So you're fine with currency speculation (because that's what Bitcoin is - a massive speculative market), but you're not fine with using a speculative currency to make speculative investments?
Good thing you draw the line somewhere. Don't worry, the whole thing could collapse and Bitcoin holders will lose exactly nothing, unless they are foolish enough to accept Bitcoins as payment for physical-world goods and services.
Don't forget that right before this mess started, President Clinton signed a repeal of a Depression-era law that mandated a firewall between investment banks, commercial banks, and insurance companies.
That was a fantastic idea, to let the banking industry go back to being able to use money that belongs to you and I on hair brained investment schemes (derivatives and bundling). Or for insurance companies to offer investment insurance (AIG).
Or, it's the other way. They've already found the aliens, and they're afraid that Congress will find out and declare war, since the #1 reaction to what we don't understand is to blow it to hell. And to do that, we'd need to develop interstellar travel, strap it to some W83 warheads, and send it off to the aliens; who really just want to pirate our TV from satellites.
This is actually a way to save a lot more money by saving a pittance of money.
Never mind that without Capitalism, it's hard to say if the networks and equipment that you're using to bitch about Capitalism on the Internet would even exist...
There is a TomTom logo right in the damn application. The turn-by-turn is from them. However, the straight up search and POI database is their own, or licensed from someone with a less complete dataset than Google.
For better or worse, Tim Cook has taken the big chair at Apple, and made the place his own. This is one more departure from the policies of the past, and I think it's a good one. People, by and large, will be much happier if you own a mistake. Especially if you correct the mistake in short order, showing that you actually do own it.
Companies try to play the blame game all the time, and they usually take it right in the ass every time they do. When a company owns a fuckup like this, they usually get a bye from the public on it unless they continue to fuck up. With Apple's track record of successful execution over the last 15 years, they can afford a hit or two without massive exodus of users.
Sounds like you've bit the talking point hook fully.
Apparently, the party that is against abortion is "true evil" now. Good to know.
Also, it's real easy to blame the "other party" in Congress when you don't get something done. You know what's harder? Working with the "other party" to get stuff done. And that's something that past Presidents from both parties have done successfully, and it translated into prosperity and growth. See: Reagan working with Tipp O'neal in the 80s, and Clinton working with Gingrich in the 90s. Even that miserable excuse for a President G. W. Bush worked with Pelosi in his last two years to pass legislation. Why can't Obama?
(Disclaimer: I am not stating my own opinion on abortion, I'm stating the Republican platform statement on abortion. Flame someone else.)
The red dwarf star will make its closest approach in the summer of 2013
Hate to get pedantic, but didn't this actually happen tens of thousands of years ago (if not millions), and the light show will only get to us in the summer of 2013?
To be fair, Google was not a competitor with Apple when they inked the deal for Google Maps on the original iPhone. That changed drastically over the course of the 5-year contract.
Even if you tax the top 5% at 100%, it would only pay for the operations of the Federal Government until May. The other 7 months would still be on the back of the middle class, or more accurately, on bond sales.
The government spends too much fucking money. Too much on entitlements, way too much on defense. There should be no sacred cows - the spending needs to be controlled.
And you would still have creative accountants and lawyers that manage to find ways to game the system. It's corporate assets, not personal assets. Corporation getting close to the cap? We're spinning off another company to handle a piece of the widget, with it's sole customer being another daughter company. Where there was once one company with one cap, we now have 10 companies with 10x the cap. Etc.
Nothing transforms except that the lawyers make more money. Or, put it into an LLC or 5 so they don't run afoul of the caps themselves. All you've accomplished is that you've created an immense amount of inefficiency and paperwork in the end.
By weight, almost all of the "waste" is perfectly good unburned fuel, that would kill you if you ingested it or just got too exposed to it. Therefore we should load it back into the reactor vessel designed to contain such a hazardous material and dispose of it by way of electrical generation.
There's more than one powerhouse at TMI. Only Unit 2 had the partial meltdown, and was ruined beyond repair. Unit 1 has been operating ever since, as it was powered down for refueling during the events of 1979.
I don't put AV software on production servers either unless PHBs etc require it. In my experience if you do things right, AV software is more likely to cause you problems than a virus.
And you are the reason why my company gets discounted rates on payment card processing. We actually *pass* the PCI audit every year.
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So you're fine with currency speculation (because that's what Bitcoin is - a massive speculative market), but you're not fine with using a speculative currency to make speculative investments?
Good thing you draw the line somewhere. Don't worry, the whole thing could collapse and Bitcoin holders will lose exactly nothing, unless they are foolish enough to accept Bitcoins as payment for physical-world goods and services.
Don't forget that right before this mess started, President Clinton signed a repeal of a Depression-era law that mandated a firewall between investment banks, commercial banks, and insurance companies.
That was a fantastic idea, to let the banking industry go back to being able to use money that belongs to you and I on hair brained investment schemes (derivatives and bundling). Or for insurance companies to offer investment insurance (AIG).
Guess we learned how well that works, again.
Because every policy that the US Government takes makes sense, and is a great idea, right?
The US Government would never get themselves into a war they can't win, or would never take action that could harm the entire planet, right?
