The gold standard is no less abstract than any other form of currency, since the value a gram of gold has is entirely arbitrary and not inherent in any way.
It is less abstract in at least one very important way - the amount of work it takes to extract another gram from the ground and put it in a vault.
Modern currency has effectively zero marginal cost to make more of. There are pluses and minus to that fact - as in money can now represent something like the total value of the economy of the country rather than be limited to a pile of metal in a vault somewhere.
On the other hand it also makes it really, really, really tempting for the government to just print more money in response to any fiscal crisis with the obvious long term effect of devaluing all the money had been previously printed.
Next thing she's planning on doing after her trip into space is create a new linux distribution! It will start out with a unique program to freely distribute physical copies on Dysan floppy disks to anyone who requests one on her website.
You might have done better to get a cheaper house and put the difference towards private school. You can get scholarships for private elementary and high schools, depending on the school and the kid. I know because I had one myself.
What I've noticed though is that the people who buy them don't seem to care...
The only reason they don't care is because they haven't seen that the grass is greener on the open side of the fence. It is hard to miss what you don't know. But should Android or even a WinCE system get a few cool toys that apple explicitly forbids, that green light of envy will start to burn bright.
I've had a Symbian phone for years. Lots of free apps and developer tools, built in GPS and great touch screen, been around for years... That didn't stop the iPhone coming out either.
Because the iphone had a cool new interface that no other phone had. But its going to be a tough battle for Apple to keep ahead of the other platforms when they are deliberately excluding software that people want.
Modern medicine may SAVE people that "should have" died and not passed on their genes. For better or worse, this is different than what happens outside of human society.
Seems to me that just results in selecting for genes that improve the odds of getting modern medical treatment, same old darwinian evoluation.
Well, number one rule in life: don't piss off other people (that you can't afford to).
It is part of the job of people who have been given power over others to do as much as they can to eliminate bias in their decisions. They are human, but they are still expected to behave to a much higher standard than an everyday joe schmoe.
As far as I can see, the only cases where Haselton has actually pissed off a judge (none of which were in this particular article) the judge was clearly acting capricously.
Dealt too much with emotionless machines lately?
Not thought through the consequences of rolling over and just accepting bad governing lately?
What evidence do you have that the messages of the remaining candidates resonate with a largely apathetic, willfully ignorant american public? If you're answer is the fact that it must be so by virtue of them being the remaining candidates, then your argument is simply circular.
It's just a fact that getting into trouble with the police can screw you over without charge or conviction.... I've not heard of it being kept on record and used against you permanently like that, but it's not the first job anyone's lost...
So, what is your point? Because all I get from reading your post is outraged that anyone should so casually dismiss what is clearly a wrong as just being a fact of life. It certainly can be true and still be absolutely wrong.
I can not for the life of me figure out why anyone would care
Funny thing about electronic privacy - its like pandora's box, once you let information about you out in to the world, there is no way you ever are stuffing it back in the box. You've heard it before - information wants to be free. The corollary of that is nobody is forgetting ways to abuse your personal information, rather people are constantly dreaming up new ways to take advantage of it.
Thus unless there is some overwhelming advantage to showing the world that you played dodgeball at the company piknik on 7/12/99 or that you work for Yoyodyne corp in bumfuck IL it is clearly not in your best interests to do so, because you don't even know what it will eventually cost you.
Where is the issue? do you privacy nuts also behave the same way in daily life? if so it's a surprise you have any friends at all, if they ask you what you did this weekend do you make them sign a non-disclosure agreement?
Posting your information online makes it IMMEDIATELY available to EVERYBODY. Talking to someone in a one-on-one situation only makes your information available to one person whom you know. Would you tell a mugger or a house robber that you plan on spending the next week-end out of town? You might as well if you post it to facebook.
in that case do you also slam the door on the census taker?
Chances are that a contest that you must pay to enter and that gives out money as a prize will be considered as gambling by most countries. That's going to get them in a lot of trouble.
