1. Running a deficit is not how the US government creates money. The Fed buying treasuries is the main way of printing of money, but it is not the only way. The same thing happens when the Fed buys mortgage backed toxic waste from goldman sachs, and when they pay interest on reserve deposits - neither of which involve the issuing of government debt.
2. If you destroy money you get deflation, which is not a recession. Sure GDP will fall, but a recession is determined by changes in real GDP which will not fall due directly from a to money supply reduction.
Ignoring the idiocy of politics, there's a point at which they can't be tamed.
Just like there's a point where personal debts can't be tamed and bankruptcy is the only way out.
That point is basically when the minimum payments can't be met by current income or by taking out yet more debt.
For a country the solution is either default or if it isn't sovereign debt printing it. Default is worse for the politicians, but better for the people, so since US debt is in US dollars that's the unlikely choice.
We give a number of jobs to police, the one relevant to this situation is to find people who society deems to have done wrong in order to deprive them of their freedom.
While that is beneficial to society, as an individual when police are doing that role they are your enemy. Since they are possibly trying to deprive you of your freedom. Cooperating with them isn't evil, it's just stupid.
In Blizard's case I they responded to a request that wasn't a subpoena, it was something constructed entirely by the police with no approval from the courts. Which means for all Blizzard knew it could be a cop exploiting his authority trying to find his ex-girlfriend in order to go and beat on her some more.
If the police are trying to find your missing kid then the benefits probably outweight the costs. Most parents would trade not just anything by everything to get their kid back, so most will likely do all they can to provide information.
The *never* is a little extreme, but it's the safe default. And not talking should be the usual response unless the circumstances are very strange.
What it really boils down to I guess is "never talk to the police if they are the ones wanting to talk". If your kid has been kidnapped you probably want to talk to them more than they want to talk to you...
For 99% (OK I made that up, a large majority anyway) of people never is going to always apply and hence a rule of thumb it is.
Notice the guy who caved in to their threats ends up out a laptop.
The guy who didn't cave and refused to bend over still has his working computer hardware.
As always "never talk to the police" wins again. Even when you have done *nothing* wrong (and not just in the domain they are telling you they care about, across all domains) there are only two things you should say to the police:
1. No you may not search that/open that/have that/come inside. 2. I'm not saying anything without my lawyer present.
Because elected officials that do the bidding of Disney get more money from Disney, and more money means more citizens vote for them.
That's not Disney's fault (and again you can't expect them to not do this since it is legal) that's the fault of the voters who are those private citizens who vote for the guy who spends the most. So the citizens have chosen to underwrite this by embodying it in law - blame them.
Just like putting something in orbit shows the other guys you can spy on them and drop bombs on them without needing to fly a plane over them, this shows you can divert an smaller asteroid to hit them.
Most of the time that the data doesn't make sense it's because the scientist fucked up and didn't calibrate the sensor, or mislabeled a sample, or made a tpyo.
But yes, discarding it is the wrong thing to do. Repeating it again (and if you now get what you were expected, doing it a third time) is usually the thing to do.
Of course if it is expensive, then just write down the results the theory predicts ith a fudge factor for error. Better to retard humanity's knowledge of the world than to maybe look silly.
It can also be that their methodology is wrong, their equipment is wrong, they are simply incompetent.
I suspect that the main thing that differentiates scientists who make a major lasting contribution to science and those that just push knowledge slowly forward is whether they treat such problems as "Oh... that is interesting" or "Crap, must have screwed it up better start it over".
Of course I'm sure those in the first category spend a lot of their time chasing ghosts because most of the time they did in fact screw something up...
Actually I lied about that part, so the idiot not involved in the discussion was the trollee, I guess.
But I break eggs with one hand almost every morning when I make my "heart attack please" breakfast, so I will be trying the grasp approach in 12 hours time...
1. Build quantum encryption system with a security flaw in the implementation. 2. Publish! 3. Exploit the flaw. 4. Publish! 5. Fix the flaw. 6. Publish!
