It seems to me that a major problem here is only releasing once a year.
Odoo is commercial, and Open Source.
As an Odoo user and developer I would be happy with a 'release' every two years or more. I can pull bug fixes from the VCS to keep my current system running. The 'releases' are for big changes and spiffy new features which require a data 'migration' and code 'porting'. Neither I nor my clients want to be doing that every three months. It is an ERP system not some simple desktop app.
This venture, it seems to me, is just a way to legitimize the payback for services he has already rendered while he was at the NSA. His 'clients' already know who they are, and they will expect to get nothing more concrete for their million per month than his continuing influence (or perhaps silence) in certain matters.
BT owns the copper line going to my house, and it is broken
+1 for Charliemopps. I had the same problem as you; it would work when BT came to test it, but sometime it was shit. After a couple of visits I made the connection with the rain and on their third visit I suggested to the BT guys that they replace my underground wire with an overhead one from the handy pole outside. Problem solved.
It derives from the French "Grande" as in "big", referring to the Island of Britain as the larger part or Brittany
'Great' became part of the official title when Scotland joined Britain (being England and Wales) in 1707. Before that it was only occasionally used, when it was necessary to distinguish Britain from Brittany, mostly in Latin or French. So 'derives' is not correct IMHO.
2)Parental issues, usually their parents are drunks, or pay zero attention to them.
Yup, or the wrong kind of attention. In primary school I once walked home with a kid with nascent bullying tendencies (I was much bigger than him). As he walked in his back door I heard his mother launch into a rabid sweary tirade at him for no reason I could see. So he was being bullied at home and just doing the same thing at school.
Commodity money can also change in value when the supply of (or demand for) the commodity changes. This can be naturally arbitrary, or due to market manipulation by large holders. If the commodity cannot be produced fast enough to match wealth creation there will be deflation. The gold standard era was not devoid of economic crises. The tally-stick era was much more stable, probably due to the broader range of commodities it employed and the lack of fractional reserve shenanigans.
Fiat money should be adjusted to keep prices stable, without worrying about an underlying thing. This does mean it is open to adjustment for other reasons. Good governance is the answer to that. How to get it is left as an exercise for the reader:-)
Not read von Mises directly, but I know he is of the Austrian School. Anyone who is hostile to the very idea of government will dislike fiat money. Personally, I prefer to be ruled by an accountable government than by a private bank, or worse.
There are (at least) two kinds of money, and they work differently.
Commodity money is based on some thing which is in limited supply. We don't use this anymore.
Fiat money is created by the Government out of nothing. It gets it into circulation by Government spending. It gets it out of circulation by taxing. People use it because they have to pay taxes in it. If the total amount of wealth is increasing the Government must run a deficit or there will be deflation. If it runs a surplus there will be inflation and recession.
Part of our economic problems come from people (including policy makers) being stuck in commodity money mind-sets when we are using a different kind of money entirely. Currently there is a deficit and a recession because the deficit isn't big enough and there is too much tax! There are structural reasons too, like the Government spending on the wrong things.
Your article almost entirely supports my position. That quote is a simplification of a confused SIGINT train. The NV boats were certainly chasing the Maddox away from Hon Me (which two days earlier had suffered attacks from SV commandos). The Maddox fired warning shots. The NV boats returned fire. One machine gun bullet hit the Maddox. The detailed account by the NSA makes no mention of torpedoes being loosed.
the Maddox was not on a purely passive mission. U.S. intercept sites in the area were alerted to the real reason for the Desoto missions, which was to stimulate and record North Vietnamese [REDACTED] reactions in support of the U.S. SIGINT effort.
stimulate == provoke
That report is quite unequivocal: the second "attack" did not happen.
You said:
Just that one [first] attack by the North Vietnamese would have been sufficient as a casus belli.
Neither LBJ nor McNamara thought so, despite the fact that that was exactly what they were looking for.
Well, like you I wasn't there. My summary of events is taken from the conclusions of the NSA according to the Wikipedia page. As to where the Maddox was:
The Maddox when confronted, was approaching Hon Me Island, three to four miles (6 km) inside the twelve-mile (19 km) limit claimed by North Vietnam. This territorial limit was unrecognized by the United States.
Problem? A US warship entered NV waters, fired on NV ships and managed to provoke a response. Two days later another provocation by the US Navy resulted in a battle with... no-one. This was the excuse for launching the Vietnam war.
The fact of the matter is that nature cannot be beat.
If functional immortality is achieved it will by way of rejuvenation. No-one is interested in an eternity of infirmity. The laws of physics do not prohibit it, provided there is a source of energy available to combat entropy with. Any other hand-waving about 'nature' is cryptoreligiocrap.
The meaning of our lives is to reproduce.
To what end? To perpetuate the cycle of meaningless? Can any meaning emerge from that? More cryptoreligiocrap.
anybody who still thinks that restricting imports through tariffs and other measures is a good idea for the sake of improving domestic job creation...
It seems to have worked for the USA for the last hundred years. It won't work for everyone of course, but Venezuela might be big enough to pull it off (if done skilfully...)
It is usually not worthwhile to think about political groupings on a 1 dimensional axis.
