"Perfect" by what standard? Your whims, I suspect.
A free market is a hodge-podge; the idea of applying some standard of perfection to it is silly.
Information is a product. You can buy it, sell it, discover it on your own, fake it. Some information is free. Information is a part of the free market.
I have no problem making decisions based on partial information. Demanding that information be perfect before making a decision is a mental problem.
Standards of behavior need to be set in many aspects of life. Freedom, properly understood, is not damaged by prohibiting murder, nor does a free market become unfree because certain things are prohibited. The trick is determining just what constitutes the right things to prohibit, such as what constitutes fraud.
I used Microsoft Word, 7 years ago. It was much more powerful then than Open Office is now. Google Docs is hopeless; it can't even read a sophisticated.doc file correctly.
Word can do things like a color gradient side border with rotated text that are hideously difficult or impossible with other editors.
I'm trying to make a sharp-looking resume. I am continually frustrated in my efforts by Open Office. I can't put text where I want it, I can't put horizontal lines where I want them, I can't get font sizes to print as they look on the screen (or to print or display the same size as Word prints and displays the same TrueType font.) I'm going to have to buy the Microsoft product to get the results I want, and that displeases me. Some employers require resumes in Word format, and the Open Office.doc format output doesn't always work.
If you think that the election of Obama is "a great first step" in fixing racism you are both ignorant of history and a dupe.
Immense steps have already been taken to reduce racism, as the increased integration in the US and the improved financial status of ambitious non-whites both amply demonstrate.
Obama's history is that of encouraging hatred of America among blacks and promoting government dependence. Both of those make life worse for blacks (or anyone who believes them). The idea that he will stop fostering those ideas is preposterous. The lives of those who follow those ideas will worsen, and they'll blame racism instead of their beliefs. And they'll vote the same way next time, which is what Obama wants.
If Obama is elected with enough democrats in congress we won't last 50 years. We will be impoverished and enslaved by our own government, and too weak militarily to withstand an invasion by Monaco.
Why are people not seeing that this man wants to destroy a free USA?
Do you think you could teach a class of 30 kids for $100,000 a year and do a better job than is being done now? I know I could. In doing so, I'd be teaching for half what government schooling costs now. More money is not even close to being the answer.
According to the Wikipedia article you cite, socialism is the ownership of everything by the state. That can be viewed as a 100% tax on all assets. So it's more than "wealth distribution from the working middle class to the lazy bums", it's total theft from everyone. Short term, everyone loses except the rulers and those so poor they had nothing to lose; long term, no-one has any incentive to produce, so everyone loses.
It depends on what part of the car is struck. The windshield or the roof above a passenger, bad news. The trunk or a rear fender, body damage, maybe a tire destroyed and some suspension damage. The front of the car could ruin the engine.
Lawyers seem to have a very limited and warped sense of what is ethical. Two minutes on the phone is rounded up to an hour and billed $275. Finding a lawyer who doesn't consider his customer an infinite money source is extraordinarily difficult.
I think the world would be a more moral and happy place if they took things less seriously, and approached things with the happiness and wisdom that children have.
Wisdom? Wisdom!!! The one thing that children most signally lack is wisdom. There's a reason that it's alleged Jesus said "Suffer the children to come unto me.": Children are the ultimate suckers, without experience, without good judgement, without wisdom.
The number of books that have netted the author and his heirs more than a million dollars is very small. Even current, productive authors are often cash-strapped: I have Jerry Pournelle in mind here.
A reasonable time limit is important, and 50 years surely qualifies.
Ozone from electronics comes primarily from high voltage sparking, which usually means CRTs and associated components. (Even then it's not common and may indicate a problem.) LCD displays and computer internals are line voltage or lower and shouldn't be generating ozone.
Not all modern IC engines are built for maximum efficiency, because the most efficient engines are more expensive, and at the extreme, enough more complicated to raise failure rates. Ceramic coated pistons and heads (which reduce heat loss to the block and piston) cost money. Variable valve timing mechanisms are complicated and expensive. Techniques that completely turn off some cylinders are expensive, complicated, and failure-prone. Highly tuned exhaust and induction systems are expensive. Dry sump crankcases are expensive. Exotic alloys to reduce moving masses are expensive.
The goal is to produce more efficient engines that are low pollution and not too expensive. Progress has been made, but there's still room for improvement.
From the days of CPM on a Z80 machine with floppy disks, RETRY and IGNORE were important options. The OS tried 10 times (IIRC) to read a floppy sector, and if it failed I got the error message. Usually I'd RETRY a few times and occasionally I'd succeed, which made it worthwhile. If that didn't work, I'd IGNORE and hope I could fix the bad sector manually. Rarely was a disk so fouled up that I had to abort.
