If you actually watch the video and RTFA (OMG, what a noob, obviously) you'll notice that they now can even encode and transmit and successfully read colours within image, which is even more impressive. Nicely done. But it doesn't seem to be possible to use this with motion, you can see a static image, I don't believe this can be done with a movie, they would have to read the entire image many times over, frame by frame (the image is played as a series of audio notes, sounds like a melody) and each simple image takes a few seconds to play.
But I think it's possible to modify this idea, so that instead of fine features, you get information about objects coming closer or moving away from you, take 2 snapshots, figure out the difference in motion, play the difference rather than a snapshot.
1. When I share music with someone I feel a special connection with that person. 1 2. In my free time I hardly listen to music. 5 3. I like listen to music that contains emotion. 3 4. Music keeps me company when I'm alone. 2 5. I don't like to dance, not even with music I like. 2 6. Music makes me bond with other people. 1 7. I inform myself about music I like. 3 8. I get emotional listening to certain pieces of music. 5 9. Music calms and relaxes me. 2 10. Music often makes me dance. 3 11. I'm always looking for new music. 1 12. I can become tearful or cry when I listen to a melody that I like very much. 2 13. I like to sing or play an instrument with other people. 2 14. Music helps me chill out. 2 15. I can't help humming or singing along to music that I like. 2 16. At a concert I feel connected to the performers and the audience. 2 17. I spend quite a bit of money on music and related items. 1 18. I sometimes feel chills when I hear a melody that I like. 1 19. Music comforts me. 1 20. When I hear a tune I like a lot I can't help tapping or moving to its beat. 3
MUSIC SEEKING: 19 EMOTION EVOCATION: 30 MOOD REGULATION: 14 SENSORI-MOTOR: 39 SOCIAL: 22 MUSIC REWARD: 14
I don't particularly know what this means, I don't spend time listening to music much at all, used to long ago, I can play a couple instruments myself though and have absolute pitch. I think I just don't have much time for music and it distracts me.
Oracle gets these contracts seemingly easily. Do you know what it takes to land a contract with a supposedly "non-profit" organisation? Find a way to get a subscription to something like UNGM and look at the insanity that passes for RFPSs there.
70 pages of various legal requirements (shouldn't use child labour, something about land mines, blah blah blah, document formats, timelines etc.etc.)
The requirement: build a database driven website. Deadlines: * Project award: 25 of March. * Expected a completed, fully tested and operational system: 1 of April.
Then some more weird nonsense about saving millions and millions of lives. I am not surprised that these projects end up costing tens of millions and more and deliver nothing.
I offer apprenticeship positions, I have 4 students right now actually, 2 finished their education, one dropped out and one is still studying. I took them in with the understanding that at first they are not getting paid at all, they all agreed to it. There were a few others, who I had to let go, they were useless. At this point I am paying all of my students, they display themselves as being useful, they learn quickly, they have the right attitude, so now they are making good money for their level of experience and productivity. Apprenticeship is not dead, except in the welfare states, like the USA.
FDIC was not abandoned altogether, that is the problem with taking out a PART of it. FDIC should not have existed in the first place, it is a moral hazard, where bank clients do not pay any attention what the banks do with the money. People do more research about the films that they go to see than what bank they will loan their money to (and it's a loan to a bank, if you want a bank that in fact takes deposits and holds them, use a safety box).
Glass-Steagal was part of FDIC that was aiming at preventing using "deposit" (loan) money against bank speculating in the markets. FDIC needs to be repealed completely, which means the fake "insurance" that gov't provides should be abolished. People should not be under assumption that FDIC can actually give them their money back without destroying the value of money with inflation and without massive borrowing and basically without the economy coming crashing down one way or another. FDIC doesn't have any money, not even 1% of what is supposedly 'insures'.
When they repealed Glass Steagal the did not deregulate, they changed what they regulate in a way that allowed for more moral hazards and more gambling. Of-course that's just one corner of the pyramid that the USA economy is running, the other being impossible government spending levels thanks to the Treasury selling all that debt that can never be repaid and the fake dollars thanks to the Fed, that is monetising so much of that debt. Fake inflation levels (CPI, core CPI) is another corner of the pyramid, fake GDP is what is propped up and pushed up by those corners.
Minimum wage should not exist, I guess you are not familiar with my comments. Nobody can force anybody to do anything, unless it is done through government threat of violence. Again, nobody is holding a gun to your head except government. Read my journal before replying to mine.
Exactly the opposite, there would be tons more jobs created for people who were previously avoided by employers due to government created discrimination. How do you read my comment and come to the exact opposite conclusion from the reality, which is this - more people are out of work due to their 'protected' status than find work because of it. These laws are taxes, nothing else. They reduce economic activity not increase it.
There should not be any government imposed regulations upon any individuals or their busineses regarding any type of discrimination.People discriminate all the time. Who we date ( including age, race , religion, looks, political views, mental and physical abilities or disabilities and other factors), where we shop, who we hang out with, where we live, etc. etc. People must be able to discriminate against each other without gov't meddling. This is individual freedoms we are talking about. Just because a person starts a business he or she must not be stripped of their individual rights! Age discrimination must not be a crime of any kind. Government cannot be allowed to pass laws that allow people to sue because they (factually or fictionally) were discriminated against by anybody, including employers, customers, landlords, anybody. Government job is to protect individual rights, not to provide entitlements or 'solve injustice'! All these lawsuits do is create discrimination where it may not have otherwise been in the first place. Why would I hire women, who can sue me if they decide their pay is insufficient? Why would I hire a minority, if this means I can be sued if I fire them for 'race discrimination'? Why would I hire anybody from any protected group, where gov't provides it with entitlements and imposes obligations on me as an employer? Why can I not sue somebody for buying a competing product rather than mine? They are discriminating.
