You couldn't be more wrong. Financial advisors are not "stock pickers." Advisors help people to plan their lives financially by guiding a person to know the best way to apply their resources to reach their goals. A true financial advisor is akin to an architect or engineer who uses a complex set of tools to help a person solve a problem they themselves cannot solve.
Really? Last time I checked, every bet on the roulette wheel has the same house edge (except the five way bet.) I call BS that roulette can be beaten. If it could, they wouldn't offer it.
These people have not learned from history. IIRC, Fisher Black and Myron Scholes who came up with the Black-Scholes option pricing model took it first to Goldman Sachs and then went public with a published paper to win the Nobel Prize.
No, they don't. Or, at least, they don't do it *automatically*. That's what competition is about.
If a government entity raises the minimum wage you can bet every employer with a minimum wage employee will raise prices accordingly automatically, and as a group. There is no competition when everybody's input cost is the same.
The only problem with this idea that the unemployed will find work is that the number of people required to design/operate/maintain technology is much smaller than the number of people required to do the work the technology replaces. Three people can each work a full time job at the same task in a 24 hour a day. One machine can work 24 hours straight, displacing three jobs. Even if we assume it takes one person a full time job to maintain that one machine, that is still a net negative two jobs.
Back when I ran websites the ad content was sold and hosted locally. I never had an ad hosted by a third party provider. Any website worthy of being visited by users will be able to get their own advertisers. This should create a new industry of companies who produce software for hosting and managing local ads but at the end of the day the content will have to come off that website's server. If this means less content then the free market is working and consumers will either decide they are willing to pay for content or they won't but now the consumer gets to decide what his eyeballs are worth.
Is there some reason they shouldn't just use 100% thrust at takeoff and make sure the cargo being carried was less than the maximum capacity?
These engines are optimized for certain turbine speeds. By staying within the recommended ranges they reduce wear & tear and improve efficiency. In addition, max acceleration is harder on the passengers. Think of it like driving a car. Do you accelerate from every stop by pressing the gas pedal all the way to the floor or do you match how much gas you give it to the driving conditions and who and how many people are in your car?
Yes, it's much better to pretend that nothing happens and then scream for the government help once your house is underwater or your tap runs dry in a drought.
Your Logical Fallacy Is: Strawman, Black & White
For those people that live close enough to the ocean for this to be an issue they will have decades of warning before their house can even see water, much less be "under" said water, unless you are talking about hurricanes which have been submerging dwelling since before industry existed.
I got to experience this problem personally. I owned a 1986 SAAB 9000 Turbo with a flat panel radio. Instead of the knob for volume it had a - and + button one either held or pressed repeatedly. It looked great, but in practice doing volume changes while driving was a pain, especially since the car was a 5 speed. (Yes, I had to do frequent adjustments. I am a big fan of orchestral movie scores like Williams, Horner, et al and the dynamic changes of that kind of music required frequent adjustment to compensate for road noise.) While I know that now those kind of controls are on the steering wheel, they didn't used to be and I longed for a twist knob for volume control. I eventually replaced the head unit with a new one that included a CD player and SAAB had the presence of mind to go back to a volume knob.
In a few years people will start to notice all the failed parts on their Fords and Toyotas and buy a Tesla next.
What are these people going to buy when they start noticing failed parts on their Tesla? Every car is going to have parts wear/rattle/fail. This is the nature of subjecting a two ton object made of metal and plastic to the forces of nature.
What you smell is Airline Pilots Assoc. lobbying government to regulate them.
I don't know about this, but if so it is perfectly understandable. I fly small airplanes and nearly crashed once when I collided with a turkey vulture while descending to land. This is a bird that weighs maybe five pounds and is relatively soft compared to the materials of which a drone is made and yet still caused thousands of dollars of damage to the wing and support strut. The most dangerous time for a GA aircraft is close to the ground, which is also the hardest situation to adjust to unexpected objects because the pilot has to be careful not to stall. It is highly unlikely that every drone will be registered, especially the homebuilts, but having this regulation on the books means that the message "don't cause problems or there will be consequences" will get out. If that prevents accidents then the purpose is served, regardless of whether every drone is traceable to a registrant.
I remember writing down the frequencies of every note so that we could encode a song into an HP48.
You certainly did it the hard way. A=440 hz. The ratio between any two adjacent half steps is 2^-12 so one can calculate any pitch given a note name and octave. A friend wrote a program for our 48SX's that would take a file of the format {t=60 {notename octavenumber duration}...} (the first term is the tempo, duration is 1 for whole note, 2 for half note, 4 for quarter, etc.) and convert it to the format "freq dur BEEP" so we could input songs directly from sheet music. I still have the program on my HP48SX twenty years later and still have the interpreted William Tell Overture and Imperial March.
