BitTorrent may be primarily used for piracy at the moment, as its decentralized and peer - to - peer nature are a direct response to efforts to crack down on Napster and other peer - to - peer networks
with central points of failure.
In this series, we cover stories and provide insightful analysis of the digital currencies such as bitcoin
with no central point of control over the money supply.
Osprey Lake of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) in the United States, where the battle over the Keystone XL Pipeline and the development of the Alberta Tar Sands is raging, addressed the failure of the COP to deal
with the central point of ending fossil fuel extraction: «With the COP taking place in Peru, it is the first time a UNFCCC meeting was held in an Amazon country.
This one «Greedy Granadilla» has four points,
with its central point taking some of the stress; but for me it comes to the ground more naturally.
Justice Gorsuch did not join one section, but agreed
with the central point of Justice Kagan's opinion: The residual clause in the Immigration and Nationality Act is unconstitutionally vague.
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«We have to deal
with the possibility that at one
point, the Federal Reserve and other
central banks may have to take more drastic action than they currently anticipate — reacting to the markets, not guiding the markets,» Dimon wrote in the letter.
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From the driver's
point of view, the cockpit is a pleasing combination of new and old,
with the multi-screen infotainment system on the center stack but the
central instrument cluster analog - style old - school.
«These centralized databases are
central points of failure for your identity,» Lingham said, noting that in the case of a hack — as occurred
with Equifax — all that information gets compromised.
While the government's policies have remained opaque, officials
with the Russian
Central Bank have talked about blocking the access of people inside the country to virtual currency websites, and Mr. Putin has
pointed out the many potential illegal uses of the technology.
At a time when markets are
pointing to the problem over the next generation as being inadequate rather than excessive inflation,
central bankers need to spur demand and co-operate
with governments.
Strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch put a fine
point on the paradox of how
central banks created both a liquidity solution and problem
with their historically aggressive measures while they and congressional legislators created a tighter regulatory environment.
In part this reflects the starting
point of many
central banks that adopted inflation targeting: they generally had a poor inflation history and low credibility
with the public and financial markets.
All eyes are now on the Federal Reserve and especially the
central bank's monetary statement,
with all signs
pointing to a rate hike at tomorrow's meeting...
Ultimately, the
central authority becomes a
point of weakness as there is only one list
with this vital information available.
As its defenders
point out, it will be difficult for the U.S. government to completely stamp out Bitcoin use, since there is no
central repository for the currency and no
central authority that can be targeted (there is a FAQ
with some responses to popular misconceptions about Bitcoin, including the
central authority question).
Central Banks appear to hold «all the cards»
with respect to guiding global growth and are at a critical
point 6 years after guiding the global economy from the depths of the Great Recession.
With the recovery consolidating across the region, the European
Central Bank raised interest rates by 50 basis
points to 3 per cent in November.
«Advances in mobile
point - of - sale, omni - channel retailing, and core payment technology have been
central to Moneris and we look forward to future collaboration
with startups to help steer the development of market - changing payment technologies.»
The inclusion of these ideas in the CIC report underscores a key
point about the importance of Asia for Canada — that Asia's rise matters for all of Canada, and that an Asia strategy should be
central to Canadian public policy as a whole, rather than a niche activity for a few line departments that deal
with «international» issues.
But if we get to the
point where we are back to zero - interest rates or worse, negative interest rates, the next logical step for
central bankers is the eradication of cash and controlling our buying which can only really be done electronically
with this emerging cryptocurrency technology.
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Certainly the Japanese, so its all being done so —
with the — Donald Trump wanting to turn around the trade deficit, you can't help but say hey maybe they are actually onto something because they have an independent
central bank well --(unintelligible) the independent
central bank that goes upon its course based on what its seeing here you know based on domestic economic activity, while everybody else is setting it to international standards then tariffs become the — I guess the alternative especially when the feds is raising the interest rates and they're the only
central bank really raising interest rates... I know... the bank of England went half a basis
point, quarter basis
point and they are project to go a quarter basis
point tomorrow which we will see.
In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up
with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the
point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the
central bank radically to change their policy.
I think the United States will be the first
central bank to unwind,
with Europe following suit at some
point.
He looked at each situation and used the principles of the Gospel as the
central guide
point — even if it didn't sit well
with people.
