Willing participants are having trouble modifying their behaviour with best of today's medicine and counseling. See relapse rate of psychological counseling and psychiatric treatment. What makes you think we have a chance with potentially unwilling subjects?

We don't have to waste money in "research". Let willing patients succeed first. Alchemy has a better future than your ideas.

Collapse of profit margins is not a necessary ingredient in these, increase in margins is an easy possibility. Except for that, this is an argument for concentration of wealth.

I would ask you to read untll the second sentence of my post. Tough, I know.

Confused, self-contradictory. "Off the shelf" and "more difficult" do not go together. Obvious facts that one should know before spouting off on this topic prove this comparison to be idiotic/malicious - Much before moving the trading to the internet, its advantages far outstripped the "costs" of doing so - reach not limited by geography except by law, speed, scalability. AND costs of services and devices needed for internet enablement plummeted. It is not comparable to HFT "technology" because getting one's trade completed microseconds earlierr than without this "technology" is not a "benefit" anyone would notice.

And none of them benefited society in any respectable proportion to what they earned. So why should society infrastructure be modified to suit them (exclusive order types on exchanges regulated of necessity) ?

It is called raising the barriers to entry. Probably good for the industry (defined as existing large players in the industry) - but not good for society in general.

Been reading too much science fiction? Such a "treatment" is exactly that - fiction. A "test" to figure out what a person likes, is a fantasy.

Why would they not "cooperate", at least apparently? Sociopaths can be legendary actors. Though one good effect of this policy will be that there will be a great evolutionary pressure on humans to be better actors. Hollywood will thank you.

Ok. Preliminary investigation shows :

1. No mouse gestures
2. No tab kit (or any tree style vertical tab bar solution)
3. No vimperator / pentadactyl
4. No simple Xpath checker - probably web developer can be hacked to do something for this.

The extension compatibility is not trivial - firefox plugins do not get installed on seamonkey from within the browser. Any solutions to these?

Ok, so presumably another TabKit 2.0 user. Do you have any idea if it works on this latest Firefox? And do you have any way for highlighting the current tab , which stopped working with TabKit about a year ago?

thanks

Yes, but siphon is not caused by that ambient pressure gradient. You can do a thought experiment to confirm that - assuming you've played with such equipment enough for an intuitive understanding.

Put the upper reservoir in a pressurized container, such that ambient pressure inside it is a little higher than atmospheric pressure at lower reservoir level. Put the lower reservoir in open, at atmospheric pressure. Try siphon.

Result - siphon still happens.

There is one more theoretical test you can do to show siphon is not caused by ambient pressure gradient - the fact that stuff flows from lower pressure to higher pressure.

That is only for small quantity of "ideal" gases - the fluid mechanical equivalent of spherical cow of uniform density.

Just cut the tube across its length, such that it becomes something like a canal without cover. Now try the siphon. Pulling on water applies equally in a cut open "tube", but siphon does not work.

So playing with gas shouldn't be necessary - though it might be fun.

Could it be placebo? Your conclusion coincides with naive expectations.

In absence of double blind studies - do you know incidences of people who didn't know the animal was looked after better, before eating the animal, and remarked that this meat was tastier than average?

Probably. And there was a problem doing that especially on this site - the users KNOW the meaning of beta.

99% users are already using non-de-plume. The name on my birth certificate is not bingoUV. Problem is, that from other posts some suspicion as to identity can be drawn, and the need to be careful will be enormous then.

So one needs to use a one-time non-de-plume. You can make another /. user instantly, but all the trouble of using a unique email ID, possibly even clicking on a link in that email to confirm it is really you etc. is too much for a single post. /. could allow people to make "quick" users without this trouble, but then those posts will be equivalent to ACs, we will need modifiers for scores of such posts same as we need for ACs. So non-de-plume won't help.

If you mean to say /. does not allow you to block ACs, you are almost wrong. You can set a modifier, to AC posts' score, and then browse at a particular score and above.

By choosing good numbers for these, you can make sure you never see AC posts, or see only highly rated AC posts.

That makes no sense. At the lowest level which we manipulate to make the "computer" compute - it is just electrons moving around in semi-predictable way. So why stop at "computer", the electrons moving around don't even "know" they are "computing". Electrodancer even sounds kind of ok. Going lower levels of implementations is not a popular way of naming tools.

No, we call them computers because their predecessors were actually used by the human user to do computations. And when people started facebooking on them, they forgot to rename them.

Frozen steel? Trust me, it's even less fun to crouch over liquid or gaseous steel - the typical unfrozen varieties of steel found in the wild. Or in a furnace, I forget exactly where they are found.