Unemployment means jack shit, allow me to buy and work slaves and I'll show you an unemployment rate of 0%.
GDP is nice, but means little without knowing how that GDP is distributed. I'm sorry, but I don't see the big advantage of someone buying another ivory back scratcher when I can't even buy a decent meal.
Look past your lying media. I mean it's so blatant that even a cave man can see through it lately.
Actually, the cheap credit is the big danger in the whole spiel, because that's what caused the crash of 1929. Cheap credit back then induced people to take out bigger and bigger loans to buy stock because you could easily cover 3-4% interest rates on loans with stocks that have a revenue of that per day, so people went and mortgaged their house to buy more stocks... but that also meant that relatively soon, people suddenly had to get out of the market at least partially to serve their mortgage rates.
That meant that for the first time in years, a sizable portion of stock was being offered. In a volume that, again, for the first time in years, outmatched demand. And the prices started to slide which caused the first to panic and sell, which in turn caused a bigger slide because you suddenly had a LOT more stock on the supply side than any demand could want. And when the stock price started to plummet, everyone wanted out.
The moment people start to take out loans for something like this, it's time to get out. It will go on for a bit longer and you can make a few thousand more, but it just ain't worth the risk IMO anymore.
You expect them to admit that the Capitalist model could have flaws? For real?
Producing doesn't make you rich, selling does. Without being able to sell your products, there is no revenue worse, producing makes you poor because you have to front the cost of parts and labour. And if an investor doesn't consider your business viable, i.e. if an investor doesn't think you could make those sales, he won't back you and front those costs for you.
If an MBA can refute this, I'd be really interested to hear his arguments.
The fun part is that a bible thumping con arti... I mean, entrepreneur, Ken Ham, actually proved the whole ark myth impossible: By building one. I'll spare you the financial details, but it's a fun story by itself, and supporting well my theory that religion is the only scam the government stays out of.
Well, said Ark has the (more or less) accurate proportions of what the bible says the ark should be like. It took 1000 people 2 years to build it. Considering a construction cost of the alleged 100 millions, and modestly assuming that the average worker will cost you 50,000 a year (which is already a bargain, but I doubt that Ken's handing out too much money if he doesn't really have to), we're looking at roughly 2,000 man-years of labour. In a country with perfect infrastructure where you have easy and cheap access to resources, where you can buy pre-fab construction materials and use the aid of power tools and cranes, where you can rely on delivery trucks to haul your lumber, where you can purchase nails without having to make them yourself, where you can easily buy fresh and healthy food, not wasting any time on growing, harvesting or hunting it...
Few people might know this, but back in the "good old biblical times", people spent most of their time trying to ensure that there is actually enough food available to continue. They didn't work 12 hours a day on such a project because they could just go to the next Burger King and stuff their face.
So we're looking at 2,000 man-years of labour, using huge trucks and cranes (want to calculate the man-hours in a gallon of gasoline? It ain't pretty...), power tools and drills (or how about the amount of man-hours in a KWh of electricity?)...
So, no, it is NOT possible that Noah and his 3 sons would build such a ship in a few decades. I know, according to the bible, Noah lived to the ripe age of 600something years, but even Methusalah would not have reached an age high enough to see this Ark's completion.
If anything, it's a testament of how much money is accumulated on the supply side and cannot be invested in anything sensible because there is no demand due to a lack of purchasing power. If there was an actual economy still going on, investors would probably gladly invest into something more stable, but given the choice, what else can they pump their money into?
We all grew used to MS being the copycat and doing everything Apple does a few years later.
But the other way around? Really? Especially after pretty much everyone, even the dimmest computer illiterate noticed that touch-oriented input is simply atrocious for desktop GUIs and that you can't really design an interface that works well for clicking with a mouse and touching with fat fingers?
Well, ok, go ahead. Back with Steve still on the helm I'd say, maybe they know what they're doing, maybe they have a solution for this design problem that MS failed at.
So? Given his honesty record I'd believe him telling me he's having a heart attack after three independent coroners come to the same conclusion at the autopsy.
IIRC it was the Bosporus that budged, not Gibraltar, but the effect certainly would have been the same for anyone living there. The general area between Sinai and Babylon is filled with stories about devastating floods, the Gilgamesh epos for example (which is not only older than any biblical report about a flood but its parts about the flood are also most likely already a copy of an older Babylonian flood and creation myth) and a few Akkadian texts that tell pretty much the same story... most of them sane enough, though, to talk about a great flood that sure was devastating and killed "the people" but not a world wide event.
The promises of Capitalism and Communism are similar, with subtle but very important differences. The Capitalist promise and lure is "Work hard, and one day you will be living in paradise". The Communist promise is "Work hard, and one day we'll all be living in paradise".
