No kidding. GP is the stupidest fucking thing I have heard on Slashdot in a long time.
"Money" is a balance of what I have, what I CAN have, and liquefies the means to "can have" and "have" transition to have almost zero needed added work. As long as money is recognized he won't have to put work into bartering. As long as the money doesn't change value drastically, the worker still has opportunities to use it.
The worker that saves for a month spending nothing is buying himself opportunities that he keeps into the next month as long as he doesn't spend the money.
The vendor only loses out because he fucked up and didn't entice the worker into doing the trade for "now" vs "future".
Given the way people have been behaving, the worker is probably far far into the danger zone as "having options" goes. So he's almost always improving his situation and taking away from the artificially high vendor's situation.
This is both a correction of an out of balance situation and a really needed safety net for the worker.
So the GP's point of view on it is stupid crap unless he's a salesman... in which case it's also self-serving on top of that.
There is no difference in lending by a bank in an up economy over a down one. A lively economy almost always means more debt for consumers. Which means less deposits and more money from the feds to fund loans.
They always need to maintain a certain capital ratio as set by the government (at least in the U.S.) and they always consider the borrower. Those government restrictions have gotten a lot tighter in recent months and may get even more so in the near future. The constraints are always there and always balanced out, if they don't the bank goes under in short order.
I think you need to review what a "bank" is Mr, Snotty-Pants. They don't just "create" money, they have to borrow it to lend it out themselves. They either borrow it from private sector via deposit accounts and CDs, or they buy from the Federal Reserve and similar orgs. Yes, the Federal Reserve does "create" money, but it's under national debt, a fairly different type of debt than that of banks or of individuals.
The only "creation" of money banks do is extending the number of lender/borrower loops to the point that collecting on it takes longer on average than any shortfall in the system. The "creating money" comes from the time it takes for things to sort out of the system by way of re-selling loans as investment tools. (I agree that's risky, but to say it's "creating money" is outright false.)
Those numbers are why I do a little hedging with material goods here and there. I buy large lots of items I know I will use eventually when it's on sale. Printer paper, laundry detergent, shoes, stuff like that.
Anyway, interest rates will probably come up a bit once the housing fiasco slides into the past a little further. Banks and Credit Unions will have to raise deposit rates when people realize the cost of the gas to drive there negates the interest on their CDs. They HAVE to get some deposits (or buy from the feds, which there are limits on) or they won't have money to lend and die or be taken over by the FDIC. They don't make any money giving out interest on deposit accounts, they HAVE to do it to get money for the things that do make money.
When putting a can in the back yard full of $20s doesn't lose you interest opportunities of any worth interest rates will rise. I keep a lot more cash around now simply because keeping it in an account earns my fourty five cents a month, and less than the cost of gas to get it.
Bullshit. That is simply your own hallucination and interpretation which, as I stated above, supports what you choose to believe. When I do see a few minutes of the "news", whatever the station/channel/outlet, I am always amazed that people like yourself choose to *not* see the blatant attempt at brainwashing that these so-called "news shows" exhibit.
FWIW - I stopped watching all of them 7+ years ago, tired of the nonsense and lies and the all-thought-consuming media that is the Idiot Box. I get my news from all over the place, from reading varied sources and applying my judgment as to the likely reliability of said sources taken in context of the whole story and my experience and knowledge about human nature and how the 'machine' that is society works, not from some one-sided corporate entity that is trying to sell me to their advertisers and solidify my support for their upstream political hacks.
Well then, how do you know Fox is not the worst now? You're one of them Tea Baggots aren't ya? Makin up lies and stuff.
Don't forget they come out all musclebound, pumped up, with new criminal knowledge from their peers, new connections, and most definitely in a gang.
Just the kind of thing we need, basically a manufacturing plant for aggressive asshole primates.
Instead, they should come out looking like humbled AIDS patients, ready to work at some menial job for low pay the rest of their lives. Prisons should be producing non-aggressive labor, not gangsters. If they don't fit the description, they don't get out.
What exactly the U.S. Prison system is doing has not been discussed much, and sure has not been SETTLED.
It's all lost in "tough on crime" and "humanitarian" bullshit.
What prisons could be doing:
Punishment (revenge type to make the folks wronged or those who care about the wrong feel better)
Detention (to keep the prisoners away from people they may harm)
Correction (to teach prisoners (reprogram) them to participate in society without committing crimes)
Correction (to chew them up to the point they are helpless to harm others when they get out)
Eugenics (women only, to keep them from breeding or raising more of their type of trash, this doesn't work for men because they need not be out of prison very long to breed)
Profit (let's face it, some big companies and big politicians make huge money off them)
Profit (simple industry above the board profit)
Political (focusing on a crime to garner votes "tough on crime")
etc.
