It actually comes from the concept of personal freedom; the freedom to do as you wish as long as it doesn't harm another. i.e. liberalism, which is ironic because the US have redefined liberal to mean socialist.
You see, you cannot have freedom without responsibility, they are the same thing. If you take away someone's responsibilities you are also at the same time taking away their freedom. A socialist state removes the personal responsibility from the individual and at the same time removes those same freedoms, it cannot be avoided.
Sweden, Norway and Denmark are not examples of socialist states, they are liberal democracies with market economies.
Until they learn what I like to watch and start automatically searching and recording it for me I'm not going to bother with them. My Tivo used to do that... Hell, even my email learns what I like to read.
With the amount of utter crap on TV and dozens of channels, it's an essential feature.
Virgin is T-Mobile Tesco is O2 MobileWorld is Vodafone Fresh is T-Mobile
That isn't to say they aren't cheaper than the main networks.
There's loads of competition all you've got to do is switch, and that's physically pretty easy. The hard bit is working out which network and tariff is cheapest for you. Sites like U-switch are making that easy too. Most people are simply too lazy to get off their arse and bother so the prices can't be too onerous.
Personally, I hope they come down on them like a ton of bricks as they really are ripping of their customers. Right. Because building and running an international mobile network is a doddle.
It's quite absurd what they have been getting away with so far. If you think so, why are you still with them? You are the one letting them get away with it.
I gotta say that it feels like that particular war's started already, and it's just that nobody actually told us.
Whether intentional or just a result of all those pirated copies of Winderz, the sheer number of bot-net/zombie attacks coming from China is staggering. You think the botnets are the start of the war? China has pegged their economy to the US's for 30 years using their currency as an economic weapon, and the US is only now waking to the fact. It's brilliant! Where are the US factories? Where all the US knowledge going? China.
Read Sun Tsu... "Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
China has had a massive, documented, and concerted effort to get people of all stripes, from authors to analysts to politicians to government officials to individuals members of societies such as yourself, to believe they are no longer "Communist". Apparently it's working quite well. Right... It's all a big conspiracy. 1000 million Chinese are all in on it!!!!!!
Dumping the debt would damage the US economy badly, beyond what Bush has already accomplished, it'd cause inflation to increase massively and correspondingly the dollar to drop. They'd be insane to dump the debt though, it'd be the nuclear option, they'd lose billions. It doesn't make sense until the Chinese economy has diversified enough to import/export from/to other countries.
They are selling it off though, which along with the US government borrowing like no tomorrow is why the US is already experiencing increased inflation, higher interest rates and a dropping dollar.
China in some ways became the de facto ideological leader of the worldwide Communist movement Communist? Certainly they're still authoritarian, but China hasn't been communist in decades.
Cool. One of my recent clients is a bike repair shop. They knew they needed to tick off some invoices which had been paid, but no idea what accounts receivable were in the package they were using.
They tend to be a bit clunky for the small trader though. Good luck with ledgerSMB.
There's also...
Home user: HomeBank, jGnash, GFP, Grisbi, Gnucash Small business: phpOrganisation, Quasar, Gnucash, Turbocash, FrontAccounting, Lazy8, Bambooinvoice, GnuAccounting Medium business: WebERP, OpenBravo, phpCOIN, LedgerSMB, CK-Ledger, OpenAccounting, smbledger Larger business: Opentaps, Compiere
Obviously the quality and focus varies, some are more successful than others.
Can I suggest that you take a look at themed front ends to ledgersmb. That is, a user interface which doesn't make use of general accounting terms but which uses terminology common to a particular industry.
In the real world, inflation is caused by an increased supply of money, it's simple supply and demand, the government prints it, the banks loan out something like 20x their deposits and all the existing money in the economy is devalued an equivalent amount causing prices to increase.
If you are pumping money into the game economy, I'd expect commodities like items to start increasing in price.
To fuck up elections based on paper ballots. Y'know mark an X in a box. You have to try really hard to make that fail.
But with the statement that "I can not see ink as a solution. So we argue about whether that ink mark is dark enough or actually in the box, etc." I see that you have that talent. You should apply to your local State Election Administration, they need your skills.
Hell yes, i am paranoid but that so only because MS is involved in all of these pacts, i am not at all comfortable taking the bullshit. You have much bigger problems. The obvious one being that you seem to fold like a sheet of paper. Your lunch will be eaten by someone with a pair unless you do something about that. Hmm, something like this might help: http://www.shaolinkempo.com/
Being one of the 0.1% of/.ers that believe God created mankind... so lets keep looking for its purpose Sorry, the answer for you can ultimately never be more than "It's god's will."
