I never understood why Star Wars fans were so upset with midicholrians
It changed the mystical into the mechanical.
But, that's OK, it's in the Star Wars Universe where Luke was born when Obi Wan was in his 30's. My preferred Star Wars is the one where Luke is 16 and Old Ben is well over 100 ("surely he must be dead by now"). I'm optimistic Disney will let JJ do Eps 1-3 in that universe.
the canonical explanation of beaming was that it translated you into information
No, beaming in Trek is a purely analog function. It converts you into energy, it doesn't translate you into information. The prevents duplication (mostly), hibernation (mostly), and marginalization of the 'soul'. It also increases risk (aka drama).
We have 2.4GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed because nobody else wanted to use them because they're inherently poor choices for radio propagation. I'll think the FCC actually cares about individual radio users when it lets us use something in the VHF range, and a big chunk of it at that. The useful frequencies are still for the wealthy individuals and corporations.
It's also fun how they list 1.75Gbit on the box, but it's really 1.3gbit if you use 5ghz and 450mbit if you use 2.4ghz.
Do their drivers support simultaneous multi-radio use and channel bonding? That wouldn't be a terrible idea (though I doubt it's implemented). Linux could do the bonding even if the drivers can't natively if both radios could be simultaneously addressed.
This one is from my 6-year-old boy, Will. We're currently reading a book about dinosaurs (he gets three per bedtime). He wants to know, "how many dinosaurs haven't been discovered yet?" One of his favorites is one that was discovered in China fairly recently (many of the famous ones seem to come from the US midwest from the early part of last century).
While his question is impossible to answer on its own, do paleontologists have a sense of whether the types of soils likely to hold fossils have been well explored, or if we've merely scratched the surface [sic] of what's to come?
But it is expensive, painful and so USPS does not do it. Or I think it does not do it.
I never thought about that before, but those high speed scanning machines are doing OCR on the destination address, so the return address could be included as well. If the USPS were run like a company, they'd at least be using it for analytics and process optimization.
After reading last night's article about his other G+ post, I was really thinking/ragequit.
After reading both of the posts, I was thinking 'midwinter blues'. Somebody drop a bottle of high-dose vitamin D on the fellow! Then again, perhaps he's headed for the beaches as we speak.
Malinvestment? By that, do you mean more risky investments?
No, malinvestments are a purely post-hoc judgement. Poor risk management can certainly lead to malinvestment, but good risk management can lead to good investment.
The amount of risk management undertaken is to some degree proportional to the cost of borrowing, so low costs of borrowing can lead to poor risk management, which can lead to malinvestment. Only on a macro scale can any generalities be made, but it's certain that at the macro level cheap money leads to greater malinvestment. That's the basis of the boom and bust cycle in a managed economy.
The statement "businesses with better plans..." is simply incorrect. Accurately stated, it would be that businesses with better credit ratings, collateral, and balance sheets, get the money.
That's qualifying for the loan, once an application is put in. I'm talking about the business decision to take out the loan in the first place. When money is relatively expensive, businesses are less likely to take loans when they don't have a solid plan.
To your last comment, I wasn't assuming that new money had to be printed to lend. I'll agree with you to the extent that when it is, that does certainly degrade the economy as a whole. My point was based upon the recirculation of monies that the government had in its coffers.
The 'coffers' are deeply negative. All of this cheap lending is coming from the Fed's 'quantitative easing' (money printing) and off-books money creation (e.g. its secret 'emergency loans' to GE, McDonalds, UBS, et. al. - see Lahey's investigation). The only collateral it has is $80B in gold in its vaults and Ft. Knox (and of course the IRS's ability to extract money from the population).
If my understanding is correct, most multinationals form a corporate entity in each of the nation-states under which they do business.
It was my understanding that some folks here are looking for US-hq'ed multinationals to be taxed on the business that their foreign subsidiaries do if they declare that business as part of their public balance sheet.
