its real money, there are about 400billion in Tbills sold each year, are you saying most of that is to pay SS? more like its to pay for just to run the govt (errmm i mean keep loosers employed).
I say make a virus that kills all people over 70, that will leave lots of realestates empty for cheap sales:) and no need to spend $$ on useless surgery to extend peoples 'shopping' lives. I mean why spend $20,000 to fix someone when they will just NOT contribute to taxes and just suck more money and then die in 3 years time. Since the grandkids might see grandpa only 4 times a year, do a whole 2-3 week visit, then put em down:) (im being very sinical here and joking btw)
US currency is just like a stock market ticker. Now would you buy Tbills in US currency, that were falling in price by 20% per year?
Thats like asking people to buy enron shares.
And a second point is, where are you going to find someone who has a spare $500,000,000,000 per year?
You expect people to give you that much, yet loose 20% of that ($100b lost) each year? Thats just insane.
Basically the prob is the Brenton WOods system which used to have fixed currencies until recently when they all/mostly were floated, but how can you operate a global economy/trade system when China doesnt operate on the same rules and has a locked in currency 8.3:1 to the USD.
So the real solution is to SUPER INFALTE USD, 20%-30% a year, so that eventually that $8 trillion debt is just a drop compared to the GDP of $100 trillion, now that also means your salary would be $800k too, but that can of coke would be $12 too, though the debt would be easy to pay back in US$. Though china gets its billions back in USD, the USD will be valued much lower perhaps.3 to 1 yuan. China wouldnt be happy getting back such useless money, so it would have no choice but to accept it.
Why is it every calculation ends up 2011 or 2012 the last days of the myan calenders. Be it oil or profits, or debts or population aging dates.... they all mostly come at 2012 as the day of reckoning of day of massive failure.
Have you seen how much is spent on the military? $430B, now imagine even $200b going to nasa, you would have starbucks on the moon.
Yes massive debt is bad, but its created with massive credit, all your money is fake any way, but you shouldnt stop large cash going to nasa.
Id say we cant afford to waste tonnes of cash on other junk like these wastefull POS;
1. cut money for DEA, make drugs legal, fixes that. 2. Let out everyone every arrested/inprison for anything to do with drug charges except massive 100million dollar stuff. 3. stop paying farmers subsidies 4. stop corporate welfare. 5. cut foreign aid, stop giving cash, but only give 'things' like food, services, those create more USA jobs.
This is how you fix USA debt btw; 1. devalue US$ by 75% so its $3USD per 1 Euro. 2. which reduces imports greatly. 3. which makes exports real cheap 4. which makes foreign debt easier to pay using foreign assets. 5. profit.
then again, it could all fall apart, and a one world currency could form later.
Yeah, but how boring, hes been in the business for years, and all he has to show for it is a 5% market share and shrinking. Apple cant ramp up and compete with everyone, it probably needs IBM to grow bigger. It cannot recreate what IBM has done for 30 years. Sometimes a more business partnership is better. Im not saying afull on takever of 49% takeover would happen, but even just deals/licenceing is enough as it gives you an 'exit' plan if you want out.
1. IBM sells PC busines. 2. IBM buys apple 3. IBM recreates a new PC business but PC = PowerPC based machines, not intel. 4. IBM takes over Microsoft 5. Microsoft dies or becomes just an office/app/game company, and Windows finally dies or is called a mickey mouse OS. 6. 5 million MCSEs so called engineers are out of a job or need retraining in UNIX/OSX.
So how much profit does Apple make per machine? 23% or so? Why net let IBM make PowerPC desktop machines (mac clones) ONLY, no laptops, and sell for retail $500 to $1200, with a $150 "tax" that goes to apple. At the end of the day, apple will still make its 23% cut in each machine sold on average, but it would explode the amount of 'seats' out there. Making 23% on a current market share forever is not a great 20 year plan, if they have a goal to go 25%-50% market share in 4-5 years, then this is the way to do it. Millions of IBM clonse with $150ea going to apple, instead of microsoft. Surely Steve Jobs can see that you can make a tonne of money, even more so, if you have 10x more desktop sales by cloner(s). Apple could still design the 'look', but IBM could make 100million yearly. Apple could still make/sell its laptops with its higher profit margins than the desktops.
Whispering introduces 'hearable' noise, and stories passed down from generations itntroduces 'mental/language' noise, two completely different things, one being a physical data loss, one being a more processed memory based loss.
Its a nice simple metaphore for 8 year olds, but isnt very scientific for REAL MEN.
