>>> Hong Kong seems to be the place where the society came as close as possible to the real free market system, money is created by private entities, there are competing currencies, government can't dilute the value and give preferential treatment to certain corporations, banks, etc. >>>
You obviousely don't read the HK newspapers. The big tycoons have the system in their pocket. They can even control over a good part of their mini parliament because corporate bodies have exclusive voting right for some of these 'functional seats'. Just because some players can do what they like and and play the system doesn't make a free market. That kind of free market is like a duel between a marine with big gun and a five year old.
For businesses outside the tycoons areas of interest there is indeed a good and competetive market, though. In the labour market there is not really much competition possible for the labour force. Take it or leave it. The companies are unionised, not the people. But I guess eventually the erosion of wealth in the lower and middle classes will eventually lead to the most amazing collapse of a housing market the world will have ever witnessed.
In my opinion markets will always work and do what they are supposed to do. But it can take a long while and will be a very volatile process when it finally kicks in. We just had a *small* taste of it.
I'm quite shocked to see that map! I drove from Missouri to the Rockie Mountains NP (through Kansas), then on to Yellow Stone and back through Nebraska and had never lost signal with my prepaid T-Mobile. In the West coverage was usually provided by a roaming partner but at no extra cost.
I would have thought that AT&T should have coverage there...
I'm not saying Walmart is all bad. Only that there are better places on the planet. Of course they have many A-grade items, and they probably sell them cheaper than Hyvee. But there are items that you can't get at Walmart. Sometimes it also depends on taste. Walmart replaced most of there chocolate offerings by Hershy products. I think hershey milk chocolate bars taste like vomit (I actually do think so). Perhaps they use a touch sour cream, I don't know. I guess that is an aquired taste.
But if you really want and indicator to compare quality then look at the fresh vegetables. The worst example I remember are the green bell peppers. Outstandingly expensive and often feel like they are already rotten. But you really have to buy from teh farmers market or leave the US to get a much better quality I have to admit. The stuff at Hyvee was water sprayed at all times. That way it feels fresh even though I consider some of the stuff I bought as rotten on the shelf. But you'll only notice at home...
My point is that Walmart is probably the cheapest in the US, but for Groceries you should know that it is possible to be better. But there is no competition left in the US so it won't happen. The other supermarket play in a slightly different league. At least in the UK they have ASDA(=Walmart) and Tesco, that keeps somewhat of a balance.
Cheaper than other US stores. Compare their prices to some other developed economies. And also the price/quality ratio. Walmart was successful in the UK, but their supermarkets skim the people even more than happens in the US. In another major EU market Walmart couldn't compete against the established competitors and gave up.
Know what you mean. I began using 'Read It Later' to outsource those tabs. It's like temporary bookmarks. Can also cache those pages for offline reading, hence it can be quite equivalent to open tabs.
In a german newsprogram the company said that it obviousely isn't really intended as an investment but rather as a cool gift. And most importantly as an advertisement for their real business of selling you larger bars via their website. In the interview they clearly stated that 250g is the minimum for a somewhat cost efficient investment.
And as someone else already stated here, a 30% markup is not unusual for tiny bars. The spot price is for the bulk metal, in the european market that would be 400oz bars, in the US 100oz. You pay for having the small bars made. And if you sell gold that isn't stored in an accredited vault you'll have to have it assayed again before you can sell it for spot price (probably molten down completely to make sure there's no fake core).
I saw an interview somewhere of an English concorde pilot and he talked about his flight with a french test pilot who told thim 'let me show you what condorde can do'. And he did a 707 style barrel roll.
Must be the coolest thing to do with a passenger plane. The only entertainment we passengers get ais the occasional semi-violent turbulence, but they never last long. Perhaps when they occasionally shuttle an empty 747 at night a crazy pilot will barrel roll the beast without anyone ever finding out:)
Not in every country can you put anything into any bill. Maybe in Australia, if you want to regulate something about the internet, it has to be put into the telecommunications or related act.
I second that. I've remotely upgraded my server from woody to sarge to etch. If you follow the detailed instructions in the release notes there won't be a problem. I also waited for two months after the release before upgrading, just in case an important issue with the release notes came up short after the release.
There is one reason why prices are high and students are suffering. In the US system you have to buy a certain book. So the publisher can charge whatever they want, you have no choice and the is no free market. As mentioned in other posts homework is taken from the book, giving page and question number. You're locked in.
But students also insist on having 'the book' with the ultimate answer and anything not written in the book cannot possibly be asked. They are really pupils, not students. A real university will let you buy any book you want. I was never told which book to buy. At best a prof said that he considers a certain book very good. But they would never refer to a book. Studying means that you find your stuff together yourself and study the matter. As an undergrad I got around with about half a dozen books at max. I still got them all.
I'm finishing my PhD in the US this summer. When I started I was totally lost when a prof thought I bought certain books on his list. I didn't even know that list exists. Didn't do too good in that course, but then I didn't come here to do coursework anyway. The next semester I knew the sytem and finished all course work. Even bought one book which was cheap ($50) and good.