Why haven't people realized that this kind of thing isn't compatible with the way teenagers think?
Indeed, if there is a speed limiter at 80mph, I think a lot of kids will take that as a challenge to see who can exceed it by the most mph - for example flooring it on a downhill road. And if the system does something blatantly obvious when it hits the 80mph limit, like kill the rpms and make a weird gearing noise in the process you can get bet kids will compete to see who can make their car do that blatantly obvious thing the most frequently and/or the fastest.
Of course, I admit that this is some kind of massive wishful thinking but, man... wouldn't it be nice to see some random jerk on the street see a newspaper and murmer "I wonder if that's true." instead of "OMG PONIES!?"
We are already at that point, unfortunately it hasn't worked out the way you would hope.
Nowadays the random jerk on the street who doubts the veracity of the newspaper is inclined to turn to people like Rush Limbaugh and the twin hotties of evil, Michelle Malkin and Anne Coulter.
The "mainstream media" has indeed failed the public by poor fact-checking of a number of high-profile stories, but the result has been that instead of demanding better quality-control from the news reporting process, people are embracing sources of news that revel in the fact that they have nothing even resembling quality-control.
Its kind of like when the US kept beating a drum for palestine to hold democractic elections again as an important step in reconciliation with Israel - instead of getting a more peaceful and liberal government, everything went sideways and they ended up with Hamas instead.
Do a little more research. Obama was the #2 candidate of donations from Fannie.
Obama received ~$150K from all fannie and freddie related sources over a period of many years. McCain received ~$35K. If that small an amount of money is 100% responsible for Obama's "lack of acting" then McCain's own "lack of acting" must be at least 20% caused by bribes from fannie and freddie too.
It is painfully obvious to all but the most hardened Obama supporters that he is on the take.
I don't intend to vote for Obama, ergo you are wrong. Furthermore, your phrasing shows that you are simply a political tribalist.
I live in GA, so I won't be voting. There is no way in frozen, psychedelic, sheet-cake paved hell that state will be blue in this election.
So vote 3rd party then - anyone in a state where the vote is already wrapped up should be voting 3rd party. You've got nothing to lose by doing so, but you can effect the next election. Hell, you may even affect governance that results from this election if the 3rd parties get enough votes to scare the incumbent parties that they might be an actual threat to them next time.
FWIW - You can avoid the $100K limit by designating "pay on death" beneficiaries. If you put two POD beneficiaries on your accounts, you get $200K FDIC insurance, (one for each of them, none for you). Of course you should be sure that you really want these people to get paid should you actually die, but otherwise there is little risk.
He could have brought up the fact that Obama has strong ties to FF and received a ton of money from them, and thus kind of explains some of Obamas
Do some research - I did when I first read that accusation. All donations from Fannie and Freddie - including employees and PACs, etc, roughly equal 0.01% of contributions to Obama's campaign - that's 1 one hundredth of a percent, not 1%. Hardly "strong ties" nor "a ton of money" - certainly not enough to compete with all the other sources of campaign 'contributions.'
Honestly, I don't know what the data reduction algorithms did. If I had to guess, I would guess that they included things like a high-pass filter to remove readings that were "in the noise" and maybe some sort of compression for repeated values over large areas like "empty space." Just guessing though.
The MAFIAA did when they first paid congress to extend the term of copyright on already published works. That was the first large scale "intellectual property theft" and it was the MAFIAA stealing from every single citizen of this country.
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The gold standard is no less abstract than any other form of currency, since the value a gram of gold has is entirely arbitrary and not inherent in any way.
It is less abstract in at least one very important way - the amount of work it takes to extract another gram from the ground and put it in a vault.
Modern currency has effectively zero marginal cost to make more of. There are pluses and minus to that fact - as in money can now represent something like the total value of the economy of the country rather than be limited to a pile of metal in a vault somewhere.
