I was weirded out by Google's results too, but Yahoo!'s seem to show some interesting volume spikes.
Note that there's one huge trade before things go pear shaped (2:32pm). It's a bit conspiracy theory, but if you wanted to dump a heap of blue chip stock to trigger panic selling, make some good buys in the ensuing chaos, and then rebuy the blue chip (2:49pm), it would look a lot like what happened yesterday...
Imagine a hitman or terminator blowing up the hospital and trying to kill you while a team of hot lesbian *female doctors are scrubbing each other down as they prepare to perform your penis enlargement.
Show me the energy costs, including extraction, installation, maintenance, oh, and keeping the people who do all those things alive so that they can keep doing them indefinitely.
Because with a coal mine you've got none of those costs, right?
What happens when you charge a $1300 macbook pro to your credit card for someone else, and then need compensation for it?
This objection comes up in every discussion of cheques/checks with Americans. Let's make this clear - the issue you're discussing is a solved problem. All over the rest of the world, you can just transfer money between bank accounts for free.
Here in Australia, when I need to pay my housemate my share of the rent, I log in to my online banking, select 'pay anyone' from the menu, select her name from the list of people I've paid recently (the site autofills her BSB and account numbers), I enter how much I want to give her and it's in her account the next morning. This service is free, works between all banks, credit unions, and building societies, and bounces money back to your account in the event of number and account name mismatch. It is essentially the same as wire transfers, but less complex and without the insane fees for shovelling some bits from one account to another. There is a system of checks (not cheques) and daily limits that keeps fraud from being any more of an issue than in the US.
Many small businesses and eBay sellers prefer this method of payment to any other for obvious reasons - it's free, it's reliable, and minimises effort for all parties.
I'd never used or considered using cheques until I lived in the States. I'm really, really glad that I don't have to keep using them.
In news just to hand, it seems that Microsoft might have ever had any open source credibility whatsoever.
"Oh yeah, Microsoft are totally all over that open source shit," according to Richard M Stallman, the open source movement's supreme leader by virtue of prime beardiness and epic ninja skills. "If they let Novell die, then I'll have no choice but to see them as money-grubbing organisation who simply try to wring every last cent from their customers, rather than the benevolent and inspiring open source leaders that they are today."
What happens when someone breaks the security on your keyring? A thief who stole your keys would be able to get into your house and rob everything, and make an escape in your car.
If they steal your wallet while they're about it, they can empty your bank account too.
While it's good to think about security, you've gotta actually compare the hypothetical worst case scenario of the new technology with a similar worst case scenario with the old technology (providing they require similar amounts effort/skill).
It's worth remembering that most consumer grade locks can be opened by a moderately skilled locksmith in seconds while leaving no trace - and opened in a similar amount of time by anyone provided they don't mind doing some damage.
And did you know that even a child with a small rock can gain access to your house using windows?!?... Well, a window. Glass doesn't stand up well to brute force attacks.
For the millionth time, you CAN put these cars into neutral at speed. I've personally done so.
...And releasing the accelerator will mean the engine car slows down. I've personally done that.
Since the car's electronics are malfunctioning, I think that assuming that the various systems controlled by the electronics would work as usual is making a rather large assumption.
Firing someone for exercising their workplace rights -- safety, overtime pay, etc. -- _IS_ explicitly illegal.
But the point of 'at will' employment is that they don't have to give a reason for firing you. Or they can give any other reason, such as that they don't like the colour of the shirt you're wearing.
As long as they don't say that you're being fired for exercising your workplace rights, my understanding is that it's not illegal. When I headed to the States to work, at will employment just blew me away with how open to abuse it was.
If a player played for a year to build up your ship and treated it all as a horrible chore as merely an investment for possible future fun, then the fault is that of the player. If instead the player had fun while building up those ships, then the money is already well spent and thus isn't "lost".
So if I enjoy my day job then boss shouldn't have to pay me?
Anything can have value if people deem it to. Just look at gold - much less useful than steel or copper for almost every application, but for some reason people pay lots of money for it. By the same token, people pay money for the right to control one of these ships in this video game. You might think that's a silly use of their money, but it's a use of their money so the ships have value. If they're destroyed, that value is lost.
