I didn't say it will never progress. But the progress isn't in sight. And we'll know when it is, by improvement in results of willing patients.

World financial system is quite dependent on alchemy not being fruitful in the foreseeable future, but economists don't say, or even assume that it will never be fruitful. Elementary changes to atoms are possible. Temporary behavior modification of willing patients is possible.

Americans do keep convicts locked for a very long time in the hope they'll improve. Since there's no way to figure out if they have improved, convicts are set loose when "society" gets tired of waiting.

Your suggestion amounts to basing the whole tenure of a convict on the "knowledge" that he will not commit similar crimes henceforth, when there is no way to acquire said knowledge. Why do you love movies so much that in order to improve them you're ready to endanger so many people?

OR your statement "until it does", amounts to locking every petty criminal indefinitely since there is no way to figure out "if it did". You might as well declare 50 states to be 50 prisons and get on with life.

Second class treatment ? Sometimes more knowledge leads to less respect for a subject. Respect for alchemy has dropped million fold in hundreds of years.

This is the second sentence : So why should society infrastructure be modified to suit them (exclusive order types on exchanges regulated of necessity) ?

And it not only answers your question that you ask as a reply to it, but makes it unnecessary. I DO NOT think everything should benefit society, I never said so. But if society adapts for individuals, individuals better provide a much bigger benefit to society in return. I don't have patience for people who write more and read less, and I am not even sorry about it.

I happen to know that zero multiplied with any possible profit is zero. Society benefits ZERO by people being just a bit faster than competition and cornering a market. Hence the remark of "proportion".

This is exactly part of what I am saying. The other part is - regulated of necessity. If NYSE in its own greed kills investor trust - NYSE also loses. Yes financial industry in the US has enough short term greed and there is not much competition from less greedy financial players currently. But it is for the good of stock exchanges themselves that there be a semblance of trustworthiness.

This is idiotic. I don't see any clarification or examples, and this is an enormous statement. Rest seems to be based on this idiotic assumption. By needing to ask "why should everything benefit society", when I didn't even say so, you have yourself admitted HFT doesn't benefit society. Disruptive new technology rarely ends up being so useless for society in general.

And you haven't read my post so you didn't understand that I know what you are trying to tell; but you are wrong in some places which I corrected.

By the principle of diminishing marginal utility, the one who has less money overall is less guilty. It may or may not be straightforward to figure who has "less money".

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.