Criminalizing innocuous behavior like owning "too much" cash means there are confiscatory tax rates and/or some other stupid-ass laws in place. Laws they can't effectively enforce, so they feel they have to invent crimes like "money laundering", because they can't seem to get convictions for violating the actual laws.
Watching restrictions on the use or possession or transfer of cash is the public policy equivalent of watching the canary in the coal mine.
There's one seriously dysfunctional government out there, folks.
Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't see for sure who was paying for this.
It appears to be a gift from a group of companies, with possibly some money from the city government. And advertising was expected to pay the operating costs -- but not the initial installation, and the development that preceded it.
You ever heard of indentured servitude? Or paying for relatives from the Old Country to immigrate? Or charity?
You might want to read _Ethnic America_. It was more than Puritans that immigrated, you know. And there are lots of ways -- commercial, familial, charitable -- to finance the immigration of desperately poor people.
Are you sure about that? It's close, but not quite. I think.
I thought journalism was a kind of sausage making, creating a product made from staged media events, press releases, filler, facts, and fact by-products.
So, does this mean businesses located in the country, or does it mean the country's government, or some awful hybrid, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? (And we know how that turned out.)
If electricity production and distribution were not a centrally-planned operation (http:duckduckgo.com/q=gosplan), there would be incentives for electric power companies to create such transmission facilities, or for entrepreneurs to create them.
Instead, we have state regulators controlling prices and approving investment decisions, with the intent of requiring them to be profitable but not too profitable.
Larry Niven argued against time travel. One argument he offered: if time travel allows changing the past, people are going to go back to change things to be how they want them to be. If one of those people wants there to be no invention of time travel, they go back in time to kill the inventor of time travel.
Someone else may then invent time travel in the new altered universe. But the same thing can happen again (and eventually will).
Eventually we get an altered universe where nobody invents a time machine. Ever.
What's astonishing is that an administrator in the government sector Ed Biz (to swipe a term from Tom Lehrer) set out to accomplish something important and good and relevant to their jobs, and succeeded.
Run some the group decision processes of some non-government organizations -- some of a political nature and some non-political ones -- and see how that works.
If the Sierra Club and/or the NRA and/or the Rhode Island Democratic Party and/or the Log Cabin Republicans discover it works well, and so do the UAW and/or Ford and/or McDonald's and/or the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and/or your bowling league and/or the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, then you're onto something.
If the choices available continue to be limited, voting with (supposedly) better technology doesn't improve things. We just get to make more mistakes faster.
_Why America Stopped Voting_ by Mark Kornbluh addresses one set of choice limitations. There are others, but that's a good place to start.
You said "political group", not "political party". Probably for the best.
Thanks to the election "reforms" of the Progressive Era, all candidates that appear on the ballot (candidates that have a reasonable chance of being elected) must be government-approved. Political parties are also government-approved, and to one degree or another, micro-managed by government.
Good luck keeping that group from being hampered by government, and/or co-opted by a statutory duopoly party.
Remember the "Tea Party" movement? Agree or disagree with its creators, you've got to acknowledge they've been pretty well thwarted.
For details about the impact of those election "reforms" on election competitiveness, voter turnout, and engagement of the electorate, see _Why America Stopped Voting_ by Mark L. Kornbluh.
And why is the Department of Homeland Security involved in this particular crime? Will the unauthorized release of a movie script endanger the general public?
People chose -- and keeping choosing -- Microsoft products often enough to keep the company in business and doing fine, instead buying,well, whatever else is next-best in their minds.
And what might those products be, anyway? OS/2 and Lotus Notes, perhaps? And the the other software they might want would be what, exactly?
Sucky though MS products often are, they work pretty well at meeting customers' needs. Well enough, anyway.
My goof: The quoted text _was_ about the CDC 6600. That certainly explains the similarity.
The article's goof: Those were peripheral processors, not "parallel processors". They did I/O and occasional odd jobs for the operating system that the CPU wasn't suited for, or too busy to do.
Now to finish it off, and see what else I or the author have to be embarrassed about.
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Criminalizing innocuous behavior like owning "too much" cash means there are confiscatory tax rates and/or some other stupid-ass laws in place. Laws they can't effectively enforce, so they feel they have to invent crimes like "money laundering", because they can't seem to get convictions for violating the actual laws.
Watching restrictions on the use or possession or transfer of cash is the public policy equivalent of watching the canary in the coal mine.
There's one seriously dysfunctional government out there, folks.
Laws would have to change, first. His attorneys would not be allowed to pursue certain lines of defense.
Details in "Data and Goliath". If you're read it recently enough or have it handy, post those details, please. I don't recall them.
Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't see for sure who was paying for this.
It appears to be a gift from a group of companies, with possibly some money from the city government. And advertising was expected to pay the operating costs -- but not the initial installation, and the development that preceded it.
Did I miss that?
Waiting a while before repeating the same old bu11$#1+ statistic doesn't make it true.
