Um, no. They are supposed to focus on the activities of groups who are directly threatening American interests.
What you thought the French people were working to forward US interests in the francosphere? There was the famous you are either with us or against us speech as well. What I don't get is why hasn't the bombing started yet since the French are obviously planning to subvert our authority.
All kidding aside it seems like they are basically wasting massive amounts of resources creating the impression that they are doing something. Look at all of the stuff we are looking at type of thing. I think it is time to poison the well and just create some throwaway e-mail accounts and haven them e-mail around multi meg attachments that are dumps from/dev/random with dates a couple years out or latitude / longitude coordinates for subject headers.
Wasn't there some law that stated that when data breaches like this happen the company has to pay for credit monitoring for those affected. Given that it sounds like they may have distributed all US citizens' info it might be enough to sink their company. Then again I may only be remembering some proposed law that died a quiet death in some committee.
Some of what your friend told you is true and some is kind of questionable. So here is my best attempt at an unbiased explanation:
1. Yes it is entirely possible and legal for the US mint to create a coin with some arbitrary huge dollar value associated with it. The reason for this is a quirk that came out of the law that allows the US Mint to create platinum coins for collectors. Usually congress has to approve any new designes, values, dimensions, compositions of coins issued by the US Mint. As such there is a huge effort when ever something other than the date changes on coins and this is applicable to all copper, nickle, silver, gold, and palladium coins issued by the US government. But for platinum coins the mint is left to it's own devices to create what it wants. Now nice even those collector bullion coins are actually legal tender with a legally enforceable face value, which is much much lower than their worth as collector items and bullion, they are never used in regular commerce, but are actually legal tender. Now the idea behind the trillion dollar coin is that the mint could create a bunch (usually 10 - 20 I hear quoted) platinum coins each with a face value of $1,000,000,000,000 and deposit them as needed at the federal reserve bank thus paying of $1,000,000,000,000 of debt each time. Now since the mint (part of the executive branch) doesn't have any laws stipulating the weight or value of the platinum coin they could create a coin with a very small weight (1/10 oz is typically the smallest) stamp a value of one trillion dollars on it and poof it is legally worth a trillion dollars. So yes your fried is correct that the US mint can create a trillion dollar coin, but it couldn't create a trillion dollar bill without an act of congress
2. Now to the tricky part on if there would be economic impacts because of it and this is an economics question which means that it is a highly charged political argument with evidence to back up both sides so no one really knows what will happen. The bad things being massive inflation and/or damage to the US's credit rating. The claim that nothing bad will happen is usually made by people on the left end of the spectrum who often cite the fact that during the finical meltdown of '08 the federal reserve created money out of thin air and made loans totaling something like $16 trillion and we didn't see a decrease in the US's credit rating or massive inflation. Yes this entirely true but is incomplete, since the federal reserve isn't the US government but is a private banking institution put in charge of the US monetary supply so it wasn't the US government doing some cloak and dagger crap that would damage the nations credit rating. Also the money that popped in to existence also popped out of existence almost as fast since that $16 trillion was made as overnight emergency loans at an APR of something like 0% to cover the banks reserve requirements. So it was a bunch of revolving loans with a very low APR that over the course of several months managed to total $16 trillion that never actually entered circulation where it could create inflation. Now for the other side of the proverbial coin. Those on the right believe that doing such a thing will mean that the sky is falling and that we will soon be the next Zimbabwe with runaway inflation and no one will ever buy US debt again. The rational behind this is that creating these coins effectively means that the US has admitted default but legally won't like other countries have (see the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, or the Hungarian Pengo) and thus is just inflating it's way out of debt. The claim is that this will lower the nations credit rating since while you will be paid back it will be with worthless money thus requiring all new debt to carry huge interest rates further the cycle of inflation. Again here they are not being entirely truthful since the debt that the trillion dollar coin would service has already been turned into money that is in circulation as US Federal Reserve notes (those bills in your wallet we
That is why I do the same thing. It is a fun cheap little adventure and gives a great little story. How often can you state you have had the McCurry, actual name is the McCurry Pan.
I have heard similar things with the submariners having the best food but my cousin who is in the Army National Guard (Minnesota Red Bulls) regularly complained about the food quality while in Kuwait and has stated it is comparable to dorm food.
I hope for the same but with the oldest one who recently just turned 5 it will be a while. I did see that there is an updated version of "The Way Things Works" out that I will probably be getting at some point. I loved my copy as a child and with how curious both of my kids are they will probably like it as well.
