How many folk come to the city during the day? DC is similar census pop is 500k but it swells to more than a million when everyone gets to work from the burbs.
While the odds may be much higher or lower than a d6 roll how much of life is chance? There is a small risk that you will not make it to work on your trip (else insurance would be free). How did you hear about your last job? Did you scour every listing service, (newspaper, monster, or did you have a friend of a friend or someone grab your resume off your web page)?
How did you meet your last significant other? My last was a planned introduction by a mutal friend, but the one before that was a girl who was headed for the same pair of seats on the subway as I was (while she may have been planning it it was certainly chance that had both of us on that trip of the subway.
Next, what is a game, really? Most of the time they are a simulation modeled on an aspect of life and sped up so as to provide results in a short period. Chess, Go, and Risk greatly speed a war to a few hours. Monopoly is something like a business, etc. Why wouldn't they be expected to become more lifelike as our ability to simulate improves?
Finally, how much of life is an optimization (that you really don't always know the score or equations for most of the time)? Once some basic rules and structures are set, business politics popularity and happiness etc are just optimizations of the available resources.
What if there were a perfect simulation of life (where a roast required that someone raise a domesticated calf, butcher it, ship it to you, you needed an oven, spices, etc) and when you were completed it could tell you how you had done? Perhaps it could even be transferred as a completed roast from the virtual realm to the real realm (or conversly what if your mind believed you had just eaten it)? Would that still be a game?
Does your village use barter or do you print your own currency or use something with more intrinsic value like gold/silver? Do you have banking? That's interesting, I'm not quite to anarcho-capitalism, but closer to what I like than most systems of organization.
Pheasant is pretty good, not quite as good as grouse (my favorite game bird), but I prefer it to duck or goose (it's not as rich as either, but it is much easier to prepare simply).
My hometown library has been doing the exact same thing as netflix (down to sending you a return postage slip and mailbag) I was using it in the 80s, that was on paper catalogs they sent you.
You are missing an important point, all those great programs recieve a huge public funding source. The CPB gave $90 million in grants to radio. $60 million to stations and $30 million to content producers. Without those grants the news and information portion of their expenses would rise and member station contributions would sink. Just because it isn't direct doesn't mean it isn't supported.
Two caveats you should mention or learn that the corporation for public broadcasting is funded by congress and pays for both public content production and local station expenses, which directly supply the budget for NPR (about 50% station fees and about 50% direct grants).
Actually they sort of did. During the great depression and into World War 2 they put a cap on salaries to promote full employment and later held it to allow the government to bid for talent. So those sneaky companies figured out that benefits were not covered in the compensation cap and offered benefits to attract better employees. The whole policy is misguided and flows from an earlier monkeying with the free market. Somehow automobile insurance companies are able to spread risk without selling to an entire company, city, or group. Why fundamentally is health insurance so different?
Because the majority of Wal-mart's customers prefer lower prices to any quality or service. Why is that so hard for people to understand? There's nothing wrong with the service and prices offered at Nordstrom's or Wal-Mart or anyone in between, but they attract different customers and fill different niches. Wal-Mart does two things well distribute stuff efficiently and find out what their customers want (not what they say they want what the actually pay for). Then they provide it. Dell does the same thing.
Until the average American is nolonger an idiot*, and median income remains high in the US. There will always be great value associated with any tool that eases the separation of a fool from his money.
*Recall the quip, no one ever went broke underestimating the average American's inteligence.
The US is the glaring exception to this rule. I think it comes from the old days of Ma' Bell. On a land line local calls in the US are unlimited (send and recieve) for a monthly tariff that includes the phone line, and long distance is charged to the caller. As a regulated monopoly AT&T had to provide universal service (at one point there were more households with a phone than indoor plumbing). So almost all American's are used to having a monthly fee cover the majority of all calls. This wasn't as cheap to do in the early days of cell phones, but a fixed bloc of minutes became the normal market standard. Normally this block is essentally unlimited in evenings and weekends (not unlimited to teenage girls and cell phone using lovebirds, but pretty much everyone else falls well under their off time allocations), and the limits are on calls during business hours. These are probably the main reason that the US has lagged foreign cellular penetration rates so substantially.
