And then they turn around and buy US debt [treas.gov] with those profits
The reason they do that, is that they resist spending the money, and they do that to try and keep an artificial scarcity in dollars. Our strategy of issuing debt and now even printing is a tacit recognition that we know they will buy, with goods, every dollar we print, and thus they have hoards of dollars sitting in their banks and treasuries and really doing nothing.
This isn't global capitalism, it is utterly disfunctional mercantilism. IF this were genuine free trade, the asian countries wouldn't have dollars in the banks, they would have -american products- for their consumers.
If it wasn't for China and Japan, the US would be bankrupt and you would not be enjoying your current standard of living
Oh, that, we owe $200,000 a piece in Federal and Public debt standard of living, and we haven't even started paying for aging baby boomers yet? My, that sounds like a hell of a plan you got there.
The problem is, because of currency manipulations, that foreign governments are essentially subsidizing their car companies so that they can export to the USA. Guys in Japan are living literally in shoebox sized cubbyholes with -nothing-, so they can send us made in Japan stuff. Guys in China and South Korea have missed the whole Ford experiment and benefit of unionization, and will never be to afford what they make, and meanwhile, sitting in the banks of China, Japan, and South Korea is hoards of US dollars, accumulated as fast as we can print them, that literally does everyone about as much good as tons of gold sitting in British banks did before Adam Smith said "hey,mercantilism is really stupid."
So basically, the only thing that we can do, because Asia can't let go of its mercantilism, is to cut them off, and force them to create a legitimate economy.
Sort of like lead white. Van Gogh may have absorbed or ingested enough to cause or exacerbate his mental disorders.
I guess Van Gogh shouldn't have been eating paint, but I'm getting a bit of so much scaremongering over small exposures to things. For pete's sake, if the wingers have their way, pretty much every metal will be banned because it is -scary-. What is not scary? Water can kill you in tablespoon amounts and even salt will kill you. I got news. We are all going to die.
This stuff is absolutely something that needs regulation to control it
There are regulations, but nobody gives a shit. Nobody follows the ones we already have!
Why don't you go up to Washington DC and add another thousands pages and wave your hand like it matters. Nobody trusts the government. Nobody believes in the justice system. Nobody believes in God and nobody believes in your dumbass socialism either.
Everything you are telling me is a lie, and honestly, its just time to divvy up the nukes among the states and let each one be on its way. The federal government is an incompetent, bankrupt tyrant, and many of us have no use for your so called progressive dictatorship.
No, I think what would happen is that they can just look at the OS, without looking at the data running in the OS. Thus, they can get a license count. But, if you won't give them one, then, you could get sued, and be forced to give one, or rather, have some third party or even the local sherriff do the count with the understanding that the HIPAA data is implicitly protected because the exposure is to officers and appointees of the court.
Which leads to a really interesting point...
You can have data be secret to Congress. You can have it be secret to the President. But you can never have data be secret to a court. Who really has all the power?
The submission made you think that Microsoft was being evil, but the article, if you actually read it, really did do the incredible thing of making Ballmer seem like a reasonable, almost likable guy. To wit, we have the same argument about the tax code in the USA. We should just have a flat tax, many people cry out, which makes sense, because, you kind of want everyone working the same number of days per year to satisfy the government. That's fair. But, the devil gets in the details. Rentals don't mind getting rid of the exemption on mortgage interest but want a greater personal deduction. Owners want bigger interest deductions. Married people want their break to be the same as unmarried people and then want additional breaks for kids. Businesses want tax breaks on anything they can get. We actually came fairly close to having a nearly flat tax in the 1980s, but then, even Republicans were arguing to get rid of it. There is never going to be a flat tax, or flat licensing, or anything else. It's just going to get even more complicated. Ironically, even the GPL, which governs something that you don't have to pay for it all, gets longer every year, trying to nail down every possible angle.
So, to summarize, Ballmer actually hit the hammer on the head in the article, people ask for simplification, but really, they want things to be complicated.
At some point, society has to leave some people behind so that it can actually do something. You can't have everyone's lives getting dragged down by every little crippled thing about everyone.
The question would be whether or not the extra fuel, and fuel handling hardware, would weigh as much as six passengers and a spare pilot, plus their life support. You would also have to consider reentry differences.
The easiest way to tell would be to just look at the sizes of comparable rockets to get people into space. Rocket Engines have not gotten that much more efficient over the decades. So, I guess for six people in space, what's anticipated for the Aries stack is about the right size. It's going to be big.
