Its a ploy to get more handouts from the West nothing more nothing less. You can't say "shut up or the aide check is void either." If he shuts up he will appear weak and it will probably get him killed. The best thing to do here is simple cut the aide off no discussion. The time to do this is now before they create more reliable weapons and delivery systems. One of three things will happen in order of likeliness:
1) Nothing; South Korea and China will step in and provide the food and monetary aide the DPRK needs. We are better off its less of our own wealth going out the door and we don't lose any influence because we never had any with DPRK anyway.
2) DPRK lashes out and strikes at South Korea, Japan, or us; Chances are good the actual damage is minimal or the attack outright fails. Depending on who gets attacked Either we or China take the lead in shutting it down fast. China will either do this or allow it because they don't want the region developing into a war zone. Ultimately China probably ends up effectively occupying the country or at least running it. As far as we are concerned this changes little where the balance of power is concerned.
3) DPRK is simply allowed to collapse and becomes just another failed state like Yemen or Somalia; South Korea and China are forced to spend a little more on border security. The DPRK becomes a slightly more of a sad little hell hole than it already is, but unlike today the rest of the world simply stops thinking about it; well until some dipshit tries to blow up time square after fixing some fireworks to the side of propane cylinder with sticky tape after posting on some DPRK militant web forum.
Really that is about the whole of it. Send a memory to the USAID folks to stop payment on the next check and wait.
Oh come on; you are telling he does not have plenty of people around him who'd just love to be in charge. I bet it would take him mere hours to make a deal with someone near to the family.
"Hey tell you what Commander $NAME; you help me get quietly out of the country with this suit case full of the money I liberated from our treasury and as soon as I am somewhere safe I'll make a statement to the international media that says I have abdicated and Commander $NAME is now the new Dear Leader"
Its not that difficult; Its not like he has been out the DPRK plenty of times on both fake and legitimate passports.
Yes, it would be so entertaining to watch police be diverted from actually fighting real crime over a prank
In the case of general police offices sure; your sarchasam is well placed but not for SWAT. Where SWAT teams are concerned anything that impairs them is a good thing. The police are supposed to be a civilian force; not a paramilitary unit. The entire idea of SWAT teams on police forces is abusive. If this situation calls for a SWAT team than its so out of hand that its not simply a criminal matter any more its a rebellion and should be dealt with by National Gard at the direction of someone clearly accountable (the governor).
The reality is these teams get used where they are not needed. Yes its probably safer for officers in body armor to kick in your and shoot anything that moves. The trouble is the job of civilian law enforcement is 'capture' not kill. I am not saying officers should not carry a service pistol to defend themselves when required or there is never an occasion where they might need to use potentially lethal force. Its to easy for mistakes to be made though when your local police chief is conducting what amount to military operations. Its not really their job in the first place; its scope creep.
It would be fun have an old missile silo or something with hardened blast doors and then watch the fun on hidden camera if you got SWATed or something.
I'd love the police goon squad to show up at an address with their usual battering ram, automatic small arms, and tear gas, only to discover they can't get through the door and have been played to boot.
Exactly 1.5t is more than enough, to keep negative price pressure on the market for a log time, they could at the very least force rates higher imparing our budget or as I suggested chase all the commercial buyers for the treasury market, leaving only the Fed which would undermine the dollar itself.
Now they would never do this, it would do that it's not in there interests but they possibly could do it.
You are correct in everything you posted but I think you underestimate the import of a functioning secondary market for treasuries. As is is most of the debt expansion is bein held on the Feds balance sheet (QE), there would be no commercial buyers if China decided to start dumping all that money would chase the nearer to maturity discounted Bonds being dumped.
It would really impair the Feds ability to control monetary policy. Now why china would destroy the economy of its biggest customer and take a huge loss on its own savings its hard to come up with a credible case for that but it if it were willing it certainly could cause grief
Not buying your argument. An important aspect of our law is the principle that it should be understandable by a person of normal ability. If a Senator or Congress person (who we might reasonably expect to be on the upper end of the ability curve to begin with) needs are army of lawyers and staff to figure out what bill does; its not good legislation.
