Even the Keynesian purists would not hold that the money supply should forever increase faster than the economy actually grows.
The USD money supply grows faster than the US economy because the USA isn't the only country playing with dollars. Since WWII, it has been *the* reserve currency for the world, even though it has lost some ground to the euro and [other] currencies in recent years.
Our economy as its been engineered today makes it structurally impossible to actually pay down the debt even in good times.
You could mean a lot of different things by this, but ultimately paying off debt is a political problem, not a structural one. Unless you mean "we literally can't do it right now because of the bad political choices from previous Congress'"
It creates perverse opportunities to arbitrage billions of security instruments for tiny changes in individual valuations you see flash crashes. You have situations where a few bad economic turns lead to really destructive positive feedback ala the mortgage crisis.
You do know that the whole mortgage crisis was a mix of outright banking fraud, exemptions to traditional lending ratios, and deregulation which allowed the mingling of deposits and speculative money. The TEA Party has some ideas that are useful, but the total thrust of their ideology makes for extremely bad policy in the current fiscal situation.
Any reasonable definition is going to include terrorists primarily targeting civilians or using civilians for shields.
The broadest definition of terrorism does not require civilians to be targeted.
At its most basic level, terrorism is (A) tactics intended to create fear and (B) some kind of political goal to be furthered by that fear. Most people now equate terrorism and civilian targets, but reasonable people can easily disagree with that portion of the definition.
but I want to hear a real argument against SecureBoot other than "omg, SecureBoot!"
.Because I'm lazy, I'll just copy and paste a comment I made in another thread about TPM
Ever since TPM was created, we're always just a few bits and bytes away from having it leveraged against us, by them. And by "us" I mean "the computer users." By "them" I mean "the hardware manufacturers and software/media companies."
Example: The newest motherboards don't *need* the ability to disable trusted boot. Heck, it'd have been easier to not include it! We're more or less at the mercy of a small number of companies and their design decisions.
(I don't know if a judge can impose jail time without a DA involved (like with contempt of court)... I doubt it.)
The prosecutor does not have to be a DA. If the DA is not interested, the judge appoints a lawyer to prosecute.
Usually criminal contempt sentences are short, but judges can issue jail sentences with terms like "until the defendant complies with the court's order," which makes for an indeterminate sentence, until (another) judge decides that you really really aren't going to comply with the court's order and sets you free.
The British scientists decided to abandon the mission after trying for 20 hours to connect two holes in the ice that were needed for the hot-water drill to work, said a BAS spokeswoman.
Without a connection between the two holes, the hot water would seep into the porous surface layers of ice and be lost, reducing the pressure and rendering the drill ineffective
I wonder what would happen if US colleges (or even earlier in our educational system) let students have free reign, and really specialize.
If you don't want a liberal arts education, don't go to a liberal arts college, although some will let you design your own curriculum as long as you meet some basic requirements and get the department head(s)'s approval.
And there are plenty of highschools that focus on specific areas of study: they're called "magnet" schools. You can also find magnet programs within normal highschools, which allow students to focus their studies on one subject.
For the sake of clarity: When the Supreme Court handed down a split decision, the case was remanded into Federal court, even though SCOTUS's actions meant the 9th circuit court's decision in favor of Omega was upheld. The Federal Court decided in favor of Costco, Omega appealed, and the last I heard, Costco won the appeal
TLDR: Your grey market imports are legal everywhere in the USA that isn't the 9th District. Extra Explainer: SCOTUS was hearing a case relating to this type of copyright (mis)use and the 9th circuit court was holding off on (re-)hearing related cases until SCOTUS has spoken.
1. Theaters have already invested in expensive new projectors and they're going to get their money's worth out of them, come hell or high water 2a. Animations look good in 3D. Old animations can be cheaply/easily re-rendered in 3D and put back into theaters. 2b. Because of 2a, even if everyone else forsakes 3D, kid-oriented animations will keep the pipeline full.
