Actually, I have personally witnessed a situation in which an assault was averted by the random appearance of a police officer who just happened to be walking past on his beat.
I would prefer an addressing system that simplifies life for me
Agreed. What I'd really like to see is some kind of naming protocol so I don't have to remember all these long strings of numbers separated by dots. It would be awesome if internet addresses were identified by an alphanumeric name, then when I use that name there is a server somewhere that figures out what IP address that name is really pointing to.
I bet if everyone here at 216.34.181.45 put their minds to it we could even come up with something here.
Gold Bar 400 oz $378,440.00 = $946/oz
Gold Maple 1 oz $1,015.85 = $1015/oz
Gold Maple 1/2 oz $514.98 = $1030/oz
Gold Maple 1/4 oz $266.90 = $1068/oz
Gold Maple 1/10 oz $126.50 = $1265/oz
Gold Maple 1/20 oz $75.25 = $1505/oz
Now all you need is a smelter, minting facility, and a distribution model and you're ready to start making some easy money.
The term "market value" for gold is idiotic to begin with. Market value for what? Gold smelted into 1000oz bars? Gold minted into pretty 1g wafers with a fancy design on the face and fluted edges to prevent dishonest vendors shaving some off? Gold in the form of a promissory note from a bank that holds the equivalent in metal in their vaults? Gold in the form of a promissory note from an institution that holds only a fraction of your gold but claims they are "good for the rest?"
Each of the above will command a different premium over the spot price you see quoted in your newspaper... and some of those premiums might even be 30% or more depending where you buy.
Actually, if you try to buy physical gold in small pieces (such as the 1 gram wafer mentioned in TFA) you'll find the markup is easily 20% or more over "spot price."
The spot price you see quoted in the daily business reports is really only relevant if you're buying "paper gold" such as certificates in a common pool... or if you're an institutional investor buying hundreds of ounces at a time.
Ahhh, a page from the book of "it's funny because it's true."
I used to be "that guy"... giving advice, offering to help people configure things, recommending hardware and software, etc. Then I slowly came to realize a few things:
- People don't value the time you spend helping them
- The more dire the warning being delivered, the more people resent hearing your advice
- Nothing ever sinks in. By constantly offering to help people, all that happens is they develop a mindset of dependence. They sort of slide into the belief that computers are so hopelessly complex they will never be able to figure anything out.
I now just quietly accept the notion that most of my friends and family are riddled with trojans, and I assume that anything I send to them is also being sent to a criminal syndicate in Bulgaria.
I will give you $100 if you can provide instructions on implementing this that can be understood by all my friends and family... and that includes my elderly relatives and my "but this is how it come when I bought the computer" friends.
Shit crashes into astronomical bodies all the time, especially when that body has no atmosphere. But your comment about multiple quantities actually hits close to home for my biggest concern about this experiment. We are supposedly doing this to look for water in a very specific location on a water-scarce body - the moon. Even if this explosion is successful and a detectable plume of water vapour is ejected into space, we will not have proved that there is water at the north pole of the moon - we will only have proved that there was water at the north pole of the moon, before we sent a projectile hurtling into the ground there.
Steven Hawkings probably would have been screened out of existence
Actually Stephen Hawking suffers from adult-onset ALS, so he likely would not have been screened out of existence even if the technology existed... especially since no definitive cause for ALS has been established, though DNA defects have not been ruled out.
I guess you can get off their list if you harangue their employees enough!
I did this with the "we can reduce your credit card debt" telephone spammers. After our number started receiving multiple calls per day (and this happened to be during a period when I was working from home for several weeks on end) I decided to "press 1 to lower your interest rates."
I decided the best solution was to waste the time of the girl who took my call... "misunderstanding" her, asking her to repeat herself, telling her about bizarre invented details of my day-to-day life, giving fictitious account numbers, getting transferred to a "supervisor" who could better help me with my situation. After about 15 minutes of this I finally said "let me explain something to you very clearly: You are a scammer and I hate telemarketers. I have been deliberately wasting your time, and every single time your company calls this number I am going to do the exact same thing again. Unless you enjoy losing money through lost time, I strongly suggest you remove this number from your calling list permanently."
After unleashing a few choice expletives he hung up.
Later that day - another robocall. I did the same thing again, this time to a different operator.
I suppose it would be a waste of time to explain to this genius that the "problem" of file sharing in Canada is largely a myth and has been discredited.
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My response would go something like, "I'm pretty sure it's illegal for you to ask me this, so I'm gonna just leave this section blank."
I really, really hate Windows CE (or Windows Mobile or whatever they call it these days.)
I'm still fond of calling it "wince"
Actually, I have personally witnessed a situation in which an assault was averted by the random appearance of a police officer who just happened to be walking past on his beat.
I don't even know how to put my objections into words - I don't know where to start!
Start on Slashdot ... that's what the rest of us do.
Define "bunch"
I would prefer an addressing system that simplifies life for me
Agreed. What I'd really like to see is some kind of naming protocol so I don't have to remember all these long strings of numbers separated by dots. It would be awesome if internet addresses were identified by an alphanumeric name, then when I use that name there is a server somewhere that figures out what IP address that name is really pointing to.
