As strong as Germany's economy and industrial base is, nothing can make up for hundreds of millions of people who don't want to work and want to collect giant government checks, and have it paid for by people who do work.
Nah, all the Germans have to do is get the old freight cars rolling again to er, mobilize the workforce.
From the guy who thought Sarah Palin would make a good vice president. Why do people even bother to listen to him anymore. The country is bankrupt, but he thinks it can afford yet another committee.
And you would be sentenced to prison for not submitting to a TSA pat-down. Moral of the story - breaking the laws of your country result in jail.
By the way, this has nothing to do with the other 1,299,999 websites that disappeared from the internet. But I guess this is the kind of rationalization you need to construct when you live in a country that tells you every day how free you are, when really you're no better off than anyone else and much worse off than quite a few.
Yeah, keep focusing on those exceptions and believe them to be the "norm" elsewhere... hone your "China is evil" training so that you can be ready to throw your life away when your government decides it has to kill you before it loses control of you.
there were were 41% fewer websites at the end of 2010 than a year earlier.
This does not mean that 41% of the sites were shut down by the government. In fact, nowhere in the article does it say the websites were "shut down" at all. There are many other reasons websites go offline, like people getting bored of maintaining them, their not being popular, their failing to make a profit or break even, etc. Sensationalistic reporting, now on slash!
Nah - the Australian dollar isn't strong, it's the US dollar that's weak. It's the same story with the Canadian dollar and many other foreign currencies. Of course don't tell Americans that or you'll get an earful of "NO WAI USA is NUMBER 1 USA USA USA SEAL TEAM 6!". Actually this is a smart move by Apple. Their cash reserves are so large that they really can afford to stock up on Australian dollars. See Australia, like Canada, is in the fortunate position of having vast untapped natural resource reserves and very low populations compared to their land areas. Therefore these are two countries that will always have a future - provided they continue with relatively stable governments, avoid drowning in debt, and avoid getting invaded. For now their currencies are a shelter.
Honestly they need to default to all this crap being blocked and you have to call to enable it.
What, and miss out on $2B a year? Phone companies (like many other companies) know that many people are just too damned lazy to go over their bill every month. And of those who do check, there's a percentage who are too lazy to actually do anything about it. While it is absolutely wrong for them to do this, when did ethics ever win against profit?
But futures (your example not mine) represent an obligation to fulfill a contract for real goods at some future date. There will always be a real demand for futures besides sheer traders for profit - corporations who actually use those products, investors who need to hedge other trades, etc. Futures contracts also expire. This is what happens to all the futures that are NOT "accepted by someone". A pre-determined penalty is paid, and the contract is buried, unfulfilled.
But with bitcoin you have a cryptographic key whose exchange rate is based solely on the greed of people who acquire it with the intention of making money with it. Thus bitcoin itself has no inherent value at all. While fiat currency has no inherent value either, it is usually backed by central banks and governments with police forces, armies, real estate and other assets, and these governments usually have a vested interest in not seeing their economies fail. What is bitcoin backed by? Greedy nerds that will dump it when they believe themselves to be rich, or when they feel their "profits" are threatened. Combine this with the fact that because of the nature of the bitcoin graph (a log function), most of the bitcoins that will ever exist already exist. So if anyone is going to get filthy rich, it's not going to be you.
Oil can be burned for energy. Gold is always in demand as a means of exchange, is a de facto symbol of wealth and is used in jewelry and has great use in electronics. Housing has a purpose - shelter. Tell me again what the point of bitcoin is, apart from greed? Even something as silly as a US dollar has more point to it than bitcoin - because people do not acquire US dollars with the intention of dumping their US dollars as soon as some exchange rate reaches a pre-determined level. They see US dollars as a store of value and a means of exchange, not a means of wealth acquisition.
People who are mining bitcoins have the SOLE INTENTION of dumping their bitcoins at some time in the future. They far outnumber people who use bitcoin for everyday trade. Therefore the collapse of the bubble is built in to the inflation of the bubble. The minute sellers > buyers, the price will go down. And the minute the price goes down, everyone who was counting on an ever inflating price is going to panic and try to cash out right away. In fact this has already happened.
