You're doing it wrong. You need to charge *more* for your spit-shined cable, not less. Cheaper cable is just clearly cheaper. Can't you hear the bits screaming in pain, man?
You're correct (more or less) but the point is that China could (in theory; they almost certainly won't) start not rolling over debt as it falls due. I believe the bulk of China's dolar holdings are in five and ten year Treasuries, so this would be quite a bitter pill to swallow from a deficit-financing point of view on a medium term basis.
Ultimately an ideal currency would have never-changing (but divisible) constant total circulation to which and from no one could artificially add or subtract.
That is exactly what a gold standard is. There's only so much gold in the ground. Look, cash (and gold) are utterly fictional constructs. You can't eat paper, you can't burn gold to keep warm. No-one is required to have any faith in them. It works because if you become a creditor to the government, you are obliged to accept it in repayment, and the government will in turn accept it.
China's products are not known for either trait. Which is kinda funny. China has the most durable CULTURE in the world.
I notice you don't make the connection with their biggest customer and what that customer wants. China will make anything you want her to make: but if people prefer to choose cheaper products that don't last as long, then that is what you will see on shelves.
Balls. Most of the money you spent at M&P went straight out of town to buy new stock. The rest went on the owners and their taxes, and very little recirculated in the local economy. In contrast, Walmart saves you money (I presume, or if not it offers some other sort of benefit) which you are then free to spend on, well, the local economy. Walmart, as a traded company, is a major part of the portfolio of institutional investors such as pension funds and mutuals. When you encourage people not to shop at Walmart, you're damaging people's 401(k) and their college funds. When it comes to morons, you might want to try checking closer to home.
Don't be scared. This sort of thing happens quite a lot. And Lamarckism is not completely dead: although it isn't the main driver of evolution, there are plenty of examples of it in action.
It's a funny thing about young, smart, fertile people that they often choose not to move to somewhere with a draconian criminal code, including hanging and corporal punishment.
The mining talks has nothing to do with governmental issues - it is a direct response to the Rio Tinto arrests. Not surprisingly, miners don't take kindly to having their staff arrested on a pretext when they're trying to do business. It means China will have to buy on the spot market, which is more expensive. These and the Google thing are just symptoms of a country whose governance hasn't yet caught up with its economic weight.
Because you get cheaper clothes, because Americans don't want to work at that pay rate (and rightly so), and because - again, because you seem to have missed it - because those people *want* to work in those conditions. And lastly, because doing it this way is the fastest way to bring these countries up to a decent standard of living. How many people would be employed in Chinese factories if they had to eb paid American minimum wages with American working conditions? A big fat zero, because there would be no point siting a factory out there. I'm sure they'd really appreciate knowing that if they could get a job, it would be great.
Yes, it does. The more surprising thing is this is, on net, a good thing. The consumer accepts a level of harm commensurate with the reduction in price, and supplies of substance Q are free to be used where they are needed.
Worker's rights? Bullshit. Nobody is forced into a factory at the barrel of a gun, they go to work there to improve their economic independence. Yes, it is dirty and dangerous, but they have the right to choose for themselves whether they take that risk or not. You would rather make a Chinese factory worthless, letting potential workers carry on scrabbling through rubbish heaps for a living.
Dude, if what goes into a McBurger bothers you, I seriously suggest you go and spend some time working in food production. You're in for a surprise. As for Monsanto, they sell seeds. Dont want 'em? Don't buy 'em. Sheesh, how evil.
You still don't explain why the government would spend the balance of that 6 million better than I would, or indeed why the government would be better run if it had it. Actual experience of trying out tax rates like that suggests that it is a seriously bad idea - just ask any successful Briton form the 1970s, or any Argentinian farmer today.
I think the position will change, but only after some kicking and screaming. As for unused allocations, even if all these were freed up, it would only provide a few more months of capacity, so the debate over what to do with them is really moot.
That would be an open-and-shut monopoly abuse and would get slapped pretty hard - assuming that even Microsoft could afford it. I reckon that in a real free market, a single IP address would be worth something on the order of $50 - that's well beyond what's economically possible for Microsoft to take on.
