In 2004 we had a politician running for governor that claimed to be able to rebuild a local bridge with 8 lanes instead of the planned 6 lanes and to be able to do so for less money than what we were going to pay for the 6 lane bridge. He nearly won the election. Just because it's obvious, doesn't mean that there aren't people who are stupid enough to fall for it.
There's nothing behind the anti-bitcoin crowd, apart from the fact that we're smart enough to see what a colossal scam it is. Supposedly, it isn't anonymous, which makes it even less useful as that would make it unsuitable to replace bags of cash for criminal deeds.
You get bitcoins by doing the calculations which are required to use bitcoins, so, it's not based upon anything other than the belief that it's valuable. On top of that, the rate at which ones gets bitcoins slows as time goes by to a fixed amount, meaning that early adopters get bitcoins for basically nothing, while the people later on get screwed. It's not quite a Ponzi scheme, but it's damned close.
Additionally, unlike other fiat currencies, you're not guaranteed to be able to buy anything with them later on, or even doing anything with them. USDs are essentially just paper, but you're guaranteed to at least be able to pay your taxes with them, pay debt, or exchange them into whatever your local currency is via most banks.
I haven't been following it that closely, the Time To Lulz is just not suitable for spectating. I'd chalk that up to people having a ZOMG I can actually do something with this pseudo currency reaction. It's probably the only sane reaction I've seen to Bitcoins, if you buy some, to spend, then you're not likely to get burned. Assuming you don't go stupid and stalk up on them for the long term.
Which doesn't usually happen. Most of the time management hires people that are going to do what they're told, even if what they're told to do is stupid, dangerous or illegal. On top of that you often end up in the position where the employees know more about what needs to happen than the managers, leading to all sorts of problems as the manager refuses to ask, and the employees are expected to do what they're told, no matter how stupid or counterproductive it might be.
Typically that's called unfair competition, it's where you're using company resources to compete against the company. The basic difference is that with the cloud, they don't get to bully the provider to provide the work for free. It costs a certain amount and no amount of bullying is going to change that. As opposed to doing it in house, where the same resources get allocated to nearly everything whether or not that's realistic.
This is just another interation of incompetent business management. There are cases where the cloud is a good choice or the right choice, but this just smacks of incompetent management. There's plenty of reasons why it's cheaper. Perhaps if businesses were held to account for security breeches, this would change quickly.
Perhaps for most folks around here it's low end, but I recently got one, and I've been shocked at how well it performs. You're not going to be playing games that were made in the last few years, but it does a really good job at the sorts of things that people typically do. I needed something portable, durable and power efficient, and it does that quite well. I'm really curious to see what the new tool kits are going to be able to provide.
You're misreading that. That section explicitly protects providers from being sued for other people's infringement. Meaning that providing the routing or other connections necessary doesn't subject one to liability unless one happens to fall into one of the particular categories. Which is why MS and Google aren't being sued, it's not their responsibility, they're in the clear so long as they don't do one of the specific prohibited things.
If you're going to be that literal, he had a website, it wasn't hosting any of those files. The DMCA takedown notices apply to services which are hosting files, not links. There were no files for him to take down.
And that's ignoring the fact that the DMCA doesn't apply outside the US, courts don't have legal jurisdiction over an alleged crime which happened over seas.
By and large you're correct, however, if you've been paying attention, Democratic politicians are more likely to break ranks than GOP politicians are. It's the natural consequence of being the big tent party. In the past the GOP was the big tent party and back then the GOP politicians were more likely to break ranks.
The point is that it's more likely that it genuinely is a matter of one bad apple on the Democratic side of things right now than it is on the GOP side of things. And it's getting more and more like that as more and more moderate Republicans can't get past the primaries. Eventually that will change, but for the time being it's how that's working out.
I think the problem is that even if they are complying with the law, it's not what a lot of people want to think about. Sort of like the hotdog factory, even if the company is in complete compliance with the relevant laws, they still don't want people to get grossed out by what goes on in there.
