You obviously don't know what you are talking about. How about the ~300 mrem per year you get just by being on earth? Its natural. That number is higher if you live in denver (less atmosphere), or if you live in downtown DC (lots granite that emits), or Pennsylvania (the high radon in the clay soil...
...that doesn't care about HD video or HDTV. I am too cheap to pay for cable and my DVDs look just fine on my TV. I can tell a difference but for me it isn't worth paying anything to switch. As for posting HD videos of myself on the internet, please, no one wants to see me in low res let alone HD.
...that is exactly what the big media companies want. Would you really put it past congress to grant them what they desire for a SMALL campaign contribution.
Patents laws are different than copyright laws (although I don't like them entirely either) and cover different things. Just the time frames involved will give you an idea. The length for a patent is 20 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patents) and a cpoyright lasts the life of the author plus 70 years, and 95 years from the date of first publication or 120 from creation for corporate authorship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright). Both could be shorter but copyright is definately more bloated.
My brother has a full time engineering job and still makes and releases CDs on the side with his band because he likes it. In my book you can't beat a live performance. So, maybe the future of music professionals is to make all of their money on tour...Oh right that is how it works today except Sony et. al. don't rake in the millions. Then you would jsut give away your music for free on the internet as promotion for your concert.
I agree, but it will not destroy the economy it will jsut make it look different and less favorable to you. People who make McBoover devices will love it and always claim that an HDTV is the real waste of money, besides from the sound of it your eyes aren't even good enough to really enjoy HDTV.
I don't buy the "crippling economies" argument. Making the changes, whether needed or not, will not destroy the economy it will only force money to change hands. There are a lot of people that change would cost money (e.g., coal power plants) and there are a number of people that could make money off the deal (e.g., nulcear power companies, solar technology companies). Yeah, if in one day you decided that all things that might affect global warming had to stop instantly things would be bad, but that won't happen. All change will be phased in over a period of time, whether it is fast enough to solve the supposed problem or not.
You are underestimating by an order of magnitude. In the FY 2000 budget for grounds keeping at the national cemetary cost $1.75 million and that doesn't count the $698,000 for tree and shrub maintenance (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/decay02.htm). I am sure it has only gone up since then. I had a hard time finding more recent numbers with such a good break down on grounds keeping cost.
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Back in 1999 I had an internship at a "spaceport" in idaho competing to be the home of Lockheed's failed Venture Star (X-33). The advantages in Idaho are you start at about 5000 feet elevation and if you want a polar orbit the farther north the better. Since the plan was to pick 2 sites idaho (like about 30 other sates) thought they could have a compelling reason to be the second, every one assumed florida would be one. Based on my experience there and the problems we were facing because we would have to fly close to calgary and edmonton I have to say flying over DC is definately a very long shot. The population density of the east coast will be very problematic for anyone trying to launch east that is not on the coast. If you launch from the mid west by the time you get to the coast your rocket will have enough velocity to bring many more cities into play during an error/failure than those you fly directly over (Boston, NYC, Phili, Baltimore, DC). I am not saying it is impossible but you will have a very hard time proving to the FAA and the public that there is a 10E-9 or even 10E-6 chance of killing someone during an error (these were the kinds of numbers we were trying to show for launching north from idaho). For reference population densities of canada can be seen at http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peoplea ndsociety/population/population2001/density2001 and population densities of america can be seen at http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peoplea ndsociety/population/population2001/density2001.
Only a handfull of the people that I knew in college made anywhere near $30K and all of them were active duty military getting all of their tuition covered. This link (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040tt.pdf) has the federal income tax tables for adjusted gross income. Your effective tax rate for $30K is 13.7% w/o FICA. Add 7.5% and you get 20% which is only half of 40%. You have to make a lot of money to pay 40% tax, but it turns out that the more you make the easier it is to buy deductions. I am not trying to defend the tax system (I especially hate regressive taxes and loopholes that poor people can't afford), just trying to help with the facts.
