I don't know either way, but it is possible that the "blogger" that was killed just some unlucky sap picked out to be an example. Bloggers giving your cartel bad publicity? Why go to the trouble of tracking an individual down when you can just kill someone and put a note on him? It's not necessary that he be the/an actual blogger; as long as people think he was killed for being one. Power perceived is power achieved.
I've been wondering about this for a while: If Ubuntu and Mint are based on Debian, how can they be better? It seems like that would violate some kind of conservation law. I have always used Ubuntu but I'm as pissed off about it as everyone else. I just want my 9.04 back. Should I try Debian first or will I hate that as well and do I need to jump to an RPM distro?
I don't think that would work. But you could disconnect the battery and measure the current drain. If the device is being powered by the car you might be able to detect its current draw. But you would have to know the normal current draw for your car, which is very small, but most cars will draw a little bit of current to keep the clocks set and so on.
Minus your assertion that Paul single-handedly invented Christianity, your analysis of Christianity with respect to Judaism is pretty much correct. (Protestant) Christianity is aware of and embraces the idea that old testament Jewish law is unnecessary for salvation now that Jesus accomplished his Final Work, and that Jewish law was a dispensation that has been done away with. There are arguments about all of this of course, but you present what is basic Christian theology as if it was something noteworthy.
As for your assertion that Paul singlehandedly invented it, I don't really see what you did there because it doesn't seem either likely or important. You say there is evidence to support that Paul invented the idea of salvation through Jesus, but you don't present that evidence, and I'm sorry, but that was a very old idea, old as in thousands of years of Jewish prophecy old. I don't see how you can say that quote "paul invented the idea".
I also fail to see how, if true, this would explain Christian Creationists. The book of Genesis is also thousands of years old. Your whole post is basically not even wrong.
There are two orders of magnitude more people in temperate regions precisely because they are temperate regions. If the temperate zone moves out and then so will the people. Climate change alarmists are just conservatives who are afraid of change.
Correction: warming is bad for SOME humans. Some humans, particularly every human living somewhere where it's cold, where they burn through megajoules of energy warming their houses and plowing snow and spreading salt on their roads, would do better to have longer growing seasons and more warm, tourist-friendly climate. Why are the interests of equatorial people more important than the interests of polar people? Why do you hate the Eskimos?
The fact that people are being arrested, jailed, and stolen from, by their government, this very day, on no other basis than a sensationalized excuse of a power grab, is a continuing injustice. You can stand on that side of the line and apologize for the government, but that makes you part of the problem. You apologize for the thousands of ruined lives, millions of wasted dollars, and literally uncountable, unquantifiable cost to our liberty caused by the War on Certain People using Certain Substances, and that makes you no better than the scum directly perpetuating these crimes against free people.
I work at an extremely profitable semiconductor fab making the latest chips. Many of our systems run DOS. Dozens of them. We make billions (not exaggerated) of dollars with DOS variants and IBM mainframe/3270 terminal based systems, that frankly, work very well. I have a stack of floppys on my desk that actually get used. Support for this old stuff is expensive but its barely a blip compared to the rest of our costs.
Redistributing the wealth does not necessarily require the government. Other time-honored (and less forceful) techniques of redistributing the wealth of the ultra rich include selling them absurdly expensive shit they don't need, and out-competing them in their market.
For some reason, when people see a rich person buy a 2 million dollar Bugattti, they think "what a shame that they "wasted" all that money" when instead they should think "way to go that N dozen employees of Bugatti, all their suppliers throughout their supply chain found a way to separate this rich asshole from 2 million dollars by convincing him to (gasp) voluntarily give them money for something that he valued".
Everytime someone buys a private jet, yaht, $50k watch, etc, lots and lots of people get a paycheck, and wealth is distributed from rich to poor, all without the government standing in the middle leeching its own nonproductive "cut".
Exactly. The customer is king in a free market. The only point you have made is that customers value physical Blu-Ray or DVDs for movies, even though they can download the movie for free. And to extent that they do value that physical media, you can sell it to them. If you find some way to provide something that customers value, they will pay for it. If you don't, and you don't get the government to help you intimidate them into it, they won't buy.
Thinking more fundamentally, without government force, you can only sell people things that they want, and don't already have, and can't get from somewhere else cheaper. In other words, you have to offer something of value to convince people to give you money.
