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  1. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    I'll add this one of the debt ceiling:
    * US debt ceiling (1980-> Including presidents and who was in control of the house and senate.)
    (Source: http://blogs.marketwatch.com/fundmastery/2011/07/31/the-u-s-treasury-will-not-default-2/)

    + 6 trillion in three years? Sure it doubled 1980 to 1986 but doubling then was 1 trillion ..

  2. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    For whatever reason people do buy US debt.

    China for instance do it and one reason is that it's hard to find another place to place trillions ..

    Also the FED happily purchase it ..

  3. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Thought about that solution.

    Do two of those 5 trillion coins. Give them to the Chinese.

    Remove their legal status.

    x) ???
    x+1) Profit?

  4. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    Poor economy = workers still get their salary but there's no profits to be made? And lower gdp in general?

  5. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    Unless spending faster than GDP on infrastructure actually stimulates faster GDP growth in coming years.

    I must be new here. I thought it was used to unload toxic debt to the banks, keep their interest low and credit high while at the same time deflate the income and wealth of ordinary citizens, savers and foreign lenders.

    Which may lower inflation adjusted GDP but make the rich/banks richer. Great times.

  6. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nothing to worry about.
    (US debt to GDP since 1929, source Deutsche Bank, picture taken from Q2 2011 report of Brummer & Partner Zenit hedge fund.)

    Meanwhile:
    * Profits share of GDP
    * Wages share of GDP
    (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/corporate-profits-share-of-pie-most-in-60-years-2011-07-29)

  7. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    If it is used to increase our borrowing, it's increasing the money supply.

    But some of the leaders don't want more borrowing.

    So that doesn't help.

    FED buy plenty of your debt as is already.

  8. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    Or just raise the limit. It's not that hard.

    I don't know what the effect of this coin would be but I assume some people may not want to have it either. Does it just lead to inflation?

    The limit is stupid and raising it is a non-issue. What's interesting is how the money should be used and collected.

  9. Re:What?! on Mass Psychosis In the USA? · · Score: 1

    Risperdal killed my father (imho.)

    while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers

    I thought FDA recommended against it?

  10. Re:missing the point on Zeroing In On the Internet's 'Evil Cities' · · Score: 1

    So this is not about criminal activity. It is about "which city has the most zombies".

    That information is still useful, but not "most evil"

    I thought the first rule of robots where to do no harm =P

  11. Re:I just hope they don't block co.ck on Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results · · Score: 2, Funny

    Check out these cool pens:
    Pen Island
    "Your pen is our business"

  12. Re:Quite popular outside the U.S. on Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman · · Score: 1

    I think 1/3 is pushing it and while I don't have very many friends or know what players all of them had atleast I know two persons who had minidisc players, and one of them had two at different times. I also think someone had a DAT deck.

    This was probably around the pre 128MB MP3 player but post CD-introduction novelty.

    The obvious advantages being size and record-ability.

    Both factors and also wasn't they more shockproof ? make them much better choices than regular CD players (which could also have a memory for some shockproofness.)

    However not all of them could record which is kinda stupid unless you have a deck as well which one of the guys had.

    Enter MP3 format and downloadable music and the fact you couldn't transfer music from your PC to your MiniDisc without recording the sound and you start to see how the format would fail.

    Later that was fixed by introducing the NetMD but since Sony is Sony they decided to keep their encoding technique and don't adopt to MP3 so you still had to convert the music and transfer it with (still Sony being Sony) their software.

    I guess Apple had joined the game by now and was obviously just as retarded since Apple is Apple. But maybe they could play MP3s and if nothing else transfer maybe worked smoother / less retarded software?

    I was looking at NetMDs but this just seemed all to retarded.

    Late there was HiMD which I think might had solved this or if it just gave better storage but still no MP3s, I don't remember, but it was a little to late and if they missed either factor they also missed me as costumer. Too little too late, Sony failed it.

    Later Sony also introduced flash-memory based music players, but guess what? They didn't played MP3 either.

