Well, how much do brilliant people who spend their lives trying to get you to click on ads add to society? Not to mention something awful like Zynga.
Still those people enable things like Google that do add a lot.
The issue with HFT is, in the old days the marketmaker got first look, and in exchange was limited in what they could do in terms of front-running and market manipulation, and was supposed to maintain an orderly market. The HFTs took over the liquidity-providing functions but it seems pretty wild west, and if the market really goes nuts they step away.
Still, the only reason there is big money available to build things like Google is because there is a liquid stock market for them, and one that learns and evolves, which HFT is part of.
I posted a URL-shorted link to Gawker's infamous Weiner 'c*ck shot' headline - mysteriously disappeared from my timeline. I thought maybe it was a glitch but I saw it in Tweetdeck timeline, so apparently it went out, and was subsequently 'disappeared.' Seems to be a lot you can't talk about.
sounds like something an orgone generator could have easily cured because 1) due to parts shortage the station was OFF and 2) it was a RECEIVING station.
- it has a monopoly, so the profit-maximizing price in the home market is above the marginal cost
- in other words, you build a $5b plant, each additional car costs $5,000 to make, you sell them for $10,000. Sell 100,000 cars, make $500m on your $5b investment.
- if you cut the price $1000, you would sell more cars, but the profit would shrink on every car, so you maximize profit by keeping the price $10,000. If there were competitors, they would cut prices to compete for market share, but this is a monopoly so there's no reason to cut the price.
- suppose you have capacity to make 200,000 cars. Now you turn around and sell additional cars in Eurasia for $6,000. You're still making $1,000, but only because the home market is paying for your plant, and that price makes it uneconomical for Eurasia to build its own car plants.
- Depending on your point of view, Eurasia slaps anti-dumping duties of $4,000 on each car to eliminate market distortions. Or car companies and labor unions employ lobbyists to eliminate competition and screw consumers by slapping $4,000 per car 'anti-dumping' duties.
You vill talk to me! or I vill expose your unvillingness to speak on the record!
As far as I can see, if the engineers' job duties involve giving their opinions to the press, they shouldn't be gagged. Otherwise, the Administration, cynical and incompetent or not, is within their rights.
If a drug company is dealing with a crisis regarding safety of their products, they're not going to let their scientists give unbiased professional opinions on the record.
Nobody's a friggin' saint here.
The engineers are undoubtedly justifiably proud of their work, and eager to promote themselves and get more funding.
The elected official undoubtedly feels he/she was elected/appointed by the people, and doesn't want reporters doing an end run, and engineers undermining the official story.
The reporter undoubtedly feels he/she represents the will of the people, and everyone should make his/her job as easy as possible (and OMG people are trying to change the ground rules before I sandbag them!).
Where did all that carbon dioxide go? In fact, where did the carbon dioxide currently being pumped into the atmosphere come from?
Fossil fuels, i.e. decomposed plant life.
Where did the the plants get the carbon from? Atmospheric carbon dioxide, which they turned into more complex forms via photosynthesis.
Call it the super-long carbon cycle. Fossil fuels accumulate for a couple of hundred million years, a civilization comes along and digs them up, heating up the planet and making it inhospitable for that civilization, turning the planet into a greenhouse of plant life that extracts the carbon from the atmosphere, deposits it underground, cools the planet...and the cycle starts anew.
...when six armed men stormed into their sons' primary school this month, shot a guard dead, and left fliers ordering it to close, Assad Bahjat knew it was time to leave.
"The main thing now is to just get out of Iraq," said Mr. Bahjat, standing in a room heaped with suitcases and bedroom furniture in eastern Baghdad.
In the latest indication of the crushing hardships weighing on the lives of Iraqis, increasing portions of the middle class seem to be doing everything they can to leave the country. In the last 10 months, the state has issued new passports to 1.85 million Iraqis, 7 percent of the population and a quarter of the country's estimated middle class.
The school system offers another clue: Since 2004, the Ministry of Education has issued 39,554 letters permitting parents to take their children's academic records abroad. The number of such letters issued in 2005 was double that in 2004, according to the director of the ministry's examination department. Iraqi officials and international organizations put the number of Iraqis in Jordan at close to a million. ...
Mr. Abdul Razzaq, who will move his family to Syria next month, where he has already rented an apartment, said a fistfight broke out while he waited for five hours in a packed passport office to fill out applications for his two young sons. ...
"At the beginning we said, 'Let's wait, maybe it will be better tomorrow,' " Mr. Kubba said.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
I believe this was previously reported on Seinfeld - 'The Bris'
KRAMER: Hey, I'm telling you, the pig-man is alive. The government has been experimenting with pig-men since the 50's.
GEORGE: I wish there were pig-men. You get a few of those pig-men walking around, suddenly I'm looking a lot better. That way if someone wanted to fix me up they could say, 'Hey, at least he's no pig-man.'
KRAMER: Believe me, somewhere in this hospital the anguished oink of pig-man cries out for help.
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Well, how much do brilliant people who spend their lives trying to get you to click on ads add to society? Not to mention something awful like Zynga.
Still those people enable things like Google that do add a lot.
The issue with HFT is, in the old days the marketmaker got first look, and in exchange was limited in what they could do in terms of front-running and market manipulation, and was supposed to maintain an orderly market. The HFTs took over the liquidity-providing functions but it seems pretty wild west, and if the market really goes nuts they step away.