Id rather fly over Norad or Area51 and get shot down by a hellfire missile then create all sorts of bad press for the military and an awesome position in the worlds history books.
Any one know where Area51 workers live? or military guys? Break into their houses and find any suspect secret info if they brang it back home. Or has the KGB done that?
Any kids out there have a grandpa that used to work for CIA/military that 'knows' the secrets of the alien type machines:) Give him a call,
"hey grandpa , if you ever want me to visit you, give me all your CIA secrets before you die and we never visit you "
Idiot, computers are supposed to make lives easy, computers are supposed to automate lots of things for us, computers are supposed to be smart enough or told ahead how to help us by the smarter people.
This isnt DOS 1984 dude.
Wakeup dude, a lot of people are still new to PCs, and have not even heard of spyware, they have no idea that bad programs out there can hurt PCs, they asume the ISP will KNOW which websites are bad and actively block them.
PCs arent supposed to be like beta software requiring active monitoring by people to make sure its all ok.
How smart were you when you were 9 years old? You cannot expect every human on earth from 9 to 99 to be aware of spyware/trojans and how to protect themselves.
If any thing, MS should booby trap all those companies/people who make spyware and sue em till they drop dead.
Thats the problem, managers that are so dumb, they cant understand the flowchart logic so they dont approve it, or that they didnt think of it for themselves so they dont approve the engineers doing it, or at best, they approve it, but only for the next version on the next 'expensive' model only so force 'increased sales' of the new units.
If the networks placed the whole tv shows including the adds (yes regional issues determin adds, but you can preencode several version for each country/major region) on the servers in WMV format without ability to FF/RW, or if WMV allows, only FF/RW in the show but not the adds. Make them free, it would be like a another free distribution, (as it costs money to broadcast on tv signals, an approved torrent release is the same, but wider)
Or hell, if I ran a tv station, id make every tv show available on DVD by mail order with in 24hrs on the website for some ultra cheap price, like $4 or something, but with the adds as well that can't be FF/RW.
You want RIAA on the beta test, so you can learn how to track/find RIAA connection to ban them, or better yet, to send them 100% fake search results, and fake IPs.
1. scan HD for any sign of RIAA 2. scan IP/subnets to workout if your running inside RIAA/MPAA 3. stop working if true.
How much fuel does the shuttle need to get out of LEO to the moon? 3tonne? 10tonne? Surely it could carry that with it. It could get to moon orbit, but not land, or perhaps launch a lander, will it withstand the RADS? Perhaps not.
Btw, the Shuttles engines are a descendant of the Saturn V engines, but just one, not the 5 i think the Saturn V had. Its impressive, something like 1 tonne of fuel per second, through a nozzle 1 inch wide and super high presure that is ignited. Thats the trick. Uber pressure.
But maybe the shuttle has a secret role, to go up and capture enemy satelites, I think the US Airforce had some input into its design.
Russia has tonnes of cash, they are spending billions in underground military bases that can hold upto 60000 people. It looks like they preparing for a nuke war, funny that.
They have lots of cash from the high priced OIL, russia has more oil reserves than the saudies.
Russia is increasing its military budget by 16%
The space program , like for many nations, is really a 'side op' program for the military, to design/test space warfare. Or supplement other research, like rockets etc...
1. Dude, follow the money, no one does anything without any monetory benefit, and its all about cash, big cash, for decades to come, its an insurance policy, for when the worlds oil supplies start to go down hill, why do you think USA isnt in any hurry to suck up as much oil as it can now, since it rather save that for itself much later when its needed, and buy ALL it can from everyone else, so by 2012, you'll have everyone elses reserves going low, while iraq will have plenty left, and Alaska too will be ready to reap for the benefit of USA while the rest of the world goes on declining stocks/rising prices. No one gives a hoot about so called Librartion, its only benefit are 45m new costomers to USA products. There are plenty other countries without oil that need liberating, but USA dont give a crap because there is NO MONEY IN IT.
2. No one in the administration complain about saddam BEFORE 1990 did they, they even liked him and sent him weapons/trade. Ofcouse because the iranians were the real enemy, now look where we are.
Overall, Yes, I do think its good Saddams evils are stopped, he was a prick that should have learned from past dictators, RULE with a soft fist, keep the subjects busy parting/working having fun, he should have made his people too busy enough to care about whos running the show.
3. re killings, its legal for the govt of USA to kill its own citizens, ie the death penalty. Any law that is not 100% active for all peoples, but has exeptions is bolony.
