The Yuan is not floated like many countries currencies are. This gives China a significant competitive advantage over all countries to produce goods and services in their country. China take the long view. They know that his will weaken manufacturing in several countries and drive demand to their economy where labour laws and conditions are under their control. Incrementally they will capture those markets.
The irony in all this is that China is still a communist country using capitalism to destabilise democracy.
This is why our vapid society has driven over the edge of the cliff and is in that moment of free fall as the ground rushes up to deliver us to our eventual fate. Big ideas don't matter to most of the population because they think we are flying so big ideas that solve problems just aren't relevant to them any more. Meanwhile stockmarkets oscillate wildly and politicians cannot come up with solutions to the most fundamental structural issues facing our society.
Those who are coming up with those big ideas are enlightened enough to realise that we are falling and are try desperately to stop us from crashing our entire society into an oblivion where the few of us who do survive will speak of times where we used to do the impossible around campfire in the relics of our civilisation.
I'm sure there is a major flaw in the following hypothesis, but couldn't there be a "dyson sphere" around a planet for different reasons?
That's ridiculous! Anyone who knows anything knows that it is a massive computing devices connected to itself across quantum realities and powering itself from the entropy that exists at the end of the universe which it uses to generate random numbers for a interstellar casino.
Except that is not what I am saying, I think you are missing my point, so I'll paraphase myself; Is the existence of science itself the evidence of "Gods" existence?
Only if you play tricky games with labels.
Let's do some substitution, shall we? I'll replace the words "god" and "science" with the definitions used by most people in the USA:
Is the existence of a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe itself evidence of "the God of Abraham, who came to Earth as Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and who came back to life and who will grant his followers life everlasting's" existence?
Well, no. It trivially isn't. There's no real need to test it, because it's like asking if the existence of daffodils are evidence of the existence of fairies. They're orthogonal concepts.
I'm generally appalled by the "commoditisation" of religion and expression of extremist views that occurs in America (and elsewhere) but I don't believe in religions attempt to impose a belief system anymore than I believe in the atheist attempt to impose a belief system. I don't subscribe to either.
I think it takes more imagination to ponder and that most people fall in three camps "don't care", "don't know" and "I think there is something". Outside that are the extremist views that harm people. Perhaps the existence of atheists themselves are proof of gods existence because that is what god was all about, giving people the freedom to choose what they believe. If you had undeniable proof that god existed you wouldn't have a choice anymore would you?
At the most general level, that usually implies that this is a God who came to earth, sacrificed himself (to himself but that's another story), and then rose from the dead. What you're saying is that the Universe came to earth, sacrificed itself, and then rose from the dead.
Honestly, that makes even less sense than religions generally do.
That's because you're essentially saying "If we redefine God to be a deepity, wouldn't it exist?" - well, yes, that's true (trivially, the universe itself does exist), but you can't really have a conversation when you use your own, unique definitions of words.
Except that is not what I am saying, I think you are missing my point, so I'll paraphase myself; Is the existence of science itself the evidence of "Gods" existence?
I don't know how to test that but I think that calling that a "deepity" or being unable to rationalise it by just saying "no" is just a way of being mentally lazy. I'm not saying that's what you are saying, just that it's too easy to dismiss ideas that way instead of being rational and, at least, finding a philosophical test.
Does all of this mean God doesn't exist? No. Its just that there is no evidence of them existing, nor is there necessarily a reason they must exist. I for one am not sure. I admit it is possible, but I have not seen evidence to support it nor do I see a theory that holds up when tested that shows there must be one. Some people choose to believe there is no God, some people believe there probably is, and some people simply don't know. Whatever you believe is what you believe, but please don't assume that scientists are out to get you, or make you change, or disprove god. By definition the existence of God couldn't be proved anyway, since even if we "found God", how do you know its not just a super-advanced alien being? Even if their is an afterlife you won't truly know if God exists because for all you know, there is some physical explanation for a "soul" and the Universe just happens to have an afterlife.
More often than not, Scientists are just like everyone else. They are trying to look for "truth" and using a slightly better way of doing it. Its the best way we have in spite of the flaws in Human beings.
What if I was to posit that what we call "God" is actually the universe itself and that life is an attempt by the universe to understand itself, using reason, in the brief period that life can exist before the universe subsequently decays into entropy. Wouldn't the mere existence of science itself become the evidence of "Gods" existence because science is trying to reason the nature of the universe and that life, consciousness and intelligence are merely the vehicles required to achieve that.
"Given the many theories around explaining various observations in recent times, there seems to be a breakthrough is on its way in our understanding of the cosmos."
So, it seems this quantum effect is able to affect the construction of a sentence is, fascinating.
