Truly, a market with the volatility of Bitcoin would make everyone a winner, and no one a loser.
Woot! High frequency trading for everyone! |
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I have had jobs and payed taxes since I was 13 all the way until now in my mid 20s. I am the 53%.
Woot! Another tax payer! If only we were 99% tax payers! I will also likely work until the day I die, since the 1% have taken away all social safety nets, lobbied for lower taxes on themselves and higher taxes on me, and increased the price of goods while never upping wages for me and the rest of the 99% over the last 30 years.
As someone whose worked for more than 30 years. Salaries have gone up. I started working for the minimum wage of $3.15 an hour. I was ecstatic when it went to $3.25. I am the 53% and still very much the 99%.
I'm not anti-99%. But clearly I have no idea what the OWS people are asking for. Except to be in charge. I'm not in favor of that. If they want to be in charge, they should build an alternative to banks, or wall street, or whatever. As a famous queen once said, "Let them eat Bitcoins." |
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Has anyone every researched Herman Cain?
He has a degree in computer science. He is probably the only candidate capable of understanding bitcoin.
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That's because it wasn't actually going up, it was a mess of finance that was all a lie so Wall Street could take investors money, pocket it, then piss on their faces.
Mine went up! I sold off high. Bought back low. It's like bitcoin speculating. Except with money. Ironically, the market is setting new records since the protesters got to work. Maybe wall street should pay them to stay! |
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Yep. He's near Serenada, TX. Looks like a few housing developments, and an airport, but I guess not too far from Austin (if you have a car)
LMAO at the phrase, "If you have a car!" Yes everyone has cars. Even teenagers! And that is really just a suburb outside of Austin. It only looks flat but it's on the edge of the hill country. There are lakes and rivers, trees, hills. He is a really easy drive to Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and not to far to Houston. Really, don't fret for him! Ah, awesome! So thanks to you guys, we have a place where our "intelligent," "educated," "Ivy League" created technologies can be built and tested on cheap land by cheap "redneck moron" labor. Thanks!  (j/k of course. Austin makes some tech and science stuff to sometimes) East Coaster's do have a hard on for Austin. Yes there is some tech there, but it's not like they put men on the moon or anything. But really that was my point about technology. I doesn't matter how intelligent your engineers are, if they can't build anything. Last I heard the "Green" mountain paradise of Vermont had exactly one windmill. And they were complaining that it was too noisy! Massachusetts is busy litigating to see if they can build windmills off the coast. Texas has an open invitation for anyone who wants to build offshore wind farms. It doesn't even require federal permits. This was a really good article on understanding Green Technology and Texas. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/solar-wind/4338280And that is the curious paradox of Texas: While seemingly more virtuous states labor over environmental impact assessments, Texans see a business opportunity and grab it--and so could very well end up leading the nation in clean energy. "In Texas, because we don't care about the environment, we're actually able to do things that are good for the environment," says Michael Webber, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. "It's the most ironic, preposterous situation. If you want to build a wind farm, you just build it."
On private land, wind developers simply make a deal with landowners and pay them a royalty. But there's no siting review process for wind farms on state lands, either. Plus, the state's boundary extends 10.3 miles from the coast, a stipulation made by Sam Houston, Texas's president, before the republic joined the United States in 1845. Federal waters off all other coastal states begin 3 miles offshore, which means wind projects beyond that point--such as Cape Wind, which was proposed for Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts in 2001--fall under the jurisdiction of the Minerals Management Service.
"If you'd like to build a wind farm off the coast of Texas, you only have to deal with the Texas General Land Office, and we're a very eager leaser," Jim Suydam, the office's press secretary, says. "My boss is a Texas Republican. He's an old Marine lieutenant colonel who carries a gun in his boot. But you'll find no bigger proponent of offshore wind power, because he sees it as a vital part of a diversified revenue stream for public education."
Offshore oil and gas production have contributed $6 billion to the Texas Permanent School Fund since it was established in 1854--but that source of income won't rise forever, Suydam says. So this summer the Texas General Land Office signed two offshore wind leases with Houston-based Baryonyx; they were the state's sixth and seventh. When the company goes into production, the state will take a cut--and resell the power. "It's different than in California, where it's all about carbon emissions," Suydam says. "Here it's all about making money."
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The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have closed the labour gap with China in a clutch of key industries. The current account might even be in surplus.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8844646/World-power-swings-back-to-America.htmlWoot! Go America Go! This is my favorite! It is almost the only economic power with a fertility rate above 2.0 - and therefore the ability to outgrow debt - in sharp contrast to the demographic decay awaiting Japan, China, Korea, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
It's high praise when the rest of the world looks at you like a bunch of geniuses because you remember how to BREED! Come on smart people of the world! Do we need to teach you everything! I guess that's why they created that industry in the San Fernando Valley. Educational films! |
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Woot! That is awesome! I wish I was that clever.
But he's right. Something like 40% of MIT's *engineering* graduates went to work on wall street. It's not quite the "good ol' boy" society people want to think it is.
