Yes. Mod parent up. BTC suffers greatly because there it is not a medium of finance. It isn't necessary to have a government back it for that though.
"Banks" have been making loans long before the existence of central banks.
Fractional reserve banking was invented by goldsmiths. People would deposit their gold with smiths, who would issue script as receipts. Soon the script would circulate as being much more convenient than gold. The smiths realized that they could make loans against the gold they held. Ta-da more script in circulation than the gold holding.
So how is this solved for BTC? I'm not sure. Perhaps it is the fatal flaw that prevents BTC from becoming a currency.
My experience is that most of the political crap comes from outside the technical organization. Sales. marketing, business development and all that shit.
A good manager will shield you from that. A bad one will add in his own political crap and dump the whole wad on the developers. In meetings scheduled at 7 PM.
What is needed is good managers. Bad ones are a waste of fucking skin plus they suck up precious offices with windows.
I wished they had fixed the standard weights and measures.
Douchebags didn't act on Jefferson's proposal for a decimal system (before the metric system!).
Now I have to own TWO sets of wrenches.
Why would you vote into Congress someone who seems not to have read, or seems not to agree with, the founding documents?
Not bloody likely. The guy is obviously a nut job. Anyway if recent experience holds true he'll get nominated by the Teapublicans and rejected in the general election in a classic foot shot.
"Powderpost beetles feed on deciduous trees, including certain hardwoods or softwoods depending on the species. Some hardwoods are naturally immune if they have low starch content or if their pore diameters are too small for the female beetle's ovipositor to lay her eggs in.
Wood preservatives can be used to prevent beetle infestation. Common treatments may use boron.
Items that can be infested by powderpost beetles include wooden tools or tool handles, frames, furniture, gun stocks, books, toys, bamboo, flooring, and structural timbers."
I don't know what the actual regulations and threat assessment is. But just waving hands and saying this agent clearly over-reached without any information more that "Oh Noes my flutes are destroyed" is a bit much.
When it comes to something like biological pests the damage they can cause is so huge that it far outweighs the personal possessions or freedom of movement of any one individual. It's why movement of individuals can be restricted by medical authorities in cases of communicable diseases as well.
It's not a matter of IF. It's a matter of past events that have shown these precautions are absolutely necessary. Mad cow disease in England. Medfly infestations destroying citrus crops in CA and FL. FMD in Europe. Asian soybean rust, longhorned beetle, Dutch elm disease and emerald borer beetle in the US. These restrictions apply to humans as well. My wife had to pass a TB exam including X-Rays before she was allowed to immigrate to the US.
I'm not saying there isn't an opportunity to improve what is being done. But the idea that personal property rights can legitimately interfere with the rights of a community to protect itself from real dangers is wrong.
The big thing to realize is that with any human right there is no absolute. One of those cases is the right to property when that property represents a threat to the entire community.
The emerald borer is a pest in the general class of wood boring beetles. Because these pests dig in under the tree bark there is no effective biological control for this general type of insect. People are looking of course, but the prognosis is very grim.
Generally what happens with this type of infestation is that almost all the plants die. The economic damage has already been in the billions of dollars.
I imagine that someday a GMO ash will be developed incorporating resistance characteristics from the Chinese ash, much like resistant elm trees have been developed. The native species are pretty much doomed. Sorry.
As far as Kudzu goes, insect control is not a practical recourse. It's digging and herbicides, or goats. Eight per acre is supposed to be good enough. Interestingly it looks like a different pest, Asian rust may contain Kudzu. Unfortunately this rust also devastates soybeans so it isn't exactly something you want.
It's unbelievable how much false and misleading information there was in your post.
Criminy. All kinds of diseases, both plant and animal, insect pests, you name it have come in to contaminate local agriculture this way.
For example:
In October 1967, a farmer in Shropshire reported a lame sow, which was later diagnosed with FMD. The source was believed to be remains of legally-imported infected lamb from Argentina and Chile. The virus spread and, in total, 442,000 animals were slaughtered and the outbreak had an estimated cost of £370 million.
