The perception is that when something is cheap, it is of low value so it doesn't matter if you consume too much of it. If you look at areas where water is scarce and where wars are fought over it, or where it has to be desalinated i,e, it's expensive, you'll find the users are a lot more careful over how much is used and how it is used.
You're spot on. At a friends place 5 remotes to operate a modern TV system. The screen, the dvd, the pvr, the dolby and there was something else but I have no idea what the hell it was.
WTF?
All so I can watch complete crap interrupted every 5 minutes for god damned adverts? Why would I bother to do that? I personally no longer have a TV.
I'm fairly sure the guy has a startup he's trying to peddle. Just wait for the IPO.
Having said that Google's search has noticeably deteriorated over the last couple of years. I often have to hit the Nth page now to find stuff I'm looking for.
But other than securing oil fields, their efforts genuinely sucked. Their stated reasons for going in there were bogus, and the priorities made no sense.
Almost as if the stated reason was not the real reason... It almost makes one think that politicians might not have told the truth.
Of course the next war with Iran will be all about their Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Really that's the question you need to ask yourself. Then ask if the company really is worth what they say it is worth, or if they are just looking for chumps to hold the empty bag as they make off with the cash.
There's been virtually no inflation since 2005 in the US
What?
House prices went up like a rocket. Boy that was a fucking bubble and a half.
Wheat, corn, soy, cotton, gold, oil, copper, coal are all up 200 - 300% over the 2005 levels. That's kind of strange...
What exactly are you measuring to say there is no inflation?
Let them eat iPads:
Y'see what haven't inflated are wages, and that's because you are competing with China and going personally deeper into debt to pay for more and more stuff. The wage component of finished goods is fairly significant so the inflation which has indeed already happened to raw materials is coming to the US just as soon as Chinese workers stop jumping off roofs and decide they need better living conditions and higher wages.
The rest of the world has already experienced dollar inflation. The "Arab Spring" was ignited by the food inflation caused by US monetary policies.
This is the chart which describes how finished product inflation in the US is being regulated (because everything Americans buy is made in China); how quickly wealth is being transferred from Americans to Chinese. It defines how wealthy (and expensive) the Chinese people are.
It isn't left vs right. It's authoritarian vs autarchic.
There are a couple of ironies which are missed in American politics. It's rather bewildering to watch from the outside.
1. On the liberal side: How can liberal ideals, which are literally those which pertain to being free, possibly be accomplished by handing more authority to a centralised bureaucracy?
2. On the conservative side: How can conservative ideals, such as lower taxation possibly be accomplished by increasing legislation, rules, regulations on social issues like abortion, drugs or increasing spending on military or law enforcement?
Both points of view, liberal and conservative are logically inconsistent with the methods being used to achieve them.
It seems to me that you are voting along the wrong axes. The true axis is authoritarian vs autarchic (I won't use the word "liberal" because the meaning has been perverted) and both sides; republican and democrat are authoritarian.
The Open University have been doing this stuff literally for decades. I fondly remember as a child watching lectures from teachers with excruciatingly bad 1970s hair styles and clothes.
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The perception is that when something is cheap, it is of low value so it doesn't matter if you consume too much of it.
If you look at areas where water is scarce and where wars are fought over it, or where it has to be desalinated i,e, it's expensive, you'll find the users are a lot more careful over how much is used and how it is used.
Compare US irrigation methods:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Irrigation1.jpg
with Persian Qanat methods:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
You're spot on. At a friends place 5 remotes to operate a modern TV system. The screen, the dvd, the pvr, the dolby and there was something else but I have no idea what the hell it was.
WTF?
All so I can watch complete crap interrupted every 5 minutes for god damned adverts? Why would I bother to do that? I personally no longer have a TV.
When I search I want information, not opinion.
I'm fairly sure the guy has a startup he's trying to peddle. Just wait for the IPO.
Having said that Google's search has noticeably deteriorated over the last couple of years. I often have to hit the Nth page now to find stuff I'm looking for.
