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Government schools are what suck & they will continue to suck as long as they are local monopolies who don't have to compete. Complete privatization of schools, or at least some type of voucher system where every school has to compete for students to stay open, would be an improvement.

There is more: From http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ff5_1247275192 : "In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that: • Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not; • The...

I've just been researching this myself and thought I'd post some updated links to CME documentation: matching algorithm details: http://ftp.cmegroup.com/globex/introduction/features-and-functionality/elements/matching-algorithms.html list of products and what matching algo they use (pdf)...

Thank you for posting that! The existence of those contiguous diagonal sections suggests some very interesting possibilities.

I'm having trouble grasping what you mean here. Are you suggesting some sort of table format rather than a left to right chart?

If the Euro collapses, aside from the economic turmoil, I think the most important ramification is that the countries of Europe will have avoided losing their sovereignty to the nascent Euro-empire that the bankers are trying to form. The alternative to Euro collapse is probably that the...

Fascinating. Thanks for posting. One line in one of the abstracts caught my eye as being particularly relevant to our current economic environment: "When debt is permitted, it destabilizes the system, unless some sort of limit is imposed on maximal debt. " It would be great if...

The European nations are very close to losing the sovereignty they have left. If a national government loses control over its finances, it cannot really be considered a sovereign nation any longer. Its good to see that some of their leaders still have enough sense to object. Hopefully they...

Sounds good to me. What do we need allies for anyway? Is there some enemy we need allies to defeat? Do we need allies to try to dominate the world? Having allies implies that you're allied against something, that you have enemies. Lets be friends and freely trade with every nation, and be...

Thats the thing - politicians don't create jobs. The main thing politicians can do to help those who do create jobs (businesses) is stop doing things to interfere with the normal operation of a free market economy, and maintain a stable, predictable environment with functioning courts that...

The possibility of failure is an integral part of free-market capitalism. If the government steps in to prevent certain industries from failing (paid for at the expense of the rest of society) you no longer have a free market, you have something else. Also, if failing existing businesses are...

Thanks for the post. Perseverance in the face of failure is something a lot of great entrepreneurs have in common. Indeed the ability to keep trying over and over even when you fail is probably more important to achieving great success than intelligence, skill, connections, money, or any other...

Wow... so less than 10% of Obama's cabinet appointments have any experience in private industry at all??? This is very disturbing. It's scarily reminiscent of FDRs "brain trust" that came very close to permanently wrecking us in the 30's. The idea that an admistration that is composed over...

How is it ironic? Not taking offense, just curious what you mean. Another feature that some forums use that would help in situations like these is giving the thread starter the power to ban people from the particular thread they started. That way the OP of a thread can police their own...

Thank you! Glad to see ET is willing to uphold some standards of behavior for this forum. Icarus was hindering rather than advancing the exchange of ideas.

Nonetheless, it was crass and unnecessary to resort to name-calling, and it did not advance the conversation or clarify the point you were making.

Maestro was obviously using coin flips as an analogy to explain his point, not literally confusing coin flips with people. In this thread I have seen him expend considerably effort to politely and thoughtfully try to convey his point of view, and it was making for an interesting and...

Hi Bob, I'm curious exactly which data you're referring to... care to mention specifics?

Thanks.. nice to know there is a one-card option for 4 monitors w/out needing displayport monitors.

There are basicly two ways you can go: One way is to buy a newer AMD eyefinity card and buy 4 new monitors that all support the Displayport standard. Then you daisy-chain the monitors together and connect them to the displayport port on your video card. The disadvantage here is that displayport...