U.S. government spending as a percentage of GDP is really the wrong measure. Deficits compete for funds, or would if the Fed wasn't floating the bonds. Our currency is being devalued, which is a big reason why gas prices are as high as they are.
Yea, I pay attention. Claiming govt spending is anything but out of control and too high is, to me, a sign of inattention. Or belief in a statist solution.
There is so much wrong with Wall Street, and the stock markets, and brokerages, and HFT.
In the current economic situation in the U.S., where QE leaves the discount rate below 1%, the Prime Rate is today 3.25%, and the fed funds rate is 0.25%, your savings account is rarely paying you >1% APY, and your CD is paying >1.20%, the stock markets seem to be the only place to get a return even slightly higher than our currently underestimated inflation rate.
Until we stop printing money to pretend we can sustain the economy in this way, the stock markets are about the only show in town with a chance of a gain. Your capital has no place to go. Corporate bonds are a difficult choice for many, and have their own issues.
HFT is not an investment strategy. It is an arbitrage strategy, which to me is a difference with a minimal distinction. HFT sucks value out of slower traders. In case you were wondering, 'slower traders' are both other HFTs that are a few milliseconds late, and of course you and me. That is, humans. this offends my sense of decency, but the financial markets are not bound by decency, so I cannot use that as a complaint.
Brokerages,of whom all the important ones are HFTs in 'disguise', don't aid this at all. They are in this for their most lucrative clients. And virtually no one reading this qualifies as lucrative. We are their prey, and they hunt us at will.
How do we fix this in the U.S.?
1. Restrain government spending.
2. Revamp the income tax system to simplify the law, spreading the tax burden more equitably and including more taxpayers in the system - allowing even 30% of wage earners to escape paying any taxes risks leaving them with no skin in the game, and concerned only for keeping it that way. Indistinguishable from the 1% in this regard, and for the same reason - they want their own, and screw those who are subsidizing it.
3. End QE and get the Fed under control. Suffer the consequences. 1 & 2 will help with this, but it will take years.
From there, I dunno, because we will need to clean out the Congress and hope that we can find representatives that will serve the public good. I am not hopeful.
Plenty if reasons why. our oldestvsoftware requires a serial port to be present to allow us to emulate a modem. this is very hard on Win 7 machines, and cannot be bypassed.
instead of rewriting the system to not require that, we went with a new design,.NET and all, which isn't an improvement, but it works on 7.
My 'aunt', who still works for a pharmaceutical firm analyzing statistical analyses by researchers, would snort tea out her nose reading this. Doing the research, finding a useful drug, doing minimal testing, and then concocting the analysis to fit the very limited empirical model is not uncommon in the drug industry. Her job was and is to study that 'analysis', identify any problems, send it back for improvement, and repeat until either the researchers give up and move on to something they can demonstrate is effective AND safe enough for the market, or succeed and are able to show provable, reliable results.
Wilson would not like herm, and for good reason - she would call his methods little more than guessing. She has proven repeatedly that well-meaning researchers can find some statistician to lend unwarranted credence to imaginary results.
Kinda sad that this passes as science at all. Wilson seems, to me, to be stating that research need not be proven, merely justified.
Around here, the ants regularly engage in career moves that confuse onlookers. Some fight and claw their way up to the front of the log, only to find that not only is it merely a twig, but alas, they aren't really driving any of it at all.
Then they set their sights on driving the bigger log.
Rinse and repeat, until squashed, poisoned, or lost in the Diaspora.
Ignoring a previous post complaining about the Nexus One no longer getting updates.
No phone, manufacturer, or model is immune to this, nor is any innocent. My G-1 still works fine, but it is clearly an obsolete version of Android, even with CM7 running on it.
And by running, I mean limping. How CM7 got ported to the G1 is scary clever, no complaints, but it's sloooow and unstable, even the stable release. Just not enough RAM to work well.
He's a child. I expect no more, and will wait for him to mature, grow a set of ideals, and then offend Holocaust survivors with malice. Then I'll consider him a product of our licentious and misguided times, and forget him again.
Since DHS/TSA has failed to stop more than one individual from getting on a plane with a device intended to cause damage, we can realistically assume they aren't perfect, despite claiming so and trying really, really hard.
Just like your Wordpress site, security is an illusion - at best minimizing the opportunities, never preventing all attacks from succeeding.
