One of the cases mostly misunderstood by the general public used as a bad example. Well done!
Because the coffee got served in a cardboard cup, there was a limit set how hot it can be served - to prevent exactly the skin burns the old lady was suffering. The restaurant in question was deliberately serving the coffee hotter, and the plaintiff was able to prove that the higher temperatures were used by directive of the upper management. Because of the higher temperature they could serve often reheated coffee and thus save money. The verdict was estimating how much money McDonald's was saving because of overheating the coffee and calculated the penalty from that.
The problem is that basing money on a 'real value' is also fiat money. Because you never know if the real value is actually a real long term value. Basing money on land property? What if the real estate market crashes and people move away to better jobs somewhere else? Basing money on a mineral? What if the mineral goes out of fashion because there are no real uses anymore? Basing money on something that the economy creates? What if said economy crashes because there is an overproduction of said product?
In the end every money is fiat money. Taking out a single entity from an economy and basing your entire monetary system on it just overvalues the entity and creates exactly the virtual value you so bitter decry.
Deflation means, that no one will be motivated to invest any money - it will be more worth next week and buy more. Deflation means that all investions will put off as long as possible. So deflation is actually bad for an economy.
I didn't say anything about decreasing crime, I was speculating about the cost of keeping the social peace. My question was: Is it cheaper to pay for the prosecution and incineration of 2% of the population, or is it cheaper to keep 10% on social welfare?
If the U.S. would decrease their prison population to, lets say, european levels, the unemployment rate in the U.S. would reach european levels too. As it is, the U.S. currently imprisons about 2% of the potential workforce. I was always wondering which is cheaper: Pay the unemployable some social welfare to keep them from doing stupid things to get through, or wait until they commit some crime and then pay to lock them up. As it seems, the european way is somewhat cheaper.
I beg to differ. I am using space flight services far more often than airplane services. I am using weather forecasts, satellite TV and GPS on a daily basis, while I don't fly that often or get airmail or are buying stuff transported by airplanes.
Iran is not an arabian country. Just because the population is mainly muslim, it doesn't make it arabian at all. It's mainly persians, turks (azerbaijanis), mazandaranis and kurds living there. Only 3% of Iran's population are arabs.
He should go unpunished, because searching for drugs shouldn't be a crime at all. If offering and taking drugs are a crime (for some non-reason), then the police should be punished for actually allowing drugs to be sold there. And the landlords should be punished for renting out to drug sellers. And the town should be punished for allowing dark alleys to exist where drugs can be sold. And the tire factory should be punished for selling tyres to an outlet which in turn sells to a taxi driver who helps people finding drugs.
No, the toll road is a bad analogy. For some act to be in violation of copyright, the Work in question doesn't need to be offered to the public. Internal documents not meant for publication also fall under copyright, and an unsolicited copy is still a copyright violation, if no statute of limitation applies.
The term "reptile" is considered deprecated in Biology. The reptiles are a so called paraphyletic group. In an ideal case, a term for a group of related livings (plants, animals, bacteria... you name it) should include both the common ancestor of all members in that group and all descentents of that group. Because not all descendents of reptiles are also reptiles (neither the mammals nor the birds are), biologist use the term Amniotes, which includes the classic reptile groups (turtles, snakes, lizards, dinosaurs, crocodiles et.al.) and birds and mammals too.
Trespassing to shorten your way is also taking something that has value to you (you save time), but it wasn't free for you to take. Shall we call "trespassing" now "stealing way"? Just because you find some similar aspects in two different things doesn't make them the same.
It just shows that Twitter follows Zipf's Law (or at least Pareto's Law). As more and more people join Twitter, the balance gets shifted more and more to the top few.
I am surrounded by events no one ever expected. My hometown was hit in 2002 by a flood that was higher than any records ever, and flooding records for my hometown go back about 300 years. There was an underground shelter used for artifacts of the museum, with a flood protection that was built 30" higher than the highest flood ever recorded (which was 150 years ago), just to be sure -- and this one proved to be insufficient.
So we can conclude: Shit happens. Don't expect any design to be sufficient. Disaster worse than the worst ones we ever had can happen. If you want to assess the risk of anything, you should also assess the risk that all builtin protection fails. Every security that is founded on limited designs is only temporary.
