The USA has already created many trillions since 2008, without hyperinflation of a "few thousand percent in one month". Seems like as long as they don't call it "printing money" nobody appears to notice or care that much.
While it's still "printing money" if you lend money that doesn't exist, or borrow from a "financial smoke and mirrors scheme" to pay off a real debt, it seems as long as the smoke and mirrors are good enough, nobody asks too many questions about it. I doubt China would either - they'd take the trillions very quietly and try to convert it to stuff that's more tangible, before everyone else notices...
Wired communication is like a router and switch - point to point communication. Wireless is like a massive hub... and universe will not allow you to make a wireless switch:)
You can have point to point wireless communications (there are already such devices out there). The difficulty is in having communications beams that you can aim and focus while being able to go through obstacles without killing or damaging stuff;).
It may be easier if the antennas are bigger, but a large antenna can't fit in a pocket sized device.
That said, it is not always necessary for the antennas to be large on both sides.
China could sink any US policy it cared enough about by calling in some of it's foreign debt.
1) The USA only owes China about 2+ trillion US dollars. AFAIK this amount is payable in US dollars. 2) The USA has the power to create US dollars. 3) The USA has ALREADY created at least 9 trillion US dollars since 2008 and most people don't seem to care about that. Many people (including those in the finance world) even still believe the USD is the currency to switch to when they are scared. So what's creating another 2 trillion, nobody cares as long as you call the process something fancy (do a youtube search for "quantitative easing"). 4) Many countries and organizations in the world hold large net positive amounts of US dollars (to buy oil etc, google for petrodollar), so any creation of US dollars will be in effect a tax on them. So while the creation of US dollars will make US citizens poorer it also makes many countries poorer as well. It's not like Zimbabwe where the rest of the world could laugh when Zimbabwe dollars were printed. The rest of the world lives in US's Zimbabwe, so it ain't so funny.
In short, if China makes too big an issue about it, the USA can say "Fine, here are the trillions of US dollars we owe you, low mileage, single owner, just like new...", "Anyone else wants their US dollars too? Plenty more where that came from". And the other countries would shut up.
China is willing to make this "trade" because they want the technologies and skills. They seem to be getting what they want out of the deal.
What does the USA get out of it? Cheap toys, big TVs, iPhones, etc. If the resulting savings are/were used wisely the US wouldn't be in a bad position in the future.
Unfortunately, that's bullshit. Elections effect the lives and wellbeing of millions if not billions of people. Every voter has a strong moral responsibility to vote in a way that actually leads to the best outcome. Usually, this means voting for the best electable candidate.
If it was the last election your country will have in your generation, then playing simplistic games like voting for "best electable" might help. If not, "vote for who you actually want" helps send a signal to the eventual winners of what the voters really want. So even if your candidate doesn't win, the winner might start doing stuff you want if it does not conflict with the rest of what the other voters want. Especially if after every election more and more voters are voting for the candidate you want (because past a certain level "first past the post" bites them back). If the winning candidate starts doing stuff you want, it doesn't matter if the people you vote for never win.
Otherwise, based on past elections the Democrats and Republicans combined typically get > 98% of the votes. With the votes being split near 50:50. With such results, why should both these parties change whatever they are doing significantly? The voters are basically telling them "keep doing whatever you are doing".
So it's either: a) The Two Parties are mostly doing what the voters want. In which case: Good! b) The Two Parties aren't doing what the voters want, but the voters are crappier at gaming the system than the Two Parties. In which case the voters have a moral responsibility to get better at it;).
As for the voters who don't vote, they literally do not count.
They do! However, they probably determined it's cheaper to move some of their non-sensitive sites to Amazon EC2 (not AWS) and consolidate their sensitive servers into less data centers.
And it's probably easier for the US Gov to censor stuff if it isn't hosting it.
Another big difference between actual warfare and chess is with the latter you don't have to have a supply and logistics system to provide shelter, food, water etc to your pawns;).
Thing is I looked at the pics in the article and while the shinier/glintier eyes make them look more human, a significant part of what made the faces look "more/less human" to me was the skin tone/texture. The ones on the right looked more plasticky/waxy.
Not voting doesn't make you less responsible. An individual is also responsible for his inaction when he could act.
The last I checked G W Bush got elected _twice_. Now if those nonvoters (who make up > 30% of the total) actually voted for "somebody else" and Bush still won, then I wouldn't blame those voters - they did their best to fulfill their responsibilities as voters.
Lastly, if you only accept responsibility when the politician you vote for does the right thing and not when he/she does the wrong thing then you are no better than "Those Hated CEOs/Bosses/Politicians" who do something rather similar.
I have objections to the manner in which the government spends tax monies. To start with, there's all the corporate welfare Uncle Sam gives the military-industrial complex.
