you seriously don't know why you wouldn't take inflation into account? really?

To declare market parity? No, please explain. Stock splits aren't accounted for either; I'm not arguing that the Dow is a good measure, just that people are using its value as evidence of parity.

"Turkey is definitely proving the smarter of the two NATO members here."

Turkey has to live with the results of its actions.

The US takes near zero casualties in modern war so "it's only money" and the government can borrow or confiscate all of that it wants.

Just look at what's happening with electronics, with people "cooking" circuit boards to harvest the metals on them, etc.

Asimov could not have predicted the regulatory environments that effectively preclude first-world refining of these resources.

I realize that 16% growth kind of sucks over a 15 year period, but I'm finding it hard to walk away from the numbers thinking that Microsoft is "worth less than half of what it was when Ballmer started"

Well, to be really honest, every commodity has at least doubled since 1999, so if you're measuring in USD, then, yeah, MS is worth less than half it was at that point.

But financial analysts always hand-wave away inflation (especially real inflation), calling a 2014 Dow-15000 the same thing as a 1999 Dow-15000 and declaring recovery.

All judges are also appointed not by the Chief Justice, but by the President (and confirmed by the Senate). All the Chief Justice appoints are law clerks, staff, and having an influence on who is "admitted to the bar" and able to argue cases before the court.

Perhaps if FISC were a Constitutional court, it would be better. Oh, but a Constitutional secret court is an oxymoron, like 'limited government'.

mod parent up, as we all have suspected, when the big boys lose it, then it is now called 'errorneous trade' and the exchange cancels that.

So start a competing exchange without HFT, without do-overs for the banksters, without trading floor hours. I'm sure the SEC won't make it impossible!

It may have caused GS to lose some money.

Which doesn't happen. Every day is an up-day for Goldman, but they don't control the markets...

"Discovery credit often goes to the first person to successfully exploit the thing discovered."

Only if you subscribe to a dominator culture value system. Otherwise, you can say the New World was discovered about 50,000 years ago, according to the latest findings.

Go home, timothy, you are drunk.

I thought this might already exist, but I'm not finding it with a quick Google search. Seems like it's a thing that could get ad views from some decent IT audiences.

if the author wanted to be rewarded for his work he should charge be charging a fee for the program. Simple as that.

It's only "simple as that" if one has knowledge of only one economic model and is unaware of the studies showing higher overall revenue via the model Kovid is using (effectively executed, of course).

I'd upvote if i could. This is the correct answer.

Agreed.

Then use professional grade WiFi (e.g. bug ugly gray Cisco boxes with three thick antenna's) to cover the main event areas. Dont mess with consumer grade WiFi unless you are sure you only have 10 csuch aslients and no wifi noise.

Uh, I see those Cisco boxes fall down with only a few hundred users. A bunch of boxes running batman-adv on OpenWRT boxes is likely going to scale better, for less money (though of course not the craptacular default firmware). There are $$$$$ proprietary mesh solutions that do even better. Oops, I missed one additional $.

deliberately slowing or blocking binary transfer streams in an attempt to stop Snowdens 400gigabyte cache of information from spreading ?

For some reason, my torrents on Comcast (CentOS, Fedora, Mint) are running at full speed, except for those three. transmission-daemon FWIW.

What's next?

For an encore they should spitball Chuck Norris in the back of the head at a steak house.

Like most other things, the backs of the working class and the destruction of the environment.