I finally gave up and went back to the web interface. It has improved to the point that the App is not really necessary, and it doesn't eat 140MB of precious flash.
obviously it sucks if you live in a country of rat fuckers
Your faith in your fellow countrymen is refreshing, but naive. There is no way to ensure that future generations will not throw you under the bus.
I'm a high income socialist
I don't have any problem with your socialist ideology. But I do think that future promises need to be backed up with money. To do otherwise is to shift costs - this is both irresponsible and burdensome to future generations. Putting your kids in debt is not generally a moral thing to do - though I can think of some exceptions like infrastructure spending, where they will reap the benefits.
In other words, you can have pensions and still be moral - but then they are basically just annuities. If all of your hard work was actually paid for when it was done, you wouldn't have a situation where people in suits or politicians could easily steal from you.
I'm wondering why anyone would pine for a pension plan, after all these years of seeing how governments and corporations hung pensioners out to dry. It seems immoral to promise them (since you won't be alive, or at least not in a position, to keep the promise) and naive to work with the expectation of receiving one (I will gladly pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today).
Especially a strange yellow buoy within 1/4 mile of the very obvious nuke plant. I used to spend a month each summer on Hutchinson Island - there is no missing the nuclear plant! In the video he even said he knew he was in the nuke plant pipes once he got sucked in, so he was well aware of it. Total dumbass. Just amazing.
Though I would point out that such silliness as the US government trying to accumulate as much gold as possible would not be necessary without a gold standard.
I'm interested as to why you think it will collapse? My suspicion is that it will not collapse without a broader economic collapse - in which case the currency is the least of our problems. Anyway, currency collapse is not unique to fiat currencies. Inflation and deflation would swing +/- 40% in a very short time while we were on the gold standard.
Like most things in life, currency policy is one of tradeoffs. You can have wild swings in value and deflation associated with hoarding, or you can have steady but stable inflation. The main downside to steady inflation is that hoarding cash becomes a money-losing endeavor. Of course, that's rather the point... Solution: buy something else instead of hoarding money. If you are comfortable with gold, hoard gold. If you like equities, get those. Or mix it up a little.
Another advantage of steady inflation is that salaries go down over time. Usually this is all but impossible, even though the laws of economics demand it for an efficient economy. The disadvantage is that, well, your real salary goes down over time. But in theory a rising tide lifts all boats. In practice there are winners and there are losers. This was the case during the gold standard as well.
My PCs I still go old-school and build myself. I usually buy a nice, quiet case. I don't really care what they look like too much, but one is in the spare bedroom and so I like that it's quiet. I do have a Mac in the living room. It's old, but it looks nice. I wouldn't want to spend all this money on nice living room furniture and then have a cheap, loud plastic box sitting in the middle of it. I saw a cool project online where a guy made a wooden PC case to match his furniture.
I'm not sure I agree that there's much innovation going on in the PC space. It's very mature and there's not a lot that hasn't been done before. Sure, things get smaller and the detachable screen thing makes an appearance every few years - but at the end of the day notebooks generally all look like a mid-90s PowerBook and desktops look like variations on the original PC. All in ones got so small that they essentially just look like monitors. But I guess it is almost a philosophical question... where is the line between innovation and just solid engineering? The iPod was, I think, pretty innovative - but it didn't really do anything special or new. It was just smaller and had better engineering than the competition. So, shows what I know:)
If this were the first mid-range PC with a high-end price that's claim to fame was that it didn't have a fan, I'd be more charitable. But I remember the "cube" from Apple...:)
Yes, it's quite practical. Like every other rectangular PC, save the Apple that you mentioned (why the past tense?). Other than some solid engineering, which other commenters pointed out has been done before, I don't really see much "innovation". You mentioned Apple - remember their fanless "cube"?
It's fine, I guess. But I have to admit that I was pretty disappointed when I clicked on an article touting an "innovative" PC, only to find out that it was a rectangular box. I'd say "well-engineered", but not "innovative".
I'm actually a huge defender of climate science and the argument that global warming has it's origins in mankind.
With that said, this argument is indefensible and doing harm to my cause. There is no scientific way to tie a 0.5 degree increase in temperature to a single weather anomaly.
I realize you were responding to a moron, but please don't drop to that level.
It's not an academic, it's an industry rag pointing to some interesting research. The article itself gives almost no useful information other than to show that it exists. Diluting a trademark is hardly a cardinal sin in this case. I'm not even sure what the generic term is that they should use, but I am sure that it would be liable to confuse their target demographic.
"n times less than x" is very common speech. It means, as you say, one x divided by n. It is unambiguous, because the only other interpretation (x minus n times x) provides a value which - as you point out yourself - makes absolutely no sense at all. This is not a good example of someone being "dumb".
And never xerox a paper or take an aspirin. Don't cool your food with dry ice or store it in a thermos. Don't ride an escalator. Put down your flip phone.
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I finally gave up and went back to the web interface. It has improved to the point that the App is not really necessary, and it doesn't eat 140MB of precious flash.
Simple, provide basic pension funds to all retirees from current tax revenue. Period. It's actually that simple.
Never trust a smiling cat, or a politician who promises to pay you tomorrow for work done today.
obviously it sucks if you live in a country of rat fuckers
Your faith in your fellow countrymen is refreshing, but naive. There is no way to ensure that future generations will not throw you under the bus.