But have you read the Pigeon series or the Elephant and Piggy series. I am getting rather sick of those ones at the moment and wouldn't mind going back to the "If You Give A _____ A _____" books for a while. Add in that my wife is a teacher so we get books a discount and I have read far too many children's books to my kids in the last 4 years.
It's proof that dogs will eat anything regardless of whether it will make them sick or not. Or whether it is edible or not.
Yes. We've often said that this particular dog will eat something just on the off chance it might be food.
Hell one of my sister's dog will eat a paper towel on the off chance that it is food. It can be clean right off the roll and the dog will eat it. This dog has also eaten an iPod because someone interrupted it sniffing it and has also eaten rocks from time to time (I didn't know dogs had gizzards).
The military wants to make sure they have a functional fighting force so they will ensure that the food has a high nutritional standard so it doesn't surprise me that would be more healthy than civilian food. Civilian food they want you to buy and consume more of so the companies make more money so you are dealing with 2 very different philosophies. I do hear that the preparation quality of military food leaves something to be desired but all institutional food seems to be that way.
You also forgot about quantity being a driving force of the general American cuisine. So much of it is fillers, flavor additives, and compounds to give it reasonable texture all while being incredibly cheap and huge portions. Now add in the amount of salt, sugar, or fat that is added so it doesn't taste like crap and like you say the vast majority of US food is awful. Granted I like quick meals but I use good quality ingredients and make it at home. A perfect example of this was last night we had burgers and fries (chips for some of you), The only thing added to the meat was a little bit of salt and black pepper before getting tossed on the grill. The meat isn't the factory farm meat but came from a farmer who is a friend of the family and is better quality than anything I have seen in a store. The buns were made fresh last weekend when I made bread for the week, and the lettuces and tomatoes came from the garden. I have a fry cutter so I just put 6 potatoes through it and then put the fries in a plastic bag with some olive oil black pepper, and salt, shook well, and then baked them in the oven on a cookie sheet. It took about 40 minutes to make everything and that includes starting and getting the BBQ ready (I use charcoal). This is about the same about of time it takes to go and get fast food or take out cost a lot less and wasn't full of crap.
It gets even easier if you freeze or can whole meals. I recently spent a day canning up several gallons of beef stew and chili which will keep on shelves in the pantry without issue also I made and froze about 10lbs of home made ravioli. In doing that I disposed of the remaining meat from last year before new meat from the farmer and upcoming hunting seasons arrives. Plus now I have a bunch of meals that basically only need to be warmed up or put into a pot of boiling water to be ready. This weekend it looks like I will be making and canning tomato sauce to deal with all of the remaining tomatoes from the garden since we will probably be getting a hard frost in the next few days.
It only has one proper use and that is on a philly cheese steak and to order it properly request "wit wiz" not provolone like the fancy restaurants do it. The greasier the place the better it the sandwich.
Ever since my horrible experience with MickeyD in Japan (teryaki burgers, yuk!) I don't go to any chains when I travel abroad, and certainly not US ones.
I usually steer clear of chains when I travel but I do like going to foreign McDonald's since it usually makes for a good story since so many people just love them. Besides I did have the royal with cheese and some Kronenbourg 1664 at the one on the Champs de Elysee and at it outside, I mean if you are going to go for the bastardized experience just go whole hog and be done. That was the only time I ate at McDonald's in the 3 months I lived in France and I did it on my first day there. I have done the same in Ireland, Israel, Austria, Belgium, and India. Once that is out of the way then I go for the local fare and just try random stuff I haven't had before and usually am not disappointed.
That sounds pretty close to what I want, I might have to give that a look. I want a SUV or truck with a manual transmission real 4WD (not the suburban soccer mom style 4WD), posi or locking differentials, granted I would probably want the roof rack since that is where I would put the deer. When not in 4WD is the FJ front or rear wheel drive since it seems that the vehicles that are normally FWD when not in 4WD have really weak 4WD systems.
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"The French copy from nobody . . . but nobody copies the French."
Are you sure you want to stick with that phrase?
Um, no. They are supposed to focus on the activities of groups who are directly threatening American interests.
What you thought the French people were working to forward US interests in the francosphere? There was the famous you are either with us or against us speech as well. What I don't get is why hasn't the bombing started yet since the French are obviously planning to subvert our authority.
/dev/random with dates a couple years out or latitude / longitude coordinates for subject headers.
