Yeah it just sucks you couldn't get postal service outside of normal business hours. You'll be so glad when no one can get postal service!
Because no services exist except those metered out by a government monopoly. Gotcha.
In related news, the immigrant gentleman who owns the local UPS Store franchise kept his business open until there were no more paying customers coming in the door. Why? Profit motive - it signals optimal market operations. He doesn't have a monopoly to lean back on.
I have netflix. I get TV over the air. This sort of access was the only way for me to watch current shows other than at their prescribe transmission time.
I'm probably not the only one who doesn't understand this - perhaps you could explain?
If you can watch it a week later, why does this matter at all? Their move presumes some people are willing to pay for faster access - why would they do that?
And if you're willing to watch shows on Netflix a year later, why not on abc.com a week later? Is the calculus that ads are only worth a 1-day delay?
I know a guy, Mr. M, who's a retired computer programming project manager. One of his proudest accomplishments is keeping the rest of company A away from two of his employees, Messrs K&R, who were developing a project, U, which went on to become a foundational technology for the Internet.
So, yeah, it can happen.
On the other hand, the average effective project manager (and not all are) adds a 10% productivity boost to a team of 9. And that's real data, look it up. Hierarchy's value has diminishing returns, but fits well with the tribal instinct with humans. That makes it comfortable, not economically efficient.
Nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is - a real person, or an alias of a person, or a large group. It would be very reckless to give "them" keys to the kingdom without checking.
Right , but what do you think "his" keys allow him to do to the bitcoin network?
IMO, nobody deserves such extraordinary payment for inventing a new way to exchange goods.
Then you wouldn't use it. The nice thing about a free cryptocurrency is that there's no gun pointed at you saying you have to use it.
Personally, I trust the likes of bitcoin entrepreneurs more than I trust The Ben Bernank or the US Congress, but everybody gets to make their own decision in that regard. Heck, if you like the protocol and don't like the players, you can start your own blockchain, with a nonprofit of your choosing owning the early blocks and disbursing them according to their by-laws. Markets can decide what the proper exchange rate is between the Satoshi blockchain and yours; if your idea is popular enough, your nonprofit can become the dominant blockchain and its mission can engage in whatever sort of social activism it's set up to provide.
They shouldn't have doubled down on their right to spy because that has caused an international incident.
This was written in 1936:
The State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscationâ"that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class â" that is, for a criminal purpose.
No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.
"The Criminality of the State" in American Mercury (March 1939)
The lesson for us is that this isn't new behavior, it's merely cyclical and we're rather new, in historical terms. That's why we're warned to learn from history, hopefully to avoid making the same mistakes as those who came before us. Treating this NSA scandal as something other than a symptom of a larger problem that needs to be addressed would be one such mistake.
Nobody wants to part with something that becomes more expensive as you hold it
Which is why real estate and precious metals are never bought and sold.
each BTC would cost a million dollars
At least.
and you'd run out of divisibility of BTC
Correct, the clients would need to agree to a protocol revision (probably 64 bits) to make it a true worldwide currency
and the "small" payment fee would be unaffordable.
There's nothing fixing the price of a transactions, so market forces apply.
Also, BTW, early adopters would own half of he planet's wealth.
Given the choice between cypherpunks and central bankers - well, we gave the central bankers a chance and look what they've done. I'll take the loons who are always going on about freedom and privacy over the Jamie Diamonds any day.
It's awkward when they're open such a short amount of time, and yes, there usually is quite the line at closing time so they're effectively open until 4:30 or 5:00 anyway.
Oh, I watched them slam their metal window shade at 04:59:50 on a long line of Christmas package shippers a few days before Christmas. Many of them had been there for half an hour or more because they only had one person running a window. Oh, and I went to check my PO BOX at 1PM on New Years Eve and they had closed at noon. Not that I had any end-of-year business to deal with, of course. Every other retail establishment was open until 6 in my area.
I don't know about pig breeds yet (on the list...) but as far as the lard, I chopped up the fat into cubes, per 'net directions, but then I had to squeeze all the cooked chunks to get the lard out which was a pain. 1 qt was free floating, but 1.5 qts were trapped in the chunks. Next time I'm going to run it thorough the meat grinder first to increase the surface area.
I did 10 hrs on low, with 1 cup of water added to get it started. The water evaporates. Yield on 5 lbs of fatback was 4.5lbs of lard, so the conversion rate is really great.
