Pretty much the same here in London. I do not know where the GPP is from in the UK, but I do know that there is quite a few things he thinks happens in the workplace that typically doesn't. For example, in the years I have spent as a student, I have worked four minimum wage jobs with 12hr+ shifts standing up with no breaks. Two of those were blatantly in violation of saftey rules (first was repackaging clothing where fabric dust would clog up your lungs, but you would get told off for wearing any kind of facemask due to it giving the buyers a bad impression, second was a Chinese restaurant whichs back room was host to all kinds of dogy things including a bath (in which we kept cut potato chips) around 3 inches directly below both an open unprotected plug socket and a leaky cowboy-built garden style tap, and a fryer that's safety valve was missing and left the operator with only aluminum foil and an elastic bands between him and 300 degree steam jets)
The recount only covered 175,000 of the 6 million votes. It only counted 'marked or blemished ballots'. They arranged the ballots so confusingly that 113,000 people voted for two people at the ballots. 79,000 chose Gore and a minor candidate, and 29k chose Bush and a minor candidate. (don't know how many chose both Bush and Gore but I should think blue and red are easier to tell apart)
They also arranged the ballots so confusingly that 113,000 people voted for two people at the ballots. 79,000 chose Gore and a minor candidate, and 29k chose Bush and a minor candidate. (don't know how many chose both Bush and Gore but I should think blue and red are easier to tell apart).
Realistically, the Supreme Court ended things for a number of reasons. Firstly, if we had found out that Florida was cheated, then the whole integrity of the voting system, and public confidence in it, would have been shattered. Secondly, Bush had just been granted executive power over the Courts anyway.
Also, whilst the NSA have existed during Obama's watch, he certainly wasn't he person who put PRISM in place. Bush put PRISM together. First he tried to use the Protect America Act in 2005, then when he found that the wiretapping hole still wasn't open for the internet he later amended the FISA act despite a lot of resistance. Without those changes in law PRISM would have never been legal. Granted, Obama re-signed it, but at that point in time PRISM would have kept on running whether or not it was legal.
If you prefer to live on a floodplain you should stfu and live in it. Don't bitch when you want to live over a volcanic crater and one day it decides to erupt.
If you live on a flood plain due to/for economic reasons then like was said before, money is the problem. Don't think it would take an unmanageable amount to actually fix this problem. It would take 30bn a year to end world hunger... that's 1/11th of what congress spends on defense right now per year.
It was directly in response to your claim that Clinton and Obama have been worse to the state that Bush, the body of the text I was not addressing. I also encourage you to flatly disprove any of the aforementioned statements (or indications of foul-play, cheating et. al to that effect that were blocked from being investigated by the accused in the case of the Florida votes scandal... as we both know that Bush v. Gore demanded a recount.)
To play devils advocate here. Why are people living on floodplains? If they don't want water to irrigate their rice fields then there are plenty of places upstream which probably aren't as well irrigated. If they do then they don't have to live there Why are people hanging around in forests during wildfires, don't we already have 1783453 global satellite networks and 347103784 terrestrial EM wave based networks (like radio, mobile phone, etc etc) that should be telling these people to GTFO?
There are plenty of safe flat grassy lands over the whole world that I'm pretty sure we can all live on them.
The reals source of the problem is the same source of every other problem on this earth. Money.
That might be why they are more intelligent, because it is harder to make them conform. This is known ass Critical Thinking by the way. Your whole analysis on that point is a classic example of circular thinking. The world wants us to be stupid enough to buy their horseshit but smart enough to work their jobs. Would it not stand to reason that the most intelligent among us that those who resist the effects of the former?
I'm sorry, but for some that may have taken a scientific experiment, for me that was just common sense.
The PATRIOT Act disagrees with you. The Iraq war disagrees with you. The blatant misreporting of the Florida State votes and the complete negation of black and other non-white American's votes disagrees with you. Bush Snr's sales of chemical weapons in the 80s to the Middle East coming full circle with his son's invasion of it for the possession of WMDs disagrees with you with you. The NSA and CIA operations in America when Saddam was still a CIA agent inciting wars and selling weapons by proxy disagree with you. The Carlyle Group disagrees with you. The fact that double digit numbers of Bin Laden's brothers all share seats on the board with Bush Jnr and Snr at The Carlyle, and the fact that Bush himself made over $3bn from the investments of that group by investing in military industrial complex companies prior to the war disagrees with you. The TSA disagrees with you.
