When it becomes infeasible to continue current trend, it can get rid of the debt quite quickly. Sure the worth of american dollars goes, down, relative salaries of americans and indians/chinese changes suddenly, but overall the effect could rebalance the american economy quickly.
Printing money... oh yeah, that's brilliant.... here's a list of the countries such a concept has worked so well for improving their enconomy:.
Look around for independent candidates looking for signatures to get on the ballot.
Throw that one and only single vote away. Ignore that an independent has never been elected - go ahead a vote for one and sleep better knowing that instead of choosing the lessor of two evils you tossed your opportunity to choose out the window and let someone, everyone, else choose for you.
Canada has free health care and I thank God that we have it. It's handled at a provincial level, but the feds give money out to the provinces to help them cover the costs.
You do realize whose money that is the feds are "giving out", don't you? Does it make you feel all warm and snuggly to know that someone else has decided they know better than you do how to spend your money?
I don't have the time to retrain 70 users on Open Office
One place I visited gave their interviewees 30 minutes to figure out how to type, average kinds of formatting and all, a printed document back into an OpenOffice document and print it out themselves to show the match, and likewise with a simple spreadsheet. A few just gave up and left ("I have to think? Oh noooo....") - only those who couldn't chew gum and type at the same time would fail. It was a trivial test, and anyone who couldn't figure it out probably shouldn't be allowed to participate in a decision making capacity in a business in the first place.
He's saying we should not actually build devices that can exist without our control of them. They should not be able to replicate without our input of some material that the devices can in no way seek and use on their own. There are no natural defenses against such devices - they would appear on the scene relatively overnight after years of isolated development, and the years of probing defense by other liefeforms that limits all life on this earth from complete consumption would not be available.
More generally, I think people are going to have to face someday that brain genetics are not somehow special. Just like certain races are shorter, taller, darker, lighter, faster, stronger, etc, certain races (and sexes...) are going to have bell curves that are different shapes. Of course, this doesn't preclude any individual from falling anywhere on the bell curve.
Yet you would be drawn and quartered if you said that from any position of authority on a college campus, as Larry Summers discovered. Indeed, suggesting that there may be genetic differences to explain any collective group's below the average showing in any endeavor would preclude you from ever obtaining any sort of achievment in the academic world. However, if you can state that genetics might explain how one particular named group (better known as dead white guys) have unfairly gained advantage in history due to a gene of violence, or whatever, then you can write your own ticket.
I might question it too for a company that needed the money. Google has far more than the necessary cash to pay its employees - their stock price is certainly fibrillating lately - but its baseline is far above what the company needs to pay the bills for some time. Google was making (plenty of) money before they became a public company with the commensurate huge multiplier applied to their revenue stream. I, FWIW, think it will "outperform" for a long time.
McCain is actually working on legislation to require cable to go a la carte.
It'd be even better if we could just pay by the minute. All the channels to select from (it doesn't cost any extra to send 'em all down the wire), but I only pay for what I watch - the crap shows would be histroy in about a week - instead of me subisdizing them.
And no commercials, damn it - if I want commercials, I'll got the the movies.
I mean, there's this underground awards ceremony called "The Oscars". This year they honored about 8 high-quality, original, thought provoking movies, all of which were on wide release. It wasn't worse than any other year. Honestly.
Is that the self-promotion ceremony that this year gave all those awards to movies that didn't even make the top 20 in ticket sales?
So you don't consider a WiFi connection coming from someone's residential property to be personal property?
Not if it's unsecured - a trivial thing to do. Say someone had really bright outside lights, like my neighbor. Should I not be allowed to read a book sitting on my back deck in the evening using the radiation coming from his property, or should I make arrangements to reimburse him for leaving his lights on all the time? I bet the power company has some rule about the sharing of electrical power - and yet, here is his radiation coming out of his space. He could easily shade his property if he didn't want me sharing his radiation. Likewise, a Wifi user can easily secure his access point if he doesn't want others using his connection. If the neighbor plants tall bushes on his property to block my use of his light spill, and I cut them down to gain access, then I have violated his property rights - likewise if I decrypt the trivially weak Wifi security I have violated his property rights.
There's three unsecured APs visible from my deck besides my own - I don't worry about any of them using my system if they want, nor do I worry about using theirs if I want, though I've never had a need.
I've read several times that one of the major indicators of a real recovery is a housing market collapse.
That is greatly tempered by our willingness in the US to have a 30-yr mortgage. Spreading pain (payment) over 30 years, and I've read of discussions for consideration of longer mortages, greatly eases things. Additionally, we offload risk as a business. It's easy enough to purchase insurance to cover unemployment - it simply requires one to do so (and no, I generally haven't either).
There's no necessity for a real-estate collapse. Real estate is a limited asset just like gold - there's always more to be found, up to some limit not nearly even reached, but it costs something to go get it. Spreading a decrease in real-estate value over a long period will make those decreases have less short term impact. Personally, I don't think there will be any real-estate crash - there will certainly be some who declare bankruptcy and assets will get sold for whatever they're worth - but the vast majority of owners will continue to live and enjoy their homes, with their ownership perhaps requiring a small percentage more of their income.
suppose my parents believe that it's okay for me to consume a glass of wine with them at dinner (as in many European countries). Not only will restaurants refuse to do this (for fear of losing their liquor license), but my parents can actually be arrested, DCFS called, etc. for allowing this at home.
Many states allow parents to serve their children alcohol in the home. Perhaps you could find something factual to rant about.
it wont work for other reasons not least of which is that when you get to atomic scale the forces you are dealing with change dramatically and different things are important.
