The problem is that governments prefer to issue money, either in paper form or in coins, that are not easy to counterfeit, rather than depending on their police to catch them all. If it becomes obvious that the money has a noticeable level of fake money, Gresham's Law rears its ugly head.
Could this be a catalyst that forces more widespread electronic payments adoption - stored value cards, mobile phones, etc. - in lieu of paper currency?
Only if Iran can make the stored value cards, mobile phones, etc., by themselves. Otherwise, it just makes matters worse.
Actually, of course, Iran running out of currency is silly. All they have to do is accept lower quality printing on their currency from cheaper presses. When the Nazis tried counterfeiting English Pounds during WWII they had to reject the first run because their "currency" was so much better than the "real" notes - the implication is that people will accept anything as currency, providing that the government is behind it (and very publicly executes any counterfeiters that they catch:-) .
Cannabis is banned for 22 year olds as well as children, so your example is not of "risks to children" but of risks to society. You might have better used the ban on alcohol purchase and/or consumption for under-21, or making the age of consent ridiculously high (18 in California, when the average age of loss of virginity was below 16).
Learn to argue the point, not your favorite hobby-horse, or you will be confused with lowlife scum like child molesters (e.g., NAMBLA) or politicians.
In WWII all the German beer brewers were run out of business in the US
Except for Anheiser-Busch, Yeungling, Adolphus Coors, and...
Actually, there was fairly little WWII-era anti-German sentiment in the highly German areas, like Milwaukee and Central PA, where the major breweries were located, compared to during WWI (Victory Cabbage for Sauerkraut, frex, and German pulled from high school curiculae even in German-American towns). The problem was that the really big brewers found ways to guarantee a certain level of quality at a fairly cheap price, while the regional breweries were producing beer that was more hit or miss at higher prices, and they could no more compete than small butchers and green grocers could against the chain grocery stores like A&P, a generation or two before. Imagine what would happen if your favorite microbrew had to compete against Miller, Bud, or A-B purely on price. As a result, the regionals gradually were bought up by majors and/or went out of business. At this point, the majors were competing essentially on volume alone, and consumers became used to brews with little or no hops content (cheaper for the brewers, and better suited to the non-food way that beer was being consumed after Prohibition).
As to losing skills, that is nonsense. The brewmasters were and are able to produce great beers (and more cheaply than during the Post-Prohibition period) when they were given good recipes to make (local example: Sam Adams was once produced by the same brewery as was Iron City, renting Pgh Brewing's excess capacity). The problem was that the recipes were gradually stripped of the strong flavor agents, particularly hops, as time went on.
Except for Detroit or Philadelphia. Fortunately, neither city does well enough in any organized sports to win or lose championships more than once or twice a decade, any more.
Osama wasnt a civilian. He took up arms against a nation-state. That is a soldier.
No, because a soldier is in service to another state (or legal faction thereof, in case of civil wars), not to his own personal vanity. Osama bin Laden was no more a soldier than Blackbeard was in the 1720s.
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil" -Thomas Mann
Any belief that tolerates murderers in its ranks is evil. Any belief that thinks its ideas, leaders and prophets are beyond question is evil. Any belief that mandates conversion or death is evil.
So we should reinstitute slavery in the USA because the abolition movement was evil, in that it included John Brown, an undeniable murderer and a terrorist to any but his most extreme defender, who also believed that slaveholders had to convert or die? Niven has a Law that there is no movement, however righteous and holy, that does not have absolute bastards among its adherents.
Indeed they can't, OTOH i'm not sure I want the government (or worse a consortium of representives of governments) designing my networks for me either.
So, who should have designed the ARPANET, instead? The ISO/OSI people? Because I haven't heard a thing about OSI addresses running out.
[exit sarc mode]
Where did Razgorov Prikazka say that he intended to sail his boat solo? I would assume a crew unless told otherwise.
Ignoring questions of crew size, the idea is to discourage the bad guys so as to encourage them to attack another ship, not stand up to a foreign navy. If he wanted that, I'd recommend buying a surplus Russian Navy sub and proceeding submerged. Still, stay away from the Gulf of Aden or Columbia.:-)
Also, get trained on any weapons, so that you don't go all Barney Fife at the worst possible time.
Nonsense. This shows the use case for taking guns into the toilet, just as Tuco The Rat from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly showed the use case for keeping one's pistols in the tub while bathing.
Seriously, if Zuckerberg (or whoever else) took someone's picture while using the toilet, you could not stop him from publishing them on his domain without threats (at least, to unfriend him, if not lawyers or physical force (actually, lawyers without force backing them are fairly useless)).
In principle - and in practice prior to commercialization - the Internet worked fine without a "central service provider."
What? When was this? Before Jon Postel started doing this on a volunteer basis, or before sri.nic? The only time that I can think of is during those days of yore when the DARPANet was limited to less than 255 hosts by its design, and IP, UDP, and TCP were bare glints in people's eyes. And only in the earliest part of those days (probably the first couple months, at most).
