They're not like us, not human, they're infidels. They're not human, they're Jews. They're not human they're muslims/heretics/atheists. It makes mass murder much easier if you don't have to think of the people you're butchering as ordinary people, you can think of them as sub-human, animals to be slaughtered.
It's a pretty standard propaganda technique. It's been used for thousands of years. What saddens me is that it's still successful.
That's basically what I use, though, more simply the ratio of the number of problem tickets to the number of request tickets. You can get fancy with it and include severities and business impact etc as well.
Not so. If it does then he's not such a great SA. Part of an SA position is to improve the environment. Which may mean re-designing the network architecture, it may mean installing a new app, it may mean writing middleware to simplify inter-application communication. Whatever.
You can't quantify SA productivity. Of course you can. With a semi-decent ticket management system it isn't even that difficult.
They could probably make better use of the die space of the 4th, 3rd, or even 2nd CPU core by putting things like cache there instead. Except you won't pay the price.
They can charge you more for a 4 core CPU with shit amounts of cache than they can with a dual core with shed loads. People are stupid. They assume more megahurts means more fast and more cores means more fast... Whether the additional cores are actually doing anything at all.
Business CPUs it's a different matter, they actually benchmark their apps and yup, buy CPUs with loads of cache when they're faster.
And really, the best thing they could do is add an FPGA.
Huh? Aggressor? Last I checked, it wasn't Israel who was swearing to wipe out other countries, Um. That would be a (deliberate?) mistranslation of what the bloke said.
It just means the mail server needs a valid DNS domain and to have it set up securely. It's not so difficult and is badly needed. It solves much of the spam and phishing problem.
It has to start with secure DNS. Receiving mail servers have to be able to test that the originating mail server actually represents the domain it says it does.
You mean the ruling class in the poor countries will make a bundle, and the poor will remain poor. Depends on the government of the region. If they allow competition then the farmers will benefit. If they allow their cronies to monopolise the production, then the rich will become richer.
I'll just point out that the subsidised food actually drives the poor farmers out of business and reduces the amount of land that is then dedicated to farming within the poorest regions. The really nasty problems start when there's a subsequent drought and the remaining productive land doesn't produce enough food to feed the population. The result is famine, starvation, death and a greater need for aid.
Another problem appears when you have thousands of disaffected unemployed ex farmers just sitting around. Ideal supply of soldiers for anyone who decides they want to rebel against their desperate situation. Which obviously makes everything an order of magnitude worse. It's no coincidence that areas which receive lots of aid are areas which have problems with ongoing conflicts. It's a self reinforcing cycle.
Really, food subsidies are a form of economic warfare which attacks the poorest, most wretched, most defenceless people on the planet...
EU and US farmers are directly the cause of millions of deaths in the 3rd world.
Using grains to create ethanol could have a negative impact on the food market by driving up prices - especially for poor countries. Poor countries will become farmers... They'll make a bundle.
I fail to understand why China would be the first to break the status quo, except out of sheer malice They won't. But the oil producers might. They're selling the US oil and getting (soon to be worthless) bits of paper in return, and they basically hate the US anyway for it's continued meddling and interference. If the dollar continues to fall, they'll migrate their reserves (oh so slowly and carefully) into something else instead.
The question is, will it be a slow, smooth change over decades allowing people to get used to higher inflation and higher interest rates, or will it be a disruptive one, bankrupting millions? With the social consequences of revolution, coups, civil wars, fascist dictatorships. Markets tend towards the latter as a gentle decline turns into freefalling panic...
Give me a break... I work in a.NET shop. Guess how much JAVA we use. Guess how important it is in our apps. Mmmmm. It shows you Microsoft's.NET strategy 5 years before they know themselves?
but I'm not sure that the brightness could be maintained ad infinitum, Oh no, it can't.
We're seeing the results now, in order to maintain the status quo, oil must continue to be denominated in dollars, anything which threatens that has to be put down. Iraq switched in 2000 to Euros... and have now switched back to dollars... Iran is just about to switch to Euros for oil, and Venezuela are trading oil directly in other currencies.
I predict that both Iran and Venezuela will either suffer coups, civil war or some other massive destabilisation as the US attempts to persuade them to switch back to US dollars. Sometime in the next 5 years or so.
I'm scared/afraid by your last paragraph: what if politics, due its capacity to print money, and being corrupts, instead of managing the country resources properly, use the war for resources or to avoid bankrupt? To be honest, we've had 40 years of the situation. There are trillions of dollars out there. It's already happened. It's way too late.
The US dollar is massively over valued, the trade deficit and national debt show that. Unless the US government can stop the oil producers switching (they have an iron clad deal with Saudi to stop them, and they invaded Iraq to stop them) the dollar is going to continue to slide into worthlessness as everyone unloads their USD reserves.
