Sounding sarcastic, critical, suicidal or otherwise emotional may not be authentic.
Greeks banks will run out of money next week. The positive side of this, is that there will be no more queues in front of banks, because if there is no more money in the bank, there is no point in queuing in front of it.
The problem is that the town originally had 120 normal residents. Now, 40 extreme sensitives have moved there, and have started stirring up trouble, like demanding that other residents remove neon lights in stores, etc. The original residents are not enthused with this, and fear that the loonies with drive them out of their own town.
I agree with your comment entirely. I would only like to add that a true C++ Master writes code that a C++ Novice can understand.
Time to get philosophical. Tomorrow, you could get run over by a bus. Take a wander around your Cubical Town. Are there enough folks there who could take over ownership of your code?
You can do some really cool things with C++. But if other folks cannot understand them, well it's best not to do it. Cool C++ features are like nuclear weapons: very powerful, but think about the consequences of using them . . .
No one wants to see a poor, single mother be unable to feed her children,
Oh, I think you are underestimating the vastness and ubiquity of porn fetishes available on the Internet. There is for sure a Tube devoted to this somewhere on the Internet.
Hey, he wasn't just a mathematician, he was also a computer geek. I used to see him back in the early 80's in the middle of the night in the Princeton computer center, wandering around with a deck of punch cards for the IBM mainframe.
I was playing Frisbee in a field with some friends, and it started to drizzle. Professor Nash walked by, and laid down on a bench under a tree. He folded his hands together, closed his eyes, and looked really placid, but we could see that he was thinking about something.
You know that saying, "A penny for your thoughts?" I would have paid a fortune to know what he was thinking about!
I've always wondered if the NSA has academics "informally" on their payroll. In East Germany, the secret police, called the Stasi, had loads of folks working "informally" for them.
The NSA would pay (or bribe?) the academics to mislead research with disinformation, and intentionally build in a backdoor.
Of course, one might think that academics would have some sense of integrity. But these days, nothing really surprises me anymore.
That's correct. However, one of the two main problems in Greece is that folks there don't pay their taxes. That and corruption. Both the Troika and Syriza are in agreement on that.
In order for Greeks to buy Firefox TVs, or any other foreign made products, they will need hard Euros. The Greek government will probably have to resort to paying government salaries and pensions in "Scrips": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Folks won't be able to a Firefox TV with Scrip . . . unless they pay a whole lot of them. So . . . all I can wish you is good luck!
If you owe your bank $100,000 and cannot settle it then you have a problem. If you owe your bank $100 million and cannot pay, then it's your bank that has a problem.
Actually, I have heard that quote was made by none other than John Maynard Keynes!
A slight correction. Greece has already received two bailouts worth billions in the last five years . . . with the condition that they will implement necessary structural reforms in their economy. For example, pensions in Greece are way to high for what the people paid in. And their are way too many civil servants.
Greece essentially "cooked the books" and hid state debt. This only works for a while. When this was discovered five years ago, Greece was shutout from the international capital markets: No one would lend to them anymore. However, a lot of private banks had too much exposure to Greece, which forced the Troika, the EU, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund, to arrange a bailout, to avoid financial contagion. The private banks received a "haircut", which means that they would only receive a smaller percentage of the money owed to them. Most of the debt now rests on EU taxpayers.
Greece dragged their feet on implementing reforms. So a second bailout was necessary. Things were getting better, as they now had GDP growth. Well, then the Greeks went off at the beginning of this year, and elected a new coalition of Radical Left Marxists, and Right Wingers. And since then, things have taken a major turn for the worse. The new government promised to:
Raise pensions
Hire more civil servants (to reduce unemployment)
Erase bailout debts
Sounds like a nice plan . . . but where do you get the money to finance this? Well, the EU should just give more Euros to Greece! Which is politically untenable for the rest of Europe. The only way this could work, is if Greece had their own currency to devalue. So, in the long run, Greece needs to leave the Euro. Except, a majority of Greeks want to stay in the Euro. Thus, the current Greek government wants to get kicked out, so they can blame the EU for it. But the EU does not want to take the blame, so they won't kick out Greece. What we have now, is a slow speed train wreck.
