So combine this tech with Google Glass and identify people you just don't want to see ever again, and you may end up walking right into them without even knowing.
Hence, they certainly know that whilst limited war, if there is such a thing, can indeed lead to vast profits, unlimited war surely leads to ruin.
- whose ruin?
Once you are ready to start a war for your profit, what do you care who it ruins? Anybody starting a war for a profit by definition proves that he doesn't care about anything at all, killing, destruction, where is the question? It doesn't matter who, and if it's women and kids... you just don't lead them as much. Ain't war hell?
Looks like they never want to end wars nowadays, the longer the better, the longer the more profit certain people make and notice that with every war the population got the shaft regardless of the outcome. The silly people rooting for their side, they think they can win a war. Americans have lost every war, even when the battle is won, freedoms are lost. The very first income tax was introduced during the Civil war. The very first paper money were printed by government for the Civil war. The estate and gift tax came because of WWI, the Fed got power to monetise Treasury debt because of WWI. The withholding tax was introduced in 1942 as an 'emergency tax'. Patriot act exists today as the result of 'war on terror'.
Certainly the people don't come on top in these wars, the system gets more entrenched, it gets more power and the individual freedoms get crushed.
Sure, the saying goes: if you want peace prepare for war.
But what if you do not want peace, what if war proved to be much more profitable for people who are top ranking political officials and their buddies? Well, then you accuse everybody else of wanting war and attack first.
So this here I came up with just now: If you want war, accuse others of warmongering and attack them.
Well, I went looking at this and it's not the JRE that does this, it's the Oracle installer for Java. JRE is not the installer, it's the run time environment.
But yes, on Linux or Unix I don't get any of this nonsense, it's just a tarball that I untar into a directory, set the path and run the JVM for example. The binary installers for Linux or Unix are simple shell scripts with the same tarball basically as part of the script, it doesn't do any of this stuff.
As I said, this is a terrible marketing move, does huge amount of disservice to the entire concept of Java by bundling things with installers that clearly shouldn't be there. It's not enough that people are confused about what Java is or is not (because of such a huge number of things that people just call 'Java'), but adding this nonsense to installers is just evil. Personally I have various issues with Oracle, would have really preferred if IBM bought Sun's assets rather than Oracle.
It doesn't have to be the same penetration to achieve 40-50% total usage, obviously there are fewer Internet users in India as proportion of population than in USA, however these are total numbers that matter here.
Brazil: 196,655,014 people (World Bank) Russia: 141,930,000 people India: 1,241,491,960 people China: 1,344,130,000 people
that's 2,924,206,974 people total. world population: 6,973,738,433 people, so BRIC countries are 41% of the total in population.
FTFA:
Of the 42,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) surveyed, just 20 were found to be responsible for nearly half of all the internet addresses that send spam.
so I take it "nearly half" is between 40% and 50%, but less than 50%. If it's over 41%, then what we are looking here is some form of distribution of 'nuisance' that is related to the actual population and it probably shows normal distribution.
BTW., I thought about your pizza example and using just one item (not pizza AND currency at the same time, but only pizza) to explain inflation.
Here is how it can be explained:
If people used pizzas for barter, then inflation would be government clipping pizza;)
What I means is that government would be thinning the crust, putting fewer toppings on, it would use the extra dough and toppings to issue more pizzas, but the pizzas would have less and less nutritional value. Then in the free market people would notice this and require more pizzas than before to barter for other items.
So while a pizza itself, as a unit of currency in the minds of the (not very intelligent) people is still the same pizza, in the market the value of any single pizza would be going down, that's because while before inflation one pizza could feed maybe 4 people, once government started with the entire 'clipping' program, eventually only 2 people could be fed by a single pizza. Then 1 person. Then in order to get the same nutritional value as before, 1 person would have to eat 4 pizzas.
Obviously the inflation is the expansion of supply of pizza that is happening by removing value from any single pizza (nutritional value) which in case of a paper currency just means purchasing power.
You mean the JRE that is part of the plugin installation? It cannot be the JRE itself, it must the the installer of the plugin. I don't install JVM this way or Java plugin (at all), I just download the necessary installation package for the JVM/SDK as needed. If I want Oracle SDK I get it from here and when it installs, it does not install any 'ask bar' or anything like that, so I am not even clear as to how people get these things. I download the SDK or JVM for a Linux distro, which is either a binary that will decompress or just a tarball.
