Sort of a reverse miracle. I'm guessing THAT is the case since you are able to see that video, and yet you are blind to what is happening there.
Zimbabwe is the case of a catastrophic failure of government AND the economic system that has no access to a strong economic system (no foreign currency available to its citizens), no infrastructure to speak of, basically 0 accumulated personal wealth owned by its citizens - BUT with rather easy access to exploitable natural resources. Like gold and people.
They are trading gold for bread cause that is the only valuable thing they can get their hands on - and there are no readily available banks or exchange offices for them to get their hands on dollars or Euros. And the price is "what the market can bear" - i.e. or what one man can dig up in a day. Wanna know why?
Because their economic system got replaced by an exploitation system. It's not even a barter system. Gold traders are just using them as basically free workforce in order to get to the natural resources of the land which are basically no longer under anyone's care. You know what would happen if they were able to dig up gold for two breads? Price of the bread would go up. They are simply slave labor, only without any visible chains or any particular "master" to claim them as his property.
THAT is the image of the "golden standard". Sifting earth the whole day long in order to buy a loaf of bread. Cause gold ain't worth squat if you can't trade it to a fair trader for a fair price.
And I'm making a guess here, but I assume that you are not one of those people I mentioned in the post above - the ones who've actually seen an economic system collapse. Cause I am one of those people. Seen it, lived it, made it to the other side. Bosnia. '92, winter of '93 in particular, '94- '95 it was already looking up as trade and aid roads opened up.
First your money becomes worthless, but most people are not aware of it yet. You can still buy locally produced food - like milk and other perishable items that must be sold anyway. If you are living in an urban setting you might also get some stamps which you have to have along with your money in order to buy that milk. That's if your local government has some level of social responsibility instead of just letting the "invisible hand of the market" fix everything. Meanwhile, those with money, who are aware where things are going are bringing out bags full of old money and buying up foreign currency.
Pretty soon though, everyone catches on to the fact that your old money is worthless for anything with actual value - like clothing, home appliances, spare parts, luxury items, high-calorie food, medicines... You must have strong currency to buy those. Like Dollars or Deutsche Marks - later being the preferred foreign currency even before the war. But hold on... There can't be enough foreign currency going around, right? What do you use for change and stuff? Simple. Take the biggest banknote you got in the bank vaults (the only one with any value left in it), take a large rubber stamp - and turn the former currency into scrip with new value, adjusted according to the current value of foreign currency. You could print your own new currency too, but that makes sense only once trade routes between cities and with the "outside" are functional again. Until then, scrip will do fine - and it's easily exchangeable for old "non-scripped" money.
Sure, you can sell your jewelery and buy things, but guess what? Price of gold goes down the drain. Hear those gold traders in that video of yours asking for 0.1 gram of gold for a tin of grain? HA!
You could get a whole gold wedding ring for that much corn in '93. Plus a "One can't eat gold. THIS... corn... is what one lives from". That piece of wisdom from a peasant with maybe 4 years of elementary education but with plent
If the economy collapses that far foreign currency will be used long before gold or silver. Even then, expect prices to be very high as demand for good will be much higher than demand for stores of value.
THIS.
When your economic system collapses you don't simply forget how modern economy works and turn to bartering raw goods. Instead, you lean on the closest neighboring system that is still reliable.
Also, gold and silver would be almost worthless in such an economy. Just ask anyone who spent a year or two in a country where a war was going on at the time. A dozen eggs gets traded for a solid gold ring with an emerald or two. Or for 20-40 units of preferred foreign currency if you have any. And if there are any eggs to buy in the first place.
Apple strength in hardware sales lies in its device and media ecosystemâ"every Apple product is connected through iTunes/iOS and is synergetic with all other Apple products. As a result, committed users of the Apple ecosystem derive more value from each additional Apple device they buy, and users have little interest in leaving the Apple realm.
In other words, through a common ecosystem, Apple leverages each device to sell other devices. Rising device sales to consumers then leads to increased semiconductor purchasing by Apple. . . A buyer that once purchased a Hewlett-Packard PC would just as likely purchase a Dell PC next if the price was better, given that there is little or no value in purchasing another Hewlett-Packard.
Stupid PC buyers... buying according to their needs and monetary abilities. Why can't they learn that it is much better to be "committed". Also, HP (and Samsung) buys almost as much semiconductors as Apple (even without all those pricey touchscreens) - but it sucks ass. While Apple rocks.
Liam Neeson thought that it was all "will power or something" until they told him during the making of "The Phantom Menace" that "No, there is a switch right here. See?".
Well, there ARE conflicting reports on that subject.
But I do believe that the man often referred to by his euphemism-for-a-bodily-function designation/nickname SHOULD be somewhat of an expert regarding the issue.
Rishra, India, the city on the bottom of that list has almost twice the population than what that hypothetical "City of Texas" would have. Also, even for an Anonymous Coward, aren't we being a bit too literal?
Toothache and lack of sleep impacts my math skills. By about 100%. XD
Still, unavoidable natural disasters that happen once in a century or so are not really something you can blame on human stupidity. It would be like calling citizens of City X stupid for not being prepared for that meteor shower that devastated their town.