In his recent interview with Donny Deustch on CNBC, Bill said that he had no desire to run for president because:
1) People wouldn't vote for me
2) I wouldn't be good at that job
Granted he could be telling a fib about the desire part, but his insight isn't that far from the truth.
Not that many college students or recent graduates are in the 40% tax bracket. An according to http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/21/pf/college/expensi ve_colleges/index.htm there is not college in the US that charges $100K/year tuition. The most is around $40K. I can understand you sentiment (college is expensive and the middle/lower class has to deal with regressive taxes), however, accuracy in your facts will help get people to listen to you.
How easy it is to obtain depends almost entirely what you standards are. For example if you make metal forgins and you say you can live with an internal defect that is 0.25" in diameter you will be able to attain a 6 sigma process much easier than if you said your standard was 1/10 that size. The sigma level for the same product line can change just based on who the customer is. The higher the regulation of an industy and therefore necessity for quality (think nuclear or aircraft) the less likely you are to have a high sigma process because you can't tolerate the same kind of defects. That is why nuclear grade materials or aircraft certified parts are SO much more expensive than your run of the mill hardware store (home depot) parts/materials that look the same. Go back to material forgings, material that goes into a nuclear reactor has to have much smaller allowable defects than say the same material (like stainless steel) that will be used for you hammer in your house. To get material that meets the requirements you have to inspect much more product and reject at much higher rates.
Everyone is talking about "every other country" like they have been to them. One person says it so it must be true. I lived in Brazil for quite a while and their money is just as discriminating as US money. Jamaica has the same problem. That proves that not every other country is in the right. Just a guess but there are probably many countries in Africa and Asia that are in the same boat. Anyone know about china and india?? (Brazil is the 5th largest country by population just so you don't say the ones that don't do it are small and don't count)
I was getting a bunch of these for a few days. The text was just some random "story" that started mid sentence. I just kept having gmail send them to the spam folder. I guess it has learned now because I don't get them in my in-box anymore.
Like this problem will go away because he is gone???? Terrorism is the buzz word of the day all politicians will do just about anything to get re-elected. If that means pissing on the bill or rights, so be it. No politician in his right mind is going to say the right thing "I think the first amendment should be sacred even if it means giving some kind of advantage to a would be terrorist." They like their jobs, power, money.......
Hey and if you have to go that route just remember that your assets in 401 k)s and IRAs and other tax exempt retirement accounts can not be taken from you during Chapter 7 (http://detroitbankruptcylawyer.com/dosdonts.htm).
Since I didn't actually answer your question: I have used level II quotes but not to try an day trade. I had SAI and was up 20% and wanted to get into another investment. So I placed a limit order at the LAST price. Usually that is good enough to unload but SAI doesn't have a large volume and my order had not gone through after several minutes. I used Level II quotes to find a good price to try and unload. I didn't want to arbitrarily drop the price by $0.2 and Level II showed me that there were orders that would take at $0.03 below my previous order.
My only point was that Level II was more than just real time quotes. I totaly agree with you that I could not game the system and don't even try. There are so many more advantages that the "big boys" have that small fries like myself can possible hope to out pace them day trading.
That is not exactly true. I get live quotes from all american exchanges, but if you want Level II quotes from NASDAQ, for example, you have to pay extra for that and you do get more than the quotes. You will get the information for all of the currently placed orders with their limits. Thus you can better predict where a stock is headed. For example if want to buy stock XYZ and you just have a live quote you will only notice that the last trade was made at say $5.55 and you might say I will buy at that price. The level II quote might also tell you that there are say 12 orders to sell XYZ ranging in price from $5.55 up to $5.60 while there are 120 buy orders that range from $5.20 to $5.54. This will tell you that the rest of the market doesn't think the stock is very attractive at $5.55 and will likely go down.
