People use the US country code all the time and have for decades. It's the "1" in "1-800" numbers.
But since the US does so much intra-quadrasphere calling where an area code is sufficient, they don't realize it's a country code and just assume it's part of the "800" system.
By your definition, jihadis banding together to create ISIS "reduces conflict". Most of us are looking at a larger world. A group of investors is only one company, not the entirety of either the market, civilization, or the world.
Nor is "Capitalism" a libel. It's a scientifically accurate description of a particular way of setting up an endeavor - usually, but not always a business. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a Capitalist - I've raised capital myself to the advantage of myself and my fellow investors. But it's a tool, not a God to be worshipped or defended like the name of Allah.
Capitalism is NOT a religion and it's not something that is inherently tied to a free market (which is ALSO not a religion). Nor is it the only way of doing business by a long stretch.
Making gods of inanimate forces doesn't make you any less primitive than if you worship the rain or the sun.
Capitalism is a means of acquiring power. By pooling resources, it becomes possible to do things that an individual could not do on his/her own.
One of the most common applications of power is to control, suppress, or exterminate those whose presence or existence are inconvenient.
I don't see anything in there that could imply reduced conflict unless you mean the "reduced conflict" you get from slaves and the dead.
Or are you one of those who think that Capitalism = Free Market?
A truly free market discourages conflict because conflict disrupts trading. But capitalism itself often destroys a free market, because commonly the end result of a capital-leveraged concern is monopoly as the process feeds back into itself, with the successful gaining more and more assets (power), which, in turn facilitates gaining even more power.
IBM may not be doing great but don't fool yourself, IBM is still bigger than Amazon and they're much more embedded in the infrastructure that allows entities like Google, Facebook and Amazon to exist. They're far from going anywhere anytime soon.
IBM may not be doing great but don't fool yourself, IBM is still bigger than Amazon and they're much more embedded in the infrastructure that allows entities like Google, Facebook and Amazon to exist. They're far from going anywhere anytime soon.
So they think.
IBM got to be so big, not because it was a mainframe company - there were half-a-dozen mainframe companies at one time. They got to be so big because they were a service company. Any incompetent idiot was assured a well-paid career as a "DP" manager (IT wasn't yet the term) simply by doing exactly what the IBM salesmen told him to do.
They threw that all away when they offshored most of the support jobs and gutted the domestic teams. Even back circa 1994 I could get better support for Linux (with no corporate owner) than I could for OS/2 with Big Blue allegedly backing it up. On the rare occasions when we did get a competent OS/2 support rep, they'd be gone within 6 months.
I worked at a major IT shop that was totally IBM-free and never missed it. They had Sun, Compaq, Microsoft, Oracle, and even a SCO machine or 3, but no in-house mainframe despite processing millions of transactions per day. No overpriced IBM design tools, no WebSphere, no IBM. Period.
I think there's a lot more shops like that and odds are that as new companies begin expanding that IBM will shrink for lack of business. Unless they stop trying to be a cross between Wal-Mart and Quickee-Mart. IBM's biggest customer base are the old-line businesses who generally started with them when they were using punched-card equipment. IBM simply doesn't have anything to offer to anyone who's not entrenched in that culture.
I concur. Too often, a whole shed load of busybodies go stomping in for trivial reasons. And probably 90% of the time or more, if a kid says he lives in a "terrorist house", it's kids being ingenuous.
On the other hand, he may have been literally repeating a "joke" heard by his elders - "We're a terrorist household". That may or may not be literally true, since it doesn't take a whole lot to get you added to the witchhunt these days. But in the off chance it is true, and the kid's living in a house full of bombs, weapons, and ill-intentioned plotters, it's better to heed the warning.
So I'm in favor of a few discrete inquiries. Just in case.
I am not in any way in favor of a full-on SWAT raid as the first step. Leave that until it's determined that there's actually fire under the smoke.
Tim McVeigh, The Unabomber, and most recently the yahoos up in the American Northwest who want property "returned to its original owners" - not, incidentally, the tribes who lived there before the white people arrived.
The problem is that Trump says stuff and he means it. He's absolutely right in all matters. He's right even when he demonstrably isn't. He's right even when experts tell him he's full of shit. He's right even if it means reality is wrong. And don't dare tell him he is wrong because suddenly you're an enemy to be demeaned and mocked.
It's not hard to find articles that suggest he is suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder and I can easily believe it.
Of course, the angry redneck and the stupid sophomore both have one thing in common: You can't tell either one of them a damned thing right now which refutes their little dreams.
That's not limited to "the redneck and stupid sophomore". Damn near the entire population of the US is like that anymore. It's strange how we have better communication and more access to information than ever before in this country, and people are more narrow minded than ever.
The Internet has made it possible for anyone, no matter how marginal, to "prove" that their ideas are "right" because they can find like-minded people spewing the same nonsense.
As Rudyard Kipling's monkeys chanted: "It must be true, because we all say so!"
