Really good explanation of inflation:
Baby-sitting the economy. - By Paul Krugman - Slate Magazine
I thought this made a lot of sense and went a long way toward explaining how inflation may actually help an economy. Whatever inflation is... it is a dampening effect. I certainly don't like it that my money doesn't buy as much as it used to.
Next, add inflation. I had to stop... otherwise we would have an entire textbook. Also... I don't remember everything in the course. In a nutshell what I remember is someone is going to get screwed over.
Why is it unreasonable to live in the wealthiest country in the world and expect to be able to find gainful employment?
Yes. That is a completely unreasonable expectation.
In my college ethics class we learned about Negative and Positive Rights and what they meant. A "Negative Right" for example is my right to not be harmed by a physical attack from another person. A "Positive Right" is my right to receive medical treatment if I fall ill.
The negative right requires someone to not do something to me. The positive right requires someone to do something for me. The trouble is that to guarantee positive rights requires the expenditure of resources. Where do you suppose those resources come from? The must be taken from someone else. That means that in cases where provision for positive rights has not been donated then providing for a positive rights necessitates what is essentially state sanctioned theft of resources from another person.
If you go to a church that expects you to tithe the church cannot legally compel you to support its operations. However, many modern churches have built into their dogma that a good member of the church will willingly give to support the operation of the church. It is usually built into the underpinnings of the official church doctrine.
In the US the citizenry has been fed a similar nearly religious line... good citizens pay taxes... and ironically it is usually the same churchy folks who roil at such a suggestion... however they'll accept that good church people pay tithe. The irony is that in some aspects both a church and a government provide services to communities. Many churches use their tithe to feed homeless or build water wells in Africa some even do this with no religious strings attached merely seeking to "do good" in the world. Sadly, this is not as normal an outlook as I would hope.
The US government differs in that it can absolutely compel you to pay your taxes. There's no escape from this for common people. So back to my main point... jobs.
So in order to guarantee a job for you there must be some compulsion forced upon the employer or some government created job to give you. The US government could decide to hire more people when the economy is down. Hey, that's not too bad an idea. Except where does the money to hire those unemployed masses come from? The employed masses.
We play temporal tricks with money. Tricks we can't normally play with other systems. We borrow from future excess to smooth over present deficit. The problem is when government actually manages to run a surplus they rarely make a real dent in paying back all that borrowing.
The present situation is that we are running a present deficit and all our possible futures are saddled in debt. The only way out is to produce a massive base of potential tax payers that will hopefully start paying so much taxes in the future that our present woes are payed back. Considering we just borrowed heavily on that future we had better do some serious tax payer base building up to get that money flowing in the coming generation.
So if we give our unemployed girl a government job now we can borrow that money from our future. But if we continue to do this for all the unemployed girls out there where is the money for their jobs going to come from? Future surplus.
So we have to hike up taxes on the non-government employed to take up the slack either now or in the future. Clearly, we can't all be employed by the government so someone will have to do something profitable at some point. Once they do we'll have to appropriate their profits to pay for the jobs we gave all those unemployed people.
So at some point someone has had an injustice done to them. Someone's negative right to possess the fruit of their labor is infring
Clutter will defeat Cable Management when they meet in the ring! Clutter was in this game long before Cable Management and Clutter will totally trounce Cable Management when they tangle this Sunday! That's just a new costume that Cable Management has and nothing more. Cable Management still has the same weak and wimpy skills that Clutter mopped all up and down the ring last time around! Clutter did it before and Clutter will do it AGAIN!!! OOH! Can you FEEL IT?!? Watch Clutter flex those biceps!
write. I am excellent writings for I never spell mistake makers so I am good writers. Lookers, my spell checker no marks with red. The maths I am awesome at to.
Having people categorize themselves on an objective technical skill such as math is at least slightly more reliable than having people self judge on such a subjective skill as writing.
Many people I went to college with were certain their one act plays could win awards and that their sonnets would outlive them. I certainly wouldn't trust many of them when it comes to something as nuanced as the American legal system.