Chinese: "Huong xi ching chang shen chong."
Japanese: "Toko ne tatekawa no kesaki."
English: "Yes honorable sex-worker, please do shit on my chest and insert an octopus in my ass."
Given the usual accuracy of automated translation systems, this is what you'll get when you ask for directions to nearest 4 star hotel.
Mr Manilow, this is an outstanding viral marketing campaign. I congratulate you on your forthcoming resurgence among the hard to reach tween/teen demographics.
There's no reason at all not to believe these numbers, as Pinch Media gains nothing by the numbers being higher or lower
Not so. Pinch media make money from apps which sell advertising space. Apps which are ad funded don't care about (or even benefit from) piracy.
As such, it's in Pinch Media's interests to make piracy seem more common, because app devs will make ad supported apps, which means Pinch get more business.
Growing up in Australia... [snip] The USA wasn't an option due to your ridiculous Green Card Lottery.
Just FYI: As an Aussie it might interest you to know that the Green Card lottery is very much optional for us. We have access to the special E-3 Visa. A special visa just for Aussies to work in the USA in jobs that require a degree. Moderate amounts of hoop jumping are still required, but it's nothing like Green Card lotteries.
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I was weirded out by Google's results too, but Yahoo!'s seem to show some interesting volume spikes.
Note that there's one huge trade before things go pear shaped (2:32pm). It's a bit conspiracy theory, but if you wanted to dump a heap of blue chip stock to trigger panic selling, make some good buys in the ensuing chaos, and then rebuy the blue chip (2:49pm), it would look a lot like what happened yesterday...
Imagine a hitman or terminator blowing up the hospital and trying to kill you while a team of hot lesbian *female doctors are scrubbing each other down as they prepare to perform your penis enlargement.
Michael Bay? Is that you?
Wouldn't you much rather have a skilled surgeon standing over you performing with all of his/her senses, instead of some doctor in London?
All of his/her senses? Hmmm... I think I'd rather they don't use their sense of taste, if that's all the same to everyone else.
It's not an environmental "negative". They plant three times as many trees as they harvest.
If this is allowed to continue then we'll soon be crowded out by exponentially renewing pines! We have to stop this process now!
The Middle East is hardly 'any foreign country' now, is it?
I dare you to go to any foreign country and walk around without your passport.
You don't travel much, do you?
Show me the energy costs, including extraction, installation, maintenance, oh, and keeping the people who do all those things alive so that they can keep doing them indefinitely.
Because with a coal mine you've got none of those costs, right?
It would make my day to have a vacuous twat read some marketroid tweet on live TV.
How exactly would this be different from the rest of their programming?
Why not try to make a search engine that doesn't track what you do? I'd pay a subscription for such a thing.
How would they keep track of who has subscribed if they're not tracking people?
What happens when you charge a $1300 macbook pro to your credit card for someone else, and then need compensation for it?
This objection comes up in every discussion of cheques/checks with Americans. Let's make this clear - the issue you're discussing is a solved problem. All over the rest of the world, you can just transfer money between bank accounts for free.
Here in Australia, when I need to pay my housemate my share of the rent, I log in to my online banking, select 'pay anyone' from the menu, select her name from the list of people I've paid recently (the site autofills her BSB and account numbers), I enter how much I want to give her and it's in her account the next morning. This service is free, works between all banks, credit unions, and building societies, and bounces money back to your account in the event of number and account name mismatch. It is essentially the same as wire transfers, but less complex and without the insane fees for shovelling some bits from one account to another. There is a system of checks (not cheques) and daily limits that keeps fraud from being any more of an issue than in the US.
Many small businesses and eBay sellers prefer this method of payment to any other for obvious reasons - it's free, it's reliable, and minimises effort for all parties.
I'd never used or considered using cheques until I lived in the States. I'm really, really glad that I don't have to keep using them.
In news just to hand, it seems that Microsoft might have ever had any open source credibility whatsoever.
"Oh yeah, Microsoft are totally all over that open source shit," according to Richard M Stallman, the open source movement's supreme leader by virtue of prime beardiness and epic ninja skills. "If they let Novell die, then I'll have no choice but to see them as money-grubbing organisation who simply try to wring every last cent from their customers, rather than the benevolent and inspiring open source leaders that they are today."
