A 7" tablet is about 8 lbs. How strong of a magnet do you need to hold that securely because you don't want an electronic falling to the ground like that.
The point of magnetic damage isn't it's ability to completely override the device's magnet. The point is causing just enough of an inteference to corrupt even a little data. Wiping a Harddrive clean, yeah strong ass magnet with a car battery attached. But no, I don't think this would cause much data corruption, but I still wouldn't want to chance it.
I'm surprised the magnet doesn't screw with the monitor itself. I haven't played with a monitor on LCDs but they were funny on CRTs.
I think part of the ethics is also, would we have a problem with someone else doing it? Part of that is a race for "defensive" power like the atom bomb or mutual insured destruction. But another part is, we wouldn't want our enemies to be using e. coli like bio-weapons, so we shouldn't.
Theist may fear a vengeful higher power, but people, theist or not, would fear repercussions from our peers. Repercussions is what keeps our society running. Keeping the majority of people "law-abiding" the majority of the time. Fear of which acting as our conscience, making us second guess unethical actions.
A person may be morally ambigious, but if he thought about it, he'd know that he'd get in trouble for killing. He may not understand why, in his heart, but he'll know in his head that there'd be a punishment if he's caught killing without justify.
I'm surprised no one wondered yet, are they doing this with "dead skin cells" that flake off, or do they need living tissue? I find it hard to believe that can use viruses to mutate dead cells, and though it's not as bad as the pound of flesh Shylock demanded, I wonder how much flesh they need. If you remember from an episode of House, where Cameron takes a scalpel and slices off a chunk of skin from the old patient, causing it to bleed. That's the image I got when I read this.
RTS like all gaming has a level of educational value.
You learn time management. The benefits and drawbacks of multi-tasking and micro-managing. The concept of diminishing returns on investment. The concept behind balancing between early investment on resources and infrastructure for a greater compound interest over time (similiar to retirement funds) and how an overinvestment in that, and lack of attention to other areas like "defense" could make it all pointless when you get overrun. To balance and not put all your eggs in one basket, all anti-personnel units are great until your enemy rolls out a tank and crushes you.
I know our city, state, and federal government lack these basic learnings.
And of course, the best rule of all, zerg early on for a quick gamble and ending the game one way or another.
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Yeah, the cost of marrying off their daughters is the reason why they kill their daughters.
Not the fact that they can only have ONE child, either a daughter or son, and most prefer a son TO carry on their family's name. What the hell is the daughter going to do? Not carry on the families name? That's useful. Even in families with a son and daughter, the daughter could be smarter or more skilled and the moron of a son is still considered a better heir to the family line.
I don't dispute any other point you made about how she expected a chinese guy to treat her. And she may very well have told you that. But financial liability is less significant than the insanity asians feel about the family line. I see a slight importance in European lines but the female's family tree actually matters and I'm not familiar much with African or South American but seeing how African women in some tribes could own and inherit in the past, I'd say they also put some value in the female's family line.
I know you were being funny, but he wasn't being an ass.
He gave a chunk of his life to the city, the network was his baby, his sweat and blood.
They viciously fired him, and then expected him to cooperate afterwards. He walked away and said they can't what's in his head.
Even without giving my sweat and blood, if they treated me like that, I wouldn't be cooperative either. The stuff they asked for are or should be documented. And he sounds more meticulous than I am.
Is this a pro or con of the ends justify the means?
He got punished for doing something wrong. People would have liked to see him punished for murders. He was punished for tax evasion. He wasn't framed for tax evasion to punish him for murder. They didn't fake evidence to trialed guilty for the murders.
The means in this case were completely up and up. Creative, but not ethically, or morally wrong.
The freedom to not have the western world infringe upon their way of life. The freedom to not be under attack from Americans FIRST. Pushing US policies and ideals which are not appreciated by foreign sovereignties.
We're crying over the deaths in the 10's and 100's thousand. While we inflict over a million. In a war we started.
And Afghan. In our selfish fight against "the great evil communism", who did we sacrifice in the millions in that fight turning their civilian land into a warzone? How many Americans died fighting Communism in the middle east then? And ironically, teach and arm the ones we knew didn't like us, and would later come attack us back.
We always brought the fighting to another land. In another country, so our own would not be damaged. Well guess what, THEY brought it back to the US. After all the millions of innocent civilians dying because of us, FINALLY American civilians are dying too. Maybe we'll learn its not so great a feeling to bring death and destruction to others.
