It is very interesting, but they never do a cost/ benefit analysis when they do this kind of thing. When I buy alcohol I spend money, and I may damage my health to some degree, but I get relaxation and possibly social interaction. I get a respite from brutal reality. What does mankind get from its energy use from pornography? They never ask. Ask.
A Cuba-like embargo would have more effect possibly. And this is probably some program director trying to save his program by connecting it to a current threat, however ludicrous it may be to use it for THAT.
People don't "trust their currency," they use it because they have to. And "Responsible central banks adjust the money supply to the size of the economy so that its value is relatively stable," really? Pumping 4 trillion made-up dollars into the world to keep failed banks and investment houses tottering along as zombies is keeping it "relatively stable?" And allowing derivatives, made up by investment houses and pushed into every nook and cranny of the world of finance, to be used as bank reserves, that is, real money, just to see them collapse due to the rotten housing loans they are based on "is adjusting the money supply so that its value is relatively stable?" No, it is not. It almost collapsed the world financial system. It is not reasonably stable because it is controlled, it is reasonably stable because people have to use it and there is no alternative. Like Roman money, fiat money is debased generation after generation by governments overspending, governments with no need to show restraint as there is no limiting backing to their currencies. And speculation and fraud and criminality are rampant in fiat currencies. It is a phony issue with regard to Bitcoin. It is holding it to a higher standard, a standard of perfection. The speculation in the beginning of Bitcoin is temporary; it is an ac voltage of speculation riding a DC voltage of "use value," which is being determined by the market now.
The fraud that is being perpetrated is not Bitcoin but the fiat money cranked out by scammer governments that seem to think they can do anything they want to to the public, including ruin the concept of money itself. Bitcoin is connected to nothing? What is the dollar connected to now? Huh? Less than nothing. Bitcoin at least is limited and if the dollar is accepted now it is only because people want to accept it. There is no basic "value" to it. It is not connected to gold. It is not connected to national economic output. I feel a good deal of the interest in bitcoin comes from it being a vote of no confidence in the phony, scam financial system that the finance and investment community and governments have worked so hard to create. Oh, and Schiller and others are terrified that this possibly disruptive technology will obsolete their knowledge base, prizes, and destroy their income. They no more get it than Buffett got microcomputers or the internet.
Man has changed the albedo of the Earth and will continue to do so. There should be a total accounting of sources of heat rise on the Earth, including the effect of the heat retention of growing cities, roads and technologies like solar panels. (You may laugh here)
because everything is illegal if the government wants it to be. And there is what I call the "Law and Order" effect, the twisting and massaging of laws and procedures to get a desired result. (After the tv program.)
While the doer-ship of women is not contestable, the aggressive creativity is obviously, historically, missing. The creative aggression of our species is visited mostly upon the male. It is hyper-liberalism that demands the equality in all things of men and women, not nature. We force a false equality to our detriment.
But is it? Like other comments here, the rest of us have the living daylights taxed out of EVERYTHING we do, every penny we make. Why shouldn't they? After all, they don't ALL become Nobel Prize winning scientists who cure cancer or discover the secrets of the Universe. That is the fairness and logic of it. However, I don't believe it should be done. We MUST have a steady stream of scientists to fuel our obsessive need to know EVERYTHING and to know it NOW. And the effect of this is that we will destroy the few Americans who manage to get PhDs relative to the rest of the world, causing the importation of more and more foreign scientist H1B workers. I'm of two minds on this. It may just be an example of self destructive fairness. Or tax greed.
It was recognised in the 80s that databases and computer networks would allow massive amounts of data to be gathered. Laws were introduced to control the gathering, storage and use of that data, and they work. For example, in the UK if you have a criminal conviction that is "spent" your employer can't ask about, can't seek to find out about it and can't be told about it by credit reference agencies or anyone else doing a background check on you. And yes, it works in practice.
How about GM crops? Heavily regulated, some parts of the world have rejected them. Same with farm animals injected with antibiotics and growth hormones, or washed in chlorine.
You do the common thing; you elevate the exception to the rule. GM exists and is used. Data bases exist and are used extensively worldwide.
Look, we human drivers know how other human drivers are going to either break the law or cut corners in driving. We are able to anticipate and react correctly to avoid an accident as a result. These machines can't do that. They are developed in a perfect lab environment kind of thinking and they will never be able to be human enough to interact with humans in the real world situations that result from driving in the real world, not a software world. Driving is psychological as much as physical. If the machine had been driven by an experienced human driver I believe this accident would not have happened. For these machines to work the way they say they will all humans would have to be banned from the roads and everyone forced to use autonomous vehicles. To state the obvious: machines have no psychology, have no personality, have no human quirks and flaws.
