My thoughts exactly. Or setup a separate ARPA-owned network that no one can access except DOD employees.
BTW the recent news about an electric utility plant being "hacked" by foreign spies was a false flag. In reality it was one of the workers while he was on vacation, logging-in remotely, but of course we never hear that followup story on the Pro-war FOX, CNN, NBC networks. They'd rather scare everyone into thinking we need to bomb Iran and Russia (and then the defensecorps profit).
Listening to PBS is about as worthless as listening to FOX or CNN or Microsoft NBC (controlled by the defense corporations). The plain truth is that even if Glass-Steagall were still in effect, it would not have prevented the housing bust in 2008. We'd still be in the same situation..... maybe a little better but not by much, because when you have a major market like housing collapse, there will be wide-ranging damage.
BTW if Glass-Steagall were still in effect, would it have prevented the housing bust in 2008? No. We'd still be in the same situation..... maybe a little better but not by much, because when you have a major market like housing collapse, there will be wide-ranging damage.
Oh and here's a link I just found that shows how Bush REGULATED, not deregulated:
At work they block most of the web, so I cannot access my usual links (for sources). Sorry. But it's pretty obvious that the Housing Bubble was caused by mortgages that were too easy to get, and the reason they were too easy to get is because the Congress and also the HUD secretary dropped the minimum qualifications to almost nothing. Everyone could get a mortgage. That created the boom. (And booms are always followed by busts.)
Yeah it's sad when uneducated persons make unwise investments, and then lose everything. I knew a guy who thought he'd won the lottery, and stupidly mailed-off the money.
Then he lost his job, which was no big deal but the unemployment eventually ran-out (2 years). NOW he's dead, because he had ~30,000 racked-up on credit cards with no incoming money, and unable to pay his bills, so he ended his life.
During George "duh" Bush's administration the number of regulations increased from 110,000 to 150,000 pages. The New York Times must be using a definition of the word "deregulation" that I am not familiar with, because I would call a ~50% increase in regulations the Exact Opposite of deregulation.
I cannot comment of the dot-com or enron debacles, but it is very clear to me the mortgage bubble was created by the Government, its Fannie/Freddie organizations, and the private bank monopoly known as the Fed. They colluded with one another to provide tons of cheap low-interest loans, and that fueled the rapid rise in demand for limited housing, and eventual burst of the bubble in 2007-8. If anything it was TOO MUCH regulation (Congress insisting everyone should get a mortgage, even if they were too poor to pay it back).
"SEC registration... too costly". Yeah okay. That figures. I won't be surprised if RIAA and the other megacorp content types try to kill the amendment to this bill. (Gotta protect their outdated model and money.)
If it's running Linux instead of AmigaOS, it's just a PC clone. Nothing special. The "real" Amiga is PowerPC-based and runs the original AmigaOS (updated from Commodore's Workbench 3 to 4).
Ahhh another memorable sound from my youth: A full music video running on a 68000, 0.007 gigahertz, 512K machine. (No equivalent-specced Mac or PC could do this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt_U0j34THY
Sorry no..... nothing beats the sound of a Commodore 1541 drive bashing its brains out. The first time I heard it, I was scared my brand new $200 machine had just broke itself.
But no. That was "normal". In order to save money, they did not install a track 0 LED sensor. Instead they just knocked the head against the internal stop. Repeatedly. (I then downloaded a program to make the 1541 stop that behavior and be quiet.)
As I was looking through this article I was thinking: - I still use a CRT. - I still use a modem. - I still use floppies. - I still use a wired phone that makes dialtone hum. - And there are still some TV stations that sign-off at night with an anthem.
The sounds I miss are actually much OLDER than these sounds. Like a rotary dial phone. The 1-minute warmup time of an old tube TV (a high-pitched hum). The "thunk" sound of an old record player changer. The "whirr" of a VCR's metal drums against magnetic tape while it records a television show. The sounds of Atari games filling the living room (1970s/early 80s).
(click the music button). An entire library of computer-generated music, remembered fondly by the ~30 million who owned one of these machines. As soon as I hear these songs it takes me back to my middle and high school years. http://www.lemon64.com/ http://www.lemonamiga.com/
>>> it's always been the Apple people that are constantly deriding those using competing products.
Which was funny because back in the 80s it was always the Atari and Commodore computers that were most advanced in technology. Apple Macs were a boring black-and-white, and IBM PCs had a measly 4 or 16 colors with sound that was worse than a touchtone phone. Plus they were outrageously expensive. ($500 for an ST or Amiga versus ~$3000 for a Mac or PC.)
It is a bit surprising. (But so too was the stat that the number of iPhone users (UK) in debt are about double that of Android users.) Maybe these persons don't buy the phone for actual use, but for the same reason I spent money on a watch that I didn't need -- it looks good on my wrist.
It's the Amazon, Reebok, Walmart, and Apple model. Advertise new goods and only provide enough to satisfy the first 10% of customers while the other 90% are left on waitlists.
