What good or service, proportionate to individual wealth (ie: income + assets), and outside of short-term price bubbles, has seen a 100x increase in cost since 1913 ?
Well, that's the point of the CPI - it's an entire basket of such goods and services, smoothed by the variation in the contents. Are you disputing the CPI as invalid?
Most people with and income stream sufficient that "saving" means something, are "financially savvy" enough to know you don't just leave the cash lying around under a mattress.
For most of the time period in question, savings rates were often 10-20% of income. And a large majority of people used savings accounts to store their wealth, the interest rates on which often lagged the inflation rate.
It's only in the past 30 years or so that individual investors have gotten into more sophisticated financial instruments that could well-beat inflation (though that's been much less true since the NASDAQ bubble burst) and if you look at a graph of inflation rates for the 20th century, you'll see why they needed to switch en masse.
I sometimes work on compilers for HPC, and this is caused by two, related, things. The first one is that no one cares. Itanium is such a small market that, even if you can get both Itanium users to buy your compiler, it's not worth the investment.
I heard a story from a guy at Redhat that the team that maintains the Itanium port was putting together a pool to buy the last remaining Itaniums from the customers (for more than it would cost to replace them) and then throwing the Itaniums off the roof.
Are you implying incomes have remained unchanged since 1913 ?
Are you implying I'm stupid?
Just because the market needs to keep futzing around with salaries because of out of control inflation doesn't have much to do with the Fed failing its charge to protect the value of the currency.
But, because it does have an inflationary policy, peoples' savings are continuously wiped out ('savings' being a feature, predominantly, of the less financially savvy). The workers who are under salary freezes right now? They're making less and less every month, even though the nominal pay is the same.
Bankers and politicians don't have this kinds of problems to worry about.
but because people were sick of banking panic after banking panic laying waste to the economy and people's lives and financial well being
You seem to think that the banking crises in the gilded age occurred in an unregulated environment. They didn't - most of the bank runs occurred when the Banks ran up against State barriers on their credit ratio.
The Fed was charged with protecting the currency. Since they've taken over, the Dollar has lost of 97% of its purchasing power. This enabled a net transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.
Since the switch to a pure-fiat system in the early 70's, this transfer has only accelerated, being most stark in recent years. Every fiat system ever created has collapsed.
Sorry if that upsets you and your banking buddies.
Did you know that before 1913, corporations weren't directly taxed? So if we go back to your limited charters, we eliminate the corporate income tax too. Sounds like a nice compromise.
I think they recognized back then that using the corporations as a shell to raise additional hidden taxes (always passed through in prices) was deceptive. OK, recognized it and felt it was wrong to do so. But that was the Congress that passed the Federal Reserve Act, so I can't feign surprise.
Unfortunately, the content providers haven't yet pulled their heads out of their asses and figured out that digital distribution is the future, so we're still stuck waiting for DVDs in the mail for most reasonably modern and/or highly rated content.
That's because Hollywood hates the planet. Ignoring for a moment the inefficiency of shipping tiny plastic discs all over creation, it costs Netflix almost a dollar to round-trip a DVD vs. 10 cents for digital distribution. That money has to come from somewhere; in the end it's all humans converting mostly-carbon-based energy into useful work.
When Hollywood stops hating the planet, they'll allow digital distribution of their movies. Until then, as far as they're concerned, we can all burn.
Amazon's distribution center in Reno can hit 90% of the population of Northern California overnight with *regular* UPS shipping. If you order for regular 5-7 day delivery, they pick, pack and label your parcel, and then let it age on a warehouse shelf for a few days.
Prime has been mostly switched over to USPS, from what I've read. No more 2-day shipping, except to the lucky few. USPS won't even deliver within 5 miles of my house, so it's a total non-starter for me. UPS does a great job.
I'm sure that would work GREAT in a hospital setting where a nurse keying in data has to jump up and run down the hall to a patient who is crashing..... and then gets fired because she forgot to log herself out on 3 occasions./sarcasm
Used to do healthcare IT. I wrote a gizmo that would clear the user's Kerberos ticket when they walked away for more than, I think, 15 seconds, using a serial/IR dongle taped to the top of the monitor. The nice thing about the Kerberized sessions were that lacking a ticket one could not proceed, but it didn't log the user out of the application either. So, a nurse running for a code blue could resume by typing in her password when she returned.
A prototype was as far as it got - automatic flush toilets were new in the building (late 90's) and everybody in the clinical applications group called it the auto-flush feature, so it never went anywhere. Real mature group, I quit after being asked to trade patient safety for reduced license costs.
You do know that in the US before about 1870 all Corporate charters were for limited times and in the public interest, right?
And that as late as the 1990's some of the big Wall Street investment houses were organized as Partnerships?
