So, talk about an oversimplified model - the Federal Reserve caused the collapse of the collateralized debt market? Perhaps you should be writing for -Wired-. Your first points were correct - the model is not the issue. It's a tool, like a hammer, you can drive the nails and build a house with it, or use it to murder someone. The tool is the same either way. The question is the intent.
There seems to be this implicit assumption amongst the pure free-market guys that there is no moral or ethical component to economic activities, as if there weren't, at the core of it all human beings who have the ability to suffer as a result of outcomes there. The idea being that there is that the fully unfettered market is something like a magic clockwork that always produces optimum outcomes if just allowed to be be "free". Maybe this would work if the economy consists solely of robots, but humans, who will lie, cheat, steal, believe in fairy tales, and engage in many non-logical behaviors produce a system that tends to generate superior outcomes for those in a position to manipulate or at least take advantage of the mechanism, at the expense of much larger groups that do not have this advantage.
This disaster wasn't caused by having a reserve banking system, it was caused by one of the Seven Sins - greed. Pride certainly played a part as well. The fact that the ability to arbitrage to disaster existed did not absolve the human beings in the system from an ethical obligation to NOT DO THAT.
If you don't expect, and then enforce societally this expectation for ethical behavior, it is impossible to produce a market system operated by humans that will avoid busts and bubbles.
Carter's AG was responsible for having the FISA court established, in response to intelligence agency requests for warrantless surveillance during that administration.
Clearly a mouthpiece of the American elite. Just one example.
Your comment is, I think, mostly a reflection of your lack of exposure to world media, which is unsurprising, since it's hard to get at here, apart from the BBC.
I recall a comment from the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein himself would watch updates from CNN. Give the people of the world besides yourself some credit for intelligence - it's possible to form your own opinions on a broadcast regardless of its "spin".
But thanks for your "vote" for totalitarianism! Stalin would definitely have agreed with your thesis, that the people are cattle that need to be ruled with an iron fist!
It's expensive to own and operate a fleet of personal 767, 757, and top-shelf business jets, not to mention a military aircraft. And when you are obscenely wealthy, you no longer need to conform to conventional ethics in the sense of say, paying for your own bloated ego.
Owning and operating the jets in a separate entity allows Google's top 3 to have the personal use of the jets, yet have Google lease them from a commercial entity so this benefit does not need to be reported as taxable, as well as shielding them from personal liability if the 767 goes into a primary school in Palo Alto some day.
I would guess that not a single of these flying toys is owned directly by their beneficiaries.
Yeah, I call bullshit again. WTH are you on about? That was about Dell not wanting to educate its script monkeys in Support about Linux. Don't have a problem with it, but it wasn't about any known issue with Linux damaging a computer.
This issue is a specific model of ethernet card on a specific board type using a beta release sometimes getting corrupted. A BIOS restore restores function.
This could easily have happened with a Windows beta release.
It's sort of the inverse of Fat Elvis/Skinny Elvis.
Things have really gone down the intertubes since Steve went all macrobiotic and emaciated on us. There seems to be a definite correlation between Steve's mass and Apple product quality.
Maybe it's time for Jobs to spend some "quality time" at Old Country Buffet.
I'm betting an iceweasel pelt that in 12 months you and most of the other dabblers will be on to the next fad and will have vague, disturbing, memories of this, just as I do of the emacs web browser. Just because a platform is programmable doesn't mean that -everything- should be implemented there.
The main arguments I tend to see for apps like this are from the class of geeks that believe that it is too inefficient to ever change apps/windows/remove hands from keyboard. Which is why I particularly enjoy the fact that one of the sample integrations is with Twitter, the web service that almost by definition means you are avoiding the 'work' in your 'flow'.
Eh? I'm a little out of date on the hardware side now, but my recollection was that the reason for using tantalums was their lower ESR than other capacitor types at higher capacitance values. This made them superior in high frequency applications.
So, assuming the laws of physics haven't been revoked, I'd be curious what makes these "newish ceramic caps" so delicious.
