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The Global Economy: 4 Problems, 3 Challenges
The below is from an article I stumbled across while reading about the Wikileaks release of IMF transcripts.
The author, Paul Mason does offer some suggestions as to resolving the below situation, but I don't feel they deal with the issues described either, so have not included that part of the article.
Primarily this is because of the assumed benevolence and efficiency of an expanding government in creating a less complex financial system. Solutions to those kind of issues take us back far beyond the last 25-30 years of 'neoliberalism' as used as the frame of reference for Mason's article. Those topics are the sort of things that lead back to the era of the central banking's rise to power as unaccountable institutions and their shareholders that have control of the money supply, distribution and creation.
I do feel however that it is a decent introduction into the systemic problems that have massive implications for global, national, local economies and markets.
Neoliberalism is broken because four things that enabled a “heroic period” of growth, stability, global development and technological innovation have turned against the dynamism of the system as a whole.
The first is FIAT MONEY. If you detach money from both metals and real economic activity, and incentivise money creation as the driver of growth, then growth will happen; and financial complexity will increase; and asset wealth will begin to take over from wealth derived from productivity. And if you — as we did in the last 15 years — create a derivatives market several times the size of the economy, you create a finance system that must — by logic — at some point become too big for the physical economy that’s supporting it.
The second problem is FINANCIALISATION. Neoliberalism is the first mode of capitalism in which the capitalists decided they could not tolerate organised labour. The resulting collapse in wage bargaining power, aided by the doubling of the number of salaried workers in the world in 25 years, means wages have stagnated in the developed world. If you then replace wages as the driver of consumption with mass access to credit you create a mechanism whereby the collapse of an investment bank in Manhattan can empty a pub in Lambeth the next day.
The third problem is the GLOBAL IMBALANCES. By neoliberalism I mean the whole global system: the system whereby the USA borrows, China lends; the USA consumes; China produces. During the pre-2008 boom everybody suddenly got very worried about the imbalances, because the gross financial imbalance in the world economy was clearly the source of excess money that allowed cheap money plus financialisation. The 2008 collapse, in this sense, was a partial correction — but it still leaves the entire world economy trapped within the more fundamental imbalance — which has grown: the large cross-border holdings of unpayable debt, increasingly yielding negative returns, and destined to be wiped out in a spectacular cathartic moment.
The fourth problem is FALLING PRODUCTIVITY. This is a multicausal secondary effect of the other problems:
- stagnant wages make it easier to open a coffee shop than invent a new process or machine
- the boom-bust cycles seriously mis-allocate capital, funneling it towards speculation rather than innovation
- consumption driven by cheap lending requires the creation of millions of bullshit jobs so that people can remain on the edge of the credit system, not excluded from itStagnant wages combined with cheap money policies in the face of every cyclical downturn creates, in the space of 20 years, three spectacular boom-bust cycles. In the first it was equities that were overvalued; in the second it was securitised financial instruments based on housing; in the third it is government debts. So that when you come later in your careers to write the history of these 20 years I predict you will remember the dotcom crash for Enron; the 2008 crash for Lehman Brothers; the next crash for China.
Each of these crashes wipes some more value and dynamism out of the economy. The dotcom crash destroyed the company pensions system; the 2008 crisis put the banking system on permanent life support, plunged an entire generation into lifetime debt, and took a chunk out of the welfare state; the next crash will involve debt write downs paid for out of the savings of ordinary people.
The outcomes? One, that the system holds together and the world’s households, workers and consumers are forced to pay, over a lifetime of indebtedness and low wages, for the dysfunctionality of the system. But you’ve seen this weekend the limits of that, with the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith. The entire 6-years fiscal framework of the British government has been founded on an arbitrary cap on welfare spending that one of the toughest conservatives of his generation found impossible to implement.
Duncan Smith faces the same problem Xi Jin Ping faces, and the hapless mandarins of the Republican and Democratic centre ground face. People are mad as hell and won’t take it much longer.
Carney, Draghi, the Banks of China and Japan are all engaged in one last round of monetary easing, but they are flashing up the warning cards: unless some kind of structural reform or debt write-off happens, monetary policy is running out of steam.
In 1990 Paul Romer formulated the basic challenge of information technology. Digital information has a near zero reproduction cost and under conditions of a free market and competition its price will fall close to zero. The non-rivalry inherent in information goods means that, once produced, they are abundant.