Government force is about the only way you can make money off something which is copied for \approx free, transported \approx free, durable, and storable. We all know that data is infinitely copyable and has a real cost of approximately zero. So, in the absence of government force, attempting to build a business around repeatedly selling something that can be copied infinitely is pretty stupid. This kind of thing used to be called a "bad business model" but the anti-piracy brainwashed literally see it as if the 'media companies' (which don't actually sell media anymore, but data) have some right to collect money from it. Record companies used to provide the real value of pressing rare physical records. Now that data is no longer tied to expensive physical media, there are two things the 'media companies' can do: find some way to once again provide people with some value which they will pay for, or get the government to help force them to pay for something which they would otherwise not.
It's pretty obvious actually. Have you considered that maybe not everyone always agrees with the FDA in its assesment of what is "safe and effective"? Many people feel its more "Safe enough, effective enough, and makes the pharmaceutical companies sufficient money". Your unwavering faith in the nobility and competence of federal regulatory agencies is not shared by everyone.
As a 20+ year veteran of the trucking industry, I can tell you firsthand that weigh stations serve as shakedown points for writing of citations. They are for revenue generation. To believe otherwise is naivete or ignorance.
It does provide the United States with a candidate (however unelectable, and I do plan to vote for him, and I have voted for him), who has an actual plan. His plan cuts spending, leaves most entitlements in place, and increases government revenue. Those are the only ways to dig us out of our hole. In a world where "electable" politicians squabble endlessly over cutting miniscule spending, at least somebody has a reasonable (IMO--drastic is reasonable in desperate times) plan.
People also go to Mexico to get treatments that are unavailable in the US (due to not being approved), but apparently desired by those same people who feel its worth the risk to them. It's not like hyperregulation has no downsides.
He does plan to cut the department of Defense by 15% and cut "all war funding". I assume that means a lot of these defense dollars would be redirected into domestic defense programs and maybe even (gasp) research, instead of being pissed away overseas. RTFPDF http://c3244172.r72.cf0.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/RestoreAmericaPlan.pdf
The only reasons LEAs put up with cash now, is that it is already adopted and has a legacy acceptance. If somebody tried to invent cash now, it would never happen, due to the anonymity and universality which are the qualities that make cash attractive.
Just remember that "backed by the full faith and credit of the US government" translates to "We promise to give you all your money, even if we have to take everything you own and devalue the currency itself in order to do it".
Since Bitcoin is a relatively obscure, young, volatile digital currency and the USD is an extremely common, fairly old, and (relatively) stable currency used throughout the world, and adopted by a significant portion of it, then its expected that Bitcoin will be more volatile that USD. The comparison offered was intended to illustrate that the two scenarios are fundamentally similar, if different in scale.
How exactly would the US charge for GPS? Don't the satellites just broadcast time-clock signals? I thought the ground devices did all the positional calculation. Unless the US has the ability to turn off GPS satellites when they orbit over a particular world region, I don't see how they could charge anyway?
Because in the States, every natural born citizen over 35 is a candidate. If campaigning was publicly funded, everyone would use their 'free money' without a doubt. Where are you going to get the money to fund them all? The only way it could work is if the funding level was very low, like zero. Oh wait...
Regular photovoltaics generate an electrical potential because charges liberated within the space-charge region of the P-N junction are caused to drift in opposite directions due to the built-in electric field that arises from the junction itself. I'm not seeing an equivalent mechanism here; if you can generate electrons by shining light on graphene, so what? You can generate electrons by shining light on a lot of things; in metals it's called the "photoelectric effect" and its been known for like a hundred years. Where's the P-N junction?
It's already a long and glorious tradition. Law enforcement routinely maintain policies that fuck over anyone outside the bell curve in any way. How many times have people been shot for "ignoring police commands"? Well if police can shoot you for ignoring them, what about deaf people? I guess they are just fucked.
Consider these recent google hits: John T. Williams (shot to death for failing to respond to police commands quickly enough, deaf in one ear) Robert Dziekański (tasered to death for being Polish, apparently) Michelle Schreiner (tasered during a low-blood sugar attack) John Harmon (repeatedly tasered and beaten during a blood sugar attack).
I'm sure all those people were "responding abnormally" which is, or soon will be, effectively illegal in itself.
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I don't know either way, but it is possible that the "blogger" that was killed just some unlucky sap picked out to be an example. Bloggers giving your cartel bad publicity? Why go to the trouble of tracking an individual down when you can just kill someone and put a note on him? It's not necessary that he be the/an actual blogger; as long as people think he was killed for being one. Power perceived is power achieved.
