It's not about force, it's about trust. I'll take your dollars in exchange for work or goods because I trust that someone else will accept my dollars in the future.
Do you ever look deeper and ask why you have that trust?
So, the U.S. dollar is not fan-currency because it is backed by the full might of the U.S. military?
A fan, or fanatic, sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, such as a band, a sports team, a genre, a book, a movie or an entertainer.
How in the hell do you equate backed by the full might of the U.S. military to fandom?
You missed a negation. Bitcoin is a fan based currency, OP expressed a distaste for fan based currency... I was asking why the U.S. dollar is not fan based, is it because of faith and trust in the government? That would sound more like fandom to me.
Off course, exponential growth can never be stable.
I think that people fail to realize: 1% interest, compounded, is still exponential growth. The exponentially growing economy has worked for the last few hundred years due to exponential growth of population, at first finding more and more gold and silver, but shortly after the globe was conquered switching to "paper money" that can grow with population.
...I think a petition would probably be just as annoying and ineffective, but without the "being investigated by the cops" part.
There's that optimism again, what do you think is the first thing that happens to anyone who annoys the cops, politicians, etc.? Maybe not a full blown multi-departmentally resourced investigation, but the annoyed public servant is going to do a bit more than Google your name after you piss them off.
Everyone here's optimism shocks me: you think anyone is actually listening to these recordings? 99.9% are archived "for future use," they only analyze this stuff if they are trying to pile on additional evidence in a case already in progress - they couldn't run it as a source to initially identify targets... if they did, they'd have far too many arrests of innocents, and eventually one of them would shut them down with a lawsuit.
Could they run a keyword identifier automatic speech recognition algorithm on it? Maybe, even Dragon would have trouble with all the ambient noise and automating cancellation of competing conversations. But, do you think they care enough to actively go looking for criminals? They barely keep up with the ones that people complain about.
Yep, we surely weren't impressed by the IBM offerings in 2006 - and our (self titled) "Chief Science Officer" was proposing an array of 50 Mac Pros as the cost effective alternative. I was in software dev, we took his "200 core" application and cleaned it up so that it ran as fast as expected on 4 cores - that's the real cost savings: not adding an un-necessary nested loop layer that adds 100x to your processing load.
When I see platinum nanorods in water, I worry that anything more than absolutely pure water will leave its "more" deposited on the nanorods, rendering them useless in a big big hurry.
Sales speak: the "average" server farm has a lot of highly underutilized boxes in it. With their "mainframe" approach, they can provide adequate / economical service for 2000 "normal" boxes in a "typical" site. Yeah, none of those "quoted" words really mean anything, we actually used our processors in our application, and as such, IBM was about 40% more expensive than Apple Mac Pros, for comparison.
Life as we know it - neglects self-organizing patterns constructed of mostly hydrogen and helium, plasmas and repeating pulse patterns. They might be difficult to talk to, but the possibility of life in the vastness of interstellar space seems difficult to deny - too many combinations of circumstances out there to think that self-replicating patterns wouldn't happen at least somewhere in the last 10 billion years.
The full download is pretty small; smaller than a modern computer game in fact.
That's just the wetware design, you forgot to mention the 30+ years of programming effort it took to get you up to being a reasonably functional member of the collective.
Netflix originated during the VHS/DVD rental store period, they did home delivery of DVDs via post on a cheap monthly subscription model (less than $10/month for unlimited streaming, today - though selection is less than it used to be on the $20/month physical disc delivery model) - they've branched out to many countries, where are you?
Anyway, when network speeds came up, they started a streaming movie service, and it "comes for free" on your average $70 BluRay player - which also plays DVDs, Pandora streaming music and a bunch of other less useful stuff. I suppose you're also in a wonderful "content locking" region where normal disc players won't play discs from other major markets? That was the most absurd piece of work I'd heard about to-date...
UHD is a brave new market - all set for the BluRay vs HD DVD thing to go again... maybe they'll use lightscribe for your personally identifying information and the players will all have it. So bored with all that I couldn't care less... I have BluRay players, but just for their Neflix capabilities, I think we own a total of 2 BluDiscs, and never rent them.
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The world could use more nature parks.
Dear industry: keep screwing it up, harming the public, and being a menace to business, and you will be regulated.
Sincerely,
The Government.
Yeah, I mean, the reactors are water cooled, right? Seems like Fukushima had plenty of water ;-)
Also, if you read the NRC request rationally, they are saying: fix this, if you don't fix this then you should shut down.
They are not saying "shut them all down, immediately."
Good point. The Swiss have many redeeming qualities.
It's not about force, it's about trust. I'll take your dollars in exchange for work or goods because I trust that someone else will accept my dollars in the future.
