It is reality that demands you put food in your gullet. Capitalism far and away is the best way to productle abundant cheap quality food. And other stuff, as measured time and again.
What a clownlike worldview you have. Perhaps you confuse it with a safety net to smoothe the rough edges, said safety net can only be afforded by the surplus taxes generated by capitalism's dynamic energies.
The alternative is actual slavery with a command and control economy, and that struggles to provide sufficient food, at best. iPods, forget it.
TBH, religious people, which included most until recently, happily used social pressure and threats of corporate boycotts (i.e social and financial ostracism) to not only keep gay marriage illegal, but homsexual activity. And many other things.
If the shoe is on the other foot now, after thousands of years, sucks.
In other words, they simply increased the depth and breadth of bribe money thrown around the beltway and the deal got done.
There isn't any incentive for them to "modernize the power grid" so I can only wonder what that's a code word for. I suspect it means something like "make the necessary upgrades in their corner of the grid so they can move power around between their own generation sources to reduce their own costs."
You assume this isn't the reason politicians go into politics -- to get in the way of business so they can get paid to get back out of the way.
No, life has trouble finding a way, which is why countries that are closer to kleptocracies with corruption struggle, decade after decade, let's say indefinitely, to lift up to modrn standards.
Note YouTube gets its cut regardless of who the final check gets sent to, so dragging ass is in their favor.
Reminds me of cell phone companies dragging ass on disabling stolen phones, because they get hooked up to their network after ID laundering, boom a second customer! And the old guy is stuck under a 2 year contract, so usually buys a new phone. Hence the customers stolen from provide a cost-free mechanism for phone companies to double their contracts.
He will still have to obey the DMCA laws, assuming it is in the US. It is my understanding things are worse in other countries, including European, because their laws allow content producers to sue the hosts of posted content -- they habe no safe harbor provision like DMCA, whicb protects from lawsuits for "publishing" as long as they do a requested takedown in a timely manner.
Oil will continue to get cheaper, even as humanity invents solutions to switch from it. These are longer term trends, though, not several year spikes up and down.
Shortage is an economic issue, but it turns out that in a free economy, people respond to shortages, and do so faster than they become the feared serious problem.
Simon make some famous public bets on the price of commodities like copper and tin, these were chosen by the environmentist shouting scare claims, BTW, that in 10 years the prices whoud drop rather than rise. He won, in spite of being nervous of a 10 year granularity, which was a little small for his longer range liking.
Myriad people will respond to rising prices, of oil in this case, by searching harder and making new technology. Far from stranding us with all the "low hanging fruit" picked, they adapt and make the harder fruit even easier and cheaper to pick, causing the price to drop.
Fracking is one way to smash the "high hanging fruit: barrier. So, too, are giant, computer-stabilized ocean vessels that sink a pipe through 2 miles of water, drill down another mile, make a right turn and drill 2 more miles.
And then there are people inventing substitutions, which in this case could mean different fuels, different materials that used to be made from oil, different kinds of engines, lubricants, and not least of which is creating oil or oil byproducts. We can already do some of that with custom bacteria. I am sure most of it is no more than a few billion dollars away.
Pollution is one thing, but the fears of shortages is a Chicken Little fraud...in an economically free society where business is free to respond to needs.
The important thing to remember is this isn't some economic theory that is really more politics, like most are. It was born of observation, and makes repeatable and testable (and counter-intuitive!) predicions.
The failure of Peak Oil to e a shortage problem was just another one to fall effortlessly, and all too predictably. Simon even analyzed why physical scientists made these erroneous predictions: they did not understand economics and the dynamism of human invention...when it is free to operate.
We like theories that make successful and repeatable predictions. Don't we?
A lot of Cubans had their property seized and fled to Florida. They want it back, or compensation. Hence the law allowing them to sue any foreign company doing business in the US that also does business in Cuba.
Now most are dead, so the government can blow off their political interests.
Modern DDOS are botnets. You don't need, and few have, a giant pipe from their computer sufficient to deny a company or government anymore, as they themselves have cheap large connections for daily business.
They taxed the currency exchange as a goods transaction, on top of taxing the actual item being sold (for bitcoins).
So it was a double taxation. Bitcoin kind of weasled its way into countries by being, at its heart, just another thing being traded (and stuff for stuff remains legal, just as stuff for real cash is).
