More to the point, MSG is the beginning of modern food science. It was first extracted from seaweed. It was the first chemical extracted from food. Considered a "chemical condiment" which increased food reward and therefore food consumption. None of the potential effects of increasing food reward in such a high-potency fashion, or any negative effects from constant increase in brain neurotransmitter levels were considered (and hardly are today, over 100 years later)
You aren't really looking, then. The providers that you pay are paying someone else. Nobody runs their own worldwide network. Somewhere, someone cuts corners, for one of many reasons. Whoever sends calls to them gets screwed. The example telco in this article should figure out who the major call dropping problem carrier is, and refuse to accept calls from them at all. There is probably one or two bad actors in each case that fuck it up for everyone.
The real problem is that the regulatory structure (OPPOSITE of free market, FYI) forcing high rates for intrastate calls in rural areas. Both unscrupulous phone companies charging ridiculous amounts of money to complete calls, and unscrupulous long distance providers doing insane least-cost routing tricks to evade regulatory charges like sending the intra-state call to Eurpoe.
Actually, many positions that are currently paid as "exempt" from hourly wage requirements are not following the legal definition for "exempt" employees in their locale. The employees who don't complain feel they are getting an advantage because they get flexible hours. The employers know they are often getting extra time. But, many of them face potential lawsuits for back pay if employees have a way to prove their overtime. It's a gray area, downright illegal in many cases, but one that employees and employers are willing to tolerate none the less. Getting paid hourly exposes the employees working less time to lower pay, but people who are actually putting in more time than 40 hrs are often getting shorted.
Well then the US has been in default for decades. And now we are in hyper-default. And still, nobody is considering the US in default, instead we are just AAA to AA+. Ahh, to be the US. How sweet it is.
I never said it was foolproof. I said it was a damn good way to make money. You'll never have full control of anything larger than yourself in this life, why would an IPO be any different?
The people who are lucky enough to get rich in an IPO are just that...lucky. But make no mistake, that IS why people bring their companies public.
Here is a (poor) example of the peak processing power you need to support on the HFT exchanges: http://www.nyxdata.com/Support/Market-Data-Capacity-Figures
In order to trade US stocks/options in fast way you need to be on the SFTI network. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Industry_Automation_Corporation
In order to do options arbitrage you need this feed, several hundred Mbps compressed with FAST: http://www.opradata.com/
Here is a java (ugh) FAST emplementation: http://www.openfast.org/
Start with NYSE and ARCA. If you can decode ARCA book with FAST, you have the ability to run your algorithm against the data and now you have a basis to make trades.
And if you don't care about ultra-low latency HFT, you can always open a regular trading account.
You are free to buy access to co-lo your trading computer at NYSE and do it yourself on the Euronext platform (or any other number of exchanges). The upfont cost is not terribly different than any other form of co-lo and the interfaces are fully documented. The trading companies have millions of dollars to throw at the "problems" but many brilliant minds attacking the problems could show these fat, lazy, old traders that they are just that.
Get access to ARCA books, BATS books, OPRA, direct edge, CBOE, nasdaq itch etc.. And you have the same advantage that Goldman Sachs has (OK, minus the money and experience.) Hell, most of this stuff is freely documented online. There are plenty of folks who have systems on the exchanges that would kill for smart programmers to help. The programming is fairly simple, the only requirements are low latency and there are a variety of mechanisms to achieve this on commodity hardware with Linux. All the systems run Linux.
Everyone likes to bitch and moan about how the system isn't for the "middle class" and the "common man" and all this bullshit. It's just like any other specialized system that has evolved over human history, like the legal system or anything else. You want to become a kernel programmer? You want to become a master trial lawyer? You want to become a research scientist? If you want to learn it, you've got to put in the work. We don't go around complaining about how kernel programming, the legal profession, or research scientist is unobtainable by the "middle class" because that's ridiculous. Much the same, the markets, while hard to penetrate to an outsider, are not mythical beasts.
You fail to see why people would bring their companies public? It's a damn good way for a popular business to make a whole boatload of money.