Also, we could all live in Texas. And still there be room even there, cause we would have to send of millions to farm African savannah so that everyone in the world could be fed.
You would have to go with World War 2 to match such criteria. We ARE talking about the human population on the entire planet, right?
Even at 1939 numbers ALL the causalities lie between 3 an 4% of the entire population. ~78 million dead, biggest and dirtiest war in history, fought on almost all parts of the planet, only nuclear war in history (so far) - and still not even 1 in 20 humans were killed. And not for the lack of trying.
Barring AIDS-flu or global thermonuclear war or alien invasion there is no chance we are ever going to reach those 0.001% of population with one shot.
Maybe they should organize into some kind of Sketch Artist Industry of America organization, and sue everyone for watching courtroom videos instead of looking at their static, yet artistic and unique, drawings? I'm sure that over the years they've gotten to know a few lawyers who'd represent them in their quest to ban cameras from courtrooms once again.
I mean... hey... this gets to be "proven medical fact", we might as well may start giving out guns and shovels to emotionally sensitive people. Also, it becomes A-OK to ram someone off the road if they annoy you. And just think of all wonderful implications to self-harming yet externally induced emotions like jealousy?
Either Kevlar-yellow will become the new black, or we'll start putting antidepressants into drinking water.
NASA has 4 Space Shuttles. Only one of them actually flies any more.
Enterprise never flew to space and has been in a museum for a long time now. Discovery got decommissioned earlier this year and is on its way to a museum. Endeavour is in the process of decommissioning. Atlantis is the only remaining Shuttle that is actually operational.
Oh and... My original post was a joke. You know... Ha-ha, LOL, +1 Funny and all that...
Russian capsules, Italian photo-taking astronauts (as if...)...
Clearly the simpler solution is that it was shopped. William of Ockham says so. And you can't fight him. Not just cause he packs a blade, but also cause he's been dead for a very long time.
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Unless you are building chips for your hardware by yourself in your underground lab, using tools you also built by yourself - yes they do.
Sort of a reverse miracle.
I'm guessing THAT is the case since you are able to see that video, and yet you are blind to what is happening there.
Zimbabwe is the case of a catastrophic failure of government AND the economic system that has no access to a strong economic system (no foreign currency available to its citizens), no infrastructure to speak of, basically 0 accumulated personal wealth owned by its citizens - BUT with rather easy access to exploitable natural resources.
Like gold and people.
They are trading gold for bread cause that is the only valuable thing they can get their hands on - and there are no readily available banks or exchange offices for them to get their hands on dollars or Euros.
And the price is "what the market can bear" - i.e. or what one man can dig up in a day. Wanna know why?
Because their economic system got replaced by an exploitation system.
It's not even a barter system. Gold traders are just using them as basically free workforce in order to get to the natural resources of the land which are basically no longer under anyone's care.
You know what would happen if they were able to dig up gold for two breads? Price of the bread would go up.
They are simply slave labor, only without any visible chains or any particular "master" to claim them as his property.
THAT is the image of the "golden standard". Sifting earth the whole day long in order to buy a loaf of bread.
Cause gold ain't worth squat if you can't trade it to a fair trader for a fair price.
And I'm making a guess here, but I assume that you are not one of those people I mentioned in the post above - the ones who've actually seen an economic system collapse.
Cause I am one of those people. Seen it, lived it, made it to the other side.
Bosnia. '92, winter of '93 in particular, '94- '95 it was already looking up as trade and aid roads opened up.
First your money becomes worthless, but most people are not aware of it yet.
You can still buy locally produced food - like milk and other perishable items that must be sold anyway.
If you are living in an urban setting you might also get some stamps which you have to have along with your money in order to buy that milk.
That's if your local government has some level of social responsibility instead of just letting the "invisible hand of the market" fix everything.
Meanwhile, those with money, who are aware where things are going are bringing out bags full of old money and buying up foreign currency.
Pretty soon though, everyone catches on to the fact that your old money is worthless for anything with actual value - like clothing, home appliances, spare parts, luxury items, high-calorie food, medicines...
You must have strong currency to buy those. Like Dollars or Deutsche Marks - later being the preferred foreign currency even before the war.
But hold on... There can't be enough foreign currency going around, right? What do you use for change and stuff?
Simple. Take the biggest banknote you got in the bank vaults (the only one with any value left in it), take a large rubber stamp - and turn the former currency into scrip with new value, adjusted according to the current value of foreign currency.
You could print your own new currency too, but that makes sense only once trade routes between cities and with the "outside" are functional again.
Until then, scrip will do fine - and it's easily exchangeable for old "non-scripped" money.
Sure, you can sell your jewelery and buy things, but guess what? Price of gold goes down the drain.
Hear those gold traders in that video of yours asking for 0.1 gram of gold for a tin of grain? HA!
You could get a whole gold wedding ring for that much corn in '93.
Plus a "One can't eat gold. THIS... corn... is what one lives from".
That piece of wisdom from a peasant with maybe 4 years of elementary education but with plent
If the economy collapses that far foreign currency will be used long before gold or silver. Even then, expect prices to be very high as demand for good will be much higher than demand for stores of value.
