The only really decent argument I've heard for printing money is the possibility of doing so to offset taxes, by printing money instead of collecting it.
Another option is to deflate away your debt. $16T sounds like a lot of money today, but in 30 years when a candy bar costs $5, it wont seem so bad.
We really have to decide whether we are going to be the world's police force, and also whether we are going to be the authoritarian fist that smashes little people (foreign gov'ts, of course,) we decide aren't helping to further the "expansion of democracy" across the world.
I would be very interested in seeing the same chart in real dollars. I imagine it would be much flatter. It is interesting to note that the % increase of the annual debt is lowest under democrats.
OT: It is probably time that "we, the people" decide to have a rational look at this problem without regard to anything but a fiduciary bias. It's time to make some hard decisions and save this damned country.
I know all about freedom of speech and how this is one bad apple, nonetheless too many idiots are seeing this as another freedom of speech thing. I don't stand for violence and loss of life, idiots in middle east are just that. So are idiots in america viewing this as a freedom of speech issue.
If you could convince people to keep their culture within their culture, you would deserve a Nobel prize. This would be a crowning achievement in our era.
2000 tons would (if consolidated) fit into two tractor trailers.
Current US DOT regulations limit the weight of tractor-trailers. They, typically, haul loads in the neighborhood of 25 tons. Just an FYI. I'm sure the volume would be different (approximately 90 cubic meters) but the weight is the one statistic that they are sticklers about.
Just put the compiler in the BIOS. OS uses it as necessary, boot disks jump to it by default. Add some onboard flash (which is probably the next revolution, as soon as someone writes an API for it,) and you have low cost hardware translation. Maybe.
In most third world countries the primary cause of death is infectious disease and in most developed countries it is heart disease. In China it is cancer.
I'm not sure if you know this, but China has so many people they don't know what to do with them. They won't even let you have babies! Given China's record on treating people nicely, I'm sure plenty of them will get the "Take two aspirin. Don't call in the morning," treatment.
Cancer is a good thing, as far as China's leadership is concerned.
Imagine Street View rendered in the direction you are holding your phone, from your position. With all the goodies that that 3D map that someone was building a while back (and sure could be ongoing) plus a live application of the algorithm from Canoma and similar applications, you could have a pretty interesting "virtual" world. Another benefit would be that while using the application, you could be aiding the mapping backend with live GPS to refine the map and the 3D model on top of it.
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Government spending is already measured in trillions.
I heard a few years ago that the Canadian strippers had a cup on stage to collect the coins. Is this not true (anymore)?
Another option is to deflate away your debt. $16T sounds like a lot of money today, but in 30 years when a candy bar costs $5, it wont seem so bad.
Employment at that level is much more about who you know and how you network and politick.
Wake me up when the cylinder comes around. ;-)
A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon, you're talking about real money.
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We really have to decide whether we are going to be the world's police force, and also whether we are going to be the authoritarian fist that smashes little people (foreign gov'ts, of course,) we decide aren't helping to further the "expansion of democracy" across the world.
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OT: It is probably time that "we, the people" decide to have a rational look at this problem without regard to anything but a fiduciary bias. It's time to make some hard decisions and save this damned country.
"Its" is possessive.
That is all.
It's El Reg. Please try to keep up. :)
Would that you had posted this a day ago when I had mod points.
I know all about freedom of speech and how this is one bad apple, nonetheless too many idiots are seeing this as another freedom of speech thing. I don't stand for violence and loss of life, idiots in middle east are just that. So are idiots in america viewing this as a freedom of speech issue.
If you could convince people to keep their culture within their culture, you would deserve a Nobel prize. This would be a crowning achievement in our era.
They've gone to... ludicrous speed!
But CDDB died.
Watch out for velociraptors.
FWIW, capitalistic is redundant. Capitalist works fine.
> I'm not, but Slashdot gave me a little checkbox to hide the ads anyway :)
Don'tcha love that?
RIP. I just ran out of mod points, sorry.
X.25, may it rest in peace.
It's simple enough to check file dates to mitigate the generation of false positives.
2000 tons would (if consolidated) fit into two tractor trailers.
Current US DOT regulations limit the weight of tractor-trailers. They, typically, haul loads in the neighborhood of 25 tons. Just an FYI. I'm sure the volume would be different (approximately 90 cubic meters) but the weight is the one statistic that they are sticklers about.
Just put the compiler in the BIOS. OS uses it as necessary, boot disks jump to it by default. Add some onboard flash (which is probably the next revolution, as soon as someone writes an API for it,) and you have low cost hardware translation. Maybe.
In most third world countries the primary cause of death is infectious disease and in most developed countries it is heart disease. In China it is cancer.
I'm not sure if you know this, but China has so many people they don't know what to do with them. They won't even let you have babies! Given China's record on treating people nicely, I'm sure plenty of them will get the "Take two aspirin. Don't call in the morning," treatment.
Cancer is a good thing, as far as China's leadership is concerned.
Imagine Street View rendered in the direction you are holding your phone, from your position. With all the goodies that that 3D map that someone was building a while back (and sure could be ongoing) plus a live application of the algorithm from Canoma and similar applications, you could have a pretty interesting "virtual" world. Another benefit would be that while using the application, you could be aiding the mapping backend with live GPS to refine the map and the 3D model on top of it.