Actually, that's not completely true. Deficit spending as a function of GDP has actually been pretty low for several decades. It wasn't until GWB initiated the bailout that Obama continued (note that Obama kept most of GWB's financial advisors in key positions) that we've seen an incredibly sharp rise in deficit spending.
Deficit spending is the very definition of inflation. Inflation of the money supply is not necessarily a bad thing. A little is necessary in order to meet the needs of a growing economy. The HUGE debt that we've been saddled with to pay off those fraudulent bankers is so far outside the norm of our country's history that it will become the dominant financial factor for the next several decades. Our great-grandkids are still going to be paying it off.
And who controls the supply of money? Please note that I'm not talking about tying money to a particular resource, but who actually decides what money is. Or have you forgotten the telephone sanitizers all getting rich from hoarding leaves?:-)
IOW, I've weighed the consequences carefully and made a conscious decision that particular approach is not for me. Rather than accept the flawed offering of a vendor, I have instead decided to either (a) wait for another vendor to produce something that I actually want, or (b) do without indefinitely. Yep, that seems to be "typical modern, western thinking." And this is wrong because...?
It's true, some perfectly legal, innocent activities would trigger positive results on initial screening tests, but further testing can tell the difference between that sort of false positive and genuine drug use.
And you're assuming that (a) drug labs never make mistakes, (b) a company will actually be willing to pay for follow up tests rather than just fire the individual in question, and (c) regardless of the outcome of the follow up tests, will not treat the individual as a pariah. Sadly, people being people my guess is that in most cases the reverse is true. If you are in a job that requires regular random drug testing, for your sake I sure hope you stay away from poppy seed bagels and optometrists.
US warships are not keeping Cuba isolated. Cuba can buy and sell goods from anywhere in the world _except_ the U.S.
Does that make the embargo a valuable initiative that serves U.S. strategic interests? Through the 60s, 70s, and 80s, absolutely. A strategic partner of the USSR needed to be closely watched. Anyone who thinks otherwise wasn't paying attention during the Cold War.
Now? I can't see any reason to keep it in place, personally. I think we should have shut it down 10 years ago at the latest.
Two thoughts: Inflation is going to go through the roof pretty soon (what? you slept through your high school economics where they explained that deficit spending is the very definition of inflation?), so $5 for a level may very well be peanuts. OTOH, inflation is going to go through the roof pretty soon, so incidentals like entertainment are going to become harder for people to justify to themselves.
My guess is that we're likely to see a resurgence of all sorts of cheap ways to entertain ourselves. In the gaming market, I expect that might mean companies like Good Old Games are liable to make a killing. Certainly, 99 cent games like Angry Birds are likely to continue to do well.
Where do you live that this is such a problem? I've never seen that kind of issue in any library in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul for those outside the U.S.) area. And we certainly have our share of homeless here, even with winters that can sometimes be brutal.
Actually, it's easy enough to create the same sort of situation. Many U.S. banks have offered limited fund debit cards for years. Just set one up for a kid and load it up once a month as part of their allowance. If a kid maxes it out buying online toys, how is that any different from when I used to spend my entire allowance on Spiderman and Batman comic books?
Personally, I wouldn't have shown him my ID either. He has no right to anything but your name unless you're operating a motor vehicle in which case you need to show your license.
Actually, that's no longer true in the U.S. What form that may take depends upon the state that you live in. In some, you are only required to verbally identify yourself. In some (most?), you are now required to show some form of identification. That is generally a picture ID issued by a governmental agency.
Why, oh why, do Europeans keep up this meme? You ever visit Switzerland, for heaven's sake? Every adult male is required to keep a fully automatic rifle and two clips of ammunition in his house. He's also expected to keep up on his target practice. Both requirements are a part of Swiss citizenship.
Trust me. Gun ownership rules are a LOT tighter in the U.S. than they are in some places.:-)
First of all a creek has none of the raucous, vulgar, freewheeling character of a crick. If they were people, creeks would wear tuxedos and amuse themselves with the ballet, opera, and witty conversation; cricks would go around in their undershirts and amuse themselves with the Saturday night fights, taverns, and humorous belching. Creeks would perspire and cricks, sweat. Creeks would smoke pipes; cricks, chew and spit.
Translation: Novell's LDAP stack works correctly and Microsoft's incompatibility with the standard is regarded by AC as a feature, not the bug it really is.
Sure Motorola has been in the game for quite awhile, But Novell wrote the book when it comes to networking and what device that Motorola manufacturers today DOESN'T use networking?
Seen many IPX/SPX networks around lately? No? I thought not.
The facts are that (a) Novell came late to the networking game (TCP/IP, Banyan Vines, NetBEUI, SNA, X.25, and others predate Novell's offering) and (b) lost the networking battle about 20 years ago. Therefore, any networking patents that Novell has or had are probably useless.
