Without any numbers at all, the density of crystalline "stuff" doesn't vary by much more than an order of magnitude, and silicon's already on the light end of that scale, compared to iron, tungsten, etc.
But, I'll humour you. Lets consider humble Litium. With a Van der Waals radius around.2 nm. Not going to gain very much over silicon. And there are slight problems with the electrical characteristics. On the good side, you could make something that looks vaguely like a transistor out of lithium. On the bad side, it wouldn't work electrically. Kind of like making a plastic model of the starship enterprise doesn't mean it'll actually fly.
but they'll be able to continue doubling transistor count if they figure out how to do this, for a time.
32mn process is off the shelf today. Silicon lattice spacing 0.5 nm. Single atom "crystal" leaves factor of 60 possible. Realistically, I think they're stuck at one order of magnitude.
At best, you could increase CPU die size by two orders of magnitude before the CPU was bigger than my phone or laptop.
Total 3 orders of magnitude. 2^10 is 1024. So, we've got, at most, 10 more doublings left.
I think the key part of my post was "not a serious problem for an organized well run company"
Its possible, although kind of dumb to exclusively rely upon, to essentially numerically integrate what comes in vs what comes out to figure your books. If the accountants don't understand where the cash is flowing, and you calculate everything off cash flows including, eventually, taxes, there's a pretty obvious failure mode when someone screws with the cash flows by making money off scrap. That system could fail in any number of other ways, of course, which is why well run companies don't do that. On the other hand, "joes old-time lumbermill" and its 5 employees is probably not operating at the pinnacle of accounting science.
Also its not unusual in high tech fields to have to scrap "un-depreciated" stuff due to technological or marketing changes. If you tell the govt it has zero value and is deducted as a total loss, and the serial numbered product later shows up on the surplus market at a low, but important dollar value, you can get into huge legal trouble. I know for a fact this happened to DEC in the 70s (or was it 80s?) where "scrapped" boards were written off as zero value, and they got into some trouble when those very same boards showed up on the surplus market. If they wrote off at the actual value of the boards instead of zero, they'd have been OK except someone in management would have lost their bonus due to the measurable loss of giving them away to the surplus dealer. If they ran the boards thru a chipper/shredder then they wouldn't reappear on the market. Hence the purchase of a chipper/shredder for perfectly good semi-obsolete boards.
It is currently illegal to resell electricity that you generate using 'waste'.
OP is technically correct but its a massive simplification, and not a serious problem for an organized well run company.
It has to do with depreciation and losses. If IBM writes off an ancient server and sends it to the scrapyard, they don't have to pay any property tax on it anymore and can deduct the value of the server off their profits and balance sheets. Its a simplification, but you don't have to pay tax on a loss of money from giving up and scrapping that server.
This applies to pretty much any industry. Let say you're a sawmill. And your accountant deducts the value of some screwed up scrap wood, so you don't have to pay tax on that wood anymore, or at least it offsets the gains/profits that you do have to pay taxes upon. Then, dude installs a cogeneration plant, burns the "worthless" scrap wood, and gets money for it. Unless they tell the accountant/IRS that wood is now a profit center instead of a loss center, big tax problems can develop. Its also complicates the situation if some "valuable" wood is freely given away in the trash can, and some is burned for profit, because its a money laundering/theft/fraud opportunity.
This is one line of thinking that leads to scrapped computer equipment being pushed thru a chipper shredder to make sure no one can ever use it again.
It may not be perfect or complete, but it is better than nothing, which is was what a lot of companies have now.
No, it definitely has the possibility of being much worse for two reasons:
1) False sense of security. Can't happen to us! Its the only tool and/or procedure we need! Why, its the only tool we need, even for issues like SQL injection attacks against our public webserver full of customer data!
2) False positives. For example, a nice simple regex to detect improper storage of CC #s would be sixteen digits surrounded by whitespace with a dash every 4 digits. The problem is, I take home my laptop where I'm writing training documents. I'm not stupid enough to use a real CC, so I use 9999-9999-9999-9999 in my power points. Now intentionally infecting the network with a virus would get someone fired, so why not fire anyone whom tries to smuggle out CC numbers? And the software clearly triggered on my laptop because 9999-9999-9999-9999 fits the regex. Therefore, fired! Especially if I have enemies whom merely need an excuse. And we can't disclose the internal details of our security system to someone whom just tried to steal from us, so no recourse or explanations are possible.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't modern airliners basically fly themselves once they're at cruising altitude?