The outcome of a fantasy league isn't based on a single performance on an individual athlete. A fantasy team is a collection of several distinct, unrelated individuals. Your text very specifically says "solely."
Pontiac was 'just a brand,' there was really not much difference between Pontiacs and other GM cars
This is mostly true. The Pontiac G8 may be one of the best cars ever sold under the Pontiac name and in the stick shift GXP version it is unlike any car made by any other manufacturer, even if it was a rebadged Holden Commodore from GM's Australia division.
It's just that Apple could afford to BUY any expertise it needed to make it work if it chooses to.
The question is how does one define "work." Stock prices are based on the present value of estimated future earnings. Apple stockholders are used to stellar valuations based on the fact that Apple sells a premium, high margin line of products that are part of a bigger ecosystem.
For the CY ending 12/31/14, AAPL's Net Profit Margin was 21.6% and Return on Assets was 17%. For the same period GM's were 2.61% and 2.2% respectively. If I was an AAPL shareholder I would be furious that management was doing this.
Just because AAPL does something does not mean it has to turn out like other things it has done.
Not necessarily. A female friend also has a similar condition and is unable to have a baby because her system sees the embryo as something to be eliminated. Very hard for a woman whose friends all have kids.
I have actually wondered this exact thing. If the consequences of being wrong weren't so harmful I would be curious to see how my body would react to various pathogens. I do know I once had a staph infection a doctor friend said would take a week to heal. Mine was gone in two days.
I have psoriatic arthritis, an auto-immune condition that is effectively the opposite of HIV. Instead of a weak immune system, mine is so jacked up it causes harm to my own body (it does mean I never get the flu and rarely ever have colds.) I have to use Humira to keep it at bay, and if I don't I will be crippled sooner, at a cost of nearly $3K a month. No conspiracy to it and I am sure it is profitable for the company. I am probably in the same boat as a person protected from AIDS by this drug; taking it is the difference between life and an early, miserable death.
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I am not familiar with this unit of measurement. Is it derived or a base unit?
Your post implies that if an advisor knew how to make money investing they would do so rather than give other people advice. Did I misread this?
You couldn't be more wrong. Financial advisors are not "stock pickers." Advisors help people to plan their lives financially by guiding a person to know the best way to apply their resources to reach their goals. A true financial advisor is akin to an architect or engineer who uses a complex set of tools to help a person solve a problem they themselves cannot solve.
Really? Last time I checked, every bet on the roulette wheel has the same house edge (except the five way bet.) I call BS that roulette can be beaten. If it could, they wouldn't offer it.
These people have not learned from history. IIRC, Fisher Black and Myron Scholes who came up with the Black-Scholes option pricing model took it first to Goldman Sachs and then went public with a published paper to win the Nobel Prize.
What do you think happened to our economy to achieve our current 5% unemployment rate?
Workers gave up looking for work and are thus no longer considered unemployed. They still don't have a job, they just don't count anymore.
No, they don't. Or, at least, they don't do it *automatically*. That's what competition is about.
If a government entity raises the minimum wage you can bet every employer with a minimum wage employee will raise prices accordingly automatically, and as a group. There is no competition when everybody's input cost is the same.
The only problem with this idea that the unemployed will find work is that the number of people required to design/operate/maintain technology is much smaller than the number of people required to do the work the technology replaces. Three people can each work a full time job at the same task in a 24 hour a day. One machine can work 24 hours straight, displacing three jobs. Even if we assume it takes one person a full time job to maintain that one machine, that is still a net negative two jobs.
Back when I ran websites the ad content was sold and hosted locally. I never had an ad hosted by a third party provider. Any website worthy of being visited by users will be able to get their own advertisers. This should create a new industry of companies who produce software for hosting and managing local ads but at the end of the day the content will have to come off that website's server. If this means less content then the free market is working and consumers will either decide they are willing to pay for content or they won't but now the consumer gets to decide what his eyeballs are worth.
Is there some reason they shouldn't just use 100% thrust at takeoff and make sure the cargo being carried was less than the maximum capacity?
These engines are optimized for certain turbine speeds. By staying within the recommended ranges they reduce wear & tear and improve efficiency. In addition, max acceleration is harder on the passengers. Think of it like driving a car. Do you accelerate from every stop by pressing the gas pedal all the way to the floor or do you match how much gas you give it to the driving conditions and who and how many people are in your car?
Yes, it's much better to pretend that nothing happens and then scream for the government help once your house is underwater or your tap runs dry in a drought.