A better breakdown of the populace would have been to separate out people based on the level of education achieved, or perhaps by specific college degree, or even split out people with legal backgrounds from the average layperson. This would remove all the "touchy, feely" issues his current survey has.
With that said, this Tennessee man may be a danger to society, and his actions really creep me out, but I don't believe that he broke the law as it is currently written.
For what it is worth, on his poll I would have fit this profile Writing skills > Math Skills
This is exactly my point. If your time is worth a million dollars an hour I'll bet you feel differently about wasting 3 seconds a day on waiting for files to load.
It only becomes a problem of what my time is worth when a significant amount of my time is taken up by waiting for the hard drive. I only know a few people who have that problem and they're usually handling enormous amounts of data. Most people simply don't need to map out the state space of a Rubik's cube or statistically analyze twenty online poker games at a time.
... I suppose it's a matter of assessing if the speed difference and the battery power differences are worth it for you. If your time simply isn't worth the premium price (let's be honest you're not doing anything that important are you?) then I don't suppose it is *worth* the price premium to you.
PEBDAU? Problem Exists Between Deity and Universe?
Our management is committed to universe reliability as it understands that this is very important to our customers. To that end, management is going to pay for all system Deities to get fully accredited certifications with the understanding that this will improve universe reliability and reduce down-time.
Let's go back to crystalline spheres and immutable heavens. That was a much safer design model
Sadly we weren't using version control back then and our backups have been lost. It looks like we can't revert to the last stable version so we will have to find a way to make the current system stable until we can upgrade to Universe 2.0.
I can see them now: Tux: Hello I'm a Linux Win: And, I'm a windows. Win: what ya got there Linux? Tux: well I'm just downloading all my RPM's configing my kernel, and patching my boot loader... Win: sounds complicated. Tux: nah, it's easy all you gotta do is drop to the command line and use these toggles on a... (trails off) Win: huh? Really? [hot babe walks on screen] Tux: what's that? Win: Oh, she's my new installer wizard. Tux: wait, it's a girl? [Tux looks dejected as we fade to black]
The idea is that there is only one massive machine where each computer is merely a computing element. There are many "windows" looking into the one machine showing aspects of it. Ultimately, there is one computing cloud, one massive machine, made up of various elements that come online or go offline. The web is the OS of this massive machine and each "actual" OS serves the function of emulating the real OS of the web.... well... something like that I'm sure.
$70 is hideously expensive, and $70 without thethering is just criminal.
I agree. This is why I don't own an iPhone. I've even written iPhone applications but I have not moved to selling them yet because in all honesty I have no way of knowing how they perform on a real iPhone since I only use the iPhone simulator. If I could get the iPhone with a very very cheap plan or no plan at all I would. And I would probably really expend the effort to write a real app instead of toy apps. That said, I am probably going to buy an iPod Touch but what I really want is that iPhone GPS feature so I can work out some app ideas.
Honestly guys, let's try and let the users decide. Why not implement add-ons, skins, and multiple alternative Firefoxen? Like Firefox blueflame or something? See which UI is the most popular. Let people swap out UI on demand. Then after a round of beta testing make the most popular the defaults.
The key is to allow change on every level feasible.
Dude, nobody's developing for the EyeToy right now. If this works it will be because of Microsoft marketing mojo and a few dozen game developer death marches. I actually would rather think that M$ is going to choke and die on this idea but I can't see it happening. They have an amazing amount of loyalty in their user base right now. It's actually almost Apple like.
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My only concern would be how flammable these tress would be?
Well, if you start growing one of these in your back yard, I assume you are running for a Darwin Award.
Unrelatedly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_tree
Really good explanation of inflation: Baby-sitting the economy. - By Paul Krugman - Slate Magazine I thought this made a lot of sense and went a long way toward explaining how inflation may actually help an economy. Whatever inflation is... it is a dampening effect. I certainly don't like it that my money doesn't buy as much as it used to.
Next, add inflation. I had to stop... otherwise we would have an entire textbook. Also... I don't remember everything in the course. In a nutshell what I remember is someone is going to get screwed over.