You can only maintain price, and therefore the price mechanism, by accepting something neoclassical economics says should be impossible: the permanent existence of market distortions: monopolies, patents, copyrights, the capture of positive externalities by corporations.
So when iTunes has 95% market share of online music the price of a track is 99p irrespective of supply, demand or quality. The price is set by Apple’s monopoly pricing power and both the producer and consumer must take the downside of an essentially rent-seeking monopolistic distribution platform.
The only problem is, competition and innovation will happen, so now we have Spotify: £9.99 a month for all the music you can listen to. If you want to make the minimum wage as a solo artist you need 1,500 plays on iTunes, but you need 1.1 million plays on Spotify.
Once you can reproduce someting via “command C, command V” you are in a post-marginalist world. Because the tenet of marginalism is that everything economic is scarce, and that anything abundant is beyond the frame of economic thinking.
Put simply: information corrodes the price mechanism and the defensive walls — monopolies, IP, encryption etc etc — are always corroded. If you don’t believe me look up the market share of a company called Blackberry.
That’s problem number one. The second challenge is: information corrodes the link between hours of work and wages. It makes high-value work modular, driven by targets; and it makes low-value work difficult to place a market value. Millions of people’s wages in the developed world are determined not by the market but by an artificial floor placed under them for the purposes of a) social cohesion b) inclusion in the financialised consumption system.
Challenge number three is we already have a growing, dynamic post-market sector. Wikipedia — a £3bn minus sign on the global advertising economy, powered by 27,000 regular writers, produced for free, consumed for free; Linux, which runs the top 500 supercomputers in the world; Apache which runs half of all web servers. And numerous quietly spectacular good enough tools and solutions produced and maintained for free.
Source: "From Adam Smith to Duncan Smith" by Paul Mason of Mosquito Ridge
Blame liberals for Trump
The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative
EgyptAir hijack: Man surrenders at Larnaca airport
Falkland Islands fears new ruling expanding Argentina's sea control
Can Micro Bit replicate BBC Micro success?
Pet insurance claims hit record number
US pulls Tanzanian aid worth $470m over Zanzibar vote
White House to commit $116m to heroin and opioid abuse epidemic
War on Drugs Meant to Disrupt Blacks and Hippies
A Former Nixon Aide Admitted the 'War on Drugs' Was Designed to Screw Over Blacks and Hippies
According to Watergate mastermind and former Richard Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, the then-president launched the notorious (and ongoing) war on drugs in 1971 to disrupt that administration's two greatest perceived threats: black people and antiwar leftists.
The brazen quote surfaced in the April cover story of Harper's magazine that was written by Dan Baum and went online Tuesday. The reporter recalls an interview back in 1994 in which Ehrlichman bluntly explained the whole thing.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying?" Ehrlichman told Baum. "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
Obvious? Sure. But it's important to get this kind of history explicitly out in the open so that mistakes can be corrected.
Here's the article at Harper's Magazine.
Dice in Hot Water
Too spicy for SoylentNews... not spicy enough for your job:
'Hot Tech Talent' IT job board ads caught up in sexism allegations
Dice, formerly the IT Job Boards, said it intended the images, which feature both men and women, to be light-hearted. Part of the drive behind the campaign was to counter the notion that people working in technology were "nerds".
China Uses Trump as a Warning Against Democracy
Democracy is a joke, says China – just look at Donald Trump
“The rise of a racist in the US political area worries the whole world,” the party-controlled Global Times crowed this week ahead of of Trump’s victory in the latest round of primaries. “He has even been called another Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler by some western media.” It added, darkly: “Mussolini and Hitler came to power through elections, a heavy lesson for western democracy.”
Trump, or “Chuanpu” as they call him in China, has been a gift to Communist party spin doctors paid to convince the country’s 1.4 billion citizens that rule of the people is a sure path to chaos and destruction.
“They are relishing this moment,” says Zhou Fengsuo, a US-based democracy activist who fled his native China following the deadly 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. “They are very happy. They are laughing over this. To them [Trump] is a good character to show the deficiencies of the democratic system, that such a person could become president. It is just unbelievable. Beijing is definitely gloating over this.”
[...] Chinese newspapers, which have previously pounced on the Arab Spring and Ukraine’s Maidan revolution as evidence of the dangers of democracy, have wasted no time in hyping the potential turmoil that Trump’s rise could bring.
