I don't know what it is, but my productivity leaped when I got a standing desk.
Now I send out dozens of slashdot comments a day!
But I kid.
Really. Much more productive doing actual work.
Anytime I need to do real thinking, I've historically gotten the urge to walk around. Much like the Sundance Kid, "I'm better when I move." Or that's what I thought. Now I think maybe standing with minimal movement is enough.
The Fed right now has $1.7 trillion in "toxic assets" on its balance sheet. In return, primary dealers got $1.7 trillion in deposit accounts at the Fed. No one else was going to lend to those dealers; they were tapped out, couldn't roll over their funding. But the Fed extended its unlimited safety net to them. Why not give Greece the same courtesy?
One bit of crony capitalism justifies the next? Some of us were against the Fed's bailouts too.
Well, I'm still angry that everyone seems fine with the treason Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and the others committed! Yes, the Royalist patriots will rise again! First New England, then the rest of the USA!
Oh, don't be so pissy or you won't be invited to join the Anglosphere.
Yes everyone is to blame but what is the solution?
The solution is starting to play out. A few more defaults, and governments will have a much harder time getting loans in the first place.
Everyone knows these sovereign debts, based on the indentured servitude of future generations, are never going to be repaid. At some point, there will be a rush for the exits.
*shrug* You can't? I'm pretty sure it was bankers doing it.
And... do you really believe the bankers lending them the money didn't know?
Of course they knew. And they went along with the lie to defraud the citizens of Europe into going along.
I'm confused... who held a gun to Greece's head and forced it to accept this plan to "screw" them?
The Greek government.
The creditors are the rest of Europe. The loans are with the national banks. The reason is a commercial bank had them and Greece were paying far, far, far to much interest.
Given that default is a certainty, the Greeks clearly weren't paying enough interest.
Who said the Eurocrats believed what Greece told them? They were as much in the lie as the Greeks, to get some popular approval for monetary union.
Interesting usage of "force": refusal to float an infinite supply of loans that will never be paid back.
The eurocrats are of course thugs, but limiting how much they'll shake down the rest of their subject citizens to subsidize Greece is not a great example of their thuggishness.
The Stonecutters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
", with clear differences between Republicans and Democrats, and between conservatives and liberals. For example, while 98% of AAAS members agree with the statement that "Human beings and other living things have evolved over time", only 21% of conservatives agree, compared with 54% of liberals. "
I hope PEW wasn't equally sloppy about conflating the republican/democrat axis with the conservatives/liberal axis.
One could point out that there are fewer instances of white males being miscategorized. I suspect this has less to do with any actual racism and more to do with the fact that the people who developed the algorithm are likely predominantly white males and they tend to first test the algorithm on their own collection of photos or those in their circle.
This is an argument for a more diverse workforce...
Yeah, because I bet that's how Google develops their image recognition algorithms - white guys walk around taking pictures of themselves.
As is more likely the case, there are few pictures of Albino gorillas in their machine learning corpus (racist against Albino gorillas!), and hence less data for white folks to more easily match gorillas based on macro level color characteristics.
Or did they try to say "voluntarily" in the tone of voice used by Mafia dons and IRS agents, but their voice cracked?
I believe what they did was send the gag order *directly* to the Reason editors, instead of their legal counsel, which is considered a huge and threatening breach of process in the legal world.
It is likely to have the exact opposite effect. The readers of Reason are mostly libertarian kooks that are already highly prone to conspiracy theories. Actions like this are just throwing gasoline on the flames.
Disclaimer: I am somewhat of a libertarian kook myself.
Yes, the readers are of course generally provoked. Many have changed their names to incorporate variations on the wood chipper theme.
Wouldn't you like to be a Chipper too?
here's the problem though. there's nothing remotely illegal about the statements that were made.
So it's clear on its face that the comments are free speech and not actionable. so why was the govt looking into taking action? that is the question mark.
Why? BFYTW.
The government hardly confines it's abuse to those who actually break laws. Government thugs abuse their enemies, high among them being those who highlite and oppose government thuggery.
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