I would guess there's a lot more in the way of tricky IP issues to deal with there than with the early versions that were still primarily based on the original purchased rights.
We're talking about a version of DOS where the only text editor is edlin, and this is before we start dealing with Dou-- er, DriveSpace.
People who are absolutely at the top of the scale in 1925, for instance, would be getting food stamps today, said Greenspan.
Has Greenspan blown the dust off his Rolodex lately? I can't think of anybody with the last name "Rockefeller" or "Vanderbilt" in 2014 that's hurting for cash.
"If we're not going to educate our kids, bring in other people who want to become Americans," said Greenspan, in arguing for an increase of H-1B workers.
H-1B is not a path to citizenship, apparently by design. Green card holders can say "Screw you, I quit" without deportation, which is not what companies want when they reach for H-1B's.
In the context of income inequality, Greenspan put the H-1B program in his light: If the program were expanded, income wouldn't necessarily go down much, "but I bet you they would go down enough to really make an impact, because income inequality is a relative concept.
H-1B's are competing for the bottom. Executives don't bring in indentured servants to be their own replacement, nor are meaningful numbers being placed into "rock star" slots (rock stars can command perks like actual green card status anyway). H-1B's only drive down the wages of the bottom, not the top, exacerbating wealth disparity.
Just tax a small bit of the wealth flowing through the country and give people part-time jobs fixing potholes or whatever.
Why the make-work? Just go with basic income where everybody gets a check that's enough for food, shelter and other necessities, with no means testing or anything. If you want a bigger house or flashier car or a lawn greener than the neighbors', then you can go out and get a job (profit motive) to supplement your income beyond this. But you still take the "or die" factor out of employment.
First off, the most environmentally sound solution would be for these tech workers to live in the suburbs to begin with. The jobs themselves are in the suburbs, and the workers are commuting from the city to the suburbs simply because it's hip and trendy to (be able to afford to) live in San Francisco proper.
Worse yet, this ends up putting more cars on the road, not fewer, because the people who do work in the city can't afford to live there. They are the ones who have to commute from the suburbs to the city. The clerk at the trendy organic grocery store or the bartender at the hipster bar, the stuff that gives "living in the city" its pricey allure, are faced with impossible rents or stiff commutes, and you can be sure as hell it's not their employers paying for a private coach to collect them from the sticks.
OP said Bitcoin lost a third of its value this week, i.e. the exchange rate went up 50%. The numbers you link to show the Zimbabwean dollar typically took an entire month to drop that much.
I'm not sure how they calculate their liabilities are only $60m either, if they own depositors $700m worth of BTC. Maybe they are hoping that their own collapse will devalue the currency so much their liabilities will fall that far.
Creditors owed in Japanese Yen will only accept payment in Japanese Yen. Debts owed in Bitcoin will probably be cloaked by an SEP field as far as Japanese financial and bankruptcy law is concerned.
A small percentage of the people who lost money at MtGox will learn from this and be more careful and picky as to where they place their money in the future.
Yeah: they'll keep their money in Yankee dollars instead.
It'll be interesting to see if the courts will restructure debts when the debts aren't delineated in "real money."
Building your cryptocurrency to be outside the regime of banking regulations may mean you can't seek the shelter of those same regulations when you get into trouble.
The ocean is a harsh environment and ships work hard and maintenance and upkeep is a constant chore day in and day out both in port and while underway.
Except the number of people needed to perform that upkeep has been on a marked downward trend for decades. As it is it only takes about two dozen people, at most, to crew a quarter-million tons of ship for weeks at a time.
It's that big a leap of the imagination for that number to finally reach zero.
The ESRB is a private industry group, and participation is entirely voluntary.
then they remove shit the US censors don't like
The ESRB doesn't care one way or the other. The "American" publishers tend to seek to avoid an AO ("Adults Only") rating, for marketing reasons, and will try to bring things down to an M ("Mature") rating so that certain big-name retailers will consent to carry the game. But games that get an AO rating are certainly free to keep that rating and have been published in the past, and publishers are free to skip the rating process entirely (e.g. I've seen more than a few localized Japanese H-games that don't bother formalizing the AO rating they'd obviously get).
However, we, the consumers, never see the ORIGINAL version before the US censors make their cuts, because the game companies don't bother trying to put those things in non-US versions.
Publishers don't sell an "unrated" version of a particular game in North America (ESRB includes Canada) because they know that not enough customers will go out of their way to find retail channels that will carry AO/unrated games to make the the prospect financially viable. Conversely, publishers don't sell an "unrated" version of a particular game in Germany or Australia because it would be illegal.
For various reasons I don't entirely understand China has elected to keep this family in power.
DPRK is the just about only neighbor that China has that actually likes them. Everyone else that shares a border with China has relations that run the gamut from "cool" to "antagonistic." China fears losing the Kim regime in much the same way Russia fears NATO expansion, for similar reasons.
By being in a federal academy, their pay is "free college" and they are expected to put in a number of years of service after graduation because of it.
Slashdot Mirror
I would guess there's a lot more in the way of tricky IP issues to deal with there than with the early versions that were still primarily based on the original purchased rights.
We're talking about a version of DOS where the only text editor is edlin, and this is before we start dealing with Dou-- er, DriveSpace.
You are an idiot.
But he's the guy that signs the paychecks, and that's all that matters in the job market.
Claims are made that the state was the typical bad client
And yet it's only after you sign the contract that you think to get a lawyer involved.
and GPS breaking down we're you're headed
If they're as reliable as Slashdot's automated grammar screening I don't have much faith in the technology
People who are absolutely at the top of the scale in 1925, for instance, would be getting food stamps today, said Greenspan.
