Remember that PCI-DSS is a fairly new standard. A quick search got me a VISA document that listed january 1, 2008 as the date for phasing out old payment systems that didn't manage card numbers securely.
The plain text credit card number was apparently used in a transaction from 2005. Still a bad idea to use a plain text card number. But ompanies doing stupid stuff like that.is kind of the reason why PCI-DSS became mandatory in the first place.
The very core of free market theory is consensual trade. Without mutual consent you can't have a free market. And that is why the low end labor market is in no way a free market. The worker is not consenting to work, he is figuratively forced at gunpoint.
So the only negative impact the minimum wage has on the free market is imaginary as there wasn't a free market to begin with. Well, unless you had some kind of basic income to remove the figurative gun from the picture.
Anyone calling the current economy a free market is spouting bullshit. The core of free market theory is consent between seller (employee) and consumer (employer). But you can't have proper consent when the seller is under duress.
Unions are kind of a solution, but that is essentially fighting duress with duress which is a negative cold war strategy. Not what I would call a free market.
The better solution in my opinion is an unconditional basic income, that directly tries to solve the problem of sellers being under duress to begin with. All without having the government doing any extra regulations of the market. In fact, with a proper basic income you can even remove regulations such as the minimum wage.
Taxes real have four purposes for the federal government. or any other sovereign fiat currency owner.
The first two purposes are similar, namely to manage inflation and create a base demand for currency. You do those with general taxing and failure to do it leads to inflation and a devalued currency.
The third purpose is to punish externalities. You could outlaw things instead, but that is a very blunt solution. It is better to punish excessive usage via taxes. The gas tax is one such tax. Failure to properly implement these taxes makes the society as a whole worse off thanks to people exploiting externalities.
The final purpose is to ensure money circulation. This is done via wealth, land and progressive taxes. Failure to properly do that forces the government to issue more and more money as the existing money keeps accumulating in the top 1%, Since most modern countries use a bond system, that is equivalent to subsidizing the top 1% and going into an ever increasing debt.
Oh, and as technology improves, the return on capital will as well, causing money to accumulate upwards even faster. The most extreme example is when one person owns all the capital and can press a single button and produce enough for the whole population. In that case, that person will have to be taxed at nearly 100% if you want to keep the economy functioning.
The test is whether a computer can, in an extended conversation, fool a competent human into thinking it is a competent human being speaking the same language,at least 50% of the time.
That is the completely non-scientific populist version. It is basically worthless as it sets no baseline for the jury.
The scientific version of the test includes one human, one computer and a jury. The goal for both the human and the computer is to convince the jury that they are human.
a flat 2D surface in front of your eyes is *not* like a 3D world when your eye tracks (no matter how close it gets). It does not "curve" the same way. So now you need a tiny, bright, hi-res, portable, low-power FLEXIBLE display too which doesn't distort the image too much. Oh, two of them.
Or you could just use lenses combined with a shader that corrects for the lens distortion.
Umm, the middlemen looks to be the music stream services. All they have to do is distribute a product that someone else has produced to the consumer, and for that they are getting to keep a whole 30-40% of the total sale.
Sorry, but if they can't make a profit on that, then they are doing something seriously wrong, or there are too many companies competing for too small of a market.
Yup. Too many people confuse minimum income with basic income/negative income tax.The latter two are what economists generally recommend because of incentives and easy of management.
Basic income and negative income tax are nearly economically equivalent (with different tax scales). But basic income is probably the better solution of the two. The problem with the negative income tax is that taxing happens on a yearly basis, while income works better on a monthly basis (and even that is overestimating the judgment of some people). So you really want something to fix the general disconnect.
And the absolutely easiest way is to simply pay out a basic income to every adult on a monthly basis while withholding taxes for the IRS. The IRS then doing its normal work on a yearly basis.
Yeah but what about the existing debt? That has to be paid off before we can improve anything else.
Money and Debt is a (not so) simple zero sum game. Whenever a dollar is created, an equivalent debt/obligation is created. It always balances out to zero.
So who do you want to reduce their savings so that the US government can have less debt? Once you have decided on that, it is easy to discuss the actions the government should take to cause it to happen.
Tax work best when the tax happens when the money moves.
Not really. Taxes works best when they target production directly at the source as it is being produced.
Targeting the sale means that you are targeting the wealth production way too late in the chain. In any sufficiently advanced society you end up with large amounts of wasted production capacity.
Money is supposed to represent a store of value earned by an economy's participants.