Of course if you have a privately held business that you want to keep control of, this is a bad way to get money. If you are a specialty shop with a very unique business, you simply aren't having an IPO. If you have a company that can self-replicate and produce new and better trinkets in China with your current business plan and some extra cash, holding an IPO might be practical. The stocks that the owners and employees get to cash out is also the only way that most of these people could ever expect to make large amounts of wealth.
This is a pathetic response. Companies with resources like Red Hat and Canonical should take the effort to register keys directly from BIOS and/or motherboard manufacturers. The time to get these arrangements is now, when UEFI is in its infancy, not later when Microsoft changes their policies and keys. Some computer manufacturers will choose to not enter agreements, others won't allow you to disable Secure Boot. The right approach is for people who care to support manufacturers that aren't imbeciles. The problem with this approach is that it'll be less convenient for some Red Hat and Canonical customers. Even if Microsoft remains 100% trustworthy, the largest open source operating system companies should not be taking a back seat to Microsoft. Something is really wrong when your company buys control to run on the world's computers from Microsoft for $10.
type 2 diabetics, through insistence on continuing high carbohydrate intake, tend to destroy insulin producing beta cells through chronically high levels of insulin (and high levels of liver insulin resistance due to chronically high insulin levels)
so if you can reverse type 2 via diet change (mostly eliminate carbohydrate intake, replace with fat) then you can regain beta cell function through magic like this, and actually get rid of many of the effects
According to wikileaks, they don't have any embarrasing "international cables" but they do have other documents that expose war time/rights violations by the US Government/Army. http://cryptome.org/0001/wikileaks-maybe.htm
But there is dissention in the wikileaks contributor community, someone keeps sending documents to cryptome that exposes the real goals of wikileaks - to get julian flying international in style and to get money from major news outlets for major leaks. Supposedly Manning even expected to share in the cash for his videos.
The motives make the site less noble, but the leaks are still great stuff. Especially the ones which deal with countries taking out "loans" to pay off the interest on the "loans" that they can't pay back anymore. This protects the banks that gave out the loans (usually part of the Federal Reserve banking cartel) because they can show the original loan and the new loan as "assets" (because they are still getting interest payments.) That means that the bank can actually loan out more money because they have more "asset" value on the books! When the pyramid finally falls down, the banks find some other way to clean up, usually with assistance from the Fed and the US Congress to get more imaginary (inflationary) money to be released from the "Federal Reserve."
The way this inflation scam works is well explained in "The Creature from Jekyll Island." It explains the current economic boom/bust cycle like no economist ever would dream of - because the author doesn't believe that any monetary system with no back-end discipline can survive in the long term (which is a big part of economics - "managing" the economy) The basic idea it promotes is that of a disciplinary standard that prevents inflationary spending - such as the gold standard. But even if you could care less about the gold standard, it still well explains the issues inherent in our current system, how it is used by governments and how it's hard to accept the political realities of not going into continuous inflation, which is why inflationary systems keep popping up. Rome is his first example of an inflationary system corrupted, and Greece and the Byzantine Empire. The bezant was accepted from China to Brittany, from the Baltic Sea to Ethiopia, and kept a stable price for 800 years, with a strict, disciplinary banking system. We don't have that today, just a bunch of pomp and fluff designed to look respectable and disciplinary. Deserving of respect or an exemplar of discipline our current monetary system is not.
Doritos have a lot more than fat that can make them addictive.
#1 is MSG - Monosodium Glutamate is the beginning of food science. It's the first chemical ever extracted from food (back in 1903 by a large Japanese food company who wanted to isolate the element that made seaweed so popular) and the first food additive ever used to make foods literally more addictive. MSG directly activates brain glutamate receptors.
#2 is other flavorings with properties that activate neural receptors... Doritos is as artificial as it gets. It is engineered to get the maximum response, much like MSG was over 100 years ago.
The news article uses the headline "fatty foods" but that simply reflects the cultural bias against fat.
