That's correct, porn is problematic for a number of reasons but addiction isn't one of them. Again, a person doesn't go through withdrawal if they don't watch porn for a few days.
Computers are habit forming but not addictive. Addiction is caused by chemicals screwing with your biology. If you take a computer away from someone for a week, it bothers them because is breaks their habit, but they don't go through withdrawal like heroine or nicotine. Computers don't do that.
Actually I do think we should stop printing cash and do all financial transactions through licensed banks. I've basically been doing that my entire life. (You probably have too.)
You don't have to uninvent it. And we don't need a special anti-bitcoin task force breaking into people's homes. But if you make it illegal to buy/sell/hold then the vast majority of people will dump it and it will give the police another easy win against the bad guys. ("I didn't find any drugs as your place, but I did find $10k in bitcoin. Want to explain that?")
Exactly. With real money there is either a legitimate bank involved (knowingly or not) or there is a cash drop. Either way, it's pretty easy for the feds to track and shut down. Crypto currenty makes ransomware a sure thing for the bad guy
Sorry libertarians. We tried it and all it's brought us is pain for everyone including and especially those that didn't play the game. It's hard to imagine how Ransomware would work without crypto currency.
People horde things all the time. As people horde things the price will continue to climb because the thing people are hording will become more scarce. But sooner or later some one will want to cash out, and that will make the price start to drop just a little. Then when the price starts to drop, more people will hit the "sell" button causing the price to drop faster. Then EVERYONE is going to hit the sell button and the price will plummet to near zero because no one will want to buy while the price is dropping, which will cause the price to drop faster and faster and faster.
Moral of the story: Sell NOW! Beat the rush and be happy that you won.
UBIs don't work in free market economies over the long term.
Consider housing:
You and everyone else sets the price of housing based on what you are willing to pay to live there. If you have an income of $100 and you are only willing to spend 20% on housing, you will have a difficult time finding housing if everyone else is willing to spend $21. Now let's say the Government gives everyone a UBI of $10. "Yea," you think. "Now I can afford that $21 home." But here is the trap. Everyone now gets that extra $10. Everyone's base level for affording a hope goes up a little, and the housing market adapts to the new income level. Before you know it, that $21 home is now priced $22, because that's what the new market will allow.
So, ultimately, a UBI doesn't help anyone. (Minimum wage is slightly better if only that it prevents people for having to work for nothing. (Except interns.))
I mean, the company's mission statement is literally to compile ALL of the information in the world.
But their own pay roll is too hard for them. That's funny.
That is simply unreasonable. On the contrary, going forward all OS's should have mandatory secure encrypted back-up. Windows should take the 500 gb hard drive on your new cheap PC, split it in half, and use half of it as a admin-only accessible separate back-up drive.
Then companies and individuals should upgrade their computer OS's.
How many people really cared about the cover art? I would look at it once to read the lyrics then it would disappear in my closet somewhere and the CD went into a book.
I'm not in the tech field professionally. I follow tech news for entertainment mostly. I've never heard of "ReactOS". It basically looks like they said, "Ok, let's make a clone of Windows 2000."
I'm an environmental engineer. The Civil and Environmental industries will never ever flip to Linux or anything else. Not because we can't for some reason, but because it's pointless. We have old people in the industry that refuse to learn anything new at all -even when it's applicable to the field. I have enough trouble just convincing many civil engineers that they should do groundwater sampling near known leaking petroleum storage tank sites prior to designing water pipes, much less getting them to learn some new OS.
It simply won't happen.
Don't burst his little libertarian bubble yet.
Let the market do that when he's 65, ready to retire, and the market crashes and takes everything from him at the last minute.
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That's correct, porn is problematic for a number of reasons but addiction isn't one of them. Again, a person doesn't go through withdrawal if they don't watch porn for a few days.
Computers are habit forming but not addictive. Addiction is caused by chemicals screwing with your biology. If you take a computer away from someone for a week, it bothers them because is breaks their habit, but they don't go through withdrawal like heroine or nicotine. Computers don't do that.
