Ah yeah, and of course, the convicts were expected to look after themselves, given "100% of it's population permanently incarcerated." I supposed they just locked themselves in at night. There were no officers, government, shops, other innocent imigrants at all, no.
Oh and of course just because 200 years ago, some of Australia's population were convicts, must mean we're all a bunch of savage racist thugs now.
Just like American's are slave trading racists now huh? Go build a log shack man!
Recent riots were hardly riots by American standards; I think Americans would refer to what happend as a "social gathering."
Some people got upset that a friend of theirs died. They thought the police were chasing this kid who impaled himself on a fence somehow. But the police say it didn't happen.
Either way, they threw some rocks at the very controlled and very restrained and very responsible police, who in Australia don't have the harsh attitude US police seem to have. Our cops pretty much let them throw their rocks, backed off, and left it a couple of days before even starting to arrest people.
It was clear from the way the police behaved that they understood the situation, how bad it could have got, and took a non-racist approach to solving the problem
Look, there may be some racism in Australia, but not where I live, not my friends, no people I know, not people I work with, not people down the street. We are a completly multicultural society, and it's a great thing.
There's much more freedom in Australia than in the US. We don't have the level of "security" the US has, nor the harsh criminal penaltys for petty crimes. We don't have 2% of our population permanantly incarcerated.
Racism is seriously frowned upon in this country. A white man will be ostricised and snubbed from socioty should he choose to be racist. As a white Australian, I don't want to know any racists. And if I ever meet one, they're going to hear a piece of my mind. I honestly believe the vast majority of Australians feel the same way.
The Australian Consumer & Competition Comission (ACCC) is a government oversight body which has federal powers. It can raid businesses, file charges, detain and question people, they have police like powers.
The ACCC sticks up for the consumer, takes bad companies to court, stops undercutting to put small businesses out of business, tramples on monopolies, destroys unfair business and does so regularly.
Most of the big corporates in Australia *hate* them. But I, as a consumer, love them:-)
There is no end to the bridge. There is no crossing. It just keeps going until you're out of funds. Or if you're SeaOrg, until you're old or frail, then they'll kick you out onto the street. If you haven't seen that happen yet, you will soon...
after one person made the rest of us shut up for 10 minutes so he could hear what is phone-friend was saying.
When this happens, always change topic and restart the conversation with the remaining members of the group. Every one else in the group wants to keep talking
This way, when the phoner gets off his call, the rest of you are already half way into a new conversation, which sends a subtle and subliminal hint to the phoner that if they take too much time out to chat on the phone, they might miss something good.
Actually, maxuploadrate 0 sets your upload speed to unlimited! You need to set maxuploadrate to 1, as this is the lowest it can go. To download, you must upload something.
Yes, that person is called the book keeper. HR is strictly for coming up with legal reasons to fire people. Anything else is just fluff, as all other tasks would be performed more efficiently by other departments / people:
Payroll - Accountant / Book Keeper
Insurance Payments - Book Keeper / Accounts Payable
Unions - Accountant / Book Keeper
Retirement / Super - Accountant / Book Keeper
Employee Data - Manager
EEO - Manager
Paycheck - Accountant / Book Keeper
Oh and of course hiring, which is a function much better performed by managers, who can *really* identify a suitable candidate, as opposed to HR, who can only tell you of the statistical probability of the person being right for the job.
one has to define a whole bunch of things first to set up the meanings of '1', '2' and '+'
Wow, this is cool:-)
So how the hell do you do that? How do you say "1" equals one, "2" equals two and "+" is to add. How does that work?
I mean, after all, we're all taught what "1" and "2" and "+" are when we're kids, but it's almost Orwellian teaching, as in "1 = one. do not dispute. i dont know how to prove this or show you how, but it is correct, take my word for it." And we do.
...since I have no real understanding of modern economics
Yeah, neither do I, but lets keep going anyway, I'm having fun:-)
If someone had a reliable method to produce gold in enormous quantity (a transmuter, or mining the asteroids, or filtering seawater...) gold's value would disappear. Its utility would not.
This, I think, is the key. There is no method to produce gold, reliably or unreliably, in enormous quantity or small quantity.
However, to produce bank notes, all one requires is the correct press, plates, ink and paper. All rare and hard to come by, sure, but producable. Unlike gold.
I aggree that value is what people are willing to say it is. But if you have one ounce of gold today, you can buy, say, 100 bags of wheat. That same wheat may cost you say $350 in US dollars today.
