If you stop watering trees in California, the trees die. We had an orchard near where I work, when they stopped the irrigation, half the trees dried up in the first year. (They're developing the lot, so there was no hope for the orchard anyway. But it was still sad.)
Those exorbitant interest rates credit card companies charge are to pay for deadbeats who don't pay back their credit card accounts, not fraud. (Empasis added.)
FYI: In credit card parlance, a deadbeat is someone who pays off their card every month. The people who don't pay it back are customers [citation needed!].
I don't get why people don't understand staggered roll outs....
Here's a scenario:
In this case, checking the EFB on the ground may have been safer than resolving conflicting versions in the air.
As explained in
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein
I've been able to read a bit more of the complaint (USA vs Navinder Singh Sarao). Here's how the scheme worked.
In the mean time, D was making money on the futures because he knew precisely when the price would drop. Quite an ingenious scheme (especially the automated cancellation). But it ultimately relied on other people mis-valuing the market.
First, they took advantage of a kind of natural experiment: In 2011, Louisville converted two one-way streets near downtown, each a little more than a mile long, back to two-way traffic. In data that they gathered over the following three years, Gilderbloom and William Riggs found that traffic collisions dropped steeply — by 36 percent on one street and 60 percent on the other — after the conversion, even as the number of cars traveling these roads increased. Crime dropped too, by about a quarter, as crime in the rest of the city was rising. Property values rose, as did business revenue and pedestrian traffic, relative to before the change and to a pair of nearby comparison streets. The city, as a result, now stands to collect higher property tax revenues along these streets, and to spend less sending first-responders to accidents there.
Some of the findings are obvious: Traffic tends to move faster on a wide one-way road than on a comparable two-way city street, and slower traffic means fewer accidents. What's more interesting is that crime flourishes on neglected high-speed, one-way, getaway roads and that two-way streets may be less conducive to certain crimes because they bring slower traffic and, as a result, more cyclists and pedestrians, that also creates more "eyes on the street" — which, again, deters crime. "What we’re doing when we put one-way streets there is we’re over-engineering automobility," says William Riggs, "at the expense of people who want a more livable environment."
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
