Posts by Destroy All Monsters
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Re: Typical journo rubbish
> most investors are rubbish at judging the true value of stocks
This might well be because after all the bailouts and crony stuffing of the recent years, there is so much loose money in the system and so few performing economic areas (people seem to be hoping that the next bubble will lift them out of the doldrums; well, good luck with that) that it sloshes towards anything which might promise a few additional percent of return. There is pensions to pay and there is interest to pay back. Well, good luck with THAT.
Just out of curiosity I checked the Dow Jones. It's back at pre-bust level... NOPE!
Tax Dodging _IS_ showing regard for the wider economy
As Henry Hazlitt said so long ago...
"There is a still further factor which makes it improbable that the wealth created by government spending will fully compensate for the wealth destroyed by the taxes imposed to pay for that spending. It is not a simple question, as so often supposed, of taking something out of the nation’s right-hand pocket to put into its left-hand pocket. The government spenders tell us, for example, that if the national income is $1,500 billion then federal taxes of $360 billion a year would mean that only 24 percent of the national income is being transferred from private purposes to public purposes. This is to talk as if the country were the same sort of unit of pooled resources as a huge corporation, and as if all that were involved were a mere bookkeeping transaction. The government spenders forget that they are taking the money from A in order to pay it to B. Or rather, they know this very well but while they dilate upon all the benefits of the process to B, and all the wonderful things he will have which he would not have had if the money had not been transferred to him, they forget the effects of the transaction on A. B is seen; A is forgotten."
Posted in The cooler side of the Big Bang
Re: Cosmic strings
AFAIK the "Cosmic String" stuff was an outgrowth of the Grand Unified Theories ideas, which is now lingering (due to various problems of theoretical and experimental nature, in particular, no magnetic monopoles anywhere and no large symmetry group to reasonably rule them all)
This looks like it has something to do with newer approaches like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_dynamical_triangulation
which seems interesting (something like finite element analysis for causally connected events) though still in its infancy. One might speculate that quantum computers might well be of some use here.
I wonder though why the high-temperature state at the "start" is considered "disorganized". You wouldn't believe the increase in disorder you get by gravitational clumping over 15 billion years.
A lesson in geography, young man? Stand still laddy!
The Pyrénées is a mountainous region distinct from the Massif Central. Lozère clearly is near the latter, not the former.
Re: bush didn't loose
You shouldn't feel any better about FDR's whoring for his 4 terms.
Anyone interested in the pretty hilarious and depressing antics he deployed to stay (and die) in office while riding roughshod over any principle of decency and propriety is advised to read John Flynn's The Roosevelt Myth. You will wonder why anyone would name a street after such a guy.
"More of a hackette than a hack"
That's pretty sexist!
Yes, commander! The president's brain is missing!
I knew that there was a brain transplant involved. Policy decisions wouldn't make sense otherwise. Though how did give the president's brain a new speech processing area?
Re: Jesus christ...
NO!
Re: Reg still allowing childish abusive words.
The official term is "Paytards". Used mostly on people who buy ... errr license.. the same song over and over again on different media.
"Oh no they have patents I need, woe me. They have to license FRANDly!!11!"
You want the patent system, so you gotta suck it up I reckon.
More important
Why is there a clown with a pseudo-military jacket behind the little cunt destroyer? Does Disney want to entice people to sign up to serve as cannon fodder in the wars-of-choice?
My Java is being unpurified by the Google. Eeek!
Be still my bleeding Heart of Intellectual Property.
Have the Koch brothers been linked to Google yet?
Re: heh... It's a reference to Dr. Strangelove.
Ice cream, Mandrake... Google is in children's ice cream!
Re: Oh, man
Making fun of hipsters was hip before the Great Recession?
Re: Or...
Then the virus would be called KATANA
Re: "risky investment"?
'free energy for all'?
And other tall tales.
As for Tesla's idea of transforming your environment into a microwave oven... Hell, even today, people are positively shitting their pants / keep looking for cancers when they are living underneath high-voltage lines.
No! I do not understand!
Is it Instagram and Hipstamatic or Instamatic and Hipstagram? I didn't even know there were two campanies!
Or...
Really?
"Centre for American Progress"
They are progressives, which means anything goes as long as it feels "social" and "good" and "anti-capitalist". This includes retconning Obama's shitty and amoral decisions into honest errors or into never having happened at all. Same level as repubs, only different.
So it's like those "Iranian nuke soon" stories in the WaPo pushed by vested interests.
But now we still don't know whether QDOS was ripped off CP/M and by how much.
Just the numbers please, using the standard "diff".
This!
For sure somebody is pulling random numbers out of their nethermost region. Stuff certainly not accounted for: IT people at random companies being let go, datacenter consultancies hiring, money meant for capital construction being hoovered by taxes and dumped into this infrastructure instead (which may or may not be actually used)
It's like babby running Conway's game-of-life, randomly flipping a few cells in a corner then declaring that in a few minutes 6'600 additional cells will be "on" than if he hadn't done anything. Sweet make-believe to win brownie points with the masses.
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." [Freddy Hayek]
Re: Use of waste heat?
Yes, this is being done. Look for "data center waste heat reclamation", e.g.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/20/helsinki-data-centre-heat-homes
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/green-it/energy-efficiency/intel-it-data-center-heat-recovery-helps-create-green-facility-brief.html
Thermodynamics FTW.
Yeah, unless you CREATE MATTER FROM PURE ENERGY via FUTURISTIC, ALTERNATE REALITY LONDON technology (possibly linked to EXTREME ELECTRO-STEAMPUNK) in the LOWEST BASEMENT with CACKLING FUZZY-HAIRED PROFS from QinetiQ looking at ominously glowing screens in the SEALED and G4S-PATROLLED control centre, all of your JOULE (aka WATT x SECOND) pumped in are DOWNCONVERTED into DISORDERED KINETIC ENERGY, i.e. HEAT.