I'm one of those crazy people who thinks that taxation is extortion and that a government is a protection racket whose button men wear camouflage.
If you use the same currency (and other stuff) the Government establishes, why the big objection to having to paying the tax? [1]
After all if they really want to tax you they can always create more of the currency and "tax" you via inflation. There have been trillions of US dollars created since 2008. And since many in the rest of the world (including countries) hold net positive US dollars, they have similarly been taxed whether they realize it or not.
MasterCard and Visa charge a significant service fee to every merchant that accepts them. This in fact raises the cost of goods by several percent. Of course the trade off is that money can move around easily and quickly which would have a positive effect on the cost of the good.
And in some cases more safely. That's why some merchants are actually quite happy with credit card transactions - smaller amounts of cash "just waiting" to be stolen/lost.
However, just because the card companies have the power to skim money off every transaction doesn't make it right. Consider for a moment, a percentage taken from *every* transaction made. What kind of effect on the economy would that have? And this cut isn't like taxes that pay for roads and schools. The goal is to make billions for just a few people. (I haven't even gotten to interest rates, fees, or the many other ways to squeeze money out of a consumer.)
So what if the Government undercut them? Visa and Mastercard will be very unhappy of course but that might be a feature not a flaw:).
Well the OP did say "shipping a product based on CPAN stuff,".
So if the product requires https, then it might need LWP (which is included on many linux distros but not in some!) and Crypt::SSLeay (which is not included on many platforms).
Then from what I see, bundling Crypt::SSLeay means building multiple bundles for each linux distro that's "different".
So yes, a perl bundle will work, but if it is not "pure perl" it's likely to only work for one distro.
Just because openssl is present does not mean that perl LWP will have TLS/SSL/https support. For that you need Crypt::SSLeay.
One could give up on LWP and connect by using "openssl s_client -connect dest:port" but that means reimplementing a fair chunk of what LWP does and adding lots of other stuff.
Women can't effectively report rape in muslim countries, because they are required to provide four (yes, four) witnesses. Go look at Qur'an (24:4) and Qur'an (24:13) for details.
[24:4] YUSUFALI: And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations),- flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors;- PICKTHAL: And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony - They indeed are evil-doers - SHAKIR: And those who accuse free women then do not bring four witnesses, flog them, (giving) eighty stripes, and do not admit any evidence from them ever; and these it is that are the transgressors,
[24:12] YUSUFALI: Why did not the believers - men and women - when ye heard of the affair,- put the best construction on it in their own minds and say, "This (charge) is an obvious lie"? PICKTHAL: Why did not the believers, men and women, when ye heard it, think good of their own own folk, and say: It is a manifest untruth? SHAKIR: Why did not the believing men and the believing women, when you heard it, think well of their own people, and say: This is an evident falsehood? [24:13] YUSUFALI: Why did they not bring four witnesses to prove it? When they have not brought the witnesses, such men, in the sight of Allah, (stand forth) themselves as liars! PICKTHAL: Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah. SHAKIR: Why did they not bring four witnesses of it? But as they have not brought witnesses they are liars before Allah.
Good choice, that's what you're supposed to do if you're shipping a product. Perl includes tools to help you do this.
Say your perl program needs https/SSL and needs to run on all the popular linux distros. How many packages do you have to build just to support the relatively small numbers of "Desktop Linux" users?
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems for you'd have to build different packages for Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat, Debian, etc? Would 32/64 bit and glibc versions also make a diff?
Fortunately, your app was probably stored on $1 worth of storage.
In most cases the storage doesn't matter much. It's the amount of work involved for the $$$.
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What's another 2 trillion[1]?
The USA has already created many trillions since 2008, without hyperinflation of a "few thousand percent in one month". Seems like as long as they don't call it "printing money" nobody appears to notice or care that much.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=armOzfkwtCA4
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a7484bxHz7Bk
While it's still "printing money" if you lend money that doesn't exist, or borrow from a "financial smoke and mirrors scheme" to pay off a real debt, it seems as long as the smoke and mirrors are good enough, nobody asks too many questions about it. I doubt China would either - they'd take the trillions very quietly and try to convert it to stuff that's more tangible, before everyone else notices...
[1] Approximately:
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/02/chinas-debt-to-us-treasury-more-than-indicated/
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timcollard/100011049/america-owes-china-two-trillion-dollars-but-what-does-that-mean/
Wired communication is like a router and switch - point to point communication. Wireless is like a massive hub... and universe will not allow you to make a wireless switch :)
You can have point to point wireless communications (there are already such devices out there). The difficulty is in having communications beams that you can aim and focus while being able to go through obstacles without killing or damaging stuff ;).
