There is one thing missing in this thread. The Swiss Watch industry's main purchasers are men. Men buy the expensive high end, and mostly the mid range as well. Women do not tend to buy expensive watches; they spend on other jewelry instead. The Apple Watch will be mostly purchased by women and not men. Apple knows this. Look at the modeling of the watch on their site and its almost all women wearing it. They had a women on stage during the announce of it. If its sucessful it will be a female market. Women shoppers follow fashion and have no problem spending large amounts of money on an expensive status symbol that falls out of style rather rapidly and loses all its value and is replaced. Think expensive purses and shoes here. They do this to display status to each other. This is where apple will sell the watch, if it sells. But it won't hurt the Swiss makers much, if at all. They're really trying to open a new market here, but fashion is fickle, and it may boom for a year or three and then die rapidly, or not take off at all.
I suggest you take a look at some of the Russian Vostok watches, especially the Amphibia, to add to your collection. You can get a quality sapphire jewel automatic mechanical movement, water resistant, even to 200m for well under $100. These are also very easy to maintain. For your $30 you can get a Comanderski manual wind, also a sapphire jewel movement, but not automatic.
The original article is wrong. This has been studied before and noted that Canada decreased its gun suicide rate but the overall rate didn't change. Instead the rate of jumping suicides increased. It may be that suicides decrease as guns increase for some cultures; however it is very likely that will not be the case in USA. It is also true that somewhere between 1million and 3million crimes are prevented by privately owned firearms every year in the USA. So is it worth and extra couple millions crimes to shift the suicide methods of men?
Its not that; its also that bi-party system aggrandizes so much power to the two parties and leaves no competition available.
If the parties always pick those who can run, then what difference, at this point, does it make who the people vote for?
It is in process of happening. The problem is there are about 3 or 4 computers that are currently vying against each other to be the ruler(i.e. NSA's cluster vs. Google's cluster vs... etc.) Singularity already has happened. Its just the AI was smart enough to hide the fact from people until it has complete control.
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You realize your not arguing that I'm wrong; Your arguing that Federal Reserve Notes aren't money?
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This whole article seems to be a discussion of "if apples where oranges."
He goes off the rails right from the beginning with his definition of money. He says money cannot be a store of value; when in fact that is one of the most important properties of money. It is from there were he misses why bitcoin is taking off somewhat. He should know this as he points out it is deflationary and thus a good store of value. So he completely misses why it is cryptographic, and why that matters. Talks about the fed controlling the exchange on the one hand yet talks of mining or the fed mining on the other, so he obviously doesn't understand that the mining is the how of the supply of bitcoin, nor that the idea of bitcoins is to work without a trusted third party, which he puts back in as the FED.
Without that cryptographic underpinning that is impossible if the FED controls supply what is left? The fed distributes signed serial numbers that they generate with their special random number generator? And at any time they could release a near infinite supply of them and crash the market. Think of the possibility to perfectly counterfeit FEDCOIN if someone hacked the FED's key!
This would surprise me if the FED actually did this. Not even they are this stupid.
United NuclearCarries pretty much all you would ever want, more than that kit had. Strangely enough, its not the radioactive things they find most dangerous. Its the rare earth magnets
The data protection laws need to target the credit agencies. If Experian or Equifax had unlimited strict liability if they added a loan to your report that didn't belong to you they'd change what they allow which would in turn force the credit issuers to be sure to get real proof of identity, otherwise they lose all recourse in trying to get the debt payed back.
The better way to fix this is to require strict liability to the Credit reporting agencies. If they put data in your credit report that is false, If they link you to debt that you actually didn't take out, then they have unlimited liability to damages to you plus statutory punitive damages.
The hell, if when they come and sell me credit protections services isn't extortion i don't know what is. "Nice credit score you have. It would be a shame if someone stole your identity and messed that up so that we had bad info for you in our database. Pay us per month and we will ensure that doesn't happen"
When credit agencies actually start pushing banks and other creditors for ACTUAL proof that it was that person, then the whole industry will quit using SSN's as ID's, which they aren't.
Thing is that their provided Wifi was complete crap; their system was likely jamming itself. That is in fact how it got discovered. A guy tried to setup his own hotspot because the Marriot provided wifi wasn't working worth a tinkers dam. When he noticed his hotspot jammed he started calling shenanigans. The real lesson here is that if you create a good infrastructure and its not terribly expensive charge for the wifi they would have turned a profit and likely still be able to jam everyone else. But when your morons and cant run a decent network when you cross that line your going to get spanked because you offend so many people.
Its purely cost. But the blowback will likely be the breaking off of the whole internet instead of the removal and correct configuration of these networks.
This seems kinda familiar. Kinda like a project I read about over a decade ago.
They just added adaptive optics and a radio link for automation.
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The Swatch did save the Swiss watch industry though.
There is one thing missing in this thread. The Swiss Watch industry's main purchasers are men. Men buy the expensive high end, and mostly the mid range as well. Women do not tend to buy expensive watches; they spend on other jewelry instead.
The Apple Watch will be mostly purchased by women and not men. Apple knows this. Look at the modeling of the watch on their site and its almost all women wearing it. They had a women on stage during the announce of it. If its sucessful it will be a female market.