If you have your own pigs, you can harvest the visceral fat for a less flavorful lard, which is desirable for fine pastries, turnovers, etc. The kidney fat is what the foodies rave over, but to me a bit of pork flavor in a biscuit is a feature, not a bug.
Oh, I have heard that there's a pig breed that is very lean and favored by some farmers for meat production - 'roid pigs, I've heard them called. Those wouldn't be as good for lard, I'd imagine.
It's only the legal cartel that keeps it that way, though. Here in NH, we have fierce competition and low rates for auto insurance, because its neither mandatory nor cartelized (beyond the licensure racket, of course). Step over the border into MA and the rates double or triple. The border towns run a GREAT PO Box business!
I'm in a buying co-op for propane - I can't see why I wouldn't join one for health insurance too. And there's no State exchange to set up propane buying coops, either.
Yeah, I'm a bit concerned with the resurgence of lard because all of it that you can buy in the grocery store is hydrogenated. Not the droid we're looking for.
I got my kids some $59 "iRola" Jelly Bean tablets from nomorerack for Christmas and they're really fantastic for the price, and plenty of machine for kids, and at a price that you can give them to kids. I paid ~$250 for a Nook color a couple years ago and other than the screen quality, these are much better.
Yeah, the LCD viewing angle is old-school but kids don't care - all the games and Netflix work great, and the wireless radios work without complaint. I even snuck some math and foreign language games on there (and the "Kids Place" time limiter).
And yet most of the population has been taught during a forced 13 year stay in government childhood indoctrination centers that this is the land of the free, and they see you as a loon.
All for the sake of a proper receipt, with some assurances that you won't just splurge my (and my employer's) private data onto the net the second I walk out the door...
If your employer is an economic competitor to a US political donor or NSA collaborator, you can expect its data to be plundered and shared by the intelligence agencies. That's the implicit quid-pro-quo.
Yeah, it's part of what's known as an epidemic of fake judging. This judge is one of the "enemies domestic" that the framers warned we'd have to do something about.
In other words, you might as well give the fuck up and stop providing any coverage at all.
That's a good idea. Employer-based heathcare is an idiotic idea, only put in place as a temporary hack to get around [unconstitutional] wage-controls in the post WWII era, and causes all of these absurd legal scenarios, which do deserve to be challenged. But challenging the symptoms is a never-ending, and so losing, game.
Employers know full-well what an employee really costs, and it's only because the tax code favors this arrangement that they even care if the money goes to insurance premiums or directly into the employee's paycheck.
When I was reading up about this a few months ago, it was noted that Windows Vista fixed this on the Windows line. So, yeah, even Windows 8 does something better than a GNU/Linux desktop.
The SELinux fix has been roughed out, but it's not very usable and certainly not mainstream.
I was really disappointed to read that Wayland would possibly bolt this on later, but had nothing baked into the core protocol.
With all the deliberatedly worded non-denial denials we've seen in response to NSA revelations, you'd think that Apple's PR firms would know to make an absolute denial if that was their intent.
I see these overly-specific denials as a signal that they're under a gag order.
in order to try to milk as much cash out of the IP.
I'm fine with that - what I didn't appreciate was the entirely confused story, poorly written and acted characterization, an entirely inappropriate thematic approach, and the use of the film as a vehicle to funnel huge amounts of money to WETA to pay for entirely misplaced Massive graphics scenes.
In short, trying to make the Hobbit feel exactly like LoTR, which also ruins the rise and influence of Sauron in LoTR by failing to provide the required contrast. The two film eras needed to have different approaches, and Jackson failed at this, probably in a vain attempt to strengthen his franchise.
Allow me to save the Internet some bandwidth: don't torrent The Hobbit. It sucks. Read the book, it's terrific.
Yeah, Tanenbaum fits the model of the philosopher monk pretty well in this metaphor. Interesting and important work, but not gonna lead your revolution.
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. . . . like Corporate Charters, for instance.
Most Americans don't realize that the country got by on its first hundred years with no permanent corporations. JD Rockefeller found the right price.
Yeah it just sucks you couldn't get postal service outside of normal business hours. You'll be so glad when no one can get postal service!
Because no services exist except those metered out by a government monopoly. Gotcha.
In related news, the immigrant gentleman who owns the local UPS Store franchise kept his business open until there were no more paying customers coming in the door. Why? Profit motive - it signals optimal market operations. He doesn't have a monopoly to lean back on.