Now, for orbit in style, just look at the size of the Space Shuttle. It puts a boatload of people into orbit in style, because they have a huge flight deck and plus cargo bay. Really, the space shuttle gets derided as a space transportation system, as it should, but its the roomiest thing going on in space transportation - the new Constellation Aries Stack is going to be much smaller inside.
AS you can see, a rocket is a pretty big thing, and just to have something that big is going to be pricey. We're not getting to orbit until something is done about the dreadful ISP of rocket engines, and we're not getting that until we get nuclear power.
Hollywood and the recording business is in awful spot for politics. Almost by definition, they are leftists, first because the left more accepted the riotous lives of entertainers, and then, because of political utility of mass media. But, the left is increasingly embracing an open content world, consistent with its more socialist visions - like, if you can redistribute land, why put fences around IP. It makes no sense for any serious socialist to support copyrights and that's a huge problem for Hollywood.
But, while Republicans have vainly tried to court Hollywood for years with things like IP, they've got nothing but rebuffed, and at least this Republican has utterly lost all patience with Hollywood, such that, even if I have a core value of being able to "control what you create", at the same time, the conservative / natural law side of me also says that copyrights really are a government intervention, are entirely artificial, the natural thing to do is just make copies, and even more so, the better, that it bankrupts an industry that prides itself on ripping everything I believe in.
So yeah, Hollywood can make plenty of movies ripping us Republican rednecks, but, if the whole world can just copy them... hey, why not.
I only worry about the science. That's what I consider "the point." But if you're not interested in the scientific evidence then we have nothing to talk about. Good day.
Dude, you sound all Aspergers... "I want to talk about the evidence", and like, it doesn't even matter. You've missed the point that the politicians get the science, and they have either looked at the map and decided - "who cares" ("GOP"), or, "let's tax it", ("Democrats").
Basically, New York City is going for a swim, its just, how much federal bucks will be available to build them boats.
And honestly, that DOES jive with the science, surprise, because surely you know that if we went to ZERO emissions today, it would take about 400 years for the earth to balance back out, assuming that the climate did not change over that time for other reasons.
I seem to recall reading that WhiteKnightTwo, the launch ship series for SpaceShipTwo, will also be used for launching other Earth to space vessels. I wouldn't be surprised if a version of SpaceShipTwo, with a reduced cargo load and a larger fuel supply, managed to reach LEO. (The first one would likely be a single pilot version.)
I think the physics with that are decidedly against spaceship2 stretch, because mv^2 for orbit is so much larger than mv^2 for suborbit.
If you'd actually read the link, you'll see that I strongly support nuclear power
The point is that the leaders of the world who are actively promoting their climate change agenda are doing so to cash in on their own pet projects. If climate change scared -them-, then they would be a cry in Europe, Japan and the USA to do something about massive nuclear plant construction and a transition to electric cars and now. There's just not. The political leadership that embraces this stuff sees it as a chance to cash in, and the other political classes see THAT as B.S.
you'll see why as a scientist I have to say that abrupt climate change is very well-supported
I think the point is, man or no man, mankind or not, abrupt climate change can and will happen. Everyone knows this. There's snowball earth, ice ages, changes of river course, the whole planet is in constant change, and climate's one of those things that can and will just snap. Just the way it is. When it happens, people will move from the bad spots to the good spots, just like they always have.
Besides : The whole idea about fixing CO2 so it will somehow put the climate "Back" is dumb altogether. There's no putting the climate back to anything.
There is a big difference between Truth(whats happening) and what you want. I have this talk with my daughter all the time. Sometimes it isn't how you want it. That's life.
the truth is, if you live in wyomig, continued use of fossil fuels will make your state warmer, eliminate coastal rivals, and improve your quality of life.
seriously, what the hell do 4 billion people on coastlines mean to the 2 billion that don't. It's zero point zero. And, who cares if NYC has to move inland or uphill 20 feet. The existing city sucks anyway, let it collapse, and build something new. It's all 200 year old leaky pipes and crackheads.
showing the seriousness of the threat posed by CO2.
If it was such a threat, Democrats would not have killed nuclear power plant construction in their first legislative moves of early 2006. In fact, if AGW was such a threat, the stimulus package would have been to build 200 nuclear power plants at 4 billion apiece, which, is about what the Chinese are paying for them. But, it wasn't. It was for ROADS, as in, LETS MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO DRIVE.