And the article also reflects the bias that everything begins in the brain. Check out this researcher's faculty page. He's obviously focused on the brain exclusively.
But seminal research like Good Calories Bad Calories shows us that the reactions are mediated by hormones. Brain effects follow the hormonal influence that makes us eat.
And carbohydrates, not fat, cause insulin release (and chronically elevated insulin levels in people who eat large amounts of carbs, i.e. almost everybody) which causes our cells to suck nutrients and glucose from our blood stream. This makes us hungry, so we eat more. And insulin causes our fat cells to store fat. Our liver converts fructose directly into fat. GCBC also provides a large amount of documented evidence that
Eating fat by itself causes no insulin response, and proteins have a much lower insulin response. Diets like the PaNu approach take advantage of this. The idea that saturated fat (which our bodies are composed of) is somehow bad for is is incredibly wrong. The modern research over the past 50 years that has got us to the deadly dietary guidelines that we still provide to diabetics today (low fat, high carb) is thoroughly researched in GCBC. I'd really recommend that anyone with an interest in this field (or just in losing weight) check out GCBC and PaNu.
That's funny because my VoIP customers have very little problem with credit-card machines over RTP/G.711u-law. If you are using a compressed codec, good luck. But for data protocols, credit card machines have been one of the more reliable data items on our VoIP network.
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Bend Broadband (Bend, OR) has been doing this for at least 3 years by now. Is this seriously the first time anyone has noticed this?
More to the point, MSG is the beginning of modern food science. It was first extracted from seaweed. It was the first chemical extracted from food. Considered a "chemical condiment" which increased food reward and therefore food consumption. None of the potential effects of increasing food reward in such a high-potency fashion, or any negative effects from constant increase in brain neurotransmitter levels were considered (and hardly are today, over 100 years later)
Well put.
Wrong. The rural telco as the call destination represents a high cost. Vonage as a destination often does not.
The same reason your internet connection has a limited capacity. It's called "reality". It starts with Shannon's theorem.
You aren't really looking, then. The providers that you pay are paying someone else. Nobody runs their own worldwide network. Somewhere, someone cuts corners, for one of many reasons. Whoever sends calls to them gets screwed. The example telco in this article should figure out who the major call dropping problem carrier is, and refuse to accept calls from them at all. There is probably one or two bad actors in each case that fuck it up for everyone.
The real problem is that the regulatory structure (OPPOSITE of free market, FYI) forcing high rates for intrastate calls in rural areas. Both unscrupulous phone companies charging ridiculous amounts of money to complete calls, and unscrupulous long distance providers doing insane least-cost routing tricks to evade regulatory charges like sending the intra-state call to Eurpoe.
Actually, many positions that are currently paid as "exempt" from hourly wage requirements are not following the legal definition for "exempt" employees in their locale. The employees who don't complain feel they are getting an advantage because they get flexible hours. The employers know they are often getting extra time. But, many of them face potential lawsuits for back pay if employees have a way to prove their overtime. It's a gray area, downright illegal in many cases, but one that employees and employers are willing to tolerate none the less. Getting paid hourly exposes the employees working less time to lower pay, but people who are actually putting in more time than 40 hrs are often getting shorted.
Well then the US has been in default for decades. And now we are in hyper-default. And still, nobody is considering the US in default, instead we are just AAA to AA+. Ahh, to be the US. How sweet it is.
I never said it was foolproof. I said it was a damn good way to make money. You'll never have full control of anything larger than yourself in this life, why would an IPO be any different?
The people who are lucky enough to get rich in an IPO are just that...lucky. But make no mistake, that IS why people bring their companies public.
