I have always guessed as gays being around 1% of the population. however 1% of the population of the USA is 3.5 million or roughly the population of San Francisco, Boston, etc.
The thing people don't understand is that a "minority" today isn't a couple of thousand people but millions and tens of millions.
As a nation we really need to teach statistics better in high school. So many people fail to understand it.
Middlemen don't like being cut out. those that try find themselves cut.
Manufacturers, factories, etc don't want the headaches of dealing with uniformed idiots. Ever work a computer Hell desk? yea that has been going on for as long as we have had machines. The average person is barely above being an idiot and half the population is dumber than they are. I have explained the same thing to the same person 30 times in the last 3 months she still doesn't get it. She can't open her mind up to possibilities other than what she already knows.
Lastly, Middlemen provide slack, and options for the supply chain. In today's tight supply chains they are even more important than ever. As if the factory doesn't have your part your stuck unless your lucky enough to have a middleman with extra.
Proctological Assault. Showing you just why you should check for prostate cancer. Interview with a fetus, See the world it lived in before being born. Lung Cancer, showing what smoking really does to your body now in 3D 4K!!!!
Lot's of things to see, just whether or not you want to is the the question.
That is something I don't get. why don't car manufacturers give us mroe data than a stupid warning light?
Sure leaving the warning light on the dash, but why not use the radio, navagation display, etc to display more detailed and less obscure data? Oh sure the warning light is becuase a cap is not on tight, no problem. or a sensor is going off I better not wait and rush to the mechanic faster so that it can be fixed.
The car companies have the data right fucking there, but they don't want to expose it any way without thousands of dollars worth of gear. Gear that they don't really support after 20-30 years.
I said OS not applications. I didn't even mention The GUI layer which could go on either side.
The problem we have is applications require direct hardware access. You have a broken OS when a web browser plugin requires direct hardware access(flash).
Why haven't we broken the OS down into a read only and configuration/data sections yet? OS's themselves only get updates occasionally. a secure reboot install updates, and reboot again into read only mode.
Now if you do get a virus you reboot, if it manages to stay around in your data you can purge it easier.
I pay an ISP, you pay an ISP, Company A, B and C all pay different ISP's.
It is the 5 different ISP's job to share the data load between them. Once you start having ISP's charge different rates to other ISP's the entire network collapses into AOLhell. Once ISP's stop working together to connect each other entire value of all ISP's fails. ISP's solely exist to connect tiny communities to larger ones.
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Not true HFT currently is 40-60% of the daily volume of trades
That is correct if HFT were to not work for a day the volume of trades would drop that much. HFT while adding liquidity are giving a false sense of volume and value for each market
Something like 60% of the active volume of trades are HFT that is lasting less than a second. That isn't investing in a company that is gambling.
The other problem is the economy is growing at maybe 1% a year and the entire stock market is doing 10-15% Sure some companies are growing that way but there is a major disconnect between how wall street is growing and the rest of the world. If Wall street is supposed to be about individual company profits how can it be growing so far beyond the companies that are represented in it?
I expect my tax fueled police force to react to problems and deal with them as best as they can within the law.
The key word being react. If the police are trying to find a blue or black nissan sentra or altima with NY plates in Massachusetts that will help them narrow down the options. Just because my car fits that description doesn't mean anything more than a closer look is needed.
Here is the thing about murders. a 100 people will call or talk to the police about it. 90% of them will lie to the cops about what they think they know. by trying to know either too much or denying knowledge.
Garabage collectors, and waste water plant workers deal with less bullshit than cops do every day.
So The cops will do the job the best they can. but they can not be everywhere, they can only know the things they are told, and they have to sort out the facts. That is why cold cases sometimes turns things up. The existing officers ran out of ideas, and a fresh set of eyes a new question and suddenly it is solved.
The same goes of Ford. Ford didn't invent the car he invented the assembly line which made car production cheaper. Some of the bests inventions aren't of actual products but ways of building/using those products in better ways. Steve jobs didn't invent any of those things. he did bring them to the masses in an easy to use form however.
