Well he thought so the second time he had to think about it any way, he denied a judgement as matter of law just before the verdict, wonder what changed in the mean time.
I have to agree, just before the jury verdict (ie. after seeing all the evidence) the judge denied a judgement as a matter of law... and then turned around and essentially granted it on appeal after the jury verdict. It smells to high heaven.
Except due to globalism, overpopulation and the carefully engineered lack of independence in pretty much every economy in the world (very few countries are both energy and food independent) capitalists have entrenched themselves better than ever before. A local uprising is harder to pull off now, look at how Iceland got put on the terrorism watchlist when they didn't immediately bail out the banks, and with modern technology they can set up a security machine Stalin could only have dreamed of.
I don't know what specific scheme you have in mind, but there are a huge number of different ways to reconstruct holograms. The major problem with holograms is that cinematography where each viewer sees the scene from a different perspective becomes a bit hard. Really each viewer needs his own version of the hologram, rather than having one big hologram viewed by multiple viewers.
I think the ability for the HVS to dynamically adapt is really undersold by a lot of the chicken littles.
My eyes are stuck focusing on a bright screen for a third of the day and it hasn't made me unable to see normally... I don't think 3D is going to do it either. Things like focus and convergence are automatic and decoupled systems, and focus is a weak cue so I doubt the feedback mismatch is going to be a big deal in the end. People with glasses already experience a change in convergence/focus matching every time they take off and put on their glasses...
PC gaming is the ultimate application of stereoscopic 3D at the moment (although you need a passive glasses solution or a CRT to get good stereo without ghosting). We sit dead straight in front of our monitors, and close too so it fills a large field of view... great for immersion.
Most console gamers have a screen which only fills a very small field of view (apart from the ones with a projector setup) and of course their hardware can't hack it.
With films you really need a good seat to get the best out of it.
As long as free trade is god governments are only able to dick around in the margins, especially in countries which have basically no comparative advantage and have been running trade deficits for decades. Nearly the entire first world is living on the dole.
I don't buy the safety claims for sodium cooled reactors... MSR can burn low grade fuel as well, and those are more interesting... but sodium cooled fast reactors NIMBY.
The reactors are much safer, but storage pools the world over basically have no backup plan in event of serious leaks and are outside of main containment... I wonder if it will become cost effective to go to near 100% dry storage now.
Equating wealth redistribution with welfare is a straw man. You do know you are arguing against Milton Friedman here right? Even he saw the limits of flat tax... he was in favour of negative income tax for the low income brackets.
Greece and Portugal didn't get into trouble because of their work ethic, they got into trouble because they can't manage money well. At both the local and global levels we have rewarded short term mismanagement of money on a huge scale, that is the source of the problem. Greece and Portugal should have been paying higher interests long ago. When they still had their own currency this wouldn't have happened, they would have been forced to devalue long before they got to this point, because they could not have been black mailed into privatizing their natural monopolies. This is the real background of the crisis, the world bankers are treating the natural resources of countries (land/power/water) as collateral for the debt... the WTO and the Euro have took the most effective tools these governments had to right their economy away, so selling their country out from under them is that is left... well that or default.
I think the PIGS should just default, one big default would stop this kind of economic manipulation dead... without a default the games will continue and sovereign debt will continue to rise...
In my opinion one of the best mice as far as side button access goes, my thumb can never reach them well on other mice. My switches held up for years, but mine had half a magnet in it rattling inside when I got it new (one of those which cables are pulled through) when I got it and I had to put a bit of cardboard under a microswitch before it reliably connected to the side button. Also lots of people get broken wires in the cable.
Atrocious QA, iffy build quality... still the best mouse ever. If I wasn't tight on cash I'd buy a couple as backup.
I wouldn't really mind that too much... at that scale it still goes towards consumption.
Once individuals start hiding 10s to 100s of millions in pure financial games which create nothing more than debt and more debt in the economy, that's when it becomes a problem.
Just because you reform doesn't mean you can't do it by reducing the number of tax codes. Look at what the Lib Dems are trying to do in the UK.
The low income individuals are exempt because they are the principal consumers driving demand, and there is a demand gap (which is never going to go away any more). If you see redistribution as a necessity for a healthy economy rather than something to be ashamed of there is really no reason to fear a parallel between GE and low income earners.
They'd still prefer employees living in on site dorms and only getting enough money to pay for the upkeep of their shanty town living relatives though... which they can get in addition to the tax break elsewhere.
Shipping costs, automation and a university system still producing the cream of the crop of IP producers are about the only thing keeping productive work local in the US. Doesn't help keep working stiffs gainfully employed though.
The problem is that corporate tax is the last tax relatively close to the wealthy.
Estate tax, capital gains tax, property tax, import tariffs on products high on the value added scale, export tariffs on products low on the value scale... of course there are better taxes, but those have already been dismantled (apart from property tax, but because that is local in the US it doesn't serve any redistributive purpose).
