I agree. It took a while but Harper is starting to prove himself. Freetrade agreements with Europe and South Korea and with more countries in the works. Great moves for the economy and wealth building.
What I'm throwing out there isn't random. They are situations that involve coercion and my point is that whenever there's coercion, the dollar value represented isn't accurate. More coercion equals more distortion.
The U.S. spent more on defense in 2012 than did the countries with the next 10 highest defense budgets combined! http://pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/...
Do you really think the US is that paranoid that they'll be attacked or do they use this army to coerce other countries in doing what they want?
I understand how economics is suppose to work but it never does when there's coercion involved.
I like the irony there. You're resorting to an ad hominem because of your lack of intellect to come up with anything better. Any counter arguments to the petrocurrency or do you just have more insults?
I guess I have to connect the dots for you. The US government forces its citizens to pay taxes in US Dollars. This creates a demand for the US Dollar not because it is valuable or because it is backed by economic output of the US, but because it is the only form of payment that the government accepts. What are you missing here?
It's the opposite. You gotta be careful when entrusting your money to a cash instrument. I would much rather own an object that many people want than cash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Right, and they're actually quite helpful too now. When the NSA needed help to crack some systems, MS did the right thing.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
You have presented absolutely zero evidence for the reason why you do not trust Apple and Google and yet your comment is rated Insightful! I don't know who's been messing around with the moderation system but a git revert is needed tout de suite.
Programming 60 real hours in a week is extremely difficult. Try this. Start a timer when you're doing some real work, not goofing off on/. or procrastinating. Trust me, if you can clock 60 real work hours in a week, you'll be mentally exhausted and will have no motivation to do anything for 2 to 3 days.
Oh, but it's better than that. The billions spent on the stadium comes from taxes, the athletes are subsidized by taxes and all of this is broadcast through the public infrastructure that, well you guessed it, is paid by taxes. Since the whole thing has already been paid, we should get free tickets and commercial free broadcasts.
The signal to noise ratio was much better back then and the people seemed to be friendlier and more civilized. It was a different crowd of geeks, most of which were interested in free software and Linux. Now we have a mainstream crowd looking for mainstream crap on what used to be a really cool fringe tech site. The moderation system needs to be updated to handle the new crowd of newbies who have difficulty creating arguments and who make statements just to please the hive. As control was taken away from Rob Malda, the site suffered. I don't think Dice knows what to do. There's still some great comments here so I'm sticking around but once the intelligent crowd leaves, so will I.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I don't know how some of these anti-beta people get off believing that they own this site. I'm also confused and surprised at how their comments are still being up voted.
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Poor analogy. They propose to use Public money and that is money taken by force.
Oh, it's coming. http://www.usdebtclock.org/
I agree. It took a while but Harper is starting to prove himself. Freetrade agreements with Europe and South Korea and with more countries in the works. Great moves for the economy and wealth building.
What about Hyundai and Kia? I'm looking forward to paying less for a car.
What?! I don't know how people can live this way.
You can thank the government corporate and IP laws for eliminating competition and causing this mess.
The resistance to support WebP in Mozilla seems to be more politically motivated than technical.
What I'm throwing out there isn't random. They are situations that involve coercion and my point is that whenever there's coercion, the dollar value represented isn't accurate. More coercion equals more distortion.
The U.S. spent more on defense in 2012 than did the countries with the next 10 highest defense budgets combined! http://pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/...
Do you really think the US is that paranoid that they'll be attacked or do they use this army to coerce other countries in doing what they want?
I understand how economics is suppose to work but it never does when there's coercion involved.
I like the irony there. You're resorting to an ad hominem because of your lack of intellect to come up with anything better. Any counter arguments to the petrocurrency or do you just have more insults?
I was pointing out one of the reasons the US dollar's value didn't reflect its economic output. Here's another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
I guess I have to connect the dots for you. The US government forces its citizens to pay taxes in US Dollars. This creates a demand for the US Dollar not because it is valuable or because it is backed by economic output of the US, but because it is the only form of payment that the government accepts. What are you missing here?
US government only accepts their dollar to pay taxes.
It's the opposite. You gotta be careful when entrusting your money to a cash instrument. I would much rather own an object that many people want than cash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Windows at least lets you run anything you like on it
That's false and is my point.
Right, and they're actually quite helpful too now. When the NSA needed help to crack some systems, MS did the right thing. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Wrong. Even IE11 can't match Firefox and Chrome. http://beta.caniuse.com/#featu...
Last I checked I could not run anything I wanted on my XBOX/360/One.
You have presented absolutely zero evidence for the reason why you do not trust Apple and Google and yet your comment is rated Insightful! I don't know who's been messing around with the moderation system but a git revert is needed tout de suite.
Corruption. It's really that simple and when it comes to big banks, the fascistic kind comes to mind.
Programming 60 real hours in a week is extremely difficult. Try this. Start a timer when you're doing some real work, not goofing off on /. or procrastinating. Trust me, if you can clock 60 real work hours in a week, you'll be mentally exhausted and will have no motivation to do anything for 2 to 3 days.
Oh, but it's better than that. The billions spent on the stadium comes from taxes, the athletes are subsidized by taxes and all of this is broadcast through the public infrastructure that, well you guessed it, is paid by taxes. Since the whole thing has already been paid, we should get free tickets and commercial free broadcasts.
The command line is great but sometimes a GUI comes along and makes things so much easier, especially to cherry pick.
gitg
The signal to noise ratio was much better back then and the people seemed to be friendlier and more civilized. It was a different crowd of geeks, most of which were interested in free software and Linux. Now we have a mainstream crowd looking for mainstream crap on what used to be a really cool fringe tech site. The moderation system needs to be updated to handle the new crowd of newbies who have difficulty creating arguments and who make statements just to please the hive. As control was taken away from Rob Malda, the site suffered. I don't think Dice knows what to do. There's still some great comments here so I'm sticking around but once the intelligent crowd leaves, so will I.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I don't know how some of these anti-beta people get off believing that they own this site. I'm also confused and surprised at how their comments are still being up voted.