You ever heard of indentured servitude? Or paying for relatives from the Old Country to immigrate? Or charity?
You might want to read _Ethnic America_. It was more than Puritans that immigrated, you know. And there are lots of ways -- commercial, familial, charitable -- to finance the immigration of desperately poor people.
Depends on who's doing the supposing.
People vary.
Are you sure about that? It's close, but not quite. I think.
I thought journalism was a kind of sausage making, creating a product made from staged media events, press releases, filler, facts, and fact by-products.
So, does this mean businesses located in the country, or does it mean the country's government, or some awful hybrid, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? (And we know how that turned out.)
If electricity production and distribution were not a centrally-planned operation (http:duckduckgo.com/q=gosplan), there would be incentives for electric power companies to create such transmission facilities, or for entrepreneurs to create them.
Instead, we have state regulators controlling prices and approving investment decisions, with the intent of requiring them to be profitable but not too profitable.
Larry Niven argued against time travel. One argument he offered: if time travel allows changing the past, people are going to go back to change things to be how they want them to be. If one of those people wants there to be no invention of time travel, they go back in time to kill the inventor of time travel.
Someone else may then invent time travel in the new altered universe. But the same thing can happen again (and eventually will).
Eventually we get an altered universe where nobody invents a time machine. Ever.
He explained it better.
I ... AM ... KESSLER!!!
In completely related news, the Federal Reserve is barely 100 years old.
Let's not forget "home of the brave". Yikes!
What's astonishing is that an administrator in the government sector Ed Biz (to swipe a term from Tom Lehrer) set out to accomplish something important and good and relevant to their jobs, and succeeded.
I'm pretty sure SJWs don't actually do things to help people, they just criticize people they don't like.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=SJW
There's a fan theory which, if true, means that JJA is pulling an M. Night Shyamalan where the "gotcha" happens two movies later.
I won't say what it is, in case it's true.
Also, I won't say what it is, in case it's not true.
There's a construction company here (StL) that goes by the name Big Boy's Steel Erection.
They erect steel, apparently.
http://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/big-boys-steel-erection/Location?oid=2692539
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=big.boy's.steel.erection
Why not beta test some of these ideas?
Run some the group decision processes of some non-government organizations -- some of a political nature and some non-political ones -- and see how that works.
If the Sierra Club and/or the NRA and/or the Rhode Island Democratic Party and/or the Log Cabin Republicans discover it works well, and so do the UAW and/or Ford and/or McDonald's and/or the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and/or your bowling league and/or the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, then you're onto something.
Let us know how that works out, OK?
If the choices available continue to be limited, voting with (supposedly) better technology doesn't improve things. We just get to make more mistakes faster.
_Why America Stopped Voting_ by Mark Kornbluh addresses one set of choice limitations. There are others, but that's a good place to start.
When my wife is also watching, I don't play my favorite TBBT (virtual) drinking game.
Whenever a character makes a reference to a product or franchise, I say "Drink". Two in a row for the same product/franchise, I say "Chug".
Virtual, because I generally don't drink much, and never drink _that_ much.
You said "political group", not "political party". Probably for the best.
Thanks to the election "reforms" of the Progressive Era, all candidates that appear on the ballot (candidates that have a reasonable chance of being elected) must be government-approved. Political parties are also government-approved, and to one degree or another, micro-managed by government.
Good luck keeping that group from being hampered by government, and/or co-opted by a statutory duopoly party.
Remember the "Tea Party" movement? Agree or disagree with its creators, you've got to acknowledge they've been pretty well thwarted.
For details about the impact of those election "reforms" on election competitiveness, voter turnout, and engagement of the electorate, see _Why America Stopped Voting_ by Mark L. Kornbluh.
And why is the Department of Homeland Security involved in this particular crime? Will the unauthorized release of a movie script endanger the general public?
Pfaw!
If you're going to "wave the bloody shirt", there needs to be blood in the shirt.
The quartermaster provided the shirts.
The GI's would provide the blood.
The Russians would effect the transfer of the blood.
Apparently, it wouldn't be.
People chose -- and keeping choosing -- Microsoft products often enough to keep the company in business and doing fine, instead buying,well, whatever else is next-best in their minds.
And what might those products be, anyway? OS/2 and Lotus Notes, perhaps? And the the other software they might want would be what, exactly?
Sucky though MS products often are, they work pretty well at meeting customers' needs. Well enough, anyway.
It's amusing that the robot car is the one considered to exhibit unpredictable behavior.
Do other people see the humor in this, or is it just me?
Just started to RTFA, and spotted two goofs.
My goof: The quoted text _was_ about the CDC 6600. That certainly explains the similarity.
The article's goof: Those were peripheral processors, not "parallel processors". They did I/O and occasional odd jobs for the operating system that the CPU wasn't suited for, or too busy to do.
Now to finish it off, and see what else I or the author have to be embarrassed about.