Fair enough. I'm not sure if I've ever met anyone who would advocate that and I've met some utter fruitcakes that like to pretend they are Trokski's ideological lovechild. They would still not go that far.
The fear of being knocked off by spooks looks more than a little bit ridiculous unless you understand that Mossad was in the mix. The "supergun" guy was assassinated by them but it's still a bit of a stretch that they would go after antivirus people that are only threatening exposure instead of being a threat themselves.
Check out thwarted efforts to cull feral horses for another good example of the "cuddly" factor at work even in places where animal welfare groups are very happy with the idea of wiping out the feral animals.
Somebody still has to look after the artificial servitors - eg. clean the gunk out of the soup machines. That was part of the joke of Red Dwarf where Lister and Rimmer were so lowly that they were servants to the servant machines.
Good luck at convincing all the dog owners around the place that their pets should die too:) Seriously kids, the chances of coming in contact with a rabid bat are vanishingly small even compared with the very low risk of coming in contact with a rabid dog or rattlesnake.
Size AND having something brittle. Not using glass solves the problem but is a recent development. Here is one but the price is a thing to inspire terror. http://ereader-store.de/en/75-onyx-boox-max.html
There was a much smaller one with a flexible screen and thin sheet steel backing to make it very tough (Wexler Flexone) but I do not know if they are still available. Kindle, Kobo etc get a much better licencing deal with e-ink than the small players so everything else looks stupidly expensive by comparison even with the small screens.
See the US over sugar, steel, beef etc too. While you are correct, if you think that only the EU does this then you are very naive and perhaps looking at something like the TPP will enlighten you as to how these trade deals are ALWAYS about protectionism by the stronger party.
This sounds like the idea came directly from Rupert Murdoch on one of his frequent trips to give "advice" to leading members of the Tory party. He is about pushing his agendas and not allowing unmoderated comments on his outlets so it would not bother him. Breaking the rest of the internet would please him greatly as seen by some of his earlier suggestions.
Don't expect it to actually happen but keep in mind the people the Tories treat as idols.
Despite the fear campaign and cries about it spreading sharia law is not even the law of the land in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Worrying about it being imposed near you is like worrying about sudden gravity reversal.
What we do have to worry about is the people nearby profiting from the fear campaign.
The bottleneck would be actually doing the rating, which would be pretty much impossible unless you're talking an incredibly small subset of websites.
For instance those owned by someone like Rupert Murdoch who has a LOT of influence with the Tory party. It's a stupid idea that would break the internet if actually implemented but Rupert Murdoch has pushed a few of those in the past. He likes government mandated barriers of entry, it cuts down on competition from those who are not so close to government.
It's about two decades since the UK made a significant amount of goods. Some time back a former shopkeeper decided to use the money from North Sea oil to change the UK economy from a widely distributed manufacturing economy to a financial services economy (which profits from a strong currency) highly concentrated around London. It worked and most of the UK has not recovered, so since the UK has nothing to sell a low currency is not helping.
However only the election carries actual political weight
The EU who have been kicking Greece and Cyprus in the balls for the last few years for fun are going to make sure it carries actual political weight. They will force the UK out no matter how much dithering goes on and they will try to make it hurt.
People see that CE mark on stuff and think it is cool. That is 99% of the reason. Marketing. Making consumers trust the product. The regs on a lot of things are not difficult and often voluntary with no actual checking, think of that next time you see a beach ball with a CE mark on it.
Disinflationary - You keep on using that word. How about instead of trying to mislead people you just write "deflation"? You can't? The rubes would catch on and not add to the pyramid scheme?
The entire thing is a scam baited for geeks and really pisses me off.
To make it way better do not a have a deflationary pyramid scheme to speculate on at all. The only reason it prospers is because it's easier to swap tokens from an obvious scam than move real money about without various banking sharks taking a cut. Pretty sad isn't it?
By sheer fluke I'm rereading Mark Twain's "Roughing It" where he has a lot to say about that topic, although it was the Nevada silver rush at the time.
If you go back to the very first article about bitcoin on Slashdot you will see multiple posts about it being deflationary and an obvious pyramid scheme.
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Fair enough. I'm not sure if I've ever met anyone who would advocate that and I've met some utter fruitcakes that like to pretend they are Trokski's ideological lovechild. They would still not go that far.
It's not as if the far more murderous Russian spooks were involved.
French spooks were clumsy and got caught. Mossad let people know they are involved and spread the fear without getting caught.
