With a potential of 21,000,000 bitcoins, each divisible into 100,000,000 satoshi, that gives us something like 300 thousand satoshi per man woman and child on the planet.
Even if half of all bitcoins are destroyed in hard drive crashes, and the world population doubles, there's still over 100 thousand satoshi per man woman and child on the planet.
Compare this to dollars, all 1.23T of them in circulation, which works out to only 17,571 pennies per person on the planet.
Between 1970 and 1988 the IOC itself phased out a requirement of amateurism.
But each sport and their ruling body still has its own definition of who qualifies - amateur or professional. Boxing and wrestling being the most obvious. Soccer allows limited professionals (and unlimited under-23 professionals), IIRC.
For most of the non-team sports, it's not a big deal, unless there's a massive professional men's pommel horse circuit that I'm missing out on...
Clearly at the Winter Olympics, "action sports" athletes are professionals, as are likely all the Curling teams -- at least in that they're sponsored and play in club leagues.
I don't see a problem if the world's fastest man or greatest bobsledder is also an NFL player. But that's just my opinion, and other ones are similarly valid.
NBC is meeting their obligation by broadcasting the Olympics over the public airways. Seems reasonable.
You can bitch about the coverage on MSNBC and CNBC and USA, but they're already devoting pretty much every hour not already assigned to local affiliates to broadcast Olympic coverage 12+ hours a day anyway. CNBC, USA, MSNBC, and live internet streaming are EXTRAS on top of the near nonstop coverage they have already -- which is way more than there ever used to be. Olympic coverage (especially Winter Olympics) used to be just a few hours a night.
In 1964, there were 19 hours of Winter Olympic coverage on ABC. By 1980, there were over 50. By 1988 there were almost 100. In 2010 there were 835
...so don't tell me about "normal because it's how things have always been."...because you're retarded. NBC itself, available by broadcast offered 200 hours of coverage, more than double what "things have always been."
I don't have the full 2014 stats, but judging from the overload on my DVR, it's similar.
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They're under no obligation to also provide no-cost internet streaming to cable cord cutters who have the option of watching the events live on broadcast television, or recording the events themselves from broadcast television.
...except they're not sitting in dock waiting for "real missions." They're always somewhere and this month, that somewhere happens to be outside Sochi.
Those warships and the soldiers on them don't cease to exist when not in Sochi, and cost just as much to steam pretty much any other place on the planet.
What you get out of paying taxes that go toward protecting our "amateur" athletes as they travel the world is that when you get real good at speed skating they'll protect you too, free of charge. In return, those athletes pay their taxes, and it goes to things that sometimes benefit you more directly than it benefits them.
Neither of you get free TV content out of the deal.
I find the notion that somewhere near 10% of all cops are waiting in the wings with bags of drugs and spare guns waiting to plant them on people, and the idea that LEO's perjuring themselves is "routine" to be almost tinfoil-hat worthy.
It's not fashionable to say here, but Io think the overwhelming majority of police are honest, hard-working people looking to serve the public interest. While I suspect there are those who get off on their position, I think most don't get off it on it much more than I "get off" on deciding what model the new corporate laptop will be next year.
To your question: Crystal clear honest? I think everyone, police included, are liable to take shortcuts in routine actions. Your average cop is probably more likely to make a rolling stop at a stop sign than you or I - especially since they aren't ever going to get a ticket for it. Cops all speed without lights and sirens with relative impunity. I suspect plenty of paperwork happens by rote -- but I don't attribute much of any of it to malice. So, if you define "crystal clear honest" as some sort of Jim Carey's Liar Liar who can only blurt out the truth -- then probably none....but as a practical answer, I think the number is much, much higher than you do, probably by an order of magnitude.
I recall getting fed that line about Japanese management models in my 89's copy of Rising Sun, and while watching Gung Ho in the late 80's.
...and while there's still a Wikipedia article about the Japanese model of management that talks in the present, I have to ask? Is it still true? I know the quarterly profit driven model of western countries drives our management, and Japanese companies don't fall prey as much to it as we do, but......I was still under the impression we've poisoned eastern companies all the same...
Homeland Security has already captured 2,000 pieces of stolen art while searching for terrorists supplies or weapons being shipped into the US. In some cases individuals on the receiving end of an art purchase had no clue that the art work was stolen. The loss to the buyer can be quite large.
How large would you say the loss to the buyer is relative to the loss of the person from whom the art was stolen?
It seems cops in NY could certainly use some serious reining-in. In this incident, an officer allegedly kicked and broke the leg of a 10-YO boy who used his mother's phone to video record them, and then also sexually assaulted the mother.
There's certainly interactions between cops and citizens that go badly, but this story sounds flimsy, and the video..
The cell phone captured sounds and voices during the confrontations but the video image is herky-jerky from the struggle.
It's currently she-said / cops-say.