While it looks similar, it has a vastly different psychological effect when (not if) failure sets in. In the communist system, due to us all being affected, we all failed, and thus the system did. The capitalist lure is a much more personal one: If YOU didn't get rich, YOU failed. The Capitalist system can still claim that the system itself isn't faulty because the promise it makes is a personal one, not a collective one.
This is basically the problem, you can't use it on small transactions because the fees are prohibitively high, and using it on large transactions requires someone willing to sell you something with a meaningful price tag for bitcoins.
I mean, would you sell your house for bitcoins? We've already belittled and ridiculed people who mortgaged theirs to buy BCs...
It most likely happened similar to what we can still observe today in some single celled organisms, where asexual reproduction is complemented by lateral gene transfer between individuals. While asexual cloning sure is advantageous in situations where the environmental situation does not change because it certainly is a faster way to multiply a population, a mechanism that allows the recombination of genetic traits has advantages if adaptation is required.
The precursor to "true" sexual reproduction was most likely aforementioned lateral gene transfer, where cells would increase their survival chances by basically throwing what everyone has on the table and seeing what works best in the given environment. Mostly by try and error, with those that were "lucky" to collect the right traits flourished while those that didn't perished, but in the end the population survived.
For a reason why sexual reproduction is beneficial to a species and its evolution, you might want to consult the relevant Wikipedia article, it's actually pretty well written.
Once you have solved the Kangaroo problem, try solving it for Eucalyptus trees.
You know, the whole flood story would gain a lot of credibility if they claimed it was a local event and that god simply created everything else later. I mean, think about it, the whole book takes place in that rather small area between Egypt and Babylon, no mention of any part of Europe or even the Americas... One could get the impression, whoever wrote it never went past Egypt and Babylon...
With the time it takes to clear, this is definitely unsuitable for micropayments where I want to be able to easily and quickly transfer very small amounts of money. Given the fees and the clearing literally taking longer and costing more than international money orders, this isn't what you're looking for.
Slashdot Mirror
Mount cameras everywhere and do an internet live feed. Peopleofwalmart will have a field day.
This is closer to Haber and Bosch.
Why do I think that you'd fight tooth and nail against stem cell research, I wonder...
Unemployment means jack shit, allow me to buy and work slaves and I'll show you an unemployment rate of 0%.
GDP is nice, but means little without knowing how that GDP is distributed. I'm sorry, but I don't see the big advantage of someone buying another ivory back scratcher when I can't even buy a decent meal.
Look past your lying media. I mean it's so blatant that even a cave man can see through it lately.
Actually, the cheap credit is the big danger in the whole spiel, because that's what caused the crash of 1929. Cheap credit back then induced people to take out bigger and bigger loans to buy stock because you could easily cover 3-4% interest rates on loans with stocks that have a revenue of that per day, so people went and mortgaged their house to buy more stocks... but that also meant that relatively soon, people suddenly had to get out of the market at least partially to serve their mortgage rates.
That meant that for the first time in years, a sizable portion of stock was being offered. In a volume that, again, for the first time in years, outmatched demand. And the prices started to slide which caused the first to panic and sell, which in turn caused a bigger slide because you suddenly had a LOT more stock on the supply side than any demand could want. And when the stock price started to plummet, everyone wanted out.
The moment people start to take out loans for something like this, it's time to get out. It will go on for a bit longer and you can make a few thousand more, but it just ain't worth the risk IMO anymore.
But why would you want to pay 5 bucks for, well, nothing?
It will actually stop the bleeding.
An empty carcass does not bleed anymore.
Sure. I have one on my computer for internet, WiFi is way too crowded where I live.
Back to Bittorrent it is. *shrug*
Is it really that much of a mystery how a lack of demand entails a lack of worthwhile investment opportunities? For real?
You expect them to admit that the Capitalist model could have flaws? For real?
Producing doesn't make you rich, selling does. Without being able to sell your products, there is no revenue worse, producing makes you poor because you have to front the cost of parts and labour. And if an investor doesn't consider your business viable, i.e. if an investor doesn't think you could make those sales, he won't back you and front those costs for you.
If an MBA can refute this, I'd be really interested to hear his arguments.
The fun part is that a bible thumping con arti... I mean, entrepreneur, Ken Ham, actually proved the whole ark myth impossible: By building one. I'll spare you the financial details, but it's a fun story by itself, and supporting well my theory that religion is the only scam the government stays out of.
Well, said Ark has the (more or less) accurate proportions of what the bible says the ark should be like. It took 1000 people 2 years to build it. Considering a construction cost of the alleged 100 millions, and modestly assuming that the average worker will cost you 50,000 a year (which is already a bargain, but I doubt that Ken's handing out too much money if he doesn't really have to), we're looking at roughly 2,000 man-years of labour. In a country with perfect infrastructure where you have easy and cheap access to resources, where you can buy pre-fab construction materials and use the aid of power tools and cranes, where you can rely on delivery trucks to haul your lumber, where you can purchase nails without having to make them yourself, where you can easily buy fresh and healthy food, not wasting any time on growing, harvesting or hunting it...