Why is it unreasonable to live in the wealthiest country in the world and expect to be able to find gainful employment?
Yes. That is a completely unreasonable expectation.
In my college ethics class we learned about Negative and Positive Rights and what they meant. A "Negative Right" for example is my right to not be harmed by a physical attack from another person. A "Positive Right" is my right to receive medical treatment if I fall ill.
The negative right requires someone to not do something to me. The positive right requires someone to do something for me. The trouble is that to guarantee positive rights requires the expenditure of resources. Where do you suppose those resources come from? The must be taken from someone else. That means that in cases where provision for positive rights has not been donated then providing for a positive rights necessitates what is essentially state sanctioned theft of resources from another person.
If you go to a church that expects you to tithe the church cannot legally compel you to support its operations. However, many modern churches have built into their dogma that a good member of the church will willingly give to support the operation of the church. It is usually built into the underpinnings of the official church doctrine.
In the US the citizenry has been fed a similar nearly religious line... good citizens pay taxes ... and ironically it is usually the same churchy folks who roil at such a suggestion... however they'll accept that good church people pay tithe. The irony is that in some aspects both a church and a government provide services to communities. Many churches use their tithe to feed homeless or build water wells in Africa some even do this with no religious strings attached merely seeking to "do good" in the world. Sadly, this is not as normal an outlook as I would hope.
The US government differs in that it can absolutely compel you to pay your taxes. There's no escape from this for common people. So back to my main point... jobs.
So in order to guarantee a job for you there must be some compulsion forced upon the employer or some government created job to give you. The US government could decide to hire more people when the economy is down. Hey, that's not too bad an idea. Except where does the money to hire those unemployed masses come from? The employed masses.
We play temporal tricks with money. Tricks we can't normally play with other systems. We borrow from future excess to smooth over present deficit. The problem is when government actually manages to run a surplus they rarely make a real dent in paying back all that borrowing.
The present situation is that we are running a present deficit and all our possible futures are saddled in debt. The only way out is to produce a massive base of potential tax payers that will hopefully start paying so much taxes in the future that our present woes are payed back. Considering we just borrowed heavily on that future we had better do some serious tax payer base building up to get that money flowing in the coming generation.
So if we give our unemployed girl a government job now we can borrow that money from our future. But if we continue to do this for all the unemployed girls out there where is the money for their jobs going to come from? Future surplus.
So we have to hike up taxes on the non-government employed to take up the slack either now or in the future. Clearly, we can't all be employed by the government so someone will have to do something profitable at some point. Once they do we'll have to appropriate their profits to pay for the jobs we gave all those unemployed people.
So at some point someone has had an injustice done to them. Someone's negative right to possess the fruit of their labor is infring
Can you FEEL IT?!? Watch Clutter flex those biceps!
You need to call The Cablox Brigade! www.cablox.com!
that. is. awesome!
The product looks pretty good too. But mainly, the ad is awesome.
Clutter will defeat Cable Management when they meet in the ring! Clutter was in this game long before Cable Management and Clutter will totally trounce Cable Management when they tangle this Sunday! That's just a new costume that Cable Management has and nothing more. Cable Management still has the same weak and wimpy skills that Clutter mopped all up and down the ring last time around! Clutter did it before and Clutter will do it AGAIN!!! OOH! Can you FEEL IT?!? Watch Clutter flex those biceps!
write. I am excellent writings for I never spell mistake makers so I am good writers. Lookers, my spell checker no marks with red. The maths I am awesome at to.
Having people categorize themselves on an objective technical skill such as math is at least slightly more reliable than having people self judge on such a subjective skill as writing.
Many people I went to college with were certain their one act plays could win awards and that their sonnets would outlive them. I certainly wouldn't trust many of them when it comes to something as nuanced as the American legal system.
A better breakdown of the populace would have been to separate out people based on the level of education achieved, or perhaps by specific college degree, or even split out people with legal backgrounds from the average layperson. This would remove all the "touchy, feely" issues his current survey has.
With that said, this Tennessee man may be a danger to society, and his actions really creep me out, but I don't believe that he broke the law as it is currently written.
