Well, if Linux on the desktop developers can get their act together before Windows 7 expires, they may well get all the computers that I personally administrate. I have decided Linux is going to be in competition even with Apple for my patronage, but I'm definitely not doing anything with Microsoft so long as the terms of their agreement dictate that they own everything done through their OS. I just won't have any part of it.
Yeah, but they failed by pushing popular latency-sensitive games, which, at least at the time, there was no technology to really make that work without intruding on game play.
The part of their argument that really bothers me is all of the other things criminals use. For example, pretty much all criminals use cars and roads. Should we ban cars and roads? They all go to grocery stores. Should we ban grocery stores, too? The logic fails - the criminals do all of the things that everyone else does, except that they go out of their way to harm others.
The Federal Reserve has been working hard for the last 100 years to reduce the value of U.S. currency. It is not necessary for Congress and the Department of Treasury to aid them any further in the endeavor as they seem to be getting along just fine.
"Invest" here can only be considered in the very loosest sense of the term, as the "investments" will include things like gold and silver bullion and eventually other physical commodities and hard assets, such as land and real estate. So the end result is hoarding of hard non-currency assets, not an actual spurring of productive activities (unless you consider the minuscule percentage of the population working to supply these assets).
Not only challenging, but goes against one of the most important lessons of The Richest Man In Babylon: don't lend money to a brick layer for investing in horses. IOW, invest only in things you know. But what happens when you have your money being stolen out of your bank account and you can't invest in anything you know because it is all crashing through the floor? You will have no choice but to substantially cut all of your costs. This is why NIRP, even with cashless, is likely to fail, just as every policy suggestion before it from the standard group of cronies has failed.
The only way NIRP can "work" is for all accounts to charge interest and there to be no physical cash option. This is not conjecture or conspiracy theory.
The paper considers three methods for eliminating the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates and thus for restoring symmetry to domain over which the central bank can vary its policy rate. They are: (1) abolishing currency (which would also be a useful crime-fighting measure); (2) paying negative interest on currency by taxing currency; and (3) decoupling the numéraire from the currency/medium of exchange/means of payment and introducing an exchange rate between the numéraire and the currency which can be set to achieve a forward discount (expected depreciation) of the currency vis-a-vis the numéraire when the nominal interest rate in terms of the numéraire is set at a negative level for monetary policy purposes.
This paper explores the costs and benefits to phasing out paper currency,
beginning with large-denomination notes, later extending to all but small coins and bills,
and eventually those as well. It is hardly a simple issue; paper currency is deeply
ingrained in the public’s image of government and country, and any attempt to change
long-standing monetary conventions raises a host of complex issues. The symbolic value
of the euro, for example, as a flag for nascent European Institutions, is hard to overstate.
Nevertheless, it is important to ask whether currency in paper form has outlived its
usefulness. Credit and debit cards today are increasingly being used for even small
transactions. And although today’s crypto-currencies fall far short of being true
currencies – for one thing their prices are simply too volatile – the underlying
technologies may ultimately strengthen the menu of electronic payments options.
For more information, the Tom Woods Show covered this in an episode last summer. Also note that so far, NIRP isn't even achieving the desired result of increased loans to spur aggregate demand. The only thing it has achieved is wealth transfer.
A lot of consumer cars are used relatively lightly, so they last a lot longer than cars used as mass transportation vehicles. Additionally, they seem to be targeting people who don't own cars, which, by my math, says they would be selling more cars.
The issue most commonly overlooked is the most important role played by the elected representatives: governing the government. There is the initial role of passing (and repealing) legislation, but that is one small part. Who makes sure the judges are doing their jobs properly? How can we know that the money is being spent as legislated? These duties should not be entrusted to the body that is being given the power to collect and spend the money, but to a body of publicly elected representatives. It is hard enough with this body to get the government to follow the laws it is charged with, and impossible without it.
More and more I tend to think the number one protector of consumer and small business gateways is the wall wart, which predictably fails every 2-5 years, giving the appearance of a new device being needed, thus another temporary improvement in security. I suspect that one day, a clever malware maker will figure out how to grab voltage and current in the device and inform the users a new power supply is required.
Personally, I run pfSense on an Atom board with numerous NICs.
Yes, I did notice you conveniently ignored the problem of not having 64-bit drivers.
I have a work computer that has such pathetic computing requirements that spending even one penny on something new is one penny too much, and you have not only have no sense of humor, you don't understand relative positions and probably consider the phrase "let them eat cake" as a legitimate position of generosity.