Should not matter; they have a statutory obligation to produce a budget meaningless or not. This is the problem with this country we have a legislature that is more an more above the law or otherwise removed from the consequences of their own actions.
A huge portion of people get a tax refund when the file, even if you are one of these; try not submitting a 1040 this year, I dare you. The government should not care right? If anything they are getting more money.
Obligations are obligations. I am sure your boss has asked you to compile information you know (s)he probably won't end up using anyway. Think it would be totally cool if you just decided not to do it?
They Senate should be held to account for not authoring a budget, just like the White house should be for not publishing their budget on time. There should be consequences even if its just a public shaming and you should be upset at their failures. They are supposed to work "for the people" that is includes you, there is no reason to give them a pass on not doing their job. I doubt you'd get one.
Except that in the context of climate, one, two, five, and even 10 years out are not exactly the distant future. Climate scientists tell us even a couple degrees makes a big difference, and then have margins of error that big even on very short time scales.
Quite honestly if they can't do better than that it means the models are two immature to be useful for anything other than the development of improved models. Nothing wrong with...you have to start some place. Still if you expect anyone to make more than the feel good "green" policy decision and actually get popular support for actions that will amount to something they need to find better models.
I am not denying things are changing. We can all see that. Looking at the facts we do know like the real magnitude in terms of tons of carbon we are pushing forward in the cycle give us good reason to think outcomes will be different than in the past. You can't ask someone to sacrifice their livelihood or given up their on opportunities to stop something you really don't know the effects of; its not right to so; and in practice they won't listen.
No, it isn't. Let's have it become a stable platform with a flourishing software and hardware ecosystem.
You can run all the popular Linux distributions on it; with a pretty full Desktop experience (all the packages are there performance is generally pretty good). So I think we are there.
The trouble is the ARM world is evolving pretty fast. The Raspberry Pi is so much faster than the Kirkwood based stuff that was filling the same niche spaces before it. I am really glad that $35 + a little extra for some storage and a power supply gets you a computer that is "good enough for most projects" that is great.
I don't want to see things get so tied to the RasPi that big FOSS projects get to tightly coupled to it. Because just like the Pi has replaced the Kirkwood stuffs; someone is going to put together an even more powerful, even more efficient just as cheap ARM SoC together sooner rather than later. I'd like to see the community benefit as greatly.
It would probably run alright if you turned the detail down quite a bit a chose one of the smallest screen resolutions.
Duke 3d was generally a better experience on Pentium class hardware but if you had one of the later 486 machines it was almost as good. 486DX-50s and 486DX2-66s with 72 pin memory could pretty well keep up with the Pentiums.
I had friends with DX2-66s and I had both a DX-50 and DX-33 still using 30 pin SIMMs. You could play on the 33 with stuff turned way down; but it was un-playable with the defaults. The 50 handled the games default settings just fine. The folks with the 66 could notch the resolution up a little bit; as could the Pentium users.
DosBox works pretty well on ARM. It comes with lots of baggage though. You have X server and everything else sucking up the PI's limited memory (granted most Dos games and applications are probably expecting 16MB top to work with but...) It looks like this runs on the metal; so its probably faster.
If you don't need or want to do any multitasking and you want the very best retro-gaming experience this might be a nice choice. That said yes it a bit of a wheel re-advent; but so was DosBox, DosEMU existed for what a decade before it? Nothing wrong with having more options.
You just havent worked with lots of these applications. Its even fairly common for these 'web' apps to integrate with desktop programs like terminal emulators and the like via clipboard or sends keys to trigger events in the user mail client, stuff like that.
The whole point of most of these applications is workflow. Your VM will either totally break that, or be so full of wholes as to provide no meaningful protection. Seriously it would be better in every way just to a specially castrated build (in the way I suggested) of IE6 natively and have stuff actually work.