All kidding aside it seems like they are basically wasting massive amounts of resources creating the impression that they are doing something. Look at all of the stuff we are looking at type of thing. I think it is time to poison the well and just create some throwaway e-mail accounts and haven them e-mail around multi meg attachments that are dumps from
Hopefully the cops went back and charged the individual who call in the hit and run with making a false police report.
And that is what I get for typing too early in the morning.
Wasn't there some law that stated that when data breaches like this happen the company has to pay for credit monitoring for those affected. Given that it sounds like they may have distributed all US citizens' info it might be enough to sink their company. Then again I may only be remembering some proposed law that died a quiet death in some committee.
That seems far to kind of a punishment for them. Having them drawn and quartered would be closer but still falls woefully short.
So you must be that single mom who discovered the secrete to making big bucks then.
Well Raspberry Pi news has been fairly slow of late so they need to get page hits some other way.
Some of what your friend told you is true and some is kind of questionable. So here is my best attempt at an unbiased explanation:
1. Yes it is entirely possible and legal for the US mint to create a coin with some arbitrary huge dollar value associated with it. The reason for this is a quirk that came out of the law that allows the US Mint to create platinum coins for collectors. Usually congress has to approve any new designes, values, dimensions, compositions of coins issued by the US Mint. As such there is a huge effort when ever something other than the date changes on coins and this is applicable to all copper, nickle, silver, gold, and palladium coins issued by the US government. But for platinum coins the mint is left to it's own devices to create what it wants. Now nice even those collector bullion coins are actually legal tender with a legally enforceable face value, which is much much lower than their worth as collector items and bullion, they are never used in regular commerce, but are actually legal tender. Now the idea behind the trillion dollar coin is that the mint could create a bunch (usually 10 - 20 I hear quoted) platinum coins each with a face value of $1,000,000,000,000 and deposit them as needed at the federal reserve bank thus paying of $1,000,000,000,000 of debt each time. Now since the mint (part of the executive branch) doesn't have any laws stipulating the weight or value of the platinum coin they could create a coin with a very small weight (1/10 oz is typically the smallest) stamp a value of one trillion dollars on it and poof it is legally worth a trillion dollars. So yes your fried is correct that the US mint can create a trillion dollar coin, but it couldn't create a trillion dollar bill without an act of congress
2. Now to the tricky part on if there would be economic impacts because of it and this is an economics question which means that it is a highly charged political argument with evidence to back up both sides so no one really knows what will happen. The bad things being massive inflation and/or damage to the US's credit rating. The claim that nothing bad will happen is usually made by people on the left end of the spectrum who often cite the fact that during the finical meltdown of '08 the federal reserve created money out of thin air and made loans totaling something like $16 trillion and we didn't see a decrease in the US's credit rating or massive inflation. Yes this entirely true but is incomplete, since the federal reserve isn't the US government but is a private banking institution put in charge of the US monetary supply so it wasn't the US government doing some cloak and dagger crap that would damage the nations credit rating. Also the money that popped in to existence also popped out of existence almost as fast since that $16 trillion was made as overnight emergency loans at an APR of something like 0% to cover the banks reserve requirements. So it was a bunch of revolving loans with a very low APR that over the course of several months managed to total $16 trillion that never actually entered circulation where it could create inflation. Now for the other side of the proverbial coin. Those on the right believe that doing such a thing will mean that the sky is falling and that we will soon be the next Zimbabwe with runaway inflation and no one will ever buy US debt again. The rational behind this is that creating these coins effectively means that the US has admitted default but legally won't like other countries have (see the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, or the Hungarian Pengo) and thus is just inflating it's way out of debt. The claim is that this will lower the nations credit rating since while you will be paid back it will be with worthless money thus requiring all new debt to carry huge interest rates further the cycle of inflation. Again here they are not being entirely truthful since the debt that the trillion dollar coin would service has already been turned into money that is in circulation as US Federal Reserve notes (those bills in your wallet we
That is why I do the same thing. It is a fun cheap little adventure and gives a great little story. How often can you state you have had the McCurry, actual name is the McCurry Pan.
I have heard similar things with the submariners having the best food but my cousin who is in the Army National Guard (Minnesota Red Bulls) regularly complained about the food quality while in Kuwait and has stated it is comparable to dorm food.
I hope for the same but with the oldest one who recently just turned 5 it will be a while. I did see that there is an updated version of "The Way Things Works" out that I will probably be getting at some point. I loved my copy as a child and with how curious both of my kids are they will probably like it as well.
