There is no such thing as a market order that can unfairly affect anyone else's position in the market (with the exceptions of insider trading and front running, both of them are rightly illegal).
Problem is, insider trading is how the market runs today. And when we want to show how to punish insiders, we send Martha Stewart to jail.
Try buying a loaf of bread with a gold Doubloon. What are you expecting in change, Reales and Maravedis?
There is a reason why Charlemagne took Europe off of the Gold Standard for ~500 years. Gold was, at best, a Currency Of Account and kept in vaults, and utterly impractical for normal trade.
If the wheels fall off that badly, the only thing that will count as currency is a loader rifle and the little doodads in it. People will even give up there gold when the instrument of persuasion is presented to them
You pay $899 for an Applephone that has $220 worth of components in it and get a free dongle.
Do you seriously believe the Pixel phone's component cost is any higher than the iPhone's, Hater?
My son is on our family plan. His Samsung phone cost more than my iPhone 7.
The concept that Apple's phones are soooooooo damn expensive reminds me of the old PC vs Mac arguments when the Windows folks would trot out a Pro against the cheapest ready to fall of the usablity cliiff Windows machine. "Look how expensive it is!"
I have visions of these folks getting those cheap feature phones that are marketed to geriatrics on television.
Both google and apple having to back peddle on price, at launch, for the dongles, shows that they dont know what the market wants and are having to react rather than lead.
Oh, do tell us! I got my adapter when I bought my iPhone 7. Came right in the box. Wasn't a charge for it at all.
But hey, I don't want to get in the way of your little story.
The Amiga hardware was amazing. But what I miss the most was the software! I still have yet to find a text editor as solid and flexible as CygnusEd.
Oh hell yeah. I'm really nostalgic now for the old Amiga. There were a few problems very early on, and I used to get th eold guru meditation screen, but the writers were apparently passionate enough to put stability at the top of their list.
And, honestly, if you released some of the unpolished, buggy software that I see even today as shareware for the Amiga, you would have been laughed out of the scene.
After the early problems, the stability and quality of the ecosysterm was something that may never be matched again. MacOS comes fairly close, but the Windows ecosystem is remarkably unstable in all areas, and IMO is getting worse. There's been a new rash of update installed drivers that is playing hell with user's computers - again.
The solution to ending Facebook is simple: stop using. Well, simple in theory anyway. Facebook only has as much power as we (I'm speaking in the collective sense here) give it. Stop using it. Convince others to stop using it.
While you're at it, perfect cold fusion.
You might be surprised to see who facebook is tracking. Get NoScript and check out who is tracking you.
And there you have swallowed the "Big Lie" whole. The thing is that almost no sex worker is ever "trafficked". That is just a story vomited out by the anti-sex-work propaganda. No matter how often repeated, it is simply not true.
Wait - youmean LAw and Order Special Victims Unit isn't a documentary?
Many on the left would love to decriminalize sex work. I think if you look at opinion-pieces on this, you'll find virtually everyone for legalization to be either a libertarian or a liberal.
It's a real mixed bag. There are a lot of mid-30's early 40's and even later educated women who are having a hellava time finding men to marry and start a family with. They have pretty high standards for a male, and the situation with men avoiding college has meant a lot of women for not all that many men. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem....
It's sort of a unintentionally humorous piece, with the women in the article wondering why they can't get a man, but resorting to the old tactic of degrading men. Ant the lead-in to the article notes that these women are sassy. Sassy is rude and argumentative. I'm not certain where today's women go tthe idea that being rude and argumentative was attractive.
While I'm not into hookers, there is no question that they are financially less taxing than a wife and children.
And that is why a lot of women on the left and center of the spectrum are against it. It is a competitive disadvantage, and it gets worse for them as they age. Many are freezing eggs because they can't find a man that is acceptable to them to breed with. I don't know if that's going to actually work.
Especially when its technical howtos involving a lot of typed input like commands, that you have to either try and decipher the guy's accent or read the text from the video. If you explained in text you could put the commands right there for me to cut+paste.
Perhaps you have been blessed to only get excellent papers and written instructions written by the maximally adroit.
