And by definition everyone who is found with a weapon will be a criminal, thereby facilitating police work.
I am tired of that chararde of "only criminals will have guns". I hope you are just using a hypocrital argument for supporting your decision, it would be sad that there is that many dumb people in this place.
The purpose of these measures is to control and limit the supply of weapons to criminals. How do you think they got their weapons? Do you believe they build them? That they get import permits for "criminal activity weapons"? No, these weapons are diverted from the legal market (stolen / bought to unscrupulous owner). Shrink the legal market and following the illegal weapons will be easier.
Of course, as weapons in criminal hands do not magically vanish in the air, for this measure to be effective they need also a strong police action to reduce the current inventory.
Telecommuters work from home. They do not need to worry about connection because they are at home and they have one available (unless they are so cheap that they are connecting to theirs neighbours').
Mobile workers (aka road warriors) are the guys that roam the country (think of vendors) and have to connect to office from wherever they are. I know a lot of them and yes they work at all, mostly because after their normal routine they often are stranded in someplace where they know nobody so, instead of being with the family or going to a bar with fiends they have nothing to do so they keep working.
This is bullshit. In real drone strikes, there is no guarantee that only "terrorists" are the victims. All the press reporting in the US takes the military at their word, and casualties are never identified as "collateral damage", i.e. innocent bystanders.
Obviously you are not a politician. Just say that everyone killed by a drone is a terrorist because, obviously, if they were not they would not have been killed by a drone...
You are entitled to your integrity, fairness, pride, however you word it. You are entitled to decrease your benefits whatever you want due to these issues (in fact, it is not that different from MS buying carbon credits).
However, if we go back to economic theory, these issues are counted as "cost of opportunity"... all of the money that you could be doing but that you do not get. (note that it is not the same that accepting now a lower profit in the hope of increased bussiness with your customers in the future). The fact is that, according to capitalism, you are in fact "giving" to your customers by selling below your price range. The "fair price" is what the customer can pay, not a penny more or less (fair not in a moral meaning, but economical).
In fact, there is no moral in economics. Things are described as they work. Later, moralists try to reason that with capitalism production is increased and so capitalism is good, but it is more of an afterthought and very dubious (some of their assumptions are not really found in reality).
It is not me who says so, but it is in the economy books (go ahead, check them). And please, inform yourself about what you are saying before calling anyone a liar and a cheater, because you might end making a fool of yourself...
This is because the first time WE(the ominous conspiracy of evil overlords who control the internet from our black helicopters) pardoned you...
However, your perseverance and technical expertise has defeated our cleverly masterminded operation, and your clever words have been made public. This time there will be clemence.
If I were you, the next time you go driving somewhere, I would be cautious. I would be looking at the side lanes before entering an intersection. I would respect right of way. I would check in the mirror before switching lanes... or else
I find amusing that while everybody claims to know how capitalism works, they still get wrong.
Repeat with me:
The only relationships between costs and price is that, IF MY PRICE GOES BELOW MY COSTS, I GO BROKE.
If I get a product for free, I can sell it for $1 or $1.000.000. The decission will be based in which price gives me more profits (perhaps at $1 I get so many customers that it offsets the lower prices, in the other hand it will mean that I will have bigger production/distribution costs). With many products, market share is very affected by price, but that is not universal (you only get one dose of a vaccine, no matter how cheap the second one is; no matter how expensive is it, you will a bottle of water if you are in the middle of the desert).
The theory says that if I get a big difference between price and cost (-> profit) then other bussinesmen will catch up and enter my bussiness, leading to competition and eventually lowering prices. Of course, what is not usually said is the long list of "exceptions":
*) My product is unique -let it be by its properties, by copyright or even by marketing/branding-; nobody can copy it.
*) Time to market is big: even if the other bussinesmen begin trying to catch me today, they will spend years until they get a product ready (think of designing a car, or a full new OS).
*) Investment is big: bussinesmen do not have enough capital to invest as they should in this market, if they ask for loans the interest to pay will be a significant disavantage against me. And when if they finally get to do it, I am in a good position to dump prices so they can not recoup their investments, let alone get benefits (this one works better when coupled with the previous ones, see nuclear electricity).
Without being sure if the GP is right, you are forgetting about the people who is just walking in the street, near your car. While your car body and the faraday effect protects your belonging, peatons are not thus protected.
That said, I think the most crucial point here is wavelength. You don't use the same one for tracking a car some hundred meters away and for finding tiny bits inside the clothes of someone who is a few centimeters away.