Your Logical Fallacy Is: Strawman, Black & White
For those people that live close enough to the ocean for this to be an issue they will have decades of warning before their house can even see water, much less be "under" said water, unless you are talking about hurricanes which have been submerging dwelling since before industry existed.
I got to experience this problem personally. I owned a 1986 SAAB 9000 Turbo with a flat panel radio. Instead of the knob for volume it had a - and + button one either held or pressed repeatedly. It looked great, but in practice doing volume changes while driving was a pain, especially since the car was a 5 speed. (Yes, I had to do frequent adjustments. I am a big fan of orchestral movie scores like Williams, Horner, et al and the dynamic changes of that kind of music required frequent adjustment to compensate for road noise.) While I know that now those kind of controls are on the steering wheel, they didn't used to be and I longed for a twist knob for volume control. I eventually replaced the head unit with a new one that included a CD player and SAAB had the presence of mind to go back to a volume knob.
In a few years people will start to notice all the failed parts on their Fords and Toyotas and buy a Tesla next.
What are these people going to buy when they start noticing failed parts on their Tesla? Every car is going to have parts wear/rattle/fail. This is the nature of subjecting a two ton object made of metal and plastic to the forces of nature.
What you smell is Airline Pilots Assoc. lobbying government to regulate them.
I don't know about this, but if so it is perfectly understandable. I fly small airplanes and nearly crashed once when I collided with a turkey vulture while descending to land. This is a bird that weighs maybe five pounds and is relatively soft compared to the materials of which a drone is made and yet still caused thousands of dollars of damage to the wing and support strut. The most dangerous time for a GA aircraft is close to the ground, which is also the hardest situation to adjust to unexpected objects because the pilot has to be careful not to stall. It is highly unlikely that every drone will be registered, especially the homebuilts, but having this regulation on the books means that the message "don't cause problems or there will be consequences" will get out. If that prevents accidents then the purpose is served, regardless of whether every drone is traceable to a registrant.
The fact that this was possible in 1990 is something of a minor miracle, imho. I wasn't exactly trying to use it as a tuner.
I remember writing down the frequencies of every note so that we could encode a song into an HP48.
You certainly did it the hard way. A=440 hz. The ratio between any two adjacent half steps is 2^-12 so one can calculate any pitch given a note name and octave. A friend wrote a program for our 48SX's that would take a file of the format {t=60 {notename octavenumber duration}...} (the first term is the tempo, duration is 1 for whole note, 2 for half note, 4 for quarter, etc.) and convert it to the format "freq dur BEEP" so we could input songs directly from sheet music. I still have the program on my HP48SX twenty years later and still have the interpreted William Tell Overture and Imperial March.
I think I misunderstood your post. My apologies.
The outcome of a fantasy league isn't based on a single performance on an individual athlete. A fantasy team is a collection of several distinct, unrelated individuals. Your text very specifically says "solely."
Pontiac was 'just a brand,' there was really not much difference between Pontiacs and other GM cars
This is mostly true. The Pontiac G8 may be one of the best cars ever sold under the Pontiac name and in the stick shift GXP version it is unlike any car made by any other manufacturer, even if it was a rebadged Holden Commodore from GM's Australia division.
It's just that Apple could afford to BUY any expertise it needed to make it work if it chooses to.
The question is how does one define "work." Stock prices are based on the present value of estimated future earnings. Apple stockholders are used to stellar valuations based on the fact that Apple sells a premium, high margin line of products that are part of a bigger ecosystem.
For the CY ending 12/31/14, AAPL's Net Profit Margin was 21.6% and Return on Assets was 17%. For the same period GM's were 2.61% and 2.2% respectively. If I was an AAPL shareholder I would be furious that management was doing this.
Just because AAPL does something does not mean it has to turn out like other things it has done.
Speculative investors are often quite foolish.
Not necessarily. A female friend also has a similar condition and is unable to have a baby because her system sees the embryo as something to be eliminated. Very hard for a woman whose friends all have kids.
I have actually wondered this exact thing. If the consequences of being wrong weren't so harmful I would be curious to see how my body would react to various pathogens. I do know I once had a staph infection a doctor friend said would take a week to heal. Mine was gone in two days.
Who reports back over time
My guess would be only the people with the anti-bear widget would report back. The placebo group became lunch.
I have psoriatic arthritis, an auto-immune condition that is effectively the opposite of HIV. Instead of a weak immune system, mine is so jacked up it causes harm to my own body (it does mean I never get the flu and rarely ever have colds.) I have to use Humira to keep it at bay, and if I don't I will be crippled sooner, at a cost of nearly $3K a month. No conspiracy to it and I am sure it is profitable for the company. I am probably in the same boat as a person protected from AIDS by this drug; taking it is the difference between life and an early, miserable death.