Actually in my experience the sub-reddits aren't that great. It's the sub-sub-reddits that are good. Eventually no one will be able to find anything because it is buried deep in the hierarchy.
Do you think if SS was private they would just sit on piles of money and not invest it anywhere? Even US Government bonds are safer than what passes for private investment these days. Wanna buy Facebook stock?
The Chinese are basically doing the same thing the Japanese did successfully for decades to grow their economy. If they get too many dollars on their hands they can do what the Japanese did in the 1980s and 1990s and start buying up US corporations, properties or whatever lock, stock, and barrel. They already bought IBM's PC division and tried to buy GM's entire Hummer operations.
Its supply and demand. Unless you take the money off the system afterwards by taxation or whatever the more cash you inject the more you will have to pay for the same items. Production is constrained by available resources (people, machines, feedstocks, etc). In the end money is just something you use to mediate exchanges. You do not magically get more production or more consumption just by continuously printing more money. How many houses or vehicles do you actually need or want to have? It may be possible to create a bubble for a limited time with the cash injection but in the long run inflation will happen.
Well in most cases the governments got deep into debt to begin with because they bailed out private banks which were going bankrupt. Had they let the banks fail the government debt would have been manageable as usual instead getting into the morass those nations are in now. The interesting thing is that after causing the problem instead of being thrown out the bankers were actually put in charge of how to milk the taxpayers to pay their bailout. Iceland let the banks fail and they are not stuck into debt. The bankers made the loans because they know they are not liable to pay the losses and the more they lend the more government cash injections they get. Then there are ridiculous things like the Greek government getting its loans from private banks which got the money from ECB loans. If the ECB keeps doing crap like this the banks have no interest in being solvent. The more money they lose the more money they will get from cash infusions.
I do not know the particulars of this deal but often when stock deals are involved you have to wait for a year, or some other amount of time, before you can divest yourself of the stock. This is done in order to prevent whoever made the deal from dumping the stock after the transaction is made and depressing the price.
Actually JT-60 did a D-D test a couple of years back that if it had been done using D-T fuel would have generated more energy than the energy used to create fusion in the first place. The problem is D-T fusion generates a lot of neutrons and it decreases the life of the reactor. Until someone figures out some way to make the reactor materials last or some other fuel cycle with net fusion output we aren't going anywhere fast. Not to mention that the net energy generated is still pitiful.
No you do not. Just because you copied something that cost you nothing does not mean you would be willing to actually pay for it. People accept all sorts of junk for free they wouldn't pay a dime for otherwise.
Since when is copying the use of force? It is these kinds of moronic, not to mention brain damaged, modes of thinking that lead the US to have higher jail sentences for copying than physically assaulting someone. Copying shouldn't even be a jail-able offense. Everyone is going bonkers.
You really don't get it. The GPL exists because software can be forbidden to be copied by a copyright license. If you could copy anything you wanted the GPL wouldn't have been created to begin with. Also the more you divorce costs from the price the more distorted pricing will become and obviously is only sustainable because there are laws coercing users to follow them. The state could make a law where you had to pay a tax for breathing despite air being plentiful. Things like black markets exist because there is possible to satisfy demand in practice but there are laws preventing the actual trade. Since software can be copied for nearly zero cost its kind of obvious the invisible hand of the free market will lead people to copying the software a cost near zero which reflects the actual copying cost.
EA are the people which developed a paint program which had in its license terms that all images you designed with the paint program were owned by them. Needless to say when someone sent to court for this they lost big time but it still shows how shitty they used to be. Plus they have been around since like forever. They and Activision are probably the oldest games software publishers still around. Games software publishers have historically had a high tendency to go bankrupt.
All smartphones support some form of hardware OpenGL ES acceleration by now and I am not seeing them changing to DirectX any time soon. Considering that there is a huge market in mobile gaming there is plenty of room there. Not to mention that there are more consoles around than the Xbox.
The fact is you can enter text easily. If this was an actual published book the people doing the writing would not be doing layout or proofing either so I do not see what is the big deal. Besides Wikitax is not very hard to learn not to mention that there are style buttons in the editor box.
Delivery uses less energy than shopping. There's some whining about the "thousand mile salad", but moving a 45,000 pound truckload of lettuce a thousand miles uses less energy per head of lettuce than the 5 mile trip in the 2 ton SUV that moves 20 pounds of groceries.
The issue with this logic is that most people do their shopping while coming back from work or whatever so the fuel spent is only a trifle more than you would spend otherwise.
Thanks for the link. However the difference is the Amazon operated site sells non-perishable goods while Webvan, which I remember from when they were hyped, sold cow milk, lettuce and fruit among other things.
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Actually in my experience the sub-reddits aren't that great. It's the sub-sub-reddits that are good. Eventually no one will be able to find anything because it is buried deep in the hierarchy.
Nah. 4chan is where Taco will migrate his MegaTokyo account to.
Mozilla using WebKit? It will be a cold day in hell when that happens.
I do not assume that someone has a high post because they are talented.
