You can keep a herd of cattle just fine even if you eat one every now and again, they are built in interest bearing accounts. And they walk around so they're more mobile than gold that just sits there.
And it worked well enough as a unit of account for a long time, a head of cattle is worth 3 pigs, a pig is worth 5 chicken a chicken is worth 40 eggs.
As a means of trade, if you want a new wagon, you trade a cow and get the wagon and a few chickens back.
Gold isn't money any more than dollars or euros. If society collapses those dollars and euro won't be worth anything, and neither will gold. The only reason gold would be worth anything would be "ooo shiny" and that isn't a big selling point to someone who has to work for a living. In a small town where there is no gold, they'll use for trade instead of gold, and it will be based on the cattle standard, not the gold standard. Money is an arbitrary system made to make it easier to trade things. On a small scale, such as that of a few hundred years ago, gold was convenient. Gold isn't worth anything. Just like diamonds aren't worth anything.
Psh, forget gold and its various properties. A herd of cattle is real money. You can eat them. You can make clothes from them, make shelter from them. They make cow patties to make fire. They reproduce, to make more of themselves. Sounds like they have gold beat. A few hundred years ago in this country you couldn't get a wife with a chunk of shiny rock, but a few cattle? Now we're talking.
The properties of gold made it convenient. It didn't make it have any intrinsic value.
I'm not sure copyright explicitly allows for indefinite protection, but that doesn't seem to stop all the extensions.
As for the shame, it probably comes from the confusion of wanting to support the people who make the music you love, but not the evil industry middlemen who like to exploit everyone.
More satire, I was going for the whole 'slippery slope' thing, I guess I just skipped too many steps: I can use it for A why can't I use it for B? I can use it for B why can't I use it for C? I can use it for C why can't I use it for D? You get the TSA using it, then what? Customs? And so on, to the point that it become a generic ID required for everything. Similar to the social security number.
Perhaps the flight might be nicer, but is getting onto the flight nicer?
I imagine cars are nicer today than they were 10 years ago since they have those new gadgets as well, but it doesn't take a cavity search to buy/rent a car.
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Oh please.
You can keep a herd of cattle just fine even if you eat one every now and again, they are built in interest bearing accounts. And they walk around so they're more mobile than gold that just sits there.
And it worked well enough as a unit of account for a long time, a head of cattle is worth 3 pigs, a pig is worth 5 chicken a chicken is worth 40 eggs.
As a means of trade, if you want a new wagon, you trade a cow and get the wagon and a few chickens back.
Gold isn't money any more than dollars or euros. If society collapses those dollars and euro won't be worth anything, and neither will gold. The only reason gold would be worth anything would be "ooo shiny" and that isn't a big selling point to someone who has to work for a living. In a small town where there is no gold, they'll use for trade instead of gold, and it will be based on the cattle standard, not the gold standard.
Money is an arbitrary system made to make it easier to trade things. On a small scale, such as that of a few hundred years ago, gold was convenient. Gold isn't worth anything. Just like diamonds aren't worth anything.
Psh, forget gold and its various properties.
A herd of cattle is real money. You can eat them. You can make clothes from them, make shelter from them. They make cow patties to make fire. They reproduce, to make more of themselves. Sounds like they have gold beat.
A few hundred years ago in this country you couldn't get a wife with a chunk of shiny rock, but a few cattle? Now we're talking.
The properties of gold made it convenient. It didn't make it have any intrinsic value.
We already have fission powered boats. Fusion powered cars or aircraft sounds kind of evolutionary from there.
So properly authorized programs shouldn't be able to make any changes on a system?
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2237#comic
Sitting in prison he would actually be a target for rescue.
That would still take quite a long time to upload 12TB.
Turn on no script for slashdot, it fixes it.
Lets just hope then they actually do something with it instead of ignoring it in favor of iOS right?
Yar! It does.
I'm not sure copyright explicitly allows for indefinite protection, but that doesn't seem to stop all the extensions.
As for the shame, it probably comes from the confusion of wanting to support the people who make the music you love, but not the evil industry middlemen who like to exploit everyone.
I'd have bought a smart phone if I could get it without a data plan. Instead, the requirement induced me to buy a feature phone.
It's my nature said the scorpion to the toad.
I have 3TB of TV recordings on my MythTV box.
300GB of steam games.
13GB of music.
It's really easy to accumulate lots of media without resorting to high seas plundering.
And sifting is a pain, if you could just weigh it, it would be a lot easier.
More satire, I was going for the whole 'slippery slope' thing, I guess I just skipped too many steps:
I can use it for A why can't I use it for B?
I can use it for B why can't I use it for C?
I can use it for C why can't I use it for D?
You get the TSA using it, then what? Customs? And so on, to the point that it become a generic ID required for everything. Similar to the social security number.
And radar/laser guns have 3% error.
Use them for what? Buying a beer? Proving you're over 18 at Wal-Mart? Checking your credit score or getting a loan from the bank?
Perhaps the flight might be nicer, but is getting onto the flight nicer?
I imagine cars are nicer today than they were 10 years ago since they have those new gadgets as well, but it doesn't take a cavity search to buy/rent a car.
Until it's not?
I thought ease of manipulation was one of the prime factors when shopping for a congress.
You can't with lasik. The muscles in the eye allowing them to focus for reading just get tired as you get older. Lasik can only fix the lens.
"Grandma, quit calling me, there is no way to change the button layout. You're stuck with it the way it is."
No wonder [Windows|OSX] isn't at 99% market share.
As compared to some Windows codenames: Whistler, Chicago, Memphis, Janus, Mantis, Diamond, Lonestar, Bobcat, Longhorn, Q, Cougar, Blackcomb.
I think this is a confusion of KB vs Kb probably dialup is 56Kb and 3G 200KB.
I think a blind squirrel finds some nuts is better for this case.