Anybody know what the current reputation of The Netherlands is?
Awful. The prime minister even refuses to say anything bad about the unlawful interceptions, because "it could harm our interests as well". Clearly "our interests" do not include the interests of the citizens. And our domestic affairs minister wants to give the police unwarranted tapping powers with the possibility to install spyware, only controlled by their own organisation.
Cory Doctorow's Novel "Homeland" speaks about this. It turns out that there was a FOIA request pending (by Aaron Schwarz) for the "Identity Management Software" that the US Airforce bought.
How cutely naive! If a programming language costs money and relies on remote servers you expect corporate snooping to decrease? I think hell would freeze over first.
Because favourable law only counts for big companies nowadays. You know, there was a time that "fair use" was meant for individuals instead of companies.
Boy, what a misinfo about supersonic airliners. These airliners were not introduced to save on flying time (that was just a nice extra and a nice marketing slogan), they were introduced to save on fuel.
Jet engines are more effective when you fly faster. On the other hand, the drag gets more as well, and at Mach=1, the drag rises considerably. (the airflow cannot go over the wing nose anymore, which causes a helping suction to disappear). But someone had calculated that there were supersonic speeds at which the fuel consumption was minimal.
Too bad, a short time after that somebody else invented the double-stream jet engine, which divides the energy over the existing hot and a new cold flow of air. This makes the double stream jet engine quite effective at subsonic speeds. So in short, the then ultra-modern supersonic airliners were overtaken by even more modern engines.
So the CIA pays AT&T to "voluntarily" hand over somebody else's data? That is a giant stretch of the word "voluntary". The people concerned have not been asked anything. Neither have they volunteered anything.
The speculative sector is a kind of parallel universe. That in itself would not be a bad thing if it didn't feed on the real universe we live in. Take the famous sub-prime mortgages, for example. One fraud firm, excuse me, financial institution sells a "financial product" (note that there was never produced anything) that forces losses on the buyers and then sells the risk of losing to someone else. There is no way that the original fraud can lose anything, and the money to pay for this all will eventually have to be worked for. So in the end the real economy loses, the virtual economy siphons everything off. It is not just gambling, it is gambling with a system, and with other peoples hard labour.
Speculation is just a financial parasite on an actual economy. It has always been, and always will be. The main problem is that some parasites are not that harmful, but a vast amount of them is. And right now 98% of our financial system is a parasite. And alas we linked our economy to our financial system.
A tiny part, yes. Too little to be of impact. Nowadays, only 2% of all money is related to real economic activities. 98% is pure speculation. Off course speculation is way more volatile than real economy. In a real economy, people will want to buy their bread tomorrow as well, even is the local currency behaves weird. And they will tend to go to work as well. In speculation, this is not the case. So a relatively normal change in the speculative sense can now bring down the real economy tenfold, because the real economy is now just "white noise" in the virtual gambling economy.
In this on-line gambling system, money has lost all its real value. One of the very problems we have now is that a bit of on-line gambling can be traded for real work. And off course, that there is so much money to be made with on-line gambling that the financial institutions have left the real economy behind long ago. Nowadays, finance has almost nothing to do with economy anymore.
It's not a myth. Heck, even the mechanism is known: it is insulin resistance. In short, your body gets so high blood sugar level rise in such short time, that the warning system against it is not believed anymore. This also means you can "eat yourself sick" with candy, but not, say, with apples.
He does not need to remain relevant. I think he just wants a boring life now, possibly including some potatoes. He already knows that "May you live in interesting times" is a curse. And as long as he remains in a country that is willing to stick up a finger to the USA, he is probably safe.
This sounds like the event system of VRML. I really like that. There are "EventIns" and "EventOuts", and they can be transformed. So you can define a "TimeSensor" that generates a scalar signal to be fed into a RotationTransformer which is linked to a piece of geometry to make it spin.
Or you could define a ClickSensor that feeds a boolean signal into the TimeSensor that...
In commercial aircraft, there used to be a rule that the aircraft could be flown entirely by hand. Yes, you can even fly a 747 by hand if the systems fail. Is it feasible to have such a rule for medical devices? Does such a rule exist?
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Anybody know what the current reputation of The Netherlands is?
Awful. The prime minister even refuses to say anything bad about the unlawful interceptions, because "it could harm our interests as well". Clearly "our interests" do not include the interests of the citizens. And our domestic affairs minister wants to give the police unwarranted tapping powers with the possibility to install spyware, only controlled by their own organisation.
Disclaimer: I live there.
Most of the contributions are not financial in an open-source project. So if you focus on money only, you can only get irrelevant results.
