That it's even an open question shows how far from actual trustbusting we have gone.
Even as a libertarian, I see this, just as all democracies (as opposed to republics) devolve, so does uncheck capitalism - always in the direction of corporate socialism (rent-seeking, bailouts, etc.)
The USA has invested so little in public transit since the 1960s, that the average american doesn't see it. In fact, the existing infrastructure back then (street cars, rail) has mostly crumbled and gone to shit. The only public transit to have expanded are buses.
But what is so new about ferries? They existed a long time before the 60s.
They are obviously not talking about ignoring the problem, but about not making fun of people that are actually suffering radiation exposure.
Fuck these people, really, fuck these people who sanctimoniously decree how we ought to express ourselves at every turn. When the Japanese disaster occured, I immediately donated a quarter of my last paycheck to the Red Cross. Japan always fascinated me and I studied their culture quite a bit. But I also laughed at the jokes Gilbert Gottfried was making about it on his twitter feed (and now fired from Aflac for it).
Why? Because they were funny and I had the full knowledge that the victims wouldn't see the jokes because they likely had no TV/internet, and were WAY TOO BUSY putting their/other lives back together to pay attention.
The people who worry about this shit are the little do-gooders who have more interest in exerting their will and power over other people than actually helping the victims out.
The European weenie media, particularly the German media, is using this disaster to stoke fears of Nuclear Power and they won't even distinguish from the different type of reactors and mention the newer, safer designs.
So yeah, I'd like to see where they'll get the energy from. My friends would say "the outlet."
With biofuels, I'm thinking more of diesel from algae than ethanol from corn. The Southwestern USA has all the desolate land it needs to put up huge tubes of algae cocktail to catch massive sunlight.
I have maximized my RAM for many years now. Since I had SSD the last few years, I stopped buying max # gigs for any new computer, probably about half of it and put it toward SSD.
It's much faster. The biggest improvement is waiting for disk to spin up to speed in a normal computer, in a laptop, this is multiplied by putting it to sleep much more often (close lid). Superfetch won't do anything there. Startups are MUCH faster too. (But then I don't start up as much as I used to.)
I also do a lot of browsing on my SSD/HDD and pictures comes up much faster (I have several thousand) and all that. Today's HDDs are good, but I use them as storage drives now, not as primary OS drives.
If the computer is a workstation, I'll maximize my RAM about 2.5 years down the road. It's much cheaper then and supplies still plentiful.
It has nothing to do with ePeen, as I don't even really now the exact GHz/spec of my CPUs anymore. I do it because I notice a difference.
It's not really a surprise no one wants to be a juror, you're treated almost like the prisoner in some case, cut off from the world and with shitty pay to boot.
As to the tracking, I'm sure it can be done, however, unlike DNA, spoofing is completely trivial, so I would never be comfortable having it as the only evidence in some type of trial.
Buy a MS Notebook, complain about having to pay the Windoze tax, install Linux, configure several small but nonfunctioning items (buttons) for several hours, wonder why it doesn't go out of sleep/hibernation smoothly, rave how awesome Linux is while having Windows booted so you can play that one game you like or use that one piece software that doesn't run on Wine?/jk
Window is fucking expensive stand alone. Many multiples what the OEMs pay.
If your wife or you happen to teach or go to a school, you might be able to get it for free from the school, or at a steep discount.
But yea, install on the 2008. It should easily still be good enough. Max out the RAM too. At this point, it's as cheap as it will get for your model. Later on, it'll just become rarer and most places will then put a premium on it.
A lot of this is financial boondoggle is because of government intervention in the first place. In the 1930s, it became government policy to make people homeowners and to that end they made interest rates to central banks cheap where they then loan it out to other banks and it eventually filters down to you. This, along with other things, has disastrous effects on the economy, and in no small part leading to the bubble of 2008. If you look at the 2000s, the low interest rates had people practically lose their mind about the practicality of housing - it no longer became just a house, it became something you bought so you could put out on the market again 6 months later for 50k profit or what not. Real estate lost all its sensibility. Banks got in trouble by giving a mortgage to anyone - if interest rates were reasonable, they might not have been so careless. Homes, even now, are overpriced historically. That makes rents higher too.
Compared to Europe, way more Americans own houses %. While that sounds good, it really just drove up suburbanization (and city ghettoization in the 1950s-70s), promoted the car culture over any decent mass transit, and is taking away farm land at a fast pace. Also, younger people simply don't need to own houses, it decreases their mobility.