Here is what the guys with big money are using for routing market data
msgs around with lower latency.
http://www.automatedtrader.net/news/smart-order-routing-news/10064/solace-increases-commitment-to-amqp
http://www.solacesystems.com/products
The financial exchanges sell various market data products. Here are
some links:
http://www.nyxdata.com/
http://www.nyxdata.com/arca
http://www.batstrading.com/home/
http://www.directedge.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Here is a (poor) example of the peak processing power you need to support on the HFT exchanges:
http://www.nyxdata.com/Support/Market-Data-Capacity-Figures
In order to trade US stocks/options in fast way you need to be on the SFTI network.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Industry_Automation_Corporation
In order to do options arbitrage you need this feed, several hundred Mbps compressed with FAST:
http://www.opradata.com/
Here is a java (ugh) FAST emplementation:
http://www.openfast.org/
Start with NYSE and ARCA. If you can decode ARCA book with FAST, you have the ability to run your algorithm against the data and now you have a basis to make trades.
And if you don't care about ultra-low latency HFT, you can always open a regular trading account.
You are free to buy access to co-lo your trading computer at NYSE and do it yourself on the Euronext platform (or any other number of exchanges). The upfont cost is not terribly different than any other form of co-lo and the interfaces are fully documented. The trading companies have millions of dollars to throw at the "problems" but many brilliant minds attacking the problems could show these fat, lazy, old traders that they are just that.
Get access to ARCA books, BATS books, OPRA, direct edge, CBOE, nasdaq itch etc.. And you have the same advantage that Goldman Sachs has (OK, minus the money and experience.) Hell, most of this stuff is freely documented online. There are plenty of folks who have systems on the exchanges that would kill for smart programmers to help. The programming is fairly simple, the only requirements are low latency and there are a variety of mechanisms to achieve this on commodity hardware with Linux. All the systems run Linux.
Everyone likes to bitch and moan about how the system isn't for the "middle class" and the "common man" and all this bullshit. It's just like any other specialized system that has evolved over human history, like the legal system or anything else. You want to become a kernel programmer? You want to become a master trial lawyer? You want to become a research scientist? If you want to learn it, you've got to put in the work. We don't go around complaining about how kernel programming, the legal profession, or research scientist is unobtainable by the "middle class" because that's ridiculous. Much the same, the markets, while hard to penetrate to an outsider, are not mythical beasts.
You fail to see why people would bring their companies public? It's a damn good way for a popular business to make a whole boatload of money.
Of course if you have a privately held business that you want to keep control of, this is a bad way to get money. If you are a specialty shop with a very unique business, you simply aren't having an IPO. If you have a company that can self-replicate and produce new and better trinkets in China with your current business plan and some extra cash, holding an IPO might be practical. The stocks that the owners and employees get to cash out is also the only way that most of these people could ever expect to make large amounts of wealth.
This is a pathetic response. Companies with resources like Red Hat and Canonical should take the effort to register keys directly from BIOS and/or motherboard manufacturers. The time to get these arrangements is now, when UEFI is in its infancy, not later when Microsoft changes their policies and keys. Some computer manufacturers will choose to not enter agreements, others won't allow you to disable Secure Boot. The right approach is for people who care to support manufacturers that aren't imbeciles. The problem with this approach is that it'll be less convenient for some Red Hat and Canonical customers. Even if Microsoft remains 100% trustworthy, the largest open source operating system companies should not be taking a back seat to Microsoft. Something is really wrong when your company buys control to run on the world's computers from Microsoft for $10.
Dave,
I've known you since I was 14 years old. You've been a government intelligence agent the entire time, in one capacity or another.
So perhaps you can tell us what the NSA actually does!
Please, enlighten us.
type 2 diabetics, through insistence on continuing high carbohydrate intake, tend to destroy insulin producing beta cells through chronically high levels of insulin (and high levels of liver insulin resistance due to chronically high insulin levels)
so if you can reverse type 2 via diet change (mostly eliminate carbohydrate intake, replace with fat) then you can regain beta cell function through magic like this, and actually get rid of many of the effects
see www.paleonu.com
diabetes is often diagnosed by doctors finding out of control ketoacidosis through your urine
auto-immune reaction for type I may be triggered by something as simple as wheat
see celiac disease
also simple to avoid.......if you are willing to change your diet
not quite. type II usually over-produce insulin to the point where the beta cells die off
this is due to chronically high sugar/carbohydrate ingestion
taubes anyone?
