Technically, someone who has moved into the zamani has no need for a grave. No one alive remembers that person, and therefore there is no need to grieve, which is the only logical reason for having a grave site in the first place. Based on restrictions of human lifespan, the longest this could be would be a little over a hundred years. You can see this effect in re-used burial plots in urban areas, where they bury new coffins atop old and replace the headstones.
This brings up a logistical issue with burial plots being re-used. If that is happening, and there are still people in the sasha in that burial place, then no one is going to be okay with bulldozing it and building a Walgreens.
I'm not going to moralize with you about this - I don't believe it's a moral issue since I don't think our rotted corpses are anything more than fertilizer. But, I do suggest that the world would be a poorer place historically if we didn't have old graveyards. I'd like to keep them around.
I don't understand why you question the true, obvious statement that a currency, to be viable, must have people willing to change it into other currencies. Real world currencies, or the cryptocurrency is worthless. If you're relying on someone being foolish enough to be willing to pay real money at some arbitrary rate for a virtually unknown cryptocurrency, I fear disappointment in the long run. The supply of fools may be endless, but the supply of cash backing said fools is finite.
It's a drive no one in their right mind would buy, and an off-brand cryptocurrency with no mindshare. I didn't even know it existed until this article.
Of course it's business, but it's business the way it has been conducted since the Romans had their 'res publica'. Favors for bequests and 'loans' that never required repayment. It's how Crassus, Pompey and Caesar ended up controlling public life in Rome. And they were just the most blatant practitioners of the client system.
Mainly because it ignores that the only reason North Korea exists is that a local, unpopular Communist sympathizer named Kim Il-Sung was set up as a puppet ruler in the North in the wake of Stalin's invasion of Northern China. Stalin had negotiated a withdrawal from Manchuria with Chiang prior to the August 1945 invasion. No such agreement applied to Korea, and Stalin chose to keep it as a buffer state under a compliant puppet ruler.
Self-determination for Koreans was non-existent in the North. Complain and die.
You just keep believing that poverty == crime. It's bullshit, but the leftist thought process requires a high tolerance for BS.
Lots of poor people around this world who find it in themselves to act civilized and live within the constraints of law. Mainly because it benefits them and their families. Lots of black people in the urban areas of the US who reject lawlessness also, but they have an uncontrollable element within their community created by bad social policies, destroying nuclear families in some misguided quest to "help". A bumper crop of fatherless "men" with a chip on their shoulder and no decent role models, taught by the peer society around them that their duty is to be a thug and seek incarceration.
Moynihan knew what he was talking about. They called him a racist for pointing out the obvious - we created this element with shitty policy. Lucky for him, he didn't live to see its full fruition today.
Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, and Gladstone. All but the first in Queensland. I liked Gladstone the best. It was very rural and reminded me of Great Plains US, maybe Iowa or something like that, except the girls danced to AC/DC, which is unknown here. I didn't even think it really possible before I went there.
My European trips have both been layovers - Budapest and a US base in Germany. The Hungarians didn't want to let us off the plane for a smoke, and in Germany it was breakfast burritos from a truck on the tarmac. So while i've stood on the ground, I can't say I have experienced it. That said, there are more laid back places in the US too. Mostly (probably to your shock) in the red parts of the country, west of the Appalachians and not in California or Texas or any large city, where life continues along at a languid pace. Though you'll get coffee in about 5-10 minutes rather than 30.
I liked Australia when I was there, but the whole country appeared to be stuck on slow. When the most energetic Australian you meet is a Navy Captain...
Then again, it seems to me that it probably results in a better quality of life than on say, Wall Street.
I reject the premise that there was an excuse for the surveillance in the first place. People were stupid enough to buy into the idea that it would protect them from terrorism, but how many terrorist attacks in the US in the last 8 years....something like 8 or so last time I looked. "Well the numbers of dead are small" isn't an argument. The fact that the attacks happened invalidates the justification for the surveillance and the Patriot Act. If people are going to die anyway, most would prefer to be free from government surveillance.
The sad part is that once you lose a freedom, getting it back has a price in blood. The retards who cheered on the Patriot Act failed to think about this.
Jobs is dead. They came close to bankruptcy without him in the 90s and are headed right to the shitter again with these crap decisions. Besides, no one gives a shit what you did yesterday - it's what you do tomorrow that matters.
A robot with 360 degree motion detection and a gun is sufficient to be a danger to humanity, no? It doesn't require excellent AI or anything. Put a few of these at intersections in your town and see how quickly people hide underground or die...until they run out of ammo.
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These are useful concepts for the discussion.
Technically, someone who has moved into the zamani has no need for a grave. No one alive remembers that person, and therefore there is no need to grieve, which is the only logical reason for having a grave site in the first place. Based on restrictions of human lifespan, the longest this could be would be a little over a hundred years. You can see this effect in re-used burial plots in urban areas, where they bury new coffins atop old and replace the headstones.
This brings up a logistical issue with burial plots being re-used. If that is happening, and there are still people in the sasha in that burial place, then no one is going to be okay with bulldozing it and building a Walgreens.
I'm not going to moralize with you about this - I don't believe it's a moral issue since I don't think our rotted corpses are anything more than fertilizer. But, I do suggest that the world would be a poorer place historically if we didn't have old graveyards. I'd like to keep them around.
