That's a customs form for people arriving with money. There is a related form for leaving the country. It's the same one you get when withdrawing more than $10k in cash from a bank, or even buying into a blackjack table. It just documents your identity so that if that money ends up as part of a money laundering scheme, the feds can find you.
When bills are put through high speed money sorter/counters, one bill used to snort cocaine can put tiny amounts of cocaine on thousands of other bills.
Due to the chemical nature of cocaine, it can be detected in immensely small concentrations- far smaller than even the best dog can detect.
I know that article is old as shit because I had a subscription to Wired when it came out. Fantastic stuff, though.
I just finished reading Snow Crash again last week. I almost never re-read books, but that's a classic. It was written in 1992 and set 20 to 25 years in the future, AKA right about now. The reason that Facebook purchased Oculus is because they want to basically create the Metaverse.
Ports on the eastern seaboard are being expanded to handle the "New Panamax" sized ships that will be able to traverse the newly widened canal. I seriously doubt that those ports are going to expand again soon to accommodate the new class of ship for this Nicaragua Canal.
And yes, Authoritarianism does make the trains run on time.
It's a one party state where that one party is the Communist Party.
In 1978, Deng Xiaoping started economic reforms that transitioned China from a Maoist country full of subsistence farmers to the economic powerhouse it is today. To be truly Communist, the state has to own pretty much everything. Their new model allows individuals to own lots of things, and profit from them, but the state retains control when they want it.
When a nation's currency basically falls apart, they are forced to turn to another country's currency to get their economy to function.
In Costa Rica they "peg" their currency to the dollar, so there is one permanent exchange rate. Prices can be posted in Colon and Dollars. I paid for everything with dollars when I was there (fantastic country BTW).
Wikipedia lists 25 countries that either use USD or peg to the USD (I'm suspicious of Somalia and North Korea). It's interesting that Panama has been using Dollars for over 100 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_substitution#Anchor_currencies
"The sucre maintained a fairly stable exchange rate against the US dollar until 1983, when it was devalued to 42 per dollar and a crawling peg was adopted. Depreciation gained momentum and the free market rate was over 800 per dollar by 1990 and almost 3000 per in 1995.
The sucre lost 67% of its foreign exchange value during 1999, then in one week nosedived 17%, ending at 25,000/US$1 on January 7, 2000. On January 9, President Jamil Mahuad announced that the US dollar would be adopted as Ecuador's official currency. Protests led to his removal. Vice President Gustavo Noboa became president, only to confirm the government's commitment to dollarization.
On March 9, 2000, Noboa signed a law passed by Congress, replacing the sucre with the United States dollar at an official exchange rate of 25,000 sucres per US$1. Both currencies were to circulate, the dollar being used for all but the smallest transactions. Only coins would continue in the local currency."
That's pretty much a worst case scenario. If your electricity happens to be generated from nuclear or hydroelectric, your electric car will be a lot cleaner.
Upgrading our car fleet to electric and upgrading our power generation to renewable sources are multi-decade efforts that have to be done in parallel.
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I actually didn't notice that part at the end of their post. I quickly established that it is a pretty dumb post and didn't read it very carefully.
If you think that "knowing what words mean" is equivalent to "supporting the NSA's criminal activity", then I don't know what to tell you.
Spying on Americans is wrong.
This revelation has nothing to do with spying on Americans. It actually seems like something the NSA should be doing, and doing secretly.
By leaking this, Snowden is not helping his "concerned citizen" image.
You should look up what Treason means. Because that's not what it means.
That's a customs form for people arriving with money. There is a related form for leaving the country. It's the same one you get when withdrawing more than $10k in cash from a bank, or even buying into a blackjack table. It just documents your identity so that if that money ends up as part of a money laundering scheme, the feds can find you.
If you're traveling with more than $10k, you just have to fill out one form declaring it.
When bills are put through high speed money sorter/counters, one bill used to snort cocaine can put tiny amounts of cocaine on thousands of other bills.