An editorial in the Chinese-language edition of the Global Times noted with glee that fighting had broken out at Trump rallies in what was supposedly one of the world’s “most developed and mature democratic election systems”.
[...] An editorial on another government-run website claimed Trump had “humiliated” the US political system. “He has turned the election into a prank,” it said.
Florida Deputy Illegally Arrests Protesting PINAC Reporter
WATCH: Florida Deputy Illegally Arrests PINAC Reporter Protesting At High School
Broadcast by honoryouroath + YouTube
Florida Sheriff’s deputies illegally enforced the “school safety zones” trespassing law against PINAC reporter Jeff Gray, outside of a St. Augustine high school earlier today. Gray complied with law enforcement orders, and is currently being held in the northeastern Florida St. Johns County jail, but oddly no charges are listed with his mugshot, unlike all of the other suspects as you can see below.
The St. Johns Sheriff’s Office has wanted to detain Gray for many months now, after the local schools Superintendent declared him persona non grata, even though Gray has a son currently attending St. Augustine High School and two other children in the system.
Jeff Gray was arrested while protesting with a sign in hand, the SLAPP lawsuit filed against him by St. Johns Schools last December. The legal action was filed along with 38 SLAPP letters sent to his home address by certified mail, one of which invoked Florida Statute 810.0975 and its “school safety zones.”
“How are you doing, Mr. Gray?” asked the Florida deputy as he got out of his patrol car, wearing street clothing, to which Jeff responded, “Pretty good. How are you?” “May I ask you why are you here?” asked the St. Johns sheriff’s deputy. “I am peacefully assembling and peacefully protesting,” replied Gray. “Ok. Do you realize [that] this is a violation of your no trespass order that was issued. Correct?” asked the deputy.
“No, it’s not actually. There’s a provision that that says “shall not infringe on the right to peacefully assemble and protest If you look in the statute, it’s right there,” said Gray, whose HonorYourOath YouTube page is famously filled with instances like these where the reporter very carefully expresses to the officers his statutory or constitutional rights, and he re-iterated for emphasis, “In the statute. That’s why I’m here.”
“This is within the 500 foot safety rule, so i’m putting you under arrest for violation of that trespass order,” replied the Florida deputy who seemed to suddenly remember that Gray is a reporter and would in all likelihood be recording the scene, “If you would, put your sign down, turn your phone off, put your hands behind your back, turn around please. Put your hands together like you’re praying, please.”
Gray surrendered to detainment. “If you look at the statute, there’s a provision…” said Gray as the sheriff’s deputy cuffed him. But Jeff Gray is right. The last sentence of the “School Safety Zones” statute reads: “Nothing in this section shall be construed to abridge or infringe upon the right of any person to peaceably assemble and protest.”
Hillary Clinton Lie of the Day
Hillary Clinton Falsely Credits Reagans With Starting ‘National Conversation’ on HIV/AIDS
Edit: BBC picked up on the story.
16 GB DDR4 Modules Becoming More Common
HyperX Introduces 16 GB DDR4 Impact SODIMM Modules, Kits Up To 64 GB At 2400 MHz
There are a couple 16 GB DDR4 SODIMM memory modules out there, but not very many. However, Kingston is filling the gap with new HyperX modules, which it uses in six new memory kits in its DDR4 Impact line.
The 16 GB DDR4 SODIMM modules will exist in two variants, one with a 2133 MHz frequency and the other at 2400 MHz. The latencies depend on the kit they're in, although the lower-frequency model has slightly quicker timings, as is usually the case.
16 GB modules for consumers are becoming more common, and DDR4 prices are dropping due to the usual industry oversupply. You probably remember a time when 8 GB or 4 GB modules were in this position. What amount of RAM do you want or need for gaming or VM/work computers? Is the requirement of a DDR4-capable motherboard holding you back?
Edit: I didn't realize the story is for SODIMM laptop memory. I don't see a lot of DDR4 laptops because I mainly look at deals which are for older laptops. A typical laptop with removable/replaceable RAM will have 2 slots, so that's 32 GB of memory with this kit.