Yes, it means the owners have to pay attention and not have their employees do stupid or illegal stuff. Oh, the horror. Quarter-to-quarter thinking is a result of being a public company and creating false value through the public markets.
I always check the to/cc fields to see who the players are
Hrm, there must be a Thunderbird extension to more actively alert the reader that he was bcc:'ed. Stepping carefully across a minefield is great; having a bomb-sniffing robot go out in front of you is better.
My experience is it works fine about 80% of the time.
Not sure which tool you're using, but if it's mencoder, try switching between the dvd:// and "-nocache dvdnav://" devices. Those get me 95% (dvdnav being a higher success rate, but with some bad masters dvd works better). DVD::Rip takes care of the rest, but sometimes I need to find out the title number with a real player. A few with lots of audio tracks need an -aid flag, -alang en isn't sufficient.
I am surprised there's not a great tool to try all the methods and find the right one heuristically.
It can occasionally be a pain, but with mencoder and DVD::Rip just about everything can be handled now. I've lost many fewer discs to the grimy hands of toddlers in recent years.
The area you have selected does not contain a complete broadband record set. The system will only display available data (if any).
And it shows a tiny little area of my town with some actual data. I think it's a new development.
With $200M they could have instead sent out postcards to a statistically representative sample of the population, licensed the speedtest.net technology, and had people pop in a unique code.
I know OCZ has its own wipe utility and I believe intel too. Using wiping software designed for mechanical disks makes absolutely no sense and the results from this study are 100% predictable. Oh your Gutmann wipe pattern for circa1991 MFM drives doesn't wipe SSDs? You don't say! If you needed to securely wipe one, use the proper tool.
Even mechanical disks need this - if you get a sector re-mapped, you're not going to zero it out ever again.
Some SATA drives support a Secure Erase ATA command extension. I asked Seagate to send me a list of their drives that had this support in firmware, so I could write a tool to do this. They refused. Even as a "Seagate Partner".
So, in the general case, you can't trust your drives. LUKS is easy enough to set up on Linux that you can work around drive vendors you can't trust (but set swappiness to 0 on a netbook!).
Socat has 80 different options for how to connect (stdio, TCP, raw IP packets, unix sockets, fifo files, UDP, openssl-wrappings,...).
If it wasn't clear, the comparison above that was to telnet.
I'd want to do that with some cryptographic authentication---that is, integrity. Whether I want to my disk keep secret or not is a different matter, but I sure as heck don't want my ISP (or just cosmic rays) corrupting my file system. Maybe ssh or stunnel is the right option here.
Of course, ssh works well for this. It's just overhead on a private VLAN, though.
Er, why? Why do you want low corporate rates and high personal rates? How is it in any way beneficial to society?
Transparent taxes are beneficial to society. Say you buy a bed for $350 dollars. Maybe $38 of that cost goes to pay the corporate taxes on the supply chain. Do most people account for this when they try to figure out how much their government is costing them? And everybody needs a bed, so it's regressive.
Specific corporate taxes also have problems. Here in New Hampshire we have a corporate revenues tax that doesn't account for profits at all. I have a cool idea for a very low-margin business that I'm not pursuing because it's not worth uprooting the family to do it.
And sales tax? This one is effectively a regressive income tax - a horrible idea.
The current income tax is the most regressive of all. 22% of the price of "everything" goes to pay income taxes up the supply chain. That $2 loaf of bread a single mother working for minimum wage buys for her kids' lunches contains 50 cents of other people's income taxes. That's just mean.
A 'head tax' that's set at a level everybody can afford is the most transparent and fair option.
Anonymous seems to have stumbled upon a much bigger problem. Read Glen Greenwald's piece on the collaboration between DoJ, BoA and rogue 'security' companies. Greenwald was to be personally targeted, and now he's taking names:
It's impossible to imagine the DOJ ever, ever prosecuting a huge entity like Bank of America for doing something like waging war against WikiLeaks and its supporters. These massive corporations and the firms that serve them have no fear of law or government because they control each. That's why they so freely plot to target those who oppose them in any way. They not only have massive resources to devote to such attacks, but the ability to act without limits.
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What good or service, proportionate to individual wealth (ie: income + assets), and outside of short-term price bubbles, has seen a 100x increase in cost since 1913 ?
Well, that's the point of the CPI - it's an entire basket of such goods and services, smoothed by the variation in the contents. Are you disputing the CPI as invalid?
Most people with and income stream sufficient that "saving" means something, are "financially savvy" enough to know you don't just leave the cash lying around under a mattress.
For most of the time period in question, savings rates were often 10-20% of income. And a large majority of people used savings accounts to store their wealth, the interest rates on which often lagged the inflation rate.