The thing is there really isn't a total extinction event. Well other than a supernova or being sucked into a black hole. Since mars hasn't experienced either. We have found life forms in boiling water next to an active volcanic vent. So there probably some microbial life forms still on Mars especially underground.
The big problem with terraforming mars are two things. the magnetic field is weak to deflect solar rays and the gravity is only 1/3 of normal. Those aren't easy problems to solve. If you can get the core of the Mars spinning fast enough you might be able to deal with part of it, but the real solution is to get the core warmed up, and then bombard mars with every astroid in the belt between mars and earth.
Alcohol doesn't actually make me relaxed. For those who get angry drunk having a beer just isn't a good idea unless they can control how many beers they have.
For me I don't seem to react to stimulants like others. Sure caffeine might keep me alert. if I drink a cup right before trying to go to sleep.
However EA doesn't always advertise it's brand boldly. some times it is a tiny logo on the back of the box, and you don't see the bold EA logo until you boot it up for the first time.
i think this situation with Scrabble explains why EA will never stop being hated.
Just how poorly must your company be run if you fuck up scrabble, that you bought. EA Purchased scrabble from Mattel, Mattel ran it successively for many many years. Just moving it over to EA's servers completely destroyed everything.
EA will always be hated. And Scrabble shows us why
This is the point. Businesses love to rail against all the regulation the problem they forget that for each one of those laws there was a point behind them where somebody abused the system to hurt others in some stupid way.
Now some laws were written stupidly.(DCMA, patriot act) but even they had a purpose they were trying to protect. make adjustments and move on.
The thing is MS Office often gets those same problems between versions.
I have excel spreadsheets at work that look and work fine in 2003, 2007 but in 2010 they are all broken.
You update 10,000 excel spreadsheets that have format incompatibilities. You can't even automate it each one has to be done separately.
The trick is Open Office format is legitimately an open specification that will be supported for decades. You can't guarantee that Office 260, or 2013 will work. Considering that Office is going to all cloud subscription base only you might just want to fix your files now in libre office and be done about it. You can always go back to word and save as OOD.
you do realize the only reason why republicans wants states right so they can take away rights of those they deem to be less than human right?
Whites only, isn't racist Rush Limbaugh said so. Women shouldn't work they take away jobs from MEN. Women can stop a pregnancy by rape any time if they get pregnant during a rape they most really have wanted it anyways.
Those are actual arguments made by recent Republicans. Democrats aren't much better but are currently the lesser of two evils when it comes to personal freedoms. current wiretapping issues included.
The problem everyone seems to forget that without laws telling us what can not do we will do things like pollute our drinking water, swim in shit, and not think twice about throwing our garbage into our neighbors property.
Take a look at the sky in pictures from the 60's 70's and early 80's notice the pollution and how cloudy everything is? That is how bad things have to get before we do the right thing. Humans are Lazy and we will take every short cut we can get away with.
Actually it is scarier than that. Just in time shipping has taken all the slack out of the supply chain. No one wants to stock more than they need to have before the next shipment arrives.
The downside is when things go wrong they really really go wrong for a long time.
Just remember your only seeing product profit when you do that math. actual profits after you pay for the store, transportation, employee's, etc are much much lower.
A store doing $100,000 in annual sales at 30% average profit on product brings in $30,000 From that they have to pay usually 1-2 employee's, etc. building, power, overhead expenses, etc.
It is why things like taking apart the latest gizmo to see how much it cost is generally bogus. you miss out on all the overhead that is behind it and that takes up the bulk of the expenses. It takes a business years to build up enough momentum to be able to pay bills on time.
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I have always guessed as gays being around 1% of the population. however 1% of the population of the USA is 3.5 million or roughly the population of San Francisco, Boston, etc.
The thing people don't understand is that a "minority" today isn't a couple of thousand people but millions and tens of millions.
As a nation we really need to teach statistics better in high school. So many people fail to understand it.
Three things,
Middlemen don't like being cut out. those that try find themselves cut.
Manufacturers, factories, etc don't want the headaches of dealing with uniformed idiots. Ever work a computer Hell desk? yea that has been going on for as long as we have had machines. The average person is barely above being an idiot and half the population is dumber than they are. I have explained the same thing to the same person 30 times in the last 3 months she still doesn't get it. She can't open her mind up to possibilities other than what she already knows.
