The BTC is tracked against the USD, the most manipulated currency on the planet.
The Fed's Bernanke just called to an end to tapering, which caused massive market fluctuations (i.e. the banks managed to pick up and stop out orders on all sides of the recent trading range and pull in a huge profit for Christmas before going on holidays)
Anybody who understands trading at all knows that you sell into a buying spike and buy into a selling spike. you do NOT chase a rising or falling currency, because they are market traps.
What happened with BTC is that huge upward spike caused market greed. Loading silly emotional investors up at high prices. For the market to get the bitcoin back it sold off at expensive prices, it HAD TO drop the price, and now pick them up again at a discount... which is what happened.
Many people who bought a C64 back in the day mostly had a collection of pirate disks, with a few original games thrown in the mix. One can argue that people bought a C64 because of the huge pirate game library available... (but then that was true for the other micros of the period too, so it's not the whole story)
Interestingly enough, even the few original disks in the collection made enough money for the software companies way back when.
We don't have to look far into the past as to what happens when DRM enters the picture.
Take the humble Commodore 64. The most common home micro of the 80s. Lots of users. Lots of software. Lots of piracy. What happened in the end is that lots of companies making software made lots of money, despite the piracy, until the computer faded into obscurity with a dwindling userbase that had moved on to more powerful computers.
All DRM "disk copy protection" was eventually broken, and just about all game software ever released for the computer is downloadable online (you know where to look). The end result is that we have a nice digital archive, complete with emulators, left for historians or anyone who wants to relive what it was like to use the machine in the hight of it's heyday (or simply to see what all the fuss was about playing "Impossible Mission" or something)
If it wasn't for the pirates and crackers willing to ignore the ridiculous copyright law time extensions, copy programs to different countries where they were not available for sale (over the pre-internet BBSes) chances are we might not have a digital archive, or at least be missing important bits. By the time the copyrights expire, the magnetic media, if anyone still had any left, would be corrupted by bit rot, and the equipment needed to read it may not be in a working state or readily available.
So the Commodore 64 avoids a digital dark age, but I have my doubts about some heavily DRMed content going forward. In many cases, if something is heavily DRMed and people do not make the effort to break it, it will likely be lost to the digital dustbin of time.
The problem is that technology was supposed to free people up to not have to work.... except that the profits from such advances don't trickle down to the people, but instead stay within the company and enter the dark shady environment of financial investments, locking up the productivity and wealth distribution.
10 FOR Z=1 TO 10000:NEXT:REM DUMMY LOOP TO ALLOW ME TO ESCAPE STORE 20 POKE649,0: REM BYE BYE KEYBOARD 30 SYS 64747: REM AND LEAVE NO TRACE OF TAMPERING!
Keeping their people exploitable better ensures they can continue to do what "no US government would even consider doing to it's own citizens."
Captain, we are detecting large amounts of sarcasm in this sector.
(If the Chinese want to keep using an highly exploitable OS so that the USA has an edge in any cyberwar, I'd say... let them)
That's a pretty good idea. That way you could ensure that the drone lands in your backyard so that the package and drone doesn't get swiped from your front door by a passerby.
For something like Amazon's purported drones... all you'd have to do is to hardcode the delivery address and HQ into the drone before flying, and make sure it doesn't accept any incoming signals by turning the wireless off.
Now, if we want to talk about trying to get the drone's GPS systems confused, that would be something else!
(Actually I'm still wondering if the drone would be smart enough to land on pavement or miss entirely and drop packages on a customer roof or balcony.)
I think you're really being naieve.
Every country places restrictions on who can enter it. Sometimes those governments make the conditions of entry unreasonably high... but as a country, they have a right to do it.
Australia does need immigrants, and yes, even genuine refugees count.... BUT you don't let in EVERYONE. At a point it becomes more than you can bear financially and severely affects management of the country. It's just madness to let them ALL in when there is no benefit, and actually a detriment, to doing so. To encourage that and drop your guard - stupidity. To get angry when people point that out to you - mindless.
However... If all the hundreds of asylum seekers get to live in your house until they're processed, and you have to pay to look after them when they get to Australia, I'll support that.
Already we're stressing the Australian environment with the increased population... and with more people, it will explode exponentially because people don't stop having sex and are careless with condoms in general.... and then what kind of people are breeding? Intelligent people who will contribute positively to society?... or people with zero education falling down the cracks of society?
Weigh up the odds... who is more likely to succeed?
A little cruelty now, prevents mass disruptions and potentially more violence later.
I heard two muslims (clearly refugees) argue over Iraq and Syria in the mall recently. Does Australia really need that sort of socially divisive crap happening over here? Do you want to allow it? Is that a good idea?
They are not being towed back to Indonesian waters. They are being towed out of Australian waters back into International waters. This is despite the shrilling lefties who misrepresented the facts and came up with that soundbite for their own political gain (no surprises there), rather than doing the Australian public a service by stating the facts.
