Originally said:
Stock valuations are based not only on actual assets, but future growth and earnings potential.

You replied:

They're comparing the stock valuation to what the company would sell for if purchased. When you sell a company, you're also selling the "good will" and other value inertia things like brand familiarity

Goodwill is ALSO something that can increase in the future, just like monetary assets - you buy stock with the idea that the entire company value (including goodwill) will grow. So the original point is still a sound one.

Which one hurts more when dropped on you: a pound of iron, or a pound of feathers?

In their defense, it is because eEconomics perfectly follows t his Douglas Adams quote:

As soon as an algorithm is created that can accurately predict the market, investors will start using it, thus altering the market so the algorithm no longer works.

This kind of economic theory is really attaching a name and a measurement system to a phenomena that is already understood. To say the Q-value predicts bubbles is a bit backwards since the Q-value is defined in terms of bubbles. So it really isn't a predictor of anything, any more than a ruler is a predictor of the length of an object or a scale is a predictor of the weight of an object.

Clinton did not selectively keep emails she thought were state-department related - she came up with a small list of keywords she thought would match state-departmnent matters and deleted ANYTHING THAT DID NOT MATCH.

So basically her keeping state department related emails is only as true as her ability to come up with keywords that matched everything she did over years of service...

Not to worry though, the Chinese and many other foreign governments have a full backup, which they have pinky-sweared not to use as leverage should Clinton be elected president.

Please see my original post:

They're not going to work as cops ever again.

And they're not going to get hired as security guards in the U.S., either. Would you hire someone that you already knew, 100%, had violated someone's civil liberties so egregiously? Of course not: your shareholders would can you for hiring them. If you hire people you know are a discipline problem, you're just begging for a lawsuit when they fuck up again while working for you.

If you think the people who hire cops don't bother to check with previous employers and do Google searches on new applicants, you need your head examined. These two are done. They're not going to work as cops ever again.

I totally agree that ad-blockers are immoral. Realistically how can you support denying a web site ad revenue which is the only reason it can continue to exist?

However, just as immoral are the way ads are tending to be presented now. Full screen ads as noted, or un-avoidable popovers are to my mind a betrayal from the other direction - a web site needs revenue to survive, but that should not come at the expense of the sanity of the reader.

My solution is to simply sop using a site if I find the ads grow too obnoxious. But I also really can't see anything morally wrong with blocking ads from a web site that has gone too far in embracing abusive ads, almost as a form of punishment...

At one point we needed the government just to reach space.

That time has passed. What we need now is not one gatekeeper to bring us into space, but the gates to be flung open. NASA still has uses but the majority of space travel and research going forward should be done by the people outside the government, the people who from time immemorial have been always able to do something hard and dangerous and expensive and make it better and faster a cheaper and more accessible to everyone.

Do you want to visit space? I do. I know that would never happen just having NASA around, just as I know it will be feasible giving some of NASA's money to SpaceX and its ilk to refine and commoditize space travel.

So Snowden is going to be pardoned by Obama now, right?

If by "pardoned", you mean "Drone Strike", then yes, Snowden will be "pardoned".

I'm reading... but it is like reading a patch file for a language I don't understand, when I don't have the file that is being patched.
     

That might as well be:
     

It looks like they are trying to say that, in order to bulk collect data, they must have a specific search they are running that involves a specific telephone line. See SEC 201.

Can someone define "tangible things" as in "SEC. 103. Prohibition on bulk collection of tangible things" or "“(i) Emergency authority for production of tangible things."

Out of four garden lamps I put in about five years ago, only one functions and that very poorly.

The LED lights themselves may still work, but the solar collectors on top get clouded or dirty (or both) and stop providing power.

I would come here more often if orasio wrote the summaries.

The problem with the summary is that it assumes the reader is already familiar with the device. Your summary does not suffer from that problem. For instance "prototype eight-terminal device consisting of a magnetic matrix with micro-antennas to excite and detect the spin waves." WHAT spin waves? What is a terminal in this context and why is the a key thing in the summary? The summary already presupposes too much, even for a technical news site.

On the flip side, it would be nice if you didn't also insult the person who asked for clarification. The summary is indeed confusing.

+1 for insightful explanation.
-1 for being an asshat about it.

The recommended break point is as it is with any language - whatever is most readable.

Sometimes that might be the return value being on the next line.

Sometimes it might be each parameter on it's own line.

I myself prefer to either have the whole thing on one line, or everything broken out per line if that will not fit. But I'll admit I let some longer methods sometimes wrap to two lines on the display (even though it's really one long line).

The second is for the return value, yes.

Although you can absolutely name the return values something different, I just had in mind some optional transformative thing where you could use it or not and treat the data tuple the same way.

Before this new version of Firefox, the DRM was delivered via Silverlight. Either way, you are running a closed-source binary blob that handles DRM.