Crypto currencies, the US Federal Reserve, why is it, they seem like much the same thing, hmm, I wonder.
The primary difference being that the crypto-currencies are not backed by the full force of the US military, which can force you into buying the petrodollar, silly.
When whatever Blackwater calls itself these days issues a crypto, it'll be worth something.:D
I kinda hate jumping onto the bandwagon, but investing in anything on the basis of "someone dumber than me will buy it for more than I paid" always leads to the greatest number of people learning the hard way that they're the dumber someones.
Tuition can be wickedly expensive in the school of hard knocks.
in POF, here in COlorado, we caught so many voter fraud, that the head of the group that was investigating it was caught submitting as hit wife. He got the ballot through with a signature that passed as hers. It was shear luck that they busted him.
"So many" being a small handful. Two or three that I recall hearing of. The putz you're referring to was a former chairman of the Colorado GOP, claimed that he didn't know it was illegal, doesn't remember doing it, and also that it was done during some kind of diabetic episode which rendered him incompetent.
If there are more than a few, please cite references. As a fellow Coloradan I'd like to know of them.
:) I've been forwarding that link since 2014 every time some nimrod tries to claim that voting in federal elections matters. I was just taking the opportunity to jab at my fellow country-persons.
FWIW, a little-known secret hidden in the US Constitution is the fact that "representative" is used therein as a matter of census rather than consensus, so the reality detailed in that report is not at all surprising. I've got so many pejorative labels stuck to my forehead as a result of pointing that out that I no longer need to wear a hat to keep the sun out of my eyes.:D
Wull ahm proud to be anna Merkin wur at least ah know ahm free... to do as the rich man tells me if I wish to live in a house and have food that no one else has thrown away first.
You have two political parties. Really? A country of 300 million people and you can only get two parties.
It turns out they're so baked into the structures you wound up with that they're not so very different from the old Eastern European Communist bloc, where "The Party" was the only one allowed, except you've got two, so that must be better.
Two are all that are required to maintain the charade.
We actually do have several other political parties, but so few of us know how to think critically that those others may as well not exist.
I'm sorry that you feel that way about our president*. Next time field a better candidate.
* Yes, he is our President, yours and mine. I'm sure you are thinking or even screeching "He is not my President!" I most assure you he is, and your denial of reality will not change that.
My complaint with the current system is not about the embarrassment I feel resulting from a shrieking clown being in the White House. I wish for democracy, which was not written into the Constitution. Eliminating the electoral college is just the first step toward acquiring it.
My sense is, in those days people cared a lot more about how history would judge them, thus the primary motivation was to establish a stable democratic system.
That mattered to them, but the primary motivation was to salvage the nation. There was widespread discontent at the time, in no small part due to the Continental (currency) having become worthless. In essence, the founders had financed the revolution with money they printed willy-nilly, and with IOU's. The wealthy merchant class (who had financed the war), particularly, was hard hit by this -- if your wealth was in agricultural land and slaves you were in pretty okay shape, but those who held their wealth in currency got brutally hosed. That's a dangerous thing to do to folks who have already shown their willingness to devote their own resources to armed rebellion.
Madison himself cared a lot about his image, and edited his notes after the fact to paint himself in a more favorable light. Reading his Notes with this in mind alters the view pretty considerably. If it's something you're really interested in, the Anti-Federalist Papers point out many perceived flaws in the Constitution and the concerns raised in public debate at the time, e.g. the establishment of a permanent aristocracy, which one might argue has been in evidence since the mid-nineteenth century.
Well, okay, depending upon which idiots we're talking about. In reading Madison's Notes it's important to keep in mind that the "minority" whom the founders spoke of protecting was their own class, the moneyed elite. Which made everyone else the idiots.
the next more important step is ensuring the paper trail is audited, as part of the election process, not some vague "recount" territory.
That's already in the bill. From the article: "The bill would also require rigorous audits for all federal elections to ensure that results match the votes."
Compounds used to give plastics useful properties are not themselves plastics, true, but they enter the environment because they are used for that purpose and become components of the end product.
I was, until now, genuinely so ignorant that I had believed the above explanation superfluous.
Get a job, or move away, or SOMETHING! Don't you like the flavor of food? Why would you live in place like that?... Just tell your mom you're sorry, find a real job, and fly her out once you get your first paycheck.
I paid $4999 before taxes, fees, et cetera, just under $6k off-the-lot, for the vehicle I've been driving for eight years now. Bought it from a new car dealer's lot, too, with a stack of Benjamins. It was always dealer-serviced, had no aftermarket crap bolted on, and scored well above average on the consumer reports that I can't find right now to reference by name.