Rights and freedoms cost not just on the battlefields of our wars but in our daily lives. And if we cannot accept the daily costs of those rights and freedoms we cannot have them. There will always be those who argue that the costs of rights and freedoms are unacceptable and that they must be curtailed and eliminated. We must be strong enough to say no and mean it.
...and David Stockman, in his book, The Great Deformation, points out repeatedly the dangers of leveraged buyouts and the coming consequences of those buyouts.
..there might be a supporting reason. With gold being manipulated by China and the U.S. to allow China to accumulate gold reserves as a hedge against the devaluation of their dollar denominated reserves, the store-of-value perception of gold may be damaged. Some may be going to Bitcoin as an alternative store-of-value that actually follows a market.
Technology is not what we consciously choose to make of it; it is like water: it finds its own level. If a thing works, and there is a perceived profit or benefit from using it, it will be used and it will be used recklessly to maximize profit or perceived benefit.
So, after a while with cars driving themselves, what exactly will the turnover to the now rusty human do but insure a crash? Also, there is not instantaneous human situational awareness. What...wait...oh, THAT is happening, so I must.....crash. Driving is a never ending story. You must pay attention until you turn the key to off. Also, the system is perfect, or it is not. Everything degrades and eventually needs repair. And how dangerous is a degrading self-driving-car system? And, since they cannot legally program their cars to do the complex conspiratorial law-breaking we all do to maintain the traffic flow, life itself will slow down. Commerce will slow down. That will not be acceptable to individuals or businesses. Thus, either cars will be allowed to break the traffic laws, or the traffic laws will be rewritten to accommodate them. But if they break the traffic laws as they exist willfully, car companies are open to massive insurance hits. And even criminal conspiracy charges are possible. If they massively rewrite the traffic laws of the nation, how long will that take? And how, exactly would they do that across all the States? The whole autonomous cars thing is a deadly dog's breakfast waiting to be served up to a helpless public by a greedy industrial base and a corrupt and incompetent government.
If he truly believes that the tech will increase jobs at his company, then this comment, in conjunction with his anti- Bitcoin nonsense, shows him to be a finance industry dinosaur.
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It has a female lead character. What else could they believe and still have friends?
And up things really go down?
It is very interesting, but they never do a cost/ benefit analysis when they do this kind of thing. When I buy alcohol I spend money, and I may damage my health to some degree, but I get relaxation and possibly social interaction. I get a respite from brutal reality. What does mankind get from its energy use from pornography? They never ask. Ask.
A Cuba-like embargo would have more effect possibly. And this is probably some program director trying to save his program by connecting it to a current threat, however ludicrous it may be to use it for THAT.
Last I checked it was over 19,000 dollars. Come on now guys.
CME December 18. CBOE to follow. And others....
People don't "trust their currency," they use it because they have to. And "Responsible central banks adjust the money supply to the size of the economy so that its value is relatively stable," really? Pumping 4 trillion made-up dollars into the world to keep failed banks and investment houses tottering along as zombies is keeping it "relatively stable?" And allowing derivatives, made up by investment houses and pushed into every nook and cranny of the world of finance, to be used as bank reserves, that is, real money, just to see them collapse due to the rotten housing loans they are based on "is adjusting the money supply so that its value is relatively stable?" No, it is not. It almost collapsed the world financial system. It is not reasonably stable because it is controlled, it is reasonably stable because people have to use it and there is no alternative. Like Roman money, fiat money is debased generation after generation by governments overspending, governments with no need to show restraint as there is no limiting backing to their currencies. And speculation and fraud and criminality are rampant in fiat currencies. It is a phony issue with regard to Bitcoin. It is holding it to a higher standard, a standard of perfection. The speculation in the beginning of Bitcoin is temporary; it is an ac voltage of speculation riding a DC voltage of "use value," which is being determined by the market now.
The fraud that is being perpetrated is not Bitcoin but the fiat money cranked out by scammer governments that seem to think they can do anything they want to to the public, including ruin the concept of money itself. Bitcoin is connected to nothing? What is the dollar connected to now? Huh? Less than nothing. Bitcoin at least is limited and if the dollar is accepted now it is only because people want to accept it. There is no basic "value" to it. It is not connected to gold. It is not connected to national economic output. I feel a good deal of the interest in bitcoin comes from it being a vote of no confidence in the phony, scam financial system that the finance and investment community and governments have worked so hard to create. Oh, and Schiller and others are terrified that this possibly disruptive technology will obsolete their knowledge base, prizes, and destroy their income. They no more get it than Buffett got microcomputers or the internet.
....computer systems will NEVER be secure and why people should never expect their data to be safe from criminals and governments etc.