So how does creating a bigger waste problem with Thallium 238 solve any problems. Waste management remains the issue for nuclear power, one that is unprofitable to solve.
In America everyone is a private interest. We're not state owned slaves yet.
Of course, you are privately owned slaves, unfortunately.
It's not personal, the Americans I know are all great people but you are slaves to the dollar and the weight of your apathy is dragging down what is left of democracy all over the world. Freedom has become an illusion and soon there will be no way back from the apolitical structural issues that no party seems to have the will to fix.
Bush really handed Obama a poison challis, two wars bleeding money out of the US economy. Looks like it's time for some quantitative easing as the value of the US economy is devalued yet again, buy buy assests. You do realise that the Central banks are privately owned, don't you? Oh you need a car analogy;
America is pants down over the bonnet of the car and the private interests are considering if lubrication is actually necessary before insertion of the fist into assets.
Perhaps when neither of the two US political parties want to be in control anymore there will be a realisation of the deep structural problems inherent in the US economy. With any luck by the time they do it won't be too late.
This is a mistake! X is one of the most flexible and useful systems today.
This is another Ill that is a direct result of people coming to Linux from a Mac or Windows background. They want to bring lesser ideas because they don't understand the capabilities of what they already have.
You are right and I agree with you be, shit son, if ever there was a useful piece of software that needed a massive overhaul/refactor it is X11. Don't get me wrong I love what I can do with X11 but it is a world unto itself in terms of understanding it. Configuring X11 is so fucking frustrating and it was one of the things I would dread when re-installing a Linux box and one of the big reasons I switched to Ubuntu, there are some things I just couldn't be bothered doing and I just want it to work and not have to think about it.
Even now in Ubuntu I still find myself editing xorg.conf files and I fucking hate it. Yes X11 is great but it seems to have one of the lowest returns on investing in learning it conpared to returns of getting your screens working. yes ssh, -X -Y, but my cli-fu is so good why would I bother with a gui anyway. I only export a gnome-terminal via ssh when I am using an X11 layer on Win7 so I can have multiple shell sessions going in a single window at work.
So, fuck it, as someone with over 20 years with X11 if canonical are going to take it to the next level of usability then I'm all for it. If the only thing you are worried about is having remote gui session then make that work in wayland and be done with it. I'm happy with C, or ina kernel but X11 makes my head explode with it's friggin sync rates and all the rest of that stuff.
Oh and by the way Canonical stop pissing around with the flashy stuff and fix shit up like copying mp3s to music players in album order. I've moved a few users over to Ubuntu from Windows and you are starting to confuse my users - don't make me look like a jerk, have another Paper Cuts session and fix some of the basics up.
I used to play the "How can I get Net access for free" - game and was pretty good at it until about mid 00s. I remember starting out with newsgroups and email around 87 and BBS while I was still at school in 83. TRS-80 (Model 1:-), C64 and TRS-80 Color Computer, a System-80 with a S-100 bus and of course my original IBM PC with cassette interface and basic roms on board (which, incidentally, still powered up until a few years ago when I chucked it out).
Yep, I got picked on a school but I knew what interested me and was fun. I'm glad I stuck with it, who'd ever think nerd culture would become cool now and so profitable during the 90's. Though I'm not one of the pioneers I'm certainly glad to have built some small parts.
I wonder what it will look like in another 20 years?
America Pty. Ltd. is To Big To Fail and will never default, even if it does.
That's the politics, it will print money, inflation will go through the roof and you'll have that instead. Same thing only called something different. If the government backs businesses that are failing, that becomes the consequence. Sometimes companies are Too Big Must Fail otherwise they drag down the whole economy otherwise it's just not capitalism anymore.
If you have an economy over, say, 50 years and induce a cycle where you borrow and borrow then waste it on stuff like wars and military then you play games with your own credit rating by not unraveling the debt cycle and failing to take corrective measures over that same time, you devalue your own economy.
I mean seriously people it's not that complicated and you don't need analogies to understand what is plain to see, just decide you are going to understand it and keep educating yourself until you do.
For another Global Fried Chicken, errh Financial Crisis as the credit limit is increased on America's Credit card. It's amazing how perception can be changed with an acronym.
I think that the Republican party has played a stupid game with international investors because this is a real confidence shaker for those who invested into a US economic recovery, how stupid of me. Even though I actually agree with their premise, it's really irresponsible considering they left the poison challis for Obama in terms of the costs of two wars. Still it seems they did get their way, but I'm certain their are better investments on the horizon.
Very clever politicians those republicans, very clever indeed.