OK, now you've heard of an embedded guy that uses Apple, so your original post was pwned. Coming back and then rattling off a list of hardware design tools doesn't help your argument.
I was an embedded guy from back before there *were* FPGAs, and in those hazy days of yore, I used a Mac to write code for HC11s. Therefore your broadside was incorrect even before you probably finished junior high.
So now you know TWO embedded guys who use Apple. And people say there isn't any learning that happens on Slashdot.....
First off, given the currently understood process by which planetary systems form, giant collisions are inevitable. There isn't a single non-tidally locked planetary body in the solar system that doesn't have an axis tilted relative to the ecliptic (even Jupiter!) In fact, as the Jupiter example shows, it's not obvious that a body, even during the accretion phase, will end up with zero tilt. As mass accretes to a growing planetoid, it's unlikely that all of the angular momentum of the impacting material will perfectly average out to match exactly that of the Sun.
Secondly, gravitational interactions between bodies in the solar system, over billions of years, will cause axial wobble. The planets themselves are in elliptical orbits about the Sun that are not coplanar. So their gravitational effects will be oriented at some angle to their rotational axes even if they had zero tilt relative to the ecliptic. Any mass variation in these bodies therefore will experience differential pull. For any non-rigid body, which applies to all of the large bodies in the solar system at some point in their history, there is uneven distribution of mass inside them which changes over time.
What the Moon did for us, at the "cost" of tidal braking is produce a local gravity well whose effects are much larger than the other influences on our axial tilt, so that these effects primarily result in precession of the tilt axis rather than changes to its overall value. However, this is largely a chance development based on the particular mass ratio between the bodies and the configuration of our solar system. If the Earth-Moon system orbited closer to a jovian with a large inclination, the overall effect could have been to de-stabilize the rotational axis.
Extending your 'logic' just slightly into your preferred medium of wonder and light, the markup Web, we can also swiftly dispense with most websites that aren't TMZ.com since in percentage terms, most of the sites out there are a miniscule portion of 'total Internet users' and thus can be disregarded.
I'm pretty sure that would include this one.
I think of USENET to the markup Web as radio was/is to TV.
Now make my day and followup with a similar brilliant analysis of why radio should be bagged since television allows for services that are _BETTER THAT RADIO_.
The problem with the web site forums is the severe fragmentation. You have to join so many different sites just to have access to several of the topics. With Usenet, you could go to a single place to get everything under one signon. With Usenet, if you wanted to jump to another topic you have never been on before to ask some question, it's easy. With the web, you have to go find a site that carries that topic, register, keep track of yet another password, sift through ads that are in many cases abusive, and post your question.
+1 Insightful. Exactly right, USENET was fundamentally a democratic medium, since except for moderated groups, it wasn't "owned" by someone like a web forum. And as noted, it was all in one place. in so many ways, a lot of the "innovation" on the Web is retrograde. In some sense, what we have gone back to is the old BBS model, only with Google so you can actually find the locations of discussions.
The other good point here is that the main problem commercial types have with the old school USENET is that it doesn't permit real advertising delivery, since it isn't possible to easily determine how many views a posting gets. Plus it's text, which is pretty unappealing to Madison Avenue, since they can't show all the skillz at bullshitting the masses via kewl graphic design.
Since it's in the ISP's own interest to kill USENET, I think this puts the nails in the coffin. The non-affiliated providers like Supernews are now the long poles, and they'll have to cave as well.
Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
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So, talk about an oversimplified model - the Federal Reserve caused the collapse of the collateralized debt market? Perhaps you should be writing for -Wired-. Your first points were correct - the model is not the issue. It's a tool, like a hammer, you can drive the nails and build a house with it, or use it to murder someone. The tool is the same either way. The question is the intent.
