The problem is that most people can't even come to a single definition of "conservative." So what the heck is a "neo-conservative" supposed to be?
Which means that many conflicting views are lumped together under one heading. When the US gains an electoral system which allows multiple parties, the words may start to mean something.
If they aren't using the engine for acceleration then a Stirling engine might be able to do the job. In fact, decouple the generator from the drive completely.
That's what we really need... (baggsy on the acronym BTW)
A network of mathematical values which define reputation relative to one another. We have a number of attempts at this in place just now, not the least of which are Slashdot Karma, Google Pagerank, Stumbleupon etc. The thing is that what may be a good reputation to one person may well be the antithesis to another, so simple averaging is inappropriate. Richard Dawkins for example is someone who will have a very high reputation among certain groups and very low among others.
I should be able to see a relative reputation of someone/thing based on those other things which I hold in esteem and the things/people which they hold in esteem.
Decidedly non trivial. We haven't actually worked it out in The Real World (tm) either, relying on branding instead.
You have in your left hand, the world and everything in it.
You have in your right hand, all of the money in existence; 1 penny.
You mint a second penny.
What is the rate of "growth"? What has actually changed about the world? Our definitions of growth are complete bollocks, utterly meaningless.
The best idea isn't to abandon the idea of fiat currency, which is much better able to maintain liquidity in a growing economy, but rather to use sane monetary policy that manages money supply to increase at approximately the same rate of growth as the economy and thus avoids as much inflation and deflation as possible.
While I agree in principle, I don't believe it is remotely possible in reality. Politics, greed, incompetence etc mean that those with the power to print money will always be untrustworthy. Hence money is also untrustworthy. Inflation in Zimbabwe just hit 2 million percent I hear. Incompetence? Greed? Malice?
You can't be using Japan as a positive economic example, can you? Their economy has just barely begun recovering from two decades of crippling stagnation.
No, I'm using Japan as an example of non catastrophic deflation. During their "crippling stagnation" the unemployment rate hit a whopping 5.5%, or, in other words, generally lower than the normal UK, German and US unemployment rates etc.
Today, IMHO, debasement mainly arises when bad loans are made and not declared. Where the rate of expansion of a fiat currency exceeds the rate of interest, it becomes very difficult to identify bad loans - since debtors can expand their debts rather than default.
You need to ask yourself where money comes from, how it is created... In America, 95% of money is credit, while in the UK, 97% is credit. The debts which are the corollary of this credit cannot ever be paid off; debt demands interest external to the reality of the economy.
There is always more debt than there is money to pay it off. In fact, the only way to pay current debt off isto incur larger debts and pay the current debt from the future, which is what we've been doing for 300 years. With the consequent booms and busts.
Fractional reserve banking, now there's a thing. All banks... Every single one except a country's central bank are technically bankrupt. They are all, every one of them, physically unable to pay all their customers back their deposits should they request them. This is why there are runs on banks, the people at the end of the queue lose everything.
The real question is, who are the fools who give their life savings to these institutions?
No, gradual deflation is not in fact a huge problem, and the deflation would be gradual. Japan has been dealing with gradual deflation for decades, people simply live with it.
The catastrophic deflation problem is in fact again, purely caused by credit and fractional reserve lending. The creation of money from nothing causes decade long booms and it's destruction as loans are paid off and sources of lending dry up are what cause catastrophic deflation. The 1930s depression was caused by fractional lending on top of gold (the roaring 20s) and the following drying up of credit as the Ponzi scheme inevitably falters.
Without credit causing huge booms and busts, there would only be slow gradual deflation as the population increased.
Business cycles are also caused by: poor investments "paying off" negatively,
Eh? Nope. That simply moves money from one person to another, leaving the same amount within the economy as a whole. It is purely through the creation and destruction of credit when loans are created and paid off which creates and destroys money causing boom and bust.
That is, the creation and destruction of credit by banks. Banks lent fractionally on top of gold in exactly the way they do now on top of paper. Whether the currency is based on gold or paper is irrelevant with respect to business cycles, it's the debt based nature of credit and in particular fractional lending practices which are the problem there. Gold on the other hand is naturally scarce and so would restrict inflation whereas paper is not, and does not.