Substitute "you" with "your statement" where applicable.
I see, so penises, vaginas, breasts, testosterone and oestrogen are all embedded human figments of imagination. Pumping mammal A with chemical A since conception is going to make him identical to pumping mammal B with chemical B despite those chemicals affecting at least 50 different operations in the body in different ways and causing completely different brain growth as a result. Allow me to pump you with chemical C to verify your theory; Bleach.
And yet before people started inciting mass panic within the market to the uninformed 90%, the gold standard worked pretty good. And after we got rid of it, exactly the same thing happened with northern rock and in Greece.
The only real way to reduce volatility in currency is to get rid of other currency forms and have each currency backed by physical equivalent all times. Bitcoin by it's nature IS it's physical equivalent (you work for coins, not for goods you then sell for coins) and the market will stay as volatile as long as there is something volatile to trade the currency for. Unless Mt.Gox collapses tomorrow, demand will keep outstripping supply.
And if it did... demand would only increase once the price had gone down enough.
You wanna stabilize BTC, good luck. It's an emerging market.
Take a fresh off the block, just passed his/her driving license in a 1ltr hatchback average driver and stick them in a 1200hp road legal race car and tell me they are not a threat to the public when their natural instinct is to floor it at a stoplight. Fast cars deserve respect, and a decent knowledge of where the physical limits of the car are so emergency maneuvering is actually feasible to the driver. All these "stability control should be mandatory" wigs commenting here seem to forget that the biggest and most important piece of saftey equipment you can carry is knowledge of the limits of your car.
I really do think that a "high power" license would do wonders towards allowing drivers to learn off the road how to carry out more complex saftey manuvers on a track, as in a car like this and many others, simple manuevers become all the more complicated in amateur hands.
FFS Americans, you are not the only bloody people on the planet. 5 Posts in and you've already stated banging on about your completely optional healthcare, and a few seconds later your stupid Republican/Democrat Bread and Circuses party. Repeat after me.
Who. Gives. A. Fuck.
Why? Becasue they are two sides of the same fucking coin and the sooner you stop quibbling over who's right and wrong the sooner you'll get off your asses and start actually worrying about what you should replace them with, because my personal opinion is that they are both cunts who need to die.
I'm physically sick of seeing people answer to progress against tyranny/disparity with "Oh they'll just go to another country and do it then". Let them! The nature of the market is if they deliberately leave a hole in the market, someone WILL fill it.
Well it's still legal to keep your wife chained to your cooker in a burkha and facemask in many parts of the middle east, even encouraged... so naturally we shouldn't advance sexual equality, because people will just take their wives to other countries and do it there.
No they won't, because Wives have opinions and companies have laws binding them. I'm pretty sure that we need to start implementing a circumvention blanket law so we can trap this.
Make it so that anyone employed in this country (whether or not by a US company) can't have more than 12x the wages of anyone else in the company and fine them all their gross profits if they violate. If they don't like it they know where the door is.
Fact is it's the same here if they see what you are saying as damaging to them in any meaningful respect. To them you're a fly... not even that, just another email with no reply.
And It really wasn't like that in the USSR. It was like it is here now.
Remember that you are looking at this through the eyes of US media reports on the USSR, who had to demonize the country to build up public dislike and justify the war they thought was coming. I doubt it was nearly as bad as even the middle east is now.
Have you considered the fact that all those people have $10,000 of state debt sitting on thier heads right now... I'd say that makes them poor.
Poor is not how much you have, it's income/expenditure. Saying that because you have stuff you aren't poor is like saying because a music CD has data on it it's a good medium to install Windows onto.
In a strictly business sense, I could tick all of the boxes on that list except buying a house with less than $2000, yet if I was getting paid $2000 a year I would definitely be destitute... never mind the fact that I had my ENTIRE LIFE to accumulate those goods.
Give a poor African kid in the Sahara desert a HDTV and they are still a poor African kid in the Sahara desert. Haven't you heard about the tendency of Oxfam volunteers seeing the people they give free clothes to argue and fight over the brand named Nike sweaters etc. It's how modern media has raised the world.