Lastly, Middlemen provide slack, and options for the supply chain. In today's tight supply chains they are even more important than ever. As if the factory doesn't have your part your stuck unless your lucky enough to have a middleman with extra.
Comcast is pushing their home automation/security system that ties into their servers.
Part of the advertising is to watch your kids come home from school and turn on the lights for them.
Now that is scary. Letting any idiot know when your kids are home alone.
Gopro, now partnering with Goatse!!
Proctological Assault. Showing you just why you should check for prostate cancer.
Interview with a fetus, See the world it lived in before being born.
Lung Cancer, showing what smoking really does to your body now in 3D 4K!!!!
Lot's of things to see, just whether or not you want to is the the question.
That is something I don't get. why don't car manufacturers give us mroe data than a stupid warning light?
Sure leaving the warning light on the dash, but why not use the radio, navagation display, etc to display more detailed and less obscure data? Oh sure the warning light is becuase a cap is not on tight, no problem. or a sensor is going off I better not wait and rush to the mechanic faster so that it can be fixed.
The car companies have the data right fucking there, but they don't want to expose it any way without thousands of dollars worth of gear. Gear that they don't really support after 20-30 years.
I said OS not applications. I didn't even mention The GUI layer which could go on either side.
The problem we have is applications require direct hardware access. You have a broken OS when a web browser plugin requires direct hardware access(flash).
I don't understand why all OS's are read only.
Why haven't we broken the OS down into a read only and configuration/data sections yet? OS's themselves only get updates occasionally. a secure reboot install updates, and reboot again into read only mode.
Now if you do get a virus you reboot, if it manages to stay around in your data you can purge it easier.
um that is the entire point of the internet.
I pay an ISP, you pay an ISP, Company A, B and C all pay different ISP's.
It is the 5 different ISP's job to share the data load between them. Once you start having ISP's charge different rates to other ISP's the entire network collapses into AOLhell. Once ISP's stop working together to connect each other entire value of all ISP's fails. ISP's solely exist to connect tiny communities to larger ones.
Not true HFT currently is 40-60% of the daily volume of trades
That is correct if HFT were to not work for a day the volume of trades would drop that much. HFT while adding liquidity are giving a false sense of volume and value for each market
Something like 60% of the active volume of trades are HFT that is lasting less than a second. That isn't investing in a company that is gambling.
The other problem is the economy is growing at maybe 1% a year and the entire stock market is doing 10-15% Sure some companies are growing that way but there is a major disconnect between how wall street is growing and the rest of the world. If Wall street is supposed to be about individual company profits how can it be growing so far beyond the companies that are represented in it?
I expect my tax fueled police force to react to problems and deal with them as best as they can within the law.
The key word being react. If the police are trying to find a blue or black nissan sentra or altima with NY plates in Massachusetts that will help them narrow down the options. Just because my car fits that description doesn't mean anything more than a closer look is needed.
Here is the thing about murders. a 100 people will call or talk to the police about it. 90% of them will lie to the cops about what they think they know. by trying to know either too much or denying knowledge.
Garabage collectors, and waste water plant workers deal with less bullshit than cops do every day.
So The cops will do the job the best they can. but they can not be everywhere, they can only know the things they are told, and they have to sort out the facts. That is why cold cases sometimes turns things up. The existing officers ran out of ideas, and a fresh set of eyes a new question and suddenly it is solved.
The same goes of Ford. Ford didn't invent the car he invented the assembly line which made car production cheaper.
Some of the bests inventions aren't of actual products but ways of building/using those products in better ways.
Steve jobs didn't invent any of those things. he did bring them to the masses in an easy to use form however.
The thing is there really isn't a total extinction event. Well other than a supernova or being sucked into a black hole. Since mars hasn't experienced either. We have found life forms in boiling water next to an active volcanic vent. So there probably some microbial life forms still on Mars especially underground.