These lawsuits prove me right. Don't hire anybody who is not a youngr white single male - the onlygroup of people that cannot sue me if I fire them or if one does not make exactly as much money as another.
If I could get women to do the EXACTLY the same work as men, with the same results for less money than men, I would not have even one man working for me. I only care about maximizing my own profit, that is all that matters. My business is not there to create jobs, it is there to make me money, that is its raison d'etre, nothing else. I don't care onebit if you are a black illegal disabled 100 year old Marxist translesbiangaybold satanist fuck with 20 kids and Alzheimers if you make me money. However I cannot hire you if you are, because the potential risk of lawsuit is enormously hilariously outmatching any benefit you may bring the company. So I will find a way not even to interview you. You want to FIX this? Make sure that non-discrimination laws apply strictly to the government, not to private individuals and their businesses. Until such time, unemployment among the protected classes will be higher than among those, who cannot sue their employers.
Wrong, I understand human nature perfectly well, which is why I do not expect the USA mob and the government to do the correct thing and stop the money printing, get rid of business regulations, get rid of income taxes, shut down most departments and stop the wars and bring the troops home and shut down pretty much 99% of what the government does.
I do not expect that. In fact I expect the mob to demand more and more welfare, I expect more and more of the class warfare driven by the populists in government, I expect more and more money printing, I expect higher and higher taxes, I expect more and more regulations, price controls, and so on and so forth.
I treat this situation accordingly to my expectations, I build my business and investment according to these expectations and I see that people who understand what is going on are in a tiny minority and that the train-wreck is unstoppable.
You are absolutely wrong in all of your assumptions, and of-course you are totally wrong when it comes to misunderstanding as to why the government is the problem that is causing the economic and societal meltdown that we are observing in slow motion right now, but which will accelerate rapidly with coming months.
People who try to transition from an iPhone to any other phone, that's who. Apple's Messages app actively moves conversations away from paid text messages to free Messages.
- what did I say? There are tons of 'WhatsUp' competitors and there will be more, including from carriers themselves, they don't want to give up SMS market like that, they'll bundle 'free' SMS with your data and voice packages and what will that do to WhatsUp market share?
My thoughts precisely, this is going to be useful in case you are building an application and have a need that this Wolfram system provides a solution for and you don't want to spend resources building it yourself (and they definitely put thought into the resources, processes and handling there), so you call a function to Wolfram library and it gives you a set of data you can now use within your own code.
I wouldn't call it a language, but after watching the video I understood the reasoning behind that naming: it's a very good marketing trick, it works.
Think about it, not a Wolfram library of useful functions and data, but just a Wolfram Language. It even has an 'autodeployintothelatestfadweliketocallthecloud' feature and it promises to be able to work with any device as well.
No, it's a useful set of tools, I see how they can be used from within various projects.
To subsidise something you have to pool the money from somewhere else, what exactly are you talking about, when you talk about 'subsidisation' in this sense?
Let's turn to the progressives favourite target: WalMart. They claim that WM uses a government subsidy to run its business, as if WM is running the government itself in the first place and as if WM is enforcing the payroll taxes and runs the 'Treasury' (should be known as the department of Debt, not of Treasure, there is only debt there, no treasure of any kind) and the Federal Reserve (what a funny name - a reserve, should be known as the money counterfeiting operation).
WM is not running the IRS, it's not collecting payroll taxes, in fact if there were no payroll taxes the WM workers could have higher salaries. WM is not running the Fed and Treasury, it's not placing the USA gov't into debt. The fact that WM provides entry level jobs that people with college education and people with families apply for does not change what WM is doing - providing entry level jobs.
Just because the USA gov't destroyed the USA economy with the Treasury, IRS, Fed, FDIC, all of the departments, the welfare state, the military industrial complex and all the wars, that doesn't change the fact: WM built a business where it only makes financial sense to hire people at the lowest possible salary and people who are applying there now are not entitled to run a family on a WM job. Those jobs should be for teenagers, maybe for college students, for entry level employees, maybe for new immigrants with no skills, for people with no skills and no other qualifications.
There is this belief, that WM is supposed to provide a high standard of living to a person, whose only job is to be a clerk at a store, no less in an economy that produces NOTHING of what WM sells, it's all imported. The production was outsourced for the same exact reasons that IBM outsources the jobs: lower taxes, lower regulation costs (same as lower taxes), less government, that's all it is.
Less gov't = more individual freedom. So you are saying: government subsidises workers. Which workers? Chinese government does not subsidise anybody, there are no government pensions for past peasants who are now gainfully employed at factories that/. loves to bash, there is no gov't medical insurance, there is nothing that gov't does there, people there save their own money, they save 50% of their incomes. If Chinese gov't wasn't destroying its own currency by subsidising (vendor financing) USA consumption, the Chinese workers would already be wealthier relatively speaking than most Westerners at this point.
So what does it mean: subsidising? Money printing? Yes, the Chinese are printing Chinese fiat and they are buying USA fiat and debt, yes, but this subsidises the USA consumers, not Chinese workers. This will stop and you will learn what it means not to be subsidised by the Chinese gov't transferring the productivity of the Chinese workers into your WalMarts.
So if you cost $100 and generate $120 value, but the other guy in India cost $20 and generated only $25, well, the company can hire 5 India guy to generate $125 for the same cost of $100, so bye bye to your job.
YOU would think that the guy in India is crap, producing only $25 value, less than a quarter of yours, but you are in fact competing with 5 of them, which combined to give more value to the company than you could!
- I don't see what the problem is, that's exactly what should happen!
Every cent counts, every dollar that can be made by reducing cost of production and increasing efficiency should be made! Where is the problem that you are complaining about?