Yeah, AGW is a crock of shit. If it was real, the party plotting to fix it, would have done it already.
I mean, Bush thought Iraq was a threat, and he took care of it. Obama thinks AGW is the greatest threat, and what does he do, spend 800 billion dollars on making it easier for people to drive.
For example, a storm surge in New York up to a level that would now be considered "once in 100 years" would happen every ~5 years.
I don't care about New York. They are a bunch of liberal assholes that want to take my guns away and raise my taxes. Plus, the Yankees always beat my team. So fuck them. I'm lighting a bonfire.
Look, the problem is thus. Is man changing the climate? Yes. Can man control the climate? No. It's that simple. All the trillions of dollars and vast reduction in lifestyle that AGW advocates propose to throw at something that would actually benefit a lot of countries, you can't actually prove that it will work, at what rate, and when.
The predictions are a mess.
Global warming in the 1990s predicted that 2000 would be even hotter still, and it wasn't. In fact, its colder out now than it has been in years. Snow three times in a month in Delaware? Not since I've lived here. The next prediction was that, it would be 6C warmer in 100 years, but, no one could give a straight answer as to the temperature increase in the next 10 years. IT's all non-linear, which really, is the modern buzzword for religion.
Seriously, if AGW was such an emergency, we'd be building nuclear power plants. And we're not. Instead we get all this wishy washy lets build windmills and suck each's other dicks liberal crap that won't solve anything but will jack up the prices of energy, kill our standard of living, and pretty much make everybody dirt poor.
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And then they turn around and buy US debt [treas.gov] with those profits
The reason they do that, is that they resist spending the money, and they do that to try and keep an artificial scarcity in dollars. Our strategy of issuing debt and now even printing is a tacit recognition that we know they will buy, with goods, every dollar we print, and thus they have hoards of dollars sitting in their banks and treasuries and really doing nothing.
This isn't global capitalism, it is utterly disfunctional mercantilism. IF this were genuine free trade, the asian countries wouldn't have dollars in the banks, they would have -american products- for their consumers.
If it wasn't for China and Japan, the US would be bankrupt and you would not be enjoying your current standard of living
Oh, that, we owe $200,000 a piece in Federal and Public debt standard of living, and we haven't even started paying for aging baby boomers yet? My, that sounds like a hell of a plan you got there.
because the Government gouged you so hard
The problem is, because of currency manipulations, that foreign governments are essentially subsidizing their car companies so that they can export to the USA. Guys in Japan are living literally in shoebox sized cubbyholes with -nothing-, so they can send us made in Japan stuff. Guys in China and South Korea have missed the whole Ford experiment and benefit of unionization, and will never be to afford what they make, and meanwhile, sitting in the banks of China, Japan, and South Korea is hoards of US dollars, accumulated as fast as we can print them, that literally does everyone about as much good as tons of gold sitting in British banks did before Adam Smith said "hey,mercantilism is really stupid."
So basically, the only thing that we can do, because Asia can't let go of its mercantilism, is to cut them off, and force them to create a legitimate economy.
You're right, we may as well all just let our kids play in traffic. Oh wait, no, you're just wrong.
Your argument is that they should never even be allowed to cross the street.
Sort of like lead white. Van Gogh may have absorbed or ingested enough to cause or exacerbate his mental disorders.
I guess Van Gogh shouldn't have been eating paint, but I'm getting a bit of so much scaremongering over small exposures to things. For pete's sake, if the wingers have their way, pretty much every metal will be banned because it is -scary-. What is not scary? Water can kill you in tablespoon amounts and even salt will kill you. I got news. We are all going to die.
This stuff is absolutely something that needs regulation to control it
There are regulations, but nobody gives a shit. Nobody follows the ones we already have!
Why don't you go up to Washington DC and add another thousands pages and wave your hand like it matters. Nobody trusts the government. Nobody believes in the justice system. Nobody believes in God and nobody believes in your dumbass socialism either.
Everything you are telling me is a lie, and honestly, its just time to divvy up the nukes among the states and let each one be on its way. The federal government is an incompetent, bankrupt tyrant, and many of us have no use for your so called progressive dictatorship.
If I had a court order to allow the search, I'd still only do it under duress
The courts are allowed to do whatever they want, that is the point.
I swear, they put this big menu bar on the left, on the Google site... what's up with THAT crap! THEY CHANGED IT!
allergies to nuts are treatable. if someone is deathly allergic to nuts, then they have something that they have neglected getting fixed.
