yeah, because solar panels containing half of the periodic table are so clean and elements used to make them are in an infinite supply, and wind is the most reliable source of energy, not to mention high aesthetic values of landscape littered over with turbines. oh wait, that's not the case.
contradiction exists only in your mind that perceives world in black and white, democrat and republican colors.
Libertarians are classical liberals - imagine that. They are pro-freedom, both economic and social. Economic freedom is often associated with conservatives but social one is labeled liberal/progressive. If anything, libertarians are consistent which can't be said about everybody else.
not buying it. In democracy majority can vote that minority has no right to self-determination and the result is the same. Turkey is the most modern muslim country, democracy and whatnot and yet being a Kurd is no walk in the park there. As a counterexample: througought the history there were cases of enlightened countries that practised freedom of religion at levels unheard in other parts of the world - various muslim states in middle ages, India, 16th century Poland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion I picked religion but you can be sure that very often it walked hand in hand with economic and political freedom - what more would you want?
it's not in the game industry interest to crack down on teens piracy too hard either. They are dirt poor now so you can't expect getting any money from them, but one day they will get a work and will have a disposable income. It's better not to take the risk of teens finding other hobbies in life and leaving gaming population permanently. Fueling addiction is important because once teens find out they can do perfectly well without games there will be no money to be made ever again.
he was the main advocate of Fannie and Freddie in Congress (number one recipient in Congress of campaign funds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) and to the end he claimed that everything is peachy and downplayed the problems. It's really hard to find someone more corrupt. You may know or not know but FM&FM was one of biggest enablers of the bubble.
Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available. These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The federal pay premium cut across all job categories — white-collar, blue-collar, management, professional, technical and low-skill. In all, 180 jobs paid better average salaries in the federal government; 36 paid better in the private sector.
State government employees had an average salary of $47,231 in 2008, about 5% less than comparable jobs in the private sector. City and county workers earned an average of $43,589, about 2% more than private workers in similar jobs. State and local workers have higher total compensation than private workers when the value of benefits is included.
Tunisia Egypt Iran Libya Bahrain are small blips on a radar of history. It will sort out 1 way or another and life will go on. Some people died? Business as usual on planet Earth. Someone will lose power and someone else will raise to power? Business as usual on planet Earth. Sony case may have bigger long lasting effect than unrest in some peasant countries nobody cares about. It shows the slow erosion of consumer rights which translates to big international corporations = pimps, Joe Nobody = bitch. In 10 years nobody will remember Egypt, but sure many will remember 'in ancient times i used to have certain rights as a customer, you know - first sale doctrine, fair use, right to resell and shit'. That affects lives of *everybody* now and in every generation to come. Governments are changed, citizens born and die, yet corporations are eternal - think twice if it's worth to ignore their power grab.
Sorry but that's bullshit. To reverse that notion - inflation is bad because it's theft of hard earned purchasing power perpetrated by the issuer of currency. Deflation caused by the increasing productivity is healthy and benefits every holder of money and for hundreds of years it worked just fine. Inflation loved by mainstream economists (who believe synthetic GDP is everything that matters, reason be doomed) is a hidden tax which doesn't require voting, allows politicians be spending happy, robs people on fixed income (lower classes) of purchasing power the most, punishes responsible savers, rewards reckless borrowers and is one of key elements that allowed banking cartels to rise to 'too big to fail' size over the course of last century. Banking system is the single biggest point of failure in economy with no available emergency backup and at this point in time you are unable to route economic activity around them to reduce their influence. You HAVE TO keep money in bank to break even (and even that's bullshit, CPI is lies, damn lies and statistics) Thanks, inflation.