I've been wondering about this for a while: If Ubuntu and Mint are based on Debian, how can they be better? It seems like that would violate some kind of conservation law. I have always used Ubuntu but I'm as pissed off about it as everyone else. I just want my 9.04 back. Should I try Debian first or will I hate that as well and do I need to jump to an RPM distro?
I don't think that would work. But you could disconnect the battery and measure the current drain. If the device is being powered by the car you might be able to detect its current draw. But you would have to know the normal current draw for your car, which is very small, but most cars will draw a little bit of current to keep the clocks set and so on.
Minus your assertion that Paul single-handedly invented Christianity, your analysis of Christianity with respect to Judaism is pretty much correct. (Protestant) Christianity is aware of and embraces the idea that old testament Jewish law is unnecessary for salvation now that Jesus accomplished his Final Work, and that Jewish law was a dispensation that has been done away with. There are arguments about all of this of course, but you present what is basic Christian theology as if it was something noteworthy.
As for your assertion that Paul singlehandedly invented it, I don't really see what you did there because it doesn't seem either likely or important. You say there is evidence to support that Paul invented the idea of salvation through Jesus, but you don't present that evidence, and I'm sorry, but that was a very old idea, old as in thousands of years of Jewish prophecy old. I don't see how you can say that quote "paul invented the idea".
I also fail to see how, if true, this would explain Christian Creationists. The book of Genesis is also thousands of years old. Your whole post is basically not even wrong.
Ubuntu switching to Unity is like if the whole world already used Dvorak, and Ubuntu switched to Qwerty.
By the way, I'm typing this with Dvorak and I'm definitely too cool to use that POS unity.
There are two orders of magnitude more people in temperate regions precisely because they are temperate regions. If the temperate zone moves out and then so will the people. Climate change alarmists are just conservatives who are afraid of change.
Correction: warming is bad for SOME humans. Some humans, particularly every human living somewhere where it's cold, where they burn through megajoules of energy warming their houses and plowing snow and spreading salt on their roads, would do better to have longer growing seasons and more warm, tourist-friendly climate. Why are the interests of equatorial people more important than the interests of polar people? Why do you hate the Eskimos?
You are wrong.
The fact that people are being arrested, jailed, and stolen from, by their government, this very day, on no other basis than a sensationalized excuse of a power grab, is a continuing injustice. You can stand on that side of the line and apologize for the government, but that makes you part of the problem. You apologize for the thousands of ruined lives, millions of wasted dollars, and literally uncountable, unquantifiable cost to our liberty caused by the War on Certain People using Certain Substances, and that makes you no better than the scum directly perpetuating these crimes against free people.
I work at an extremely profitable semiconductor fab making the latest chips. Many of our systems run DOS. Dozens of them. We make billions (not exaggerated) of dollars with DOS variants and IBM mainframe/3270 terminal based systems, that frankly, work very well. I have a stack of floppys on my desk that actually get used. Support for this old stuff is expensive but its barely a blip compared to the rest of our costs.
Redistributing the wealth does not necessarily require the government. Other time-honored (and less forceful) techniques of redistributing the wealth of the ultra rich include selling them absurdly expensive shit they don't need, and out-competing them in their market.
For some reason, when people see a rich person buy a 2 million dollar Bugattti, they think "what a shame that they "wasted" all that money" when instead they should think "way to go that N dozen employees of Bugatti, all their suppliers throughout their supply chain found a way to separate this rich asshole from 2 million dollars by convincing him to (gasp) voluntarily give them money for something that he valued".
Everytime someone buys a private jet, yaht, $50k watch, etc, lots and lots of people get a paycheck, and wealth is distributed from rich to poor, all without the government standing in the middle leeching its own nonproductive "cut".
Exactly. The customer is king in a free market. The only point you have made is that customers value physical Blu-Ray or DVDs for movies, even though they can download the movie for free. And to extent that they do value that physical media, you can sell it to them. If you find some way to provide something that customers value, they will pay for it. If you don't, and you don't get the government to help you intimidate them into it, they won't buy.
Thinking more fundamentally, without government force, you can only sell people things that they want, and don't already have, and can't get from somewhere else cheaper. In other words, you have to offer something of value to convince people to give you money.