It is a stupid, kneejerk reaction... Maybe you are blissful in your ignorance of outher world, but English is useful not only to get an offshored, help desk work. From management to administratives and secretaries (passing by IT people), English knowledge is a useful tool for many people.
You could argue about if the US should be giving foreign aid (most of first world countries do, mind you) or if it is the most effective way to help. But the "oh if they speak english it is because they want my job" meme is too silly to think that it is other think that a disguise to more xenophobic instints.
I would find the program objectionable if it was directed in a corrupted way (by example, using its funds to teach current employees of an offshore company, so that company does not need to pay for the formation themselves).
Ah, and by the way.... I don't believe how you people are so naive to think that, if this program was actually helping US bussiness lower their costs of offshoring, it would have been cut. The best sign that it was not is because the US bussiness allowed it to get cancelled (to give some representatives an excuse to boast about how they care about your, without really doing nothing about it).
From the beginning of the occupation, the USA was ignoring the philippino rebels and started clahes with them. The main revolutionary leaders that had fought the Spanish were killed by the US Army. The USA converted Philippinas in a colony, the same way Spain had (including government appointed military governors).
After WWII, ships were no longer using carbon so there was less necessity of a refuelling station in Manila to project the US Navy power in the Far East (and also Japan was an occupied country, too). So, the USA "remembered" that they were supposed to have liberated the country 50 years ago and Philippines was allowed to become free.
While everything should be properly assessed and verified, my arachnid sense tells me that most probably a great part of that water (if used for local human, animal and agriculture usage) will just evaporate again in a few days. My main doubt would be about agriculture (which also happens to need lots of water)., due to water filtering to lower layers and becoming trapped there.
If somebody takes away bitcoin, outlaws may develop a more private ledger. Who's to say they don't do that already anyway? There's always the "I may request a favor" debt, and "putting down my marker". You just need a database of favors and markers. Voila! Money.
As long as it can be enforced. And at these levels, if you can force someone to repay you a debt, you can as well just extort him.
...and patterns will emerge: your packages will probably have a certain look to them that postal workers in that city can be trained to watch for, so at least the supply of the drugs can be disrupted,
Note to self: next time put syringes INSIDE cardboard box.
My bet is that this is not a very attractive distribution market. Either you make the customer pay for receive the package (leaving a written trail and some questions about why the junkies are so anxious to go the post office with cash) or one of the parties (seller or buyer) has to trust the other and send the money/drug hoping that they are not being crossed.
I would not rule out some random screening by the P.O (searching for drug remains in the outside of the package would be legal?), but I best most of the discoveries happen after the police has been tipped of.
I mean, why is everybody so obsessed with the role of Voyager in deep space exploration? Voyager has not given information about any extrasolar system, and when (and if) he arrives at one someday, it will be dead long before.
Instead, space based telescopes are investigating other solar systems and discovering planets each week, right now.
Given that:
*) We do not have a technology that would endure the years of travel, let alone send back information.
*) Probably anything in the near-medium future able to do it will be way greater/heavier than Voyager.
*) We really do not know where to point those probes.
I am not terribly worried about not sending more probes so they just become garbage in the interestellar void. At a later stage, it might make sense, but not right now.
Ok, you did pray and care for the astronauts. No problem with that, as long everyone is doing it freely.
The issue at hand is that some of us think that all that praying served for nothing else than for you feeling good. I am not saying that it is a bad thing or that I am opposed to it. I mean that if you wanted to help astronauts, using that time for doing extra work and donating the proceedings for the NASA -or even for improving the funding of the local schools- would have been more efficient. Of course, it was your time and your election to do, but remember that not everyone thinks like you.
The problem now is that people in power are agreeing to reintroduce superstition as a valid alternative for science. If things keep going this way, maybe in a few years when a levee breaks it would not be because of bad engineering/maintenance, but because "that city was full of sinners and God punished them".
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And by definition everyone who is found with a weapon will be a criminal, thereby facilitating police work.
I am tired of that chararde of "only criminals will have guns". I hope you are just using a hypocrital argument for supporting your decision, it would be sad that there is that many dumb people in this place.
The purpose of these measures is to control and limit the supply of weapons to criminals. How do you think they got their weapons? Do you believe they build them? That they get import permits for "criminal activity weapons"? No, these weapons are diverted from the legal market (stolen / bought to unscrupulous owner). Shrink the legal market and following the illegal weapons will be easier.
Of course, as weapons in criminal hands do not magically vanish in the air, for this measure to be effective they need also a strong police action to reduce the current inventory.
We have an article about a Venezuelan law and you cite an article about the USA situation?
Have you read any crime statistics about Venezuela? Or it is just your standard, automatic reply to gun control.