Sorry, this is the reason that the polis became obsolete, that voting is no longer by clashing swords on shields, and laws are written down rather than remembered by the Elders. Gentlemen's Agreements always break down when the number of "gentlemen" exceeds a very small number.
However the Arabs refused to send them home until Reagan took the oath of office,
They were Iranians, not Arabs. Both Arab terrorists and Iranians would be insulted if they read your mistake. I hope that no one can figure out where you live:-)
Don't make the velociraptors 5 times normal size and super intelligent?
Actually, Utahraptor was discovered shortly after the film came out, and WAS that big. And if they were so super-intelligent, how come they didn't notice the T-Rex in the building? (We can just ignore the ending of the third film as Hollywood Liberals Gone Mad, like I ignore the Matt Damon Jason Bourne films, having read the books)
Doing what? OK, London is expensive as hell but at least there's stuff to do.
Which is why you do not want to locate a Silicon Valley in a major city. If there is more to do than work, people will do the things other than work. Silicon Valley could not have existed if started in Las Vegas, for crying out loud.
Silicon Valley is NOT located in San Francisco, Oakland, or any other place that was crowded when it started (it was a bunch of orange groves, at the time). Neither was it adjacent to Stanford U., Cal Poly., UC Berkeley, or any other institution of higher learning, back then.
What I mean is that surely there is someplace near enough to a city (San Fran/Oakland is hardly equivalent to London, even in CA) with a decent college or two with decent science departments from which to start (Stanford's EE department was not up to Grinnell College in Iowa, where DeForrest went and then donated to, back in the starting days). Get a nucleus away from the cities but close enough that one could visit, either direction. Drive, ride a train, whatever.
Or are the UK roads really as bad as they appear on Top Gear when they are making fun of UK roads?
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The problem is that governments prefer to issue money, either in paper form or in coins, that are not easy to counterfeit, rather than depending on their police to catch them all. If it becomes obvious that the money has a noticeable level of fake money, Gresham's Law rears its ugly head.
Could this be a catalyst that forces more widespread electronic payments adoption - stored value cards, mobile phones, etc. - in lieu of paper currency?
Only if Iran can make the stored value cards, mobile phones, etc., by themselves. Otherwise, it just makes matters worse.
Actually, of course, Iran running out of currency is silly. All they have to do is accept lower quality printing on their currency from cheaper presses. When the Nazis tried counterfeiting English Pounds during WWII they had to reject the first run because their "currency" was so much better than the "real" notes - the implication is that people will accept anything as currency, providing that the government is behind it (and very publicly executes any counterfeiters that they catch :-) .
Set your threshold lower. I saw one just a couple of days ago.
That is what they make nudey bars for. Of course, you have to put up with the shoe salesmen, as well.
Eye of Kdapt! Don't you know that Sauron's Eye was shaped like a cat's, not a spiral.
Cannabis is banned for 22 year olds as well as children, so your example is not of "risks to children" but of risks to society. You might have better used the ban on alcohol purchase and/or consumption for under-21, or making the age of consent ridiculously high (18 in California, when the average age of loss of virginity was below 16).
Learn to argue the point, not your favorite hobby-horse, or you will be confused with lowlife scum like child molesters (e.g., NAMBLA) or politicians.
leads me to believe it's created and run by a bunch of self-centered egotistical assholes
And this is different from other social media and Facebook-hangers-on HOW?
After nearly seven years of living anal free
Seven years without an anus ... you must be seriously backed up.
Colostemy bags. Don't leave home without them.
Both AC and raymorris' posts need modded up to 5. Both are perfect responses to the article, shooting it down completely.
In WWII all the German beer brewers were run out of business in the US
Except for Anheiser-Busch, Yeungling, Adolphus Coors, and ...
Actually, there was fairly little WWII-era anti-German sentiment in the highly German areas, like Milwaukee and Central PA, where the major breweries were located, compared to during WWI (Victory Cabbage for Sauerkraut, frex, and German pulled from high school curiculae even in German-American towns). The problem was that the really big brewers found ways to guarantee a certain level of quality at a fairly cheap price, while the regional breweries were producing beer that was more hit or miss at higher prices, and they could no more compete than small butchers and green grocers could against the chain grocery stores like A&P, a generation or two before. Imagine what would happen if your favorite microbrew had to compete against Miller, Bud, or A-B purely on price. As a result, the regionals gradually were bought up by majors and/or went out of business. At this point, the majors were competing essentially on volume alone, and consumers became used to brews with little or no hops content (cheaper for the brewers, and better suited to the non-food way that beer was being consumed after Prohibition).
As to losing skills, that is nonsense. The brewmasters were and are able to produce great beers (and more cheaply than during the Post-Prohibition period) when they were given good recipes to make (local example: Sam Adams was once produced by the same brewery as was Iron City, renting Pgh Brewing's excess capacity). The problem was that the recipes were gradually stripped of the strong flavor agents, particularly hops, as time went on.