I'll stipulate that Novell may actually have patents on applications running on top of TCP/IP, but I doubt that those are ones that have much of an impact on wireless as that wasn't their business. I just can't see Novell spending much in the way of R&D in this arena.
Side note: I think software patents are an abomination in the first place. I'd love to see some common sense from SCOTUS and see these things declared invalid. Not holding my breath, though.
as equally as wrong as your attitude, which is obviously extremely eager to absolve him of guilt
Look, I'm NOT saying he's guilty or innocent. All I know, like you, is what I've read in the papers about the case, including this statement from his attorney from a month ago:
...Both women have declared that they had consensual sexual relations with our client and that they continued to instigate friendly contact well after the alleged incidents. Only after the women became aware of each other's relationships with Mr. Assange did they make their allegations against him.
The warrant for his arrest was rightly withdrawn within 24 hours by Chief prosecutor Eva Finne, who found that there was no "reason to suspect that he has committed rape."
...Eva Finne's decision to drop the "rape" investigation was reversed after the intervention of a political figure, Claes Borgstrom, who is now acting for the women. The case was given to a specific prosecutor, Marianne Ny.
...Despite his right to silence, my client has repeatedly offered to be interviewed, first in Sweden, and then in the UK (including at the Swedish Embassy), either in person or by telephone, videoconferencing or email and he has also offered to make a sworn statement on affidavit. All of these offers have been flatly refused by a prosecutor who is abusing her powers by insisting that he return to Sweden at his own expense to be subjected to another media circus that she will orchestrate....Before leaving Sweden Mr. Assange asked to be interviewed by the prosecution on several occasions in relation to the allegations, staying over a month in Stockholm, at considerable expense and despite many engagements elsewhere, in order to clear his name. Eventually the prosecution told his Swedish lawyer Bjorn Hurtig that he was free to leave the country, without interview, which he did.
(emphasis added)
The fact that he was held WITHOUT BAIL for a month after all that? Despicable. His rights under Swedish and British law? Nonexistent, apparently, precisely BECAUSE he chose to push for transparency in government. Don't you find that just the least bit horrific? I certainly do.
Hey, I grew up on Da Raynch, not too far from Jacobsen, Blackberry, and Hill City. You think this jackpine savage had a clue as to where a couple of farm towns clear at the other end of the state were? rofl
yes, assange did something good in the world. he also did something wrong.
While I don't condone his lying to both women, I'm still not convinced that he did anything that would be regarded as illegal even under Swedish law's definition of rape. There's certainly plenty of evidence that both women spent plenty of time with him socially after the fact. There's even some evidence that these women didn't really press charges even after they found out about each other until _after_ someone in the prosecutor's office started pushing them. In the end, though, his final guilt or innocence is for a trial to decide.
However, I'm not sure that he's ever going to get a fair hearing. Based upon the correspondence that has been released by his lawyers in Britain and Sweden, I'm FIRMLY convinced that the way his rights have been trampled by British and Swedish law enforcement go far beyond the point that a fair and impartial judge would declare the Swedish equivalent of a mistrial. In this circus-like, witch hunt atmosphere? Doubtful at best.
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Actually, that's not completely true. Deficit spending as a function of GDP has actually been pretty low for several decades. It wasn't until GWB initiated the bailout that Obama continued (note that Obama kept most of GWB's financial advisors in key positions) that we've seen an incredibly sharp rise in deficit spending.
Deficit spending is the very definition of inflation. Inflation of the money supply is not necessarily a bad thing. A little is necessary in order to meet the needs of a growing economy. The HUGE debt that we've been saddled with to pay off those fraudulent bankers is so far outside the norm of our country's history that it will become the dominant financial factor for the next several decades. Our great-grandkids are still going to be paying it off.
And who controls the supply of money? Please note that I'm not talking about tying money to a particular resource, but who actually decides what money is. Or have you forgotten the telephone sanitizers all getting rich from hoarding leaves? :-)
IOW, I've weighed the consequences carefully and made a conscious decision that particular approach is not for me. Rather than accept the flawed offering of a vendor, I have instead decided to either (a) wait for another vendor to produce something that I actually want, or (b) do without indefinitely. Yep, that seems to be "typical modern, western thinking." And this is wrong because...?
And you're assuming that (a) drug labs never make mistakes, (b) a company will actually be willing to pay for follow up tests rather than just fire the individual in question, and (c) regardless of the outcome of the follow up tests, will not treat the individual as a pariah. Sadly, people being people my guess is that in most cases the reverse is true. If you are in a job that requires regular random drug testing, for your sake I sure hope you stay away from poppy seed bagels and optometrists.
Quit calling it a blockade! It's an embargo!