I read a lot of papers, and a lot of them are just written shit. I do not claim that because I read bad papers, that all of them are bad. I've seen crap on Youtube. I've seen really good videos that explain difficult subjects.
My judgement is that there are some good ones, and some bad ones, and the bad ones do not define the good ones as bad.
" Really the advent of Windows a very good graphical interface was the biggest advancement in placing PC's in the home"
The C64 was a home computer. You've head about the Amiga, right? Windows came about years after the Amiga, whose GUI still was a match for anything MS came up with up until Win 3.1 (and even then the Amiga was a proper virtual memory multitasking system unlike the lash up that was Windows until NT came along). The reason the Commodore lost wasn't technology - they were leagues ahead of the PC in software and hardware, it was purely utterly inept management.
Minor quibble - it wasn't until Windows 95 that the Windows PC was getting close. I had first a 500, then a 2000 and a 2500, then a 3000, which was my personal favorite, and my last Amiga was the 4000 with the Toaster.
They were amazing machines, far ahead of the competition for video and 3D work. Finally in either 1999 or 2000, I went to a Mac based nonlinear system, and since Newtek intelligently made their Lightwave 3D software multi-platform, I moved over pretty easily.
Working in video through the 1990's was definitely an experience, from the days of crash editing, to frame buffers, switchers and programmable edits, and it was really "exciting" to do a 3D transition to tape, with software that would load a animation frame into the buffer, then back the VTR to a calibrated point, then put it in record mode, and record exactly one frame, pause, and repeat the process. And heaven help you if you didn't calibrate it before each and every recording session. As well, on a really long animation, after the first day, the calibration was as likely to go bad as not. And just imagine the wear on the tape! One time the director asked why getting an animation to tape took so long, so I had him sit with me for a tiny part of a recording session. And it was damn sad to see how my gorgeous 3-D work was mushed up after going to videotape.
I miss my Amigas, but I don't miss a lot of the workflow in those days.
One can't help but wonder where we would be if Commodore was a well run company instead of being based on the KeyStone Cops management model.
In his talk at VCFMW 11 "Bil Herd: Tales from Inside Commodore" (an interesting talk you can find on youtube) he mentions a time when Commodore literally started shipping their own quality control rejects to stores for the Christmas season.
So when you can't so something about it, why is it a cause for concern? I mean, why waste your time unless there's something...anything you can do?
Studying things is fun and teaches us many important things. It is possible that Yellowstone is finished with it's caldera creation. In that case, the hot spot under it will move on to it's next position before becoming a supervolcano again, as we'll be in the clear for a few million years. That would be good to know just to ease people's minds
we have creationism, which discards almost ll las of physics, and invents new ones
As someone who calls himself a creationist, that's not creationism. Creationism is simply "God created the universe". How it works, i.e. the laws of physics, is not in doubt. Well, in any more doubt than they already are (reconciling GR and QM, anyone?).
My grandparents were creationists, and member of a Christian sect that tells us that they have the real truth, aand all others will go to hell.
Your definition of creationism is the weak model, brought out as a talking point when arguing for creationism. My grandparents used the strong model, in which god told them in the book that was sealed to man, as being created in 4004 B.C. Every single word written in the bible is truth as stated, so Adam and Eve begat, and their sons begat and we ended up here. The biblical flood happened just as described in the Bible, the entire world was covered up past Everest in 40 days and nights of rain, and every animal on earth that is here today was on that boat. And evolution does not exist.
You do not have the right to question their faith.
And I do not want to question yours either, because as long as you don't insist that your faith trumps my rights, You can believe whatever you want.
Or is there a law of physics that says "God is impossible"? If so, I missed that one in school.
No, but there is one that tells us that some foilks will use equal parts stupidity and irrelevance as a talking point. We can have good discussions, or we can have religious-right discussions, but not with statements like that.
The fact is, I cannot prove there is no god just as you cannot prove there is one. God is a matter of faith, and no evidence at all is needed for faith. In the end, faith is all you need - which is probably why there are so many different gods.