Today I think you have it backwards. If it does end up being an american, it will be all over the media, used as an excuse to take away more rights. If it is a "furriner" it will be all over the media, used as an excuse to take away more rights.
There, fixed that for ya. A common mistake to think our current Government in any way wants to serve us, defend our rights, and generally do the right thing. You're not the first to make that mistake.
Um, we went to the Moon nine times. Six missions resulted in manned landings on the Moon surface, one attempt resulted in an abort (Apollo 13) and merely went around the Moon.
All of these, IIRC, used the Saturn V.
You, know whoever you are, you are wasting your meager talents here. You should be writing for HuffPo. Or Slate.
Make smartphones tough enough to last 3 years and I'll keep one. I did, My G-1.
Yhe public water system where i live is saddled with minerals that make it taste like bleagh, and chlorine that makes it taste like the pool. I decant RO water every chance I get, and learned that ice reduces the aftertaste, but chilling water for ice is also wasteful.
It's unlikely any flat panel TV will last as long as the XL-100 I had to dispose of because no one could adopt it.
Multiple screens that couple into one larger screen.
Laser keyboard.
Projector.
Dockable to make a useful notebook replacement.
Or a totally flexible phone that survives your back pocket. And doesn't trigger the humidity sensor.
Voice commands? How about I get a text from my wife, and I say "tell her I'm on my way" and the phone replies accurately. Of a call comes in and I say 'I'll call back later" and the call is answered with an appropriate voice response.
I'm never going to make these happen, so use these ideas and make a million. You're welcome.
It seems to me that Aereo is a centralized equivalent of a Slingbox, just, well, centralized.
So of that's the case, the complaint by broadcasters would be, what?
- Infinging on sales of any mobile app they have to enable place-shifting their programming? - The age-old argument that time-shifting is wrong? We fought that fight and won I think. - Opposing Aereo because they mess with various ratings and data collection? This, BTW, I believe would be enough to justify the fight by itself. - Opposing Aereo because they don't want to have to buy the data *again*? See above.
Same fight going on with Dish and the Hopper. Lack of 'control', which in the current environment is really failing to reocgnize that fight is already lost. We can place-shift, time-shift, do both at once. We have multiple ways. If these channels expect to be able to get me to pay for content with my eyeballs (commercials), or a mobile app for convenience, and get more and more revenue for the same content, they have a challenge. I'm not far from focusing my interests on programming that is given to me cheaply, be it Neflix or YouTube, or something else. The dinosaurs are fighting it out, but they will lose.
And I can't see this fast enough. Adapt or die, losers.
Had they actually *tested* this, in advance, would we be discussing the various flaws in each mail systems' implementations, or their real/imagined problems?
No. We would not even know it happened.
Don't blame Google's use of IMAP flags and folders, blame Yahoo!'s apparent lack of planning. Or Sky. Or whoever. Plenty of blame at the receiving end.
If you're moving mail from some system into yours, the responsibility is yours to make it right.
And I've done this. Wait till ya hose up the passwords, my friend. Fun times.
I know just a little about the perimeter security where I work, and they see millions of port scans daily, with commensurate numbers of all sorts of attacks. they actively respond to these 24x7x365. Globally. relentlessly. and they have finally made my work significantly more difficult due to data loss prevention measures.
I pay more than 'a few hundred bucks a year' in taxes. I show losses from a business venture every year, get the mortgage deduction, and my wife gets to deduct a third of what she spends to equip her classroom.
And I am not complaining. I also get the marriage deduction.
But I have no significant shelters beyond those. I'm making too much money to get a big break, and not enough to be able to shelter it anyhow.
My #1 complaint is that there are a lot of 'poor' people making enough to at least put in a minimal contribution. $100? They have no skin in the game. No wonder they vote for the one promising them the best deal.
Come to think of it, ALL the candidates are offering deals. Feh. No difference? Well, yes, in campaigning, but not in practice.
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U.S. government spending as a percentage of GDP is really the wrong measure. Deficits compete for funds, or would if the Fed wasn't floating the bonds. Our currency is being devalued, which is a big reason why gas prices are as high as they are.
Yea, I pay attention. Claiming govt spending is anything but out of control and too high is, to me, a sign of inattention. Or belief in a statist solution.
I am not a statist.
You're trying to convince me that government spending is decreasing, or limitedk. You've lost me. Seriously, are you even being serious?
There is so much wrong with Wall Street, and the stock markets, and brokerages, and HFT.