On the other hand it also makes it really, really, really tempting for the government to just print more money in response to any fiscal crisis with the obvious long term effect of devaluing all the money had been previously printed.
Next thing she's planning on doing after her trip into space is create a new linux distribution!
It will start out with a unique program to freely distribute physical copies on Dysan floppy disks to anyone who requests one on her website.
You might have done better to get a cheaper house and put the difference towards private school.
You can get scholarships for private elementary and high schools, depending on the school and the kid.
I know because I had one myself.
That's 524,994,000 before Earth was created!
550496256 in hard disk years
What I've noticed though is that the people who buy them don't seem to care...
The only reason they don't care is because they haven't seen that the grass is greener on the open side of the fence.
It is hard to miss what you don't know. But should Android or even a WinCE system get a few cool toys that apple explicitly forbids, that green light of envy will start to burn bright.
I've had a Symbian phone for years. Lots of free apps and developer tools, built in GPS and great touch screen, been around for years... That didn't stop the iPhone coming out either.
Because the iphone had a cool new interface that no other phone had. But its going to be a tough battle for Apple to keep ahead of the other platforms when they are deliberately excluding software that people want.
Modern medicine may SAVE people that "should have" died and not passed on their genes. For better or worse, this is different than what happens outside of human society.
Seems to me that just results in selecting for genes that improve the odds of getting modern medical treatment, same old darwinian evoluation.
Well, number one rule in life: don't piss off other people (that you can't afford to).
It is part of the job of people who have been given power over others to do as much as they can to eliminate bias in their decisions.
They are human, but they are still expected to behave to a much higher standard than an everyday joe schmoe.
As far as I can see, the only cases where Haselton has actually pissed off a judge (none of which were in this particular article) the judge was clearly acting capricously.
Dealt too much with emotionless machines lately?
Not thought through the consequences of rolling over and just accepting bad governing lately?
What evidence do you have that the messages of the remaining candidates resonate with a largely apathetic, willfully ignorant american public?
If you're answer is the fact that it must be so by virtue of them being the remaining candidates, then your argument is simply circular.
Seriously - is there anything more obnoxious than a snot-nosed black-flag-waving peace activist?
I dunno, how about tyranny?
It's just a fact that getting into trouble with the police can screw you over without charge or conviction. ...
I've not heard of it being kept on record and used against you permanently like that, but it's not the first job anyone's lost...
So, what is your point?
Because all I get from reading your post is outraged that anyone should so casually dismiss what is clearly a wrong as just being a fact of life.
It certainly can be true and still be absolutely wrong.
Number one rule in court: don't piss off the judge.
While that is practical advice, it is certainly a shameful indictment of the legal system to elevate it to a rule, much less the first rule.
I can not for the life of me figure out why anyone would care
Funny thing about electronic privacy - its like pandora's box, once you let information about you out in to the world, there is no way you ever are stuffing it back in the box. You've heard it before - information wants to be free. The corollary of that is nobody is forgetting ways to abuse your personal information, rather people are constantly dreaming up new ways to take advantage of it.
Thus unless there is some overwhelming advantage to showing the world that you played dodgeball at the company piknik on 7/12/99 or that you work for Yoyodyne corp in bumfuck IL it is clearly not in your best interests to do so, because you don't even know what it will eventually cost you.
Where is the issue? do you privacy nuts also behave the same way in daily life? if so it's a surprise you have any friends at all, if they ask you what you did this weekend do you make them sign a non-disclosure agreement?
Posting your information online makes it IMMEDIATELY available to EVERYBODY. Talking to someone in a one-on-one situation only makes your information available to one person whom you know. Would you tell a mugger or a house robber that you plan on spending the next week-end out of town? You might as well if you post it to facebook.
in that case do you also slam the door on the census taker?
Yes
Chances are that a contest that you must pay to enter and that gives out money as a prize will be considered as gambling by most countries.
That's going to get them in a lot of trouble.
Why haven't people realized that this kind of thing isn't compatible with the way teenagers think?