So for this to change students would have to change, but after having been teaching twice in my time here I think that would break them. Industry outsourced training (apprenticeships) to Universities where you can study nonacademic 'subjects' like hotel management (maybe that one is just for the football team). Hence what you end up with is a place that is just another school, but not as good of course as the old apprenticeship schemes.
The academic degrees have moved up into the grad school. Unfortunately the book selection scheme is still there. As an adjunct prof above mentioned, the administration forced him to go by a book.
I have IPv6 connectivity on my linux machine and I haven't noticed any problems with facebook, ever. If a site has an AAAA record but the IPv6 link doesn't actually exist or is currently down the site won't load until the connection attempt times out and the browser falls back to v4. That didn't happen to me on facebook. So unless they had a record up for only a few hours while I wasn't trying I don't know what he is talking about.
Would be nice if Facebook did have IPv6, though.
Worst case scenario for a foreigner is to get kicked out of the country. You'd need to do something really bad (we're talking political offences here) to land in jail or detention (for longer time anyway). Maybe a slightly higher risk for ethnic chinese foreigners, in particular if they are china born.
> Recirculated air as an equal opportunity distribution system for germs
Don't they use compressed air from the engines to ventilate the cabin while the pressure regulator in the tail is constantly bleeding the excess (i.e. used) air back to the outside?
So you might smell some bird farts, but your cold is probably caused by the dry air and the sometimes ice cold temperature and not too high a concentration of germs.
I was in China over christmas and plugged my laptop into my girlfriends DSL connection there. So openvpn fires up as usual and failed I think. When I reconfigured the server to take a different port (SSH was allowed it seems) it connected but an SSL cert error came up (random port). So you can detect the ssl handshake and probably any other encryption handshake (open source bittorrent client) you don't want and just block it.
I got around the whole thing by tunneling the VPN through SSH. Slow but it kept everything working as usual.
How nice: they allowed 18M junk messages to go through, but could be bothered to look at only 10% of the data. Unbelievable.
I admit that their long history of perfecting their skills in making bad software causes us to assume the worst, but I suppose they ran the machine on a router that redirected its every attempt to connect to an IP's port 25 to a special machine that received and archived those 18M spams.
The lack of viruses and needing to keep track of licenses could save a lot of admin headaches
Do they really not have to keep track of licenses? Aren't many Enterprise Linux distributions sold like windows because they include some proprietary software licenced by seat? Or can you just drop those components in many cases.
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Hong Kong seems to be the place where the society came as close as possible to the real free market system, money is created by private entities, there are competing currencies, government can't dilute the value and give preferential treatment to certain corporations, banks, etc.
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You obviousely don't read the HK newspapers. The big tycoons have the system in their pocket. They can even control over a good part of their mini parliament because corporate bodies have exclusive voting right for some of these 'functional seats'. Just because some players can do what they like and and play the system doesn't make a free market. That kind of free market is like a duel between a marine with big gun and a five year old.
For businesses outside the tycoons areas of interest there is indeed a good and competetive market, though. In the labour market there is not really much competition possible for the labour force. Take it or leave it. The companies are unionised, not the people. But I guess eventually the erosion of wealth in the lower and middle classes will eventually lead to the most amazing collapse of a housing market the world will have ever witnessed.
In my opinion markets will always work and do what they are supposed to do. But it can take a long while and will be a very volatile process when it finally kicks in. We just had a *small* taste of it.
I'm quite shocked to see that map! I drove from Missouri to the Rockie Mountains NP (through Kansas), then on to Yellow Stone and back through Nebraska and had never lost signal with my prepaid T-Mobile. In the West coverage was usually provided by a roaming partner but at no extra cost.
I would have thought that AT&T should have coverage there...
I'm not saying Walmart is all bad. Only that there are better places on the planet. Of course they have many A-grade items, and they probably sell them cheaper than Hyvee. But there are items that you can't get at Walmart. Sometimes it also depends on taste. Walmart replaced most of there chocolate offerings by Hershy products. I think hershey milk chocolate bars taste like vomit (I actually do think so). Perhaps they use a touch sour cream, I don't know. I guess that is an aquired taste.
But if you really want and indicator to compare quality then look at the fresh vegetables. The worst example I remember are the green bell peppers. Outstandingly expensive and often feel like they are already rotten. But you really have to buy from teh farmers market or leave the US to get a much better quality I have to admit. The stuff at Hyvee was water sprayed at all times. That way it feels fresh even though I consider some of the stuff I bought as rotten on the shelf. But you'll only notice at home...
My point is that Walmart is probably the cheapest in the US, but for Groceries you should know that it is possible to be better. But there is no competition left in the US so it won't happen. The other supermarket play in a slightly different league. At least in the UK they have ASDA(=Walmart) and Tesco, that keeps somewhat of a balance.