It may be easier if the antennas are bigger, but a large antenna can't fit in a pocket sized device.
That said, it is not always necessary for the antennas to be large on both sides.
But it seems to be a Government and bureaucrats working for the long term interests of their country! How terrible right? :)
Maybe they should switch to a more democratic[1] system of Government.
[1] FWIW they actually do have elections in China - but they're for positions within the One Party.
China already owns most of the US economy.
Citation please.
China could sink any US policy it cared enough about by calling in some of it's foreign debt.
1) The USA only owes China about 2+ trillion US dollars. AFAIK this amount is payable in US dollars.
2) The USA has the power to create US dollars.
3) The USA has ALREADY created at least 9 trillion US dollars since 2008 and most people don't seem to care about that. Many people (including those in the finance world) even still believe the USD is the currency to switch to when they are scared. So what's creating another 2 trillion, nobody cares as long as you call the process something fancy (do a youtube search for "quantitative easing").
4) Many countries and organizations in the world hold large net positive amounts of US dollars (to buy oil etc, google for petrodollar), so any creation of US dollars will be in effect a tax on them. So while the creation of US dollars will make US citizens poorer it also makes many countries poorer as well. It's not like Zimbabwe where the rest of the world could laugh when Zimbabwe dollars were printed. The rest of the world lives in US's Zimbabwe, so it ain't so funny.
In short, if China makes too big an issue about it, the USA can say "Fine, here are the trillions of US dollars we owe you, low mileage, single owner, just like new...", "Anyone else wants their US dollars too? Plenty more where that came from". And the other countries would shut up.
China is willing to make this "trade" because they want the technologies and skills. They seem to be getting what they want out of the deal.
What does the USA get out of it? Cheap toys, big TVs, iPhones, etc. If the resulting savings are/were used wisely the US wouldn't be in a bad position in the future.
Unfortunately, that's bullshit. Elections effect the lives and wellbeing of millions if not billions of people. Every voter has a strong moral responsibility to vote in a way that actually leads to the best outcome. Usually, this means voting for the best electable candidate.
If it was the last election your country will have in your generation, then playing simplistic games like voting for "best electable" might help. If not, "vote for who you actually want" helps send a signal to the eventual winners of what the voters really want. So even if your candidate doesn't win, the winner might start doing stuff you want if it does not conflict with the rest of what the other voters want. Especially if after every election more and more voters are voting for the candidate you want (because past a certain level "first past the post" bites them back). If the winning candidate starts doing stuff you want, it doesn't matter if the people you vote for never win.
Otherwise, based on past elections the Democrats and Republicans combined typically get > 98% of the votes. With the votes being split near 50:50. With such results, why should both these parties change whatever they are doing significantly? The voters are basically telling them "keep doing whatever you are doing".
So it's either: ;).
a) The Two Parties are mostly doing what the voters want. In which case: Good!
b) The Two Parties aren't doing what the voters want, but the voters are crappier at gaming the system than the Two Parties. In which case the voters have a moral responsibility to get better at it
As for the voters who don't vote, they literally do not count.
They do! However, they probably determined it's cheaper to move some of their non-sensitive sites to Amazon EC2 (not AWS) and consolidate their sensitive servers into less data centers.
And it's probably easier for the US Gov to censor stuff if it isn't hosting it.
How do you know you're one of the affected users? Did you download the file and find your email address?
Could be too busy trying to find other people's passwords ;).
Do you really have to use your actual mother's maiden name in dealings with a bank?
;).
In my experience, using strong passwords confuses them, so you'd still have to use a bunch of name-like words.
Heck, use a male name, tell them "don't want to talk about it" I'm sure most will shut up and get on with it
Catching the stupid wannabes is actually a good thing as long as you don't spend too much on the boxes.
Well there's Monster chess: http://www.chessvariants.org/unequal.dir/monster.html
Another big difference between actual warfare and chess is with the latter you don't have to have a supply and logistics system to provide shelter, food, water etc to your pawns ;).
You may not be able to do it 100%, but are you sure you can't do better than random?
Thing is I looked at the pics in the article and while the shinier/glintier eyes make them look more human, a significant part of what made the faces look "more/less human" to me was the skin tone/texture. The ones on the right looked more plasticky/waxy.
Any single frame looks just like Jeff Bridges sure, but when it's all put together the effect is still a little stiff.
I've noticed a similar issue when watching Nicholas Cage and Keanu Reeves movies.
Not voting doesn't make you less responsible. An individual is also responsible for his inaction when he could act.
The last I checked G W Bush got elected _twice_. Now if those nonvoters (who make up > 30% of the total) actually voted for "somebody else" and Bush still won, then I wouldn't blame those voters - they did their best to fulfill their responsibilities as voters.