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While it is 100% legal to request asylum, THEY ARE NOT asylum seekers UNTIL it has been determined that they have a legitimate claim.
UNTIL that is determined, they have still illegally entered Australian waters, whether they have a legal claim for asylum or not.
It sounds like you would love to open the floodgates and get EVERYONE to live in Australia.... desirables, legitimate asylum seekers, economic refugee scumbags, and potential criminals/terrorists... but WITHOUT filtering them?
Are you mad?
It bothers me that the left of Australian politics just can't think a few extra steps ahead in the chess-game without raving like a bunch of lunatics at people who do.
Exactly how did they offend them?
Australia tells Indonesia that we will be turning Indonesian boats carrying illegal immigrants back out of Australian waters, and we're doing it to protect our sovereignty.
What does Indonesia complain about? It complains that by doing this we interfere with THEIR sovereignty!
How exactly?
Give me a break!
Indonesia can like it or lump it, but Australia is part of the commonwealth and part of ANZUS. While they were gaining their much vaunted Independance, we watched as the US helped prevent the Japanese from invading Australia. We rely on our security from our western allies which basically means that we're going to follow the lead of the USA. Indonesia certainly isn't guarding our security. They just don't have our back. They spy on us too.
Have a guess which country's embassy got hit with a bomb blast within the last 20 years. Was it the Indonesian embassy in Australia, or the Australian embassy in Indonesia?
...and here I was thinking that money is the representation of a man's value and a unit of trade....without trade, and guns to back the money, then everything would devolve into theft, chaos, war and anarchy.
The most important thing from that video is that explained computer viruses while Atari 2600 ET was on the screen.
Some Atari 2600 users still believe that ET was the first console cartridge virus.
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What about the million dollars Gates offered to give away in all the spam emails I've got over the years?
The BTC is tracked against the USD, the most manipulated currency on the planet.
The Fed's Bernanke just called to an end to tapering, which caused massive market fluctuations (i.e. the banks managed to pick up and stop out orders on all sides of the recent trading range and pull in a huge profit for Christmas before going on holidays)
Anybody who understands trading at all knows that you sell into a buying spike and buy into a selling spike.
you do NOT chase a rising or falling currency, because they are market traps.
What happened with BTC is that huge upward spike caused market greed. Loading silly emotional investors up at high prices.
For the market to get the bitcoin back it sold off at expensive prices, it HAD TO drop the price, and now pick them up again at a discount... which is what happened.
That's a salient point.
Many people who bought a C64 back in the day mostly had a collection of pirate disks, with a few original games thrown in the mix.
One can argue that people bought a C64 because of the huge pirate game library available... (but then that was true for the other micros of the period too, so it's not the whole story)
Interestingly enough, even the few original disks in the collection made enough money for the software companies way back when.
In many cases, if something is heavily DRMed and people do not make the effort to break it, it will likely be lost to the digital dustbin of time.
A fitting end, obscurity.
Yes, but even failures have a right to be preserved.... so we can try to understand why it was a failure.
Besides, obscure LPs often get remixed into popular dance music.
We don't have to look far into the past as to what happens when DRM enters the picture.
Take the humble Commodore 64. The most common home micro of the 80s.
Lots of users. Lots of software. Lots of piracy.
What happened in the end is that lots of companies making software made lots of money, despite the piracy, until the computer faded into obscurity with a dwindling userbase that had moved on to more powerful computers.
All DRM "disk copy protection" was eventually broken, and just about all game software ever released for the computer is downloadable online (you know where to look). The end result is that we have a nice digital archive, complete with emulators, left for historians or anyone who wants to relive what it was like to use the machine in the hight of it's heyday (or simply to see what all the fuss was about playing "Impossible Mission" or something)
If it wasn't for the pirates and crackers willing to ignore the ridiculous copyright law time extensions, copy programs to different countries where they were not available for sale (over the pre-internet BBSes) chances are we might not have a digital archive, or at least be missing important bits. By the time the copyrights expire, the magnetic media, if anyone still had any left, would be corrupted by bit rot, and the equipment needed to read it may not be in a working state or readily available.
So the Commodore 64 avoids a digital dark age, but I have my doubts about some heavily DRMed content going forward.
In many cases, if something is heavily DRMed and people do not make the effort to break it, it will likely be lost to the digital dustbin of time.
The problem is that technology was supposed to free people up to not have to work.... except that the profits from such advances don't trickle down to the people, but instead stay within the company and enter the dark shady environment of financial investments, locking up the productivity and wealth distribution.
Soon the picker will be automated, and then the self-driving car will deliver (or the autopilot drone)
Pretty soon the customer will be a robot too
That only disabled RUN/STOP RESTORE and LIST.
I wanted to freak them out that the keyboard was broken, and possibly the computer itself!
(well, until they reset the machine anyway!)
POKE649,0:SYS64767 did the business.