One could spin the same question in the other direction: So there was a reactor running in a zone known to be exposed to tsunamis, which was not even designed to widthstand a tsunami? And the first tsunami to ever hit it managed to take out the cooling power and the backup cooling power too with one stroke? And the third cooling system managed to keep going for how long? 1.5 hrs? We have a flawly designed reactor at a flawly chosen place. We have been so lucky that nothing happened for 40 years.
You know that Microsoft is actually and legally convicted because of software piracy? This could backfire. I wouldn't buy from any shop that uses Microsoft software because SoftImage could sue me for triple damages.
Sorry to correct you, and completely offtopic, but "Iran" means "land of the Aryans", and an "Iranian" is just "Aryan". Please be careful with the words.
You are either for freedom, that stops at the next user, or you are for freedom, that continues after the next person. "Feel free to beat up anyone you meet" is no freedom either.
1. Illegal immigrants will come. The conditions in the regions they come from are so bad that you can't make it worse. You might try to wage a war against parts of your population Mexico style to get close though. So any idea to repell illegal immigrants by being evil is useless and evil at the same time. 2. Once they are here you have to deal with them. You can try to catch as much as you get to send them back. But then the illegal immigrants will just start to hide better. Underground organisations specialised in hiding illegal immigrants will get stronger. 3. The illegal immigrants will look for things to do to make a living. You effectively blocked out any legal work for them, so every occupation they will take is illegal. They will work in drug and human trafficking, They will be paid thugs to underground king pins. They will start ponzi schemes, operate document forgeries, blackmailing any company that provides cheap labor in either working with them or closing up shop and move on. 4. In the end you will have your problems to the power of x.
If you outlaw all employers employing illegal aliens, only illegal employers will employ illegal aliens - and suddenly you get a large illegal sector in your economy, not paying any taxes, not obeying any laws. If this is your goal, then proceed. (You seem to live under the misconception that illegal aliens start at home with checking the U.S. laws to make sure they get employed legally before entering the U.S. illegally.)
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One of the cases mostly misunderstood by the general public used as a bad example. Well done!
Because the coffee got served in a cardboard cup, there was a limit set how hot it can be served - to prevent exactly the skin burns the old lady was suffering. The restaurant in question was deliberately serving the coffee hotter, and the plaintiff was able to prove that the higher temperatures were used by directive of the upper management. Because of the higher temperature they could serve often reheated coffee and thus save money. The verdict was estimating how much money McDonald's was saving because of overheating the coffee and calculated the penalty from that.
The problem is that basing money on a 'real value' is also fiat money. Because you never know if the real value is actually a real long term value. Basing money on land property? What if the real estate market crashes and people move away to better jobs somewhere else? Basing money on a mineral? What if the mineral goes out of fashion because there are no real uses anymore? Basing money on something that the economy creates? What if said economy crashes because there is an overproduction of said product?
In the end every money is fiat money. Taking out a single entity from an economy and basing your entire monetary system on it just overvalues the entity and creates exactly the virtual value you so bitter decry.
Deflation means, that no one will be motivated to invest any money - it will be more worth next week and buy more. Deflation means that all investions will put off as long as possible. So deflation is actually bad for an economy.
It's DTMF, Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling. It's the different sounds you hear if you hit the dial keys on your phone.
I didn't say anything about decreasing crime, I was speculating about the cost of keeping the social peace. My question was: Is it cheaper to pay for the prosecution and incineration of 2% of the population, or is it cheaper to keep 10% on social welfare?
If the U.S. would decrease their prison population to, lets say, european levels, the unemployment rate in the U.S. would reach european levels too. As it is, the U.S. currently imprisons about 2% of the potential workforce.
I was always wondering which is cheaper: Pay the unemployable some social welfare to keep them from doing stupid things to get through, or wait until they commit some crime and then pay to lock them up. As it seems, the european way is somewhat cheaper.
I beg to differ. I am using space flight services far more often than airplane services. I am using weather forecasts, satellite TV and GPS on a daily basis, while I don't fly that often or get airmail or are buying stuff transported by airplanes.
Not to forget Carl Benz for the two stroke engine.
Iran is not an arabian country. Just because the population is mainly muslim, it doesn't make it arabian at all. It's mainly persians, turks (azerbaijanis), mazandaranis and kurds living there. Only 3% of Iran's population are arabs.
He should go unpunished, because searching for drugs shouldn't be a crime at all.