If we take Father Schall's
pointed jest and explore it in relation to Walker Percy's own long journey, we see the heart of Percy's concern, a concern
central to his fascination
with the mystery of sign, of language, in relation to the reality we experience either by a deportment through ordinate sentiment to reality or a deportment of sentimentality, that is, a manner divorced from reality.
This is the
central point of man that is different than animal as we were gifted
with capacity to worship God (worship is closely connected
with the emotive expressions of love).
He could have eased the situation by paying the workers in the order in which they'd arrived: those hired first would have left the vineyard
with what they'd received and not been upset by what happened next But this is a
central point in the story.
Now my main
point in mentioning this is to indicate the seriousness
with which some influential Chinese take process thought or constructive postmodern thought and, accordingly, want to know how it addresses what is for Marxists a
central notion.
Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them
with their readers... The
point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its
central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»
It is worth
pointing out in response that anyone who thinks Christians have never grappled
with the problem of evil can never have noticed that the crucifix is the
central symbol of Christian faith.
He correctly
points out that the Miami Cubans represent no monolith - they are too often portrayed in the media as knee - jerk anti-Communist Republicans - but he fails to grasp fully the community's views on a whole range of pressing social matters, including its relations
with blacks, whites, Haitians, and recent
Central - American immigrants.
By the use of a brilliant analogy this twelfth section begins by describing the true and the false way of reading or listening to a devotional address and the following sections set forth
with pointed directness the
central issue of what it means to be an individual.
But now it has been published, and... and it turns out that while I agree
with him on about 90 % of what he writes in the book, I disagree
with him on the
central point.
So the second main
point of disagreement I have
with Boyd is in his
central thesis that God withdraws from sin to let it have its way
with us.
This is the
central point from which to understand, face up to and judge mission and its relationship
with communication.
With regard to translation in the literal sense, Eugene Nida used to say regularly that no translation from one language to another can ever be perfectly accurate, but that in every specific interlinguistic interface it is possible to find a substantially adequate rendering of the
central point of the original text.
But at the
central point he remains alien to us as to them, more alien than he was in the 18th century
with its Benjamin Franklins.
The selection alone might be enough to raise eyebrows in some quarters: can we really learn anything from Friedrich Schleiermacher?McDermott answers
with a cautious «yes,» patiently discerning the shape of their
central ideas while
pointing out minefields as they arise.
I am grateful to Glenn Sauer for raising what I think is the
central point for traditional theists grappling
with the theological implications of Darwin's theory.
Such a philosophy of interpretation is an ellipse
with two foci that meditation tends to conflate but which can never be reduced to a unified
central point.
But there are several
points that deserve special emphasis here: (1) «The radical new view of alcoholism, not as a disease but as a «
central activity in heavy drinkers» way of life,» as described by Herbert Fingarette... clearly has transforming implications for conceptualizing and dealing
with the ethical issues in alcohol addiction....
But the meaning which this form of expression is intended to convey must be illuminated from the
central point of the proclamation, not by disregarding these forms of expression but, if I may be pardoned the metaphor, in continuous dialogue
with it.
The
central problem
with «intelligent design» — and one which Fr Stephen Dingley
pointed out when he reviewed Behe et al.'s book in the March / April 2001 edition of the Faith magazine — is that it posits, justas happily as would neo-Darwinians, that the evolutionary process is a «random» and unguided one, alongside which they then place «intelligent causes,» as if they were competitors.
In the latter the finite universe was almost alive, filled
with self - moving bodies seeking their natural place of rest: natures moved teleologically to seek fulfilment; the earth occupied the
central, lowest
point, to which all heavy bodies tended.
They
point to her 2 - 1 margin
with Latinos over Obama in the 2008 primary and the latest party platform, which calls for a path to citizenship «for law - abiding families who are here,» the end of immigration raids against children and families, due process for «those fleeing violence in
Central America,» and to rescind statutory bans on immigrants who modify their status in the country.
My position is that genuine openness to this perception enables us to peel back the layers of misinterpretation that resulted from the church's turning away from this
central thesis and to recapture the vital message of a living, interactive, supremely relational deity to whom Jesus consistently
pointed, a God who wills to be intimately interconnected
with God's people and God's world, i.e., the entire cosmos.