Sounds great until the government run bank has to decide which risky business to provide a business loan to; your ability to get money might depend on wheter you are part of ALEC or which party you belong to, or which campaign you donated to. Moreover, the current banking system is quite efficient, so much so that a fair amount of the rest of the world uses it. It's the improperly regulated trading markets where things are out of hand, but traditional banking really has nothing to do with that.
You are in Obama's war room, you suggest:
A) Just Nuke Em and get it over with!
B) Send in the drones after Kim Jong-un
C) We need more sanctions.
D) Screw the budget gap; we need more military spending!
E) Other?
I stumbled upon this brand while signing my motorcycle repair bill. Started ranting to the repair tech about how nice it was, and he let me have it. When I got home and looked up the cost I couldn't belive they weren't more expensive than Cross pens and was just blown away that they were cheap enough to buy by the pack:
I tried that; but my wireless-N drivers don't work on anything less than 12.04; so I'm F-ed either way. Given the choice between patchy (and almost useless) wireless and patchy suspend, I'll choose the suspend issue, since really I'd rather fully shutdown to conserve battery anyway.
It's good to hear that things are fine on other distros; I'll happily go back to OpenSUSE.
That, of course, makes the assumption that management is level-headed. Some will cut off their nose to spite their face.
If management was like that I doubtful the author would like where they works.... If you don't like where you work, then you don't ask for a counter offer.
I've been there several times.
Tell your current company about your offer, they will counter if they appreciate you as much as you say they do. Finish the negotiation process before you try to sort out your feelings about which position is best. If they don't your decision is made for you (you can't stay and still have any cred' if they don't try to keep you).
I have some Etymotic ER6I buds and they are great (only $60 at wall mart), and they are very level. Nevertheless, I'll probably switch to Product Westone T1s after these dye as they seem to preform similarly, if not better, but have a more durable cord with a better coating that reduces noise due to ftiction (wich is a big problem with the Etys)
Well at some point when you have a product you want to make it known to people that it exists. Whether you force it down peoples throat or remain with the facts is a question of style.
So here you don't answer the question of whether marketing/sales is an important/necessary/hard job to do -- You don't like a common style of doing it.
... disagreed, what you are talking about is "outreach". Sales and marketing have a very specific connotation that reach beyond the scope of outreach. Moreover, you will find individuals considered by others to be "well grounded" tend to equate the common style with the common definition, no matter what Merriam-Webster may say. To solidify this point for you I'd make an analogy to the definition of a Republican as fiscal conservatives who believe in small government, when for the past few decades they have been war-mongering corportists, however, that would probably be seen as flame bait, so I'll avoid it.
There is NO safe time to text while driving; even while at a stoplight you'll be tempted to dash out without looking if you are honked at for not paying attention to the light.
However, I agree with your analysis about the speed limit, and would be all for a ban on ALL cellphone use while driving if the speed limit were increased by 30%.
Really, it's the 21st century, and we force the population to do hours of manual labor per day to even get to work? Make them sit in a car and force them to drive to get to work? They can't read a book or work on their computer while going to work? Really?
Umm, we live in a corporatocracy, the car companies already screwed our public rail systems, what makes you think there's any chance they'd allow something like this?
Maybe instead of TechDirt running some snarky contest which will achieve nothing they could actually ask people for real, workable, ideas on how the 'industry can adapt'. You know, something that doesn't involve stupid ideas like 'work for free' or 'rely on donations'.
Maybe instead of insisting that somebody is doing something the wrong way, you should fix it your self. Or, maybe you could just lean to see the value in an anti-propaganda campaign.
I'd argue that while all of Krugman's comments are valid given these
first few months of data around Bitcoin, they won't be valid on the
whole.
The initial bit-coin spike was mostly an artifact of it's promise for
anonymous transactions. Anonymity caused sites like the silkroad to
appear, as the value of anonymous transactions began to become
apparent, the demand for bitcoins began to rise rapidly enough that
speculators decided to get involved. Tack on a few mainstream news
articles and the lack of other resource based options at a time when
most of the worlds economies are printing money to pay off debts, and
people who wouldn't otherwise be as speculative become so.
Despite the conclusions one might draw from Krugman's article, the
number of Bitcoins is actually designed to inflate relative to the
output of society (based on the relative amount of available
processing power) unlike traditional resource backed currencies.