If your problem is that you are uncompetitive at your taxation levels and your inflation levels with people in India, then your problem is not with the IBM, it is with your government.
So you know better than IBM what it needs? You think are can make financial decisions for the company? You think 6,000,000,000 in profits should not be allocated to the investors in the company (that's their salary), you think that IBM is making a bad decision there, yes? So if IBM is making a bad financial and business decision, then it will come back to bite IBM in the ass and a better competitor will eat their cake, so where is the government's role in any of it?
AFAIC IBM could fire 99.999% of their people if they could still satisfy their customer demand and they would be absolutely right to do it, if they could achieve that. Who are you to tell a business or anybody how they should run their company unless you are also an investor? You are a nobody, you want the government to assert power over private companies and over people, you are a dickless dictator, because you won't do your bidding with your own hands, you are going to send in the goons to do it.
What do you mean "dumping"? That concept is as wrong in this context as it is in all other contexts where it is applied, where government interferes with the free market rewarding a more efficient company by providing it with a larger market share.
AFAIC Standard Oil, Alcoa Aluminum, etc., they weren't broken down because they were bad for the customers in any way, even the courts case for Alcoa itself explicitly declared that the reason for breaking the company down is because others couldn't compete on price. So the purpose that government serves is to raise prices artificially, there is no such thing as dumping, and even when a limited amount of that occurs (sales, reduced prices, holiday sales, whatever) it's a temporary phenomena. All products and services and labour have a market clearing price. Reduce the costs sufficiently and the product, the service, the labour will be bought and used. The entire point is to use the cheapest resources available thus allowing people to pay the lowest prices possible, giving opportunity to the new businesses to arise based on the savings that occur once the prices for the existing goods and services are lowered.
Of-course in case of USA and many other countries, Japan, many European countries, certain places in South Amerca, etc., the mob, the government is dead set to prevent prices from falling, whatever it takes, they have "inflation targets", of-course they understate inflation by factors and they hide the real levels of it, the reason is they are the biggest debtors and they rely on larger and larger tax collections, and I guess if you allow the prices to come down, the taxes will be lower in fact, so a double whammy for the insanely huge governments that people allow above themselves in this world.
There is no such thing as "dumping cheap labour". Labour is human time, people sell their time, the market allows better distribution of labour and resources, we are much better off using the cheapest resources that exist. Of-course the actual problem is the PAYMENT and in case of places like the USA the payment comes from inflation - money printing, not productive capacity.
I am against central governments as a general principle, so I have no interest in any form of protectionism. I say: race to the bottom, race to the bottom, race to the bottom, race to the bottom, so that I can have as low prices as possible and save as much money as possible, thus allowing me to save and invest more, creating more economic activity via the very fact of saving and investing (be it in my own business, which is what I prefer or in other people's businesses either directly, buying companies or indirectly, allowing banks to allocate investment pools for businesses to be able to take legitimate business loans).
I don't have a national interest in anything whatsoever, I have no purpose for the State itself. Localise governments as much as possible, allow localities to compete against each other, this would lower the very NEED for 'national defence' because there wouldn't be a nation to defend or to attack in the first place and wars couldn't be as gigantic and bloody as they are today.
Of-course given that we do not live in the world that I prefer, we have what we have, I would say that central governments as they exist have authority to implement one (1) and only single thing legitimately: protecting individual freedoms of people by preventing an attack from a foreign invader. But this absolutely does not mean that government has to subsidise any particular field of study or generally any industry. Economic efficiency is everything, there is nothing more important than economic efficiency FOR PEACE on this planet if not for anything else.
AFAIC the self serving profit motive is the most moral and economically sound approach to running an economy and by extension a society. As to 'offshoring industries', again, AFAIC there wouldn't be as much offshoring of ANY industries if the governments did not grow to the size and did not usurp all this unauthorised power over individuals.
The reason for offshoring is inefficiency DICTATED by governments! Income taxes prevent savings and create special treatment of different groups of people (some are taxed more, some are less, it allows for a powerful political slogan -let's tax the other guy more than you). Business regulations are simply taxes in a different form. Inflation is the most insidious tax of all - stealing the value of your savings of your money in the first place.
The problem that you are referring to and are addressing is the problem of government doing things it shouldn't be doing, but it does them because the mob cheers for it. Well you know what, AFAIC the mob should PAY for this damage it causes with its cheering and voting and the payment comes in many forms, including the destroyed economy, which will force a restructuring and will put the mob on a leash it should be on.
This entire idea that any jobs should be protected is idiotic. If a job doesn't make economic sense it should be eliminated, that's the entire point of progress - eliminating inefficient jobs so that production can become more economical, as in cheaper, thus providing lower prices.
If IBM employees cannot provide enough economic value to the market for the market to pay the company enough to offset their cost and provide for profits on top of it, then those jobs have no business existing and any government agreements and controls are no better than any other form of welfare, it reduces the market efficiency, reduces economic activity, mis-allocates resources, forces up prices that would otherwise come down, prevents the work force from being restructured thus preventing other businesses and by extension the market (buying customers) from the dividend of having a company restructured, preventing prices from falling.
This entire idea that government must protect jobs is both immoral and economically ignorant and stupid. Unions don't exist to protect the rights of everybody, they exist to protect the entitlements of the union members, destroying the competition from low skilled workers that can work for lower wages, this also means higher prices for no reason except government corruption whatsoever.
You are 100% correct and right on the money. Today it's everybody who decides what you are going to do with your own business, how you are going to run it, how you are going to hire people, how you are going to fire people, who you are going to serve except for you - the owner of the business.