If you are going to trade no more often than daily, Yahoo provides price and volume history for stocks and some indexes. You can write your own programs in the language of your choice to analyse this data and test trading strategies. You'll have to look elsewhere for other historical data like earnings and sales.
Be aware that with the popularity of computerized analysis things have changed. Simple momentum systems that could have gained 1 million times from 1971 to 2002 have been money losers since 2002.
Also, all databases have some errors. When test results seem too good to be true, they probably are, and database errors are one potential source of misleading results.
Actually, we have a dandy fusion device already, and it lights up the world every day. A big mirror in space could take this energy source and beam it to a convenient place on earth, or we could convert it to microwaves first.
We don't know yet that local fusion will ever be feasible, and betting the farm on it could be a big mistake.
You need to inform yourself. First of all, the housing bubble was primarily fueled by errors on Wall Street, not Washington.
Back atcha. Federal government organizations have been threatening banks and other lending institutions, forcing them to make loans to persons who were uncreditworthy, for several years. There's an article to that effect (and a very telling photograph) in the current (dated Sept. 19) issue of Investors Business Daily. "Wall Street" stupidly fell into the hole the government dug.
"Wall Street" is generally considered to be the stock markets, not the banking industry. The banks sold the mortgages to "Wall Street" with the implication that they were very safe.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but the ROOT of the problem is government messing with the free market.
The article you cite in turn cites the Boston Federal Reserve. Since it is a government entity, it's unlikely to blame the government.
Every capacitor has a breakdown voltage. Some (like plastic film) tend to burn out flaws and thereby isolate them, but if energy continues to be supplied to a breakdown location, heating and kaboom are inevitable.
This becomes a pissing contest. If the city pushes too hard, TDS could remove or destroy all their equipment in the city in an hour and refuse ever to do business there again. The city would be without phone service for months and local business would be devastated.
It's possible for an ISP to set up microwave links without a physical presence in the city (topography permitting.) The ISP's towers are outside the town and every customer has his own dish. Nothing for the city to sieze, tax, or attack.
This is not to suggest that I think TDS is in the right; I think they're being typical telco villains. I think the best approach is to find a company that's willing to put in fiber and remove TDS's monopoly (if it has one).
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"Perfect" by what standard? Your whims, I suspect.
A free market is a hodge-podge; the idea of applying some standard of perfection to it is silly.
Information is a product. You can buy it, sell it, discover it on your own, fake it. Some information is free. Information is a part of the free market.
I have no problem making decisions based on partial information. Demanding that information be perfect before making a decision is a mental problem.
Standards of behavior need to be set in many aspects of life. Freedom, properly understood, is not damaged by prohibiting murder, nor does a free market become unfree because certain things are prohibited. The trick is determining just what constitutes the right things to prohibit, such as what constitutes fraud.
I used Microsoft Word, 7 years ago. It was much more powerful then than Open Office is now. Google Docs is hopeless; it can't even read a sophisticated .doc file correctly.
Word can do things like a color gradient side border with rotated text that are hideously difficult or impossible with other editors.
I'm trying to make a sharp-looking resume. I am continually frustrated in my efforts by Open Office. I can't put text where I want it, I can't put horizontal lines where I want them, I can't get font sizes to print as they look on the screen (or to print or display the same size as Word prints and displays the same TrueType font.) I'm going to have to buy the Microsoft product to get the results I want, and that displeases me. Some employers require resumes in Word format, and the Open Office .doc format output doesn't always work.
According to wikipedia, Stirlings have efficiency equivalent to conventional auto engines, but for the same power they're more expensive and heavier.
As an external combustion engine it's easier to reduce emissions.
"Voting works only if you believe your vote gets counted accurately."
How stupid can the summary possibly be? Your belief has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not something is true.
If you think that the election of Obama is "a great first step" in fixing racism you are both ignorant of history and a dupe.
Immense steps have already been taken to reduce racism, as the increased integration in the US and the improved financial status of ambitious non-whites both amply demonstrate.
Obama's history is that of encouraging hatred of America among blacks and promoting government dependence. Both of those make life worse for blacks (or anyone who believes them). The idea that he will stop fostering those ideas is preposterous. The lives of those who follow those ideas will worsen, and they'll blame racism instead of their beliefs. And they'll vote the same way next time, which is what Obama wants.
If Obama is elected with enough democrats in congress we won't last 50 years. We will be impoverished and enslaved by our own government, and too weak militarily to withstand an invasion by Monaco.
Why are people not seeing that this man wants to destroy a free USA?
Do you think you could teach a class of 30 kids for $100,000 a year and do a better job than is being done now? I know I could. In doing so, I'd be teaching for half what government schooling costs now. More money is not even close to being the answer.