You are missing the point. Its not about supporting older it apps its about not having older apps try to support broken versions of IE.
There are lots of apps out there that see MSIE and send different pages; if they don't see IE they send a (probably) somewhat more standards compliant version. Microsoft thinks IE11 should now have behavior similar enough to the other main line browsers that users of IE11 will have a better experience with pages targeted for them. Its about IE11 users not have a degraded experience being fed pages full of workarounds designed to accommodate older versions of IE. Meanwhile applications that do look for MSIE in the string; visited by older version of IE likely to actually need the workarounds will continue to serve them.
Seriously this is a good idea.. Everybody wins, it won't break anything that probably would not have been broken by the new release anyway; except for the very most brain dead apps that look for MSIE and refuse to do anything if they don't see it; but that should be trivial to fix in most cases; unless after testing it does not work right and then you are back to it would have been broken anyway.
A VM would not work very well; for lots of applications. Most of those things uses some terrible ActiveX controls, Need to touch disk files etc. If Microsoft had been really smart they would just continue to include IE in only the Professional and Enterprise releases of Windows, re-branded IE-Legacy or something as an optional component.
Keep the id10ts for using it as there web-browser by modifying it slightly to only allow it to open sockets with RFC1918 address by default; and some registry keys and (GPO to set them) if you *need* it to access some normally publicly routed ranges.
Well independent of what the main website is devoted to doing, the forum there is the "Official" web form for Slackware. If you want to post something the developers; mainly Patrick, will read LQ is the place to do it. So for anyone running Slackware and having strong feelings about anything in particular, your opinion matters Pat cares, and you should pay attention to what goes on at LQ; because chances are good you will be affected by it.
The OS-less approach seems absurd though, because at that point it's really just an application being run on a multi-user system. And we've been doing that since the 80s.
Its absurd because its not OSless at all. There is nothing magical about a hypervisor. Its just a bullshit term someone came up with the clarify they were talking about an operating system + tools set specifically aimed at running other operating systems normally designed to run on the bare metal themselves.
If you stop booting the more general use operating systems on top of the hyper-visors as you say you have not eliminated the OS you have just gone back to a simple OS lacking shared libraries (which can be a good thing) and including some exhotic memory over subscription and de-duplication feature set. Its been more than 20 years though so we all have to invent new language and pretend these are new ideas.
I am not sure from your tone (or offended don't worry) but I don't want you think I am arguing with you. I am really enjoying this conversation; because reading your posts for a long time now, I have really come to respect your opinion and knowledge about this subject.
I don't think is possible for government to take care of all the retired or soon to be either. Which is why I was/am looking for a way to avoid the need or politically perceived need to do that. You are correct the fixed income folks are hurt by inflation. Those folks that have already done the home downsize and transition to living on SS, annuity payments, bond interest are better positioned though than the folks still just about it.
Correct or not (and largely due to government propaganda as much as anything) the typical thinking in 2007 was that if you had a $500K valued home, owed $300K, and had $200K in equity that effectively meant you had $100K in retirement savings because it was going to appreciate another $50K in the next 5 years. From some magical place a buyer for your $550K home was going appear despite the fact you know your own children could never scrape together a down payment for a house like yours. You were going to come away with $250k in proceeds from the sale at that time of which you would spend $150 on a little bungalow some place to live in.
Aggressively stupid! Certainly. None the less this is what these people expected to happen.
That house now will sell for $300K. So the whole plan is really unhinged. Even if interest rates go back to 1980's levels you won't generate enough revenue to buy groceries and heating oil with bank deposits, money markets, and investment grade bonds with so little principle. You won't have enough for rent payments on a crappy apartment if you preserve a little extra captial and skip the buy the bungalow part.
So here is the central point of the matter. Without a housing bubble I think your dollar bubble is nearly as certain as death and taxes. We can't find the political will reduce actual spending at all; and we can barely cut when we tell ourselves nice little lies like not adjusting for inflation counts as cutting. The sheeple are stupid they will cut off their own leg to feed the mouth if a guy in a nice enough suit tells them to do it. I don't think the government can take care of everyone but it will damn well try. That means the FED balance sheet expansion at beak neck speeds. When the interest exceeds the revenue the treasury will start to play games minting trillion dollar coins. As you say then it goes BOOM.