It will be interesting to see how Greece gets out of their mess, when they run out of Euros. Pundits are guessing that Greece will issue "scrips", which are a kind of government IOU, and pay government salaries and pensions with them.
The only problem with that is . . . who will want these scrips? Certainly not even the Greeks themselves. They want Euros. And they will try to get rid of their scrips as soon as they can, in exchange for something of value.
Car sales are up now in Greece by something like 40%, as people worry about if their bank accounts will get raided by the government. An automobile is considered as something "valuable". The cruel irony here, is that Greeks prefer to buy German cars . . . exactly the folks who Greeks blame for all their problems. So the Germans are actually benefiting the most from this.
Also anecdotally, because i don't have the data right now, the vast majority of Greek postgraduates believe in the God of the (Greek Orthodox) Christian church, i.e., THE God.
Also anecdotally, because i don't have the data right now, the vast majority of Greek postgraduates believe that Greece can stay in the Euro . . .
This topic just screams out for a Slashdot Poll! What is your religious affiliation?:
1. Something Christian-like (Can anyone tell me what the difference between a Presbyterian and a Methodist is?)
2. Zoroastrian
3. Skinny Hindu folks, who don't eat enough meat.
4. Islam (. . . and all their unwelcome fanatic folks)
5. Flying Spaghetti Monster?
6. "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a religious preacher!"
. we need to cut the human population in half in the next 100 years (by breeding less, not killing people off) if we really want to sustain the earth
. . . and you are preaching to the Slashdot crowd about breeding less . . . ? Sorry, that doesn't sound very effective to me . . .
Now, if you want to talk about killing people off, the folks here will be thrilled to serve you up unfeasible ideas about sharks with lasers, smothering with gamma ray enhanced testicles, and the like.
The Human Species are one tough bad add mutha fucka . . . they ain't going away any time real soon . . . without an Armageddon fight.
RT. the "Russian Times" is the political mouth of Putin to the masses. Anyone who would believe anything that comes out of that rag, well . . . should be given a good home from the rest of their lives.
Yes, France and Germany are responsible for the conflict in the Ukraine. Crimea was always a "traditional" part of Russia.
I'm just waiting for drones that will simultaneously cut my lawn and deter burglars.
Why not drones that *cut burglars* and *deter the lawn* from growing?
Well, a robotic sprinkler that sprayed Agent Orange would be half of the solution. The idea would need to be more developed, but I'm thinking that DARPA would cough up the cash for that.
The gov't should convince insurance companies to band together and pony up the cash.
This reminds me of an old Monty Python joke. When asked about tax policies, one bowler hat guy quips: "I think we should tax foreigners, living abroad!"
In any democracy, one thing is certain: A bunch of folks think that a bunch of other folks should pay for something all of them need.
The Russian security services told the FBI that the Boston Bombing Brothers were up to no good. The FBI did a perfunctorily check, and then let them go on with their terrorist work.
The Secret Squirrels should not be monitoring all Americans. They should be tracking terrorists!
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Sounding sarcastic, critical, suicidal or otherwise emotional may not be authentic.
Greeks banks will run out of money next week. The positive side of this, is that there will be no more queues in front of banks, because if there is no more money in the bank, there is no point in queuing in front of it.
How would the algorithm rate that comment . . . ?
Isn't there room for other loonies too?
The problem is that the town originally had 120 normal residents. Now, 40 extreme sensitives have moved there, and have started stirring up trouble, like demanding that other residents remove neon lights in stores, etc. The original residents are not enthused with this, and fear that the loonies with drive them out of their own town.
. . . then you can imagine all the "fun" sadistic police would have with these folks and a Taser.
I agree with your comment entirely. I would only like to add that a true C++ Master writes code that a C++ Novice can understand.
