BearOfNH

Wow, that was quick:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134022

The ending is not to be missed.

That was Kevin Spacey's claim in the movie K-Pax.

For all I know, we're falling through time at the speed of light.

It's no longer the camel's nose under the tent. It's the camels eyes, ears and tape recorder as well. Soon your webcam will be sending its pictures to various police agencies. Were he still alive and not in the throes of a nervous breakdown, Orwell would be proud.

http://cip.law.ucla.edu/ramfiles/i_love_sodom.ram

(Bill Murray develops a pitch for "I Love Sodom", a riff on "I Love New York", leading to a real-life lawsuit. SNL won.)

Intuitively this makes sense but in reality it is not practical. As soon as investors hear the presses crank up (metaphorically speaking) they can predict what's coming and will dump all their US debt, driving up interest rates and forcing a deep[-er] US recession. Politics will then correct this before the USA becomes Northern Zimbabwe.

Neither movie contains anything explicit beyond kissing, as I recall. But there's no doubt what's going on.

Maybe that's just wordsmithing but it seems reasonable to characterize attributes in a positive way.

I am not affiliated with Rick, but would use his services again.

2. Chinatown

3. The Maltese Falcon

They don't make 'em like they used to ...

Almost sounds like something from the Soviet era, or earlier.

Have you heard of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation?

At which point every other holder of U.S. Treasuries will wonder "Am I next?". This will lead to a massive sales of U.S. debt instruments around the world, and would not be good for anyone.

Fair enough. But one man's joyless wasteland is another man's cheerful paradise.

There's no accounting for taste. At least, I hope not.

Kids -- by which I mean anybody under 18 -- cannot enter into contracts. An Adobe EULA cannot be enforced against somebody so young. In lawyer-speak the EULA is "voidable" (as opposed to "void").

So all you'd need do is hire 'em young and make sure they don't agree to anything once they turn 18.

IANAL, do this at your own risk, yada-yada-yada.

A political decision, not a scientific one. Made recently by the current administration, and likely to be dropped by the next administration.

I agree on the "natural" bit though. Hell, cyanide is all-natural. For that matter, peanuts are all natural but still deadly to some people.

And I agree with you on the fructose. It is bad stuff, at least in the concentrations found in processed food.

It is a bit comical that the EPA is raising holy hell over carbon dioxide while the FDA turns a blind eye to HFCS.

In the first chart the 1985 blue bar reads about $0.50 and the corresponding black (inflation-adjusted) line reads about $1, which is exactly how you would adjust for a doubling in inflation.

So there's a rough correspondence between the level of inflation and price of ads. Which actually makes sense.

A long, long time ago I read an article comparing the increase in the cost of college education vs. the published inflation rate. They were roughly the same. Really. But this was a long, long time ago...Camelot.

After student loans came into existence this rough equality disappeared and the cost of an education rose faster than inflation. Economically, that makes sense. Subsidize something (education) and you get more demand. With a somewhat inelastic supply of colleges, the price goes up.

Of course correlation is not causation. Many other reasons can be cited as well. But once upon a time college, while still expensive, only kept pace with inflation.

Of course those "other strategies" have a different risk profile. You might be right about not considering income, but then you should also ignore risks. All of them.

If I were in the same position, I would go for it ... or something vaguely similar (like, say, Kwajalein radar support). But then, I never was a party animal.

So ... what if observer B does nothing while observer A (a long, long ways distant) measures something. Can B then "see" the corresponding wave function collapse, thereby knowing that A took a measurement?

What I'm working towards here is not caring about the measurement outcome, but rather knowing that a measurement took place, and using that as "information". If you have enough entangled quanta don't you then have a primitive serial line?

It should be obvious here that I'm not very familiar with QM. Just wondering.

So do I. And I'll be retiring in a few years, if you get my drift.

Where are good places to deposit stuff? Things that may not be worthy of (say) SourceForge? Things that may only interest a handful of people every year? Someplace where they will get cataloged by Google so every few months a single geek can be pleasantly surprised to find somebody else solved part of his problem, and is willing to share?