Thus, the current boom and horde should not be attributed to a failure
of the Bitcoin currency, but instead a failure of confidence in the
fiat model. For instance, imagine you are an Argentinean during their
finical collapse. Now imagine there being a small and limited amount
of stable US dollars available to convert your hyper-inflating
Argentinian currency into. One can reasonably assume we would see
exactly the same effect with dollars as we do in bit-coins if more
dollars are not created out of thin air.
Realistically, current monetary policy has us print more dollars as
demand increases in order to stabilize prices. This works until the
stressed market stabilizes again and people let go of their dollar
holdings to go back to their native currency thereby creating
inflation. All said, it's probably the lesser of two evils, which is
why I would argue that another bitcoin like currency could be
the appropriate way to buffer the demand. Yet it seems that the
current instance of bitcoin hyper-valuation is likely only a blip and
will continue for a short period of time relative to the current world
economic decline. Further, there are already signs that the
speculation and volatility is beginning to end:
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg180zvztgSzm1g10zm2g25
In summary, the point I'm trying to make here is 2 fold. First, if we
all had access to a stable currency (like bitcoin), there would not be
any incentive to horde bit-coins. Second, if the appropriate response
to overwhelming demand for a currency is to make more of it, then
there is actually a way to create more bitcoin like currency. Yet
since more currency isn't actually necessarily as no one currently
trades exclusively in bitcoin, and because the rest of the world is
working with a fiat system, the hyper-valuation of the currency is to
be expected, but cannot be pointed to as a failing of the bitcoin
system.
(Also, it's interesting to not that most sites that take bicoin haven't been chaining their prices to match the hyper inflation, which is why I refuse to use the term deflation in terms of the bit coin market.)
.... or you could just move to a gold AND silver AND copper standard and the problem would be solved. Or in the case of Bitcoin: Bitcoin, Bitcoin V2, Bitcoin V3, Butcoin ect... nothing is stopping anyone from creating another currency that is also resource restricted by computational power.....
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Sounds great until the government run bank has to decide which risky business to provide a business loan to; your ability to get money might depend on wheter you are part of ALEC or which party you belong to, or which campaign you donated to. Moreover, the current banking system is quite efficient, so much so that a fair amount of the rest of the world uses it. It's the improperly regulated trading markets where things are out of hand, but traditional banking really has nothing to do with that.
You are in Obama's war room, you suggest:
A) Just Nuke Em and get it over with!
B) Send in the drones after Kim Jong-un
C) We need more sanctions.
D) Screw the budget gap; we need more military spending!
E) Other?
We tried that and ended up in WWII anyway.
The problem is never that x country has nukes and might aim them at us, it's that x country has nukes and might sell them to group y.
That's what I get for trying to post from a mobile device... I meant 'clear', but it looked okay on the tiny screen.
I was planning on inventorying my fridge this way, but it didn't work with my PS2 to USB adaptor :(
I stumbled upon this brand while signing my motorcycle repair bill. Started ranting to the repair tech about how nice it was, and he let me have it. When I got home and looked up the cost I couldn't belive they weren't more expensive than Cross pens and was just blown away that they were cheap enough to buy by the pack:
I tried that; but my wireless-N drivers don't work on anything less than 12.04; so I'm F-ed either way. Given the choice between patchy (and almost useless) wireless and patchy suspend, I'll choose the suspend issue, since really I'd rather fully shutdown to conserve battery anyway. It's good to hear that things are fine on other distros; I'll happily go back to OpenSUSE.
That, of course, makes the assumption that management is level-headed. Some will cut off their nose to spite their face.
If management was like that I doubtful the author would like where they works.... If you don't like where you work, then you don't ask for a counter offer.
I've been there several times. Tell your current company about your offer, they will counter if they appreciate you as much as you say they do. Finish the negotiation process before you try to sort out your feelings about which position is best. If they don't your decision is made for you (you can't stay and still have any cred' if they don't try to keep you).
just trade in the GSM galaxy nexus for the CDMA one...
I have some Etymotic ER6I buds and they are great (only $60 at wall mart), and they are very level. Nevertheless, I'll probably switch to Product Westone T1s after these dye as they seem to preform similarly, if not better, but have a more durable cord with a better coating that reduces noise due to ftiction (wich is a big problem with the Etys)
Indeed, the proper thing to do is use a voice jammer not a cell phone jammer.
