To build on what you're saying, currency requires a comparison to work as well. Originally the comparison was to a commodity like precious metals (coins made of them or paper money guaranteed by it) but since most nations left the gold standard, world-wide currencies are dependent on their comparison to other currencies in order to mitigate differences in commodity prices.
Since Iran is essentially not allowed to compare it's currency to a huge swath of the world's currencies by the sanctions or openly trade many of the commodities it produces, the currency will eventually fail unless they can guarantee it by a local commodity that isn't being traded internationally.
Since almost everything is traded internationally these days, it's unlikely they will find a plug big enough to keep the ship from sinking.
I read the entire, lengthy pile of bullshit presented and I can boil it down for you.
The guy has a list of things he doesn't like and then associates it with a political faction he doesn't like, so he can embarrass the people who do the things he doesn't like by associating them with the political faction they most likely do not want to be affiliated.
It's a Rush Limbaugh tactic used to polarize a topic and try to force people to behave like you want them to behave.
"why would fibre becoming standard change the thing at all?"
Because if files remain about the same size and the bandwidth increases, the file download takes less time and thus less a disruption on everyone else.
That assumption is out the window though if in this fibre utopia everyone discovers they need 60 megapixel videos of their favorite pornos.
You don't need missiles to bring down a stealth plane.
Radar guided artillery can bring down planes just fine, in fact the Syrians used them to bring down the Turkish plane in the news weeks back. I admit it wasn't stealth, but it was going around the same speed.
So, "oly tyme air search radar" could easily be used. Just take several artillery guns, plot the airplane's path from the radar and put flak shells infront of it.
All computer driven, of course. The only thing really causing a problem is the weather (winds), but even most 3rd world countries have fairly decent weather radar systems.
I personally agree with the Greenert. The US has been moving away from simple, practical solutions for the last thirty years or so to try to distance our military products from other nation's wares, to the point that our stuff is starting to become so complex and expensive that their return on investment isn't making sense anymore.
I find the repeated irrational argument that the "hundreds, and more likely thousands, of civilian and military NSA employees" couldn't possibly be evil enough to be helping to create profiles on Americans completely ridiculous.
It doesn't take hundreds or thousands to do this, all it takes is a team of software engineers with access to all compiled information from those hundreds or thousands (or tens of thousands if FBI, SS and such are included) of investigators or researchers.
The majority of these workers at these agencies are most likely good-hearted people, just as most at the banks are as well, but a few corrupt or negligent people with the right access and abilities could be doing what we are all fearing and the rest wouldn't know any better.
The issue is that the information to do this is possibly being collected, and if it is collected it can be used for nefarious purposes.
I live in Maryland as well, and can attest to having three periods without power for more than 12 hours but only one for more than 24 hours (after Hurricane Irene), but I think you need to put things into perspective.
Hurricane Irene took down a ton of trees and probably damaged a significant number of others, which in turn recently got knocked down as well by the durecho.
So, I don't think this is a case of BGE or burying lines, but just a confluence of the age of the trees in most of the suburban areas (which were all built 50-60 years ago, meaning the trees are probably that old as well) with two strong storms sweeping through to knock them down.
We will probably have one more major storm come through and knock down the remaining trees/branches that were damaged, and then a decade or more of barely any power outages since all the damaged/aged trees have been removed or pruned by either storms or humans over-reacting to the storm damage.
While I was in eastern France, Italy and even Germany, I saw plenty of power lines on poles in rural areas, so I doubt this is an American problem.England, less so, but mostly because I never left London.
For instance, storms last year brought down a lot of trees in northern France that caused massive power outages as well.
I think this is less a case of "dilapidated infrastructure" and more a case of EURO vs USA put downs. I should point out that I've never seen a news report here in the US blaming European incompetence when a storm knocks out power.
We have the good sense to blame the storm. A storm in this particular situation was way under-estimated.
Also keep in mind they will most likely vibrate the sheet a bit to provide a little energy to bounce the salt away from the sheet. Or apply a charge to the sheet, either way safe difference.
I'm sure the vibration/charge will cover some of that 0.018nm difference.
A. If you're carrying over ten thousand dollars in cash around, you're either nuts or doing it for sinister purposes.
B. I wish I read your signature before writing this post.
C. Most developed (and some developing) countries have depositor's insurance on accounts, so unless you have more than a million USD sitting in a checking account, you should be fine. Unless, of course, it's the apocalypse, which means cash has no value and you should have invested heavily into bullets (or slingshots, depending on if it was a short term or long term plan).
D. If you are worried about inflation, you don't put your money in a savings account. You either buy Inflation protected securities or invest it in something that appreciates with inflation (gold).
Observations are done through one's perspective, either physically through your senses or devices created to perceive an event based off current technical know how. This means observations are not objective, hence why the Scientific Method requires independent verification of observations.
Once the observations can be trusted, inference is typically used in interpreting the observations to create theories or explanations are also very much dependent on perspective and can never be objective either.
