To see such a small shop create some high-quality products is truly a testament to the fantastic talent that they had working there. It saddened me greatly to see them consumed by Powersoft, and then Sybase.
This is the big benefit of Capitalism. You produce something good, it rocks the boat, then you get bought over and buried. It's the natural order.
A similar study was done several years ago using guys dressed up in gorilla suits, throwing beachballs to oneanother. Only about 50% of people noticed at all.
Which is why motorcyclists have to see for other people.
Thankfully, I think that this could be circumvented easily, by transferring video files to another country in an encrypted form, then getting friends in the other country to unencrypt and upload it for you.
You've never mentioned the word "encryption" in casual conversation with non I.T. related friends and relatives?
Do anyone has thought that instead of investing resources in fighting rising levels
It's simple. The City of London (i.e. the financial district in London) is at risk. They pretty much own the government/country, so of course taxes are going to be raised to implement flood defences.
You starve and die on the streets without it, and they have it.
"Laborers and holders of goods and services must sell today for labor and its products parish, decay, rot, get lost, take up space for storage, and invite destruction from a thousand different causes. But not gold silver, and paper money; they can be held virtually without cost. It is this privileged position of the moneyholder over everyone else (except landholders) in the marketplace that gives rise to interest (monetary). "
I would go even further - What is the mathematical probability of someone stealing my [laptop] AND be interested enough in the data on the disk to bother trying to get access to it.
Two words you might want to consider...
"industrial" and "espionage"
Software installed and versions for further hacking attempts on the rest of the infrastructure. Sales, marketing, pricing information. Release timing information. Source code in products.
You name it.
The information is almost certainly far more valuable than the hardware, to the right people.
Just me, or is this not an obvious application for early BEVs?
150 miles per day. 30mpg, 5 gallons (22l). 1.13GBP per litre: 25GBP per day, 6,000 GBP per year. Add in a London congestion charge of 1,200 GBP per year, and a BEV might even pay for the difference in 2 years. Particularly when the ubiquitous Skoda Octavia minicab costs 15,000 GBP.
Then there's (far) lower maintenance because EVs are far simpler than internal combustion.
Plus, the US does not service interest on its debt through taxation. It services the interest by issuing still more debt, like a giant Ponzi scheme on an international level
There is that, but If you have a look at the income tax receipts in the US and the interest levels. Approx 450 billion in interest on the national debt (2008), and income tax receipts are around 1100 billion. About half of income tax pays the interest on the debt.
For that you need credit.
You need money... A medium of exchange. At the moment, credit is being used as the medium of exchange. As you note though, credit is susceptible to problems of confidence and has a tendency to collapse as well as a requirement to grow. There are other forms of money however (and I'm not just talking about commodity currency like gold).
The US has to import immigrants to do physically demanding work
Physically demanding work is in general, low paid. It's low paid because physical work is competing on a world market where the average wage is $250 per year in dollar terms.
If you think about the (any arbitrary commoditised) work which is performed. It is the same whether it is performed by an American or Bangladeshi. However there are far more dollars in the USA than there are in Bangladesh. It takes more dollars to perform the same work in America than it does in Bangladesh. The dollar is worth less in America than in Bangaldesh for the same work being done. The reason American workers in particular suffer from globalization is because the dollar is the reserve currency, in demand all over the world for global trade. Replace the reserve currency status of dollar with SDRs or better, the original concept for SDRs and the pressure to import everything and export work to the rest of the world would be vastly reduced.
The dollar has nothing to do with it. China and Japan export to Europe, Asia, Latin America and Oceania too. Just the US is the biggest market.
I disagree. ok, let me put it in a slightly different way. The reserve currency status makes the US the biggest market. The USA would simply be A.N.Other export market for China and Japan, it wouldn't be their primary markets.
Oh he's going to live like a king for a while. But one day there will come a reckoning.
Not while the dollar is the reserve currency (and a lot of US international policy is geared to keeping the dollar's reserve status). The invasion of Iraq for example.
While there is international demand for US dollars, the US government can (borrow/print) basically as many of them as they like and the world will continue to accept the inflation which is created. The key to this is oil trading. The fact that the Saudis continue to require payment in US dollars means that there will continue to be a demand for US dollars to exchange for oil.