Unfortunately, IP allocations are not tradeable - if you try selling them off you will get a short, sharp ass-reaming from the relevant authorities, because they are (rightly or wrongly) culturally against them.
They probably will when the economic case becomes overwhelming, but at the moment it would be an admin nightmare to carry out with no upside for those corporations. The problem is really that IPs are not allocated with any kind of economic efficiency - I have a static IP, for no good reason. But I can't sell it to someone who needs it. If the system were reformed so IPs could be transferred and sold (presumably as blocks to ease routing issues) you would see a lot of this problem solving itself.
The first time you encounter the concept of factoring (as per OP's question) is probably not the best time to introduce mathematics requiring groups and rings. And while the GNFS is indeed magnificently superior to naive searching, it is not sufficiently fast to make a significant difference to the cryptographic strength of a system based on the difficulty of finding large factors - hence, I judged it was not worth mentioning.
Factorisation is just the process of splitting a number - say, 21 - into the numbers that multiply to produce it: 3*7=21. It is cryptographically useful because it doesn't have a short way of doing it: you have to simply try dividing by 2, 3, 4, 5, etc, till you get an answer. When you have a number that's several hundred digits long and only has two relatively large factors, this takes a very long time. There are some tricks you can use to speed it up, but that's essentially it.
Give me control of a constant media diet and I'll get you a ten thousand strong crowd to protest *anything*. It's not hard, particularly in a country so badly run many people have nothing better to do.
As for Turkey, any fule kno that if Erdogan does go too far, the army will step in. Imposing alcohol licensing and banning the sale of porn to under-16s is not really hardcore sharia.
Jesus Christ, your ignorance is deafening. How many Iranians do you know? The people on the streets want iPods and a little bit of comprehension from the West, not a wholesale return to the 13th century. Don't confuse leaders in a desperate personal political situation with real people. As for Turkey, it's the most secular Islamic state in the world by a long, long, way. There are shades of opinion, but Turkey is not going to be a bastion of support for radical terrorism any time soon.
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You're doing it wrong. You need to charge *more* for your spit-shined cable, not less. Cheaper cable is just clearly cheaper. Can't you hear the bits screaming in pain, man?
You're correct (more or less) but the point is that China could (in theory; they almost certainly won't) start not rolling over debt as it falls due. I believe the bulk of China's dolar holdings are in five and ten year Treasuries, so this would be quite a bitter pill to swallow from a deficit-financing point of view on a medium term basis.
Ultimately an ideal currency would have never-changing (but divisible) constant total circulation to which and from no one could artificially add or subtract.
That is exactly what a gold standard is. There's only so much gold in the ground. Look, cash (and gold) are utterly fictional constructs. You can't eat paper, you can't burn gold to keep warm. No-one is required to have any faith in them. It works because if you become a creditor to the government, you are obliged to accept it in repayment, and the government will in turn accept it.
China's products are not known for either trait. Which is kinda funny. China has the most durable CULTURE in the world.
I notice you don't make the connection with their biggest customer and what that customer wants. China will make anything you want her to make: but if people prefer to choose cheaper products that don't last as long, then that is what you will see on shelves.
Balls. Most of the money you spent at M&P went straight out of town to buy new stock. The rest went on the owners and their taxes, and very little recirculated in the local economy. In contrast, Walmart saves you money (I presume, or if not it offers some other sort of benefit) which you are then free to spend on, well, the local economy. Walmart, as a traded company, is a major part of the portfolio of institutional investors such as pension funds and mutuals. When you encourage people not to shop at Walmart, you're damaging people's 401(k) and their college funds. When it comes to morons, you might want to try checking closer to home.
Don't be scared. This sort of thing happens quite a lot. And Lamarckism is not completely dead: although it isn't the main driver of evolution, there are plenty of examples of it in action.
Also, grow some clue. Not everyone calls everything everywhere by the same name. Try searching for "June 4th"...
It's a funny thing about young, smart, fertile people that they often choose not to move to somewhere with a draconian criminal code, including hanging and corporal punishment.