You're right...that silly Jules Verne, actually thought we'd be up to the moon someday. HAHAHA
Next all those weirdo reading books about artificial intelligence would actually expect us to do research and developing neural nets.
And cloning, you can't possibly ever make a genetic duplicate. I mean come on, someone else walking around with your same genes that wasn't born at the same time as you? The odds must be astronomical.
The point is, imagination and wondering and writing about what could be, can lead people to try to figure out if it's possible or if we even should.
There are groups in the government that write papers on worse case scenarios and plan for disasters. Of course this was also a bunch of books and movies...so...couldn't possibly happen can it?
The President needs to be held accountable to the constituency. If he's done something illegal or illicit, he needs to be held accountable to it, which was the point of the missing emails, hiding it. I agree there are more heinous things that Bush and Cheney should be put on trial for, but hopefully this is a step forward.
The ends justify the means is against everything the country stands for and is fighting against. If we ok that, we ok terrorism because they are only fighting for their own freedom through extreme and desperate measures.
What privacy right? People's desired rights and actual rights do not coincide.
As much as I hate paparazzi and wish they were made illegal, they have the right to photograph from a distance, the exterior of your property, or even you when you're outside.
Now this couple didn't have a case at all, even IF the claim of a private road was true. Too much money was at stake for them to not lay their facts out on the table.
Personally I think "private road" will be an increase of people putting up fake signs. They already put up cones and trash cans outside their homes to hold a spot. Seen people put up yellow tape for similiar reasons. some just didn't want people parking out on the street.
When I was in college, I used to eat subs, eye drops in my eye, splash cold water on my face (long drives), take off a jacket, even pull off a pullover while driving. Once, I even had a plate of spaghetti on my lap.
It may be arrogance, or ignorance, but it's a matter of judgement on whether or not the area was safe and if you had the ability to do it.
Now, I just zone out and listen to music while driving because the car drives itself. Perhaps its the fault of power steering, making it so mindless you barely have to control the steering wheel. You only have to watch out around you, keep an eye on other objects like guide lines and cars, and taking note of erratic behavior that could mean they're going to collide with you.
This like speed limit, isn't setting a limit on what a person/car should be capable of. It's setting a LOW bar because people who can't handle it, don't know it or delusion in believing that they can handle it. I've seen stretches of highway where it's 55 MPH. Given lack of patrols, people could go 70-80. At night at times, seen people going 100 mph in that area. The 55 wasn't because the area couldn't handle faster speeds. It was a low bar set. Just like saying people in general get dangerously distracted by hands free cell and listening to the radio or talking to the person next to them (from old Slashdot articles by researchers).
have multiple monitors and multiple computers (though the latter is not always necessary). Having a browser come up and block whatever I'm doing is still annoying.
Although in game excel or access would be nice for the OCD that keep a tracking of everything they're doing in game, long as I can save that file and open outside of the game.
I remember in the old days when gaming meant keeping a journal (Ultima 3D) and drawing a map (Wolfenstein) as you went along. Now websites generally have most of the data, but sometimes, you need your own.
Wow sounds like you're against presumption of innocence (outside of court). Lets hope you're never falsely arrested or framed for child porn. Get off. And have everyone believe you were guilty and only got off because of a technicality, ruining your life for something you didn't even do. And then make a Lifetime movie out of it.
Personally with Childs. Isn't it just as likely, the city screwed up with their procedure, and looking for someone to blame?
If I was suddenly and viciously laid off from my company without a good reason, I'll likely walk away and not offer additional help. All the network passwords with us are in encrypted password protected files on their flashdrives in one of their desks but like most bosses, they probably forgot about the password, then they're SOL. I might even mess with them by telling them the wrong password to the file and laughing after. Doesn't mean I did anything wrong before or after I was fired, just being uncooperative after I was fired.
I'm not saying that Childs doesn't have an axe to grind, but to assume he's guilty of maliciously screwing with what he was hired to maintain on circumstantial evidence is weak and unfair.
Or you can view it as disobeying an unjust rule, not even a law. I'm not saying every conceivable action should be excusable, but disorderly conduct? What's more disorderly, some kid not paying attention and "playing a video game" or the teacher stopping class to make a big deal of it. What's next? Throwing kids in juvie for passing notes and denying it? They don't get the right education in a normal school as a slacker so throw them in with a bunch of hardened juvies and they'll learn some real useful skills? What happened to having a kid leave the room, then sending a kid to detention, then escalating it to suspension before charging them with a misdemeanor.