I would simply set interest rates higher to combat this. I would also promote what is called the Apt-tax, which can do away with income and many other taxes. Bascially - every transaction pays 0.3% (either party, both parties, depends how you structure it). There are no loopholes. You buy $100 at Walmart, $0.30 (or $.60) goes to the government automatically. Buy a $100k house, $300 (or $600) goes to uncle same.
Private transactions would be harder to track but they are miniscule. It was proposed that when someone puts money (not a check) in the bank, a rate of 2.5x that would be charged because it was found out that was the average number of times that cash has changed hands.
Anyway, the average family of four would not be contributing a lot in the government, well under a $1000 a year. However, financial institution and financial transactions, who do millions of transactions a year would contribute significantly to the Treasury.
Even though a $1M transaction would garner only $3000 (or 6k), it has been shown that it would cover government costs. The beauty is that the rate is too low to dissaude deals as well.
They do both (at leas Deep Blue did IIRC). Look at databases and calculated moves ahead.
I'd be interested what would happen if they added another row or two to the chess board, who would cope better, the human or the computer (I really don't know).
Chess is a rather limited game compared to something like a full-size Go board. With board games, you could increase the size to a point (which is still outstandingly small relatively) where it becomes prohibitive for a classical computer to both calculate or even keep a reasonable sized subset of moves in the database. Something where which a human can just look at and make a reasonable strategy with either intuition or after some experience.
Computers are good at deductive reasoning, not so much inductive reasoning (got my terms correct?) I think the primary objection becomes one where you take a world class computer/program playing chess games, and it becomes helpless when the parameters are even tweaked slightly. Many humans can adapt in such a scenario, but with computers it's easier to see how to foil them, have them hit a wall.
I would say Android is doing more than "holding up well" against iOS. Isn't it beating it by a handy margin now - even with iPads? If Motorola was smart they back a winning horse. Android is only going to get stronger over time.
Depends on what you mean by beating. It's basically 1 model phone/tablet vs many. Not exactly an apples vs oranges comparison.
And, unlike the desktop, the OS in this case isn't a moneymaker... yet.
I don't see a problem with bitcoin in theory... but throughout history no currency has been stable without an army to enforce its existence. Disband the USA police/Army and the dollar would collapse. Gold and other universally liked-by-all-humans minerals retains its value for the new owners if someone steals it. Cant say the same about BC.
Armies do not enforce currency or value. At best, they can create a stable environment for an economy to fluorish.
Let's say the local military forces the town's smith to accept their dollars. Well, the town's smith will eventually need to buy personal supplies as well as supplies to keep his business going and that won't be any good if the next guy doesn't accept dollars. Or the next guy after that in the chain.
The economy is like the internet, it routes around these problems, in this case one country's declining currency. Business will shift and adapt and change, perhaps go elsewhere. But it won't be dictated to from above for long.
So, in anything but a closed economy (ala the Soviet Union), the army/police just doesn't do any good. And even the Soviets needed outside goods, did they buy it with rubles? No, they basically exchanged it for commodities like oil or other natural resources which they had plenty of.
Currency derives its value from acceptance, but somewhere down the line, you have to be able to do something unique with it (or it has to be inherently unique) other than pass it off to the next guy.
Gold cannot be made (easily/cheaply). Maybe in the future with science like they do with diamonds now, except manipulating neutrons/electrons/protons. It derives its value from that. If alchemists had ever succeeded, the irony would have been that it would have lost much of its value over a short time due to inflation if nothing else.
About the only thing that you can do only with the US dollar is pay your tax bill to the US Govt. Since 1997, our inflation has been around 37%, but the Government's spending has increase 118%. (This year's deficit equal 1997's US Federal Budget).
There will be a rude awakening in the future. Even with the biggest ($$$-wise) military in the world. Unlike all other foes, our army will be completely helpless to stop the decline.
If China wants to have a system of bribes necessary to get anything done, let them do so. I don't want the SEC to import that culture over here!
What, are you fucking ignorant?
Haven't you seen how Congress is controlled yet? Via campaign contributions. And you don't think that it's filtered down to the state and local level?
My town only lets tow truck company with town specific permits pick up cars within limits, they even apply this to the highway which technically is federal and should be illegal, and they only let one company have the permits even though there are many others in the area.
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Not all OSes are created equal.
Corporate Welfare then. I don't know if "corporate fascism" as you suggest quite makes sense.
That it's even an open question shows how far from actual trustbusting we have gone.