Iceland would like to disagree.
Just like anything else, a nation goes bankrupt when it can't pay its debts (retirement funds, government employees, education, health care, military, police and so on).
All of the existing nations subscribe to the same bizarre concept of (debt based) money. Nations can issue money arbitrarily, there is an infinite supply of the stuff, you just print it, so bankruptcy is really a meaningless concept for a nation state.
And then they turn around and buy US debt with those profits.
The interest of which you service through your income taxes. What happens to slaves when they don't pay their income taxes?
If it wasn't for China and Japan, the US would be bankrupt
How so. Where do dollars come from? What is money? Who defines what money is? It's ridiculous to think of a nation as bankrupt. Money is simply bits of paper representing a claim on real goods. A nation can define it's own currency representing all the wealth that the nation can produce. In America it happens to be defined (for some reason, and to the benefit of some) as debt. Without China and japan exporting to America, products would simply be produced locally instead.
If the US dollar wasn't the reserve currency, China and Japan wouldn't be exporting to the USA. It's great for those on the upper end of the US economy, kind of shitty for those at the bottom.
Our debt is the greatest national security issue we face.
Since 1913 it's also built into your monetary system.
Working class Americans are caught in a suckers game. Don't expect that game to change though, it's been the same in Britain (where the system originated) for 300 years; the ruling class do very well out of it.
However, the problem that specifically America faces is that the US dollar is the world reserve currency. This has a subtle but massive effect on the economy... It makes American goods and services too expensive for the rest of the world and requires that the US government create and spend vast sums on something (military).
Example of the effect:
Lets say a loaf of bread costs $1 and your average American earns 365 dollars per year and can afford a loaf every day. Now the Dollar becomes the world reserve currency and half the dollars are bought by other countries in order to trade.
Half of the US dollars in existence in the USA have just vanished to outside the country. So half the money has vanished but people still expect to be paid 365 dollars per year and to charge $1 for a load of bread. Now, in the rest of the world, 1 loaf of bread locally costs e.g. 1 Euro. But international trade is done in dollars, so you have half the US dollars in existing representing the value of 95% of the loaves of bread in existence (95% of the world is outside America). This inevitably means that loaves of bread outside America are cheaper in dollar terms than loaves of bread within America. It makes economic sense therefore to buy bread and import it into America.
So what you get in America is a tendency for recession and deflation as the money is exported. Wages and prices tend downwards because the money is being exported, however, nobody likes a falling wage, or falling prices for their goods. What you get to force this is unemployment and bankruptcies. A reserve currency tends to make the citizens and their products unreasonably expensive compared to the rest of the world.
Now, politicians try to counter this effect by printing more money to replace that which is exported, but to do this they have to spend it into the economy, and what do you spend it on? Well, an easy answer is the military. America spends more on it's military than the next several nations combined.
Then you have the original feature I mentioned. In America, money isn't simply printed into existence. It is borrowed into existence from the Federal Reserve. So to create more money, politicians have to increase the national debt.
Americans at the lower end of the economic scale are basically fucked. They are too expensive to compete with the rest of the world in terms of wages, products and services, and the government is inflating the money supply on the other hand and making their earnings worthless compared to wealthier Americans. It's like importing the developing world into America, but only for the lower classes.
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To see such a small shop create some high-quality products is truly a testament to the fantastic talent that they had working there. It saddened me greatly to see them consumed by Powersoft, and then Sybase.
This is the big benefit of Capitalism. You produce something good, it rocks the boat, then you get bought over and buried. It's the natural order.
We have Java!
I mean, yes, his DES-cracking hardware is about 800x faster than a PC. Where's the "Crypto Breakthrough"?
He noticed the previous researcher's "sleep" statements.
Apps could load a custom config into the chip to run faster.
With baseball caps.
i.e. What all the yoofs wear to prevent identification by CCTV camera. Works like a charm given the success cameras have been at reducing crime.
e.g.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070220/debtext/70220-0013.htm
All laws, including tax law, should have a mandatory maximum validity period.
Yes, and people sticking their hands out the window trying to smack you on a high speed drive by, and attempting to side swipe you.