We are talking grant money of maybe 100k here. Put that into perspective with 824 billion for the military. I'd say 0.000012% of our defense spending is very well spent on something that really could level most of America to smoking ruin, unlike some rag tag terrorists we helped create ourselves to have an excuse to wage wars that financially reward key players. Hell, I'd even up that to 0.001% and still call it financially sound.
And just imagine the situation when we gratefully hand over the new Nucs for dear leader to play with.
Actually, that ain't happening, the amount of Pu needed just isn't there, and NASA is constantly scrounging to get some to fuel their thermovoltaic generators. Dear leader is talking a Manhattan District project number two.
But yes, it is a massive display of ignorance when some slashdotters and the crypto-conservatives moan and gnash their teeth over how the scientists are reaping the big bucks with their ill gotten research money. It's truly a drop in the bucket of the big picture.
And a good bit of it is of utility to the programs they are willing to make the country go bankrupt.
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There is no such thing as a market order that can unfairly affect anyone else's position in the market (with the exceptions of insider trading and front running, both of them are rightly illegal).
Problem is, insider trading is how the market runs today. And when we want to show how to punish insiders, we send Martha Stewart to jail.
The current system is built for cheating/gaming the system,
FTFY
Try buying a loaf of bread with a gold Doubloon. What are you expecting in change, Reales and Maravedis? There is a reason why Charlemagne took Europe off of the Gold Standard for ~500 years. Gold was, at best, a Currency Of Account and kept in vaults, and utterly impractical for normal trade.
If the wheels fall off that badly, the only thing that will count as currency is a loader rifle and the little doodads in it. People will even give up there gold when the instrument of persuasion is presented to them
People are quoting a USD$9 price for the adapter.
That's for extra/replacement adapters. One comes with the iPhone.
Shhh, you just invoked his cognitive dissonance. It's Apple, therefore it is too damn expensive! Except when it isn't.
You pay $899 for an Applephone that has $220 worth of components in it and get a free dongle.
Do you seriously believe the Pixel phone's component cost is any higher than the iPhone's, Hater?
My son is on our family plan. His Samsung phone cost more than my iPhone 7.
The concept that Apple's phones are soooooooo damn expensive reminds me of the old PC vs Mac arguments when the Windows folks would trot out a Pro against the cheapest ready to fall of the usablity cliiff Windows machine. "Look how expensive it is!"
I have visions of these folks getting those cheap feature phones that are marketed to geriatrics on television.
Both google and apple having to back peddle on price, at launch, for the dongles, shows that they dont know what the market wants and are having to react rather than lead.
Oh, do tell us! I got my adapter when I bought my iPhone 7. Came right in the box. Wasn't a charge for it at all.
But hey, I don't want to get in the way of your little story.
It's probably something as simple as exaggerated ego: "We think we are twice as good as Apple so our adapter should cost twice as much".
Apple's adapters come with the iPhone.
The Amiga hardware was amazing. But what I miss the most was the software! I still have yet to find a text editor as solid and flexible as CygnusEd.
Oh hell yeah. I'm really nostalgic now for the old Amiga. There were a few problems very early on, and I used to get th eold guru meditation screen, but the writers were apparently passionate enough to put stability at the top of their list. And, honestly, if you released some of the unpolished, buggy software that I see even today as shareware for the Amiga, you would have been laughed out of the scene.
After the early problems, the stability and quality of the ecosysterm was something that may never be matched again. MacOS comes fairly close, but the Windows ecosystem is remarkably unstable in all areas, and IMO is getting worse. There's been a new rash of update installed drivers that is playing hell with user's computers - again.
I need to stop before I get misty eyed :(
I'm not even trying to argue, just rubbing it in. :)
Then go forth, and enjoy. Just remember not to hurt him too badly, because he just lost his health care - like he demanded...........
Quite well. Northern Europeans score pretty high on the scale of happiness. And they mostly have universal health care.
No point in arguing with the Trumpian Right winger. Even if you do corner them, they'll just switch to the no true Right wing paradise argument.
Isn't it already legal in Nevada?
