Yes, I have considered the word consume and yes we are using it up when we consume it. It's not magical and it doesn't have to do with experience it. I consume food- changing it's value to virtually 0. When I consume a steamed movie it has a value to me, but that value is gone after I stop watching it. I consume the paint on the walls of my home because every day that paint becomes less valuable because it gets nicked, it fades and because it ----- here is the key ----- is perceived as less valuable as it gets older. Consume = Turning higher value into lesser value for your purposes.

What the heck does that mean "It's backed by the full faith and credit of the government"? Can I take my money, go to Washington and demand to exchange these dollars for some of the computers that the NSA uses to spy on us? Or for an acre of government land? For a little piece of a national monument? No! They won't even give you gold for it (they did up to about 100 years ago). That "full faith and credit" is just a chant that people say to try to shut down thought and reasoning. The only way that they back up dollars is by prosecuting people who counterfeit dollars, yet the problem is that the harm done by counterfeiting is the same as "Quantitative Easing" which they freely admit to doing.
The truth is that what backs up the USD is Apple who offers iPads for $xyz American dollars, Oil companies that offer barrels of oil at $abc American dollars, restaurants and grocery stores that offer products for American dollars. Its the private sector - the people of the US that give value to the US dollar. But the only thing the government does it print more of them which decreases it's value.

Then put your money where your mouth is- if it really and truely deflationary then you would make money by buying bitcoins. Yet, my guess is that you don't own any. Is it because you don't want to make money or because you don't really believe your own words.

Hmmm.... I wouldn't be willing to be paid in Mexican Pesos either, but they're a currency. Your test is bad. If/when bitcoins become more stable then I would consider getting paid in bitcoins. They're a bit more stable than I thought - I figured this MtGox thing would have reduced them to near worthless, but they only lost 50% of their value. Imagine if it were discovered that the Fed was hacked and 100 Trillion USD were dumped on the market. That would have caused huge issues in the value of dollars.

Inflation is theft of value. Deflation is creation of wealth. If you like inflation so much I'd love for you to buy into my new "Coolcoins". They're backed up by gold, but I'll increase the number of coins per gold oz every day. You'll love all that inflation.

Are you kidding? They probably have 5 or 6 timeshare sentors

He's a Democrat. You can tell that because they didn't post his party affiliation in the article. Had it been a Republican it would have read "Republican xyz who is a Republican from the Republican party did .......". To be honest, I'm surpised they didn't do the usual "Rep Joe Manchin" like they usually do in order to confuse people when a Democrat acts dishonestly

Or... maybe they're doing their job very well, but what they're attempting to do is different than what you think they're trying to do. After all, this administration has arrested and charged more whistleblowers than all other administrations - combined!

Not even then. The way it works:
Advertisement:"This lottery will add $50million a year to the schools."
Politician to staff: Cut the general budget to schools by $40million and give it to my friends at xyz corp. Then put out a press release about how school funding went up $10million dollars under my governance.
Voter: Wow, he gave $10million more toward schools? He must really care about students. He has my vote

That's according to the constitution. Obama doesn't let that stand in his way. He's got a pen and executive orders.

8% annual interest? Where are you making that!??!?!!? Sign me up! At this point, if interest rates get any lower I'll have to pay the bank to hold my money!
From my perspective, it's an issue of
LED bulb today = ~$15.00
LED bulb in 6 months = ~$5.00 ??
LED bulb in 1 year = ~$.75 ??
Might as well keep my incandescent for a little while longer. Besides, my wife doesn't like the color or the new stuff. Didn't help that we were early adopters of CFL and we have a lot of "it takes forever for these bulbs to turn on" issues which have lead to us leaving some lights on permanently.

Have you ever tried to recycle a CFL bulb? I have - it isn't that easy. Recycling centers don't want mercury- it's a hazardous substance. I had to travel 20 miles to a hazardous waste facility to ethically rid myself of it.