THIS.
When your economic system collapses you don't simply forget how modern economy works and turn to bartering raw goods.
Instead, you lean on the closest neighboring system that is still reliable.
Also, gold and silver would be almost worthless in such an economy. Just ask anyone who spent a year or two in a country where a war was going on at the time.
A dozen eggs gets traded for a solid gold ring with an emerald or two. Or for 20-40 units of preferred foreign currency if you have any.
And if there are any eggs to buy in the first place.
udder corruption
That sounds kinky.
Apple strength in hardware sales lies in its device and media ecosystemâ"every Apple product is connected through iTunes/iOS and is synergetic with all other Apple products.
As a result, committed users of the Apple ecosystem derive more value from each additional Apple device they buy, and users have little interest in leaving the Apple realm.
In other words, through a common ecosystem, Apple leverages each device to sell other devices. Rising device sales to consumers then leads to increased semiconductor purchasing by Apple.
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A buyer that once purchased a Hewlett-Packard PC would just as likely purchase a Dell PC next if the price was better, given that there is little or no value in purchasing another Hewlett-Packard.
Stupid PC buyers... buying according to their needs and monetary abilities. Why can't they learn that it is much better to be "committed".
Also, HP (and Samsung) buys almost as much semiconductors as Apple (even without all those pricey touchscreens) - but it sucks ass.
While Apple rocks.
Liam Neeson thought that it was all "will power or something" until they told him during the making of "The Phantom Menace" that "No, there is a switch right here. See?".
Can't seem to find the video of that though.
And three hacks?
Dude! Everyone knows that it's one babe per hack. By accepting such low standards you're screwing up the surveys.
Well, there ARE conflicting reports on that subject.
But I do believe that the man often referred to by his euphemism-for-a-bodily-function designation/nickname SHOULD be somewhat of an expert regarding the issue.
They make me laugh, WHILE their life remains miserable due to the lack of ability to get a joke.
What's not to like, right?
Truly, all these cities must be pure hell to live in.
Rishra, India, the city on the bottom of that list has almost twice the population than what that hypothetical "City of Texas" would have.
Also, even for an Anonymous Coward, aren't we being a bit too literal?
Toothache and lack of sleep impacts my math skills. By about 100%. XD
Still, unavoidable natural disasters that happen once in a century or so are not really something you can blame on human stupidity.
It would be like calling citizens of City X stupid for not being prepared for that meteor shower that devastated their town.
How exactly is this particular case different from the one where another technology (like e-mail, telephone, carrier pigeon...) would have been used?
Give or take a couple a hundred million or so...
Also, we could all live in Texas.
And still there be room even there, cause we would have to send of millions to farm African savannah so that everyone in the world could be fed.
You would have to go with World War 2 to match such criteria.
We ARE talking about the human population on the entire planet, right?
Even at 1939 numbers ALL the causalities lie between 3 an 4% of the entire population.
~78 million dead, biggest and dirtiest war in history, fought on almost all parts of the planet, only nuclear war in history (so far) - and still not even 1 in 20 humans were killed.
And not for the lack of trying.
Barring AIDS-flu or global thermonuclear war or alien invasion there is no chance we are ever going to reach those 0.001% of population with one shot.
...sketch artists?
Maybe they should organize into some kind of Sketch Artist Industry of America organization, and sue everyone for watching courtroom videos instead of looking at their static, yet artistic and unique, drawings?
I'm sure that over the years they've gotten to know a few lawyers who'd represent them in their quest to ban cameras from courtrooms once again.
...what those glass-cutting machines were for.
You'd think that by now people would learn how it goes with Apple rumors.
And only one toilet.
That was an alien lifeform.
Although... The creature WAS rather partial to creating apples out of thin air.
All those glass walls and it's circularish shape remind me more of another British-imagined building.
Does that mean it will be surrounded by guns and tanks pointing at it, or that there will be unwarranted rectal probing for all visitors?
I mean... hey... this gets to be "proven medical fact", we might as well may start giving out guns and shovels to emotionally sensitive people.
Also, it becomes A-OK to ram someone off the road if they annoy you.
And just think of all wonderful implications to self-harming yet externally induced emotions like jealousy?
Either Kevlar-yellow will become the new black, or we'll start putting antidepressants into drinking water.
Balls (or head) usually don't start to hurt again when you remember you were kicked some time ago.
NASA has 4 Space Shuttles. Only one of them actually flies any more.
Enterprise never flew to space and has been in a museum for a long time now.
Discovery got decommissioned earlier this year and is on its way to a museum.
Endeavour is in the process of decommissioning.
Atlantis is the only remaining Shuttle that is actually operational.
Oh and... My original post was a joke. You know... Ha-ha, LOL, +1 Funny and all that...
Russian capsules, Italian photo-taking astronauts (as if...)...
Clearly the simpler solution is that it was shopped. William of Ockham says so.
And you can't fight him. Not just cause he packs a blade, but also cause he's been dead for a very long time.
It's photographed FROM OUTSIDE. And that's the only shuttle NASA has.
So, unless the aliens took that photo, it was clearly shopped.