So not only do you need to hit the gym, you need to hit the dictionary.
Grasping does not mean putting it in your hand and squeezing, if means using the fingers to clasp. And I can easily break an egg like that - there's a lot of force applied to the small area of one finger/thumb tip.
Once you've taken step 1, with the assumption of the Christian God, then an engineer knows that you can't due to the various omni* features of said god.
And that he just resurrects 3 days later if you do manage the impossible in the first place.
Whereas a truly rational person would even if they got suckered in by all the anecdotes in a fit of irrationality would conclude:
1. OK, god exists. 2. But he is a evil totalitarian dictator who rejoices in the suffering of others. 3. Since I'm a moral person I shall not be the servant of said evil tyrant.
Yes because so many of the professors I had in my Chemical Engineering studies were left-wing socialists. They were also greenies, who really cared about where the tailings dam went.
And all the left wing socialists I've known support fundamentalist religion and having women be third class citizens,
In winter in lots of places it is both dark and cold enough for snow almost every night in winter.
And people should already be trained, if the traffic lights are out (which happens for lots of reasons other than slow obscuring them) then it is a four-way stop. But people are morons and the center of the universe so they don't care.
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1. Running a deficit is not how the US government creates money. The Fed buying treasuries is the main way of printing of money, but it is not the only way. The same thing happens when the Fed buys mortgage backed toxic waste from goldman sachs, and when they pay interest on reserve deposits - neither of which involve the issuing of government debt.
2. If you destroy money you get deflation, which is not a recession. Sure GDP will fall, but a recession is determined by changes in real GDP which will not fall due directly from a to money supply reduction.
Ignoring the idiocy of politics, there's a point at which they can't be tamed.
Just like there's a point where personal debts can't be tamed and bankruptcy is the only way out.
That point is basically when the minimum payments can't be met by current income or by taking out yet more debt.
For a country the solution is either default or if it isn't sovereign debt printing it. Default is worse for the politicians, but better for the people, so since US debt is in US dollars that's the unlikely choice.
Except for the simple fact that they aren't and assuming he doesn't mistake the accelerator for the brake at some point never will be *in* his house.
What type of nuclear reactor to use it completely unrelated to what fuel to use to power cars.
You aren't going to stick a nuclear reactor in the trunk, and how the grid gets its electricity has no impact on electric cars either.
We give a number of jobs to police, the one relevant to this situation is to find people who society deems to have done wrong in order to deprive them of their freedom.
While that is beneficial to society, as an individual when police are doing that role they are your enemy. Since they are possibly trying to deprive you of your freedom. Cooperating with them isn't evil, it's just stupid.
In Blizard's case I they responded to a request that wasn't a subpoena, it was something constructed entirely by the police with no approval from the courts. Which means for all Blizzard knew it could be a cop exploiting his authority trying to find his ex-girlfriend in order to go and beat on her some more.
Yeah I missed the "am I free to do" part.
But the lawyer bit is important when the answer to that is "no".
It's a cost benefit trade off.
If the police are trying to find your missing kid then the benefits probably outweight the costs. Most parents would trade not just anything by everything to get their kid back, so most will likely do all they can to provide information.
The *never* is a little extreme, but it's the safe default. And not talking should be the usual response unless the circumstances are very strange.
What it really boils down to I guess is "never talk to the police if they are the ones wanting to talk". If your kid has been kidnapped you probably want to talk to them more than they want to talk to you...
For 99% (OK I made that up, a large majority anyway) of people never is going to always apply and hence a rule of thumb it is.
Notice the guy who caved in to their threats ends up out a laptop.
The guy who didn't cave and refused to bend over still has his working computer hardware.
As always "never talk to the police" wins again. Even when you have done *nothing* wrong (and not just in the domain they are telling you they care about, across all domains) there are only two things you should say to the police:
1. No you may not search that/open that/have that/come inside.
2. I'm not saying anything without my lawyer present.
Yes that is odd, but that isn't what was being referred to as odd in the post I replied to.