I don't worry, i'm vaccinated. First one in 1970, just got a booster in 2007. What, you're not?
I wouldn't spend 20 minutes on getting laid, never mind signing up for some worthless cryptocurrency, so I can promptly make my electric bill go up.
Maybe after my lobotomy.
I don't understand why you question the true, obvious statement that a currency, to be viable, must have people willing to change it into other currencies. Real world currencies, or the cryptocurrency is worthless. If you're relying on someone being foolish enough to be willing to pay real money at some arbitrary rate for a virtually unknown cryptocurrency, I fear disappointment in the long run. The supply of fools may be endless, but the supply of cash backing said fools is finite.
Really really got to come up with a better name than "penetration testing". Sounds like something I do with desperate Craigslist chicks.
It's a drive no one in their right mind would buy, and an off-brand cryptocurrency with no mindshare. I didn't even know it existed until this article.
This story really is a nothingburger.
Quarterly results based thinking.
And, people who will worry about the "how" instead of the "why". Perfect for Microsoft, based on their past history.
Of course it's business, but it's business the way it has been conducted since the Romans had their 'res publica'. Favors for bequests and 'loans' that never required repayment. It's how Crassus, Pompey and Caesar ended up controlling public life in Rome. And they were just the most blatant practitioners of the client system.
So what do you think that $20 million is going to do?
At some point, the money is wasted. I think we've reached that point already.
I'm a huge fan of divesting leftists of their money, so I think this is great. Political consultants are getting a windfall...yay!
Mainly because it ignores that the only reason North Korea exists is that a local, unpopular Communist sympathizer named Kim Il-Sung was set up as a puppet ruler in the North in the wake of Stalin's invasion of Northern China. Stalin had negotiated a withdrawal from Manchuria with Chiang prior to the August 1945 invasion. No such agreement applied to Korea, and Stalin chose to keep it as a buffer state under a compliant puppet ruler.
Self-determination for Koreans was non-existent in the North. Complain and die.
You sound like a Communist yourself.
This is not pedantry.
You just keep believing that poverty == crime. It's bullshit, but the leftist thought process requires a high tolerance for BS.
Lots of poor people around this world who find it in themselves to act civilized and live within the constraints of law. Mainly because it benefits them and their families. Lots of black people in the urban areas of the US who reject lawlessness also, but they have an uncontrollable element within their community created by bad social policies, destroying nuclear families in some misguided quest to "help". A bumper crop of fatherless "men" with a chip on their shoulder and no decent role models, taught by the peer society around them that their duty is to be a thug and seek incarceration.
Moynihan knew what he was talking about. They called him a racist for pointing out the obvious - we created this element with shitty policy. Lucky for him, he didn't live to see its full fruition today.
I'll accept the testimony of the crickets.
That's not what the numbers would show, so we'll never see that data.
The truth is something today's authoritarians can't handle.
Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, and Gladstone. All but the first in Queensland. I liked Gladstone the best. It was very rural and reminded me of Great Plains US, maybe Iowa or something like that, except the girls danced to AC/DC, which is unknown here. I didn't even think it really possible before I went there.
"Public health measures" was the term they used to use for that, like confining Typhoid Mary.
In the US, seems to have involved mostly draining swamps and eliminating standing water.
Seems most of the reduction happened before DDT was available.
My European trips have both been layovers - Budapest and a US base in Germany. The Hungarians didn't want to let us off the plane for a smoke, and in Germany it was breakfast burritos from a truck on the tarmac. So while i've stood on the ground, I can't say I have experienced it. That said, there are more laid back places in the US too. Mostly (probably to your shock) in the red parts of the country, west of the Appalachians and not in California or Texas or any large city, where life continues along at a languid pace. Though you'll get coffee in about 5-10 minutes rather than 30.
I liked Australia when I was there, but the whole country appeared to be stuck on slow. When the most energetic Australian you meet is a Navy Captain...
Then again, it seems to me that it probably results in a better quality of life than on say, Wall Street.
...in the hands of Microsoft. MCS contractors who work for us seem to have a few. No one else, though.
I reject the premise that there was an excuse for the surveillance in the first place. People were stupid enough to buy into the idea that it would protect them from terrorism, but how many terrorist attacks in the US in the last 8 years....something like 8 or so last time I looked. "Well the numbers of dead are small" isn't an argument. The fact that the attacks happened invalidates the justification for the surveillance and the Patriot Act. If people are going to die anyway, most would prefer to be free from government surveillance.
The sad part is that once you lose a freedom, getting it back has a price in blood. The retards who cheered on the Patriot Act failed to think about this.
Jobs is dead. They came close to bankruptcy without him in the 90s and are headed right to the shitter again with these crap decisions. Besides, no one gives a shit what you did yesterday - it's what you do tomorrow that matters.
I think you meant "un-uninstallable malware".
Also, Mr. McAfee will continue to make the name less valuable with time. But the days of SCAN and CLEAN...those were wonderful days.
A robot with 360 degree motion detection and a gun is sufficient to be a danger to humanity, no? It doesn't require excellent AI or anything. Put a few of these at intersections in your town and see how quickly people hide underground or die...until they run out of ammo.