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Black Market May Develop For IPv4 Addresses
GMGruman writes "Everyone knows that we're running out of traditional IPv4 Internet addresses and that switching to IPv6 is the answer — yet foot-dragging by IT departments and vendors means the problem is still on the back burner. IPv4/IPv6 coexistence is now expected to last for 5 years. In this article, Mel Beckman explains how this is all leading to a black market in traditional IPv4 addresses that will catch many people off-guard, and boost Internet access prices sky-high."
That shit was funny for a while but now it's just annoying. Give it up, dude.
This ain't rocket surgery.
I wouldn't worry too much about high inflation due to central government spending until housing demand exceeds housing supply and the economy starts to heat. Which will likely be a number of years.
Now moderate inflation due to paying to import ten million barrels of expensive crude oil a day ... that might be a problem. Could do stuff like driving smaller cars and driving them slower of course, but that's unamerican. More fun to whine.
If government spending bothers you, you might want to look into downsizing the US's preposterously large military. It's possible that the best place to cut expenses is the place where the money is being squandered.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
Actually, I'd start at the horrendous entitlement commitments we have. Like, the ones with outstanding liabilities that equal all the private wealth in the country. Then, maybe the military. Or maybe fending off more entitlements, like the Federal gov't being the only originator of student loans. And maybe cut off Fannie and Freddie from the taxpayers pockets. Just some thoughts.
hmm, modded funny. why is there no moderation value "+5 horrific if true"?
Because we'd be all so proud to live in a country that kicked it's elderly to the curb after they had "served their purpose"
Someone had to do it.
Just fyi, the US military budget is just about 1/2 the DEFICIT for 2010.
In other words, reduce the military budget to zero, and you still have an annual deficit of over $500 billion
Note that mandatory spending plus the State Department, Health and Human Services, and Transportation Department budgets just about use up the entire tax revenue of this fiscal year.
Note further that an across the board doubling of income taxes (assuming that such a thing didn't have any real effect on people's behaviour) would not quite do away with our current deficit.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
If government spending bothers you, you might want to look into downsizing the US's preposterously large military.
Its always easy and fun to bash the military, but the fact remains that military and VA spending accounts for only about 23% of the overall federal budget. The lion's share goes to Social Security and Medicare. Between the two of them, they're taking about 40% of the budget.
It's possible that the best place to cut expenses is the place where the money is being squandered.
By all means. The places where the money is being squandered are Medicare and Social Security.
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it
I'm not a fan of kicking the elderly into the streets either. That said, the US spends the most and gets the least out its health care system, as compared with other industrialized countries. Our per-capita costs are the highest in the world, while our outcomes are amongst the worst in the industrialized world.
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it