I guess that's why health insurance stock went UP.
Our government is one of Mercantile Corporatism. Who do you think wrote the bill? The insurance lobby was right there with congressional staffers. This bill gives them a guaranteed profit stream.
Cool. Government mandating that people buy PRIVATE health insurance (never been done...and no car insurance is not the same as you don't have to buy a car and many people don't own one). Private health insurance stock is going to skyrocket! Profit!
I predict a good chance it will be knocked down by the Supremes since the court is Majority conservative. Their justification will be the one I put above.
The question is, what does "fold up shop" really mean? google.com will still be available. Chinese language versions will probably still be available (via google.com). There will be google (and probably are) data centers in locations that are geographically close to china (japan, Korea, etc).
All it means is that going forward google will not be pounding the ground with sales staff for business. There is nothing stopping them from continuing sales (I don't think) and continuing to provide service via their.com domain unless China blocks google.com completely.
Really, what does it MEAN that google is leaving china? So what if they are not there. Google keeps the.cn domain google.cn and it will resolve to somewhere in california or probably Japan since it's closer. Unless the Chinese gov blocks ALL access to google worldwide why would Baidu all of a sudden get all of Google's search biz? China can censor it themselves if they want, google does not have to have anything to do with it.
The college works for ME as I'm paying (even if it's via loan) and the professor isn't. If a professor/teacher told me I could not use a computer to take notes I'd tell him/her to kiss my ass and prepare to explain himself to every superior above him that I yell at. Stress is a bitch and I may not be able to directly create "change" but I sure can make him/her pay for that decision with uncomfortable moments.
Then again, I'm 40 so maybe I'm not the type of student that is the problem?
Fact of the matter is it does not matter WHAT Apple prints or says or whatever. Many will simply ignore whatever they see as true or not depending on if it supports or contradicts their idea of what reality actually is.
I love the idea of doing research that needs to be done for deep space exploration, but having NO plan except "do more research until we think we can get there cheaper and faster" with no specific timeline, no specific goals and no inspiration will NOT get us into deep space. What it WILL do is make NASA a big bloated funding agency with no direct expertise in putting people into space.
Also, let's not forget that you can make plans and test all you want but if you really want to go someplace in space you need people with experience and you need the experience of being in space to test the results of research. I smell something fishy and it sounds like the opponents of ANY American manned space exploration have crafted a plan knowing full well that without any specific goals and dismantling what we have now we will practically ENSURE that America's involvement as a primary player in space will end.
Because it ONLY supports certain versions of exchange and if you are not running the EXACT versions that Apple tells you are compatible you are pretty much screwed.
I understand why it was done (Cancellation of Constellation) but I have some concerns about not having ANY capability to get people into space until some commercial contractor has the equipment to do so. Also, saying "TBD" when it comes to when we will be back exploring space is the equivalent to "never" in terms of washington priorities.
http://targetfreedom.net/help/228-interest-the-other-fiat-money -- If I have 10 gold coins which I do not require the immediate use of, outside of throwing them to the wind, I have the options to either retain them in my possession or to pass them on to another's possession.
Unlike fresh bread, there is a high degree of probability that the 10 gold coins will maintain their intrinsic value between today and tomorrow. However, if I choose to retain them in my possession, there is some cost I must incur to store them and protect them from theft. Without expending new or stored labor, I can not carry the 10 gold coins into the future at their current value. This is not a statement derived from any economic theory. It is a restatement of the, yet to be repudiated, Second Law of Thermodynamics. Nothing can move forward in time in its same state without having additional energy or work/labor applied to it. This is not a merely a theory in the pseudo science of economics, it is a law in the hard sciences of thermodynamics and physics. The more well known vernacular version is, "Left to themselves, all things go to hell."
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, which only perpetual motion shysters dare to challenge, decrees that to hold on to anything in the real world is not a free event. There is a cost that must be borne. This is why the other option for the 10 gold coins developed historically the way it did. If the person in possession of 10 gold coins decided his costs of carrying them forward into the future could be reduced by transferring the possession of his coins to another, he acted accordingly. This was the birth of banking. Originary bankers offered the service of storing gold in their vaults more securely and at a lower cost than what many of those holding gold believed they could provide themselves. Bankers charged their customers for this service.
Contrary to what time-preference theory might lead us to imagine, banks did not start out by offering to return more gold at a future date than was transferred into their possession at an earlier date. The banking practice of returning more than was received was not the result of market players suddenly discovering the theory of time-preference, it was the result of bankers reacting to depositors who began to figure out they were being scammed and that their gold in storage was not as secure as they were led to believe.
Time-preference was not discovered but rather invented to overcome the objections of those who, in spite of being unaware of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, had argued for millennia that you could not get something for nothing as the originary bankers were now backed into claiming. It was no small task for the bankers to defeat the notion that it was a violation of natural law for a pile of gold or any commodity, let alone a medium-of-exchange, to increase itself. It took the creation of economics to do it.
And so here we are today, trapped in a debt spiral using interest bearing debt money in a futile effort to keep pace with the exponential growth of the money supply required by compounding interest.