For what it is worth, on his poll I would have fit this profile
Writing skills > Math Skills
Do you want to stay alive or do you want to die? Work out.
... I'd be happy for a choice. That's all I want to see. If the "subsidized" phones are cheaper I may choose a 5 year plan.
You know...
I can buy a computer from *any* company and then get Internet from *any* provider I want.
I can buy a land-line phone from *any* phone maker and then get phone service from *any* provider I want.
It does make one wonder why the only exception is my cell phone.
This is exactly my point. If your time is worth a million dollars an hour I'll bet you feel differently about wasting 3 seconds a day on waiting for files to load.
It only becomes a problem of what my time is worth when a significant amount of my time is taken up by waiting for the hard drive. I only know a few people who have that problem and they're usually handling enormous amounts of data. Most people simply don't need to map out the state space of a Rubik's cube or statistically analyze twenty online poker games at a time.
... I suppose it's a matter of assessing if the speed difference and the battery power differences are worth it for you. If your time simply isn't worth the premium price (let's be honest you're not doing anything that important are you?) then I don't suppose it is *worth* the price premium to you.
Uh, is dark energy the ultimate alternative energy? What happens when you use up all the dark energy in a region of space?
It is nice to have at least one corner of the Netverse not dominated by the corporate overlords.
Really? What part of the net was that?
PEBDAU? Problem Exists Between Deity and Universe?
Our management is committed to universe reliability as it understands that this is very important to our customers. To that end, management is going to pay for all system Deities to get fully accredited certifications with the understanding that this will improve universe reliability and reduce down-time.
Until a fix can be found I recommend that the we not operate god for more than six days in a row allowing the system to rest on the seventh day.
Seriously, force all undergraduates to learn at least 4 programming languages.
Let's go back to crystalline spheres and immutable heavens. That was a much safer design model
Sadly we weren't using version control back then and our backups have been lost. It looks like we can't revert to the last stable version so we will have to find a way to make the current system stable until we can upgrade to Universe 2.0.
The fact that Larry was on stage bidding farewell to the senior staff of Sun at JavaOne doesn't help the rumor mill one bit.
+1 funny!
I can see them now: ... (trails off)
Tux: Hello I'm a Linux
Win: And, I'm a windows.
Win: what ya got there Linux?
Tux: well I'm just downloading all my RPM's configing my kernel, and patching my boot loader...
Win: sounds complicated.
Tux: nah, it's easy all you gotta do is drop to the command line and use these toggles on a
Win: huh? Really? [hot babe walks on screen]
Tux: what's that?
Win: Oh, she's my new installer wizard.
Tux: wait, it's a girl? [Tux looks dejected as we fade to black]
The idea is that there is only one massive machine where each computer is merely a computing element. There are many "windows" looking into the one machine showing aspects of it. Ultimately, there is one computing cloud, one massive machine, made up of various elements that come online or go offline. The web is the OS of this massive machine and each "actual" OS serves the function of emulating the real OS of the web. ... well ... something like that I'm sure.
$70 is hideously expensive, and $70 without thethering is just criminal.
I agree. This is why I don't own an iPhone. I've even written iPhone applications but I have not moved to selling them yet because in all honesty I have no way of knowing how they perform on a real iPhone since I only use the iPhone simulator. If I could get the iPhone with a very very cheap plan or no plan at all I would. And I would probably really expend the effort to write a real app instead of toy apps. That said, I am probably going to buy an iPod Touch but what I really want is that iPhone GPS feature so I can work out some app ideas.
Honestly guys, let's try and let the users decide. Why not implement add-ons, skins, and multiple alternative Firefoxen? Like Firefox blueflame or something? See which UI is the most popular. Let people swap out UI on demand. Then after a round of beta testing make the most popular the defaults.
The key is to allow change on every level feasible.
Dude, nobody's developing for the EyeToy right now. If this works it will be because of Microsoft marketing mojo and a few dozen game developer death marches. I actually would rather think that M$ is going to choke and die on this idea but I can't see it happening. They have an amazing amount of loyalty in their user base right now. It's actually almost Apple like.