There is no question they young will be better off with affordable housing and a functioning market. There is is no doubt that inflation usually results in negative wage growth if you look at the compounding effects of constant price growth vs typically anually at most COLA adjustments by employers. I don't doubt you.
What I want to know is what do we do with all the nearly retired who were expecting to live off the proceeds from they sale of there inflated home and often far to little savings to make up any short fall there. Again the right thing, the ethical thing, is for government to stop blowing bubbles, but how do we get there from here; without creating a whole new group of dependants who will likely be on the dole for 20-30 years until they expire, or crowding younger workers if they are especially healthy and able to work?
I really don't have an answer but as a nation we need some kind of plan, sadly the only obviously answer to me is new housing bubble; which is of course a quick fix that will lead us to asking the very same question when it next pops, and all bubbles do pop.
I am normal inclined to agree with you about monetary policy matters.
In fact Bernanke is on the record, talking about the need to 'prop up housing'. He wants house prices to go higher, because obviously it's so much better if things cost more.
But this is one case where Bernanke is possible correct. Its not moral or just its plainly stealing from some to benefit others but...
We have an ugly demographic problem were the large very near to retirement age segment of our population has all or most of their savings tied up in or otherwise exposed to real-estate. We can't have them work forever (that has its own implications for the young) and we won't simply let them stave. We haven't got the revenue to take care of them, so politically we are between a rock and hard place. Unless we blow a housing bubble.
I have argued before the least moral war is the one you are not really trying to win. Fundamentally the activity of war will kill, maim, and destroy property. If you are going to do those things you should have a damn good reason. If you have such a reason than it follows really very few targets should be off limits; we are already killing, maiming and destroying lively hoods for the cause after all. Total war really is the only just form of war. There is still some line, bombing an elementary school deliberately would be crossing it; for example, or maybe not if you have good cause to think the enemy is using them as human shields. The reality is war not the men of tribe slugging it out with sticks and stones.
War is factories building munitions, its banks financing the factories and facilitating payrolls, its farmers raising crops to feed troops, etc. These are staffed with people who are at least in some way complicit in some way. Your janitors job is necessary to the war effort if not directly. A munitions factory is a hazardous place and more so if not maintained; if something happened that impaired its output the war effort might be hurt. So even if he is just sweeping the floors he is doing it in a place the purpose of which is killing the enemy. Arguably any one who inst a child, invalid, or war protestor is a collaborator. Is the farmer growing corn and selling it the army to feed troops more or less culpable a soldier who may be a conscript? Any capital asset can be weaponized or turned toward war fighting use. This is just the reality of war between modern states.
How do you even answer the question which is more serious? Disabling power systems in hospitals will probably kill more people in immediate terms. Taking out the banking infrastructure in a nation like ours would cause chaos and might cripple industry in preparation for a larger kinetic invasion.
Anything that remains of Nixon's estate (should be traceable still) should be immediately frozen to be used to compensate those affected by this - the families of those who died as a result of this act of treason that continued the war for a further 5 years, and those injured as well.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Except as you point out Obama violated the war powers act, Bush did not. Bush went to war with a legal authorization from an elected congress; and as far as anyone can prove he believed the intelligence the administration provided them.
So yes you are the partisan hack because you are the guy ignoring the facts. Now were the CIA black sites, extraordinary renditions, gitmo detentions, enhanced interrogations etc started under Bush criminal. I certainly hope so; and regard it as importunity Congress and the Senate are to corrupt or to spineless to find out.
That and treason is the one crime the constitution defines; and it carries with it unusually high hurtles for conviction; two witnesses to an overt act or a confession in open court.
From the sounds of things it does not look like they have that here.
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Exactly this.