Sure about that? Maybe they are just confident we will just keep paying the payments on interest...forever.....
As for being paid back. The whole freaking planet uses fiat money. You can't hide the fact that things are being bought for intrinsically less value than the paper being used to purchase them. Sure, you can pass legal tender laws FORCING businesses to take Fed promisary notes but eventually the shell game of passing the true cost around has to end.
The second law of thermodynamics WILL win. Play ponzi with the universe and the universe will win eventually. You can't have something for nothing and that which has not been produced is just that until it's been produced, nothing.
Don't really see what the problem is. The U.S. is not going to pay off the debt. It's like worrying about the fact that you don't have a parachute AFTER you have jumped out of the plane; it just ruins the enjoyment of the ride down.
The amount of money NASA is asking about is trivial compared to the whole Federal Budget. Heck, the the U.S. government prints (via the proxy Federal Reserve) and borrows to pay the interest on what they have already borrowed. Worrying about the debt/deficit at this point is tilting at windmills.
If the U.S. is going to default (and the U.S. will, I guarantee) then its things of REAL physical value that should be bought. The Chinese are not going to repo a concrete road or a fleet of spaceships. So I say spend, spend, spend. Buy all the stuff that will improve infrastructure and long term growth so that when the U.S. does default at the very least there will be decent roads.
Google has not pulled out of China. They still are there. They said they would THINK ABOUT IT and no longer censor results.
Google will not pull out of China, rather they are playing poker to see if the Chinese government throws them out and blocks them. If they do (China) then the U.S. has grounds for complaining to the WTF.
The popularity of Apple's products mean that it's those sites that will have to conform to the Apple environment and not vice versa if they want the people using Apple's products.
Quite honestly Java would not bother me so much as it's now GPL'd.
Flash and Silverlight are proprietary runtime environments. Yes, so is Apple's stuff but I'd rather run stuff using HTML5 and Javascript than Flash and/or Silverlight.
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Yes, but the requirement to buy health insurance from private entities guarantees revenue.
The apocalypse comes when the Chinese decide not to loan us any more money.
I guess that's why health insurance stock went UP.
Our government is one of Mercantile Corporatism. Who do you think wrote the bill? The insurance lobby was right there with congressional staffers. This bill gives them a guaranteed profit stream.
Cool. Government mandating that people buy PRIVATE health insurance (never been done...and no car insurance is not the same as you don't have to buy a car and many people don't own one). Private health insurance stock is going to skyrocket! Profit!
I predict a good chance it will be knocked down by the Supremes since the court is Majority conservative. Their justification will be the one I put above.
The question is, what does "fold up shop" really mean? google.com will still be available. Chinese language versions will probably still be available (via google.com). There will be google (and probably are) data centers in locations that are geographically close to china (japan, Korea, etc).
All it means is that going forward google will not be pounding the ground with sales staff for business. There is nothing stopping them from continuing sales (I don't think) and continuing to provide service via their .com domain unless China blocks google.com completely.
Really, what does it MEAN that google is leaving china? So what if they are not there. Google keeps the .cn domain google.cn and it will resolve to somewhere in california or probably Japan since it's closer. Unless the Chinese gov blocks ALL access to google worldwide why would Baidu all of a sudden get all of Google's search biz? China can censor it themselves if they want, google does not have to have anything to do with it.
The college works for ME as I'm paying (even if it's via loan) and the professor isn't. If a professor/teacher told me I could not use a computer to take notes I'd tell him/her to kiss my ass and prepare to explain himself to every superior above him that I yell at. Stress is a bitch and I may not be able to directly create "change" but I sure can make him/her pay for that decision with uncomfortable moments.
Then again, I'm 40 so maybe I'm not the type of student that is the problem?
Fact of the matter is it does not matter WHAT Apple prints or says or whatever. Many will simply ignore whatever they see as true or not depending on if it supports or contradicts their idea of what reality actually is.
The Trolls on all sides eat this stuff up.
Sounds like a case of Google haters wailing in the closet
So if the cable companies can do it why can't somebody do coax at 100Mb inside the home? (theoretically speaking)
That maybe you should not deal with music that is owned by labels that are looking to litigate against you after giving you permission.
I love the idea of doing research that needs to be done for deep space exploration, but having NO plan except "do more research until we think we can get there cheaper and faster" with no specific timeline, no specific goals and no inspiration will NOT get us into deep space. What it WILL do is make NASA a big bloated funding agency with no direct expertise in putting people into space.
Also, let's not forget that you can make plans and test all you want but if you really want to go someplace in space you need people with experience and you need the experience of being in space to test the results of research. I smell something fishy and it sounds like the opponents of ANY American manned space exploration have crafted a plan knowing full well that without any specific goals and dismantling what we have now we will practically ENSURE that America's involvement as a primary player in space will end.
Because it ONLY supports certain versions of exchange and if you are not running the EXACT versions that Apple tells you are compatible you are pretty much screwed.
Without getting into nuanced minutia.....
You can't create wealth out of thin air without consequences. You can't have something for nothing.