Those pollution producing corporations are becoming a bit too much of a profit burden, which would be cheaper, eliminating them or paying out of the damage they are generating.
There's another option: raise insurance premiums on everyone and continue making profits.
We're all going to pay the costs of climate change one way or another, the only question is whether the money spent will be to prevent disasters or to clean up after them. So far, we've been content to keep paying megabucks to clean up after disasters, since there is no political will to force through even more expensive solutions.
So that infectious disease you have should be public information?
You don't need a government license to catch an infectious disease. If you did, that license would be a public record, alongside gun licenses, fireworks licenses, chemical storage licenses, hunting/fishing licenses, etc etc etc.
But if you do have an unpleasant infectious disease, the CDC will question you in intimate detail about your travel patterns &/or sexual partners, in order to try and contain the diesease before it spreads. This may involve an involuntary quarantine on your part.
If this isn't a 1984ish set up when the system is asking you to spy on politically "undesirable" citizens, I don't know what is. [...]Or we could stop this politically oriented targeting of citizens. This list should not be public.
It's not enough to know the text of the constitution, you need to understand the context it was written in. When the 2nd Amendment was written and passed, every town/state had a list of the militia members and the guns they owned. Why? Because that's how a militia is "well regulated."
Given that they have been able to hold onto manufacturing jobs is also a plus..
You can't talk about German manufacturing without talking about unions. And you can't talk about German unions without mentioning the positive and cooperative relationship that management has with them.
The USA could emulate the German model, but it'd require a seismic shift in the way private business interacts with unions.
A hundred years ago it was said miracles of science would feed the world with an unbelievable array of giant, hearty and delicious foods. We're almost there. And we'll get there a lot faster without you kneejerk "anything with altered genes must be bad for you" reactionary luddites.
They could have made these bio-engineered fish grow bigger than their natural size, but they were more or less forced to genetically cap the growth at "market size" so that escaped fish would not outcompete natural stocks.
For the purposes of a well regulated militia, you have to have a list of all the militia members and the guns they own.
In the Wild West, the heyday of six shooters and freedom, most towns had laws against carrying a weapon around, as they had to be deposited for storage upon your arrival. The famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral would never have happened if everyone had been following the law.
It's easy to defend gun rights when you pick and choose your history.
Even if I doubt global warming, I was always thinking, that the hotter it is, the more energy we have, the more power to us (skpping the floods of some coastal regions). I wasn't however sure how to exploit this energy. Well, perhaps AVE is the answer...
Coastal flooding is the least of our problems if global warming gets out of control. The real kick in the balls would be changing weather patterns fucking over our agricultural industry. Floods will displace people, but if the breadbasket dries out, everyone goes hungry, including the displaced.
I guess you could use AVE to desalinate water and irrigate the entire country, but that would be the kind of infrastructure project beyond the means of private industry and our current political environment would not be conducive to getting anything done.
We've talked about going to a business grade fiber connection at $200/month, but that's only on the table if one of us has a true telecommuting job.
I obviously know nothing about where you live, but you could try and find a neighbor who's willing to split the cost. I know a few technically inclined people who live alone, but split a highspeed bill with their neighbor and everyone is happier for it.
The US is no different, and should the Mississippi fail then there will be serious strategic and economic threats to the security and health of the nation.
The Mississippi can be saved, but only at the cost of its upstream neighbors, which will lead to a mini civil war over water rights.
But the fact is, the American people are subsidizing all that shipping on the Mississippi river anyways. If we took that money away from the Army Corps of Engineers and just paid it directly in the form of higher living costs, not much would change.
This thing seems extremely complex, loud and expensive for something that could be done by a horse or a donkey.
Special Forces units have received training in handling horses and donkeys, because they turned out to be utterly necessary in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But Army or marine units do not have the same level of autonomy as the Special Forces, which means the military would rather give them a technical solution than a living and breathing one.