Its a ploy to get more handouts from the West nothing more nothing less. You can't say "shut up or the aide check is void either." If he shuts up he will appear weak and it will probably get him killed. The best thing to do here is simple cut the aide off no discussion. The time to do this is now before they create more reliable weapons and delivery systems. One of three things will happen in order of likeliness:
1) Nothing; South Korea and China will step in and provide the food and monetary aide the DPRK needs. We are better off its less of our own wealth going out the door and we don't lose any influence because we never had any with DPRK anyway.
2) DPRK lashes out and strikes at South Korea, Japan, or us; Chances are good the actual damage is minimal or the attack outright fails. Depending on who gets attacked Either we or China take the lead in shutting it down fast. China will either do this or allow it because they don't want the region developing into a war zone. Ultimately China probably ends up effectively occupying the country or at least running it. As far as we are concerned this changes little where the balance of power is concerned.
3) DPRK is simply allowed to collapse and becomes just another failed state like Yemen or Somalia; South Korea and China are forced to spend a little more on border security. The DPRK becomes a slightly more of a sad little hell hole than it already is, but unlike today the rest of the world simply stops thinking about it; well until some dipshit tries to blow up time square after fixing some fireworks to the side of propane cylinder with sticky tape after posting on some DPRK militant web forum.
Really that is about the whole of it. Send a memory to the USAID folks to stop payment on the next check and wait.
Oh come on; you are telling he does not have plenty of people around him who'd just love to be in charge. I bet it would take him mere hours to make a deal with someone near to the family.
"Hey tell you what Commander $NAME; you help me get quietly out of the country with this suit case full of the money I liberated from our treasury and as soon as I am somewhere safe I'll make a statement to the international media that says I have abdicated and Commander $NAME is now the new Dear Leader"
Its not that difficult; Its not like he has been out the DPRK plenty of times on both fake and legitimate passports.
Yes, it would be so entertaining to watch police be diverted from actually fighting real crime over a prank
In the case of general police offices sure; your sarchasam is well placed but not for SWAT. Where SWAT teams are concerned anything that impairs them is a good thing. The police are supposed to be a civilian force; not a paramilitary unit. The entire idea of SWAT teams on police forces is abusive. If this situation calls for a SWAT team than its so out of hand that its not simply a criminal matter any more its a rebellion and should be dealt with by National Gard at the direction of someone clearly accountable (the governor).
The reality is these teams get used where they are not needed. Yes its probably safer for officers in body armor to kick in your and shoot anything that moves. The trouble is the job of civilian law enforcement is 'capture' not kill. I am not saying officers should not carry a service pistol to defend themselves when required or there is never an occasion where they might need to use potentially lethal force. Its to easy for mistakes to be made though when your local police chief is conducting what amount to military operations. Its not really their job in the first place; its scope creep.
It would be fun have an old missile silo or something with hardened blast doors and then watch the fun on hidden camera if you got SWATed or something.
I'd love the police goon squad to show up at an address with their usual battering ram, automatic small arms, and tear gas, only to discover they can't get through the door and have been played to boot.
Exactly 1.5t is more than enough, to keep negative price pressure on the market for a log time, they could at the very least force rates higher imparing our budget or as I suggested chase all the commercial buyers for the treasury market, leaving only the Fed which would undermine the dollar itself.
Now they would never do this, it would do that it's not in there interests but they possibly could do it.
You are correct in everything you posted but I think you underestimate the import of a functioning secondary market for treasuries. As is is most of the debt expansion is bein held on the Feds balance sheet (QE), there would be no commercial buyers if China decided to start dumping all that money would chase the nearer to maturity discounted Bonds being dumped.
It would really impair the Feds ability to control monetary policy. Now why china would destroy the economy of its biggest customer and take a huge loss on its own savings its hard to come up with a credible case for that but it if it were willing it certainly could cause grief
That's not negligence it's proper due diligence.
