He's unlikely to even have said the phrase, let alone implied anything about framing the poor honest man over a pact with the devil. The story is not good because it's true, it's good because it's good.
Most European intellectuals embraced the ideals of the American Revolution -- and they still do. America was once Camelot, but the great power that would stand for freedom and independence strikes us sometimes as a greedy bully. And while I grant that much of the vitriol spewed at America stems from envy of their wealth and their power, some remains from the disappointment that the ideals of the west don't now have the guardian we had hoped for.
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America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. - not Alexis de Tocqueville
What? How can you shut down a successor if it hasn't been succeeded yet? On the other hand, the NSA's predecessor, The Black Chamber, shut down in 1929. Or did it???
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Even better. Short of attaching prosthetic plates to the outside of your skull, there is nothing really you can do about beating a phrenology test. There could be no phrenology lessons or lists people how buy books on how to beat a phrenology exam.
Not everything electronic has a microphone and a camera and your access details for online banking. Personally, I would not be enormously concerned if anyone was trying to access my toaster, but mobile phones are a little more sensitive.
You don't think any revenue was lost? Imagine the people that really need to know the lyrics to a song. Every time one of them looks up the lyrics on the web, they no longer need to buy the album to know what the song says. Even if the lyrics on the recorded song are difficult to understand, they may have gone to a licensed lyrics site and earned them revenue through advertisement.
Looking through lyricsseal.com you learn that lyrics sites generate over 212m unique visitors per month, and that 7/25 of those sites are unlicensed. Doing maths, they explain that this means that over 50% of all lyrics page views are worldwide (not a typo). Don't believe me? Look at this infographic (I am linking directly to the image so that you don't inadvertently infringe on anyone's copyright) and see the truth.
Clearly, every one of those million page views per month represent an album's worth of lost revenue, plus just under 50% of a month's revenue worth of advertisement for the licensed lyrics sites. This must be stopped.
Dead citizens in Tokyo were for certain not involved in massacring the Chinese. Why should you care about Japanese casualties? For the same reason you care about anyone that dies needlessly in a war.
duh, american isolationism was an interwar sentiment and had a lot more to do with trade policy than with war, it was a very brief period compared to the War Department. Moreover the DoD was not just the Department of War renamed, but created to oversee it along with the Department of the Navy. Good job naming three nineteenth century wars though, bet your mum's proud.
Yeah, ironically you had a Department of War during your isolationist period, but after the war you figured that by changing the name to Defense you could engage in loads more wars without loosing the irony.
Not to imply US isolationism was pacifist, ask anyone from Latin America.
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Collective might of what? There's nothing wrong with creating a new currency, even one that is digital. The fact that gold has real world applications has no relevance to its value as a currency, despite how people keep insisting on finding some 'intrinsic value' in the currencies they use. The intrinsic theory of value was the theory people held before Adam Smith, and the economic equivalent of the Ptolemaic system in astronomy -- the ancients thought so, but they were wrong.
We now believe that objects have subjective value, and that it is determined by the market forces of supply and demand. And we also believe that currencies exist because they facilitate transactions, so that their demand does not depend on any use they have other than as a medium of exchange for other goods (I include here being a store of value). Some important characteristics that make up a good medium of exchange are:
Divisibility so that you can easily exchange both dear things and cheap things.
Fungibility means that each unit of the currency is equal to the other so that all you care about is their quantity. This is why diamonds are not a good currency, or for that matter, tulips.
Durability The reason it can be used as a store of value, with the idea of transactions in time. Also another reason tulips suck as a currency.
Scarcity which ensures your store of value retains its value, at least from the supply side.
You see that under these conditions, bitcoin is equivalent to gold (except for the size of the market - a lot lot more gold is traded daily). This is because what makes fiat currency fiat is the fact that its scarcity is artificial. The dollar is scarce because the Federal Reserve has promised not to print too many, and we have faith (fiat) in it. Gold is scarce because if we want any more, we have to dig it out of the gound with increased difficulty, and bitcoin are scarce because it takes computing effort to find more. Practical uses for these things do not even come into consideration here.
Finally we come to the size of the market. If a currency is useful only as a medium of exchange, then the more people you can trade with in that currency, the more useful and valuable it is. This is the reason for the dollar's supremacy, as for 50 years it was the currency of the largest market in the world, and so it got established as the basis for international reserves. Because of this, the dollar maintains its primacy even now that it has been demoted to the second largest market. But this does not mean that it has intrinsic value, only that its demand as a medium of transaction is further boosted by transactions at the nation level
My point is that there is nothing wrong with bitcoin as a currency. It is as good as gold, as good as the dollar. But it just has a smaller market for now, which gives it the flaws people point out here. Any new currency would have the problems bitcoin is having. It may fail in the end, but that does not mean it was a bad idea.
What kind of logic is that? "He's already shot his wife, no reason to go after him." They'll go after him to satisfy their sense of justice, exact their revenge, and warn any other future whistle blowers of the consequences of their whistle blowing.
Mulatto sounds offensive to Americans, because of its connotations of slavery and rape. There was also a deep taboo against miscegenation during the time which led to it being used pejoratively. Mulatto is not offensive in Latin America for instance, as black slavery was less widespread (outside of the Caribbean and Brazil), so some people do call him that. But more importantly, Obama identifies himself as black, and it's up to him really, so that's why people call him that.
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As TFA says, maybe they saved, maybe they didn't. It really depends on how you count. They seem to be happy with the move though.
I am pretty sure the gp was being coy.
Even after they jumped the shark, it is difficult to let go of these characters that impacted your life so much.