The US will experience huge levels of inflation as the money comes home. Interest rates will rocket to compensate, US property and business markets will crash as credit becomes extremely expensive and the US will become a very poor country.
The alternative is a long slow linear decline in the dollar. Which means somehow preventing panic in the markets and to do that you have to stop them predicting the decline of the dollar. I think this may be what Bush and buddies are aiming for. However markets simply don't work that way, they make exponential corrections.
Well, it is quite common that justice for the one is usually an unjustice for the other. Well, yes, but you have to admit that it is a piece of geopolitical brilliance on the part of whoever thought it up. After all, the US had only just lost the cold war. Two years later and they've put a situation in place which will allow them to spend the USSR into oblivion.
The dollarification of the [oil] world economy seems to be a sword with two blades: while throwing inflation to the "Chinese Inflation Hole" and getting oil for free, the other side means deindustrialization, dependency, and artificial dollar value sustainment Features I've also noticed about it. You can add some social and political aspects as well when you consider it makes it easy for politicians to spend money on the military industrial complex. You then get inevitable increase in the power of politicians because they always have money. It becomes important for large companies to try to influence those politicians so corruption increases.
The real problem is that politicians like to spend money they don't have. Throughout human history, the leaders have never ever been able to remain within budget. And they're the ones who'd have to vote for a monetary system which essentially prevents them from taking the country into debt.
I'm not sure gold is necessary or desirable. It has inherent deflationary properties when used as a currency which cause all sorts of problems. Human beings don't like to appear to lose money, even if the resulting money is actually more valuable.
An ideal currency would neither inflate nor deflate and would somehow be independent of the politicians.
First off... did you have a brainfart, or are you actually advocating USA ISOLATIONISM, on all fronts, economic, political and military ?!?
I've actually been advocating that since 9-11-2001. So... Where do you get your oil?
It's been tried. Doesn't work. The rest of the world simply sails on by and continues developing economically while you recede. Then one day someone comes along and invades, wipes out your army, navy with superior weaponry and you're dead.
You can trade goods for goods, songs for songs, but when you trade materials for IOUs, I don't think that that's an inherently fair exchange. But the trade is made without duress. Individuals value different things differently. Someone may value an interest paying IOU (bond) as worth more than 100 playstations, so they trade you the hardware and take a debt in exchange.
The US declared bankruptcy on the 15th of August 1971.
Nobody noticed or seemed to care. Which I have to admit I find a touch odd. But... at the same time, in 1972 and 1973 they managed to persuade the House of Saudi to denominate oil in US dollars so everyone had to buy dollars to buy oil. Perhaps you'll start to understand the close relationship between the US and Saudi now.
This genius has allowed the US to export it's inflation to the rest of the world for decades. It may have been desperation or genius, but whoever it was that thought it up should be given the highest medal by the US government and people. It's given the US a truly massive advantage over all of the other countries.
Of course, 40 years later, everyone is starting to wake up to the importance of currency, and the oil producers are starting to switch away from the US dollar as it's value dwindles.
"A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states." And inflation is just another form of taxation.
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It's a great way to dehumanise your opponents.
They're not like us, not human, they're infidels. They're not human, they're Jews. They're not human they're muslims/heretics/atheists. It makes mass murder much easier if you don't have to think of the people you're butchering as ordinary people, you can think of them as sub-human, animals to be slaughtered.
It's a pretty standard propaganda technique. It's been used for thousands of years. What saddens me is that it's still successful.
That's basically what I use, though, more simply the ratio of the number of problem tickets to the number of request tickets. You can get fancy with it and include severities and business impact etc as well.
Not so. If it does then he's not such a great SA. Part of an SA position is to improve the environment. Which may mean re-designing the network architecture, it may mean installing a new app, it may mean writing middleware to simplify inter-application communication. Whatever. You can't quantify SA productivity. Of course you can. With a semi-decent ticket management system it isn't even that difficult.
They can charge you more for a 4 core CPU with shit amounts of cache than they can with a dual core with shed loads. People are stupid. They assume more megahurts means more fast and more cores means more fast... Whether the additional cores are actually doing anything at all.
Business CPUs it's a different matter, they actually benchmark their apps and yup, buy CPUs with loads of cache when they're faster.
And really, the best thing they could do is add an FPGA.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_stee
Of course it's handy to paint the guy as more insane than he really is. It makes invasion much more supportable.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_stee
Sounds like regime change to me. Sounds like Bush in fact.
Bring in a predator.
It's only a phone. If you don't like the provider there are plenty of other phones which work with other providers.