I see one good thing about this, taking the power back away from kids, and in the hands of the adults, so they can go back to corporal punishment, beating the fear of authority into the kids, and sexual abuse without fear of the kids tattling.
I honestly don't know where the line of power should be drawn because it's a fine balance between having too much power and too little power. We're a society that polarizes, shifting from one extreme to another. Zero tolerance is way polarized.
I'm sorry you feel my post was non-nonsensical, if you point out which part didn't make sense to you, I could explain what I meant.
However the point of my post was, that inflation IS devaluing the currency and giving examples on how it works and why it's bad. Sounds like you agree with that though.
That the increase in wage with inflation is an illusion as you are paying proportionally the same, all things remaining the same, but in reality, your cost of living increase raise is slower than the actual cost of living. I went into more detail posting back to your parent.
I may not be an economist like the parent, but the point of creating simple models with fixed parameters to understand complex issues. The same with other sciences. I feel artificial economies like MMORPG's is an example of that. I can't find a sample article that delved into that, but I hope people remember them.
But the fact of the matter is, the US economy is on a race to collapse, called inflation.
The US had an annualized inflation rate of 0,09% in December 2008 and hasn't had an inflation rate above 4% since 1991. What exactly are you talking about?
I know some economist say a small controlled inflation is necessary, but what's the point? Say my wage is increased by 3% because of cost of living increase of 3%. Proportionally, I'm still spending the same money if everything remains the same, except we're using a bigger numbers. Although cost of living increases faster than wage (non-raise) increases, so people at the bottom still suffer.
Maybe if overpaid workers and grossly overpaid management aren't raising the prices of products, they'd sell better overseas. Granted the auto-industry is too easy a dead horse to kick at the moment.
BMW, VW, Mercedes all produce their cars in high-wage countries. The problem with GM is that they make cheap shitty cars in the US. No one wants their cars AND they are expensive to manufacture... Not exactly what I call a brilliant business model. If anything, wages in the US should _increase_, because American workers are highly qualified.
If you increase the wage of the workers, you NEED to increase the price of the product, to keep the same proportional profit. If the price of the product goes up, the wage of the worker needs to follow so they can buy at the increase. It's an unending cycle. As it is now, most people can't afford BMW, VW, or Mercedes. At the same time, BMW, VW, and Mercedes probably do not need to pay their workers to sit around and do nothing like the Big 3 does.
Auto-industry workers make too much money as it is. The union is partly to blame for the collapse. The industry couldn't afford to keep paying those prices, wage + benefits. If they raised the price of the vehicles, people wouldn't buy it. You're telling me those workers are worth $150k a year and deserve more? When minimum wage is only $16k, and they're laying off people because the industry can't even afford $150k per worker? (Besides the fact the stockholders were taking money out of the company).
And Toyota has better resell value, lower deprecation, and cheaper than domestic cars, so don't even go praising domestic made cars, assuming you actually bought domestic.
Think about it, does it really make sense that you're making $50k a year, and paying $4.50 for milk and in 2000 making $33k you were paying $3.00
Euh, yeah it does, not only because you have 8 more years of experience and should be paid accordingly, but also because the real growth (growth - inflation) is positive, and therefore goods should be cheaper to buy on average.
I'm not talking about merit raises. I'm talking about base salary. You got that job in 2000 for $33k. You move up and your position is replaced in 2008 by someone for $50k. In 2000 you bought milk for $3.00. Your replacement in 2008 buys milk for $4.50. What's the point? It's not really cheaper. You make more money, but if you're lucky the same product is proportionally more expensive.
You want an easy example of economies collapsing due to artificially created currency, look at MMORPG. In Everquest, items are bought and sold by the millions. It's not the same force driving inflation but it's the same result of inflation. Although if you want a real life example, Zimbabwae. While you purchase your month's grocery by a hundred dollars, they're doing it in millions.
The creation of money is governed by supply and demand of loans, there is nothing artificial about it. Comparing the US to Zimbabwe is not very credible, I'm sorry.
I wasn't comparing US to Zimbabwei or an artifical MMORPG economy. I was using them as an example to point out the results of their rapid an
First, I live in Massachusetts, and enjoy decent wages, nothing too insane like $80k a year, yet better than $16k minimum wage.