Thus, using Microsoft software is a felony. QED
No, I think what would happen is that they can just look at the OS, without looking at the data running in the OS. Thus, they can get a license count. But, if you won't give them one, then, you could get sued, and be forced to give one, or rather, have some third party or even the local sherriff do the count with the understanding that the HIPAA data is implicitly protected because the exposure is to officers and appointees of the court.
Which leads to a really interesting point...
You can have data be secret to Congress. You can have it be secret to the President. But you can never have data be secret to a court. Who really has all the power?
The submission made you think that Microsoft was being evil, but the article, if you actually read it, really did do the incredible thing of making Ballmer seem like a reasonable, almost likable guy. To wit, we have the same argument about the tax code in the USA. We should just have a flat tax, many people cry out, which makes sense, because, you kind of want everyone working the same number of days per year to satisfy the government. That's fair. But, the devil gets in the details. Rentals don't mind getting rid of the exemption on mortgage interest but want a greater personal deduction. Owners want bigger interest deductions. Married people want their break to be the same as unmarried people and then want additional breaks for kids. Businesses want tax breaks on anything they can get. We actually came fairly close to having a nearly flat tax in the 1980s, but then, even Republicans were arguing to get rid of it. There is never going to be a flat tax, or flat licensing, or anything else. It's just going to get even more complicated. Ironically, even the GPL, which governs something that you don't have to pay for it all, gets longer every year, trying to nail down every possible angle.
So, to summarize, Ballmer actually hit the hammer on the head in the article, people ask for simplification, but really, they want things to be complicated.
At some point, society has to leave some people behind so that it can actually do something. You can't have everyone's lives getting dragged down by every little crippled thing about everyone.
The question would be whether or not the extra fuel, and fuel handling hardware, would weigh as much as six passengers and a spare pilot, plus their life support. You would also have to consider reentry differences.
The easiest way to tell would be to just look at the sizes of comparable rockets to get people into space. Rocket Engines have not gotten that much more efficient over the decades. So, I guess for six people in space, what's anticipated for the Aries stack is about the right size. It's going to be big.
Now, for orbit in style, just look at the size of the Space Shuttle. It puts a boatload of people into orbit in style, because they have a huge flight deck and plus cargo bay. Really, the space shuttle gets derided as a space transportation system, as it should, but its the roomiest thing going on in space transportation - the new Constellation Aries Stack is going to be much smaller inside.
AS you can see, a rocket is a pretty big thing, and just to have something that big is going to be pricey. We're not getting to orbit until something is done about the dreadful ISP of rocket engines, and we're not getting that until we get nuclear power.
Hollywood and the recording business is in awful spot for politics. Almost by definition, they are leftists, first because the left more accepted the riotous lives of entertainers, and then, because of political utility of mass media. But, the left is increasingly embracing an open content world, consistent with its more socialist visions - like, if you can redistribute land, why put fences around IP. It makes no sense for any serious socialist to support copyrights and that's a huge problem for Hollywood.
But, while Republicans have vainly tried to court Hollywood for years with things like IP, they've got nothing but rebuffed, and at least this Republican has utterly lost all patience with Hollywood, such that, even if I have a core value of being able to "control what you create", at the same time, the conservative / natural law side of me also says that copyrights really are a government intervention, are entirely artificial, the natural thing to do is just make copies, and even more so, the better, that it bankrupts an industry that prides itself on ripping everything I believe in.
So yeah, Hollywood can make plenty of movies ripping us Republican rednecks, but, if the whole world can just copy them... hey, why not.
I thought those powered blinky glasses were the ones that gave everyone headaches...
I'm pretty happy with my iMac too, doesn't mean I wouldn't like a tablet for surfing the web on the couch.
Why not just have your iMac on the couch?
The article is like, "Everyone is waiting for this thing"... I'm not. All in all, I'm pretty happy with my desktop.
I only worry about the science. That's what I consider "the point." But if you're not interested in the scientific evidence then we have nothing to talk about. Good day.
Dude, you sound all Aspergers... "I want to talk about the evidence", and like, it doesn't even matter. You've missed the point that the politicians get the science, and they have either looked at the map and decided - "who cares" ("GOP"), or, "let's tax it", ("Democrats").
Basically, New York City is going for a swim, its just, how much federal bucks will be available to build them boats.
