Cash isn't instructively valuable, and silver and gold aren't that intrinsically valuable.
Food, water, and shelter are really the only material things instructively valuable to humans. Everything else is valuable based on weather it is an end to one of these material things or to some sort of enjoyment.
"Then you run into the very serious problem of whether or not there is enough gold in the world to represent the value you need. Seriously. Word GDP"
Not really you just take your gold holding divide it by currency, the value will adjust fairly quickly.
But there is also silver, platinum, iridium rhodium, and a few other rare, durable, and valuable metals that could be combined into a monetary alloy so as to increase the supply, decrease the impact on any given industry, and to keep any specific mining region from influencing the supply too much.
You can carry small amounts for daily purchases, and certificates for large amounts, or strictly limit cash and credit creation to match the amount of metals actually held in reserve.
The real problems are political, such a currency would put serious limits upon governmental speeding, which was why it was abandoned, and why you'll not see it revived.
There is no such thing as a neutral currency. Changes in demands for cash holdings will always reflect in changes of price.
It just needs to be less deflationary than the typical time preference to avoid hoarding. Then investment will go into capital rather than coin.
People demand money as a good in it's own right because of the things they can exchange it for. If money becomes worth more, most people feel comfortable with a smaller reserve on hand.
Gold is not in a bubble, if anything is still under-valued. About 1/2 to 2/3rds of gold certificates are not backed by any physical Gold at all. A lot of manufacturing demand, and combined with jewelery sales gold stocks are shrinking.
Gold clauses were enforceable before 1933. (and probably are post-Breton woods).
That decision was based on the fact private ownership of gold was illegal, therefore the plaintiff had no legal right to demand gold. The opinion in that case called the specific law abhorrent, but nonetheless dismissed the case as there was no cognizable legal interest in controversy.
When people talk money they put the unit on it. Say dollars or whatever.
Then good faith would require the seller to accept any reasonable means of payment, unless prior notice was given that such a method was not acceptable payment (for example a sign might be posted, cash or local checks only).
Not quite. It's legal tender for all debts. IF I want to sell something only for bitcoin or in barter, I am perfectly free to refuse cash offers.
Legal Tender for purchases in the U.S hasn't happened sense the revolutionary war.
And even beside that before 1933 many contracts had species collection clauses, meaning that the entirety of the debt could be called in as gold coin rather than paper. One or two sentences in a contract can establish the legal tender for that transaction.
The government need government backing of money so that it can more easily direct and control trade. However the requirement you and I, not so much. Avoiding an extra clause or two in credit contracts is really not all that useful for you or I.
It's really pseudonymous rather than anonymous. You need an identity to participate in bitcoin transactions, it just doesn't neccesarily need to be linked to a real life or legal identity.
Somalia wasn't a failed state, it was a failure to create 8 states. It's a very tribal culture, and each tribe should just be recognized individually, imperial sensibilities be damned.
The suits are designed to be use during takeoff and landing as an emergency backup *within* the spacecraft.
Radiation really isn't the main issue there.
Depends on what you are doing. Some things GPU's are much more effecient. Say bitcoin mining. Best ratio of Mhash/Joule was.3 for the best intel processor, and 2.5 for some AMD cards.
So even 3-4 years down the road there are other factors that may stop Intel. Switching speed for silicon have really met the limit, significantly higher speeds will require entirely new processes. Main memory is becoming faster and cache is getting bigger. In reality the designs have moved towards each other. RISC almost always has a moderately long pipeline (5-9 stages) with branch prediction (becuase almost noone goes back after writing code to eliminate or minimize pipeline stalls) and vector processors. CISC has an internal RISC instruction and an interpreter sub-assembly to reduce the number of transistors needed in the main Units.
Not really, there is still open stuff (and the base system is open), it's just that that model lets you tax closed source programs that run on an Open Source OS and dump the money back into improving the base system.
If you understand the code and have root access to the device and drivers, there is still a few steps between seeing the code and implementing a workaround. In addition there are so many non-infringing used of the code, I can't see the code alone ever being considered are a circumvention device under the DMCA.
1. Normal firearms do not require oxygen for the powder to ignite. The powders are only able to burn so rapidly because oxidizers are mixed int. In fact without a atmosphere the bullets wont slow down with distance.
2. Explosives also do not require external oxygen. The explosion is created by the rapid formation of gases from withing the explosive material.
3. Recoil is easy to solve. Fire a blank in the oposite direction for every round.
5. Maybe, but it can also be used so that the debris clogs up enemy movement paths more than your own.
6. Not really, any old bit or scrap or metallic meteorite you find along the way can be transformed into a projectile.
The mountpoint is optional if it's already defined in fstab or mtab for a given device or file.
Mount needs to be as complicated as it is, because it is the only utility used in Linux systems to mount drives and all those options are needed in the init process.
The solution if probably to integrate udisk functionality into the right click menu file.
The Anarchists cookbook is just as likely to kill you than to help you kill anyone else. U.S Military Manuals are better sources of information if terror is your aim.
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xdg-open will determine the MIME type of a file and launch a program accordingly.
Cash isn't instructively valuable, and silver and gold aren't that intrinsically valuable. Food, water, and shelter are really the only material things instructively valuable to humans. Everything else is valuable based on weather it is an end to one of these material things or to some sort of enjoyment.
Energy is hard to store.
