Don't forget that the amount of paper gold is orders of magnitude larger than the amount of real gold. A quick google shows that around 3000 metric tons of gold are traded every day, which is about the amount in this ship. Of course, this is "virtual" gold, as none of these investors are interested in acquiring actual metal, but are merely speculating on rising/falling prices through financial instruments. In fact, there is about a hundred times more gold "in circulation" (on paper) than actually exists!
Selling such a tremendous amount of physical gold probably isn't too much of a problem, as many actors (large states mainly, such as Russia and China) are constantly on the lookout for acquiring REAL gold (not the virtual paper variant). It might even have an opposite effect ("herd mentality").
Even the summary reads like an onion story. Is this a joke, parody, or do the editors truly want to share this news on this website with this audience? Some probably russian-related actors bought three ads for the amount of ONE dollar..? This is background noise. You can probably find even more adds of Pakistani people trying to influence the elections in Portugal
This has already happened. Many conferences are on a yearly Asia - Europe - USA cycle (one year in Asia, next year Europe, next year USA, repeat), for instance several large IEEE conferences and workshops. Some of these have already decided to cut out the USA, and go on a Asia - Europe cycle. The number of registrants for this year's conferences in the USA has dramatically declined, with many countries simply no longer bothering to attend at all. Several Pakistani and Iranian colleagues already had major trouble getting visa for attending conferences in the USA (as in, they never get any), and now they simply gave up completely. Others who work at US universities no longer dare to go home for vacation or family visits, afraid that they cannot return. These are some brilliant scientists by the way.
Even many European colleagues no longer bother, as they have simply become afraid of the USA border and security theater. Last year in Los Angeles, two out of five of my colleagues got held up for 12 hours at the airport for no apparent reason (it turned out one of them had a name familiar to someone on a list, and the second's passport was erroneously on some list as well). They had Israeli and UK nationalities, and nothing that could flag them as suspicious (well behaved, well spoken, well dressed white folks, on an incoming European flight). These stories move quickly in the conference crowd, drawing nothing but disgust, and going to a USA conference is now almost considered a liability.
Also the opposite seems to happen: Recent workshops in Europe seem to draw lots of American attention now, with many American researchers now traveling to Europe, which they didn't do in the past. Even these American researchers no longer plan to attend the USA conferences anymore, and I am not talking about some random PhD student, these are the big shots that organize the conferences and give the plenaries.
Well I am renovating a house in an expensive EU country. I don't mind the Polish and Romanian workers at all who help me at one half of the rate I would have to pay a fellow countryman. They are happy, I am happy. Capitalism...!
I am so much agreeing with your post it hurts. If only I had mod points.
Please, someone at google, read the parent's post, and do something about it. Classic maps is a tremendously useful tool, used almost daily by me and most of my peers. The new maps are a turd, and will have me look for an alternative.
I gave my nephew a simple electronic drum kit for Christmas
As a parent, and speaking for most parents in the world, I wish upon you a house full of confetti and glitter, a sick goat locked up in your car, and from now on you're only allowed roughspun wool underwear.
That was in Belgium actually. Belgians are known to be among the most agressive drivers in Europe, and have the worst roads and most congested traffic.
Have you compared the average car in Germany with the ones in the USA? Furthermore, in Germany there are mandatory periodic technical inspections, and these are no joke. Half the cars I see in the USA would never pass these inspections. Also, getting a driver license in Germany is HARD, and the average Autobahn driver is very well disciplined compared to his USA counterpart (exceptions exist, I know I know...)
Neutron-star density, as in one baseball of the stuff weights as much as 1000 Mount Everests. This stuff would fly through the Earth without too much resistance, even without slowing down too much.
- A passenger is able to recognize when traffic is challenging and stop talking.
You haven't met my wife, who does the exact opposite: When traffic is dense and difficult, I tend to focus more on the road than on what she is babbling about, which causes her to become mad with me, making the whole situation even more challenging.
Yes I did the same for my parents, who were stressed about doing stuff like online banking on an XP machine after support ended. Installation was a breeze, everything looked perfect, amazing OS. It put itself nicely next to the existing XP installation, just in case they really didn't like it. Good to go, but...
Then the little annoyances started: Caps lock doesn't behave like it should (not a US qwerty keyboard), everything is a mix between English and our local language, the included firefox doesn't play nice with the online banking website, and so on. I know that each of these problems is easily resolved by someone that knows a little bit what they are doing, and some google skills (set up capslock behavior, learn to deal with English, included firefox version has known issues with some extensions, etc...). But for people that never even heard of linux before, that use it only for "where do I click for my online bank, and the internet?", this is a nightmare. Ever tried to apt-get somthing over the phone with people that don't even understand why every command has to be typed just right?
Long story short, they still use XP. Next time I am over, I can try to get everything set up right, but for a first user experience, this is very unfortunately a bad experience.
