Here's a little interview Ben Bernanke gave to 60 minutes where he discloses that they're printing money to monetize debt. The point where he admits printing money is around 8:20. And he's talking about doing it electronically.
I see where your error is. Someone should've explained to you that the word intangible is the exact opposite of the word physical.
Certainly, the banks (fractional reserve banking) and government have the ability to print more money, but there are costs involved. Not only the cost of the paper and ink and presses, but the value lost in the rest of the currency in circulation (inflation).
It's not the same as manufacturing. Effort to create the chips (virtual currency) was made once - and that developer got paid long ago. This guy was sentenced for taking copies of an intangible item.
At most, this disturbed their accountant who noticed that the system had $12 million in chip distributions but no matching bank transactions. I'd bet they're planning on writing it off their taxes as a loss, along with the attorney fees and the cost for a developer to secure their system.
What, no media player? No digital camera? No Shark Shield?
With all of the possibilities, they seem to have chosen the lamest ones.
A GPS? Seriously? "Dude, this surf is awesome....where the hell am I?" I still remember where I was the last time I surfed - 14th Street, Del Mar - a short climb down the cliff to the isolated beach.
Just think, for the small price of wearing special underwear, you would never need another battery! Nevermind that the static built up in the underwear would significantly reduce your sperm count...
It only gets worse when you consider that HTML will become a 'living standard', so you'll be shooting for a moving target (HTML spec) through a moving foreground (rapidly evolving browser)
I'll gladly develop for standards, but which standards should I shoot for? Yesterdays standard, last weeks standard, last months standard? Should I shoot for a specific browser implementation of a particular standard?
It's better than productions that try hard to avoid product placement while still keeping an element of reality. Case in point, iCarly, a Disney show which features computers with a pear-minus-a-bite logo on the lids. Why didn't they just use an Apple?
In your perfect movie world everyone eats Hershel's chocolate bars, wear Levo jeans and have Cherryos for breakfast. I, however, like my movie worlds to be in my same universe. In my universe, there are common products with household names and when well placed can make a movie world more relatable. Personally, I think Dexter looks quite comfortable driving a Mac.
Some productions do go too far (ahem, Demolition Man / Taco Bell)
You're probably right, they likely have different printing requirements than I do. Fortunately, I'm not so naive as to believe that the majority of printers are Windows only. To the contrary, the vast majority of printers are compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. Here's a passport printer that is Linux compatible. http://www.diletta.com/EN/prod_pp_440i.htm
I've converted entire businesses, thousands of nodes, to Linux. It can be done effectively, efficiently and seamlessly.
As I pointed out, the Germans own reports say that their system is effective, one guy wants it changed.......he happens to be in charge. So, the German people get to pay for an unnecessary conversion.
You're absolutely right. That's what admins are for though, and Germany already has them. And unlike my daughters, Germany has the option of hiring new admins if theirs get abducted by aliens.
Someday, they will be - and they'll be well-prepared for it.
Are you honestly trying to compare your home environment....bla bla bla
No, I'm not. I do, however, have experience transitioning an ISP from Windows infrastructure (several thousand nodes in several different cities) to Linux. By the time I was done, the only Windows systems left were the IIS servers, and they were virtualized (on Linux hosts). I was a freaking hero. Hardware upgrades were pushed back several years, downtime became unheard of, and I won't even mention license fees.
Average users don't debug kernels, that's an admin job. Their time is much better spent doing their jobs than staring at a blue screen. You may continue refusing to believe that I'm dense/stupid.
NO WINDOWS FOR ME - thank you very much. The Linux learning curve isn't so steep when users aren't poisoned by exposure to other systems....except Mac, they're actually pretty nice...The best thing I ever did for my wife was get that Macbook. My daughters enjoy being able to just "Press button to turn machine on" - they manage just fine. And one of my daughters has become quite the GIMP Picasso.
Instead, lets blame the idiot vendor they're relying on to deliver their solutions.
The 1 system not running Linux in my house is my wife's Macbook. My 2 daughters run Linux successfully. We all print to and scan from a multi-function scanner/printer/fax/copier. We can all network print. I have a scanner that I use for more detailed work. My wireless router is a homebrew running Linux which also functions as a print server.
My business runs on Linux. My client solutions run on Linux. I'll just say it, my world runs on Linux.
This article states there has been a change in leadership. The new boss is apparently anti-Linux, despite their own studies showing that the current systems are viable.
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Here's a little interview Ben Bernanke gave to 60 minutes where he discloses that they're printing money to monetize debt. The point where he admits printing money is around 8:20. And he's talking about doing it electronically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odPfHY4ekHA
Enjoy
You should try to put down your bong without spilling it and read my entire reply.
I see where your error is. Someone should've explained to you that the word intangible is the exact opposite of the word physical.
Certainly, the banks (fractional reserve banking) and government have the ability to print more money, but there are costs involved. Not only the cost of the paper and ink and presses, but the value lost in the rest of the currency in circulation (inflation).
It's not the same as manufacturing. Effort to create the chips (virtual currency) was made once - and that developer got paid long ago. This guy was sentenced for taking copies of an intangible item.