You're much less likely to vote for lower taxes knowing that it is to the detriment of the greater good at that particular moment in time if you actually have been made to feel like a important part of the system. One of the greatest arguments supporting the ideal that we deserve the government we have is that we are selfish and greedy when it comes to our voting decisions.
This would be a step towards establishing social responsibility among the voting class... something we sorely lack.
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Erm, guess what. I bet all those governments that "back" your fiat currencies wish they had nothing backing them, because the only thing backing government money atm is debt.
Window's shouldn't support that hardware, for that is the nature of Windows. Anyone can make hardware for it, as long as they write drivers. Nothing stupid about that, it's called free choice and we need it for great things to be made.
Windows should have a framework for efficiency but that came out a few weeks ago for OS X and doesn't exist elsewhere in operating systems so they aren't THAT far behind.
And I was not talking about the Wireless driver polling the hardware, I was talking about the driver telling the hardware to poll the router it was connected to to see if it's still in-range/connected. That definitely happens.
Yes you do, it decides who to be mad at, instead of just getting mad at the wrong person.
You're showing signs of mild psychopathy here, in XP development days people didn't really care about battery life as much as nobody expected to use their devices for the whole day.
When you write the drivers for your wireless for example, you decide how often it polls (switches on to check stuff). With Windows, you have Wireless Zero Config, which sends kernel calls to the driver but cannot directly control it in that regard, or you have the driver application itself, which sends kernel calls to the driver.
Both are third party. It would be impossible to implement Wireless coalescing on that scale in Win7 beccasue quite simply, MS aren't in control of that part of the system.
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Because then you would start having to do major layoffs and the Gov't would step in to stem the "Robots are taking our jobs" panic.
Pretty much the same here in London. I do not know where the GPP is from in the UK, but I do know that there is quite a few things he thinks happens in the workplace that typically doesn't. For example, in the years I have spent as a student, I have worked four minimum wage jobs with 12hr+ shifts standing up with no breaks. Two of those were blatantly in violation of saftey rules (first was repackaging clothing where fabric dust would clog up your lungs, but you would get told off for wearing any kind of facemask due to it giving the buyers a bad impression, second was a Chinese restaurant whichs back room was host to all kinds of dogy things including a bath (in which we kept cut potato chips) around 3 inches directly below both an open unprotected plug socket and a leaky cowboy-built garden style tap, and a fryer that's safety valve was missing and left the operator with only aluminum foil and an elastic bands between him and 300 degree steam jets)
Flash's high density still can't hold a candle to holographic storage.
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The recount only covered 175,000 of the 6 million votes. It only counted 'marked or blemished ballots'. They arranged the ballots so confusingly that 113,000 people voted for two people at the ballots. 79,000 chose Gore and a minor candidate, and 29k chose Bush and a minor candidate. (don't know how many chose both Bush and Gore but I should think blue and red are easier to tell apart)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040820122543/http://www.norc.org/fl/results/media/mediagroup_readme.txt
Even at that stage, the recounts drove down Bush's end result by nearly 400 points from 537 to 154
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12623-2001Nov11.html
They also arranged the ballots so confusingly that 113,000 people voted for two people at the ballots. 79,000 chose Gore and a minor candidate, and 29k chose Bush and a minor candidate. (don't know how many chose both Bush and Gore but I should think blue and red are easier to tell apart).
http://www.issues2000.org/Florida_Recount_Official.htm
Realistically, the Supreme Court ended things for a number of reasons. Firstly, if we had found out that Florida was cheated, then the whole integrity of the voting system, and public confidence in it, would have been shattered. Secondly, Bush had just been granted executive power over the Courts anyway.
Also, whilst the NSA have existed during Obama's watch, he certainly wasn't he person who put PRISM in place. Bush put PRISM together. First he tried to use the Protect America Act in 2005, then when he found that the wiretapping hole still wasn't open for the internet he later amended the FISA act despite a lot of resistance. Without those changes in law PRISM would have never been legal. Granted, Obama re-signed it, but at that point in time PRISM would have kept on running whether or not it was legal.
Source: Protect America Act: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1216-01.htm
(That's actually a NYT report, but NYT pulled it from their site in 2007) See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qYGbieoMM for lawsuits
Source FISA Amendments: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/20/ST2008062001087.html Resistance: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/06/26/senate.fisa/
If you prefer to live on a floodplain you should stfu and live in it. Don't bitch when you want to live over a volcanic crater and one day it decides to erupt.