Mr Stallman was later spotted sharpening his katana.
Stay tuned for more updates, unfounded speculation and general craziness masquerading as 'analysis' as it comes to hand.
What happens when someone breaks the security on your keyring? A thief who stole your keys would be able to get into your house and rob everything, and make an escape in your car.
If they steal your wallet while they're about it, they can empty your bank account too.
While it's good to think about security, you've gotta actually compare the hypothetical worst case scenario of the new technology with a similar worst case scenario with the old technology (providing they require similar amounts effort/skill).
It's worth remembering that most consumer grade locks can be opened by a moderately skilled locksmith in seconds while leaving no trace - and opened in a similar amount of time by anyone provided they don't mind doing some damage.
And did you know that even a child with a small rock can gain access to your house using windows?!? ... Well, a window. Glass doesn't stand up well to brute force attacks.
For the millionth time, you CAN put these cars into neutral at speed. I've personally done so.
...And releasing the accelerator will mean the engine car slows down. I've personally done that.
Since the car's electronics are malfunctioning, I think that assuming that the various systems controlled by the electronics would work as usual is making a rather large assumption.
Wow! They found differences between individualist and collectivist cultures in their acceptance of nanotechnology!
Someone could write a really cool piece of scifi based on this idea.
Oh wait...
Ah yes... because that campaign was completely successful.
I can barely remember the last time I came across a site that uses GIF images...
From my understanding of Italian fascist leaders, number three should probably be 'Make the trains run on time'.
Firing someone for exercising their workplace rights -- safety, overtime pay, etc. -- _IS_ explicitly illegal.
But the point of 'at will' employment is that they don't have to give a reason for firing you. Or they can give any other reason, such as that they don't like the colour of the shirt you're wearing.
As long as they don't say that you're being fired for exercising your workplace rights, my understanding is that it's not illegal. When I headed to the States to work, at will employment just blew me away with how open to abuse it was.
h.264 might be incredible, but I have no way of playing it on my TV.
Cough.
Sorry, but there's plenty of other options out there that are extremely affordable and will happily play h.264.
If a player played for a year to build up your ship and treated it all as a horrible chore as merely an investment for possible future fun, then the fault is that of the player. If instead the player had fun while building up those ships, then the money is already well spent and thus isn't "lost".
So if I enjoy my day job then boss shouldn't have to pay me?
Anything can have value if people deem it to. Just look at gold - much less useful than steel or copper for almost every application, but for some reason people pay lots of money for it. By the same token, people pay money for the right to control one of these ships in this video game. You might think that's a silly use of their money, but it's a use of their money so the ships have value. If they're destroyed, that value is lost.
Chinese: "Huong xi ching chang shen chong." Japanese: "Toko ne tatekawa no kesaki." English: "Yes honorable sex-worker, please do shit on my chest and insert an octopus in my ass."
Given the usual accuracy of automated translation systems, this is what you'll get when you ask for directions to nearest 4 star hotel.
Replying to undo moderation. Should have been 'insightful', not 'redundant'.
What they're doing is siphoning off gravity and osmotic pressure, and THOSE are the vital resources that will be depleted instead.
Typical short-sightedness. We're going to use up all our gravity, and then we'll float off into space! We've got to shut down this plant fast!
Mr Manilow, this is an outstanding viral marketing campaign. I congratulate you on your forthcoming resurgence among the hard to reach tween/teen demographics.
There's no reason at all not to believe these numbers, as Pinch Media gains nothing by the numbers being higher or lower
Not so. Pinch media make money from apps which sell advertising space. Apps which are ad funded don't care about (or even benefit from) piracy.
As such, it's in Pinch Media's interests to make piracy seem more common, because app devs will make ad supported apps, which means Pinch get more business.
Growing up in Australia... [snip] The USA wasn't an option due to your ridiculous Green Card Lottery.
Just FYI: As an Aussie it might interest you to know that the Green Card lottery is very much optional for us. We have access to the special E-3 Visa. A special visa just for Aussies to work in the USA in jobs that require a degree. Moderate amounts of hoop jumping are still required, but it's nothing like Green Card lotteries.