Even as a libertarian, I see this, just as all democracies (as opposed to republics) devolve, so does uncheck capitalism - always in the direction of corporate socialism (rent-seeking, bailouts, etc.)
So stop taking it seriously. They don't seem to have much respect for the individual in anything anymore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia
This just looks like another power grab.
The USA has invested so little in public transit since the 1960s, that the average american doesn't see it. In fact, the existing infrastructure back then (street cars, rail) has mostly crumbled and gone to shit. The only public transit to have expanded are buses.
But what is so new about ferries? They existed a long time before the 60s.
Too bad, my shaving mirror depends on the heat of a traditional lightbulb to function (keep fog away).
Fuck these people, really, fuck these people who sanctimoniously decree how we ought to express ourselves at every turn. When the Japanese disaster occured, I immediately donated a quarter of my last paycheck to the Red Cross. Japan always fascinated me and I studied their culture quite a bit. But I also laughed at the jokes Gilbert Gottfried was making about it on his twitter feed (and now fired from Aflac for it).
Why? Because they were funny and I had the full knowledge that the victims wouldn't see the jokes because they likely had no TV/internet, and were WAY TOO BUSY putting their/other lives back together to pay attention.
The people who worry about this shit are the little do-gooders who have more interest in exerting their will and power over other people than actually helping the victims out.
FUCK THEM!
FUCK THEM!
FUCK THEM!
At least health care costs would plummet.
The European weenie media, particularly the German media, is using this disaster to stoke fears of Nuclear Power and they won't even distinguish from the different type of reactors and mention the newer, safer designs.
So yeah, I'd like to see where they'll get the energy from. My friends would say "the outlet."
With biofuels, I'm thinking more of diesel from algae than ethanol from corn. The Southwestern USA has all the desolate land it needs to put up huge tubes of algae cocktail to catch massive sunlight.
I have maximized my RAM for many years now. Since I had SSD the last few years, I stopped buying max # gigs for any new computer, probably about half of it and put it toward SSD.
It's much faster. The biggest improvement is waiting for disk to spin up to speed in a normal computer, in a laptop, this is multiplied by putting it to sleep much more often (close lid). Superfetch won't do anything there. Startups are MUCH faster too. (But then I don't start up as much as I used to.)
I also do a lot of browsing on my SSD/HDD and pictures comes up much faster (I have several thousand) and all that. Today's HDDs are good, but I use them as storage drives now, not as primary OS drives.
If the computer is a workstation, I'll maximize my RAM about 2.5 years down the road. It's much cheaper then and supplies still plentiful.
It has nothing to do with ePeen, as I don't even really now the exact GHz/spec of my CPUs anymore. I do it because I notice a difference.
Yeah, but after 5 minutes thought, then what?
It's not really a surprise no one wants to be a juror, you're treated almost like the prisoner in some case, cut off from the world and with shitty pay to boot.
Apparently they can't meter you too well.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/att-vows-to-improve-inaccurate-broadband-metering/
As to the tracking, I'm sure it can be done, however, unlike DNA, spoofing is completely trivial, so I would never be comfortable having it as the only evidence in some type of trial.
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Buy a MS Notebook, complain about having to pay the Windoze tax, install Linux, configure several small but nonfunctioning items (buttons) for several hours, wonder why it doesn't go out of sleep/hibernation smoothly, rave how awesome Linux is while having Windows booted so you can play that one game you like or use that one piece software that doesn't run on Wine? /jk
Window is fucking expensive stand alone. Many multiples what the OEMs pay.
If your wife or you happen to teach or go to a school, you might be able to get it for free from the school, or at a steep discount.
But yea, install on the 2008. It should easily still be good enough. Max out the RAM too. At this point, it's as cheap as it will get for your model. Later on, it'll just become rarer and most places will then put a premium on it.
A lot of this is financial boondoggle is because of government intervention in the first place. In the 1930s, it became government policy to make people homeowners and to that end they made interest rates to central banks cheap where they then loan it out to other banks and it eventually filters down to you. This, along with other things, has disastrous effects on the economy, and in no small part leading to the bubble of 2008. If you look at the 2000s, the low interest rates had people practically lose their mind about the practicality of housing - it no longer became just a house, it became something you bought so you could put out on the market again 6 months later for 50k profit or what not. Real estate lost all its sensibility. Banks got in trouble by giving a mortgage to anyone - if interest rates were reasonable, they might not have been so careless. Homes, even now, are overpriced historically. That makes rents higher too.