Time to get philosophical. Tomorrow, you could get run over by a bus. Take a wander around your Cubical Town. Are there enough folks there who could take over ownership of your code?
You can do some really cool things with C++. But if other folks cannot understand them, well it's best not to do it. Cool C++ features are like nuclear weapons: very powerful, but think about the consequences of using them . . .
No one wants to see a poor, single mother be unable to feed her children,
Oh, I think you are underestimating the vastness and ubiquity of porn fetishes available on the Internet. There is for sure a Tube devoted to this somewhere on the Internet.
Well, here you go Mr. Putin; here are the tapes that you have been looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Since this contains content of a . . . well . . . "confidential" nature . . . you should view this late at night, after your wife has gone to bed.
. . . and don't forget a box of tissues, and some hand cream.
If you do heat the universe up to the point it all explodes, the thing giving the heat will be cold enough to survive.
I'm thinking that there is a joke about Andrea Rossi and cold fusion in there, but I can't figure it out now . . .
"Hey, Herr Rossi sucht sein Glück - - - "
The German folks I know call them "Abgeordneten".
That what it seems to be from TFS:
Ask Google "What happened to the dinosaurs?" and you'll see links to Creationist sites right at the top."
Hey, he wasn't just a mathematician, he was also a computer geek. I used to see him back in the early 80's in the middle of the night in the Princeton computer center, wandering around with a deck of punch cards for the IBM mainframe.
I was playing Frisbee in a field with some friends, and it started to drizzle. Professor Nash walked by, and laid down on a bench under a tree. He folded his hands together, closed his eyes, and looked really placid, but we could see that he was thinking about something.
You know that saying, "A penny for your thoughts?" I would have paid a fortune to know what he was thinking about!
"Spying? There's an app for that!"
But you don't need one . . . we support spying natively!
I've always wondered if the NSA has academics "informally" on their payroll. In East Germany, the secret police, called the Stasi, had loads of folks working "informally" for them.
The NSA would pay (or bribe?) the academics to mislead research with disinformation, and intentionally build in a backdoor.
Of course, one might think that academics would have some sense of integrity. But these days, nothing really surprises me anymore.
WE PAY OUR BILLS
That's correct. However, one of the two main problems in Greece is that folks there don't pay their taxes. That and corruption. Both the Troika and Syriza are in agreement on that.
In order for Greeks to buy Firefox TVs, or any other foreign made products, they will need hard Euros. The Greek government will probably have to resort to paying government salaries and pensions in "Scrips": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Folks won't be able to a Firefox TV with Scrip . . . unless they pay a whole lot of them. So . . . all I can wish you is good luck!
If you owe your bank $100,000 and cannot settle it then you have a problem. If you owe your bank $100 million and cannot pay, then it's your bank that has a problem.
Actually, I have heard that quote was made by none other than John Maynard Keynes!
A slight correction. Greece has already received two bailouts worth billions in the last five years . . . with the condition that they will implement necessary structural reforms in their economy. For example, pensions in Greece are way to high for what the people paid in. And their are way too many civil servants.
Greece essentially "cooked the books" and hid state debt. This only works for a while. When this was discovered five years ago, Greece was shutout from the international capital markets: No one would lend to them anymore. However, a lot of private banks had too much exposure to Greece, which forced the Troika, the EU, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund, to arrange a bailout, to avoid financial contagion. The private banks received a "haircut", which means that they would only receive a smaller percentage of the money owed to them. Most of the debt now rests on EU taxpayers.
Greece dragged their feet on implementing reforms. So a second bailout was necessary. Things were getting better, as they now had GDP growth. Well, then the Greeks went off at the beginning of this year, and elected a new coalition of Radical Left Marxists, and Right Wingers. And since then, things have taken a major turn for the worse. The new government promised to:
Raise pensions
Hire more civil servants (to reduce unemployment)
Erase bailout debts
Sounds like a nice plan . . . but where do you get the money to finance this? Well, the EU should just give more Euros to Greece! Which is politically untenable for the rest of Europe. The only way this could work, is if Greece had their own currency to devalue. So, in the long run, Greece needs to leave the Euro. Except, a majority of Greeks want to stay in the Euro. Thus, the current Greek government wants to get kicked out, so they can blame the EU for it. But the EU does not want to take the blame, so they won't kick out Greece. What we have now, is a slow speed train wreck.