What you are saying is that when you are prompted for a browser plugin download, as part of the plugin you get the JRE (which is the Runtime Environment) and you also get some Ask bar or whatever.
But this scheme by Oracle then results in people getting angry with Java of all things and AFAIC this is similar to being angry at (for example) the C / C++ language and the x86 architecture because Microsoft ActiveX platform is sometimes used as a virus vector.
That's why I say there is so much confusion around Java. Java IS a language AND a platform, it's like C and x86 hardware architecture that can run a binary compiled from C. If somebody sells a computer full of Ask bars etc., the average user will not be inclined to believe that the C language and the CPU architecture are horrible (they may or may not be, but that would not be on the mind of a computer user).
But the marketing of Java is so poor (for such a useful platform, AFAIC), that it creates this type of ridiculous notion around it.
They made the statement following study of the data gathered last year from the world's largest atom-smasher, which lies beneath the Swiss-French border outside Geneva. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said that what they found last year was, indeed, a version of what is popularly referred to as the "God particle."
I thought about the significance of saying that and as an atheist, it doesn't mean anything for me, it just means some silly nick name. God-particle, glue-particle, whatever-particle.
I realised though that it is not how many people see it! There are millions of people who are quite religious and to them this really is something different, the religious zealots are selling the idea that scientists have discovered god!
This is a huge marketing propaganda campaign, the religious leaders will be able to point at this and tell their followers: you see, even scientists believe in god!
This is a very counter-productive, a terrible thing to do for the scientists to go along with this. They are truly doing a disservice to the entire thinking segment of the population by feeding into this propaganda. Is this the way for them to justify all the spending, to sell to the millions of religious fanatics that they "discovered god" (because that's all that the religious fanatics will hear: scientists discovered god).
Your analogy uses pizza, which is a product, not a currency, that's why it's not very clear, but you are correct, it does kind of work, people's real incomes are getting smaller and their real savings are getting smaller, so it's like slices of pizza are getting smaller.
Here is a clarification: everybody has to pay some money to get a slice of pizza. Government says: we must grow the economy and so we will issue more money.
Notice that the government cannot issue more pizza. The economy is the pizza, not the money. So the government issues more currency and gives it to somebody first, who now has more money just because government created it out of thin air. This first person can now buy more pizza with his money, so there is less pizza left for the rest of the people and they start fighting on who is going to eat, the pizza maker sees this and raises the price per slice.
The guy with more money can still get more pizza with his new currency, everybody else has to pay more to get their slice, so now they can get fewer slices.
The government grew the amount of money in the system and called it "the economy", while in reality pizza was the economy and what government did was redistribute the economy from everybody to some preferred guy.
Whoever moderated that, you think that was funny? Then wait until my grand finale, where I explain the algorithm for bombing foreign brown civilians and aiming at kids with predator drones by US military.
Something similar to: "You just don't lead them as much" is part of it.
As a developer who never had many reasons to do very much with (actual) Java, I have to say I lost of respect for the platform when Oracle started bundling the runtime with the Ask toolbar on Windows.
- I don't know, as a thinking human I have to say that what Oracle does with Java browser plugin reflects poorly on Oracle and has nothing to do with Java. As I said, the browser plugin is irrelevant for majority of what Java is actually used for.
Personally I don't even have Java browser plugin on any of my machines because I don't have a use for it. At the same time I have developed plenty Java applications (as in Java language running on a JVM that resides on a server and has some form of application container on top of the JVM where the application is actually running).
So you are exactly what I am talking about - a victim of a marketing campaign, whichever form it takes.
What is it? It could be a 100 different things, given what I think about people who are good in their jobs, it could be that somebody else doesn't think the same. It could be that somebody didn't want to pay more. It could be that somebody thought that the results weren't all that great. It could be that the person in question really didn't want to continue there regardless of the money. There are too many variables, so what am I saying?
When I am asked whether somebody should be moved from their current position, where I know they are doing a very good job to something else, which may seem to be more prestigious, I generally advise to increase their pay and keep them in their current job.
Humility and Pope are not compatible already. The guy is a bloody Pope. Head of state of Vatican, declares what is moral and what is not. Infallible apparently. So clearly, if you open up a dictionary and go to the word 'humility', you'll see a link to Pope there.