YOU BET you have to destroy this kind of stuff immediately. A small bit of something infected can turn into a national disaster, and has in the past.
All countries have strict controls on import of agricultural goods. It's an absolute necessity in this day and age when import of a couple of insects can wipe out a whole native species.
For example several important species of trees in the US have been lost this way. The Ash are right now being decimated by the emerald borer from China. It's likely that this insect will wipe out the entire genus of Ash trees in North America.
So one guy had his flutes mistaken for agricultural products. Not really that big a deal in the big picture. This is one case when you really want to err on the conservative side because making a mistake in the other direction is a really bad thing.
It isn't a case of human rights, illegal searches or ethnic profiling or anything like that.
As far as I'm concerned this is just another misplaced slashdot article.
1. Prevention of unwanted pregnancies has a MEDICAL benefits. It isn't just a lifestyle choice.
2. Various other methods are not as effective.
3. The EEOC has ruled several times that failure to cover contraceptives is discriminatory under US Civil Rights law.
The Senate narrowly defeated legislation that would allow religious organizations to omit coverage for ANY treatment they objected to.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops opposes any contraceptive coverage, saying that the PPACA still requires Catholics in the insurance industry to violate their consciences.
Hearings in the House of Representatives have been criticized for bringing only male witnesses to testify on this issue.
I would like to see some authorized claims on pre-natal care for men to verify your assertion.
The idea that the PPACA covers pregnancy related claims for men is a conservative meme that has no relationship to reality. It's based on the fact that the PPACA does not allow rate differentiation between men and women, that is the cost of covering pregnancy is distributed over the cohort of both men and women.
All sorts of other insurance would fail your criteria. Flood insurance, auto insurance (who goes through life with no accidents?), life insurance, dental insurance and so on.
Or for that matter pregnancy, anything arising from old age, any pre-existing conditions etc. should not be covered.
Your definition of insurance is some abstract ideal that does not correspond to reality.
That sounds like a reasonable theory, but clearly in actual practice it is not the case as these searches go on to this day.
I suspect that it's because the tariff law has been amended and restructured many times since 1789, and clearly one or more these likely resolution of this issue possibly through re-authorization.
The key thing here is to realize that the very same people who wrote and passed the 4th Amendment also wrote and passed laws authorizing warrantless searches at borders.
The original tariff act was the first significant piece of legislation passed in Congress, on July 4, 1787 by a vote of 31-19.
Clearly citizens can be smugglers just as easily as non-citizens. So under your theory all a smuggler would have to do would be employ a US citizen to carry the goods into the country, completely eliminating the ability to collect tariffs.
The founders were not that naive. In fact some of them were smugglers during British rule.
Right. But this establishes warrantless searches at the border which takes out the 4th Amendment and any issue of unconstitutionality.
The details of suspicionless vs suspicion in border searches are those of statute, not the 4th Amendment or the Constitution. This ruling is on the constitutionality.
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Yes. Mod parent up. BTC suffers greatly because there it is not a medium of finance. It isn't necessary to have a government back it for that though.
"Banks" have been making loans long before the existence of central banks.
Fractional reserve banking was invented by goldsmiths. People would deposit their gold with smiths, who would issue script as receipts. Soon the script would circulate as being much more convenient than gold. The smiths realized that they could make loans against the gold they held. Ta-da more script in circulation than the gold holding.
So how is this solved for BTC? I'm not sure. Perhaps it is the fatal flaw that prevents BTC from becoming a currency.
The US dollar has some advantages over other currencies. For example it is accepted in payment of taxes and other debts by the US government.
My experience is that most of the political crap comes from outside the technical organization. Sales. marketing, business development and all that shit.
A good manager will shield you from that. A bad one will add in his own political crap and dump the whole wad on the developers. In meetings scheduled at 7 PM.
What is needed is good managers. Bad ones are a waste of fucking skin plus they suck up precious offices with windows.
I wished they had fixed the standard weights and measures.