Not buying your argument. An important aspect of our law is the principle that it should be understandable by a person of normal ability. If a Senator or Congress person (who we might reasonably expect to be on the upper end of the ability curve to begin with) needs are army of lawyers and staff to figure out what bill does; its not good legislation.
Should not matter; they have a statutory obligation to produce a budget meaningless or not. This is the problem with this country we have a legislature that is more an more above the law or otherwise removed from the consequences of their own actions.
A huge portion of people get a tax refund when the file, even if you are one of these; try not submitting a 1040 this year, I dare you. The government should not care right? If anything they are getting more money.
Obligations are obligations. I am sure your boss has asked you to compile information you know (s)he probably won't end up using anyway. Think it would be totally cool if you just decided not to do it?
They Senate should be held to account for not authoring a budget, just like the White house should be for not publishing their budget on time. There should be consequences even if its just a public shaming and you should be upset at their failures. They are supposed to work "for the people" that is includes you, there is no reason to give them a pass on not doing their job. I doubt you'd get one.
Except that in the context of climate, one, two, five, and even 10 years out are not exactly the distant future. Climate scientists tell us even a couple degrees makes a big difference, and then have margins of error that big even on very short time scales.
Quite honestly if they can't do better than that it means the models are two immature to be useful for anything other than the development of improved models. Nothing wrong with...you have to start some place. Still if you expect anyone to make more than the feel good "green" policy decision and actually get popular support for actions that will amount to something they need to find better models.
I am not denying things are changing. We can all see that. Looking at the facts we do know like the real magnitude in terms of tons of carbon we are pushing forward in the cycle give us good reason to think outcomes will be different than in the past. You can't ask someone to sacrifice their livelihood or given up their on opportunities to stop something you really don't know the effects of; its not right to so; and in practice they won't listen.
No, it isn't. Let's have it become a stable platform with a flourishing software and hardware ecosystem.
You can run all the popular Linux distributions on it; with a pretty full Desktop experience (all the packages are there performance is generally pretty good). So I think we are there.
The trouble is the ARM world is evolving pretty fast. The Raspberry Pi is so much faster than the Kirkwood based stuff that was filling the same niche spaces before it. I am really glad that $35 + a little extra for some storage and a power supply gets you a computer that is "good enough for most projects" that is great.
I don't want to see things get so tied to the RasPi that big FOSS projects get to tightly coupled to it. Because just like the Pi has replaced the Kirkwood stuffs; someone is going to put together an even more powerful, even more efficient just as cheap ARM SoC together sooner rather than later. I'd like to see the community benefit as greatly.
It would probably run alright if you turned the detail down quite a bit a chose one of the smallest screen resolutions.
Duke 3d was generally a better experience on Pentium class hardware but if you had one of the later 486 machines it was almost as good. 486DX-50s and 486DX2-66s with 72 pin memory could pretty well keep up with the Pentiums.
I had friends with DX2-66s and I had both a DX-50 and DX-33 still using 30 pin SIMMs. You could play on the 33 with stuff turned way down; but it was un-playable with the defaults. The 50 handled the games default settings just fine. The folks with the 66 could notch the resolution up a little bit; as could the Pentium users.
DosBox works pretty well on ARM. It comes with lots of baggage though. You have X server and everything else sucking up the PI's limited memory (granted most Dos games and applications are probably expecting 16MB top to work with but...) It looks like this runs on the metal; so its probably faster.
If you don't need or want to do any multitasking and you want the very best retro-gaming experience this might be a nice choice. That said yes it a bit of a wheel re-advent; but so was DosBox, DosEMU existed for what a decade before it? Nothing wrong with having more options.
You just havent worked with lots of these applications. Its even fairly common for these 'web' apps to integrate with desktop programs like terminal emulators and the like via clipboard or sends keys to trigger events in the user mail client, stuff like that.
The whole point of most of these applications is workflow. Your VM will either totally break that, or be so full of wholes as to provide no meaningful protection. Seriously it would be better in every way just to a specially castrated build (in the way I suggested) of IE6 natively and have stuff actually work.