According to wikileaks, they don't have any embarrasing "international cables" but they do have other documents that expose war time/rights violations by the US Government/Army. http://cryptome.org/0001/wikileaks-maybe.htm
But there is dissention in the wikileaks contributor community, someone keeps sending documents to cryptome that exposes the real goals of wikileaks - to get julian flying international in style and to get money from major news outlets for major leaks. Supposedly Manning even expected to share in the cash for his videos.
The motives make the site less noble, but the leaks are still great stuff. Especially the ones which deal with countries taking out "loans" to pay off the interest on the "loans" that they can't pay back anymore. This protects the banks that gave out the loans (usually part of the Federal Reserve banking cartel) because they can show the original loan and the new loan as "assets" (because they are still getting interest payments.) That means that the bank can actually loan out more money because they have more "asset" value on the books! When the pyramid finally falls down, the banks find some other way to clean up, usually with assistance from the Fed and the US Congress to get more imaginary (inflationary) money to be released from the "Federal Reserve."
The way this inflation scam works is well explained in "The Creature from Jekyll Island." It explains the current economic boom/bust cycle like no economist ever would dream of - because the author doesn't believe that any monetary system with no back-end discipline can survive in the long term (which is a big part of economics - "managing" the economy) The basic idea it promotes is that of a disciplinary standard that prevents inflationary spending - such as the gold standard. But even if you could care less about the gold standard, it still well explains the issues inherent in our current system, how it is used by governments and how it's hard to accept the political realities of not going into continuous inflation, which is why inflationary systems keep popping up. Rome is his first example of an inflationary system corrupted, and Greece and the Byzantine Empire. The bezant was accepted from China to Brittany, from the Baltic Sea to Ethiopia, and kept a stable price for 800 years, with a strict, disciplinary banking system. We don't have that today, just a bunch of pomp and fluff designed to look respectable and disciplinary. Deserving of respect or an exemplar of discipline our current monetary system is not.
Insulin also tells your cells to store fat.
Check out Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. This is seminal research that is basically ignored by modern policy.
Doritos have a lot more than fat that can make them addictive.
#1 is MSG - Monosodium Glutamate is the beginning of food science. It's the first chemical ever extracted from food (back in 1903 by a large Japanese food company who wanted to isolate the element that made seaweed so popular) and the first food additive ever used to make foods literally more addictive. MSG directly activates brain glutamate receptors.
#2 is other flavorings with properties that activate neural receptors... Doritos is as artificial as it gets. It is engineered to get the maximum response, much like MSG was over 100 years ago.
The news article uses the headline "fatty foods" but that simply reflects the cultural bias against fat.
And the article also reflects the bias that everything begins in the brain. Check out this researcher's faculty page. He's obviously focused on the brain exclusively.
But seminal research like Good Calories Bad Calories shows us that the reactions are mediated by hormones. Brain effects follow the hormonal influence that makes us eat.
And carbohydrates, not fat, cause insulin release (and chronically elevated insulin levels in people who eat large amounts of carbs, i.e. almost everybody) which causes our cells to suck nutrients and glucose from our blood stream. This makes us hungry, so we eat more. And insulin causes our fat cells to store fat. Our liver converts fructose directly into fat. GCBC also provides a large amount of documented evidence that
Eating fat by itself causes no insulin response, and proteins have a much lower insulin response. Diets like the PaNu approach take advantage of this. The idea that saturated fat (which our bodies are composed of) is somehow bad for is is incredibly wrong. The modern research over the past 50 years that has got us to the deadly dietary guidelines that we still provide to diabetics today (low fat, high carb) is thoroughly researched in GCBC. I'd really recommend that anyone with an interest in this field (or just in losing weight) check out GCBC and PaNu.
That's funny because my VoIP customers have very little problem with credit-card machines over RTP/G.711u-law. If you are using a compressed codec, good luck. But for data protocols, credit card machines have been one of the more reliable data items on our VoIP network.