If anyone is having trouble following the details of the above, or more likely having trouble believing what they are reading, just remember this:
The stock exchange is based on rules. If anyone is making money through exploitation or gaming of the existing rules, then they will spend that money in an effort to ensure that the rules remain in their favour. When history is written, the story of electronic stock exchanges in the 2000s will be one of patronage, lobbying, connections and bribery on a wide scale. Retail investors will be the marks who lose out.
Our share based, public limited company investment system has been taken over by numerologists armed with high speed internet connections and blade servers.
By extension, our entire model of corporate governance, founded on the principals of directors accountable to shareholders, has now completely broken down.
I have been in real word conversations in which something needed to be said, and probably said bluntly, but I did not say it for fear of, well being too blunt about it. I chose not to hurt feelings and as a result something which needed to be said---in someone's else's benefit---was left unsaid.
If the discussion had been in an internet forum, I would have let rip.
In my opinion, honest productive conversation should be forthright. It's harder to do this face to face when you know that being forthright---with adults---will produce the same reaction as telling an 8 year old the truth about Santa Claus. I'm not saying that it's wrong to be forthright, it's just bloody difficult. For me anyway.
In particular, the cycle paths should be on the other side of the sidewalk to traffic. Cycle paths which are effectively painted onto the road to not work as they still place cyclists in very real danger.
Cycle paths also don't have to run over intersections (where cars are turning right). Preferably they shouldn't do this at all. As a cyclist, I dismounted at (busy) intersections and would still do so today regardless of my rights of way on the cycle path.
The basic problem is that cars and bicycles work well individually but do not mix on the road. You basically need two road networks if you want the two together and the Netherlands has just that(P.S. I was one of the tourists in question)
Well, I personally would think twice about hiring a BMW owner if the job was for a position of responsibility. On the other hand, if the job _required_ the employee to be an insecure, obnoxious, risk taker, then the BMW would be an obvious mark of quality.
P.S. I regularly encounter BMW drivers who do things on the road that no-one would, and this is from someone well used to rural chancers on the road.
Even if I never achieve my most ambitious dreams (like working for NASA), I'm happy just having reached some smaller goals (writing a novel, going to graduate school, finding a nice guy to marry, buying a house, etc.)
You have either overrated NASA, or else underrated the rest of your life.
While I do understand that the US is in financial difficulty, it strikes me as important that the first man to walk on the Moon---on another celestial sphere---should be given a significant send off.
Frankly, I think the funeral should be at least on par with that expected for a _sitting_ president, and probably beyond. It may well end up being the most important funeral, or the most important man, in the history of the United States, if not the world.
Neil Armstrong deserves a state procession---an international procession. America and the World owe both he and his generation that much at least.
(Here's a thought: Tell us what Goldman ACTUALLY did wrong instead of using hyperbole that makes them sound like the darkest, meanest SS officer in the camps.)
Here's the thing. The misdeeds of Goldman and others would normally be revealed if any of these investigations resulted in a trial. Unfortunately the current practice is to settle with the bank in question after payment of a small fine, after which the records of the investigation are summarily deleted,
If you choose to report the findings of any such investigation, Goldman can easily set a team of crack lawyers onto you for libel. You may be correct, but since the investigation files have been destroyed, you have no way of proving that you are right.
In the face of this, you can either resort to hyperbole in print, protest in the streets, or frankly vigilantism at night. You could also try appealing to the democratic process, but I think we all know that that's a crock by now.
I think that if you look into it, you'll find that like most things nowadays, the grid was run by MBA executives armed with Microsoft PowerPoint and multi-million dollar bonuses---for the last 10 years at least.
Said executives probably had about as much understanding of electricity and grid operations as they did about finance and corporate management; that is to say, next to nothing apart from how to fake it. In addition, I suspect we're probably looking at another Enron/Cali power grid fiasco here too.
There's no algebra in that, it's a simple arithmetic word problem.
The word Algebra comes from "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing" written in ~820AD by a mathematician called Muhammad ibn MÅsÄ al-KhwÄrizmÄ (algorithm). The word "al-jabr" was an arabic word standing I beleive for the idea of adding/subtratcing the same amount from both sides of the "equation" (I stand to be corrected)
The entire book is a giant collection of arithmetical word problems.
The term "algebra" came to be understood not as a single technique, but as a general term for the entire framework of techniques used to solve these arithmetical word problems. The problems could be understood and the solutions confirmed using arithmetic, but to actually find a solution, in a systematic way, required the application of the techniques that al-KhwÄrizmÄ espoused in his solutions.
