One year ago today: June 28, 2019, the presence of absence.
Five years ago today: June 28, 2015, me, I said that.
Nine years ago today: June 28, 2011, the “guitar center” set.
Random years ago today: June 28, 2007, the designer came in.
Company security it one thing, but it seems Big Tech these days seems to hire professionals squads to harass, control, and monitor employees and ex-employees has become commonplace. It gives me a laugh to see reports of deliberate campaigns since it is the employees themselves who are the enablers. Notice that the tactics work only on those truly stupid enough to part with too much information. They get targeted with car tracking devices, sending porno to the neighbors, inviting unsavory types to come party. It’s low-level stuff, but my last employer never knew my address or even whether or not I owned a car. It’s entirely possible, the easiest way is the next time you move, don’t say anything.
I will attempt to fix this with a drapery stay, then moving the curtain to the “wrong” side, or finally installing a glass door, which I like better. Notice this photo shows some of the original trim and paint color. The missing cover plate is a standard size, but I need to install a box extension first.
Good morning, I got up with a craving for rice and eggs. Good, I have work to do. The discovery of a tree toot just shy of two feet down my latest post hole in the back yard, this will be fun. First this called for a two-hour nap. I won’t be setting any records this day Something else amusing is the search for Planet 9. Ever since Pluto lost its claim, there’s a “cottage industry” to find a replacement. That’s where the similarity ends, and that change demonstrates the change in American mentality. Where before astronomers and hobby amateurs undertook the task for scientific gain, it is now a mad rush for the publicity, fame, and movie rights.
Nobody wants to contribute, their collective aim is the shallowest, quickest, cheapest extraction they can make. It made sense, since they cheered themselves as they sent jobs overseas. There are even kits and apps to help not the search but on how to get the one up on each other. To me it’s the natural outcome when you let entitlement fantasies take their course. True, these things have always existed in America (look at the entertainment industry) but it took a few consecutive generations of losers to make it into a culture.
What do you expect from a bunch whose latest movie release is to be Michael Jackson’s daughter in a role as Jesus, the lesbian? I’m not blasting the role or the production, but the complete lack of originality or imagination. What’s next, Mary as a queer werewolf? We need more of this because we’re tired of new themes and monsters. We wanted the old ones back . And let’s admit it, who will ever be better at recycling old ideas than the millennials.
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We enter our second quarter of Forex trading later today. Because of changes in the system we have decided to change this week to trailing equity. This is where the software trades up to certain level, then “locks in” some of the profits. It continues to trade but protects the percentage you specified. The trade-off with a fixed percentage is two-fold. It demands you pay a lot closer attention, and until that feature kicks in, you run a higher risk. What I have for you is a list of the important parameters of the trailing equity (not the fixed) setting, with a quick explanations.
Trailing equity – the level you want protection to begin. You are totally vulnerable up till this point.
Trailing equity start – when protection begins, the percentage you want protected, usually 2% lower.
Total account equity risk – limits your total risk when all transactions are added up.
Starting lot size – the lot size is mini, or 10,000 “shares” (leveraged).
Range between levels – this is a mystery setting, but it works this way. When you enter a trade, the software splits it into 8 discrete levels automatically, and tries to use those to meet your goal. The theory is similar to dollar-cost-averaging, but dealing in tenths of a cent.
Range multiplier – this is where you manipulate the above said 8 levels.
If you get into this game, and I recommend you stay away, this is the minimum level of knowledge required, as the software is designed for the market, not for the user. The above settings have complicated inter-relationships that can self-destruct your money if you don’t develop a sixth sense on the consequences of every change. All told there are around 30 settings, these are the ones you need to watch and control most closely. When I say designed for the market, I mean that as conditions change out there, so does the optimum mix of these settings. This is where you pay attention to externalities, something I have not yet learned.
Speaking of aliens, here is the latest in COVID fashion. They are still social distancing, so they communicated by lip-reading. She’s reminding him, on his way back from the government office, not to forget to pick up the surgical masks for their adopted Swahili baby’s Asian-look Barbie doll.
It’s worth mentioning, mind you, that I’ve seen people with no computer background and even less “lerts” catch on to it faster than I can. There’s a name for this phenomenon and it’s a pity when it gets applied to the computer field. The reality is that the ratio of good programmers is the same as in my day, approximately 7%. That’s correct, only 7 in 100 are any good. So why don’t those rise to the top? Because they get swamped, not promoted. IBM activated the trend of mass-hiring “programmers”. By the time the follow-on problems began to arise years later, “truth by majority rule” concept had been entrenched into the discipline, never to be eradicated. Along with its piss-in-the-water-pistol kid brother, “replace don’t repair” mentality. That’s where it becomes marginally less of a nightmare to write “new” code than fix the old.
This is not my imagination in any way. I first saw this effect in the early and mid-nineties. At that time, the degenerate concept had infiltrated backwards into the computer schools themselves. Even my venerable alma mater had begun to cater to the masses. I graduated around 1994 or so, I forget, but toward the end, I was compelled to give knowingly wrong answers on final exams just to get the course over with. Equally telling was some of the advanced assignments required so much spurious code that I handed in undocumented code for lack of time. If you ask me, it is not the version of the software but the version of male coders that gives meaning to the word “beta”.
ADDENDUM
Nvidia and Mercedes announce a car that can be continually upgraded with the latest software. This will ensure the owner keeps up with leading-edge improvements no matter how long the car lasts. It seems to me since around 1985, we kept hearing this exact same thing about upgradeable computers. It works great until the company goes belly-up from trying to meet its obligations. Does anybody have any idea whatever happened to them all? I heard San Francisco, that all losers wind up in San Francisco.