Then dev communities said the double taxation was a scam, we are leaving, and government rightfully panicked as competition works.
Hell, when farming became more and more automated, and with better fertilizers, politicians stomped and slammed around screaming where the hell would all these former farm hands find jobs?
Oh. My. God.
Suggest to someone back then we'd have less than 2% of the population working farms, and they'd scream for laws outlawing farm automation.
Thank god that stupidity was largely ignored, as should this.
This allows further specialization, and thus more things to buy.
There is a "common sense" screed about too many things to buy, conspicuous consumption, and consumption of non-necessities just for the purpose of consumption. Yet this is what progress enables us to do, when basic needs are satisfied, for very cheap.
The cheaper it is to make things, the more things a minimum wage can buy. This is the direction of the future, same as the past 150 years. Not just cheaper necessities, but more varied things to buy.
Sorry, I have to reject this. If the rep promised something, the judge should hold the company to account regardless of the wording of the contract. This is a scam operation.
A couple of incidents, and lying companies will clean up their acts. The only real issue would be proving what the rep said.
Sorry, no water in California, all you can get is sand. No bread.
The rest of the country thanks your peasantry for pointlessly living with water rationing in the home, just a sliver of total water use, so you can water a massive desert to grow us avocados for various "California"-style cuisines.
For that matter, I regularly go through what the Constitutional protections are, and why, and how a need for emergency powers has been the downfall of the few historical democracies. Does that get me on a list?
Finally, unspoken is what happens when, not if, someone hacks the NSA and out comes tumbling everyone's emails and phone "metadata" (and conversations, as some suspect), and browser histories?
Slashdot Mirror
Chinese Government: Could you turn down the built-in government backdoor spying access? This much kind of disturbs us.
Tay was so...Microsoft Edgy.
It is reality that demands you put food in your gullet. Capitalism far and away is the best way to productle abundant cheap quality food. And other stuff, as measured time and again.
What a clownlike worldview you have. Perhaps you confuse it with a safety net to smoothe the rough edges, said safety net can only be afforded by the surplus taxes generated by capitalism's dynamic energies.
The alternative is actual slavery with a command and control economy, and that struggles to provide sufficient food, at best. iPods, forget it.
hackers infiltrated its computer network, encrypted files and are now holding the data hostage
There's a meat slicer from the beginning of the original Children of the Corn with their name on it.
TBH, religious people, which included most until recently, happily used social pressure and threats of corporate boycotts (i.e social and financial ostracism) to not only keep gay marriage illegal, but homsexual activity. And many other things.
If the shoe is on the other foot now, after thousands of years, sucks.
In other words, they simply increased the depth and breadth of bribe money thrown around the beltway and the deal got done.
There isn't any incentive for them to "modernize the power grid" so I can only wonder what that's a code word for. I suspect it means something like "make the necessary upgrades in their corner of the grid so they can move power around between their own generation sources to reduce their own costs."
You assume this isn't the reason politicians go into politics -- to get in the way of business so they can get paid to get back out of the way.
No, life has trouble finding a way, which is why countries that are closer to kleptocracies with corruption struggle, decade after decade, let's say indefinitely, to lift up to modrn standards.
I had thought it would be obvious to use deltas from true randomness to check whether something had info in it, but I don't think that's what they do.
Note YouTube gets its cut regardless of who the final check gets sent to, so dragging ass is in their favor.
Reminds me of cell phone companies dragging ass on disabling stolen phones, because they get hooked up to their network after ID laundering, boom a second customer! And the old guy is stuck under a 2 year contract, so usually buys a new phone. Hence the customers stolen from provide a cost-free mechanism for phone companies to double their contracts.
He will still have to obey the DMCA laws, assuming it is in the US. It is my understanding things are worse in other countries, including European, because their laws allow content producers to sue the hosts of posted content -- they habe no safe harbor provision like DMCA, whicb protects from lawsuits for "publishing" as long as they do a requested takedown in a timely manner.
Well if he was planning a deathbed confession, he fucked up.
Bzzzt! Sorry, thanks for playing!
Oil will continue to get cheaper, even as humanity invents solutions to switch from it. These are longer term trends, though, not several year spikes up and down.
Hi, thanks for asking!
