Um, well yes and no. Using a commodity based currency like the gold standard does indeed invite the sort of volatility and attendant bad side effects you describe. However, switching to a credit based currency has its baggage as well. The credit creators, banks, run up a lot of credit in a boom, and then, when the most powerful among them are confident of their position, they pull the plug on the boom. Then we have a bust where the biggest creditors capture a lot of assets, and the little people lose their life savings. Best to have a strictly fiat based currency where the creation of new money is strongly regulated, and where the new money is put into circulation by equal distribution among the citizens. Then you don't "slow" the bubbles, you eliminate them! See my sig.
The economy of a nation the size of the US is a little more complicated of a subject than what you learned about balancing your checkbook in home ec class in high school. Just to give you a taste of how wrong your ideas are: the time that the US was in the most danger was when? The Civil War. And how did President Lincoln pay for, and win (!), that war? By doing what everyone assumes is certain doom: printing money based upon *nothing* but the full faith and credit of the United States. No Federal Reserve. No gold. Just a printing press. Coffee time?
Spake the voice of small experience. Spinrite still dependably recovers failing drives. First you use level 2 to clean the drive up enough to recover the data. Then you stress test with level 4. If it passes level 4, use it. Otherwise, toss it and put the data on a new drive. No, this does not work every time - obviously if the drive is clicking or severely overheating you have to take more extreme measures. But it does work often enough to make it still worth having. No, I don't do this with server drives. Yes, I do it with workstation drives regularly.
"Demands the question" is the phrase you want. "Begging the question" is something else entirely - it means that the question is a false question in that the question is a loaded question that admits of no other answer than the answer that the question is loaded to "beg".
No, it's more like pointing out that if you want to see the view from some mountain peak, 1. You are going to have to hike to the top of the peak. 2. You probably want to buy a pair of hiking boots to use on the hike. Complaints from a dumb ass in a car about the millions of car owners that are denied accesss to the view are ridiculed or ignored, and rightly so!
People not getting the help they need is the American Way. We're rugged and individualists. We don't need no stinking help! We can each pull the trigger all by ourselves...
"Congress critters", while a phrase, not a word, is the one I'd most like to see disappear. What's the point of it? Cutesy? Why? We should be having serious discussions about the functions and performance of our legislature.
Now, if you could just fork your team and do the same thing with Exchange. BTW, Exchange, unlike AD, is in dire need of some sane re-engineering. Just look at how it handles attachments!
It's funny, but slashdot seems to have a strange attraction for exactly that mindset. Me one too. Must have something to do with being rational and smart.
OK, so we are facing imminent ecological catastrophe from burning fossil fuels. Stipulated. So, the question is, what can we do about it. Well, I suppose we could stop burning fossil fuels, and live like cave men, but you and I both know there's a snowball's chance in hell of that happening. The only program that has the faintest hope of ever getting traction is one where we replace the energy produced by fossil fuels with energy produced by other means. So, what other means have the capability of *significantly* replacing fossil fuels? Only one - nuclear fission. But almost no one wants to face this inconvenient truth. So, no matter how righteous it makes you feel to explain just how serious the situation is, unless you spend at least as much effort promoting fission, you are worse than the deniers - they at least have the excuse of ignorance...
Let me give you a hint: we lost the war in 1913. Of course "ownership" is a relative term, however any politician who steps to far outside the range of allowable actions risks "meeting Oswald".
>> I think there are people who are beyond any hope of rehabilitation, who should never be allowed to be free, and I don't see the point in paying to keep them locked up for decades, so we might as well kill them.
You are far too kind to us. We are, oh, about 97% at fault for the turmoil in Mexico. Not 100%, but damn close. It curdles my soul how my countrymen cheerfully deny it. The whole situation is sickening.
No, we didn't have a debate. We had a war, and if I recall correctly, it was a war started by the states wishing to secede. So the answer to that method of secession was "no", but that does not rule out civilized secession, does it?
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Um, well yes and no. Using a commodity based currency like the gold standard does indeed invite the sort of volatility and attendant bad side effects you describe. However, switching to a credit based currency has its baggage as well. The credit creators, banks, run up a lot of credit in a boom, and then, when the most powerful among them are confident of their position, they pull the plug on the boom. Then we have a bust where the biggest creditors capture a lot of assets, and the little people lose their life savings. Best to have a strictly fiat based currency where the creation of new money is strongly regulated, and where the new money is put into circulation by equal distribution among the citizens. Then you don't "slow" the bubbles, you eliminate them! See my sig.
