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[redbird]

I really don't understand how anyone can claim market capitalism involves rational decisions by people in possession of perfect information. The following is essentially free money (modulo a registered mail fee for depositing the stocks):



<td colspan="2" valign="top" width="100%">

Date	Transaction	Quantity	Symbol	Price	Duration	Instructions	Commission	Total Amount
7/25/05	Sell	12	TZOO	Market	Day	None	$6.95	$373.45

</td></tr>

[All the white space means is that I don't understand the HTML coding for tables well enough to get rid of it.]

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The comment line was separated from your entry on my friendspage, so it's more than just white space.

[avram]

Does anyone in fact claim that?

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Please, if you're working with code you don't understand, put it behind a cut tag. If it's behind a cut tag and it's broken it will only wreck your page and your entry, when it's exposed like this it screws up the friends pages for everyone who lists you.

The basics of a table are thus:

table
tr
td [data here] /td
td [data here] /td
/tr
/table

but in angle brackets.
The table opens, contains everything, then closes.
The tr is a table row, it contains some table data cells and then closes.
The td is a table data cell. It opens and closes after the data.

You can have multiple cells in a row and multiple rows in a table.

Colspan and rowspan allow you to make a single cell stretch further, so if you have a 6 cells wide table and you put "colspan='2'" into a td in one row then you only need 5 cells on that row.

Hope that helps.

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

[pnh.livejournal.com]

Mine too. Please get rid of this table!

[kate_nepveu]

Sorry, I forgot that "code" doesn't work the way I think it ought.

Here:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Date</td>
<td>Transaction</td>
<td>Quantity</td>
<td>Symbol</td>
<td>Price</td>
<td>Duration</td>
<td>Instructions</td>
<td>Commission</td>
<td>Total Amount</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>7/25/05</td>
<td>Sell</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>TZOO</td>
<td>Market</td>
<td>Day</td>
<td>None</td>
<td>$6.95</td>
<td>$373.45</td>
</tr>
</table>

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

You've got this one line (about the white space) created so firmly that it's floating on top of everything else on my friends' list, and the table nailed so hard into place that it's shoving everything else off the left side of the screen where it flops onto the desk. Sometimes it is near your post, and sometimes it attaches itself to other people's posts.

That is one powerful piece of code!

[rdkeir.livejournal.com]

(in James Earl Jones intonations) "Now I will teach them why they fear the tag."

This has happened to me with other people's posts, and I finally took a moment to find a workaround.

I created two friends groups, called HTML-Good and HTML-Problem, temporarily assigned Redbird to the "HTML-Problem" group and everyone else to the "HTML-Good" group. The two groups can be viewed at www.livejournal.com/users/rdkeir/friends/html-problem and www.livejournal.com/users/rdkeir/friends/html-good, so I can still read Redbird's posts and easily see when they coding problem goes away.

[rdkeir.livejournal.com]

and, of course, I just moved Redbird back into the HTML-Good friends group so now there's nothing showing on my HTML-Problem page. Thanks, Vicky!

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Here's the direct link to the FAQ page on LJ Cuts (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75)

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

The problem appears to be fixed for now.

I don't know how current is the idea that people act as rational agents, but I know it's becoming less well thought of.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Travel Zoo presumably intended the offer as advertising, and it may have worked well enough.

Congrats on getting some free money.

I don't know about the whole rest of the world, but I don't claim that the market involves rational decisions made by people with perfect information. I just think it's generally more competent and less destructive than government.

[lynnal.livejournal.com]

I really don't understand how anyone can claim market capitalism involves rational decisions by people in possession of perfect information

Anyone who makes such a claim is confusing economic theory with reality. Economists assume absurd things like that to make the math work, just like chemists talk about ideal gases. Even helium and argon don't quite follow the predictions made for ideal gases, but it helps many people to start from a simple model. Unfortunately, a lot of people who take undergrad economics seem to miss that "this is only a model" footnote. Even in graduate economics they don't talk much about adapting the model to the real world. Maybe they do in the PhD classes. At the masters level they did note just how hard it is to get people to give them good economic information for doing research.