Second, someone like China has a great economy, depending on view point. As I stated in another post, due to overpopulation and the fact those in power treat the lower ranks like it was a Feudalism, they don't consider their population as people, rather commodities or assets to be used to raise national wealth, and strength (or elite's personal). Though I agree, bad for workers, bad wages, etc. But, slave labor + hording of money means their current plan is working as they planned. If you were a farmer, would you dress your donkeys in cashmere? Feed it with designer feed that does not have any benefit over normal feed? No, you'd do what you need to, to keep it productive, healthy, and beneficial to you. If you had too many donkeys, you'd sell the extra, or if unable, sacrifice one to temporarily increase production and reduce long term maintenance. I play strategy games and treat my commodities as numbers in an equation to be optimized for final results.
I agree, I don't think USA will collapse anytime soon. Only reason why countries like Zimbabwae or fictional economies like MMORPG collapse in a observable period of time is bad or uneducated planning, or disregard. The USA has educated people that know what to do to keep it from collapsing and the self-interest to do so, freezing the stock market to keep it from collapsing, bailouts at the right time, etc.
I was simply pointing out that inflation trends as a unchecked theory is a downward spiral, or upward if you're looking at the rising numbers.
Even in Star Trek, there may be only 1 Captain, but it is a panel or committee of high Admirals that govern the Federation. Although I believe they had something like the Chairman of the Board that the committee elects from amongst themselves. My first analogy would be how the Pope is elected.
Communism has problems, but so does Capitalism. Both breeds greed and self-interest by the influential. But in theory Communism regulates their natural resource with rationing. In a capitalism, it's a rush to use it up. As long as it sells, make it, and throw things out. Individual self interest and pleasures over what's good for the country or environment.
But if the whole global trade collapses, I definitely want to be in *A* country that's producing food on it's own.
Maybe if overpaid workers and grossly overpaid management aren't raising the prices of products, they'd sell better overseas. Granted the auto-industry is too easy a dead horse to kick at the moment.
But the fact of the matter is, the US economy is on a race to collapse, called inflation. They try to make profit as high as possibly raising the price of goods. This forces cost of living to go up, ultimately forcing the wage to go up following suit, and companies with set unrealistic profits raises the price of goods to maintain their profit. It's a vicious circle where the wage workers are always barely making ends meet at the bottom of the barrel.
Some countries, whether or not it's ultimately good for their economy, forces inflation down. Forces cost of goods down. Forces wage down. Forces their currency's worth down. And keeps all the wealth in the government (and elite few), and in an ideal world, manage the money for the best of the country better than spreading to everyone in the country who'd squander it on luxury and living beyond their realistic means.
Think about it, does it really make sense that you're making $50k a year, and paying $4.50 for milk and in 2000 making $33k you were paying $3.00
You want an easy example of economies collapsing due to artificially created currency, look at MMORPG. In Everquest, items are bought and sold by the millions. It's not the same force driving inflation but it's the same result of inflation. Although if you want a real life example, Zimbabwae. While you purchase your month's grocery by a hundred dollars, they're doing it in millions.
I'm not an economist, but it's easy to see when something like this isn't working out.
Although I suppose if we take suit from Star Trek. We'll have a global war devastating the planet. Find alien life and realizing there's more to the world than just ourselves. Band together, removing currency (and replacing it with credit), and somehow get rid of greed (hahaha) and live in a socialist/communist society simply for the safety of the race, and further the collective achievement.
You didn't waste your vote anymore than usual. Your vote wasn't to GET Obama into office. Your vote was to keep McCain and Palin OUT of office. Unless Obama turns out to be the biggest fake in the world, nothing he does in the next 4 years can be half as scary as what McCain and Palin could have done or 1% as scary as what Bush did in his 8 years.
Although judging by his track record over the last few weeks, he's making good time getting there.
How can we hold the media covering the scientific information any different from the same ones covering business, IT, and celebrities? Yeah, odd grouping.
Forget the media, they just started it, try all the people using the latest buzz word without even knowing what it's suppose to mean.
Who's to blame or even stop this? The blind leading the way or the dumb following the blind?
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A 7" tablet is about 8 lbs. How strong of a magnet do you need to hold that securely because you don't want an electronic falling to the ground like that.
