Not really. Knocks and disappearances were over by the time Stalin died. After that the limits were known and if you were not treading on them you were OK.
"Which doesn't really matter when we have an actual plan to solve the problem that we've been following for a year now, unlike countries like the US and the Eurozone nations who are still actually trying to figure out what to do."
That doesn't matter anyway since this 'plan' has caused a near-dip into recession and actually slowed down the recovery...
Nope, I work with all kinds of software and hardware.
And you don't know what you're talking about, x86 is no more 'serial' than z/Architecture. Both essentially are cache-coherent NUMA on large servers with each CPU having its own personal cache and RAM affinity. If you want to look at less constrained architecture, then check the (now dead) Alpha architecture.
z/OS servers and high-end x86 servers also use the same hardware for high-speed interconnections (actually x86-based servers are usually a couple years ahead of z/Arch).
That's why IBM sued Hercules - the mainframe customers are switching to x86-based servers because they are faster than IBM hardware and much cheaper at that.
Mainframes don't really do anything well, except maybe for hardware reliability. 10000 concurrent transactions can be processed on stock x86 server hardware right now. The hardware reliability can be substituted by software reliability (replicated databases, etc.) which is cheaper, faster and pretty reliable by now.
And there's nothing magical now about 'doing a lot or repetitive tasks' - we don't need hardware acceleration to parse CSV files or deal with BCD arithmetic anymore.
The only major reason mainframes are used is tradition and a lot of legacy code. Quite a lot of systems were first started in 80-s or early 90-s when mainframes were the only game in the town for business applications.
BitCoin is bad because it doesn't have provisions to revoke a certificate. If I somehow steal your BitCoin wallet then I have full control over your certs.
And since BitCoin is distributed and anonymous - no court decision can help you.
WTF? Comparing US to the rest of the world for the purposes of internal politics is meaningless.
And anyway, let me rephrase your words:
"Hey, that pigs in the OWS are not really 99%. So let's REALLY rape them more until they are REALLY in the 99% of the world's population and the US is just another banana republic. Hooray!"
"Regardless, why aren't you complaining about the wildly more than 1% of the population that actually owns the large companies about which you're complaining?"
Because 1% owns _most_ of corporations. I have MSFT, AAPL and GOOG stock so I technically 'own' parts of the largest corporations. But that doesn't mean anything in a meaningful sense.
"Your 99% is every bit as stratified internally as is the larger world that they're whining about. They're enforcing "no snitch" rules in their mobs and frantically spin-managing reporters in order to pretend it's not so, but the moral hollowness of their whole rudderless rant is staring to really show through, now that most of the well-meaning, rational people have realized what silliness it all is, and have gone home. "
What a pile of freaking bullshit. I was at the Zuccotti park last week and talked with quite a few people there. Suffice to say, that the crowd down there is very diverse and NOBODY can 'spin-manage' it (how?). Your own words betray you, who is going to 'spin-manage' reporters in a rudderless movement?
Oh, and Tunisia has elected a moderate Islamic party which has pledged to uphold women's rights. So much for radical Islamism.
Nope, you earn it, by working far less than quite a lot of people on minimal wage (as evidenced by your post history). You happen to be earning far more than them, so be glad of it!
I'm so sick of this 'unsustainable growth' mantra. Think about WHY was it unsustainable.
Have we run out of land to build new houses? Nope. Have we run out of workers? Nope. Have we run out of resources? Nope (though energy prices indeed were rising too fast).
Dude. The rate on 10-year Treasury Bonds is 2.30% - that's nothing. That's just about the normal inflation level. In essence, people are willing to GIVE money to the US government.
"so with extremely low interest rates, 20% of the tax revenue has to go to just service the debt."
Which means that there is the problem with the REVENUE, not debt.
Besides, you numbers are off - you assume that tax revenues won't go up with inflation. The realistic estimate is around 10%.
Italy and Spain have fairly low levels of government debt. Italy has fairly low private debt as well. Moreover, Italy, Ireland and Spain were actually running budget surpluses prior to the Great Recession.
"Take a screenshot with Windows: Microsoft BMP. Like there wasn't enough graphic formats at the time."
Well, there actually was not that many formats back at the time of Windows 1.0 Besides, BMP is straightforward - just a list of scan-lines encoding colors and an optional palette (well, there is a possibility of compression but nobody used it).
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Not really. Knocks and disappearances were over by the time Stalin died. After that the limits were known and if you were not treading on them you were OK.
So basically it's just a way to ban the protest. It's just disguised as 'cleaning'.
Disgusting.
"So, please tell me, do you picture this happening in the US?"
Quite easily. Google for 'zoning laws'.
It probably won't lead to demolition of your house, you'll just be sued and forced to rebuild it.
"Which doesn't really matter when we have an actual plan to solve the problem that we've been following for a year now, unlike countries like the US and the Eurozone nations who are still actually trying to figure out what to do."
That doesn't matter anyway since this 'plan' has caused a near-dip into recession and actually slowed down the recovery...
Nope, I work with all kinds of software and hardware.
