China has always played games with its currency. So has the US, for that matter. Do you seriously believe China's only action would be to unpeg its currency or link it with the euro?
Not likely
If they chose to make such a move, they'd likely do it at the same time they started screwing around with their US debt holdings. China holds over a trillion dollars of US debt, which gives them a nice, firm hold on Uncle Sam's balls.
Unlike the US, China is capable of long-range planning. Yes, in the short term, it would damage the Chinese economy if the US economy tanked.
However, if the ultimate result was to make the world turn its back on the US dollar as the "Global Currency", China would rejoice. And if the US dollar was demoted to third place as the IMF's World Reserve Currency behind the euro and the yuan, China would be equally pleased.
Last year, the banks of Japan, Germany, France and the UK held more liabilities denominated in dollars than in their own currencies. Imagine the opportunities for China, both economically and in terms of international prestige, if those debts were held in yuan.
I will face my porn. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the porn has gone there will be...oh, my god, have we been invaded by giant snails???
"The seventh stage of Facebook fatigue is being reduce to pressing ^V to post the same BIG DATA SLURPEE IN THE SKY kneejerk response everyone has already seen 1000 times.
Why would China get into that kind of war, which it can't win? Do you know how much US debt China holds? Do you have even the faintest idea what would happen to the US dollar and the US economy if China started dumping it? You should look it up.
Of course, maybe those consequences could be avoided if another country, like Russia for example, decided to start buying it up at a discounted rate.
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I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear. Reddit's concern stems from finding themselves on the sharp end of laws intended to prevent revenge porn and fakes so good they could have a detrimental effect on the career of an actor or educator or whatever.
My comment concerns the potential for the authors of such satire to be sued civilly or charged criminally. Also that Reddit shouldn't have to worry about being targeted by overly aggressive trolls trying to shut down legitimate commentary because they don't happen to like it.
I think a pretty good First Amendment case could be made for a "Deepfakes" porno of a chubby old gay man with Trump's face being enthusiastically backscuttled by a hugely hung dude wearing Putin's face. Call it satire, call it comedy, call it fair comment. It doesn't matter. Even done perfectly, nobody would believe it was real, so it would be hard to argue that either Trump or Putin would suffer the kind of opprobrium associated with a porn video intended to deceive people into believing such an event actually took place.
If you had included Fox News believers and Trump supporters in your list of the gullible and willfully ignorant, you'd have had 100% agreement from me.
"Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Nearly 2 Hours"
"The lights went out at around 11:13 a.m. PT, just as the second day of CES 2018 was ramping up, and didn't turn back on until around 12:34 p.m. PT".
So power was out for an hour and 21 minutes, not "nearly 2 hours". If they weren't ready to hit the ground running when the power came back on, that's their problem.
Please try not to be stupid. I said "Just about all the scientists in the world". The 97% refers specifically to papers published by climate scientists. I was using hyperbole. Skeptical science is referring to scientists publishing papers in the field.
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May I have the envelope, please...
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I've never seen anything like this before. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a tie!
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China has always played games with its currency. So has the US, for that matter. Do you seriously believe China's only action would be to unpeg its currency or link it with the euro?
Not likely
If they chose to make such a move, they'd likely do it at the same time they started screwing around with their US debt holdings. China holds over a trillion dollars of US debt, which gives them a nice, firm hold on Uncle Sam's balls.
Unlike the US, China is capable of long-range planning. Yes, in the short term, it would damage the Chinese economy if the US economy tanked.
However, if the ultimate result was to make the world turn its back on the US dollar as the "Global Currency", China would rejoice. And if the US dollar was demoted to third place as the IMF's World Reserve Currency behind the euro and the yuan, China would be equally pleased.
Last year, the banks of Japan, Germany, France and the UK held more liabilities denominated in dollars than in their own currencies. Imagine the opportunities for China, both economically and in terms of international prestige, if those debts were held in yuan.
The porn must flow
I will face my porn. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the porn has gone there will be...oh, my god, have we been invaded by giant snails???
"The seventh stage of Facebook fatigue is being reduce to pressing ^V to post the same BIG DATA SLURPEE IN THE SKY kneejerk response everyone has already seen 1000 times.
Now 1001
...is that anybody could possibly be surprised.
Why would China get into that kind of war, which it can't win? Do you know how much US debt China holds? Do you have even the faintest idea what would happen to the US dollar and the US economy if China started dumping it? You should look it up.
Of course, maybe those consequences could be avoided if another country, like Russia for example, decided to start buying it up at a discounted rate.
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Actually Putin himself, while disguised as Trump...
Not likely. Even on Hallowe'en, people in charge don't dress up as the guy who cleans their toilet.
I'm not saying they should be obliged to. I'm saying they shouldn't be afraid to.
I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear. Reddit's concern stems from finding themselves on the sharp end of laws intended to prevent revenge porn and fakes so good they could have a detrimental effect on the career of an actor or educator or whatever.
My comment concerns the potential for the authors of such satire to be sued civilly or charged criminally. Also that Reddit shouldn't have to worry about being targeted by overly aggressive trolls trying to shut down legitimate commentary because they don't happen to like it.
I think a pretty good First Amendment case could be made for a "Deepfakes" porno of a chubby old gay man with Trump's face being enthusiastically backscuttled by a hugely hung dude wearing Putin's face. Call it satire, call it comedy, call it fair comment. It doesn't matter. Even done perfectly, nobody would believe it was real, so it would be hard to argue that either Trump or Putin would suffer the kind of opprobrium associated with a porn video intended to deceive people into believing such an event actually took place.
These days, objective reality has a strong liberal bias.
Sorry, kid.
Nice set of right wing snowflake talking points, comrade. Now why don't you tell us about the 12 MILLION emails Cheney erased.
If you had included Fox News believers and Trump supporters in your list of the gullible and willfully ignorant, you'd have had 100% agreement from me.
"Spencer reports directly to Nadella, with Booty now reporting directly to Spencer."
There has always been a place for Booty in e-games. I think it's described in detail in Rule 34.
Yeah, that works so well in the many, many cases where there is no real choice.
Thanks for the laugh, though. Much appreciated.
CEO's get bonuses regardless of whether their jobs get done. When they don't, they face zero consequences.
Fixed that for you!
"Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Nearly 2 Hours"
"The lights went out at around 11:13 a.m. PT, just as the second day of CES 2018 was ramping up, and didn't turn back on until around 12:34 p.m. PT".
So power was out for an hour and 21 minutes, not "nearly 2 hours". If they weren't ready to hit the ground running when the power came back on, that's their problem.
...you're getting exactly what you deserve.P
The Epic browser does this.
Well, I have used it, and I can assure you it sucks like your sister at football practice.
Please try not to be stupid. I said "Just about all the scientists in the world". The 97% refers specifically to papers published by climate scientists. I was using hyperbole. Skeptical science is referring to scientists publishing papers in the field.
Did you really expect to get away with that?
In a contest to see which browser is the fastest to track every single thing you do on-line, plus pull down your computer's pants and rape it for every bit of private information it can gather about you, your friends, your family and your business associates, and report all of the above to its master, the winner is...
May I have the envelope, please...
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I've never seen anything like this before. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a tie!
How do you feel about subsidies that are artificially keeping the price you pay for gasoline low? Should those subsidies also end, or is it only subsidies that bring down the cost of electric vehicles be eliminated?
Maggie Thatcher might disagree with you. Certainly all the people she harmed would.