Well, if by that, you mean the pilots don't need to flap their arms like wings, yes, correct.
I never did the ATP thing, but talked to a lot of instructors, etc. A friend of mine did the ATP thing for awhile, but I never asked him much about it. In practice, you spend most of your time balancing and prioritizing four tasks in addition to flying the plane.
1) There is no such thing as a flawless plane. Something is always acting up. That's why you have triple/quad redundancy on everything. Every flight you get to write up a report for the mechanics ranging from "paint scuffed on wall behind coffee maker" all the way up to "excessive smoke from engine #2". Also you get the joyous task of baby sitting all currently unfixed problems. Is, in fact, the fridge temperature steadily 3 degree too high, or is it increasing, decreasing, what? Exactly how much cabin air leakage is acceptable? So, side job #1, aircraft nurse.
2) Your bosses, ATC and HQ, love status updates. Basically your two bosses like to say hi. Often. They just wonder where you are, hows it going, whats new dude, why aren't you working harder, etc. Often HQ will ask you to do non-pilot tasks while you're flying; dude could you go over that new laptop driven timesheet application with your coworker in your immense spare time? Over water you talk somewhat more often just in case you fall out of the sky. Over land, you'll get constantly rerouted by ATC. ATC likes you to switch frequencies all the time. So job #2 get bossed around.
3) Fight the power. Believe it or not, weather changes. Those thunderstorms move all over, avoid them. Icing levels? Always changing. Winds shift. Wind shear.. shears. Meanwhile, your plane at your load of fuel and cargo is most efficient at this temperature when flying at 350 knots indicated and flight level 350, but ATC wants you to temporarily reroute to a different alt and speed. And you'll have to bug them to adjust back, and figure out a plan to make up for lost time. Meanwhile the boss wants you to arrive on time, ATC be damned, and also burn less of that expensive fuel, and while you're taking requests, how about magically making all the turbulence go away. That's what I mean by "fight the power" its you, maybe with a copilot buddy, against the whole freaking world. Once in a while, you get a smooth blue sky flight in empty skies and everything is on time and nothing unplanned happens, but only once in a while...
4) Customer service. The passenger in seat 54 is an arrogant jack*ss do I have permission to throw him out the escape hatch? Passenger 23 is irate because last time he flew, the other airline lost his baggage and wants to know what you're going to do about that. Passenger 87 says his lunch is no good and wants a refund. Usually the attendants take care of most of this, unless its escalated, in which case you step in the middle of a bad situation. Kind of like a cop at a domestic disturbance call.
Sure, I could convert them all to a few CDs, but do I really want to spend all that time?
On windows its probably days worth of clicky-clicky-clicky GUI goodness and fighting autorun.exe files and whatnot.
On linux its just click to an xterm, "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk.fulla.stuff.image" and repeat when you hear the drive stop. The clock time adds up, but you can easily multitask so the real actual "work time" is about 10 seconds per disk. I did this about a decade ago. Back then, you could fit about 450 1.44M floppies on a 650 meg CD-R. Somewhat more 5.25 floppies of course.
Couldn't you write a real quick program to "pretend" to be a parallel printer, hook a PC up via parallel to it, and then when you "export to printer" from the scope, the PC saves the file directly?
So, the electrical engineer and the civil engineer walk into the bar, and the EE says... Anyway the CE solution would be to place the in-basket for the scanner directly underneath the slightly modified out-tray of the printer. Because if there's one thing CEs (and plumbers) know, its sh*t flows downhill. I'm sure there's a ME solution in there somewhere involving a medieval catapult.
And a desktop calculator to fill in Excel spreadsheets.
Well, you can't expect Excel to do everything, and the calculator is pretty good at math, mostly I see Excel used as our corporate-standard relational fully un-normalized DBMS, extensive use as a word processor, page layout system, and as a trouble ticketing system. One time I saw it used as a powerpoint by inserting lots of worksheets.
The only thing funnier than watching someone do a SQL "JOIN" using Excel as a database, is watching someone do SQL "ORDER BY" using wordpad as a database. Computerization has been effective at keeping people employed, I guess.