The shell game of moving the IOU around the planet has to end. Question is, who will be holding the bag?
I agree. Siphoning off just 20B from the Military Budget would take care of this.....
I understand why it was done (Cancellation of Constellation) but I have some concerns about not having ANY capability to get people into space until some commercial contractor has the equipment to do so. Also, saying "TBD" when it comes to when we will be back exploring space is the equivalent to "never" in terms of washington priorities.
Also, what is to inspire the youth of tomorrow?
http://targetfreedom.net/help/228-interest-the-other-fiat-money
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If I have 10 gold coins which I do not require the immediate use of, outside of throwing them to the wind, I have the options to either retain them in my possession or to pass them on to another's possession.
Unlike fresh bread, there is a high degree of probability that the 10 gold coins will maintain their intrinsic value between today and tomorrow. However, if I choose to retain them in my possession, there is some cost I must incur to store them and protect them from theft. Without expending new or stored labor, I can not carry the 10 gold coins into the future at their current value. This is not a statement derived from any economic theory. It is a restatement of the, yet to be repudiated, Second Law of Thermodynamics. Nothing can move forward in time in its same state without having additional energy or work/labor applied to it. This is not a merely a theory in the pseudo science of economics, it is a law in the hard sciences of thermodynamics and physics. The more well known vernacular version is, "Left to themselves, all things go to hell."
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, which only perpetual motion shysters dare to challenge, decrees that to hold on to anything in the real world is not a free event. There is a cost that must be borne. This is why the other option for the 10 gold coins developed historically the way it did. If the person in possession of 10 gold coins decided his costs of carrying them forward into the future could be reduced by transferring the possession of his coins to another, he acted accordingly. This was the birth of banking. Originary bankers offered the service of storing gold in their vaults more securely and at a lower cost than what many of those holding gold believed they could provide themselves. Bankers charged their customers for this service.
Contrary to what time-preference theory might lead us to imagine, banks did not start out by offering to return more gold at a future date than was transferred into their possession at an earlier date. The banking practice of returning more than was received was not the result of market players suddenly discovering the theory of time-preference, it was the result of bankers reacting to depositors who began to figure out they were being scammed and that their gold in storage was not as secure as they were led to believe.
Time-preference was not discovered but rather invented to overcome the objections of those who, in spite of being unaware of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, had argued for millennia that you could not get something for nothing as the originary bankers were now backed into claiming. It was no small task for the bankers to defeat the notion that it was a violation of natural law for a pile of gold or any commodity, let alone a medium-of-exchange, to increase itself. It took the creation of economics to do it.
And so here we are today, trapped in a debt spiral using interest bearing debt money in a futile effort to keep pace with the exponential growth of the money supply required by compounding interest.
Oh..yea. Mabye it was a freudian slip?
Sure about that? Maybe they are just confident we will just keep paying the payments on interest...forever.....
As for being paid back. The whole freaking planet uses fiat money. You can't hide the fact that things are being bought for intrinsically less value than the paper being used to purchase them. Sure, you can pass legal tender laws FORCING businesses to take Fed promisary notes but eventually the shell game of passing the true cost around has to end.
The second law of thermodynamics WILL win. Play ponzi with the universe and the universe will win eventually. You can't have something for nothing and that which has not been produced is just that until it's been produced, nothing.
Don't really see what the problem is. The U.S. is not going to pay off the debt. It's like worrying about the fact that you don't have a parachute AFTER you have jumped out of the plane; it just ruins the enjoyment of the ride down.
The amount of money NASA is asking about is trivial compared to the whole Federal Budget. Heck, the the U.S. government prints (via the proxy Federal Reserve) and borrows to pay the interest on what they have already borrowed. Worrying about the debt/deficit at this point is tilting at windmills.
If the U.S. is going to default (and the U.S. will, I guarantee) then its things of REAL physical value that should be bought. The Chinese are not going to repo a concrete road or a fleet of spaceships. So I say spend, spend, spend. Buy all the stuff that will improve infrastructure and long term growth so that when the U.S. does default at the very least there will be decent roads.
Google has not pulled out of China. They still are there. They said they would THINK ABOUT IT and no longer censor results.
Google will not pull out of China, rather they are playing poker to see if the Chinese government throws them out and blocks them. If they do (China) then the U.S. has grounds for complaining to the WTF.
Despite what every pundit and slashdot anti-apple (or even pro apple) people say. It will sell. It will sell in crazy numbers.
It does not matter that it does not have flash, USB, ethernet, etc.
It will sell.
Why? Because of Apple's reputation among consumers.
And those sites that use flash or silverlight or java will make their site iPad compatible if they want those customers.
The popularity of Apple's products mean that it's those sites that will have to conform to the Apple environment and not vice versa if they want the people using Apple's products.
Quite honestly Java would not bother me so much as it's now GPL'd.
Flash and Silverlight are proprietary runtime environments. Yes, so is Apple's stuff but I'd rather run stuff using HTML5 and Javascript than Flash and/or Silverlight.
Damn you Darth Cheney! We all KNOW you are behing the attacks.
Evidence?