At the same time, they're providing additional liquidity to the market, and acting as a damping mechanism on that price volatility.
that liquidity is fake and artificial. HFT algorithms trade the handful of shares back and forth to set trends, confuse competing algorithms and discover optimal prices triggering trades. Flash crash showed how great they are at providing liquidity and damping the price volatility. Introducing ticks would mean that there is less profit in cutting into a trade that would happen anyway. There would be no time to probe buyers and sellers with bogus transactions to discover their prices and use that knowledge against them to pocket the difference. Mere fractions of pennies per share certainly haven't prevented GS from getting over $100M of revenue on record DAYS.
sql query is plain text template and parameter is pasted verbatim in proper place and then query is called. let's say you got condition where a='$param' what happens when you enter "whatever'; some other stuff" as $param? legit query ends in the middle of $param value (at '; part) and the rest is treated as a separate command to execute and you can put *anything* there. That's why it's important to strip/escape any parse-related character that has no business being there.
I'd hire him with no problem and most probably for peanuts. He got so burned that the paranoia will be eating him alive from now on. Yes, you can learn all you want about good practices and whatnot but sometimes you need to get really hurt to actually LEARN.
but why do you think that forcing everybody into the system is the solution? give people the ability to sign a waiver that they opt-out and will never attempt to draw a penny from the socialized system - everybody is happy, 'socialists' and 'individualists' alike. Healthcare is not essential to functioning society (it is perfectly viable without), law and order is.
I can assure you Mary is not worshiped as a Goddess
in Poland she is, I kid you not. Icon of Mary with baby Jesus is the most sacred artifact in Poland and John Paul II was a big fan of her, he was praying primarily to her, just like his devoted followers did/do.
falling tree paradox doesn't describe the situation accurately because it's about lack of observer to notice the event not about the max speed the information spreads with.
It's not unlike the case of universe. It expands and is self contained and speaking about something beyond its boundaries makes absolutely no sense. From our point of view the universe is all there is and there is an absolute nothing beyond. Science savvy people can understand that and in general accept such a state of affairs, yet somehow many have a trouble to grasp the idea of light cone that describes the expansion of events which can't exist beyond their cone - so they are similarly self-contained. There is no before/after to talk about when you are not inside the light cone of the event, it's that simple.
In the most abstract sense expanding universe is the cone of the big bang and the superset/sum of all possible light cones - but don't cite me on that, that's my ignorant guess.
and what about people who can afford the food yet they game the system so they can get foodstamps at the taxpayer's expense? Don't they 'stiff us all'? This is the other side of the same coin. Always, when there is some form of handout, there are leeches eager to suck the host dry. Greater tax base allows politicians to be more generous with taxpayer's money so the incentive to become a parasite is greater.
you miss one important detail - hijacking is no more. Aftermath of 9/11: - cockpits are locked and you are unlikely to terrorize the pilots - governments won't negotiate, air force will shoot the plane down right away
Passengers in such situation know that they are dead either way and will try their best to stop the baddies in their tracks because 1% chance of survival is better than 0% chance.
Planes are only good for their PR impact: you know - fiery ball of fire, inevitability of death, corpses shredded to pieces. Blowing up some train or subway station during the rush hours is 100x easier and would cause plenty of casualties (as shown in Madrid). As a bonus the baddies don't have to suicide and can leave the scene before the attack happens. Fixation with planes is clouding your judgement.
moving the capital around has everything with free markets, but exclusive deals, special treatments and subsidies for the chosen do not. Bailouts are such cases. Some failing bank or a car manufacturer gets bailed out, but your favorite bakery at the corner does not. Free market is a fair judge, treats all the same and the winners and losers are decided only by their merits, not by who they know.
the fed is printing money, where do you think they will get that trillion dollars to buy treasury bonds in next few months? There are massive deflationary forces that shrink the money pool, so they have to pump shitloads of money into the system to merely counterbalance that.
in democracy with deficits allowed you are doomed to wreck your economy, because in order to win the elections you got to promise a shitload of 'freebies' (which are not free at all), otherwise someone else who promises a lot will win. Sanity and economic soundness are not valued by the average voter so it's the race to the bottom.
as Tocqueville said
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
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yeah, because solar panels containing half of the periodic table are so clean and elements used to make them are in an infinite supply, and wind is the most reliable source of energy, not to mention high aesthetic values of landscape littered over with turbines.
oh wait, that's not the case.
contradiction exists only in your mind that perceives world in black and white, democrat and republican colors.