I have no idea how the locals see it or what regulation there is but wouldn't that be a place to look at what works and what doesn't?
Yes it is legal.
The solution to ending Facebook is simple: stop using. Well, simple in theory anyway. Facebook only has as much power as we (I'm speaking in the collective sense here) give it. Stop using it. Convince others to stop using it. While you're at it, perfect cold fusion.
You might be surprised to see who facebook is tracking. Get NoScript and check out who is tracking you.
And there you have swallowed the "Big Lie" whole. The thing is that almost no sex worker is ever "trafficked". That is just a story vomited out by the anti-sex-work propaganda. No matter how often repeated, it is simply not true.
Wait - youmean LAw and Order Special Victims Unit isn't a documentary?
But both sides!!! BOTH SIDES!!!
(Sidenote: A major reason for Third Wave Feminism is that second wave really did have strong negative rhetoric about sex work,
I thought it was manspreading, mansplaining, and patriarchy based snow removal.
Many on the left would love to decriminalize sex work. I think if you look at opinion-pieces on this, you'll find virtually everyone for legalization to be either a libertarian or a liberal.
It's a real mixed bag. There are a lot of mid-30's early 40's and even later educated women who are having a hellava time finding men to marry and start a family with. They have pretty high standards for a male, and the situation with men avoiding college has meant a lot of women for not all that many men. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem....
It's sort of a unintentionally humorous piece, with the women in the article wondering why they can't get a man, but resorting to the old tactic of degrading men. Ant the lead-in to the article notes that these women are sassy. Sassy is rude and argumentative. I'm not certain where today's women go tthe idea that being rude and argumentative was attractive.
While I'm not into hookers, there is no question that they are financially less taxing than a wife and children.
And that is why a lot of women on the left and center of the spectrum are against it. It is a competitive disadvantage, and it gets worse for them as they age. Many are freezing eggs because they can't find a man that is acceptable to them to breed with. I don't know if that's going to actually work.
ivan you are one stupid son of a whore go back to interning sucking musks cock faggot
Seriously - is that the best you can do? It hardly makes sense, Muskmelon.
Absolutely this...
Especially when its technical howtos involving a lot of typed input like commands, that you have to either try and decipher the guy's accent or read the text from the video. If you explained in text you could put the commands right there for me to cut+paste.
Perhaps you have been blessed to only get excellent papers and written instructions written by the maximally adroit.
I read a lot of papers, and a lot of them are just written shit. I do not claim that because I read bad papers, that all of them are bad. I've seen crap on Youtube. I've seen really good videos that explain difficult subjects.
My judgement is that there are some good ones, and some bad ones, and the bad ones do not define the good ones as bad.
" Really the advent of Windows a very good graphical interface was the biggest advancement in placing PC's in the home"
The C64 was a home computer. You've head about the Amiga, right? Windows came about years after the Amiga, whose GUI still was a match for anything MS came up with up until Win 3.1 (and even then the Amiga was a proper virtual memory multitasking system unlike the lash up that was Windows until NT came along). The reason the Commodore lost wasn't technology - they were leagues ahead of the PC in software and hardware, it was purely utterly inept management.
Minor quibble - it wasn't until Windows 95 that the Windows PC was getting close. I had first a 500, then a 2000 and a 2500, then a 3000, which was my personal favorite, and my last Amiga was the 4000 with the Toaster.
They were amazing machines, far ahead of the competition for video and 3D work. Finally in either 1999 or 2000, I went to a Mac based nonlinear system, and since Newtek intelligently made their Lightwave 3D software multi-platform, I moved over pretty easily.
Working in video through the 1990's was definitely an experience, from the days of crash editing, to frame buffers, switchers and programmable edits, and it was really "exciting" to do a 3D transition to tape, with software that would load a animation frame into the buffer, then back the VTR to a calibrated point, then put it in record mode, and record exactly one frame, pause, and repeat the process. And heaven help you if you didn't calibrate it before each and every recording session. As well, on a really long animation, after the first day, the calibration was as likely to go bad as not. And just imagine the wear on the tape! One time the director asked why getting an animation to tape took so long, so I had him sit with me for a tiny part of a recording session. And it was damn sad to see how my gorgeous 3-D work was mushed up after going to videotape.
