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| 2003/7/28 [Uncategorized] UID:29154 Activity:nil 75%like:29159 |
7/26 What is a good book(/other) about currency trading. |
| 2003/7/28 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:29155 Activity:nil 55%like:29093 |
7/22 Looking for junior java developers. Limited job experience is a plus.
Limited desire for good salary, limited IQ, limited education (e.g.
community college, ITT Tech, Devry Institute) is a big big plus.
/csua/pub/jobs/Snapfish.junior.java
\_ then why are you posting here? in berkeley? to insult people??
\_ u don't read the motd much, do you. |
| 2003/7/28 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic] UID:29156 Activity:very high |
7/28 Bob Hope. 100. RIP.
\_ http://suck.com article on him from 2000:
http://csua.org/u/3qt -brain
\_ Oh shit. All week we're going to have tributes to him on TV.
Time to go find a nice book to read.
\_ Beat me to it. What you didn't do was the "YEE HAA! BOB HOPE IS
DEAD!" part. No one who knows him will miss him.
\_ As his closest friend and confidante, would you care to
share some anecdotes to support your thesis?
\_ google pig farm neighbors "bob hope" and see what you find
\_ Unlike the dancing on your grave when you go.
\_ yeah yeah whatever. i know who bob hope is. you know
nothing about anything about me. why even bother posting
something like this? did it make you feel manly or smart?
\_ does it make *you* feel manly and smart to dance on
bob hope's grave? or just cool. yeah, you
probably think your pretty damned cool all right.
look how cool i am, i can so painlessly hate and be nasty!
anyway, that person (and i) know eenough about you to
think you're a class A asshole - your post about bob
hope. i mean, i've never thought bob was funny, at all,
but i'm not happy he died. you've said enough about
yourself for me to know you totally suck.
\_ if you knew more about bob hope you'd be happy he was
dead, too. it has nothing at all to do with his career
or talents. i've judged bob hope on his life. you've
judged me based on my statement about someone else you
could know about if you chose to but you instead choose
ignorance and the easy road. its understandable. its
easier to stand up and claim the moral high ground from
a position of ignorance and it probably feels good too.
\_ When I die feel free to throw a party. I won't mind,
I'll be too busy being dead. |
| 2003/7/28 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:29157 Activity:insanely high |
7/28 There are stories of pilots from communist countries defecting to
other places with their planes (N Korean Mig-15 to S Korea, Soviet
Mig to US, Chinese Mig to Taiwan, etc etc). Are there stories of
pilots defecting TO communist countries (e.g. U.S. F-16 to Soviet,
etc etc)?
\_ Just about 1 month ago there were rumor about couple F-16 from
Taiwan defected to the mainland China.
\_ by "rumor" do you mean article in the People's Daily? I
wouldn't trust the Chinese state run media to tell me the
fucking weather.
\_ looking at how we have hyped up to the iraq war, i think
our 'free' media isn't much better either. I use to think
otherwise, but now I am fully convinced our government gets
to decide largely what they want to feed us. no better than
the state run media in china, period.
\_ I wouldn't trust the Republican run US media to tell me
the fucking weather either.
\_ How could you not trust such Fox News tickers as these:
... Pointless news crawls up 37 percent ... Do Democrats
cause cancer? Find out at http://FOXNEWS.COM ... Rupert Murdoch:
Terrific Dancer ... Dow down 5000 points ... Study: 92
percent of Democrats are gay ... JFK Posthumously joins
Republican Party ... Oil slicks found to keep seals
young, supple ...
\_ Why Republican? Why not just say SATAN! or BIG BROTHER!
Or THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED! If you think our media is
right wing biased, you're *really* far left on the spectrum
like the nutters writing the SF Guardian who call the
\_ after 1989, there's no more point in defecting. Let me as you
this, where do you think the future is, China or Taiwan?