In ten years, the 100 bags of wheat will still cost you one ounce of gold. But if you're paying in US dollars, the price may be $700.
The buying power of each dollar is less with each dollar printed, whereas the buying power of each ounce of gold remains the same, regardless of how much is dug out of the ground.
I've not heard of the community that has more gold than food.
No, golds value lies in:
1. It's a shiny metal, thats yellow
2. It is a strong and durable material
3. While strong, it is also a soft metal
4. It is a great conductor
5. Main reason: it's reasonably rare and limited.
That's the real value of gold. In fact, number 5 really sums up "value"
Say you're a country.
If you print more notes, the "value" of each note is less. You are "worth" the same. It's just you have more notes to represent the same worth. Just printing notes, and thereby diluting their value, is called "inflation." Because the US keeps printing more Federal Reserve notes, each "dollar" is "worth" less in terms of "value." That's why many prices double every 20 years or so.
You can't print more gold, it's a scarce and limited resource. But if you can find more gold, dig it up or something, the "value" of the original gold remains the same, and as you have more gold, you are "worth" more.
In the US? Nope, look at that note in your pocket again. See Federal Reserve? That's who prints your notes. A private corporation, the Federal Reserve, owned by about 15 guys.
It started in 1938. You to learn more about your own history. It started when a private club got together, put in private funds and said to the US government "we'll get you out of financial trouble. but you must use our notes."
Hence, US banknotes are intrinsicly worth nothing. They're literally only worth what someone else is willing to give you for them.
This is the simple seperation between easy to use, and months of learning.
If you have to go to the command line, the operating system is not, by definition, easy to use.
What's more, there's no reason you should have to go to the command line. If Linux programmers bothered to write a decent install wrapper, a-la InstallShield, I think many, many more people would be willing to give Linux a go.
My last attempt at Linux I gave up on. I'm PC generation. I can program basic, pascal, c, vb, but I don't *want* to.
I don't *want* to spend my time freaking running some BATCH job from the 1980's to install my nvidia video card! It's crazy!
I don't want to have to install 50 million "dependencies" to get my TV card going. Why the hell is not everything bundled into one installer?
Sure, the CLI is great, if you know it. So's DOS... but you don't have to learn DOS to do *anything* in Windows, installing nvidia card included!
If you're feeling in a geeky mood, it's GREAT to sit down and nut out some script to do something at the command line. But if you're under the pump, and you've gotta get something done, it's the last thing you want to be mucking around with.
Actually, Elves did once exist, and Tolkien knew this, as he was a professor of history.
There was a frankish line of kings called the Merovigians. They were the keepers of the holy grail, or more simply, Jesus' blood line. The populace at the time believed they lived forever, and called them Elves.
It is said around 800AD, when the Catholic church got swinging, they basicially said: "look, god says the pope will decide who is king, the Merovigians must go." They outlawed and expelled the Merovigians.
There were still a lot of people who believed in the holy grail, but were no longer alowed to talk about it due to new found power of the catholic church. As a result, they made up fairy tales, which are great stories, but to the initaited, have very special meanings. Stories like Cinderella, Rupenzel etc.
Rupunzel is a great example. The grail has been locked in a tower by a dark force. The prince must climb Rupunzel's hair to get to her, and destory the dark force. Ie. journey to the grail, ie. frodo must journey with ring, destroy dark force, etc..
Another interesting one is the faries, who were from Ireland.
I noticed some discussion above regarding weather robots should have "rights," such as a right to life, a right to freedom, in the same way that humans do.
I just want to point out that if we give the robots rights, we can no longer enslave them and have them do our bidding. Enslaving a robot would be a violation of its rights.
And when I say enslaving, I mean using him to do your bidding, like 'vaccum the floor, robot.' If the robot was sentient and intelligent enough to be granted rights, the owner would be treating the robot as slaves were treated by their masters not all that long ago.
It is really important to rememer that if we wish to create a machine to do our work for us, that it would be the ultimate cruelty to give him the ability to feel pain and hurt - because that is what us humans will make the poor bloody thing feel.
Your authority says the transponders along the freeways and highways are used to monitor traffic and create real time traffic maps for the internet... cool...
But why use these transponders which have to read unique EZPass numbers, when all they need is little pressure strips in the road, like at red lights, which would be much, much cheaper, and of course the privacy concerns would be greatly diminished?
I would put it to you, dear reader, that this transponder issue is dodgey. Here in Melbourne we have web based traffic maps, and signs on the road to say how many minutes until such and such exit, and it's all done very well and accuratly without the need for transponders or uniquly identifying each vehicle.
