A really great physics lecturer would then go on.....
Dude, where can I find this lecturer? Or is there by chance some good stuff on the internet for me to read? I feel like my understanding of entropy is a bit limited, and I'd like to brush it up a bit
Dude, you have serious reading comprehension problems. The original parent wrote (reemphasizing different word in quote):
some of us are pulling in 20-30% profits per day *TRADING* these "silly" Bitcoins
He was talking about trading bitcoints, not mining for them. Trading is not energy-intensive process (mining is). And in trading, you can have profits during the crash as well as during the rise.
That said however, doubt the OP is profiting that much each day - average profit margin i probably less (and speculating on the wrong side can make nasty cuts in this volatile market)
You are thinking in terms of current epoch..... employees shmemployees. Yes they were not employees, but they were subjects of the crown, and that is stronger binding that some eeezy peeezy work agreement.
No no no. You are doing it wrong. Bleach is for the brain! Eyes have nothing to do with it. And besides, if you use bleach on your eyes, you'll get some serious irritation....
Criminal laws do no not require an injured party to claim damages. You are confusing them with civil laws and contracts.
True. However if the law is unjust - punishes people who did not do any reasonable harm - it is a moral imperative to struggle against such law.
But you are a "libertarian": a corporate anarchist. You don't understand government; you want to eliminate it and take your chances with corporate powers. But we have a government, because we've seen how those autocratic orgs abuse the rights and property of the people.
Baseless ad-hominem attack; also prescribing qualities and wantings for the person from thin air - he has not said anything about eliminating government in his post.
You also don't understand the most basic economics: the ounce of silver in those "dollars" was worth $10-19, averaging about $14, through 1999, but was sold for $20 (legitimate dollars). If the fake dollar's silver were worth "quite a bit more than the face value of US coin", this crook would have been losing money on every sale. Which qualifies him to be a "libertarian".
It's you who does not understand the (economics of the) situation. Those (liberty) dollars were not stamped with face value of 20 Dollar, they were stamped with face value of 1 Dollar (if I am not mistaken here; if I am - see the end of the argument) - and your argument above unravels because of this simple fact.
Think about it. The basic premise of grand-grand-parent (metlin) was that the man tried to deceive the users by making his liberty dollars (LD henceforth) very similar by design to the fed dollars (USD henceforth). So the supposed issue here is that somebody will be confused and accept LD instead of USD. There are two cases: EITHER the confusion/deception occurs during the original maker X-->initial buyer Y transaction. OR the confusion/deception occurs during the intermediate holder Y -->another person Z transaction. In the first case there can be no confusion: Y pays X a sum of 20USD (form you post - I am not sure for what price LDs were sold) and receives a coin of 1LD. He can not be confused to believe 1USD == 1LD because he would then demand 20LDs for his 20USD. In the second case confusion may occur - the receiver Z may confuse 1LD for 1USD, but in this case Z obtains 1LD coin, silver content of which is valued "10-19 USD, averaging about 14 USD" (according to your post) instead of 1USD.
The fact that 1LD was sold above the spot silver price is normal. Coins always command some seigniorage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage) above spot bullion prices - to cover expenses of the minter.
PS In the unlikely case that LDs were stamped with the face value of 20 Dollar, there again can be no deception. AFAIK there are no official, government issued coins of 20USD denomination .
what guys like Lenin did, from the barbaric stuff that people like Stalin did.
That made me laugh. Care to enlighten us what barbaric stuff Stalin did, what Lenin did not (or to put more correctly: what barbaric stuff was being done in Stalin times and in Lenin times).
a quick note, to take some options from the table: concentration camps existed in both Stalin and Lenin times, and are even older. I don't know who invented this concept, but if I am not mistaken, they were already known as concept and operational in Anglo-Boer War times (~1900ies)
Mixing up a hodgepodge of cryptography-related words is no recipe for describing a good security system for securing anything. Do you even understand what you've written in your two sentences?
Any grizzly bears, wolves and cougars, who are misfortunate enough to find themselves near migratory path of this mass of people would be EATEN. Such a mass of people in need would strip the land bare.
Such things are not theoretical but do happen - e.g. in the past army campaigns....
Ah, you think in the right direction here my friend, however there is one more step you are missing. Actually those 300m people could get to US (provided that there is enough water along the route) if they resort to cannibalism. In such setup quite a few people would get through, eating their fellow-travelers.
It's a little bit like a rocket equation - rocket goes up, carrying rocket fuel and spending that rocket fuel along the way. You just need to plug the right constants into equation.
I would SWAG that some 50m (1 out of 6) would get through to USA.
I am not an expert linguist but I would doubt that English could be considered Latin derivative:). More of a germanic language group ancestry (with admixture/influence of frank and latin).
