I remember a little interview (in the New Scientist I think) with a marine biologist who said he stopped experimenting on octopi when, after inserting a probe into the head of an octopus he thought was anaesthetised, the octopus calmly raised its tentacle and pulled the probe back out.
Roughly speaking, as I understand it, if it would be criminal to say something to a person's face, it will be criminal to say it to them online. For example, a death threat.
What advantage can you think of that a $1000 bill has over 10 x $100 bills?
I can dream up a few, like if I want to bribe my congressman maybe I don't need as many envelopes, or on those days where I need to shift $20,000,000 in cash it's a few pounds lighter so the shipping is cheaper.
But none of these would make me "strongly favor" bringing it back.
"How can they stop to individuals that have agreed to use these notes doing business with them?"
That seems pretty unlikely - why would criminals want to set up their own currency (which is effectively what this means). Currencies operate entirely on trust, and there's no honour amongst thieves...
I could imagine them using something that has intrinsic market value and is fungible, like gold or cocaine.
The point of the Economist article is that whereas previous technological shifts resulted in more but different low-skilled jobs, the current technological shift is likely to result in fewer, high-skilled jobs.
The Economist this week has a special report about how automation is going to make a lot of us unemployed, possibly in more permanent ways than previous industrial revolutions:
So if I can work out that in the past year you attended seven jazz gigs in your area, I shouldn't presume you might be interested in future jazz gigs in your area?
It was like this in the Tepito market in Mexico City in the 80s... as well as all the refurbished and stolen goods, if you had a broken walkman or whatever, there'd be some guy who could fix it for you. I miss the culture of repair.
It's also not great with disks of mixed size. For example, you can't create a 4TB mirror using a 4TB drive and 2x2TB drives (spanned). For home users, who will have a collection of mixed-size disks, you can do things, but it involves partitioning. I ended up doing something along the lines of this guy: http://tentacles666.wordpress....
Outsourcing is probably less of a problem going forward than automation, which is increasingly replacing white collar jobs as it has done blue collar jobs previously. Even lawyers' work is being automated these days, especially profitable work that requires you to be a lawyer but is otherwise low-skilled.
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Don't worry... the Republicans will veto this for fear of finding yet more Europeans.
I remember a little interview (in the New Scientist I think) with a marine biologist who said he stopped experimenting on octopi when, after inserting a probe into the head of an octopus he thought was anaesthetised, the octopus calmly raised its tentacle and pulled the probe back out.
Not sure why you're currently modded redundant as I came to say pretty much the same thing.
Although it's pretty funny if saying one doesn't trust the NSA is now considered redundant...
Isn't putting branding in a command's name a bit of a hostage to fortune?
If this had come out 10 years ago, would we all be laughing at having to use get.NET / OLEget / ActiveGet / Get95 / etc ?
Roughly speaking, as I understand it, if it would be criminal to say something to a person's face, it will be criminal to say it to them online. For example, a death threat.
"No Brainer" was a nice touch for a zombie suggestion :)
In what way is a $1000 bill more anonymous than a $100 bill?
What advantage can you think of that a $1000 bill has over 10 x $100 bills?
I can dream up a few, like if I want to bribe my congressman maybe I don't need as many envelopes, or on those days where I need to shift $20,000,000 in cash it's a few pounds lighter so the shipping is cheaper.
But none of these would make me "strongly favor" bringing it back.
"How can they stop to individuals that have agreed to use these notes doing business with them?"
That seems pretty unlikely - why would criminals want to set up their own currency (which is effectively what this means). Currencies operate entirely on trust, and there's no honour amongst thieves...
I could imagine them using something that has intrinsic market value and is fungible, like gold or cocaine.
The point of the Economist article is that whereas previous technological shifts resulted in more but different low-skilled jobs, the current technological shift is likely to result in fewer, high-skilled jobs.
The Economist this week has a special report about how automation is going to make a lot of us unemployed, possibly in more permanent ways than previous industrial revolutions:
http://www.economist.com/news/...
So if I can work out that in the past year you attended seven jazz gigs in your area, I shouldn't presume you might be interested in future jazz gigs in your area?
I'm not Mexican but I believe it's spelled "frijole"
A private domain for all the stuff you only want to share with close associates doesn't sound useful to you?
Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter results in my google searches are just noise that I have to filter out.
It was like this in the Tepito market in Mexico City in the 80s... as well as all the refurbished and stolen goods, if you had a broken walkman or whatever, there'd be some guy who could fix it for you. I miss the culture of repair.
It's also not great with disks of mixed size. For example, you can't create a 4TB mirror using a 4TB drive and 2x2TB drives (spanned). For home users, who will have a collection of mixed-size disks, you can do things, but it involves partitioning. I ended up doing something along the lines of this guy: http://tentacles666.wordpress....
Was he arrested for subversion? He should assure them he's a git user! *rimshot*
Episode 16: The missing TPS cover sheet
Outsourcing is probably less of a problem going forward than automation, which is increasingly replacing white collar jobs as it has done blue collar jobs previously. Even lawyers' work is being automated these days, especially profitable work that requires you to be a lawyer but is otherwise low-skilled.
I think your post constitutes a 100% increase in the number of times I've heard Opera mentioned this year.
I think I read about these guys in an H. P. Lovecraft novel.
Offshore your maintenance jobs to someone in the correct timezone!
All my telco worker friends grumble about being forced to praise their customers' horticultural skills on their site visits.
The paper states that animals would enter the wheel, leave it, and then re-enter it. That could be accidental but doesn't suggest escape.
So wait, Skynet eventually became Weyland-Yutani? I missed Aliens vs Terminator.