Still, the only reason there is big money available to build things like Google is because there is a liquid stock market for them, and one that learns and evolves, which HFT is part of.
I posted a URL-shorted link to Gawker's infamous Weiner 'c*ck shot' headline - mysteriously disappeared from my timeline. I thought maybe it was a glitch but I saw it in Tweetdeck timeline, so apparently it went out, and was subsequently 'disappeared.' Seems to be a lot you can't talk about.
Do you like my whiteboard underwear? In comes with a dry erase marker in there, just feel around.
sounds like something an orgone generator could have easily cured because 1) due to parts shortage the station was OFF and 2) it was a RECEIVING station.
- suppose a car company has a monopoly in Oceania
- it has a monopoly, so the profit-maximizing price in the home market is above the marginal cost
- in other words, you build a $5b plant, each additional car costs $5,000 to make, you sell them for $10,000. Sell 100,000 cars, make $500m on your $5b investment.
- if you cut the price $1000, you would sell more cars, but the profit would shrink on every car, so you maximize profit by keeping the price $10,000. If there were competitors, they would cut prices to compete for market share, but this is a monopoly so there's no reason to cut the price.
- suppose you have capacity to make 200,000 cars. Now you turn around and sell additional cars in Eurasia for $6,000. You're still making $1,000, but only because the home market is paying for your plant, and that price makes it uneconomical for Eurasia to build its own car plants.
- Depending on your point of view, Eurasia slaps anti-dumping duties of $4,000 on each car to eliminate market distortions. Or car companies and labor unions employ lobbyists to eliminate competition and screw consumers by slapping $4,000 per car 'anti-dumping' duties.
http://gothamist.com/2008/01/31/nitrogen_tanks.php
Indeed, apparently they belong to the phone company.
I always thought Con Ed used those tanks when it got hot to forestall those pesky periodic transformer explosions.
You vill talk to me! or I vill expose your unvillingness to speak on the record!
As far as I can see, if the engineers' job duties involve giving their opinions to the press, they shouldn't be gagged. Otherwise, the Administration, cynical and incompetent or not, is within their rights.
If a drug company is dealing with a crisis regarding safety of their products, they're not going to let their scientists give unbiased professional opinions on the record.
Nobody's a friggin' saint here.
The engineers are undoubtedly justifiably proud of their work, and eager to promote themselves and get more funding.
The elected official undoubtedly feels he/she was elected/appointed by the people, and doesn't want reporters doing an end run, and engineers undermining the official story.
The reporter undoubtedly feels he/she represents the will of the people, and everyone should make his/her job as easy as possible (and OMG people are trying to change the ground rules before I sandbag them!).
Where did all that carbon dioxide go? In fact, where did the carbon dioxide currently being pumped into the atmosphere come from?
Fossil fuels, i.e. decomposed plant life.
Where did the the plants get the carbon from? Atmospheric carbon dioxide, which they turned into more complex forms via photosynthesis.
Call it the super-long carbon cycle. Fossil fuels accumulate for a couple of hundred million years, a civilization comes along and digs them up, heating up the planet and making it inhospitable for that civilization, turning the planet into a greenhouse of plant life that extracts the carbon from the atmosphere, deposits it underground, cools the planet...and the cycle starts anew.
"The main thing now is to just get out of Iraq," said Mr. Bahjat, standing in a room heaped with suitcases and bedroom furniture in eastern Baghdad.
In the latest indication of the crushing hardships weighing on the lives of Iraqis, increasing portions of the middle class seem to be doing everything they can to leave the country. In the last 10 months, the state has issued new passports to 1.85 million Iraqis, 7 percent of the population and a quarter of the country's estimated middle class.
The school system offers another clue: Since 2004, the Ministry of Education has issued 39,554 letters permitting parents to take their children's academic records abroad. The number of such letters issued in 2005 was double that in 2004, according to the director of the ministry's examination department. Iraqi officials and international organizations put the number of Iraqis in Jordan at close to a million.
...
...
Mr. Abdul Razzaq, who will move his family to Syria next month, where he has already rented an apartment, said a fistfight broke out while he waited for five hours in a packed passport office to fill out applications for his two young sons.
"At the beginning we said, 'Let's wait, maybe it will be better tomorrow,' " Mr. Kubba said.
"Now I know it is time to go."
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
I believe this was previously reported on Seinfeld - 'The Bris'
KRAMER: Hey, I'm telling you, the pig-man is alive. The government has been experimenting with pig-men since the 50's.
GEORGE: I wish there were pig-men. You get a few of those pig-men walking around, suddenly I'm looking a lot better. That way if someone wanted to fix me up they could say, 'Hey, at least he's no pig-man.'
KRAMER: Believe me, somewhere in this hospital the anguished oink of pig-man cries out for help.
From Statmarket
BROWSER / % of total MICROSOFT / 86.08 NETSCAPE / 13.90 OTHER / 0.02 OPERATING SYSTEM / % of total WINDOWS / 93.63 OTHER / 3.48 MACINTOSH / 2.53 UNIX / 0.36
Has anybody designed a nice GIF for a link and posted some offshore sites out of reach of the shakedown artists, so we can all link to them?