I just looked-up the specs. What would I do with 256 MB of RAM? That's the same size as my P3 laptop and it runs slow as snails (using the hard drive as memory).
I guess I could run the Commodore Amiga OS (4), since it's nice and compact, but it requires a PowerPC not..... whatever Raspberry uses. Hmmm. Puppy Linux maybe?
I'm not objecting to the idea the planet is warming. I'm objecting to the idea that it matters; millions of years ago the planet was about 10 degrees warmer than it is now (no icecaps) but life continued onward. And even as recently as 3000 BC and 300 AD we experienced warm spells (our ancestors grew grapes in areas that are now too cold).
I can assure you those warm spells were not caused by Egyptians or Romans burning oil in their cars. It was entirely natural, and I suspect the same is true today.
That's assuming that we are warming, and this is not just bad science. Remember they also said our pullution would blot-out the sun in the 1970s and make us cooler. Plus the temperature record is affected by inaccurate weather station readings that were once rural, but now are in the middle of expanding cities (heat zones). That skews the data and makes it unreliable.
Be skeptical of scientists. They are not omniscient (if they were, they would not have made so many mistakes over the last 2 centuries).
Weather has always been variable. In my town a record 5 feet of snow fell in just one storm during the 1950s, which stranded people in their homes for many days (they couldn't open their doors). That record still stands. Vice-versa other records from the 1960s show that 1964,65,66 had unusally warm winters with barely any snow. The weather was just as extreme in the past as the present.
Not hardly. It's usually the "warmers" and TV reporters who are most vocal:
"This is proof of global warming." Or "the record 3 feets of snow [in 2008] is proof of global warming." Or "Washington DC will definitely get less snow." (Al Gore while promoting his movie). Or "In another ten years, Britain's children may not know what snow is." (said in 2001 by the UK weather bureau chief)
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My thoughts exactly. Or setup a separate ARPA-owned network that no one can access except DOD employees.
BTW the recent news about an electric utility plant being "hacked" by foreign spies was a false flag. In reality it was one of the workers while he was on vacation, logging-in remotely, but of course we never hear that followup story on the Pro-war FOX, CNN, NBC networks. They'd rather scare everyone into thinking we need to bomb Iran and Russia (and then the defensecorps profit).
I already did.
Listening to PBS is about as worthless as listening to FOX or CNN or Microsoft NBC (controlled by the defense corporations). The plain truth is that even if Glass-Steagall were still in effect, it would not have prevented the housing bust in 2008. We'd still be in the same situation..... maybe a little better but not by much, because when you have a major market like housing collapse, there will be wide-ranging damage.
Oh and here's a link I just found that shows how Bush REGULATED, not deregulated (as I said in my original post): http://reason.com/archives/2008/12/10/bushs-regulatory-kiss-off
BTW if Glass-Steagall were still in effect, would it have prevented the housing bust in 2008? No. We'd still be in the same situation..... maybe a little better but not by much, because when you have a major market like housing collapse, there will be wide-ranging damage.
Oh and here's a link I just found that shows how Bush REGULATED, not deregulated:
http://reason.com/archives/2008/12/10/bushs-regulatory-kiss-off
At work they block most of the web, so I cannot access my usual links (for sources). Sorry. But it's pretty obvious that the Housing Bubble was caused by mortgages that were too easy to get, and the reason they were too easy to get is because the Congress and also the HUD secretary dropped the minimum qualifications to almost nothing. Everyone could get a mortgage. That created the boom. (And booms are always followed by busts.)
Yeah it's sad when uneducated persons make unwise investments, and then lose everything. I knew a guy who thought he'd won the lottery, and stupidly mailed-off the money.
Then he lost his job, which was no big deal but the unemployment eventually ran-out (2 years). NOW he's dead, because he had ~30,000 racked-up on credit cards with no incoming money, and unable to pay his bills, so he ended his life.
During George "duh" Bush's administration the number of regulations increased from 110,000 to 150,000 pages. The New York Times must be using a definition of the word "deregulation" that I am not familiar with, because I would call a ~50% increase in regulations the Exact Opposite of deregulation.
I cannot comment of the dot-com or enron debacles, but it is very clear to me the mortgage bubble was created by the Government, its Fannie/Freddie organizations, and the private bank monopoly known as the Fed. They colluded with one another to provide tons of cheap low-interest loans, and that fueled the rapid rise in demand for limited housing, and eventual burst of the bubble in 2007-8. If anything it was TOO MUCH regulation (Congress insisting everyone should get a mortgage, even if they were too poor to pay it back).
"SEC registration... too costly". Yeah okay. That figures. I won't be surprised if RIAA and the other megacorp content types try to kill the amendment to this bill. (Gotta protect their outdated model and money.)
>>> I'd love to be able to raise some cash this way.