The point of magnetic damage isn't it's ability to completely override the device's magnet. The point is causing just enough of an inteference to corrupt even a little data. Wiping a Harddrive clean, yeah strong ass magnet with a car battery attached. But no, I don't think this would cause much data corruption, but I still wouldn't want to chance it.
I'm surprised the magnet doesn't screw with the monitor itself. I haven't played with a monitor on LCDs but they were funny on CRTs.
I think part of the ethics is also, would we have a problem with someone else doing it? Part of that is a race for "defensive" power like the atom bomb or mutual insured destruction. But another part is, we wouldn't want our enemies to be using e. coli like bio-weapons, so we shouldn't.
Theist may fear a vengeful higher power, but people, theist or not, would fear repercussions from our peers. Repercussions is what keeps our society running. Keeping the majority of people "law-abiding" the majority of the time. Fear of which acting as our conscience, making us second guess unethical actions.
A person may be morally ambigious, but if he thought about it, he'd know that he'd get in trouble for killing. He may not understand why, in his heart, but he'll know in his head that there'd be a punishment if he's caught killing without justify.
I'm surprised no one wondered yet, are they doing this with "dead skin cells" that flake off, or do they need living tissue? I find it hard to believe that can use viruses to mutate dead cells, and though it's not as bad as the pound of flesh Shylock demanded, I wonder how much flesh they need. If you remember from an episode of House, where Cameron takes a scalpel and slices off a chunk of skin from the old patient, causing it to bleed. That's the image I got when I read this.
RTS like all gaming has a level of educational value.
You learn time management. The benefits and drawbacks of multi-tasking and micro-managing. The concept of diminishing returns on investment. The concept behind balancing between early investment on resources and infrastructure for a greater compound interest over time (similiar to retirement funds) and how an overinvestment in that, and lack of attention to other areas like "defense" could make it all pointless when you get overrun. To balance and not put all your eggs in one basket, all anti-personnel units are great until your enemy rolls out a tank and crushes you.
I know our city, state, and federal government lack these basic learnings.
And of course, the best rule of all, zerg early on for a quick gamble and ending the game one way or another.
Yeah, the cost of marrying off their daughters is the reason why they kill their daughters.
Not the fact that they can only have ONE child, either a daughter or son, and most prefer a son TO carry on their family's name. What the hell is the daughter going to do? Not carry on the families name? That's useful. Even in families with a son and daughter, the daughter could be smarter or more skilled and the moron of a son is still considered a better heir to the family line.
I don't dispute any other point you made about how she expected a chinese guy to treat her. And she may very well have told you that. But financial liability is less significant than the insanity asians feel about the family line. I see a slight importance in European lines but the female's family tree actually matters and I'm not familiar much with African or South American but seeing how African women in some tribes could own and inherit in the past, I'd say they also put some value in the female's family line.
I know you were being funny, but he wasn't being an ass.
He gave a chunk of his life to the city, the network was his baby, his sweat and blood.
They viciously fired him, and then expected him to cooperate afterwards. He walked away and said they can't what's in his head.
Even without giving my sweat and blood, if they treated me like that, I wouldn't be cooperative either. The stuff they asked for are or should be documented. And he sounds more meticulous than I am.
He should countersuit for defamation.
Is this a pro or con of the ends justify the means?
He got punished for doing something wrong. People would have liked to see him punished for murders. He was punished for tax evasion. He wasn't framed for tax evasion to punish him for murder. They didn't fake evidence to trialed guilty for the murders.
The means in this case were completely up and up. Creative, but not ethically, or morally wrong.
The freedom to not have the western world infringe upon their way of life. The freedom to not be under attack from Americans FIRST. Pushing US policies and ideals which are not appreciated by foreign sovereignties.
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We're crying over the deaths in the 10's and 100's thousand. While we inflict over a million. In a war we started.
And Afghan. In our selfish fight against "the great evil communism", who did we sacrifice in the millions in that fight turning their civilian land into a warzone? How many Americans died fighting Communism in the middle east then? And ironically, teach and arm the ones we knew didn't like us, and would later come attack us back.
We always brought the fighting to another land. In another country, so our own would not be damaged. Well guess what, THEY brought it back to the US. After all the millions of innocent civilians dying because of us, FINALLY American civilians are dying too. Maybe we'll learn its not so great a feeling to bring death and destruction to others.
You're right...that silly Jules Verne, actually thought we'd be up to the moon someday. HAHAHA
Next all those weirdo reading books about artificial intelligence would actually expect us to do research and developing neural nets.