Consider the unauthorised power that USA government usurped - to dictate to business owners that they cannot discriminate against any particular person and not accept them as a customer, that they cannot come to a mutual agreement with a potential employee on the salary levels outside of the mandated minimums, that they cannot do hiring and firing as they see fit, but instead the government comes in and dictates exactly what you are not allowed to do as a business, which really only means that there will be more lawsuits and less competition, fewer businesses, as it becomes prohibitively expensive even to start many businesses. Consider all of the various licensing requirements, various income related taxes, various regulations that make it impossible for a small startup to attempt and compete with an established large corporation (which just may also be 'too big to fail' and what that really means is a huge moral hazard, because it gives the customers the wrong idea on who to deal with due to this perceived lack of risks, while in reality the risks are much greater and the society is much poorer and less stable because of it).
It is absolutely immoral and economically stupid to allow government to usurp power that is unauthorised to it, it is absolutely immoral an economically stupid to allow government to force economic and or so called 'moral' decisions down people's throats. An individual shouldn't lose his or her right to discriminate, to own and operate private property the way he or she sees fit simply because they are now operating it as a business.
If they have physical access to your phone, you are in trouble one way or another, you definitely shouldn't let anybody get that access. At least with phones made out of blocks, you can probably detect the change easier and actually remove the offending part.
With the phones as they are currently you can't even know if something was changed. I mean adding / replacing a chip, adding some tiny piece of hardware is not out of question for a large organisation, how often do people check what is inside their phones today? With phones made out of blocks, it would be much easier to do so if you cared.
The only thing your ideology ends up sharing is misery, beyond that you are also completely off-topic when it comes to responding to my comments. I am talking about government created moral hazard, I don't know what the fuck you are talking about beyond trolling.
OMG, FDIC is one of the primary reasons for the economic collapse that USA is experiencing right now. FDIC is a moral hazard, it prevents people from paying any attention as their choice of a bank, people spend more time thinking about which movie theater to go to than what bank they should use.
FDIC never served any legitimate purpose from the very beginning, less than 3% of deposits were lost during the time of the Great Depression (which was created by the government meddling with money in the first place, by printing all that cash to buy bad UK debt from France starting in 1925 the gov't inflated the asset bubble in the stock market, and don't tell me you think that the Fed is an 'independent' agency, sure sure, is that why they are monetising all of the USA debt today without any questions asked? Anyway, the Great Depression was caused by Hoover and FDR reacting in a completely wrong way to the market clearing the economy from all the dead weight, that originated from the inflation that the Fed caused) the banks didn't lose everybody's money at the time, the money lost value and then the gov't decided it would also confiscate physical gold (not that much was taken away, but the point was made loud and clear).
FDIC is a moral hazard, any gov't insurance is (health, education, energy, housing, stock market, environment, commerce, peace, you name it). Gov't has not authority and it is a terrible economic policy as well as horrible morality to involve gov't in business decisions, in money decisions, etc.
When people lose money, they learn a lesson that should be learned, that's the exact opposite of the moral hazard, it creates aversion to bad risks and allows the economy to grow by creating real savings, which is what fuels investment capital - not fake money (and FDIC never had money to bail out any banks, which is why all that money printing took place) and today FDIC has even less money to cover the next round of losses anyway. Tens of Trillions will be lost in US dollars and bonds, but it won't be because of bank runs, FDIC will create an illusion of safety. It will be because of the Federal reserve, 'Treasury', all the inflation they are creating.
As to Bitcoins, I never trusted Bitcoins, I don't trust Bitcoins, they have no value at all beside what somebody would pay for one at any particular moment in time, they were created as money by definition, they didn't start as a valuable commodity. BTCs have no value at all beyond what you can speculate about. There is really no difference between BTCs and fiat anyway, you can split BTCs into more and more units, which are as 'valuable' as the bigger units and you can have as many various valueless BTC-like currencies as you want at almost no cost at all, so it's an endless supply of BTCs or BTC like 'money'....but they are an interesting experiment in human lust for easy money, that's for sure.
I think this type of technology can be used to curtail government spying and also it can be a fun way to build your own phone to your own specifications the way people build their computers from parts.
If the phone building blocks only have to implement specified interfaces and do not have to be provided by any specific vendor, it could become possible finally to have actually secure phones, where a building block could be inserted to pre-process and encrypt the signal in a 'sandbox' in a way that would make it impossible for the network provider to snoop on your communications.
I can even see the strongest encryption that is possible used made available with this technology: one time encryption pads. How about this for a business idea: build and sell pairs of one time encryption pads and encryption modules, which would allow 2 (or more) individuals to encrypt their communications with a pre-made list of keys that can be shared beforehand. In fact a modular design can make it possible to have individual one time encryption pads to be used for different phone numbers (or some form of identifier that is first shared over the open network and then switches to the correct encryption pad once the session is established).
Fuck the NSA, this can really fuck up their entire snooping operation.
I have his answer for you already, don't bother, here is his answer and I quote:
Well, the most simple alternative was to leave the software field, do something else. Now a lot of programmers say to me, 'the employers hiring programmers demand that I do this -- if I don't do this I will starve.' Now, that's silly. Anybody can leave the field of programming. Even in the US, there are millions of people who make a living not by writing software. I have no other special skills, nothing else that I'm particularly good at. But I'm sure I could have become a waiter. (Now, maybe I couldn't be a waiter at one of the fanciest restaurants.) There is nothing unethical about being a waiter. And there is one thing -- you are not going to starve.
- so become a waiter, RMS tells you so.
AFAIC RMS can go fuck himself with a big broomstick. My freedom to do business the way I see fit is only about 100Trillion times more important to me than ALL of RMS's musings about morality and his version of 'freedom'.
