I buy silver for way under the price of silver. And I sell silver for way over the price of silver. That's called "earning profit". No wonder the economy is in the state it's in, if people like you think that is illegal.
And legal tender means a court will force you to use them. What court did he get to force anyone to use them?
What about looking for areas of high mass that should be giving off radiation but aren't, because it's being collected. Could dark matter be made up of Dyson Spheres?
The computer (its OS, and the applications) is a means to an end: its metaphors are an attempt to engage and express on a level that a lot of people just don't give a shit about.
This is true. Most people don't give a shit about engaging with their computers on a deeper level.
such a strange claim for you to put forth-- that programmability and automation have something to do with these users not really understanding their system
If they understood their system, they would wipe Windows from it, install a programmable OS like Linux and completely automate whatever rote tasks they have set out to do.
I wonder if you've ever been tech support, be it for family, or commercially
Tech support is obsolete. I'm interested in getting work done, not helping people become masters of pointing-and-clicking.
In my experience, Windows support tends to entail fixing things that don't work as expected, while Linux support tends to entail adding useful features that don't already exist. It's actually quite profitable, for everyone, to be able to tell a client that Linux is limited only by your imagination and your budget, and that anything that doesn't work exactly as you expect can be modified. There's a reason IBM makes lots of money on Linux services, and creates lots of value for happy customers in the process.
You assume that this behavior has to do with lack of computer experience. In reality, it is just the natural way for people to efficiently use Windows: memorize groups of actions and practice executing them over and over again as quickly as possible. Workers must learn to use Windows this way because the entire OS and all the apps are built around a horrible kludge interface that is impossible to program or automate, even for advanced users.
From what I've seen, they're still using it, on much of the same whitebox hardware, while other retailers have probably gone through two or three hardware and software upgrades since then. I imagine it's paid off very well for them.
I'm not sure what is going on with Novell but RedHat has demonstrated repeatedly that they are not interested in the Linux desktop. Ubuntu may not be the most stable choice but at least their goals are aligned.
More like you *have* to buy treasuries for a month otherwise your dollars lose 3% of their value due to inflation. India and China would love to get loans of Reals. Hamburger futures are going up in value.
What I like to ask the wealthy whiners is; if you're getting treated so unfairly while these freeloading, poor, sub-human, cradle-to-grave ghetto-dwellers are living the high-life off of your tax dollars, you should be happy to trade places, right? Right?
Something tells me you have never actually been around a freeloading, cradle-to-grave ghetto-dweller. It is entirely possible, easy even, to consume huge amounts of tax dollars and end up with nothing whatsoever.
Yes, costs will collapse. The only question is whether it will take three years or ten. This technology is mostly just sand, aluminum, and steel. All of those are limited only by energy costs, not materials.
If these things are so cheap (ever priced up a coal-fired power station recently?) why aren't they being put up all over the place?
Banks don't have enough money to buy up and monopolize all of the inexpensive commodities required. Once they do, they will be put up, but by then they will no longer be cheap.
Well I suppose unemployment is re-insured by the Feds and ultimately the FED's money printing, rather than big insurance companies, so it's a bit more complex. But the rest is accurate. Cities are businesses. They grow and make money by providing services to rich people who pay high taxes, not by providing services to the poor.
It's cheaper to put poor people in jail than to find them jobs or pay unemployment. The prisons are run by private corporations, and they sell stock on Wall Street. Municipal bonds, which pay for the cop's equipment, salary and/or benefits, are also traded on Wall Street. And I'm sure the big insurers (who provide unemployment insurance) have hefty hedge positions in both. Cities that don't pander to protecting the rich or that make a habit of putting wealthy, influential or productive people in jail instead of the poor may find that wealthy people no longer want to live in their city and, the next time they need to borrow money to roll over their bonds, their credit ratings have fallen, their interest rates have gone up, and they won't have enough funds left over for police pay raises and pension payments.
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Libertarians know how currency works. You're just ignorant of how currency should work.
The US dollar is backed by force. I prefer a currency backed by nothing.
It means Bitcoins can't be profitably counterfeited the way paper currency is.
Amazingly, individuals are not States and are not subject to any of the restrictions on States agreed-to in the Constitution.
And the U.S. doesn't "let" anyone do anything. We "let" it continue to exist.
I buy silver for way under the price of silver. And I sell silver for way over the price of silver. That's called "earning profit". No wonder the economy is in the state it's in, if people like you think that is illegal.
And legal tender means a court will force you to use them. What court did he get to force anyone to use them?
It's not candy, it's medicine dammit.
It takes quite a bit of petroleum to transport mining equipment to the moon.