Of course all these languages are of indoeuropean origin.....
No, its not polylactose, its polylactic acid. Lactic acid is made (non industrially) by certain type of fermentation (sauerkraut, pickled cucumbers). It can be fermented from lactose (btw, curd, kefir is made this way - by fermenting lactose in milk into lactic acid) but this feedstock is expensive compared to other feedstocks.
but to legally charge Sony with fraud they must gain some benefit through fraud Of course they gained benefit from that rootkit. Otherwise whats the point of using it? Just for fun?
Hi, I will interject in your interesting discussion with just one, nitpicking comment - we are talking about serious things here and any additional insight helps:)
Performing genocide on some people and (forcibly)displacing some people are two closely related activities, and their moral standings are not that different - forced displacement is only slightly better than genocide (of course everything depends on the details - the conditions of the people after displacement; heh, there is not much variation in condition of the people after genocide:/).
In the displacement case displacing people strips the displaced people of the resources, lowering their living std, causing (some number of)deaths.
what follows below are hypothetical/theoretical/historical examples, not related to the Balkans conflict in any way. I do not have much info about the conditions, under which displacements occurred in Balkans conflict hence do not have my opinion on these
E.g. tribe A displaces tribe B from their homeland into the desert. Tribe B dies of because of the thirst (die-off may be slow, stretching for several generations). (by the way, I've read that in israeli/palestinian conflicts there were some dirty games played with access and use of water - very relevant)
E.g. soldiers show up at the doors of people in some region, and give you 5 minutes to pack their items and get out. Its winter outside and maybe 50% of the displaced people (especially children & elderly) freeze to death during the first night of their march on foot out of the region.
Even in the most benign cases of displacement, displaced people are stripped of their homes and their socio-economic fiber (jobs, shops, schools, hospitals etc) is ripped apart. And there will be deaths - from the environment (freeze - mentioned above), from the food (ok, starvation is rare, since man can go for a couple of weeks with no food at all, but water issues are more acute), from diseases (dysenteria in the refugee camps), from criminal murders (crime level jumps).
Compare this to the genocide, where there is a deliberate and targeted murderings of some group of people. The result is also some (albeit much higher) percentage of deaths of people in the target group.
Hell, it could even be argued that genocides/memecides performed by the soviets and nazis in the 20th century were not genocides but "displacements" - people were displaced into the concentration camps, where they died "naturally" because of too little food and too much work. Direct executions were comparatively rare - it is economically profitable to work people to death instead of wasting 9grams of lead on them. Cold fact of life:/.
So, I do not see many sharp qualitative differences between the two; difference is mostly quantitative. There is a continuum between the two and rather benign displacement might smoothly mutate into a fully fledged genocide.
Sorry for late response:)
No, deceleration would stay exactly the same. Think about it:
2 smarts colliding head-on at the same speed is symmetric situation,
mass center of the system is stationary and always stays at the same
point throughout entire process (conservation of momentum).
Hence in the collision neither of the smarts would push another.
If you want an explanation in layman's terms, perform the following thought experiment:
#1 we have 2 smarts colliding head-on at the same speed. They crumple at the collision point.
#2 place a thin sheet of paper at the collision point; rerun the collision experiment.
A sheet of paper is not moved in the process of collision.
#3 now replace thin sheet of paper with a thick concrete wall; rerun collision experiment.
It does not change anything. Concrete wall will remain stationary just as in the case of paper sheet.
#4 Now we can split the above experiment into the to identical separate collisions SMART->stationary wall.
(note - now the concrete wall must be fixed appropriately or have sufficient mass
so that it does not move in the process of collision)
The deceleration, felt by the smart, will be the same as in the previous layout.
The only change would be forces, acting on the concrete wall. Previously it was
a simultaneous push from both sides, now it is 2 pushes, separated in time -
first from one side, then from the other. But since concrete wall does not move
(as I've noted - it must be fixed well - in the video you see that the SMART has actually
pushed that massive lump of concrete slightly), effect on the colliding smart would be the same.
there is also a reference in how stuff works: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/crash-test2.htm
35-mph frontal impact - At 35 mph (56 kph), the car runs straight into a solid concrete barrier. This is equivalent to a car moving at 35 mph hitting another car of comparable weight moving at 35 mph.
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Bill Gates - $30 Billion / American population 300 Million = $10,000 per person
Division fail. 2 orders of magnitude.
I believe its called 'too big to fail'
No, it is called "too big to jail".
Mod points! mod points! Half of my karma for mod points.....
A really great physics lecturer would then go on.....
Dude, where can I find this lecturer? Or is there by chance some good stuff on the internet for me to read?
I feel like my understanding of entropy is a bit limited, and I'd like to brush it up a bit
Sigh.... there is no -1/Wrong moderation....