But perhaps people here were really calling for tariffs on contracted foreign work; I'm not quite sure.
People who use bleeding-edge testing distributions should expect the odd glitch
General rules of thumb (assuming a normal 6-month cycle):
A Fedora release is broken for the first 30 days. Things are rapidly fixed. Yeah, that should be beta, but too few people test. Personally, I can't have my daily work machines broken for beta, but I do install it when I'm on the previous release and developers are working on something that needs fixing that I need fixed, or when I have a spare machine I don't have to rely on. Months 2-5 are where most of the annoying bugs get fixed. I usually upgrade my daily use machines around month 3. Months 6-12 are where most people can use the system. I upgrade my wife's machine around month 6. She likes the snazzy new features in Digikam or whatever. Month 12 is when you start to realize you need stuff that's going in the next version only. Month 14 is when you realize that you forgot to upgrade to the next release when it was at month 6.
Can you tell me how that would be worse than the current income tax system, with all the information the government must collect to implement it, and all the carrot-and-stick methods it enables? That's the part I am missing. "It's un-American" is rather nebulous.
It's a direct attack on federalism, and it makes every American reliant on Federal payments. If there's a quick way to eliminate the States and the Republic of Republics, this is grease on those skids.
If you think the federal government involved in commerce is bad, consider how much the IRS knows about your personal life.
Yes, this is a problem. Reduce spending and get rid of the IRS. But two wrongs don't make a right. Don't subject the country to another hundred years of a different bad idea.
How much I spent making a transaction at a department store is small fry, especially when you consider that my name need not be recorded at all to implement a sales tax.
Your missing that many states don't even have a sales tax because that's what their people have chosen, and you're seeking to impose one from DC.
If interest is your ONLY return, then they're equal, but then you don't need a company, you just need an investment tool.
Well, it's the return within the banking system, which is one type of investment vehicle. Interest rates are also related to bond yields (ergo the price of health insurance, etc.)
Allowing companies to borrow cheap money creates an incentive for them to borrow if they can use that capital to make a better ROI.
Yes, but at what cost? If money is really 'cheap' people will tend towards malinvestment more so than if money is expensive. Under capitalism, businesses with better plans tend to get the money because they believe they can pay it back (under rates set by a market).
That helps stimulate hiring, and growth.
In the narrowest of sense, but because the money is printed rather than accumulated, it devalues the fiat holdings of all the other participants in the economy, which weakens employment and growth in the macro sense (prices rise while revenues stagnate). The approach certainly has beneficiaries, but often they're friends of the printing press who have access to the money before the inflationary signals are propagated.
And when they get mad at Google or something we inform them that as a Cayman islands corporation, they'll need to file suit there.
So you're going to deny the court system to any company doing business with a subsidiary in the US if its headquarters isn't here? Sounds like a banana republic.
You can take that stance, but it will simply cause the companies to move their headquarters to a friendlier jurisdiction (and declare their income there) which will cause a net decrease in employment and economic activity in the US.
The Fair Tax Act would take care of all of this neatly without burdening the poor, since those at or below the poverty level would pay no net taxes.
And all you have to do is get the Federal Government involved in every intrastate commerce transaction, impose sales taxes in States that have none, and put every American on the dole ("prebates" are the best way to breed an entitlement mentality).
It may be a mathematical solution, but it's antithetical to the American system.
(not that the income tax system has merit either - the Fair Tax folks do accurately assess its flaws).
Easier solution: return the USG to Year 2000 levels and completely eliminate the income tax, replacing it with nothing. How would that be for economic stimulus? As the saying goes, "what do you replace cancer with?"
Should Uncle Sam tax all the income of every worldwide transaction of every corporations with any presence in the US?
Unless he does that, if he wants to charge Oracle an outsourcing tax, then Oracle simply becomes a, e.g. Cayman Islands corporation and outsources some of its work back to the US.