US warships are not keeping Cuba isolated. Cuba can buy and sell goods from anywhere in the world _except_ the U.S.
Does that make the embargo a valuable initiative that serves U.S. strategic interests? Through the 60s, 70s, and 80s, absolutely. A strategic partner of the USSR needed to be closely watched. Anyone who thinks otherwise wasn't paying attention during the Cold War.
Now? I can't see any reason to keep it in place, personally. I think we should have shut it down 10 years ago at the latest.
That's not an option if you want continued support, though. Thus, I am personally waiting for a platform that lets me choose where I buy my apps from.
Two thoughts: Inflation is going to go through the roof pretty soon (what? you slept through your high school economics where they explained that deficit spending is the very definition of inflation?), so $5 for a level may very well be peanuts. OTOH, inflation is going to go through the roof pretty soon, so incidentals like entertainment are going to become harder for people to justify to themselves.
My guess is that we're likely to see a resurgence of all sorts of cheap ways to entertain ourselves. In the gaming market, I expect that might mean companies like Good Old Games are liable to make a killing. Certainly, 99 cent games like Angry Birds are likely to continue to do well.
I want the_option_ to choose something else without having to go through unnecessary tollgates, yes. That's what the AppStore really is.
Where do you live that this is such a problem? I've never seen that kind of issue in any library in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul for those outside the U.S.) area. And we certainly have our share of homeless here, even with winters that can sometimes be brutal.
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Oooh, I wish I had mod points today! :-)
Actually, it's easy enough to create the same sort of situation. Many U.S. banks have offered limited fund debit cards for years. Just set one up for a kid and load it up once a month as part of their allowance. If a kid maxes it out buying online toys, how is that any different from when I used to spend my entire allowance on Spiderman and Batman comic books?
contributions from upstream projects.
Actually, that's no longer true in the U.S. What form that may take depends upon the state that you live in. In some, you are only required to verbally identify yourself. In some (most?), you are now required to show some form of identification. That is generally a picture ID issued by a governmental agency.
Why, oh why, do Europeans keep up this meme? You ever visit Switzerland, for heaven's sake? Every adult male is required to keep a fully automatic rifle and two clips of ammunition in his house. He's also expected to keep up on his target practice. Both requirements are a part of Swiss citizenship.
Trust me. Gun ownership rules are a LOT tighter in the U.S. than they are in some places. :-)
As defined by Patrick McManus:
A year's worth of data refutes that statement.
Translation: Novell's LDAP stack works correctly and Microsoft's incompatibility with the standard is regarded by AC as a feature, not the bug it really is.
'nuff said. :)
Man, I wish I had mod points right now...
Seen many IPX/SPX networks around lately? No? I thought not.
The facts are that (a) Novell came late to the networking game (TCP/IP, Banyan Vines, NetBEUI, SNA, X.25, and others predate Novell's offering) and (b) lost the networking battle about 20 years ago. Therefore, any networking patents that Novell has or had are probably useless.
I'll stipulate that Novell may actually have patents on applications running on top of TCP/IP, but I doubt that those are ones that have much of an impact on wireless as that wasn't their business. I just can't see Novell spending much in the way of R&D in this arena.
Side note: I think software patents are an abomination in the first place. I'd love to see some common sense from SCOTUS and see these things declared invalid. Not holding my breath, though.
Look, I'm NOT saying he's guilty or innocent. All I know, like you, is what I've read in the papers about the case, including this statement from his attorney from a month ago:
(emphasis added)
The fact that he was held WITHOUT BAIL for a month after all that? Despicable. His rights under Swedish and British law? Nonexistent, apparently, precisely BECAUSE he chose to push for transparency in government. Don't you find that just the least bit horrific? I certainly do.
Hey, I grew up on Da Raynch, not too far from Jacobsen, Blackberry, and Hill City. You think this jackpine savage had a clue as to where a couple of farm towns clear at the other end of the state were? rofl
While I don't condone his lying to both women, I'm still not convinced that he did anything that would be regarded as illegal even under Swedish law's definition of rape. There's certainly plenty of evidence that both women spent plenty of time with him socially after the fact. There's even some evidence that these women didn't really press charges even after they found out about each other until _after_ someone in the prosecutor's office started pushing them. In the end, though, his final guilt or innocence is for a trial to decide.
However, I'm not sure that he's ever going to get a fair hearing. Based upon the correspondence that has been released by his lawyers in Britain and Sweden, I'm FIRMLY convinced that the way his rights have been trampled by British and Swedish law enforcement go far beyond the point that a fair and impartial judge would declare the Swedish equivalent of a mistrial. In this circus-like, witch hunt atmosphere? Doubtful at best.
Right, right. In this state it's called "parental" leave, happily including those of us who happen to find child bearing difficult. :)