It's only in the past 30 years or so that individual investors have gotten into more sophisticated financial instruments that could well-beat inflation (though that's been much less true since the NASDAQ bubble burst) and if you look at a graph of inflation rates for the 20th century, you'll see why they needed to switch en masse.
It was secret but what makes it illegal?
Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution.
Where were you when Bush announced the new rules of the game included killing AQ terrorists wherever they might be hiding?
Reading the Constitution. Talk about a progressivist attitude!
Name one
How about the secret bombing war the US is involved in in Yemen?
dumping hundreds of thousands of pages
Please point to where anybody can view these hundreds of thousands of pages.
the right way to deal with any hypothetical wrongdoing
You're right, Manning should have gone to his CO and complained about an illegal war going on.
I sometimes work on compilers for HPC, and this is caused by two, related, things. The first one is that no one cares. Itanium is such a small market that, even if you can get both Itanium users to buy your compiler, it's not worth the investment.
I heard a story from a guy at Redhat that the team that maintains the Itanium port was putting together a pool to buy the last remaining Itaniums from the customers (for more than it would cost to replace them) and then throwing the Itaniums off the roof.
Nothing so far in the Wikileaks datadump rises to that bar.
Not even the US being involved in a secret bombing war in Yemen?
Are you implying incomes have remained unchanged since 1913 ?
Are you implying I'm stupid?
Just because the market needs to keep futzing around with salaries because of out of control inflation doesn't have much to do with the Fed failing its charge to protect the value of the currency.
But, because it does have an inflationary policy, peoples' savings are continuously wiped out ('savings' being a feature, predominantly, of the less financially savvy). The workers who are under salary freezes right now? They're making less and less every month, even though the nominal pay is the same.
Bankers and politicians don't have this kinds of problems to worry about.
Consumer Price Index is at 95% as of 2009 (and last year was pretty bad).
Commodities are similar. Seeing as gold was the standard at the time, we can consider that thusly:
(1-(1/(1400/25)))*100 = 98.2% loss over the same period. That's approximately the same.
but because people were sick of banking panic after banking panic laying waste to the economy and people's lives and financial well being
You seem to think that the banking crises in the gilded age occurred in an unregulated environment. They didn't - most of the bank runs occurred when the Banks ran up against State barriers on their credit ratio.
The Fed was charged with protecting the currency. Since they've taken over, the Dollar has lost of 97% of its purchasing power. This enabled a net transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.
Since the switch to a pure-fiat system in the early 70's, this transfer has only accelerated, being most stark in recent years. Every fiat system ever created has collapsed.
Sorry if that upsets you and your banking buddies.
Go to the airport. You'll get an X-ray, a breast exam, and if you mention Al Qu'eda you get a free colonoscopy!
Did you know that before 1913, corporations weren't directly taxed? So if we go back to your limited charters, we eliminate the corporate income tax too. Sounds like a nice compromise.
I think they recognized back then that using the corporations as a shell to raise additional hidden taxes (always passed through in prices) was deceptive. OK, recognized it and felt it was wrong to do so. But that was the Congress that passed the Federal Reserve Act, so I can't feign surprise.
Unfortunately, the content providers haven't yet pulled their heads out of their asses and figured out that digital distribution is the future, so we're still stuck waiting for DVDs in the mail for most reasonably modern and/or highly rated content.
That's because Hollywood hates the planet. Ignoring for a moment the inefficiency of shipping tiny plastic discs all over creation, it costs Netflix almost a dollar to round-trip a DVD vs. 10 cents for digital distribution. That money has to come from somewhere; in the end it's all humans converting mostly-carbon-based energy into useful work.
When Hollywood stops hating the planet, they'll allow digital distribution of their movies. Until then, as far as they're concerned, we can all burn.
Amazon's distribution center in Reno can hit 90% of the population of Northern California overnight with *regular* UPS shipping. If you order for regular 5-7 day delivery, they pick, pack and label your parcel, and then let it age on a warehouse shelf for a few days.
Prime has been mostly switched over to USPS, from what I've read. No more 2-day shipping, except to the lucky few. USPS won't even deliver within 5 miles of my house, so it's a total non-starter for me. UPS does a great job.
I'm sure that would work GREAT in a hospital setting where a nurse keying in data has to jump up and run down the hall to a patient who is crashing..... and then gets fired because she forgot to log herself out on 3 occasions. /sarcasm
Used to do healthcare IT. I wrote a gizmo that would clear the user's Kerberos ticket when they walked away for more than, I think, 15 seconds, using a serial/IR dongle taped to the top of the monitor. The nice thing about the Kerberized sessions were that lacking a ticket one could not proceed, but it didn't log the user out of the application either. So, a nurse running for a code blue could resume by typing in her password when she returned.