If you live on a flood plain due to/for economic reasons then like was said before, money is the problem. Don't think it would take an unmanageable amount to actually fix this problem. It would take 30bn a year to end world hunger... that's 1/11th of what congress spends on defense right now per year.
It was directly in response to your claim that Clinton and Obama have been worse to the state that Bush, the body of the text I was not addressing. I also encourage you to flatly disprove any of the aforementioned statements (or indications of foul-play, cheating et. al to that effect that were blocked from being investigated by the accused in the case of the Florida votes scandal... as we both know that Bush v. Gore demanded a recount.)
To play devils advocate here. Why are people living on floodplains? If they don't want water to irrigate their rice fields then there are plenty of places upstream which probably aren't as well irrigated. If they do then they don't have to live there Why are people hanging around in forests during wildfires, don't we already have 1783453 global satellite networks and 347103784 terrestrial EM wave based networks (like radio, mobile phone, etc etc) that should be telling these people to GTFO?
There are plenty of safe flat grassy lands over the whole world that I'm pretty sure we can all live on them.
The reals source of the problem is the same source of every other problem on this earth. Money.
That might be why they are more intelligent, because it is harder to make them conform. This is known ass Critical Thinking by the way. Your whole analysis on that point is a classic example of circular thinking. The world wants us to be stupid enough to buy their horseshit but smart enough to work their jobs. Would it not stand to reason that the most intelligent among us that those who resist the effects of the former?
I'm sorry, but for some that may have taken a scientific experiment, for me that was just common sense.
The PATRIOT Act disagrees with you. The Iraq war disagrees with you. The blatant misreporting of the Florida State votes and the complete negation of black and other non-white American's votes disagrees with you. Bush Snr's sales of chemical weapons in the 80s to the Middle East coming full circle with his son's invasion of it for the possession of WMDs disagrees with you with you. The NSA and CIA operations in America when Saddam was still a CIA agent inciting wars and selling weapons by proxy disagree with you. The Carlyle Group disagrees with you. The fact that double digit numbers of Bin Laden's brothers all share seats on the board with Bush Jnr and Snr at The Carlyle, and the fact that Bush himself made over $3bn from the investments of that group by investing in military industrial complex companies prior to the war disagrees with you. The TSA disagrees with you.
Substitute "you" with "your statement" where applicable.
I see, so penises, vaginas, breasts, testosterone and oestrogen are all embedded human figments of imagination. Pumping mammal A with chemical A since conception is going to make him identical to pumping mammal B with chemical B despite those chemicals affecting at least 50 different operations in the body in different ways and causing completely different brain growth as a result. Allow me to pump you with chemical C to verify your theory; Bleach.
And yet before people started inciting mass panic within the market to the uninformed 90%, the gold standard worked pretty good. And after we got rid of it, exactly the same thing happened with northern rock and in Greece.
The only real way to reduce volatility in currency is to get rid of other currency forms and have each currency backed by physical equivalent all times. Bitcoin by it's nature IS it's physical equivalent (you work for coins, not for goods you then sell for coins) and the market will stay as volatile as long as there is something volatile to trade the currency for. Unless Mt.Gox collapses tomorrow, demand will keep outstripping supply.
And if it did... demand would only increase once the price had gone down enough.
You wanna stabilize BTC, good luck. It's an emerging market.
Yes there is for simple reasons.
Take a fresh off the block, just passed his/her driving license in a 1ltr hatchback average driver and stick them in a 1200hp road legal race car and tell me they are not a threat to the public when their natural instinct is to floor it at a stoplight. Fast cars deserve respect, and a decent knowledge of where the physical limits of the car are so emergency maneuvering is actually feasible to the driver. All these "stability control should be mandatory" wigs commenting here seem to forget that the biggest and most important piece of saftey equipment you can carry is knowledge of the limits of your car.
I really do think that a "high power" license would do wonders towards allowing drivers to learn off the road how to carry out more complex saftey manuvers on a track, as in a car like this and many others, simple manuevers become all the more complicated in amateur hands.