And honestly, that DOES jive with the science, surprise, because surely you know that if we went to ZERO emissions today, it would take about 400 years for the earth to balance back out, assuming that the climate did not change over that time for other reasons.
I seem to recall reading that WhiteKnightTwo, the launch ship series for SpaceShipTwo, will also be used for launching other Earth to space vessels. I wouldn't be surprised if a version of SpaceShipTwo, with a reduced cargo load and a larger fuel supply, managed to reach LEO. (The first one would likely be a single pilot version.)
I think the physics with that are decidedly against spaceship2 stretch, because mv^2 for orbit is so much larger than mv^2 for suborbit.
On the bright side, commercial space flight is nearing the point of practicality.
The manned commercial ships are strictly suborbital affairs, and achieve a fraction of the velocity needed for orbital flight.
If you'd actually read the link, you'll see that I strongly support nuclear power
The point is that the leaders of the world who are actively promoting their climate change agenda are doing so to cash in on their own pet projects. If climate change scared -them-, then they would be a cry in Europe, Japan and the USA to do something about massive nuclear plant construction and a transition to electric cars and now. There's just not. The political leadership that embraces this stuff sees it as a chance to cash in, and the other political classes see THAT as B.S.
you'll see why as a scientist I have to say that abrupt climate change is very well-supported
I think the point is, man or no man, mankind or not, abrupt climate change can and will happen. Everyone knows this. There's snowball earth, ice ages, changes of river course, the whole planet is in constant change, and climate's one of those things that can and will just snap. Just the way it is. When it happens, people will move from the bad spots to the good spots, just like they always have.
Besides : The whole idea about fixing CO2 so it will somehow put the climate "Back" is dumb altogether. There's no putting the climate back to anything.
WE might go extinct, at any time.
Oh well.
There is a big difference between Truth(whats happening) and what you want. I have this talk with my daughter all the time. Sometimes it isn't how you want it. That's life.
the truth is, if you live in wyomig, continued use of fossil fuels will make your state warmer, eliminate coastal rivals, and improve your quality of life.
seriously, what the hell do 4 billion people on coastlines mean to the 2 billion that don't. It's zero point zero. And, who cares if NYC has to move inland or uphill 20 feet. The existing city sucks anyway, let it collapse, and build something new. It's all 200 year old leaky pipes and crackheads.
showing the seriousness of the threat posed by CO2.
If it was such a threat, Democrats would not have killed nuclear power plant construction in their first legislative moves of early 2006. In fact, if AGW was such a threat, the stimulus package would have been to build 200 nuclear power plants at 4 billion apiece, which, is about what the Chinese are paying for them. But, it wasn't. It was for ROADS, as in, LETS MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO DRIVE.
Yeah, AGW is a crock of shit. If it was real, the party plotting to fix it, would have done it already.
I mean, Bush thought Iraq was a threat, and he took care of it. Obama thinks AGW is the greatest threat, and what does he do, spend 800 billion dollars on making it easier for people to drive.
What a crock of shit.
For example, a storm surge in New York up to a level that would now be considered "once in 100 years" would happen every ~5 years.
I don't care about New York. They are a bunch of liberal assholes that want to take my guns away and raise my taxes. Plus, the Yankees always beat my team. So fuck them. I'm lighting a bonfire.
Go CO2!!!
1. To label skeptics Deniers tells us all about your agenda. This is not about Jews and the Holocaust.
Holocaust? Didn't you know, World War II was faked. In fact, there's actually no such place as Germany!
Look, the problem is thus. Is man changing the climate? Yes. Can man control the climate? No. It's that simple. All the trillions of dollars and vast reduction in lifestyle that AGW advocates propose to throw at something that would actually benefit a lot of countries, you can't actually prove that it will work, at what rate, and when.
The predictions are a mess.
Global warming in the 1990s predicted that 2000 would be even hotter still, and it wasn't. In fact, its colder out now than it has been in years. Snow three times in a month in Delaware? Not since I've lived here. The next prediction was that, it would be 6C warmer in 100 years, but, no one could give a straight answer as to the temperature increase in the next 10 years. IT's all non-linear, which really, is the modern buzzword for religion.
Seriously, if AGW was such an emergency, we'd be building nuclear power plants. And we're not. Instead we get all this wishy washy lets build windmills and suck each's other dicks liberal crap that won't solve anything but will jack up the prices of energy, kill our standard of living, and pretty much make everybody dirt poor.