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If you actually watch the video and RTFA (OMG, what a noob, obviously) you'll notice that they now can even encode and transmit and successfully read colours within image, which is even more impressive. Nicely done. But it doesn't seem to be possible to use this with motion, you can see a static image, I don't believe this can be done with a movie, they would have to read the entire image many times over, frame by frame (the image is played as a series of audio notes, sounds like a melody) and each simple image takes a few seconds to play.
But I think it's possible to modify this idea, so that instead of fine features, you get information about objects coming closer or moving away from you, take 2 snapshots, figure out the difference in motion, play the difference rather than a snapshot.
1. When I share music with someone I feel a special connection with that person. 1
2. In my free time I hardly listen to music. 5
3. I like listen to music that contains emotion. 3
4. Music keeps me company when I'm alone. 2
5. I don't like to dance, not even with music I like. 2
6. Music makes me bond with other people. 1
7. I inform myself about music I like. 3
8. I get emotional listening to certain pieces of music. 5
9. Music calms and relaxes me. 2
10. Music often makes me dance. 3
11. I'm always looking for new music. 1
12. I can become tearful or cry when I listen to a melody that I like very much. 2
13. I like to sing or play an instrument with other people. 2
14. Music helps me chill out. 2
15. I can't help humming or singing along to music that I like. 2
16. At a concert I feel connected to the performers and the audience. 2
17. I spend quite a bit of money on music and related items. 1
18. I sometimes feel chills when I hear a melody that I like. 1
19. Music comforts me. 1
20. When I hear a tune I like a lot I can't help tapping or moving to its beat. 3
MUSIC SEEKING: 19
EMOTION EVOCATION: 30
MOOD REGULATION: 14
SENSORI-MOTOR: 39
SOCIAL: 22
MUSIC REWARD: 14
I don't particularly know what this means, I don't spend time listening to music much at all, used to long ago, I can play a couple instruments myself though and have absolute pitch. I think I just don't have much time for music and it distracts me.
Oracle gets these contracts seemingly easily. Do you know what it takes to land a contract with a supposedly "non-profit" organisation? Find a way to get a subscription to something like UNGM and look at the insanity that passes for RFPSs there.
70 pages of various legal requirements (shouldn't use child labour, something about land mines, blah blah blah, document formats, timelines etc.etc.)
The requirement: build a database driven website.
Deadlines:
* Project award: 25 of March.
* Expected a completed, fully tested and operational system: 1 of April.
Then some more weird nonsense about saving millions and millions of lives. I am not surprised that these projects end up costing tens of millions and more and deliver nothing.
HTML an STD? Strange, I thought that was PHP. Oh, and python was the STD delivery system. C# a music key and Assembler came with Ikea furniture.
I offer apprenticeship positions, I have 4 students right now actually, 2 finished their education, one dropped out and one is still studying. I took them in with the understanding that at first they are not getting paid at all, they all agreed to it. There were a few others, who I had to let go, they were useless. At this point I am paying all of my students, they display themselves as being useful, they learn quickly, they have the right attitude, so now they are making good money for their level of experience and productivity. Apprenticeship is not dead, except in the welfare states, like the USA.
FDIC was not abandoned altogether, that is the problem with taking out a PART of it. FDIC should not have existed in the first place, it is a moral hazard, where bank clients do not pay any attention what the banks do with the money. People do more research about the films that they go to see than what bank they will loan their money to (and it's a loan to a bank, if you want a bank that in fact takes deposits and holds them, use a safety box).
Glass-Steagal was part of FDIC that was aiming at preventing using "deposit" (loan) money against bank speculating in the markets. FDIC needs to be repealed completely, which means the fake "insurance" that gov't provides should be abolished. People should not be under assumption that FDIC can actually give them their money back without destroying the value of money with inflation and without massive borrowing and basically without the economy coming crashing down one way or another. FDIC doesn't have any money, not even 1% of what is supposedly 'insures'.
When they repealed Glass Steagal the did not deregulate, they changed what they regulate in a way that allowed for more moral hazards and more gambling. Of-course that's just one corner of the pyramid that the USA economy is running, the other being impossible government spending levels thanks to the Treasury selling all that debt that can never be repaid and the fake dollars thanks to the Fed, that is monetising so much of that debt. Fake inflation levels (CPI, core CPI) is another corner of the pyramid, fake GDP is what is propped up and pushed up by those corners.
Minimum wage should not exist, I guess you are not familiar with my comments. Nobody can force anybody to do anything, unless it is done through government threat of violence. Again, nobody is holding a gun to your head except government. Read my journal before replying to mine.
Exactly the opposite, there would be tons more jobs created for people who were previously avoided by employers due to government created discrimination. How do you read my comment and come to the exact opposite conclusion from the reality, which is this - more people are out of work due to their 'protected' status than find work because of it. These laws are taxes, nothing else. They reduce economic activity not increase it.
There should not be any government imposed regulations upon any individuals or their busineses regarding any type of discrimination.People discriminate all the time. Who we date ( including age, race , religion, looks, political views, mental and physical abilities or disabilities and other factors), where we shop, who we hang out with, where we live, etc. etc. People must be able to discriminate against each other without gov't meddling. This is individual freedoms we are talking about. Just because a person starts a business he or she must not be stripped of their individual rights! Age discrimination must not be a crime of any kind. Government cannot be allowed to pass laws that allow people to sue because they (factually or fictionally) were discriminated against by anybody, including employers, customers, landlords, anybody. Government job is to protect individual rights, not to provide entitlements or 'solve injustice'! All these lawsuits do is create discrimination where it may not have otherwise been in the first place. Why would I hire women, who can sue me if they decide their pay is insufficient? Why would I hire a minority, if this means I can be sued if I fire them for 'race discrimination'? Why would I hire anybody from any protected group, where gov't provides it with entitlements and imposes obligations on me as an employer? Why can I not sue somebody for buying a competing product rather than mine? They are discriminating.