SF Chronicle right wing and rag on Feinstein for being a
Republican shill. Sometimes the answer lies within....
\_ If you don't think that the media is corporate
dominated, you have the most serious case of tunnel
vision imaginable. corporate != republican, exactly,
but the big media companies serve business interests
in a way that is unprecedented both historically and
in comparison to other countries
\_ well said!!
\_ that's fine and all and I don't disagree that news
has become big business. however, it is no more
republican than Senator Feinstein. If you meant
to say 'corporate' then say corporate. btw, where
exactly do you think the democrats get hundreds of
millions of dollars every election cycle? hint:
it isn't small donors sending in their $5 each.
\_ Actually in Dean's case (the man with the most
money so far) the majority of his money comes
from small donations. Yet another reason Dean
is The Man. -aspo
\_ http://billmon.org/archives/Dean table.gif
\_ Mostly people from the west have more sense than that but in the
last 50+ years there have been a tiny number of defections but I
don't know of any that included planes. It would've been a huge
PR coup for the communists and you'd know about it.
\_ we'd know about it because the american media loves to distribute
the propaganda of other countries? this isn't BBC. this is CNN.
\_ How many reports of tapes sent to Al-Jazeera, or Iraqi
press conferences did they re-broadcast? -John
\_ Some would say too many. It's more fun to think we live
in a Big Brother controlled State then in reality. I
think these people imagine they're some sort of freedom
fighters, fighting the good fight against the oppressive
Bush controlled CIA run CNN or something. The
information wants to be free or something like that.
\_ no, it's not fun. it's just the way it is. try
comparing domestic news against news broadcast in
europe and you'll know what i'm talking about. i'm
not saying foreign news is better. i'm saying that
US media as a whole makes a LOT of editorial choice
about what to broadcast and it's not what is
happening everywhere in the world.
\_ I do. And EU news makes editorial choices as well.
You seem to prefer those editorial choices and
find them personally preferable to US editorial
choices (in the maintream news media). That is
your personal choice and does not in any way make
EU news superior or more accurate or less biased
than US news. You simply prefer the EU bias over
the US bias. That's all mostly about how they
report the news. As far as your point about certain
stories never getting reported at all, it isn't due
to a grand conspiracy. It is simply because the
average American doesn't give a crap what's going
on in the next county, much less another part of
the world. If it sold ads and newspapers they
would be printing it. They are as you pointed
out earlier corporate controlled and thus have
profit as their primary motivation.
\_ http://home.sprynet.com/~anneled/Defections.html
According to this site the were a lot of China->Taiwan defections
until 1989. What happened after 1989, the Taiwanese start to
shoot down all the defectors? Or did the Chinese government
threatened to kill the family members of the defectors?
\_ A single random plane flying in with the pilot screaming into
his radio on a known frequency, "don't shoot! im defecting!" is
not going to be shot down. Family killed? That's more likely.
\_ "4 July 2003 Two Indonesian F-16s intercepted US Navy F-18s ..."
I think our Top Guns should now learn dog-fighting against our
own fighter jets besides the MiG's.
\_ the US Airforce estimates that in a total combat, the
aircraft attrition rate would be one F22 raptor vs four
F16s. So as long as we own F22s, it's ok.
\_ Note that the F22 also costs about four times the price
of an F16 (well over $100 million a piece).
\_ Intercepted only means they were in the area and threatened
to shoot them down. It doesn't mean there was a dog fight
and the F18's lost.
\_ yeah, it means "we see you". there are no dogfights
unless both guys run out of missles before reinforcements
arrive from the nearest airstrip/carrier. they should
fire before enemies are even in eyesight now.
\_ Taiwan is a dead end. Hence no defection anymore.
\_ A dead end in what sense?