In the current economic situation in the U.S., where QE leaves the discount rate below 1%, the Prime Rate is today 3.25%, and the fed funds rate is 0.25%, your savings account is rarely paying you >1% APY, and your CD is paying >1.20%, the stock markets seem to be the only place to get a return even slightly higher than our currently underestimated inflation rate.
Until we stop printing money to pretend we can sustain the economy in this way, the stock markets are about the only show in town with a chance of a gain. Your capital has no place to go. Corporate bonds are a difficult choice for many, and have their own issues.
HFT is not an investment strategy. It is an arbitrage strategy, which to me is a difference with a minimal distinction. HFT sucks value out of slower traders. In case you were wondering, 'slower traders' are both other HFTs that are a few milliseconds late, and of course you and me. That is, humans. this offends my sense of decency, but the financial markets are not bound by decency, so I cannot use that as a complaint.
Brokerages,of whom all the important ones are HFTs in 'disguise', don't aid this at all. They are in this for their most lucrative clients. And virtually no one reading this qualifies as lucrative. We are their prey, and they hunt us at will.
How do we fix this in the U.S.?
1. Restrain government spending.
2. Revamp the income tax system to simplify the law, spreading the tax burden more equitably and including more taxpayers in the system - allowing even 30% of wage earners to escape paying any taxes risks leaving them with no skin in the game, and concerned only for keeping it that way. Indistinguishable from the 1% in this regard, and for the same reason - they want their own, and screw those who are subsidizing it.
3. End QE and get the Fed under control. Suffer the consequences. 1 & 2 will help with this, but it will take years.
From there, I dunno, because we will need to clean out the Congress and hope that we can find representatives that will serve the public good. I am not hopeful.
Plenty if reasons why. our oldestvsoftware requires a serial port to be present to allow us to emulate a modem. this is very hard on Win 7 machines, and cannot be bypassed.
instead of rewriting the system to not require that, we went with a new design, .NET and all, which isn't an improvement, but it works on 7.
I'm looking forward to charging my monitor!
My 'aunt', who still works for a pharmaceutical firm analyzing statistical analyses by researchers, would snort tea out her nose reading this. Doing the research, finding a useful drug, doing minimal testing, and then concocting the analysis to fit the very limited empirical model is not uncommon in the drug industry. Her job was and is to study that 'analysis', identify any problems, send it back for improvement, and repeat until either the researchers give up and move on to something they can demonstrate is effective AND safe enough for the market, or succeed and are able to show provable, reliable results.
Wilson would not like herm, and for good reason - she would call his methods little more than guessing. She has proven repeatedly that well-meaning researchers can find some statistician to lend unwarranted credence to imaginary results.
Kinda sad that this passes as science at all. Wilson seems, to me, to be stating that research need not be proven, merely justified.
Around here, the ants regularly engage in career moves that confuse onlookers. Some fight and claw their way up to the front of the log, only to find that not only is it merely a twig, but alas, they aren't really driving any of it at all.
Then they set their sights on driving the bigger log.
Rinse and repeat, until squashed, poisoned, or lost in the Diaspora.
Ignoring a previous post complaining about the Nexus One no longer getting updates.
No phone, manufacturer, or model is immune to this, nor is any innocent. My G-1 still works fine, but it is clearly an obsolete version of Android, even with CM7 running on it.
And by running, I mean limping. How CM7 got ported to the G1 is scary clever, no complaints, but it's sloooow and unstable, even the stable release. Just not enough RAM to work well.
He's a child. I expect no more, and will wait for him to mature, grow a set of ideals, and then offend Holocaust survivors with malice. Then I'll consider him a product of our licentious and misguided times, and forget him again.
Feh.
Since DHS/TSA has failed to stop more than one individual from getting on a plane with a device intended to cause damage, we can realistically assume they aren't perfect, despite claiming so and trying really, really hard.
Just like your Wordpress site, security is an illusion - at best minimizing the opportunities, never preventing all attacks from succeeding.
Today I think you have it backwards. If it does end up being an american, it will be all over the media, used as an excuse to take away more rights. If it is a "furriner" it will be all over the media, used as an excuse to take away more rights.
There, fixed that for ya. A common mistake to think our current Government in any way wants to serve us, defend our rights, and generally do the right thing. You're not the first to make that mistake.
A correction, Apollo 7 used a Saturn IB, for an orbital mission, no LM. This was the only Moon mission not to use a Saturn V.