Hallelujah Brother!
The economy of a nation the size of the US is a little more complicated of a subject than what you learned about balancing your checkbook in home ec class in high school. Just to give you a taste of how wrong your ideas are: the time that the US was in the most danger was when? The Civil War. And how did President Lincoln pay for, and win (!), that war? By doing what everyone assumes is certain doom: printing money based upon *nothing* but the full faith and credit of the United States. No Federal Reserve. No gold. Just a printing press. Coffee time?
They used to make good printers...
Mmmm. Bread! With butter!
>> Spinrite... had its purpose in its day.
Spake the voice of small experience. Spinrite still dependably recovers failing drives. First you use level 2 to clean the drive up enough to recover the data. Then you stress test with level 4. If it passes level 4, use it. Otherwise, toss it and put the data on a new drive. No, this does not work every time - obviously if the drive is clicking or severely overheating you have to take more extreme measures. But it does work often enough to make it still worth having. No, I don't do this with server drives. Yes, I do it with workstation drives regularly.
And if you can upgrade your bios without jumper-foo, that creates the perfect attack vector. No, no, a thousand times no!
"Demands the question" is the phrase you want. "Begging the question" is something else entirely - it means that the question is a false question in that the question is a loaded question that admits of no other answer than the answer that the question is loaded to "beg".
"dismissal?" No, how about prosecution for aggravated battery?
No, it's more like pointing out that if you want to see the view from some mountain peak, 1. You are going to have to hike to the top of the peak. 2. You probably want to buy a pair of hiking boots to use on the hike. Complaints from a dumb ass in a car about the millions of car owners that are denied accesss to the view are ridiculed or ignored, and rightly so!
>> Of course if you drag into the picture narcorepublics and countries that are more like institutionalised criminal syndicates than republics
Why wouldn't you include our peers?
People not getting the help they need is the American Way. We're rugged and individualists. We don't need no stinking help! We can each pull the trigger all by ourselves...
So, if you want to get serious, then, duh, the thing to address is WHY fusion is off the table. I, for one, smell a rat.
"Congress critters", while a phrase, not a word, is the one I'd most like to see disappear. What's the point of it? Cutesy? Why? We should be having serious discussions about the functions and performance of our legislature.
Now, if you could just fork your team and do the same thing with Exchange. BTW, Exchange, unlike AD, is in dire need of some sane re-engineering. Just look at how it handles attachments!
It's funny, but slashdot seems to have a strange attraction for exactly that mindset. Me one too. Must have something to do with being rational and smart.
OK, so we are facing imminent ecological catastrophe from burning fossil fuels. Stipulated. So, the question is, what can we do about it. Well, I suppose we could stop burning fossil fuels, and live like cave men, but you and I both know there's a snowball's chance in hell of that happening. The only program that has the faintest hope of ever getting traction is one where we replace the energy produced by fossil fuels with energy produced by other means. So, what other means have the capability of *significantly* replacing fossil fuels? Only one - nuclear fission. But almost no one wants to face this inconvenient truth. So, no matter how righteous it makes you feel to explain just how serious the situation is, unless you spend at least as much effort promoting fission, you are worse than the deniers - they at least have the excuse of ignorance...
Let me give you a hint: we lost the war in 1913. Of course "ownership" is a relative term, however any politician who steps to far outside the range of allowable actions risks "meeting Oswald".
>> I think there are people who are beyond any hope of rehabilitation, who should never be allowed to be free, and I don't see the point in paying to keep them locked up for decades, so we might as well kill them.
Mercy? Ever heard the word?
Are you retarded?
You are far too kind to us. We are, oh, about 97% at fault for the turmoil in Mexico. Not 100%, but damn close. It curdles my soul how my countrymen cheerfully deny it. The whole situation is sickening.
Stupid post of the year! They are killers. He is not a killer. So who is more extreme? Duh.
No, we didn't have a debate. We had a war, and if I recall correctly, it was a war started by the states wishing to secede. So the answer to that method of secession was "no", but that does not rule out civilized secession, does it?
Don't feel bad. The USofA is hot on your trail. We'll show you how to do police state RIGHT!
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