have been a flat chested 18+ year old women looking very very young. Or it could have been a 10 year old girl fucking a 40 year old man as the photo was titled. *shrug* nowadays I would probably phone the BKA or local police station...
All those shared data I see on my computer are fropm cnn, nbc, edios, ea, youtube, etc.... Maybe then again that is because I am NOT stupid enough to allow java or flash on a shady site...
People which use weak password, never use combination of lowercase/uppercase. They mostly use lowercase. 26^10=141167095653376 ; combine that with the fact that they use name of kids, name of parents, name of pets, and even if not not all combo are represented in the space : you go down to what is "readable" for example "pollux" is probably more represented among weak paswword than "gpkqwxz".
All men in my family are going bald at 20/25 with the same pattern. The news for us is that we can now safely stop trying shampoo/massage and whatnot : we are screwed.
Before being showed what fansub was I never downloaded Anime, but NEITHER did I buy DVD / Manga. By now i have roughly 300 Manga, and about 100 DVD paid for (as well as 5 games). Suppress fansub and those material would never have been sold. Now take into account that the young people "infriging" today are the adult which will buy later, if they don#t come into contact with the material they will never think of buying it.
For "silent" communication I can see morse being communicated that way, but reading words from the brain ? Maybe one can train people to concentrate and clearly form a few specific patterns which can then be recognized afterward and translated to words, but i doubt you could learn and differentiate so many patterns as to have a wordly communication. Furthermore in the midst of fire exchange, I doubt this would be easier to use than a radio.
Compatibility would mean there would be significant interfacing and it would be positive or neutral. That is not what has been observed for the last 20,60,120,500 years, take your pick : mostly incompatibility (negative feedback at the interface) or radically perpandicular spaces not intersecting. Science and Religion are definitively NEVER compatible as there cannot be a positive interfacing with an unchanging DOGMA (religion) to a changing face (science). What can happen accidentally/incidentally is that science finding MIGHT correspond to the unchanging dogma, which then religion will embrace science, but when it goes against the dogma, science is then stoned/burned/finger pointed as an evil.
The bottom line is that there is no compatibility *per see*.
What sort of business would invest in pure research, even WITHOUT governmental competition, while their shareholder just nod at the expense ? We are not speaking of a better mousetrap or a better pill for AIDS here, we are speaking of Hadron collider, Hubble, and whatnot. How can you pretend with a straight face that ANY business would invest a penny in such research with no hope whatsoever to get their investment back ? And without going overboard with big projects, look at the fundemental research like QM, spectroscopy, and so on. Please thniking company would invest in such research is borderline fanatism belief in "capitalism solve everything !"
As far as I can tell, once you already imaginated the lie, and start believe in it then it will be a recollection and indistinguishable from a real memory. Heck, tehre are enough study on memory to show that people make up stuff while recollecting and afterward think what they made up is a real memory.
*AND* the fact that you can proudly say that you are the first in HISTORY (of science) to be proved a real psychic, and you could sell your own psy skills for (nearly) ANY price you can ask per minutes. And you can point the finger at all otehr and say "hey they don't want to take randi challenge, they are fake, I am the ONLY true psychic." etc...etc...
And which societies that "didn't buy into the cat loathing of Christianity" fared far better during the Black Plague? I've never read that Christian societies fared particularly worse (or better) than anyone else during the Plague.
It is well known that during the london plague the mayor thought dog & cat could have been transporting the plague (they, do but to a lesser extent than a big black rat population which is then a natural reservoir). He ordered the pet to be killed, and it has been recorded that since the rat had no enemy anymore, their population exploded making an accelerated spread of the plague. So yes there is at least an example of population faring worse after killing the cat (and dog).
Now there are also assertion that people which did not obey london's mayor order of killing their pet fared better off than others statistically, but I have not seen any article evidence of that. But it could still be the case, but I would wonder why the flea would not then try to jump on the cat while it eats the rat, and fleas can survive a long time (monthes?) with the plague.
How many rats do a cat need to survive. How many flea per rats, how many maximum possible flea per rats. Now add 1 plus 1 and see why cat would have helped by reducing greatly rodent population and thus reducing the possibility of contamination , spread, and natural reservoir for the plague.
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Although I don't agree with the parent post, here are some source about the german bank leverage :
german bank leverage
QUOTE :
The critical question analysts will be seeking answers to this week is how much progress Deutsche Bank has made in cutting its leverage, which at 40 times under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, means it is the most highly leveraged wholesale bank in Europe. It has set a leverage target of 30 times.
assuming a standard practice of 1:10 in the US, that would place them at 1:400 with a "target" of 1:300.