How is that going to create 6'600 jobs? Why not -112?
I'm sure they did not take into account negative jobs created via govnmt splurge on the Olympics boondoggle.
I'm so tired of the "we are job creation" B.S.
All the absurd retardation of the patent system...
At your fingertips and in the leader...
"Prior Art Finder trawls through data in search for replication"
It's not "replication". It's good, honest work, unfortunately your stuff is already "owned" by somebody else courtesy of the guns and badges of state. Like putting out a contract on your arse before you were even born.
Re: Just a thought
Then Captain Future is there!!!
It's like bacon!
Re: I know where I'd start
Securlist commentators have the resonable suggestion that it might be looking for something more like
"Program Files/{F132AF7F-7BCA-4EDE-8A7C-958108FE7DBC}"
or
"Program Files/~backup.dat"
Re: You must go immediately.
Turing wasn't working on Colossus. He was working on "bombe".
Also, the comments at Kaspersky! Some are good but some are howling madness from the Internet at Youtube level.
George_Costanza.jpg
> 2012
> Still caring about a few orders of magnitude of dollar amounts
ISHYGDDT!
"to preserve their fidelity"
Who in Microsoft's marketing development or boss level hasn't understood that Microsoft is not into doing analog signal processing?
Yeah I know they are just lying. But why so badly?
What the hell do I have the pleasure of reading?
> the so-called Duqu Framework was developed using plain old Object-Oriented C
Well, "plain old Object-Oriented C" does not really exist because it's not a common way of doing things, is it?
The last I heard was the Duqu framework was written in something extremely similar to SOOC and that SOOC was open-sourced after parties unknown (*cough*) developed Duqu. I don't know whether anyone followed up on this bizarre reverse causality. Maybe someone did and has "fallen off a balcony" or something.
Re: Hang on, I've read Digital Fortress!
I suppose the virus payloads have to be deposed in the pattern of a REGULAR PENTAGRAM around the AXIS OF EVIL, which currently (as per decree of our WISE OVERLORDS including BLACK POTUS, runs through TEHRAN with LEY LINES into DAMASCUS and possibly BEIJING) upon which the STARS WILL BE RIGHT and the simultaneous opening of the CRYPTO PAYLOAD will cause a STRANGE AEONS EVENT ushering in WORLD DOMINATION of the BLUE FORCES allied with the nethermost kraken of DREAMS.
I hope you have CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN one phonecall away.
Re: Just switch over
Why not become member of some fundamentalist party?
A new take!
Take the blue pill, and you stay in wonderland. Take the red pill, and YOUR F*CKING GLASSES WILL FALL OFF.
Re: Committee for Purity in the Camp
> orthodox Israeli soldiers
If you are relgious enough, you are exempted from military service.
It's like social security!
Could well be some run-of-the-mill Obamites
Really, BLACK POTUS and THE MADAME couldn't hope for a better ally. After all, this is the presidency that "cracks down hard" (to use the usual beloved quasi-nazi term) on whistleblowers and leakers unless the leaks have not been approved beforehand and released with strategic timing.
Re: Is an OS upgrade not risky at that distance?
> Surely you'd want a system like that 100% tested, tried, approved, validated, validated again and then validated a third time for good luck!
This is rather exactly what happens in the lab. Then the transmitted data is checksummed to hell and back.
This ain't Apple.
Still, does anyone remember the PRIORITY INVERSION PROBLEM THAT AFFECTED MARS PATHFINDER, HMMM? HMMMMM??
Re: Amazing pics, but...
Hiding the Truth about Space Nazis, more like.
Re: Clearly Fake
Maybe just a honest mistake...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Shot_an_Arrow_into_the_Air
Yeah but
IBM Zürich actually CAN DO pretty fundamental research and has a tradition doing so.
Others will do less fundamental research but still come up with good stuff: better packaging, cheaper production, better and cheaper distribution, optimized user interfaces, better signal processing, a tweaking of the physical layer and possibly even novel ways to sell stuff. All of which are important. Sometimes however, perversion reigns and "innovators" start researching rounded corners...
Re: trades
> Samsung actually asked for an extortionate amount from APPL
Are you
1) Frankly retarded
2) Spinning the facts better than an aide to Tony Blair
3) Talking about some other thing than what this article is about
Taxfeeders in revolt!
> John Mann, an MP and member of the Treasury Select Committee, suggested the advertising giant explains itself for its "entirely improper and immoral" behaviour.
I wonder in what bizarre world tax burden reduction is "entirely improper and immoral". Must be the same world in which it is considered proper and just to destroy economies wholesale by money printing, bailouts and crony-capitalist deals, as well as by entirely unecessary "warfare industrial policy" in which sandpeople are routinely grilled to a crisp in order to justify shifting a few billion of taxpayer money. Seized in a fully moral way, of course.
In short, as a member of the public you better pass through the plausible deniability ritual formerly used by court jesters lest they be shifted to an oubliette.
"DID I HEAR CRITICISM"
"Certainly not, oh state-connected one! I was just explaining a dream..."
Termites fulfill an important role in the ecosystem!
Patent trolls, however, do not fulfill any role in the economic system except one similar to a tax collector or protection money extractor.
And what do universities think they are doing allying with the cancer?
Re: Head above parapet
Meat is murder. Eggs is rape!
Re: @Micheal
> Coffey
> head of Customs and Excise
> patents the shit he probably got from some poor soul whose livelihood he destroyed
Taxfeeder, in the protection money racket and an IP vulture? Probably a true story.
Re: Metro OS
That would be "GestapOS", then.
Though that wouldn't make much sense in the original german.
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