Ask the Fed why interest rates are low-- to encourage the taking of loans and spending of money. So the Fed wants us to spend money, to stimulate a still-stagnant economy.
Which runs contrary to the idea that capitalism works by people accumulating capital (their incentive is a decent interest rate) which is then available for investment in the broader economy either through direct investment or pooled investment (e.g. banks making loans from their reserves).
The Fed seems to think that it can print its way into prosperity. If this is true, all the worlds' central banks have been holding out on their people (except for Zimbabwe's, I suppose).
but would his opponents in 2008 and 2012 have killed less?
I worked for Ron Paul in both of those campaigns. He was the only candidate who the pollsters (who got the election exactly right in 2012) showed could beat Obama. But the corporatist Republicans were squarely against him winning over Obama, and the rest is history. Here in NH (Romney's second home) he came in 2nd place in both the Republican and Democratic primaries.
And, yes, he would have ordered a withdrawal from the Middle East on his first day of office. Instead, today Obama worked on his Kill List. But they must hate us for our freedoms and shopping malls, not because their children are being murdered by the USG.
Johnson or Stein would have done similar things (but been worse presidents), but both were either physically prevented from or arrested for trying to participate in the debates. The biggest illusion in the US is one of choice.
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I never understood why Star Wars fans were so upset with midicholrians
It changed the mystical into the mechanical.
But, that's OK, it's in the Star Wars Universe where Luke was born when Obi Wan was in his 30's. My preferred Star Wars is the one where Luke is 16 and Old Ben is well over 100 ("surely he must be dead by now"). I'm optimistic Disney will let JJ do Eps 1-3 in that universe.
the canonical explanation of beaming was that it translated you into information
No, beaming in Trek is a purely analog function. It converts you into energy, it doesn't translate you into information. The prevents duplication (mostly), hibernation (mostly), and marginalization of the 'soul'. It also increases risk (aka drama).
check out the ST:TNG technical manual.
We have 2.4GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed because nobody else wanted to use them because they're inherently poor choices for radio propagation. I'll think the FCC actually cares about individual radio users when it lets us use something in the VHF range, and a big chunk of it at that. The useful frequencies are still for the wealthy individuals and corporations.
There's no opensouorce Browser based SSL VPN
Does OpenVPN ALS not qualify?
You could say that. In fact, it requires certificates & PKI to work.
You can still use shared keys if you want to avoid the CA, but you lose some features when you do that (like push options).
And, yeah, it's supported public key exchange for, what, 8 years?
It's also fun how they list 1.75Gbit on the box, but it's really 1.3gbit if you use 5ghz and 450mbit if you use 2.4ghz.
Do their drivers support simultaneous multi-radio use and channel bonding? That wouldn't be a terrible idea (though I doubt it's implemented). Linux could do the bonding even if the drivers can't natively if both radios could be simultaneously addressed.
This one is from my 6-year-old boy, Will. We're currently reading a book about dinosaurs (he gets three per bedtime). He wants to know, "how many dinosaurs haven't been discovered yet?" One of his favorites is one that was discovered in China fairly recently (many of the famous ones seem to come from the US midwest from the early part of last century).
While his question is impossible to answer on its own, do paleontologists have a sense of whether the types of soils likely to hold fossils have been well explored, or if we've merely scratched the surface [sic] of what's to come?
Or just demand gay sex in the games they play?
They're still upset about the gender bias in Leisure Suit Larry.
But it is expensive, painful and so USPS does not do it. Or I think it does not do it.
I never thought about that before, but those high speed scanning machines are doing OCR on the destination address, so the return address could be included as well. If the USPS were run like a company, they'd at least be using it for analytics and process optimization.
After reading last night's article about his other G+ post, I was really thinking /ragequit.
After reading both of the posts, I was thinking 'midwinter blues'. Somebody drop a bottle of high-dose vitamin D on the fellow! Then again, perhaps he's headed for the beaches as we speak.
