...how often do we get to make fun of Germany for making a boneheaded decision regarding technology? I say we savor this one for years to come, as stories like this are a dime a dozen over in the States.
It's also a great way to show how something can have value without being a great medium of exchange. Though tribesmen do pretty well trading the ground beef whilst it's still in the cow, I guess.
True, but it's not all in humanity's possession, hence the interest in mining it (like you can do with BitCoin). And true, someday we will hit the limit (like we will do with BitCoin) and those who have it already will have power over those who desire it (ditto).
I like to visualize value in relation to ground beef. Like, I get paid about 6 1/2 lbs of ground beef an hour (before beef tax). I filled up my car with 14 pounds of ground beef. (One gallon of gas is running around the price of one pound of ground beef-- at least the good stuff.) I currently have about two tons of ground beef in student loans.
Same thing with the Zimbabwean Dollar in the 2000s, before they... stopped using the Zimbabwean Dollar. Once you start issuing $100 trillion dollar notes, people get kind of leery.
I grew up in Debs's hometown, so he's always had a special place in my heart. But yeah, the IWW have in a lot of ways marginalized themselves by demanding such slavish obedience to "The Cause." And in the paraphrased words of Emma Goldman, if there's a revolution where I can't dance, I don't want to be a part of it.
Yet another reason Eugene V. Debs's quote, "while there is a lower class, I am in it," rings all the more true with globalization. Nothing improves for any of us until it improves for all of us.
It amuses me when the Social Darwinist free-marketeers look at a man asking how he's going to feed his children and reply, "You know, survival is not mandatory..."
Most cost-effective way to pay your friends to help you move, basically ever. Offering cash is rude, but mention you've spotted for some beer and they come in droves.
Kinda like how Hurley's comment in the article (“It’s Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent!") does basically nothing to distinguish this from any other Big Brotherish effort. Most of 'em seem like a nice idea at first.
I want to come back to the question of... why is it so much more "spoooooky" when it's in glasses form, as opposed to people taking pictures on their camera-phones? One person shows up to a party with a camera phone and posts some things up on Facebook, and we already have a problem of non-consenting recording. And suuuure, you were just smoking flavored tobacco out of that hookah...
So the cameras in the phones we're already dealing with, but we get freaked out that people could be secretly watching us with their magic glasses?
Having taught public school, I can guarantee that the amount of stuff already photographed, texted, and batted around from here to there without the pictured's consent is pretty ridiculous, even in a school building. Take a picture of someone's tacky outfit, text it across the building, and then have half the school making fun of them by the end of the day.
I'm pretty sure Verizon could snoop on those pictures if they chose to. And I'm not sure why putting all this into "glasses" form is the part that's scaring everyone. Cameras and de facto surveillance are already ubiquitous.
Okay, I see a lot of people focusing on photons being used. But what about an FTL carrier pigeon? Or a carrier pigeon released from an FTL craft? I refer you to RFC 1149.
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...how often do we get to make fun of Germany for making a boneheaded decision regarding technology? I say we savor this one for years to come, as stories like this are a dime a dozen over in the States.
They're focusing on teleportation now, I hope?
Lower overall revenues for higher profit margins? Smells like an MBA.
If Coelacanth had a front porch, it'd be stealing our baseballs and yelling at us.
Hope everybody's okay, though.
It's also a great way to show how something can have value without being a great medium of exchange. Though tribesmen do pretty well trading the ground beef whilst it's still in the cow, I guess.
there is a set amount of gold on earth.
True, but it's not all in humanity's possession, hence the interest in mining it (like you can do with BitCoin). And true, someday we will hit the limit (like we will do with BitCoin) and those who have it already will have power over those who desire it (ditto).
Yeah, see? You can't even use BitCoins as firewood. How can they be money?
At least tulips are pretty.
I like to visualize value in relation to ground beef. Like, I get paid about 6 1/2 lbs of ground beef an hour (before beef tax). I filled up my car with 14 pounds of ground beef. (One gallon of gas is running around the price of one pound of ground beef-- at least the good stuff.) I currently have about two tons of ground beef in student loans.
Same thing with the Zimbabwean Dollar in the 2000s, before they... stopped using the Zimbabwean Dollar. Once you start issuing $100 trillion dollar notes, people get kind of leery.
I grew up in Debs's hometown, so he's always had a special place in my heart. But yeah, the IWW have in a lot of ways marginalized themselves by demanding such slavish obedience to "The Cause." And in the paraphrased words of Emma Goldman, if there's a revolution where I can't dance, I don't want to be a part of it.
Ooh, I hear Jonathan Swift wrote a nice cookbook about that.
Yet another reason Eugene V. Debs's quote, "while there is a lower class, I am in it," rings all the more true with globalization. Nothing improves for any of us until it improves for all of us.
You mean Bioshock wasn't supposed to be a road-map for society?
It amuses me when the Social Darwinist free-marketeers look at a man asking how he's going to feed his children and reply, "You know, survival is not mandatory..."
Most cost-effective way to pay your friends to help you move, basically ever. Offering cash is rude, but mention you've spotted for some beer and they come in droves.
The real: Teachers are rated based on how much time their students spend reading at home.
Kinda like how Hurley's comment in the article (“It’s Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent!") does basically nothing to distinguish this from any other Big Brotherish effort. Most of 'em seem like a nice idea at first.
Less of an eyesore, too.
True enough, but harvesting energy from solar panels require installation, whereas harvesting energy from photosynthesis requires a lawnmower.
I want to come back to the question of... why is it so much more "spoooooky" when it's in glasses form, as opposed to people taking pictures on their camera-phones? One person shows up to a party with a camera phone and posts some things up on Facebook, and we already have a problem of non-consenting recording. And suuuure, you were just smoking flavored tobacco out of that hookah... So the cameras in the phones we're already dealing with, but we get freaked out that people could be secretly watching us with their magic glasses?
I think it has to be Gglass. Lower-case "g" has rounded corners, and thus is an Apple trademark.
Having taught public school, I can guarantee that the amount of stuff already photographed, texted, and batted around from here to there without the pictured's consent is pretty ridiculous, even in a school building. Take a picture of someone's tacky outfit, text it across the building, and then have half the school making fun of them by the end of the day. I'm pretty sure Verizon could snoop on those pictures if they chose to. And I'm not sure why putting all this into "glasses" form is the part that's scaring everyone. Cameras and de facto surveillance are already ubiquitous.
Okay, I see a lot of people focusing on photons being used. But what about an FTL carrier pigeon? Or a carrier pigeon released from an FTL craft? I refer you to RFC 1149.