I just paid money for 2,000 pounds of rocks to be delivered to my house. Rocks are not free.
Everyone has agreed I can use US dollars to exchange for these rocks. This has been true for over 200 years now. I have no confidence at all bitcoins will be able to be exchanged for ANYTHING in 5 years, let alone 200.
No one likes paying taxes. No one likes government waste.
The devil - they say - is in the details. Look at any new fighter design. A clever manufacturer spreads the work around at least 10 or 20 states so all the politicians going on about "waste and abuse" never go after THIS waste and abuse because it keeps their constituents in good jobs.
In the Peter Hamilton sci-fi books currency is defined as a unit of helium or tritium or something like that that is mined around gas giants and sold for fusion reactor fuel. This is a perfect "energy currency". You could have an "oil dollar" that is backed by 1 gallon of crude oil or a "coal dollar" backed by a pound of coal or a silver dollar made of silver - I have a few of those. This is real valuable property that will never just lose all value overnight. Modern currencies usually are not backed by anything except the force of billions of people and nation states that have all decided that these are a way to store value. I guess the population could wake up tomorrow and decide funny green artwork on paper is not worth a thing, but odds are very very low for that happening. As for BitCoin, this is a weird niche idea that could evaporate any second.
Gold is something I can hold in my hand. It will NEVER be worth nothing - it has value in industrial processes and making wedding rings.
BitCoin could very very easily be worth exactly as much as my collection of old Word 2.0 documents overnight.
All governments throughout history demand that you commit certain behaviours. The IRS makes me work for them as an unpaid accountant to figure out what I owe them. I guess I am a slave to the IRS doing their job for them:( The 18th and 19th century USA that certain elements of 21st century right wing politics worship as a paradise ruined by modern "liberals" was FULL of government making people do things or not do things that in some cases violated the hell out of the Constitution.
The government should:
Be in the business of providing religious freedom. If some town council bans Catholic churches, then this should be stopped. If only Methodists can run for alderman, this should be stopped. If the police decide to pull over every car they see coming out of the mosque parking lot, this should be stopped. The government should NOT be in the business of allowing religion to be used as an excuse to avoid obeying the law. More than one major religion holds that a man may have more than one wife. All 50 states have decided that is just tough luck, you get one wife no matter much you get offended. Don't like it - move to Somalia or try and get a law passed that everyone can have 4 wives. Now we have "churches" that own major companies, colleges, and hospitals trying to avoid the law of the land as far as health insurance because it offends their delicate sensibilities that someone ELSE might use the benefits THEY EARNED to "sin" in the eyes of the "church" that hired them. What a load of crap.
Exactly.
My religion hates underwear. I refuse to pay gasoline tax because they might use the money to pay for a road to an underwear factory.
My religion hates blue skies. I refuse to pay income tax because the tax money might go to the EPA who might make the local coal fired plant quit making the sky black and thus deeply offend me.
Biomass and wood are short-term renewables and coal is renewable too on a geologic time scale. All 3 were leading offenders here, so thi smakes no sense.
* I guess uranium is renewable too if you wait for a new planet...
MY religion is HIGHLY opposed to paying property tax, paying income tax, paying for food, paying the elctrical bill, and watching TV. I will NOT be forced to pay for any of this nor pay my employees with any kind of currency that would allow them to do so. Also MY religion requires you to blow me.
Airplanes landing on water range for "can be used again after drying out" to complete death and destruction. We can assume this instance was toward the death end of the scale because no one removed the emergency beacons from the airplane and turned them on - i.e no one left alive:(
AFAIK frozen mammoth meat HAS been eaten before by sled dogs, if not people.
One thing going for this is the close relatives still living for the surrogate mother. I guess the down side is daddy elephant is going to take one look at the baby and bith-slap mommy until she runs away to join the circus.
It is true in all countries where the current ruler(s) have the ability to alter the vote count to suit themselves - i.e not usually a 1st world democracy.
Remember, "accident" includes the time I hit the "no parking" sign with my wing and knocked it over
The number of crashes where the passengers died because no one could find them is fairly small and almost nonexistant with commercial jet airplanes. If the people were alive the emergency beacons on the plane would also have survived and would have been picked upo by now. The new 406 MHZ beacons work very well.
What I meant wasn't that we can do anything at all with chemicals - it was more along the lines that if you want to expand the borders of "chemistry", the science you are studying has moved beyond classical chemistry into molecular physics.
Disagree. XP is a total security nightmare. My elderly relatives are forever clicking on the wrong thing and hosing up their machines. I gave my wife a Linux Mint machine and she adapted to it in about 5 seconds. It is MUCH closer to XP than Windows 8 is! Also the ability of normal users to "click here" and screw it up is pretty low.
I think I read there really is no more "chemistry" left to investigate. Apparently it has moved on to molecular physics. Kind of like Newtonian physics are as settled as can be. The bordlines have moved far beyond them by now.
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I just paid money for 2,000 pounds of rocks to be delivered to my house. Rocks are not free. Everyone has agreed I can use US dollars to exchange for these rocks. This has been true for over 200 years now. I have no confidence at all bitcoins will be able to be exchanged for ANYTHING in 5 years, let alone 200.