Malinvestment? By that, do you mean more risky investments?
No, malinvestments are a purely post-hoc judgement. Poor risk management can certainly lead to malinvestment, but good risk management can lead to good investment.
The amount of risk management undertaken is to some degree proportional to the cost of borrowing, so low costs of borrowing can lead to poor risk management, which can lead to malinvestment. Only on a macro scale can any generalities be made, but it's certain that at the macro level cheap money leads to greater malinvestment. That's the basis of the boom and bust cycle in a managed economy.
The statement "businesses with better plans..." is simply incorrect. Accurately stated, it would be that businesses with better credit ratings, collateral, and balance sheets, get the money.
That's qualifying for the loan, once an application is put in. I'm talking about the business decision to take out the loan in the first place. When money is relatively expensive, businesses are less likely to take loans when they don't have a solid plan.
To your last comment, I wasn't assuming that new money had to be printed to lend. I'll agree with you to the extent that when it is, that does certainly degrade the economy as a whole. My point was based upon the recirculation of monies that the government had in its coffers.
The 'coffers' are deeply negative. All of this cheap lending is coming from the Fed's 'quantitative easing' (money printing) and off-books money creation (e.g. its secret 'emergency loans' to GE, McDonalds, UBS, et. al. - see Lahey's investigation). The only collateral it has is $80B in gold in its vaults and Ft. Knox (and of course the IRS's ability to extract money from the population).
If my understanding is correct, most multinationals form a corporate entity in each of the nation-states under which they do business.
It was my understanding that some folks here are looking for US-hq'ed multinationals to be taxed on the business that their foreign subsidiaries do if they declare that business as part of their public balance sheet.
But perhaps people here were really calling for tariffs on contracted foreign work; I'm not quite sure.
People who use bleeding-edge testing distributions should expect the odd glitch
General rules of thumb (assuming a normal 6-month cycle):
A Fedora release is broken for the first 30 days. Things are rapidly fixed. Yeah, that should be beta, but too few people test. Personally, I can't have my daily work machines broken for beta, but I do install it when I'm on the previous release and developers are working on something that needs fixing that I need fixed, or when I have a spare machine I don't have to rely on.
Months 2-5 are where most of the annoying bugs get fixed. I usually upgrade my daily use machines around month 3.
Months 6-12 are where most people can use the system. I upgrade my wife's machine around month 6. She likes the snazzy new features in Digikam or whatever.
Month 12 is when you start to realize you need stuff that's going in the next version only.
Month 14 is when you realize that you forgot to upgrade to the next release when it was at month 6.
If you read Ben Bernanke work, the current chairmen of the Fed, you know that they donâ(TM)t believe that. They are trying to buy time.
That's what they say, but their system has no way out other than to amp up what they're doing now and keep doing that until the system crashes.
Not real happy with the current solution but I can't figure out a better one.
The government's response to the 1920 Depression seemed to work best.
No, just suggesting that procedures be in place so that the people who actually foot the bill for the courts get first access.
I'm not sure I follow - the US subsidiary of the company that used to be headquartered in the US would still be a taxpayer.
Can you tell me how that would be worse than the current income tax system, with all the information the government must collect to implement it, and all the carrot-and-stick methods it enables? That's the part I am missing. "It's un-American" is rather nebulous.
It's a direct attack on federalism, and it makes every American reliant on Federal payments. If there's a quick way to eliminate the States and the Republic of Republics, this is grease on those skids.
If you think the federal government involved in commerce is bad, consider how much the IRS knows about your personal life.
Yes, this is a problem. Reduce spending and get rid of the IRS. But two wrongs don't make a right. Don't subject the country to another hundred years of a different bad idea.
How much I spent making a transaction at a department store is small fry, especially when you consider that my name need not be recorded at all to implement a sales tax.
Your missing that many states don't even have a sales tax because that's what their people have chosen, and you're seeking to impose one from DC.