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It actually comes from the concept of personal freedom; the freedom to do as you wish as long as it doesn't harm another. i.e. liberalism, which is ironic because the US have redefined liberal to mean socialist.
You see, you cannot have freedom without responsibility, they are the same thing. If you take away someone's responsibilities you are also at the same time taking away their freedom. A socialist state removes the personal responsibility from the individual and at the same time removes those same freedoms, it cannot be avoided.
Sweden, Norway and Denmark are not examples of socialist states, they are liberal democracies with market economies.
You're aware that the dollar has lost about 1/3 of it's value over the last few years.
Until they learn what I like to watch and start automatically searching and recording it for me I'm not going to bother with them. My Tivo used to do that... Hell, even my email learns what I like to read.
With the amount of utter crap on TV and dozens of channels, it's an essential feature.
If the Iraq war hadn't happened, the money still wouldn't have been spent on research, instead you'd have lower inflation.
There are 5 network operators and 5 virtual network operators on top of that.
The network owners are:
T-mobile
Orange
Vodafone
O2
3
The main rebranded networks are:
Virgin is T-Mobile
Tesco is O2
MobileWorld is Vodafone
Fresh is T-Mobile
That isn't to say they aren't cheaper than the main networks.
There's loads of competition all you've got to do is switch, and that's physically pretty easy. The hard bit is working out which network and tariff is cheapest for you. Sites like U-switch are making that easy too. Most people are simply too lazy to get off their arse and bother so the prices can't be too onerous.
How did it taste?
Whether intentional or just a result of all those pirated copies of Winderz, the sheer number of bot-net/zombie attacks coming from China is staggering. You think the botnets are the start of the war? China has pegged their economy to the US's for 30 years using their currency as an economic weapon, and the US is only now waking to the fact. It's brilliant! Where are the US factories? Where all the US knowledge going? China.
Read Sun Tsu... "Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
There's a whole other unofficial... "justice" which can be visited on people who've wronged you.
I suggest you all have a little less respect for officialdom, you can read that as "politicians and bureaucrats".
Kudos on quoting Burns.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/db3a3248-19be-11dc-99c5-0
It's actually much worse than communism. Now, the whole world is going to have to compete with the chinese.
The Opec countries are developing their own currency... Which would be required to buy oil... Basically you pay em twice for the oil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2313847.stm
http://forex.gftforex.com/public/blog/145016
Dumping the debt would damage the US economy badly, beyond what Bush has already accomplished, it'd cause inflation to increase massively and correspondingly the dollar to drop. They'd be insane to dump the debt though, it'd be the nuclear option, they'd lose billions. It doesn't make sense until the Chinese economy has diversified enough to import/export from/to other countries.
They are selling it off though, which along with the US government borrowing like no tomorrow is why the US is already experiencing increased inflation, higher interest rates and a dropping dollar.
The American people are paying for it all too. Isn't that nice of them.
Cool. One of my recent clients is a bike repair shop. They knew they needed to tick off some invoices which had been paid, but no idea what accounts receivable were in the package they were using.
Free Quickbooks alternatives:
Turbocash on Windows.
Gnucash on Linux. Mmm, also Grisbi, though it lacked double entry last time I looked and not to forget KMyMoney on KDE.
Tax return specific stuff:
http://cbbrowne.com/info/freetaxsoftware.html
They tend to be a bit clunky for the small trader though. Good luck with ledgerSMB.
There's also...
Home user: HomeBank, jGnash, GFP, Grisbi, Gnucash
Small business: phpOrganisation, Quasar, Gnucash, Turbocash, FrontAccounting, Lazy8, Bambooinvoice, GnuAccounting
Medium business: WebERP, OpenBravo, phpCOIN, LedgerSMB, CK-Ledger, OpenAccounting, smbledger
Larger business: Opentaps, Compiere
Obviously the quality and focus varies, some are more successful than others.
Can I suggest that you take a look at themed front ends to ledgersmb. That is, a user interface which doesn't make use of general accounting terms but which uses terminology common to a particular industry.
In the real world, inflation is caused by an increased supply of money, it's simple supply and demand, the government prints it, the banks loan out something like 20x their deposits and all the existing money in the economy is devalued an equivalent amount causing prices to increase.
If you are pumping money into the game economy, I'd expect commodities like items to start increasing in price.
Exactly what I'd do too.
To fuck up elections based on paper ballots. Y'know mark an X in a box. You have to try really hard to make that fail.
But with the statement that "I can not see ink as a solution. So we argue about whether that ink mark is dark enough or actually in the box, etc." I see that you have that talent. You should apply to your local State Election Administration, they need your skills.