No one likes paying taxes. No one likes government waste. The devil - they say - is in the details. Look at any new fighter design. A clever manufacturer spreads the work around at least 10 or 20 states so all the politicians going on about "waste and abuse" never go after THIS waste and abuse because it keeps their constituents in good jobs.
In the Peter Hamilton sci-fi books currency is defined as a unit of helium or tritium or something like that that is mined around gas giants and sold for fusion reactor fuel. This is a perfect "energy currency". You could have an "oil dollar" that is backed by 1 gallon of crude oil or a "coal dollar" backed by a pound of coal or a silver dollar made of silver - I have a few of those. This is real valuable property that will never just lose all value overnight. Modern currencies usually are not backed by anything except the force of billions of people and nation states that have all decided that these are a way to store value. I guess the population could wake up tomorrow and decide funny green artwork on paper is not worth a thing, but odds are very very low for that happening. As for BitCoin, this is a weird niche idea that could evaporate any second.
Gold is something I can hold in my hand. It will NEVER be worth nothing - it has value in industrial processes and making wedding rings. BitCoin could very very easily be worth exactly as much as my collection of old Word 2.0 documents overnight.
All governments throughout history demand that you commit certain behaviours. The IRS makes me work for them as an unpaid accountant to figure out what I owe them. I guess I am a slave to the IRS doing their job for them :( The 18th and 19th century USA that certain elements of 21st century right wing politics worship as a paradise ruined by modern "liberals" was FULL of government making people do things or not do things that in some cases violated the hell out of the Constitution.
You are going to need a LOT of solar panels to do this and also note most people are home at NIGHT when this is not going to work out so well ;)
The government should: Be in the business of providing religious freedom. If some town council bans Catholic churches, then this should be stopped. If only Methodists can run for alderman, this should be stopped. If the police decide to pull over every car they see coming out of the mosque parking lot, this should be stopped. The government should NOT be in the business of allowing religion to be used as an excuse to avoid obeying the law. More than one major religion holds that a man may have more than one wife. All 50 states have decided that is just tough luck, you get one wife no matter much you get offended. Don't like it - move to Somalia or try and get a law passed that everyone can have 4 wives. Now we have "churches" that own major companies, colleges, and hospitals trying to avoid the law of the land as far as health insurance because it offends their delicate sensibilities that someone ELSE might use the benefits THEY EARNED to "sin" in the eyes of the "church" that hired them. What a load of crap.
Exactly. My religion hates underwear. I refuse to pay gasoline tax because they might use the money to pay for a road to an underwear factory. My religion hates blue skies. I refuse to pay income tax because the tax money might go to the EPA who might make the local coal fired plant quit making the sky black and thus deeply offend me.
Like every embassy ever operated by any country ever too ;)
Biomass and wood are short-term renewables and coal is renewable too on a geologic time scale. All 3 were leading offenders here, so thi smakes no sense. * I guess uranium is renewable too if you wait for a new planet...
MY religion is HIGHLY opposed to paying property tax, paying income tax, paying for food, paying the elctrical bill, and watching TV. I will NOT be forced to pay for any of this nor pay my employees with any kind of currency that would allow them to do so. Also MY religion requires you to blow me.
What about MY religious right to not have 12th century fuktards telling me what kind of health care meets their Taliban rules?
Airplanes landing on water range for "can be used again after drying out" to complete death and destruction. We can assume this instance was toward the death end of the scale because no one removed the emergency beacons from the airplane and turned them on - i.e no one left alive :(
If memory serves, melting muskeg is pretty much like super glue. Not very easy to drive on!
Bullcrap. I have a Fluke meter. It wasn't cheap. This thing looks EXACTLY like it.
I used to have to reboot servers all over the country once a day thanks to Oracle memory leaks. fkrs..
I normally ignore both trolls and comma commandos, but that was funny!
AFAIK frozen mammoth meat HAS been eaten before by sled dogs, if not people. One thing going for this is the close relatives still living for the surrogate mother. I guess the down side is daddy elephant is going to take one look at the baby and bith-slap mommy until she runs away to join the circus.
I think this is a dupe from about 4 or 5 articles back.
It is true in all countries where the current ruler(s) have the ability to alter the vote count to suit themselves - i.e not usually a 1st world democracy.
Remember, "accident" includes the time I hit the "no parking" sign with my wing and knocked it over The number of crashes where the passengers died because no one could find them is fairly small and almost nonexistant with commercial jet airplanes. If the people were alive the emergency beacons on the plane would also have survived and would have been picked upo by now. The new 406 MHZ beacons work very well.
Well I kind of did that. I fly my family myself with no one I don't know on the plane.
What I meant wasn't that we can do anything at all with chemicals - it was more along the lines that if you want to expand the borders of "chemistry", the science you are studying has moved beyond classical chemistry into molecular physics.
Disagree. XP is a total security nightmare. My elderly relatives are forever clicking on the wrong thing and hosing up their machines. I gave my wife a Linux Mint machine and she adapted to it in about 5 seconds. It is MUCH closer to XP than Windows 8 is! Also the ability of normal users to "click here" and screw it up is pretty low.
I think I read there really is no more "chemistry" left to investigate. Apparently it has moved on to molecular physics. Kind of like Newtonian physics are as settled as can be. The bordlines have moved far beyond them by now.