The problem is that to create real political change requires a hell of a lot more personal commitment than checking an alternative box every few years, or posting about Nader/Paul/Bo, etc.
Spot on. The political systems have degenerated to the point that revolution is required to make real changes.
Barring bubbles popping. Credit typically grows ~9% per year. So given just 3-4 years your salary will be lagging market rates by around 30%. More as more time passes. You're fighting exponential growth.
Switching more regularly than around 3 years will be seen as suspicious.
The politicians will happily and literally go to war, kill hundreds of thousands of people rather than lose the bribes (directorships, consultancies etc) which the lobby groups hand out.
Depends on whether the future is looking inflationary or deflationary.
It's looking deflationary at the moment, barring the FED & ECB, so cash will increase in value.
Can you think of anything your bank wouldn't give you a loan for with 80% down?
Two things. 1. Nokia's market share is not going in the right direction, the earnings may not keep up. Hoarding cash would be rational. 2. Banks are dying, they are not loaning just now, expect to see the next set of fireworks end of Feb, March. They have to increase capital hugely in the next year or two.
Why is it that factory manufacturing computer chip makes them cheaper but when the same mass manufacturing techniques are applied housing which contains much lower embodied energy, it doesn't?
It's because pricing is based on market supply and demand, not on the the human labour or energy input of the materials. That's the marxist concept of economics.
Which takes resources from places like Khan Academy, Gutenberg, Wiki books and turns it into a guided learning system from ABC through to degree level. With the emphasis being on what is this useful for.
Khan try to do this somewhat but their playlists are too broad and appear to be based on an entire (official?) syllabus.
Small group peer instruction is far too expensive for anyone except the wealthy to implement
Depends if you use official teachers. If you had for example an ipad app or perhaps social learning site, students could be required to mentor lower peers on subjects they had scored well on.
Some/Many though are write/copy or photocopy/blank stare exercises. Completely useless. The whole point of a human being is interaction.
Just to say, Kahn Academy is a good and could become a fabulous resource, along with Project Gutenberg, Google Books, Wikibooks.
One thing they are all missing is how the elements relate to one another, and to the real world. A complaint I have about conventional teaching as well.
They are talking about wiping away the threat of its nuclear program.
This has been going on since 1974. You might think they would have something to show for it by now. It didn't take the US, Russia, India, UK, France, China, Pakistan or even North Korea as long.
The carriers are last war's weapons. They are only useful if they can keep out of missile range and launch aircraft. The chinese and iran have medium range surface to surface missiles with longer reach than aircraft. The carrier is an obsolete strategy; the missile is the cannon of the 21st century and carrier groups are the castles.
This is therefore all theatre.
The US won't attack because they know the Iranians will wipe out the fleet and the purpose of the US fleet is to look good for the fanboys and keep the puppet states in line. Take a look at the makeup, small missile boats and subs. The iranian fleet is specifically designed to fight capital ships i.e. The US Navy.
The Iranians won't attack because they need to sell oil to China. The US sanctions are irrelevant because the US doesn't import anything from or export anything to Iran anyway. China will continue to ignore US sanctions because they need the oil.
No? Or isn't that a blindingly obvious thing to do?
The quoted specs are speculative, so till they are used in anger fully fueled we won't necessarily know their capabilities.
Iran manufacture several classes of missile from cruise to multi stage ballistic. They even make them themselves which is better than most European countries are capable of.
And... it's on it's way up towards 110 now (the world pays brent, not wti).
Iran do have a multi stage ballistic missile which could probably hit southern Europe, though they claim it has a range of only 2000km. Pack that with yellowcake conventional warheads and even if not nuclear in the conventional sense, it's a problem for the recipient.
And they also have several thousand mines they could use to close the straits. Y'know, cheap explosives vs expensive "technologically advanced" floating castles.
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The problem is that to create real political change requires a hell of a lot more personal commitment than checking an alternative box every few years, or posting about Nader/Paul/Bo, etc.
Spot on. The political systems have degenerated to the point that revolution is required to make real changes.
Bush, Obama, Romney.
It no longer matters who you vote for, they are all owned.
Risk includes magnitude.
Asolutely spot on:
Barring bubbles popping. Credit typically grows ~9% per year. So given just 3-4 years your salary will be lagging market rates by around 30%. More as more time passes. You're fighting exponential growth.
Switching more regularly than around 3 years will be seen as suspicious.
The politicians will happily and literally go to war, kill hundreds of thousands of people rather than lose the bribes (directorships, consultancies etc) which the lobby groups hand out.
The Pirate Party is totally irrelevant.
Some are more rigorous than others.