I've been a Windows user my entire life and Miceosoft has conveniently clarified the reason why Linux will be my next primary OS. I thought they were awful in '98...
With stunts like this, Linux is going to win by default. Unless you really like throwing away old but perfectly-capable computers just because a new copy of Windows comes out, the only other use is to reformat the disk and put Linux on it. Relatively few common tasks other than graphics-intensive ones (games and rendering work) are beneath the abilities of machines 10 years old or more. If you have an OS that still works with the hardware.
The economy has risen and fallen many times in US history, but the spread in income inequality started widening with Reagan. Not even Carter was as bad.
Borrowing is at the heart of countless fortunes. Many of the classic rags-to-riches tales start off with "Mr. X had an idea. So he borrowed from his friends/relatives/random people on the street" to get enough capital to start his business. Today it's worth XX billion dollars. Without checking, I'd lay even money that one of the names you could substitute for "X" is Bill Gates.
Borrowing is the very heart of Capitalism. Not the Free Market, but BORROWING. Also known as "Raising Capital".
It's true, of course, that few people know how to borrow WELL, but that's a different affair entirely.
And I'd like to know how you can make a decent property without either borrowing or being a slumlord. I've rented out property and the profit margins weren't very good. The only real ways I could have made any significant money would have been to own a whole bunch of properties (which I wouldn't be able to do without borrowing) or to let the place turn into a roach hotel.
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> Also, legos is not a word, the plural of Lego is Lego
Wrong. A word is a word once somebody uses it.
Cromulent advice, if ever I heard any!
People use the US country code all the time and have for decades. It's the "1" in "1-800" numbers.
But since the US does so much intra-quadrasphere calling where an area code is sufficient, they don't realize it's a country code and just assume it's part of the "800" system.
Except that at the moment, they're not on DST (EDT), they're on EST.
UTC is useful, but I'll settle for the name of the locale. It's not like people don't know where New York is.
85-90 is Rush Hour traffic on I-95 in Miami,
By your definition, jihadis banding together to create ISIS "reduces conflict". Most of us are looking at a larger world. A group of investors is only one company, not the entirety of either the market, civilization, or the world.
Nor is "Capitalism" a libel. It's a scientifically accurate description of a particular way of setting up an endeavor - usually, but not always a business. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a Capitalist - I've raised capital myself to the advantage of myself and my fellow investors. But it's a tool, not a God to be worshipped or defended like the name of Allah.
Capitalism is NOT a religion and it's not something that is inherently tied to a free market (which is ALSO not a religion). Nor is it the only way of doing business by a long stretch.
Making gods of inanimate forces doesn't make you any less primitive than if you worship the rain or the sun.
Capitalism is a means of acquiring power. By pooling resources, it becomes possible to do things that an individual could not do on his/her own.
One of the most common applications of power is to control, suppress, or exterminate those whose presence or existence are inconvenient.
I don't see anything in there that could imply reduced conflict unless you mean the "reduced conflict" you get from slaves and the dead.
Or are you one of those who think that Capitalism = Free Market?
A truly free market discourages conflict because conflict disrupts trading. But capitalism itself often destroys a free market, because commonly the end result of a capital-leveraged concern is monopoly as the process feeds back into itself, with the successful gaining more and more assets (power), which, in turn facilitates gaining even more power.
IBM may not be doing great but don't fool yourself, IBM is still bigger than Amazon and they're much more embedded in the infrastructure that allows entities like Google, Facebook and Amazon to exist. They're far from going anywhere anytime soon.
IBM may not be doing great but don't fool yourself, IBM is still bigger than Amazon and they're much more embedded in the infrastructure that allows entities like Google, Facebook and Amazon to exist. They're far from going anywhere anytime soon.
So they think.
IBM got to be so big, not because it was a mainframe company - there were half-a-dozen mainframe companies at one time. They got to be so big because they were a service company. Any incompetent idiot was assured a well-paid career as a "DP" manager (IT wasn't yet the term) simply by doing exactly what the IBM salesmen told him to do.
They threw that all away when they offshored most of the support jobs and gutted the domestic teams. Even back circa 1994 I could get better support for Linux (with no corporate owner) than I could for OS/2 with Big Blue allegedly backing it up. On the rare occasions when we did get a competent OS/2 support rep, they'd be gone within 6 months.
I worked at a major IT shop that was totally IBM-free and never missed it. They had Sun, Compaq, Microsoft, Oracle, and even a SCO machine or 3, but no in-house mainframe despite processing millions of transactions per day. No overpriced IBM design tools, no WebSphere, no IBM. Period.
I think there's a lot more shops like that and odds are that as new companies begin expanding that IBM will shrink for lack of business. Unless they stop trying to be a cross between Wal-Mart and Quickee-Mart. IBM's biggest customer base are the old-line businesses who generally started with them when they were using punched-card equipment. IBM simply doesn't have anything to offer to anyone who's not entrenched in that culture.