Remember 1939 to 1944 in germany and most of europe? The germans used IBM machines to count/tabulate EVERYONE and ANYDATA they could think of.
Their only bottleneck was the specific paper punch cards made by ibm which couldnt be 'cloned' very well, so IBM had the monopoly supply.
Anyway, German efforts in France were scuttled by some good French resistence (dont bag them, at least they DIDNT SELL the damn machines to Germany like USA did). The French resistence pretended to offer counting/tab services to the germans, but gave them fake info and used the machines for themselves to keep track of all the resistence groups/underground soldiers and what each one can do etc...
So gathering large amounts of info/stats on people can have a dual role for both evil and good against evil. Today with 1000000x more procesing power, everyone is basically property of the goverment as a 'resource' that supplies taxes.
1. block/monitor ports for trojans, cant be that hard. 2. if a user is sending/accepting bad ports and it is really prooved that they are infected, FIREWALL em so they cant use the net, except the ISPS homepage which will 'clean' them. 3. actively help users to patch, (dunno about win98 loosers though) 4. find the IRC servers that are used to communicate with BOTNETS that are infected, and track down the people who are using the infected machines, and shutdown their irc servers, and other dodgy websites that host the hacking tools used to distribute more attack/botnets. I am sure a team of 2 people working actively 24/7 would be cost effective if you reduce your Tech Support callins by 70%.
5. call the FBI once you have gathered real evidence of people actively abusing/hacking botnets.
6. send em to bleed ur ass prisons:) or just threaten the country that has them in with blocking the WHOLE ISP from talking to USA.
Why do these evil corporates ask their employees to put everything on their CC cards then reimburse them later? Sure its good for the points, but surely a large cashed up company can afford to pick up a handfull of travellers cheques valued at $500 or so.
Now if the CEO travels, he has his PA which just uses the company CC and thus no hassels.
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:) and no need to spend $$ on useless surgery to extend peoples 'shopping' lives. I mean why spend $20,000 to fix someone when they will just NOT contribute to taxes and just suck more money and then die in 3 years time. Since the grandkids might see grandpa only 4 times a year, do a whole 2-3 week visit, then put em down :) (im being very sinical here and joking btw)
LEARN DUDE.
its real money, there are about 400billion in Tbills sold each year, are you saying most of that is to pay SS? more like its to pay for just to run the govt (errmm i mean keep loosers employed).
I say make a virus that kills all people over 70, that will leave lots of realestates empty for cheap sales
US currency is just like a stock market ticker. Now would you buy Tbills in US currency, that were falling in price by 20% per year?
.3 to 1 yuan. China wouldnt be happy getting back such useless money, so it would have no choice but to accept it.
Thats like asking people to buy enron shares.
And a second point is, where are you going to find someone who has a spare $500,000,000,000 per year?
You expect people to give you that much, yet loose 20% of that ($100b lost) each year? Thats just insane.
Basically the prob is the Brenton WOods system which used to have fixed currencies until recently when they all/mostly were floated, but how can you operate a global economy/trade system when China doesnt operate on the same rules and has a locked in currency 8.3:1 to the USD.
So the real solution is to SUPER INFALTE USD, 20%-30% a year, so that eventually that $8 trillion debt is just a drop compared to the GDP of $100 trillion, now that also means your salary would be $800k too, but that can of coke would be $12 too, though the debt would be easy to pay back in US$. Though china gets its billions back in USD, the USD will be valued much lower perhaps
Why is it every calculation ends up 2011 or 2012 the last days of the myan calenders. Be it oil or profits, or debts or population aging dates.... they all mostly come at 2012 as the day of reckoning of day of massive failure.
Shutup!!!
Have you seen how much is spent on the military? $430B, now imagine even $200b going to nasa, you would have starbucks on the moon.
Yes massive debt is bad, but its created with massive credit, all your money is fake any way, but you shouldnt stop large cash going to nasa.
Id say we cant afford to waste tonnes of cash on other junk like these wastefull POS;
1. cut money for DEA, make drugs legal, fixes that.
2. Let out everyone every arrested/inprison for anything to do with drug charges except massive 100million dollar stuff.
3. stop paying farmers subsidies
4. stop corporate welfare.
5. cut foreign aid, stop giving cash, but only give 'things' like food, services, those create more USA jobs.
This is how you fix USA debt btw;
1. devalue US$ by 75% so its $3USD per 1 Euro.
2. which reduces imports greatly.
3. which makes exports real cheap
4. which makes foreign debt easier to pay using foreign assets.
5. profit.
then again, it could all fall apart, and a one world currency could form later.