The current mainstream are simply yes men there to justify whatever the "leaders" want to justify. That's who they fund in academia.
Depends on whether the future is looking inflationary or deflationary.
It's looking deflationary at the moment, barring the FED & ECB, so cash will increase in value.
Can you think of anything your bank wouldn't give you a loan for with 80% down?
Two things.
1. Nokia's market share is not going in the right direction, the earnings may not keep up. Hoarding cash would be rational.
2. Banks are dying, they are not loaning just now, expect to see the next set of fireworks end of Feb, March. They have to increase capital hugely in the next year or two.
The navy needs them, so they can do what they like.
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Most of it is machined.
Why is it that factory manufacturing computer chip makes them cheaper but when the same mass manufacturing techniques are applied housing which contains much lower embodied energy, it doesn't?
It's because pricing is based on market supply and demand, not on the the human labour or energy input of the materials. That's the marxist concept of economics.
It's the 20 year de-leveraging which will do it. At the end of it, $12 will be a good days pay.
Render CCTV pretty much 100% ineffective.
Or maybe it was just ineffective anyway.
Both deduplication and conventional compression are a questionable idea on a file server which has many clients.
The most interesting thing is that Microsoft Research says it doesn't affect performance almost at all.
Yeah right. I'll wait for real usage numbers rather than "the vendor selling this stuff to me says it's fucking awesome".
My library is now full and has been spilling over to other rooms for a while.
Which takes resources from places like Khan Academy, Gutenberg, Wiki books and turns it into a guided learning system from ABC through to degree level. With the emphasis being on what is this useful for.
Khan try to do this somewhat but their playlists are too broad and appear to be based on an entire (official?) syllabus.
Small group peer instruction is far too expensive for anyone except the wealthy to implement
Depends if you use official teachers. If you had for example an ipad app or perhaps social learning site, students could be required to mentor lower peers on subjects they had scored well on.
http://solarcharging.nokia.com/
Its for places with no charging infrastructure. Places where people have to pay to charge their phones.
The blog is here:
http://solarcharging.nokia.com/
It's nice and convenient for them, they only have to fund two parties & they have it in the bag.
What's it about. what's it mean.
Some/Many though are write/copy or photocopy/blank stare exercises. Completely useless. The whole point of a human being is interaction.
Just to say, Kahn Academy is a good and could become a fabulous resource, along with Project Gutenberg, Google Books, Wikibooks.
One thing they are all missing is how the elements relate to one another, and to the real world. A complaint I have about conventional teaching as well.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?129340-Iranian-navy-reveals-new-missile-boat-class
http://hello.news352.lu/edito-64397-iran-starts-producing-missile-launching-assault-boats.html
Basically speedboats with missiles. Looks like they've been churning them out too.
Didn't you even Google "iran missile boat" before posting?
They are talking about wiping away the threat of its nuclear program.
This has been going on since 1974. You might think they would have something to show for it by now.
It didn't take the US, Russia, India, UK, France, China, Pakistan or even North Korea as long.
The carriers are last war's weapons. They are only useful if they can keep out of missile range and launch aircraft. The chinese and iran have medium range surface to surface missiles with longer reach than aircraft. The carrier is an obsolete strategy; the missile is the cannon of the 21st century and carrier groups are the castles.
This is therefore all theatre.
The US won't attack because they know the Iranians will wipe out the fleet and the purpose of the US fleet is to look good for the fanboys and keep the puppet states in line. Take a look at the makeup, small missile boats and subs. The iranian fleet is specifically designed to fight capital ships i.e. The US Navy.
The Iranians won't attack because they need to sell oil to China. The US sanctions are irrelevant because the US doesn't import anything from or export anything to Iran anyway. China will continue to ignore US sanctions because they need the oil.
So, all this political posturing is kabuki theatre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki
I am however already long oil, so bring on the stupidity, the higher the better.
No? Or isn't that a blindingly obvious thing to do?
The quoted specs are speculative, so till they are used in anger fully fueled we won't necessarily know their capabilities.
Iran manufacture several classes of missile from cruise to multi stage ballistic. They even make them themselves which is better than most European countries are capable of.
HTH.
And is selling it for Rial and Euros, not dollars. Their oil bourse just last year started trading crude.
That's why they have to be "liberated".
And... it's on it's way up towards 110 now (the world pays brent, not wti).
Iran do have a multi stage ballistic missile which could probably hit southern Europe, though they claim it has a range of only 2000km. Pack that with yellowcake conventional warheads and even if not nuclear in the conventional sense, it's a problem for the recipient.
And they also have several thousand mines they could use to close the straits. Y'know, cheap explosives vs expensive "technologically advanced" floating castles.