... said Adam to Eve.
You could try to make a rational argument as to why you disagree, but this is the internet.
Actually I do think we should stop printing cash and do all financial transactions through licensed banks. I've basically been doing that my entire life. (You probably have too.)
On a cellphone.
If it's not a currency designed for crime and so easy to trace, why is it so freakishly popular with criminals?
You don't have to uninvent it. And we don't need a special anti-bitcoin task force breaking into people's homes. But if you make it illegal to buy/sell/hold then the vast majority of people will dump it and it will give the police another easy win against the bad guys. ("I didn't find any drugs as your place, but I did find $10k in bitcoin. Want to explain that?")
Exactly. With real money there is either a legitimate bank involved (knowingly or not) or there is a cash drop. Either way, it's pretty easy for the feds to track and shut down. Crypto currenty makes ransomware a sure thing for the bad guy
Sorry libertarians. We tried it and all it's brought us is pain for everyone including and especially those that didn't play the game. It's hard to imagine how Ransomware would work without crypto currency.
Yes means maybe. Maybe means no. No means "I don't like you."
Missed headlines :-(
Can someone tell me what the "The second technology revolution" was that started WWII? That doesn't seem to be a thing.
Sesame street premiered in 1969. If you grew up watching Sesame street you aren't a Boomer.
People horde things all the time. As people horde things the price will continue to climb because the thing people are hording will become more scarce. But sooner or later some one will want to cash out, and that will make the price start to drop just a little. Then when the price starts to drop, more people will hit the "sell" button causing the price to drop faster. Then EVERYONE is going to hit the sell button and the price will plummet to near zero because no one will want to buy while the price is dropping, which will cause the price to drop faster and faster and faster. Moral of the story: Sell NOW! Beat the rush and be happy that you won.
UBIs don't work in free market economies over the long term. Consider housing: You and everyone else sets the price of housing based on what you are willing to pay to live there. If you have an income of $100 and you are only willing to spend 20% on housing, you will have a difficult time finding housing if everyone else is willing to spend $21. Now let's say the Government gives everyone a UBI of $10. "Yea," you think. "Now I can afford that $21 home." But here is the trap. Everyone now gets that extra $10. Everyone's base level for affording a hope goes up a little, and the housing market adapts to the new income level. Before you know it, that $21 home is now priced $22, because that's what the new market will allow. So, ultimately, a UBI doesn't help anyone. (Minimum wage is slightly better if only that it prevents people for having to work for nothing. (Except interns.))
I mean, the company's mission statement is literally to compile ALL of the information in the world. But their own pay roll is too hard for them. That's funny.
You underestimate the number of idiots in the world. If they all sell now, the price will plummet. You have to sell before they do. Sell now.
... you sell NOW. Right now.
That is simply unreasonable. On the contrary, going forward all OS's should have mandatory secure encrypted back-up. Windows should take the 500 gb hard drive on your new cheap PC, split it in half, and use half of it as a admin-only accessible separate back-up drive. Then companies and individuals should upgrade their computer OS's.
How many people really cared about the cover art? I would look at it once to read the lyrics then it would disappear in my closet somewhere and the CD went into a book.
I'm not in the tech field professionally. I follow tech news for entertainment mostly. I've never heard of "ReactOS". It basically looks like they said, "Ok, let's make a clone of Windows 2000." I'm an environmental engineer. The Civil and Environmental industries will never ever flip to Linux or anything else. Not because we can't for some reason, but because it's pointless. We have old people in the industry that refuse to learn anything new at all -even when it's applicable to the field. I have enough trouble just convincing many civil engineers that they should do groundwater sampling near known leaking petroleum storage tank sites prior to designing water pipes, much less getting them to learn some new OS. It simply won't happen.
Forever. Always. Indefinitely. Because that's how the nature always works -in never ending exponential growth curves.
Better move it all back to those stocks. Wouldn't want to miss out on any more of those gains.
Don't burst his little libertarian bubble yet. Let the market do that when he's 65, ready to retire, and the market crashes and takes everything from him at the last minute.