I cannot know for sure why Google creates and manages the Chrome browser, but if their intent is to encourage me to use Google products, the strategy is failing, which leads me to believe that they get backdoor deals with hardware makers, sense they are the ones to most likely profit, and, er, maybe even offer up A.C. comments on Slashdot.
The problem is that while the chip may support 64-bit, the drivers don't. I have two laptops running Windows 7 32-bit because one of them has a Core Duo, which doesn't support 64-bit, and the other doesn't have 64-bit drivers for audio and never will because SigmaTel was bought by Apple.
I really feel that Google is not resource-limited on these things and there is some other motivation. The way it is working for me is that I am migrating away from Google completely for everything because I can't rely on them for anything. Maybe if they stepped out into the real world where the average person doesn't make $200,000 per year playing ping pong all day, they would understand that we're not all out there replacing all of our gadgets every six months.
One thing I never see published is the details about the flights. Certainly if the pilot is near an airport, especially during landing and takeoff, then obviously the perps are engaging in malicious behavior.
However, my math says that the major airports reported in the article received 778 of the 5,352 reported incidents in 2015. I live in a residential area that is quite some distance from any airport. A substantial number of aircraft violate the 1000 foot above ground level FAA minimum for residential neighborhoods. I have tried, many times, to call someone, somewhere, who might give a shit about this very annoying violation and there isn't anyone who will do anything (including just returning a phone call), short of my hiring a PI and a lawyer.
Most disturbing is the helicopters flying what I estimate to be within 200 feet of my house. Although it is a very sturdily built house, the whole thing shakes when the helicopters pass by. Also incredibly annoying is the dip-shit in his WWII fighter plane practicing his tricks, and sometimes just diving and climbing endlessly.
If I were a lesser person, since I cannot appeal to any authority that will take any action, whatsoever, I might choose to take a more violent approach than just thinking of them as total assholes.
Only slightly less assholes are the clueless journos who report the stories. Usually it comes from the establishment wannabes at Ars Technica, where critical thinking flies out the window, though this time it's USA Today, and the story is always the same: Report the huge number of incidents, then mention the slim minority that occur right next to an airport. It sure would be nice to see someone actually analyze this data to give people a better understanding of what might be driving this behavior, as I wouldn't be surprised if just asking pilots to follow the law might result in some unsubstantial quantity of these incidents going away. Of course the real problem with this is that it reveal that pilots are also aggressors, so it isn't in that industry's interests to pursue such ends.
Is this a problem of WordPress, or just a popular CMS? If the admins aren't doing their job for WordPress, why would they start doing it for some other package?
Why pick only one industry that is notoriously bad and claim that is what would happen? What about the carpentry industry? Why don't couch-makers suffer the same issues? Why wouldn't software developers be similar?
You need to go to their stupid new Postmaster service and 'fix' the 'issues'. I observed the exact same behavior for mail servers that hadn't changed a DNS record or even IP address in years roughly around the same time they launched this new 'service'. Coincidence? I think not.
The dedicated ebook reader is for people who - you guessed it - read books, so the economies of scale and marketing opportunities will always be smaller. My prediction (hope, really) is that in the next few years someone will have a Kickstarter ebook reader that makes the Kindle ebook reader look like a child's toy. Personally, I don't like touchscreen devices that require reflected light, as I tend to pay too much attention to the smudges, so I haven't been interested in upgrading from my ancient, but 'works fine, lasts long time' Kindle 3.
Did you see Atlas Shrugged? Part I of that train wreck masquerading as a film production also got 11% from Rotten Tomatoes, which, in comparison, After Earth is a masterpiece. At the other end, I don't feel that Ender's Game deserved 60% (just coincidentally the lowest possible score to be 'fresh'), and not because it "didn't follow the book," (or maybe it did, it's been over 25 years since I read that book) but simply because it was not a very good flick. I do understand the Tomatometer rating as I have been using Rotten Tomatoes since around the time the site was launched, which is why I feel I have observed in certain instances some kind of breakdown in their algorithm, or whatever.
Rotten Tomatoes has a rating that is only from "critics" and a rating that is only from "audience." However, I feel there are other factors that go into these scores. The film After Earth has a Rotten Tomatoes critic rating of 11%. While the film probably did not warrant a 'fresh' rating (>=60%), 11% seems punitive, in my opinion. I wonder if the film critics had some kind of beef with the cast or crew and took it out on them in the reviews, as there are plenty of similarly poor 'Sci-Fi' genre films scoring in the 40-55% range, which seems more reasonable, but I would have expected at least better than 30%.