I'd prefer a turbo boost button ala Knight Rider's KITT
(but can only be used once per episode)
sorry it should be SYS64767
Getting old here.
10 FOR Z=1 TO 10000:NEXT:REM DUMMY LOOP TO ALLOW ME TO ESCAPE STORE
20 POKE649,0: REM BYE BYE KEYBOARD
30 SYS 64747: REM AND LEAVE NO TRACE OF TAMPERING!
Keeping their people exploitable better ensures they can continue to do what "no US government would even consider doing to it's own citizens."
Captain, we are detecting large amounts of sarcasm in this sector. (If the Chinese want to keep using an highly exploitable OS so that the USA has an edge in any cyberwar, I'd say... let them)
That's a pretty good idea. That way you could ensure that the drone lands in your backyard so that the package and drone doesn't get swiped from your front door by a passerby.
For something like Amazon's purported drones... all you'd have to do is to hardcode the delivery address and HQ into the drone before flying, and make sure it doesn't accept any incoming signals by turning the wireless off. Now, if we want to talk about trying to get the drone's GPS systems confused, that would be something else! (Actually I'm still wondering if the drone would be smart enough to land on pavement or miss entirely and drop packages on a customer roof or balcony.)
You may as well punch yourself in the face for real. This just wasted 2 minutes of my life and the line never moved.
As long as it exposes who killed JFK, and exposes how to exploit the rigged forex market in order to make millions in a week, I'd be all for it.
First I'm not going to plug any VM vendor.... but with certain VM backends, snapshots are possible, and it's a godsend when crap like this happens.
Moscow, Amsterdam.... Bangkok? It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity To be looking at the board, not looking at the city
I think you're really being naieve. Every country places restrictions on who can enter it. Sometimes those governments make the conditions of entry unreasonably high... but as a country, they have a right to do it. Australia does need immigrants, and yes, even genuine refugees count.... BUT you don't let in EVERYONE. At a point it becomes more than you can bear financially and severely affects management of the country. It's just madness to let them ALL in when there is no benefit, and actually a detriment, to doing so. To encourage that and drop your guard - stupidity. To get angry when people point that out to you - mindless. However... If all the hundreds of asylum seekers get to live in your house until they're processed, and you have to pay to look after them when they get to Australia, I'll support that. Already we're stressing the Australian environment with the increased population... and with more people, it will explode exponentially because people don't stop having sex and are careless with condoms in general.... and then what kind of people are breeding? Intelligent people who will contribute positively to society?... or people with zero education falling down the cracks of society? Weigh up the odds... who is more likely to succeed? A little cruelty now, prevents mass disruptions and potentially more violence later. I heard two muslims (clearly refugees) argue over Iraq and Syria in the mall recently. Does Australia really need that sort of socially divisive crap happening over here? Do you want to allow it? Is that a good idea?
Your reply was completely vague and content empty. The "unhinging tone" says what exactly? Care to specify?
They are not being towed back to Indonesian waters. They are being towed out of Australian waters back into International waters. This is despite the shrilling lefties who misrepresented the facts and came up with that soundbite for their own political gain (no surprises there), rather than doing the Australian public a service by stating the facts. . While it is 100% legal to request asylum, THEY ARE NOT asylum seekers UNTIL it has been determined that they have a legitimate claim. UNTIL that is determined, they have still illegally entered Australian waters, whether they have a legal claim for asylum or not. It sounds like you would love to open the floodgates and get EVERYONE to live in Australia.... desirables, legitimate asylum seekers, economic refugee scumbags, and potential criminals/terrorists... but WITHOUT filtering them? Are you mad? It bothers me that the left of Australian politics just can't think a few extra steps ahead in the chess-game without raving like a bunch of lunatics at people who do.
Exactly how did they offend them? Australia tells Indonesia that we will be turning Indonesian boats carrying illegal immigrants back out of Australian waters, and we're doing it to protect our sovereignty. What does Indonesia complain about? It complains that by doing this we interfere with THEIR sovereignty! How exactly? Give me a break! Indonesia can like it or lump it, but Australia is part of the commonwealth and part of ANZUS. While they were gaining their much vaunted Independance, we watched as the US helped prevent the Japanese from invading Australia. We rely on our security from our western allies which basically means that we're going to follow the lead of the USA. Indonesia certainly isn't guarding our security. They just don't have our back. They spy on us too. Have a guess which country's embassy got hit with a bomb blast within the last 20 years. Was it the Indonesian embassy in Australia, or the Australian embassy in Indonesia?
The Java cyber army promised to smash the Australian internet. I doubt they would have to try too hard. It's already pretty terrible!
...and here I was thinking that money is the representation of a man's value and a unit of trade. ...without trade, and guns to back the money, then everything would devolve into theft, chaos, war and anarchy.
The most important thing from that video is that explained computer viruses while Atari 2600 ET was on the screen. Some Atari 2600 users still believe that ET was the first console cartridge virus.