Personally, I find the label "snob" largely applied to anyone with a modicum of discriminating taste. It doesn't take a chemist to see the difference between folgers brewed in boiling water with a paper filter and a decent cup of coffee. Hell, the coffee oil itself is visible on the surface if you don't filter it out. But what do I know, I'm a snob.
Just to clarify the 100% comment:
The letter from the Treasury Department Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed that there just weren't many progressive groups who even sought special tax exempt status. A total of 20 sought it, and six were probed. All 292 Tea Party groups, meanwhile, were part of the IRS witchhunt.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/...
Still a scandal, but nowhere near as important as the NSA. Getting tax exempt status to do political bribery is small potatoes compared to the flagrantly unconstitutional NSA spying, in my mind.
The spoilage of your argument by brazenly comparing the tea party and gun owners to the KKK and Nazis is only surpassed by your rejection of correlations that directly contradict your assertions.
I would like to know more about any studies that have been done that show the benefit of HFT. I'm not adequately convinced of this, the only examples seem to correspond to other advances in technology and don't isolate HFT.
I am a gun owner and supporter of the 2nd amendment, but I believe it's a fair reading of the 2nd amendment that the "well regulated militia" can be interpreted to not include folks who can be judged incompetent to own a weapon, though there should be due process on this decision. Even if such a provision did not exist, I would imagine other provisions would justify limited gun regulation. if the govt can take away your children for incompetence, surely they can take away your weapons. I agree with you on the modern weaponry question, however.
We've allowed corporations to take over the process, and so our security guards are better described as legislators-for-hire. The blame belongs to citizens (us) for allowing the system to get subverted in this way and not voting out the crooks. We can still fix it, but the perverse incentives that exist will not right themselves.
Agreed. I use layers of scotch tape and black permanant marker to dim them, works _ok_ but a damned dimmer would be great.
what if it was the reverse? successful athletes, coaches, and celebrities bought up startups with their big spending...
I think you just described 38 studios, only it was a baseball player, a business executive, and two authors.
Lloyd Doggett is a stand up gent and the only elected official that I am proud to say represents me. He sponsored the bill to close the NSA "backdoor", and he's typically on the right side of these issues. I'm not surprised he voted against this faux reform bill.
Ignoring the known effects of certain drugs, there is more than I expected: specifically with toxoplasmosis and increased risk of car accidents for humans. Mind control is a fact for some insects and rodents, how much more exists is an interesting question. This entertaining talk goes into it a good deal.
Hyper motivated and extraordinarily smart people tend to succeed regardless of the circumstances. Your anecdotes do nothing for 99% of the population that stands to benefit from structure and a well rounded education, particularly in their late teens. Clearly, businesses see the value such that they're willing to reward it.
I don't think that most folks would disagree about "very high end" talent. However, people like that are a needle in a haystack, and there's a limit to how much hay to import before we start asking if we should just grow our own hay. Most of us that work in the industry have seen the reality of H1B "talent", and by and large, it ain't. I'd rather poach talent from a US graduate majoring in finance because it's seen as more lucrative than technology, and suppressing the wages with foreign labor isn't helping the situation.
It takes a remarkable amount of gall for non-americans to judge americans on their own immigration policies, and then stereotype them to boot.
All of your arguments are predicated on poor regulation, all of which is fixable. International trade is about balance, and there is very little resembling balance in the labor trade currently.
look at yourself first and mind your own business - and your business has nothing to do with east Europe
America ignoring imperialist invasions by a nationalist leader in eastern Europe by a country humiliated as a result of a previous war. No precedent for that going wrong.
I think I see your problem. Most companies don't make the developers write code on the board every day, as boards are very inefficient compilers and the intellisense is just atrocious.
I don't understand why we make interviews so uncomfortable for the people we want to work for us. Give a programmer a goddamn keyboard, if you really want to see what they can do. The board is for visualizing high level interactions, not writing modules.
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