Do you think if SS was private they would just sit on piles of money and not invest it anywhere? Even US Government bonds are safer than what passes for private investment these days. Wanna buy Facebook stock?
I thought that was JP Morgan.
The Chinese are basically doing the same thing the Japanese did successfully for decades to grow their economy. If they get too many dollars on their hands they can do what the Japanese did in the 1980s and 1990s and start buying up US corporations, properties or whatever lock, stock, and barrel. They already bought IBM's PC division and tried to buy GM's entire Hummer operations.
Its supply and demand. Unless you take the money off the system afterwards by taxation or whatever the more cash you inject the more you will have to pay for the same items. Production is constrained by available resources (people, machines, feedstocks, etc). In the end money is just something you use to mediate exchanges. You do not magically get more production or more consumption just by continuously printing more money. How many houses or vehicles do you actually need or want to have? It may be possible to create a bubble for a limited time with the cash injection but in the long run inflation will happen.
Well in most cases the governments got deep into debt to begin with because they bailed out private banks which were going bankrupt. Had they let the banks fail the government debt would have been manageable as usual instead getting into the morass those nations are in now. The interesting thing is that after causing the problem instead of being thrown out the bankers were actually put in charge of how to milk the taxpayers to pay their bailout. Iceland let the banks fail and they are not stuck into debt. The bankers made the loans because they know they are not liable to pay the losses and the more they lend the more government cash injections they get. Then there are ridiculous things like the Greek government getting its loans from private banks which got the money from ECB loans. If the ECB keeps doing crap like this the banks have no interest in being solvent. The more money they lose the more money they will get from cash infusions.
I do not know the particulars of this deal but often when stock deals are involved you have to wait for a year, or some other amount of time, before you can divest yourself of the stock. This is done in order to prevent whoever made the deal from dumping the stock after the transaction is made and depressing the price.
They also used to be banned in Turkey. I guess that makes them racist too.
Apple always releases their smartphones around August so it is doubtful Windows Phone 8 will come out earlier.
Actually JT-60 did a D-D test a couple of years back that if it had been done using D-T fuel would have generated more energy than the energy used to create fusion in the first place. The problem is D-T fusion generates a lot of neutrons and it decreases the life of the reactor. Until someone figures out some way to make the reactor materials last or some other fuel cycle with net fusion output we aren't going anywhere fast. Not to mention that the net energy generated is still pitiful.
They shut down the business and the servers were in Hong Kong of all places.
Considering that Apple seemingly has the Secret Service in their pocket the FBI seems like a small thing all considered.
Library Books are simply not free. Someone is paying for your access to them and just because it isn't directly you does not make it so.
They are free if the library in question is the Library of Congress.
You deprive them of a potential sale.
No you do not. Just because you copied something that cost you nothing does not mean you would be willing to actually pay for it. People accept all sorts of junk for free they wouldn't pay a dime for otherwise.
Since when is copying the use of force? It is these kinds of moronic, not to mention brain damaged, modes of thinking that lead the US to have higher jail sentences for copying than physically assaulting someone. Copying shouldn't even be a jail-able offense. Everyone is going bonkers.
You really don't get it. The GPL exists because software can be forbidden to be copied by a copyright license. If you could copy anything you wanted the GPL wouldn't have been created to begin with. Also the more you divorce costs from the price the more distorted pricing will become and obviously is only sustainable because there are laws coercing users to follow them. The state could make a law where you had to pay a tax for breathing despite air being plentiful. Things like black markets exist because there is possible to satisfy demand in practice but there are laws preventing the actual trade. Since software can be copied for nearly zero cost its kind of obvious the invisible hand of the free market will lead people to copying the software a cost near zero which reflects the actual copying cost.
EA are the people which developed a paint program which had in its license terms that all images you designed with the paint program were owned by them. Needless to say when someone sent to court for this they lost big time but it still shows how shitty they used to be. Plus they have been around since like forever. They and Activision are probably the oldest games software publishers still around. Games software publishers have historically had a high tendency to go bankrupt.
Well the alternative is to sit on large stacks of cash and risk being robbed. It is probably safer to have it in the bank.
All smartphones support some form of hardware OpenGL ES acceleration by now and I am not seeing them changing to DirectX any time soon. Considering that there is a huge market in mobile gaming there is plenty of room there. Not to mention that there are more consoles around than the Xbox.
The fact is you can enter text easily. If this was an actual published book the people doing the writing would not be doing layout or proofing either so I do not see what is the big deal. Besides Wikitax is not very hard to learn not to mention that there are style buttons in the editor box.
Delivery uses less energy than shopping. There's some whining about the "thousand mile salad", but moving a 45,000 pound truckload of lettuce a thousand miles uses less energy per head of lettuce than the 5 mile trip in the 2 ton SUV that moves 20 pounds of groceries.
The issue with this logic is that most people do their shopping while coming back from work or whatever so the fuel spent is only a trifle more than you would spend otherwise.
Thanks for the link. However the difference is the Amazon operated site sells non-perishable goods while Webvan, which I remember from when they were hyped, sold cow milk, lettuce and fruit among other things.