A murder each two hours, now.
Do you think that gun violence can go up?
Telecommuters work from home. They do not need to worry about connection because they are at home and they have one available (unless they are so cheap that they are connecting to theirs neighbours').
Mobile workers (aka road warriors) are the guys that roam the country (think of vendors) and have to connect to office from wherever they are. I know a lot of them and yes they work at all, mostly because after their normal routine they often are stranded in someplace where they know nobody so, instead of being with the family or going to a bar with fiends they have nothing to do so they keep working.
Stupid /. editors, again.
This is bullshit. In real drone strikes, there is no guarantee that only "terrorists" are the victims. All the press reporting in the US takes the military at their word, and casualties are never identified as "collateral damage", i.e. innocent bystanders.
Obviously you are not a politician. Just say that everyone killed by a drone is a terrorist because, obviously, if they were not they would not have been killed by a drone...
2 = 1 + 1
:-P
In case that you are wondering, no, I didn't follow your link :-).
No, sorry, you are wrong.
You are entitled to your integrity, fairness, pride, however you word it. You are entitled to decrease your benefits whatever you want due to these issues (in fact, it is not that different from MS buying carbon credits).
However, if we go back to economic theory, these issues are counted as "cost of opportunity"... all of the money that you could be doing but that you do not get. (note that it is not the same that accepting now a lower profit in the hope of increased bussiness with your customers in the future). The fact is that, according to capitalism, you are in fact "giving" to your customers by selling below your price range. The "fair price" is what the customer can pay, not a penny more or less (fair not in a moral meaning, but economical).
In fact, there is no moral in economics. Things are described as they work. Later, moralists try to reason that with capitalism production is increased and so capitalism is good, but it is more of an afterthought and very dubious (some of their assumptions are not really found in reality).
It is not me who says so, but it is in the economy books (go ahead, check them). And please, inform yourself about what you are saying before calling anyone a liar and a cheater, because you might end making a fool of yourself...
Half of the MS employees perish in a cave collapse during the company picnic.
The CEO explained to the press that MS had found the way to combine "carbon secuestration" with "reduced operation costs"
This is because the first time WE(the ominous conspiracy of evil overlords who control the internet from our black helicopters) pardoned you...
However, your perseverance and technical expertise has defeated our cleverly masterminded operation, and your clever words have been made public. This time there will be clemence.
If I were you, the next time you go driving somewhere, I would be cautious. I would be looking at the side lanes before entering an intersection. I would respect right of way. I would check in the mirror before switching lanes... or else
You have been warned :-P
I find amusing that while everybody claims to know how capitalism works, they still get wrong.
Repeat with me:
The only relationships between costs and price is that, IF MY PRICE GOES BELOW MY COSTS, I GO BROKE.
If I get a product for free, I can sell it for $1 or $1.000.000. The decission will be based in which price gives me more profits (perhaps at $1 I get so many customers that it offsets the lower prices, in the other hand it will mean that I will have bigger production/distribution costs). With many products, market share is very affected by price, but that is not universal (you only get one dose of a vaccine, no matter how cheap the second one is; no matter how expensive is it, you will a bottle of water if you are in the middle of the desert).
The theory says that if I get a big difference between price and cost (-> profit) then other bussinesmen will catch up and enter my bussiness, leading to competition and eventually lowering prices. Of course, what is not usually said is the long list of "exceptions":
*) My product is unique -let it be by its properties, by copyright or even by marketing/branding-; nobody can copy it.
*) Time to market is big: even if the other bussinesmen begin trying to catch me today, they will spend years until they get a product ready (think of designing a car, or a full new OS).
*) Investment is big: bussinesmen do not have enough capital to invest as they should in this market, if they ask for loans the interest to pay will be a significant disavantage against me. And when if they finally get to do it, I am in a good position to dump prices so they can not recoup their investments, let alone get benefits (this one works better when coupled with the previous ones, see nuclear electricity).
Without being sure if the GP is right, you are forgetting about the people who is just walking in the street, near your car. While your car body and the faraday effect protects your belonging, peatons are not thus protected.
That said, I think the most crucial point here is wavelength. You don't use the same one for tracking a car some hundred meters away and for finding tiny bits inside the clothes of someone who is a few centimeters away.
That's one of the problems with libertarian dreamers. They crave a dog-eat-dog world, but they all think THEY'RE going to be one of the top dogs.
Wrong. In a truly dog-eat-dog world, any dog that gets too far ahead gets eaten by the pack...
Then how did WE start as a bunch of villages or nomadic tribes and like THIS?