Same as if you open a dictionary for the definition of 'Nobel Peace Prize Winner', you'll see Obama.
Well, I think that great amount of confusion results from the way Java is marketed. For a website that has a larger than normal number of technical people,/. as an aggregate still displays fundamental misunderstanding of what Java is and what it is not.
For example Java is not Javascript. A browser sandbox that runs Java plugin has nothing to do with server side Java applications, that for example can run in servlet containers and servers like Tomcat Apache, Jetty, iPlanet, Resin (by Caucho), Enhydra, and such.
Also Java is a platform, but often people complain about how many different paradigms it supports, how many various libraries and servers and different ideas and packages exist around it, as if anybody forces any developer or a company to work with all or any of that stuff. Again, complaints like: J2EE is too heavy, so Java sucks, well, you don't need J2EE for your dinky application and actually you don't need it if you develop a non-dinky application but still support various tech that a serious application requires (transactions, multi-threading and multi-user support, etc.)
For people who apparently pride themselves being 'above marketing', developers somehow fell victims to various marketing around Java and didn't bother to check for themselves what the hell all this is about.
He needs help, because he can't operate that for a loss indefinitely. This is where a currency like Bitcoin can actually be very useful, to make payments across borders without having to go through any official banking methods. He should be able to collect some money from his operations and people who will find his services useful will pay some amount to help him keep it up.
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So combine this tech with Google Glass and identify people you just don't want to see ever again, and you may end up walking right into them without even knowing.
Clearly not the first, the people who use this tactic did.
Hence, they certainly know that whilst limited war, if there is such a thing, can indeed lead to vast profits, unlimited war surely leads to ruin.
- whose ruin?
Once you are ready to start a war for your profit, what do you care who it ruins? Anybody starting a war for a profit by definition proves that he doesn't care about anything at all, killing, destruction, where is the question? It doesn't matter who, and if it's women and kids... you just don't lead them as much. Ain't war hell?
Looks like they never want to end wars nowadays, the longer the better, the longer the more profit certain people make and notice that with every war the population got the shaft regardless of the outcome. The silly people rooting for their side, they think they can win a war. Americans have lost every war, even when the battle is won, freedoms are lost. The very first income tax was introduced during the Civil war. The very first paper money were printed by government for the Civil war. The estate and gift tax came because of WWI, the Fed got power to monetise Treasury debt because of WWI. The withholding tax was introduced in 1942 as an 'emergency tax'. Patriot act exists today as the result of 'war on terror'.
Certainly the people don't come on top in these wars, the system gets more entrenched, it gets more power and the individual freedoms get crushed.
Sure, the saying goes: if you want peace prepare for war.
But what if you do not want peace, what if war proved to be much more profitable for people who are top ranking political officials and their buddies? Well, then you accuse everybody else of wanting war and attack first.
So this here I came up with just now: If you want war, accuse others of warmongering and attack them.
Isn't the devil in the details, while everything else is just marketing?
Well, I went looking at this and it's not the JRE that does this, it's the Oracle installer for Java. JRE is not the installer, it's the run time environment.
Here is one of these stories about this issue.
But yes, on Linux or Unix I don't get any of this nonsense, it's just a tarball that I untar into a directory, set the path and run the JVM for example. The binary installers for Linux or Unix are simple shell scripts with the same tarball basically as part of the script, it doesn't do any of this stuff.
As I said, this is a terrible marketing move, does huge amount of disservice to the entire concept of Java by bundling things with installers that clearly shouldn't be there. It's not enough that people are confused about what Java is or is not (because of such a huge number of things that people just call 'Java'), but adding this nonsense to installers is just evil. Personally I have various issues with Oracle, would have really preferred if IBM bought Sun's assets rather than Oracle.
It doesn't have to be the same penetration to achieve 40-50% total usage, obviously there are fewer Internet users in India as proportion of population than in USA, however these are total numbers that matter here.
World Internet Users and Population Stats - by looking at this data one can sort of see why nearly half of the 'nuisance' comes from BRIC countries.
Brazil: 196,655,014 people (World Bank)
Russia: 141,930,000 people
India: 1,241,491,960 people
China: 1,344,130,000 people
that's 2,924,206,974 people total.
world population: 6,973,738,433 people, so BRIC countries are 41% of the total in population.