    Well done Sony. You're so fucking retarded.

    Very late they fixed that to but by then iPod carried much more heft than Walkman. And while putting Walkman on Sony-Ericsson phones might had added some value to the brand and phones by now I think they have killed the brand?

    USB transfer and native MP3 playback and Sony might still had have the lead and have offered magneto-optical expandable portable music players. But that would had required Sony not being Sony.

  13. Re:"We're so new" on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    > "We're so new"
    > "We’ve been using stonge age technology to solve problems"

    Maybe he's talking about doing serious projects with MySQL?

    Me? Trolling? Nah..

  14. Re:Higher Taxes? on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    so the comparison there is road + lights vs road + slight hump.

    I would have to pay more to hump than I do for my lighting.

  15. Re:Higher Taxes? on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    I recently read lots of people don't know the difference of left and right though. Many more than you'd think, like 1/4 or so.

    It becomes somewhat more complicated if you want to go left and there is two lanes.

    Alternative idiots solution is to just stay in the right lane all the time even though you will go left :D

    Also it helps if people signals their direction before going in but that has been changed here in Sweden so now you only have to signal when you'll be going out so now no-one got a clue where the fuck you'll be going.

    Awesome. Not.

  16. Re:About time too on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    I think it would be less destructive in the long run just to have everyone drive their cars straight into a concrete wall. It would probably cost less too.

    So you want road planning to be more like financials?

    ("I think he can handle some more kinetic energy without hitting the wall ...")

  17. Re:About time too on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    Understandable. Who wanna hang around with the French anyway? ;D

  18. Re:About time too on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    It's the one you press when you don't wanna gas and you don't wanna "rush the engine" either.

    (No, no wosh, I'm talking about the people who most likely pressed the gas pedal by accident when they wanted to break.)

  19. Re:seems simple on Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps? · · Score: 1

    I would buy the Playbook since it's alternative and cool.

    Well, without never having used one :D

    But yeah, most likely rather Playbook than Android and never in my life iPad :D

  20. Re:Meanwhile ... on KDE 4.7 RC Is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile · · Score: 1

    KDE on my installation in school around 98-99 looked like it wanted to be Windows.

    Also computers in school didn't use Windows 2000 and WHO GIVES A FUCKING SHIT SINCE WINDOWS 95, 98 AND WINDOWS 2000 LOOK THE SAME?

  21. Re:So? on AMD Gains In the TOP500 List · · Score: 1

    What is there to fight about?

    I won't flame but yeah.. Pick your product category and yada yada ;D

  22. Re:So? on AMD Gains In the TOP500 List · · Score: 1

    It's about as newsworthy as "random guy got aspergers", but hey, atleast these two stories aren't duplicates of each other!

  23. Re:Meanwhile ... on KDE 4.7 RC Is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile · · Score: 1

    Personally I haven't used either Vista or Windows 7 (or Windows 8...), but I've used DOS, AmigaOS at the time of Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 and later XP.

    But even if the same company made them I'm able to comprehend that Windows 7 isn't DOS and things can change over the decades.

    Back when I started using KDE it seemed to do anything it could to look like and act just like Windows 95 (KDE 2) (interface.)

  24. Meanwhile ... on KDE 4.7 RC Is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile · · Score: -1

    ... Microsoft actually does something innovative and maybe even goes a step further than Apple when it comes to user interfaces:
    http://www.osnews.com/story/24811/Microsoft_Demos_Windows_8_New_Interface

    If it's good I don't know. I like how the MeeGo for surf pads looked. Guess Playbook was ok to.

    I think KDE looks boring and the applications such as Amarok look so bloated with.. Well.. Everything :D

  25. Re:The best-looking corpse in the world on Nokia Introduces MeeGo-Powered N9 Phone · · Score: 1

    Exactly; you can buy one and be insufferable for the next 5 years about things your friends' phones can just now do that you've been doing for years.

    Hey, Macs just recently got Battle Squadron!

    Five years .. Try 20 .. ;D