Technology has failed democracy. The first form of government that has the bio- or nanotechnology to make a politician's nose light up and cause their ears to flap when they lie or are acting on behalf of someone other than the majority of their constituents wins.
I think we have failed to implement technology to the benefit of democracy. It's understandable because it's an excellent tool to use to exploit people, it can be good or bad and simply amplifies the motives of those who control it.
I don't want it to happen but unfortunately, I think we are arriving at a dystopian future where people have become as disposable as machines.
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The Yuan is not floated like many countries currencies are. This gives China a significant competitive advantage over all countries to produce goods and services in their country. China take the long view. They know that his will weaken manufacturing in several countries and drive demand to their economy where labour laws and conditions are under their control. Incrementally they will capture those markets.
The irony in all this is that China is still a communist country using capitalism to destabilise democracy.
This is why our vapid society has driven over the edge of the cliff and is in that moment of free fall as the ground rushes up to deliver us to our eventual fate. Big ideas don't matter to most of the population because they think we are flying so big ideas that solve problems just aren't relevant to them any more. Meanwhile stockmarkets oscillate wildly and politicians cannot come up with solutions to the most fundamental structural issues facing our society.
Those who are coming up with those big ideas are enlightened enough to realise that we are falling and are try desperately to stop us from crashing our entire society into an oblivion where the few of us who do survive will speak of times where we used to do the impossible around campfire in the relics of our civilisation.
Greedo said it to Hans which is why Hans opened fire, in the later edits the line was completely removed to allow Greedo to shoot first.
This is not the explanation you are looking for.
A plague on both your droids!
That's ridiculous! Anyone who knows anything knows that it is a massive computing devices connected to itself across quantum realities and powering itself from the entropy that exists at the end of the universe which it uses to generate random numbers for a interstellar casino.
Don't you know ANYTHING!!!
That's no moon.
I find your lack of originality disturbing.
Who's the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows?
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
I don't remember that line in Star Wars.
That's no moon.
I find your lack of originality disturbing.
Who's the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows?
That's no moon.
Only if you play tricky games with labels.
Let's do some substitution, shall we? I'll replace the words "god" and "science" with the definitions used by most people in the USA:
Is the existence of a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe itself evidence of "the God of Abraham, who came to Earth as Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and who came back to life and who will grant his followers life everlasting's" existence?
Well, no. It trivially isn't. There's no real need to test it, because it's like asking if the existence of daffodils are evidence of the existence of fairies. They're orthogonal concepts.
I'm generally appalled by the "commoditisation" of religion and expression of extremist views that occurs in America (and elsewhere) but I don't believe in religions attempt to impose a belief system anymore than I believe in the atheist attempt to impose a belief system. I don't subscribe to either.
I think it takes more imagination to ponder and that most people fall in three camps "don't care", "don't know" and "I think there is something". Outside that are the extremist views that harm people. Perhaps the existence of atheists themselves are proof of gods existence because that is what god was all about, giving people the freedom to choose what they believe. If you had undeniable proof that god existed you wouldn't have a choice anymore would you?
Except that is not what I am saying, I think you are missing my point, so I'll paraphase myself; Is the existence of science itself the evidence of "Gods" existence?
I don't know how to test that but I think that calling that a "deepity" or being unable to rationalise it by just saying "no" is just a way of being mentally lazy. I'm not saying that's what you are saying, just that it's too easy to dismiss ideas that way instead of being rational and, at least, finding a philosophical test.
What if I was to posit that what we call "God" is actually the universe itself and that life is an attempt by the universe to understand itself, using reason, in the brief period that life can exist before the universe subsequently decays into entropy. Wouldn't the mere existence of science itself become the evidence of "Gods" existence because science is trying to reason the nature of the universe and that life, consciousness and intelligence are merely the vehicles required to achieve that.
"Given the many theories around explaining various observations in recent times, there seems to be a breakthrough is on its way in our understanding of the cosmos."
So, it seems this quantum effect is able to affect the construction of a sentence is, fascinating.
Every time you touch your droid, god kills a kitten.
So stop using it to reply to slashdot articles.
that is all
So how does creating a bigger waste problem with Thallium 238 solve any problems. Waste management remains the issue for nuclear power, one that is unprofitable to solve.
In America everyone is a private interest. We're not state owned slaves yet.
Of course, you are privately owned slaves, unfortunately.
It's not personal, the Americans I know are all great people but you are slaves to the dollar and the weight of your apathy is dragging down what is left of democracy all over the world. Freedom has become an illusion and soon there will be no way back from the apolitical structural issues that no party seems to have the will to fix.
