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Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public
mjn writes "In yet another backtrack from their privacy policy, Facebook has decided to retroactively move more information into the public, indexable part of profiles. The new profile parts made public are: a list of things users have become 'fans' of (now renamed to 'likes'), their education and work histories, and what they list under 'interests.' Apparently there is neither any opt-out nor even notice to users, despite the fact that some of this information was entered by users at a time when Facebook's privacy policy explicitly promised that it wouldn't be part of the public profile."
Queue the litany of moronic douchebag Slashdot users whose only contribution to the thread will be a variant of "I don't use Facebook, and people who do are dumb." That may be true, but you're still a douchebag that didn't add anything to the conversation except to boost your own flagging self-esteem with a not-so-subtle "I told you so, and look how smart I am... I'm SO much better than people who use Facebook" statement. Do you feel better about yourself now? Thanks for adding nothing to the dialogue.
---As my daddy used to tell me: "You gotta be smart before you can be a smartass."
Money is zero-sum. Money is created through loans which much be repaid. Well, I guess it's a less than zero sum because most lenders demand payments of interest also. So for every dollar you make someone owes 1 dollar + interest to the lender that put that dollar in circulation.
I'm not sure if economics really differs from money in any real sense, since economics is just how we connect the real world with money.
I call BS. Economics is about having x amount of items, and who gets an item, and who doesn't. For example, the stock market. For every single person who buys stock and gets a gain of a dollar, someone else down the line is going to lose a dollar. What goes up, must come down.
Everything else is just mumbo-jumbo. This is why sensible people want a gold backed currency, and not ones that are based on people thinking they are worth something. Zimbabwe's hyperinflation is an eventuality to all fiat currencies, it's just a matter of when.