I have netflix. I get TV over the air. This sort of access was the only way for me to watch current shows other than at their prescribe transmission time.
I'm probably not the only one who doesn't understand this - perhaps you could explain?
If you can watch it a week later, why does this matter at all? Their move presumes some people are willing to pay for faster access - why would they do that?
And if you're willing to watch shows on Netflix a year later, why not on abc.com a week later? Is the calculus that ads are only worth a 1-day delay?
I know a guy, Mr. M, who's a retired computer programming project manager. One of his proudest accomplishments is keeping the rest of company A away from two of his employees, Messrs K&R, who were developing a project, U, which went on to become a foundational technology for the Internet.
So, yeah, it can happen.
On the other hand, the average effective project manager (and not all are) adds a 10% productivity boost to a team of 9. And that's real data, look it up. Hierarchy's value has diminishing returns, but fits well with the tribal instinct with humans. That makes it comfortable, not economically efficient.
Nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is - a real person, or an alias of a person, or a large group. It would be very reckless to give "them" keys to the kingdom without checking.
Right , but what do you think "his" keys allow him to do to the bitcoin network?
IMO, nobody deserves such extraordinary payment for inventing a new way to exchange goods.
Then you wouldn't use it. The nice thing about a free cryptocurrency is that there's no gun pointed at you saying you have to use it.
Personally, I trust the likes of bitcoin entrepreneurs more than I trust The Ben Bernank or the US Congress, but everybody gets to make their own decision in that regard. Heck, if you like the protocol and don't like the players, you can start your own blockchain, with a nonprofit of your choosing owning the early blocks and disbursing them according to their by-laws. Markets can decide what the proper exchange rate is between the Satoshi blockchain and yours; if your idea is popular enough, your nonprofit can become the dominant blockchain and its mission can engage in whatever sort of social activism it's set up to provide.
They shouldn't have doubled down on their right to spy because that has caused an international incident.
This was written in 1936:
- Albert J. Nock
The lesson for us is that this isn't new behavior, it's merely cyclical and we're rather new, in historical terms. That's why we're warned to learn from history, hopefully to avoid making the same mistakes as those who came before us. Treating this NSA scandal as something other than a symptom of a larger problem that needs to be addressed would be one such mistake.
Nobody wants to part with something that becomes more expensive as you hold it
Which is why real estate and precious metals are never bought and sold.
each BTC would cost a million dollars
At least.
and you'd run out of divisibility of BTC
Correct, the clients would need to agree to a protocol revision (probably 64 bits) to make it a true worldwide currency
and the "small" payment fee would be unaffordable.
There's nothing fixing the price of a transactions, so market forces apply.
Also, BTW, early adopters would own half of he planet's wealth.
Given the choice between cypherpunks and central bankers - well, we gave the central bankers a chance and look what they've done. I'll take the loons who are always going on about freedom and privacy over the Jamie Diamonds any day.
It's awkward when they're open such a short amount of time, and yes, there usually is quite the line at closing time so they're effectively open until 4:30 or 5:00 anyway.
Oh, I watched them slam their metal window shade at 04:59:50 on a long line of Christmas package shippers a few days before Christmas. Many of them had been there for half an hour or more because they only had one person running a window. Oh, and I went to check my PO BOX at 1PM on New Years Eve and they had closed at noon. Not that I had any end-of-year business to deal with, of course. Every other retail establishment was open until 6 in my area.
I won't miss them when they're gone.
Do you mean "authoritarian police state" or fascism?
I know, Sex Pistols and The Young Ones, but say it with me: "Authoritarian Police State". To not call it by its proper name is to give it a pass.
You have to admit that you live in an police state before you can do something about it.
I don't know about pig breeds yet (on the list...) but as far as the lard, I chopped up the fat into cubes, per 'net directions, but then I had to squeeze all the cooked chunks to get the lard out which was a pain. 1 qt was free floating, but 1.5 qts were trapped in the chunks. Next time I'm going to run it thorough the meat grinder first to increase the surface area.
I did 10 hrs on low, with 1 cup of water added to get it started. The water evaporates. Yield on 5 lbs of fatback was 4.5lbs of lard, so the conversion rate is really great.
If you have your own pigs, you can harvest the visceral fat for a less flavorful lard, which is desirable for fine pastries, turnovers, etc. The kidney fat is what the foodies rave over, but to me a bit of pork flavor in a biscuit is a feature, not a bug.