Except for Detroit or Philadelphia. Fortunately, neither city does well enough in any organized sports to win or lose championships more than once or twice a decade, any more.
Osama wasnt a civilian. He took up arms against a nation-state. That is a soldier.
No, because a soldier is in service to another state (or legal faction thereof, in case of civil wars), not to his own personal vanity. Osama bin Laden was no more a soldier than Blackbeard was in the 1720s.
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil"
-Thomas Mann
Any belief that tolerates murderers in its ranks is evil.
Any belief that thinks its ideas, leaders and prophets are beyond question is evil.
Any belief that mandates conversion or death is evil.
So we should reinstitute slavery in the USA because the abolition movement was evil, in that it included John Brown, an undeniable murderer and a terrorist to any but his most extreme defender, who also believed that slaveholders had to convert or die? Niven has a Law that there is no movement, however righteous and holy, that does not have absolute bastards among its adherents.
Indeed they can't, OTOH i'm not sure I want the government (or worse a consortium of representives of governments) designing my networks for me either.
So, who should have designed the ARPANET, instead? The ISO/OSI people? Because I haven't heard a thing about OSI addresses running out.
[exit sarc mode]
Yeah, one person NOT going to hold them off.
Where did Razgorov Prikazka say that he intended to sail his boat solo? I would assume a crew unless told otherwise.
Ignoring questions of crew size, the idea is to discourage the bad guys so as to encourage them to attack another ship, not stand up to a foreign navy. If he wanted that, I'd recommend buying a surplus Russian Navy sub and proceeding submerged. Still, stay away from the Gulf of Aden or Columbia. :-)
Also, get trained on any weapons, so that you don't go all Barney Fife at the worst possible time.
Nonsense. This shows the use case for taking guns into the toilet, just as Tuco The Rat from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly showed the use case for keeping one's pistols in the tub while bathing.
Seriously, if Zuckerberg (or whoever else) took someone's picture while using the toilet, you could not stop him from publishing them on his domain without threats (at least, to unfriend him, if not lawyers or physical force (actually, lawyers without force backing them are fairly useless)).
In principle - and in practice prior to commercialization - the Internet worked fine without a "central service provider."
What? When was this? Before Jon Postel started doing this on a volunteer basis, or before sri.nic? The only time that I can think of is during those days of yore when the DARPANet was limited to less than 255 hosts by its design, and IP, UDP, and TCP were bare glints in people's eyes. And only in the earliest part of those days (probably the first couple months, at most).
Sorry, this is the reason that the polis became obsolete, that voting is no longer by clashing swords on shields, and laws are written down rather than remembered by the Elders. Gentlemen's Agreements always break down when the number of "gentlemen" exceeds a very small number.
However the Arabs refused to send them home until Reagan took the oath of office,
They were Iranians, not Arabs. Both Arab terrorists and Iranians would be insulted if they read your mistake. I hope that no one can figure out where you live :-)
No, Babel was in the Land Of The Two Rivers (aka, Sumer, or later Babylonia). That is a Semitic myth, not Indo-European.
Don't make the velociraptors 5 times normal size and super intelligent?
Actually, Utahraptor was discovered shortly after the film came out, and WAS that big. And if they were so super-intelligent, how come they didn't notice the T-Rex in the building? (We can just ignore the ending of the third film as Hollywood Liberals Gone Mad, like I ignore the Matt Damon Jason Bourne films, having read the books)
[W]ould it be our moral duty to resurrect smallpox?
Actually, we could just wait a few thousand years for monkey pox or cowpox to recross the species divide.
If it was, butterflies would spit acid, and bunnies would sport 6-inch fangs and 4-inch razor-sharp talons.
What?!? Do you mean that Monty Python LIED about the Killer Bunny Rabbit in Holy Grail?
Anyway, everybody knows that butterflies generate hurricane winds. It was quite clear in the documentary Godzilla Vs Mothra.
I think that you have seen one or two too many Westerns, and didn't realize when they were exaggerating for the story's sake.
Besides, when the cattle or railroad barons needed someone killed, they hired specialists.
and a disposable income that lets you enjoy life
Doing what? OK, London is expensive as hell but at least there's stuff to do.
Which is why you do not want to locate a Silicon Valley in a major city. If there is more to do than work, people will do the things other than work. Silicon Valley could not have existed if started in Las Vegas, for crying out loud.
Silicon Valley is NOT located in San Francisco, Oakland, or any other place that was crowded when it started (it was a bunch of orange groves, at the time). Neither was it adjacent to Stanford U., Cal Poly., UC Berkeley, or any other institution of higher learning, back then.
What I mean is that surely there is someplace near enough to a city (San Fran/Oakland is hardly equivalent to London, even in CA) with a decent college or two with decent science departments from which to start (Stanford's EE department was not up to Grinnell College in Iowa, where DeForrest went and then donated to, back in the starting days). Get a nucleus away from the cities but close enough that one could visit, either direction. Drive, ride a train, whatever.
Or are the UK roads really as bad as they appear on Top Gear when they are making fun of UK roads?