I agree, though I favour the Eysenck chart, which seems to be the uncredited basis of the Political Compass.
I more or less agree with your liberal/conservative definitions except what you call a liberal is what I would call a radical. Equality of opportunity is a radical idea which conservatives are not at all concerned with. Equality of outcome is a conservative bugbear, liberals and radicals hope to limit disparity, they don't expect to eliminate it. Elimination is an authoritarian idea:-)
All mainstream American politics is in the conservative/authoritarian quadrant. I am in the opposite radical/liberal quadrant, along with anarchists, democratic socialists, greens, Ghandi, Mandela, etc.
ask people what they agree/disagree with, republican _positions_ do pretty well.
Many Republican positions are what I would regard as American positions. Mom and Apple Pie. Their problem is people don't believe they really mean it.
liberty advocates, and social conservatives
It's interesting to me that you lump these two together as if they are close cousins. To me they are opposites: liberty advocate == liberal social conservative == authoritarian As a non-American this confusion seems to me to be behind much of the futility of US political discourse. As with most political confusions there are those who actively promote it.
Actually working to immanentize the eschaton is supposed to be unChristian, according to most denominations. But there is a significant Dispensationalist movement in the US that can hardly contain its glee when US or Israeli actions seem to fulfill one of their prophecies.
Muslims, you may not be aware, believe Jesus is the second most important prophet and also revere all the Old Testament fortune-tellers.
The scary part we should note is that some of these people think if they help the world go into chaos, it will hasten the return or appearance sort of like forcing the second coming of Jesus.
Interestingly, they believe that Jesus himself will return to aid the 12th Imam (aka the Mahdi) at the Final Battle. So the Iranians are working towards exactly the same goal as the Americans. That's the scary part.
Slashdot Mirror
What would be like RaspPi, but without the USB problem?
Try a cubieboard2. I've run a hard drive off the USB without any problem in Cubian (a version of Debian for cubie).
The US didn't create Israel, the British and French did.
The Balfour Declaration notwithstanding, the foundation of Israel was contrary to Britsh foreign policy at the time, hence this.
The perfect example of this is Rwanda where the Tutsi's were put in control under British rule and then subjugated the larger Hutu population.
Belgian, not British.
Since the start of the cold war the US has interfered in nations world wide
This makes for interesting reading: US foreign jaunts
Looking back at history, there has never been a shooting war between the Soviet Union and the US. Never.
Polar Bear Expedition
It seems to me that a major problem here is only releasing once a year.
Odoo is commercial, and Open Source.
As an Odoo user and developer I would be happy with a 'release' every two years or more. I can pull bug fixes from the VCS to keep my current system running.
The 'releases' are for big changes and spiffy new features which require a data 'migration' and code 'porting'. Neither I nor my clients want to be doing that every three months. It is an ERP system not some simple desktop app.
This venture, it seems to me, is just a way to legitimize the payback for services he has already rendered while he was at the NSA. His 'clients' already know who they are, and they will expect to get nothing more concrete for their million per month than his continuing influence (or perhaps silence) in certain matters.
BT owns the copper line going to my house, and it is broken
+1 for Charliemopps. I had the same problem as you; it would work when BT came to test it, but sometime it was shit. After a couple of visits I made the connection with the rain and on their third visit I suggested to the BT guys that they replace my underground wire with an overhead one from the handy pole outside. Problem solved.
[emus] also survive very well after getting shot, apparently, for some reason.
I suspect they are somewhat less resistant to machetes, which is what most miscreants around here will be carrying.
It derives from the French "Grande" as in "big", referring to the Island of Britain as the larger part or Brittany
'Great' became part of the official title when Scotland joined Britain (being England and Wales) in 1707. Before that it was only occasionally used, when it was necessary to distinguish Britain from Brittany, mostly in Latin or French. So 'derives' is not correct IMHO.
Right now, we're moving ever closer to merchantilism and "One Dollar, One Vote"
No-one, not even dumb Americans, would fall for that. Fortunately, some genii at Chicago have come up with a saleable alternative:
Quadratic Voting
2)Parental issues, usually their parents are drunks, or pay zero attention to them.
Yup, or the wrong kind of attention. In primary school I once walked home with a kid with nascent bullying tendencies (I was much bigger than him). As he walked in his back door I heard his mother launch into a rabid sweary tirade at him for no reason I could see. So he was being bullied at home and just doing the same thing at school.
a fifth to quarter of the posters are borderline sociopaths
That would be consistent with the population at large; 20% authoritarian followers, 5% social dominators according to Altemeyer.
Commodity money can also change in value when the supply of (or demand for) the commodity changes. This can be naturally arbitrary, or due to market manipulation by large holders. If the commodity cannot be produced fast enough to match wealth creation there will be deflation. The gold standard era was not devoid of economic crises. The tally-stick era was much more stable, probably due to the broader range of commodities it employed and the lack of fractional reserve shenanigans.
Fiat money should be adjusted to keep prices stable, without worrying about an underlying thing. This does mean it is open to adjustment for other reasons. Good governance is the answer to that. How to get it is left as an exercise for the reader :-)
Not read von Mises directly, but I know he is of the Austrian School. Anyone who is hostile to the very idea of government will dislike fiat money. Personally, I prefer to be ruled by an accountable government than by a private bank, or worse.