Yeah, but how boring, hes been in the business for years, and all he has to show for it is a 5% market share and shrinking. Apple cant ramp up and compete with everyone, it probably needs IBM to grow bigger. It cannot recreate what IBM has done for 30 years. Sometimes a more business partnership is better. Im not saying afull on takever of 49% takeover would happen, but even just deals/licenceing is enough as it gives you an 'exit' plan if you want out.
1. IBM sells PC busines.
2. IBM buys apple
3. IBM recreates a new PC business but PC = PowerPC based machines, not intel.
4. IBM takes over Microsoft
5. Microsoft dies or becomes just an office/app/game company, and Windows finally dies or is called a mickey mouse OS.
6. 5 million MCSEs so called engineers are out of a job or need retraining in UNIX/OSX.
So how much profit does Apple make per machine? 23% or so? Why net let IBM make PowerPC desktop machines (mac clones) ONLY, no laptops, and sell for retail $500 to $1200, with a $150 "tax" that goes to apple. At the end of the day, apple will still make its 23% cut in each machine sold on average, but it would explode the amount of 'seats' out there. Making 23% on a current market share forever is not a great 20 year plan, if they have a goal to go 25%-50% market share in 4-5 years, then this is the way to do it. Millions of IBM clonse with $150ea going to apple, instead of microsoft. Surely Steve Jobs can see that you can make a tonne of money, even more so, if you have 10x more desktop sales by cloner(s). Apple could still design the 'look', but IBM could make 100million yearly. Apple could still make/sell its laptops with its higher profit margins than the desktops.
If you are a taxi driver, then yes, standing still in traffic gives an extra earner :)
Otherwise, learn to share the road with others who pay taxes too and relax, there is no need to rush, the world isnt ending.
FUck em, make a php script to do it 10000 times :)
Dude, you can train thunderbird already to recognize spam, its not that hard.
I hate that comparison of WHisspers!!!
Its dumb and stupid because;
Whispering introduces 'hearable' noise, and stories passed down from generations itntroduces 'mental/language' noise, two completely different things, one being a physical data loss, one being a more processed memory based loss.
Its a nice simple metaphore for 8 year olds, but isnt very scientific for REAL MEN.
Id rather fly over Norad or Area51 and get shot down by a hellfire missile then create all sorts of bad press for the military and an awesome position in the worlds history books.
:) Give him a call,
Any one know where Area51 workers live? or military guys? Break into their houses and find any suspect secret info if they brang it back home. Or has the KGB done that?
Any kids out there have a grandpa that used to work for CIA/military that 'knows' the secrets of the alien type machines
"hey grandpa , if you ever want me to visit you, give me all your CIA secrets before you die and we never visit you "
Why cant google then link back to dads url using;
www.dadsurl.com/#?1042387910983018238213
that will be unique and not cached.
Idiot, computers are supposed to make lives easy, computers are supposed to automate lots of things for us, computers are supposed to be smart enough or told ahead how to help us by the smarter people.
This isnt DOS 1984 dude.
Wakeup dude, a lot of people are still new to PCs, and have not even heard of spyware, they have no idea that bad programs out there can hurt PCs, they asume the ISP will KNOW which websites are bad and actively block them.
PCs arent supposed to be like beta software requiring active monitoring by people to make sure its all ok.
How smart were you when you were 9 years old? You cannot expect every human on earth from 9 to 99 to be aware of spyware/trojans and how to protect themselves.
If any thing, MS should booby trap all those companies/people who make spyware and sue em till they drop dead.
Thats the problem, managers that are so dumb, they cant understand the flowchart logic so they dont approve it, or that they didnt think of it for themselves so they dont approve the engineers doing it, or at best, they approve it, but only for the next version on the next 'expensive' model only so force 'increased sales' of the new units.
If the networks placed the whole tv shows including the adds (yes regional issues determin adds, but you can preencode several version for each country/major region) on the servers in WMV format without ability to FF/RW, or if WMV allows, only FF/RW in the show but not the adds. Make them free, it would be like a another free distribution, (as it costs money to broadcast on tv signals, an approved torrent release is the same, but wider)
Or hell, if I ran a tv station, id make every tv show available on DVD by mail order with in 24hrs on the website for some ultra cheap price, like $4 or something, but with the adds as well that can't be FF/RW.
You want RIAA on the beta test, so you can learn how to track/find RIAA connection to ban them, or better yet, to send them 100% fake search results, and fake IPs.
1. scan HD for any sign of RIAA
2. scan IP/subnets to workout if your running inside RIAA/MPAA
3. stop working if true.