So I should believe some guy with a slashdot user number nearing the one million mark who poopoos the idea over the guy who in his mid-20's worked on the atomic bomb and who was sought out by Bohr to chat over difficult Physics concepts about what is and isn't possible and says that this is possible?
he EU cannot disclose the rest of the picture because Microsoft have a right to privacy that they have yet to formally waive?
By violating any confidentiality agreements of the proceedings, Microsoft may be ruled by the EU as having waived all rights to confidentiality of the proceedings. Pissing off judges is not the recommended way to get a ruling in your favor.
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Printing money ... oh yeah, that's brilliant .... here's a list of the countries such a concept has worked so well for improving their enconomy: .
Throw that one and only single vote away. Ignore that an independent has never been elected - go ahead a vote for one and sleep better knowing that instead of choosing the lessor of two evils you tossed your opportunity to choose out the window and let someone, everyone, else choose for you.
You do realize whose money that is the feds are "giving out", don't you? Does it make you feel all warm and snuggly to know that someone else has decided they know better than you do how to spend your money?
"clearly doomed"? ... last I checked Clinton was impeached.
One place I visited gave their interviewees 30 minutes to figure out how to type, average kinds of formatting and all, a printed document back into an OpenOffice document and print it out themselves to show the match, and likewise with a simple spreadsheet. A few just gave up and left ("I have to think? Oh noooo....") - only those who couldn't chew gum and type at the same time would fail. It was a trivial test, and anyone who couldn't figure it out probably shouldn't be allowed to participate in a decision making capacity in a business in the first place.
He's saying we should not actually build devices that can exist without our control of them. They should not be able to replicate without our input of some material that the devices can in no way seek and use on their own. There are no natural defenses against such devices - they would appear on the scene relatively overnight after years of isolated development, and the years of probing defense by other liefeforms that limits all life on this earth from complete consumption would not be available.
Yet you would be drawn and quartered if you said that from any position of authority on a college campus, as Larry Summers discovered. Indeed, suggesting that there may be genetic differences to explain any collective group's below the average showing in any endeavor would preclude you from ever obtaining any sort of achievment in the academic world. However, if you can state that genetics might explain how one particular named group (better known as dead white guys) have unfairly gained advantage in history due to a gene of violence, or whatever, then you can write your own ticket.
Once upon a time, the standard was to not render nonstandards - were that it were still the standard now, instead of the nonstandard ...
And probably a lot more risky and expensive. Why not spread the expense of the dedicated admin for that machine over 1000 machines?
I might question it too for a company that needed the money. Google has far more than the necessary cash to pay its employees - their stock price is certainly fibrillating lately - but its baseline is far above what the company needs to pay the bills for some time. Google was making (plenty of) money before they became a public company with the commensurate huge multiplier applied to their revenue stream. I, FWIW, think it will "outperform" for a long time.
It'd be even better if we could just pay by the minute. All the channels to select from (it doesn't cost any extra to send 'em all down the wire), but I only pay for what I watch - the crap shows would be histroy in about a week - instead of me subisdizing them.
And no commercials, damn it - if I want commercials, I'll got the the movies.
Is that the self-promotion ceremony that this year gave all those awards to movies that didn't even make the top 20 in ticket sales?
The most memorable starts with "Hey, watch this!"
Practical for whom?
Not if it's unsecured - a trivial thing to do. Say someone had really bright outside lights, like my neighbor. Should I not be allowed to read a book sitting on my back deck in the evening using the radiation coming from his property, or should I make arrangements to reimburse him for leaving his lights on all the time? I bet the power company has some rule about the sharing of electrical power - and yet, here is his radiation coming out of his space. He could easily shade his property if he didn't want me sharing his radiation. Likewise, a Wifi user can easily secure his access point if he doesn't want others using his connection. If the neighbor plants tall bushes on his property to block my use of his light spill, and I cut them down to gain access, then I have violated his property rights - likewise if I decrypt the trivially weak Wifi security I have violated his property rights.
There's three unsecured APs visible from my deck besides my own - I don't worry about any of them using my system if they want, nor do I worry about using theirs if I want, though I've never had a need.
But they sure believe in hot and cold water - always out of separate taps in the handbasin in the loo - it's gotta be a law or something.
That is greatly tempered by our willingness in the US to have a 30-yr mortgage. Spreading pain (payment) over 30 years, and I've read of discussions for consideration of longer mortages, greatly eases things. Additionally, we offload risk as a business. It's easy enough to purchase insurance to cover unemployment - it simply requires one to do so (and no, I generally haven't either).
There's no necessity for a real-estate collapse. Real estate is a limited asset just like gold - there's always more to be found, up to some limit not nearly even reached, but it costs something to go get it. Spreading a decrease in real-estate value over a long period will make those decreases have less short term impact. Personally, I don't think there will be any real-estate crash - there will certainly be some who declare bankruptcy and assets will get sold for whatever they're worth - but the vast majority of owners will continue to live and enjoy their homes, with their ownership perhaps requiring a small percentage more of their income.
Many states allow parents to serve their children alcohol in the home. Perhaps you could find something factual to rant about.
Sort of like believing that one visits slashdot to find "news for nerds?"
You must be one of those people who thinks freedom is insufficient to justify a war.
John Holmes got so, uh, popular.
So I should believe some guy with a slashdot user number nearing the one million mark who poopoos the idea over the guy who in his mid-20's worked on the atomic bomb and who was sought out by Bohr to chat over difficult Physics concepts about what is and isn't possible and says that this is possible?
God, my eyes bleed everytime I visit Ebay or Amazon.
By violating any confidentiality agreements of the proceedings, Microsoft may be ruled by the EU as having waived all rights to confidentiality of the proceedings. Pissing off judges is not the recommended way to get a ruling in your favor.
Occam? There's a name I haven't heard in awhile - and it sounded so good way back when - is it still alive?