Bush really handed Obama a poison challis, two wars bleeding money out of the US economy. Looks like it's time for some quantitative easing as the value of the US economy is devalued yet again, buy buy assests. You do realise that the Central banks are privately owned, don't you? Oh you need a car analogy;
America is pants down over the bonnet of the car and the private interests are considering if lubrication is actually necessary before insertion of the fist into assets.
Perhaps when neither of the two US political parties want to be in control anymore there will be a realisation of the deep structural problems inherent in the US economy. With any luck by the time they do it won't be too late.
This is a mistake! X is one of the most flexible and useful systems today.
This is another Ill that is a direct result of people coming to Linux from a Mac or Windows background. They want to bring lesser ideas because they don't understand the capabilities of what they already have.
You are right and I agree with you be, shit son, if ever there was a useful piece of software that needed a massive overhaul/refactor it is X11. Don't get me wrong I love what I can do with X11 but it is a world unto itself in terms of understanding it. Configuring X11 is so fucking frustrating and it was one of the things I would dread when re-installing a Linux box and one of the big reasons I switched to Ubuntu, there are some things I just couldn't be bothered doing and I just want it to work and not have to think about it.
Even now in Ubuntu I still find myself editing xorg.conf files and I fucking hate it. Yes X11 is great but it seems to have one of the lowest returns on investing in learning it conpared to returns of getting your screens working. yes ssh, -X -Y, but my cli-fu is so good why would I bother with a gui anyway. I only export a gnome-terminal via ssh when I am using an X11 layer on Win7 so I can have multiple shell sessions going in a single window at work.
So, fuck it, as someone with over 20 years with X11 if canonical are going to take it to the next level of usability then I'm all for it. If the only thing you are worried about is having remote gui session then make that work in wayland and be done with it. I'm happy with C, or ina kernel but X11 makes my head explode with it's friggin sync rates and all the rest of that stuff.
Oh and by the way Canonical stop pissing around with the flashy stuff and fix shit up like copying mp3s to music players in album order. I've moved a few users over to Ubuntu from Windows and you are starting to confuse my users - don't make me look like a jerk, have another Paper Cuts session and fix some of the basics up.
And do it soon.
I used to play the "How can I get Net access for free" - game and was pretty good at it until about mid 00s. I remember starting out with newsgroups and email around 87 and BBS while I was still at school in 83. TRS-80 (Model 1 :-), C64 and TRS-80 Color Computer, a System-80 with a S-100 bus and of course my original IBM PC with cassette interface and basic roms on board (which, incidentally, still powered up until a few years ago when I chucked it out).
Yep, I got picked on a school but I knew what interested me and was fun. I'm glad I stuck with it, who'd ever think nerd culture would become cool now and so profitable during the 90's. Though I'm not one of the pioneers I'm certainly glad to have built some small parts.
I wonder what it will look like in another 20 years?
Sorry, I don't get all these analogies. Does anybody have anything involving a car?
Certainly.
America is pants down, bent over the bonnet of a car.
America Pty. Ltd. is To Big To Fail and will never default, even if it does.
That's the politics, it will print money, inflation will go through the roof and you'll have that instead. Same thing only called something different. If the government backs businesses that are failing, that becomes the consequence. Sometimes companies are Too Big Must Fail otherwise they drag down the whole economy otherwise it's just not capitalism anymore.
I've got another analogy.
If you have an economy over, say, 50 years and induce a cycle where you borrow and borrow then waste it on stuff like wars and military then you play games with your own credit rating by not unraveling the debt cycle and failing to take corrective measures over that same time, you devalue your own economy.
I mean seriously people it's not that complicated and you don't need analogies to understand what is plain to see, just decide you are going to understand it and keep educating yourself until you do.
That is all.
You invested in the US econoic recovery?
You're dumber than those clever politicians.
Indeed I am.
For another Global Fried Chicken, errh Financial Crisis as the credit limit is increased on America's Credit card. It's amazing how perception can be changed with an acronym.
I think that the Republican party has played a stupid game with international investors because this is a real confidence shaker for those who invested into a US economic recovery, how stupid of me. Even though I actually agree with their premise, it's really irresponsible considering they left the poison challis for Obama in terms of the costs of two wars. Still it seems they did get their way, but I'm certain their are better investments on the horizon.
Very clever politicians those republicans, very clever indeed.
Technology has failed democracy. The first form of government that has the bio- or nanotechnology to make a politician's nose light up and cause their ears to flap when they lie or are acting on behalf of someone other than the majority of their constituents wins.
I think we have failed to implement technology to the benefit of democracy. It's understandable because it's an excellent tool to use to exploit people, it can be good or bad and simply amplifies the motives of those who control it.
I don't want it to happen but unfortunately, I think we are arriving at a dystopian future where people have become as disposable as machines.