You are missing the point. Its not about supporting older it apps its about not having older apps try to support broken versions of IE.
There are lots of apps out there that see MSIE and send different pages; if they don't see IE they send a (probably) somewhat more standards compliant version. Microsoft thinks IE11 should now have behavior similar enough to the other main line browsers that users of IE11 will have a better experience with pages targeted for them. Its about IE11 users not have a degraded experience being fed pages full of workarounds designed to accommodate older versions of IE. Meanwhile applications that do look for MSIE in the string; visited by older version of IE likely to actually need the workarounds will continue to serve them.
Seriously this is a good idea.. Everybody wins, it won't break anything that probably would not have been broken by the new release anyway; except for the very most brain dead apps that look for MSIE and refuse to do anything if they don't see it; but that should be trivial to fix in most cases; unless after testing it does not work right and then you are back to it would have been broken anyway.
A VM would not work very well; for lots of applications. Most of those things uses some terrible ActiveX controls, Need to touch disk files etc. If Microsoft had been really smart they would just continue to include IE in only the Professional and Enterprise releases of Windows, re-branded IE-Legacy or something as an optional component.
Keep the id10ts for using it as there web-browser by modifying it slightly to only allow it to open sockets with RFC1918 address by default; and some registry keys and (GPO to set them) if you *need* it to access some normally publicly routed ranges.
That would make just about everyone happy.
Well independent of what the main website is devoted to doing, the forum there is the "Official" web form for Slackware. If you want to post something the developers; mainly Patrick, will read LQ is the place to do it. So for anyone running Slackware and having strong feelings about anything in particular, your opinion matters Pat cares, and you should pay attention to what goes on at LQ; because chances are good you will be affected by it.
The OS-less approach seems absurd though, because at that point it's really just an application being run on a multi-user system. And we've been doing that since the 80s.
Its absurd because its not OSless at all. There is nothing magical about a hypervisor. Its just a bullshit term someone came up with the clarify they were talking about an operating system + tools set specifically aimed at running other operating systems normally designed to run on the bare metal themselves.
If you stop booting the more general use operating systems on top of the hyper-visors as you say you have not eliminated the OS you have just gone back to a simple OS lacking shared libraries (which can be a good thing) and including some exhotic memory over subscription and de-duplication feature set. Its been more than 20 years though so we all have to invent new language and pretend these are new ideas.
I am not sure from your tone (or offended don't worry) but I don't want you think I am arguing with you. I am really enjoying this conversation; because reading your posts for a long time now, I have really come to respect your opinion and knowledge about this subject.
I don't think is possible for government to take care of all the retired or soon to be either. Which is why I was/am looking for a way to avoid the need or politically perceived need to do that. You are correct the fixed income folks are hurt by inflation. Those folks that have already done the home downsize and transition to living on SS, annuity payments, bond interest are better positioned though than the folks still just about it.
Correct or not (and largely due to government propaganda as much as anything) the typical thinking in 2007 was that if you had a $500K valued home, owed $300K, and had $200K in equity that effectively meant you had $100K in retirement savings because it was going to appreciate another $50K in the next 5 years. From some magical place a buyer for your $550K home was going appear despite the fact you know your own children could never scrape together a down payment for a house like yours. You were going to come away with $250k in proceeds from the sale at that time of which you would spend $150 on a little bungalow some place to live in.
Aggressively stupid! Certainly. None the less this is what these people expected to happen.
That house now will sell for $300K. So the whole plan is really unhinged. Even if interest rates go back to 1980's levels you won't generate enough revenue to buy groceries and heating oil with bank deposits, money markets, and investment grade bonds with so little principle. You won't have enough for rent payments on a crappy apartment if you preserve a little extra captial and skip the buy the bungalow part.