Libertarians are classical liberals - imagine that. They are pro-freedom, both economic and social. Economic freedom is often associated with conservatives but social one is labeled liberal/progressive. If anything, libertarians are consistent which can't be said about everybody else.
not buying it. In democracy majority can vote that minority has no right to self-determination and the result is the same. Turkey is the most modern muslim country, democracy and whatnot and yet being a Kurd is no walk in the park there. As a counterexample: througought the history there were cases of enlightened countries that practised freedom of religion at levels unheard in other parts of the world - various muslim states in middle ages, India, 16th century Poland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion
I picked religion but you can be sure that very often it walked hand in hand with economic and political freedom - what more would you want?
i think it is the same
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/5/Daniel-Floyd-Video-Games-and-Sex-511450
it's not in the game industry interest to crack down on teens piracy too hard either. They are dirt poor now so you can't expect getting any money from them, but one day they will get a work and will have a disposable income. It's better not to take the risk of teens finding other hobbies in life and leaving gaming population permanently. Fueling addiction is important because once teens find out they can do perfectly well without games there will be no money to be made ever again.
no, gconf-editor is as standard as it gets in gnome
he was the main advocate of Fannie and Freddie in Congress (number one recipient in Congress of campaign funds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) and to the end he claimed that everything is peachy and downplayed the problems. It's really hard to find someone more corrupt.
You may know or not know but FM&FM was one of biggest enablers of the bubble.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm
Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available.
These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The federal pay premium cut across all job categories — white-collar, blue-collar, management, professional, technical and low-skill. In all, 180 jobs paid better average salaries in the federal government; 36 paid better in the private sector.
State government employees had an average salary of $47,231 in 2008, about 5% less than comparable jobs in the private sector. City and county workers earned an average of $43,589, about 2% more than private workers in similar jobs. State and local workers have higher total compensation than private workers when the value of benefits is included.
Tunisia Egypt Iran Libya Bahrain are small blips on a radar of history. It will sort out 1 way or another and life will go on. Some people died? Business as usual on planet Earth. Someone will lose power and someone else will raise to power? Business as usual on planet Earth.
Sony case may have bigger long lasting effect than unrest in some peasant countries nobody cares about. It shows the slow erosion of consumer rights which translates to big international corporations = pimps, Joe Nobody = bitch. In 10 years nobody will remember Egypt, but sure many will remember 'in ancient times i used to have certain rights as a customer, you know - first sale doctrine, fair use, right to resell and shit'. That affects lives of *everybody* now and in every generation to come. Governments are changed, citizens born and die, yet corporations are eternal - think twice if it's worth to ignore their power grab.
Sorry but that's bullshit. To reverse that notion - inflation is bad because it's theft of hard earned purchasing power perpetrated by the issuer of currency.
Deflation caused by the increasing productivity is healthy and benefits every holder of money and for hundreds of years it worked just fine. Inflation loved by mainstream economists (who believe synthetic GDP is everything that matters, reason be doomed) is a hidden tax which doesn't require voting, allows politicians be spending happy, robs people on fixed income (lower classes) of purchasing power the most, punishes responsible savers, rewards reckless borrowers and is one of key elements that allowed banking cartels to rise to 'too big to fail' size over the course of last century. Banking system is the single biggest point of failure in economy with no available emergency backup and at this point in time you are unable to route economic activity around them to reduce their influence. You HAVE TO keep money in bank to break even (and even that's bullshit, CPI is lies, damn lies and statistics) Thanks, inflation.
At the same time, they're providing additional liquidity to the market, and acting as a damping mechanism on that price volatility.
that liquidity is fake and artificial. HFT algorithms trade the handful of shares back and forth to set trends, confuse competing algorithms and discover optimal prices triggering trades. Flash crash showed how great they are at providing liquidity and damping the price volatility.