Why prices below market equilibrium rates always lead to shortages.
With email second.
Web third.
and apps are a fairly distant fourth.
No keyboard does indeed suck.
But other than securing oil fields, their efforts genuinely sucked. Their stated reasons for going in there were bogus, and the priorities made no sense.
Almost as if the stated reason was not the real reason... It almost makes one think that politicians might not have told the truth.
Of course the next war with Iran will be all about their Weapons of Mass Destruction.
All cratered below IPO price
It's different this time! This time it's Facebook!
Really that's the question you need to ask yourself. Then ask if the company really is worth what they say it is worth, or if they are just looking for chumps to hold the empty bag as they make off with the cash.
And the requisite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9S8JS1qyRM
They went out of their way to make 1984 real.
Just to point out the difference between a 7 year old and an executive. The 7 year old doesn't know right from wrong, the executive doesn't care.
There's been virtually no inflation since 2005 in the US
What?
House prices went up like a rocket. Boy that was a fucking bubble and a half.
Wheat, corn, soy, cotton, gold, oil, copper, coal are all up 200 - 300% over the 2005 levels. That's kind of strange...
What exactly are you measuring to say there is no inflation?
Let them eat iPads:
Y'see what haven't inflated are wages, and that's because you are competing with China and going personally deeper into debt to pay for more and more stuff. The wage component of finished goods is fairly significant so the inflation which has indeed already happened to raw materials is coming to the US just as soon as Chinese workers stop jumping off roofs and decide they need better living conditions and higher wages.
The rest of the world has already experienced dollar inflation. The "Arab Spring" was ignited by the food inflation caused by US monetary policies.
This is the chart which describes how finished product inflation in the US is being regulated (because everything Americans buy is made in China); how quickly wealth is being transferred from Americans to Chinese. It defines how wealthy (and expensive) the Chinese people are.
http://www.indexmundi.com/xrates/graph.aspx?c1=CNY&c2=USD&days=3650
Have at it.
You could also try burying bottles of money in coal mines & filling them up with trash. The entrepreneurs will go and dig it all back out.
They now have just one target to buy off. Get their own legislation put in place. etc.
Who promise wam fuzzies of one type or another.
It isn't left vs right. It's authoritarian vs autarchic.
There are a couple of ironies which are missed in American politics. It's rather bewildering to watch from the outside.
1. On the liberal side: How can liberal ideals, which are literally those which pertain to being free, possibly be accomplished by handing more authority to a centralised bureaucracy?
2. On the conservative side: How can conservative ideals, such as lower taxation possibly be accomplished by increasing legislation, rules, regulations on social issues like abortion, drugs or increasing spending on military or law enforcement?
Both points of view, liberal and conservative are logically inconsistent with the methods being used to achieve them.
It seems to me that you are voting along the wrong axes. The true axis is authoritarian vs autarchic (I won't use the word "liberal" because the meaning has been perverted) and both sides; republican and democrat are authoritarian.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-tracks-consumers-across-products-users-cant-opt-out/2012/01/24/gIQArgJHOQ_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboNE_b
First entry up on google for self publishing epubs:
http://www.lulu.com/
They even do paper versions.
Calibre did not seem to have any trouble reading one, once the file extension was changed from ".ibook" to ".epub".
You realise this is a DMCA copy protection violation?
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The Open University have been doing this stuff literally for decades. I fondly remember as a child watching lectures from teachers with excruciatingly bad 1970s hair styles and clothes.
http://www.open.ac.uk/
Note the fees are the standard (substantial) UK university fees, so it isn't free by any means.
Start with the basics (beat Google) and build up over time to something really difficult.
The constitution is pretty much irrelevant.
98% in the EU.
Your chances of avoiding all debt are small.
Course that would only be a sane thing to do if interest rates were positive and reasonably above the real rate of inflation.
Look at 3d printers. The cottage industry is coming back.
For example compared to the previous years?