Algebra is how we solve problems systematically, not the problem itself. If you solved the problem, even a basic one, you used some kind of algebra. Even if it was now now an unconscious operation, at some stage you were taught the technique explicitly, or learned it in class through solving problems.
You're right Tastecicles you ball loving sex-gimp. As you enjoy the taste of hairy man plums in your mouth, I am sure a mature human being yourself is well able to mentally handle the abuses of the many men who employ your services each day, as well as the laughter of the countless women who giggle in unison at the absurdity of your unmanly existence.
Now, read out that comment to yourself eight times a day for next six weeks and then come back to us about "crying fucking mental rape".
Well, those men became the "Masters of the Universe" who brought the entire world financial system to its knees, whereas all the geeks who played with transforming toys have managed to give the world is the "App" and the "Occupy" movement.
Maybe if Optimus Prime had had nipples, the world would be a very different place right about now.
So perhaps you would be so kind as to explain why you jump to such glib conclusions as to the cause of this incident.
He probably did so because he is from a country/culture which:
a) Finds the frequent occurrence of these kinds of incidents in the US, and the rates of US gun crime in general, to be both notable and disturbing. And
b) Nevertheless views US society and culture as an aspirational or progressive model for their own.
If you're from another country, particularly an anglophone country, which looks to the US for leadership in many fields, the automatic response to these incidents is to blame a single, easily identifiable flaw---in this case gun ownership. Doing this allows them to be dismissed as a correctable or ignore-able aberration in a system otherwise worth emulating.
However, as you have pointed out, the reality is that gun ownership does not by itself explain why such things happen so frequently in the US. In reality, the reasons are probably much deeper and indeed systemic issues and pathologys within American society and culture which remain unresolved or even unrecognized. All of which would present a problem for anyone who is trying to order their own country in the model of the US.
The basic point is that society and culture is more important than gun ownership. But recognising this forces you to conclude that there is something wrong with US society and culture and this is a difficult thing for both Americans and for people who look to America for leadership. It's easier to blame gun licences than to reassess your own world view.
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By which you mean the company paid for it!
Why bother looking. The local country jail is brimming with just such credentials.
Why don't you just download me!!
If anyone is having trouble following the details of the above, or more likely having trouble believing what they are reading, just remember this:
The stock exchange is based on rules. If anyone is making money through exploitation or gaming of the existing rules, then they will spend that money in an effort to ensure that the rules remain in their favour. When history is written, the story of electronic stock exchanges in the 2000s will be one of patronage, lobbying, connections and bribery on a wide scale. Retail investors will be the marks who lose out.
A whole generation is already in poverty, or at least long term unemployment. Two or three other generations are already close to the poverty line.
If a stock market crash wipes out the wealth of the generations that wrecked the country, I won't shed too many tears.
It's called High Frequency Trading (HFT) and it constitutes over 70% of all trading.
Our share based, public limited company investment system has been taken over by numerologists armed with high speed internet connections and blade servers.
By extension, our entire model of corporate governance, founded on the principals of directors accountable to shareholders, has now completely broken down.
I have been in real word conversations in which something needed to be said, and probably said bluntly, but I did not say it for fear of, well being too blunt about it. I chose not to hurt feelings and as a result something which needed to be said---in someone's else's benefit---was left unsaid.
If the discussion had been in an internet forum, I would have let rip.
In my opinion, honest productive conversation should be forthright. It's harder to do this face to face when you know that being forthright---with adults---will produce the same reaction as telling an 8 year old the truth about Santa Claus. I'm not saying that it's wrong to be forthright, it's just bloody difficult. For me anyway.
Cycle paths are definitely the way to go.
In particular, the cycle paths should be on the other side of the sidewalk to traffic. Cycle paths which are effectively painted onto the road to not work as they still place cyclists in very real danger.
Cycle paths also don't have to run over intersections (where cars are turning right). Preferably they shouldn't do this at all. As a cyclist, I dismounted at (busy) intersections and would still do so today regardless of my rights of way on the cycle path.
The basic problem is that cars and bicycles work well individually but do not mix on the road. You basically need two road networks if you want the two together and the Netherlands has just that(P.S. I was one of the tourists in question)
You obviously read Kafka as fiction, yes?
Well, I personally would think twice about hiring a BMW owner if the job was for a position of responsibility. On the other hand, if the job _required_ the employee to be an insecure, obnoxious, risk taker, then the BMW would be an obvious mark of quality.
P.S.
I regularly encounter BMW drivers who do things on the road that no-one would, and this is from someone well used to rural chancers on the road.
You have either overrated NASA, or else underrated the rest of your life.
Right now, millions of live are being ruined because certain criminals aren't being arrested.