These lawsuits prove me right. Don't hire anybody who is not a youngr white single male - the onlygroup of people that cannot sue me if I fire them or if one does not make exactly as much money as another.
If I could get women to do the EXACTLY the same work as men, with the same results for less money than men, I would not have even one man working for me. I only care about maximizing my own profit, that is all that matters. My business is not there to create jobs, it is there to make me money, that is its raison d'etre, nothing else. I don't care onebit if you are a black illegal disabled 100 year old Marxist translesbiangaybold satanist fuck with 20 kids and Alzheimers if you make me money. However I cannot hire you if you are, because the potential risk of lawsuit is enormously hilariously outmatching any benefit you may bring the company. So I will find a way not even to interview you. You want to FIX this? Make sure that non-discrimination laws apply strictly to the government, not to private individuals and their businesses. Until such time, unemployment among the protected classes will be higher than among those, who cannot sue their employers.
Wrong, I understand human nature perfectly well, which is why I do not expect the USA mob and the government to do the correct thing and stop the money printing, get rid of business regulations, get rid of income taxes, shut down most departments and stop the wars and bring the troops home and shut down pretty much 99% of what the government does.
I do not expect that. In fact I expect the mob to demand more and more welfare, I expect more and more of the class warfare driven by the populists in government, I expect more and more money printing, I expect higher and higher taxes, I expect more and more regulations, price controls, and so on and so forth.
I treat this situation accordingly to my expectations, I build my business and investment according to these expectations and I see that people who understand what is going on are in a tiny minority and that the train-wreck is unstoppable.
You are absolutely wrong in all of your assumptions, and of-course you are totally wrong when it comes to misunderstanding as to why the government is the problem that is causing the economic and societal meltdown that we are observing in slow motion right now, but which will accelerate rapidly with coming months.
People who try to transition from an iPhone to any other phone, that's who. Apple's Messages app actively moves conversations away from paid text messages to free Messages.
- what did I say? There are tons of 'WhatsUp' competitors and there will be more, including from carriers themselves, they don't want to give up SMS market like that, they'll bundle 'free' SMS with your data and voice packages and what will that do to WhatsUp market share?
My thoughts precisely, this is going to be useful in case you are building an application and have a need that this Wolfram system provides a solution for and you don't want to spend resources building it yourself (and they definitely put thought into the resources, processes and handling there), so you call a function to Wolfram library and it gives you a set of data you can now use within your own code.
I wouldn't call it a language, but after watching the video I understood the reasoning behind that naming: it's a very good marketing trick, it works.
Think about it, not a Wolfram library of useful functions and data, but just a Wolfram Language. It even has an 'autodeployintothelatestfadweliketocallthecloud' feature and it promises to be able to work with any device as well.
No, it's a useful set of tools, I see how they can be used from within various projects.
To subsidise something you have to pool the money from somewhere else, what exactly are you talking about, when you talk about 'subsidisation' in this sense?
Let's turn to the progressives favourite target: WalMart. They claim that WM uses a government subsidy to run its business, as if WM is running the government itself in the first place and as if WM is enforcing the payroll taxes and runs the 'Treasury' (should be known as the department of Debt, not of Treasure, there is only debt there, no treasure of any kind) and the Federal Reserve (what a funny name - a reserve, should be known as the money counterfeiting operation).
WM is not running the IRS, it's not collecting payroll taxes, in fact if there were no payroll taxes the WM workers could have higher salaries. WM is not running the Fed and Treasury, it's not placing the USA gov't into debt. The fact that WM provides entry level jobs that people with college education and people with families apply for does not change what WM is doing - providing entry level jobs.
Just because the USA gov't destroyed the USA economy with the Treasury, IRS, Fed, FDIC, all of the departments, the welfare state, the military industrial complex and all the wars, that doesn't change the fact: WM built a business where it only makes financial sense to hire people at the lowest possible salary and people who are applying there now are not entitled to run a family on a WM job. Those jobs should be for teenagers, maybe for college students, for entry level employees, maybe for new immigrants with no skills, for people with no skills and no other qualifications.
There is this belief, that WM is supposed to provide a high standard of living to a person, whose only job is to be a clerk at a store, no less in an economy that produces NOTHING of what WM sells, it's all imported. The production was outsourced for the same exact reasons that IBM outsources the jobs: lower taxes, lower regulation costs (same as lower taxes), less government, that's all it is.
Less gov't = more individual freedom. So you are saying: government subsidises workers. Which workers? Chinese government does not subsidise anybody, there are no government pensions for past peasants who are now gainfully employed at factories that /. loves to bash, there is no gov't medical insurance, there is nothing that gov't does there, people there save their own money, they save 50% of their incomes. If Chinese gov't wasn't destroying its own currency by subsidising (vendor financing) USA consumption, the Chinese workers would already be wealthier relatively speaking than most Westerners at this point.
So what does it mean: subsidising? Money printing? Yes, the Chinese are printing Chinese fiat and they are buying USA fiat and debt, yes, but this subsidises the USA consumers, not Chinese workers. This will stop and you will learn what it means not to be subsidised by the Chinese gov't transferring the productivity of the Chinese workers into your WalMarts.
So if you cost $100 and generate $120 value, but the other guy in India cost $20 and generated only $25, well, the company can hire 5 India guy to generate $125 for the same cost of $100, so bye bye to your job.
YOU would think that the guy in India is crap, producing only $25 value, less than a quarter of yours, but you are in fact competing with 5 of them, which combined to give more value to the company than you could!
- I don't see what the problem is, that's exactly what should happen!
Every cent counts, every dollar that can be made by reducing cost of production and increasing efficiency should be made! Where is the problem that you are complaining about?