Shortage is an economic issue, but it turns out that in a free economy, people respond to shortages, and do so faster than they become the feared serious problem.
Simon make some famous public bets on the price of commodities like copper and tin, these were chosen by the environmentist shouting scare claims, BTW, that in 10 years the prices whoud drop rather than rise. He won, in spite of being nervous of a 10 year granularity, which was a little small for his longer range liking.
Myriad people will respond to rising prices, of oil in this case, by searching harder and making new technology. Far from stranding us with all the "low hanging fruit" picked, they adapt and make the harder fruit even easier and cheaper to pick, causing the price to drop.
Fracking is one way to smash the "high hanging fruit: barrier. So, too, are giant, computer-stabilized ocean vessels that sink a pipe through 2 miles of water, drill down another mile, make a right turn and drill 2 more miles.
And then there are people inventing substitutions, which in this case could mean different fuels, different materials that used to be made from oil, different kinds of engines, lubricants, and not least of which is creating oil or oil byproducts. We can already do some of that with custom bacteria. I am sure most of it is no more than a few billion dollars away.
Pollution is one thing, but the fears of shortages is a Chicken Little fraud...in an economically free society where business is free to respond to needs.
The important thing to remember is this isn't some economic theory that is really more politics, like most are. It was born of observation, and makes repeatable and testable (and counter-intuitive!) predicions.
The failure of Peak Oil to e a shortage problem was just another one to fall effortlessly, and all too predictably. Simon even analyzed why physical scientists made these erroneous predictions: they did not understand economics and the dynamism of human invention...when it is free to operate.
We like theories that make successful and repeatable predictions. Don't we?
This only differs from most war causes in the desire to ban 1 more religion than usual.
A lot of Cubans had their property seized and fled to Florida. They want it back, or compensation. Hence the law allowing them to sue any foreign company doing business in the US that also does business in Cuba.
Now most are dead, so the government can blow off their political interests.
The leaders survived like kings. Their subjects, not so much.
Someone should patent a swipe-unlock symbol for phone pay, to instantly go to and authorize a payment.
Modern DDOS are botnets. You don't need, and few have, a giant pipe from their computer sufficient to deny a company or government anymore, as they themselves have cheap large connections for daily business.
They taxed the currency exchange as a goods transaction, on top of taxing the actual item being sold (for bitcoins).
So it was a double taxation. Bitcoin kind of weasled its way into countries by being, at its heart, just another thing being traded (and stuff for stuff remains legal, just as stuff for real cash is).
Then dev communities said the double taxation was a scam, we are leaving, and government rightfully panicked as competition works.
More shitty, abusive-of-human jobs, according to their detractors, about to b3 replaced by machines to take the risk.
Hell, when farming became more and more automated, and with better fertilizers, politicians stomped and slammed around screaming where the hell would all these former farm hands find jobs?
Oh. My. God.
Suggest to someone back then we'd have less than 2% of the population working farms, and they'd scream for laws outlawing farm automation.
Thank god that stupidity was largely ignored, as should this.
This allows further specialization, and thus more things to buy.
There is a "common sense" screed about too many things to buy, conspicuous consumption, and consumption of non-necessities just for the purpose of consumption. Yet this is what progress enables us to do, when basic needs are satisfied, for very cheap.
The cheaper it is to make things, the more things a minimum wage can buy. This is the direction of the future, same as the past 150 years. Not just cheaper necessities, but more varied things to buy.
Sorry, I have to reject this. If the rep promised something, the judge should hold the company to account regardless of the wording of the contract. This is a scam operation.
A couple of incidents, and lying companies will clean up their acts. The only real issue would be proving what the rep said.
Sorry, no water in California, all you can get is sand. No bread.
The rest of the country thanks your peasantry for pointlessly living with water rationing in the home, just a sliver of total water use, so you can water a massive desert to grow us avocados for various "California"-style cuisines.
Again, thank you.
I agree. Did I just get on a list?
For that matter, I regularly go through what the Constitutional protections are, and why, and how a need for emergency powers has been the downfall of the few historical democracies. Does that get me on a list?
Finally, unspoken is what happens when, not if, someone hacks the NSA and out comes tumbling everyone's emails and phone "metadata" (and conversations, as some suspect), and browser histories?