Not to be a total dick, but they weren't telling you that "sky is falling" as you are pretending. At least not the credible sources.
They were telling you, and everyone else who listened that this is a self-feeding accelerating process with a known effect in the end however. So when you see evidence that supports the claim like the OP, it gets harder and harder to claim ignorance. Other then by using strawman argument, like you did.
Of course, given the modern trend of "give me everything now, fuck the future", who really cares?
There is no magic. Debt is a promise of future work. Therefore debt is a value of your potential. As long as you meet the promise of work, debt works wonderfully in letting you cash in for future work now. This enables tapping of significantly larger pool of resources.
Many people have watched movies like "money as debt", but missed the message because it wasn't delivered in a simple enough format. There was a continuation of that movie which went into more detail, but to really understand you have to actually study the subject. Two hour movie is too short to explain the underlying functionality of something as complex as modern economy.
GDP is a measure of how much work will be done during the year. Sum of assets means a total value of held assets. Many assets take years and decades of work to build and contain both US and foreign assets. The number is realistic.
Also, debt = promise of future work done. In many regards, this is not a bad thing at all. It allows you to use promise of work that you will do in the future to pay for a product now. As long as you can deliver on the promise of work, there is no problem. Problems arise when people driven by profit at the expense of the health of system itself start piling, ensuring, repackaging and so the "bad debt", promise of work that cannot be met and try to make it similar to liquid currency. That is what happened in the last crash.
So long as the debt is "good" the system is functional and allows to tap much higher amount of resources then it would be available. In this regard, your comparison between GDP, the sum of yearly work, and assets, list work of many decades is a very fitting one.
Bad news for you. Many other parts of the car are also flammable. To make a car non-flammable you would have to remove essentially entire interior, most of the paint, some of drive train, entire fuel assembly, oil assembly, several other fluid assemblies and so on.
Oh, you mean "randomly catch fire on its own or with minimal flash?". Yeah, drained battery is safe.
Car is safe in the crash. Car that didn't have it's battery drained is not safe after a few days after the crash. Unless you sit in the crashed car for days on end hoping for a fire, you're not going to get burned.
Even more of something to read: Fires happened days and weeks after cars were crashed. Cause of the fire was determined to be that workers did not discharge the battery after crash.
For the record: it's currently a normal procedure to empty the fuel tank in cars after accidents (and testing). One of the important roles of these tests is to explore the emergency procedures with crashes of the new vehicle type. After the fire, there was a new recommendation to drain the battery in addition to draining the fuel tank for electric vehicles with batteries.
I don't think there was any concern of a battery fire like one happened in the tested vehicles happening during an accident. Weeks after the accident in a storage, on the other hand is a far more likely scenario.
Well, they got my videos of WoW guild's summer meeting I shot with my phone.
Fuck, a couple of guys were underage by US laws and drunk as skunks. Poor bastards are going to US bang-you-in-the-ass jails now. Extradition request incoming!
DVI and HDMI are signal compatible. You're going to get equally "crystal clear" connection with either one.
I'm more pissed about connector itself, HDMI has no screws to place it firmly in, and I have 2 monitors with HDMI instead of DVI. A couple of times I was moving the monitors around while they were on (new tables, testing ergonomics of various setups), cables popped out. Never had the same problem with DVI on my older monitor. I really want those screws.
Not really. Ship is full of fuel being half-submerged is asking for an environmental disaster. You could potentially just avoid it if it were fully submerged (not at risk of being damaged by surface waves and weather). You'd still want to get fuel out even if it was fully submerged though.
Yes. I still have a copy running on my old machine (my old university had a license for all students and teachers to use corporate version). I believe I installed the AV around 2006 or so when I bought the machine and installed XP.
It still gets signature and engine updates for both AV and FW.
I think your case is more of an IT failure then anti-virus failure. If they properly configured the scan times as well as make them happen less often (why daily scans?), it would work much better for everyone involved. Instead, it seems like you got a dick in IT who figured his needs eclipsed everyone else, while not even properly knowing what his needs are.
"Nuke and Pave" is an optimal solution if you have backup of all necessary data and installers and prioritize having a clean machine over speed of cleaning. It's not if you do not.
Sadly, most home users do not have such a backup, and most "computer shop" people find it faster to try to go after infection with surgeon's approach then to simply backup data and nuke the machine. Problem is, regardless of how accurate your searches are, you may still miss something. So you have to choose between being certain that machine is clean and being faster with cleaning.
Personally I'd rather have more certainty that machine is clean, but I can understand your point of view as well.
I'm not sure who the quote below belongs to, but it's relevant to your argument:
"The main difference between East and West is that in the East, those who have the power, have the money. In the West, those who have the money, have the power".
If you think that government enacted all this on its own rather then because of massive pressure from the "companies and big business", I have land on the moon to sell you.
The only sensible "government is bad" argument that you could use here is "companies and big business have too much to say in what government goes after". And you would you right.
