"Getting on the no-fly list might very well be the best way to ensure that your employer will arrange less humiliating travel options when they need you to be somewhere...."
Either that or your employer will give you the pink slip and hire another guy. Hmmm... What would most employers do?
I wonder if you can do the same thing with water.
Water? Instead of slivovitza? You must be joking!
"...2 a : an agreement among conspirators b : a group of conspirators
synonyms see PLOT"
'Group' is a synonym of 'set' - " 21 : a collection of elements and especially mathematical ones..."- and sets can have a single element.
Perhaps it's stretching it a bit too much, but I think that you can "conspire with yourself" the same way you can "plot by yourself".
Of course, the legal meaning of 'conspiracy' is a different matter.
patenting or copyrighting them is not really that different from patenting or copyrighting integers.
And copyrighting integers is not different from trademarking common words like Apple or Windows. "Whoever has the gold, makes the rules".
I hope none of THEM reads your post, or we'll start running short of integers any time soon.
Note: My browser had some hiccup while editing and sent my other, half finished post of his own volition, I promise! I'll leave now and discreetly perform seppukku.
...patenting or copyrighting them is not really that different from patenting or copyrighting integers.
Try selling a Ferrari for $5000 and see what happens.
Everybody knows that a Ferrari can't cost $5000, but no fucking body knows what the price of some stocks should be. It's just too much data from a gazillion sources, and it's extremely chaotic. A company could see a huge 'proper' increase in their stock value due to some local war in Africa or the untimely death of a pop star. Now we have programs specialized in finding those trends and profitable stock-and purchasing it automatically, and we have programs specialized in deceiving them.
I think those kind of programs should be both forbidden by law. Automatic buyers are extremely dangerous, and the only way to decrease the risk they pose is by putting a human being in the chain of command, with the responsibility of giving approval before placing the orders. The difficult part is that it should be a human being with some common sense.
Having the bad guys placing their orders manually would cripple to a great extent their ability to manipulate markets. Of course one of these guys could make a program simulating human behavior, but then they wouldn't be able to place thousands of orders per hour.
My 0,02 €
It reminds me of those sorry pathetic bastards that offer publicly to purchase some useless trinket for 1000 gold, through the commerce channel. By pure chance there is one of these items being auctioned at 600 gold. When the happy entrepreneur tries to contact the sorry pathetic etc. to collect his earnings he usually finds out that other did it first, or that the prospective purchaser has temporarily left the game, or just ignores him . ^_^
WoW is only a game, but I shudder when I consider the things that may be lurking in the Real World's markets.
Just curious.*
*:Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna read TFA.
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers* from it." -- Friedrich Nietzsche