And cloning, you can't possibly ever make a genetic duplicate. I mean come on, someone else walking around with your same genes that wasn't born at the same time as you? The odds must be astronomical.
The point is, imagination and wondering and writing about what could be, can lead people to try to figure out if it's possible or if we even should.
There are groups in the government that write papers on worse case scenarios and plan for disasters. Of course this was also a bunch of books and movies...so...couldn't possibly happen can it?
That's because most people don't care.
Ireland, Scotland, Britain. It's all UK or British as far as non-involved people are concerned.
You want to get technical? You try naming every province in China and keeping straight where it is.
Most people don't care enough. It's only China.
The President needs to be held accountable to the constituency. If he's done something illegal or illicit, he needs to be held accountable to it, which was the point of the missing emails, hiding it. I agree there are more heinous things that Bush and Cheney should be put on trial for, but hopefully this is a step forward.
The ends justify the means is against everything the country stands for and is fighting against. If we ok that, we ok terrorism because they are only fighting for their own freedom through extreme and desperate measures.
What privacy right? People's desired rights and actual rights do not coincide.
As much as I hate paparazzi and wish they were made illegal, they have the right to photograph from a distance, the exterior of your property, or even you when you're outside.
Now this couple didn't have a case at all, even IF the claim of a private road was true. Too much money was at stake for them to not lay their facts out on the table.
Personally I think "private road" will be an increase of people putting up fake signs. They already put up cones and trash cans outside their homes to hold a spot. Seen people put up yellow tape for similiar reasons. some just didn't want people parking out on the street.
Glad the judge in this case didn't reward the frivolous lawsuit.
Just another example of greedy people trying to make a quick million without earning it.
When I was in college, I used to eat subs, eye drops in my eye, splash cold water on my face (long drives), take off a jacket, even pull off a pullover while driving. Once, I even had a plate of spaghetti on my lap.
It may be arrogance, or ignorance, but it's a matter of judgement on whether or not the area was safe and if you had the ability to do it.
Now, I just zone out and listen to music while driving because the car drives itself. Perhaps its the fault of power steering, making it so mindless you barely have to control the steering wheel. You only have to watch out around you, keep an eye on other objects like guide lines and cars, and taking note of erratic behavior that could mean they're going to collide with you.
This like speed limit, isn't setting a limit on what a person/car should be capable of. It's setting a LOW bar because people who can't handle it, don't know it or delusion in believing that they can handle it. I've seen stretches of highway where it's 55 MPH. Given lack of patrols, people could go 70-80. At night at times, seen people going 100 mph in that area. The 55 wasn't because the area couldn't handle faster speeds. It was a low bar set. Just like saying people in general get dangerously distracted by hands free cell and listening to the radio or talking to the person next to them (from old Slashdot articles by researchers).
have multiple monitors and multiple computers (though the latter is not always necessary). Having a browser come up and block whatever I'm doing is still annoying.
Although in game excel or access would be nice for the OCD that keep a tracking of everything they're doing in game, long as I can save that file and open outside of the game.
I remember in the old days when gaming meant keeping a journal (Ultima 3D) and drawing a map (Wolfenstein) as you went along. Now websites generally have most of the data, but sometimes, you need your own.
Yeah who knows who she had to sleep with for the money. They deserve respect too.
Wow sounds like you're against presumption of innocence (outside of court). Lets hope you're never falsely arrested or framed for child porn. Get off. And have everyone believe you were guilty and only got off because of a technicality, ruining your life for something you didn't even do. And then make a Lifetime movie out of it.
Personally with Childs. Isn't it just as likely, the city screwed up with their procedure, and looking for someone to blame?
If I was suddenly and viciously laid off from my company without a good reason, I'll likely walk away and not offer additional help. All the network passwords with us are in encrypted password protected files on their flashdrives in one of their desks but like most bosses, they probably forgot about the password, then they're SOL. I might even mess with them by telling them the wrong password to the file and laughing after. Doesn't mean I did anything wrong before or after I was fired, just being uncooperative after I was fired.
I'm not saying that Childs doesn't have an axe to grind, but to assume he's guilty of maliciously screwing with what he was hired to maintain on circumstantial evidence is weak and unfair.
Or you can view it as disobeying an unjust rule, not even a law. I'm not saying every conceivable action should be excusable, but disorderly conduct? What's more disorderly, some kid not paying attention and "playing a video game" or the teacher stopping class to make a big deal of it.