In fact, thinking it through a little further, if the ostensible purpose of this system is traffic management, why on earth would you *want* unique information? Surley you would be more interesed in aggeragate statistics...
When two modems are connected, as in BBS, and the caller is downloading, why does the recievers' modems' UPLOAD light flash?
ARGH your so WRONG I can't HANDLE it.
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that's a crime.
Oh and of course just because 200 years ago, some of Australia's population were convicts, must mean we're all a bunch of savage racist thugs now.
Just like American's are slave trading racists now huh? Go build a log shack man!
Some people got upset that a friend of theirs died. They thought the police were chasing this kid who impaled himself on a fence somehow. But the police say it didn't happen.
Either way, they threw some rocks at the very controlled and very restrained and very responsible police, who in Australia don't have the harsh attitude US police seem to have. Our cops pretty much let them throw their rocks, backed off, and left it a couple of days before even starting to arrest people.
It was clear from the way the police behaved that they understood the situation, how bad it could have got, and took a non-racist approach to solving the problem
Look, there may be some racism in Australia, but not where I live, not my friends, no people I know, not people I work with, not people down the street. We are a completly multicultural society, and it's a great thing.
There's much more freedom in Australia than in the US. We don't have the level of "security" the US has, nor the harsh criminal penaltys for petty crimes. We don't have 2% of our population permanantly incarcerated.
Racism is seriously frowned upon in this country. A white man will be ostricised and snubbed from socioty should he choose to be racist. As a white Australian, I don't want to know any racists. And if I ever meet one, they're going to hear a piece of my mind. I honestly believe the vast majority of Australians feel the same way.
The ACCC sticks up for the consumer, takes bad companies to court, stops undercutting to put small businesses out of business, tramples on monopolies, destroys unfair business and does so regularly.
Most of the big corporates in Australia *hate* them. But I, as a consumer, love them :-)
Just like my bank who clears cheques "in 3 days;" but of course unless you put them in on Monday, they take 7.
Or you will be soon if you're a Scientologist!
There is no end to the bridge. There is no crossing. It just keeps going until you're out of funds. Or if you're SeaOrg, until you're old or frail, then they'll kick you out onto the street. If you haven't seen that happen yet, you will soon...
When this happens, always change topic and restart the conversation with the remaining members of the group. Every one else in the group wants to keep talking
This way, when the phoner gets off his call, the rest of you are already half way into a new conversation, which sends a subtle and subliminal hint to the phoner that if they take too much time out to chat on the phone, they might miss something good.
Actually, maxuploadrate 0 sets your upload speed to unlimited! You need to set maxuploadrate to 1, as this is the lowest it can go. To download, you must upload something.
2. It would be much more unfair for a father to be able to force a mother to have an abortion when she didn't want it.
If you weren't shilling your product, I think people would moderate your posts more favourably.
Yes, that person is called the book keeper. HR is strictly for coming up with legal reasons to fire people. Anything else is just fluff, as all other tasks would be performed more efficiently by other departments / people:
Payroll - Accountant / Book Keeper
Insurance Payments - Book Keeper / Accounts Payable
Unions - Accountant / Book Keeper
Retirement / Super - Accountant / Book Keeper
Employee Data - Manager
EEO - Manager
Paycheck - Accountant / Book Keeper
Oh and of course hiring, which is a function much better performed by managers, who can *really* identify a suitable candidate, as opposed to HR, who can only tell you of the statistical probability of the person being right for the job.
Hehe, I don't know who modded you down, but I think that was rather funny and pertinent. :-)
Wow, this is cool :-)
So how the hell do you do that? How do you say "1" equals one, "2" equals two and "+" is to add. How does that work?
I mean, after all, we're all taught what "1" and "2" and "+" are when we're kids, but it's almost Orwellian teaching, as in "1 = one. do not dispute. i dont know how to prove this or show you how, but it is correct, take my word for it." And we do.
However, to produce bank notes, all one requires is the correct press, plates, ink and paper. All rare and hard to come by, sure, but producable. Unlike gold.
I aggree that value is what people are willing to say it is. But if you have one ounce of gold today, you can buy, say, 100 bags of wheat. That same wheat may cost you say $350 in US dollars today.
In ten years, the 100 bags of wheat will still cost you one ounce of gold. But if you're paying in US dollars, the price may be $700.
The buying power of each dollar is less with each dollar printed, whereas the buying power of each ounce of gold remains the same, regardless of how much is dug out of the ground.