Granted we have a sample only of 1 in the BIOchemistry statistic (earth) and we might lack som knowledge on high pressure H chemistry with other elements, but we can define what are the minimum to be needed to have life : a semi permanent structure to hold the building blocks/building plans (read : something similar to DNA) to reproduce similar constructs, a way to exchange energy with the environment, a preserved separation (cellular walls) and so on. Note that I exclude under such definition polymere globule which can grow / split but it can be debatable. That does not sound compatible with our small sample of life. Granted we could be deadly wrong due to our lack of knowledge in that P/T domain of H and other elements.
As for having a biosphere larger than earth youa re already SPECULATING on your own using the earth sample size. Who is saying that life form on jupiter if it EVER existed would not be simple organism miles long ? In such a case the biosphere of jupiter would indeed be comparatively small to earth. And again you speculate on on having a strong chance of *intelligent life* Beside nice s.f. books what can you give as evidence if ever life happens on jupiter there would be a greater chance of there having intelligent life ? Too much space odyssey books ? I hate it to break it to you, but A.C. Clark was not writing documentary books, you know....
Comparing a car driving randomly and un-securely/haphazardly with over speeding is not the same. By your own type of stupid comparison i am entitled to burn all red light if I think it is safe. Fact is, you are entitled to RESPECT THE LAW and RESPECT THE SAFETY of OTHER. As for the police doing stupid shit, you are aware that they have to respect the SAME road law as you, as long as they have no light ? Note the number of the car and escalate to the court. Get people do the same. But breaking the law (speed limit) just because other people are doing stupid shit is really unbelievably uncivil and un-caring.
Personally I think if you are caught over speeding you should get your driving license removed for minimum 3 month. You just indeed proved you are not responsible enough to respect driving law.
You can do civil disobedience if you want for stuff where the security of nobody else is involved , protest as much as you want, but if speed is set to 5mph on ALL road even speedway, you are BY LAW requested to respect it. That you feel entitled to break the law because you think you can drive safely at higher speed does not matter. In a CIVIL society you respect the law. If you can't do that you can as well go live away from the civil society. Just like burning a red light, going through a stop, parking haphazardly, etc.... Fact is, law are there to be respected. If you want to have them overturned there are legal way to do it. But braking the law and endangering other is not the way. As for "no safety involved" can you say that for *ALL* road at *ALL* speed limit in *ALL* condition and *ALL* environment ? Hint : you can't I can demonstrably show you at least 1 place where lowering the speed limit lowered the number of accident. And it might be that SOME speed limit are set to low, but YOU are not well placed to decide that on the fly for any road. By disrespecting speed limit you are possibly endangering other.
If people RESPECTED the FRIGGING speed limit, no matter what their opinion are on what the maximum speed should be at that place, then there would be NO revenue. The problem is that people think they are ENTITLED to have whatever the speed they think they can handle. I am on my side pretty sick of getting nearly killed once per year by stupid idiot which think law don't apply to them. Please : put a speed radar at every corner street....
120000 were suspected, 1200 arrested, 118800 were FALSE POSITIVE and released. It could evry well be that a random pick get a better results, depending on how many in total were looked at and "not suspected".
You have anti obscenity law. Heck in some state (was it texas?) you even had anti sodomy law, making some form of conscensual sex between adult forbidden. The Europe out of historical reason supress some freedom (hate speech) whereas the US out of other historical & cultural reasons suppress sex and obscenity.
;).
Frankly I prefer to be forbidden to say "jew are to be killed" rather than being forbidden to have the sexual act I want with my girlfriend, or to be heavily fined because of another nipplegate or even having my neighbors being actively fought with the law to forbid him marrying with another man, HECK or even having various education board promote creationism, or even being forced to hold a money promoting a god etc... Naturally you are free to have another opinion
"If you purchased a copy of a game from Walmart and want to lend it to a friend after you are done, DRM is designed to prevent that."
You mean the new fnagled spore/Steam DRM with itnernet checks is designed to prevent that. The crushing majority of the DRM today is to prevent sharing BEFORE you are done (aka : make a copy and give it). Case in point, I have only 2 games out of my collection which has an internet check. For all but those two, ocne I am finished I can resell/give/share them. One person at a time can use them, no matter who.
From my own experience studying quantum mechnanic in france up to phD :
Tuition: $36k/year Around here I paid the equivalent of 500$ for a good university. Yes i know you don't like socialism/communism yada yada , but education is the FUTURE of a country, and is seen around here as something the gov should support. And it SHOWS. But even for the private school (les mines) it was not 36k$ per year.
Books: $5k/year Unless you are going to be a doctor and needs those very expansive anatomical books, you won't spend much more than 1k$ for new books, 300$ for used one if you search enough.
Rent, food, bills, etc.: $14.4k/year If you take some distance from the university, and for example travel with a bike 45-75 minutes long, you can get to cheap area. In my case it was a 120$ (600 franc in 1990) rent per month for 15 m^2 (sure it was very small, but also very cheap). food took 150% as much or roughly 180$ per month.
I can't really speak for the tuition (I think it is a waaaay inflated numbers but I don't know too much of the highiest) but for the rest, books and rent and food you are obviously not going for the cheapest.