Improbable != impossible, for those willing to wait.
I don't want them to disappear, as there are still purposes for which they are ideal, but most of the books in existence are in that form because that was the best thing going at the time for distributing mass written media.
Agreed. It also bears consideration that consuming more resources ostensibly justifies a higher price -- those who are selfish and getting X percent of something want it to be a big something rather than a little one.
My wife is a librarian's assistant and brings books home most days that she works, and calls me to tell me about new titles in which I might be interested. I've no problem with libraries in which each printed piece benefits dozens or hundreds. Any book I might want to read can be had, if not from local inventory then by way of the inter-library loan system. A neighbor has a box stuck to a tree in his yard where neighbors can share and borrow books, which also works fine to keep the stuff in circulation. What I own are technical references and cookbooks to which I refer often. These things were once and I think should again be the norm.
Oh! The other things I keep are the banned classics that tend to disappear from the public library. Our local schools don't even have libraries any more so I've taken it upon myself to corrupt the young fuckers before it's too late for them.
Energy spent distributing ebooks is almost certainly far less than the energy involved in cutting down trees, pulping paper, printing, binding, and distributing books.
Yes, this. Also worthy of consideration is that the energy required to store digital data need not come from fossil fuels, and need not be consumed constantly. The energy required to heat and cool books is consumed so long as they are present inside a climate controlled space. Maybe some of our data stored on micro-SD's will be lost... BFD. The truly important I will power hard disks to maintain, and the rest is just random shit that might be nice to have again on some unspecified future date that is unlikely ever to come.
The law firms who are my clients don't encrypt anything except the occasional PDF. Instead, they add nonsensical boilerplate to their signatures.
A few days ago I sent a message with some questions in it, and the response came as a scanned image of my message with the attorney's hand-written notes scribbled onto it, embedded in a PDF. On the upside, the nonsensical boilerplate was absent.:-)
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Crypto currencies, the US Federal Reserve, why is it, they seem like much the same thing, hmm, I wonder.
The primary difference being that the crypto-currencies are not backed by the full force of the US military, which can force you into buying the petrodollar, silly.
When whatever Blackwater calls itself these days issues a crypto, it'll be worth something. :D
I kinda hate jumping onto the bandwagon, but investing in anything on the basis of "someone dumber than me will buy it for more than I paid" always leads to the greatest number of people learning the hard way that they're the dumber someones.
Tuition can be wickedly expensive in the school of hard knocks.
in POF, here in COlorado, we caught so many voter fraud, that the head of the group that was investigating it was caught submitting as hit wife. He got the ballot through with a signature that passed as hers. It was shear luck that they busted him.
"So many" being a small handful. Two or three that I recall hearing of. The putz you're referring to was a former chairman of the Colorado GOP, claimed that he didn't know it was illegal, doesn't remember doing it, and also that it was done during some kind of diabetic episode which rendered him incompetent.
If there are more than a few, please cite references. As a fellow Coloradan I'd like to know of them.
:) I've been forwarding that link since 2014 every time some nimrod tries to claim that voting in federal elections matters. I was just taking the opportunity to jab at my fellow country-persons.
FWIW, a little-known secret hidden in the US Constitution is the fact that "representative" is used therein as a matter of census rather than consensus, so the reality detailed in that report is not at all surprising. I've got so many pejorative labels stuck to my forehead as a result of pointing that out that I no longer need to wear a hat to keep the sun out of my eyes. :D
Wull ahm proud to be anna Merkin wur at least ah know ahm free... to do as the rich man tells me if I wish to live in a house and have food that no one else has thrown away first.
You have two political parties. Really? A country of 300 million people and you can only get two parties.
It turns out they're so baked into the structures you wound up with that they're not so very different from the old Eastern European Communist bloc, where "The Party" was the only one allowed, except you've got two, so that must be better.
Two are all that are required to maintain the charade.
We actually do have several other political parties, but so few of us know how to think critically that those others may as well not exist.
I'm sorry that you feel that way about our president*. Next time field a better candidate.
* Yes, he is our President, yours and mine. I'm sure you are thinking or even screeching "He is not my President!" I most assure you he is, and your denial of reality will not change that.
Mind reading: You're not good at it.
Mind reading: You're not good at it.
My complaint with the current system is not about the embarrassment I feel resulting from a shrieking clown being in the White House. I wish for democracy, which was not written into the Constitution. Eliminating the electoral college is just the first step toward acquiring it.
Ain't it great that there's a mechanism in place to prevent California and New York from having more electoral votes than the less populous states?
Oh, uh... never mind.
My sense is, in those days people cared a lot more about how history would judge them, thus the primary motivation was to establish a stable democratic system.
