A currency issuer (government) drives use of currency by spending (issuing) and taxing (deleting) in said currency (enforces this by all legal and ultimately military means) and has not changed since 17th century (or before).
Countries have never issued so much debt - spending money they essentially don't have - as they do today. So yeah, the total amount of money in circulation is greater than ever before. Currency is no longer beholden to any standard - gold or otherwise, so there is no limit to the amount of money a government can create and spend. The only limit is how long it takes before the currency collapses.
If intelligence-driven extinction doesn't explain this great cosmic silence, then what does? Why hasn't our species heard from other intelligent civilizations elsewhere in the universe?
Distance. Distance in space, which renders actually finding another civilization impossible. And distance in time. Any number of civilizations might have already risen and fallen, or will after we are gone. The universe is very very big, and very very old. To expect everything to happen in the instant we are around and aware is quite short-sighted.
Not to mention that money is significantly easier to come by today than it was in the 17th century. There is a heck of a lot of money out there. Too much, according to some. I expect one day you'll be able to buy a small central american country for one bitcoin before it collapses.
Wrong. Considering the market share of Amiga versus the amount of people that have told me about it, I'd say I've heard from almost every Amiga owner on the planet.
The thing about Amiga owners is you can't get them to shut up about their Amiga. It's like the guy who doesn't have a TV, or the guy who rides a bike to work. We don't give a shit about your Amiga, dude.
Dogs are omnivores. They need meat but they do better with a varied diet like us.They love sweet potato for example. However those lunatics who insist their dogs are "vegetarian" are harming their dogs.
Yep, so we're basically fucked. Therefore I'm not going to worry about it, I will do like every other human and ignore the problem, offloading the burden to my kids and grandkids. Hey if we can do that with debt, we can do it with other things too.
They get big and powerful, and they forget it was willing buyers who made them that way.
This is typical of most large businesses. They get big and powerful and most of the people who got them there cash out and move on to other things or retire. A bunch of MBA's who have never learned how to actually make money are hired. Nepotism and cronyism take hold, and management goes from a staff of competent people to a staff of sycophants, brown nosers and yes men/women. And eventually the golden goose is dead and butchered
Large corporations are part of the death cycle of business. Usually some of them manage to hang on because they use their influence to carve out a monopoly for themselves and then we're stuck with these zombies that piss money away, give us shitty service and yet refuse to go bankrupt. Others survive for a while by eating their competitors through mergers and acquisitions, all the while keeping their eyes firmly on that oh so sweet monopoly - rewriting laws if they have to. But in the natural order of things, these businesses should go spectacularly bankrupt.
I know, how about we murder all the hippies and liberals and anyone with a liberal arts degree How much CO2 will that save? Then we can keep Fido and Fluffy.
Arguing about global warming is like picking at a scab. It does nothing to solve the problem which is too many people. In the meantime we keep breeding, or better still - importing people to breed for us transitioning them from a low CO2 production lifestyle to a 1st world max CO2 and pollution lifestyle. Well done, us.
If they were to "cash out" all their bitcoin holdings the price would plummet before selling even more than 1000 btc. Try to cash out and see what happens in a market with no volume.
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Einstein did not have a degree in physics, thus relativity is invalid.
Einstein offered mathematical proof of his claims. There is a difference.
Cryptography is a computer program
That's like saying "medicine is a surgical procedure".
A currency issuer (government) drives use of currency by spending (issuing) and taxing (deleting) in said currency (enforces this by all legal and ultimately military means) and has not changed since 17th century (or before).
Countries have never issued so much debt - spending money they essentially don't have - as they do today. So yeah, the total amount of money in circulation is greater than ever before. Currency is no longer beholden to any standard - gold or otherwise, so there is no limit to the amount of money a government can create and spend. The only limit is how long it takes before the currency collapses.
If intelligence-driven extinction doesn't explain this great cosmic silence, then what does? Why hasn't our species heard from other intelligent civilizations elsewhere in the universe?
Distance. Distance in space, which renders actually finding another civilization impossible. And distance in time. Any number of civilizations might have already risen and fallen, or will after we are gone. The universe is very very big, and very very old. To expect everything to happen in the instant we are around and aware is quite short-sighted.
Not to mention that money is significantly easier to come by today than it was in the 17th century. There is a heck of a lot of money out there. Too much, according to some. I expect one day you'll be able to buy a small central american country for one bitcoin before it collapses.
You used to be able to buy a house for a tulip. We have a long way to go yet... there is a lot of greed out there.
Wrong. Considering the market share of Amiga versus the amount of people that have told me about it, I'd say I've heard from almost every Amiga owner on the planet.
The thing about Amiga owners is you can't get them to shut up about their Amiga. It's like the guy who doesn't have a TV, or the guy who rides a bike to work. We don't give a shit about your Amiga, dude.
Yes Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and Libya are cradles of peace compared to those places...
Because the region around the Sahara is so peaceful and Euro-friendly nowadays.
So long as performance is in the ballpark I'll be willing to switch. Rather a small performance hit than buying a chip with a built in backdoor.
Except chocolate is toxic. Sweet potato is recommended by vets.
I only had two with my first wife and got a vasectomy. My second wife has never had kids. So all I did was replace.
Dogs are omnivores. They need meat but they do better with a varied diet like us.They love sweet potato for example. However those lunatics who insist their dogs are "vegetarian" are harming their dogs.
I'm sure there's some fru-fru company that does it
And I'm sure that fru-fru company is lying. Just don't look behind the curtain.
Yep, so we're basically fucked. Therefore I'm not going to worry about it, I will do like every other human and ignore the problem, offloading the burden to my kids and grandkids. Hey if we can do that with debt, we can do it with other things too.
They get big and powerful, and they forget it was willing buyers who made them that way.
This is typical of most large businesses. They get big and powerful and most of the people who got them there cash out and move on to other things or retire. A bunch of MBA's who have never learned how to actually make money are hired. Nepotism and cronyism take hold, and management goes from a staff of competent people to a staff of sycophants, brown nosers and yes men/women. And eventually the golden goose is dead and butchered
Large corporations are part of the death cycle of business. Usually some of them manage to hang on because they use their influence to carve out a monopoly for themselves and then we're stuck with these zombies that piss money away, give us shitty service and yet refuse to go bankrupt. Others survive for a while by eating their competitors through mergers and acquisitions, all the while keeping their eyes firmly on that oh so sweet monopoly - rewriting laws if they have to. But in the natural order of things, these businesses should go spectacularly bankrupt.
Intel just keeps giving me more and more reasons to make sure my next CPU purchase in AMD. Add another one to the pile. Well done, Intel.
I know, how about we murder all the hippies and liberals and anyone with a liberal arts degree How much CO2 will that save? Then we can keep Fido and Fluffy.
Arguing about global warming is like picking at a scab. It does nothing to solve the problem which is too many people. In the meantime we keep breeding, or better still - importing people to breed for us transitioning them from a low CO2 production lifestyle to a 1st world max CO2 and pollution lifestyle. Well done, us.
Lol, if you say so doc
If they were to "cash out" all their bitcoin holdings the price would plummet before selling even more than 1000 btc. Try to cash out and see what happens in a market with no volume.
And money launderers. Don't forget money launderers!
But... but.... everyone is going to DIE! We need your money NOW! How can you hate the environment so much?
To a theater near you. Which kind of sums it up, really.
So, like Panama then?