I was just thinking after my last post... if we are exploiting a loophole based on lack of technology at the time of writing of the law... then there are many, many things... that are VERY lethal yet, not hostile.
I would presume lasers aren't hostile either since the earliest military use (documented) that I have found with a light google scrub is late 70's, early 80's.
Any others want to chime in with new military tech that comes after the 1973 War Powers Resolution?
Duh, robots! When they say drones, do they mean piloted or unpiloted? So... Skynet will be able to purge the world of humans in an unhostile fashion.
Enough (of the right) lawyers and you get to modify reality.
That's pretty neat.
"No, dropping a cinder block thru your windshield was NOT a hostile act, just clumsy, oopsie!"
In all seriousness though, he's exploiting a loophole it seems, because the law was written in 1973, before drones existed.
"It should come as no surprise that there would be some disagreements, even within an administration, regarding the application of a statute that is nearly 40 years old to a unique and evolving conflict. Those disagreements are ordinary and healthy," he added.
Somehow, I think bitcoin is going to flame out in a rash of digital thievery when criminals realize that it is easier to steal someone's bitcoin file than it is to mine it or even look for credit card info.
And...
If you do it correctly...
it's not illegal! Or what you would be charged with is orders of magnitude less than grand larceny.
The pool GMS was playing in... Lake Baikal. The pool bitcoin junk pushers are playing in, Lake Elsinore.
I'm sure you could do it... but they would be shallow dives. Try it with Google Spreadsheets, run some numbers thru it. It would be painfully slow.
One thing though I should address here, that I didn't in my other post. The ability to easily automate would make the glacial pace (that's a good pun) not that bad.
About $2 million is traded at mt gox every day. And it is always going up. You could get $500,000 in about a week without effecting prices much. No problem.
I think the ratio to avoid problems (affecting the value) would tend more to 1/1000 rather than 1/28.
40 weeks... and at the same time, you might make more by not causing the market to sag. Thus, less effect.
A big push into the system over a week would cause the last coins you trade to possibly be worth less over the course of the week. Especially with people "waiting for a dump" which would possibly cause a panic dump.
Smooth it out over a half year, 3/4 of a year... people will forget.
Listen to any gold bug discuss the intrinsic value of gold, as if it has some inherent value beyond what people will pay you for it. Or, if you'd prefer, all the people who can't sell their house because they can't get what they paid for it and it's "Worth more"
Considering EVERY single country on the planet has some holdings in gold... I believe inherent value defers to what people will pay you for it.
IN FACT... as I am liquidating my gold holdings [yes I know I'm probably losing money as we aren't near peak], I have a few items... where their value, their "INTRINSIC VALUE" is way less than the fact that they are solid gold.
I'm a tad confused about your comment re: chefs and awesome ingredients - if you have good ingredients, it's pretty easy to make good food.
With mediocre ingredients you need a lot of skill to make good food..
What he is saying, all these asshat chefs that say fresh ingredients are all you need... while they are sitting in their multi-million dollar castle (kitchen).
All you need are the BASIC cooking utensils... THEN all you need are fresh ingredients.
I think instead of homes, where even if things are "routine" they are more likely to escape routine, such control would be MUCH more helpful and a benefit to the small business owner.
Imagine a program like Tasker, as you approach your GPS locale, or your phone associates with your wifi in your shop, it triggers the lights on, the open sign... maybe even starts your brew.
Even with X10, it took a few precious seconds to activate my "opening light scheme". [Just to point out before I have detractors, the time to start up the lights, was spread out. Not sure of all municipalities/power co's but mine charged for peak loads. If I was to turn on all the lights at the same time, (fluorescent), I would get dinged pretty mightily. This was the 90s... possibly this has now changed?]
Instead, all automated, I drive up to the store and by the time I open up, I won't have to tell a waiting customer to hold on a minute as I do the opening routine.
No, bitcoins are worthless outside of a speculative bubble.