While I do understand that the US is in financial difficulty, it strikes me as important that the first man to walk on the Moon---on another celestial sphere---should be given a significant send off.
Frankly, I think the funeral should be at least on par with that expected for a _sitting_ president, and probably beyond. It may well end up being the most important funeral, or the most important man, in the history of the United States, if not the world.
Neil Armstrong deserves a state procession---an international procession. America and the World owe both he and his generation that much at least.
Of course. You'd only need to ask them which board the content belongs in.
Here's the thing. The misdeeds of Goldman and others would normally be revealed if any of these investigations resulted in a trial. Unfortunately the current practice is to settle with the bank in question after payment of a small fine, after which the records of the investigation are summarily deleted,
If you choose to report the findings of any such investigation, Goldman can easily set a team of crack lawyers onto you for libel. You may be correct, but since the investigation files have been destroyed, you have no way of proving that you are right.
In the face of this, you can either resort to hyperbole in print, protest in the streets, or frankly vigilantism at night. You could also try appealing to the democratic process, but I think we all know that that's a crock by now.
The systems and its abusers are usually joined at the hip.
I think that if you look into it, you'll find that like most things nowadays, the grid was run by MBA executives armed with Microsoft PowerPoint and multi-million dollar bonuses---for the last 10 years at least.
Said executives probably had about as much understanding of electricity and grid operations as they did about finance and corporate management; that is to say, next to nothing apart from how to fake it. In addition, I suspect we're probably looking at another Enron/Cali power grid fiasco here too.
The word Algebra comes from "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing" written in ~820AD by a mathematician called Muhammad ibn MÅsÄ al-KhwÄrizmÄ (algorithm). The word "al-jabr" was an arabic word standing I beleive for the idea of adding/subtratcing the same amount from both sides of the "equation" (I stand to be corrected)
The entire book is a giant collection of arithmetical word problems.
The term "algebra" came to be understood not as a single technique, but as a general term for the entire framework of techniques used to solve these arithmetical word problems. The problems could be understood and the solutions confirmed using arithmetic, but to actually find a solution, in a systematic way, required the application of the techniques that al-KhwÄrizmÄ espoused in his solutions.
Algebra is how we solve problems systematically, not the problem itself. If you solved the problem, even a basic one, you used some kind of algebra. Even if it was now now an unconscious operation, at some stage you were taught the technique explicitly, or learned it in class through solving problems.
You're right Tastecicles you ball loving sex-gimp. As you enjoy the taste of hairy man plums in your mouth, I am sure a mature human being yourself is well able to mentally handle the abuses of the many men who employ your services each day, as well as the laughter of the countless women who giggle in unison at the absurdity of your unmanly existence.
Now, read out that comment to yourself eight times a day for next six weeks and then come back to us about "crying fucking mental rape".
Get every member of the team to put a picture of the mother on their desks.
Well then I'm sure you, the the twitterati, and all the little kids who love playing with Daddies' cellphone will really enjoy it.
The rest of us will get back to work.
P.S.
It must take you ages to type these posts.
Well, those men became the "Masters of the Universe" who brought the entire world financial system to its knees, whereas all the geeks who played with transforming toys have managed to give the world is the "App" and the "Occupy" movement.
Maybe if Optimus Prime had had nipples, the world would be a very different place right about now.
What about Twitter?
He probably did so because he is from a country/culture which:
a) Finds the frequent occurrence of these kinds of incidents in the US, and the rates of US gun crime in general, to be both notable and disturbing. And
b) Nevertheless views US society and culture as an aspirational or progressive model for their own.
If you're from another country, particularly an anglophone country, which looks to the US for leadership in many fields, the automatic response to these incidents is to blame a single, easily identifiable flaw---in this case gun ownership. Doing this allows them to be dismissed as a correctable or ignore-able aberration in a system otherwise worth emulating.
However, as you have pointed out, the reality is that gun ownership does not by itself explain why such things happen so frequently in the US. In reality, the reasons are probably much deeper and indeed systemic issues and pathologys within American society and culture which remain unresolved or even unrecognized. All of which would present a problem for anyone who is trying to order their own country in the model of the US.
The basic point is that society and culture is more important than gun ownership. But recognising this forces you to conclude that there is something wrong with US society and culture and this is a difficult thing for both Americans and for people who look to America for leadership. It's easier to blame gun licences than to reassess your own world view.
Sorry. I'm just getting up to speed on "The Cloud", and Web 3.0. I haven't had time to to and understand the latest development buzzwords.
Am I supposed to know what "Agile" is before I read an article rubbishing it, or can I just skip over the concept entirely now?