Not really you just take your gold holding divide it by currency, the value will adjust fairly quickly.
But there is also silver, platinum, iridium rhodium, and a few other rare, durable, and valuable metals that could be combined into a monetary alloy so as to increase the supply, decrease the impact on any given industry, and to keep any specific mining region from influencing the supply too much.
You can carry small amounts for daily purchases, and certificates for large amounts, or strictly limit cash and credit creation to match the amount of metals actually held in reserve.
The real problems are political, such a currency would put serious limits upon governmental speeding, which was why it was abandoned, and why you'll not see it revived.
There is no such thing as a neutral currency. Changes in demands for cash holdings will always reflect in changes of price. It just needs to be less deflationary than the typical time preference to avoid hoarding. Then investment will go into capital rather than coin. People demand money as a good in it's own right because of the things they can exchange it for. If money becomes worth more, most people feel comfortable with a smaller reserve on hand.
Gold is not in a bubble, if anything is still under-valued. About 1/2 to 2/3rds of gold certificates are not backed by any physical Gold at all. A lot of manufacturing demand, and combined with jewelery sales gold stocks are shrinking.
Probably easier to dig a hole, fill it with water, stock it with little fish and wait a year.
Sure they will as per barter, but will generally only award damages for a dollar equivalent.
Gold clauses were enforceable before 1933. (and probably are post-Breton woods). That decision was based on the fact private ownership of gold was illegal, therefore the plaintiff had no legal right to demand gold. The opinion in that case called the specific law abhorrent, but nonetheless dismissed the case as there was no cognizable legal interest in controversy.
When people talk money they put the unit on it. Say dollars or whatever. Then good faith would require the seller to accept any reasonable means of payment, unless prior notice was given that such a method was not acceptable payment (for example a sign might be posted, cash or local checks only).
Not quite. It's legal tender for all debts. IF I want to sell something only for bitcoin or in barter, I am perfectly free to refuse cash offers. Legal Tender for purchases in the U.S hasn't happened sense the revolutionary war. And even beside that before 1933 many contracts had species collection clauses, meaning that the entirety of the debt could be called in as gold coin rather than paper. One or two sentences in a contract can establish the legal tender for that transaction. The government need government backing of money so that it can more easily direct and control trade. However the requirement you and I, not so much. Avoiding an extra clause or two in credit contracts is really not all that useful for you or I.
Wrong, the anonymous step here is the cash. Bitcoin is pseudonymous
It's really pseudonymous rather than anonymous. You need an identity to participate in bitcoin transactions, it just doesn't neccesarily need to be linked to a real life or legal identity.
Google patched in support recently for ivy-bridge. In all likelihood some of the next-gen chromebooks will ship with coreboot installed.
Somalia wasn't a failed state, it was a failure to create 8 states. It's a very tribal culture, and each tribe should just be recognized individually, imperial sensibilities be damned.
The suits are designed to be use during takeoff and landing as an emergency backup *within* the spacecraft. Radiation really isn't the main issue there.
Read the article, it is a real netbook (albiet ARM processor). Looks like a discontinued model being dumped for a bargain price. (100 normal retail)
Intel boards do have IC2 buses, they just are rarely used for anything except monitoring hardware temps.
Depends on what you are doing. Some things GPU's are much more effecient. Say bitcoin mining. Best ratio of Mhash/Joule was .3 for the best intel processor, and 2.5 for some AMD cards.
So even 3-4 years down the road there are other factors that may stop Intel. Switching speed for silicon have really met the limit, significantly higher speeds will require entirely new processes. Main memory is becoming faster and cache is getting bigger. In reality the designs have moved towards each other. RISC almost always has a moderately long pipeline (5-9 stages) with branch prediction (becuase almost noone goes back after writing code to eliminate or minimize pipeline stalls) and vector processors. CISC has an internal RISC instruction and an interpreter sub-assembly to reduce the number of transistors needed in the main Units.
Not really, there is still open stuff (and the base system is open), it's just that that model lets you tax closed source programs that run on an Open Source OS and dump the money back into improving the base system.
If you understand the code and have root access to the device and drivers, there is still a few steps between seeing the code and implementing a workaround. In addition there are so many non-infringing used of the code, I can't see the code alone ever being considered are a circumvention device under the DMCA.
Why? knowing how a DRM measure works is not the same as bypassing it. We know how public key encryption works, but don't worry about SSL not working.
1. Normal firearms do not require oxygen for the powder to ignite. The powders are only able to burn so rapidly because oxidizers are mixed int. In fact without a atmosphere the bullets wont slow down with distance. 2. Explosives also do not require external oxygen. The explosion is created by the rapid formation of gases from withing the explosive material. 3. Recoil is easy to solve. Fire a blank in the oposite direction for every round. 5. Maybe, but it can also be used so that the debris clogs up enemy movement paths more than your own. 6. Not really, any old bit or scrap or metallic meteorite you find along the way can be transformed into a projectile.
The mountpoint is optional if it's already defined in fstab or mtab for a given device or file.
Mount needs to be as complicated as it is, because it is the only utility used in Linux systems to mount drives and all those options are needed in the init process.
The solution if probably to integrate udisk functionality into the right click menu file.
The Anarchists cookbook is just as likely to kill you than to help you kill anyone else. U.S Military Manuals are better sources of information if terror is your aim.