Which in most cases fires an email to your old account asking "did you authorize this change?". You did not, you inform them, you get password reset and new one sent to your real email.
Again, "root password" issue. Give him/her you passwords to everything but "root" email which is the email you will use to change stuff. You shouldn't event use this email for anything else, because you don't want it visible for anyone.
Granted, when we're talking about teens, hormones and feelings... you and NYT are absolutely right. I'm extrapolating from non-infatuated adult's point of view, and that's a wrong thing to do in this case.
What stops you from changing password upon break-up?
The problem is more immediate one, like people grabbing very private info and posting it to all your friends as revenge. But effects of such things is rarely as far-reaching as "when you become adult". By that time, most of your private transgressions would be dismissed as "well, those were the crazy teen years, yeah".
Then clearly, we assigned different levels of credibility to different sources. Considering I used to actually do compiling of large datasets to help one of my university professors in his lectures (he was mainly a researcher and was forced by university to give a course in his field to get grants), I find it rather hard to imagine that I "suck at understanding the data sets". I suppose it is possible however.
I think I'm going to end it with NYTimes quote:
Economists have been arguing about how to account for quality changes and the introduction of new products and services for years. Even though there is broad agreement on the nature of the problem, there is little consensus about how to address it.
A "quick googling" on the subject will result in "bite size" version of very complex subject. Which will be very far from reality.
This is one of the major problems with people today. Everything has to be "bite sized" or it's not interesting enough to care. When talking about a subject as complex as modern economics, you can be certain of one thing: every single time something as complex as that is offered in "bite size", it's nowhere near the reality.
Cracked version is also a bit gimp, because it lacks some campaign features. These are available only with internet connection always on in legit copies, and if your connection ever goes off, you lose these features in legit copy as well. It's basically the "new" version of ubi's old assassins's creed's "lose connection, lose your game" DRM with a twist. They had the same thing in HOMM6.
Both anno and homm are simply too small-time for crack groups to work on server emulation or disabling of the code that blocks the additional online-only features, so you get the "offline" version only with cracked one. At least I haven't seen a crack for those (not that I have looked though, HOMM6 was pretty damn horrible to even care, and anno is just not my thing).
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Not to be a total dick, but they weren't telling you that "sky is falling" as you are pretending. At least not the credible sources.
They were telling you, and everyone else who listened that this is a self-feeding accelerating process with a known effect in the end however. So when you see evidence that supports the claim like the OP, it gets harder and harder to claim ignorance. Other then by using strawman argument, like you did.
Of course, given the modern trend of "give me everything now, fuck the future", who really cares?
Downloaders do not matter to the issue at hands. UPLOADERS do.
There is no magic. Debt is a promise of future work. Therefore debt is a value of your potential. As long as you meet the promise of work, debt works wonderfully in letting you cash in for future work now. This enables tapping of significantly larger pool of resources.
Many people have watched movies like "money as debt", but missed the message because it wasn't delivered in a simple enough format. There was a continuation of that movie which went into more detail, but to really understand you have to actually study the subject. Two hour movie is too short to explain the underlying functionality of something as complex as modern economy.
GDP is a measure of how much work will be done during the year.
Sum of assets means a total value of held assets.
Many assets take years and decades of work to build and contain both US and foreign assets. The number is realistic.
Also, debt = promise of future work done. In many regards, this is not a bad thing at all. It allows you to use promise of work that you will do in the future to pay for a product now. As long as you can deliver on the promise of work, there is no problem. Problems arise when people driven by profit at the expense of the health of system itself start piling, ensuring, repackaging and so the "bad debt", promise of work that cannot be met and try to make it similar to liquid currency. That is what happened in the last crash.
So long as the debt is "good" the system is functional and allows to tap much higher amount of resources then it would be available. In this regard, your comparison between GDP, the sum of yearly work, and assets, list work of many decades is a very fitting one.
Funny how all that also matches if you change "government" for "corporations".
No wait, we at least get to vote for government and there are some transparency laws.
Bad news for you. Many other parts of the car are also flammable. To make a car non-flammable you would have to remove essentially entire interior, most of the paint, some of drive train, entire fuel assembly, oil assembly, several other fluid assemblies and so on.
Oh, you mean "randomly catch fire on its own or with minimal flash?". Yeah, drained battery is safe.
You will put a totaled car in your garage? Without following the procedure to drain the battery and the fuel tank?
I think you deserve the darwin award then.
Car is safe in the crash. Car that didn't have it's battery drained is not safe after a few days after the crash. Unless you sit in the crashed car for days on end hoping for a fire, you're not going to get burned.
Even more of something to read: Fires happened days and weeks after cars were crashed. Cause of the fire was determined to be that workers did not discharge the battery after crash.