I'm a high income socialist
I don't have any problem with your socialist ideology. But I do think that future promises need to be backed up with money. To do otherwise is to shift costs - this is both irresponsible and burdensome to future generations. Putting your kids in debt is not generally a moral thing to do - though I can think of some exceptions like infrastructure spending, where they will reap the benefits.
In other words, you can have pensions and still be moral - but then they are basically just annuities. If all of your hard work was actually paid for when it was done, you wouldn't have a situation where people in suits or politicians could easily steal from you.
I'm wondering why anyone would pine for a pension plan, after all these years of seeing how governments and corporations hung pensioners out to dry. It seems immoral to promise them (since you won't be alive, or at least not in a position, to keep the promise) and naive to work with the expectation of receiving one (I will gladly pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today).
Especially a strange yellow buoy within 1/4 mile of the very obvious nuke plant. I used to spend a month each summer on Hutchinson Island - there is no missing the nuclear plant! In the video he even said he knew he was in the nuke plant pipes once he got sucked in, so he was well aware of it. Total dumbass. Just amazing.
Maybe they are.
That's a good point.
Though I would point out that such silliness as the US government trying to accumulate as much gold as possible would not be necessary without a gold standard.
They show the buoy in the accompanying video. They even tied up to it, though they claim that the warnings were not readable anymore.
Nuke plants go down once in a while without such catastrophic consequences. Indian Point was just in the news for exactly this.
Not our coinage!!! Nooooooooooo...
Now I can't hoard gold! Oh wait, yes I can.
I'm interested as to why you think it will collapse? My suspicion is that it will not collapse without a broader economic collapse - in which case the currency is the least of our problems. Anyway, currency collapse is not unique to fiat currencies. Inflation and deflation would swing +/- 40% in a very short time while we were on the gold standard.
Like most things in life, currency policy is one of tradeoffs. You can have wild swings in value and deflation associated with hoarding, or you can have steady but stable inflation. The main downside to steady inflation is that hoarding cash becomes a money-losing endeavor. Of course, that's rather the point... Solution: buy something else instead of hoarding money. If you are comfortable with gold, hoard gold. If you like equities, get those. Or mix it up a little.
Another advantage of steady inflation is that salaries go down over time. Usually this is all but impossible, even though the laws of economics demand it for an efficient economy. The disadvantage is that, well, your real salary goes down over time. But in theory a rising tide lifts all boats. In practice there are winners and there are losers. This was the case during the gold standard as well.
My PCs I still go old-school and build myself. I usually buy a nice, quiet case. I don't really care what they look like too much, but one is in the spare bedroom and so I like that it's quiet. I do have a Mac in the living room. It's old, but it looks nice. I wouldn't want to spend all this money on nice living room furniture and then have a cheap, loud plastic box sitting in the middle of it. I saw a cool project online where a guy made a wooden PC case to match his furniture.
I'm not sure I agree that there's much innovation going on in the PC space. It's very mature and there's not a lot that hasn't been done before. Sure, things get smaller and the detachable screen thing makes an appearance every few years - but at the end of the day notebooks generally all look like a mid-90s PowerBook and desktops look like variations on the original PC. All in ones got so small that they essentially just look like monitors. But I guess it is almost a philosophical question... where is the line between innovation and just solid engineering? The iPod was, I think, pretty innovative - but it didn't really do anything special or new. It was just smaller and had better engineering than the competition. So, shows what I know :)
If this were the first mid-range PC with a high-end price that's claim to fame was that it didn't have a fan, I'd be more charitable. But I remember the "cube" from Apple... :)
Yes, it's quite practical. Like every other rectangular PC, save the Apple that you mentioned (why the past tense?). Other than some solid engineering, which other commenters pointed out has been done before, I don't really see much "innovation". You mentioned Apple - remember their fanless "cube"?
It's fine, I guess. But I have to admit that I was pretty disappointed when I clicked on an article touting an "innovative" PC, only to find out that it was a rectangular box. I'd say "well-engineered", but not "innovative".
I'm actually a huge defender of climate science and the argument that global warming has it's origins in mankind.
With that said, this argument is indefensible and doing harm to my cause. There is no scientific way to tie a 0.5 degree increase in temperature to a single weather anomaly.
I realize you were responding to a moron, but please don't drop to that level.
Yeah, I admitted as much - though sadly not before you responded.
In all fairness, it's a good trait in a programmer :)
Ah, I take it back. Didn't RTFA (the other one). I agree the academics should probably say "WLAN" or something. Whatever the standard is.
It's not an academic, it's an industry rag pointing to some interesting research. The article itself gives almost no useful information other than to show that it exists. Diluting a trademark is hardly a cardinal sin in this case. I'm not even sure what the generic term is that they should use, but I am sure that it would be liable to confuse their target demographic.
Not anymore, but they all were.
"n times less than x" is very common speech. It means, as you say, one x divided by n. It is unambiguous, because the only other interpretation (x minus n times x) provides a value which - as you point out yourself - makes absolutely no sense at all. This is not a good example of someone being "dumb".
And never xerox a paper or take an aspirin. Don't cool your food with dry ice or store it in a thermos. Don't ride an escalator. Put down your flip phone.
Shilling for 60 year old women who pay me to equate communism with authoritarianism, yes. You caught me.