There seems to be this implicit assumption amongst the pure free-market guys that there is no moral or ethical component to economic activities, as if there weren't, at the core of it all human beings who have the ability to suffer as a result of outcomes there. The idea being that there is that the fully unfettered market is something like a magic clockwork that always produces optimum outcomes if just allowed to be be "free". Maybe this would work if the economy consists solely of robots, but humans, who will lie, cheat, steal, believe in fairy tales, and engage in many non-logical behaviors produce a system that tends to generate superior outcomes for those in a position to manipulate or at least take advantage of the mechanism, at the expense of much larger groups that do not have this advantage.
This disaster wasn't caused by having a reserve banking system, it was caused by one of the Seven Sins - greed. Pride certainly played a part as well. The fact that the ability to arbitrage to disaster existed did not absolve the human beings in the system from an ethical obligation to NOT DO THAT.
If you don't expect, and then enforce societally this expectation for ethical behavior, it is impossible to produce a market system operated by humans that will avoid busts and bubbles.
Carter's AG was responsible for having the FISA court established, in response to intelligence agency requests for warrantless surveillance during that administration.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/01/05/griffin-bell-attorney-general-in-carter-administration-passes-away-at-90/
Watto like!
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/J-type_327_Nubian_royal_starship
Or maybe tzolkin-roll.
I assume this is a troll. The takedown was hardcore and more or less triple-damage win. Props to the guy from the Post are what is in order.
Clearly a mouthpiece of the American elite. Just one example.
Your comment is, I think, mostly a reflection of your lack of exposure to world media, which is unsurprising, since it's hard to get at here, apart from the BBC.
I recall a comment from the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein himself would watch updates from CNN. Give the people of the world besides yourself some credit for intelligence - it's possible to form your own opinions on a broadcast regardless of its "spin".
But thanks for your "vote" for totalitarianism! Stalin would definitely have agreed with your thesis, that the people are cattle that need to be ruled with an iron fist!
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It's expensive to own and operate a fleet of personal 767, 757, and top-shelf business jets, not to mention a military aircraft. And when you are obscenely wealthy, you no longer need to conform to conventional ethics in the sense of say, paying for your own bloated ego.
Owning and operating the jets in a separate entity allows Google's top 3 to have the personal use of the jets, yet have Google lease them from a commercial entity so this benefit does not need to be reported as taxable, as well as shielding them from personal liability if the 767 goes into a primary school in Palo Alto some day.
I would guess that not a single of these flying toys is owned directly by their beneficiaries.
Kind of prefer Miyazaki's idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauru_no_ugoku_shiro
Pwned again. My VP friend, time for a new /. identity.
Yeah, I call bullshit again. WTH are you on about? That was about Dell not wanting to educate its script monkeys in Support about Linux. Don't have a problem with it, but it wasn't about any known issue with Linux damaging a computer.
This issue is a specific model of ethernet card on a specific board type using a beta release sometimes getting corrupted. A BIOS restore restores function.
This could easily have happened with a Windows beta release.
It's sort of the inverse of Fat Elvis/Skinny Elvis.
Things have really gone down the intertubes since Steve went all macrobiotic and emaciated on us. There seems to be a definite correlation between Steve's mass and Apple product quality.
Maybe it's time for Jobs to spend some "quality time" at Old Country Buffet.
Here I thought "bandwidth" was an euphemism for something worth ranking, and it's just a list of how many bits went in and out....
Um, kind of looks like Excel. You could definitely do it in Excel.
I'm betting an iceweasel pelt that in 12 months you and most of the other dabblers will be on to the next fad and will have vague, disturbing, memories of this, just as I do of the emacs web browser. Just because a platform is programmable doesn't mean that -everything- should be implemented there.
The main arguments I tend to see for apps like this are from the class of geeks that believe that it is too inefficient to ever change apps/windows/remove hands from keyboard. Which is why I particularly enjoy the fact that one of the sample integrations is with Twitter, the web service that almost by definition means you are avoiding the 'work' in your 'flow'.
That cosmic ray flux could be a bad thing up there...
"...there'll be a thousand mutations, Andromeda will spread everywhere, we'll never be rid of it!"
+1
I was wondering about this myself. This seems like a glaring issue that essentially renders the idea worthless, even if the notaries are trustworthy.
