Because there was just a violent overthrow of a legitimate government that was headed by a Russian loyalist. As soon as Kiev fell and the interim government was instituted Russia had to assume that their supply lines could be endangered, as was access to their fleet's only Mediterranean port at Sevastapol. Most of eastern Ukraine DOES share ethnic roots with Russia. I'm not saying that Russia isn't meddling (they certainly are), but I think that what we're seeing is less intentional land-grabs, and more efforts from Moscow to ensure that supply lines aren't compromised in Ukraine if the pro-west/pro-NATO side wins. Putin is brilliant, he's smart enough to know that Russian troops are largely green right now, and the country doesn''t currently have the resources to maintain a sustained conflict in one of the largest countries in Europe. That said, Putin is brilliant, so if this is a game of chess and he plans to make more moves, he'll move slowly and deliberately, and make sure that he has plausible deniability and casus belli for every move he makes.
Not so fast. We have aided Mexico militarily by sending special forces for training, and also bringing Mexican troops to the US for training. Russia itself has not invaded Ukraine. Russian loyalists however have occupied several government buildings/regions because they're not a fan of the Pro-NATO, Pro-West stance taken by the Kieven government. I'm not going to say Russia is entirely innocent here, after all there were supposedly photos of Russian special forces training Eastern Ukrainians, but that behavior is nearly the same as what the US has done with Mexico in the drug war. We picked the side we liked and benefitted us the most, we gave them equipment and training, and told the other side that if they spill over our borders we will christen them with hellfire missiles.
Fair enough. Other than privacy implications i largely never bother with blocking ads (I don't mind vendors/content creators getting revenue from my using their services) unless I have a good reason. When i don't want to be tracked, tor+foxyproxy+adblock. I guess it all comes down to your tolerance of advertising:)
Russia is seeing a country that is essentially on the brink of civil war right next to its borders. On top of that, that country happens to control many of the major resource pipelines into and out of Russia. They have a vested interest in keeping Ukraine stable. Do you expect that the US would do any differently if Juarez or Tijuana truly became a Narco-stronghold?
Don't rush so quickly to judge. The media on both sides of the pond spins the story to make their respective side look good.
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It would be fantastic if breweries used the grain to start raising their own cattle then.
The other option is to do what every other great society through history and into prehistory has done - open bakeries. It's still saccharomyces cerevisiae, and spent grains are amazing for baking.
All currency, whether it's bank notes, hunks of gold, bitcoins, goats, glass beads, or anything else, is a commodity. The only thing that determines price of that commodity is demand and supply. If people think it has utility, it has value. If people stop thinking any of these items have value, then they become worthless. All of these are speculated on as well; that's what foreign exchange markets are, that's what commodities markets are. None of them have intrinsic value until we decide to put a price tag on them in order to exchange them for other things.
Right now I can name about 4 local vendors who accept bitcoin because they prefer it to the 3% transaction fee charged for credit cards. And they're pulling in still more vendors. They're not involved as speculators, they're involved as people who want to accept it because it makes their cost of doing business lower.
Exactly. What people are missing is that this is still relatively new technology. With the big boom in mining over the past few months, we can consider this to be the true shakeout period. The exchanges that have problems will fall, and the ones that don't will be the cream rising to the top. This isn't something new. The fact is, a lot of vendors like cryptocurrencies because they don't require processing charges outside the occasional transaction fee when the transaction exceeds a certain size.
So, why wouldn't he reach out to one of the 3 letter agencies involved with things like this (namely the FBI)? At the very least with their help he could have pulled in the 3 companies into a conference call, explained what was going on, and gotten this resolved pretty quickly. It's pretty easy to say "Here is the information that was used to open the account, block all recent changes." Or did the hacker somehow get control of his phone too? Am I missing something?
I'm the GP, and I actually *like* OSX, but my reason is pretty simple; I hate dealing with desktop UNIX. Having to spend days to get 3d acceleration and the desktop configured "just so," only to have the next OS update torch all of my settings to a state where it may be impossible to recover... well... it's just not worth it to me. That's why I pay the apple tax; it's an exchange for not having to do all of that work, and it's worth it for me to never have to see glxgears ever again. I'm not a fanboy by any means; I'm a pragmatist. But I will say that OSX did finally bring about the fabled "year of the *nix desktop," it just wasn't linux, it was BSD. And it wasn't really heralded as such.