You need a currency.
"1000 Quatloos for the newcomers!"
It will be interesting to see how Greece gets out of their mess, when they run out of Euros. Pundits are guessing that Greece will issue "scrips", which are a kind of government IOU, and pay government salaries and pensions with them.
The only problem with that is . . . who will want these scrips? Certainly not even the Greeks themselves. They want Euros. And they will try to get rid of their scrips as soon as they can, in exchange for something of value.
Car sales are up now in Greece by something like 40%, as people worry about if their bank accounts will get raided by the government. An automobile is considered as something "valuable". The cruel irony here, is that Greeks prefer to buy German cars . . . exactly the folks who Greeks blame for all their problems. So the Germans are actually benefiting the most from this.
Also anecdotally, because i don't have the data right now, the vast majority of Greek postgraduates believe in the God of the (Greek Orthodox) Christian church, i.e., THE God.
Also anecdotally, because i don't have the data right now, the vast majority of Greek postgraduates believe that Greece can stay in the Euro . . .
This topic just screams out for a Slashdot Poll! What is your religious affiliation?:
1. Something Christian-like (Can anyone tell me what the difference between a Presbyterian and a Methodist is?)
2. Zoroastrian
3. Skinny Hindu folks, who don't eat enough meat.
4. Islam (. . . and all their unwelcome fanatic folks)
5. Flying Spaghetti Monster?
6. "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a religious preacher!"
Jokes about Cannibalism are funny . . . but when push comes to shove, humans don't taste good.
If we did taste good, we would have eaten each other all up, before the Internet was invented for me to post this.
. we need to cut the human population in half in the next 100 years (by breeding less, not killing people off) if we really want to sustain the earth
. . . and you are preaching to the Slashdot crowd about breeding less . . . ? Sorry, that doesn't sound very effective to me . . .
Now, if you want to talk about killing people off, the folks here will be thrilled to serve you up unfeasible ideas about sharks with lasers, smothering with gamma ray enhanced testicles, and the like.
The Human Species are one tough bad add mutha fucka . . . they ain't going away any time real soon . . . without an Armageddon fight.
RT. the "Russian Times" is the political mouth of Putin to the masses. Anyone who would believe anything that comes out of that rag, well . . . should be given a good home from the rest of their lives.
Yes, France and Germany are responsible for the conflict in the Ukraine. Crimea was always a "traditional" part of Russia.
Wales, too!
I'm just waiting for drones that will simultaneously cut my lawn and deter burglars.
Why not drones that *cut burglars* and *deter the lawn* from growing?
Well, a robotic sprinkler that sprayed Agent Orange would be half of the solution. The idea would need to be more developed, but I'm thinking that DARPA would cough up the cash for that.
The gov't should convince insurance companies to band together and pony up the cash.
This reminds me of an old Monty Python joke. When asked about tax policies, one bowler hat guy quips: "I think we should tax foreigners, living abroad!"
In any democracy, one thing is certain: A bunch of folks think that a bunch of other folks should pay for something all of them need.
"Oh and good luck getting Hillary's email because no one here has it either."
Oh, what sad times have befallen Slashdot, when no one knows Hillary's email address!
C'mon Slashdotters! Do that "my niece's boyfriend delivers newspapers to someone who used to live next door to Hillary Clinton once . . . "
We can stretch it . . . a bit . . . !
The Russian security services told the FBI that the Boston Bombing Brothers were up to no good. The FBI did a perfunctorily check, and then let them go on with their terrorist work.
The Secret Squirrels should not be monitoring all Americans. They should be tracking terrorists!