More importantly, it's hard to round up enough local donkeys/horses for a large number of soldiers and you certainly can't airdrop them from a plane.
The goal is for Google search to be able to find pages etc based on what you mean rather then on word counts of what you type.
I'm still waiting for Google to stop filtering based on language and country.
Google.com used to include results from all over the globe, but a while back, they started filtering so that google.com and google.[country] do not return the same results for the same search.
I understand that they think American results are more relevant to American users, but in doing so, they've limited everyone's ability to see what the rest of the world has to say.
The procedures that the Israeli use are more effective, but less intrusive.
[Citation Needed] Israel's airport security procedures are highly intrusive and more than a bit racist. It is effective, but only because Israel has so little international travel that they institute such procedures without causing massive delays.
So how can TI get away with charging almost that much today for a single-purpose device that doesn't even compare favorably with a low-end smartphone from two years ago?
A. Calculators are built to be abused by students and a ruggedized cell phones is pricey B. TI can charge whatever they want because they're a defacto monopoly. The text books are literally written with how-to sections for TI calculators.
There's the Nspire lineup which has more features and whatnot, but it's still woefully underpowered and underfeatured compared to a smart phone from 5 years ago.
Homesteading is one such right. By mixing one's labor with the land, whether it is rolling plain, or an asteroid, one gains ownership of that land.
Autonomous robotic equipment should be considered as abandoned. You're not homesteading unless you actually go out there and put boots on the ground. Otherwise, what's to stop me from sending out swarms of tiny robots with beacons and laying claim to every asteroid within a reasonable orbit?
Slashdot Mirror
Even the Keynesian purists would not hold that the money supply should forever increase faster than the economy actually grows.
The USD money supply grows faster than the US economy because the USA isn't the only country playing with dollars.
Since WWII, it has been *the* reserve currency for the world, even though it has lost some ground to the euro and [other] currencies in recent years.
Our economy as its been engineered today makes it structurally impossible to actually pay down the debt even in good times.
You could mean a lot of different things by this, but ultimately paying off debt is a political problem, not a structural one.
Unless you mean "we literally can't do it right now because of the bad political choices from previous Congress'"
It creates perverse opportunities to arbitrage billions of security instruments for tiny changes in individual valuations you see flash crashes. You have situations where a few bad economic turns lead to really destructive positive feedback ala the mortgage crisis.
You do know that the whole mortgage crisis was a mix of outright banking fraud, exemptions to traditional lending ratios, and deregulation which allowed the mingling of deposits and speculative money.
The TEA Party has some ideas that are useful, but the total thrust of their ideology makes for extremely bad policy in the current fiscal situation.
Any reasonable definition is going to include terrorists primarily targeting civilians or using civilians for shields.
The broadest definition of terrorism does not require civilians to be targeted.
At its most basic level, terrorism is (A) tactics intended to create fear and (B) some kind of political goal to be furthered by that fear.
Most people now equate terrorism and civilian targets, but reasonable people can easily disagree with that portion of the definition.
Please follow the same logic and see how idiotic it is.
Your logic is idiotic because we treat crimes against people differently than we treat crimes against property.
Otherwise, using your logic, we'd add a hate crime enhancement for stealing a black iphone because that's just like raping a black woman.
but I want to hear a real argument against SecureBoot other than "omg, SecureBoot!"
.Because I'm lazy, I'll just copy and paste a comment I made in another thread about TPM
Ever since TPM was created, we're always just a few bits and bytes away from having it leveraged against us, by them.
And by "us" I mean "the computer users."
By "them" I mean "the hardware manufacturers and software/media companies."
Example: The newest motherboards don't *need* the ability to disable trusted boot. Heck, it'd have been easier to not include it!
We're more or less at the mercy of a small number of companies and their design decisions.
You forget that they're government birds.
They have vision and dental, plus a great pension plan.
(I don't know if a judge can impose jail time without a DA involved (like with contempt of court)... I doubt it.)