That mattered to them, but the primary motivation was to salvage the nation. There was widespread discontent at the time, in no small part due to the Continental (currency) having become worthless. In essence, the founders had financed the revolution with money they printed willy-nilly, and with IOU's. The wealthy merchant class (who had financed the war), particularly, was hard hit by this -- if your wealth was in agricultural land and slaves you were in pretty okay shape, but those who held their wealth in currency got brutally hosed. That's a dangerous thing to do to folks who have already shown their willingness to devote their own resources to armed rebellion.
Madison himself cared a lot about his image, and edited his notes after the fact to paint himself in a more favorable light. Reading his Notes with this in mind alters the view pretty considerably. If it's something you're really interested in, the Anti-Federalist Papers point out many perceived flaws in the Constitution and the concerns raised in public debate at the time, e.g. the establishment of a permanent aristocracy, which one might argue has been in evidence since the mid-nineteenth century.
Never mind how damned much reading that is. :-)
Well, okay, depending upon which idiots we're talking about. In reading Madison's Notes it's important to keep in mind that the "minority" whom the founders spoke of protecting was their own class, the moneyed elite. Which made everyone else the idiots.
I refer you to Madison's Notes and the Federalist Papers, and also to the Anti-Federalist Papers.
the next more important step is ensuring the paper trail is audited, as part of the election process, not some vague "recount" territory.
That's already in the bill. From the article: "The bill would also require rigorous audits for all federal elections to ensure that results match the votes."
s/eliminated/eliminate/
Geeze.
Next up, we must eliminated the electoral college, which is a remnant of the founders' deep-seated fear of democracy.
Compounds used to give plastics useful properties are not themselves plastics, true, but they enter the environment because they are used for that purpose and become components of the end product.
I was, until now, genuinely so ignorant that I had believed the above explanation superfluous.
I suggest a STFW if you care to know about such things as BPA, DEHP, et al. Plastics are not biologically inert.
I read something somewhere recently... Oh yeah:
Get a job, or move away, or SOMETHING! Don't you like the flavor of food? Why would you live in place like that? ...
Just tell your mom you're sorry, find a real job, and fly her out once you get your first paycheck.
Credit where due: Exxon Weather.
"But it's the only way I can afford to buy all this stuff!"
I've heard some variation of that countless times when discussing some predatory retailer or other.
I paid $4999 before taxes, fees, et cetera, just under $6k off-the-lot, for the vehicle I've been driving for eight years now. Bought it from a new car dealer's lot, too, with a stack of Benjamins. It was always dealer-serviced, had no aftermarket crap bolted on, and scored well above average on the consumer reports that I can't find right now to reference by name.
Improbable != impossible, for those willing to wait.
I don't want them to disappear, as there are still purposes for which they are ideal, but most of the books in existence are in that form because that was the best thing going at the time for distributing mass written media.
Agreed. It also bears consideration that consuming more resources ostensibly justifies a higher price -- those who are selfish and getting X percent of something want it to be a big something rather than a little one.
My wife is a librarian's assistant and brings books home most days that she works, and calls me to tell me about new titles in which I might be interested. I've no problem with libraries in which each printed piece benefits dozens or hundreds. Any book I might want to read can be had, if not from local inventory then by way of the inter-library loan system. A neighbor has a box stuck to a tree in his yard where neighbors can share and borrow books, which also works fine to keep the stuff in circulation. What I own are technical references and cookbooks to which I refer often. These things were once and I think should again be the norm.
Oh! The other things I keep are the banned classics that tend to disappear from the public library. Our local schools don't even have libraries any more so I've taken it upon myself to corrupt the young fuckers before it's too late for them.
Energy spent distributing ebooks is almost certainly far less than the energy involved in cutting down trees, pulping paper, printing, binding, and distributing books.
Yes, this. Also worthy of consideration is that the energy required to store digital data need not come from fossil fuels, and need not be consumed constantly. The energy required to heat and cool books is consumed so long as they are present inside a climate controlled space. Maybe some of our data stored on micro-SD's will be lost... BFD. The truly important I will power hard disks to maintain, and the rest is just random shit that might be nice to have again on some unspecified future date that is unlikely ever to come.
Breaking your own rules, I see.
And now I feel compelled to break it just once more after changing my sig, just today, for the first time in fifteen or twenty years. :D
The law firms who are my clients don't encrypt anything except the occasional PDF. Instead, they add nonsensical boilerplate to their signatures.
A few days ago I sent a message with some questions in it, and the response came as a scanned image of my message with the attorney's hand-written notes scribbled onto it, embedded in a PDF. On the upside, the nonsensical boilerplate was absent. :-)