Or, it's the other way. They've already found the aliens, and they're afraid that Congress will find out and declare war, since the #1 reaction to what we don't understand is to blow it to hell. And to do that, we'd need to develop interstellar travel, strap it to some W83 warheads, and send it off to the aliens; who really just want to pirate our TV from satellites.
This is actually a way to save a lot more money by saving a pittance of money.
Never mind that without Capitalism, it's hard to say if the networks and equipment that you're using to bitch about Capitalism on the Internet would even exist...
There is a TomTom logo right in the damn application. The turn-by-turn is from them. However, the straight up search and POI database is their own, or licensed from someone with a less complete dataset than Google.
For better or worse, Tim Cook has taken the big chair at Apple, and made the place his own. This is one more departure from the policies of the past, and I think it's a good one. People, by and large, will be much happier if you own a mistake. Especially if you correct the mistake in short order, showing that you actually do own it.
Companies try to play the blame game all the time, and they usually take it right in the ass every time they do. When a company owns a fuckup like this, they usually get a bye from the public on it unless they continue to fuck up. With Apple's track record of successful execution over the last 15 years, they can afford a hit or two without massive exodus of users.
Sounds like you've bit the talking point hook fully.
Apparently, the party that is against abortion is "true evil" now. Good to know.
Also, it's real easy to blame the "other party" in Congress when you don't get something done. You know what's harder? Working with the "other party" to get stuff done. And that's something that past Presidents from both parties have done successfully, and it translated into prosperity and growth. See: Reagan working with Tipp O'neal in the 80s, and Clinton working with Gingrich in the 90s. Even that miserable excuse for a President G. W. Bush worked with Pelosi in his last two years to pass legislation. Why can't Obama?
(Disclaimer: I am not stating my own opinion on abortion, I'm stating the Republican platform statement on abortion. Flame someone else.)
On top of this - every actor, actress, musician on the planet is allowed to voice their opinion on politics, religion, etc
And most people really wish they wouldn't. That doesn't really make your argument.
End of world, gun loving, extreme right wing, Obama is the Antichrist etc...
In no way is this exclusive to mormonism. There are plenty of cross sections of American society that share those beliefs.
Hint: just because you like guns, or don't agree with the President, doesn't make you batshit crazy.
Somehow I have a feeling, that of those 15M mormons, only about 14.9M of them would be saying "Linus who?" if they read any of this.
Only in a community like Slashdot is this guy revered as some kind of opinion maker. Not a single damn is given in the rest of society.
The red dwarf star will make its closest approach in the summer of 2013
Hate to get pedantic, but didn't this actually happen tens of thousands of years ago (if not millions), and the light show will only get to us in the summer of 2013?
To be fair, Google was not a competitor with Apple when they inked the deal for Google Maps on the original iPhone. That changed drastically over the course of the 5-year contract.
An odd effect that competition has...
Even if Apple's map thing only exists to get Google off their ass, it was worth it.
Like most geeks, I couldn't care less about Apple and their single-button-mouse
2005 called, and wants it's tired old Apple-bashing insult back. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mighty_Mouse
You call yourself a geek, yet you didn't know that Apple fixed that transgression over 7 years ago?
And banks pay interest to let it just sit in a vault, like a Scrooge McDuck money bin?
No. They pay interest because they then put that money to work in the form of loans, or investments.
Even if you tax the top 5% at 100%, it would only pay for the operations of the Federal Government until May. The other 7 months would still be on the back of the middle class, or more accurately, on bond sales.
The government spends too much fucking money. Too much on entitlements, way too much on defense. There should be no sacred cows - the spending needs to be controlled.
And you would still have creative accountants and lawyers that manage to find ways to game the system. It's corporate assets, not personal assets. Corporation getting close to the cap? We're spinning off another company to handle a piece of the widget, with it's sole customer being another daughter company. Where there was once one company with one cap, we now have 10 companies with 10x the cap. Etc.
Nothing transforms except that the lawyers make more money. Or, put it into an LLC or 5 so they don't run afoul of the caps themselves. All you've accomplished is that you've created an immense amount of inefficiency and paperwork in the end.
By weight, almost all of the "waste" is perfectly good unburned fuel, that would kill you if you ingested it or just got too exposed to it. Therefore we should load it back into the reactor vessel designed to contain such a hazardous material and dispose of it by way of electrical generation.
There, fixed that for you.
All radiation is not equal.
Some types of radiation cause neutron capture, which causes the capturing material to become radioactive.
Besides, they're already lighting one of these firecrackers off - no reason not to get a little secondary data at the same time.
The writers had already found it. That's why we got the screenplay we did.
They were also idiots that put their backup diesel generators in the basement, while in a coastal floodplain.
They put those sons of bitches on the roof, and we're not having this discussion.
There's more than one powerhouse at TMI. Only Unit 2 had the partial meltdown, and was ruined beyond repair. Unit 1 has been operating ever since, as it was powered down for refueling during the events of 1979.
Yes. It's called a "fail safe."
In the event of a failure (coolant pump stops working), the system remains safe (automatic shutdown).
Working as designed.
I don't put AV software on production servers either unless PHBs etc require it. In my experience if you do things right, AV software is more likely to cause you problems than a virus.
And you are the reason why my company gets discounted rates on payment card processing. We actually *pass* the PCI audit every year.