If offering and taking drugs are a crime (for some non-reason), then the police should be punished for actually allowing drugs to be sold there. And the landlords should be punished for renting out to drug sellers. And the town should be punished for allowing dark alleys to exist where drugs can be sold. And the tire factory should be punished for selling tyres to an outlet which in turn sells to a taxi driver who helps people finding drugs.
No, the toll road is a bad analogy.
For some act to be in violation of copyright, the Work in question doesn't need to be offered to the public. Internal documents not meant for publication also fall under copyright, and an unsolicited copy is still a copyright violation, if no statute of limitation applies.
The term "reptile" is considered deprecated in Biology. The reptiles are a so called paraphyletic group.
In an ideal case, a term for a group of related livings (plants, animals, bacteria... you name it) should include both the common ancestor of all members in that group and all descentents of that group. Because not all descendents of reptiles are also reptiles (neither the mammals nor the birds are), biologist use the term Amniotes, which includes the classic reptile groups (turtles, snakes, lizards, dinosaurs, crocodiles et.al.) and birds and mammals too.
You mean, like the Deinosuchus?
Trespassing to shorten your way is also taking something that has value to you (you save time), but it wasn't free for you to take. Shall we call "trespassing" now "stealing way"?
Just because you find some similar aspects in two different things doesn't make them the same.
No, this just allows you to watch it on youtube.
It just shows that Twitter follows Zipf's Law (or at least Pareto's Law). As more and more people join Twitter, the balance gets shifted more and more to the top few.
I am surrounded by events no one ever expected. My hometown was hit in 2002 by a flood that was higher than any records ever, and flooding records for my hometown go back about 300 years. There was an underground shelter used for artifacts of the museum, with a flood protection that was built 30" higher than the highest flood ever recorded (which was 150 years ago), just to be sure -- and this one proved to be insufficient.
So we can conclude: Shit happens. Don't expect any design to be sufficient. Disaster worse than the worst ones we ever had can happen. If you want to assess the risk of anything, you should also assess the risk that all builtin protection fails. Every security that is founded on limited designs is only temporary.
One could spin the same question in the other direction:
So there was a reactor running in a zone known to be exposed to tsunamis, which was not even designed to widthstand a tsunami? And the first tsunami to ever hit it managed to take out the cooling power and the backup cooling power too with one stroke? And the third cooling system managed to keep going for how long? 1.5 hrs? We have a flawly designed reactor at a flawly chosen place. We have been so lucky that nothing happened for 40 years.
No. The phone number gets displayed at the 911 center, so they can lookup anyone calling them and bill them accordingly.
You know that Microsoft is actually and legally convicted because of software piracy? This could backfire. I wouldn't buy from any shop that uses Microsoft software because SoftImage could sue me for triple damages.
Sorry to correct you, and completely offtopic, but "Iran" means "land of the Aryans", and an "Iranian" is just "Aryan".
Please be careful with the words.
You are either for freedom, that stops at the next user, or you are for freedom, that continues after the next person.
"Feel free to beat up anyone you meet" is no freedom either.
Actually, Itanium is a successor to the HP PA RISC architecture and borrows from there.
The employer might actually do you a service.
1. Illegal immigrants will come. The conditions in the regions they come from are so bad that you can't make it worse. You might try to wage a war against parts of your population Mexico style to get close though. So any idea to repell illegal immigrants by being evil is useless and evil at the same time.
2. Once they are here you have to deal with them. You can try to catch as much as you get to send them back. But then the illegal immigrants will just start to hide better. Underground organisations specialised in hiding illegal immigrants will get stronger.
3. The illegal immigrants will look for things to do to make a living. You effectively blocked out any legal work for them, so every occupation they will take is illegal. They will work in drug and human trafficking, They will be paid thugs to underground king pins. They will start ponzi schemes, operate document forgeries, blackmailing any company that provides cheap labor in either working with them or closing up shop and move on.
4. In the end you will have your problems to the power of x.
If you outlaw all employers employing illegal aliens, only illegal employers will employ illegal aliens - and suddenly you get a large illegal sector in your economy, not paying any taxes, not obeying any laws. If this is your goal, then proceed.
(You seem to live under the misconception that illegal aliens start at home with checking the U.S. laws to make sure they get employed legally before entering the U.S. illegally.)