Butchering isn't mean, the animal is already dead at that point. Gas chambers are humane provided the correct gas is used. The problem with the final solution wasn't the gas chambers, it was the gas they were using and the reason for doing so. Not to mention the lead up to the gassing and all the other parts of it that were horribly wrong.
But when it comes to meat, you're going to have to kill something if you're going to eat meat, the raising and killing is the portion where things are or are not humane. And yes, a lot of what PETA, probably nearly all, can be discounted, but the conditions are pretty bad, particularly on factory farms.
Yes, but even in Canada or China for that matter you can still make use of it. In Canada that use would typically be to trade it in for Canadian currency and a lot of business in China is done in USD. Ultimately, anywhere you use money to buy things, the USD is a much more useful thing to have than bitcoins.
Doesn't matter. We don't have to rip apart still living creatures to feed ourselves, I think that alone justifies the notion that if we're going to eat meat that we at least have the decency to treat it with some modicum of respect. I don't think that torturing animals makes them healthier to eat or more delicious.
Take down notices only apply to hosts. This man wasn't hosting anything, just providing links to files that other people were hosting. It's an incredibly stretch to suggest that he's done anything criminal. It's morally grey, but legally, I can't imagine how he's responsible as the materials are still going to be accessible whether or not he links to them. Plus, you can find them via Google, Bing and others anyways.
A lot of that would change if the states would change the districting and primary systems to be a bit more represenatative. Around here the party that holds a majority doesn't get to do the districting. Which means that boundaries over all tend to be relatively balanced. And since we have a top two primary with people being allowed to vote for whomever they wish in the primary regardless or party, we typically end up with districts where the election was effectively over after the primary, going on to the final election. So far the more moderate of the two candidates has won every single time that two candidates from the same party have faced each other.
I don't know, I think that people who aren't computer literate aren't likely to know that they can. But some of the apps out there will handle it for you, with little interaction on your part.
Probably the same reason why Linux is my main OS right now rather than FreeBSD, there's a few specific applications which I haven't been able to get running on FreeBSD, which work fine on Linux. Most applications can be made to work on FreeBSD if they work on Linux, but a few like Truecrypt won't.
The federal government in the US was a large part of the problem. If they graduated the capital gains tax phase in such that you needed to hold stocks for a couple years to get the full benefit of the capital gains rate, increased the short term holding substantially and limited people to only having one round trip trade per day, a lot of these problems would go away.
Enron, as big a mess as that was, resulted in far more people making money than losing money, due to the way in which is collapsed. A relatively small number of people were left holding the bag as everybody made a run for the door.
Yes, they found 70 bodies, but they first found the plane, then noticed that there were still bodies in it. On top of that, we don't know that bin Laden's body is as deep in the ocean as that plane was, and at any rate locating the bag is going to be nigh impossible.
Assuming that he's successful in locating the body and is successful in verifying that it's the right body and manages to get the US government to pay up anyways, the likelihood is that this would still be a losing venture as he could very easily blow through $25m searching. Ships for that sort of operation are not cheap, and neither are the rest of the resources needed. And if the body isn't located quickly, chances are that it will just blend in to the bottom as flora start to grow over it.
At this point, I'd put the odds at being indistinguishable from zero. Even with the knowledge of where the ship was, one has no idea how far a body would drift as it sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
Because the USD is the only guaranteed way to be able to pay for your debts in the US. It's also the only form of payment accepted by the IRS for the purposes of paying your taxes.
The coins will have to be laundered anyways, so smurphing them isn't likely to be a problem. Whoever it was that cracked the security and stole them has a buyer or method of trading them. I wouldn't be surprised if the cracker wasn't themselves in with organized crime and doing it for a commission.
