REHREHREHREHREHREH!!!!!!!!!!

I have mostly wondered if I'm going out of my mind for the last two years with regard to cell phones. I'm not sure if I realize that I am sane, Americans are insane, or the telco's are evil.

Whenever a stock is in the soft parts of the price elasticity curve, sensitivity to fundamentals is low and the trading can be manipulated by applying the correct trades at the correct technical points. The method involves representing all traders and trading accounts as one aggregate trader with an average propensity to respond to technical signals and then using this theoretical trader as a model to predict which trading contention points will be most influential on the developing technical pattern. If a stock is trading well within its plausible valuation range, this technical response sensitivity is the dominant mechanism driving new trades. You can draw the stock market as a control function and solve for the type of feedback necessary to induce the desired trading pattern. Engineers who do analysis of oscillations of mechanical or electrical systems will understand this readily.

Whenever a stock is deep on either side of the price elasticity curve, the influence of fundamental traders will present too much of a "noise" signal for technical manipulation to be effective. I'm writing up a on this subject here.

Severing Void

I shouldn't have pirated it. In fact, I should have gone to the theatre with my friend instead of showing him the pirated version. I'll make up for it by getting the DVD. A physicist superhero with quantum mechanical abilities and lots of very interesting revisionist elements was just too cool.

You know what....everyone who voted for this thing just got to be more involved with NASA than they probably ever have been in their entire lives. Nobody likes a nerd who's too nerdy to let you name your sword "ko-gal-piercer.com" when playing LAIRE. The only thing NASA can do by failing to own up to the results of the vote is horde their toys in a corner and cry about it not being spacey enough. Or is NASA maybe worried that only nerds who cry in a corner about the name not being spacey enough are potential NASA employees? I'm an aerospace engineering major, and naming the module "Colbert" is something that would say to me that NASA knows the difference between the very serious work to be done, like keeping astronauts alive, and naming modules. If NASA rejects the name, then to me they can't distinguish what is important and what isn't.

My thoughts exactly. I didn't hear anything about the initial experiments leading up to this test failing, but they were also conducted in different areas. In addition, the idea was somewhat backed up by ocean vents containing iron that resulted in plankton blooms that did end up sequestering carbon. There's a lot of ocean. Might be easy to find a new area where the predators will be less successful.

In other news...large phytoplankton blooms entering the food chain might turn out to be a good way of boosting fisheries that are mostly on the verge of collapse. Is anyone going to doubt that iron is a bad way of triggering an algae bloom? So we definitely found out something valuable.

Exactly my first thought. I'm thinking that 65,000ft isn't the kind of safety guarantee that I'd want for reliable intelligence, but in the context of getting more bang for buck, I suppose it's more than good enough for situations where a JSTAR would be expensive and overkill.

As a zerg surveillance system where we want to be able to quickly field a lot of cheap capability in places where we don't worry about them getting shot down or don't care if they are, I'm all for it. Just as long as they don't spend a lot of time integrating the system into tactics etc and kill a bunch of people by relying on it in situations where the zerg-airborne-command-and-Hindenburg style mission is just going to leave people blind.

Funny I guess you can compare them to zerg overlords in almost every way. Slow, good detection, cheap, expendable, and painfully obvious targets whenever they do get targeted. Over reliance is the only potential issue I see. Should use them as a powerful backup and be prepared to lose them for odd reasons. A convenience at best.

Yes. There were huge billboard posters guarded by rails and taken down every night to prevent vandalism. (I seriously considered making a run with some paint until I found this out.) Why anyone wants to continue protesting late-term abortions in Oklahoma is beyond me...except that it was obviously a rallying of conservative knee-jerk to ensure that every single county in Oklahoma would vote GOP. I don't want to think about it anymore. I was all excited about the idea that we were going to have a new president and that the issues in focus were war and economy instead of abortions and stem-cell crap. Seeing those posters was like a reminder that I'm at ground zero of the remaining stronghold of idiocy.

What's really disappointing is that the articles in the student paper are just as unbelievable. People writing up crap columns about how they believe that ID is relevant and that we should all go have a giant campus debate. It goes on and on. To make matters worse, there is a complete deficit of breakdancers in Oklahoma, indicating the general lack of creativity and cultural vacuum.

I have advice for anyone of any degree of intellect who has just been offered a lot of money to come to Oklahoma: don't. You'll be happier somewhere else, and that happiness will translate to academic success that will more than make up for the puny tuition wavers, especially when you see how small the tuition is and that they make up for it by having fees in excess of the cost of tuition.

Boomer Sooner.....(-_-)

I'm against wasting people's appetite for engaging important issues by disgusting them with something that's irrelevant, especially in the context of Oklahoma law, where such abortions are undoubtedly illegal. When people go on being angry about something after it's already addressed, it's like their only purpose from the beginning was to be angry and they just needed something to latch onto.

OMFG! This is after we had to put up with giant anti-abortion posters on campus during the presidential election week that just happened to have horrid pictures of late-term abortions that are already illegal everywhere as far as I know anyway. WTF. It's been a given for a long time that I'm leaving after graduating, but OK continues to find ways to make me worry less about what I leave behind.

Flatulence could become entrapped in the mud, adding porosity to the surface and totally losing a portion of the information. For butt self-portraits, xerox copiers will not produce this defect...assuming it's a defect. The user may consider it to be an indicator of healthy digestive activity and even strive to achieve the effect. Of course, it seems like some unfair stereotyping to say that people who sit in mud are likely to have this problem anyway. Maybe it's insensitive to say it's even a problem for mud-butt-pressers.

I So Called This.

This pretty much confirms the cause of my frustrations with US Phones.

To follow up on my tribulations with the US phone situation, I'm opting not to overpay for crap and still use a Virgin Mobile phone with a $6 plan finally breaks even with the $30 plan at about 300min or so. I was using a Kyocera for the longest time, but finally upgraded to a much newer Kyocera that cost $20. The old one's battery died. I still don't have nearly as many features as my free W41CA had. In fact, I still use my Casio for taking pictures occasionally and as an alarm because of the really nostalgic ring tone. I like my current Kyocera because it's very simple and seems durable...and has a new battery.

Forgive me for pedantry, but which relationship was intended? If POSIX is a subset of UNIX, I'd expect every POSIX is UNIX.

It actually means he has too many friends, but has been isolated from anywhere where he might continue to do damage.

Europe lost a satelite a few years ago that was supposed to measure ice melt. Little more than a big coincidence. Any more data on botched climate monitoring missions?