In the status quo situation before the crisis you would have been right... it caused wealth concentration by allowing the banks to offset inflation by holding the debt without actually investing in the economy.
How exactly would would nationalizing the Fed change the situation now though? Bernanke is willing to monetize debt and doing it. As you say, interest paid on debt held by the Fed ends up back with the government any way... so the money being issued by the Fed at the moment are effectively greenbacks. It's government which is letting you down by refusing to spend those greenbacks well (you need infrastructure and energy... and since that energy has to come on line fast and no one likes nuclear any more it should be solar thermal, you have the deserts for it).
All because inflation is supposedly evil... one of the great propaganda successes.
Aren't I supposed to know that Tariffs are evil and the cause of the great depression? Even though international trade was a tiny sliver of the economy.
Whereas letting cumulative trade imbalances, global debt to GDP and wealth inequality ratios go higher and higher isn't going to cause far more suffering in the end? The global economy has been going out of balance for 30 years now and there is still no solution in sight... unless we actually reverse course I'd rather see disaster and hopefully a reset sooner than later. The later it comes the worse it will get and the greater chance that the outcome will be a neo-feudal police state.
If the first world made a truly big push towards energy/food independence, reduction of wealth inequality and fair trade rather than free trade we might be able to reverse course... but at the moment a global depression combined with a massive ownership grab for government/land/power/water by the top 0.1% is the most likely future, a grab which will be very hard to reverse.
"If the investment banks get some of the top engineering talent then they can build better systems that can be more nimble at identifying tech sectors which could use cash to find these new and exciting projects. Then those companies will be able to hire more engineers to work on the projects."
It might model the problem space, but it doesn't model the solution space.
We will always need some people to write the optimizing compilers to match the two... and some of us just need the performance and work with relatively simple algorithms, trying to internalize a functional programming language and determine the imperative (ie. real world) program flow in my head just gets in the way.
You can always make it the default... so the first time a CA only certified website is shown ask "Do you want to add an exception for this website (if the certificate changes you will have to renew this exception) or a general exception to accept CA certifications to authenticate websites?" with some explanation that the last option is relatively safe, and will require no future user input, but websites which hash their certificates using DNSSEC are safer.
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Well he thought so the second time he had to think about it any way, he denied a judgement as matter of law just before the verdict, wonder what changed in the mean time.
I have to agree, just before the jury verdict (ie. after seeing all the evidence) the judge denied a judgement as a matter of law ... and then turned around and essentially granted it on appeal after the jury verdict. It smells to high heaven.
Except due to globalism, overpopulation and the carefully engineered lack of independence in pretty much every economy in the world (very few countries are both energy and food independent) capitalists have entrenched themselves better than ever before. A local uprising is harder to pull off now, look at how Iceland got put on the terrorism watchlist when they didn't immediately bail out the banks, and with modern technology they can set up a security machine Stalin could only have dreamed of.
I don't know what specific scheme you have in mind, but there are a huge number of different ways to reconstruct holograms. The major problem with holograms is that cinematography where each viewer sees the scene from a different perspective becomes a bit hard. Really each viewer needs his own version of the hologram, rather than having one big hologram viewed by multiple viewers.
I think the ability for the HVS to dynamically adapt is really undersold by a lot of the chicken littles.
My eyes are stuck focusing on a bright screen for a third of the day and it hasn't made me unable to see normally ... I don't think 3D is going to do it either. Things like focus and convergence are automatic and decoupled systems, and focus is a weak cue so I doubt the feedback mismatch is going to be a big deal in the end. People with glasses already experience a change in convergence/focus matching every time they take off and put on their glasses ...
PC gaming is the ultimate application of stereoscopic 3D at the moment (although you need a passive glasses solution or a CRT to get good stereo without ghosting). We sit dead straight in front of our monitors, and close too so it fills a large field of view ... great for immersion.
Most console gamers have a screen which only fills a very small field of view (apart from the ones with a projector setup) and of course their hardware can't hack it.
With films you really need a good seat to get the best out of it.
As long as free trade is god governments are only able to dick around in the margins, especially in countries which have basically no comparative advantage and have been running trade deficits for decades. Nearly the entire first world is living on the dole.
I don't buy the safety claims for sodium cooled reactors ... MSR can burn low grade fuel as well, and those are more interesting ... but sodium cooled fast reactors NIMBY.
The reactors are much safer, but storage pools the world over basically have no backup plan in event of serious leaks and are outside of main containment ... I wonder if it will become cost effective to go to near 100% dry storage now.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/reducing-hazards-spent-fuel.html
The future is probably butanol, requires chemical conversion but can burn in petrol engines.
Equating wealth redistribution with welfare is a straw man. You do know you are arguing against Milton Friedman here right? Even he saw the limits of flat tax ... he was in favour of negative income tax for the low income brackets.