Only in the mind of people who understand neither the origin nor general use of money. Money has historically been used successfully for trade and taxing.
Meanwhile, all attempts at trying to turn money into a storage of value has has had dire consequences. The Euro simply being the latest in a bunch of total failures by people who are macro-economically illiterate.
The second safest road is where everybody is moving at approximately the same speed with adequate spacing in between them.
Traffic death stats here in Sweden (from 2011) tells a far different story.
* 33% solo car * 24% meeting cars * 18% slow moving objects (animals/pedestrians/animals) * 11% interesections/etc * 9% other * 3% cars moving in same direction under normal circumstances.
In 2013, energy was 4 times cheaper in the United States than in Europe, and 6 times cheaper than in Germany.
Using current EUR/USD conversion rates and cents/KWh
Industry Retail Nov 2012 (including taxes): * Germany: 15 * US Avg: 6.53
Residential Retail Nov 2012 (including taxes): * Germany: 35 * US Avg: 11.74
If you wander why the German residential electricity is so high, it is because they pay a massive 20.50 EUR/MWh or 27 cents/KWh in taxes.
Seriously, nowhere have I been able to find the how electricity would be 6 times more expensive in Germany than in the US, even with taxes applied the difference is only 2.5-3 times. Without taxes, it is less than 2 times.
You are saving $80 + Not being brainwashed by ads + Time not spent being brainwashed by ads.
Even as a single minimum wage worker, that is probably more than $200 per month in total. (most people heavily underestimate the value of personal time)
I can only assume that you either haven't upgraded your inventory size or barely keep any stuff in your inventory and only use it to collect loot.
Because if you actually try to scroll in your inventory with any kind of frequency in borderlands 2 (like if you have a page or more of reserve weapons), then you will often end up with a reverse Y coordinate bug where holding the mouse over the item at the top of the inventory will select the item at the bottom of the inventory and vice versa.
It looks like they have various code samples. The same functionality is coded in different styles.
More like it is coded in good and bad styles. The video at the top is the worst, full of bad style. Just to go through it all:
* Bad naming of parameters. Both collections and iteration variables feel like the same. * No methods and data of program wide priority (x, y) declared at different locations. * Using "between" instead of "in interval. There are only really one reason to use exclusive intervals, and that is when the algorithm naturally ends up on it (for example when looping over zero-bound arrays). Otherwise, humans have a far easier time thinking inclusively than exclusively, * Mixing superiority in comparisons.
In a clear style, "(2 < x_n) and (x_n < 10)" would be expressed as "(i >= 3) and (i <= 9)" with the looping variable properly renamed from x_n to i.
That's exactly the kind of psy-op that has been going on for weeks now in discussion forums all around the internets.
It is standard propaganda tactics to describe people as unreliable attention whores to place blame on them. It works in various ways.
For example, take the fable "the boy who cried wolf". It is not a tale about a boy lying, but a tale about blaming a boy for the failure of others to build fences to protect the sheep.
Realistically there's no money for a major space project.
Realistically, there are a lot of labor resources available for a major space project. Of course, expecting any modern western neo-liberal government to be able to leverage said resources is laughable at best.
Money is just a tool. It has zero value in itself, and is only useful for distributing actual productive resources. As long as there exists underlying resources, the distribution of money can always be fixed with a combination of taxing and printing.
Claiming that an economically sovereign government like the US can't pay their obligations is laughable. It isn't like the US debt is denominated in gold or foreign currency. The people running the US government may not be willing to pay the obligations since it would expose the lies they use to scare voters with, but if they really wanted to they could.
Government of the people for the people and by the people. Are you protesting representative democracy now? Thought that was chosen by "same group of men that Franklin stood with."
That you have government officials calling it treason that some policy documents were released goes to show that the US is no longer a democracy.
In a real democracy, those having hidden those documents should be the ones getting put before court.
You simply can't have real democracies without those voting having adequate information.
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So you are against universal basic income. The whole definition is that everyone gets it no matter what.
No, but my health insurance (individual, not through my small-business employer) goes up about 30% per annum...
That would be about a 400% increase in a 6 year period..
Remember that PCI-DSS is a fairly new standard. A quick search got me a VISA document that listed january 1, 2008 as the date for phasing out old payment systems that didn't manage card numbers securely.
The plain text credit card number was apparently used in a transaction from 2005. Still a bad idea to use a plain text card number. But ompanies doing stupid stuff like that.is kind of the reason why PCI-DSS became mandatory in the first place.
