Which is why you need to diversify and buy several stocks. Putting all of your eggs in one basket is always a bad investment strategy regardless of your methodology.
In theory, making money in stock market should be easy. Buy low, sell high is a guaranteed successful investment strategy and yet few people follow it. Why is that? By definition, an undervalued stock is an unpopular stock. Doing the unpopular thing is very difficult. Quite simply, human beings are a social animals and going against the crowd is often not in our best interest. Investing in unpopular stocks almost always feels wrong.
However, if you take a rational look at popular and unpopular stocks, you will see that the unpopular stocks are the ones likely to be the real money makers. Consider a mythical corporation that we'll call XYZ Corp. Let's assume that there is a lot of popular interest in the stock. The analysts all believe that great things are in this company's future. Should you invest in it? No, because the stock's price already reflects belief in the company's rosy future. The price of the stock always reflects everything that is known about the company. This concept is important to grasp.
Now, let's consider the future. The future is, of course, impossible to predict, but two outcomes are guaranteed. Either the company will live up to the investors' expecations or it will not. If it does live up to the company's expecation, the price of the stock may stay flat or rise only moderately since the stock price already reflects the high expectations of the investors. If the company fails to meet investor expectations, the price of the stock will drop in response to lowered expectation. Popular stocks don't have very much upside potential in the long run.
Now, let's assume the converse. XYZ Corporation has been mismanaged and had some bad luck. Investors and analysts now consider this stock a "dog." What are the possible outcomes for this stock? Currently the stock price is depressed because it reflects all the pessimism folks have about the company. In the future, either XYZ Corp will continue to run the company poorly or it will change its business strategies and turn itself around. The price of stock will stay flat in the first case and rise in the second case. Unpopular stocks have a great deal of upside potential and little downside since the price already reflects low expectations.
>Same with pacifism. If you want to die, or be a slave, by all means, refuse to fight. That's Darwin at his finest. We're an agressive species.
Yes, we are agressive, but I think natural selection will lead to more peaceful societies rather than more agressive. In fact I believe this is already happening.
Consider that warriors tend to die young. (All that gunfire is bad for your health!) This limits their reproductive lifespan.
Consider also that a group of individuals is always going to outcompete an indvidual no matter how strong and agressive he or she is. You may have be very strong man, but you do not have the strength of 10 men, for example. Those who know how to cooperate with each other and are not overly agressive have a competitive advantage.
Extrapolate this trend out over a very long period of time and I have to believe that we our species will evolve to be very socialable and peace-loving.
>This is the typical problem with Veganism. It assumes you'll never be in a situation (like starvation) where you won't be able to come up with a nice big chunk of Tofu.
Does that mean you are also pro-cannabilism? I mean, you could be stranded on an Andean mountain with your climbing mates as your only source of substainance? What are you going to do, starve?
We all have define food differently. Some folks who meat would never consider eating dogs or whales and yet others do. Would you a dolphin, an ape, an human? We all draw the line at a different place.
Me, I'm a vegan. My rule of thumb is that if the so-called food would try to get away from me if I poked with a sharp stick when it was alive, then it is not food. All animals have will and intent and I do not wish to interfere with their existence.
Would I eat fish if I were stranded on desert Island? I don't know; it hasn't come up yet and I hope it never does.
Yes, there is a quite lot of theology and Christian symbolism in the Narnia books. Aslan=Christ, etc. I don't have a problem with that.
What I do have a problem with is the attitude toward women in these books. Read them carefully and you will see that the female characters divide into 3 types: physically immature girls who are generally regarded as good, adult women who are all evil witches, and adult women who are either dead or bed-ridden with illness, i.e, powerless. You will not find a single healthy adult women in charge of her own destiny regarded as good.
When Susan matured and stop being a girl and became interested, in the words of the book, "stockings and parties", i.e., sex, she stopped believing in Narnia. Therefore, in the mythology of the books, she is denied the kingdom of heaven. That's a pretty big penalty just for getting interested in boys!
As I child I enjoyed the books, but now I find them reprehensible in their treatment of women.
I can't speak for all 50 states, but in Wisconsin the barcode on the back contains exactly the same information that is on the front of the card. Barcoding just saves typing time for the law enforcement officer. Scuffing up your barcode just means you'll be detained a bit longer when you're pulled over for speeding.
I see no need RFID on a DL. A barcode does just as well and you avoid the remote reading issue.