For me, and many other like me, it boils down to this: How accurate is the science on climate change?
If it was accurate then there would have been a consensus predicting these events. Instead what we see is many groups throwing out different predictions, and when everyone is guessing something different there is inevitably some who are right and some who are wrong. However, the fact that there is no consensus means that there isn't accuracy in the field of Climate Change and the fact that the most public predictions have been so diametrically opposite to the results demonstrates a lack of precision. No field of science can or should tolerate inaccuracy and imprecision. Until scientists can agree on models that correctly and reliably predict the effects of carbon on climate, the field of climate change study acts more like a religion in that it asks us for faith instead of facts.
I am willing to accept carbon based climate change and accept the changes required for preventing future damage, but only if it is scientifically proven. This would require models that make precise predictions that are reliably accurate. Instead we have what is like a bunch of people at the roulette table. If one guy gets 2 data points correctly everything thinks he's "on a roll", "can't miss", but if you have enough people all making different guesses, then inevitably one of those people will get 2 data points right. That guy will be just as likely to guess the next number as anyone else. There are so many climate change models out there, some guess well and some do not. Even the ones that do predict well are not consistent, and quite often contain constants that are not understood and certainly weren't predicted. This isn't science - there are no controlled studies, there is only crystal-ball gazing. Until climate science evolves to become more legitimate I am not willing to upend my life to accommodate the perceived changes required to prevent climate change.

Honestly, I think Qubes is a better match. Although, last time I looked at HURD there were no virtualization extensions

The problem is that these products don't exist to large extent. The reason is that people are unwilling to accept any performance degradation in exchange for security. So, instead they use insecure systems, then they install 'anti-virus' which seeks to un-infect a system during/after an infection. This is like telling doctors "You don't need a hazard suit for that Ebola patient. If you get Ebola we'll give you some drugs". So, in order to protect ourselves we run virtual machines so that threats such as viruses are contained.
It's disgraceful that in 2014 we don't have secure operating systems. SE Linux is better than most, but not by much. If I went to you with a USB key and said 'run this on your SE Linux box, would you feel comfortable doing that knowing that your system is safe? Probably not.
If you want real security here is what you need:
1. A true microkernel that has been mathematically proven. This code would never change because it has been proven to be perfect. There is a field of CS/Math that allows for this. The only updates that would ever be needed for this code would be if the field of CS/Math allowed for more advanced features to be proven, and probably not even then.
2. Drivers and hardware must be assumed to be subverted and untrusted. Drivers would all run in user-space processes. No hardware or drivers may be allowed to access any resources that has not be assigned to them. Hardware DMA should go through a virt-phys translation that is set up to prevent access to any unauthorized areas of memory. This can be done using new virtualization extensions such as intel VT-X and ARM MR-IOV. This is because buggy drivers/hardware are the biggest security threat vector for exploits. However, I've seen issues in VT-X that allows a PCI device to lock out the entire bus which I consider to be a DOS failure.
3. Trusted Hardware. This is the soft spot in Intel's armor. There have been some publicly embarrassments for Intel in this field- such as a cache exploit that was a significant threat in certain circumstances, or the backdoor into TPM which invalidates it's only purpose. If a company were to release a version of the ARM processor that has undergone provability in same way that software can be proven they may be able to create a secure processor that is guaranteed to not have issues to exploit.
4. A layered security approach. None of this "I to become root now, so I'll use su root". You should start in a root container that has access to the entire system within which a subcontainer would be created for what you as a user can access. Within that you can create subcontainers, each of which would have even more limit access than their parent.
I should be able to create a container that has no access to the network, or to the disk, etc
My document editor should only have access to my Documents directory
I should be able to create a container within which none of my secure files are accessible (my passwords file, my tax docs, etc). In Linux any program I run can read any file that I have permission to access- this is totally unacceptable!
5. Visibility - the difference between malware and useful software is whether the user wants that program to be doing what its doing. When I look at my Linux system I see hundreds of processes and I don't know what many of them are doing. Any of those programs could be malware and I wouldn't know the difference. We need to have a better way for users to really see what's going on in your system and what resources are accessible to which programs. For instance:
You should be able to see which programs have access to the keyboard events. This would immediately tell you if you have a keylogger
You should be able to see which programs have access to which parts of your harddrive, and what they are doing. Can't tell you how many times I've heard my HDD spin up without any idea why. It sends a chill up my spine every time
You should be able to limit which ip addresses a program can access and which protocols it can use. No more 'call home' programs- even if your browser was exploited.
Secure computing has great potential. If we did have truly secure systems and we knew that our systems were immune to these issues then you can image having web browsers that could download and execute native code. However, now we have java as a virtual computer to provide us security and even then it doesn't really protect us because bugs spring up in the optimization process and put us at risk. Additionally these java programs have very course limits on their security. I dream of a day when systems are so secure we don't have to worry about it anymore.