Bitcoin is a poorly thought out approach to money, based on the common misconception that money gets its value by some magical agreement amongst people.
AC only cause I hate to waste my modding...
You do realize... or maybe have not had the proper schooling to realize... we started out with a barter system. When people started becoming useless did money become an important factor, as someone with no skills has nothing to barter.
You just gave me a great idea for a Chrome/Firefox plug-in. Universal replace. You set up key value pairs.. every instance of [key] on every page you visit will be replaced with [value].
Best web filter there is... and it's browser agnostic since it affects the stream at a proxy level.
I've set it up for a parent before where every single instance of "a word they don't want their child to see" was replaced with some irrelevant 'kid' word.
I speculated that such an approach was almost guaranteed to end up as an environmental disaster in one way or another. My view on that may have softened a little since that post, but it would take some extraordinary proof for me to believe that it wouldn't end up resulting in thousands of plumes of heavy metal laden electrolyte under filling stations everywhere.
Most older gas stations are superfund qualifying sites anyway... so, do you have a point?
A Ponzi scheme is an investment opportunity where the history of pay-outs which supposedly demonstrates its viability actually all comes from investment funds.
Yeah... did you listen to your definition?
a) not an investment opportunity any more than "buying" euros at the bank and then selling them when the dollar slumps.
b) there are no pay-outs because (see a) it's not an investment opportunity.
c) it's viability is that it's another fiat currency, it is not based on 'investment funds' (see a).
The fact that (a) exists, means it's not a ponzi scheme.
I will allow bubble... which can exist for any named commodity. But that exists for any 'unbacked' currency as well. For example, the American Dollar.
Then there is monopoly money, bitcoins, etc. If some people collect most monopoly money and start a big campaign to give them value, it does not make them comparable to the aforementioned forms of currency.
BitCoin is no more monopoly money than that multicolored shit they give out at the banks.
So... shun one fiat currency in favor of another, good game plan.
Honestly we need to start passing out forceps so the americans drinking the kool aid can at least have a cranialectomy so their straws don't have to be so long.
Slashdot Mirror
A good henchman, enter someone trying to get advanced
weather satellites cancelled.
Nice move...!
-AI
I was just thinking after my last post... if we are
exploiting a loophole based on lack of technology
at the time of writing of the law... then there are
many, many things... that are VERY lethal yet,
not hostile.
I would presume lasers aren't hostile either since
the earliest military use (documented) that I have
found with a light google scrub is late 70's, early
80's.
Any others want to chime in with new military tech
that comes after the 1973 War Powers Resolution?
Duh, robots! When they say drones, do they mean
piloted or unpiloted? So... Skynet will be able to
purge the world of humans in an unhostile fashion.
-AI
Enough (of the right) lawyers and you get to modify reality.
That's pretty neat.
"No, dropping a cinder block thru your windshield was NOT a hostile act,
just clumsy, oopsie!"
In all seriousness though, he's exploiting a loophole
it seems, because the law was written in 1973, before
drones existed.
"It should come as no surprise that there would be some disagreements, even within an administration, regarding the application of a statute that is nearly 40 years old to a unique and evolving conflict. Those disagreements are ordinary and healthy," he added.
-AI
Somehow, I think bitcoin is going to flame out in a rash of digital thievery when criminals realize that it is easier to steal someone's bitcoin file than it is to mine it or even look for credit card info.
And...
If you do it correctly...
it's not illegal! Or what you would be charged
with is orders of magnitude less than grand larceny.
That is the part that worries me in the interim.
-AI
GMS did it, so can you.
Ahh, good point, but lets study liquidity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_liquidity
The pool GMS was playing in... Lake Baikal.
The pool bitcoin junk pushers are playing in, Lake Elsinore.
I'm sure you could do it... but they would be
shallow dives. Try it with Google Spreadsheets,
run some numbers thru it. It would be painfully
slow.