Just ask google... "Results 1 - 10 of about 13,200 for Floppy CNC mill. (0.29 seconds)"
G-Code is kind of a CLI for machine tools. Remember Logo in the 80s? Well, theres only so many ways to design a language to do Cartesian stuff. Being vaguely text like, you can figure ten bytes per line. Figure maybe twice as many non-cutting operations as cutting operations. Gaze upon a machined part, perhaps a hard drive case, whatever, and contemplate most jobs will have a couple hundred cutting operations. So, you're going to need hundreds of cuts times about 3 to account for non-cutting lines (config, comments, etc), times about ten bytes per line of G-code, figure 15K file per part. An easy fit on a floppy drive.
Now something really complicated, like a turbine or fancy rims for a ghetto car, that might fill a floppy disk.
Where does the driver license say that you are a US citizen ? All it might prove is that I was legally in the US when I first got the license but I never had to prove I was still legal whenever I renewed my license.
"But, the new law does allow states to offer "not for federal ID" licenses in these cases. In fact, several states (e.g., Utah and Tennessee) have already started issuing such "driving privileges certificates/cards" in lieu of regular drivers licenses, allowing such applicants to be tested and licensed to drive and obtain liability insurance."
I'm not sure if the better military GPS is using different sats currently
The "military GPS" uses the same satellites. aka P signals are transmitted with 10 times the resolution and on two frequencies. The civilian C/A is transmitted at 1/10 the resolution of the military and only one frequency.
No, they are not. There is nothing in the bill to prevent kids from buying. The bill instead fines and criminalizes the stores that do not check ID carefully enough or that find it a civil disobedience measure, or that don't find the cost benefit ratio to work.
At best, it locks out kids that don't have any older friends, any "cool" older relatives, any older siblings, with no access to garage sales or craigslist, with parents whom are control freaks, no access to bittorrent, etc.
Oldest child, living in moms basement, no friends, no money, no broadband internet = stuck, all other kids OK. A couple retailers will be publicly screwed with TV cameras rolling, and a couple photo ops. That's about it for effects.
Ideally, parents would know what their children are doing 24/7, and be able to determine for themselves what is appropriate for their children.
Actually, no. You need an exit strategy better than, yesterday was your 18th b-day so good luck today in the wild free world.
Your plan is reasonably appropriate during the early toddler years. An utter disaster in the teenage years. The goal is to gradually slack off on the fascism while raising the kids to have good judgment... If they have good judgment they simply don't need the laws.
Furthermore, if they don't have good judgment, a ban on trendy enemy of the people "X" will simply result in them finding another equally effective way to ruin their lives.
Either way the laws are quite ineffective. You either end up with a society where the moral majority clowns hate the average 19 year old for thoughtcrimes, or you end up with 19 year olds whom hate the moral majority clowns for being SS guards. A great law if you want to do the old fashioned "divide and conqueror" against the american people, not so good for everyone else of course. But I suppose, never let morality stand in the way of a good profit...
Is that so? intrade.com does that very thing, run out of Ireland where it is legal and regulated, and no one has any real idea if they're legal or not in the USA.
Disclaimer: I have an account there, but I don't use it right now.
Oh spare me the drama. She knows she's putting you in a no win situation, intentionally. Why she wants to mess with you, is a relationship problem between you two, hardly a "society - and mankind - is so screwed up". Especially since its screwed up womankind not mankind.
We live on lies - small, supposedly meaningless lies - instead of living and speaking the truth
If she said, "I wanna good excuse to break up with you" the personal tragedy is she wants to break up with you, not that she's going about it in a weird way.
And thats the end of today's topic. Tomorrow, on Dr Phil's house of Slashdot, we discuss the tragedy of folks whom don't make backups; Are they bonkers? (marches off stage holding hands with Robin)
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Yet reusables have proven to be the way to go with every other form of transport.
Articulated arms/legs/fins were the way to move, yet manned inorganic transport didn't work until the Wheel.
Also all flying animals did the flapping wing thing, airplanes were never successful until that was given up.
Of course they could have just used a 10.../192.168.../172.16.. address instead.
127.0.0.1 works even better
Who says we have to keep using silicon?
Without any numbers at all, the density of crystalline "stuff" doesn't vary by much more than an order of magnitude, and silicon's already on the light end of that scale, compared to iron, tungsten, etc.
But, I'll humour you. Lets consider humble Litium. With a Van der Waals radius around .2 nm. Not going to gain very much over silicon. And there are slight problems with the electrical characteristics. On the good side, you could make something that looks vaguely like a transistor out of lithium. On the bad side, it wouldn't work electrically. Kind of like making a plastic model of the starship enterprise doesn't mean it'll actually fly.
but they'll be able to continue doubling transistor count if they figure out how to do this, for a time.