So here is the central point of the matter. Without a housing bubble I think your dollar bubble is nearly as certain as death and taxes. We can't find the political will reduce actual spending at all; and we can barely cut when we tell ourselves nice little lies like not adjusting for inflation counts as cutting. The sheeple are stupid they will cut off their own leg to feed the mouth if a guy in a nice enough suit tells them to do it. I don't think the government can take care of everyone but it will damn well try. That means the FED balance sheet expansion at beak neck speeds. When the interest exceeds the revenue the treasury will start to play games minting trillion dollar coins. As you say then it goes BOOM.
There is no question they young will be better off with affordable housing and a functioning market. There is is no doubt that inflation usually results in negative wage growth if you look at the compounding effects of constant price growth vs typically anually at most COLA adjustments by employers. I don't doubt you.
What I want to know is what do we do with all the nearly retired who were expecting to live off the proceeds from they sale of there inflated home and often far to little savings to make up any short fall there. Again the right thing, the ethical thing, is for government to stop blowing bubbles, but how do we get there from here; without creating a whole new group of dependants who will likely be on the dole for 20-30 years until they expire, or crowding younger workers if they are especially healthy and able to work?
I really don't have an answer but as a nation we need some kind of plan, sadly the only obviously answer to me is new housing bubble; which is of course a quick fix that will lead us to asking the very same question when it next pops, and all bubbles do pop.
roman_mir,
I am normal inclined to agree with you about monetary policy matters.
In fact Bernanke is on the record, talking about the need to 'prop up housing'. He wants house prices to go higher, because obviously it's so much better if things cost more.
But this is one case where Bernanke is possible correct. Its not moral or just its plainly stealing from some to benefit others but...
We have an ugly demographic problem were the large very near to retirement age segment of our population has all or most of their savings tied up in or otherwise exposed to real-estate. We can't have them work forever (that has its own implications for the young) and we won't simply let them stave. We haven't got the revenue to take care of them, so politically we are between a rock and hard place. Unless we blow a housing bubble.
I have argued before the least moral war is the one you are not really trying to win. Fundamentally the activity of war will kill, maim, and destroy property. If you are going to do those things you should have a damn good reason. If you have such a reason than it follows really very few targets should be off limits; we are already killing, maiming and destroying lively hoods for the cause after all. Total war really is the only just form of war. There is still some line, bombing an elementary school deliberately would be crossing it; for example, or maybe not if you have good cause to think the enemy is using them as human shields. The reality is war not the men of tribe slugging it out with sticks and stones.
War is factories building munitions, its banks financing the factories and facilitating payrolls, its farmers raising crops to feed troops, etc. These are staffed with people who are at least in some way complicit in some way. Your janitors job is necessary to the war effort if not directly. A munitions factory is a hazardous place and more so if not maintained; if something happened that impaired its output the war effort might be hurt. So even if he is just sweeping the floors he is doing it in a place the purpose of which is killing the enemy. Arguably any one who inst a child, invalid, or war protestor is a collaborator. Is the farmer growing corn and selling it the army to feed troops more or less culpable a soldier who may be a conscript? Any capital asset can be weaponized or turned toward war fighting use. This is just the reality of war between modern states.
How do you even answer the question which is more serious? Disabling power systems in hospitals will probably kill more people in immediate terms. Taking out the banking infrastructure in a nation like ours would cause chaos and might cripple industry in preparation for a larger kinetic invasion.
Anything that remains of Nixon's estate (should be traceable still) should be immediately frozen to be used to compensate those affected by this - the families of those who died as a result of this act of treason that continued the war for a further 5 years, and those injured as well.
So um... no
Except as you point out Obama violated the war powers act, Bush did not. Bush went to war with a legal authorization from an elected congress; and as far as anyone can prove he believed the intelligence the administration provided them.
So yes you are the partisan hack because you are the guy ignoring the facts. Now were the CIA black sites, extraordinary renditions, gitmo detentions, enhanced interrogations etc started under Bush criminal. I certainly hope so; and regard it as importunity Congress and the Senate are to corrupt or to spineless to find out.
That and treason is the one crime the constitution defines; and it carries with it unusually high hurtles for conviction; two witnesses to an overt act or a confession in open court.
From the sounds of things it does not look like they have that here.