The big problem with terraforming mars are two things. the magnetic field is weak to deflect solar rays and the gravity is only 1/3 of normal. Those aren't easy problems to solve. If you can get the core of the Mars spinning fast enough you might be able to deal with part of it, but the real solution is to get the core warmed up, and then bombard mars with every astroid in the belt between mars and earth.
Have you seen the things gamers will do to reduce latency?
Besides you just have the astronauts moms tell them they have to leave their suits outside before they go into the basement dwellings.
Alcohol doesn't actually make me relaxed. For those who get angry drunk having a beer just isn't a good idea unless they can control how many beers they have.
For me I don't seem to react to stimulants like others. Sure caffeine might keep me alert. if I drink a cup right before trying to go to sleep.
I won't knowing buy a game from EA.
However EA doesn't always advertise it's brand boldly. some times it is a tiny logo on the back of the box, and you don't see the bold EA logo until you boot it up for the first time.
what is better is that 4 days ago at E3 EA president said he wanted EA to stop being hated .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22801311
EA took a working piece of software and FUBAR'd it so badly that it is essentially non functional. And they did it with a simple game like scrabble.
5 days ago the BBC had this article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22801311
i think this situation with Scrabble explains why EA will never stop being hated.
Just how poorly must your company be run if you fuck up scrabble, that you bought. EA Purchased scrabble from Mattel, Mattel ran it successively for many many years. Just moving it over to EA's servers completely destroyed everything.
EA will always be hated. And Scrabble shows us why
This is the point. Businesses love to rail against all the regulation the problem they forget that for each one of those laws there was a point behind them where somebody abused the system to hurt others in some stupid way.
Now some laws were written stupidly.(DCMA, patriot act) but even they had a purpose they were trying to protect. make adjustments and move on.
The problem is is that you can order a cable and pay for next day air shipping and it will still be less expensive than buying it from best buy.
Seriously take a look at their HDMI cables sometimes. a $5 cable goes for $50 and that's the cheap version.
The thing is MS Office often gets those same problems between versions.
I have excel spreadsheets at work that look and work fine in 2003, 2007 but in 2010 they are all broken.
You update 10,000 excel spreadsheets that have format incompatibilities. You can't even automate it each one has to be done separately.
The trick is Open Office format is legitimately an open specification that will be supported for decades. You can't guarantee that Office 260, or 2013 will work. Considering that Office is going to all cloud subscription base only you might just want to fix your files now in libre office and be done about it. You can always go back to word and save as OOD.
you do realize the only reason why republicans wants states right so they can take away rights of those they deem to be less than human right?
Whites only, isn't racist Rush Limbaugh said so. Women shouldn't work they take away jobs from MEN. Women can stop a pregnancy by rape any time if they get pregnant during a rape they most really have wanted it anyways.
Those are actual arguments made by recent Republicans. Democrats aren't much better but are currently the lesser of two evils when it comes to personal freedoms. current wiretapping issues included.
The problem everyone seems to forget that without laws telling us what can not do we will do things like pollute our drinking water, swim in shit, and not think twice about throwing our garbage into our neighbors property.
Take a look at the sky in pictures from the 60's 70's and early 80's notice the pollution and how cloudy everything is? That is how bad things have to get before we do the right thing. Humans are Lazy and we will take every short cut we can get away with.
Actually it is scarier than that. Just in time shipping has taken all the slack out of the supply chain. No one wants to stock more than they need to have before the next shipment arrives.
The downside is when things go wrong they really really go wrong for a long time.
Just remember your only seeing product profit when you do that math. actual profits after you pay for the store, transportation, employee's, etc are much much lower.
A store doing $100,000 in annual sales at 30% average profit on product brings in $30,000 From that they have to pay usually 1-2 employee's, etc. building, power, overhead expenses, etc.
It is why things like taking apart the latest gizmo to see how much it cost is generally bogus. you miss out on all the overhead that is behind it and that takes up the bulk of the expenses. It takes a business years to build up enough momentum to be able to pay bills on time.
Markets with 1% margin tend to be the most aggressive with anything that can boost that to 1.1%
Lazy companies are the ones that make steady profit. And never expect the market to change. Like the entertainment industry