Depending on the discussion, and who you are discussing it with the prison system bounces around between all of these purposes legitimately and illegitimately.
A waterfall / river lift could be powered by water tanks filled at the top and let fall to the bottom. (You could put cargo on up top too.) Ski lifts probably couldn't use the concept unless they are loading snow on it or something.
At the bottom, release the water back into the flow and put on some cargo. Given water tanks with fast-open bottoms this could be a very efficient way to lift cargo while doing very little to take energy from something you can't replenish and it's clean. The only difference is there's less erosion and less water flow in the falls between.
People ignore the policies. Anything they may do will be an effect in payouts or courtrooms later.
I dont think you actually are old enough to drive yet, as every policy I have ever read in detail is the exact opposite anyway. Course, you could be in one of those commie countries though.... they do all sorts of weird stuff.
The Declaration of Independence is the spirit of the Constitution of the United States you fucking commie.
Manning most certainly did break his oath, if not the law. However, it is not the job of the press to hand evidence to convict him of those things to the government.
I have no doubt that most of the WikiLeaks stuff that got out was just ordinary security breech. SOME of it however, is probably illegal black ops stuff. That leaves some gray areas as far as Manning goes, it is NOT his duty to execute illegal orders, and it could be argued that it is his duty to expose illegal acts by diplomats and US Government officials even if he is ordered not to.
No "reasonable suspicion" is required, flight is VOLUNTARY and the search is a condition put on it. If RS were required, the "nude scanner" machines would ALSO require reasonable suspicion. They don't, they are random (random searches by the police on the street would be illegal).
Though a good "search session" isn't particularly long, search dogs do not get tired and unable to work after 2 hours. Do you know any dogs? Even the out of shape untrained mongrels will run like an idiot after a ball until they drop. HOURS of it.
The problem with the TSA is it's about 98% moneymaker for contractors and about 2% security theater. And it's not even theater that the bad guys care about. I don't know who they are fooling, it must be dumbass politicians and cop-cock-suckers because I have never once met anybody that thought the TSA was doing a good and proper job.
Obviously, they didn't, ya dumb motherfucker or the problem would not still be happening. Maybe they fixed one small aspect of the problem, but it's easy to get around.
There's probably a proxy for Amazon G3 services in other countries too. Amazon can therefore watch what you do on the web with a kindle, and censor/edit/inject ads if they want to as well.
However sometimes you must switch jobs for the 'tards in charge to realize that the salary offered is not making the position attractive to employees.
No amount of pissing and moaning will get me more money. Period.
On the other hand, if I can find a position elsewhere, I get to actually have a salary discussion. Whereas that's not on the table now.
I risk getting fired if I talk about money. I do not risk getting fired if I talk about money with a new company.
I can pick and choose where and when, and to a certain extent what I do with a new company. I get shit thrown at me to do extra at my existing company.
If companies don't like the brain drain, they can fucking step up to the plate to talk about salaries once in a while.
I have nothing to lose by talking to some other company about a job, that turns a 0% chance at a raise to a non-zero chance, with some slight risk.
The various techniques used have a lot more in common with cookies than they do viruses. And you have to visit a website with the javascript to make it all work.
So?
It seems to me like one of the characteristics of malware, is something that actively resists being uninstalled, or re-installs itself.
Maybe not _technically_ a virus, but still malware.
Someone will have a free open source program to remove that crap before long... and any company trying to use that technique for "tracking" against _MY_ wishes is going to get a load of nerd rage unloaded on them, probably covered in spooge.
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No kidding. GP is the stupidest fucking thing I have heard on Slashdot in a long time.
"Money" is a balance of what I have, what I CAN have, and liquefies the means to "can have" and "have" transition to have almost zero needed added work. As long as money is recognized he won't have to put work into bartering. As long as the money doesn't change value drastically, the worker still has opportunities to use it.
The worker that saves for a month spending nothing is buying himself opportunities that he keeps into the next month as long as he doesn't spend the money.
The vendor only loses out because he fucked up and didn't entice the worker into doing the trade for "now" vs "future".
Given the way people have been behaving, the worker is probably far far into the danger zone as "having options" goes. So he's almost always improving his situation and taking away from the artificially high vendor's situation.
