As many people have pointed out the subprime loans that have defaulted are mostly not the CRA loans guaranteed by fannie & freddie, they are the (federaly) unregulated loans issued by the investment banks and the "non-bank lenders" - New Century Financial Corp. and Ameriquest.
the guy writing that letter to the editor of the Kansas City Star (which is all that was that you linked) doesn't know what he's talking about, pure and simple.
Please brush up on your reading and comprehension skills. "Derek Donovan, The Star's readers' representative" is not a "guy writing to the editor". Also please read the attached article:
Blame may be misdirected; Critics have contended that the Clinton administration pushed Fannie and Freddie into riskier mortgages.
By David Goldstein; Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers Monday, October 13, 2008 Edition: METROPOLITAN, Section: NATIONAL/WORLD, Page A2
"From 2004 to 2006, when subprime lending was exploding, Fannie and Freddie went from holding 48 percent of the subprime loans that were sold into the secondary market to holding about 24 percent, according to data from Inside Mortgage Finance, a specialty publication. One reason is that Fannie and Freddie were subject to tougher standards than many of the unregulated players in the private sector.
Worse still, many people actually believe that whatever recession we'll end up having is exclusively the fault of only the current President, and can't look back to anything before the year 2000 for any blame whatsoever. The egregious irresponsibility of the sub-prime lending has a long and sordid history.
The real irony is that OS X's version was made using hacked-together technologies that all exist in Linux, and you're still sitting here asking for "poneys" instead of replicating their effort.
The internal kernel ABI is unstable. The idiot who wrote the article seems to think that this is a problem for people writing applications. When was the last time the arguments to read(2) changed?
The way packages are managed within any individual distribution is entirely up to the maintainers of that distribution.
Who else should do it? He complains the distribution differences make life hard for people selling software. Well, tough, if they want money maybe they should work for it?
Configuration files.
There needs to be a consistent -- and whenever possible, self-documenting -- configuration system throughout, from the kernel to userland tools and user applications
I know! Let's recreate the windows registry, but this time better!. Yawn.
Unstable Kernel ABI. FUD.
He wants a versioning filesystem. Like Windows has. (Does it?) I want a poney.
Audio API. He says there are too many of them.
The GUI is anarchic. (I see no black flags).
X11 is not integrated with the apps. What the fuck does this mean.
He wants "commercially hosted backup and restore". Maybe if he thinks there's money in it he should start a company instead of sitting on his fat ass and whining.
Conclusion "Most of what's wrong with Linux isn't fatal", replacing it by a Vista look-alike would save all his problems.
Just about the shittiest article I've read for a long time.
The UK is not a democracy, and hasn't been for a long time.
End of conversation. Not worth talking to people as crazed as this:
The majority of people have never agreed with things like the weights and measures regulations, so much so that the government had to get special arrangements made for things like pints of beer and milk.
Remember that a great deal of the policies affected here are simply compulsory redistribution of wealth,
and you'd pay no taxes if the UK (sorry, Ingerlund) left the EU?
and many of the others impose rather arbitrary legal restrictions on populations without their consent.
What "arbitrary legal restrictions"? Is the UK still a democracy? If it is then the populations have given their consent. You disagree with the decision of the majority, that's your problem, not ours.
Why should any taxpayer give up their hard-earned money to support such things?
You visit a website which pulls an image from subdomain.malicious.example.com. To get that, you need to know its nameserver. So you ask malicious.example.com who tells you that the nameserver is ns.citibank.com and oh, BTW that address is 666.666.666 (glue record).
And you throw away the glue record 'cos ns.citibank.com is not inside malicious.example.com.
It's flippant. You know, a joke. You may have heard of them.
Now I will explain it to to you:
BSD is based on Unix. (Although using the "this is the axe that killed queen Mary - we've changed the head 3 times and the shaft 6 times since then" principle).
Solaris is based on Unix.
HP/UX is also based on Unix.
Linux is a reimplementation of the Unix API's
If one were trying to avoid monoculture one might consider that 3 descendants of the same parent and a lookalike wasn't quite what you wanted.
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Damn, what's his address, Monsanto will pay me at least $50 to turn this freeloader in.
FTPS. Try figuring out how to NAT that at both ends.
As many people have pointed out the subprime loans that have defaulted are mostly not the CRA loans guaranteed by fannie & freddie, they are the (federaly) unregulated loans issued by the investment banks and the "non-bank lenders" - New Century Financial Corp. and Ameriquest.
Please brush up on your reading and comprehension skills. "Derek Donovan, The Star's readers' representative" is not a "guy writing to the editor". Also please read the attached article:
So?
http://adastrum.kansascity.com/?q=node/408
It doesn't matter how many times you repeat this stupid lie, it's still a lie. (A reasonable summary of Cards bullshit: http://adastrum.kansascity.com/?q=node/408).
What do you mean "you"?
The internal kernel ABI is unstable. The idiot who wrote the article seems to think that this is a problem for people writing applications. When was the last time the arguments to read(2) changed?
An ATI video card? You mean the 2nd best supported card in Linux? That's last years whine.
Now if you'd said Nvidia...
If the guy were talking about improving Linux then of course you'd be right.
But the only actual kernel work he wants done is a versioning filesystem. Interesting in itself, but not necessarily the most important thing to do.
All his other complaints turn into "be more like windows".
Yup. That's an idea, let's break out of the prison of choice into the bright new freedom of the one true windows dictatorship.
He complains:
Who else should do it?
He complains the distribution differences make life hard for people selling software. Well, tough, if they want money maybe they should work for it?
I know! Let's recreate the windows registry, but this time better!. Yawn.
Just about the shittiest article I've read for a long time.
That is not a bug. It's a feature.
By forging a reply to a request for subdomain.malicious.example.com, right?
Why would a SAS adapter/drive process SCSI commands slower than a SATA adapter/drive?
I can't think of the last time I connected an important device to a motherboard controller. All my disks are in external boxes.
End of conversation. Not worth talking to people as crazed as this:
Feet firmly on the ground.
break out extra supplies of green ink
Weeble weeble....
and you'd pay no taxes if the UK (sorry, Ingerlund) left the EU?
What "arbitrary legal restrictions"? Is the UK still a democracy? If it is then the populations have given their consent. You disagree with the decision of the majority, that's your problem, not ours.
So you don't want to pay taxes, I should cry?
And you throw away the glue record 'cos ns.citibank.com is not inside malicious.example.com.
Baliwick, right?
You spend so much time looking at the trees that you can't see the forest.
"Happy if subsidies I get > taxes I pay" is a stupid way of deciding whether you're winning on a deal, whether it's the UK or the EU.
So why the fuck isn't it SAS?
You're in the UK? When did you vote for union with Scotland?
Citation needed.
What part of "an ever closer union" don't you get?
It's flippant. You know, a joke. You may have heard of them.
Now I will explain it to to you:
BSD is based on Unix. (Although using the "this is the axe that killed queen Mary - we've changed the head 3 times and the shaft 6 times since then" principle).
Solaris is based on Unix.
HP/UX is also based on Unix.
Linux is a reimplementation of the Unix API's
If one were trying to avoid monoculture one might consider that 3 descendants of the same parent and a lookalike wasn't quite what you wanted.
No. I have a terrible ache in all the diodes on my left side.
I went to a comprehensive you insensitive clod.
Red wine! With fish! You'd better hope you don't bump into James Bond on a train.