Greece and Portugal didn't get into trouble because of their work ethic, they got into trouble because they can't manage money well. At both the local and global levels we have rewarded short term mismanagement of money on a huge scale, that is the source of the problem. Greece and Portugal should have been paying higher interests long ago. When they still had their own currency this wouldn't have happened, they would have been forced to devalue long before they got to this point, because they could not have been black mailed into privatizing their natural monopolies. This is the real background of the crisis, the world bankers are treating the natural resources of countries (land/power/water) as collateral for the debt ... the WTO and the Euro have took the most effective tools these governments had to right their economy away, so selling their country out from under them is that is left ... well that or default.
I think the PIGS should just default, one big default would stop this kind of economic manipulation dead ... without a default the games will continue and sovereign debt will continue to rise ...
In my opinion one of the best mice as far as side button access goes, my thumb can never reach them well on other mice. My switches held up for years, but mine had half a magnet in it rattling inside when I got it new (one of those which cables are pulled through) when I got it and I had to put a bit of cardboard under a microswitch before it reliably connected to the side button. Also lots of people get broken wires in the cable.
Atrocious QA, iffy build quality ... still the best mouse ever. If I wasn't tight on cash I'd buy a couple as backup.
I wouldn't really mind that too much ... at that scale it still goes towards consumption.
Once individuals start hiding 10s to 100s of millions in pure financial games which create nothing more than debt and more debt in the economy, that's when it becomes a problem.
Just because you reform doesn't mean you can't do it by reducing the number of tax codes. Look at what the Lib Dems are trying to do in the UK.
The low income individuals are exempt because they are the principal consumers driving demand, and there is a demand gap (which is never going to go away any more). If you see redistribution as a necessity for a healthy economy rather than something to be ashamed of there is really no reason to fear a parallel between GE and low income earners.
They'd still prefer employees living in on site dorms and only getting enough money to pay for the upkeep of their shanty town living relatives though ... which they can get in addition to the tax break elsewhere.
Shipping costs, automation and a university system still producing the cream of the crop of IP producers are about the only thing keeping productive work local in the US. Doesn't help keep working stiffs gainfully employed though.
The problem is that corporate tax is the last tax relatively close to the wealthy.
Estate tax, capital gains tax, property tax, import tariffs on products high on the value added scale, export tariffs on products low on the value scale ... of course there are better taxes, but those have already been dismantled (apart from property tax, but because that is local in the US it doesn't serve any redistributive purpose).
In the status quo situation before the crisis you would have been right ... it caused wealth concentration by allowing the banks to offset inflation by holding the debt without actually investing in the economy.
How exactly would would nationalizing the Fed change the situation now though? Bernanke is willing to monetize debt and doing it. As you say, interest paid on debt held by the Fed ends up back with the government any way ... so the money being issued by the Fed at the moment are effectively greenbacks. It's government which is letting you down by refusing to spend those greenbacks well (you need infrastructure and energy ... and since that energy has to come on line fast and no one likes nuclear any more it should be solar thermal, you have the deserts for it).
All because inflation is supposedly evil ... one of the great propaganda successes.
Aren't I supposed to know that Tariffs are evil and the cause of the great depression? Even though international trade was a tiny sliver of the economy.
Whereas letting cumulative trade imbalances, global debt to GDP and wealth inequality ratios go higher and higher isn't going to cause far more suffering in the end? The global economy has been going out of balance for 30 years now and there is still no solution in sight ... unless we actually reverse course I'd rather see disaster and hopefully a reset sooner than later. The later it comes the worse it will get and the greater chance that the outcome will be a neo-feudal police state.
If the first world made a truly big push towards energy/food independence, reduction of wealth inequality and fair trade rather than free trade we might be able to reverse course ... but at the moment a global depression combined with a massive ownership grab for government/land/power/water by the top 0.1% is the most likely future, a grab which will be very hard to reverse.
"If the investment banks get some of the top engineering talent then they can build better systems that can be more nimble at identifying tech sectors which could use cash to find these new and exciting projects. Then those companies will be able to hire more engineers to work on the projects."
Nice theory, looks around ... yeah, nice theory.
Exactly, so they should all learn Occam :p
It might model the problem space, but it doesn't model the solution space.
We will always need some people to write the optimizing compilers to match the two ... and some of us just need the performance and work with relatively simple algorithms, trying to internalize a functional programming language and determine the imperative (ie. real world) program flow in my head just gets in the way.
Functional and logic programming get in the way of some aspects of algorithmic analysis too ... the hardware is imperative after all.
You can always make it the default ... so the first time a CA only certified website is shown ask "Do you want to add an exception for this website (if the certificate changes you will have to renew this exception) or a general exception to accept CA certifications to authenticate websites?" with some explanation that the last option is relatively safe, and will require no future user input, but websites which hash their certificates using DNSSEC are safer.
A gentle push in the right direction.
He's unlikely naturally sweet, so presumably he used prestidigitation for seasoning as well.