Government force is about the only way you can make money off something which is copied for \approx free, transported \approx free, durable, and storable. We all know that data is infinitely copyable and has a real cost of approximately zero. So, in the absence of government force, attempting to build a business around repeatedly selling something that can be copied infinitely is pretty stupid. This kind of thing used to be called a "bad business model" but the anti-piracy brainwashed literally see it as if the 'media companies' (which don't actually sell media anymore, but data) have some right to collect money from it. Record companies used to provide the real value of pressing rare physical records. Now that data is no longer tied to expensive physical media, there are two things the 'media companies' can do: find some way to once again provide people with some value which they will pay for, or get the government to help force them to pay for something which they would otherwise not.
It's pretty obvious actually. Have you considered that maybe not everyone always agrees with the FDA in its assesment of what is "safe and effective"? Many people feel its more "Safe enough, effective enough, and makes the pharmaceutical companies sufficient money". Your unwavering faith in the nobility and competence of federal regulatory agencies is not shared by everyone.
As a 20+ year veteran of the trucking industry, I can tell you firsthand that weigh stations serve as shakedown points for writing of citations. They are for revenue generation. To believe otherwise is naivete or ignorance.
He plans to cut DOD by 15% and end "all war funding" and redirect the balance, probably to domestic defense projects and research.
RTFPDF
http://c3244172.r72.cf0.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/RestoreAmericaPlan.pdf
It does provide the United States with a candidate (however unelectable, and I do plan to vote for him, and I have voted for him), who has an actual plan. His plan cuts spending, leaves most entitlements in place, and increases government revenue. Those are the only ways to dig us out of our hole. In a world where "electable" politicians squabble endlessly over cutting miniscule spending, at least somebody has a reasonable (IMO--drastic is reasonable in desperate times) plan.
People also go to Mexico to get treatments that are unavailable in the US (due to not being approved), but apparently desired by those same people who feel its worth the risk to them. It's not like hyperregulation has no downsides.
TANSTAAFL.
He does plan to cut the department of Defense by 15% and cut "all war funding". I assume that means a lot of these defense dollars would be redirected into domestic defense programs and maybe even (gasp) research, instead of being pissed away overseas.
RTFPDF
http://c3244172.r72.cf0.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/RestoreAmericaPlan.pdf
The only reasons LEAs put up with cash now, is that it is already adopted and has a legacy acceptance. If somebody tried to invent cash now, it would never happen, due to the anonymity and universality which are the qualities that make cash attractive.
Just remember that "backed by the full faith and credit of the US government" translates to "We promise to give you all your money, even if we have to take everything you own and devalue the currency itself in order to do it".
Since Bitcoin is a relatively obscure, young, volatile digital currency and the USD is an extremely common, fairly old, and (relatively) stable currency used throughout the world, and adopted by a significant portion of it, then its expected that Bitcoin will be more volatile that USD. The comparison offered was intended to illustrate that the two scenarios are fundamentally similar, if different in scale.
How exactly would the US charge for GPS? Don't the satellites just broadcast time-clock signals? I thought the ground devices did all the positional calculation. Unless the US has the ability to turn off GPS satellites when they orbit over a particular world region, I don't see how they could charge anyway?
Because in the States, every natural born citizen over 35 is a candidate. If campaigning was publicly funded, everyone would use their 'free money' without a doubt. Where are you going to get the money to fund them all? The only way it could work is if the funding level was very low, like zero. Oh wait...
Regular photovoltaics generate an electrical potential because charges liberated within the space-charge region of the P-N junction are caused to drift in opposite directions due to the built-in electric field that arises from the junction itself. I'm not seeing an equivalent mechanism here; if you can generate electrons by shining light on graphene, so what? You can generate electrons by shining light on a lot of things; in metals it's called the "photoelectric effect" and its been known for like a hundred years. Where's the P-N junction?
It's already a long and glorious tradition. Law enforcement routinely maintain policies that fuck over anyone outside the bell curve in any way. How many times have people been shot for "ignoring police commands"? Well if police can shoot you for ignoring them, what about deaf people? I guess they are just fucked.
Consider these recent google hits:
John T. Williams (shot to death for failing to respond to police commands quickly enough, deaf in one ear)
Robert Dziekański (tasered to death for being Polish, apparently)
Michelle Schreiner (tasered during a low-blood sugar attack)
John Harmon (repeatedly tasered and beaten during a blood sugar attack).
I'm sure all those people were "responding abnormally" which is, or soon will be, effectively illegal in itself.