Older stories:
Price Check: DDR4 Memory Down Nearly 40% in 6 Months, Expected To Continue
G.Skill Introduces 64GB DDR4-3200 Memory Kits
G.Skill Announces 128 GB DDR4 3000 MHz Kit For Content Creation Professionals
Price Check: Price Gap Between DDR3 and DDR4 Memory Almost Gone
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var tempspan = document.createElement("span");
tempspan.setAttribute("id","htmlFormatButtons");
if (document.getElementById("posttype") && document.getElementById("posttype").selectedIndex == 0)
{
tempspan.setAttribute("style","display:none;"); // Hide if initial post type option is "Plain Old Text"
}
if (document.getElementById("posttype"))
{
document.getElementById("posttype").addEventListener("change", function() {if (document.getElementById('posttype').selectedIndex == 0) {document.getElementById('htmlFormatButtons').style.display = 'none'} else {document.getElementById('htmlFormatButtons').style.display = 'inline'}}); // Change visibility of these buttons based on value of post type
}
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","P");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Wrap \u003Cp\u003E tags around the selected text.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addPara(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
tempspan.appendChild(tempbutton);
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","BR");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Insert a line break.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addBreak(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
tempspan.appendChild(tempbutton);
toolbar.appendChild(tempspan);// HR button, if editing a story
if (boxes[x].name == "introtext" || boxes[x].name == "bodytext" || boxes[x].name == "story")
{
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","HR");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Insert a horizontal rule.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("style","text-decoration:underline overline;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addHRule(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
tempspan.appendChild(tempbutton);
toolbar.appendChild(tempspan);
}// URL button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","URL");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Create a hyperlink around the selected text.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("style","text-decoration:underline;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addHyperlink(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);
toolbar.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));// Bold button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","B");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Bold");
tempbutton.setAttribute("style","font-weight:bold;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addBold(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);// Italic button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","I");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Italic");
tempbutton.setAttribute("style","font-style:italic;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addItalic(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);// Strike button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","S");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Strikethrough");
tempbutton.setAttribute("style","text-decoration:line-through;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addStrike(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);toolbar.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" ")); // Divider
// Code button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","Code");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Wrap \u003Cecode\u003E tags around the selected text.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("style","font-family:monospace;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addEcode(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);// Teletype button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","TT");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Wrap \u003Ctt\u003E (teletype, i.e. monospace) tags around the selected text.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("style","font-family:monospace;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addTT(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);// Small button, if editing a story
if (boxes[x].name == "introtext" || boxes[x].name == "bodytext" || boxes[x].name == "story")
{
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","\u0073\u1D0D\u1D00\u029F\u029F");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Wrap \u003Csmall\u003E tags around the selected text.");
// tempbutton.setAttribute("style","font-size:75%;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addSmall(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);
}toolbar.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" ")); // Divider
// Superscript button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","x\u00B2");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Superscript");
tempbutton.setAttribute("style","font-family:monospace;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addSuper(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);// Subscript button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","x\u2082");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Subscript");
tempbutton.setAttribute("style","font-family:monospace;");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addSubsc(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);toolbar.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" ")); // Divider