No shit. You know if you do real science for a living, you don't need to rely on Wikipedia for your facts. Make the connection between sonogram, sound, ultrasound and pressure waves. This will help you understand how radio waves have absolutely nothing to do with sonograms, unless of course you're talking about RF leakage from the unshielded electronics in the device, but I'm sure it's well within FCC limits. The TSA employee was parroting a prepared response, and I find it appalling that the TSA didn't even get THAT right.
Makes no economic sense. If you are "cashing out" of bitcoins, presumably you are taking a profit and leaving someone else with a loss. If the only way to realize your profit with bitcoins is to cash out, everyone who is mining for profit is taking equity out of the system. What happens when everyone decides to cash out at the same time? Oh, it already happened recently...
Care to cite any mainstream body of mental health professionals for the assertion that religious belief is mental illness?
THAT is exactly how pervasive this illness is. You think that depression didn't exist before the DSM was written? Disease exists, whether you choose to write it down or not.
Bad Guys come, threaten the safety and well being of all loving earthlings - especially a Young Hero and his Unconsummated Love. Young Hero gets the shit kicked out of him. Unconsummated Love somehow placed in mortal danger. Young Hero finds a way to overcome the Bad Guys, rejoin his Unconsummated Love and save the entire world. Mix in oodles of special effects magic. $8 please, or whatever it is they charge for movie tickets nowadays.
Prove you are you: Absolutely identifying a computer or other mobile device in no way proves who was using the device. That is, until we're all chipped and hard-wired into the internet. I think even the supreme court ruled recently that IP != a person. Neither is a login/password combo and for the same reasons. This is just another frivolous demand for cash from an already bankrupt government.
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As strong as Germany's economy and industrial base is, nothing can make up for hundreds of millions of people who don't want to work and want to collect giant government checks, and have it paid for by people who do work.
Nah, all the Germans have to do is get the old freight cars rolling again to er, mobilize the workforce.
From the guy who thought Sarah Palin would make a good vice president. Why do people even bother to listen to him anymore. The country is bankrupt, but he thinks it can afford yet another committee.
And you would be sentenced to prison for not submitting to a TSA pat-down. Moral of the story - breaking the laws of your country result in jail.
By the way, this has nothing to do with the other 1,299,999 websites that disappeared from the internet. But I guess this is the kind of rationalization you need to construct when you live in a country that tells you every day how free you are, when really you're no better off than anyone else and much worse off than quite a few. Yeah, keep focusing on those exceptions and believe them to be the "norm" elsewhere... hone your "China is evil" training so that you can be ready to throw your life away when your government decides it has to kill you before it loses control of you.
there were were 41% fewer websites at the end of 2010 than a year earlier.
This does not mean that 41% of the sites were shut down by the government. In fact, nowhere in the article does it say the websites were "shut down" at all. There are many other reasons websites go offline, like people getting bored of maintaining them, their not being popular, their failing to make a profit or break even, etc. Sensationalistic reporting, now on slash!
Every year slashdot moves a little closer to the trailer park.
Nope, Germany can more than make up for all of that.
Nah - the Australian dollar isn't strong, it's the US dollar that's weak. It's the same story with the Canadian dollar and many other foreign currencies. Of course don't tell Americans that or you'll get an earful of "NO WAI USA is NUMBER 1 USA USA USA SEAL TEAM 6!". Actually this is a smart move by Apple. Their cash reserves are so large that they really can afford to stock up on Australian dollars. See Australia, like Canada, is in the fortunate position of having vast untapped natural resource reserves and very low populations compared to their land areas. Therefore these are two countries that will always have a future - provided they continue with relatively stable governments, avoid drowning in debt, and avoid getting invaded. For now their currencies are a shelter.
Honestly they need to default to all this crap being blocked and you have to call to enable it.
What, and miss out on $2B a year? Phone companies (like many other companies) know that many people are just too damned lazy to go over their bill every month. And of those who do check, there's a percentage who are too lazy to actually do anything about it. While it is absolutely wrong for them to do this, when did ethics ever win against profit?
Not only theft - wire fraud.
This article fails to present any argument at all.