Introducing ticks would mean that there is less profit in cutting into a trade that would happen anyway. There would be no time to probe buyers and sellers with bogus transactions to discover their prices and use that knowledge against them to pocket the difference. Mere fractions of pennies per share certainly haven't prevented GS from getting over $100M of revenue on record DAYS.
sql query is plain text template and parameter is pasted verbatim in proper place and then query is called.
let's say you got condition
where a='$param'
what happens when you enter "whatever'; some other stuff" as $param? legit query ends in the middle of $param value (at '; part) and the rest is treated as a separate command to execute and you can put *anything* there. That's why it's important to strip/escape any parse-related character that has no business being there.
I'd hire him with no problem and most probably for peanuts. He got so burned that the paranoia will be eating him alive from now on. Yes, you can learn all you want about good practices and whatnot but sometimes you need to get really hurt to actually LEARN.
but why do you think that forcing everybody into the system is the solution? give people the ability to sign a waiver that they opt-out and will never attempt to draw a penny from the socialized system - everybody is happy, 'socialists' and 'individualists' alike. Healthcare is not essential to functioning society (it is perfectly viable without), law and order is.
I can assure you Mary is not worshiped as a Goddess
in Poland she is, I kid you not. Icon of Mary with baby Jesus is the most sacred artifact in Poland and John Paul II was a big fan of her, he was praying primarily to her, just like his devoted followers did/do.
he already explained, use <em>
falling tree paradox doesn't describe the situation accurately because it's about lack of observer to notice the event not about the max speed the information spreads with.
It's not unlike the case of universe. It expands and is self contained and speaking about something beyond its boundaries makes absolutely no sense. From our point of view the universe is all there is and there is an absolute nothing beyond.
Science savvy people can understand that and in general accept such a state of affairs, yet somehow many have a trouble to grasp the idea of light cone that describes the expansion of events which can't exist beyond their cone - so they are similarly self-contained. There is no before/after to talk about when you are not inside the light cone of the event, it's that simple.
In the most abstract sense expanding universe is the cone of the big bang and the superset/sum of all possible light cones - but don't cite me on that, that's my ignorant guess.
and what about people who can afford the food yet they game the system so they can get foodstamps at the taxpayer's expense? Don't they 'stiff us all'? This is the other side of the same coin.
Always, when there is some form of handout, there are leeches eager to suck the host dry. Greater tax base allows politicians to be more generous with taxpayer's money so the incentive to become a parasite is greater.
and somehow you are not afraid that someone hijacks a truck full of gasoline and rams your house with it. How come?
you miss one important detail - hijacking is no more.
Aftermath of 9/11:
- cockpits are locked and you are unlikely to terrorize the pilots
- governments won't negotiate, air force will shoot the plane down right away
Passengers in such situation know that they are dead either way and will try their best to stop the baddies in their tracks because 1% chance of survival is better than 0% chance.
Planes are only good for their PR impact: you know - fiery ball of fire, inevitability of death, corpses shredded to pieces. Blowing up some train or subway station during the rush hours is 100x easier and would cause plenty of casualties (as shown in Madrid). As a bonus the baddies don't have to suicide and can leave the scene before the attack happens.
Fixation with planes is clouding your judgement.
moving the capital around has everything with free markets, but exclusive deals, special treatments and subsidies for the chosen do not. Bailouts are such cases. Some failing bank or a car manufacturer gets bailed out, but your favorite bakery at the corner does not. Free market is a fair judge, treats all the same and the winners and losers are decided only by their merits, not by who they know.
SoSec is cashflow negative and the situation won't get any better. It will end just like every other Ponzi scheme, going down in flames.
the fed is printing money, where do you think they will get that trillion dollars to buy treasury bonds in next few months? There are massive deflationary forces that shrink the money pool, so they have to pump shitloads of money into the system to merely counterbalance that.
"Sir, they are refusing to get slain, these fuckers! Fortunately for us 99% are not, bwahahahaha!"
in democracy with deficits allowed you are doomed to wreck your economy, because in order to win the elections you got to promise a shitload of 'freebies' (which are not free at all), otherwise someone else who promises a lot will win. Sanity and economic soundness are not valued by the average voter so it's the race to the bottom.
as Tocqueville said
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.