Bills mature in 3 months or less, generally (they'd be pretty save up til the last tanker leaves Fujairah). Peak oil provides another example of a firm that could well be considerably undervalued at 50x earnings. A rational peak oil believing firm would extract and sell as little oil as possible, but should properly be valued on the oil in the ground which could be cheap relative to the oil in the ground even if priced well above 50x the prior years' income. Not always, but it is possible.
It's price weighted methodology makes it a pretty poor indicator of about everything. But it was what the NASDAQ was to the 1929 bubble and so it sort of held on. I'd guess that if you pulled the 30 biggest stocks from the S&P (from all sectors somewhat equally) and put some thought into the weighting methodology you could come up with an index of 30 stocks that would track most broad indicies pretty effectivly. (Almost all the broad index are weighted by market cap so the biggest members have substantially more pull than most would expect).
They aren't Dogs of the dow, you have to admit they are closer than they were when added (they are at positions 23 and 24 now both at about 2%) vs a very distant 29 and 30 when added (yield when added was 0.08% and 0.00%). You caught me though, I didn't look and was guessing that they were closer to 20 and 21 or so which would have been a pretty good increase in 5 years.
I wonder if investors lost more on the stable and surviving Cisco, Suns and Intels of the market (Cisco's peak market cap was $575 billion) or the Pets.com, DrKoop.com and other bankrupts (DrKoop's peak market cap was 1.3 billion). There were lots more of the latter and they are worth nothing now, but is it better to have a huge pie decline 80% or a smaller pie decline 100%.
Ebay, Yahoo, Cisco and other massivly overvalued stocks were all making pretty good money in 1999. The problem was investors were looking at their businesses and apparently expecting trees to grow to the sky or something.
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Everyone knows that it's the lack of pirates. Lacking their true career in naval piracy our potential pirates are forced to plunder laptops.
How many folk come to the city during the day? DC is similar census pop is 500k but it swells to more than a million when everyone gets to work from the burbs.
While the odds may be much higher or lower than a d6 roll how much of life is chance? There is a small risk that you will not make it to work on your trip (else insurance would be free). How did you hear about your last job? Did you scour every listing service, (newspaper, monster, or did you have a friend of a friend or someone grab your resume off your web page)? How did you meet your last significant other? My last was a planned introduction by a mutal friend, but the one before that was a girl who was headed for the same pair of seats on the subway as I was (while she may have been planning it it was certainly chance that had both of us on that trip of the subway. Next, what is a game, really? Most of the time they are a simulation modeled on an aspect of life and sped up so as to provide results in a short period. Chess, Go, and Risk greatly speed a war to a few hours. Monopoly is something like a business, etc. Why wouldn't they be expected to become more lifelike as our ability to simulate improves? Finally, how much of life is an optimization (that you really don't always know the score or equations for most of the time)? Once some basic rules and structures are set, business politics popularity and happiness etc are just optimizations of the available resources. What if there were a perfect simulation of life (where a roast required that someone raise a domesticated calf, butcher it, ship it to you, you needed an oven, spices, etc) and when you were completed it could tell you how you had done? Perhaps it could even be transferred as a completed roast from the virtual realm to the real realm (or conversly what if your mind believed you had just eaten it)? Would that still be a game?
Well, um, this is slashdot.
Does your village use barter or do you print your own currency or use something with more intrinsic value like gold/silver? Do you have banking? That's interesting, I'm not quite to anarcho-capitalism, but closer to what I like than most systems of organization.
Pheasant is pretty good, not quite as good as grouse (my favorite game bird), but I prefer it to duck or goose (it's not as rich as either, but it is much easier to prepare simply).
Most conservative think tanks tilt toward the libertarian end of the conservative specturm, which is very different than conservative politicans.
My hometown library has been doing the exact same thing as netflix (down to sending you a return postage slip and mailbag) I was using it in the 80s, that was on paper catalogs they sent you.
You are missing an important point, all those great programs recieve a huge public funding source. The CPB gave $90 million in grants to radio. $60 million to stations and $30 million to content producers. Without those grants the news and information portion of their expenses would rise and member station contributions would sink. Just because it isn't direct doesn't mean it isn't supported.