But futures (your example not mine) represent an obligation to fulfill a contract for real goods at some future date. There will always be a real demand for futures besides sheer traders for profit - corporations who actually use those products, investors who need to hedge other trades, etc. Futures contracts also expire. This is what happens to all the futures that are NOT "accepted by someone". A pre-determined penalty is paid, and the contract is buried, unfulfilled.
But with bitcoin you have a cryptographic key whose exchange rate is based solely on the greed of people who acquire it with the intention of making money with it. Thus bitcoin itself has no inherent value at all. While fiat currency has no inherent value either, it is usually backed by central banks and governments with police forces, armies, real estate and other assets, and these governments usually have a vested interest in not seeing their economies fail. What is bitcoin backed by? Greedy nerds that will dump it when they believe themselves to be rich, or when they feel their "profits" are threatened. Combine this with the fact that because of the nature of the bitcoin graph (a log function), most of the bitcoins that will ever exist already exist. So if anyone is going to get filthy rich, it's not going to be you.
Oil can be burned for energy. Gold is always in demand as a means of exchange, is a de facto symbol of wealth and is used in jewelry and has great use in electronics. Housing has a purpose - shelter. Tell me again what the point of bitcoin is, apart from greed? Even something as silly as a US dollar has more point to it than bitcoin - because people do not acquire US dollars with the intention of dumping their US dollars as soon as some exchange rate reaches a pre-determined level. They see US dollars as a store of value and a means of exchange, not a means of wealth acquisition.
People who are mining bitcoins have the SOLE INTENTION of dumping their bitcoins at some time in the future. They far outnumber people who use bitcoin for everyday trade. Therefore the collapse of the bubble is built in to the inflation of the bubble. The minute sellers > buyers, the price will go down. And the minute the price goes down, everyone who was counting on an ever inflating price is going to panic and try to cash out right away. In fact this has already happened.
No shit. You know if you do real science for a living, you don't need to rely on Wikipedia for your facts. Make the connection between sonogram, sound, ultrasound and pressure waves. This will help you understand how radio waves have absolutely nothing to do with sonograms, unless of course you're talking about RF leakage from the unshielded electronics in the device, but I'm sure it's well within FCC limits. The TSA employee was parroting a prepared response, and I find it appalling that the TSA didn't even get THAT right.
The point is a sonogram doesn't use radio waves at all.
They have to keep the hype going, it's the only way to feed the bubble.
Makes no economic sense. If you are "cashing out" of bitcoins, presumably you are taking a profit and leaving someone else with a loss. If the only way to realize your profit with bitcoins is to cash out, everyone who is mining for profit is taking equity out of the system. What happens when everyone decides to cash out at the same time? Oh, it already happened recently...
Or in a more likely scenario it could fall to zero again, like it did before.
Er, a sonogram is ultrasound and doesn't use radio waves at all.
Starflight... Sentinel Worlds Future Magic... yumm, those were the days. I still play them once in a while.
It's not like crack-baby basketball at all.
Nah, in the R rated version you get to see a breast for 2 seconds and there's some moaning and frolicking under the covers and hints at consummation.
tying greed and general antisocial behaviour to a group of people (where its members didn't choose to be part of it) is kinda nonsensical.
Show me the non islamic suicide bomber.
Care to cite any mainstream body of mental health professionals for the assertion that religious belief is mental illness?
THAT is exactly how pervasive this illness is. You think that depression didn't exist before the DSM was written? Disease exists, whether you choose to write it down or not.
Bad Guys come, threaten the safety and well being of all loving earthlings - especially a Young Hero and his Unconsummated Love. Young Hero gets the shit kicked out of him. Unconsummated Love somehow placed in mortal danger. Young Hero finds a way to overcome the Bad Guys, rejoin his Unconsummated Love and save the entire world. Mix in oodles of special effects magic. $8 please, or whatever it is they charge for movie tickets nowadays.
Prove you are you: Absolutely identifying a computer or other mobile device in no way proves who was using the device. That is, until we're all chipped and hard-wired into the internet. I think even the supreme court ruled recently that IP != a person. Neither is a login/password combo and for the same reasons. This is just another frivolous demand for cash from an already bankrupt government.