For the record: it's currently a normal procedure to empty the fuel tank in cars after accidents (and testing). One of the important roles of these tests is to explore the emergency procedures with crashes of the new vehicle type. After the fire, there was a new recommendation to drain the battery in addition to draining the fuel tank for electric vehicles with batteries.
I don't think there was any concern of a battery fire like one happened in the tested vehicles happening during an accident. Weeks after the accident in a storage, on the other hand is a far more likely scenario.
You're bi - a pervert in everyone's eyes!
And totally hot... if you're also a woman.
Well, they got my videos of WoW guild's summer meeting I shot with my phone.
Fuck, a couple of guys were underage by US laws and drunk as skunks. Poor bastards are going to US bang-you-in-the-ass jails now. Extradition request incoming!
DVI and HDMI are signal compatible. You're going to get equally "crystal clear" connection with either one.
I'm more pissed about connector itself, HDMI has no screws to place it firmly in, and I have 2 monitors with HDMI instead of DVI. A couple of times I was moving the monitors around while they were on (new tables, testing ergonomics of various setups), cables popped out. Never had the same problem with DVI on my older monitor. I really want those screws.
Not really. Ship is full of fuel being half-submerged is asking for an environmental disaster. You could potentially just avoid it if it were fully submerged (not at risk of being damaged by surface waves and weather). You'd still want to get fuel out even if it was fully submerged though.
Yes. I still have a copy running on my old machine (my old university had a license for all students and teachers to use corporate version). I believe I installed the AV around 2006 or so when I bought the machine and installed XP.
It still gets signature and engine updates for both AV and FW.
I think your case is more of an IT failure then anti-virus failure. If they properly configured the scan times as well as make them happen less often (why daily scans?), it would work much better for everyone involved. Instead, it seems like you got a dick in IT who figured his needs eclipsed everyone else, while not even properly knowing what his needs are.
"Nuke and Pave" is an optimal solution if you have backup of all necessary data and installers and prioritize having a clean machine over speed of cleaning. It's not if you do not.
Sadly, most home users do not have such a backup, and most "computer shop" people find it faster to try to go after infection with surgeon's approach then to simply backup data and nuke the machine. Problem is, regardless of how accurate your searches are, you may still miss something. So you have to choose between being certain that machine is clean and being faster with cleaning.
Personally I'd rather have more certainty that machine is clean, but I can understand your point of view as well.
I'm not sure who the quote below belongs to, but it's relevant to your argument:
"The main difference between East and West is that in the East, those who have the power, have the money. In the West, those who have the money, have the power".
If you think that government enacted all this on its own rather then because of massive pressure from the "companies and big business", I have land on the moon to sell you.
The only sensible "government is bad" argument that you could use here is "companies and big business have too much to say in what government goes after". And you would you right.
Which in most cases fires an email to your old account asking "did you authorize this change?". You did not, you inform them, you get password reset and new one sent to your real email.
Again, "root password" issue. Give him/her you passwords to everything but "root" email which is the email you will use to change stuff. You shouldn't event use this email for anything else, because you don't want it visible for anyone.
Granted, when we're talking about teens, hormones and feelings... you and NYT are absolutely right. I'm extrapolating from non-infatuated adult's point of view, and that's a wrong thing to do in this case.
You give them password to the account. Not the email's password. Like the xkcd goes, "at least I didn't give her the root password".
What stops you from changing password upon break-up?
The problem is more immediate one, like people grabbing very private info and posting it to all your friends as revenge. But effects of such things is rarely as far-reaching as "when you become adult". By that time, most of your private transgressions would be dismissed as "well, those were the crazy teen years, yeah".
Then clearly, we assigned different levels of credibility to different sources. Considering I used to actually do compiling of large datasets to help one of my university professors in his lectures (he was mainly a researcher and was forced by university to give a course in his field to get grants), I find it rather hard to imagine that I "suck at understanding the data sets". I suppose it is possible however.
I think I'm going to end it with NYTimes quote:
Economists have been arguing about how to account for quality changes and the introduction of new products and services for years. Even though there is broad agreement on the nature of the problem, there is little consensus about how to address it.
A "quick googling" on the subject will result in "bite size" version of very complex subject. Which will be very far from reality.
This is one of the major problems with people today. Everything has to be "bite sized" or it's not interesting enough to care. When talking about a subject as complex as modern economics, you can be certain of one thing: every single time something as complex as that is offered in "bite size", it's nowhere near the reality.
Cracked version is also a bit gimp, because it lacks some campaign features. These are available only with internet connection always on in legit copies, and if your connection ever goes off, you lose these features in legit copy as well. It's basically the "new" version of ubi's old assassins's creed's "lose connection, lose your game" DRM with a twist. They had the same thing in HOMM6.
Both anno and homm are simply too small-time for crack groups to work on server emulation or disabling of the code that blocks the additional online-only features, so you get the "offline" version only with cracked one. At least I haven't seen a crack for those (not that I have looked though, HOMM6 was pretty damn horrible to even care, and anno is just not my thing).