The reason why the process of the Scientific Method has been so successful is it's ability to put observations on record, require those observations to be tested and allow many others to infer what happened during those observations.
You realize not that long ago before mortgages got popular that most people made enough money to save up and buy a house, yes?
When the US government got into the mortgage business, housing prices started appreciating at a rate much faster than wage increases making it nearly impossible to buy a home without a mortgage.
Toss in the two income family to the equation, and you'll understand how mortgages pretty much screwed America royally.
Car loans do the same thing, letting the automobile companies sell you a more expensive car (more than you need) with less up front, inflating their revenues at your expense (literally).
I agree, it does have some administration capabilities, but Microsoft probably left out the heavy hitting stuff because they expect the OS to be owned by consumers and not coworkers.
So, Microsoft had to keep the standard features on the home-user side of the line, otherwise enterprise features would allow a personal tablet or phone to be commandeered by their company's IT staff.
And I agree with them, they should keep the two separate or at least make sure the two are well defined in the OS so one can't harm the other.
This article followed up on an op ed in New Scientist by Mann awhile bit, is starting to get ridiculous and smell of hypocrisy.
The majority of the people who do not agree with the conclusions of AWG are not a part of a conspiracy, nor have most even been influenced by a conspiracy to believe such.
While the opposite is true for those who do believe in AWG, since the government and media pushes environmental efforts on television and other media big time (movies, internet, etc.), from recycling to thinking "green" or demonizing others not in-line with the think-speak.
Yet, there are these continuing charges that those who do not believe are conspiring against the movement?
I just don't see it. The media and government helps out the AWG camp to a much greater degree than any opposition could possibly do in hiding.
It's like Gaddafi or Assad calling their opponents terrorists to garner support, while the rebels are being bombarded by an armament hundreds of times greater.
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To build on what you're saying, currency requires a comparison to work as well. Originally the comparison was to a commodity like precious metals (coins made of them or paper money guaranteed by it) but since most nations left the gold standard, world-wide currencies are dependent on their comparison to other currencies in order to mitigate differences in commodity prices.
Since Iran is essentially not allowed to compare it's currency to a huge swath of the world's currencies by the sanctions or openly trade many of the commodities it produces, the currency will eventually fail unless they can guarantee it by a local commodity that isn't being traded internationally.
Since almost everything is traded internationally these days, it's unlikely they will find a plug big enough to keep the ship from sinking.
Wait till they get to college, where they get treated like products and consumers!
Or the embedded information can only be seen from sharpening when there is JPEG compression.
The watermark is probably in the uncompressed files too, you just can't easily pull them out with sharpening because the file is uncompressed.
I read the entire, lengthy pile of bullshit presented and I can boil it down for you.
The guy has a list of things he doesn't like and then associates it with a political faction he doesn't like, so he can embarrass the people who do the things he doesn't like by associating them with the political faction they most likely do not want to be affiliated.
It's a Rush Limbaugh tactic used to polarize a topic and try to force people to behave like you want them to behave.
"why would fibre becoming standard change the thing at all?"
Because if files remain about the same size and the bandwidth increases, the file download takes less time and thus less a disruption on everyone else.
That assumption is out the window though if in this fibre utopia everyone discovers they need 60 megapixel videos of their favorite pornos.
All of the numbers are taken out of context either intentionally or ignorantly.
The two percentages listed, taken from "operating income" and EBITDA, don't include the taxes or interest on debt for the service.
You want to see a bigger picture, take a look at the statistics.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=T+Key+Statistics
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=VZ+Key+Statistics
Interest on 64.53B and 52.39B in debt, respectively, isn't cheap and the Feds take a pretty penny in corporate income taxes as well as FCC fees.
It was a research flight testing Syrian defenses, duh.
Turkish F-16s are very nice, by the way. Especially the Ds. Wish I could afford one.
Obligatory fanboy zing.
You don't need missiles to bring down a stealth plane. Radar guided artillery can bring down planes just fine, in fact the Syrians used them to bring down the Turkish plane in the news weeks back. I admit it wasn't stealth, but it was going around the same speed.
So, "oly tyme air search radar" could easily be used. Just take several artillery guns, plot the airplane's path from the radar and put flak shells infront of it.
All computer driven, of course. The only thing really causing a problem is the weather (winds), but even most 3rd world countries have fairly decent weather radar systems.
I personally agree with the Greenert. The US has been moving away from simple, practical solutions for the last thirty years or so to try to distance our military products from other nation's wares, to the point that our stuff is starting to become so complex and expensive that their return on investment isn't making sense anymore.
I wouldn't call mutual assured destruction an act of diplomacy.
That would be like calling gravity an act of mercy for a sky diver.
I find the repeated irrational argument that the "hundreds, and more likely thousands, of civilian and military NSA employees" couldn't possibly be evil enough to be helping to create profiles on Americans completely ridiculous.
It doesn't take hundreds or thousands to do this, all it takes is a team of software engineers with access to all compiled information from those hundreds or thousands (or tens of thousands if FBI, SS and such are included) of investigators or researchers.