I had the same thought and you deserve an insightful instead of funny because too many PDs need to be better surveilled.
But have you read the Pigeon series or the Elephant and Piggy series. I am getting rather sick of those ones at the moment and wouldn't mind going back to the "If You Give A _____ A _____" books for a while. Add in that my wife is a teacher so we get books a discount and I have read far too many children's books to my kids in the last 4 years.
It's proof that dogs will eat anything regardless of whether it will make them sick or not. Or whether it is edible or not.
Yes. We've often said that this particular dog will eat something just on the off chance it might be food.
Hell one of my sister's dog will eat a paper towel on the off chance that it is food. It can be clean right off the roll and the dog will eat it. This dog has also eaten an iPod because someone interrupted it sniffing it and has also eaten rocks from time to time (I didn't know dogs had gizzards).
The military wants to make sure they have a functional fighting force so they will ensure that the food has a high nutritional standard so it doesn't surprise me that would be more healthy than civilian food. Civilian food they want you to buy and consume more of so the companies make more money so you are dealing with 2 very different philosophies. I do hear that the preparation quality of military food leaves something to be desired but all institutional food seems to be that way.
My bet is it is some form for petroleum distillate or it sure seems to taste like it the last time I had one.
You also forgot about quantity being a driving force of the general American cuisine. So much of it is fillers, flavor additives, and compounds to give it reasonable texture all while being incredibly cheap and huge portions. Now add in the amount of salt, sugar, or fat that is added so it doesn't taste like crap and like you say the vast majority of US food is awful. Granted I like quick meals but I use good quality ingredients and make it at home. A perfect example of this was last night we had burgers and fries (chips for some of you), The only thing added to the meat was a little bit of salt and black pepper before getting tossed on the grill. The meat isn't the factory farm meat but came from a farmer who is a friend of the family and is better quality than anything I have seen in a store. The buns were made fresh last weekend when I made bread for the week, and the lettuces and tomatoes came from the garden. I have a fry cutter so I just put 6 potatoes through it and then put the fries in a plastic bag with some olive oil black pepper, and salt, shook well, and then baked them in the oven on a cookie sheet. It took about 40 minutes to make everything and that includes starting and getting the BBQ ready (I use charcoal). This is about the same about of time it takes to go and get fast food or take out cost a lot less and wasn't full of crap.
It gets even easier if you freeze or can whole meals. I recently spent a day canning up several gallons of beef stew and chili which will keep on shelves in the pantry without issue also I made and froze about 10lbs of home made ravioli. In doing that I disposed of the remaining meat from last year before new meat from the farmer and upcoming hunting seasons arrives. Plus now I have a bunch of meals that basically only need to be warmed up or put into a pot of boiling water to be ready. This weekend it looks like I will be making and canning tomato sauce to deal with all of the remaining tomatoes from the garden since we will probably be getting a hard frost in the next few days.
For a second I thought you were referring to a real American food the tinned spiced ham product.
It could be worse, it could be poutine
It only has one proper use and that is on a philly cheese steak and to order it properly request "wit wiz" not provolone like the fancy restaurants do it. The greasier the place the better it the sandwich.
Ever since my horrible experience with MickeyD in Japan (teryaki burgers, yuk!) I don't go to any chains when I travel abroad, and certainly not US ones.
I usually steer clear of chains when I travel but I do like going to foreign McDonald's since it usually makes for a good story since so many people just love them. Besides I did have the royal with cheese and some Kronenbourg 1664 at the one on the Champs de Elysee and at it outside, I mean if you are going to go for the bastardized experience just go whole hog and be done. That was the only time I ate at McDonald's in the 3 months I lived in France and I did it on my first day there. I have done the same in Ireland, Israel, Austria, Belgium, and India. Once that is out of the way then I go for the local fare and just try random stuff I haven't had before and usually am not disappointed.
Don't you know you are suppose to compress it first and then encrypt as the compression increases the entropy of the original file.
This obligatory XKCD now seems surprisingly relevant.
That sounds pretty close to what I want, I might have to give that a look. I want a SUV or truck with a manual transmission real 4WD (not the suburban soccer mom style 4WD), posi or locking differentials, granted I would probably want the roof rack since that is where I would put the deer. When not in 4WD is the FJ front or rear wheel drive since it seems that the vehicles that are normally FWD when not in 4WD have really weak 4WD systems.