Compared to Europe, way more Americans own houses %. While that sounds good, it really just drove up suburbanization (and city ghettoization in the 1950s-70s), promoted the car culture over any decent mass transit, and is taking away farm land at a fast pace. Also, younger people simply don't need to own houses, it decreases their mobility.
I would simply set interest rates higher to combat this. I would also promote what is called the Apt-tax, which can do away with income and many other taxes. Bascially - every transaction pays 0.3% (either party, both parties, depends how you structure it). There are no loopholes. You buy $100 at Walmart, $0.30 (or $.60) goes to the government automatically. Buy a $100k house, $300 (or $600) goes to uncle same.
Private transactions would be harder to track but they are miniscule. It was proposed that when someone puts money (not a check) in the bank, a rate of 2.5x that would be charged because it was found out that was the average number of times that cash has changed hands.
Anyway, the average family of four would not be contributing a lot in the government, well under a $1000 a year. However, financial institution and financial transactions, who do millions of transactions a year would contribute significantly to the Treasury.
Even though a $1M transaction would garner only $3000 (or 6k), it has been shown that it would cover government costs. The beauty is that the rate is too low to dissaude deals as well.
I'm pretty sure Jesus was celibate. But I may be wrong.
That's it, we're boned.
Just don't store the data for more than the next ping. They don't need to keep a record.
If they want a record to see where to put more towers up, anonymize the data so it cannot be traced to any one person.
No, that's not how it works - otherwise GPS and tower tracking wouldn't be such relatively new features to cell phones if it was that essential.
They can go by signal strength, I'm pretty sure they still do so in a handoff.
They do both (at leas Deep Blue did IIRC). Look at databases and calculated moves ahead.
I'd be interested what would happen if they added another row or two to the chess board, who would cope better, the human or the computer (I really don't know).
Chess is a rather limited game compared to something like a full-size Go board. With board games, you could increase the size to a point (which is still outstandingly small relatively) where it becomes prohibitive for a classical computer to both calculate or even keep a reasonable sized subset of moves in the database. Something where which a human can just look at and make a reasonable strategy with either intuition or after some experience.
Computers are good at deductive reasoning, not so much inductive reasoning (got my terms correct?) I think the primary objection becomes one where you take a world class computer/program playing chess games, and it becomes helpless when the parameters are even tweaked slightly. Many humans can adapt in such a scenario, but with computers it's easier to see how to foil them, have them hit a wall.
Depends on what you mean by beating. It's basically 1 model phone/tablet vs many. Not exactly an apples vs oranges comparison.
And, unlike the desktop, the OS in this case isn't a moneymaker... yet.
Armies do not enforce currency or value. At best, they can create a stable environment for an economy to fluorish.
Let's say the local military forces the town's smith to accept their dollars. Well, the town's smith will eventually need to buy personal supplies as well as supplies to keep his business going and that won't be any good if the next guy doesn't accept dollars. Or the next guy after that in the chain.
The economy is like the internet, it routes around these problems, in this case one country's declining currency. Business will shift and adapt and change, perhaps go elsewhere. But it won't be dictated to from above for long.
So, in anything but a closed economy (ala the Soviet Union), the army/police just doesn't do any good. And even the Soviets needed outside goods, did they buy it with rubles? No, they basically exchanged it for commodities like oil or other natural resources which they had plenty of.
Currency derives its value from acceptance, but somewhere down the line, you have to be able to do something unique with it (or it has to be inherently unique) other than pass it off to the next guy.
Gold cannot be made (easily/cheaply). Maybe in the future with science like they do with diamonds now, except manipulating neutrons/electrons/protons. It derives its value from that. If alchemists had ever succeeded, the irony would have been that it would have lost much of its value over a short time due to inflation if nothing else.
About the only thing that you can do only with the US dollar is pay your tax bill to the US Govt. Since 1997, our inflation has been around 37%, but the Government's spending has increase 118%. (This year's deficit equal 1997's US Federal Budget).
There will be a rude awakening in the future. Even with the biggest ($$$-wise) military in the world. Unlike all other foes, our army will be completely helpless to stop the decline.
Probably is a very cheap laptop with a desktop CPU and shit for a battery.
What, are you fucking ignorant?
Haven't you seen how Congress is controlled yet? Via campaign contributions. And you don't think that it's filtered down to the state and local level?
My town only lets tow truck company with town specific permits pick up cars within limits, they even apply this to the highway which technically is federal and should be illegal, and they only let one company have the permits even though there are many others in the area.