Eh? I'm a little out of date on the hardware side now, but my recollection was that the reason for using tantalums was their lower ESR than other capacitor types at higher capacitance values. This made them superior in high frequency applications.
So, assuming the laws of physics haven't been revoked, I'd be curious what makes these "newish ceramic caps" so delicious.
OK, now you've heard of an embedded guy that uses Apple, so your original post was pwned. Coming back and then rattling off a list of hardware design tools doesn't help your argument.
I was an embedded guy from back before there *were* FPGAs, and in those hazy days of yore, I used a Mac to write code for HC11s. Therefore your broadside was incorrect even before you probably finished junior high.
So now you know TWO embedded guys who use Apple. And people say there isn't any learning that happens on Slashdot.....
It's actually "inside the box" thinking. But yeah.
Not correct.
First off, given the currently understood process by which planetary systems form, giant collisions are inevitable. There isn't a single non-tidally locked planetary body in the solar system that doesn't have an axis tilted relative to the ecliptic (even Jupiter!) In fact, as the Jupiter example shows, it's not obvious that a body, even during the accretion phase, will end up with zero tilt. As mass accretes to a growing planetoid, it's unlikely that all of the angular momentum of the impacting material will perfectly average out to match exactly that of the Sun.
Secondly, gravitational interactions between bodies in the solar system, over billions of years, will cause axial wobble. The planets themselves are in elliptical orbits about the Sun that are not coplanar. So their gravitational effects will be oriented at some angle to their rotational axes even if they had zero tilt relative to the ecliptic. Any mass variation in these bodies therefore will experience differential pull. For any non-rigid body, which applies to all of the large bodies in the solar system at some point in their history, there is uneven distribution of mass inside them which changes over time.
What the Moon did for us, at the "cost" of tidal braking is produce a local gravity well whose effects are much larger than the other influences on our axial tilt, so that these effects primarily result in precession of the tilt axis rather than changes to its overall value. However, this is largely a chance development based on the particular mass ratio between the bodies and the configuration of our solar system. If the Earth-Moon system orbited closer to a jovian with a large inclination, the overall effect could have been to de-stabilize the rotational axis.
Wiki has useful page on this topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt
I love those sample pictures of debased laptop thieves furtively inspecting their ill-gotten goods...
Or maybe the Mac demographic is a lot less latte-drinking yuppie than commonly assumed? ;D
Your analysis is retarded.
Extending your 'logic' just slightly into your preferred medium of wonder and light, the markup Web, we can also swiftly dispense with most websites that aren't TMZ.com since in percentage terms, most of the sites out there are a miniscule portion of 'total Internet users' and thus can be disregarded.
I'm pretty sure that would include this one.
I think of USENET to the markup Web as radio was/is to TV.
Now make my day and followup with a similar brilliant analysis of why radio should be bagged since television allows for services that are _BETTER THAT RADIO_.
The problem with the web site forums is the severe fragmentation. You have to join so many different sites just to have access to several of the topics. With Usenet, you could go to a single place to get everything under one signon. With Usenet, if you wanted to jump to another topic you have never been on before to ask some question, it's easy. With the web, you have to go find a site that carries that topic, register, keep track of yet another password, sift through ads that are in many cases abusive, and post your question.
+1 Insightful. Exactly right, USENET was fundamentally a democratic medium, since except for moderated groups, it wasn't "owned" by someone like a web forum. And as noted, it was all in one place. in so many ways, a lot of the "innovation" on the Web is retrograde. In some sense, what we have gone back to is the old BBS model, only with Google so you can actually find the locations of discussions.
The other good point here is that the main problem commercial types have with the old school USENET is that it doesn't permit real advertising delivery, since it isn't possible to easily determine how many views a posting gets. Plus it's text, which is pretty unappealing to Madison Avenue, since they can't show all the skillz at bullshitting the masses via kewl graphic design.
Since it's in the ISP's own interest to kill USENET, I think this puts the nails in the coffin. The non-affiliated providers like Supernews are now the long poles, and they'll have to cave as well.
Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!