Lastly, if you only accept responsibility when the politician you vote for does the right thing and not when he/she does the wrong thing then you are no better than "Those Hated CEOs/Bosses/Politicians" who do something rather similar.
In a democracy[1] if you are eligible to vote, whether you vote or not you still share the responsibility.
[1] let's not waste time arguing meanings of the word ok? I'm going to assume you are smarter than that.
I have objections to the manner in which the government spends tax monies. To start with, there's all the corporate welfare Uncle Sam gives the military-industrial complex.
The voters share the responsibility.
I'm one of those crazy people who thinks that taxation is extortion and that a government is a protection racket whose button men wear camouflage.
If you use the same currency (and other stuff) the Government establishes, why the big objection to having to paying the tax? [1]
After all if they really want to tax you they can always create more of the currency and "tax" you via inflation. There have been trillions of US dollars created since 2008. And since many in the rest of the world (including countries) hold net positive US dollars, they have similarly been taxed whether they realize it or not.
[1] Reference: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2022:17-21&version=NIV
MasterCard and Visa charge a significant service fee to every merchant that accepts them. This in fact raises the cost of goods by several percent. Of course the trade off is that money can move around easily and quickly which would have a positive effect on the cost of the good.
And in some cases more safely. That's why some merchants are actually quite happy with credit card transactions - smaller amounts of cash "just waiting" to be stolen/lost.
However, just because the card companies have the power to skim money off every transaction doesn't make it right. Consider for a moment, a percentage taken from *every* transaction made. What kind of effect on the economy would that have? And this cut isn't like taxes that pay for roads and schools. The goal is to make billions for just a few people. (I haven't even gotten to interest rates, fees, or the many other ways to squeeze money out of a consumer.)
So what if the Government undercut them? Visa and Mastercard will be very unhappy of course but that might be a feature not a flaw :).
if they have the right of way legally, it means that THEY LEGALLY HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY.
Yeah and they have the option to be dead right too.
The laws of physics are not changed by "right of way" laws.
Anyways, so this ended up backfiring on me because the EULA and TOC of Live was now in Spanish,
Nobody expects the Spanish interpretation!
I just posted translations of the relevant Quran verses the AC mentioned.
So how does that prove I'm ignorant?
Perhaps you need to improve your reading skills before you accuse people of ignorance.
Well the OP did say "shipping a product based on CPAN stuff,".
So if the product requires https, then it might need LWP (which is included on many linux distros but not in some!) and Crypt::SSLeay (which is not included on many platforms).
Then from what I see, bundling Crypt::SSLeay means building multiple bundles for each linux distro that's "different".
So yes, a perl bundle will work, but if it is not "pure perl" it's likely to only work for one distro.
Just because openssl is present does not mean that perl LWP will have TLS/SSL/https support. For that you need Crypt::SSLeay.
One could give up on LWP and connect by using "openssl s_client -connect dest:port" but that means reimplementing a fair chunk of what LWP does and adding lots of other stuff.
Women can't effectively report rape in muslim countries, because they are required to provide four (yes, four) witnesses. Go look at Qur'an (24:4) and Qur'an (24:13) for details.
[24:4]
YUSUFALI: And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations),- flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors;-
PICKTHAL: And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony - They indeed are evil-doers -
SHAKIR: And those who accuse free women then do not bring four witnesses, flog them, (giving) eighty stripes, and do not admit any evidence from them ever; and these it is that are the transgressors,
[24:12]
YUSUFALI: Why did not the believers - men and women - when ye heard of the affair,- put the best construction on it in their own minds and say, "This (charge) is an obvious lie"?
PICKTHAL: Why did not the believers, men and women, when ye heard it, think good of their own own folk, and say: It is a manifest untruth?
SHAKIR: Why did not the believing men and the believing women, when you heard it, think well of their own people, and say: This is an evident falsehood?
[24:13]
YUSUFALI: Why did they not bring four witnesses to prove it? When they have not brought the witnesses, such men, in the sight of Allah, (stand forth) themselves as liars!
PICKTHAL: Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah.
SHAKIR: Why did they not bring four witnesses of it? But as they have not brought witnesses they are liars before Allah.
Good choice, that's what you're supposed to do if you're shipping a product. Perl includes tools to help you do this.
Say your perl program needs https/SSL and needs to run on all the popular linux distros. How many packages do you have to build just to support the relatively small numbers of "Desktop Linux" users?
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems for you'd have to build different packages for Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat, Debian, etc? Would 32/64 bit and glibc versions also make a diff?
Fortunately, your app was probably stored on $1 worth of storage.
In most cases the storage doesn't matter much. It's the amount of work involved for the $$$.