The summary essentially says "KDE is going to look better". Where are the screenshots?
They're improving the graphics pipeline - no matter what the eye candy looks like, it's going to render to the screen better.
If interest is your ONLY return, then they're equal, but then you don't need a company, you just need an investment tool.
Well, it's the return within the banking system, which is one type of investment vehicle. Interest rates are also related to bond yields (ergo the price of health insurance, etc.)
Allowing companies to borrow cheap money creates an incentive for them to borrow if they can use that capital to make a better ROI.
Yes, but at what cost? If money is really 'cheap' people will tend towards malinvestment more so than if money is expensive. Under capitalism, businesses with better plans tend to get the money because they believe they can pay it back (under rates set by a market).
That helps stimulate hiring, and growth.
In the narrowest of sense, but because the money is printed rather than accumulated, it devalues the fiat holdings of all the other participants in the economy, which weakens employment and growth in the macro sense (prices rise while revenues stagnate). The approach certainly has beneficiaries, but often they're friends of the printing press who have access to the money before the inflationary signals are propagated.
And when they get mad at Google or something we inform them that as a Cayman islands corporation, they'll need to file suit there.
So you're going to deny the court system to any company doing business with a subsidiary in the US if its headquarters isn't here? Sounds like a banana republic.
You can take that stance, but it will simply cause the companies to move their headquarters to a friendlier jurisdiction (and declare their income there) which will cause a net decrease in employment and economic activity in the US.
Do you see any way around this?
The Fair Tax Act would take care of all of this neatly without burdening the poor, since those at or below the poverty level would pay no net taxes.
And all you have to do is get the Federal Government involved in every intrastate commerce transaction, impose sales taxes in States that have none, and put every American on the dole ("prebates" are the best way to breed an entitlement mentality).
It may be a mathematical solution, but it's antithetical to the American system.
(not that the income tax system has merit either - the Fair Tax folks do accurately assess its flaws).
Easier solution: return the USG to Year 2000 levels and completely eliminate the income tax, replacing it with nothing. How would that be for economic stimulus? As the saying goes, "what do you replace cancer with?"
time for a outsouring tax?
Should Uncle Sam tax all the income of every worldwide transaction of every corporations with any presence in the US?
Unless he does that, if he wants to charge Oracle an outsourcing tax, then Oracle simply becomes a, e.g. Cayman Islands corporation and outsources some of its work back to the US.
Ask the Fed why interest rates are low-- to encourage the taking of loans and spending of money. So the Fed wants us to spend money, to stimulate a still-stagnant economy.
Which runs contrary to the idea that capitalism works by people accumulating capital (their incentive is a decent interest rate) which is then available for investment in the broader economy either through direct investment or pooled investment (e.g. banks making loans from their reserves).
The Fed seems to think that it can print its way into prosperity. If this is true, all the worlds' central banks have been holding out on their people (except for Zimbabwe's, I suppose).
funny, indeed. the repos may still 'work' but their condition is far from 'fine'
Specifically she's vulnerable to all sorts of security issues that have been patched since then in supported versions.
What the OP wants is CentOS 6. I think it has 8 years of life left on it now.
but would his opponents in 2008 and 2012 have killed less?
I worked for Ron Paul in both of those campaigns. He was the only candidate who the pollsters (who got the election exactly right in 2012) showed could beat Obama. But the corporatist Republicans were squarely against him winning over Obama, and the rest is history. Here in NH (Romney's second home) he came in 2nd place in both the Republican and Democratic primaries.
And, yes, he would have ordered a withdrawal from the Middle East on his first day of office. Instead, today Obama worked on his Kill List. But they must hate us for our freedoms and shopping malls, not because their children are being murdered by the USG.
Johnson or Stein would have done similar things (but been worse presidents), but both were either physically prevented from or arrested for trying to participate in the debates. The biggest illusion in the US is one of choice.