To my knowledge drinkable coffee is actually forbidden in the united states. Something to do with temperature and the danger of spilling it.
I think the correct term was "Persona Management Software"
Cory Doctorow's Novel "Homeland" speaks about this. It turns out that there was a FOIA request pending (by Aaron Schwarz) for the "Identity Management Software" that the US Airforce bought.
How cutely naive! If a programming language costs money and relies on remote servers you expect corporate snooping to decrease? I think hell would freeze over first.
Or sneakernet.
Because favourable law only counts for big companies nowadays. You know, there was a time that "fair use" was meant for individuals instead of companies.
Everybody who trades at the stock exchange through an intermediary, for example.
Boy, what a misinfo about supersonic airliners. These airliners were not introduced to save on flying time (that was just a nice extra and a nice marketing slogan), they were introduced to save on fuel.
Jet engines are more effective when you fly faster. On the other hand, the drag gets more as well, and at Mach=1, the drag rises considerably. (the airflow cannot go over the wing nose anymore, which causes a helping suction to disappear). But someone had calculated that there were supersonic speeds at which the fuel consumption was minimal.
Too bad, a short time after that somebody else invented the double-stream jet engine, which divides the energy over the existing hot and a new cold flow of air. This makes the double stream jet engine quite effective at subsonic speeds. So in short, the then ultra-modern supersonic airliners were overtaken by even more modern engines.
Oblig. quote from the TV series Tatort:
Luck is like a police bullet. It always hits the wrong one.
So the CIA pays AT&T to "voluntarily" hand over somebody else's data? That is a giant stretch of the word "voluntary". The people concerned have not been asked anything. Neither have they volunteered anything.
The speculative sector is a kind of parallel universe. That in itself would not be a bad thing if it didn't feed on the real universe we live in. Take the famous sub-prime mortgages, for example. One fraud firm, excuse me, financial institution sells a "financial product" (note that there was never produced anything) that forces losses on the buyers and then sells the risk of losing to someone else. There is no way that the original fraud can lose anything, and the money to pay for this all will eventually have to be worked for. So in the end the real economy loses, the virtual economy siphons everything off. It is not just gambling, it is gambling with a system, and with other peoples hard labour.
Speculation is just a financial parasite on an actual economy. It has always been, and always will be. The main problem is that some parasites are not that harmful, but a vast amount of them is. And right now 98% of our financial system is a parasite. And alas we linked our economy to our financial system.
A tiny part, yes. Too little to be of impact. Nowadays, only 2% of all money is related to real economic activities. 98% is pure speculation. Off course speculation is way more volatile than real economy. In a real economy, people will want to buy their bread tomorrow as well, even is the local currency behaves weird. And they will tend to go to work as well. In speculation, this is not the case. So a relatively normal change in the speculative sense can now bring down the real economy tenfold, because the real economy is now just "white noise" in the virtual gambling economy.
In this on-line gambling system, money has lost all its real value. One of the very problems we have now is that a bit of on-line gambling can be traded for real work. And off course, that there is so much money to be made with on-line gambling that the financial institutions have left the real economy behind long ago. Nowadays, finance has almost nothing to do with economy anymore.
It's not a myth. Heck, even the mechanism is known: it is insulin resistance. In short, your body gets so high blood sugar level rise in such short time, that the warning system against it is not believed anymore. This also means you can "eat yourself sick" with candy, but not, say, with apples.
He does not need to remain relevant. I think he just wants a boring life now, possibly including some potatoes. He already knows that "May you live in interesting times" is a curse. And as long as he remains in a country that is willing to stick up a finger to the USA, he is probably safe.
This sounds like the event system of VRML. I really like that. There are "EventIns" and "EventOuts", and they can be transformed. So you can define a "TimeSensor" that generates a scalar signal to be fed into a RotationTransformer which is linked to a piece of geometry to make it spin.
Or you could define a ClickSensor that feeds a boolean signal into the TimeSensor that ...
It workes really nice.
Now I know what "triple-A" means: the sound of falling into the debt abyss: AAA...
A company is way more evil. Why are a few teenagers arrested while companies go free? Has everyone forgotten about Aaron Swartz already?
Indeed. A one-way mirror is still transparent. Just not both ways.
Microsoft re-discovers Dr. Watson.
Crime DOES pay, if you give some officials some of it.
When the car is scanned, the operator asks its navigation device "does it hurt when I do this?"
In commercial aircraft, there used to be a rule that the aircraft could be flown entirely by hand. Yes, you can even fly a 747 by hand if the systems fail. Is it feasible to have such a rule for medical devices? Does such a rule exist?