A prototype was as far as it got - automatic flush toilets were new in the building (late 90's) and everybody in the clinical applications group called it the auto-flush feature, so it never went anywhere. Real mature group, I quit after being asked to trade patient safety for reduced license costs.
Depends if your upper class or not: Interlocking directorate [wikipedia.org]
Thomas Dodd did more to defend his class: he had the Nazi gun control law translated to English to form the basis of the US Gun Control Law of 1968.
You do know that in the US before about 1870 all Corporate charters were for limited times and in the public interest, right?
And that as late as the 1990's some of the big Wall Street investment houses were organized as Partnerships?
Yes, it means the owners have to pay attention and not have their employees do stupid or illegal stuff. Oh, the horror. Quarter-to-quarter thinking is a result of being a public company and creating false value through the public markets.
I always check the to/cc fields to see who the players are
Hrm, there must be a Thunderbird extension to more actively alert the reader that he was bcc:'ed. Stepping carefully across a minefield is great; having a bomb-sniffing robot go out in front of you is better.
Call be when they buy the rights to make new episodes.
Well, that's Plan B.
My experience is it works fine about 80% of the time.
Not sure which tool you're using, but if it's mencoder, try switching between the dvd:// and "-nocache dvdnav://" devices. Those get me 95% (dvdnav being a higher success rate, but with some bad masters dvd works better). DVD::Rip takes care of the rest, but sometimes I need to find out the title number with a real player. A few with lots of audio tracks need an -aid flag, -alang en isn't sufficient.
I am surprised there's not a great tool to try all the methods and find the right one heuristically.
It can occasionally be a pain, but with mencoder and DVD::Rip just about everything can be handled now. I've lost many fewer discs to the grimy hands of toddlers in recent years.
you can just buy a BD-ROM drive from Newegg.com for $90 and use some open-source software to rip Blu-Ray discs
Oh, really? I'll switch to Blu-Ray now, this is what I've been waiting for.
I use Mplayer for DVD stuff - it looks like their Blu-Ray support isn't up to par yet; which project is the best?
Here's what I get when I type in my ZIP code:
And it shows a tiny little area of my town with some actual data. I think it's a new development.
With $200M they could have instead sent out postcards to a statistically representative sample of the population, licensed the speedtest.net technology, and had people pop in a unique code.
Kudos on the OpenStreetMap usage, though.
I know OCZ has its own wipe utility and I believe intel too. Using wiping software designed for mechanical disks makes absolutely no sense and the results from this study are 100% predictable. Oh your Gutmann wipe pattern for circa1991 MFM drives doesn't wipe SSDs? You don't say! If you needed to securely wipe one, use the proper tool.
Even mechanical disks need this - if you get a sector re-mapped, you're not going to zero it out ever again.
Some SATA drives support a Secure Erase ATA command extension. I asked Seagate to send me a list of their drives that had this support in firmware, so I could write a tool to do this. They refused. Even as a "Seagate Partner".
So, in the general case, you can't trust your drives. LUKS is easy enough to set up on Linux that you can work around drive vendors you can't trust (but set swappiness to 0 on a netbook!).
Socat has 80 different options for how to connect (stdio, TCP, raw IP packets, unix sockets, fifo files, UDP, openssl-wrappings, ...).
If it wasn't clear, the comparison above that was to telnet.
I'd want to do that with some cryptographic authentication---that is, integrity. Whether I want to my disk keep secret or not is a different matter, but I sure as heck don't want my ISP (or just cosmic rays) corrupting my file system. Maybe ssh or stunnel is the right option here.
Of course, ssh works well for this. It's just overhead on a private VLAN, though.
Er, why? Why do you want low corporate rates and high personal rates? How is it in any way beneficial to society?
Transparent taxes are beneficial to society. Say you buy a bed for $350 dollars. Maybe $38 of that cost goes to pay the corporate taxes on the supply chain. Do most people account for this when they try to figure out how much their government is costing them? And everybody needs a bed, so it's regressive.
Specific corporate taxes also have problems. Here in New Hampshire we have a corporate revenues tax that doesn't account for profits at all. I have a cool idea for a very low-margin business that I'm not pursuing because it's not worth uprooting the family to do it.
And sales tax? This one is effectively a regressive income tax - a horrible idea.
The current income tax is the most regressive of all. 22% of the price of "everything" goes to pay income taxes up the supply chain. That $2 loaf of bread a single mother working for minimum wage buys for her kids' lunches contains 50 cents of other people's income taxes. That's just mean.
A 'head tax' that's set at a level everybody can afford is the most transparent and fair option.
Anonymous seems to have stumbled upon a much bigger problem. Read Glen Greenwald's piece on the collaboration between DoJ, BoA and rogue 'security' companies. Greenwald was to be personally targeted, and now he's taking names:
It's his most powerful piece to date.