You can. See this link - http://piratemyfilm.com/ (And Max Keiser's pitch: http://maxkeiser.com/2009/04/07/max-keiser-radio-pitches-piratemyfilmcom/ )
Why was Profiting from Crowdsourcing a movie, song, or book made illegal? And when did it happen.
I'd rather avoid aspirin and other NSAIDs (like tylenol/acetaminophen).
Are those 19k Trailblazer modems still usable today? Or do they only work if there's another Trailblazer at the opposite end?
If it's running Linux instead of AmigaOS, it's just a PC clone. Nothing special. The "real" Amiga is PowerPC-based and runs the original AmigaOS (updated from Commodore's Workbench 3 to 4).
Ahhh another memorable sound from my youth: A full music video running on a 68000, 0.007 gigahertz, 512K machine. (No equivalent-specced Mac or PC could do this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt_U0j34THY
And this: An old 8-bit computer at just 1 megahertz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pixcjhqLq34
Sorry no..... nothing beats the sound of a Commodore 1541 drive bashing its brains out. The first time I heard it, I was scared my brand new $200 machine had just broke itself.
But no. That was "normal". In order to save money, they did not install a track 0 LED sensor. Instead they just knocked the head against the internal stop. Repeatedly. (I then downloaded a program to make the 1541 stop that behavior and be quiet.)
As I was looking through this article I was thinking:
- I still use a CRT.
- I still use a modem.
- I still use floppies.
- I still use a wired phone that makes dialtone hum.
- And there are still some TV stations that sign-off at night with an anthem.
The sounds I miss are actually much OLDER than these sounds. Like a rotary dial phone. The 1-minute warmup time of an old tube TV (a high-pitched hum). The "thunk" sound of an old record player changer. The "whirr" of a VCR's metal drums against magnetic tape while it records a television show. The sounds of Atari games filling the living room (1970s/early 80s).
(click the music button). An entire library of computer-generated music, remembered fondly by the ~30 million who owned one of these machines. As soon as I hear these songs it takes me back to my middle and high school years.
http://www.lemon64.com/
http://www.lemonamiga.com/
>>> it's always been the Apple people that are constantly deriding those using competing products.
Which was funny because back in the 80s it was always the Atari and Commodore computers that were most advanced in technology. Apple Macs were a boring black-and-white, and IBM PCs had a measly 4 or 16 colors with sound that was worse than a touchtone phone. Plus they were outrageously expensive. ($500 for an ST or Amiga versus ~$3000 for a Mac or PC.)
It is a bit surprising. (But so too was the stat that the number of iPhone users (UK) in debt are about double that of Android users.) Maybe these persons don't buy the phone for actual use, but for the same reason I spent money on a watch that I didn't need -- it looks good on my wrist.
Minor correction: Yellow hot.
It's the Amazon, Reebok, Walmart, and Apple model. Advertise new goods and only provide enough to satisfy the first 10% of customers while the other 90% are left on waitlists.
For $25 though this would be fun to see my family's reaction. "What's that?"
A computer. ;-)
"THAT'S a computer?"
Yes.
"You're fooling me aren't you?"
No really it's a computer. Let me turn it on and show you.
I just looked-up the specs. What would I do with 256 MB of RAM? That's the same size as my P3 laptop and it runs slow as snails (using the hard drive as memory).
I guess I could run the Commodore Amiga OS (4), since it's nice and compact, but it requires a PowerPC not..... whatever Raspberry uses. Hmmm. Puppy Linux maybe?
I'm not objecting to the idea the planet is warming. I'm objecting to the idea that it matters; millions of years ago the planet was about 10 degrees warmer than it is now (no icecaps) but life continued onward. And even as recently as 3000 BC and 300 AD we experienced warm spells (our ancestors grew grapes in areas that are now too cold).
I can assure you those warm spells were not caused by Egyptians or Romans burning oil in their cars. It was entirely natural, and I suspect the same is true today.
That's assuming that we are warming, and this is not just bad science. Remember they also said our pullution would blot-out the sun in the 1970s and make us cooler. Plus the temperature record is affected by inaccurate weather station readings that were once rural, but now are in the middle of expanding cities (heat zones). That skews the data and makes it unreliable.
Be skeptical of scientists. They are not omniscient (if they were, they would not have made so many mistakes over the last 2 centuries).
Weather has always been variable. In my town a record 5 feet of snow fell in just one storm during the 1950s, which stranded people in their homes for many days (they couldn't open their doors). That record still stands. Vice-versa other records from the 1960s show that 1964,65,66 had unusally warm winters with barely any snow. The weather was just as extreme in the past as the present.
Not hardly. It's usually the "warmers" and TV reporters who are most vocal:
"This is proof of global warming." Or "the record 3 feets of snow [in 2008] is proof of global warming." Or "Washington DC will definitely get less snow." (Al Gore while promoting his movie). Or "In another ten years, Britain's children may not know what snow is." (said in 2001 by the UK weather bureau chief)