32mn process is off the shelf today. Silicon lattice spacing 0.5 nm. Single atom "crystal" leaves factor of 60 possible. Realistically, I think they're stuck at one order of magnitude.
At best, you could increase CPU die size by two orders of magnitude before the CPU was bigger than my phone or laptop.
Total 3 orders of magnitude. 2^10 is 1024. So, we've got, at most, 10 more doublings left.
I think the key part of my post was "not a serious problem for an organized well run company"
Its possible, although kind of dumb to exclusively rely upon, to essentially numerically integrate what comes in vs what comes out to figure your books. If the accountants don't understand where the cash is flowing, and you calculate everything off cash flows including, eventually, taxes, there's a pretty obvious failure mode when someone screws with the cash flows by making money off scrap. That system could fail in any number of other ways, of course, which is why well run companies don't do that. On the other hand, "joes old-time lumbermill" and its 5 employees is probably not operating at the pinnacle of accounting science.
Also its not unusual in high tech fields to have to scrap "un-depreciated" stuff due to technological or marketing changes. If you tell the govt it has zero value and is deducted as a total loss, and the serial numbered product later shows up on the surplus market at a low, but important dollar value, you can get into huge legal trouble. I know for a fact this happened to DEC in the 70s (or was it 80s?) where "scrapped" boards were written off as zero value, and they got into some trouble when those very same boards showed up on the surplus market. If they wrote off at the actual value of the boards instead of zero, they'd have been OK except someone in management would have lost their bonus due to the measurable loss of giving them away to the surplus dealer. If they ran the boards thru a chipper/shredder then they wouldn't reappear on the market. Hence the purchase of a chipper/shredder for perfectly good semi-obsolete boards.
It is currently illegal to resell electricity that you generate using 'waste'.
OP is technically correct but its a massive simplification, and not a serious problem for an organized well run company.
It has to do with depreciation and losses. If IBM writes off an ancient server and sends it to the scrapyard, they don't have to pay any property tax on it anymore and can deduct the value of the server off their profits and balance sheets. Its a simplification, but you don't have to pay tax on a loss of money from giving up and scrapping that server.
This applies to pretty much any industry. Let say you're a sawmill. And your accountant deducts the value of some screwed up scrap wood, so you don't have to pay tax on that wood anymore, or at least it offsets the gains/profits that you do have to pay taxes upon. Then, dude installs a cogeneration plant, burns the "worthless" scrap wood, and gets money for it. Unless they tell the accountant/IRS that wood is now a profit center instead of a loss center, big tax problems can develop. Its also complicates the situation if some "valuable" wood is freely given away in the trash can, and some is burned for profit, because its a money laundering/theft/fraud opportunity.
This is one line of thinking that leads to scrapped computer equipment being pushed thru a chipper shredder to make sure no one can ever use it again.
For an example of an industry producing more electricity than it uses, may I point you towards something called "power stations"?
Battery manufacturing plants? Can't take that much to make an AA or a watch battery.
"Your coworkers are your family. If you also had a family of your own, one would have to suffer. Your personal family or your company family."
I think it is not correct but I can at least understand where they are coming from.
Corporate America?
Once they start giving in to modern concepts
Jews got married long before the christian era.
But, it became part of doctrine in the past, and now will be forever going forward.
Geocentricism forever!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model
It may not be perfect or complete, but it is better than nothing, which is was what a lot of companies have now.
No, it definitely has the possibility of being much worse for two reasons:
1) False sense of security. Can't happen to us! Its the only tool and/or procedure we need! Why, its the only tool we need, even for issues like SQL injection attacks against our public webserver full of customer data!
2) False positives. For example, a nice simple regex to detect improper storage of CC #s would be sixteen digits surrounded by whitespace with a dash every 4 digits. The problem is, I take home my laptop where I'm writing training documents. I'm not stupid enough to use a real CC, so I use 9999-9999-9999-9999 in my power points. Now intentionally infecting the network with a virus would get someone fired, so why not fire anyone whom tries to smuggle out CC numbers? And the software clearly triggered on my laptop because 9999-9999-9999-9999 fits the regex. Therefore, fired! Especially if I have enemies whom merely need an excuse. And we can't disclose the internal details of our security system to someone whom just tried to steal from us, so no recourse or explanations are possible.