Douchebags didn't act on Jefferson's proposal for a decimal system (before the metric system!).
Now I have to own TWO sets of wrenches.
Why would you vote into Congress someone who seems not to have read, or seems not to agree with, the founding documents?
Not bloody likely. The guy is obviously a nut job. Anyway if recent experience holds true he'll get nominated by the Teapublicans and rejected in the general election in a classic foot shot.
Ever hear of the powderpost beetle?
"Powderpost beetles feed on deciduous trees, including certain hardwoods or softwoods depending on the species. Some hardwoods are naturally immune if they have low starch content or if their pore diameters are too small for the female beetle's ovipositor to lay her eggs in.
Wood preservatives can be used to prevent beetle infestation. Common treatments may use boron.
Items that can be infested by powderpost beetles include wooden tools or tool handles, frames, furniture, gun stocks, books, toys, bamboo, flooring, and structural timbers."
I don't know what the actual regulations and threat assessment is. But just waving hands and saying this agent clearly over-reached without any information more that "Oh Noes my flutes are destroyed" is a bit much.
When it comes to something like biological pests the damage they can cause is so huge that it far outweighs the personal possessions or freedom of movement of any one individual. It's why movement of individuals can be restricted by medical authorities in cases of communicable diseases as well.
It's not a matter of IF. It's a matter of past events that have shown these precautions are absolutely necessary. Mad cow disease in England. Medfly infestations destroying citrus crops in CA and FL. FMD in Europe. Asian soybean rust, longhorned beetle, Dutch elm disease and emerald borer beetle in the US. These restrictions apply to humans as well. My wife had to pass a TB exam including X-Rays before she was allowed to immigrate to the US.
I'm not saying there isn't an opportunity to improve what is being done. But the idea that personal property rights can legitimately interfere with the rights of a community to protect itself from real dangers is wrong.
The big thing to realize is that with any human right there is no absolute. One of those cases is the right to property when that property represents a threat to the entire community.
That isn't zersetzung.
It isn't unique to Zappos.
What does the article say????
Because of problems with customs and other issues, many of the big e-commerce players wouldn't ship to Canada,
Sorry. Your attempt to revise what the article actually says does quite get off the ground.
The emerald borer is a pest in the general class of wood boring beetles. Because these pests dig in under the tree bark there is no effective biological control for this general type of insect. People are looking of course, but the prognosis is very grim.
Generally what happens with this type of infestation is that almost all the plants die. The economic damage has already been in the billions of dollars.
I imagine that someday a GMO ash will be developed incorporating resistance characteristics from the Chinese ash, much like resistant elm trees have been developed. The native species are pretty much doomed. Sorry.
As far as Kudzu goes, insect control is not a practical recourse. It's digging and herbicides, or goats. Eight per acre is supposed to be good enough. Interestingly it looks like a different pest, Asian rust may contain Kudzu. Unfortunately this rust also devastates soybeans so it isn't exactly something you want.
It's unbelievable how much false and misleading information there was in your post.
Criminy. All kinds of diseases, both plant and animal, insect pests, you name it have come in to contaminate local agriculture this way.
For example:
In October 1967, a farmer in Shropshire reported a lame sow, which was later diagnosed with FMD. The source was believed to be remains of legally-imported infected lamb from Argentina and Chile. The virus spread and, in total, 442,000 animals were slaughtered and the outbreak had an estimated cost of £370 million.
YOU BET you have to destroy this kind of stuff immediately. A small bit of something infected can turn into a national disaster, and has in the past.
It's a much bigger huge fucking issue when an entire genus of trees is wiped out.
Haven't heard of any US agencies using Zersetzung yet.
All countries have strict controls on import of agricultural goods. It's an absolute necessity in this day and age when import of a couple of insects can wipe out a whole native species.