At most, this disturbed their accountant who noticed that the system had $12 million in chip distributions but no matching bank transactions. I'd bet they're planning on writing it off their taxes as a loss, along with the attorney fees and the cost for a developer to secure their system.
I would imagine that it won't take much bribery.
It will be much easier for the government to listen into our phone calls when there is only one major carrier.
This is bad.
The things that pass for "Insightful" these days.....
it doesn't work that way - try editing your hosts file.
How is this different from using the existing search?
Search for: "ford escort" -inurl:ford.com
Aside from paid ads, you won't have any results from ford.com
So, this tool is really for people who require pointy-clicky utilities. The rest of us had this capability years ago.
You're the only one.
Here are some
For distance, this laser requires a lens to focus. If you miss, someone might go blind but will most likely not burst into flames.
Did you forget NAT64?
What, no media player? No digital camera? No Shark Shield?
With all of the possibilities, they seem to have chosen the lamest ones.
A GPS? Seriously? "Dude, this surf is awesome....where the hell am I?" I still remember where I was the last time I surfed - 14th Street, Del Mar - a short climb down the cliff to the isolated beach.
As soon as we handle the inherent ESD issue...
Or learn to harness its energy potential!
Just think, for the small price of wearing special underwear, you would never need another battery! Nevermind that the static built up in the underwear would significantly reduce your sperm count...
There's a sucker born every minute
Congratulations to you for finding one of them.
It only gets worse when you consider that HTML will become a 'living standard', so you'll be shooting for a moving target (HTML spec) through a moving foreground (rapidly evolving browser)
I'll gladly develop for standards, but which standards should I shoot for? Yesterdays standard, last weeks standard, last months standard? Should I shoot for a specific browser implementation of a particular standard?
This is going to suck.
No way, if he had - the analogy would have been more entertaining.
What happened to BadAnalogyGuy anyway, he seems to be posting as a mere mortal these days - with no bad analogies.
It's like watching a bald eagle take a crap.
It's better than productions that try hard to avoid product placement while still keeping an element of reality. Case in point, iCarly, a Disney show which features computers with a pear-minus-a-bite logo on the lids. Why didn't they just use an Apple?
In your perfect movie world everyone eats Hershel's chocolate bars, wear Levo jeans and have Cherryos for breakfast. I, however, like my movie worlds to be in my same universe. In my universe, there are common products with household names and when well placed can make a movie world more relatable. Personally, I think Dexter looks quite comfortable driving a Mac.
Some productions do go too far (ahem, Demolition Man / Taco Bell)
That didn't work for Julian, he had a face with his face on it!
You're probably right, they likely have different printing requirements than I do. Fortunately, I'm not so naive as to believe that the majority of printers are Windows only. To the contrary, the vast majority of printers are compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. Here's a passport printer that is Linux compatible. http://www.diletta.com/EN/prod_pp_440i.htm
I've converted entire businesses, thousands of nodes, to Linux. It can be done effectively, efficiently and seamlessly.
As I pointed out, the Germans own reports say that their system is effective, one guy wants it changed.......he happens to be in charge. So, the German people get to pay for an unnecessary conversion.
By replacing Linux, Germany won't be taking admins out of the equation. They'll probably have more Windows admins.
If you were abducted by aliens tonight....
You're absolutely right. That's what admins are for though, and Germany already has them. And unlike my daughters, Germany has the option of hiring new admins if theirs get abducted by aliens.
Your daughters aren't specialized workers
Someday, they will be - and they'll be well-prepared for it.
Are you honestly trying to compare your home environment....bla bla bla
No, I'm not. I do, however, have experience transitioning an ISP from Windows infrastructure (several thousand nodes in several different cities) to Linux. By the time I was done, the only Windows systems left were the IIS servers, and they were virtualized (on Linux hosts). I was a freaking hero. Hardware upgrades were pushed back several years, downtime became unheard of, and I won't even mention license fees.
Average users don't debug kernels, that's an admin job. Their time is much better spent doing their jobs than staring at a blue screen. You may continue refusing to believe that I'm dense/stupid.
NO WINDOWS FOR ME - thank you very much. The Linux learning curve isn't so steep when users aren't poisoned by exposure to other systems....except Mac, they're actually pretty nice...The best thing I ever did for my wife was get that Macbook. My daughters enjoy being able to just "Press button to turn machine on" - they manage just fine. And one of my daughters has become quite the GIMP Picasso.
It's for people who's time is not money.
My customers would LOVE that.
Instead, lets blame the idiot vendor they're relying on to deliver their solutions.
The 1 system not running Linux in my house is my wife's Macbook. My 2 daughters run Linux successfully. We all print to and scan from a multi-function scanner/printer/fax/copier. We can all network print. I have a scanner that I use for more detailed work. My wireless router is a homebrew running Linux which also functions as a print server.
My business runs on Linux. My client solutions run on Linux. I'll just say it, my world runs on Linux.
This article states there has been a change in leadership. The new boss is apparently anti-Linux, despite their own studies showing that the current systems are viable.