$x_numerator = 1;
$x_denominator = 3;
Algorithms do exist for fractional number arithmetic. If the denominator gets unwieldy, who cares, its a computer and its fast and memory is "free".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't modern airliners basically fly themselves once they're at cruising altitude?
Well, if by that, you mean the pilots don't need to flap their arms like wings, yes, correct.
I never did the ATP thing, but talked to a lot of instructors, etc. A friend of mine did the ATP thing for awhile, but I never asked him much about it. In practice, you spend most of your time balancing and prioritizing four tasks in addition to flying the plane.
1) There is no such thing as a flawless plane. Something is always acting up. That's why you have triple/quad redundancy on everything. Every flight you get to write up a report for the mechanics ranging from "paint scuffed on wall behind coffee maker" all the way up to "excessive smoke from engine #2". Also you get the joyous task of baby sitting all currently unfixed problems. Is, in fact, the fridge temperature steadily 3 degree too high, or is it increasing, decreasing, what? Exactly how much cabin air leakage is acceptable? So, side job #1, aircraft nurse.
2) Your bosses, ATC and HQ, love status updates. Basically your two bosses like to say hi. Often. They just wonder where you are, hows it going, whats new dude, why aren't you working harder, etc. Often HQ will ask you to do non-pilot tasks while you're flying; dude could you go over that new laptop driven timesheet application with your coworker in your immense spare time? Over water you talk somewhat more often just in case you fall out of the sky. Over land, you'll get constantly rerouted by ATC. ATC likes you to switch frequencies all the time. So job #2 get bossed around.
3) Fight the power. Believe it or not, weather changes. Those thunderstorms move all over, avoid them. Icing levels? Always changing. Winds shift. Wind shear.. shears. Meanwhile, your plane at your load of fuel and cargo is most efficient at this temperature when flying at 350 knots indicated and flight level 350, but ATC wants you to temporarily reroute to a different alt and speed. And you'll have to bug them to adjust back, and figure out a plan to make up for lost time. Meanwhile the boss wants you to arrive on time, ATC be damned, and also burn less of that expensive fuel, and while you're taking requests, how about magically making all the turbulence go away. That's what I mean by "fight the power" its you, maybe with a copilot buddy, against the whole freaking world. Once in a while, you get a smooth blue sky flight in empty skies and everything is on time and nothing unplanned happens, but only once in a while...
4) Customer service. The passenger in seat 54 is an arrogant jack*ss do I have permission to throw him out the escape hatch? Passenger 23 is irate because last time he flew, the other airline lost his baggage and wants to know what you're going to do about that. Passenger 87 says his lunch is no good and wants a refund. Usually the attendants take care of most of this, unless its escalated, in which case you step in the middle of a bad situation. Kind of like a cop at a domestic disturbance call.
Sure, I could convert them all to a few CDs, but do I really want to spend all that time?
On windows its probably days worth of clicky-clicky-clicky GUI goodness and fighting autorun.exe files and whatnot.
On linux its just click to an xterm, "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk.fulla.stuff.image" and repeat when you hear the drive stop. The clock time adds up, but you can easily multitask so the real actual "work time" is about 10 seconds per disk. I did this about a decade ago. Back then, you could fit about 450 1.44M floppies on a 650 meg CD-R. Somewhat more 5.25 floppies of course.
Couldn't you write a real quick program to "pretend" to be a parallel printer, hook a PC up via parallel to it, and then when you "export to printer" from the scope, the PC saves the file directly?
So, the electrical engineer and the civil engineer walk into the bar, and the EE says... Anyway the CE solution would be to place the in-basket for the scanner directly underneath the slightly modified out-tray of the printer. Because if there's one thing CEs (and plumbers) know, its sh*t flows downhill. I'm sure there's a ME solution in there somewhere involving a medieval catapult.
And a desktop calculator to fill in Excel spreadsheets.
Well, you can't expect Excel to do everything, and the calculator is pretty good at math, mostly I see Excel used as our corporate-standard relational fully un-normalized DBMS, extensive use as a word processor, page layout system, and as a trouble ticketing system. One time I saw it used as a powerpoint by inserting lots of worksheets.
The only thing funnier than watching someone do a SQL "JOIN" using Excel as a database, is watching someone do SQL "ORDER BY" using wordpad as a database. Computerization has been effective at keeping people employed, I guess.