I think ;-)
No, golds value lies in:
1. It's a shiny metal, thats yellow
2. It is a strong and durable material
3. While strong, it is also a soft metal
4. It is a great conductor
5. Main reason: it's reasonably rare and limited.
That's the real value of gold. In fact, number 5 really sums up "value"
Say you're a country.
If you print more notes, the "value" of each note is less. You are "worth" the same. It's just you have more notes to represent the same worth. Just printing notes, and thereby diluting their value, is called "inflation." Because the US keeps printing more Federal Reserve notes, each "dollar" is "worth" less in terms of "value." That's why many prices double every 20 years or so.
You can't print more gold, it's a scarce and limited resource. But if you can find more gold, dig it up or something, the "value" of the original gold remains the same, and as you have more gold, you are "worth" more.
It started in 1938. You to learn more about your own history. It started when a private club got together, put in private funds and said to the US government "we'll get you out of financial trouble. but you must use our notes."
Hence, US banknotes are intrinsicly worth nothing. They're literally only worth what someone else is willing to give you for them.
You can't even swap them for gold.
This is the simple seperation between easy to use, and months of learning.
If you have to go to the command line, the operating system is not, by definition, easy to use.
What's more, there's no reason you should have to go to the command line. If Linux programmers bothered to write a decent install wrapper, a-la InstallShield, I think many, many more people would be willing to give Linux a go.
My last attempt at Linux I gave up on. I'm PC generation. I can program basic, pascal, c, vb, but I don't *want* to.
I don't *want* to spend my time freaking running some BATCH job from the 1980's to install my nvidia video card! It's crazy!
I don't want to have to install 50 million "dependencies" to get my TV card going. Why the hell is not everything bundled into one installer?
Sure, the CLI is great, if you know it. So's DOS... but you don't have to learn DOS to do *anything* in Windows, installing nvidia card included!
If you're feeling in a geeky mood, it's GREAT to sit down and nut out some script to do something at the command line. But if you're under the pump, and you've gotta get something done, it's the last thing you want to be mucking around with.
social captilism at worse. get a dictionary (non-american) and look up communism. free health care does not equal communism.
Gimli: You'll have to toss me
Aragorn: (gives funny look)
Gimli: But don't tell the elf!
Hehehehe
It does.
Actually, Elves did once exist, and Tolkien knew this, as he was a professor of history.
There was a frankish line of kings called the Merovigians. They were the keepers of the holy grail, or more simply, Jesus' blood line. The populace at the time believed they lived forever, and called them Elves.
It is said around 800AD, when the Catholic church got swinging, they basicially said: "look, god says the pope will decide who is king, the Merovigians must go." They outlawed and expelled the Merovigians.
There were still a lot of people who believed in the holy grail, but were no longer alowed to talk about it due to new found power of the catholic church. As a result, they made up fairy tales, which are great stories, but to the initaited, have very special meanings. Stories like Cinderella, Rupenzel etc.
Rupunzel is a great example. The grail has been locked in a tower by a dark force. The prince must climb Rupunzel's hair to get to her, and destory the dark force. Ie. journey to the grail, ie. frodo must journey with ring, destroy dark force, etc..
Another interesting one is the faries, who were from Ireland.
I just want to point out that if we give the robots rights, we can no longer enslave them and have them do our bidding. Enslaving a robot would be a violation of its rights.
And when I say enslaving, I mean using him to do your bidding, like 'vaccum the floor, robot.' If the robot was sentient and intelligent enough to be granted rights, the owner would be treating the robot as slaves were treated by their masters not all that long ago.
It is really important to rememer that if we wish to create a machine to do our work for us, that it would be the ultimate cruelty to give him the ability to feel pain and hurt - because that is what us humans will make the poor bloody thing feel.
But why use these transponders which have to read unique EZPass numbers, when all they need is little pressure strips in the road, like at red lights, which would be much, much cheaper, and of course the privacy concerns would be greatly diminished?
I would put it to you, dear reader, that this transponder issue is dodgey. Here in Melbourne we have web based traffic maps, and signs on the road to say how many minutes until such and such exit, and it's all done very well and accuratly without the need for transponders or uniquly identifying each vehicle.
In fact, thinking it through a little further, if the ostensible purpose of this system is traffic management, why on earth would you *want* unique information? Surley you would be more interesed in aggeragate statistics...
When two modems are connected, as in BBS, and the caller is downloading, why does the recievers' modems' UPLOAD light flash? ARGH your so WRONG I can't HANDLE it.
Americans understand scarcasm? Oh yes, of course they do ;-)