// Ordered list button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","1. List");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Insert an ordered list or convert newline-separated text into an ordered list.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addOrdlist(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);// Unordered list button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","\u2022 List");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Insert an unordered list or convert newline-separated text into an unordered list.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","addUnordlist(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);toolbar.appendChild(document.createElement("br")); // Divider
// Create 7 macro buttons
for (var i=1; i<=7; i++)
{
// Create macros if they don't exist
if(!localStorage.getItem("soymacro"+i))
{
localStorage.setItem("soymacro"+i,JSON.stringify(["M"+i,"string","Sample Text"]));
//localStorage.setItem("soymacro"+i,JSON.stringify(["M"+i,"regexp","/a/gi","b"]));
}
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("id","soymacros"+x+"button"+i);
tempbutton.setAttribute("value",JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("soymacro"+i))[0]);
if (JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("soymacro"+i))[1]=="string")
{
if (JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("soymacro"+i))[2].length < 40)
{
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Insert or replace selected text with: " + JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("soymacro"+i))[2]);
}
else
{
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Insert or replace selected text with: " + JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("soymacro"+i))[2].substring(0,40)+"...");
}
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","macroChoose(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"],"+i+");");
}
else
{
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Replace text matched by the regular expression: " + JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("soymacro"+i))[2] + " with: " + JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("soymacro"+i))[3]);
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","macroChoose(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"],"+i+");");
}
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);
}
// Create macros edit button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","Edit");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Configure user macros or discard changes.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","if (document.getElementById('macrobar"+x+"').style.display == 'none') {document.getElementById('macrobar"+x+"').style.display = 'block'; macrobarInit("+x+");} else {document.getElementById('macrobar"+x+"').style.display = 'none'; if (p = document.getElementById('postercomment')) { var x = p.offsetTop; while (p = p.offsetParent) {x += p.offsetLeft;} window.scrollTo(0,x-75);}}");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);toolbar.appendChild(document.createElement("br")); // Divider
// Despace button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value","Despace");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Delete newlines within the selection.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","despace(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"]);");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);// Symbol button
var tempbutton = document.createElement("input");
tempbutton.setAttribute("type","button");
tempbutton.setAttribute("value",":-)");
tempbutton.setAttribute("title","Insert a symbol.");
tempbutton.setAttribute("onclick","if (document.getElementById('smilebar"+x+"').style.display == 'none') {document.getElementById('smilebar"+x+"').style.display = 'block'} else {document.getElementById('smilebar"+x+"').style.display = 'none'; if (p = document.getElementById('postercomment')) { var x = p.offsetTop; while (p = p.offsetParent) {x += p.offsetLeft;} window.scrollTo(0,x-75); } }");
toolbar.appendChild(tempbutton);
boxes[x].parentNode.insertBefore(toolbar, boxes[x].nextSibling);// Symbol list
var smilebar = document.createElement("div");
smilebar.setAttribute("style","-moz-user-select:none; -webkit-user-select:none; display:none; font-size:16pt; max-height:240px; overflow:auto; padding:0.5em;");
smilebar.setAttribute("id","smilebar"+x);
var smiles = ["\u0026amp;","\u0026lt;","\u0026gt;"];var codes = [[161,169],[171,172],[174],[176,177],[180,183],[187,191],[215],[224,255],[402],[629],[632],[916],[920],[931],[934],[937],[945,946],[956],[960],[963],[8216,8221],[8226],[8230],[8251],[8364],[8478],[8482],[8528,8542],[8585],[8592,8652],[8712,8716],[8721],[8730],[8733,8734],[8736],[8743,8749],[8756,8757],[8773],[8776],[8800,8805],[8834,8837],[8984],[9760],[9762,9765],[9770],[9773,9775],[9784,9794],[9812,9831],[9833,9842],[9850],[9855,9861],[9874,9877],[9882,9885],[9888,9893],[9913],[9940],[9962],[9971],[9981],[9992,10087],[65533],[127744,127756],[127759],[127775,127776],[127797],[127801],[127804,127812],[127817],[127820,127822],[127828,127831],[127838,127839],[127843],[127849],[127855],[127860,127867],[127891],[127904,127911],[127918],[127939],[127942],[127977],[128025],[128074,128078],[128123,128131],[128137,128142],[128148,128150],[128152],[128158],[128161,128164],[128168,128170],[128172],[128176,128177],[128187],[128189,128190],[128193,128194],[128197],[128203,128204],[128206],[128214],[128225,128227],[128231,128233],[128241],[128244],[128246],[128250,128252],[128259],[128266,128270],[128273,128276],[128278,128280],[128286],[128293,128299],[128302,128303],[128509,128565],[128659],[128684,128685]];