This is both a correction of an out of balance situation and a really needed safety net for the worker.
So the GP's point of view on it is stupid crap unless he's a salesman... in which case it's also self-serving on top of that.
There is no difference in lending by a bank in an up economy over a down one. A lively economy almost always means more debt for consumers. Which means less deposits and more money from the feds to fund loans.
They always need to maintain a certain capital ratio as set by the government (at least in the U.S.) and they always consider the borrower. Those government restrictions have gotten a lot tighter in recent months and may get even more so in the near future. The constraints are always there and always balanced out, if they don't the bank goes under in short order.
I think you need to review what a "bank" is Mr, Snotty-Pants. They don't just "create" money, they have to borrow it to lend it out themselves. They either borrow it from private sector via deposit accounts and CDs, or they buy from the Federal Reserve and similar orgs. Yes, the Federal Reserve does "create" money, but it's under national debt, a fairly different type of debt than that of banks or of individuals.
The only "creation" of money banks do is extending the number of lender/borrower loops to the point that collecting on it takes longer on average than any shortfall in the system. The "creating money" comes from the time it takes for things to sort out of the system by way of re-selling loans as investment tools. (I agree that's risky, but to say it's "creating money" is outright false.)
Those numbers are why I do a little hedging with material goods here and there. I buy large lots of items I know I will use eventually when it's on sale. Printer paper, laundry detergent, shoes, stuff like that.
Anyway, interest rates will probably come up a bit once the housing fiasco slides into the past a little further. Banks and Credit Unions will have to raise deposit rates when people realize the cost of the gas to drive there negates the interest on their CDs. They HAVE to get some deposits (or buy from the feds, which there are limits on) or they won't have money to lend and die or be taken over by the FDIC. They don't make any money giving out interest on deposit accounts, they HAVE to do it to get money for the things that do make money.
When putting a can in the back yard full of $20s doesn't lose you interest opportunities of any worth interest rates will rise. I keep a lot more cash around now simply because keeping it in an account earns my fourty five cents a month, and less than the cost of gas to get it.
Yes, and certainly let's all LIE about what the facts are to push a nanny state agenda shall we?
You fucking moron. Copyright infringement is a civil offense, that as of yet, very few people go to jail for.
On the other hand, jail or prison time is a regular thing for driving under the influence.
Of COURSE they are the same!!!111 (rolls eyes)
Tard.
Bullshit. That is simply your own hallucination and interpretation which, as I stated above, supports what you choose to believe. When I do see a few minutes of the "news", whatever the station/channel/outlet, I am always amazed that people like yourself choose to *not* see the blatant attempt at brainwashing that these so-called "news shows" exhibit. FWIW - I stopped watching all of them 7+ years ago, tired of the nonsense and lies and the all-thought-consuming media that is the Idiot Box. I get my news from all over the place, from reading varied sources and applying my judgment as to the likely reliability of said sources taken in context of the whole story and my experience and knowledge about human nature and how the 'machine' that is society works, not from some one-sided corporate entity that is trying to sell me to their advertisers and solidify my support for their upstream political hacks.
Well then, how do you know Fox is not the worst now? You're one of them Tea Baggots aren't ya? Makin up lies and stuff.
They are immune from fees and all that other banking stuff!
Don't forget they come out all musclebound, pumped up, with new criminal knowledge from their peers, new connections, and most definitely in a gang.
Just the kind of thing we need, basically a manufacturing plant for aggressive asshole primates.
Instead, they should come out looking like humbled AIDS patients, ready to work at some menial job for low pay the rest of their lives. Prisons should be producing non-aggressive labor, not gangsters. If they don't fit the description, they don't get out.
What exactly the U.S. Prison system is doing has not been discussed much, and sure has not been SETTLED.
It's all lost in "tough on crime" and "humanitarian" bullshit.
What prisons could be doing:
Depending on the discussion, and who you are discussing it with the prison system bounces around between all of these purposes legitimately and illegitimately.
A waterfall / river lift could be powered by water tanks filled at the top and let fall to the bottom. (You could put cargo on up top too.) Ski lifts probably couldn't use the concept unless they are loading snow on it or something.
At the bottom, release the water back into the flow and put on some cargo. Given water tanks with fast-open bottoms this could be a very efficient way to lift cargo while doing very little to take energy from something you can't replenish and it's clean. The only difference is there's less erosion and less water flow in the falls between.