I have no doubt the kid got injured in the struggle, but the whole thing doesn't add up as presented. The entire article is written from the viewpoint of the allegations against the police.
It's not even necessarily that. The HVAC may or may not have had access into the "real" system, but it, at minimum, allowed them a foothold from which to perform penetration testing .
I remember implementing a change to our security because a chain that broke ultimately because some local SQL express SA accounts were open (on workstations, with 3rd party products that required local SQL express), which allowed further and further enumeration that ultimately ended with the discovery of a domain admin's credentials.
Verizon CSR is, essentially, the lowest tier job in the English speaking world.
Actual bandwidth details will tell the truth, but it's much, much more likely that a Verizon worker bee is simply an idiot, or just repeating nonsense he overheard and misunderstood while on his smoke break.
"Affected by current laws" makes it sound like they had the unfortunate accident of being dropped in this country by mistake rather than choosing, willfully, to be in violation of the law.
I sympathize with their plight. The other side of the US/Mexico border sucks. If the roles were reversed, I might be here illegally trying to make life better for my family....but not choosing a soft, friendly, PC name for people who, by definition, are criminals doesn't make me racist.
That's a grossly simplistic view of something that happened all a quarter of a century ago, and does not, by and large, represent the attitude of Arizonans.
In 1987, the Governor, acting on threats from the state's AG that a new federally forced holiday was illegal, and as such would sue for the cost of the holiday, canceled the outgoing governor's order for the holiday to go on the state's books. This wild-west libertarian, federal government can't tell us what to do attitude was good for Governor Mecham, who probably was racist.
This was still very much Goldwater's Arizona, at least in terms of politics, and played a much larger part than the textbook writing world will remember this event as "just racism."
In 1990, despite threats from the NFL to take away Super Bowl XXVII, the MLK holiday voting issue went to the public (instead of the state legislature) and the popular vote chose not to add the holiday to the state calendar. [Business here either do or don't offer the day off, much like everywhere else in the country.] The NFL followed through with their threat. In 1992, the MLK holiday went up for voting again, and it passed. Now state employees could have the day off. The NFL responded by awarding us Super Bowl XXX -- which we celebrated by making a logo suitable for Vin Diesel movie.
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With a potential of 21,000,000 bitcoins, each divisible into 100,000,000 satoshi, that gives us something like 300 thousand satoshi per man woman and child on the planet.
Even if half of all bitcoins are destroyed in hard drive crashes, and the world population doubles, there's still over 100 thousand satoshi per man woman and child on the planet.
Compare this to dollars, all 1.23T of them in circulation, which works out to only 17,571 pennies per person on the planet.
Between 1970 and 1988 the IOC itself phased out a requirement of amateurism.
But each sport and their ruling body still has its own definition of who qualifies - amateur or professional. Boxing and wrestling being the most obvious. Soccer allows limited professionals (and unlimited under-23 professionals), IIRC.
For most of the non-team sports, it's not a big deal, unless there's a massive professional men's pommel horse circuit that I'm missing out on...
Clearly at the Winter Olympics, "action sports" athletes are professionals, as are likely all the Curling teams -- at least in that they're sponsored and play in club leagues.
I don't see a problem if the world's fastest man or greatest bobsledder is also an NFL player. But that's just my opinion, and other ones are similarly valid.
NBC is meeting their obligation by broadcasting the Olympics over the public airways. Seems reasonable.
You can bitch about the coverage on MSNBC and CNBC and USA, but they're already devoting pretty much every hour not already assigned to local affiliates to broadcast Olympic coverage 12+ hours a day anyway. CNBC, USA, MSNBC, and live internet streaming are EXTRAS on top of the near nonstop coverage they have already -- which is way more than there ever used to be. Olympic coverage (especially Winter Olympics) used to be just a few hours a night.
In 1964, there were 19 hours of Winter Olympic coverage on ABC.
By 1980, there were over 50.
By 1988 there were almost 100.
In 2010 there were 835
I don't have the full 2014 stats, but judging from the overload on my DVR, it's similar.
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They're under no obligation to also provide no-cost internet streaming to cable cord cutters who have the option of watching the events live on broadcast television, or recording the events themselves from broadcast television.
They're not public.
We're all getting government funded security right now.
...except they're not sitting in dock waiting for "real missions." They're always somewhere and this month, that somewhere happens to be outside Sochi.
but free cable streaming, because taxes!
Content without ads is only free if you value your time at 0.
Those warships and the soldiers on them don't cease to exist when not in Sochi, and cost just as much to steam pretty much any other place on the planet.
What you get out of paying taxes that go toward protecting our "amateur" athletes as they travel the world is that when you get real good at speed skating they'll protect you too, free of charge. In return, those athletes pay their taxes, and it goes to things that sometimes benefit you more directly than it benefits them.
Neither of you get free TV content out of the deal.
because entitlement!
They're not restricting their broadcast - since they're still broadcasting it from the top of the hills their antennas are on.