TLDR: Linux, why you always have stupid small problems and shoot yourself in the foot?
If we can only export refined oil, it means we have to refine it on US soil. This is a dirty business, producing loads of crap you don't want in your environment. This ban forces us to destroy our own environment, while exporting the goodies that come out of it. This doesn't seem long-term smart.
Exactly. In the Netherlands and Belgium, there have been hundreds of youths recruited to go fight in Syria. Dozens of them have been killed already, often by fellow fighters or competing groups. They mostly end up with the most radical factions, related to Al Quada, adhere to strict Sharia law, and are too extreme for all other groups (citizens and "decent" rebels alike). These are the guys that send back videos of them decapitating innocent elderly people, playing football with their heads, raping and mutilating anyone who dares cross their path. Recently, a bunch of these guys were found in a large villa with a pool, living in luxury, in some conquered village in the north of Syria. Their passtime: kidnapping, raping and killing innocent women. There were 30 bodies already... We do NOT want these people to come back to the west. They are DANGEROUS, and I fully agree that whoever goes to Syria right now gets at least some questions on return.
The contract you are mentioning is like a futures contract. Futures contracts can be traded just like any other security on exchanges. AFAIK, there are no futures contracts in bitcoin, yet...
Yes. Now imagine 1500 used rods, totaling 250 metric tons of spent fuel, mixed with 200 brand new shiny unused ones, lying in a large pile of mikado in a damaged pool on bent supports 30 feet above the ground, partially cooled by seawater that is eating away the zirconium rod housing, and with the roof collapsed on top of it. What could possibly go wrong...?
Please read the entire article. They state explicitly that the 300 beta versions that are gonna be sent out in a month will have 4 buttons instead of a touchscreen. The one that ships in 2014 will have a screen instead. The display on the touchscreen will be overlayed on the TV as well, so you don't have to look at the screen if you don't want to. There is no reason to assume the screen won't be in color, that technology is more than mature.
The trackpad is clickable as well. touching it will bring up the selection screen briefly, but will not actually select something, for that you have to click.
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Don't forget that the amount of paper gold is orders of magnitude larger than the amount of real gold. A quick google shows that around 3000 metric tons of gold are traded every day, which is about the amount in this ship. Of course, this is "virtual" gold, as none of these investors are interested in acquiring actual metal, but are merely speculating on rising/falling prices through financial instruments. In fact, there is about a hundred times more gold "in circulation" (on paper) than actually exists!
Selling such a tremendous amount of physical gold probably isn't too much of a problem, as many actors (large states mainly, such as Russia and China) are constantly on the lookout for acquiring REAL gold (not the virtual paper variant). It might even have an opposite effect ("herd mentality").
Even the summary reads like an onion story. Is this a joke, parody, or do the editors truly want to share this news on this website with this audience? Some probably russian-related actors bought three ads for the amount of ONE dollar..? This is background noise. You can probably find even more adds of Pakistani people trying to influence the elections in Portugal
Unless there is some fusion/fission going on inside the battery, or exhaustion of fumes, the lithium is going exactly nowhere.
... reciprocate.
No, someone has to be the adult. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
This has already happened. Many conferences are on a yearly Asia - Europe - USA cycle (one year in Asia, next year Europe, next year USA, repeat), for instance several large IEEE conferences and workshops. Some of these have already decided to cut out the USA, and go on a Asia - Europe cycle. The number of registrants for this year's conferences in the USA has dramatically declined, with many countries simply no longer bothering to attend at all. Several Pakistani and Iranian colleagues already had major trouble getting visa for attending conferences in the USA (as in, they never get any), and now they simply gave up completely. Others who work at US universities no longer dare to go home for vacation or family visits, afraid that they cannot return. These are some brilliant scientists by the way.
Even many European colleagues no longer bother, as they have simply become afraid of the USA border and security theater. Last year in Los Angeles, two out of five of my colleagues got held up for 12 hours at the airport for no apparent reason (it turned out one of them had a name familiar to someone on a list, and the second's passport was erroneously on some list as well). They had Israeli and UK nationalities, and nothing that could flag them as suspicious (well behaved, well spoken, well dressed white folks, on an incoming European flight). These stories move quickly in the conference crowd, drawing nothing but disgust, and going to a USA conference is now almost considered a liability.
Also the opposite seems to happen: Recent workshops in Europe seem to draw lots of American attention now, with many American researchers now traveling to Europe, which they didn't do in the past. Even these American researchers no longer plan to attend the USA conferences anymore, and I am not talking about some random PhD student, these are the big shots that organize the conferences and give the plenaries.
Ba, neutrino shakes. Only three tastes, and you can't even be sure it hasn't changed on your drive home from the store.
Well I am renovating a house in an expensive EU country. I don't mind the Polish and Romanian workers at all who help me at one half of the rate I would have to pay a fellow countryman. They are happy, I am happy. Capitalism...!
