Oh sure, re-post a barely re-worded 5 year old spin job in order to sell your e-trader software to people who fall for this kind of stuff.

Explaining the spin, as I'm sure many people here will tell you, almost ALL government policy de-facto redistributes wealth... ban a product, no one can buy it. Lower speed limits make faster cars less appealing and some manufacturers lose out, etc.

This article and the "interview" it shamelessly re-hashed try to make banal centrist policies - their effectiveness notwithstanding - look like some kind of socialist conspiracy.

I'm not taking a position on those policies, heck, I won't say there isn't a conspiracy but it's got to be an impressive one and it's going to take a lot more than spin doctors taking quotes from some e-mail out of context and twisting the words then appending "gate" to convince me.

Sometimes I wonder if they make these things on purpose - astute readers will notice the out-of-context hatchet job on the quotes, and people who have less time to read the article, will get angry at the "alarmist conspiracy". And then the two sides attack each other, the educated people think that the real conspiracy is to make it look like a conspiracy so oil can keep making money, but are kept busy arguing with the people complaining about "alarmists" to dig into the real conspiracy that the fake conspiracy is covering up.
It's brilliant.

I think your distinction between "seeking optima" and "creating useful things" is false/blurry and unecessary.
By your definition, free-markets are rarer than things people say are free markets, or a lot of markets are occasionally un-free.
I mean a person held at gunpoint is free to choose some things but there is an element of coercion.

I generally find it foolish to believe that either a human creation or organic patterns of human behaviour are universally and permanently adaptive, and then there is the possibility that other traits may be more adaptive, more optimal, and yet to come about. There's more than one way to shape an arrowhead.  
Note that just because one trait dies out or does not dominate does not mean it is more adaptive. It took catastrophes to unseat the dinosaurs despite Mammalian's advantages. Surely some mammals were extirpated by more established reptiles.

Human resourcing today and the phenomena of  free markets really are amazing despite their problems, but I'm sure most people agree that it could be improved upon, or at least better implemented. Keeping politics out of markets is a false dilemma if anyone is thinking that. Every action is in some way political, at least while humans are humans.

 

Avoiding the problem of running out of other people's money is generally how wealth is gained. It really only differs in how happy you make them about parting with it, and how much you have to fool them to do so.

I prefer the phrasing "the rich get richer" as it applies to systems without money, I think it causes the failure of a lot of systems, as well as the repeated failure of the most popular.

Solution:
Make a batch file with this:
with the highlighted portions edited for yourself.

Then add a task in task manager to run this Daily with a 5 minute repeat every 24 hours.

It pings your wireless router, and if it gets now response it executes the stuff under ":Fail" and reconnects your wireless connection. (192.168.0.1) should be replaced by its address. Type it (or common variations 192.168.2.1, 192.168.10.1) into your web browser adress bar to verify.
 WirelessName should be replaced by the SSID (Network name) and the name of the profile for it (Usually the same, sometimes will have a ­number after it i.e. WirelessName1, dlink1, learn2edityourSSID3 etc)
This should work on Windows 7, and Vista as is, slightly changed MAYBE?

I made half of this post pretty condescending newbie friendly, maybe I'll finish the job later.

I'll look into those  and I probably answered my own question re: kludging together auto-reconnect     in the OP...

Hello, I'm a casual miner running off my Win7 desktop, and I don't really have the time or willpower to
>install gentoo (and by that I mean Ubuntu or OpenSUSE and WINEing all my older games)
at the moment so I'm stuck with Windows.

Here's my problem - I'm a tenant stuck with using a wireless adapter linked to an older router and connectivity keeps dropping without actually disconnecting the WIFI.

Does anyone know of a program that can detect this, or a mining program that will trigger another program or reconnect when it hasn't returned a share in X amount of time, etc?
Any solution that doesn't require explaining why I want to run a cable through the front window, really.  (oh and FYI my electrical usage would peak at 50 bucks, well below my rent, I'm not an asshole trying to hide his mining).

I keep losing hours worth of shares to these damn drops, any help would be fine.  No luck with search engines.

be back later.
 

heck, if someone would point me to a command line to reset the network, I'd just task mn to do it ever 30 minutes, and make a macro a script-off switch to my keyboard so it doesn't DC me in the middle of some match...

Thanks

and I made $110 in a month of mining, average sale price was...complicated, but most from $265/BTC 0.33  $90.

It's profitable, and it's STILL profitable (thought declining). 
Not worth it as a business, really, but like I said, subsidizing GPU purchase.

Source?
I'm wondering if it accounts for Moore's Law (common usage) on steroids.

" Buying new GPUs today for mining is a good way of piling lots of cash up and lighting it on fire."

"for mining" being the key there.

For gaming but mining justifying the expenditure partially.  Especially if it's a mere 95% decrease. ( I have a feeling it'll be larger)

I've currently mined myself a nice 0.22 BTC. (I can get $2 of that from CAD virtex minus the banking fee! Gox doesn't seem to mention their fees before sign up) I'm looking into getting another GPU and hoping to recuperate (though I won't end up on the streets if I don'T) my expenditure.

If I mine for a few months this looks attainable, especially if BTC continues to trend upward (it won't, will it?).

But my question is, will mining ever stop paying out? I'm processing transactions and I'm getting (payed  for) randomly generated BTC with my pool.

What happens when we hit 21 million?
Is mining over? I've read in older articles this is the year we hit it.
What's going to keep the network going? 


Another question probably better for hardware forums - except here I won't get flooded with "Why would you want to do that?" questions.

I've got my 5870  (for 2 years I've had minings best piece of consumer hardware and haven't been using it?  tfw you only started mining because of moot)
churning away transactions at a clock that likes to crash windows but not my miner, while an old
HD 2400 is powering my desktop.
Trouble is, I can't seem to install the catalyst legacy drivers for it alongside my current catalyst drivers, preventing me from playing my less intensive games.

Anyone know a trick for this?