Plug in your antenna and watch it for free.
The Olympics are a big business run by a big company, and they sold the rights to NBC.
You object to paying to protect our citizens as they travel the world, or you object to not getting free television content as a result of it?
Russian citizen checking in, I guess.
While your math is correct, I simply reject the premise that 10% of cops are holding bags of drugs to sprinkle over people in case of screwups.
I find the notion that somewhere near 10% of all cops are waiting in the wings with bags of drugs and spare guns waiting to plant them on people, and the idea that LEO's perjuring themselves is "routine" to be almost tinfoil-hat worthy.
It's not fashionable to say here, but Io think the overwhelming majority of police are honest, hard-working people looking to serve the public interest. While I suspect there are those who get off on their position, I think most don't get off it on it much more than I "get off" on deciding what model the new corporate laptop will be next year.
To your question: Crystal clear honest? I think everyone, police included, are liable to take shortcuts in routine actions. Your average cop is probably more likely to make a rolling stop at a stop sign than you or I - especially since they aren't ever going to get a ticket for it. Cops all speed without lights and sirens with relative impunity. I suspect plenty of paperwork happens by rote -- but I don't attribute much of any of it to malice. So, if you define "crystal clear honest" as some sort of Jim Carey's Liar Liar who can only blurt out the truth -- then probably none. ...but as a practical answer, I think the number is much, much higher than you do, probably by an order of magnitude.
I recall getting fed that line about Japanese management models in my 89's copy of Rising Sun, and while watching Gung Ho in the late 80's.
Homeland Security has already captured 2,000 pieces of stolen art while searching for terrorists supplies or weapons being shipped into the US. In some cases individuals on the receiving end of an art purchase had no clue that the art work was stolen. The loss to the buyer can be quite large.
How large would you say the loss to the buyer is relative to the loss of the person from whom the art was stolen?
Many of them carry bags with drugs and "spare" drop guns. If need arises, those items will be "found" on you.
What percentage of cops, do YOU think are walking around with spare drop guns and extra bags of drugs?
It seems cops in NY could certainly use some serious reining-in. In this incident, an officer allegedly kicked and broke the leg of a 10-YO boy who used his mother's phone to video record them, and then also sexually assaulted the mother.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
There's certainly interactions between cops and citizens that go badly, but this story sounds flimsy, and the video..
The cell phone captured sounds and voices during the confrontations but the video image is herky-jerky from the struggle.
It's currently she-said / cops-say.
I have no doubt the kid got injured in the struggle, but the whole thing doesn't add up as presented. The entire article is written from the viewpoint of the allegations against the police.
*shrug*
We'll see.
It's not even necessarily that. The HVAC may or may not have had access into the "real" system, but it, at minimum, allowed them a foothold from which to perform penetration testing .
I remember implementing a change to our security because a chain that broke ultimately because some local SQL express SA accounts were open (on workstations, with 3rd party products that required local SQL express), which allowed further and further enumeration that ultimately ended with the discovery of a domain admin's credentials.
For whatever it's worth, there ONE comment relevant to the article posted above, titled "My guess" by an AC.
Much like anything else on the internet, if you want to see something done, just announce loudly that it's not possible.
There are no THREE DIGIT ID posters left on Slashdot
Verizon CSR is, essentially, the lowest tier job in the English speaking world.
Actual bandwidth details will tell the truth, but it's much, much more likely that a Verizon worker bee is simply an idiot, or just repeating nonsense he overheard and misunderstood while on his smoke break.
"Affected by current laws" makes it sound like they had the unfortunate accident of being dropped in this country by mistake rather than choosing, willfully, to be in violation of the law.
I sympathize with their plight. The other side of the US/Mexico border sucks. If the roles were reversed, I might be here illegally trying to make life better for my family. ...but not choosing a soft, friendly, PC name for people who, by definition, are criminals doesn't make me racist.
That's a grossly simplistic view of something that happened all a quarter of a century ago, and does not, by and large, represent the attitude of Arizonans.
In 1987, the Governor, acting on threats from the state's AG that a new federally forced holiday was illegal, and as such would sue for the cost of the holiday, canceled the outgoing governor's order for the holiday to go on the state's books. This wild-west libertarian, federal government can't tell us what to do attitude was good for Governor Mecham, who probably was racist.
This was still very much Goldwater's Arizona, at least in terms of politics, and played a much larger part than the textbook writing world will remember this event as "just racism."
In 1990, despite threats from the NFL to take away Super Bowl XXVII, the MLK holiday voting issue went to the public (instead of the state legislature) and the popular vote chose not to add the holiday to the state calendar. [Business here either do or don't offer the day off, much like everywhere else in the country.] The NFL followed through with their threat. In 1992, the MLK holiday went up for voting again, and it passed. Now state employees could have the day off. The NFL responded by awarding us Super Bowl XXX -- which we celebrated by making a logo suitable for Vin Diesel movie.