And seriously, we were only talking about California. So what you are saying is that many states that are large as some countries are economical as large as, well, some countries. And just for fun I have done it not by state, but on a per person rate. Some numbers by order of production:
States Spending Production Population (million) 1 District of Columbia $18,000.00 $202,200.00 0.5 11 Texas $8,280.49 $51,715.45 24.6 18 California $12,262.47 $50,398.95 38.1 23 US of America $10,135.97 $47,341.86 308.9 52 Mississippi $11,366.67 $31,800.00 3
As we know "Too big to fail" does not mean that they can't fail, but that they are so large that failure would mean intervention from the governement on a large scale as it would otherwise take down the country. Which means that if they fail, something will be done to guarantee that somebody must take over the damage. Look at the banks that failed and were called "too big to fail."
Uh, yes. That is exactly what they are talking about.
And even then some individual might suffer mildly. e.g. his balls will hurt a lot. No explosion in the sky with a huge fireball. Even when done intentionally there is no real danger. Stop watching the A-Team and/or McGyuver.
I have said it many times. People smuggel drugs. The places they put them vary lightly, but I am sure that it should not be too difficult to prepare some solid explosive, the fuse and some matches and place thenm inside your body where they are easily accesible. Then go to the toilet take it out and blow the thing up there.
Low risk high impact (like death), take actions to prevent it.
There is a difference between preventing and taking actions that will be worse then what will be prevented. Now what is worse then death you might ask? Forbidding people to take that kind of batteries or any kind of batteries on board of a plane. TAking actions where millions of people need to change their values or way of life.
Death is part of life and is something we should accept. We drive cars and people die. We build houses and people die doing that. People live in areas where they KNOW there will be an earthquake and sooner or later which will result in death.
And we are talking about minor injury to someone not even death. No explosions that will blow up a plane. No fireball in the sky.
To me the low impact, high risk should be treated the same as high impact low risk. Look at it and take measures appropriately.
One of the possibilaties is that SWIFT moves to Switserland where the EU has nothing to say. The banks do not really care, so it would be an easy solution for them. That would mean that new laws would be made (perhaps in each country individually) to avaoid the transfer of the information to Switserland (and then to the US).
This will be a lot harder to avoid and could take several years if it would happen at all.
Not a good way. What if the US agrees to it? Then we Eurpoeans still have our privacy violated as well as the privacy of the American public. Two wrongs don't make a right.
It is not so much that we do not want to share data about (potential) criminal activities. The problem is that we do not want to share the bulk.
It is like listening in on phone calls. Not OOjk if you listen to them all. OK if you have a court order to listen to specific individuals to build a case against them.
So not OK to see all my data. OK to see all the data from Osama Bin Laden if a court has decided that it is needed.
In Belgium there was a discussion to check all laws and mtrow out the old and useless ones. (The ones where you can't walk with a goat and a pig on Sunday on the main street. (Not a real law, just an idea of what we talk about)) and the result is that it isn't worth doing.
They said that robots would give people more free time before. Ineed people will be unemployed, which means no income, which means even very cheap food will be to expensive. And instead of all people working 20 hours, one will work 60 and 2 others won't have enough to live by.
So Verizon is able to decide what is legal and what is not? Great. Instead of sueing some grandma for copyright theft for a few thousands, I can sue them for a few gazillions. If anything illegal gets true, I can sue them all over again. They better start working with a white list of sites that are OK.
And it is not so much a something that is organized as it is a mob. So you can not just start pointing fingers at a few.
But what will happen is instead of keeping the few in a nice place that you can somewhat control, they will try to close 4chan and that will mean hundred of these kind of sites will pop up.
These are works of the US government, the "we the people" part. It *is* yours because as a Citizen you have a *right* to use it in any way you damn well please.
I understand what you are saying. However Copyright is not a National issue, it is International. This means that if there is a copyright on it, all owners (Americans) can use it (depending on their law) but not any others.
From what I read here, there is no copyright on those items, which would mean that everybody in the world would be able to use them as they please.
That is how I pay my rent. And I do it in such a way that it happens automagically. But then Belgium was one of the first countries to have a nuified bank numbering system. 3 digits, 7 digits, 2 digits The first three where the bank. The next 7 are the actual account and the next 2 are the control digits.
I would not mind if they charge some normal amount. I dislike it f they charge more for larger amounts. So they pay for individual electrons that are being transfered? Don't forget that all of this money transfer is automated. There is no difference in transfering 1 cent or one gazillion dollars. The problem is that they charge each other and just let the customer pay for it as there is no alternatve.
One of the things you could do is first ask if the receiver has another bank account with a different bank. The fees change from bank to bank. Another option might be the post office. My bank once told me to go to the post office, as that would be much, much cheaper for me. Did the transfer there and it was indeed a LOT cheaper. However this was about 15 years ago, so it might have changed now.