How do they keep the neutrons from decaying into protons? IIRC, neutrons are unstable when they are floating around by themselves with a half-life of 10 somethings (seconds or minutes, been a long time since I studied the chart of the nuclides).
I don't want it to know how to spell my contact's names if it means uploading the contacts to a central database. I pay money so that I don't have to suffer the problems that facebook suffers (and I don't use facebook).
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Well, if Linux on the desktop developers can get their act together before Windows 7 expires, they may well get all the computers that I personally administrate. I have decided Linux is going to be in competition even with Apple for my patronage, but I'm definitely not doing anything with Microsoft so long as the terms of their agreement dictate that they own everything done through their OS. I just won't have any part of it.
Why not just allow some other company to also run underground cables in my neighborhood and to my house?
Yeah, but they failed by pushing popular latency-sensitive games, which, at least at the time, there was no technology to really make that work without intruding on game play.
The part of their argument that really bothers me is all of the other things criminals use. For example, pretty much all criminals use cars and roads. Should we ban cars and roads? They all go to grocery stores. Should we ban grocery stores, too? The logic fails - the criminals do all of the things that everyone else does, except that they go out of their way to harm others.
Apparently, Summers doesn't understand how inflation works.
$500 of 1969 dollars would be worth: $3,267.97 in 2015
$500 of 2015 dollars would be worth $76.50 in 1969
$100 of 1969 dollars would be worth: $653.59 in 2015
$100 of 2015 dollars would be worth $15.30 in 1969
Source: Inflation Calculator.
The Federal Reserve has been working hard for the last 100 years to reduce the value of U.S. currency. It is not necessary for Congress and the Department of Treasury to aid them any further in the endeavor as they seem to be getting along just fine.
"Invest" here can only be considered in the very loosest sense of the term, as the "investments" will include things like gold and silver bullion and eventually other physical commodities and hard assets, such as land and real estate. So the end result is hoarding of hard non-currency assets, not an actual spurring of productive activities (unless you consider the minuscule percentage of the population working to supply these assets).
Not only challenging, but goes against one of the most important lessons of The Richest Man In Babylon: don't lend money to a brick layer for investing in horses. IOW, invest only in things you know. But what happens when you have your money being stolen out of your bank account and you can't invest in anything you know because it is all crashing through the floor? You will have no choice but to substantially cut all of your costs. This is why NIRP, even with cashless, is likely to fail, just as every policy suggestion before it from the standard group of cronies has failed.
The only way NIRP can "work" is for all accounts to charge interest and there to be no physical cash option. This is not conjecture or conspiracy theory.
Negative Nominal Interest Rates: Three ways to overcome the zero lower bound , published: Buiter, Willem H., 2009. The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 213-238, December.
Costs and benefits to phasing out paper currency (PDF) By Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University.
For more information, the Tom Woods Show covered this in an episode last summer. Also note that so far, NIRP isn't even achieving the desired result of increased loans to spur aggregate demand. The only thing it has achieved is wealth transfer.
A lot of consumer cars are used relatively lightly, so they last a lot longer than cars used as mass transportation vehicles. Additionally, they seem to be targeting people who don't own cars, which, by my math, says they would be selling more cars.
The issue most commonly overlooked is the most important role played by the elected representatives: governing the government. There is the initial role of passing (and repealing) legislation, but that is one small part. Who makes sure the judges are doing their jobs properly? How can we know that the money is being spent as legislated? These duties should not be entrusted to the body that is being given the power to collect and spend the money, but to a body of publicly elected representatives. It is hard enough with this body to get the government to follow the laws it is charged with, and impossible without it.
More and more I tend to think the number one protector of consumer and small business gateways is the wall wart, which predictably fails every 2-5 years, giving the appearance of a new device being needed, thus another temporary improvement in security. I suspect that one day, a clever malware maker will figure out how to grab voltage and current in the device and inform the users a new power supply is required.
Personally, I run pfSense on an Atom board with numerous NICs.
Not quite.
Yes, I did notice you conveniently ignored the problem of not having 64-bit drivers.
I have a work computer that has such pathetic computing requirements that spending even one penny on something new is one penny too much, and you have not only have no sense of humor, you don't understand relative positions and probably consider the phrase "let them eat cake" as a legitimate position of generosity.
I cannot know for sure why Google creates and manages the Chrome browser, but if their intent is to encourage me to use Google products, the strategy is failing, which leads me to believe that they get backdoor deals with hardware makers, sense they are the ones to most likely profit, and, er, maybe even offer up A.C. comments on Slashdot.
The problem is that while the chip may support 64-bit, the drivers don't. I have two laptops running Windows 7 32-bit because one of them has a Core Duo, which doesn't support 64-bit, and the other doesn't have 64-bit drivers for audio and never will because SigmaTel was bought by Apple.
