It is also about delaying the big financial crash.In many countries of the world banks have a negative interest on money parked at the respective central bank. Of course they would like to forward this cost to their customer, but guess what would happen, if banks put negative interest on the savings of Joe Average. It would start a run on the banks, because everybody would prefer to put his money under their mattresses. This is the only reason there are still small interests of 0.01% or so on every type of savings, only because the banks know what happens if everybody tries to cash his savings.
As soon as cash has been abandoned, there will be no alternative for the customers but to accept it, at least those with incomes and savings to small to buy into gold or diamonds. Which also makes clear that abandoning cash will not solve the big cases of tax evasion or to impair organized crime: Those people will just keep on using those "currencies", as they do it already.
AFAIK they are commuting. From what I was being told, nobody with a typical middle class salary can afford to live in the Bay Area. Disclaimer: This is just second hand knowledge, but I got it from people who actually lived there.
I just imagined DeepCode to flood Stack Overflow and similar sites with postings like: "I need to code ERP app! Howto do it? Source code plz!"...
BR
Kosmo
Sure it is. Or did they install a high bandwith wlan or umts cells in the himalaya? Maybe there are dsl jacks hidden under the snow, installed by the people of Shangri La? Or how does the guy get a high quality video stream on the roof of the world? If Reinhold Messner (famous germon climber and adventure, lost many toes) gets the next time onto the Everest, maybe he'll find the new satellite dish on the top. I read in the heise-forum, that somebody was asked by a friend, how much the access to the intel-satellite would cost. This person has already been misled by this adverts.
Yep, that's one problem, german is a very creative language. you're allowed to (and everyone does) create "new" words by concatenation of existing words. Even if there is a lack of efficiency in german language in other fields, the concatenation of words makes it easy to describe new phenomenons, because native speakers are used to build those words in a very associative way. Even if german has a restrictive an complicated grammar (french is even worse), it's in a sense a sort of languagelego. As you see, it's possible in english, too, but it's not so often used. The word "languagelego" shows the associativeness of this: There are no real linguistic lego blocks, but if you know, what lego is, you get immediatly the picture of a language that creatively connects words to build new ones, but inside a strictly ruled system (classic lego has this strict system too: you cannot leave the blockstructure of the toy).
Interesting, but seems to be an english phenomenon. I tried the same letter-shifting in a german sentence, and it was totally unreadable. As i am a native german, i shouldn't have had any problems, if this would work in german.
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It is also about delaying the big financial crash.In many countries of the world banks have a negative interest on money parked at the respective central bank. Of course they would like to forward this cost to their customer, but guess what would happen, if banks put negative interest on the savings of Joe Average. It would start a run on the banks, because everybody would prefer to put his money under their mattresses. This is the only reason there are still small interests of 0.01% or so on every type of savings, only because the banks know what happens if everybody tries to cash his savings. As soon as cash has been abandoned, there will be no alternative for the customers but to accept it, at least those with incomes and savings to small to buy into gold or diamonds. Which also makes clear that abandoning cash will not solve the big cases of tax evasion or to impair organized crime: Those people will just keep on using those "currencies", as they do it already.
AFAIK they are commuting. From what I was being told, nobody with a typical middle class salary can afford to live in the Bay Area. Disclaimer: This is just second hand knowledge, but I got it from people who actually lived there.
I just imagined DeepCode to flood Stack Overflow and similar sites with postings like: "I need to code ERP app! Howto do it? Source code plz!"... BR Kosmo
Sure it is. Or did they install a high bandwith wlan or umts cells in the himalaya? Maybe there are dsl jacks hidden under the snow, installed by the people of Shangri La? Or how does the guy get a high quality video stream on the roof of the world? If Reinhold Messner (famous germon climber and adventure, lost many toes) gets the next time onto the Everest, maybe he'll find the new satellite dish on the top.
I read in the heise-forum, that somebody was asked by a friend, how much the access to the intel-satellite would cost. This person has already been misled by this adverts.
Kosmo
You can only graft hop on hemp roots, because hop's the only known plant to be related to hemp.
But you can brew a fine beer out of this marihop.
Kosmo
Ok, sounds convincing, but never underestimate the sillyness of human beings!
Slogan from the dawn of the bronze age:
BRONZE CASTING IS KILLING THE STONE AXE INDUSTRY!!!
Have a nice day,
Kosmo
Lindows.com was taken over by the
Fiendish Flouridators!
We have to preserve the purity of essence of
our computer's body fluids...
Kosmo
Just if you like to have the sig correct, if not, feel free to ignore this:
;-),
wrong:
ihr mutter ist dumm
correct:
Ihre Mutter ist dumm.
The capitals are not really the problem, but the 'e' after 'ihr' makes it grammatically correct.
Old german saying:
Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache (German language, difficult language)
There are many germans who are not really able to use their native language, this is the root of this saying.
Greetings from germoney
Kosmo
VerySigh...
Yep, that's one problem, german is a very creative language. you're allowed to (and everyone does) create "new" words by concatenation of existing words.
Even if there is a lack of efficiency in german language in other fields, the concatenation of words makes it easy to describe new phenomenons, because native speakers are used to build those words in a very associative way. Even if german has a restrictive an complicated grammar (french is even worse), it's in a sense a sort of languagelego.
As you see, it's possible in english, too, but it's not so often used. The word "languagelego" shows the associativeness of this: There are no real linguistic lego blocks, but if you know, what lego is, you get immediatly the picture of a language that creatively connects words to build new ones, but inside a strictly ruled system (classic lego has this strict system too: you cannot leave the blockstructure of the toy).
Kosmo
Interesting, but seems to be an english phenomenon. I tried the same letter-shifting in a german sentence, and it was totally unreadable. As i am a native german, i shouldn't have had any problems, if this would work in german.
Are there experiences with other languages?
Greetings,
Kosmo