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In 2004 we had a politician running for governor that claimed to be able to rebuild a local bridge with 8 lanes instead of the planned 6 lanes and to be able to do so for less money than what we were going to pay for the 6 lane bridge. He nearly won the election. Just because it's obvious, doesn't mean that there aren't people who are stupid enough to fall for it.
There's nothing behind the anti-bitcoin crowd, apart from the fact that we're smart enough to see what a colossal scam it is. Supposedly, it isn't anonymous, which makes it even less useful as that would make it unsuitable to replace bags of cash for criminal deeds.
You get bitcoins by doing the calculations which are required to use bitcoins, so, it's not based upon anything other than the belief that it's valuable. On top of that, the rate at which ones gets bitcoins slows as time goes by to a fixed amount, meaning that early adopters get bitcoins for basically nothing, while the people later on get screwed. It's not quite a Ponzi scheme, but it's damned close.
Additionally, unlike other fiat currencies, you're not guaranteed to be able to buy anything with them later on, or even doing anything with them. USDs are essentially just paper, but you're guaranteed to at least be able to pay your taxes with them, pay debt, or exchange them into whatever your local currency is via most banks.
I haven't been following it that closely, the Time To Lulz is just not suitable for spectating. I'd chalk that up to people having a ZOMG I can actually do something with this pseudo currency reaction. It's probably the only sane reaction I've seen to Bitcoins, if you buy some, to spend, then you're not likely to get burned. Assuming you don't go stupid and stalk up on them for the long term.
Which doesn't usually happen. Most of the time management hires people that are going to do what they're told, even if what they're told to do is stupid, dangerous or illegal. On top of that you often end up in the position where the employees know more about what needs to happen than the managers, leading to all sorts of problems as the manager refuses to ask, and the employees are expected to do what they're told, no matter how stupid or counterproductive it might be.
Typically that's called unfair competition, it's where you're using company resources to compete against the company. The basic difference is that with the cloud, they don't get to bully the provider to provide the work for free. It costs a certain amount and no amount of bullying is going to change that. As opposed to doing it in house, where the same resources get allocated to nearly everything whether or not that's realistic.
This is just another interation of incompetent business management. There are cases where the cloud is a good choice or the right choice, but this just smacks of incompetent management. There's plenty of reasons why it's cheaper. Perhaps if businesses were held to account for security breeches, this would change quickly.
Perhaps for most folks around here it's low end, but I recently got one, and I've been shocked at how well it performs. You're not going to be playing games that were made in the last few years, but it does a really good job at the sorts of things that people typically do. I needed something portable, durable and power efficient, and it does that quite well. I'm really curious to see what the new tool kits are going to be able to provide.
And yet soccer would still be perfectly legal...
You're misreading that. That section explicitly protects providers from being sued for other people's infringement. Meaning that providing the routing or other connections necessary doesn't subject one to liability unless one happens to fall into one of the particular categories. Which is why MS and Google aren't being sued, it's not their responsibility, they're in the clear so long as they don't do one of the specific prohibited things.
IANAL though.
If you're going to be that literal, he had a website, it wasn't hosting any of those files. The DMCA takedown notices apply to services which are hosting files, not links. There were no files for him to take down.
And that's ignoring the fact that the DMCA doesn't apply outside the US, courts don't have legal jurisdiction over an alleged crime which happened over seas.
By and large you're correct, however, if you've been paying attention, Democratic politicians are more likely to break ranks than GOP politicians are. It's the natural consequence of being the big tent party. In the past the GOP was the big tent party and back then the GOP politicians were more likely to break ranks.
The point is that it's more likely that it genuinely is a matter of one bad apple on the Democratic side of things right now than it is on the GOP side of things. And it's getting more and more like that as more and more moderate Republicans can't get past the primaries. Eventually that will change, but for the time being it's how that's working out.
I think the problem is that even if they are complying with the law, it's not what a lot of people want to think about. Sort of like the hotdog factory, even if the company is in complete compliance with the relevant laws, they still don't want people to get grossed out by what goes on in there.