What's next? Throwing kids in juvie for passing notes and denying it? They don't get the right education in a normal school as a slacker so throw them in with a bunch of hardened juvies and they'll learn some real useful skills?
What happened to having a kid leave the room, then sending a kid to detention, then escalating it to suspension before charging them with a misdemeanor.
I see one good thing about this, taking the power back away from kids, and in the hands of the adults, so they can go back to corporal punishment, beating the fear of authority into the kids, and sexual abuse without fear of the kids tattling.
I honestly don't know where the line of power should be drawn because it's a fine balance between having too much power and too little power. We're a society that polarizes, shifting from one extreme to another. Zero tolerance is way polarized.
Well they have a term for that with females, but it wouldn't be PC to say it.
I'm sorry you feel my post was non-nonsensical, if you point out which part didn't make sense to you, I could explain what I meant.
However the point of my post was, that inflation IS devaluing the currency and giving examples on how it works and why it's bad. Sounds like you agree with that though.
That the increase in wage with inflation is an illusion as you are paying proportionally the same, all things remaining the same, but in reality, your cost of living increase raise is slower than the actual cost of living. I went into more detail posting back to your parent.
I may not be an economist like the parent, but the point of creating simple models with fixed parameters to understand complex issues. The same with other sciences. I feel artificial economies like MMORPG's is an example of that. I can't find a sample article that delved into that, but I hope people remember them.
But the fact of the matter is, the US economy is on a race to collapse, called inflation.
The US had an annualized inflation rate of 0,09% in December 2008 and hasn't had an inflation rate above 4% since 1991. What exactly are you talking about?
I know some economist say a small controlled inflation is necessary, but what's the point? Say my wage is increased by 3% because of cost of living increase of 3%. Proportionally, I'm still spending the same money if everything remains the same, except we're using a bigger numbers. Although cost of living increases faster than wage (non-raise) increases, so people at the bottom still suffer.
Maybe if overpaid workers and grossly overpaid management aren't raising the prices of products, they'd sell better overseas. Granted the auto-industry is too easy a dead horse to kick at the moment.
BMW, VW, Mercedes all produce their cars in high-wage countries. The problem with GM is that they make cheap shitty cars in the US. No one wants their cars AND they are expensive to manufacture... Not exactly what I call a brilliant business model. If anything, wages in the US should _increase_, because American workers are highly qualified.
If you increase the wage of the workers, you NEED to increase the price of the product, to keep the same proportional profit. If the price of the product goes up, the wage of the worker needs to follow so they can buy at the increase. It's an unending cycle. As it is now, most people can't afford BMW, VW, or Mercedes. At the same time, BMW, VW, and Mercedes probably do not need to pay their workers to sit around and do nothing like the Big 3 does.
Auto-industry workers make too much money as it is. The union is partly to blame for the collapse. The industry couldn't afford to keep paying those prices, wage + benefits. If they raised the price of the vehicles, people wouldn't buy it. You're telling me those workers are worth $150k a year and deserve more? When minimum wage is only $16k, and they're laying off people because the industry can't even afford $150k per worker? (Besides the fact the stockholders were taking money out of the company).
And Toyota has better resell value, lower deprecation, and cheaper than domestic cars, so don't even go praising domestic made cars, assuming you actually bought domestic.
Think about it, does it really make sense that you're making $50k a year, and paying $4.50 for milk and in 2000 making $33k you were paying $3.00
Euh, yeah it does, not only because you have 8 more years of experience and should be paid accordingly, but also because the real growth (growth - inflation) is positive, and therefore goods should be cheaper to buy on average.
I'm not talking about merit raises. I'm talking about base salary. You got that job in 2000 for $33k. You move up and your position is replaced in 2008 by someone for $50k. In 2000 you bought milk for $3.00. Your replacement in 2008 buys milk for $4.50. What's the point? It's not really cheaper. You make more money, but if you're lucky the same product is proportionally more expensive.
You want an easy example of economies collapsing due to artificially created currency, look at MMORPG. In Everquest, items are bought and sold by the millions. It's not the same force driving inflation but it's the same result of inflation. Although if you want a real life example, Zimbabwae. While you purchase your month's grocery by a hundred dollars, they're doing it in millions.
The creation of money is governed by supply and demand of loans, there is nothing artificial about it. Comparing the US to Zimbabwe is not very credible, I'm sorry.
