You're assuming the rate of population growth exceeds the rate of gold growth (mining). That may or may not be a sound assumption. Also economic output is not linear with population growth.

I normally agree with most of your posts but this one is completely without substance. His suggestion seems reasonable to me. On what grounds do you disagree?

actually... yes. DNT - default and DNT - user choice is a valid distinction. Still the whole thing is stupid because it relies on third parties "doing the right thing" which is foolish. Just build and use browsers/plugins that actively disrupt the tracking process - then you don't need to trust anyone (well except the author of the browser/plugin). I think this approach is also superior to enacting laws - outlawing something that can be solved with good design is a sub-optimal solution.

I kind of agree with you that in principle it would be better to default to privacy - only this approach makes tracking completely impossible, because who is going to enable tracking? Answer - Noone - which mean none of the interested parties will want to conform to it.

With the default set the other way the companies can keep tracking people and keep their profits whilst simultaneously claming the high ground. The people who want privacy can enable the setting and the ignorant/apathetic can continue with the status quo. If you want a voluntary system this is the only possible way it could work. The only alternative is to outlaw tracking, which is fine, but that still doesn't guarantee you won't be tracked.

You seem to have neglected to read this bit, so I'll repeat it for you

Anyway it's a pointless standard so the argument is moot. A voluntary standard that gets in the way of profits is a standard that will never be followed.

For one thing it keeps the money in our country, moron.

Well I like weird, so I see that a positive and I've always thought most of the characters are the antithesis of cliche! The female leads are a bit weak admittedly and it loses something when they get too much screen time. It almost lost me too at the beginning of season 3 I think, but I'm glad I stuck with it. The interplay between Walt and Jessie is the heart of the show and the way they become enemies as much as friends parallels nicely with all the other underworld relationships they develop. I like that is has season-wide story arcs. It's not just a bunch of episodes, it's like a novel in 12 parts. And each season gets better and better. Plus as a fellow beaten down nerd Walter White is my hero :)

If you're referring to the USA, me too. Fortunately I live in Australia :)

wtf?

And if you don't think Breaking Bad is brilliant, I'm guessing you probably haven't watched it. So do yourself a favour and watch the first episode.

I can't speak about the other two, but Breaking bad is one of the greatest TV shows of all time.

Sure. You want say 10-15% of other people to buy it. Small enough to market share to prevent MS from engaging in their usual tricks, but big enough to create some competition. But you aren't interested in it yourself. You wouldn't actually recommend it to your friends or family. So who the hell is going to buy actually buy it?

It really doesn't matter how good (or not) Windows phone are:

1. The intersection of MS fanboys and people with widespread credibility is exactly 0.
2. Nobody (apart from MS employees and shareholders) wants it to succeed. - Most people who care about tech gear want MS products to fail so the company will die and be replaced by several other, better companies.
3. We all want competition, good products, and good value, but nobody associates any of those things with microsoft. We all reasonably expect competitors products to be at least as good and better value.
4. We'll happily take an apple/google duopoly over another MS monopoly anyday.

So unless the phones are both outstanding compared to the competition, and much better value, nobody is going to care about them. This seems unlikely.

If MS wants people to care about it's brands and products, it needs to split itself up into it's various divisions. Smaller, independent businesses would be forced to compete and innovate instead of relying on marketing and monopoly to ensure success. If WP7 became a genuine underdog, it might actually get some credible supporters. But since this won't ever happen, it will simply die a long, painful and expensive death. So props to MS on the strategy so far.

In NK military parades, intermingled with the goosestepping infantry, you will find tanks with messages scrawled across the front along the lines of 'we will crush the oppressive american dogs'. Meanwhile most of the country starves waiting for food aid the US and others provide, while the leaders sit around fucking whores and ordering the deaths of anyone who dare question their authority. Sure, India is a bit of a shithole, but they aren't comparable at all.

indubitably my good man.

This is one of the most informative posts I've ever read on slashdot! It's a shame it's so far down that few people will read it. I think someone has finally convinced me to use python. informative++; thanks!

I would have modded you funny but i've already posted. so instead:
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