The mining talks has nothing to do with governmental issues - it is a direct response to the Rio Tinto arrests. Not surprisingly, miners don't take kindly to having their staff arrested on a pretext when they're trying to do business. It means China will have to buy on the spot market, which is more expensive. These and the Google thing are just symptoms of a country whose governance hasn't yet caught up with its economic weight.
Because you get cheaper clothes, because Americans don't want to work at that pay rate (and rightly so), and because - again, because you seem to have missed it - because those people *want* to work in those conditions. And lastly, because doing it this way is the fastest way to bring these countries up to a decent standard of living. How many people would be employed in Chinese factories if they had to eb paid American minimum wages with American working conditions? A big fat zero, because there would be no point siting a factory out there. I'm sure they'd really appreciate knowing that if they could get a job, it would be great.
Yes, it does. The more surprising thing is this is, on net, a good thing. The consumer accepts a level of harm commensurate with the reduction in price, and supplies of substance Q are free to be used where they are needed.
Worker's rights? Bullshit. Nobody is forced into a factory at the barrel of a gun, they go to work there to improve their economic independence. Yes, it is dirty and dangerous, but they have the right to choose for themselves whether they take that risk or not. You would rather make a Chinese factory worthless, letting potential workers carry on scrabbling through rubbish heaps for a living.
Dude, if what goes into a McBurger bothers you, I seriously suggest you go and spend some time working in food production. You're in for a surprise. As for Monsanto, they sell seeds. Dont want 'em? Don't buy 'em. Sheesh, how evil.
You still don't explain why the government would spend the balance of that 6 million better than I would, or indeed why the government would be better run if it had it. Actual experience of trying out tax rates like that suggests that it is a seriously bad idea - just ask any successful Briton form the 1970s, or any Argentinian farmer today.
WHat he's saying is, it's one rule for me, and another for you. Or have you changed your mind and set your profile to open, zuck?
I think the position will change, but only after some kicking and screaming. As for unused allocations, even if all these were freed up, it would only provide a few more months of capacity, so the debate over what to do with them is really moot.
That would be an open-and-shut monopoly abuse and would get slapped pretty hard - assuming that even Microsoft could afford it. I reckon that in a real free market, a single IP address would be worth something on the order of $50 - that's well beyond what's economically possible for Microsoft to take on.
No, she isn't. We had a civil war to settle the issue.
Unfortunately, IP allocations are not tradeable - if you try selling them off you will get a short, sharp ass-reaming from the relevant authorities, because they are (rightly or wrongly) culturally against them.
They probably will when the economic case becomes overwhelming, but at the moment it would be an admin nightmare to carry out with no upside for those corporations. The problem is really that IPs are not allocated with any kind of economic efficiency - I have a static IP, for no good reason. But I can't sell it to someone who needs it. If the system were reformed so IPs could be transferred and sold (presumably as blocks to ease routing issues) you would see a lot of this problem solving itself.
The first time you encounter the concept of factoring (as per OP's question) is probably not the best time to introduce mathematics requiring groups and rings. And while the GNFS is indeed magnificently superior to naive searching, it is not sufficiently fast to make a significant difference to the cryptographic strength of a system based on the difficulty of finding large factors - hence, I judged it was not worth mentioning.
If only there was a way to query slashdot to only return stories which do not have the Bennet Haselton spam content...
Factorisation is just the process of splitting a number - say, 21 - into the numbers that multiply to produce it: 3*7=21. It is cryptographically useful because it doesn't have a short way of doing it: you have to simply try dividing by 2, 3, 4, 5, etc, till you get an answer. When you have a number that's several hundred digits long and only has two relatively large factors, this takes a very long time. There are some tricks you can use to speed it up, but that's essentially it.
As for Turkey, any fule kno that if Erdogan does go too far, the army will step in. Imposing alcohol licensing and banning the sale of porn to under-16s is not really hardcore sharia.
Jesus Christ, your ignorance is deafening. How many Iranians do you know? The people on the streets want iPods and a little bit of comprehension from the West, not a wholesale return to the 13th century. Don't confuse leaders in a desperate personal political situation with real people. As for Turkey, it's the most secular Islamic state in the world by a long, long, way. There are shades of opinion, but Turkey is not going to be a bastion of support for radical terrorism any time soon.