Awhile? 10pm late night. :eyebrow:
Or are you speaking of God?

I don't know why I expect people to be brighter than I expect of myself.

Do you guys know why I do that? That's annoying...

I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but that looks like a loaded question to me. I'll pass.

I mean God. You know, God.

because you have an inflated sense of...someone?

I don't know why IE scripts asks me if I want to display the 'non secure' information over the internet.

I really don't know:confused:

Sure you do, you really want to, doncha? doncha? :D

"Secure" means the information is sliced and diced in a way that it can't be reconstructed if somebody happens to intercept it between the web site and your computer.

Let's say somebody sets up a page for you to order their widgets from. And the make it secure. If their logo is sitting on a different, non-secure area, and they put that logo onto the page, the logo itself will not be encoded, even though the rest of the page still will be.

What I want to know is why the hell Yahoo has suddenly (in just the last few days) started displaying nonsecure items on their basic mail login page. I don't want to click an extra dialog box every damn time I check my email.

How would I find out the average lease price paid per acre by gas companies looking for natural gas (in NE PA specifically), how much would be a fair price/% of any gas found, and how much impact these activities would have on the land/trees/water.

Ask your local business bureau

Here's something else I don't know:

When the weatherman makes a prediction about the rain or the temperature, and it turns out to be wrong, we say the weatherman was wrong. He loses some credibility as a forecaster because of this failing.

When I make a bet on the baseball game, and I'm wrong, I have to pay up for my wrong guess. I lose.

When someone makes an estimate or a forecast and subsequently the facts turn out to be different, we say the forecast(er) was wrong.

Except in one case.

I frequently hear on the news that a company XYZ Widgets, Inc, has "missed forecasters' projections". The company is usually punished for this "failure". Why is this a special exemption from what seems to be the normal case where the *forecast* is revealed to be wrong. How is it that the facts are "wrong" in cases like this?

tia

the company isn't penalized, the shareholders are. The shareholders were holding stock set at a price felt it be appropriate for the earnings forecast. When the actual earnings beat the forecast then shareholders are usually rewarded by seeing their stock value rise to meet new valuations. When earnings fail to meet expectations then the stock price must fall to come in line with the real earnings, thus penalizing the shareholder.

At least that is the theory. Quite often you'll see share prices rise with bad news and fall with good news. The news reported by the journalists on tv and radio should be taken with a grain of salt as it is usually the news behind the news that really moves share values.

Oh, and BTW while you don't see any immediate penalty for the incorrect forecaster it is important to note that their jobs and income rely on their accuracy. If they are consistently wrong they'll be looking for a new job soon.

Pleasantly unsurprised to see you reply, l123. Thank you.

I recognized some of the pieces of the puzzle but not all, and I didn't know how they all fit together. But on the surface, this seemed inexplicably contradictory. I think it was the wording that snagged my attention: company misses expectations. Duh. Perhaps the expectations were inappropriate.

I'm glad you threw in the part about the hidden effects of wrong forecasts. Because the forecasters (in the news feeds I consume) are never identified, I can never distinguish one from the other. Your explanation makes (satisfying) sense.