According to the Wikipedia article you cite, socialism is the ownership of everything by the state. That can be viewed as a 100% tax on all assets. So it's more than "wealth distribution from the working middle class to the lazy bums", it's total theft from everyone. Short term, everyone loses except the rulers and those so poor they had nothing to lose; long term, no-one has any incentive to produce, so everyone loses.
It depends on what part of the car is struck. The windshield or the roof above a passenger, bad news. The trunk or a rear fender, body damage, maybe a tire destroyed and some suspension damage. The front of the car could ruin the engine.
Lawyers seem to have a very limited and warped sense of what is ethical. Two minutes on the phone is rounded up to an hour and billed $275. Finding a lawyer who doesn't consider his customer an infinite money source is extraordinarily difficult.
Wisdom? Wisdom!!! The one thing that children most signally lack is wisdom. There's a reason that it's alleged Jesus said "Suffer the children to come unto me.": Children are the ultimate suckers, without experience, without good judgement, without wisdom.
The number of books that have netted the author and his heirs more than a million dollars is very small. Even current, productive authors are often cash-strapped: I have Jerry Pournelle in mind here.
A reasonable time limit is important, and 50 years surely qualifies.
What we don't respect in this forum is the selection of the correct word from a set of homophones.
Ozone from electronics comes primarily from high voltage sparking, which usually means CRTs and associated components. (Even then it's not common and may indicate a problem.) LCD displays and computer internals are line voltage or lower and shouldn't be generating ozone.
What's your excuse for being two of the most corrupt candidates ever to run for president of the United States of America?
Not all modern IC engines are built for maximum efficiency, because the most efficient engines are more expensive, and at the extreme, enough more complicated to raise failure rates. Ceramic coated pistons and heads (which reduce heat loss to the block and piston) cost money. Variable valve timing mechanisms are complicated and expensive. Techniques that completely turn off some cylinders are expensive, complicated, and failure-prone. Highly tuned exhaust and induction systems are expensive. Dry sump crankcases are expensive. Exotic alloys to reduce moving masses are expensive.
The goal is to produce more efficient engines that are low pollution and not too expensive. Progress has been made, but there's still room for improvement.
From the days of CPM on a Z80 machine with floppy disks, RETRY and IGNORE were important options. The OS tried 10 times (IIRC) to read a floppy sector, and if it failed I got the error message. Usually I'd RETRY a few times and occasionally I'd succeed, which made it worthwhile. If that didn't work, I'd IGNORE and hope I could fix the bad sector manually. Rarely was a disk so fouled up that I had to abort.
It's quite easy to demonstrate that Aristotle's claim is self-contradictory. Consider the condition of being extremely virtuous.
It's hard to follow a mixed metaphor when the mispelling is so bad that it becomes another word.
pallet:
If you are going to trade no more often than daily, Yahoo provides price and volume history for stocks and some indexes. You can write your own programs in the language of your choice to analyse this data and test trading strategies. You'll have to look elsewhere for other historical data like earnings and sales.
Be aware that with the popularity of computerized analysis things have changed. Simple momentum systems that could have gained 1 million times from 1971 to 2002 have been money losers since 2002.
Also, all databases have some errors. When test results seem too good to be true, they probably are, and database errors are one potential source of misleading results.
Actually, we have a dandy fusion device already, and it lights up the world every day. A big mirror in space could take this energy source and beam it to a convenient place on earth, or we could convert it to microwaves first.
We don't know yet that local fusion will ever be feasible, and betting the farm on it could be a big mistake.
Back atcha. Federal government organizations have been threatening banks and other lending institutions, forcing them to make loans to persons who were uncreditworthy, for several years. There's an article to that effect (and a very telling photograph) in the current (dated Sept. 19) issue of Investors Business Daily. "Wall Street" stupidly fell into the hole the government dug.
"Wall Street" is generally considered to be the stock markets, not the banking industry. The banks sold the mortgages to "Wall Street" with the implication that they were very safe.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but the ROOT of the problem is government messing with the free market.
The article you cite in turn cites the Boston Federal Reserve. Since it is a government entity, it's unlikely to blame the government.
Every capacitor has a breakdown voltage. Some (like plastic film) tend to burn out flaws and thereby isolate them, but if energy continues to be supplied to a breakdown location, heating and kaboom are inevitable.
Hair burns very nicely, particularly if it's oily. No need for death, to fuel a human-combustion engine.
This becomes a pissing contest. If the city pushes too hard, TDS could remove or destroy all their equipment in the city in an hour and refuse ever to do business there again. The city would be without phone service for months and local business would be devastated.
It's possible for an ISP to set up microwave links without a physical presence in the city (topography permitting.) The ISP's towers are outside the town and every customer has his own dish. Nothing for the city to sieze, tax, or attack.
This is not to suggest that I think TDS is in the right; I think they're being typical telco villains. I think the best approach is to find a company that's willing to put in fiber and remove TDS's monopoly (if it has one).