If your problem is that you are uncompetitive at your taxation levels and your inflation levels with people in India, then your problem is not with the IBM, it is with your government.
Stop paying taxes.
So you know better than IBM what it needs? You think are can make financial decisions for the company? You think 6,000,000,000 in profits should not be allocated to the investors in the company (that's their salary), you think that IBM is making a bad decision there, yes? So if IBM is making a bad financial and business decision, then it will come back to bite IBM in the ass and a better competitor will eat their cake, so where is the government's role in any of it?
AFAIC IBM could fire 99.999% of their people if they could still satisfy their customer demand and they would be absolutely right to do it, if they could achieve that. Who are you to tell a business or anybody how they should run their company unless you are also an investor? You are a nobody, you want the government to assert power over private companies and over people, you are a dickless dictator, because you won't do your bidding with your own hands, you are going to send in the goons to do it.
What do you mean "dumping"? That concept is as wrong in this context as it is in all other contexts where it is applied, where government interferes with the free market rewarding a more efficient company by providing it with a larger market share.
AFAIC Standard Oil, Alcoa Aluminum, etc., they weren't broken down because they were bad for the customers in any way, even the courts case for Alcoa itself explicitly declared that the reason for breaking the company down is because others couldn't compete on price. So the purpose that government serves is to raise prices artificially, there is no such thing as dumping, and even when a limited amount of that occurs (sales, reduced prices, holiday sales, whatever) it's a temporary phenomena. All products and services and labour have a market clearing price. Reduce the costs sufficiently and the product, the service, the labour will be bought and used. The entire point is to use the cheapest resources available thus allowing people to pay the lowest prices possible, giving opportunity to the new businesses to arise based on the savings that occur once the prices for the existing goods and services are lowered.
Of-course in case of USA and many other countries, Japan, many European countries, certain places in South Amerca, etc., the mob, the government is dead set to prevent prices from falling, whatever it takes, they have "inflation targets", of-course they understate inflation by factors and they hide the real levels of it, the reason is they are the biggest debtors and they rely on larger and larger tax collections, and I guess if you allow the prices to come down, the taxes will be lower in fact, so a double whammy for the insanely huge governments that people allow above themselves in this world.
There is no such thing as "dumping cheap labour". Labour is human time, people sell their time, the market allows better distribution of labour and resources, we are much better off using the cheapest resources that exist. Of-course the actual problem is the PAYMENT and in case of places like the USA the payment comes from inflation - money printing, not productive capacity.
I am against central governments as a general principle, so I have no interest in any form of protectionism. I say: race to the bottom, race to the bottom, race to the bottom, race to the bottom, so that I can have as low prices as possible and save as much money as possible, thus allowing me to save and invest more, creating more economic activity via the very fact of saving and investing (be it in my own business, which is what I prefer or in other people's businesses either directly, buying companies or indirectly, allowing banks to allocate investment pools for businesses to be able to take legitimate business loans).
I don't have a national interest in anything whatsoever, I have no purpose for the State itself. Localise governments as much as possible, allow localities to compete against each other, this would lower the very NEED for 'national defence' because there wouldn't be a nation to defend or to attack in the first place and wars couldn't be as gigantic and bloody as they are today.
Of-course given that we do not live in the world that I prefer, we have what we have, I would say that central governments as they exist have authority to implement one (1) and only single thing legitimately: protecting individual freedoms of people by preventing an attack from a foreign invader. But this absolutely does not mean that government has to subsidise any particular field of study or generally any industry. Economic efficiency is everything, there is nothing more important than economic efficiency FOR PEACE on this planet if not for anything else.
AFAIC the self serving profit motive is the most moral and economically sound approach to running an economy and by extension a society. As to 'offshoring industries', again, AFAIC there wouldn't be as much offshoring of ANY industries if the governments did not grow to the size and did not usurp all this unauthorised power over individuals.
The reason for offshoring is inefficiency DICTATED by governments! Income taxes prevent savings and create special treatment of different groups of people (some are taxed more, some are less, it allows for a powerful political slogan -let's tax the other guy more than you). Business regulations are simply taxes in a different form. Inflation is the most insidious tax of all - stealing the value of your savings of your money in the first place.
The problem that you are referring to and are addressing is the problem of government doing things it shouldn't be doing, but it does them because the mob cheers for it. Well you know what, AFAIC the mob should PAY for this damage it causes with its cheering and voting and the payment comes in many forms, including the destroyed economy, which will force a restructuring and will put the mob on a leash it should be on.
This entire idea that any jobs should be protected is idiotic. If a job doesn't make economic sense it should be eliminated, that's the entire point of progress - eliminating inefficient jobs so that production can become more economical, as in cheaper, thus providing lower prices.
If IBM employees cannot provide enough economic value to the market for the market to pay the company enough to offset their cost and provide for profits on top of it, then those jobs have no business existing and any government agreements and controls are no better than any other form of welfare, it reduces the market efficiency, reduces economic activity, mis-allocates resources, forces up prices that would otherwise come down, prevents the work force from being restructured thus preventing other businesses and by extension the market (buying customers) from the dividend of having a company restructured, preventing prices from falling.
This entire idea that government must protect jobs is both immoral and economically ignorant and stupid. Unions don't exist to protect the rights of everybody, they exist to protect the entitlements of the union members, destroying the competition from low skilled workers that can work for lower wages, this also means higher prices for no reason except government corruption whatsoever.
You are 100% correct and right on the money. Today it's everybody who decides what you are going to do with your own business, how you are going to run it, how you are going to hire people, how you are going to fire people, who you are going to serve except for you - the owner of the business.