The fear of being knocked off by spooks looks more than a little bit ridiculous unless you understand that Mossad was in the mix. The "supergun" guy was assassinated by them but it's still a bit of a stretch that they would go after antivirus people that are only threatening exposure instead of being a threat themselves.
Check out thwarted efforts to cull feral horses for another good example of the "cuddly" factor at work even in places where animal welfare groups are very happy with the idea of wiping out the feral animals.
Somebody still has to look after the artificial servitors - eg. clean the gunk out of the soup machines.
That was part of the joke of Red Dwarf where Lister and Rimmer were so lowly that they were servants to the servant machines.
Does anybody other than a very stupid strawman of your own construction advocate for forcing a company to rehire all 22000 people?
Obviously such pride and stupidity is the fault of Unions.
After all, a Union once bit his sister.
Good luck at convincing all the dog owners around the place that their pets should die too :)
Seriously kids, the chances of coming in contact with a rabid bat are vanishingly small even compared with the very low risk of coming in contact with a rabid dog or rattlesnake.
Size AND having something brittle. Not using glass solves the problem but is a recent development. Here is one but the price is a thing to inspire terror.
http://ereader-store.de/en/75-onyx-boox-max.html
There was a much smaller one with a flexible screen and thin sheet steel backing to make it very tough (Wexler Flexone) but I do not know if they are still available.
Kindle, Kobo etc get a much better licencing deal with e-ink than the small players so everything else looks stupidly expensive by comparison even with the small screens.
See the US over sugar, steel, beef etc too. While you are correct, if you think that only the EU does this then you are very naive and perhaps looking at something like the TPP will enlighten you as to how these trade deals are ALWAYS about protectionism by the stronger party.
Not yet it hasn't unless you want to say Christianity in the USA came completely undone after Charles Manson.
This sounds like the idea came directly from Rupert Murdoch on one of his frequent trips to give "advice" to leading members of the Tory party.
He is about pushing his agendas and not allowing unmoderated comments on his outlets so it would not bother him. Breaking the rest of the internet would please him greatly as seen by some of his earlier suggestions.
Don't expect it to actually happen but keep in mind the people the Tories treat as idols.
Despite the fear campaign and cries about it spreading sharia law is not even the law of the land in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Worrying about it being imposed near you is like worrying about sudden gravity reversal.
What we do have to worry about is the people nearby profiting from the fear campaign.
Turkey 1923.
Your other point about going backwards makes sense though.
For instance those owned by someone like Rupert Murdoch who has a LOT of influence with the Tory party.
It's a stupid idea that would break the internet if actually implemented but Rupert Murdoch has pushed a few of those in the past. He likes government mandated barriers of entry, it cuts down on competition from those who are not so close to government.
Hence Australia being taken to court in Singapore by a US company over cigarette sales laws in Australia. Unintended consequences are rife.
A lot of the "free trade" deals really suck. Look up the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal for an example.
It's about two decades since the UK made a significant amount of goods. Some time back a former shopkeeper decided to use the money from North Sea oil to change the UK economy from a widely distributed manufacturing economy to a financial services economy (which profits from a strong currency) highly concentrated around London. It worked and most of the UK has not recovered, so since the UK has nothing to sell a low currency is not helping.
The EU who have been kicking Greece and Cyprus in the balls for the last few years for fun are going to make sure it carries actual political weight. They will force the UK out no matter how much dithering goes on and they will try to make it hurt.
People see that CE mark on stuff and think it is cool.
That is 99% of the reason. Marketing. Making consumers trust the product.
The regs on a lot of things are not difficult and often voluntary with no actual checking, think of that next time you see a beach ball with a CE mark on it.
Disinflationary - You keep on using that word. How about instead of trying to mislead people you just write "deflation"? You can't? The rubes would catch on and not add to the pyramid scheme?
The entire thing is a scam baited for geeks and really pisses me off.
To make it way better do not a have a deflationary pyramid scheme to speculate on at all.
The only reason it prospers is because it's easier to swap tokens from an obvious scam than move real money about without various banking sharks taking a cut. Pretty sad isn't it?
By sheer fluke I'm rereading Mark Twain's "Roughing It" where he has a lot to say about that topic, although it was the Nevada silver rush at the time.
If you go back to the very first article about bitcoin on Slashdot you will see multiple posts about it being deflationary and an obvious pyramid scheme.
Yes - fiat currency declared by a recluse with a false name.
Makes it far worse than fiat currency of a state with real assets doesn't it?
I really don't get why bitcoin perpetrators take this angle - it's an own goal.
You have entirely missed the point. Wikipedia has a fine page on Ponzi schemes that will help.