Some religions?
I dare you to tell me a single religion that has not used to made money from the stup... believers.
Best scam ever, if you tell the victims about it they become mad at you.
From what I have read, they don't need an accountig CEO neither. You would use him if there was something to count...
It is a stupid, kneejerk reaction... Maybe you are blissful in your ignorance of outher world, but English is useful not only to get an offshored, help desk work. From management to administratives and secretaries (passing by IT people), English knowledge is a useful tool for many people.
You could argue about if the US should be giving foreign aid (most of first world countries do, mind you) or if it is the most effective way to help. But the "oh if they speak english it is because they want my job" meme is too silly to think that it is other think that a disguise to more xenophobic instints.
I would find the program objectionable if it was directed in a corrupted way (by example, using its funds to teach current employees of an offshore company, so that company does not need to pay for the formation themselves).
Ah, and by the way.... I don't believe how you people are so naive to think that, if this program was actually helping US bussiness lower their costs of offshoring, it would have been cut. The best sign that it was not is because the US bussiness allowed it to get cancelled (to give some representatives an excuse to boast about how they care about your, without really doing nothing about it).
Those who don't know history...
From the beginning of the occupation, the USA was ignoring the philippino rebels and started clahes with them. The main revolutionary leaders that had fought the Spanish were killed by the US Army. The USA converted Philippinas in a colony, the same way Spain had (including government appointed military governors).
After WWII, ships were no longer using carbon so there was less necessity of a refuelling station in Manila to project the US Navy power in the Far East (and also Japan was an occupied country, too). So, the USA "remembered" that they were supposed to have liberated the country 50 years ago and Philippines was allowed to become free.
Of course it should read: Hey, if you convince people that new technology will oppress people, it is sure R+D will get lots of funding.
I only have read the three Cryptonomicon books, and at least for these books your comment is so true...
Exactly what I thought: Hey, if you convince people that new technology will oppress people, no sure R+D will get lots of funding."
While everything should be properly assessed and verified, my arachnid sense tells me that most probably a great part of that water (if used for local human, animal and agriculture usage) will just evaporate again in a few days. My main doubt would be about agriculture (which also happens to need lots of water)., due to water filtering to lower layers and becoming trapped there.
If somebody takes away bitcoin, outlaws may develop a more private ledger. Who's to say they don't do that already anyway? There's always the "I may request a favor" debt, and "putting down my marker". You just need a database of favors and markers. Voila! Money.
As long as it can be enforced. And at these levels, if you can force someone to repay you a debt, you can as well just extort him.
...and patterns will emerge: your packages will probably have a certain look to them that postal workers in that city can be trained to watch for, so at least the supply of the drugs can be disrupted,
Note to self: next time put syringes INSIDE cardboard box.
My bet is that this is not a very attractive distribution market. Either you make the customer pay for receive the package (leaving a written trail and some questions about why the junkies are so anxious to go the post office with cash) or one of the parties (seller or buyer) has to trust the other and send the money/drug hoping that they are not being crossed.
I would not rule out some random screening by the P.O (searching for drug remains in the outside of the package would be legal?), but I best most of the discoveries happen after the police has been tipped of.
I mean, why is everybody so obsessed with the role of Voyager in deep space exploration? Voyager has not given information about any extrasolar system, and when (and if) he arrives at one someday, it will be dead long before.
Instead, space based telescopes are investigating other solar systems and discovering planets each week, right now.
Given that:
*) We do not have a technology that would endure the years of travel, let alone send back information.
*) Probably anything in the near-medium future able to do it will be way greater/heavier than Voyager.
*) We really do not know where to point those probes.
I am not terribly worried about not sending more probes so they just become garbage in the interestellar void. At a later stage, it might make sense, but not right now.
Ok, you did pray and care for the astronauts. No problem with that, as long everyone is doing it freely.
The issue at hand is that some of us think that all that praying served for nothing else than for you feeling good. I am not saying that it is a bad thing or that I am opposed to it. I mean that if you wanted to help astronauts, using that time for doing extra work and donating the proceedings for the NASA -or even for improving the funding of the local schools- would have been more efficient. Of course, it was your time and your election to do, but remember that not everyone thinks like you.
The problem now is that people in power are agreeing to reintroduce superstition as a valid alternative for science. If things keep going this way, maybe in a few years when a levee breaks it would not be because of bad engineering/maintenance, but because "that city was full of sinners and God punished them".
For the basic introduction (so he finds if he likes the idea of creating algorithms from simple instructions) maybe this game will be more enticing.
If he likes it, then you can introduce the more complex stuff relating it to the game.