Did you know that Goebel approached edison and attempted to sell him the patent for the lightbulb, but Edison refused, allowing Goebel to fall into destitution and die penniless. He then went to his destitute widow and offered her a fraction of the original asking price, effectively screwing Goebel's estate out of any royalties of the invention that Edison is most well known for? That's my whole issue here; people who steal other people's work, or who lie and cheat to get their hands on it. Edison was an asshole, if you don't believe me, just look at how he treated Goebel.
Fact for you: I am writing this comment on a mac, running OSX. What pisses me off is that people are crazy Steve Jobs fanboys without realizing that he had little to no technical ability. He was a sales guy, and had an idea about how things should work and how they should look. That's it. He didn't build anything. The original apple was built by Woz, and Jobs helped to sell it. Don't believe me? You can download the schematics for it; they're entirely the work of Woz. The same with the Apple II. Jobs' sole contribution to the projects was color suggestions on the boxes. His career would have not started except for the work of other people, whom he later screwed over at any chance he could take. He was like Edison, find engineers, find ways to suck work out of them or get them to put patents under your umbrella, and then take all of the credit. They won't sell? Blackmail, cheat, harass until you can get the patents under your control. He was a disgusting human being. The fact that he admitted other people were involved in this video is surprising. For those of us who met him, he was a royal douche who is incredibly overrated. The world is in a far worse place for losing Dennis Ritchie than it is Steve Jobs.
Actually, historically speaking, he did not have any part in the original apples. That was all Woz. Steve Jobs was just notoriously good at selling; he was in no way, shape, or form an engineer.
Interesting, usually people are too busy fellating him to remember that his sole contribution to the actual original apple was "Hey, the PSU should be beige." The rest of the work was Woz and the others.
I chalk him up to being in the same ilk as Edison. He couldn't do much of anything himself, so he did everything he could to maniuplate, steal, and threaten other peoples' work out of them so he could hold the patents. He's a scumbag and the world is better off without him, even if he did help make things better as a side effect of his self-centeredness. I just think there's a special place in hell for people who are willing to rip off their best friend (a la when he screwed over Wozniak during the whole chip-reduction thing).
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Because there was just a violent overthrow of a legitimate government that was headed by a Russian loyalist. As soon as Kiev fell and the interim government was instituted Russia had to assume that their supply lines could be endangered, as was access to their fleet's only Mediterranean port at Sevastapol. Most of eastern Ukraine DOES share ethnic roots with Russia. I'm not saying that Russia isn't meddling (they certainly are), but I think that what we're seeing is less intentional land-grabs, and more efforts from Moscow to ensure that supply lines aren't compromised in Ukraine if the pro-west/pro-NATO side wins. Putin is brilliant, he's smart enough to know that Russian troops are largely green right now, and the country doesn''t currently have the resources to maintain a sustained conflict in one of the largest countries in Europe. That said, Putin is brilliant, so if this is a game of chess and he plans to make more moves, he'll move slowly and deliberately, and make sure that he has plausible deniability and casus belli for every move he makes.
Not so fast. We have aided Mexico militarily by sending special forces for training, and also bringing Mexican troops to the US for training. Russia itself has not invaded Ukraine. Russian loyalists however have occupied several government buildings/regions because they're not a fan of the Pro-NATO, Pro-West stance taken by the Kieven government. I'm not going to say Russia is entirely innocent here, after all there were supposedly photos of Russian special forces training Eastern Ukrainians, but that behavior is nearly the same as what the US has done with Mexico in the drug war. We picked the side we liked and benefitted us the most, we gave them equipment and training, and told the other side that if they spill over our borders we will christen them with hellfire missiles.
Fair enough. Other than privacy implications i largely never bother with blocking ads (I don't mind vendors/content creators getting revenue from my using their services) unless I have a good reason. When i don't want to be tracked, tor+foxyproxy+adblock. I guess it all comes down to your tolerance of advertising :)
Russia is seeing a country that is essentially on the brink of civil war right next to its borders. On top of that, that country happens to control many of the major resource pipelines into and out of Russia. They have a vested interest in keeping Ukraine stable. Do you expect that the US would do any differently if Juarez or Tijuana truly became a Narco-stronghold? Don't rush so quickly to judge. The media on both sides of the pond spins the story to make their respective side look good.
Why do you need an ad-blocker on slashdot? If you have great karma from being a good member of the community they give you the option to disable all advertising. Just post constructively and no adblocker is necessary.
It would be fantastic if breweries used the grain to start raising their own cattle then. The other option is to do what every other great society through history and into prehistory has done - open bakeries. It's still saccharomyces cerevisiae, and spent grains are amazing for baking.
You think normal currencies are stable? Google "forex." They're absolutely not stable.
Tinfoil hat much?