FTFA:
Of the 42,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) surveyed, just 20 were found to be responsible for nearly half of all the internet addresses that send spam.
so I take it "nearly half" is between 40% and 50%, but less than 50%. If it's over 41%, then what we are looking here is some form of distribution of 'nuisance' that is related to the actual population and it probably shows normal distribution.
Is this really a surprise?
BTW., I thought about your pizza example and using just one item (not pizza AND currency at the same time, but only pizza) to explain inflation.
Here is how it can be explained:
If people used pizzas for barter, then inflation would be government clipping pizza ;)
What I means is that government would be thinning the crust, putting fewer toppings on, it would use the extra dough and toppings to issue more pizzas, but the pizzas would have less and less nutritional value. Then in the free market people would notice this and require more pizzas than before to barter for other items.
So while a pizza itself, as a unit of currency in the minds of the (not very intelligent) people is still the same pizza, in the market the value of any single pizza would be going down, that's because while before inflation one pizza could feed maybe 4 people, once government started with the entire 'clipping' program, eventually only 2 people could be fed by a single pizza. Then 1 person. Then in order to get the same nutritional value as before, 1 person would have to eat 4 pizzas.
Obviously the inflation is the expansion of supply of pizza that is happening by removing value from any single pizza (nutritional value) which in case of a paper currency just means purchasing power.
You mean the JRE that is part of the plugin installation? It cannot be the JRE itself, it must the the installer of the plugin. I don't install JVM this way or Java plugin (at all), I just download the necessary installation package for the JVM/SDK as needed. If I want Oracle SDK I get it from here and when it installs, it does not install any 'ask bar' or anything like that, so I am not even clear as to how people get these things. I download the SDK or JVM for a Linux distro, which is either a binary that will decompress or just a tarball.
What you are saying is that when you are prompted for a browser plugin download, as part of the plugin you get the JRE (which is the Runtime Environment) and you also get some Ask bar or whatever.
But this scheme by Oracle then results in people getting angry with Java of all things and AFAIC this is similar to being angry at (for example) the C / C++ language and the x86 architecture because Microsoft ActiveX platform is sometimes used as a virus vector.
That's why I say there is so much confusion around Java. Java IS a language AND a platform, it's like C and x86 hardware architecture that can run a binary compiled from C. If somebody sells a computer full of Ask bars etc., the average user will not be inclined to believe that the C language and the CPU architecture are horrible (they may or may not be, but that would not be on the mind of a computer user).
But the marketing of Java is so poor (for such a useful platform, AFAIC), that it creates this type of ridiculous notion around it.
Some headlines read: Physicists found GOD particle'
Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson - this is the actual story headline and a story.
Quote:
They made the statement following study of the data gathered last year from the world's largest atom-smasher, which lies beneath the Swiss-French border outside Geneva. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said that what they found last year was, indeed, a version of what is popularly referred to as the "God particle."
I thought about the significance of saying that and as an atheist, it doesn't mean anything for me, it just means some silly nick name. God-particle, glue-particle, whatever-particle.
I realised though that it is not how many people see it! There are millions of people who are quite religious and to them this really is something different, the religious zealots are selling the idea that scientists have discovered god!
This is a huge marketing propaganda campaign, the religious leaders will be able to point at this and tell their followers: you see, even scientists believe in god!
This is a very counter-productive, a terrible thing to do for the scientists to go along with this. They are truly doing a disservice to the entire thinking segment of the population by feeding into this propaganda. Is this the way for them to justify all the spending, to sell to the millions of religious fanatics that they "discovered god" (because that's all that the religious fanatics will hear: scientists discovered god).
This was the wrong way to go.
This Maxis developer is clearly a a cyber-terrorist.
Send in the drones.
Your analogy uses pizza, which is a product, not a currency, that's why it's not very clear, but you are correct, it does kind of work, people's real incomes are getting smaller and their real savings are getting smaller, so it's like slices of pizza are getting smaller.
Here is a clarification: everybody has to pay some money to get a slice of pizza. Government says: we must grow the economy and so we will issue more money.
Notice that the government cannot issue more pizza. The economy is the pizza, not the money. So the government issues more currency and gives it to somebody first, who now has more money just because government created it out of thin air. This first person can now buy more pizza with his money, so there is less pizza left for the rest of the people and they start fighting on who is going to eat, the pizza maker sees this and raises the price per slice.