I wasn't comparing US to Zimbabwei or an artifical MMORPG economy. I was using them as an example to point out the results of their rapid an
First, I live in Massachusetts, and enjoy decent wages, nothing too insane like $80k a year, yet better than $16k minimum wage.
Second, someone like China has a great economy, depending on view point. As I stated in another post, due to overpopulation and the fact those in power treat the lower ranks like it was a Feudalism, they don't consider their population as people, rather commodities or assets to be used to raise national wealth, and strength (or elite's personal). Though I agree, bad for workers, bad wages, etc. But, slave labor + hording of money means their current plan is working as they planned. If you were a farmer, would you dress your donkeys in cashmere? Feed it with designer feed that does not have any benefit over normal feed? No, you'd do what you need to, to keep it productive, healthy, and beneficial to you. If you had too many donkeys, you'd sell the extra, or if unable, sacrifice one to temporarily increase production and reduce long term maintenance. I play strategy games and treat my commodities as numbers in an equation to be optimized for final results.
I agree, I don't think USA will collapse anytime soon. Only reason why countries like Zimbabwae or fictional economies like MMORPG collapse in a observable period of time is bad or uneducated planning, or disregard. The USA has educated people that know what to do to keep it from collapsing and the self-interest to do so, freezing the stock market to keep it from collapsing, bailouts at the right time, etc.
I was simply pointing out that inflation trends as a unchecked theory is a downward spiral, or upward if you're looking at the rising numbers.
Even in Star Trek, there may be only 1 Captain, but it is a panel or committee of high Admirals that govern the Federation. Although I believe they had something like the Chairman of the Board that the committee elects from amongst themselves. My first analogy would be how the Pope is elected.
Communism has problems, but so does Capitalism.
Both breeds greed and self-interest by the influential.
But in theory Communism regulates their natural resource with rationing. In a capitalism, it's a rush to use it up. As long as it sells, make it, and throw things out. Individual self interest and pleasures over what's good for the country or environment.
But if the whole global trade collapses, I definitely want to be in *A* country that's producing food on it's own.
Maybe if overpaid workers and grossly overpaid management aren't raising the prices of products, they'd sell better overseas. Granted the auto-industry is too easy a dead horse to kick at the moment.
But the fact of the matter is, the US economy is on a race to collapse, called inflation. They try to make profit as high as possibly raising the price of goods. This forces cost of living to go up, ultimately forcing the wage to go up following suit, and companies with set unrealistic profits raises the price of goods to maintain their profit. It's a vicious circle where the wage workers are always barely making ends meet at the bottom of the barrel.
Some countries, whether or not it's ultimately good for their economy, forces inflation down. Forces cost of goods down. Forces wage down. Forces their currency's worth down. And keeps all the wealth in the government (and elite few), and in an ideal world, manage the money for the best of the country better than spreading to everyone in the country who'd squander it on luxury and living beyond their realistic means.
Think about it, does it really make sense that you're making $50k a year, and paying $4.50 for milk and in 2000 making $33k you were paying $3.00
You want an easy example of economies collapsing due to artificially created currency, look at MMORPG. In Everquest, items are bought and sold by the millions. It's not the same force driving inflation but it's the same result of inflation. Although if you want a real life example, Zimbabwae. While you purchase your month's grocery by a hundred dollars, they're doing it in millions.
I'm not an economist, but it's easy to see when something like this isn't working out.
Although I suppose if we take suit from Star Trek. We'll have a global war devastating the planet. Find alien life and realizing there's more to the world than just ourselves. Band together, removing currency (and replacing it with credit), and somehow get rid of greed (hahaha) and live in a socialist/communist society simply for the safety of the race, and further the collective achievement.
You didn't waste your vote anymore than usual.
Your vote wasn't to GET Obama into office.
Your vote was to keep McCain and Palin OUT of office.
Unless Obama turns out to be the biggest fake in the world, nothing he does in the next 4 years can be half as scary as what McCain and Palin could have done or 1% as scary as what Bush did in his 8 years.
Although judging by his track record over the last few weeks, he's making good time getting there.
How can we hold the media covering the scientific information any different from the same ones covering business, IT, and celebrities? Yeah, odd grouping.
Forget the media, they just started it, try all the people using the latest buzz word without even knowing what it's suppose to mean.
Who's to blame or even stop this? The blind leading the way or the dumb following the blind?