It just means the mail server needs a valid DNS domain and to have it set up securely. It's not so difficult and is badly needed. It solves much of the spam and phishing problem.
It has to start with secure DNS. Receiving mail servers have to be able to test that the originating mail server actually represents the domain it says it does.
I'll just point out that the subsidised food actually drives the poor farmers out of business and reduces the amount of land that is then dedicated to farming within the poorest regions. The really nasty problems start when there's a subsequent drought and the remaining productive land doesn't produce enough food to feed the population. The result is famine, starvation, death and a greater need for aid.
Another problem appears when you have thousands of disaffected unemployed ex farmers just sitting around. Ideal supply of soldiers for anyone who decides they want to rebel against their desperate situation. Which obviously makes everything an order of magnitude worse. It's no coincidence that areas which receive lots of aid are areas which have problems with ongoing conflicts. It's a self reinforcing cycle.
Really, food subsidies are a form of economic warfare which attacks the poorest, most wretched, most defenceless people on the planet...
EU and US farmers are directly the cause of millions of deaths in the 3rd world.
http://business.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=474362
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/27/business/d
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/277471c2-8889-11db-b485-0
And so it starts...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&
Even the US's strongest ally, Japan is planning to move away:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&s
The question is, will it be a slow, smooth change over decades allowing people to get used to higher inflation and higher interest rates, or will it be a disruptive one, bankrupting millions? With the social consequences of revolution, coups, civil wars, fascist dictatorships. Markets tend towards the latter as a gentle decline turns into freefalling panic...
We're seeing the results now, in order to maintain the status quo, oil must continue to be denominated in dollars, anything which threatens that has to be put down. Iraq switched in 2000 to Euros... and have now switched back to dollars... Iran is just about to switch to Euros for oil, and Venezuela are trading oil directly in other currencies.
I predict that both Iran and Venezuela will either suffer coups, civil war or some other massive destabilisation as the US attempts to persuade them to switch back to US dollars. Sometime in the next 5 years or so. I'm scared/afraid by your last paragraph: what if politics, due its capacity to print money, and being corrupts, instead of managing the country resources properly, use the war for resources or to avoid bankrupt? To be honest, we've had 40 years of the situation. There are trillions of dollars out there. It's already happened. It's way too late.
The US dollar is massively over valued, the trade deficit and national debt show that. Unless the US government can stop the oil producers switching (they have an iron clad deal with Saudi to stop them, and they invaded Iraq to stop them) the dollar is going to continue to slide into worthlessness as everyone unloads their USD reserves.
The US will experience huge levels of inflation as the money comes home. Interest rates will rocket to compensate, US property and business markets will crash as credit becomes extremely expensive and the US will become a very poor country.
The alternative is a long slow linear decline in the dollar. Which means somehow preventing panic in the markets and to do that you have to stop them predicting the decline of the dollar. I think this may be what Bush and buddies are aiming for. However markets simply don't work that way, they make exponential corrections.
It's the plug hole of course.
The real problem is that politicians like to spend money they don't have. Throughout human history, the leaders have never ever been able to remain within budget. And they're the ones who'd have to vote for a monetary system which essentially prevents them from taking the country into debt.
I'm not sure gold is necessary or desirable. It has inherent deflationary properties when used as a currency which cause all sorts of problems. Human beings don't like to appear to lose money, even if the resulting money is actually more valuable.
An ideal currency would neither inflate nor deflate and would somehow be independent of the politicians.
I've actually been advocating that since 9-11-2001. So... Where do you get your oil?
It's been tried. Doesn't work. The rest of the world simply sails on by and continues developing economically while you recede. Then one day someone comes along and invades, wipes out your army, navy with superior weaponry and you're dead.
No... Really...
http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=234177& n=33
Devalue the currency.
D &to=EUR&amt=1&t=5yD &to=CNY&amt=1&t=5y
Something like this:
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?from=US
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?from=US
The US declared bankruptcy on the 15th of August 1971.
Nobody noticed or seemed to care. Which I have to admit I find a touch odd. But... at the same time, in 1972 and 1973 they managed to persuade the House of Saudi to denominate oil in US dollars so everyone had to buy dollars to buy oil. Perhaps you'll start to understand the close relationship between the US and Saudi now.
This genius has allowed the US to export it's inflation to the rest of the world for decades. It may have been desperation or genius, but whoever it was that thought it up should be given the highest medal by the US government and people. It's given the US a truly massive advantage over all of the other countries.
Of course, 40 years later, everyone is starting to wake up to the importance of currency, and the oil producers are starting to switch away from the US dollar as it's value dwindles.
"A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states."
And inflation is just another form of taxation.
Brilliant.