Consider the unauthorised power that USA government usurped - to dictate to business owners that they cannot discriminate against any particular person and not accept them as a customer, that they cannot come to a mutual agreement with a potential employee on the salary levels outside of the mandated minimums, that they cannot do hiring and firing as they see fit, but instead the government comes in and dictates exactly what you are not allowed to do as a business, which really only means that there will be more lawsuits and less competition, fewer businesses, as it becomes prohibitively expensive even to start many businesses. Consider all of the various licensing requirements, various income related taxes, various regulations that make it impossible for a small startup to attempt and compete with an established large corporation (which just may also be 'too big to fail' and what that really means is a huge moral hazard, because it gives the customers the wrong idea on who to deal with due to this perceived lack of risks, while in reality the risks are much greater and the society is much poorer and less stable because of it).
It is absolutely immoral and economically stupid to allow government to usurp power that is unauthorised to it, it is absolutely immoral an economically stupid to allow government to force economic and or so called 'moral' decisions down people's throats. An individual shouldn't lose his or her right to discriminate, to own and operate private property the way he or she sees fit simply because they are now operating it as a business.
If they have physical access to your phone, you are in trouble one way or another, you definitely shouldn't let anybody get that access. At least with phones made out of blocks, you can probably detect the change easier and actually remove the offending part.
With the phones as they are currently you can't even know if something was changed. I mean adding / replacing a chip, adding some tiny piece of hardware is not out of question for a large organisation, how often do people check what is inside their phones today? With phones made out of blocks, it would be much easier to do so if you cared.
The only thing your ideology ends up sharing is misery, beyond that you are also completely off-topic when it comes to responding to my comments. I am talking about government created moral hazard, I don't know what the fuck you are talking about beyond trolling.
Good, if that's all you understood from what you read there, then at least it's clear what we are dealing with here - an obvious troll.
OMG, FDIC is one of the primary reasons for the economic collapse that USA is experiencing right now. FDIC is a moral hazard, it prevents people from paying any attention as their choice of a bank, people spend more time thinking about which movie theater to go to than what bank they should use.
FDIC never served any legitimate purpose from the very beginning, less than 3% of deposits were lost during the time of the Great Depression (which was created by the government meddling with money in the first place, by printing all that cash to buy bad UK debt from France starting in 1925 the gov't inflated the asset bubble in the stock market, and don't tell me you think that the Fed is an 'independent' agency, sure sure, is that why they are monetising all of the USA debt today without any questions asked? Anyway, the Great Depression was caused by Hoover and FDR reacting in a completely wrong way to the market clearing the economy from all the dead weight, that originated from the inflation that the Fed caused) the banks didn't lose everybody's money at the time, the money lost value and then the gov't decided it would also confiscate physical gold (not that much was taken away, but the point was made loud and clear).
FDIC is a moral hazard, any gov't insurance is (health, education, energy, housing, stock market, environment, commerce, peace, you name it). Gov't has not authority and it is a terrible economic policy as well as horrible morality to involve gov't in business decisions, in money decisions, etc.
When people lose money, they learn a lesson that should be learned, that's the exact opposite of the moral hazard, it creates aversion to bad risks and allows the economy to grow by creating real savings, which is what fuels investment capital - not fake money (and FDIC never had money to bail out any banks, which is why all that money printing took place) and today FDIC has even less money to cover the next round of losses anyway. Tens of Trillions will be lost in US dollars and bonds, but it won't be because of bank runs, FDIC will create an illusion of safety. It will be because of the Federal reserve, 'Treasury', all the inflation they are creating.
As to Bitcoins, I never trusted Bitcoins, I don't trust Bitcoins, they have no value at all beside what somebody would pay for one at any particular moment in time, they were created as money by definition, they didn't start as a valuable commodity. BTCs have no value at all beyond what you can speculate about. There is really no difference between BTCs and fiat anyway, you can split BTCs into more and more units, which are as 'valuable' as the bigger units and you can have as many various valueless BTC-like currencies as you want at almost no cost at all, so it's an endless supply of BTCs or BTC like 'money'. ...but they are an interesting experiment in human lust for easy money, that's for sure.
I think this type of technology can be used to curtail government spying and also it can be a fun way to build your own phone to your own specifications the way people build their computers from parts.
If the phone building blocks only have to implement specified interfaces and do not have to be provided by any specific vendor, it could become possible finally to have actually secure phones, where a building block could be inserted to pre-process and encrypt the signal in a 'sandbox' in a way that would make it impossible for the network provider to snoop on your communications.
I can even see the strongest encryption that is possible used made available with this technology: one time encryption pads. How about this for a business idea: build and sell pairs of one time encryption pads and encryption modules, which would allow 2 (or more) individuals to encrypt their communications with a pre-made list of keys that can be shared beforehand. In fact a modular design can make it possible to have individual one time encryption pads to be used for different phone numbers (or some form of identifier that is first shared over the open network and then switches to the correct encryption pad once the session is established).
Fuck the NSA, this can really fuck up their entire snooping operation.
I have his answer for you already, don't bother, here is his answer and I quote:
Well, the most simple alternative was to leave the software field, do something else. Now a lot of programmers say to me, 'the employers hiring programmers demand that I do this -- if I don't do this I will starve.' Now, that's silly. Anybody can leave the field of programming. Even in the US, there are millions of people who make a living not by writing software. I have no other special skills, nothing else that I'm particularly good at. But I'm sure I could have become a waiter. (Now, maybe I couldn't be a waiter at one of the fanciest restaurants.) There is nothing unethical about being a waiter. And there is one thing -- you are not going to starve.
- so become a waiter, RMS tells you so.
AFAIC RMS can go fuck himself with a big broomstick. My freedom to do business the way I see fit is only about 100Trillion times more important to me than ALL of RMS's musings about morality and his version of 'freedom'.