Yup, just like all of those people had protections from being screwed over by banks in 2008. Real dollars are so much better, you've convinced me.
All currency, whether it's bank notes, hunks of gold, bitcoins, goats, glass beads, or anything else, is a commodity. The only thing that determines price of that commodity is demand and supply. If people think it has utility, it has value. If people stop thinking any of these items have value, then they become worthless. All of these are speculated on as well; that's what foreign exchange markets are, that's what commodities markets are. None of them have intrinsic value until we decide to put a price tag on them in order to exchange them for other things.
Right now I can name about 4 local vendors who accept bitcoin because they prefer it to the 3% transaction fee charged for credit cards. And they're pulling in still more vendors. They're not involved as speculators, they're involved as people who want to accept it because it makes their cost of doing business lower.
Pyramid schemes aren't ponzi schemes. They're different things, with a few similarities.
You really have no idea how bitcoin works, do you?
Exactly. What people are missing is that this is still relatively new technology. With the big boom in mining over the past few months, we can consider this to be the true shakeout period. The exchanges that have problems will fall, and the ones that don't will be the cream rising to the top. This isn't something new. The fact is, a lot of vendors like cryptocurrencies because they don't require processing charges outside the occasional transaction fee when the transaction exceeds a certain size.
So, why wouldn't he reach out to one of the 3 letter agencies involved with things like this (namely the FBI)? At the very least with their help he could have pulled in the 3 companies into a conference call, explained what was going on, and gotten this resolved pretty quickly. It's pretty easy to say "Here is the information that was used to open the account, block all recent changes." Or did the hacker somehow get control of his phone too? Am I missing something?
Because Danica Patrick in skimpy clothing sells.
I'm the GP, and I actually *like* OSX, but my reason is pretty simple; I hate dealing with desktop UNIX. Having to spend days to get 3d acceleration and the desktop configured "just so," only to have the next OS update torch all of my settings to a state where it may be impossible to recover... well... it's just not worth it to me. That's why I pay the apple tax; it's an exchange for not having to do all of that work, and it's worth it for me to never have to see glxgears ever again. I'm not a fanboy by any means; I'm a pragmatist. But I will say that OSX did finally bring about the fabled "year of the *nix desktop," it just wasn't linux, it was BSD. And it wasn't really heralded as such.
Did you know that Goebel approached edison and attempted to sell him the patent for the lightbulb, but Edison refused, allowing Goebel to fall into destitution and die penniless. He then went to his destitute widow and offered her a fraction of the original asking price, effectively screwing Goebel's estate out of any royalties of the invention that Edison is most well known for? That's my whole issue here; people who steal other people's work, or who lie and cheat to get their hands on it. Edison was an asshole, if you don't believe me, just look at how he treated Goebel.
Fact for you: I am writing this comment on a mac, running OSX. What pisses me off is that people are crazy Steve Jobs fanboys without realizing that he had little to no technical ability. He was a sales guy, and had an idea about how things should work and how they should look. That's it. He didn't build anything. The original apple was built by Woz, and Jobs helped to sell it. Don't believe me? You can download the schematics for it; they're entirely the work of Woz. The same with the Apple II. Jobs' sole contribution to the projects was color suggestions on the boxes. His career would have not started except for the work of other people, whom he later screwed over at any chance he could take. He was like Edison, find engineers, find ways to suck work out of them or get them to put patents under your umbrella, and then take all of the credit. They won't sell? Blackmail, cheat, harass until you can get the patents under your control. He was a disgusting human being. The fact that he admitted other people were involved in this video is surprising. For those of us who met him, he was a royal douche who is incredibly overrated. The world is in a far worse place for losing Dennis Ritchie than it is Steve Jobs.
Actually, historically speaking, he did not have any part in the original apples. That was all Woz. Steve Jobs was just notoriously good at selling; he was in no way, shape, or form an engineer.
Interesting, usually people are too busy fellating him to remember that his sole contribution to the actual original apple was "Hey, the PSU should be beige." The rest of the work was Woz and the others.
I chalk him up to being in the same ilk as Edison. He couldn't do much of anything himself, so he did everything he could to maniuplate, steal, and threaten other peoples' work out of them so he could hold the patents. He's a scumbag and the world is better off without him, even if he did help make things better as a side effect of his self-centeredness. I just think there's a special place in hell for people who are willing to rip off their best friend (a la when he screwed over Wozniak during the whole chip-reduction thing).
...Steve Jobs take credit for other people's work in this video, just like always.
Honestly not sure; this was back when a 2GB drive was "big," and we never had an issue getting the few WD's replaced that failed.