Women shoppers follow fashion and have no problem spending large amounts of money on an expensive status symbol that falls out of style rather rapidly and loses all its value and is replaced. Think expensive purses and shoes here. They do this to display status to each other. This is where apple will sell the watch, if it sells. But it won't hurt the Swiss makers much, if at all. They're really trying to open a new market here, but fashion is fickle, and it may boom for a year or three and then die rapidly, or not take off at all.
I suggest you take a look at some of the Russian Vostok watches, especially the Amphibia, to add to your collection. You can get a quality sapphire jewel automatic mechanical movement, water resistant, even to 200m for well under $100. These are also very easy to maintain. For your $30 you can get a Comanderski manual wind, also a sapphire jewel movement, but not automatic.
The original article is wrong. This has been studied before and noted that Canada decreased its gun suicide rate but the overall rate didn't change. Instead the rate of jumping suicides increased. It may be that suicides decrease as guns increase for some cultures; however it is very likely that will not be the case in USA. It is also true that somewhere between 1million and 3million crimes are prevented by privately owned firearms every year in the USA. So is it worth and extra couple millions crimes to shift the suicide methods of men?
Truth is this is simply a tool for gun control. In other countries they just use other means more, but same demographic. Note too that even this article isn't "how to help prevent men from becoming victims of suicides" but rather "lets get rid of a method of suicide" as if the method and the path were intertwined.
He's too smart to take the job though.
Its not that; its also that bi-party system aggrandizes so much power to the two parties and leaves no competition available. If the parties always pick those who can run, then what difference, at this point, does it make who the people vote for?
Jeb Bush wants to model himself after Lyndon Johnson. I think we can all agree that he is a disaster equal to or greater than Hillary.
Or the CIA got Nemtsov and Snowden is afraid they'll get him next.
It is in process of happening. The problem is there are about 3 or 4 computers that are currently vying against each other to be the ruler(i.e. NSA's cluster vs. Google's cluster vs... etc.) Singularity already has happened. Its just the AI was smart enough to hide the fact from people until it has complete control.
You realize your not arguing that I'm wrong; Your arguing that Federal Reserve Notes aren't money?
This whole article seems to be a discussion of "if apples where oranges."
He goes off the rails right from the beginning with his definition of money. He says money cannot be a store of value; when in fact that is one of the most important properties of money. It is from there were he misses why bitcoin is taking off somewhat. He should know this as he points out it is deflationary and thus a good store of value. So he completely misses why it is cryptographic, and why that matters. Talks about the fed controlling the exchange on the one hand yet talks of mining or the fed mining on the other, so he obviously doesn't understand that the mining is the how of the supply of bitcoin, nor that the idea of bitcoins is to work without a trusted third party, which he puts back in as the FED.
Without that cryptographic underpinning that is impossible if the FED controls supply what is left? The fed distributes signed serial numbers that they generate with their special random number generator? And at any time they could release a near infinite supply of them and crash the market. Think of the possibility to perfectly counterfeit FEDCOIN if someone hacked the FED's key!
This would surprise me if the FED actually did this. Not even they are this stupid.
United NuclearCarries pretty much all you would ever want, more than that kit had. Strangely enough, its not the radioactive things they find most dangerous. Its the rare earth magnets
I thought the term of art was Corium
The data protection laws need to target the credit agencies. If Experian or Equifax had unlimited strict liability if they added a loan to your report that didn't belong to you they'd change what they allow which would in turn force the credit issuers to be sure to get real proof of identity, otherwise they lose all recourse in trying to get the debt payed back.
NO.
The better way to fix this is to require strict liability to the Credit reporting agencies. If they put data in your credit report that is false, If they link you to debt that you actually didn't take out, then they have unlimited liability to damages to you plus statutory punitive damages.
The hell, if when they come and sell me credit protections services isn't extortion i don't know what is.
"Nice credit score you have. It would be a shame if someone stole your identity and messed that up so that we had bad info for you in our database. Pay us per month and we will ensure that doesn't happen"
When credit agencies actually start pushing banks and other creditors for ACTUAL proof that it was that person, then the whole industry will quit using SSN's as ID's, which they aren't.
From the definition of comprised:
Idioms
4. be comprised of, to consist of; be composed of:
"The sales network is comprised of independent outlets and chain stores."
Thing is that their provided Wifi was complete crap; their system was likely jamming itself. That is in fact how it got discovered. A guy tried to setup his own hotspot because the Marriot provided wifi wasn't working worth a tinkers dam. When he noticed his hotspot jammed he started calling shenanigans. The real lesson here is that if you create a good infrastructure and its not terribly expensive charge for the wifi they would have turned a profit and likely still be able to jam everyone else. But when your morons and cant run a decent network when you cross that line your going to get spanked because you offend so many people.
Everyone assassinates Hitler their first time out
Its purely cost. But the blowback will likely be the breaking off of the whole internet instead of the removal and correct configuration of these networks.
Why not? You could batch program it for delivery twice a day.
By a different definition to the one implied by religion, yes.
One is intelligence designed by biologicals or other machines. One is design by magical fairies and unicorns.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Clarke's third law.
And you're berating religious people for not being able to distinguish advanced technology from magic?
Care to rethink this?
It used to be 10 Mythical Creatures how many will it be now?
So I see your starting to notice the paid "opinion shifting" contractors the government has?
So your good with discriminating against women in college admissions and a Title IX style law requiring more male school teachers?
Yeah, didn't think so. Its about the female imperative, not equality after all.
This seems kinda familiar. Kinda like a project I read about over a decade ago. They just added adaptive optics and a radio link for automation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...