I really feel that Google is not resource-limited on these things and there is some other motivation. The way it is working for me is that I am migrating away from Google completely for everything because I can't rely on them for anything. Maybe if they stepped out into the real world where the average person doesn't make $200,000 per year playing ping pong all day, they would understand that we're not all out there replacing all of our gadgets every six months.
One thing I never see published is the details about the flights. Certainly if the pilot is near an airport, especially during landing and takeoff, then obviously the perps are engaging in malicious behavior.
However, my math says that the major airports reported in the article received 778 of the 5,352 reported incidents in 2015. I live in a residential area that is quite some distance from any airport. A substantial number of aircraft violate the 1000 foot above ground level FAA minimum for residential neighborhoods. I have tried, many times, to call someone, somewhere, who might give a shit about this very annoying violation and there isn't anyone who will do anything (including just returning a phone call), short of my hiring a PI and a lawyer.
Most disturbing is the helicopters flying what I estimate to be within 200 feet of my house. Although it is a very sturdily built house, the whole thing shakes when the helicopters pass by. Also incredibly annoying is the dip-shit in his WWII fighter plane practicing his tricks, and sometimes just diving and climbing endlessly.
If I were a lesser person, since I cannot appeal to any authority that will take any action, whatsoever, I might choose to take a more violent approach than just thinking of them as total assholes.
Only slightly less assholes are the clueless journos who report the stories. Usually it comes from the establishment wannabes at Ars Technica, where critical thinking flies out the window, though this time it's USA Today, and the story is always the same: Report the huge number of incidents, then mention the slim minority that occur right next to an airport. It sure would be nice to see someone actually analyze this data to give people a better understanding of what might be driving this behavior, as I wouldn't be surprised if just asking pilots to follow the law might result in some unsubstantial quantity of these incidents going away. Of course the real problem with this is that it reveal that pilots are also aggressors, so it isn't in that industry's interests to pursue such ends.
Is this a problem of WordPress, or just a popular CMS? If the admins aren't doing their job for WordPress, why would they start doing it for some other package?
Why pick only one industry that is notoriously bad and claim that is what would happen? What about the carpentry industry? Why don't couch-makers suffer the same issues? Why wouldn't software developers be similar?
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if developers were financially liable for software security failures.
You need to go to their stupid new Postmaster service and 'fix' the 'issues'. I observed the exact same behavior for mail servers that hadn't changed a DNS record or even IP address in years roughly around the same time they launched this new 'service'. Coincidence? I think not.
The dedicated ebook reader is for people who - you guessed it - read books, so the economies of scale and marketing opportunities will always be smaller. My prediction (hope, really) is that in the next few years someone will have a Kickstarter ebook reader that makes the Kindle ebook reader look like a child's toy. Personally, I don't like touchscreen devices that require reflected light, as I tend to pay too much attention to the smudges, so I haven't been interested in upgrading from my ancient, but 'works fine, lasts long time' Kindle 3.
Did you see Atlas Shrugged? Part I of that train wreck masquerading as a film production also got 11% from Rotten Tomatoes, which, in comparison, After Earth is a masterpiece. At the other end, I don't feel that Ender's Game deserved 60% (just coincidentally the lowest possible score to be 'fresh'), and not because it "didn't follow the book," (or maybe it did, it's been over 25 years since I read that book) but simply because it was not a very good flick. I do understand the Tomatometer rating as I have been using Rotten Tomatoes since around the time the site was launched, which is why I feel I have observed in certain instances some kind of breakdown in their algorithm, or whatever.
Rotten Tomatoes has a rating that is only from "critics" and a rating that is only from "audience." However, I feel there are other factors that go into these scores. The film After Earth has a Rotten Tomatoes critic rating of 11%. While the film probably did not warrant a 'fresh' rating (>=60%), 11% seems punitive, in my opinion. I wonder if the film critics had some kind of beef with the cast or crew and took it out on them in the reviews, as there are plenty of similarly poor 'Sci-Fi' genre films scoring in the 40-55% range, which seems more reasonable, but I would have expected at least better than 30%.
You should submit an article.
How do they keep the neutrons from decaying into protons? IIRC, neutrons are unstable when they are floating around by themselves with a half-life of 10 somethings (seconds or minutes, been a long time since I studied the chart of the nuclides).
I don't want it to know how to spell my contact's names if it means uploading the contacts to a central database. I pay money so that I don't have to suffer the problems that facebook suffers (and I don't use facebook).