Money has ALWAYS been debt. It's an object that has no real value of it's own, but can be use to command the labors of another. "saving" money is equivalent to putting everyone else in your debt. And you always have the problem that your debtors can default.
Frankly, I think it would be a good deal better if we used a system where the debt-nature of money was simply less obfuscated.
Notice that there are no liability limits on debit card fraud, however. If a thief steals your card and drains $10,000 from your account, you now have $10,000 less than you did before you were robbed. The bank does not have a statutory obligation to return your money. Debit cards are horribly risky devices.
Although they do not have a statutory obligation, many banks do offer a contractual obligation that appears at first glance to exceed the statutory one for CCs. It's been a few years and there haven't been any big exposees on debit card weaselly contracts, so I'd condsider switching from debt based plastic to debit.
Any lawyers who've examined some of the basic debit card agreements?
It's not quite so bad as all that. With directional antennas, you can increase the number of users almost arbitrarily, depending mostly on how close you expect them to be and how fast you expect them to move.
They are going to "openly" lobby, sue, and whatever other legal wrangling they can pull to get out of any conditions of sale they don't care to implement.
Please stop using that word, "Neoconservative" until you learn what it means. I'll give you a hint: it's not "conservative, only more so in exactly the ways I happen to hate"
You count on Moore's law to have given you CPU and HDD to spare, and you run the whole emulated she-bang in a virtual machine. Then, you still have security risks, but they're contained.
Are you sure? I know with Sprint you can call the customer service number after the call and get the charges canceled, but most people don't bother because they have an obscene number-of-minutes plan.
Goverment doesn't have to do better than a competetive private sector. They can pretend to do better by leveraging their monopoly on takin' people's money at gunpoint into other areas.
His point is that it doesn't matter how much money you sock away, you can only buy the man-hours of people that exist. Since we're not growing enough new people, the value of your money is going to drop.
The critical number, that was always critical, whether you're talking about Social Security or your trusty mattress, is the ratio of workers to retireds.
I dunno, I think the second was more attractive, due mostly I think due to the cleanup of a few blemishes and skin tone enhancement (but that was probably poor lighting in the original, anyway)
On the other hand.. The second picture looks a lot more like Summer Glau than it does like the first picture.
But it's really saying that, anyway, since electronic devices that transmit RF are so prevalent that people forget they're even carrying them.
A device ban is a good stop-gap measure if the current fleet really is susceptible, but the devices are only going to get more prevalent, so it's not teneble in the long term.
I find it especially interesting that a device that costs O(10e8) to produce couldn't pass FCC part 15 requirements...
Actually, it's a little better than that. The "cycle life vs. DoD*" curve is not linear.
*DoD = Depth of Discharge. LiIons at 80% DoD get a "cycle life" of about 500. 80% seems to be pretty much the standard, to balance cycle life and volume+mass, but the improvement you get from reducing DoD is better than linear for a big range. (and the pain you get from increasing DoD is also worse than linear over a big range. This is one of the reasons that "deep cycling" a.k.a. battery conditioning is almost always a very bad idea.)
I have not, unfortunately, found any easily available studies that show the integrated total "life" vs. DoD. You could do it yourself with a few of the graphs available, though obviously it'd be pretty coarse.
Pfft. If you're going to go to that much effort, just blur up some alternate text and stitch that in instead. The pixelation will hide the edge artifacts.
Read their debunking of (1). The first part is ok: they claim that temperature cycling doesn't do noticeable damage.
The second part is what's weird: they claim that POST is a benefit even if T cycling DOES cause noticeable damage, because you'll find out about it right away.
Then in the very next one (2), they go on to recommend a power-off method that skips POST, thereby getting the worst of both worlds.
Well they have a rather large.zip, in there. I'm still trying to figure out why people think there was incriminating stuff in there, though, since he claimed to have read all the emails and not found anything.
The entire mail archive was posted to wikileaks. Post ONE email from that archive (with appropriate obfuscations, of course) that supports that claim.
note: I'm not suggesting that she did or didn't do anything, only that I'm not convinced the evidence available supports the claim that she did.
note2: I'm not going to look through the archive myself. I don't want to look through someone else's private mail, and the burden of proof falls on the claim that she did commit wrongdoing, anyway.
20 years total should be plenty. That's an entire generation. It's ludicrous that works produced when you're a child will not be out of copyright before your grandchildren have passed.
Copyright, like patents, should be for fixed terms, not dependent on the health of the holder.
life+t simply encourages Big Media to obtain the still-warm corpses of popular authors and preserve them with "extraordinary means" for as long as possible.
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Why use some shady passgen software when
will do the job more than well enough?
Money has ALWAYS been debt. It's an object that has no real value of it's own, but can be use to command the labors of another. "saving" money is equivalent to putting everyone else in your debt. And you always have the problem that your debtors can default.