Those are might high odds for such an elusive creature as gods.... I wonder how much they put E.T. existing for example.
and the stupid DRM never worked (it just go on reading and reading and do nothing). Maybe now I have hope to read my legally owned discs, I hope this come as some sort of reader for windows.
Is it comfortable sleeping on those laurel so many decades afterward ?
Sometimes in simple forum, for example I remember 12eat12, sure it could have been blonde girl looking very very young, but maybe not. Same on a public FTP with a man fucking a girl. Sure she could have been a flat chested 18+ year old women looking very very young. Or it could have been a 10 year old girl fucking a 40 year old man as the photo was titled. *shrug* nowadays I would probably phone the BKA or local police station...
This drop down to 4.97 Mbits. Too much still ? Try to 20000 persons. That is 1 megabits, what most people in western europe have.
All those shared data I see on my computer are fropm cnn, nbc, edios, ea, youtube, etc.... Maybe then again that is because I am NOT stupid enough to allow java or flash on a shady site...
People which use weak password, never use combination of lowercase/uppercase. They mostly use lowercase. 26^10=141167095653376 ; combine that with the fact that they use name of kids, name of parents, name of pets, and even if not not all combo are represented in the space : you go down to what is "readable" for example "pollux" is probably more represented among weak paswword than "gpkqwxz".
All men in my family are going bald at 20/25 with the same pattern. The news for us is that we can now safely stop trying shampoo/massage and whatnot : we are screwed.
Before being showed what fansub was I never downloaded Anime, but NEITHER did I buy DVD / Manga. By now i have roughly 300 Manga, and about 100 DVD paid for (as well as 5 games). Suppress fansub and those material would never have been sold. Now take into account that the young people "infriging" today are the adult which will buy later, if they don#t come into contact with the material they will never think of buying it.
For "silent" communication I can see morse being communicated that way, but reading words from the brain ? Maybe one can train people to concentrate and clearly form a few specific patterns which can then be recognized afterward and translated to words, but i doubt you could learn and differentiate so many patterns as to have a wordly communication. Furthermore in the midst of fire exchange, I doubt this would be easier to use than a radio.
Compatibility would mean there would be significant interfacing and it would be positive or neutral. That is not what has been observed for the last 20,60,120,500 years, take your pick : mostly incompatibility (negative feedback at the interface) or radically perpandicular spaces not intersecting. Science and Religion are definitively NEVER compatible as there cannot be a positive interfacing with an unchanging DOGMA (religion) to a changing face (science). What can happen accidentally/incidentally is that science finding MIGHT correspond to the unchanging dogma, which then religion will embrace science, but when it goes against the dogma, science is then stoned/burned/finger pointed as an evil.
The bottom line is that there is no compatibility *per see*.
What sort of business would invest in pure research, even WITHOUT governmental competition, while their shareholder just nod at the expense ? We are not speaking of a better mousetrap or a better pill for AIDS here, we are speaking of Hadron collider, Hubble, and whatnot. How can you pretend with a straight face that ANY business would invest a penny in such research with no hope whatsoever to get their investment back ? And without going overboard with big projects, look at the fundemental research like QM, spectroscopy, and so on. Please thniking company would invest in such research is borderline fanatism belief in "capitalism solve everything !"
As far as I can tell, once you already imaginated the lie, and start believe in it then it will be a recollection and indistinguishable from a real memory. Heck, tehre are enough study on memory to show that people make up stuff while recollecting and afterward think what they made up is a real memory.
Under the Randi Challenge? A million dollars.
*AND* the fact that you can proudly say that you are the first in HISTORY (of science) to be proved a real psychic, and you could sell your own psy skills for (nearly) ANY price you can ask per minutes. And you can point the finger at all otehr and say "hey they don't want to take randi challenge, they are fake, I am the ONLY true psychic." etc...etc...
And which societies that "didn't buy into the cat loathing of Christianity" fared far better during the Black Plague? I've never read that Christian societies fared particularly worse (or better) than anyone else during the Plague.
It is well known that during the london plague the mayor thought dog & cat could have been transporting the plague (they, do but to a lesser extent than a big black rat population which is then a natural reservoir). He ordered the pet to be killed, and it has been recorded that since the rat had no enemy anymore, their population exploded making an accelerated spread of the plague. So yes there is at least an example of population faring worse after killing the cat (and dog).
Now there are also assertion that people which did not obey london's mayor order of killing their pet fared better off than others statistically, but I have not seen any article evidence of that. But it could still be the case, but I would wonder why the flea would not then try to jump on the cat while it eats the rat, and fleas can survive a long time (monthes?) with the plague.
How many rats do a cat need to survive. How many flea per rats, how many maximum possible flea per rats. Now add 1 plus 1 and see why cat would have helped by reducing greatly rodent population and thus reducing the possibility of contamination , spread, and natural reservoir for the plague.