Oh, I have heard that there's a pig breed that is very lean and favored by some farmers for meat production - 'roid pigs, I've heard them called. Those wouldn't be as good for lard, I'd imagine.
Amazing how low you can get the prices when you use children to build gadgets for children.
Don't worry - my 10-year-old daughter has both a job and a side business too. I didn't have a job until I was eleven, so she's ahead of me.
It's only the legal cartel that keeps it that way, though. Here in NH, we have fierce competition and low rates for auto insurance, because its neither mandatory nor cartelized (beyond the licensure racket, of course). Step over the border into MA and the rates double or triple. The border towns run a GREAT PO Box business!
I'm in a buying co-op for propane - I can't see why I wouldn't join one for health insurance too. And there's no State exchange to set up propane buying coops, either.
Home-rendered lard rocks.
Yeah, I'm a bit concerned with the resurgence of lard because all of it that you can buy in the grocery store is hydrogenated. Not the droid we're looking for.
I got my kids some $59 "iRola" Jelly Bean tablets from nomorerack for Christmas and they're really fantastic for the price, and plenty of machine for kids, and at a price that you can give them to kids. I paid ~$250 for a Nook color a couple years ago and other than the screen quality, these are much better.
Yeah, the LCD viewing angle is old-school but kids don't care - all the games and Netflix work great, and the wireless radios work without complaint. I even snuck some math and foreign language games on there (and the "Kids Place" time limiter).
And yet most of the population has been taught during a forced 13 year stay in government childhood indoctrination centers that this is the land of the free, and they see you as a loon.
All for the sake of a proper receipt, with some assurances that you won't just splurge my (and my employer's) private data onto the net the second I walk out the door...
If your employer is an economic competitor to a US political donor or NSA collaborator, you can expect its data to be plundered and shared by the intelligence agencies. That's the implicit quid-pro-quo.
... anything else would be "inadvisable"?
Yeah, it's part of what's known as an epidemic of fake judging. This judge is one of the "enemies domestic" that the framers warned we'd have to do something about.
In other words, you might as well give the fuck up and stop providing any coverage at all.
That's a good idea. Employer-based heathcare is an idiotic idea, only put in place as a temporary hack to get around [unconstitutional] wage-controls in the post WWII era, and causes all of these absurd legal scenarios, which do deserve to be challenged. But challenging the symptoms is a never-ending, and so losing, game.
Employers know full-well what an employee really costs, and it's only because the tax code favors this arrangement that they even care if the money goes to insurance premiums or directly into the employee's paycheck.
Which mainstream OS does this differently?
When I was reading up about this a few months ago, it was noted that Windows Vista fixed this on the Windows line. So, yeah, even Windows 8 does something better than a GNU/Linux desktop.
The SELinux fix has been roughed out, but it's not very usable and certainly not mainstream.
I was really disappointed to read that Wayland would possibly bolt this on later, but had nothing baked into the core protocol.
How is that plausible? There's no legal mechanism to do that.
Joseph Nacchio. If you don't cooperate with the NSA, the SEC finds something to put you in prison for.
That's the whole point of Three Felonies A Day.
With all the deliberatedly worded non-denial denials we've seen in response to NSA revelations, you'd think that Apple's PR firms would know to make an absolute denial if that was their intent.
I see these overly-specific denials as a signal that they're under a gag order.
in order to try to milk as much cash out of the IP.
I'm fine with that - what I didn't appreciate was the entirely confused story, poorly written and acted characterization, an entirely inappropriate thematic approach, and the use of the film as a vehicle to funnel huge amounts of money to WETA to pay for entirely misplaced Massive graphics scenes.
In short, trying to make the Hobbit feel exactly like LoTR, which also ruins the rise and influence of Sauron in LoTR by failing to provide the required contrast. The two film eras needed to have different approaches, and Jackson failed at this, probably in a vain attempt to strengthen his franchise.
Allow me to save the Internet some bandwidth: don't torrent The Hobbit. It sucks. Read the book, it's terrific.
An apt metaphor for the whole of Western literature.
Careful - the fundamentalists will insist on their dpkg metaphors.
You should've seen the trade-press about linux in the late 90's (not the hobbyist magazines, the entrenched big-iron publications).
There was a time when linux didn't run 95% of the world's super computers and 80% of the smartphones.
She has gained root.
Yeah, Tanenbaum fits the model of the philosopher monk pretty well in this metaphor. Interesting and important work, but not gonna lead your revolution.