Don't be such a pussy and shoot the fuckers who are attempting to kill you. At a minimum, fuck up their paintwork.
A similar study was done several years ago using guys dressed up in gorilla suits, throwing beachballs to oneanother. Only about 50% of people noticed at all.
Which is why motorcyclists have to see for other people.
Thankfully, I think that this could be circumvented easily, by transferring video files to another country in an encrypted form, then getting friends in the other country to unencrypt and upload it for you.
You've never mentioned the word "encryption" in casual conversation with non I.T. related friends and relatives?
That everyone should stick some coloured wires into cardboard tubes, then leave them lying about all over the place. The more the merrier.
Cutting naughty or unacceptable words out of daily conversation is their endgame.
Look. What they are doing is persuading people to censor themselves, and to think conservatively. The endgame is behaviour modification.
You don't actually have to read every message. You simply tell people that everything they write or say is monitored.
It's literally FUD.
Do anyone has thought that instead of investing resources in fighting rising levels
It's simple. The City of London (i.e. the financial district in London) is at risk. They pretty much own the government/country, so of course taxes are going to be raised to implement flood defences.
You starve and die on the streets without it, and they have it.
"Laborers and holders of goods and services must sell today for labor and its products parish, decay, rot, get lost, take up space for storage, and invite destruction from a thousand different causes. But not gold silver, and paper money; they can be held virtually without cost. It is this privileged position of the moneyholder over everyone else (except landholders) in the marketplace that gives rise to interest (monetary). "
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/newland-terry_on-silvio-gesell.html
Uh... How else do you think they make money?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMkV8E2re9U
I would go even further - What is the mathematical probability of someone stealing my [laptop] AND be interested enough in the data on the disk to bother trying to get access to it.
Two words you might want to consider...
"industrial" and "espionage"
Software installed and versions for further hacking attempts on the rest of the infrastructure.
Sales, marketing, pricing information. Release timing information.
Source code in products.
You name it.
The information is almost certainly far more valuable than the hardware, to the right people.
Which is a fairly scary development in itself. And they still have several hundred million people to go.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article6984166.ece
Only if you think Forbes is for the kind of people who get all gooey over fluffy pink bunnies.
Just me, or is this not an obvious application for early BEVs?
150 miles per day. 30mpg, 5 gallons (22l). 1.13GBP per litre: 25GBP per day, 6,000 GBP per year. Add in a London congestion charge of 1,200 GBP per year, and a BEV might even pay for the difference in 2 years. Particularly when the ubiquitous Skoda Octavia minicab costs 15,000 GBP.
Then there's (far) lower maintenance because EVs are far simpler than internal combustion.
Plus, the US does not service interest on its debt through taxation. It services the interest by issuing still more debt, like a giant Ponzi scheme on an international level
There is that, but If you have a look at the income tax receipts in the US and the interest levels. Approx 450 billion in interest on the national debt (2008), and income tax receipts are around 1100 billion. About half of income tax pays the interest on the debt.
For that you need credit.
You need money... A medium of exchange. At the moment, credit is being used as the medium of exchange. As you note though, credit is susceptible to problems of confidence and has a tendency to collapse as well as a requirement to grow. There are other forms of money however (and I'm not just talking about commodity currency like gold).
The US has to import immigrants to do physically demanding work
Physically demanding work is in general, low paid. It's low paid because physical work is competing on a world market where the average wage is $250 per year in dollar terms.
If you think about the (any arbitrary commoditised) work which is performed. It is the same whether it is performed by an American or Bangladeshi. However there are far more dollars in the USA than there are in Bangladesh. It takes more dollars to perform the same work in America than it does in Bangladesh. The dollar is worth less in America than in Bangaldesh for the same work being done. The reason American workers in particular suffer from globalization is because the dollar is the reserve currency, in demand all over the world for global trade. Replace the reserve currency status of dollar with SDRs or better, the original concept for SDRs and the pressure to import everything and export work to the rest of the world would be vastly reduced.
The dollar has nothing to do with it. China and Japan export to Europe, Asia, Latin America and Oceania too. Just the US is the biggest market.