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You obviously don't know what you are talking about. How about the ~300 mrem per year you get just by being on earth? Its natural. That number is higher if you live in denver (less atmosphere), or if you live in downtown DC (lots granite that emits), or Pennsylvania (the high radon in the clay soil...
Because they have never mislead us before.
Yeah, I just don't care. I figured I would get modded down for the post because of the crowd.
...that doesn't care about HD video or HDTV. I am too cheap to pay for cable and my DVDs look just fine on my TV. I can tell a difference but for me it isn't worth paying anything to switch. As for posting HD videos of myself on the internet, please, no one wants to see me in low res let alone HD.
...that is exactly what the big media companies want. Would you really put it past congress to grant them what they desire for a SMALL campaign contribution.
Patents laws are different than copyright laws (although I don't like them entirely either) and cover different things. Just the time frames involved will give you an idea. The length for a patent is 20 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patents) and a cpoyright lasts the life of the author plus 70 years, and 95 years from the date of first publication or 120 from creation for corporate authorship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright). Both could be shorter but copyright is definately more bloated.
My brother has a full time engineering job and still makes and releases CDs on the side with his band because he likes it. In my book you can't beat a live performance. So, maybe the future of music professionals is to make all of their money on tour...Oh right that is how it works today except Sony et. al. don't rake in the millions. Then you would jsut give away your music for free on the internet as promotion for your concert.
I agree, but it will not destroy the economy it will jsut make it look different and less favorable to you. People who make McBoover devices will love it and always claim that an HDTV is the real waste of money, besides from the sound of it your eyes aren't even good enough to really enjoy HDTV.
I don't buy the "crippling economies" argument. Making the changes, whether needed or not, will not destroy the economy it will only force money to change hands. There are a lot of people that change would cost money (e.g., coal power plants) and there are a number of people that could make money off the deal (e.g., nulcear power companies, solar technology companies). Yeah, if in one day you decided that all things that might affect global warming had to stop instantly things would be bad, but that won't happen. All change will be phased in over a period of time, whether it is fast enough to solve the supposed problem or not.
You are underestimating by an order of magnitude. In the FY 2000 budget for grounds keeping at the national cemetary cost $1.75 million and that doesn't count the $698,000 for tree and shrub maintenance (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/decay02.htm). I am sure it has only gone up since then. I had a hard time finding more recent numbers with such a good break down on grounds keeping cost.
Back in 1999 I had an internship at a "spaceport" in idaho competing to be the home of Lockheed's failed Venture Star (X-33). The advantages in Idaho are you start at about 5000 feet elevation and if you want a polar orbit the farther north the better. Since the plan was to pick 2 sites idaho (like about 30 other sates) thought they could have a compelling reason to be the second, every one assumed florida would be one. Based on my experience there and the problems we were facing because we would have to fly close to calgary and edmonton I have to say flying over DC is definately a very long shot. The population density of the east coast will be very problematic for anyone trying to launch east that is not on the coast. If you launch from the mid west by the time you get to the coast your rocket will have enough velocity to bring many more cities into play during an error/failure than those you fly directly over (Boston, NYC, Phili, Baltimore, DC). I am not saying it is impossible but you will have a very hard time proving to the FAA and the public that there is a 10E-9 or even 10E-6 chance of killing someone during an error (these were the kinds of numbers we were trying to show for launching north from idaho). For reference population densities of canada can be seen at http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peoplea ndsociety/population/population2001/density2001 and population densities of america can be seen at http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peoplea ndsociety/population/population2001/density2001.
Only a handfull of the people that I knew in college made anywhere near $30K and all of them were active duty military getting all of their tuition covered. This link (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040tt.pdf) has the federal income tax tables for adjusted gross income. Your effective tax rate for $30K is 13.7% w/o FICA. Add 7.5% and you get 20% which is only half of 40%. You have to make a lot of money to pay 40% tax, but it turns out that the more you make the easier it is to buy deductions. I am not trying to defend the tax system (I especially hate regressive taxes and loopholes that poor people can't afford), just trying to help with the facts.