You do know that in Brussels, one in three speaks Arabic as their first language...?
This is Brussels airport, the lines at security are very short or non-existent most of the time.
I am so much agreeing with your post it hurts. If only I had mod points.
Please, someone at google, read the parent's post, and do something about it. Classic maps is a tremendously useful tool, used almost daily by me and most of my peers. The new maps are a turd, and will have me look for an alternative.
That would explain the quality of some comments...
I gave my nephew a simple electronic drum kit for Christmas
As a parent, and speaking for most parents in the world, I wish upon you a house full of confetti and glitter, a sick goat locked up in your car, and from now on you're only allowed roughspun wool underwear.
Maybe they stole the backups? Fastest easiest way to get all data nicely aggregated into one spot. Walk out with one box of tapes?
That was in Belgium actually. Belgians are known to be among the most agressive drivers in Europe, and have the worst roads and most congested traffic.
Have you compared the average car in Germany with the ones in the USA? Furthermore, in Germany there are mandatory periodic technical inspections, and these are no joke. Half the cars I see in the USA would never pass these inspections. Also, getting a driver license in Germany is HARD, and the average Autobahn driver is very well disciplined compared to his USA counterpart (exceptions exist, I know I know...)
Neutron-star density, as in one baseball of the stuff weights as much as 1000 Mount Everests. This stuff would fly through the Earth without too much resistance, even without slowing down too much.
It's due to the rotation of the earth, duh! Those down-under rotate the other way, but they are upside down also, so it compensates.
- A passenger is able to recognize when traffic is challenging and stop talking.
You haven't met my wife, who does the exact opposite: When traffic is dense and difficult, I tend to focus more on the road than on what she is babbling about, which causes her to become mad with me, making the whole situation even more challenging.
Yes I did the same for my parents, who were stressed about doing stuff like online banking on an XP machine after support ended. Installation was a breeze, everything looked perfect, amazing OS. It put itself nicely next to the existing XP installation, just in case they really didn't like it. Good to go, but...
Then the little annoyances started: Caps lock doesn't behave like it should (not a US qwerty keyboard), everything is a mix between English and our local language, the included firefox doesn't play nice with the online banking website, and so on. I know that each of these problems is easily resolved by someone that knows a little bit what they are doing, and some google skills (set up capslock behavior, learn to deal with English, included firefox version has known issues with some extensions, etc...). But for people that never even heard of linux before, that use it only for "where do I click for my online bank, and the internet?", this is a nightmare. Ever tried to apt-get somthing over the phone with people that don't even understand why every command has to be typed just right?
Long story short, they still use XP. Next time I am over, I can try to get everything set up right, but for a first user experience, this is very unfortunately a bad experience.
TLDR: Linux, why you always have stupid small problems and shoot yourself in the foot?
If we can only export refined oil, it means we have to refine it on US soil. This is a dirty business, producing loads of crap you don't want in your environment. This ban forces us to destroy our own environment, while exporting the goodies that come out of it. This doesn't seem long-term smart.
Exactly. In the Netherlands and Belgium, there have been hundreds of youths recruited to go fight in Syria. Dozens of them have been killed already, often by fellow fighters or competing groups. They mostly end up with the most radical factions, related to Al Quada, adhere to strict Sharia law, and are too extreme for all other groups (citizens and "decent" rebels alike). These are the guys that send back videos of them decapitating innocent elderly people, playing football with their heads, raping and mutilating anyone who dares cross their path. Recently, a bunch of these guys were found in a large villa with a pool, living in luxury, in some conquered village in the north of Syria. Their passtime: kidnapping, raping and killing innocent women. There were 30 bodies already...
We do NOT want these people to come back to the west. They are DANGEROUS, and I fully agree that whoever goes to Syria right now gets at least some questions on return.
You just reinvented futures, and how to earn money with them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_contract
The contract you are mentioning is like a futures contract. Futures contracts can be traded just like any other security on exchanges. AFAIK, there are no futures contracts in bitcoin, yet...
Yes. Now imagine 1500 used rods, totaling 250 metric tons of spent fuel, mixed with 200 brand new shiny unused ones, lying in a large pile of mikado in a damaged pool on bent supports 30 feet above the ground, partially cooled by seawater that is eating away the zirconium rod housing, and with the roof collapsed on top of it. What could possibly go wrong...?
Please read the entire article. They state explicitly that the 300 beta versions that are gonna be sent out in a month will have 4 buttons instead of a touchscreen. The one that ships in 2014 will have a screen instead. The display on the touchscreen will be overlayed on the TV as well, so you don't have to look at the screen if you don't want to. There is no reason to assume the screen won't be in color, that technology is more than mature.
The trackpad is clickable as well. touching it will bring up the selection screen briefly, but will not actually select something, for that you have to click.