Butchering isn't mean, the animal is already dead at that point. Gas chambers are humane provided the correct gas is used. The problem with the final solution wasn't the gas chambers, it was the gas they were using and the reason for doing so. Not to mention the lead up to the gassing and all the other parts of it that were horribly wrong.
But when it comes to meat, you're going to have to kill something if you're going to eat meat, the raising and killing is the portion where things are or are not humane. And yes, a lot of what PETA, probably nearly all, can be discounted, but the conditions are pretty bad, particularly on factory farms.
Yes, but even in Canada or China for that matter you can still make use of it. In Canada that use would typically be to trade it in for Canadian currency and a lot of business in China is done in USD. Ultimately, anywhere you use money to buy things, the USD is a much more useful thing to have than bitcoins.
Doesn't matter. We don't have to rip apart still living creatures to feed ourselves, I think that alone justifies the notion that if we're going to eat meat that we at least have the decency to treat it with some modicum of respect. I don't think that torturing animals makes them healthier to eat or more delicious.
Take down notices only apply to hosts. This man wasn't hosting anything, just providing links to files that other people were hosting. It's an incredibly stretch to suggest that he's done anything criminal. It's morally grey, but legally, I can't imagine how he's responsible as the materials are still going to be accessible whether or not he links to them. Plus, you can find them via Google, Bing and others anyways.
A lot of that would change if the states would change the districting and primary systems to be a bit more represenatative. Around here the party that holds a majority doesn't get to do the districting. Which means that boundaries over all tend to be relatively balanced. And since we have a top two primary with people being allowed to vote for whomever they wish in the primary regardless or party, we typically end up with districts where the election was effectively over after the primary, going on to the final election. So far the more moderate of the two candidates has won every single time that two candidates from the same party have faced each other.
I don't know, I think that people who aren't computer literate aren't likely to know that they can. But some of the apps out there will handle it for you, with little interaction on your part.
Probably the same reason why Linux is my main OS right now rather than FreeBSD, there's a few specific applications which I haven't been able to get running on FreeBSD, which work fine on Linux. Most applications can be made to work on FreeBSD if they work on Linux, but a few like Truecrypt won't.
No, not everything is about money, but few of us have millions of dollars sitting around for such a frivolous waste of time.
The federal government in the US was a large part of the problem. If they graduated the capital gains tax phase in such that you needed to hold stocks for a couple years to get the full benefit of the capital gains rate, increased the short term holding substantially and limited people to only having one round trip trade per day, a lot of these problems would go away.
Enron, as big a mess as that was, resulted in far more people making money than losing money, due to the way in which is collapsed. A relatively small number of people were left holding the bag as everybody made a run for the door.
Yes, they found 70 bodies, but they first found the plane, then noticed that there were still bodies in it. On top of that, we don't know that bin Laden's body is as deep in the ocean as that plane was, and at any rate locating the bag is going to be nigh impossible.
Assuming that he's successful in locating the body and is successful in verifying that it's the right body and manages to get the US government to pay up anyways, the likelihood is that this would still be a losing venture as he could very easily blow through $25m searching. Ships for that sort of operation are not cheap, and neither are the rest of the resources needed. And if the body isn't located quickly, chances are that it will just blend in to the bottom as flora start to grow over it.
At this point, I'd put the odds at being indistinguishable from zero. Even with the knowledge of where the ship was, one has no idea how far a body would drift as it sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
As long as idiots don't recognize that Bitcoins are worthless and we don't have any way of profiting by that, it's the logical thing to do.
Because the USD is the only guaranteed way to be able to pay for your debts in the US. It's also the only form of payment accepted by the IRS for the purposes of paying your taxes.
The coins will have to be laundered anyways, so smurphing them isn't likely to be a problem. Whoever it was that cracked the security and stole them has a buyer or method of trading them. I wouldn't be surprised if the cracker wasn't themselves in with organized crime and doing it for a commission.