People ignore the policies. Anything they may do will be an effect in payouts or courtrooms later.
I dont think you actually are old enough to drive yet, as every policy I have ever read in detail is the exact opposite anyway. Course, you could be in one of those commie countries though.... they do all sorts of weird stuff.
Jared Lee Loughner? Welcome to Slashdot. They gave you access to the net?
AFAIK the pole is heading off to a different direction this time.
It does wanter, and is "cyclic" in that it wanders all the time enough that it comes back to the same spot.
Anybody thinking they are going to predict it however is mistaken or at best, lucky if they guess right.
I think he's remembering that one episode of WPRK in Cincinnati when Dr. Johnny Fever says "booger" on live radio and gets fired for it.
But then after hijinks ensue, he is returned to his job and says it again.
In other words, you are lying.
Got it.
Ossification is what Rush does. Which is a form of lie.
Sort of like what you are doing.
Lying.
Take your communist bullshit elsewhere, we don't need your kind on Slashdot.
The Declaration of Independence is the spirit of the Constitution of the United States you fucking commie.
Manning most certainly did break his oath, if not the law. However, it is not the job of the press to hand evidence to convict him of those things to the government.
I have no doubt that most of the WikiLeaks stuff that got out was just ordinary security breech. SOME of it however, is probably illegal black ops stuff. That leaves some gray areas as far as Manning goes, it is NOT his duty to execute illegal orders, and it could be argued that it is his duty to expose illegal acts by diplomats and US Government officials even if he is ordered not to.
Only a fucking commie would think otherwise.
You are full of shit.
No "reasonable suspicion" is required, flight is VOLUNTARY and the search is a condition put on it. If RS were required, the "nude scanner" machines would ALSO require reasonable suspicion. They don't, they are random (random searches by the police on the street would be illegal).
Though a good "search session" isn't particularly long, search dogs do not get tired and unable to work after 2 hours. Do you know any dogs? Even the out of shape untrained mongrels will run like an idiot after a ball until they drop. HOURS of it.
The problem with the TSA is it's about 98% moneymaker for contractors and about 2% security theater. And it's not even theater that the bad guys care about. I don't know who they are fooling, it must be dumbass politicians and cop-cock-suckers because I have never once met anybody that thought the TSA was doing a good and proper job.
On the other hand, Amazon.com is now choosing political sides.
Politics is a dirty business.
Amazon.com shouldn't be surprised or whine like a little girl when they get biatch slapped for participating in politics.
Most evangelicals I know are too bloody ignorant of their own religion to have any sort of complicated thoughts like this.
They want Jews to go away, and the best way to do it is have them in Israel.
Obviously, they didn't, ya dumb motherfucker or the problem would not still be happening. Maybe they fixed one small aspect of the problem, but it's easy to get around.
There's probably a proxy for Amazon G3 services in other countries too. Amazon can therefore watch what you do on the web with a kindle, and censor/edit/inject ads if they want to as well.
Yes.
However sometimes you must switch jobs for the 'tards in charge to realize that the salary offered is not making the position attractive to employees.
No amount of pissing and moaning will get me more money. Period.
On the other hand, if I can find a position elsewhere, I get to actually have a salary discussion. Whereas that's not on the table now.
I risk getting fired if I talk about money. I do not risk getting fired if I talk about money with a new company.
I can pick and choose where and when, and to a certain extent what I do with a new company. I get shit thrown at me to do extra at my existing company.
If companies don't like the brain drain, they can fucking step up to the plate to talk about salaries once in a while.
I have nothing to lose by talking to some other company about a job, that turns a 0% chance at a raise to a non-zero chance, with some slight risk.
If by "becoming competitive again" you mean "stomp the ever loving shit out of IE6 until it dies and goes away"....
Right there with ya.
If it takes IE9 to do that, so be it.
The various techniques used have a lot more in common with cookies than they do viruses. And you have to visit a website with the javascript to make it all work.
So?
It seems to me like one of the characteristics of malware, is something that actively resists being uninstalled, or re-installs itself.
Maybe not _technically_ a virus, but still malware.
Someone will have a free open source program to remove that crap before long... and any company trying to use that technique for "tracking" against _MY_ wishes is going to get a load of nerd rage unloaded on them, probably covered in spooge.
I think it doesn't hide the answers, it just makes them show below a bunch of ads and stuff.
Most people don't think to scroll down below the "subscribe to see!" crap.
Anybody with any sanity lands on that site via Google anyway...