FFS Americans, you are not the only bloody people on the planet. 5 Posts in and you've already stated banging on about your completely optional healthcare, and a few seconds later your stupid Republican/Democrat Bread and Circuses party. Repeat after me.
Who. Gives. A. Fuck.
Why? Becasue they are two sides of the same fucking coin and the sooner you stop quibbling over who's right and wrong the sooner you'll get off your asses and start actually worrying about what you should replace them with, because my personal opinion is that they are both cunts who need to die.
And please NSA, blow me up over this. I dare you.
I'm physically sick of seeing people answer to progress against tyranny/disparity with "Oh they'll just go to another country and do it then". Let them! The nature of the market is if they deliberately leave a hole in the market, someone WILL fill it.
Well it's still legal to keep your wife chained to your cooker in a burkha and facemask in many parts of the middle east, even encouraged... so naturally we shouldn't advance sexual equality, because people will just take their wives to other countries and do it there.
No they won't, because Wives have opinions and companies have laws binding them. I'm pretty sure that we need to start implementing a circumvention blanket law so we can trap this.
Make it so that anyone employed in this country (whether or not by a US company) can't have more than 12x the wages of anyone else in the company and fine them all their gross profits if they violate. If they don't like it they know where the door is.
Okay, so Snowden and Assange?
Fact is it's the same here if they see what you are saying as damaging to them in any meaningful respect. To them you're a fly... not even that, just another email with no reply.
And It really wasn't like that in the USSR. It was like it is here now.
Remember that you are looking at this through the eyes of US media reports on the USSR, who had to demonize the country to build up public dislike and justify the war they thought was coming. I doubt it was nearly as bad as even the middle east is now.
Have you considered the fact that all those people have $10,000 of state debt sitting on thier heads right now... I'd say that makes them poor.
Poor is not how much you have, it's income/expenditure. Saying that because you have stuff you aren't poor is like saying because a music CD has data on it it's a good medium to install Windows onto.
In a strictly business sense, I could tick all of the boxes on that list except buying a house with less than $2000, yet if I was getting paid $2000 a year I would definitely be destitute... never mind the fact that I had my ENTIRE LIFE to accumulate those goods.
Give a poor African kid in the Sahara desert a HDTV and they are still a poor African kid in the Sahara desert. Haven't you heard about the tendency of Oxfam volunteers seeing the people they give free clothes to argue and fight over the brand named Nike sweaters etc. It's how modern media has raised the world.
You're much less likely to vote for lower taxes knowing that it is to the detriment of the greater good at that particular moment in time if you actually have been made to feel like a important part of the system. One of the greatest arguments supporting the ideal that we deserve the government we have is that we are selfish and greedy when it comes to our voting decisions.
This would be a step towards establishing social responsibility among the voting class... something we sorely lack.
Erm, guess what. I bet all those governments that "back" your fiat currencies wish they had nothing backing them, because the only thing backing government money atm is debt.
You misunderstand.
Window's shouldn't support that hardware, for that is the nature of Windows. Anyone can make hardware for it, as long as they write drivers. Nothing stupid about that, it's called free choice and we need it for great things to be made.
Windows should have a framework for efficiency but that came out a few weeks ago for OS X and doesn't exist elsewhere in operating systems so they aren't THAT far behind.
And I was not talking about the Wireless driver polling the hardware, I was talking about the driver telling the hardware to poll the router it was connected to to see if it's still in-range/connected. That definitely happens.
Considering that windows 8 works on Pentium 4/AMD Athlon systems from the era when Apple still used PPC, yeah that's new.
Yes you do, it decides who to be mad at, instead of just getting mad at the wrong person.
You're showing signs of mild psychopathy here, in XP development days people didn't really care about battery life as much as nobody expected to use their devices for the whole day.
Why so mad. It isn't BS.
When you write the drivers for your wireless for example, you decide how often it polls (switches on to check stuff). With Windows, you have Wireless Zero Config, which sends kernel calls to the driver but cannot directly control it in that regard, or you have the driver application itself, which sends kernel calls to the driver.
Both are third party. It would be impossible to implement Wireless coalescing on that scale in Win7 beccasue quite simply, MS aren't in control of that part of the system.
So all it takes is one rogue app or driver that doesn't and your OS doesn't do it.
The more they act like there is an energy shortage, the more they can justify price hikes unopposed.