\_ I think that an American did defect to Russia in a plane. Once. I
STFW and couldn't find the story, though. --dim
\_ This sounds vaguely familiar but I can't recall the details
either. I think the Republican Corporate Controlled CIA run
Evil USian Media is to blame for brainwashing us! ;-O |
| 2003/7/28 [Uncategorized] UID:29158 Activity:nil 60%like:28720 |
7/28 John's (Scary) Link of the Day:
http://www.fansoffieger.com/lawfame.htm -John |
| 2003/7/28 [Finance/Investment] UID:29159 Activity:moderate 75%like:29154 |
7/26 What is a good book(/other) about currency trading?
\_ "Heart of Darkness?" Why don't you find an honest way to invest,
fucker?
\_ your vitriol excites me. Are you accepting applications for
"follower"?
\_ you will paint silly slogans on your buttcheeks and run around
without pants in front of the webcam on sproul. you will
then bury your resume in gravel for 5 years, unicylcle
acreoss the bay bridge in critical mass, and report back
to the motd.
\_ honest? it's high risk. it is not in any way dishonest or
ethically different than other financial investment options.
did you get robbed? that could've happened to you in any
market. you got greedy and got burned.
\- uh it depends a lot on your fianance and math background and
your interest in the theory-practice spectrum. for general
stuff you can look at one of the JCox books. There are also
some books by DeRosa. you might read some stuff by R. Mundell
on fundamentals. i havent been keeping up on the literature for
5-6 years so these might be somewhat non-contemporary but i wouldnt
call what they cover out of date. note: a lot of the good books in
this area are really expensive. i suspect the classics will be
hard to get from the lib. might be a good "secondary market"
however. a good WEEB site is http://riskbooks.com. --psb
\_ I thought currency trading was all about finding negative cost
cycles in dags? -- ilyas
\- do you mean dir acyclic graph or is this some
finance terms i dont know? if you are referring to
fast ways to compute arbitrage stratgies, there is
more to FX than arbitrage. for home users arb is
hardly the business to get into. --psb
\_ Yup, directed acyclic graph. Probably need
lots of money to make money on arbitrage.
-- ilyas
\_ damn you guys are rich
\_ yeah, don't you need like $3million in an account before you are
covered to make these kinds of trades?
\_ if you had enough skill and money and knowledge to successfully
get into arbitrage you wouldn't be asking here about it. your
question is no different than, "i sometimes have headaches, what
is a good book on brain surgery on yourself?"
\_ isn't this the stuff that you can get a job making $400K+
immediately after finishing an an NYU PhD about?
\_ sometimes, yes. it's also easy for everything to fall to
shit in minutes while you're in the bathroom. it's *very*
high stress and most people don't last more than 3 years in
the field before they completely burn out. arbitrage is a
24x7 activity. they can never sleep. they have to have
alerts and triggers set to wake them if something ugly
happens on the market with zero response time. etc,etc,etc. |
| 2003/7/28-29 [Computer/Networking] UID:29160 Activity:high |
7/28 I currently have a standard SBC DSL for 49.95/month. Their site lists
this has 384K-1.5M download. I'm thinking of upgrading to their 59.95
package that claims 576 - 1.5M download. Anybody done this switch?
I'm thinking if this is a gimmick or they can really guarantee that
speed. DSL speed depends on distance from CO. If they can suddenly
crank up my speed, that means that they're currently putting caps
on my bandwidth? I'm trying to avoid switching and then not seeing
a difference and have to spend a lot of time trying to switch back.
Thanks.
\_ dump SBC and go with http://speakeasy.net.
\_ heck, at work we get 4 Mbps easy. It's upload that's the problem.
of course we pay work prices, ~ $150/month.
\_ Sucka. SBC DSL is $29.95/month
\_ ???
\_ their 1.5M/256k "deluxe" service is $39.95 with 12-month
contract. i think the offer ends 9/30 or something. basically
$20 off any service plan w/ 12-month commitment. speed is
a tiny bit slower than my old comcast cable service, but
i am happy to be shed of the comcast "thou shalt also
subscribe to our cable tv or be fuxxored" policy.