In Belgium inter and intra bank for me is both free. It depends on the bank, but most won't charge when it is done online. I have transfered more then once just 1 cent (o.01EUR) to friends. Espiacially nice if you know that others chack their accounts (parents, spouses,...) and then write down some naughty comment, like "Payback of overcharging your porn sales." Yeah, tey are all clever enough to just get a giggle out of it and nothing more.
Now if I would go to the bank and do the transaction there, I would have to pay.
Yeah and having the brand on it won't have any of those inferior stuff or any of those situations happen. Right? only fake batteries explode and only fake cars need to be recalled (and I am not taking about Toyota)
And there is another problem. To be illegal the should be a guilty party. To be guilty, one would expect some sort of court. Courts should be run by governement. They can determine what is illegal and what not. Not some private company.
They should NOT be the ones deciding what is legal and what not.
If you've actually committed a crime, I don't care about your privacy.
I do. If you have commited a crime, you get a punishment. It might mean you need to pay with money or ytime. It should not mean loosing your privacy. People doing an investigation if you are the suspect of a crime is not a breach of privacy. It should also mean that if I am proven innocent, that all evidence (DNA anybody?) must be destroyed.
Now what you see is that a person was charged with whatever, found not guilty, but it still shows up.
It also must mean that the charges must be direct linked and not something like "We are taking the DNA of everybody, so we might link it to a certain crime." I rather have a serial killer kill me then hundreds of people having their DNA taken at random.
I think the number one thing teachers and parents need to do is let kids fight their own damn battles. if jnr gets bullied, let him give the kid a black eye. it also gives the bully a taste of what will happen later in life if you insist on picking on people. all this passive agressive shit where your only allowed to express yourself according to someone elses rules is bullcrap.
I was passive agressive and it worked.
I know if my kids were getting picked on at school i wouldn't sit down and tell them to care and share, i send them to boxing lessons and tell them to defend themselfs. people taking shit is the result of this passive nonsense people have been bred on for the last 20 years.
My brother in law told his kid to fight back and it worked.
So both worked, but for different people. What will work best depends on the circumstances and the people/kids involved.
I was once bullied. The bully told me to wait for me after school. I told him if he wanted he could wait for me, but I would not wait for him. He NEVER had that reply. The next day he came to me and gave his apologies. He was alone, so nobody would hear his 'defeat'. It did not hit him and if there would have been a fight, I would have lost.
So what happend? He was so in shock that he asked a friend why I was so cool about it. He said I was so cool, because I knew that I would win, because I had a 2nd dan in karate and held a black belt in judo as well. And no, that was not true.
And that is how I treated most bullies, by bluffing. All in a different way. Some I just told: fight? Sure. You win. Now what?
Never been in a fight. Once a hit in the head, but not hard and he was trying to provoke me into a fight. Just smiled, declared him the winner and walked away. And that was a person who I could easily have beaten up.
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It is bigger then Texas. That is enough.
And seriously, we were only talking about California. So what you are saying is that many states that are large as some countries are economical as large as, well, some countries. And just for fun I have done it not by state, but on a per person rate. Some numbers by order of production:
States Spending Production Population (million)
1 District of Columbia $18,000.00 $202,200.00 0.5
11 Texas $8,280.49 $51,715.45 24.6
18 California $12,262.47 $50,398.95 38.1
23 US of America $10,135.97 $47,341.86 308.9
52 Mississippi $11,366.67 $31,800.00 3
As we know "Too big to fail" does not mean that they can't fail, but that they are so large that failure would mean intervention from the governement on a large scale as it would otherwise take down the country. Which means that if they fail, something will be done to guarantee that somebody must take over the damage.
Look at the banks that failed and were called "too big to fail."
Good to know. This was what was told as a possible outcome on the radio in Belgium.
Uh, yes. That is exactly what they are talking about.
And even then some individual might suffer mildly. e.g. his balls will hurt a lot. No explosion in the sky with a huge fireball. Even when done intentionally there is no real danger. Stop watching the A-Team and/or McGyuver.
I have said it many times. People smuggel drugs. The places they put them vary lightly, but I am sure that it should not be too difficult to prepare some solid explosive, the fuse and some matches and place thenm inside your body where they are easily accesible. Then go to the toilet take it out and blow the thing up there.
One of the possibilaties is that SWIFT moves to Switserland where the EU has nothing to say. The banks do not really care, so it would be an easy solution for them. That would mean that new laws would be made (perhaps in each country individually) to avaoid the transfer of the information to Switserland (and then to the US).
This will be a lot harder to avoid and could take several years if it would happen at all.
Not a good way. What if the US agrees to it? Then we Eurpoeans still have our privacy violated as well as the privacy of the American public. Two wrongs don't make a right.