Well at some point when you have a product you want to make it known to people that it exists. Whether you force it down peoples throat or remain with the facts is a question of style. So here you don't answer the question of whether marketing/sales is an important/necessary/hard job to do -- You don't like a common style of doing it.
... disagreed, what you are talking about is "outreach". Sales and marketing have a very specific connotation that reach beyond the scope of outreach. Moreover, you will find individuals considered by others to be "well grounded" tend to equate the common style with the common definition, no matter what Merriam-Webster may say. To solidify this point for you I'd make an analogy to the definition of a Republican as fiscal conservatives who believe in small government, when for the past few decades they have been war-mongering corportists, however, that would probably be seen as flame bait, so I'll avoid it.
There is NO safe time to text while driving; even while at a stoplight you'll be tempted to dash out without looking if you are honked at for not paying attention to the light.
However, I agree with your analysis about the speed limit, and would be all for a ban on ALL cellphone use while driving if the speed limit were increased by 30%.
Really, it's the 21st century, and we force the population to do hours of manual labor per day to even get to work? Make them sit in a car and force them to drive to get to work? They can't read a book or work on their computer while going to work? Really?
Umm, we live in a corporatocracy, the car companies already screwed our public rail systems, what makes you think there's any chance they'd allow something like this?
... while you are at it, please use a borg iphone icon.
Thank you!!!
Maybe instead of TechDirt running some snarky contest which will achieve nothing they could actually ask people for real, workable, ideas on how the 'industry can adapt'. You know, something that doesn't involve stupid ideas like 'work for free' or 'rely on donations'.
Maybe instead of insisting that somebody is doing something the wrong way, you should fix it your self. Or, maybe you could just lean to see the value in an anti-propaganda campaign.
How is that any different than tea party protesters?
... the last time I called Amica, then again, I'd suspect all mutual insurers to be this way....
The initial bit-coin spike was mostly an artifact of it's promise for anonymous transactions. Anonymity caused sites like the silkroad to appear, as the value of anonymous transactions began to become apparent, the demand for bitcoins began to rise rapidly enough that speculators decided to get involved. Tack on a few mainstream news articles and the lack of other resource based options at a time when most of the worlds economies are printing money to pay off debts, and people who wouldn't otherwise be as speculative become so.
Despite the conclusions one might draw from Krugman's article, the number of Bitcoins is actually designed to inflate relative to the output of society (based on the relative amount of available processing power) unlike traditional resource backed currencies. Thus, the current boom and horde should not be attributed to a failure of the Bitcoin currency, but instead a failure of confidence in the fiat model. For instance, imagine you are an Argentinean during their finical collapse. Now imagine there being a small and limited amount of stable US dollars available to convert your hyper-inflating Argentinian currency into. One can reasonably assume we would see exactly the same effect with dollars as we do in bit-coins if more dollars are not created out of thin air.
Realistically, current monetary policy has us print more dollars as demand increases in order to stabilize prices. This works until the stressed market stabilizes again and people let go of their dollar holdings to go back to their native currency thereby creating inflation. All said, it's probably the lesser of two evils, which is why I would argue that another bitcoin like currency could be the appropriate way to buffer the demand. Yet it seems that the current instance of bitcoin hyper-valuation is likely only a blip and will continue for a short period of time relative to the current world economic decline. Further, there are already signs that the speculation and volatility is beginning to end: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg180zvztgSzm1g10zm2g25
In summary, the point I'm trying to make here is 2 fold. First, if we all had access to a stable currency (like bitcoin), there would not be any incentive to horde bit-coins. Second, if the appropriate response to overwhelming demand for a currency is to make more of it, then there is actually a way to create more bitcoin like currency. Yet since more currency isn't actually necessarily as no one currently trades exclusively in bitcoin, and because the rest of the world is working with a fiat system, the hyper-valuation of the currency is to be expected, but cannot be pointed to as a failing of the bitcoin system.
(Also, it's interesting to not that most sites that take bicoin haven't been chaining their prices to match the hyper inflation, which is why I refuse to use the term deflation in terms of the bit coin market.)
-JHF
.... or you could just move to a gold AND silver AND copper standard and the problem would be solved. Or in the case of Bitcoin: Bitcoin, Bitcoin V2, Bitcoin V3, Butcoin ect... nothing is stopping anyone from creating another currency that is also resource restricted by computational power.....
The problem with your statement is "DNA Fingerprinting" != "DNA sequencing"
how is this different than a fingerprint?