Did you forget your history books, where coins of precious metals were synonymous with the metal value? It might fluctuate but there was always value in the metal itself, necessary for trade in case everything went to hell, as it did every generation or two.
When the metal value exceeds the coin's face value, that is deflation. Which is bad for massive borrowers who inflate away the bigness of past brorrowing via inflation.
Worse than those with a conscience are whose with righteous fury for their own political side. It is trivial to insert an operative amone the thousands of agents with this access, who can report back to their politician boss on their opponents' strategy and network and planning.
With little more than a check box of getting a warrant, and not even that for much of it that is still valuable, there are no technological barriers or even logging for later review by electrd officials.
There are people still alive in France who remember European governments that would have used this to spy on political opponents, and track and kill them. One still exists, reborn from a brief democratic interlude.
One should look in the long term and deny government certain powers out of principle. We have lots of evidence of historical democracies disappearing because they needed to have emergency powers (Rome, Greece, 1930s Germany) and zero evidence for long-term survival of them.
Socialism has been noted as taking over the attracting features of religion, that gained them followers in millenia past, like caring for poor, the sick, hospitals, and orphanages.
It is no coincidence that youths no longer care for religion when government does all that. This was noted at least 20 years ago.
Political parties are literally religions in all but the most technical sense. Andike religions, as giant memeplexes, they happily adopt a righteous feeling they can jam their behaviors onto everyone, not just True Believers.
If you send a letter to a Democratic congressman asking for their position on abortion, you will most likely receive boilerplate about how they personally oppose it but think women have a right to it.
The attackers used direct intervention to try to mask their actions to the power systems operators and also conducted denial-of-service attacks on the utilities' phone systems to block complaints from affected customers
Ok, this has gone far enough. Time to get James Bond involved.
Hate apps for the most part because they don't let you finger zoom and other things you can do in browsers.
But from TFA:
Historically, the problem with using Web applications on mobile devices is that webpages have not been able to do the things we expect of apps: features like pinch and zoom
Wuuuut? That is the opposite of what is my observation.
They have lots of such lined up and ready to go; any saber rattling is protected by this instant event. Yes they know it will be the end of them, but they would plan the south (and the US) would be more interested in grain shipments.
It tracks up to 6 miles away. They aren't interested in anything not suspicious, like you putzing around near the ground. They mean like something at 30,000 feet right in front of them.
If it takes off, expect politicians to pontificate about buying 3D headsets for The Poor, just like they did for computers, Internet access, and cell phones.
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The US had a year where pennies were unclad zinc during WWII, so needed was every scrap of copper for the war.
Did you forget your history books, where coins of precious metals were synonymous with the metal value? It might fluctuate but there was always value in the metal itself, necessary for trade in case everything went to hell, as it did every generation or two.
When the metal value exceeds the coin's face value, that is deflation. Which is bad for massive borrowers who inflate away the bigness of past brorrowing via inflation.
A pass to not take the buss is like needing a pass to breathe the air.
Hopefully someone will fire up a lawsuit about government overreach.
Worse than those with a conscience are whose with righteous fury for their own political side. It is trivial to insert an operative amone the thousands of agents with this access, who can report back to their politician boss on their opponents' strategy and network and planning.
With little more than a check box of getting a warrant, and not even that for much of it that is still valuable, there are no technological barriers or even logging for later review by electrd officials.
There are people still alive in France who remember European governments that would have used this to spy on political opponents, and track and kill them. One still exists, reborn from a brief democratic interlude.
One should look in the long term and deny government certain powers out of principle. We have lots of evidence of historical democracies disappearing because they needed to have emergency powers (Rome, Greece, 1930s Germany) and zero evidence for long-term survival of them.
I'm old enough to remember taking our burnt out bulbs down to the local Edison to exchange for free new ones.
Needless to say they lasted a hell of a lot longer.
Then Phillips sued, arguing restraint of trade, and won, and that was when I first encoutered rent seeking.
That sounds like it. This is for proactive services as most companies view a breach as inevitable rather than unlikely.
> worse than evolutionists
Huh. Most Christians would prefer a Muslim to an atheist as President. Yey us atheists making progress!
Moreover I would like to see an elected official try to prosecute someone for releasing this info.
Which one can honestly say they've saved billions of lives?
This was my problem with Evil Pharma types going back to before Hillary talked about their "unconscionable profits".
Socialism has been noted as taking over the attracting features of religion, that gained them followers in millenia past, like caring for poor, the sick, hospitals, and orphanages.
It is no coincidence that youths no longer care for religion when government does all that. This was noted at least 20 years ago.
Political parties are literally religions in all but the most technical sense. Andike religions, as giant memeplexes, they happily adopt a righteous feeling they can jam their behaviors onto everyone, not just True Believers.
Freedom means freedom...from others' memeplexes.
If you send a letter to a Democratic congressman asking for their position on abortion, you will most likely receive boilerplate about how they personally oppose it but think women have a right to it.
The attackers used direct intervention to try to mask their actions to the power systems operators and also conducted denial-of-service attacks on the utilities' phone systems to block complaints from affected customers
Ok, this has gone far enough. Time to get James Bond involved.
They started with pint, which everyone gets, as it is an internationally understood unit of fun, then get bogged down in metric stuff.
Same for choke, by the way.
Thanks. Force leap and push are just kinds of telekinesis. They only exist as separate powers in video games. Speed might be that, too.
He also was trying to convince her to join him, so wasn't trying to kill her.
Hate apps for the most part because they don't let you finger zoom and other things you can do in browsers.
But from TFA:
Historically, the problem with using Web applications on mobile devices is that webpages have not been able to do the things we expect of apps: features like pinch and zoom
Wuuuut? That is the opposite of what is my observation.
They have lots of such lined up and ready to go; any saber rattling is protected by this instant event. Yes they know it will be the end of them, but they would plan the south (and the US) would be more interested in grain shipments.
Except a competitor is just a half-assed app away.
You speak as if it is the old, government entrenched interest.
It tracks up to 6 miles away. They aren't interested in anything not suspicious, like you putzing around near the ground. They mean like something at 30,000 feet right in front of them.
If it takes off, expect politicians to pontificate about buying 3D headsets for The Poor, just like they did for computers, Internet access, and cell phones.
That would make a good porn title.
It is having an effect though, even if some sketchy incidents are ultimately not prosecuted. This is a good thing.
Quite frankly, I doubt police incidents are worse or more numerous than in the past, just more visible because of cell phones.
Each new nation with bombs is one more vector to accidental black market bombs. That alone is sufficient.