One thing though I should address here, that I
didn't in my other post. The ability to easily automate
would make the glacial pace (that's a good pun)
not that bad.
-AI
About $2 million is traded at mt gox every day. And it is always going up. You could get $500,000 in about a week without effecting prices much. No problem.
I think the ratio to avoid problems (affecting the value) would
tend more to 1/1000 rather than 1/28.
40 weeks... and at the same time, you might make more by
not causing the market to sag. Thus, less effect.
A big push into the system over a week would cause the last
coins you trade to possibly be worth less over the course of
the week. Especially with people "waiting for a dump" which
would possibly cause a panic dump.
Smooth it out over a half year, 3/4 of a year... people will forget.
-AI
Listen to any gold bug discuss the intrinsic value of gold, as if it has some inherent value beyond what people will pay you for it. Or, if you'd prefer, all the people who can't sell their house because they can't get what they paid for it and it's "Worth more"
Considering EVERY single country on the planet
has some holdings in gold... I believe inherent value
defers to what people will pay you for it.
IN FACT... as I am liquidating my gold holdings
[yes I know I'm probably losing money as we aren't
near peak], I have a few items... where their value,
their "INTRINSIC VALUE" is way less than the fact
that they are solid gold.
Prime example, this lighter... can't find anyone to
buy it... because it's gold value is higher than the
intrinsic value of it being a lighter.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7fN_y9Jib-Y/TXkuulIDmqI/AAAAAAAABeU/y8sTvikRj8Y/s1600/1947+Ronson+Lighter+Banker.jpg
Get it?
And it is in NO WAY NEAR the valuation basis of
real estate. That's just a stupid ass analogy man.
-AI
So, the most common age of the user is 13?
Or the most common age of their offspring?
-AI
I'm a tad confused about your comment re: chefs and awesome ingredients - if you have good ingredients, it's pretty easy to make good food.
With mediocre ingredients you need a lot of skill to make good food..
What he is saying, all these asshat chefs that say fresh
ingredients are all you need... while they are sitting in
their multi-million dollar castle (kitchen).
All you need are the BASIC cooking utensils... THEN
all you need are fresh ingredients.
-AI
You DO realize this is why fanboys get picked on?
Citing facts that you don't like doesn't make someone a fanboy.
Android has recently surpassed 100 million units. iOS has recently surpassed 200 million units.
I posted a link to my data... why did you not?
-AI
I can do all that already in my NYC apartment!
Although, to be fair, not because it's high tech. It's just that small.
Really? No one? cmon that even deserved a rimshot apart from a +1 Funny.
-AI
At my house, we've replaced our door locks with SchlageLink devices.
You techies out there that haven't tried this system...
you're missing out.
My wife fought tooth and nail against it... it only took a
few times of not having to dig for keys for her to love it.
Of course I never mentioned to her that I expect it to
be hackable someday, lol.
-AI
When I had a brick and mortar, I used X10.
Was much easier to control lights, switches, etc.
I think instead of homes, where even if things are
"routine" they are more likely to escape routine,
such control would be MUCH more helpful and a
benefit to the small business owner.
Imagine a program like Tasker, as you approach
your GPS locale, or your phone associates with
your wifi in your shop, it triggers the lights on, the
open sign... maybe even starts your brew.
Even with X10, it took a few precious seconds to
activate my "opening light scheme".
[Just to point out before I have detractors, the time
to start up the lights, was spread out. Not sure of
all municipalities/power co's but mine charged for
peak loads. If I was to turn on all the lights at the
same time, (fluorescent), I would get dinged pretty
mightily. This was the 90s... possibly this has now
changed?]
Instead, all automated, I drive up to the store and
by the time I open up, I won't have to tell a waiting
customer to hold on a minute as I do the opening
routine.
I can just say, c'mon in!
-AI
Don't worry, you won't have to. In spite of the selective scope the author chose, iOS vastly outnumbers Android.
In your head? Using special math? Different definition of 'vastly outnumbers'?
