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I'd wish you luck, but some people think You Make Your Own Luck, while others just want your money; May you get the outcome you desire.

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Suitably entertaining, and they have some fun scenery to play in. Hmm, Maybach Headphones. Remember to engage Final Gear.

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Given that there was a(n internal) definition for Ninja Loans, (No Income, No Job, And no assets) I think we can say that some people were well aware they were engaging in predatory (mortgage) lending, yet still carried on. Commission driven sales tend to motivate the salesperson, not necessarily with the buyers best interests at heart.

So when people make decisions, and they are de-coupled from the consequences of their decisions they have less incentive to care? In economics, this is known as an externality: the cost of a decision that is borne by people other than those taking the decision. For example - politicians who only care about being re-elected. The long term problems they create, are a problem, not for them, but for their successors. Fund managers - driven by quarterly results, and their bonus assessment based on quarterly results. Then jumping ship after getting that fat bonus. It is short term thinking divorced from long term consequences. Buy Now!, pay later. But as John Maynard Keynes said "Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."

It could be argued that one of the root causes of the current problem was "faulty" risk analysis. Whether the risk analysis was faulty by design or intent is left as an exercise for the reader. The following post from comp.risks is posted verbatim as it seems to be so on topic - and apolitical. ***** A lot of the comments in RISKS-25.34 seem to imply that the people running the financial firms were stupid and/or careless in not doing a correct risk analysis. These people are not stupid or careless, merely greedy, unscrupulous and irresponsible. They did a careful risk analysis all right, and then made the decision to deliberately feed false information into the computer models and deliberately create massively complex financial instruments. Their risk analysis looked like this: Success: My company hands off the package before it blows up. My company makes a massive profit and I end up fabulously wealthy. (Other companies make massive losses and have to be bailed out by the government, but that is incidental). Failure: My company ends up holding the package when it blows up. My company makes a massive loss and ends up having to be bailed out by the government. I end up extremely wealthy. After careful consideration of all the risks and benefits, I decide to go ahead! In an ideal world, the risk analysis would look like this: Success: My company hands off the package before it blows up. My company makes a massive profit and I become fabulously wealthy. Other companies make massive losses and have to be bailed out by the government. My company, and all the others, gets investigated and I end up bankrupt and jailed for many years. Failure: My company ends up holding the package when it blows up. My company makes a massive loss and ends up having to be bailed out by the government. I become extremely wealthy. My company, and all the others, gets investigated and I end up bankrupt and jailed for many years. Quote: "There was a willful designing of the systems to measure the risks in a certain way that would not necessarily pick up all the right risks" If an engineer, for personal gain, willfully designed (say) a sewage monitoring system so that it did not pick up the right risks, and as a result thousands of homes were flooded with sewage and destroyed, that engineer would (I hope) end up in jail. But in the financial world, people can get away with doing much more damage, for personal gain, with no personal risk to themselves. ***** Thoughts?

Is this sort of like what you wanted? How about after you take it out, and its cold.

And to think, you were wondering what to bring to the Marin Meet. Sir, I applaud your dedication to the cause.

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So will running the LHC make things sound better?, or worse? or does it need some burn-in first? How much would they charge to demagnetize an LP. After you demagnetize your records on the DeMag, you will not believe the difference! That's correct. I don't believe there is a before and after difference. At least with the LHC they tested their cables Interaction between current imbalance and magnetization in LHCcables "Summary:The quality of the magnetic field in superconducting accelerator magnets is associated with the properties of the superconducting cable. Current imbalances due to coupling currents ΔI, as large as 100 A, are induced by spatial variations of the field sweep rate and contact resistances. During injection at a constant field all magnetic field components show a decay behavior. The decay is caused by a diffusion of coupling currents into the whole magnet. This results in a redistribution of the transport current among the strands and causes a demagnetization of the superconducting cable. As soon as the field is ramped up again after the end of injection, the magnetization rapidly recovers from the decay and follows the course of the original hysteresis curve. In order to clarify the interactions between the changes in current and magnetization during injection the authors performed a number of experiments. A magnetic field with a spatially periodic pattern was applied to a superconducting wire in order to simulate the coupling behavior in a magnet. This model system was placed into a stand for magnetization measurements and the influence of different powering conditions was analyzed" ... Leading to awesome bass, and highs full of pure win Seriously though, my father used a zerostat anti static gun, together with a viscous anti static mat on his Thorens turntable. The anti static mat was of a gray, plastic/rubber compound similar to ESD anti static mats. The LP's were also kept in anti static liners, as opposed to the default paper sleeves. Seemed to do the trick.

Cheap?, you want cheap? how about For only $1.75 each when QTY 50+ purchased - PREMIUM 2 RCA Plug/2 RCA Plug M/M 22AWG Cable - 3ft | RCA Audio Cables For only $2.19 each when QTY 50+ purchased - PREMIUM 2 RCA Plug/2 RCA Plug M/M 22AWG Cable - 6ft | RCA Audio Cables Just don't tell the electrons how cheap the cables were. They might not want to come out and play.

Yawn, someone comes up with another name for NaN (not a number). Don't tell CJ!

The people who aren't distracted by talking on their phone, have better situational awareness, notice that the lights have changed, and respond appropriately. As opposed to people who are distracted by talking on their phone, requiring the people behind them using their horns to remind them that the world outside their conversation has changed

From the car talk web site "Dear Tom & Ray, You keep pushing those "Hang Up and Drive" bumper stickers. I think they are sending the wrong message. I want to propose an alternative: "Please Multitask

I think our resident bitch weasel is confused. The logitech/slimdevices server software is called SqueezeCenter (formerly known as SlimServer) It has various flavors of web/html "skins", that you can use to interact with it. Your client browser can operated on a wired or wireless device, as long as it has tcp/ip (and http) access to the server (typically on port 9000) Some of these skins are optimized for use with specific browsers / devices e.g. the nokia 770 skin. There is also a CLI protocol that can be used by non web based clients, the slimdevices controler is an example of such a dedicated component. The iPeng plugin is a web based interface that exploits specific features of the safari browser, and device characteristics of the iPhone/iTouch. Full Details Here Does it do artwork. Yes - if you have it on the server. e.g. you can look at lots of pretty pictures/screen shots here

Italian Brio The Problem ... Rome mayor cracks down on skimpy clothing distracting motorists - Telegraph The Solution? Italian prostitutes to dress as nuns - Telegraph

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2006 Women Drivers Award, in reverse order. from The 2006 Women Drivers Award

In other news, this just in () from the No Shit, Sherlock Foundation. Distracted drivers pose safety hazard, according to new UNC study 80% of Car Crashes are from Driver Distractions - Mobiledia Which worryingly means that 20% of Car Crashes are from un-distracted drivers. Take Heed, [url=http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/brochures/fast_facts/ffdl28.htm]Driver Distractions - Don

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