Has Greenspan blown the dust off his Rolodex lately? I can't think of anybody with the last name "Rockefeller" or "Vanderbilt" in 2014 that's hurting for cash.
"If we're not going to educate our kids, bring in other people who want to become Americans," said Greenspan, in arguing for an increase of H-1B workers.
H-1B is not a path to citizenship, apparently by design. Green card holders can say "Screw you, I quit" without deportation, which is not what companies want when they reach for H-1B's.
In the context of income inequality, Greenspan put the H-1B program in his light: If the program were expanded, income wouldn't necessarily go down much, "but I bet you they would go down enough to really make an impact, because income inequality is a relative concept.
H-1B's are competing for the bottom. Executives don't bring in indentured servants to be their own replacement, nor are meaningful numbers being placed into "rock star" slots (rock stars can command perks like actual green card status anyway). H-1B's only drive down the wages of the bottom, not the top, exacerbating wealth disparity.
"I'm appreciated here!"
Only the people who see nothing wrong with such monitoring would be doing the job.
Just tax a small bit of the wealth flowing through the country and give people part-time jobs fixing potholes or whatever.
Why the make-work? Just go with basic income where everybody gets a check that's enough for food, shelter and other necessities, with no means testing or anything. If you want a bigger house or flashier car or a lawn greener than the neighbors', then you can go out and get a job (profit motive) to supplement your income beyond this. But you still take the "or die" factor out of employment.
http://www.f-secure.com/static...
The content of interest here starts on page 22.
It'd be nice if TFA actually included a link. Or even cited the fucking source of the graphics they lifted.
But then its harder for a bar to find staff
Not in this economy.
I think you're missing several points here.
First off, the most environmentally sound solution would be for these tech workers to live in the suburbs to begin with. The jobs themselves are in the suburbs, and the workers are commuting from the city to the suburbs simply because it's hip and trendy to (be able to afford to) live in San Francisco proper.
Worse yet, this ends up putting more cars on the road, not fewer, because the people who do work in the city can't afford to live there. They are the ones who have to commute from the suburbs to the city. The clerk at the trendy organic grocery store or the bartender at the hipster bar, the stuff that gives "living in the city" its pricey allure, are faced with impossible rents or stiff commutes, and you can be sure as hell it's not their employers paying for a private coach to collect them from the sticks.
OP said Bitcoin lost a third of its value this week, i.e. the exchange rate went up 50%. The numbers you link to show the Zimbabwean dollar typically took an entire month to drop that much.
The price initially plummeted, but has already stabilized at 2/3rds its previous stable value.
Thereby making the Zimbabwean dollar look stable in comparison.
I'm not sure how they calculate their liabilities are only $60m either, if they own depositors $700m worth of BTC. Maybe they are hoping that their own collapse will devalue the currency so much their liabilities will fall that far.
Creditors owed in Japanese Yen will only accept payment in Japanese Yen. Debts owed in Bitcoin will probably be cloaked by an SEP field as far as Japanese financial and bankruptcy law is concerned.
A small percentage of the people who lost money at MtGox will learn from this and be more careful and picky as to where they place their money in the future.
Yeah: they'll keep their money in Yankee dollars instead.
It'll be interesting to see if the courts will restructure debts when the debts aren't delineated in "real money."
Building your cryptocurrency to be outside the regime of banking regulations may mean you can't seek the shelter of those same regulations when you get into trouble.
some geeks at a tech conference
They're called "enablers."
The ocean is a harsh environment and ships work hard and maintenance and upkeep is a constant chore day in and day out both in port and while underway.
Except the number of people needed to perform that upkeep has been on a marked downward trend for decades. As it is it only takes about two dozen people, at most, to crew a quarter-million tons of ship for weeks at a time.
It's that big a leap of the imagination for that number to finally reach zero.
Such as...?
/sigh
Here's how it works: US companies
Like Ubisoft?
submit their games to US ratings boards
The ESRB is a private industry group, and participation is entirely voluntary.
then they remove shit the US censors don't like
The ESRB doesn't care one way or the other. The "American" publishers tend to seek to avoid an AO ("Adults Only") rating, for marketing reasons, and will try to bring things down to an M ("Mature") rating so that certain big-name retailers will consent to carry the game. But games that get an AO rating are certainly free to keep that rating and have been published in the past, and publishers are free to skip the rating process entirely (e.g. I've seen more than a few localized Japanese H-games that don't bother formalizing the AO rating they'd obviously get).
However, we, the consumers, never see the ORIGINAL version before the US censors make their cuts, because the game companies don't bother trying to put those things in non-US versions.
Publishers don't sell an "unrated" version of a particular game in North America (ESRB includes Canada) because they know that not enough customers will go out of their way to find retail channels that will carry AO/unrated games to make the the prospect financially viable. Conversely, publishers don't sell an "unrated" version of a particular game in Germany or Australia because it would be illegal.
What did the rest of the USA do?
Either they got textbooks with actual history in them or they just used the Texas standards.
The U.S. and Japan managed to get over the whole World War II thing
Try picking up a Texas or Japanese high school history textbook some time.
For various reasons I don't entirely understand China has elected to keep this family in power.
DPRK is the just about only neighbor that China has that actually likes them. Everyone else that shares a border with China has relations that run the gamut from "cool" to "antagonistic." China fears losing the Kim regime in much the same way Russia fears NATO expansion, for similar reasons.
By being in a federal academy, their pay is "free college" and they are expected to put in a number of years of service after graduation because of it.