Few people might know this, but back in the "good old biblical times", people spent most of their time trying to ensure that there is actually enough food available to continue. They didn't work 12 hours a day on such a project because they could just go to the next Burger King and stuff their face.
So we're looking at 2,000 man-years of labour, using huge trucks and cranes (want to calculate the man-hours in a gallon of gasoline? It ain't pretty...), power tools and drills (or how about the amount of man-hours in a KWh of electricity?)...
So, no, it is NOT possible that Noah and his 3 sons would build such a ship in a few decades. I know, according to the bible, Noah lived to the ripe age of 600something years, but even Methusalah would not have reached an age high enough to see this Ark's completion.
If anything, it's a testament of how much money is accumulated on the supply side and cannot be invested in anything sensible because there is no demand due to a lack of purchasing power. If there was an actual economy still going on, investors would probably gladly invest into something more stable, but given the choice, what else can they pump their money into?
With the main difference that most webpages I know have a dedicated "mobile" version (which looks like shit on a desktop).
Mostly because the "normal" webpage looks like shit on a mobile device.
In the end, you still create two distinct layouts. So where exactly is the big benefit?
We all grew used to MS being the copycat and doing everything Apple does a few years later.
But the other way around? Really? Especially after pretty much everyone, even the dimmest computer illiterate noticed that touch-oriented input is simply atrocious for desktop GUIs and that you can't really design an interface that works well for clicking with a mouse and touching with fat fingers?
Well, ok, go ahead. Back with Steve still on the helm I'd say, maybe they know what they're doing, maybe they have a solution for this design problem that MS failed at.
But with Timmie calling the shots? Nope.
So? Given his honesty record I'd believe him telling me he's having a heart attack after three independent coroners come to the same conclusion at the autopsy.
IIRC it was the Bosporus that budged, not Gibraltar, but the effect certainly would have been the same for anyone living there. The general area between Sinai and Babylon is filled with stories about devastating floods, the Gilgamesh epos for example (which is not only older than any biblical report about a flood but its parts about the flood are also most likely already a copy of an older Babylonian flood and creation myth) and a few Akkadian texts that tell pretty much the same story... most of them sane enough, though, to talk about a great flood that sure was devastating and killed "the people" but not a world wide event.
The promises of Capitalism and Communism are similar, with subtle but very important differences. The Capitalist promise and lure is "Work hard, and one day you will be living in paradise". The Communist promise is "Work hard, and one day we'll all be living in paradise".
While it looks similar, it has a vastly different psychological effect when (not if) failure sets in. In the communist system, due to us all being affected, we all failed, and thus the system did. The capitalist lure is a much more personal one: If YOU didn't get rich, YOU failed. The Capitalist system can still claim that the system itself isn't faulty because the promise it makes is a personal one, not a collective one.
It's not a pyramid scheme. No sir. Our model is the trapezoid!
This is basically the problem, you can't use it on small transactions because the fees are prohibitively high, and using it on large transactions requires someone willing to sell you something with a meaningful price tag for bitcoins.
I mean, would you sell your house for bitcoins? We've already belittled and ridiculed people who mortgaged theirs to buy BCs...
It most likely happened similar to what we can still observe today in some single celled organisms, where asexual reproduction is complemented by lateral gene transfer between individuals. While asexual cloning sure is advantageous in situations where the environmental situation does not change because it certainly is a faster way to multiply a population, a mechanism that allows the recombination of genetic traits has advantages if adaptation is required.
The precursor to "true" sexual reproduction was most likely aforementioned lateral gene transfer, where cells would increase their survival chances by basically throwing what everyone has on the table and seeing what works best in the given environment. Mostly by try and error, with those that were "lucky" to collect the right traits flourished while those that didn't perished, but in the end the population survived.
For a reason why sexual reproduction is beneficial to a species and its evolution, you might want to consult the relevant Wikipedia article, it's actually pretty well written.
Once you have solved the Kangaroo problem, try solving it for Eucalyptus trees.
You know, the whole flood story would gain a lot of credibility if they claimed it was a local event and that god simply created everything else later. I mean, think about it, the whole book takes place in that rather small area between Egypt and Babylon, no mention of any part of Europe or even the Americas... One could get the impression, whoever wrote it never went past Egypt and Babylon...
Your point being?
Frankly, if what you pay ain't worth my time, don't expect me to waste my time on you.
And who pays for that tax break?
With the time it takes to clear, this is definitely unsuitable for micropayments where I want to be able to easily and quickly transfer very small amounts of money. Given the fees and the clearing literally taking longer and costing more than international money orders, this isn't what you're looking for.