Do you ever look deeper and ask why you have that trust?
So, the U.S. dollar is not fan-currency because it is backed by the full might of the U.S. military?
A fan, or fanatic, sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, such as a band, a sports team, a genre, a book, a movie or an entertainer.
How in the hell do you equate backed by the full might of the U.S. military to fandom?
You missed a negation. Bitcoin is a fan based currency, OP expressed a distaste for fan based currency... I was asking why the U.S. dollar is not fan based, is it because of faith and trust in the government? That would sound more like fandom to me.
This is why I don't rely on fan-currency.
So, the U.S. dollar is not fan-currency because it is backed by the full might of the U.S. military?
Off course, exponential growth can never be stable.
I think that people fail to realize: 1% interest, compounded, is still exponential growth. The exponentially growing economy has worked for the last few hundred years due to exponential growth of population, at first finding more and more gold and silver, but shortly after the globe was conquered switching to "paper money" that can grow with population.
...I think a petition would probably be just as annoying and ineffective, but without the "being investigated by the cops" part.
There's that optimism again, what do you think is the first thing that happens to anyone who annoys the cops, politicians, etc.? Maybe not a full blown multi-departmentally resourced investigation, but the annoyed public servant is going to do a bit more than Google your name after you piss them off.
Everyone here's optimism shocks me: you think anyone is actually listening to these recordings? 99.9% are archived "for future use," they only analyze this stuff if they are trying to pile on additional evidence in a case already in progress - they couldn't run it as a source to initially identify targets... if they did, they'd have far too many arrests of innocents, and eventually one of them would shut them down with a lawsuit.
Could they run a keyword identifier automatic speech recognition algorithm on it? Maybe, even Dragon would have trouble with all the ambient noise and automating cancellation of competing conversations. But, do you think they care enough to actively go looking for criminals? They barely keep up with the ones that people complain about.
That must be awesome when a cloud of dust or blowing leaves enters the visual field...
Likely IR, here's another: http://www.onagofly.com/
Yep, we surely weren't impressed by the IBM offerings in 2006 - and our (self titled) "Chief Science Officer" was proposing an array of 50 Mac Pros as the cost effective alternative. I was in software dev, we took his "200 core" application and cleaned it up so that it ran as fast as expected on 4 cores - that's the real cost savings: not adding an un-necessary nested loop layer that adds 100x to your processing load.
Got to capture those electrons in useful form - no good liberating an electron and having it resorbed a few nanoseconds later.
All it needs are photons, I wonder if Co60 decay photons do anything good for them?
When I see platinum nanorods in water, I worry that anything more than absolutely pure water will leave its "more" deposited on the nanorods, rendering them useless in a big big hurry.
Activated by photons, you know like a solar cell?
Sales speak: the "average" server farm has a lot of highly underutilized boxes in it. With their "mainframe" approach, they can provide adequate / economical service for 2000 "normal" boxes in a "typical" site. Yeah, none of those "quoted" words really mean anything, we actually used our processors in our application, and as such, IBM was about 40% more expensive than Apple Mac Pros, for comparison.
Life as we know it - neglects self-organizing patterns constructed of mostly hydrogen and helium, plasmas and repeating pulse patterns. They might be difficult to talk to, but the possibility of life in the vastness of interstellar space seems difficult to deny - too many combinations of circumstances out there to think that self-replicating patterns wouldn't happen at least somewhere in the last 10 billion years.
But if the corpses were still alive, they'd be consumers - eating hamburgers, building houses and driving cars.
The quickest path to reduced global emissions is a pandemic with a high mortality rate.
The full download is pretty small; smaller than a modern computer game in fact.
That's just the wetware design, you forgot to mention the 30+ years of programming effort it took to get you up to being a reasonably functional member of the collective.
Netflix originated during the VHS/DVD rental store period, they did home delivery of DVDs via post on a cheap monthly subscription model (less than $10/month for unlimited streaming, today - though selection is less than it used to be on the $20/month physical disc delivery model) - they've branched out to many countries, where are you?
Anyway, when network speeds came up, they started a streaming movie service, and it "comes for free" on your average $70 BluRay player - which also plays DVDs, Pandora streaming music and a bunch of other less useful stuff. I suppose you're also in a wonderful "content locking" region where normal disc players won't play discs from other major markets? That was the most absurd piece of work I'd heard about to-date...
New from Soviet Redmond: Software Beta test You.
UHD is a brave new market - all set for the BluRay vs HD DVD thing to go again... maybe they'll use lightscribe for your personally identifying information and the players will all have it. So bored with all that I couldn't care less... I have BluRay players, but just for their Neflix capabilities, I think we own a total of 2 BluDiscs, and never rent them.