Indeed, if there is a speed limiter at 80mph, I think a lot of kids will take that as a challenge to see who can exceed it by the most mph - for example flooring it on a downhill road. And if the system does something blatantly obvious when it hits the 80mph limit, like kill the rpms and make a weird gearing noise in the process you can get bet kids will compete to see who can make their car do that blatantly obvious thing the most frequently and/or the fastest.
Of course, I admit that this is some kind of massive wishful thinking but, man... wouldn't it be nice to see some random jerk on the street see a newspaper and murmer "I wonder if that's true." instead of "OMG PONIES!?"
We are already at that point, unfortunately it hasn't worked out the way you would hope.
Nowadays the random jerk on the street who doubts the veracity of the newspaper is inclined to turn to people like Rush Limbaugh and the twin hotties of evil, Michelle Malkin and Anne Coulter.
The "mainstream media" has indeed failed the public by poor fact-checking of a number of high-profile stories, but the result has been that instead of demanding better quality-control from the news reporting process, people are embracing sources of news that revel in the fact that they have nothing even resembling quality-control.
Its kind of like when the US kept beating a drum for palestine to hold democractic elections again as an important step in reconciliation with Israel - instead of getting a more peaceful and liberal government, everything went sideways and they ended up with Hamas instead.
Do a little more research. Obama was the #2 candidate of donations from Fannie.
Obama received ~$150K from all fannie and freddie related sources over a period of many years. McCain received ~$35K. If that small an amount of money is 100% responsible for Obama's "lack of acting" then McCain's own "lack of acting" must be at least 20% caused by bribes from fannie and freddie too.
It is painfully obvious to all but the most hardened Obama supporters that he is on the take.
I don't intend to vote for Obama, ergo you are wrong. Furthermore, your phrasing shows that you are simply a political tribalist.
You got a cite for those numbers?
I'd love to be able to use them in discussion, but I need more than just a post on slashdot by someone with a low-uid.
I live in GA, so I won't be voting. There is no way in frozen, psychedelic, sheet-cake paved hell that state will be blue in this election.
So vote 3rd party then - anyone in a state where the vote is already wrapped up should be voting 3rd party. You've got nothing to lose by doing so, but you can effect the next election. Hell, you may even affect governance that results from this election if the 3rd parties get enough votes to scare the incumbent parties that they might be an actual threat to them next time.
Bombing the RNC is not the same as protesting it. And some ignorant dummies here modded you up. Sheeesh.
No they weren't. Don't believe me? Just try to cite an article more than 2 days after the arrests that supports your claims. Good luck.
FWIW - You can avoid the $100K limit by designating "pay on death" beneficiaries. If you put two POD beneficiaries on your accounts, you get $200K FDIC insurance, (one for each of them, none for you). Of course you should be sure that you really want these people to get paid should you actually die, but otherwise there is little risk.
Youre a vice president in a bank ?
Being a VP at a bank doesn't mean jackshit. The title is almost literally a dime-a-dozen.
He could have brought up the fact that Obama has strong ties to FF and received a ton of money from them, and thus kind of explains some of Obamas
Do some research - I did when I first read that accusation. All donations from Fannie and Freddie - including employees and PACs, etc, roughly equal 0.01% of contributions to Obama's campaign - that's 1 one hundredth of a percent, not 1%. Hardly "strong ties" nor "a ton of money" - certainly not enough to compete with all the other sources of campaign 'contributions.'
Honestly, I don't know what the data reduction algorithms did. If I had to guess, I would guess that they included things like a high-pass filter to remove readings that were "in the noise" and maybe some sort of compression for repeated values over large areas like "empty space." Just guessing though.
Yet despite that, he's now in the house of reps... Lord, love a duck.
Who started this particular war?
The MAFIAA did when they first paid congress to extend the term of copyright on already published works. That was the first large scale "intellectual property theft" and it was the MAFIAA stealing from every single citizen of this country.