It is not so much that we do not want to share data about (potential) criminal activities. The problem is that we do not want to share the bulk.
It is like listening in on phone calls. Not OOjk if you listen to them all. OK if you have a court order to listen to specific individuals to build a case against them.
So not OK to see all my data. OK to see all the data from Osama Bin Laden if a court has decided that it is needed.
In Belgium there was a discussion to check all laws and mtrow out the old and useless ones. (The ones where you can't walk with a goat and a pig on Sunday on the main street. (Not a real law, just an idea of what we talk about)) and the result is that it isn't worth doing.
They said that robots would give people more free time before. Ineed people will be unemployed, which means no income, which means even very cheap food will be to expensive. And instead of all people working 20 hours, one will work 60 and 2 others won't have enough to live by.
So Verizon is able to decide what is legal and what is not? Great. Instead of sueing some grandma for copyright theft for a few thousands, I can sue them for a few gazillions. If anything illegal gets true, I can sue them all over again. They better start working with a white list of sites that are OK.
And it is not so much a something that is organized as it is a mob. So you can not just start pointing fingers at a few.
But what will happen is instead of keeping the few in a nice place that you can somewhat control, they will try to close 4chan and that will mean hundred of these kind of sites will pop up.
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I understand what you are saying. However Copyright is not a National issue, it is International. This means that if there is a copyright on it, all owners (Americans) can use it (depending on their law) but not any others.
From what I read here, there is no copyright on those items, which would mean that everybody in the world would be able to use them as they please.
That is how I pay my rent. And I do it in such a way that it happens automagically. But then Belgium was one of the first countries to have a nuified bank numbering system.
3 digits, 7 digits, 2 digits
The first three where the bank. The next 7 are the actual account and the next 2 are the control digits.
I would not mind if they charge some normal amount. I dislike it f they charge more for larger amounts. So they pay for individual electrons that are being transfered?
Don't forget that all of this money transfer is automated. There is no difference in transfering 1 cent or one gazillion dollars.
The problem is that they charge each other and just let the customer pay for it as there is no alternatve.
One of the things you could do is first ask if the receiver has another bank account with a different bank. The fees change from bank to bank. Another option might be the post office. My bank once told me to go to the post office, as that would be much, much cheaper for me. Did the transfer there and it was indeed a LOT cheaper. However this was about 15 years ago, so it might have changed now.
In Belgium inter and intra bank for me is both free. It depends on the bank, but most won't charge when it is done online. ...) and then write down some naughty comment, like "Payback of overcharging your porn sales."
I have transfered more then once just 1 cent (o.01EUR) to friends. Espiacially nice if you know that others chack their accounts (parents, spouses,
Yeah, tey are all clever enough to just get a giggle out of it and nothing more.
Now if I would go to the bank and do the transaction there, I would have to pay.
Yeah and having the brand on it won't have any of those inferior stuff or any of those situations happen. Right? only fake batteries explode and only fake cars need to be recalled (and I am not taking about Toyota)
A backdoor password that they did not know of.
And there is another problem. To be illegal the should be a guilty party. To be guilty, one would expect some sort of court. Courts should be run by governement. They can determine what is illegal and what not. Not some private company.
They should NOT be the ones deciding what is legal and what not.
On the plus side, you don't have to sit trough some boring game to see them.
I do. If you have commited a crime, you get a punishment. It might mean you need to pay with money or ytime. It should not mean loosing your privacy.
People doing an investigation if you are the suspect of a crime is not a breach of privacy. It should also mean that if I am proven innocent, that all evidence (DNA anybody?) must be destroyed.
Now what you see is that a person was charged with whatever, found not guilty, but it still shows up.
It also must mean that the charges must be direct linked and not something like "We are taking the DNA of everybody, so we might link it to a certain crime." I rather have a serial killer kill me then hundreds of people having their DNA taken at random.
I was passive agressive and it worked.
My brother in law told his kid to fight back and it worked.
So both worked, but for different people. What will work best depends on the circumstances and the people/kids involved.
I was once bullied. The bully told me to wait for me after school. I told him if he wanted he could wait for me, but I would not wait for him. He NEVER had that reply. The next day he came to me and gave his apologies. He was alone, so nobody would hear his 'defeat'. It did not hit him and if there would have been a fight, I would have lost.
So what happend? He was so in shock that he asked a friend why I was so cool about it. He said I was so cool, because I knew that I would win, because I had a 2nd dan in karate and held a black belt in judo as well. And no, that was not true.
And that is how I treated most bullies, by bluffing. All in a different way. Some I just told: fight? Sure. You win. Now what?
Never been in a fight. Once a hit in the head, but not hard and he was trying to provoke me into a fight. Just smiled, declared him the winner and walked away. And that was a person who I could easily have beaten up.