The stuff you see on the screen, in the ring (including MMA) will get you killed on the street.
The real martial arts don't in fact take 10 years to train for, they only take a few months to teach the techniques, a few months to practice them until automatic and a few months to get into decent shape to apply them. You see, what you are taught 3 or 4 times a week for 10 years when you attend a typical dojo is almost certainly complete bollocks. It almost certainly isn't effective karate, it almost certainly isn't effective kung fu. In fact it almost certainly doesn't resemble the original material taught by the old masters in any way.
The addition of rules for sparring, competition have removed virtually all of the effective techniques. Few of which are taught any more in the dojo because they are forbidden in competition.
Effective (real) karate, kung fu, tai chi, boxing, wrestling etc are in fact functionally the same thing. Simple and brutal self defence techniques which are easy to apply when the addrenalin has removed all your co-ordination and your opponent's pain sensitivity. Virtually all of the "styles" you see these days are... Ballet... Not karate, not kung fu, not tai chi. If you are not practicing and training eye gouging, fishooking, choking, strangling, biting, stamping, headbutting, groin crushing as well as the more sophisticated stuff, you are kidding yourself (and your students if you have the gall to teach any) on.
Unless you train for effectiveness in the dojo, you are seriously going to get your backside handed to you the first time you attempt a spinning reverse head kick on a damp, slippy pavement when some moron and his 4 mates decide you looked at them wrong.
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I thought that was pretty much standard practice these days.
Anyway, it's trivial to do.
And don't really give a flying fuck how or by whom exactly they are put together.
28 days each.
Then there's new years day, but that's just a blur.
YKIMS.
The problem is that most people can't even come to a single definition of "conservative." So what the heck is a "neo-conservative" supposed to be?
Which means that many conflicting views are lumped together under one heading. When the US gains an electoral system which allows multiple parties, the words may start to mean something.
I mean, really. 90% of it is junk.
If they aren't using the engine for acceleration then a Stirling engine might be able to do the job. In fact, decouple the generator from the drive completely.
And people are still happy to run around in their Chelsea tractors. It can't be all that expensive.
That's what we really need... (baggsy on the acronym BTW)
A network of mathematical values which define reputation relative to one another. We have a number of attempts at this in place just now, not the least of which are Slashdot Karma, Google Pagerank, Stumbleupon etc. The thing is that what may be a good reputation to one person may well be the antithesis to another, so simple averaging is inappropriate. Richard Dawkins for example is someone who will have a very high reputation among certain groups and very low among others.
I should be able to see a relative reputation of someone/thing based on those other things which I hold in esteem and the things/people which they hold in esteem.
Decidedly non trivial. We haven't actually worked it out in The Real World (tm) either, relying on branding instead.
You have in your left hand, the world and everything in it.
You have in your right hand, all of the money in existence; 1 penny.
You mint a second penny.
What is the rate of "growth"? What has actually changed about the world? Our definitions of growth are complete bollocks, utterly meaningless.
The best idea isn't to abandon the idea of fiat currency, which is much better able to maintain liquidity in a growing economy, but rather to use sane monetary policy that manages money supply to increase at approximately the same rate of growth as the economy and thus avoids as much inflation and deflation as possible.
While I agree in principle, I don't believe it is remotely possible in reality. Politics, greed, incompetence etc mean that those with the power to print money will always be untrustworthy. Hence money is also untrustworthy. Inflation in Zimbabwe just hit 2 million percent I hear. Incompetence? Greed? Malice?
You can't be using Japan as a positive economic example, can you? Their economy has just barely begun recovering from two decades of crippling stagnation.
No, I'm using Japan as an example of non catastrophic deflation. During their "crippling stagnation" the unemployment rate hit a whopping 5.5%, or, in other words, generally lower than the normal UK, German and US unemployment rates etc.
Today, IMHO, debasement mainly arises when bad loans are made and not declared. Where the rate of expansion of a fiat currency exceeds the rate of interest, it becomes very difficult to identify bad loans - since debtors can expand their debts rather than default.
You need to ask yourself where money comes from, how it is created... In America, 95% of money is credit, while in the UK, 97% is credit. The debts which are the corollary of this credit cannot ever be paid off; debt demands interest external to the reality of the economy.