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Which is why you need to diversify and buy several stocks. Putting all of your eggs in one basket is always a bad investment strategy regardless of your methodology.
In theory, making money in stock market should be easy. Buy low, sell high is a guaranteed successful investment strategy and yet few people follow it. Why is that? By definition, an undervalued stock is an unpopular stock. Doing the unpopular thing is very difficult. Quite simply, human beings are a social animals and going against the crowd is often not in our best interest. Investing in unpopular stocks almost always feels wrong.
However, if you take a rational look at popular and unpopular stocks, you will see that the unpopular stocks are the ones likely to be the real money makers. Consider a mythical corporation that we'll call XYZ Corp. Let's assume that there is a lot of popular interest in the stock. The analysts all believe that great things are in this company's future. Should you invest in it? No, because the stock's price already reflects belief in the company's rosy future. The price of the stock always reflects everything that is known about the company. This concept is important to grasp.
Now, let's consider the future. The future is, of course, impossible to predict, but two outcomes are guaranteed. Either the company will live up to the investors' expecations or it will not. If it does live up to the company's expecation, the price of the stock may stay flat or rise only moderately since the stock price already reflects the high expectations of the investors. If the company fails to meet investor expectations, the price of the stock will drop in response to lowered expectation. Popular stocks don't have very much upside potential in the long run.
Now, let's assume the converse. XYZ Corporation has been mismanaged and had some bad luck. Investors and analysts now consider this stock a "dog." What are the possible outcomes for this stock? Currently the stock price is depressed because it reflects all the pessimism folks have about the company. In the future, either XYZ Corp will continue to run the company poorly or it will change its business strategies and turn itself around. The price of stock will stay flat in the first case and rise in the second case. Unpopular stocks have a great deal of upside potential and little downside since the price already reflects low expectations.
Yes, we are agressive, but I think natural selection will lead to more peaceful societies rather than more agressive. In fact I believe this is already happening.
Consider that warriors tend to die young. (All that gunfire is bad for your health!) This limits their reproductive lifespan.
Consider also that a group of individuals is always going to outcompete an indvidual no matter how strong and agressive he or she is. You may have be very strong man, but you do not have the strength of 10 men, for example. Those who know how to cooperate with each other and are not overly agressive have a competitive advantage.
Extrapolate this trend out over a very long period of time and I have to believe that we our species will evolve to be very socialable and peace-loving.
The meek shall inherit the earth.
Does that mean you are also pro-cannabilism? I mean, you could be stranded on an Andean mountain with your climbing mates as your only source of substainance? What are you going to do, starve?
We all have define food differently. Some folks who meat would never consider eating dogs or whales and yet others do. Would you a dolphin, an ape, an human? We all draw the line at a different place.
Me, I'm a vegan. My rule of thumb is that if the so-called food would try to get away from me if I poked with a sharp stick when it was alive, then it is not food. All animals have will and intent and I do not wish to interfere with their existence. Would I eat fish if I were stranded on desert Island? I don't know; it hasn't come up yet and I hope it never does.
Since trees are made of cellulose, does that mean the branches waving in the breeze are generating electricity and could it be harnessed?
Yes, there is a quite lot of theology and Christian symbolism in the Narnia books. Aslan=Christ, etc. I don't have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is the attitude toward women in these books. Read them carefully and you will see that the female characters divide into 3 types: physically immature girls who are generally regarded as good, adult women who are all evil witches, and adult women who are either dead or bed-ridden with illness, i.e, powerless. You will not find a single healthy adult women in charge of her own destiny regarded as good. When Susan matured and stop being a girl and became interested, in the words of the book, "stockings and parties", i.e., sex, she stopped believing in Narnia. Therefore, in the mythology of the books, she is denied the kingdom of heaven. That's a pretty big penalty just for getting interested in boys! As I child I enjoyed the books, but now I find them reprehensible in their treatment of women.
I can't speak for all 50 states, but in Wisconsin the barcode on the back contains exactly the same information that is on the front of the card. Barcoding just saves typing time for the law enforcement officer. Scuffing up your barcode just means you'll be detained a bit longer when you're pulled over for speeding.
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I see no need RFID on a DL. A barcode does just as well and you avoid the remote reading issue.
For more information on motor vehicle barcodes see http://www.aamva.org/standards/stdAAMVADLIdStanda