For example several important species of trees in the US have been lost this way. The Ash are right now being decimated by the emerald borer from China. It's likely that this insect will wipe out the entire genus of Ash trees in North America.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2012/10/21/ashes-continue-road-to-extinction.html
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2013/08/25/1-decimation-of-ash-trees-provides-valuable-lesson.html
So one guy had his flutes mistaken for agricultural products. Not really that big a deal in the big picture. This is one case when you really want to err on the conservative side because making a mistake in the other direction is a really bad thing.
It isn't a case of human rights, illegal searches or ethnic profiling or anything like that.
As far as I'm concerned this is just another misplaced slashdot article.
Canada has problems just like this. In fact it's so bad a lot of e-commerce companies won't do business there.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110321/00490713569/zappos-gives-up-canada-due-to-customs-problems.shtml
Various medical authorities have stated:
1. Prevention of unwanted pregnancies has a MEDICAL benefits. It isn't just a lifestyle choice.
2. Various other methods are not as effective.
3. The EEOC has ruled several times that failure to cover contraceptives is discriminatory under US Civil Rights law.
The Senate narrowly defeated legislation that would allow religious organizations to omit coverage for ANY treatment they objected to.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops opposes any contraceptive coverage, saying that the PPACA still requires Catholics in the insurance industry to violate their consciences.
Hearings in the House of Representatives have been criticized for bringing only male witnesses to testify on this issue.
Churches lobby heavily, and support candidates.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/usa-tax-churches-irs-idUSL1E8HED5Z20120621
My eldest son stopped attending church because of electioneering from his Pastor.
This is representation.
Some churches have even lost their tax exempt status because of it.
cf Church at Pierce Creek in Binghamton, New York which took out full page advertisements opposing Bill Clinton.
Some flirt with it by endorsing specific candidates, however IRS enforcement of the law is very weak.
Because of this weak enforcement I think the law exempting churches should be scrapped completely.
An education system that only graduates 41.7% of its population is not a success.
I would like to see some authorized claims on pre-natal care for men to verify your assertion.
The idea that the PPACA covers pregnancy related claims for men is a conservative meme that has no relationship to reality. It's based on the fact that the PPACA does not allow rate differentiation between men and women, that is the cost of covering pregnancy is distributed over the cohort of both men and women.
All sorts of other insurance would fail your criteria. Flood insurance, auto insurance (who goes through life with no accidents?), life insurance, dental insurance and so on.
Or for that matter pregnancy, anything arising from old age, any pre-existing conditions etc. should not be covered.
Your definition of insurance is some abstract ideal that does not correspond to reality.
Apparently it is not an absolute defense if you have multiple children die from this form of insanity.
http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/blog/index.php/2013/07/death-by-prayer-christian-fundamentalist-parents-denied-their-children-medicine-and-watched-them-die/
So if my employer is a Christian Scientist I don't get coverage?
Clearly there has to be some sort of limitation on this sort of thinking.
Well, why not. There are occasional news stories of Christian Scientists rung up for murder because they didn't get their kids treated for pneumonia.
Contraceptive drugs are often used for treatment of medical conditions - it isn't just about pregnancy.
This kind of political crap is one of the many reasons I believe religious organizations should be taxed.
That sounds like a reasonable theory, but clearly in actual practice it is not the case as these searches go on to this day.
I suspect that it's because the tariff law has been amended and restructured many times since 1789, and clearly one or more these likely resolution of this issue possibly through re-authorization.
The key thing here is to realize that the very same people who wrote and passed the 4th Amendment also wrote and passed laws authorizing warrantless searches at borders.
The original tariff act was the first significant piece of legislation passed in Congress, on July 4, 1787 by a vote of 31-19.
Clearly citizens can be smugglers just as easily as non-citizens. So under your theory all a smuggler would have to do would be employ a US citizen to carry the goods into the country, completely eliminating the ability to collect tariffs.
The founders were not that naive. In fact some of them were smugglers during British rule.
Right. But this establishes warrantless searches at the border which takes out the 4th Amendment and any issue of unconstitutionality.
The details of suspicionless vs suspicion in border searches are those of statute, not the 4th Amendment or the Constitution. This ruling is on the constitutionality.