The prosecutor does not have to be a DA. If the DA is not interested, the judge appoints a lawyer to prosecute.
Usually criminal contempt sentences are short, but judges can issue jail sentences with terms like "until the defendant complies with the court's order," which makes for an indeterminate sentence, until (another) judge decides that you really really aren't going to comply with the court's order and sets you free.
The British scientists decided to abandon the mission after trying for 20 hours to connect two holes in the ice that were needed for the hot-water drill to work, said a BAS spokeswoman.
Without a connection between the two holes, the hot water would seep into the porous surface layers of ice and be lost, reducing the pressure and rendering the drill ineffective
I RTFA and all I can say is "Huh?"
I wonder what would happen if US colleges (or even earlier in our educational system) let students have free reign, and really specialize.
If you don't want a liberal arts education, don't go to a liberal arts college, although some will let you design your own curriculum as long as you meet some basic requirements and get the department head(s)'s approval.
And there are plenty of highschools that focus on specific areas of study: they're called "magnet" schools.
You can also find magnet programs within normal highschools, which allow students to focus their studies on one subject.
For the sake of clarity:
When the Supreme Court handed down a split decision, the case was remanded into Federal court,
even though SCOTUS's actions meant the 9th circuit court's decision in favor of Omega was upheld.
The Federal Court decided in favor of Costco, Omega appealed, and the last I heard, Costco won the appeal
TLDR: Your grey market imports are legal everywhere in the USA that isn't the 9th District.
Extra Explainer: SCOTUS was hearing a case relating to this type of copyright (mis)use and the 9th circuit court was holding off on (re-)hearing related cases until SCOTUS has spoken.
The sooner it goes away the better.
3D isn't going away for two big reasons:
1. Theaters have already invested in expensive new projectors and they're going to get their money's worth out of them, come hell or high water
2a. Animations look good in 3D. Old animations can be cheaply/easily re-rendered in 3D and put back into theaters.
2b. Because of 2a, even if everyone else forsakes 3D, kid-oriented animations will keep the pipeline full.
Those pollution producing corporations are becoming a bit too much of a profit burden, which would be cheaper, eliminating them or paying out of the damage they are generating.
There's another option: raise insurance premiums on everyone and continue making profits.
We're all going to pay the costs of climate change one way or another, the only question is whether the money spent will be to prevent disasters or to clean up after them.
So far, we've been content to keep paying megabucks to clean up after disasters, since there is no political will to force through even more expensive solutions.
So that infectious disease you have should be public information?
You don't need a government license to catch an infectious disease.
If you did, that license would be a public record, alongside gun licenses, fireworks licenses, chemical storage licenses, hunting/fishing licenses, etc etc etc.
But if you do have an unpleasant infectious disease, the CDC will question you in intimate detail about your travel patterns &/or sexual partners, in order to try and contain the diesease before it spreads. This may involve an involuntary quarantine on your part.
If this isn't a 1984ish set up when the system is asking you to spy on politically "undesirable" citizens, I don't know what is.
[...]Or we could stop this politically oriented targeting of citizens. This list should not be public.
It's not enough to know the text of the constitution, you need to understand the context it was written in.
When the 2nd Amendment was written and passed, every town/state had a list of the militia members and the guns they owned.
Why? Because that's how a militia is "well regulated."
Given that they have been able to hold onto manufacturing jobs is also a plus..
You can't talk about German manufacturing without talking about unions.
And you can't talk about German unions without mentioning the positive and cooperative relationship that management has with them.
The USA could emulate the German model, but it'd require a seismic shift in the way private business interacts with unions.
A hundred years ago it was said miracles of science would feed the world with an unbelievable array of giant, hearty and delicious foods. We're almost there. And we'll get there a lot faster without you kneejerk "anything with altered genes must be bad for you" reactionary luddites.
They could have made these bio-engineered fish grow bigger than their natural size, but they were more or less forced to genetically cap the growth at "market size" so that escaped fish would not outcompete natural stocks.