The Saturn V launched 13 times, all successful.
Sheesh.
Um, we went to the Moon nine times. Six missions resulted in manned landings on the Moon surface, one attempt resulted in an abort (Apollo 13) and merely went around the Moon.
All of these, IIRC, used the Saturn V.
You, know whoever you are, you are wasting your meager talents here. You should be writing for HuffPo. Or Slate.
Not very strong, and not very enduring. I know, mixing Imperial and Metric is confusing.
Make smartphones tough enough to last 3 years and I'll keep one. I did, My G-1.
Yhe public water system where i live is saddled with minerals that make it taste like bleagh, and chlorine that makes it taste like the pool. I decant RO water every chance I get, and learned that ice reduces the aftertaste, but chilling water for ice is also wasteful.
It's unlikely any flat panel TV will last as long as the XL-100 I had to dispose of because no one could adopt it.
What?
A six-digit UID writes this? Are you senile? Slashdot is about as conservative as HuffPo. A foot wide and a millimeter deep.
Just answer anyone with an anti-religion rant and see what happens. It doesn't matter WHAT you answer with.
Flexible screen.
Multiple screens that couple into one larger screen.
Laser keyboard.
Projector.
Dockable to make a useful notebook replacement.
Or a totally flexible phone that survives your back pocket. And doesn't trigger the humidity sensor.
Voice commands? How about I get a text from my wife, and I say "tell her I'm on my way" and the phone replies accurately. Of a call comes in and I say 'I'll call back later" and the call is answered with an appropriate voice response.
I'm never going to make these happen, so use these ideas and make a million. You're welcome.
All legislation is someone's morality.
if you don't get that yet. you're losing.
It seems to me that Aereo is a centralized equivalent of a Slingbox, just, well, centralized.
So of that's the case, the complaint by broadcasters would be, what?
- Infinging on sales of any mobile app they have to enable place-shifting their programming?
- The age-old argument that time-shifting is wrong? We fought that fight and won I think.
- Opposing Aereo because they mess with various ratings and data collection? This, BTW, I believe would be enough to justify the fight by itself.
- Opposing Aereo because they don't want to have to buy the data *again*? See above.
Same fight going on with Dish and the Hopper. Lack of 'control', which in the current environment is really failing to reocgnize that fight is already lost. We can place-shift, time-shift, do both at once. We have multiple ways. If these channels expect to be able to get me to pay for content with my eyeballs (commercials), or a mobile app for convenience, and get more and more revenue for the same content, they have a challenge. I'm not far from focusing my interests on programming that is given to me cheaply, be it Neflix or YouTube, or something else. The dinosaurs are fighting it out, but they will lose.
And I can't see this fast enough. Adapt or die, losers.
"Some fake accounts look even better than real accounts do."
Not that that's a very high bar...
Had they actually *tested* this, in advance, would we be discussing the various flaws in each mail systems' implementations, or their real/imagined problems?
No. We would not even know it happened.
Don't blame Google's use of IMAP flags and folders, blame Yahoo!'s apparent lack of planning. Or Sky. Or whoever. Plenty of blame at the receiving end.
If you're moving mail from some system into yours, the responsibility is yours to make it right.
And I've done this. Wait till ya hose up the passwords, my friend. Fun times.
I'll probably upgrade my last XP machine.
Probably to Ubuntu. The X41 Tablet is not worthy of Windows 7 or 8. And Ubuntu will be an upgrade.
THAT is starting over with a more secure base. See how easy that is.
I know just a little about the perimeter security where I work, and they see millions of port scans daily, with commensurate numbers of all sorts of attacks. they actively respond to these 24x7x365. Globally. relentlessly.
and they have finally made my work significantly more difficult due to data loss prevention measures.
It's fun.
I don't intend to run it at a loss, but it does due to depreciation.
I pay more than 'a few hundred bucks a year' in taxes. I show losses from a business venture every year, get the mortgage deduction, and my wife gets to deduct a third of what she spends to equip her classroom.
And I am not complaining. I also get the marriage deduction.
But I have no significant shelters beyond those. I'm making too much money to get a big break, and not enough to be able to shelter it anyhow.
My #1 complaint is that there are a lot of 'poor' people making enough to at least put in a minimal contribution. $100? They have no skin in the game. No wonder they vote for the one promising them the best deal.
Come to think of it, ALL the candidates are offering deals. Feh. No difference? Well, yes, in campaigning, but not in practice.