I miss my Amigas, but I don't miss a lot of the workflow in those days.
One can't help but wonder where we would be if Commodore was a well run company instead of being based on the KeyStone Cops management model.
In his talk at VCFMW 11 "Bil Herd: Tales from Inside Commodore" (an interesting talk you can find on youtube) he mentions a time when Commodore literally started shipping their own quality control rejects to stores for the Christmas season.
I think that was actually "Tales from the Crypt"
Is it just me or has people having the attention of a gold fish become worryingly common these days?
It's the other way around: people with superior attention spans ignore the video in favour of reading.
Stupid people like to watch video. Smart people prefer to read. That 30m video has about 4m worth of content.
And really smart people can read, or watch a video, or learn in any way needed.
It's also one of those things we can't do much about.
Recently saw a suggestion from NASA JPL to try to tap some of the heat to stabilize it.
Wow- that sounds like a plot for some disaster movie where they try it out and the whole process gets away from them. Interesting though!
the first paragraph is fine, and is all a non-nerd needs. If anyone continues to read, it is because THEY WANT THE DETAILS.
Wikipedia has plenty of problems, but "too much correct information" is NOT one of them.
Exactly this! If people want the 5th grader's version of technical and physics issues they can find 5th grade level science sources on the internet.
So when you can't so something about it, why is it a cause for concern? I mean, why waste your time unless there's something...anything you can do?
Studying things is fun and teaches us many important things. It is possible that Yellowstone is finished with it's caldera creation. In that case, the hot spot under it will move on to it's next position before becoming a supervolcano again, as we'll be in the clear for a few million years. That would be good to know just to ease people's minds
we have creationism, which discards almost ll las of physics, and invents new ones
As someone who calls himself a creationist, that's not creationism. Creationism is simply "God created the universe". How it works, i.e. the laws of physics, is not in doubt. Well, in any more doubt than they already are (reconciling GR and QM, anyone?).
My grandparents were creationists, and member of a Christian sect that tells us that they have the real truth, aand all others will go to hell.
Your definition of creationism is the weak model, brought out as a talking point when arguing for creationism. My grandparents used the strong model, in which god told them in the book that was sealed to man, as being created in 4004 B.C. Every single word written in the bible is truth as stated, so Adam and Eve begat, and their sons begat and we ended up here. The biblical flood happened just as described in the Bible, the entire world was covered up past Everest in 40 days and nights of rain, and every animal on earth that is here today was on that boat. And evolution does not exist.
You do not have the right to question their faith.
And I do not want to question yours either, because as long as you don't insist that your faith trumps my rights, You can believe whatever you want.
Or is there a law of physics that says "God is impossible"? If so, I missed that one in school.
No, but there is one that tells us that some foilks will use equal parts stupidity and irrelevance as a talking point. We can have good discussions, or we can have religious-right discussions, but not with statements like that.
The fact is, I cannot prove there is no god just as you cannot prove there is one. God is a matter of faith, and no evidence at all is needed for faith. In the end, faith is all you need - which is probably why there are so many different gods.
We are talking grant money of maybe 100k here. Put that into perspective with 824 billion for the military. I'd say 0.000012% of our defense spending is very well spent on something that really could level most of America to smoking ruin, unlike some rag tag terrorists we helped create ourselves to have an excuse to wage wars that financially reward key players. Hell, I'd even up that to 0.001% and still call it financially sound.
And just imagine the situation when we gratefully hand over the new Nucs for dear leader to play with.
Actually, that ain't happening, the amount of Pu needed just isn't there, and NASA is constantly scrounging to get some to fuel their thermovoltaic generators. Dear leader is talking a Manhattan District project number two.
But yes, it is a massive display of ignorance when some slashdotters and the crypto-conservatives moan and gnash their teeth over how the scientists are reaping the big bucks with their ill gotten research money. It's truly a drop in the bucket of the big picture.
And a good bit of it is of utility to the programs they are willing to make the country go bankrupt.