This DARPA action simply confirms the continuing fallacy that those unseen equilibrium forces which determine market prices are somehow magical, and said magic can be usefully transferred into other realms that naturally inhibit predictive behaviour. My opinion is that its laughable and too far into the crap realm to be useful for anything other than employing Pentagon analysts. Instituionalized soothsaying.
I live in Chicago, prime SBC territory where SBC (nee Ameritech) is fighting for higher wholesale prices for all resellers of their connectivity and dialtone, claiming they (SBC) can't compete. My home is served by an ISP out of Seattle, who finds it profitable enough to offer me great prices on a twice-resold DSL (SBC ==> Covad ==> Speakeasy.net) and a 1-year contract almost up. These other ISPs are crybabies, or trying to enter SBC markets too late to compete. Fire their MBAs and hire some that have a better penchant for marketing and planning.
We (or our parents) gave up our anonymous travel long ago to avoid being hijacked to Cuba. Electronic commerce gave up more. The advent of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags is starting to close the seine. Now, how does some crappy software algorithm distinguish between a fleeing mugger and a jogger? Is this Armageddon? Revelations? Anti-Christ stuff? Who cares. Its just scarey to us in the benign majority. Call me a natural paranoid.
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its probably up to code.
Near North side along Kennedy Expresssway reports no unusual power-related events... that's midway between Loop and ORD
This DARPA action simply confirms the continuing fallacy that those unseen equilibrium forces which determine market prices are somehow magical, and said magic can be usefully transferred into other realms that naturally inhibit predictive behaviour. My opinion is that its laughable and too far into the crap realm to be useful for anything other than employing Pentagon analysts. Instituionalized soothsaying.
I live in Chicago, prime SBC territory where SBC (nee Ameritech) is fighting for higher wholesale prices for all resellers of their connectivity and dialtone, claiming they (SBC) can't compete. My home is served by an ISP out of Seattle, who finds it profitable enough to offer me great prices on a twice-resold DSL (SBC ==> Covad ==> Speakeasy.net) and a 1-year contract almost up. These other ISPs are crybabies, or trying to enter SBC markets too late to compete. Fire their MBAs and hire some that have a better penchant for marketing and planning.
We (or our parents) gave up our anonymous travel long ago to avoid being hijacked to Cuba. Electronic commerce gave up more. The advent of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags is starting to close the seine. Now, how does some crappy software algorithm distinguish between a fleeing mugger and a jogger? Is this Armageddon? Revelations? Anti-Christ stuff? Who cares. Its just scarey to us in the benign majority. Call me a natural paranoid.