The majority of these workers at these agencies are most likely good-hearted people, just as most at the banks are as well, but a few corrupt or negligent people with the right access and abilities could be doing what we are all fearing and the rest wouldn't know any better.
The issue is that the information to do this is possibly being collected, and if it is collected it can be used for nefarious purposes.
..is the iPad 3.
SAY IT! I WANT TO HEAR YOU SAY IT!
No more of this "the new" crap.
I live in Maryland as well, and can attest to having three periods without power for more than 12 hours but only one for more than 24 hours (after Hurricane Irene), but I think you need to put things into perspective.
Hurricane Irene took down a ton of trees and probably damaged a significant number of others, which in turn recently got knocked down as well by the durecho.
So, I don't think this is a case of BGE or burying lines, but just a confluence of the age of the trees in most of the suburban areas (which were all built 50-60 years ago, meaning the trees are probably that old as well) with two strong storms sweeping through to knock them down.
We will probably have one more major storm come through and knock down the remaining trees/branches that were damaged, and then a decade or more of barely any power outages since all the damaged/aged trees have been removed or pruned by either storms or humans over-reacting to the storm damage.
Where in Europe, if I may ask?
While I was in eastern France, Italy and even Germany, I saw plenty of power lines on poles in rural areas, so I doubt this is an American problem.England, less so, but mostly because I never left London.
For instance, storms last year brought down a lot of trees in northern France that caused massive power outages as well.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=54
I think this is less a case of "dilapidated infrastructure" and more a case of EURO vs USA put downs. I should point out that I've never seen a news report here in the US blaming European incompetence when a storm knocks out power.
We have the good sense to blame the storm. A storm in this particular situation was way under-estimated.
Also keep in mind they will most likely vibrate the sheet a bit to provide a little energy to bounce the salt away from the sheet. Or apply a charge to the sheet, either way safe difference. I'm sure the vibration/charge will cover some of that 0.018nm difference.
Meteor's do not always fall, some just skip along the atmosphere and head back into space.
That said, I hope Apple falls and burns without a Tunguska event.
A. If you're carrying over ten thousand dollars in cash around, you're either nuts or doing it for sinister purposes.
B. I wish I read your signature before writing this post.
C. Most developed (and some developing) countries have depositor's insurance on accounts, so unless you have more than a million USD sitting in a checking account, you should be fine. Unless, of course, it's the apocalypse, which means cash has no value and you should have invested heavily into bullets (or slingshots, depending on if it was a short term or long term plan).
D. If you are worried about inflation, you don't put your money in a savings account. You either buy Inflation protected securities or invest it in something that appreciates with inflation (gold).
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glance.htm
Observations are done through one's perspective, either physically through your senses or devices created to perceive an event based off current technical know how. This means observations are not objective, hence why the Scientific Method requires independent verification of observations.
Once the observations can be trusted, inference is typically used in interpreting the observations to create theories or explanations are also very much dependent on perspective and can never be objective either.
The reason why the process of the Scientific Method has been so successful is it's ability to put observations on record, require those observations to be tested and allow many others to infer what happened during those observations.
Because there are people trying to turn Science into a religion to either push their preferences or oppose the other religions out of spite.
All internal traffic is excluded from limits or else!
You realize not that long ago before mortgages got popular that most people made enough money to save up and buy a house, yes?
When the US government got into the mortgage business, housing prices started appreciating at a rate much faster than wage increases making it nearly impossible to buy a home without a mortgage.
Toss in the two income family to the equation, and you'll understand how mortgages pretty much screwed America royally.
Car loans do the same thing, letting the automobile companies sell you a more expensive car (more than you need) with less up front, inflating their revenues at your expense (literally).
Anonymity systems don't work if there's a finite number of people who know about the issue in enough detail to blow a whistle.
I agree, it does have some administration capabilities, but Microsoft probably left out the heavy hitting stuff because they expect the OS to be owned by consumers and not coworkers.
So, Microsoft had to keep the standard features on the home-user side of the line, otherwise enterprise features would allow a personal tablet or phone to be commandeered by their company's IT staff.
And I agree with them, they should keep the two separate or at least make sure the two are well defined in the OS so one can't harm the other.
Planet migration theories have been floating around since the 1970s. Nothing new, but I guess Discovery's standards are continuing to fall.
This article followed up on an op ed in New Scientist by Mann awhile bit, is starting to get ridiculous and smell of hypocrisy. The majority of the people who do not agree with the conclusions of AWG are not a part of a conspiracy, nor have most even been influenced by a conspiracy to believe such.
While the opposite is true for those who do believe in AWG, since the government and media pushes environmental efforts on television and other media big time (movies, internet, etc.), from recycling to thinking "green" or demonizing others not in-line with the think-speak.
Yet, there are these continuing charges that those who do not believe are conspiring against the movement?
I just don't see it. The media and government helps out the AWG camp to a much greater degree than any opposition could possibly do in hiding.
It's like Gaddafi or Assad calling their opponents terrorists to garner support, while the rebels are being bombarded by an armament hundreds of times greater.