for (var i=0; i<codes.length; i++) { if (codes[i].length > 1) { for (var j=codes[i][0]; j<=codes[i][1]; j++) { smiles[smiles.length] = String.fromCodePoint(j); } } else { smiles[smiles.length] = String.fromCodePoint(codes[i][0]); } } // Populate smiles array with code ranges converted to individual characters
smiles = smiles.concat(["xD",":-)",":^)","(^_^;)","(\u00A0\u0361\u00B0\u00A0\u035C\u0296\u00A0\u0361\u00B0)","(\u00A0\u0361\u007E\u00A0\u035C\u0296\u00A0\u0361\u00B0)\uFEFF","\u00AF\u005C\u005F(\u30C4)\u005F\u002F\u00AF","(\u256F\u00B0\u25A1\u00B0\uFF09\u256F\uFE35\u00A0\u253B\u2501\u253B","(\u30CE\u0CA0\u76CA\u0CA0)\u30CE\u5F61\u253B\u2501\u253B","(\u0060\uFF65\u03C9\uFF65\u00B4)","\u0CA0_\u0CA0","\u0295\u2022\u1D25\u2022\u0294","(\u3065\uFFE3\u00A0\u00B3\uFFE3)\u3065","\u0669(\u204E\u275B\u1D17\u275B\u204E)\u06F6","\u30FD\u0F3C\u0E88\u0644\u035C\u0E88\u0F3D\uFF89","(\uB208\u2038\uB208)","\u006F(\u3003\uFF3E\u25BD\uFF3E\u3003)\u006F","\u0028\u0028\u30FE\u0028\u2267\u76BF\u2266\uFF1B\u0029\u30CE\uFF3F\u0029\u0029","\u30FD\u0028\u002A\u2312\u2207\u2312\u002A\u0029\uFF89","\u0028\u2267\u2207\u2266\u0029\u002F"]); // Add in arbitrary emoticons
for (var i=0; i<smiles.length; i++)
{
var smile = document.createElement("span");
smile.setAttribute("style","cursor:pointer; padding:2px; white-space:nowrap;");
smile.setAttribute("onclick","addSmile(document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')["+x+"],'"+smiles[i].replace("\u005C","\u005C\u005C")+"');");
smile.appendChild(document.createTextNode(smiles[i]));
smilebar.appendChild(smile);
if (i+1<smiles.length)
{
smilebar.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));
}
}
toolbar.parentNode.insertBefore(smilebar, toolbar.nextSibling);// Create macro configuration interface
var macrobar = document.createElement("div");
macrobar.setAttribute("style","display:none; padding:0.5em;");
macrobar.setAttribute("id","macrobar"+x);
var table = document.createElement("table");
var tr = document.createElement("tr");
var th = document.createElement("th");
th.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Name"));
tr.appendChild(th);
var th = document.createElement("th");
th.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Type"));
tr.appendChild(th);
var th = document.createElement("th");
th.appendChild(document.createTextNode("String | Expression"));
tr.appendChild(th);
var th = document.createElement("th");
th.setAttribute("title","Only used with expressions. Parenthesized substring matches (e.g. '$1') can be used.");
th.setAttribute("style","cursor:help;");
th.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Expression Replace"));
tr.appendChild(th);
table.appendChild(tr);
for (var i=1; i<=7; i++)
{
var tr = document.createElement("tr");// Macro name
var td = document.createElement("td");
var name = document.createElement("input");
name.setAttribute("type","text");
name.setAttribute("id","soymacros"+x+"name"+i);
td.appendChild(name);
tr.appendChild(td);// Macro type
var td = document.createElement("td");
var rad = document.createElement("input");
rad.setAttribute("type","radio");
rad.setAttribute("name","soymacros"+x+"type"+i);
rad.setAttribute("id","soymacros"+x+"type"+i+"S");
td.appendChild(rad);
td.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" String "));
var rad = document.createElement("input");
rad.setAttribute("type","radio");
rad.setAttribute("name","soymacros"+x+"type"+i);
rad.setAttribute("id","soymacros"+x+"type"+i+"E");
td.appendChild(rad);
td.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" Expression "));
tr.appendChild(td);// Field A
var td = document.createElement("td");
var f1 = document.createElement("input");
f1.setAttribute("type","text");
f1.setAttribute("id","soymacros"+x+"fieldA"+i);
td.appendChild(f1);
tr.appendChild(td);// Field B
var td = document.createElement("td");
var f1 = document.createElement("input");
f1.setAttribute("type","text");
f1.setAttribute("id","soymacros"+x+"fieldB"+i);
td.appendChild(f1);
tr.appendChild(td);table.appendChild(tr);
}
macrobar.appendChild(table);var p = document.createElement("p");
var save = document.createElement("input");
save.setAttribute("type","button");
save.setAttribute("value","Save");
save.setAttribute("title","Save any edits to the macro configuration.");
save.setAttribute("onclick","macrobarSave("+x+");");
p.appendChild(save);
p.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));
var guide = document.createElement("a");
guide.setAttribute("href","https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions");
guide.setAttribute("target","_blank");
guide.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Regexp Guide"));
p.appendChild(guide);
macrobar.appendChild(p);toolbar.parentNode.insertBefore(macrobar, toolbar.nextSibling);
}var temp = document.createElement("script");
// Add selection handling function
temp.appendChild(document.createTextNode("function getSelection(textarea) { if ('selectionStart' in textarea) { if (textarea.selectionStart != textarea.selectionEnd) { return [textarea.selectionStart,textarea.selectionEnd]; } } } "));// Add comment formatting buttons
