Utterly bogus analogy. Those researchers are getting paid whether their particular project pans out or not. How many retail traders are getting "paid" regardless of whether their trades pan out or not? Zero.
Yeah there was a guy who claimed to be a "consistent" casino craps winner; he even wrote a book. I choose to believe the math: if it's a negative expectation game, then it's a sucker bet and "consistent winners" are either miraculously lucky, suffering from selective memories or just BSing.
What you're describing is just the moving average crossover (MAX) where the faster MA is price (= MA1). I guess you could call it EMAX(P,1,200) if you wanted to be fancy.
EMAX(P,1,200) = EMA(P,1) - EMA(P,200) = P - EMA(P,200)
Trump's "campaign" was a publicity stunt. He was trying to drum up interest for Celebrity Apprentice and perhaps to pressure NBC into renewing the show for one more season. Latching onto the birther issue was easy and cost-free (unless you believe he actually sent "a team of crack...
I'm still waiting for you to produce the slightest shred of evidence that YOU were critical of Bush's death sentence on bin Laden. But not holding my breath.
She's still taking occasional potshots from her blog. Bill Maher did a riff on her last Friday, when she blogged something like Obama should stop "pussyfootin' around" and release the photos. Maher replied something like "Right, the guy who invaded another nation's sovereignty and sent in a...
I still can't believe (not that I'm complaining) the arrogance and stupidity that went into that Kill Medicare vote. It was mass political suicide! Just like watching blind lemmings all rush over a cliff edge. Simply jawdropping cluelessness. :D
This doesn't make sense. If it could have been done sooner, why didn't Bush do it and take away "the Obama card"? As far as early campaigning, this year is nothing. I remember way back in October 2006 seeing Obama on TV with Oprah Winfree and thinking "Holy shit! We haven't even had the...
I had no idea there were so many truthers on the right. I thought that was essentially a left-wing conspiracy theory, like being a birther means you're a right-wing conspiracist.
Not that I really care; both truthers and birthers are on my list of loony fringers. :p
EDIT: a friend just...
You're still comparing the captured leader of an invaded sovereign nation with a confessed mass murderer who killed over 3000 Americans as well as many foreign civilians in acts of blatant terrorism. Of course Saddam Hussein had a trial; Bush had a hard enough time justifying his war on Iraq...
I'm still waiting for you to show evidence that YOU condemned Bush's death sentence on Osama before Obama got him.
Put up or STFU, you pathetic little hypocrite.
Also:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/03/christiane-amanpour-osama-bin-laden-bill-maher_n_857026.html
Christiane Amanpour Revealed Osama Bin Laden's Whereabouts On 'Real Time With Bill Maher'
by Jason Linkins - 05/04/11 03:16 PM ET
Here's the relevant parts of the transcript of...