Dude, you have serious reading comprehension problems.
The original parent wrote (reemphasizing different word in quote):
some of us are pulling in 20-30% profits per day *TRADING* these "silly" Bitcoins
He was talking about trading bitcoints, not mining for them. Trading is not energy-intensive process (mining is).
And in trading, you can have profits during the crash as well as during the rise.
That said however, doubt the OP is profiting that much each day - average profit margin i probably less (and speculating on the wrong side can make nasty cuts in this volatile market)
You are thinking in terms of current epoch..... employees shmemployees.
Yes they were not employees, but they were subjects of the crown, and that is stronger binding that some eeezy peeezy work agreement.
No no no. You are doing it wrong. Bleach is for the brain! Eyes have nothing to do with it.
And besides, if you use bleach on your eyes, you'll get some serious irritation....
Criminal laws do no not require an injured party to claim damages. You are confusing them with civil laws and contracts.
True. However if the law is unjust - punishes people who did not do any reasonable harm - it is a moral imperative to struggle against such law.
But you are a "libertarian": a corporate anarchist. You don't understand government; you want to eliminate it and take your chances with corporate powers. But we have a government, because we've seen how those autocratic orgs abuse the rights and property of the people.
Baseless ad-hominem attack; also prescribing qualities and wantings for the person from thin air - he has not said anything about eliminating government in his post.
You also don't understand the most basic economics: the ounce of silver in those "dollars" was worth $10-19, averaging about $14, through 1999, but was sold for $20 (legitimate dollars). If the fake dollar's silver were worth "quite a bit more than the face value of US coin", this crook would have been losing money on every sale. Which qualifies him to be a "libertarian".
It's you who does not understand the (economics of the) situation. Those (liberty) dollars were not stamped with face value of 20 Dollar, they were stamped with face value of 1 Dollar (if I am not mistaken here; if I am - see the end of the argument) - and your argument above unravels because of this simple fact.
Think about it. The basic premise of grand-grand-parent (metlin) was that the man tried to deceive the users by making his liberty dollars (LD henceforth) very similar by design to the fed dollars (USD henceforth). So the supposed issue here is that somebody will be confused and accept LD instead of USD.
There are two cases:
EITHER the confusion/deception occurs during the original maker X-->initial buyer Y transaction.
OR the confusion/deception occurs during the intermediate holder Y -->another person Z transaction.
In the first case there can be no confusion: Y pays X a sum of 20USD (form you post - I am not sure for what price LDs were sold) and receives a coin of 1LD. He can not be confused to believe 1USD == 1LD because he would then demand 20LDs for his 20USD.
In the second case confusion may occur - the receiver Z may confuse 1LD for 1USD, but in this case Z obtains 1LD coin, silver content of which is valued "10-19 USD, averaging about 14 USD" (according to your post) instead of 1USD.
The fact that 1LD was sold above the spot silver price is normal. Coins always command some seigniorage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage) above spot bullion prices - to cover expenses of the minter.
PS In the unlikely case that LDs were stamped with the face value of 20 Dollar, there again can be no deception. AFAIK there are no official, government issued coins of 20USD denomination .
what guys like Lenin did, from the barbaric stuff that people like Stalin did.
That made me laugh. Care to enlighten us what barbaric stuff Stalin did, what Lenin did not
(or to put more correctly: what barbaric stuff was being done in Stalin times and in Lenin times).
a quick note, to take some options from the table: concentration camps existed in both Stalin and Lenin times, and are even older. I don't know who invented this concept, but if I am not mistaken, they were already known as concept and operational in Anglo-Boer War times (~1900ies)
Mixing up a hodgepodge of cryptography-related words is no recipe for describing a good security system for securing anything.
Do you even understand what you've written in your two sentences?
So by the end of 2012, the complete French economy comes to a halt.
Hmmmm, time to short France's bonds....... Oh boy, it's gonna be fun
, is being used as the very fist of the hundred-pound gorillas.
Um, buddy, you'll have to up the weight of your gorillas :).
Hundred pound gorillas are not that impressive
WRONG.
Any grizzly bears, wolves and cougars, who are misfortunate enough to find themselves near migratory path of this mass of people would be EATEN.
Such a mass of people in need would strip the land bare.
Such things are not theoretical but do happen - e.g. in the past army campaigns....
Ah, you think in the right direction here my friend, however there is one more step you are missing.
Actually those 300m people could get to US (provided that there is enough water along the route) if they resort to cannibalism.
In such setup quite a few people would get through, eating their fellow-travelers.
It's a little bit like a rocket equation - rocket goes up, carrying rocket fuel and spending that rocket fuel along the way.
You just need to plug the right constants into equation.
I would SWAG that some 50m (1 out of 6) would get through to USA.