Sigh, crap like that is insanely funny.
Especially considering from Jan to this month, Android doubled the growth seen by iOS.
http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/04/android-ios-see-continued-growth-in-u-s-at-cost-of-rim/
You DO realize this is why fanboys get picked on?
-AI
Are your doors Self-Satisfied?
If you're thinking of threads that block, from what I remember misterhouse was always more of a "poll, then sleep awhile, repeat" kinda architecture.
Whoosh?
I think Marvin would shake his head.
-AI
No, bitcoins are worthless outside of a speculative bubble.
Bitcoin is a poorly thought out approach to money, based on the common misconception that money gets its value by some magical agreement amongst people.
AC only cause I hate to waste my modding...
You do realize... or maybe have not had the proper
schooling to realize... we started out with a barter
system. When people started becoming useless
did money become an important factor, as someone
with no skills has nothing to barter.
So... common misconceptions abound.
-@|
You just gave me a great idea for a Chrome/Firefox plug-in. Universal replace. You set up key value pairs.. every instance of [key] on every page you visit will be replaced with [value].
It's existed for a very long time in the form of Proxomitron
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=proxomitron
Best web filter there is... and it's browser
agnostic since it affects the stream at a
proxy level.
I've set it up for a parent before where every
single instance of "a word they don't want
their child to see" was replaced with some
irrelevant 'kid' word.
And it filters ads too, lol
-AI
As for TFA...well...what did anyone expect?
The truth... immediately.
If you look that evening as a press conference was being
made, the prime minister is talking about the quake, about
the tsunami... everything is fine.
Then he starts about the nuke plant and is just blatantly
lying his ass off. I posted about it here and on my Facebook.
If anyone is good at microexpressions and visual accessing
cues, watch the very first press conference.
They knew... THAT DAY... that it was worse than they were
disclosing.
So, to answer what did anyone expect? MORE OF THE TRUTH!
-AI
I speculated that such an approach was almost guaranteed to end up as an environmental disaster in one way or another. My view on that may have softened a little since that post, but it would take some extraordinary proof for me to believe that it wouldn't end up resulting in thousands of plumes of heavy metal laden electrolyte under filling stations everywhere.
Most older gas stations are superfund qualifying sites anyway...
so, do you have a point?
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=what+is+a+superfund+site
-AI
At least that stupid bachelors degree gives me a leg up over them, or ought to when it's done.
Let us know how that works out for you...
-AI
Chuck Norris is/was a karate geek.
Seconded...
Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
-AI
Wish I saved a point for that one... good script.
A Ponzi scheme is an investment opportunity where the history of pay-outs which supposedly demonstrates its viability actually all comes from investment funds.
Yeah... did you listen to your definition?
a) not an investment opportunity any more than "buying" euros at the bank and then selling them when the dollar slumps.
b) there are no pay-outs because (see a) it's not an investment opportunity.
c) it's viability is that it's another fiat currency, it is not based on 'investment funds' (see a).
The fact that (a) exists, means it's not a ponzi scheme.
I will allow bubble... which can exist for any named commodity.
But that exists for any 'unbacked' currency as well. For example, the
American Dollar.
-AI
Then there is monopoly money, bitcoins, etc. If some people collect most monopoly money and start a big campaign to give them value, it does not make them comparable to the aforementioned forms of currency.
BitCoin is no more monopoly money than that
multicolored shit they give out at the banks.
-AI
and there's a finite quantity to mine, most of which is already in the hands of BC's founders. Why exactly is this a good thing? Count me out.
And I suppose you know where the vast majority
of issued US currency is oh wise one?
And whereas... bitcoin has set a LIMIT on the
amount of currency they will produce... our
lovely country... has NOT.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43233866
So... shun one fiat currency in favor of another,
good game plan.
Honestly we need to start passing out forceps
so the americans drinking the kool aid can at
least have a cranialectomy so their straws don't
have to be so long.
-AI