While IANAL, I would have to question whether a purchase on a credit card is actually a LOAN per se... Credit cards are more like overdraft protection at a bank, except that you never have a balance. If she had written a CHECK for $70,000, and, assuming she could get that much overdraft protection (not likely, but this is a hypothetical situation:) would you fault the bank for giving her loan?
No, your fundamental economics here are flawed. When viewing credit cards, the key word you should be looking at is Credit. Credit cards offer someone monitary credit from a larger body (usually a bank) which has money to lend on an interest rate, and what do we call money lent on an interest rate? A Loan. This is also interesting because you need Credit to get a Loan. Credit in its simplist term is defined by putting trust in something or someone, and is used in economics today as a way to guage peoples ability to pay off debts, such as loans or credit cards. When you use a credit card you receive money from a lender which you must pay back later, usually at an interest rate (negotiable, every one is different, etc.), which is really just a high tech form of a loan.
While glibc2.1 (devel version of glibc2) has been out for some time, and you can use it with slackware, as with any other distribution, the rest of the support binaries (such as bash) in slackware have been linked and compiled to libc5, until this slackware 7 beta.
Again, you're confusing glibc2.1 "beta" with Slackware 7 beta.
If the people of minnesota didnt like him, they wouldnt have voted him in. You say he's an idiot based on what? Based on what his opinions are and not what he's actually done, because you dont know what he's actually done, you said it yourself, he's not in the news.
I think he has just as much right as anyone to speak his mind, just because he's Governor doesnt mean he has to stop having opinions or speaking his mind to whomever will hear him.
Also, how do you know he hasnt done anything to benifit his state? You're not from MN and you dont see him in the news as you've said. Good deeds frequently go unnoticed in the news, news has to sell, and therefore wants sensationalism. When before Mother Teresa died did you see her in the news? Very infrequently if at all, except when someone finds a bun shaped like her face...
It seems that in our society, we scream about wanting honest politicians, yet when we get one such as Governor Ventura we start screaming about it and asking for his resignation. I think people just don't know what they want anymore. First it was survival, then it was luxury. Now it seems that people just want to be right, at any cost, no matter what the discussion or platform, and at the expense of others. While I don't agree with the Professor from Princeton, or with abortion in general (except under extreme cases, such as rape), I do think that we should have the right to die, and I do think he, and others, should have the right to try to convince me, and others, of their points of view free from censorship. The problem I see is with other people choosing whether another living being should live or die, and in this case, if the Professor from Princetons ideas were put into practice, we might have been deprived of great minds, such as Stephen Hawkings. A great loss indeed. - iCEBaLM
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While IANAL, I would have to question whether a purchase on a credit card is actually a LOAN per se... Credit cards are more like overdraft protection at a bank, except that you never have a balance. If she had written a CHECK for $70,000, and, assuming she could get that much overdraft protection (not likely, but this is a hypothetical situation :) would you fault the bank for giving her loan?
No, your fundamental economics here are flawed.
When viewing credit cards, the key word you should be looking at is Credit. Credit cards offer someone monitary credit from a larger body (usually a bank) which has money to lend on an interest rate, and what do we call money lent on an interest rate? A Loan. This is also interesting because you need Credit to get a Loan. Credit in its simplist term is defined by putting trust in something or someone, and is used in economics today as a way to guage peoples ability to pay off debts, such as loans or credit cards. When you use a credit card you receive money from a lender which you must pay back later, usually at an interest rate (negotiable, every one is different, etc.), which is really just a high tech form of a loan.
-- iCEBaLM
I think you're quite confused.
While glibc2.1 (devel version of glibc2) has been out for some time, and you can use it with slackware, as with any other distribution, the rest of the support binaries (such as bash) in slackware have been linked and compiled to libc5, until this slackware 7 beta.
Again, you're confusing glibc2.1 "beta" with Slackware 7 beta.
-- iCEBaLM
If the people of minnesota didnt like him, they wouldnt have voted him in. You say he's an idiot based on what? Based on what his opinions are and not what he's actually done, because you dont know what he's actually done, you said it yourself, he's not in the news.
I think he has just as much right as anyone to speak his mind, just because he's Governor doesnt mean he has to stop having opinions or speaking his mind to whomever will hear him.
Also, how do you know he hasnt done anything to benifit his state? You're not from MN and you dont see him in the news as you've said. Good deeds frequently go unnoticed in the news, news has to sell, and therefore wants sensationalism. When before Mother Teresa died did you see her in the news? Very infrequently if at all, except when someone finds a bun shaped like her face...
- iCEBaLM
It seems that in our society, we scream about wanting honest politicians, yet when we get one such as Governor Ventura we start screaming about it and asking for his resignation. I think people just don't know what they want anymore. First it was survival, then it was luxury. Now it seems that people just want to be right, at any cost, no matter what the discussion or platform, and at the expense of others. While I don't agree with the Professor from Princeton, or with abortion in general (except under extreme cases, such as rape), I do think that we should have the right to die, and I do think he, and others, should have the right to try to convince me, and others, of their points of view free from censorship. The problem I see is with other people choosing whether another living being should live or die, and in this case, if the Professor from Princetons ideas were put into practice, we might have been deprived of great minds, such as Stephen Hawkings. A great loss indeed. - iCEBaLM