I am not an expert linguist but I would doubt that English could be considered Latin derivative :). More of a germanic language group ancestry (with admixture/influence of frank and latin).
Of course all these languages are of indoeuropean origin.....
there is this rather nice site - www.translit.ru, which allows to enter Cyrillic characters with Latin keyboard in those rather cases you need them
No, its not polylactose, its polylactic acid. Lactic acid is made (non industrially) by certain type of fermentation (sauerkraut, pickled cucumbers). It can be fermented from lactose (btw, curd, kefir is made this way - by fermenting lactose in milk into lactic acid) but this feedstock is expensive compared to other feedstocks.
Huh? Just use the brain bleach, will ya?
Hmmmm, do electrolytic caps go to 350V?
So, is Einstein a half-spin or integer spin? I am thinking about beowulf cluster ..... er Bose-Einstein condensate of Einsteins :)
Actually the number of missing links only go up by one :)
There was a missing link before, we break it and add 2 more, so +2-1=+1
Hi, I will interject in your interesting discussion with just one, nitpicking comment - :)
:/).
:/.
we are talking about serious things here and any additional insight helps
Performing genocide on some people and (forcibly)displacing some people are two closely related activities,
and their moral standings are not that different - forced displacement is only slightly better than genocide
(of course everything depends on the details - the conditions of the people after displacement;
heh, there is not much variation in condition of the people after genocide
In the displacement case displacing people strips the displaced people of the resources,
lowering their living std, causing (some number of)deaths.
what follows below are hypothetical/theoretical/historical examples, not related
to the Balkans conflict in any way. I do not have much info about the conditions, under
which displacements occurred in Balkans conflict hence do not have my opinion on these
E.g. tribe A displaces tribe B from their homeland into the desert. Tribe B
dies of because of the thirst (die-off may be slow, stretching for several generations).
(by the way, I've read that in israeli/palestinian conflicts there were some dirty
games played with access and use of water - very relevant)
E.g. soldiers show up at the doors of people in some region, and give you 5 minutes to
pack their items and get out. Its winter outside and maybe 50% of the displaced people
(especially children & elderly) freeze to death during the first night of their march
on foot out of the region.
Even in the most benign cases of displacement, displaced people are stripped of their
homes and their socio-economic fiber (jobs, shops, schools, hospitals etc) is ripped apart.
And there will be deaths - from the environment (freeze - mentioned above), from the
food (ok, starvation is rare, since man can go for a couple of weeks with no food at all,
but water issues are more acute), from diseases (dysenteria in the refugee camps),
from criminal murders (crime level jumps).
Compare this to the genocide, where there is a deliberate and targeted murderings
of some group of people. The result is also some (albeit much higher) percentage
of deaths of people in the target group.
Hell, it could even be argued that genocides/memecides performed by the soviets
and nazis in the 20th century were not genocides but "displacements" -
people were displaced into the concentration camps, where they died "naturally"
because of too little food and too much work.
Direct executions were comparatively rare - it is economically profitable to
work people to death instead of wasting 9grams of lead on them. Cold fact of life
So, I do not see many sharp qualitative differences between the two; difference is mostly
quantitative. There is a continuum between the two and rather benign displacement might
smoothly mutate into a fully fledged genocide.
Sorry for late response :)
No, deceleration would stay exactly the same. Think about it:
2 smarts colliding head-on at the same speed is symmetric situation,
mass center of the system is stationary and always stays at the same
point throughout entire process (conservation of momentum).
Hence in the collision neither of the smarts would push another.
If you want an explanation in layman's terms, perform the following thought experiment:
#1 we have 2 smarts colliding head-on at the same speed. They crumple at the collision point.
#2 place a thin sheet of paper at the collision point; rerun the collision experiment.
A sheet of paper is not moved in the process of collision.
#3 now replace thin sheet of paper with a thick concrete wall; rerun collision experiment.
It does not change anything. Concrete wall will remain stationary just as in the case of paper sheet.
#4 Now we can split the above experiment into the to identical separate collisions SMART->stationary wall.
(note - now the concrete wall must be fixed appropriately or have sufficient mass
so that it does not move in the process of collision)
The deceleration, felt by the smart, will be the same as in the previous layout.
The only change would be forces, acting on the concrete wall. Previously it was
a simultaneous push from both sides, now it is 2 pushes, separated in time -
first from one side, then from the other. But since concrete wall does not move
(as I've noted - it must be fixed well - in the video you see that the SMART has actually
pushed that massive lump of concrete slightly), effect on the colliding smart would be the same.
there is also a reference in how stuff works: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/crash-test2.htm
35-mph frontal impact - At 35 mph (56 kph), the car runs straight into a solid concrete barrier. This is equivalent to a car moving at 35 mph hitting another car of comparable weight moving at 35 mph.