I can feel the joy of countless obese people knowing that they can now enjoy all the potatot chips and twinkies that they want to eat.
Warning: Made with olestra and sorbitol, may cause diarrhea and weight loss
But not a registry on guns.
For the purposes of a well regulated militia, you have to have a list of all the militia members and the guns they own.
In the Wild West, the heyday of six shooters and freedom, most towns had laws against carrying a weapon around, as they had to be deposited for storage upon your arrival.
The famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral would never have happened if everyone had been following the law.
It's easy to defend gun rights when you pick and choose your history.
Even if I doubt global warming, I was always thinking, that the hotter it is, the more energy we have, the more power to us (skpping the floods of some coastal regions). I wasn't however sure how to exploit this energy. Well, perhaps AVE is the answer...
Coastal flooding is the least of our problems if global warming gets out of control.
The real kick in the balls would be changing weather patterns fucking over our agricultural industry.
Floods will displace people, but if the breadbasket dries out, everyone goes hungry, including the displaced.
I guess you could use AVE to desalinate water and irrigate the entire country, but that would be the kind of infrastructure project beyond the means of private industry and our current political environment would not be conducive to getting anything done.
We've talked about going to a business grade fiber connection at $200/month, but that's only on the table if one of us has a true telecommuting job.
I obviously know nothing about where you live, but you could try and find a neighbor who's willing to split the cost.
I know a few technically inclined people who live alone, but split a highspeed bill with their neighbor and everyone is happier for it.
The US is no different, and should the Mississippi fail then there will be serious strategic and economic threats to the security and health of the nation.
The Mississippi can be saved, but only at the cost of its upstream neighbors, which will lead to a mini civil war over water rights.
But the fact is, the American people are subsidizing all that shipping on the Mississippi river anyways.
If we took that money away from the Army Corps of Engineers and just paid it directly in the form of higher living costs, not much would change.
This thing seems extremely complex, loud and expensive for something that could be done by a horse or a donkey.
Special Forces units have received training in handling horses and donkeys, because they turned out to be utterly necessary in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But Army or marine units do not have the same level of autonomy as the Special Forces, which means the military would rather give them a technical solution than a living and breathing one.
More importantly, it's hard to round up enough local donkeys/horses for a large number of soldiers and you certainly can't airdrop them from a plane.
/ASFAIK, The US Military no longer has any stables for training soldiers in handling horses or donkeys
The goal is for Google search to be able to find pages etc based on what you mean rather then on word counts of what you type.
I'm still waiting for Google to stop filtering based on language and country.
Google.com used to include results from all over the globe, but a while back, they started filtering so that google.com and google.[country] do not return the same results for the same search.
I understand that they think American results are more relevant to American users, but in doing so, they've limited everyone's ability to see what the rest of the world has to say.
The procedures that the Israeli use are more effective, but less intrusive.
[Citation Needed]
Israel's airport security procedures are highly intrusive and more than a bit racist.
It is effective, but only because Israel has so little international travel that they institute such procedures without causing massive delays.
So how can TI get away with charging almost that much today for a single-purpose device that doesn't even compare favorably with a low-end smartphone from two years ago?
A. Calculators are built to be abused by students and a ruggedized cell phones is pricey
B. TI can charge whatever they want because they're a defacto monopoly. The text books are literally written with how-to sections for TI calculators.
There's the Nspire lineup which has more features and whatnot, but it's still woefully underpowered and underfeatured compared to a smart phone from 5 years ago.
Homesteading is one such right. By mixing one's labor with the land, whether it is rolling plain, or an asteroid, one gains ownership of that land.
Autonomous robotic equipment should be considered as abandoned.
You're not homesteading unless you actually go out there and put boots on the ground.
Otherwise, what's to stop me from sending out swarms of tiny robots with beacons and laying claim to every asteroid within a reasonable orbit?