Due to the chemical nature of cocaine, it can be detected in immensely small concentrations- far smaller than even the best dog can detect.
1984. That's actually one of the only other books I've read multiple times.
The details of the Snow Crash version will probably be much closer to what Facebook ends up building.
Wow...biblical numerology is hilarious.
I know that article is old as shit because I had a subscription to Wired when it came out. Fantastic stuff, though.
I just finished reading Snow Crash again last week. I almost never re-read books, but that's a classic. It was written in 1992 and set 20 to 25 years in the future, AKA right about now. The reason that Facebook purchased Oculus is because they want to basically create the Metaverse.
That doesn't even make sense.
I'm not seeing any evidence that the researches here are skewing anything.
The people who did the actual research are saying that it's NOT correct.
Political Correctness has no place in discussions that are scientific in nature.
Skewing other people's research to fit your agenda is not scientific.
You make living in a bunker for two years sound so simple and easy.
Can you explain the "fundamental" changes that happen in these games?
I know that characters and weapons get nerfed as part of general balance tweaks. I wouldn't call those fundamental changes.
The Panama Canal expansion project is almost done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_project
Ports on the eastern seaboard are being expanded to handle the "New Panamax" sized ships that will be able to traverse the newly widened canal. I seriously doubt that those ports are going to expand again soon to accommodate the new class of ship for this Nicaragua Canal.
And yes, Authoritarianism does make the trains run on time.
It's a one party state where that one party is the Communist Party.
In 1978, Deng Xiaoping started economic reforms that transitioned China from a Maoist country full of subsistence farmers to the economic powerhouse it is today. To be truly Communist, the state has to own pretty much everything. Their new model allows individuals to own lots of things, and profit from them, but the state retains control when they want it.
When a nation's currency basically falls apart, they are forced to turn to another country's currency to get their economy to function.
In Costa Rica they "peg" their currency to the dollar, so there is one permanent exchange rate. Prices can be posted in Colon and Dollars. I paid for everything with dollars when I was there (fantastic country BTW).
Wikipedia lists 25 countries that either use USD or peg to the USD (I'm suspicious of Somalia and North Korea). It's interesting that Panama has been using Dollars for over 100 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_substitution#Anchor_currencies
From-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_of_Ecuador#1932.E2.80.932000_Sucre
"The sucre maintained a fairly stable exchange rate against the US dollar until 1983, when it was devalued to 42 per dollar and a crawling peg was adopted. Depreciation gained momentum and the free market rate was over 800 per dollar by 1990 and almost 3000 per in 1995.
The sucre lost 67% of its foreign exchange value during 1999, then in one week nosedived 17%, ending at 25,000/US$1 on January 7, 2000. On January 9, President Jamil Mahuad announced that the US dollar would be adopted as Ecuador's official currency. Protests led to his removal. Vice President Gustavo Noboa became president, only to confirm the government's commitment to dollarization.
On March 9, 2000, Noboa signed a law passed by Congress, replacing the sucre with the United States dollar at an official exchange rate of 25,000 sucres per US$1. Both currencies were to circulate, the dollar being used for all but the smallest transactions. Only coins would continue in the local currency."
Authoritarianism has its perks.
A 6 month sentence is very standard for B&E. It's not their fault that he rejected the offer.
OK. Aaron Swartz. You think he was prosecuted for his opinions and not for breaking and entering? Because he's on video breaking and entering.
I knew you were going to mention Manning.
Because apparently "doing things I agree with" is a valid legal defense in your warped little brain.
Who has the US government incarcerated for nothing besides "saying something they don't like"?
The only way electric cars make sense is if the power plant isn't producing CO2.
What a ridiculously high, and arbitrary, bar you've set.
That's pretty much a worst case scenario. If your electricity happens to be generated from nuclear or hydroelectric, your electric car will be a lot cleaner.
Upgrading our car fleet to electric and upgrading our power generation to renewable sources are multi-decade efforts that have to be done in parallel.