I concur. Too often, a whole shed load of busybodies go stomping in for trivial reasons. And probably 90% of the time or more, if a kid says he lives in a "terrorist house", it's kids being ingenuous.
On the other hand, he may have been literally repeating a "joke" heard by his elders - "We're a terrorist household". That may or may not be literally true, since it doesn't take a whole lot to get you added to the witchhunt these days. But in the off chance it is true, and the kid's living in a house full of bombs, weapons, and ill-intentioned plotters, it's better to heed the warning.
So I'm in favor of a few discrete inquiries. Just in case.
I am not in any way in favor of a full-on SWAT raid as the first step. Leave that until it's determined that there's actually fire under the smoke.
I'm pretty sure he would be.
Tim McVeigh, The Unabomber, and most recently the yahoos up in the American Northwest who want property "returned to its original owners" - not, incidentally, the tribes who lived there before the white people arrived.
Tie a knot in it.
There are other things in the world besides politics, Horatio.
The problem is that Trump says stuff and he means it. He's absolutely right in all matters. He's right even when he demonstrably isn't. He's right even when experts tell him he's full of shit. He's right even if it means reality is wrong. And don't dare tell him he is wrong because suddenly you're an enemy to be demeaned and mocked.
It's not hard to find articles that suggest he is suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder and I can easily believe it.
So in other words, a typical human.
Of course, the angry redneck and the stupid sophomore both have one thing in common: You can't tell either one of them a damned thing right now which refutes their little dreams.
That's not limited to "the redneck and stupid sophomore". Damn near the entire population of the US is like that anymore. It's strange how we have better communication and more access to information than ever before in this country, and people are more narrow minded than ever.
The Internet has made it possible for anyone, no matter how marginal, to "prove" that their ideas are "right" because they can find like-minded people spewing the same nonsense.
As Rudyard Kipling's monkeys chanted: "It must be true, because we all say so!"
As long as you can answer complex problems with "It's Simple", you'll get votes by the bagful.
Even when the "Simple" answer is something that makes the problem worse.
Unless you're driving a somewhat recent Nexus...then you'll get an update fairly quickly.
And if you're not, then the recent OS update broke the whole system and they don't intend to ever fix it.
No, "perma-temping" is the new Feudalism.
The DMCA is just the new Sumptuary Laws.
Of course, theoretically, 'competition' in 'markets' should stamp this out.
That theory also talks about "informed actors". That is, consumers being able to get all the information -- a world without trade secrets...
That theory also assumes that if they are informed, they will act rationally.
A season in farming is the amount of fruitful growing time between the last freeze in the winter/spring and the first freeze in the autumn/winter.
In that case, a "season" in the tomato fields of South Florida is many years long.
Even as far north as the strawberry fields around Tampa is over 11 months.
But natural-farmed strawberries only get harvested there at around late February.
I've been a Windows user my entire life and Miceosoft has conveniently clarified the reason why Linux will be my next primary OS. I thought they were awful in '98...
With stunts like this, Linux is going to win by default. Unless you really like throwing away old but perfectly-capable computers just because a new copy of Windows comes out, the only other use is to reformat the disk and put Linux on it. Relatively few common tasks other than graphics-intensive ones (games and rendering work) are beneath the abilities of machines 10 years old or more. If you have an OS that still works with the hardware.
A "penny" is what the coin IS.
A "cent" is the coin's VALUE (as legal tender - we've already covered what it's physically worth).
I will defend to the Death my Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Pennies!
But then who would be the first Cuban-American president!
Not for long. His first act would be to annex the USA to Cuba, thus making him the President of all the Cubas.
He obviously has the Cuban Government mindset.
The economy has risen and fallen many times in US history, but the spread in income inequality started widening with Reagan. Not even Carter was as bad.
Yep. I know the Bible isn't necessarily the most popular source of wisdom around here, but Proverbs 22:7 nails it:
The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Or maybe the more recent proverb:
If you owe the bank a little money, the bank owns you.
If you owe the bank a LOT of money, you owns the bank.
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Freely as in "You have two choices: become my slave or I kill you here and now?"
Unpopular? How about delusional?
Borrowing is at the heart of countless fortunes. Many of the classic rags-to-riches tales start off with "Mr. X had an idea. So he borrowed from his friends/relatives/random people on the street" to get enough capital to start his business. Today it's worth XX billion dollars. Without checking, I'd lay even money that one of the names you could substitute for "X" is Bill Gates.
Borrowing is the very heart of Capitalism. Not the Free Market, but BORROWING. Also known as "Raising Capital".
It's true, of course, that few people know how to borrow WELL, but that's a different affair entirely.
And I'd like to know how you can make a decent property without either borrowing or being a slumlord. I've rented out property and the profit margins weren't very good. The only real ways I could have made any significant money would have been to own a whole bunch of properties (which I wouldn't be able to do without borrowing) or to let the place turn into a roach hotel.