In his recent interview with Donny Deustch on CNBC, Bill said that he had no desire to run for president because: 1) People wouldn't vote for me 2) I wouldn't be good at that job Granted he could be telling a fib about the desire part, but his insight isn't that far from the truth.
Not that many college students or recent graduates are in the 40% tax bracket. An according to http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/21/pf/college/expensi ve_colleges/index.htm there is not college in the US that charges $100K/year tuition. The most is around $40K. I can understand you sentiment (college is expensive and the middle/lower class has to deal with regressive taxes), however, accuracy in your facts will help get people to listen to you.
How easy it is to obtain depends almost entirely what you standards are. For example if you make metal forgins and you say you can live with an internal defect that is 0.25" in diameter you will be able to attain a 6 sigma process much easier than if you said your standard was 1/10 that size. The sigma level for the same product line can change just based on who the customer is. The higher the regulation of an industy and therefore necessity for quality (think nuclear or aircraft) the less likely you are to have a high sigma process because you can't tolerate the same kind of defects. That is why nuclear grade materials or aircraft certified parts are SO much more expensive than your run of the mill hardware store (home depot) parts/materials that look the same. Go back to material forgings, material that goes into a nuclear reactor has to have much smaller allowable defects than say the same material (like stainless steel) that will be used for you hammer in your house. To get material that meets the requirements you have to inspect much more product and reject at much higher rates.
I think you are giving politicians way to much credit.
Thanks for the link.
Everyone is talking about "every other country" like they have been to them. One person says it so it must be true. I lived in Brazil for quite a while and their money is just as discriminating as US money. Jamaica has the same problem. That proves that not every other country is in the right. Just a guess but there are probably many countries in Africa and Asia that are in the same boat. Anyone know about china and india?? (Brazil is the 5th largest country by population just so you don't say the ones that don't do it are small and don't count)
I was getting a bunch of these for a few days. The text was just some random "story" that started mid sentence. I just kept having gmail send them to the spam folder. I guess it has learned now because I don't get them in my in-box anymore.
Yeah, sacred was not the best word to use, but it just came out.
Like this problem will go away because he is gone???? Terrorism is the buzz word of the day all politicians will do just about anything to get re-elected. If that means pissing on the bill or rights, so be it. No politician in his right mind is going to say the right thing "I think the first amendment should be sacred even if it means giving some kind of advantage to a would be terrorist." They like their jobs, power, money .......
Hey and if you have to go that route just remember that your assets in 401 k)s and IRAs and other tax exempt retirement accounts can not be taken from you during Chapter 7 (http://detroitbankruptcylawyer.com/dosdonts.htm).
Since I didn't actually answer your question: I have used level II quotes but not to try an day trade. I had SAI and was up 20% and wanted to get into another investment. So I placed a limit order at the LAST price. Usually that is good enough to unload but SAI doesn't have a large volume and my order had not gone through after several minutes. I used Level II quotes to find a good price to try and unload. I didn't want to arbitrarily drop the price by $0.2 and Level II showed me that there were orders that would take at $0.03 below my previous order.
My only point was that Level II was more than just real time quotes. I totaly agree with you that I could not game the system and don't even try. There are so many more advantages that the "big boys" have that small fries like myself can possible hope to out pace them day trading.
That is not exactly true. I get live quotes from all american exchanges, but if you want Level II quotes from NASDAQ, for example, you have to pay extra for that and you do get more than the quotes. You will get the information for all of the currently placed orders with their limits. Thus you can better predict where a stock is headed. For example if want to buy stock XYZ and you just have a live quote you will only notice that the last trade was made at say $5.55 and you might say I will buy at that price. The level II quote might also tell you that there are say 12 orders to sell XYZ ranging in price from $5.55 up to $5.60 while there are 120 buy orders that range from $5.20 to $5.54. This will tell you that the rest of the market doesn't think the stock is very attractive at $5.55 and will likely go down.