Sure that might make Disney more profitable, but it also levels a playing field that is currently titled their way. Not worth the risk.
Or at least given the side Disney lobbies on they don't think it is worth the risk at the moment.
Because elected officials that do the bidding of Disney get more money from Disney, and more money means more citizens vote for them.
That's not Disney's fault (and again you can't expect them to not do this since it is legal) that's the fault of the voters who are those private citizens who vote for the guy who spends the most. So the citizens have chosen to underwrite this by embodying it in law - blame them.
How is that odd?
The want to use old stuff for free, but they don't want anyone to use their old stuff for free.
That doesn't seem odd, that seems like standard human selfishness.
It has value because it shows that you can.
Just like putting something in orbit shows the other guys you can spy on them and drop bombs on them without needing to fly a plane over them, this shows you can divert an smaller asteroid to hit them.
Most of the time that the data doesn't make sense it's because the scientist fucked up and didn't calibrate the sensor, or mislabeled a sample, or made a tpyo.
But yes, discarding it is the wrong thing to do. Repeating it again (and if you now get what you were expected, doing it a third time) is usually the thing to do.
Of course if it is expensive, then just write down the results the theory predicts ith a fudge factor for error. Better to retard humanity's knowledge of the world than to maybe look silly.
It can also be that their methodology is wrong, their equipment is wrong, they are simply incompetent.
I suspect that the main thing that differentiates scientists who make a major lasting contribution to science and those that just push knowledge slowly forward is whether they treat such problems as "Oh... that is interesting" or "Crap, must have screwed it up better start it over".
Of course I'm sure those in the first category spend a lot of their time chasing ghosts because most of the time they did in fact screw something up...
Why should it be used for charitable works?
God is omnipotent, he can solve every problem that charity can solve with less than a click of the fingers.
That he doesn't comes under 2.
Actually I lied about that part, so the idiot not involved in the discussion was the trollee, I guess.
But I break eggs with one hand almost every morning when I make my "heart attack please" breakfast, so I will be trying the grasp approach in 12 hours time...
1. Build quantum encryption system with a security flaw in the implementation.
2. Publish!
3. Exploit the flaw.
4. Publish!
5. Fix the flaw.
6. Publish!
So not only do you need to hit the gym, you need to hit the dictionary.
Grasping does not mean putting it in your hand and squeezing, if means using the fingers to clasp. And I can easily break an egg like that - there's a lot of force applied to the small area of one finger/thumb tip.
Seriously if you can't break an egg holding it like: http://www.thecompletepitcher.com/images/grips/pitching_grips.gif then you need to start eating.
And yes, just in case chickens had evolved thicker egg shells in the last few years I just broke an egg.
Shit, you really are a scrawny nerd.
Maybe you should do a little exercise
If you have to wait a few months for something that will be out in early 2009, you are doing something wrong.
Once you've taken step 1, with the assumption of the Christian God, then an engineer knows that you can't due to the various omni* features of said god.
And that he just resurrects 3 days later if you do manage the impossible in the first place.
Whereas a truly rational person would even if they got suckered in by all the anecdotes in a fit of irrationality would conclude:
1. OK, god exists.
2. But he is a evil totalitarian dictator who rejoices in the suffering of others.
3. Since I'm a moral person I shall not be the servant of said evil tyrant.
Yes because so many of the professors I had in my Chemical Engineering studies were left-wing socialists. They were also greenies, who really cared about where the tailings dam went.
And all the left wing socialists I've known support fundamentalist religion and having women be third class citizens,
In winter in lots of places it is both dark and cold enough for snow almost every night in winter.
And people should already be trained, if the traffic lights are out (which happens for lots of reasons other than slow obscuring them) then it is a four-way stop. But people are morons and the center of the universe so they don't care.