"As we stand at present, every taxpayer in Britain has something approaching £900 of their money at stake[1] in this small mortgage bank following the £24 billion loan (which excludes the less controversial £18 billion in deposit guarantees). You and Vince Cable need to go learn where money comes from.
It's a bank loan from the central bank. Not a penny of money you have paid in tax has been given to Northern Rock. Not a penny of government borrowing has been given to Northern Rock.
[1]I'm a LibDem supporter and I don't like Fractional Reserve Banking but this is just complete bollocks. Vince clearly has no clue where this money comes from, which I find almost as worrying as the fact that the Chancellor of the Exchequer also continually refers to this money as "taxpayers money". This 24 billion pounds worth of money and the taxpayer have never crossed paths. Vince is in theory highly qualified as an economist. I'm beginning to wonder just how bad the education at Cambridge and Glasgow Universities really are.
Thousands of little solar powered robot blimps. When they come into cell phone range, upload instructions like "go and explore these co-ordinates" and simply download their info when they come into cell tower range.
In this case, we're talking about discrete organisms which collectively are smarter than any of the individuals could ever be. That's gotta count for something.:-P Ok, yeah. However, the principle is the same. The intelligence is in the network, not the nodes.
I can't even imagine the kind of imaginary world people with no scientific/technical formation live in. Yeah. You just wait till you get to mind bending stuff like... The rich aren't getting richer, what's happening is that the poor are getting poorer. Or, those items aren't costing more money, your money is just worth less than it used to.
The law states that businesses, government (except The Home Office of course) have to take reasonable precautions. Whether the laptop the data is on is lost or it's stolen doesn't matter. It's the lack of precautions which matter. Particularly when it's as simple as:
was following you until the 'god' bit... somehow that is a turn-off for me in any argument. Doesn't believe in science you see... Observations aren't relevant to him...
So ha ha ha... cuz you can study those bees all day long and it won't make you a better web programmer. Even though the results of science keep smacking him round the head every day.
I think bees (or ants) should get the all-time patent rights to clustering a number of not so intelligent nodes into something that exhibits a higher degree of intelligence. The human brain is by far the best example of that.
Odd, but since WWII the key to economic prosperity is to drive down the value of your own currency. France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China...(not sure about about the rupee) now it's the US's turn. It keeps the wealthy wealthy and the poor working for them.
According to NationMaster, the level of the US public debt is around the same level as that of Austria, France, Canada, Germany, and Portugal, around 65% of the GDP, give or take. These numbers are across different years, but are probably still accurate to within a reasonable degree. It's called investing... You're blowing yours up...
I'll also point out that the inflation that low interest rates causes actually moves value from individuals dealing in cash, usually the low paid to those who own the assets which are inflating in value, usually the wealthy.
People who want to bring gold back seem to have forgotten the problems it caused. Really? Was that the gold or was that the banks issuing more currency that there was gold? i.e. The fractional nature of lending.
A simple thumbs up or thumbs down for any particular link would be all that's needed to move the user further away from one statistical grouping and closer to another. Then everyone will be in a group of similarly intelligent people. Each page and each link on a page could be given and display for example, a likely percentage match(12%) with your preferences(89%).
It would require a shit load of servers to run the backend and a preference bar which can integrate with the browser. However, with billions of people in the world it's highly unlikely that any individual would end up in a grouping of 1.
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"As we stand at present, every taxpayer in Britain has something approaching £900 of their money at stake[1] in this small mortgage bank following the £24 billion loan (which excludes the less controversial £18 billion in deposit guarantees). You and Vince Cable need to go learn where money comes from.
It's a bank loan from the central bank. Not a penny of money you have paid in tax has been given to Northern Rock. Not a penny of government borrowing has been given to Northern Rock.
[1]I'm a LibDem supporter and I don't like Fractional Reserve Banking but this is just complete bollocks. Vince clearly has no clue where this money comes from, which I find almost as worrying as the fact that the Chancellor of the Exchequer also continually refers to this money as "taxpayers money". This 24 billion pounds worth of money and the taxpayer have never crossed paths. Vince is in theory highly qualified as an economist. I'm beginning to wonder just how bad the education at Cambridge and Glasgow Universities really are.
Before trains, nobody cared. Very few people care now.
I work on one task at a time.
... 1.6GHz CPU and it works just fine, so what does an additional 2GHz give me?
I have a laptop with apparently a
You have no idea how tiring people who think they're funny are.
What does an extra 2 GHz give me?
That 1GHz doesn't?
Thousands of little solar powered robot blimps. When they come into cell phone range, upload instructions like "go and explore these co-ordinates" and simply download their info when they come into cell tower range.
Give your citizens two dollars instead of one... Watch their beaming smiles.
The law states that businesses, government (except The Home Office of course) have to take reasonable precautions. Whether the laptop the data is on is lost or it's stolen doesn't matter. It's the lack of precautions which matter. Particularly when it's as simple as:
http://www.truecrypt.org/
HTH
You should know better.
Does buying stuff make you happy? You're just a consumer?
Then why not fuck off somewhere else?
I'll also point out that the inflation that low interest rates causes actually moves value from individuals dealing in cash, usually the low paid to those who own the assets which are inflating in value, usually the wealthy.
How is this a story again?
Because if you bid $4,600,000,000.01 you get the license and not Google.
Very little of the US currency is paper and coin. The vast majority (something like 95%) of it is debt.
For example Collaborative Filtering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
A simple thumbs up or thumbs down for any particular link would be all that's needed to move the user further away from one statistical grouping and closer to another. Then everyone will be in a group of similarly intelligent people. Each page and each link on a page could be given and display for example, a likely percentage match (12%) with your preferences (89%).
It would require a shit load of servers to run the backend and a preference bar which can integrate with the browser. However, with billions of people in the world it's highly unlikely that any individual would end up in a grouping of 1.
"Simple Backup Suite". Not quite Time Machine, but very simple and effective.
apt-get install sbackup
Pride and all that.
Hmm... A bit of complacency there too.