Frankly, I think it would be a good deal better if we used a system where the debt-nature of money was simply less obfuscated.
I've never been good with British units. What's the SI unit for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc?
Although they do not have a statutory obligation, many banks do offer a contractual obligation that appears at first glance to exceed the statutory one for CCs. It's been a few years and there haven't been any big exposees on debit card weaselly contracts, so I'd condsider switching from debt based plastic to debit.
Any lawyers who've examined some of the basic debit card agreements?
It's not quite so bad as all that. With directional antennas, you can increase the number of users almost arbitrarily, depending mostly on how close you expect them to be and how fast you expect them to move.
They are going to "openly" lobby, sue, and whatever other legal wrangling they can pull to get out of any conditions of sale they don't care to implement.
Please stop using that word, "Neoconservative" until you learn what it means. I'll give you a hint: it's not "conservative, only more so in exactly the ways I happen to hate"
You count on Moore's law to have given you CPU and HDD to spare, and you run the whole emulated she-bang in a virtual machine. Then, you still have security risks, but they're contained.
As a fairly well-made (for it's purpose: home use) OS (really a bug-fix edition of the previous version) that got a lot of undeserved bad press?
Are you sure? I know with Sprint you can call the customer service number after the call and get the charges canceled, but most people don't bother because they have an obscene number-of-minutes plan.
Goverment doesn't have to do better than a competetive private sector. They can pretend to do better by leveraging their monopoly on takin' people's money at gunpoint into other areas.
His point is that it doesn't matter how much money you sock away, you can only buy the man-hours of people that exist. Since we're not growing enough new people, the value of your money is going to drop.
The critical number, that was always critical, whether you're talking about Social Security or your trusty mattress, is the ratio of workers to retireds.
I dunno, I think the second was more attractive, due mostly I think due to the cleanup of a few blemishes and skin tone enhancement (but that was probably poor lighting in the original, anyway)
On the other hand.. The second picture looks a lot more like Summer Glau than it does like the first picture.
I don't see you think you need a disclaimer that a "bazillion" is anything but a fake number.
Oh... I see what you're saying....
Yeah, just like Smart(tm) cars are poised to make the long-haul trucking industry moot.
Even (2) should be tiered: Every 1Mbps is not the same. Across the street costs the ISP much less than across the pond.
But it's really saying that, anyway, since electronic devices that transmit RF are so prevalent that people forget they're even carrying them.
A device ban is a good stop-gap measure if the current fleet really is susceptible, but the devices are only going to get more prevalent, so it's not teneble in the long term.
I find it especially interesting that a device that costs O(10e8) to produce couldn't pass FCC part 15 requirements...
Actually, it's a little better than that. The "cycle life vs. DoD*" curve is not linear.
*DoD = Depth of Discharge. LiIons at 80% DoD get a "cycle life" of about 500. 80% seems to be pretty much the standard, to balance cycle life and volume+mass, but the improvement you get from reducing DoD is better than linear for a big range. (and the pain you get from increasing DoD is also worse than linear over a big range. This is one of the reasons that "deep cycling" a.k.a. battery conditioning is almost always a very bad idea.)
I have not, unfortunately, found any easily available studies that show the integrated total "life" vs. DoD. You could do it yourself with a few of the graphs available, though obviously it'd be pretty coarse.
Pfft. If you're going to go to that much effort, just blur up some alternate text and stitch that in instead. The pixelation will hide the edge artifacts.
Then you can taunt them a second time-a
If the site is Probama, then yes.
Read their debunking of (1). The first part is ok: they claim that temperature cycling doesn't do noticeable damage.
The second part is what's weird: they claim that POST is a benefit even if T cycling DOES cause noticeable damage, because you'll find out about it right away.
Then in the very next one (2), they go on to recommend a power-off method that skips POST, thereby getting the worst of both worlds.
Well they have a rather large .zip, in there. I'm still trying to figure out why people think there was incriminating stuff in there, though, since he claimed to have read all the emails and not found anything.
How could you have learned that?
The entire mail archive was posted to wikileaks. Post ONE email from that archive (with appropriate obfuscations, of course) that supports that claim.
note: I'm not suggesting that she did or didn't do anything, only that I'm not convinced the evidence available supports the claim that she did.
note2: I'm not going to look through the archive myself. I don't want to look through someone else's private mail, and the burden of proof falls on the claim that she did commit wrongdoing, anyway.
20 years total should be plenty. That's an entire generation. It's ludicrous that works produced when you're a child will not be out of copyright before your grandchildren have passed.
Copyright, like patents, should be for fixed terms, not dependent on the health of the holder.
life+t simply encourages Big Media to obtain the still-warm corpses of popular authors and preserve them with "extraordinary means" for as long as possible.