Two caveats you should mention or learn that the corporation for public broadcasting is funded by congress and pays for both public content production and local station expenses, which directly supply the budget for NPR (about 50% station fees and about 50% direct grants).
Wow, I think you have introduced the first schism in Spaghetti Mosnsterism by introducing this new deity, Great Spaghetti Monster.
Dang, I was hoping that I'd won a pony. That ruins my day.
My last two mod points expired this morning, you definitely deserved one of them. That was great.
Is it a retailer?
Actually they sort of did. During the great depression and into World War 2 they put a cap on salaries to promote full employment and later held it to allow the government to bid for talent. So those sneaky companies figured out that benefits were not covered in the compensation cap and offered benefits to attract better employees. The whole policy is misguided and flows from an earlier monkeying with the free market. Somehow automobile insurance companies are able to spread risk without selling to an entire company, city, or group. Why fundamentally is health insurance so different?
Because the majority of Wal-mart's customers prefer lower prices to any quality or service. Why is that so hard for people to understand? There's nothing wrong with the service and prices offered at Nordstrom's or Wal-Mart or anyone in between, but they attract different customers and fill different niches. Wal-Mart does two things well distribute stuff efficiently and find out what their customers want (not what they say they want what the actually pay for). Then they provide it. Dell does the same thing.
Until the average American is nolonger an idiot*, and median income remains high in the US. There will always be great value associated with any tool that eases the separation of a fool from his money.
*Recall the quip, no one ever went broke underestimating the average American's inteligence.
The US is the glaring exception to this rule. I think it comes from the old days of Ma' Bell. On a land line local calls in the US are unlimited (send and recieve) for a monthly tariff that includes the phone line, and long distance is charged to the caller. As a regulated monopoly AT&T had to provide universal service (at one point there were more households with a phone than indoor plumbing). So almost all American's are used to having a monthly fee cover the majority of all calls. This wasn't as cheap to do in the early days of cell phones, but a fixed bloc of minutes became the normal market standard. Normally this block is essentally unlimited in evenings and weekends (not unlimited to teenage girls and cell phone using lovebirds, but pretty much everyone else falls well under their off time allocations), and the limits are on calls during business hours. These are probably the main reason that the US has lagged foreign cellular penetration rates so substantially.
This post devoid of any meaningful content as a sorry attempt to get my money back.
Not my two cents.
Bills mature in 3 months or less, generally (they'd be pretty save up til the last tanker leaves Fujairah). Peak oil provides another example of a firm that could well be considerably undervalued at 50x earnings. A rational peak oil believing firm would extract and sell as little oil as possible, but should properly be valued on the oil in the ground which could be cheap relative to the oil in the ground even if priced well above 50x the prior years' income. Not always, but it is possible.
It's price weighted methodology makes it a pretty poor indicator of about everything. But it was what the NASDAQ was to the 1929 bubble and so it sort of held on. I'd guess that if you pulled the 30 biggest stocks from the S&P (from all sectors somewhat equally) and put some thought into the weighting methodology you could come up with an index of 30 stocks that would track most broad indicies pretty effectivly. (Almost all the broad index are weighted by market cap so the biggest members have substantially more pull than most would expect).
They aren't Dogs of the dow, you have to admit they are closer than they were when added (they are at positions 23 and 24 now both at about 2%) vs a very distant 29 and 30 when added (yield when added was 0.08% and 0.00%). You caught me though, I didn't look and was guessing that they were closer to 20 and 21 or so which would have been a pretty good increase in 5 years.
GM is one of the 500 members of the S&P 500 (as are all of the 30 Dow components, AFAIK).
I wonder if investors lost more on the stable and surviving Cisco, Suns and Intels of the market (Cisco's peak market cap was $575 billion) or the Pets.com, DrKoop.com and other bankrupts (DrKoop's peak market cap was 1.3 billion). There were lots more of the latter and they are worth nothing now, but is it better to have a huge pie decline 80% or a smaller pie decline 100%.
Ebay, Yahoo, Cisco and other massivly overvalued stocks were all making pretty good money in 1999. The problem was investors were looking at their businesses and apparently expecting trees to grow to the sky or something.