Ha, only if you happen to unfortunately live in the USA, outside, you have REAL FREEDOMS :)
How poor do you have to be? Xbox are cheap , unless ur a trailer trash hippie.
How much fuel does the shuttle need to get out of LEO to the moon? 3tonne? 10tonne? Surely it could carry that with it. It could get to moon orbit, but not land, or perhaps launch a lander, will it withstand the RADS? Perhaps not.
Btw, the Shuttles engines are a descendant of the Saturn V engines, but just one, not the 5 i think the Saturn V had. Its impressive, something like 1 tonne of fuel per second, through a nozzle 1 inch wide and super high presure that is ignited. Thats the trick. Uber pressure.
But maybe the shuttle has a secret role, to go up and capture enemy satelites, I think the US Airforce had some input into its design.
Russia has tonnes of cash, they are spending billions in underground military bases that can hold upto 60000 people. It looks like they preparing for a nuke war, funny that.
They have lots of cash from the high priced OIL, russia has more oil reserves than the saudies.
Russia is increasing its military budget by 16%
The space program , like for many nations, is really a 'side op' program for the military, to design/test space warfare. Or supplement other research, like rockets etc...
1. Dude, follow the money, no one does anything without any monetory benefit, and its all about cash, big cash, for decades to come, its an insurance policy, for when the worlds oil supplies start to go down hill, why do you think USA isnt in any hurry to suck up as much oil as it can now, since it rather save that for itself much later when its needed, and buy ALL it can from everyone else, so by 2012, you'll have everyone elses reserves going low, while iraq will have plenty left, and Alaska too will be ready to reap for the benefit of USA while the rest of the world goes on declining stocks/rising prices. No one gives a hoot about so called Librartion, its only benefit are 45m new costomers to USA products. There are plenty other countries without oil that need liberating, but USA dont give a crap because there is NO MONEY IN IT.
2. No one in the administration complain about saddam BEFORE 1990 did they, they even liked him and sent him weapons/trade. Ofcouse because the iranians were the real enemy, now look where we are.
Overall, Yes, I do think its good Saddams evils are stopped, he was a prick that should have learned from past dictators, RULE with a soft fist, keep the subjects busy parting/working having fun, he should have made his people too busy enough to care about whos running the show.
3. re killings, its legal for the govt of USA to kill its own citizens, ie the death penalty. Any law that is not 100% active for all peoples, but has exeptions is bolony.
Remember 1939 to 1944 in germany and most of europe? The germans used IBM machines to count/tabulate EVERYONE and ANYDATA they could think of.
Their only bottleneck was the specific paper punch cards made by ibm which couldnt be 'cloned' very well, so IBM had the monopoly supply.
Anyway, German efforts in France were scuttled by some good French resistence (dont bag them, at least they DIDNT SELL the damn machines to Germany like USA did). The French resistence pretended to offer counting/tab services to the germans, but gave them fake info and used the machines for themselves to keep track of all the resistence groups/underground soldiers and what each one can do etc...
So gathering large amounts of info/stats on people can have a dual role for both evil and good against evil. Today with 1000000x more procesing power, everyone is basically property of the goverment as a 'resource' that supplies taxes.
Why cant ISPS protect users?
:) or just threaten the country that has them in with blocking the WHOLE ISP from talking to USA.
Simple stuff really;
1. block/monitor ports for trojans, cant be that hard.
2. if a user is sending/accepting bad ports and it is really prooved that they are infected, FIREWALL em so they cant use the net, except the ISPS homepage which will 'clean' them.
3. actively help users to patch, (dunno about win98 loosers though)
4. find the IRC servers that are used to communicate with BOTNETS that are infected, and track down the people who are using the infected machines, and shutdown their irc servers, and other dodgy websites that host the hacking tools used to distribute more attack/botnets. I am sure a team of 2 people working actively 24/7 would be cost effective if you reduce your Tech Support callins by 70%.
5. call the FBI once you have gathered real evidence of people actively abusing/hacking botnets.
6. send em to bleed ur ass prisons
RAM RAM RAM!!!!
Once you start playing games, or running email+office+cute addons, ram is sucked up hard.
Even my crud old linux box on an AMDk6/2(433mhz) has 320meg ram.
Why do these evil corporates ask their employees to put everything on their CC cards then reimburse them later? Sure its good for the points, but surely a large cashed up company can afford to pick up a handfull of travellers cheques valued at $500 or so.
Now if the CEO travels, he has his PA which just uses the company CC and thus no hassels.