There are (at least) two kinds of money, and they work differently.
Commodity money is based on some thing which is in limited supply. We don't use this anymore.
Fiat money is created by the Government out of nothing. It gets it into circulation by Government spending. It gets it out of circulation by taxing. People use it because they have to pay taxes in it. If the total amount of wealth is increasing the Government must run a deficit or there will be deflation. If it runs a surplus there will be inflation and recession.
See MMT for more info.
Part of our economic problems come from people (including policy makers) being stuck in commodity money mind-sets when we are using a different kind of money entirely. Currently there is a deficit and a recession because the deficit isn't big enough and there is too much tax! There are structural reasons too, like the Government spending on the wrong things.
Your article almost entirely supports my position. That quote is a simplification of a confused SIGINT train. The NV boats were certainly chasing the Maddox away from Hon Me (which two days earlier had suffered attacks from SV commandos). The Maddox fired warning shots. The NV boats returned fire. One machine gun bullet hit the Maddox. The detailed account by the NSA makes no mention of torpedoes being loosed.
NSA Report:
the Maddox was not on a purely passive mission. U.S. intercept sites in the area were alerted to the real reason for the Desoto missions, which was to stimulate and record North Vietnamese [REDACTED] reactions in support of the U.S. SIGINT effort.
stimulate == provoke
That report is quite unequivocal: the second "attack" did not happen.
You said:
Just that one [first] attack by the North Vietnamese would have been sufficient as a casus belli.
Neither LBJ nor McNamara thought so, despite the fact that that was exactly what they were looking for.
Well, like you I wasn't there. My summary of events is taken from the conclusions of the NSA according to the Wikipedia page.
As to where the Maddox was:
The Maddox when confronted, was approaching Hon Me Island, three to four miles (6 km) inside the twelve-mile (19 km) limit claimed by North Vietnam. This territorial limit was unrecognized by the United States.
Problem?
A US warship entered NV waters, fired on NV ships and managed to provoke a response.
Two days later another provocation by the US Navy resulted in a battle with... no-one.
This was the excuse for launching the Vietnam war.
at least when the US invades someplace we don't plant evidence to justify it.
Exhibit A:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ever heard of god?
Yeah, he's supposed to be Santa Claus's dad, or something.
Interesting how the 'science' people believe in non-determinism.
cognitive dissonance much?
Ever heard of quantum mechanics?
I have an aunt about to hit 99....
Her life is in pain....
The fact of the matter is that nature cannot be beat.
If functional immortality is achieved it will by way of rejuvenation. No-one is interested in an eternity of infirmity. The laws of physics do not prohibit it, provided there is a source of energy available to combat entropy with. Any other hand-waving about 'nature' is cryptoreligiocrap.
The meaning of our lives is to reproduce.
To what end? To perpetuate the cycle of meaningless? Can any meaning emerge from that? More cryptoreligiocrap.
anybody who still thinks that restricting imports through tariffs and other measures is a good idea for the sake of improving domestic job creation...
It seems to have worked for the USA for the last hundred years. It won't work for everyone of course, but Venezuela might be big enough to pull it off (if done skilfully...)
It is usually not worthwhile to think about political groupings on a 1 dimensional axis.
I agree, though I favour the Eysenck chart, which seems to be the uncredited basis of the Political Compass.
I more or less agree with your liberal/conservative definitions except what you call a liberal is what I would call a radical. Equality of opportunity is a radical idea which conservatives are not at all concerned with. Equality of outcome is a conservative bugbear, liberals and radicals hope to limit disparity, they don't expect to eliminate it. Elimination is an authoritarian idea :-)
All mainstream American politics is in the conservative/authoritarian quadrant. I am in the opposite radical/liberal quadrant, along with anarchists, democratic socialists, greens, Ghandi, Mandela, etc.
ask people what they agree/disagree with, republican _positions_ do pretty well.
Many Republican positions are what I would regard as American positions. Mom and Apple Pie. Their problem is people don't believe they really mean it.
liberty advocates, and social conservatives
It's interesting to me that you lump these two together as if they are close cousins. To me they are opposites:
liberty advocate == liberal
social conservative == authoritarian
As a non-American this confusion seems to me to be behind much of the futility of US political discourse. As with most political confusions there are those who actively promote it.
Forcing God's Hand
Pat Robertson
Actually working to immanentize the eschaton is supposed to be unChristian, according to most denominations. But there is a significant Dispensationalist movement in the US that can hardly contain its glee when US or Israeli actions seem to fulfill one of their prophecies.
Muslims, you may not be aware, believe Jesus is the second most important prophet and also revere all the Old Testament fortune-tellers.
The scary part we should note is that some of these people think if they help the world go into chaos, it will hasten the return or appearance sort of like forcing the second coming of Jesus.
Interestingly, they believe that Jesus himself will return to aid the 12th Imam (aka the Mahdi) at the Final Battle. So the Iranians are working towards exactly the same goal as the Americans. That's the scary part.