And you don't know what you're talking about, x86 is no more 'serial' than z/Architecture. Both essentially are cache-coherent NUMA on large servers with each CPU having its own personal cache and RAM affinity. If you want to look at less constrained architecture, then check the (now dead) Alpha architecture.
z/OS servers and high-end x86 servers also use the same hardware for high-speed interconnections (actually x86-based servers are usually a couple years ahead of z/Arch).
That's why IBM sued Hercules - the mainframe customers are switching to x86-based servers because they are faster than IBM hardware and much cheaper at that.
That's why you should ALWAYS use a password generator.
-1 Disagreed.
Mainframes don't really do anything well, except maybe for hardware reliability. 10000 concurrent transactions can be processed on stock x86 server hardware right now. The hardware reliability can be substituted by software reliability (replicated databases, etc.) which is cheaper, faster and pretty reliable by now.
And there's nothing magical now about 'doing a lot or repetitive tasks' - we don't need hardware acceleration to parse CSV files or deal with BCD arithmetic anymore.
The only major reason mainframes are used is tradition and a lot of legacy code. Quite a lot of systems were first started in 80-s or early 90-s when mainframes were the only game in the town for business applications.
Around 60000 pages have already been submitted.
So when Congress Republicans are going to launch investigations about this failure like they did with Solyndra?
_Cash_ worked like this for centuries. That's PRECISELY a major reason why banks (a trusted third party for transactions) have been invented.
Old story.
http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ - Linux booted in 5 seconds to usable desktop. Back in 2008.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/01/13/2248207/embedded-linux-1-second-cold-boot-to-qt - boot to QT in 1 second.
BitCoin is bad because it doesn't have provisions to revoke a certificate. If I somehow steal your BitCoin wallet then I have full control over your certs.
And since BitCoin is distributed and anonymous - no court decision can help you.
Schoolteachers in the US are barely making the median salary, so they by definition can not be a part of 1%.
Yet without schoolteachers there won't be the USA and it's no exaggeration. So do they deserve to be 1% of the population?
And why you earn what you deserve by working?
Why should, say, a schoolteacher be poor?
Hey, don't you 'deserve' what you get? How is it different?
Let me answer it for you: "because I DESEWVE IT!!!!!"
WTF? Comparing US to the rest of the world for the purposes of internal politics is meaningless.
And anyway, let me rephrase your words:
"Hey, that pigs in the OWS are not really 99%. So let's REALLY rape them more until they are REALLY in the 99% of the world's population and the US is just another banana republic. Hooray!"
"Regardless, why aren't you complaining about the wildly more than 1% of the population that actually owns the large companies about which you're complaining?"
Because 1% owns _most_ of corporations. I have MSFT, AAPL and GOOG stock so I technically 'own' parts of the largest corporations. But that doesn't mean anything in a meaningful sense.
"Your 99% is every bit as stratified internally as is the larger world that they're whining about. They're enforcing "no snitch" rules in their mobs and frantically spin-managing reporters in order to pretend it's not so, but the moral hollowness of their whole rudderless rant is staring to really show through, now that most of the well-meaning, rational people have realized what silliness it all is, and have gone home. "
What a pile of freaking bullshit. I was at the Zuccotti park last week and talked with quite a few people there. Suffice to say, that the crowd down there is very diverse and NOBODY can 'spin-manage' it (how?). Your own words betray you, who is going to 'spin-manage' reporters in a rudderless movement?
Oh, and Tunisia has elected a moderate Islamic party which has pledged to uphold women's rights. So much for radical Islamism.
'Deserve'? How?
Nope, you earn it, by working far less than quite a lot of people on minimal wage (as evidenced by your post history). You happen to be earning far more than them, so be glad of it!
That works until suddenly both you and merchant need your $1000 back. That's why 'money creation' is necessary even with fractional reserve banking.
I'm so sick of this 'unsustainable growth' mantra. Think about WHY was it unsustainable.
Have we run out of land to build new houses? Nope.
Have we run out of workers? Nope.
Have we run out of resources? Nope (though energy prices indeed were rising too fast).
So why was the growth unsustainable?
Dude. The rate on 10-year Treasury Bonds is 2.30% - that's nothing. That's just about the normal inflation level. In essence, people are willing to GIVE money to the US government.
"so with extremely low interest rates, 20% of the tax revenue has to go to just service the debt."
Which means that there is the problem with the REVENUE, not debt.
Besides, you numbers are off - you assume that tax revenues won't go up with inflation. The realistic estimate is around 10%.
Nope.
Italy and Spain have fairly low levels of government debt. Italy has fairly low private debt as well. Moreover, Italy, Ireland and Spain were actually running budget surpluses prior to the Great Recession.
"Take a screenshot with Windows: Microsoft BMP. Like there wasn't enough graphic formats at the time."
Well, there actually was not that many formats back at the time of Windows 1.0 Besides, BMP is straightforward - just a list of scan-lines encoding colors and an optional palette (well, there is a possibility of compression but nobody used it).
Perfect when playing in complete dark with good loudspeakers.
In a lot of places (car rent, parkings, etc.) you simply can not pay cash. So the answer is: "make these companies respect your privacy".
A non-commercial global company would have been the best answer. But it's not going to happen, alas.