There is always more debt than there is money to pay it off. In fact, the only way to pay current debt off isto incur larger debts and pay the current debt from the future, which is what we've been doing for 300 years. With the consequent booms and busts.
Fractional reserve banking, now there's a thing. All banks... Every single one except a country's central bank are technically bankrupt. They are all, every one of them, physically unable to pay all their customers back their deposits should they request them. This is why there are runs on banks, the people at the end of the queue lose everything.
The real question is, who are the fools who give their life savings to these institutions?
Fixed it for you.
No, gradual deflation is not in fact a huge problem, and the deflation would be gradual. Japan has been dealing with gradual deflation for decades, people simply live with it.
The catastrophic deflation problem is in fact again, purely caused by credit and fractional reserve lending. The creation of money from nothing causes decade long booms and it's destruction as loans are paid off and sources of lending dry up are what cause catastrophic deflation. The 1930s depression was caused by fractional lending on top of gold (the roaring 20s) and the following drying up of credit as the Ponzi scheme inevitably falters.
Without credit causing huge booms and busts, there would only be slow gradual deflation as the population increased.
Business cycles are also caused by: poor investments "paying off" negatively,
Eh? Nope. That simply moves money from one person to another, leaving the same amount within the economy as a whole. It is purely through the creation and destruction of credit when loans are created and paid off which creates and destroys money causing boom and bust.
Why, praytell, have so many otherwise intelligent people been lured onto the gold bandwagon lately?
They understand the nature of money and what inflation really is, while you, don't.
That is, the creation and destruction of credit by banks. Banks lent fractionally on top of gold in exactly the way they do now on top of paper. Whether the currency is based on gold or paper is irrelevant with respect to business cycles, it's the debt based nature of credit and in particular fractional lending practices which are the problem there. Gold on the other hand is naturally scarce and so would restrict inflation whereas paper is not, and does not.
HTH
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790
The stuff you see on the screen, in the ring (including MMA) will get you killed on the street.
The real martial arts don't in fact take 10 years to train for, they only take a few months to teach the techniques, a few months to practice them until automatic and a few months to get into decent shape to apply them. You see, what you are taught 3 or 4 times a week for 10 years when you attend a typical dojo is almost certainly complete bollocks. It almost certainly isn't effective karate, it almost certainly isn't effective kung fu. In fact it almost certainly doesn't resemble the original material taught by the old masters in any way.
The addition of rules for sparring, competition have removed virtually all of the effective techniques. Few of which are taught any more in the dojo because they are forbidden in competition.
Effective (real) karate, kung fu, tai chi, boxing, wrestling etc are in fact functionally the same thing. Simple and brutal self defence techniques which are easy to apply when the addrenalin has removed all your co-ordination and your opponent's pain sensitivity. Virtually all of the "styles" you see these days are ... Ballet ... Not karate, not kung fu, not tai chi. If you are not practicing and training eye gouging, fishooking, choking, strangling, biting, stamping, headbutting, groin crushing as well as the more sophisticated stuff, you are kidding yourself (and your students if you have the gall to teach any) on.
Unless you train for effectiveness in the dojo, you are seriously going to get your backside handed to you the first time you attempt a spinning reverse head kick on a damp, slippy pavement when some moron and his 4 mates decide you looked at them wrong.
so I cannot help but love how logical and orderly it is.
Which German are you learning?
Then you don't need as much brute force ?
He was reading in six weeks, and genuinely fluent in half a year.
"I beer liking please. Can you to me to have?" fluent.
You can go to as many classes as you like, but it's an entirely different thing to actually use a language.
German is very cool from a logical standpoint, many words are simply conjugations of smaller words.
German is not logical. It has lots of rules, but they largely make no sense.
HTH.
Why has nobody ever heard of remote X forwarding?
The I.Q. of any group tends towards the mean.
I thought the primary point of layers is so that you can do a lot with only a few simple function calls
Right. So you don't have to write so much C.
You realise that all the OS layers, networking layers, web browsers, scripting languages are primarily to try to get away from C?
Yet, for any programmer new to object orientation...
How many can there be left these days?
Almost all of them...