This is all predictable.
Bush was unconcerned with finding bin Laden and instead focused on Hussein (a socialist) and the oil in Iraq.
Obama is unconcerned with energy or the economy and instead focuses on overthrowing religious fundamentalists and nation building.
A standing, imperialist army is now a permanent fixture in America.
What about looking for areas of high mass that should be giving off radiation but aren't, because it's being collected. Could dark matter be made up of Dyson Spheres?
The computer (its OS, and the applications) is a means to an end: its metaphors are an attempt to engage and express on a level that a lot of people just don't give a shit about.
This is true. Most people don't give a shit about engaging with their computers on a deeper level.
such a strange claim for you to put forth-- that programmability and automation have something to do with these users not really understanding their system
If they understood their system, they would wipe Windows from it, install a programmable OS like Linux and completely automate whatever rote tasks they have set out to do.
I wonder if you've ever been tech support, be it for family, or commercially
Tech support is obsolete. I'm interested in getting work done, not helping people become masters of pointing-and-clicking.
In my experience, Windows support tends to entail fixing things that don't work as expected, while Linux support tends to entail adding useful features that don't already exist. It's actually quite profitable, for everyone, to be able to tell a client that Linux is limited only by your imagination and your budget, and that anything that doesn't work exactly as you expect can be modified. There's a reason IBM makes lots of money on Linux services, and creates lots of value for happy customers in the process.
You assume that this behavior has to do with lack of computer experience. In reality, it is just the natural way for people to efficiently use Windows: memorize groups of actions and practice executing them over and over again as quickly as possible. Workers must learn to use Windows this way because the entire OS and all the apps are built around a horrible kludge interface that is impossible to program or automate, even for advanced users.
From what I've seen, they're still using it, on much of the same whitebox hardware, while other retailers have probably gone through two or three hardware and software upgrades since then. I imagine it's paid off very well for them.
RPM-based distros... better package management
LOL
I'm not sure what is going on with Novell but RedHat has demonstrated repeatedly that they are not interested in the Linux desktop. Ubuntu may not be the most stable choice but at least their goals are aligned.
More like you *have* to buy treasuries for a month otherwise your dollars lose 3% of their value due to inflation. India and China would love to get loans of Reals. Hamburger futures are going up in value.
Military spending has nothing to do with "national defense".
What I like to ask the wealthy whiners is; if you're getting treated so unfairly while these freeloading, poor, sub-human, cradle-to-grave ghetto-dwellers are living the high-life off of your tax dollars, you should be happy to trade places, right? Right?
Something tells me you have never actually been around a freeloading, cradle-to-grave ghetto-dweller. It is entirely possible, easy even, to consume huge amounts of tax dollars and end up with nothing whatsoever.
Civilization doesn't require taxes. And the USA barely qualifies as civilized. Besides, taxes are voluntary.
It does say they filed civil charges, but not what those charges were. It just has a quote from some FBI agent alleging fraud:
"These defendants, knowing full well that their business with U.S. customers and U.S. banks was illegal, tried to stack the deck,"
So how did they "stack the deck"? Who did they defraud? Banks? Who is the victim?
Governments bring frivolous charges against innocent people every day. This is a circus sideshow.
Yes, costs will collapse. The only question is whether it will take three years or ten. This technology is mostly just sand, aluminum, and steel. All of those are limited only by energy costs, not materials.
If these things are so cheap (ever priced up a coal-fired power station recently?) why aren't they being put up all over the place?
Banks don't have enough money to buy up and monopolize all of the inexpensive commodities required. Once they do, they will be put up, but by then they will no longer be cheap.
The reason most office workers are unproductive has nothing to do with their hardware.
How many plane trips would I have to take to go backwards in time all the way to the 70's?
Well I suppose unemployment is re-insured by the Feds and ultimately the FED's money printing, rather than big insurance companies, so it's a bit more complex. But the rest is accurate. Cities are businesses. They grow and make money by providing services to rich people who pay high taxes, not by providing services to the poor.
It's cheaper to put poor people in jail than to find them jobs or pay unemployment. The prisons are run by private corporations, and they sell stock on Wall Street. Municipal bonds, which pay for the cop's equipment, salary and/or benefits, are also traded on Wall Street. And I'm sure the big insurers (who provide unemployment insurance) have hefty hedge positions in both. Cities that don't pander to protecting the rich or that make a habit of putting wealthy, influential or productive people in jail instead of the poor may find that wealthy people no longer want to live in their city and, the next time they need to borrow money to roll over their bonds, their credit ratings have fallen, their interest rates have gone up, and they won't have enough funds left over for police pay raises and pension payments.