I disagree. ok, let me put it in a slightly different way. The reserve currency status makes the US the biggest market. The USA would simply be A.N.Other export market for China and Japan, it wouldn't be their primary markets.
Oh he's going to live like a king for a while. But one day there will come a reckoning.
Not while the dollar is the reserve currency (and a lot of US international policy is geared to keeping the dollar's reserve status). The invasion of Iraq for example.
While there is international demand for US dollars, the US government can (borrow/print) basically as many of them as they like and the world will continue to accept the inflation which is created. The key to this is oil trading. The fact that the Saudis continue to require payment in US dollars means that there will continue to be a demand for US dollars to exchange for oil.
Iceland would like to disagree.
Just like anything else, a nation goes bankrupt when it can't pay its debts (retirement funds, government employees, education, health care, military, police and so on).
All of the existing nations subscribe to the same bizarre concept of (debt based) money. Nations can issue money arbitrarily, there is an infinite supply of the stuff, you just print it, so bankruptcy is really a meaningless concept for a nation state.
And then they turn around and buy US debt with those profits.
The interest of which you service through your income taxes. What happens to slaves when they don't pay their income taxes?
If it wasn't for China and Japan, the US would be bankrupt
How so. Where do dollars come from? What is money? Who defines what money is? It's ridiculous to think of a nation as bankrupt. Money is simply bits of paper representing a claim on real goods. A nation can define it's own currency representing all the wealth that the nation can produce. In America it happens to be defined (for some reason, and to the benefit of some) as debt. Without China and japan exporting to America, products would simply be produced locally instead.
I just posted about this 10 minutes ago:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1506464&cid=30735248
If the US dollar wasn't the reserve currency, China and Japan wouldn't be exporting to the USA. It's great for those on the upper end of the US economy, kind of shitty for those at the bottom.
Our debt is the greatest national security issue we face.
Since 1913 it's also built into your monetary system.
Working class Americans are caught in a suckers game. Don't expect that game to change though, it's been the same in Britain (where the system originated) for 300 years; the ruling class do very well out of it.
However, the problem that specifically America faces is that the US dollar is the world reserve currency. This has a subtle but massive effect on the economy... It makes American goods and services too expensive for the rest of the world and requires that the US government create and spend vast sums on something (military).
Example of the effect:
Lets say a loaf of bread costs $1 and your average American earns 365 dollars per year and can afford a loaf every day. Now the Dollar becomes the world reserve currency and half the dollars are bought by other countries in order to trade.
Half of the US dollars in existence in the USA have just vanished to outside the country. So half the money has vanished but people still expect to be paid 365 dollars per year and to charge $1 for a load of bread. Now, in the rest of the world, 1 loaf of bread locally costs e.g. 1 Euro. But international trade is done in dollars, so you have half the US dollars in existing representing the value of 95% of the loaves of bread in existence (95% of the world is outside America). This inevitably means that loaves of bread outside America are cheaper in dollar terms than loaves of bread within America. It makes economic sense therefore to buy bread and import it into America.
So what you get in America is a tendency for recession and deflation as the money is exported. Wages and prices tend downwards because the money is being exported, however, nobody likes a falling wage, or falling prices for their goods. What you get to force this is unemployment and bankruptcies. A reserve currency tends to make the citizens and their products unreasonably expensive compared to the rest of the world.
Now, politicians try to counter this effect by printing more money to replace that which is exported, but to do this they have to spend it into the economy, and what do you spend it on? Well, an easy answer is the military. America spends more on it's military than the next several nations combined.
Then you have the original feature I mentioned. In America, money isn't simply printed into existence. It is borrowed into existence from the Federal Reserve. So to create more money, politicians have to increase the national debt.
Americans at the lower end of the economic scale are basically fucked. They are too expensive to compete with the rest of the world in terms of wages, products and services, and the government is inflating the money supply on the other hand and making their earnings worthless compared to wealthier Americans. It's like importing the developing world into America, but only for the lower classes.
We just need to start removing safety barriers, seat belts, warning labels etc.
Safety should be optional.
Then you can up the publish rate for Darwins. Publish it in newspapers; "With great thanks from the human race, Darwin of the week goes to ..."