I bet if everyone here at 216.34.181.45 put their minds to it we could even come up with something here.
Great idea ... because arming opposition groups has never turned out badly for the United States in the past.
From kitco.com:
Gold Bar 400 oz $378,440.00 = $946/oz
Gold Maple 1 oz $1,015.85 = $1015/oz
Gold Maple 1/2 oz $514.98 = $1030/oz
Gold Maple 1/4 oz $266.90 = $1068/oz
Gold Maple 1/10 oz $126.50 = $1265/oz
Gold Maple 1/20 oz $75.25 = $1505/oz
Now all you need is a smelter, minting facility, and a distribution model and you're ready to start making some easy money.
The term "market value" for gold is idiotic to begin with. Market value for what? Gold smelted into 1000oz bars? Gold minted into pretty 1g wafers with a fancy design on the face and fluted edges to prevent dishonest vendors shaving some off? Gold in the form of a promissory note from a bank that holds the equivalent in metal in their vaults? Gold in the form of a promissory note from an institution that holds only a fraction of your gold but claims they are "good for the rest?"
Each of the above will command a different premium over the spot price you see quoted in your newspaper ... and some of those premiums might even be 30% or more depending where you buy.
Actually, if you try to buy physical gold in small pieces (such as the 1 gram wafer mentioned in TFA) you'll find the markup is easily 20% or more over "spot price."
The spot price you see quoted in the daily business reports is really only relevant if you're buying "paper gold" such as certificates in a common pool ... or if you're an institutional investor buying hundreds of ounces at a time.
Ahhh, a page from the book of "it's funny because it's true."
I used to be "that guy" ... giving advice, offering to help people configure things, recommending hardware and software, etc. Then I slowly came to realize a few things:
- People don't value the time you spend helping them
- The more dire the warning being delivered, the more people resent hearing your advice
- Nothing ever sinks in. By constantly offering to help people, all that happens is they develop a mindset of dependence. They sort of slide into the belief that computers are so hopelessly complex they will never be able to figure anything out.
I now just quietly accept the notion that most of my friends and family are riddled with trojans, and I assume that anything I send to them is also being sent to a criminal syndicate in Bulgaria.
I will give you $100 if you can provide instructions on implementing this that can be understood by all my friends and family ... and that includes my elderly relatives and my "but this is how it come when I bought the computer" friends.
Shit crashes into astronomical bodies all the time, especially when that body has no atmosphere. But your comment about multiple quantities actually hits close to home for my biggest concern about this experiment. We are supposedly doing this to look for water in a very specific location on a water-scarce body - the moon. Even if this explosion is successful and a detectable plume of water vapour is ejected into space, we will not have proved that there is water at the north pole of the moon - we will only have proved that there was water at the north pole of the moon, before we sent a projectile hurtling into the ground there.
Somebody please help me understand this. How exactly do you sleep through the process of having 56 tattoos carved into your face?
Where's the part where I claimed there is a threat to the entire human race?
ZOMG!!!! A massive explosion!!! A six mile high explosion!!!!
Or would that actually be a very, very modest explosion (especially in astronomical terms) triggering a six mile high debris plume?
a design pattern in genetics
AKA a monoculture ... ripe pickings for some ambitious new supervirus in the year 2052 or so.
Ahhh ... pre-implantation, post-implantation ... whatever happened to good old fashioned fucking?
Steven Hawkings probably would have been screened out of existence
Actually Stephen Hawking suffers from adult-onset ALS, so he likely would not have been screened out of existence even if the technology existed ... especially since no definitive cause for ALS has been established, though DNA defects have not been ruled out.
If you're going to be painfully PC, you should at least try to find a talented photoshop artist to do a credible job of it.
I guess you can get off their list if you harangue their employees enough!
I did this with the "we can reduce your credit card debt" telephone spammers. After our number started receiving multiple calls per day (and this happened to be during a period when I was working from home for several weeks on end) I decided to "press 1 to lower your interest rates."
I decided the best solution was to waste the time of the girl who took my call ... "misunderstanding" her, asking her to repeat herself, telling her about bizarre invented details of my day-to-day life, giving fictitious account numbers, getting transferred to a "supervisor" who could better help me with my situation. After about 15 minutes of this I finally said "let me explain something to you very clearly: You are a scammer and I hate telemarketers. I have been deliberately wasting your time, and every single time your company calls this number I am going to do the exact same thing again. Unless you enjoy losing money through lost time, I strongly suggest you remove this number from your calling list permanently."
After unleashing a few choice expletives he hung up.
Later that day - another robocall. I did the same thing again, this time to a different operator.
I have never received another call since.
You mean I need to be vomiting, cumming and having explosive diarrhea to have sex? No thanks.
I'm sure there's a Japanese word for what you describe, but I'm not about to go look it up.
It's all the same thing when you look at it decimal-wise
I suppose it would be a waste of time to explain to this genius that the "problem" of file sharing in Canada is largely a myth and has been discredited.
Maybe they're looking for the stolen SCO code in Linux?