Man has changed the albedo of the Earth and will continue to do so. There should be a total accounting of sources of heat rise on the Earth, including the effect of the heat retention of growing cities, roads and technologies like solar panels. (You may laugh here)
because everything is illegal if the government wants it to be. And there is what I call the "Law and Order" effect, the twisting and massaging of laws and procedures to get a desired result. (After the tv program.)
While the doer-ship of women is not contestable, the aggressive creativity is obviously, historically, missing. The creative aggression of our species is visited mostly upon the male. It is hyper-liberalism that demands the equality in all things of men and women, not nature. We force a false equality to our detriment.
But is it? Like other comments here, the rest of us have the living daylights taxed out of EVERYTHING we do, every penny we make. Why shouldn't they? After all, they don't ALL become Nobel Prize winning scientists who cure cancer or discover the secrets of the Universe. That is the fairness and logic of it. However, I don't believe it should be done. We MUST have a steady stream of scientists to fuel our obsessive need to know EVERYTHING and to know it NOW. And the effect of this is that we will destroy the few Americans who manage to get PhDs relative to the rest of the world, causing the importation of more and more foreign scientist H1B workers. I'm of two minds on this. It may just be an example of self destructive fairness. Or tax greed.
It seems like the United States Postal Service network is becoming more secure that that of the NSA.
Could I upload one of my Second Life avatars to live there as a citizen?
There are many counter-examples.
It was recognised in the 80s that databases and computer networks would allow massive amounts of data to be gathered. Laws were introduced to control the gathering, storage and use of that data, and they work. For example, in the UK if you have a criminal conviction that is "spent" your employer can't ask about, can't seek to find out about it and can't be told about it by credit reference agencies or anyone else doing a background check on you. And yes, it works in practice.
How about GM crops? Heavily regulated, some parts of the world have rejected them. Same with farm animals injected with antibiotics and growth hormones, or washed in chlorine.
You do the common thing; you elevate the exception to the rule. GM exists and is used. Data bases exist and are used extensively worldwide.
Look, we human drivers know how other human drivers are going to either break the law or cut corners in driving. We are able to anticipate and react correctly to avoid an accident as a result. These machines can't do that. They are developed in a perfect lab environment kind of thinking and they will never be able to be human enough to interact with humans in the real world situations that result from driving in the real world, not a software world. Driving is psychological as much as physical. If the machine had been driven by an experienced human driver I believe this accident would not have happened. For these machines to work the way they say they will all humans would have to be banned from the roads and everyone forced to use autonomous vehicles. To state the obvious: machines have no psychology, have no personality, have no human quirks and flaws.
Rights and freedoms cost not just on the battlefields of our wars but in our daily lives. And if we cannot accept the daily costs of those rights and freedoms we cannot have them. There will always be those who argue that the costs of rights and freedoms are unacceptable and that they must be curtailed and eliminated. We must be strong enough to say no and mean it.
...and David Stockman, in his book, The Great Deformation, points out repeatedly the dangers of leveraged buyouts and the coming consequences of those buyouts.
..there might be a supporting reason. With gold being manipulated by China and the U.S. to allow China to accumulate gold reserves as a hedge against the devaluation of their dollar denominated reserves, the store-of-value perception of gold may be damaged. Some may be going to Bitcoin as an alternative store-of-value that actually follows a market.
Technology is not what we consciously choose to make of it; it is like water: it finds its own level. If a thing works, and there is a perceived profit or benefit from using it, it will be used and it will be used recklessly to maximize profit or perceived benefit.
So, after a while with cars driving themselves, what exactly will the turnover to the now rusty human do but insure a crash? Also, there is not instantaneous human situational awareness. What...wait...oh, THAT is happening, so I must.....crash. Driving is a never ending story. You must pay attention until you turn the key to off. Also, the system is perfect, or it is not. Everything degrades and eventually needs repair. And how dangerous is a degrading self-driving-car system? And, since they cannot legally program their cars to do the complex conspiratorial law-breaking we all do to maintain the traffic flow, life itself will slow down. Commerce will slow down. That will not be acceptable to individuals or businesses. Thus, either cars will be allowed to break the traffic laws, or the traffic laws will be rewritten to accommodate them. But if they break the traffic laws as they exist willfully, car companies are open to massive insurance hits. And even criminal conspiracy charges are possible. If they massively rewrite the traffic laws of the nation, how long will that take? And how, exactly would they do that across all the States? The whole autonomous cars thing is a deadly dog's breakfast waiting to be served up to a helpless public by a greedy industrial base and a corrupt and incompetent government.
The future Captain Kirk has been expelled. Now he'll end up a mixed martial arts fighter, or maybe an actor.
What a man can make, a make can break.
If he truly believes that the tech will increase jobs at his company, then this comment, in conjunction with his anti- Bitcoin nonsense, shows him to be a finance industry dinosaur.