He's unlikely to even have said the phrase, let alone implied anything about framing the poor honest man over a pact with the devil. The story is not good because it's true, it's good because it's good.
Most European intellectuals embraced the ideals of the American Revolution -- and they still do. America was once Camelot, but the great power that would stand for freedom and independence strikes us sometimes as a greedy bully. And while I grant that much of the vitriol spewed at America stems from envy of their wealth and their power, some remains from the disappointment that the ideals of the west don't now have the guardian we had hoped for.
--
America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. - not Alexis de Tocqueville
What? How can you shut down a successor if it hasn't been succeeded yet? On the other hand, the NSA's predecessor, The Black Chamber, shut down in 1929. Or did it???
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A secret society is nothing without a sinister name.
Two words: Company mobile.
Even better. Short of attaching prosthetic plates to the outside of your skull, there is nothing really you can do about beating a phrenology test. There could be no phrenology lessons or lists people how buy books on how to beat a phrenology exam.
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Not everything electronic has a microphone and a camera and your access details for online banking. Personally, I would not be enormously concerned if anyone was trying to access my toaster, but mobile phones are a little more sensitive.
In the United States, truth is always an absolute defense against defamation. http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/substantial-truth
You don't think any revenue was lost? Imagine the people that really need to know the lyrics to a song. Every time one of them looks up the lyrics on the web, they no longer need to buy the album to know what the song says. Even if the lyrics on the recorded song are difficult to understand, they may have gone to a licensed lyrics site and earned them revenue through advertisement.
Looking through lyricsseal.com you learn that lyrics sites generate over 212m unique visitors per month, and that 7/25 of those sites are unlicensed. Doing maths, they explain that this means that over 50% of all lyrics page views are worldwide (not a typo). Don't believe me? Look at this infographic (I am linking directly to the image so that you don't inadvertently infringe on anyone's copyright) and see the truth.
Clearly, every one of those million page views per month represent an album's worth of lost revenue, plus just under 50% of a month's revenue worth of advertisement for the licensed lyrics sites. This must be stopped.
Dead citizens in Tokyo were for certain not involved in massacring the Chinese. Why should you care about Japanese casualties? For the same reason you care about anyone that dies needlessly in a war.
Well, fuck you, Jorge Villalobos and your stupid prd. Thanks for sharing that.
Run them on firefox.
duh, american isolationism was an interwar sentiment and had a lot more to do with trade policy than with war, it was a very brief period compared to the War Department. Moreover the DoD was not just the Department of War renamed, but created to oversee it along with the Department of the Navy. Good job naming three nineteenth century wars though, bet your mum's proud.
Yeah, ironically you had a Department of War during your isolationist period, but after the war you figured that by changing the name to Defense you could engage in loads more wars without loosing the irony.
Not to imply US isolationism was pacifist, ask anyone from Latin America.
Collective might of what? There's nothing wrong with creating a new currency, even one that is digital. The fact that gold has real world applications has no relevance to its value as a currency, despite how people keep insisting on finding some 'intrinsic value' in the currencies they use. The intrinsic theory of value was the theory people held before Adam Smith, and the economic equivalent of the Ptolemaic system in astronomy -- the ancients thought so, but they were wrong.
We now believe that objects have subjective value, and that it is determined by the market forces of supply and demand. And we also believe that currencies exist because they facilitate transactions, so that their demand does not depend on any use they have other than as a medium of exchange for other goods (I include here being a store of value). Some important characteristics that make up a good medium of exchange are:
You see that under these conditions, bitcoin is equivalent to gold (except for the size of the market - a lot lot more gold is traded daily). This is because what makes fiat currency fiat is the fact that its scarcity is artificial. The dollar is scarce because the Federal Reserve has promised not to print too many, and we have faith (fiat) in it. Gold is scarce because if we want any more, we have to dig it out of the gound with increased difficulty, and bitcoin are scarce because it takes computing effort to find more. Practical uses for these things do not even come into consideration here.
Finally we come to the size of the market. If a currency is useful only as a medium of exchange, then the more people you can trade with in that currency, the more useful and valuable it is. This is the reason for the dollar's supremacy, as for 50 years it was the currency of the largest market in the world, and so it got established as the basis for international reserves. Because of this, the dollar maintains its primacy even now that it has been demoted to the second largest market. But this does not mean that it has intrinsic value, only that its demand as a medium of transaction is further boosted by transactions at the nation level
My point is that there is nothing wrong with bitcoin as a currency. It is as good as gold, as good as the dollar. But it just has a smaller market for now, which gives it the flaws people point out here. Any new currency would have the problems bitcoin is having. It may fail in the end, but that does not mean it was a bad idea.
What kind of logic is that? "He's already shot his wife, no reason to go after him." They'll go after him to satisfy their sense of justice, exact their revenge, and warn any other future whistle blowers of the consequences of their whistle blowing.
Don't know if being homophobic or going along with the joke.
Today he revealed he had been using Keynote for presentations. It feels to me like he is pandering do a different public now.
Mulatto sounds offensive to Americans, because of its connotations of slavery and rape. There was also a deep taboo against miscegenation during the time which led to it being used pejoratively. Mulatto is not offensive in Latin America for instance, as black slavery was less widespread (outside of the Caribbean and Brazil), so some people do call him that. But more importantly, Obama identifies himself as black, and it's up to him really, so that's why people call him that.
Buddy, those links seem to be pretty spot on. I don't know if the clock is broken, but it's definitely pointing at the current time.
No shit. He's been hanging out with Boris quite a bit, hasn't he?
I don't know, Ed Milliband is working hard to make sure that doesn't happen.
I think it's pretty obvious that spying on heads of state can cause diplomatic fallouts. See TFA.