Brand new computer controlled machine tools being sold today, using floppy drives:
http://www.americanmachinetools.com/cnc_milling.htm
Just ask google... "Results 1 - 10 of about 13,200 for Floppy CNC mill. (0.29 seconds)"
G-Code is kind of a CLI for machine tools. Remember Logo in the 80s? Well, theres only so many ways to design a language to do Cartesian stuff. Being vaguely text like, you can figure ten bytes per line. Figure maybe twice as many non-cutting operations as cutting operations. Gaze upon a machined part, perhaps a hard drive case, whatever, and contemplate most jobs will have a couple hundred cutting operations. So, you're going to need hundreds of cuts times about 3 to account for non-cutting lines (config, comments, etc), times about ten bytes per line of G-code, figure 15K file per part. An easy fit on a floppy drive.
Now something really complicated, like a turbine or fancy rims for a ghetto car, that might fill a floppy disk.
Where does the driver license say that you are a US citizen ? All it might prove is that I was legally in the US when I first got the license but I never had to prove I was still legal whenever I renewed my license.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act#Immigration
"But, the new law does allow states to offer "not for federal ID" licenses in these cases. In fact, several states (e.g., Utah and Tennessee) have already started issuing such "driving privileges certificates/cards" in lieu of regular drivers licenses, allowing such applicants to be tested and licensed to drive and obtain liability insurance."
Do you live in UT, TN?
With some sort of Algorithm could one not track troop movements and strengths then?
Yes its a simple algorithm, go to news.google.com and search for "afghanistan troop strengths"
Its on his posters page, but "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within" is 32 pages of joy.
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters
I'm not sure if the better military GPS is using different sats currently
The "military GPS" uses the same satellites. aka P signals are transmitted with 10 times the resolution and on two frequencies. The civilian C/A is transmitted at 1/10 the resolution of the military and only one frequency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Navigation_signals
Note that from an EE perspective, there is no design tradeoff between high accuracy, and encryption, that's just how the chips fell.
They're keeping kids from buying them directly.
No, they are not. There is nothing in the bill to prevent kids from buying. The bill instead fines and criminalizes the stores that do not check ID carefully enough or that find it a civil disobedience measure, or that don't find the cost benefit ratio to work.
At best, it locks out kids that don't have any older friends, any "cool" older relatives, any older siblings, with no access to garage sales or craigslist, with parents whom are control freaks, no access to bittorrent, etc.
Oldest child, living in moms basement, no friends, no money, no broadband internet = stuck, all other kids OK. A couple retailers will be publicly screwed with TV cameras rolling, and a couple photo ops. That's about it for effects.
Ideally, parents would know what their children are doing 24/7, and be able to determine for themselves what is appropriate for their children.
Actually, no. You need an exit strategy better than, yesterday was your 18th b-day so good luck today in the wild free world.
Your plan is reasonably appropriate during the early toddler years. An utter disaster in the teenage years. The goal is to gradually slack off on the fascism while raising the kids to have good judgment... If they have good judgment they simply don't need the laws.
Furthermore, if they don't have good judgment, a ban on trendy enemy of the people "X" will simply result in them finding another equally effective way to ruin their lives.
Either way the laws are quite ineffective. You either end up with a society where the moral majority clowns hate the average 19 year old for thoughtcrimes, or you end up with 19 year olds whom hate the moral majority clowns for being SS guards. A great law if you want to do the old fashioned "divide and conqueror" against the american people, not so good for everyone else of course. But I suppose, never let morality stand in the way of a good profit...
Last I heard, you can still trade ... futures.
Is that so? intrade.com does that very thing, run out of Ireland where it is legal and regulated, and no one has any real idea if they're legal or not in the USA.
Disclaimer: I have an account there, but I don't use it right now.
Oh spare me the drama. She knows she's putting you in a no win situation, intentionally. Why she wants to mess with you, is a relationship problem between you two, hardly a "society - and mankind - is so screwed up". Especially since its screwed up womankind not mankind.
We live on lies - small, supposedly meaningless lies - instead of living and speaking the truth
If she said, "I wanna good excuse to break up with you" the personal tragedy is she wants to break up with you, not that she's going about it in a weird way.
And thats the end of today's topic. Tomorrow, on Dr Phil's house of Slashdot, we discuss the tragedy of folks whom don't make backups; Are they bonkers? (marches off stage holding hands with Robin)