temp.appendChild(document.createTextNode("function addBlockquote(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<blockquote>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/blockquote>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addPara(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<p>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/p>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addBreak(area) { if ('selectionStart' in area) { var pos = area.selectionStart; area.value = area.value.substring(0,area.selectionStart) + '<br>' + area.value.substring(pos); area.focus(); area.setSelectionRange(pos+4,pos+4) } } function addHRule(area) { if ('selectionStart' in area) { var pos = area.selectionStart; area.value = area.value.substring(0,area.selectionStart) + '<hr>' + area.value.substring(pos); area.focus(); area.setSelectionRange(pos+4,pos+4) } } function addHyperlink(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { url = prompt('URL:', 'https://'); area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<a href=\"'+url+'\">'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/a>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addBold(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<b>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/b>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addItalic(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<em>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/em>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addStrike(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<strike>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/strike>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addEcode(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<ecode>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/ecode>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addTT(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<tt>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/tt>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addSmall(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<small>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/small>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addSuper(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<sup>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/sup>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } function addSubsc(area) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (!(sel[0] == 0 && sel[1] == 0)) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + '<sub>'+area.value.substring(sel[0],sel[1])+'<\/sub>' + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } } "));// Add list creation functions
temp.appendChild(document.createTextNode("function addOrdlist(area) { if ('selectionStart' in area) { if (area.selectionStart != area.selectionEnd) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,area.selectionStart) + '<ol><li>' + area.value.substring(area.selectionStart,area.selectionEnd).replace(/\\n/g,'<\/li>\\n<li>').replace(/\\n<li><\\/li>/g,'') + '<\/li><\/ol>' + area.value.substring(area.selectionEnd); } else { temp = '<ol>'; while(listitem = prompt('Enter a list item. Leave the box empty or press Cancel to complete the list:', '')) { temp += '<li>' + listitem + '<\/li>\\n'; } area.value = area.value.substring(0,area.selectionStart) + temp.substring(0,temp.length-1) + '<\/ol>' + area.value.substring(area.selectionStart); } } } function addUnordlist(area) { if ('selectionStart' in area) { if (area.selectionStart != area.selectionEnd) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,area.selectionStart) + '<ul><li>' + area.value.substring(area.selectionStart,area.selectionEnd).replace(/\\n/g,'<\/li>\\n<li>').replace(/\\n<li><\\/li>/g,'') + '<\/li><\/ul>' + area.value.substring(area.selectionEnd); } else { temp = '<ul>'; while(listitem = prompt('Enter a list item. Leave the box empty or press Cancel to complete the list:', '')) { temp += '<li>' + listitem + '<\/li>\\n'; } area.value = area.value.substring(0,area.selectionStart) + temp.substring(0,temp.length-1) + '<\/ul>' + area.value.substring(area.selectionStart); } } }"));// Add macro functions
temp.appendChild(document.createTextNode("function macroChoose(area,x) { if (JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('soymacro'+x))[1]=='string') { macroString(area,x); } else { macroRegexp(area,x); } }"));
temp.appendChild(document.createTextNode("function macroString(area,x) { var sel = getSelection(area); if (sel && sel[0] != sel[1]) { area.value = area.value.substring(0,sel[0]) + JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('soymacro'+x))[2] + area.value.substring(sel[1]); } else if ('selectionStart' in area) { var pos = area.selectionStart; area.value = area.value.substring(0,area.selectionStart) + JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('soymacro'+x))[2] + area.value.substring(pos); area.focus(); area.setSelectionRange(pos+JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('soymacro'+x))[2].length,pos+JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('soymacro'+x))[2].length); } }"));
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Alcoholic Soda: $116 million in sales (U.S.) in 2015
Alcoholic soda was a $116 million business in 2015
Who needs plain ol’ soda when you can have one with a boozy kick? That’s become the mantra of many beverage marketers (and, in turn, many thirsty adults). Yes, hard soda is a thing — a $116 million thing, in fact: That’s the rough sales total for this emerging category in 2015, according to market researcher IRI.
The trend started primarily with alcoholic root beers — specifically, a craft-brewery brand called Not Your Father’s Root Beer, which dominated the category last year (it accounted for $92 million of the $116 million in sales). But it’s now spreading to the major players in the beverage world. Anheuser-Busch InBev has its Best Damn Root Beer brand. And earlier this year, MillerCoors launched Henry’s Hard Soda, a brand that takes as its inspiration one Henry Weinhard, a 19th-century brewer who made a name for himself in Portland, Ore., and who once suggested running beer through the city’s drinking fountains. In other words, Henry liked to have a good time.