\_ What about current customers? --dim
\_ The switch doesn't work in all cases. If they can't find
an open circuit in your co that meets the distance req.
they will tell you that you can't be upgraded.
\_ This whole broadband thing is still a really immature technology.
One day you'll get data service the same as phone service and
none of this BS about how far you are from the CO or open
circuits or different speed charges, etc. It'll just work.
Until then this whole thing is a big hack.
\_ This whole politics thing is a really immature society.
One day, you'll get world peace and equitable allocation
of scarce resources, with none of this nonsense about
nationalism or different ethnicity. People will all just
get along. Until then, this whole thing is a big hack.
\_ Network bandwidth will continue growing until it becomes
truly ubiquitous. Clean water, food, and land will not
until we can easily leave this planet or a few billion
people get wiped out quick and clean.
\_ Electricity will be too cheap to meter! This was the
slogan of the nuclear power industry 40 years ago.
\_ Maybe you missed the part where we haven't built a
new reactor in decades?
\_ Maybe you missed the point.
\_ This whole dating thing is still a really immature sociology.
One day you'll get date service the same as sexual service and
none of this BS about how far you are from third base or open
relationships or different STDs, etc. People will just screw.
Until then this whole thing is a big hack. |
| 2003/7/28-29 [Uncategorized] UID:29161 Activity:low |
7/28 http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/t2_03.jpg Optical illusion. \_ That is fucking trippy. \_ It's also worksafe. \_ I wouldn't have thought twice, but the comment made me question how safe it was. It's a bunch of abstract circles, so ya, it's WS. \_ some of the other ones at that site are pretty good too. I like: http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/sakuras2b.gif http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/wanage1.gif http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/SwampA2.jpg |
| 2003/7/28 [Recreation/Music] UID:29162 Activity:high |
7/28 Is it possible for an average person to learn violin by self-study?
I've seen many books for teaching yourself piano or guitar, but I
haven't seen any for violin. Thanks. -- yuen
\_ I hope you live alone and have thick walls.
\_ Violin is not so hard as all that, at least to make
non-horrible sounds.
\_ no way. well, i guess that depends on what you mean by "learn".
\_ By "learn" I mean learning to play some simple pieces, just like
what one can through self-study on piano and guitar. -- yuen
\_ if you have to ask this question, chances are you are tone deaf.
do you know what vibrato is? do you have a good sense of pitch?
do you know what whole steps and half steps are? if not, you
should get an instructor. violin is a lot harder to get started
than other instruments.
\_ Well, I don't know what vibrato is. I assume that's when the
player jerks his/her left hand on the neck of the violin. I saw
violinsts doing that on TV. As for pitch and steps, I think I've
got some sense of them since I started playing the piano more
than twenty years ago. I even suspect I have absolute pitch.
--- yuen
\_ If you suspect you have absolute pitch, you most likely don't.
-- ilyas
\_ half the people on American Idol thought they did as well |
| 2003/7/28-29 [Reference/Law, Politics] UID:29163 Activity:high |
7/28 Is there any law or something that allows the telemarketers not
to disclose the party that provided them my personal info? I had
a telemarketer call me a few weeks ago and he refused to provide
this information. It really would be nice to find out who has
been selling my contact info to them..
\_ use a different middle initial each time you give out your name,
or a different suffix or prefix, like jr. or sr., and keep track
of who has what name. then all you have to do is ask them what
your full name is in their database, and you have the culprit.
\_ I think you mean "is there a law which forces telemarketers to
disclose the party...".
\_ A lot of times, they don't have access to that. They get all
sorts of lists and compile them. I bet the data is encoded in
the dB, but the lackeys who do the calls don't get that info on
their screen.
\_ ask for their manager
\_ A friend of mine used to manager a telemarketer bank. She claims
that the whole thing about "do not call lists" and such is bullshit
because they're often just using the phone book. |