Terror Stock Market

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Originally Posted by Almaci

Late 90s tech bubble, nuff said.

Idiots.

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And what makes them idiots, other than your vague sentence?

"Idiots."

So true. It'd only work because the world is stupid. It's just another way of insuring that the stupid status quo is maintained and that us rich folks here in America don't have to ever learn to really respect human life. Why change the world if you can just get rich off of the fucked up shit instead?

Pa

[QUOTE=Wolffen]I suppose you're implying that the knowledge would be potential subconscious, and that this market would act like an organism; the organism responds to all feedback to generate a response, and these investors would be single cells that could have a small (or possibly large) impact on that response, without knowing it. But the way you describe it, it sounds more overt than that, and that makes my stomach turn.[QUOTE]

According to the theory, the market really would be acting like a organism - terrorist individuals couldn't help but influence the market, unless they all decided to move to a completely isolated island or something.

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Late 90s tech bubble, nuff said.

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doesn't mean a damn thing.

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So true. It'd only work because the world is stupid. It's just another way of insuring that the stupid status quo is maintained and that us rich folks here in America don't have to ever learn to really respect human life. Why change the world if you can just get rich off of the fucked up shit instead?

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Being able to say that means you really, really ought to read more about SML - you've got it completely wrong and don't understand the idea at all. The randomness of SML ("random walk") is good for the average guy - not good for "the stupid status quo".

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Originally Posted by Wolffen

So Stone, you're saying that according to SME theory, investors would have more knowledge about potential terrorist acts than our own intelligence agencies?

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This surprises you? 14 intelligence agencies and they couldn't find a fly in a glass of milk.

Markets are emotion driven as much as driven by more tangeable things.
Look at the tech bubble where worthless companies were blown up to gargantuan proportions, now couple that market system with a government who uses a silly colour coding system to put its people into a frenzy and you have all the ingredients for a circlejerk that will make markets explode into a trading frenzy.
idiocy at its finest.
Government highers the terorism alert level so markets react, government sees market reaction and claims something is definitly up so they higher the alert level some more, markets go crazy.
Insanity, only absolute idiots would think something like this would work.

Tech bubble people, tech bubble.
Dont buy into Stone his market crap, the tech bubble has already proven him wrong.

Woah Stone, wb btw.. I trust you're settled in LA, was it?

Anyway, I was just put off by the idea; just the sound of taking bets on terrorism and the potential abuse for this... But of course, you had to come in with a detailed analysis like this one to kinda change my mind ;).

EDIT: Oops, looks like I might have to heed Almaci's warning.

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Originally Posted by PaCrappa

But you know what I like best? John Poindexter. I hope we all realize that that man plead GUILTY in the Iran-Contra hearings and is now head of the office setup to pry into the communications of you and me and generally just spy on us. Any thoughts on that?

Pa

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A convicted felon is being allowed to spy on us. That takes the fucked-up cookie. There goes our privacy, flushed right down the two Johns. :mad:

Poindexter resigned.

To celebrate, I have two (COUNT EM TWO) images... for you!

http://www.nerv.us/nerv_images/misc/...xter_pwned.jpg


http://www.nerv.us/nerv_images/misc/...can_public.jpg

http://falcon.tp.devry.edu/~tmcn9298/pwnin.jpg

Seems like quite a few people would say this guy had it coming to him.

Thats one down and the rest of the Bush cabinet to go.