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I stumbled upon this article (which is quite amazing) after seeing this video. Watched the video. Are you calling that a peaceful protest? Taking things from the police, blocking traffic. Stopping busses. Have you ever considered the police might be speaking for the people on the busses and in needless traffic? Perhaps the public considers the police their way of peacefully protesting against the protesters. |
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So it's like that, but without all of that, and barely any marrow to suck in the dry and desolate environment... but with guns? I lived in a deep European forest a few months for vacation, and I was definitely not bored. Atlas's development of houses is practically out in the desert. I would literally go mad if I lived there. Maybe that's why he is on here so much bringing up such varied and frequent topics, or why he's into Budhism, having nothing really physical around him to need/want?
I don't really know where he is from. But it sounds like the desert southwest. I know many people from out there. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. All of those places are different, but they are basically filled with people living deliberately. With guns. Also, often with motorcycles and all terrain vehicles. Sometimes they make explosives just for the hell of it. Life is nice when you can make things go boom without attracting needless authorities. Lots have boats and go fishing in a places you'd swear could have no water. Sometimes people grow things where you'd swear nothing should grow. There are few signs to tell you what you can't do. So people come here to find out what they actually can do. The desert southwest is baffling to East Coast city people. They are convinced nobody should live out there. However, they are also convinced that is the perfect place for people to build them the solar, wind, hydro, and thermal power plants they want. In California they call this the "not in my backyard" effect. But to the East and West coast folks, the southwest is really "nobody's backyard". Curiously though it is. And the people in that backyard think, Woot! More shit to build! In Texas we find things especially ironic. After being resented as a bastion of the evil oil (energy) industry, now we lead the nation in wind power (energy). And you'd be horrified to know that the same rednecks that built the oil refineries are now building bio-fuel refineries, solar plants, and now it looks like they can keep drilling holes in the crust for geo-thermal plants as well. In ten years, the East Coast will be pissing and moaning that evil Texas energy companies are manipulating their costs of clean energy. But every moment from now till then, the "intelligent", "educated", "civic minded" people in the "civilized" parts of the country will keep thinking, "What on earth could you redneck morons possibly find to do out there???" |
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Also, just wondering, how can you, or any kid, really, grow up and live where you're at? ... So, what the heck do guys do for fun out there? Pray and shoot guns? I grew up in essentially a metropolis, so that area and life is somewhat of a culture shoc for me.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." — Henry David Thoreau It's like that. Without the woods. Or the pond. But with guns. |
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That was well stated. You should write more longer well thought out posts like this.
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Yes, please bitcoin2crash, tell me about the viability of being a hunter-gatherer in a world with the population density of a modern industrial society.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/us/15forage.html?_r=1This one was interesting. But really I'm not attempting to make a particular political statement other than, "go clever people!" |
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You can't argue with that logic. I'll say Good Day, Sir.
Oh, come on! How can you fail to grasp the, "Everyone who disagrees with me is all alike," argument? It goes back to Sun Tsu. "The enemy of my enemies, is me!" |
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If everyone had their own personal 2000 square foot house we could fit everyone inside of Texas. There's plenty of land.
Please don't send them here! Have you seen Montana? There is no one there. Totally empty. Free land for everyone! |
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Neat, but I must have missed that original pict. Is there a full scale meme? The article was the first I heard.
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Thanks! I was wondering what the connotations were.
I really had no idea if it was like, "Joe died in a hang glider crash." Or more like, "Joe died in a horrible Russian Roulette accident."
We tend to use the generic term, "overdosed" which left unqualified means they were a substance abusing idiot of one kind or another.
Otherwise it might be an "accidental overdose" which would connote some sort of potential tragedy. (i.e. Michael Jackson, Elvis—Dr's fault defense)
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Doesn't have a disk big enough. Without the copy of the blockchain all the lite-clients could be just blindly circulating the invalid transactions. For now the vast majority of clients are able to consult the blockchain and suppress the invalid transactions.
You could easily do a light version that did not try to validate every transaction. After all, a client like this couldn't really generate blocks. It would burn itself up and shut down all other services trying to calculate proof-of-works. All at freedom box bitcoin app would have to do is to receive the latest block in the chain and look for wallet related transactions. It could then generate and send new transactions from a simplified web client. In every case though, it should store bitcoin private keys off of the plug. |
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You can give your workers a living wage without tripling your prices. Costco employees average $17 an hour and get health insurance, yet somehow they still manage to successfully compete with Sam's Club.
I'm not arguing that people *must* make minimum wage and not receive insurance. I've been pretty clear about that. It also seem pretty clear that Costco is on the ascendancy and Sam's in stagnating. I don't know the cause, but most likely it is related to stupid employees at all levels. (Sometimes a brilliant founder dies and leaves the place to idiots.) I imagine Costco employees would be highly offended by your comparing them to Sam's employees. Similar job descriptions do not similar people make. If Costco hirers better people, pays better salaries and out competes Sam's... Yay verily! That is a vote for innovation. If they hire the same people, pay more and go bankrupt... Well that would be less clever. For the record. I'm in favor of the former not the latter. |
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Rights can only be maintained for living beings, as individuals. A group or race does not think or feel. Only individuals do. I think this is silly on face value. Of course groups matter. Human groups are fundamental to humanity. On our own a human is easy prey for any random pack of wolves. As a group... well let's just say roving packs of wolves are no longer a problem. It is also clear that differences among groups are important. I would much rather belong to the group of smart people. Does that make the group of dumb people sub-human? No. It just makes them uninteresting. |
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I don't recall calling you an idiot. I'm sorry if you felt that was directed towards you.
No worries! |
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