The guy with more money can still get more pizza with his new currency, everybody else has to pay more to get their slice, so now they can get fewer slices.
The government grew the amount of money in the system and called it "the economy", while in reality pizza was the economy and what government did was redistribute the economy from everybody to some preferred guy.
Whoever moderated that, you think that was funny? Then wait until my grand finale, where I explain the algorithm for bombing foreign brown civilians and aiming at kids with predator drones by US military.
Something similar to: "You just don't lead them as much" is part of it.
I hate when parentheses are on individual lines like that.
try {
avail = getTotalAvailableFederalBalance();
} catch(TreasuryIsBareException e) {
printMoreMoney();
}
the reason that the condition printMoreMoney() requires a few weeks delay of-course is that it has to go through the usual route of:
Treasury.issueNewDebt() ...
Fed.issueNewCredit()...
MemberBanks.useNewFedCreditToBuyTreasuryDebt()....
only then Treasury has the new inflated cash to send out the checks, that's where the delay comes from
You know that other story on /. front page?
I left a comment on it, which I think is closely related to this story.
Go figure, /. sometimes operates like a set of loosely related Chinese fortune cookies.
A software glitch?
I have a feeling that this software glitch is not really a bug, it's just when this function executed:
getTotalAvailableFederalBalance()
it returned 0, and somewhere along the line it triggered a condition known as: TreasuryIsBareException
As a developer who never had many reasons to do very much with (actual) Java, I have to say I lost of respect for the platform when Oracle started bundling the runtime with the Ask toolbar on Windows.
- I don't know, as a thinking human I have to say that what Oracle does with Java browser plugin reflects poorly on Oracle and has nothing to do with Java. As I said, the browser plugin is irrelevant for majority of what Java is actually used for.
Personally I don't even have Java browser plugin on any of my machines because I don't have a use for it. At the same time I have developed plenty Java applications (as in Java language running on a JVM that resides on a server and has some form of application container on top of the JVM where the application is actually running).
So you are exactly what I am talking about - a victim of a marketing campaign, whichever form it takes.
What is it? It could be a 100 different things, given what I think about people who are good in their jobs, it could be that somebody else doesn't think the same. It could be that somebody didn't want to pay more. It could be that somebody thought that the results weren't all that great. It could be that the person in question really didn't want to continue there regardless of the money. There are too many variables, so what am I saying?
When I am asked whether somebody should be moved from their current position, where I know they are doing a very good job to something else, which may seem to be more prestigious, I generally advise to increase their pay and keep them in their current job.
I am not saying anything...
Humility and Pope are not compatible already. The guy is a bloody Pope. Head of state of Vatican, declares what is moral and what is not. Infallible apparently. So clearly, if you open up a dictionary and go to the word 'humility', you'll see a link to Pope there.
Same as if you open a dictionary for the definition of 'Nobel Peace Prize Winner', you'll see Obama.
Well, I think that great amount of confusion results from the way Java is marketed. For a website that has a larger than normal number of technical people, /. as an aggregate still displays fundamental misunderstanding of what Java is and what it is not.
For example Java is not Javascript. A browser sandbox that runs Java plugin has nothing to do with server side Java applications, that for example can run in servlet containers and servers like Tomcat Apache, Jetty, iPlanet, Resin (by Caucho), Enhydra, and such.
Also Java is a platform, but often people complain about how many different paradigms it supports, how many various libraries and servers and different ideas and packages exist around it, as if anybody forces any developer or a company to work with all or any of that stuff. Again, complaints like: J2EE is too heavy, so Java sucks, well, you don't need J2EE for your dinky application and actually you don't need it if you develop a non-dinky application but still support various tech that a serious application requires (transactions, multi-threading and multi-user support, etc.)
For people who apparently pride themselves being 'above marketing', developers somehow fell victims to various marketing around Java and didn't bother to check for themselves what the hell all this is about.
Hadoop. For when you feel like something fun to do on a friday night.
Genious! And really his VPN clients should just save the money and use the Internet like everybody else does, because you know, they can.
He needs help, because he can't operate that for a loss indefinitely. This is where a currency like Bitcoin can actually be very useful, to make payments across borders without having to go through any official banking methods. He should be able to collect some money from his operations and people who will find his services useful will pay some amount to help him keep it up.