Enjoy your ready dinners!
Cheaper than other US stores. Compare their prices to some other developed economies. And also the price/quality ratio. Walmart was successful in the UK, but their supermarkets skim the people even more than happens in the US. In another major EU market Walmart couldn't compete against the established competitors and gave up.
I have lived in the US for a while. For groceries I couldn't say that Walmart is cheap.
Know what you mean. I began using 'Read It Later' to outsource those tabs. It's like temporary bookmarks. Can also cache those pages for offline reading, hence it can be quite equivalent to open tabs.
In a german newsprogram the company said that it obviousely isn't really intended as an investment but rather as a cool gift. And most importantly as an advertisement for their real business of selling you larger bars via their website. In the interview they clearly stated that 250g is the minimum for a somewhat cost efficient investment.
And as someone else already stated here, a 30% markup is not unusual for tiny bars. The spot price is for the bulk metal, in the european market that would be 400oz bars, in the US 100oz. You pay for having the small bars made. And if you sell gold that isn't stored in an accredited vault you'll have to have it assayed again before you can sell it for spot price (probably molten down completely to make sure there's no fake core).
I saw an interview somewhere of an English concorde pilot and he talked about his flight with a french test pilot who told thim 'let me show you what condorde can do'. And he did a 707 style barrel roll.
Must be the coolest thing to do with a passenger plane. The only entertainment we passengers get ais the occasional semi-violent turbulence, but they never last long. Perhaps when they occasionally shuttle an empty 747 at night a crazy pilot will barrel roll the beast without anyone ever finding out :)
Not in every country can you put anything into any bill. Maybe in Australia, if you want to regulate something about the internet, it has to be put into the telecommunications or related act.
I second that. I've remotely upgraded my server from woody to sarge to etch. If you follow the detailed instructions in the release notes there won't be a problem. I also waited for two months after the release before upgrading, just in case an important issue with the release notes came up short after the release.
There is one reason why prices are high and students are suffering. In the US system you have to buy a certain book. So the publisher can charge whatever they want, you have no choice and the is no free market. As mentioned in other posts homework is taken from the book, giving page and question number. You're locked in. But students also insist on having 'the book' with the ultimate answer and anything not written in the book cannot possibly be asked. They are really pupils, not students. A real university will let you buy any book you want. I was never told which book to buy. At best a prof said that he considers a certain book very good. But they would never refer to a book. Studying means that you find your stuff together yourself and study the matter. As an undergrad I got around with about half a dozen books at max. I still got them all. I'm finishing my PhD in the US this summer. When I started I was totally lost when a prof thought I bought certain books on his list. I didn't even know that list exists. Didn't do too good in that course, but then I didn't come here to do coursework anyway. The next semester I knew the sytem and finished all course work. Even bought one book which was cheap ($50) and good. So for this to change students would have to change, but after having been teaching twice in my time here I think that would break them. Industry outsourced training (apprenticeships) to Universities where you can study nonacademic 'subjects' like hotel management (maybe that one is just for the football team). Hence what you end up with is a place that is just another school, but not as good of course as the old apprenticeship schemes. The academic degrees have moved up into the grad school. Unfortunately the book selection scheme is still there. As an adjunct prof above mentioned, the administration forced him to go by a book.
I have IPv6 connectivity on my linux machine and I haven't noticed any problems with facebook, ever. If a site has an AAAA record but the IPv6 link doesn't actually exist or is currently down the site won't load until the connection attempt times out and the browser falls back to v4. That didn't happen to me on facebook. So unless they had a record up for only a few hours while I wasn't trying I don't know what he is talking about. Would be nice if Facebook did have IPv6, though.
Worst case scenario for a foreigner is to get kicked out of the country. You'd need to do something really bad (we're talking political offences here) to land in jail or detention (for longer time anyway). Maybe a slightly higher risk for ethnic chinese foreigners, in particular if they are china born.
> Recirculated air as an equal opportunity distribution system for germs
Don't they use compressed air from the engines to ventilate the cabin while the pressure regulator in the tail is constantly bleeding the excess (i.e. used) air back to the outside?
So you might smell some bird farts, but your cold is probably caused by the dry air and the sometimes ice cold temperature and not too high a concentration of germs.
I was in China over christmas and plugged my laptop into my girlfriends DSL connection there. So openvpn fires up as usual and failed I think. When I reconfigured the server to take a different port (SSH was allowed it seems) it connected but an SSL cert error came up (random port). So you can detect the ssl handshake and probably any other encryption handshake (open source bittorrent client) you don't want and just block it. I got around the whole thing by tunneling the VPN through SSH. Slow but it kept everything working as usual.
How nice: they allowed 18M junk messages to go through, but could be bothered to look at only 10% of the data. Unbelievable.
I admit that their long history of perfecting their skills in making bad software causes us to assume the worst, but I suppose they ran the machine on a router that redirected its every attempt to connect to an IP's port 25 to a special machine that received and archived those 18M spams.