My issue is that you dont want a free market
The very core of free market theory is consensual trade. Without mutual consent you can't have a free market. And that is why the low end labor market is in no way a free market. The worker is not consenting to work, he is figuratively forced at gunpoint.
So the only negative impact the minimum wage has on the free market is imaginary as there wasn't a free market to begin with. Well, unless you had some kind of basic income to remove the figurative gun from the picture.
Anyone calling the current economy a free market is spouting bullshit. The core of free market theory is consent between seller (employee) and consumer (employer). But you can't have proper consent when the seller is under duress.
Unions are kind of a solution, but that is essentially fighting duress with duress which is a negative cold war strategy. Not what I would call a free market.
The better solution in my opinion is an unconditional basic income, that directly tries to solve the problem of sellers being under duress to begin with. All without having the government doing any extra regulations of the market. In fact, with a proper basic income you can even remove regulations such as the minimum wage.
Taxes real have four purposes for the federal government. or any other sovereign fiat currency owner.
The first two purposes are similar, namely to manage inflation and create a base demand for currency. You do those with general taxing and failure to do it leads to inflation and a devalued currency.
The third purpose is to punish externalities. You could outlaw things instead, but that is a very blunt solution. It is better to punish excessive usage via taxes. The gas tax is one such tax. Failure to properly implement these taxes makes the society as a whole worse off thanks to people exploiting externalities.
The final purpose is to ensure money circulation. This is done via wealth, land and progressive taxes. Failure to properly do that forces the government to issue more and more money as the existing money keeps accumulating in the top 1%, Since most modern countries use a bond system, that is equivalent to subsidizing the top 1% and going into an ever increasing debt.
Oh, and as technology improves, the return on capital will as well, causing money to accumulate upwards even faster. The most extreme example is when one person owns all the capital and can press a single button and produce enough for the whole population. In that case, that person will have to be taxed at nearly 100% if you want to keep the economy functioning.
The test is whether a computer can, in an extended conversation, fool a competent human into thinking it is a competent human being speaking the same language,at least 50% of the time.
That is the completely non-scientific populist version. It is basically worthless as it sets no baseline for the jury.
The scientific version of the test includes one human, one computer and a jury. The goal for both the human and the computer is to convince the jury that they are human.
a flat 2D surface in front of your eyes is *not* like a 3D world when your eye tracks (no matter how close it gets). It does not "curve" the same way. So now you need a tiny, bright, hi-res, portable, low-power FLEXIBLE display too which doesn't distort the image too much. Oh, two of them.
Or you could just use lenses combined with a shader that corrects for the lens distortion.
Umm, the middlemen looks to be the music stream services. All they have to do is distribute a product that someone else has produced to the consumer, and for that they are getting to keep a whole 30-40% of the total sale.
Sorry, but if they can't make a profit on that, then they are doing something seriously wrong, or there are too many companies competing for too small of a market.
Yup. Too many people confuse minimum income with basic income/negative income tax.The latter two are what economists generally recommend because of incentives and easy of management.
Basic income and negative income tax are nearly economically equivalent (with different tax scales). But basic income is probably the better solution of the two. The problem with the negative income tax is that taxing happens on a yearly basis, while income works better on a monthly basis (and even that is overestimating the judgment of some people). So you really want something to fix the general disconnect.
And the absolutely easiest way is to simply pay out a basic income to every adult on a monthly basis while withholding taxes for the IRS. The IRS then doing its normal work on a yearly basis.
Yeah but what about the existing debt? That has to be paid off before we can improve anything else.
Money and Debt is a (not so) simple zero sum game. Whenever a dollar is created, an equivalent debt/obligation is created. It always balances out to zero.
So who do you want to reduce their savings so that the US government can have less debt? Once you have decided on that, it is easy to discuss the actions the government should take to cause it to happen.
Fair means each group pays the same percentage of the overall taxes.
Only if every person owns the exact same amount of production capital. Otherwise it is incredibly unfair.
Tax work best when the tax happens when the money moves.
Not really. Taxes works best when they target production directly at the source as it is being produced.
Targeting the sale means that you are targeting the wealth production way too late in the chain. In any sufficiently advanced society you end up with large amounts of wasted production capacity.
So make it a trimmed mean
I think that is exactly what he suggested. Median is a trimmed mean.
kWh is not an SI unit.
While h is not technically SI, it is officially sanctioned for use as a multiplier with SI. So saying that kWh is not SI is more of a half truth.
