I'm not overly convinced that deflation-induced hording would relevantly counter out the fact that people don't just get money to run up the score. You get it to buy stuff you want and, unless we figure out clinical immortality, you only get a serious finite amount of time to enjoy that stuff, so you want to get it ASAP. If a major portion of the population had the patience necessary for hording, I don't think we'd see nearly as much use of consumer credit as we do now.
The problem is that bitcoins aren't infinitely divisible. With enough deflation, the smallest possible bitcoin value
Actually, they are. The eight-decimal-places thing is pretty much arbitrary and the level of divisibility is open to modification in the future. Such a change would be a hard fork event and thus non-trivial to set up, but it is perfectly doable. If you've got most of the hashing network on board, it's possible to swap out basically any part of the bitcoin protocol. e.g. you could swap out the hashing algorithm in the event that something unfortunate happened to SHA256.
Bloodless surgery (or more properly, the use of techniques developed for bloodless surgery to do surgery with less blood) is useful. Even with good compatibility, transfusions still have side effects which you generally want to avoid and minimizing surgical blood use helps take some pressure off the blood supply and keep it available for stuff where blood is absolutely needed.
The farther things get from the people, the easier it is for them to be corrupted
I draw this statement into question given that the corruption problem basically starts at the city level (franchise agreements, etc.) and metastasizes up from there.
Yellow dog - People who will vote Democrat no matter what. The connotation is that even if the Democratic candidate was a dog (a "yellow dog" is an American breed of dog otherwise known as the Carolina Dog), they'd still vote for it over a Republican.
Blue majority - The Democratic party holds a majority in whatever political body is being discussed. The opposite would be red majority, meaning the Republican party has a majority.
I predicted this kind of crap 20 years ago when I saw what the Netherlands did with LPG cars -- they slapped a tax on it such that you had to drive 20km a year to break even.
Is that a typo or are you suggesting that 20 kilometres per year is a major issue?
Debian had, at least in the case of Firefox, avoided Debian-specific waivers as that would make the life of downstream distributions like Ubuntu hard.
A Debian-specific waiver wouldn't be acceptable under guideline #8.
8. License Must Not Be Specific to Debian
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted from Debian and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system.
The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
It's not like he can just take off from the road, he still needs an airport. Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of a flying car?
No. If your plane is also your car, you don't need to arrange/pay for a ride/rental from the airport (small municipal airports are often quite a ways from the cities they purportedly serve) to where you're actually going and you also don't need to pay to store your aircraft while you're there.
It remains a useful thing, just not for the uses you have in mind.
That might kind of work. Another method that's proven to work is called "Netflix", aka "Amazon Prime". You want them to spend a few million dollars making something cool for you to watch, you pony up ninety-nine cents. You get what you want, the costs are covered and everyone is happy.
Except for the little detail that the most popular stuff that gets torrented is point blank not available from those sources.
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It's attached to perceived market conditions.
It's "exciting" in the same sense that having bullets wizzing past you is "exciting".
You can bake anything you wish into pie. You just need to make it big enough.
The Model S has a fixed 9.73:1 ratio.
I'm not overly convinced that deflation-induced hording would relevantly counter out the fact that people don't just get money to run up the score. You get it to buy stuff you want and, unless we figure out clinical immortality, you only get a serious finite amount of time to enjoy that stuff, so you want to get it ASAP. If a major portion of the population had the patience necessary for hording, I don't think we'd see nearly as much use of consumer credit as we do now.
The problem is that bitcoins aren't infinitely divisible. With enough deflation, the smallest possible bitcoin value
Actually, they are. The eight-decimal-places thing is pretty much arbitrary and the level of divisibility is open to modification in the future. Such a change would be a hard fork event and thus non-trivial to set up, but it is perfectly doable. If you've got most of the hashing network on board, it's possible to swap out basically any part of the bitcoin protocol. e.g. you could swap out the hashing algorithm in the event that something unfortunate happened to SHA256.
No, because they're not talking about hydrogen fuel cells. They're talking about methane fuel cells.
They're not talking about hydrogen. They're talking about methane (i.e. natural gas) fuel cells, hence the mention of the "gas grid".
Bloodless surgery (or more properly, the use of techniques developed for bloodless surgery to do surgery with less blood) is useful. Even with good compatibility, transfusions still have side effects which you generally want to avoid and minimizing surgical blood use helps take some pressure off the blood supply and keep it available for stuff where blood is absolutely needed.
The farther things get from the people, the easier it is for them to be corrupted
I draw this statement into question given that the corruption problem basically starts at the city level (franchise agreements, etc.) and metastasizes up from there.
Sure, but knowing what you're doing (and having practise) before the disaster comes rolling in is probably a really good idea.
Yellow dog - People who will vote Democrat no matter what. The connotation is that even if the Democratic candidate was a dog (a "yellow dog" is an American breed of dog otherwise known as the Carolina Dog), they'd still vote for it over a Republican.
Blue majority - The Democratic party holds a majority in whatever political body is being discussed. The opposite would be red majority, meaning the Republican party has a majority.
No idea what a "coal voucher" is.
People have paid nearly a million for a stamp.
When it comes to crazy spending, this doesn't even cause the needle to twitch.
I don't suppose that you noted that the files in question were (believe it or not) on dead plants.
Every tried encrypting dead plants?
You know, we've invented these interesting devices called "scanners".
Or better, be off-site yourself.
No one. Propofol was invented in the 70s, so any patents on it are lone gone.
actually somewhat euphoric
Death penalty advocates would never stand for that.
I predicted this kind of crap 20 years ago when I saw what the Netherlands did with LPG cars -- they slapped a tax on it such that you had to drive 20km a year to break even.
Is that a typo or are you suggesting that 20 kilometres per year is a major issue?
Debian had, at least in the case of Firefox, avoided Debian-specific waivers as that would make the life of downstream distributions like Ubuntu hard.
A Debian-specific waiver wouldn't be acceptable under guideline #8.
8. License Must Not Be Specific to Debian
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted from Debian and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system.
The non-commercial licensing violates the first of the Debian Free Software Guidelines, so Debian won't package it.
The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
It's not like he can just take off from the road, he still needs an airport. Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of a flying car?
No. If your plane is also your car, you don't need to arrange/pay for a ride/rental from the airport (small municipal airports are often quite a ways from the cities they purportedly serve) to where you're actually going and you also don't need to pay to store your aircraft while you're there.
It remains a useful thing, just not for the uses you have in mind.
No. That would require the investment of money better spent on executive bonuses and shareholder dividends.
They used to have it, as I remember watching it, but it disappeared at some point. Same for Iron Man 2.
That might kind of work. Another method that's proven to work is called "Netflix", aka "Amazon Prime". You want them to spend a few million dollars making something cool for you to watch, you pony up ninety-nine cents. You get what you want, the costs are covered and everyone is happy.
Except for the little detail that the most popular stuff that gets torrented is point blank not available from those sources.
You can get about 8% of your electricity cleanly through hydro and wind. That does mean you'll have to put up with windmills in your backyard.
8%?
Up here in Canada, about 60% of our electricity (actual production, not capacity) is hydro. Quebec is literally about 97% hydro.