Money is supposed to represent a store of value earned by an economy's participants.
Only in the mind of people who understand neither the origin nor general use of money. Money has historically been used successfully for trade and taxing.
Meanwhile, all attempts at trying to turn money into a storage of value has has had dire consequences. The Euro simply being the latest in a bunch of total failures by people who are macro-economically illiterate.
The second safest road is where everybody is moving at approximately the same speed with adequate spacing in between them.
Traffic death stats here in Sweden (from 2011) tells a far different story.
* 33% solo car
* 24% meeting cars
* 18% slow moving objects (animals/pedestrians/animals)
* 11% interesections/etc
* 9% other
* 3% cars moving in same direction under normal circumstances.
In 2013, energy was 4 times cheaper in the United States than in Europe, and 6 times cheaper than in Germany.
Using current EUR/USD conversion rates and cents/KWh
Industry Retail Nov 2012 (including taxes):
* Germany: 15
* US Avg: 6.53
Residential Retail Nov 2012 (including taxes):
* Germany: 35
* US Avg: 11.74
If you wander why the German residential electricity is so high, it is because they pay a massive 20.50 EUR/MWh or 27 cents/KWh in taxes.
Seriously, nowhere have I been able to find the how electricity would be 6 times more expensive in Germany than in the US, even with taxes applied the difference is only 2.5-3 times. Without taxes, it is less than 2 times.
Ref:
http://www.energy.eu/
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_a
http://www.eurelectric.org/media/60787/taxes_and_levies_on_electricity_2011_-_final-2012-560-0006-01-e.pdf
I save over $80 a month,
You are saving $80 + Not being brainwashed by ads + Time not spent being brainwashed by ads.
Even as a single minimum wage worker, that is probably more than $200 per month in total. (most people heavily underestimate the value of personal time)
Frankly they need a minimum of a 500ppi display for this thing to be screen-door effect tolerable
The screen door effect is a result of pixel fill rate, not DPI.
Never encountered this problem.
I can only assume that you either haven't upgraded your inventory size or barely keep any stuff in your inventory and only use it to collect loot.
Because if you actually try to scroll in your inventory with any kind of frequency in borderlands 2 (like if you have a page or more of reserve weapons), then you will often end up with a reverse Y coordinate bug where holding the mouse over the item at the top of the inventory will select the item at the bottom of the inventory and vice versa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWu4SK69_M8
(the first 20 or so seconds shows what I am talking about)
It looks like they have various code samples. The same functionality is coded in different styles.
More like it is coded in good and bad styles. The video at the top is the worst, full of bad style. Just to go through it all:
* Bad naming of parameters. Both collections and iteration variables feel like the same.
* No methods and data of program wide priority (x, y) declared at different locations.
* Using "between" instead of "in interval. There are only really one reason to use exclusive intervals, and that is when the algorithm naturally ends up on it (for example when looping over zero-bound arrays). Otherwise, humans have a far easier time thinking inclusively than exclusively,
* Mixing superiority in comparisons.
In a clear style, "(2 < x_n) and (x_n < 10)" would be expressed as "(i >= 3) and (i <= 9)" with the looping variable properly renamed from x_n to i.
That's exactly the kind of psy-op that has been going on for weeks now in discussion forums all around the internets.
It is standard propaganda tactics to describe people as unreliable attention whores to place blame on them. It works in various ways.
For example, take the fable "the boy who cried wolf". It is not a tale about a boy lying, but a tale about blaming a boy for the failure of others to build fences to protect the sheep.
Realistically there's no money for a major space project.
Realistically, there are a lot of labor resources available for a major space project. Of course, expecting any modern western neo-liberal government to be able to leverage said resources is laughable at best.
Money is just a tool. It has zero value in itself, and is only useful for distributing actual productive resources. As long as there exists underlying resources, the distribution of money can always be fixed with a combination of taxing and printing.
Claiming that an economically sovereign government like the US can't pay their obligations is laughable. It isn't like the US debt is denominated in gold or foreign currency. The people running the US government may not be willing to pay the obligations since it would expose the lies they use to scare voters with, but if they really wanted to they could.
Government of the people for the people and by the people. Are you protesting representative democracy now? Thought that was chosen by "same group of men that Franklin stood with."
That you have government officials calling it treason that some policy documents were released goes to show that the US is no longer a democracy.
In a real democracy, those having hidden those documents should be the ones getting put before court.
You simply can't have real democracies without those voting having adequate information.