That must be why I still buy booze from the smugglers coming in from Canada. And sneaking into speakeasies in the middle of the night when the cops aren't looking.
I think you're missing the point. Auditing/logging systems are not meant to provide effective defense. They are meant to let PHB's mark appropriate check boxes on compliance forms and sleep better without worrying what those evil nasty sysadmins are doing. Don't confuse them.
Well yes, but the Taliban and Bin Laden are both products of previous US meddling in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Essentially, you made them to fight the Russians.
So it's not necessarily correct to say that Afghanistan is different than Iraq. It's more that Afghanistan is in a later stage of development. Give Iraq another 30 years and they might well be just as badly off.
A) Elect the entire police force. Abuses are going to happen when the only people police officers have to report to is... Other police officers or at most the city council
You want all police officers to be politicians? Are you crazy? That would guarantee they would be all 100% lying thieving bastards. And completely useless to boot. The skills required to get elected are not the same skills required to do a good job. At anything. Especially not police work.
The biggest threat to US farmers is that eventually some politician might have enough balls to scrap the ridiculous corn subsidies. The reason you feed food to food is because the US government borrows tens of billions of dollars a year to pay farmers to grow corn that no one needs.
1) They weren't tax dodgers, just ordinary savers choosing to save with an Icelandic-owned bank. The British government are pissed that they compensated the savers (expecting Iceland to repay them later), and now the Icelandic government won't cough up what they owe the British government.
They don't owe them squat. The deposits weren't insured by the Icelandic government. Kudos to the Icelanders for taking a stand (not their wussy government either, this was direct democracy).
I try pretty hard not to buy anything made in China.
- most of it is crap - a lot of it is made by, essentially, slave labour living in polluted hellholes - deliberate, mercantilist wage arbitrage is destroying what little is left of the OECD economies - outsourcing pollution doesn't make it go away
They could still get hurt with the padding. I think everyone should be locked in a small padded cage 24/7 for their entire lives, for maximum safety. Except me, of course, 'cause that would suck.
Actually they do need it if you buy a service that could produce taxable income - like any interest bearing account or investment product. And good luck suing anyone just because they're doing what Revenue Canada demands they do, legal or not.
The debt overhang is a lot worse than it was during the depression. Unemployment is getting pretty close - it was 25% during the depression and U6 is probably over 20% now. On the other hand, during the depression the US still had a lot of it's own oil, manufactured its own stuff, and exported real things. So, honestly, it's a lot worse this time than the depression. It's just being propped up by trillions of dollars of government borrowing. It falls apart when people stop lending you that money. I don't know if it'll happen this time, but it won't be that far in the future.
House prices still have a ways to fall. The Federal Reserve basically bought every mortgage issued in 2009. When they stop, interest rates go up.
Keep in mind in your depression comparison that it's only about 1930 now.. give it a few more years.
# "The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity." - Julius Barnes, head of Hoover's National Business Survey Conference, Mar 16, 1930
"... the outlook continues favorable..." - HES Mar 29, 1930
# "... the outlook is favorable..." - HES Apr 19, 1930
# "While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst -- and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us." - Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, May 1, 1930
"...by May or June the spring recovery forecast in our letters of last December and November should clearly be apparent..." - HES May 17, 1930
"Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over." - Herbert Hoover, responding to a delegation requesting a public works program to help speed the recovery, June 1930
# "... irregular and conflicting movements of business should soon give way to a sustained recovery..." - HES June 28, 1930
# "... the present depression has about spent its force..." - HES, Aug 30, 1930
# "We are now near the end of the declining phase of the depression." - HES Nov 15, 1930
# "Stabilization at [present] levels is clearly possible." - HES Oct 31, 1931
The recent and ongoing financial collapse was most certainly caused by fraudulent actions. Millions of them.
- Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and Tim Geitner, for "pursuading" Congress and President Clinton to repeal Glass/Steagall, which enabled the disaster to enfold - every borrowers who fraudulently claimed income they didn't have, or expected to sell their home at a profit before their subprime or ALT-A mortgage reset to full payments - lenders fraudulently giving mortgages to borrowers who couldn't document income - lenders fraudulently giving mortgages to "subprime" and ALT-A borrowers who they knew couldn't pay the full reset payment - lenders and investment banks fraudulently bundling up said mortgages and selling them to investors as AAA investments - while also shorting the hell out of them in their investment arms (demonstrating that they knew they were going to tank) - ratings agencies for enabling the AAA ratings on securities they didn't see source documentation for - AIG and any other company selling CDS they didn't have the equity to back - every company buying a CDS from a company unable to pay for the sole reason of being able take the "protected" loan off their balance sheet and not count it against leverage limits - Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke for enabling bubble after bubble with too loose monetary policy, while fraudulently claiming there was no bubble - Congress, President Bush, and Henry Paulson for presiding over the runup and initiating the failed bailout strategy - President Obama for hiring Rubin, Summers and Geitner as his economic team to "fix" the problem, bringing us full circle
Hey, and that's only in the US. UK and European banks did all the same things. And let's not even talk about the China bubble. No shortage of fraud to go around.
In BC almost all IT workers are exempt from most of the labor code (legislation bought and paid for by Electronic Arts), and can be required to work overtime or do anything else the employer wants, without recourse (other than just quitting, of course).
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That must be why I still buy booze from the smugglers coming in from Canada. And sneaking into speakeasies in the middle of the night when the cops aren't looking.
I think you're missing the point. Auditing/logging systems are not meant to provide effective defense. They are meant to let PHB's mark appropriate check boxes on compliance forms and sleep better without worrying what those evil nasty sysadmins are doing. Don't confuse them.
Well yes, but the Taliban and Bin Laden are both products of previous US meddling in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Essentially, you made them to fight the Russians.
So it's not necessarily correct to say that Afghanistan is different than Iraq. It's more that Afghanistan is in a later stage of development. Give Iraq another 30 years and they might well be just as badly off.
BoA already admitted in court to committing over 100,000 felonies in the robo-signing "scandal". Hardly anyone even noticed.
I have yet to see a developer fresh out of school even know what a SQL injection is, let alone code to prevent it.
Space elevator. Obviously, that has its own engineering challenges, but it's the only way.
A) Elect the entire police force. Abuses are going to happen when the only people police officers have to report to is... Other police officers or at most the city council
You want all police officers to be politicians? Are you crazy? That would guarantee they would be all 100% lying thieving bastards. And completely useless to boot. The skills required to get elected are not the same skills required to do a good job. At anything. Especially not police work.
Yeah, they may all starve to death or kill each other because of excess population, but let's not offend anyone to prevent it.
The biggest threat to US farmers is that eventually some politician might have enough balls to scrap the ridiculous corn subsidies. The reason you feed food to food is because the US government borrows tens of billions of dollars a year to pay farmers to grow corn that no one needs.
The follow-up forces were a lot bigger. And who cares about Sicily :p
1) They weren't tax dodgers, just ordinary savers choosing to save with an Icelandic-owned bank. The British government are pissed that they compensated the savers (expecting Iceland to repay them later), and now the Icelandic government won't cough up what they owe the British government.
They don't owe them squat. The deposits weren't insured by the Icelandic government. Kudos to the Icelanders for taking a stand (not their wussy government either, this was direct democracy).
Do you assume Canada has a much bigger larger population than the US?
I try pretty hard not to buy anything made in China.
- most of it is crap
- a lot of it is made by, essentially, slave labour living in polluted hellholes
- deliberate, mercantilist wage arbitrage is destroying what little is left of the OECD economies
- outsourcing pollution doesn't make it go away
They could still get hurt with the padding. I think everyone should be locked in a small padded cage 24/7 for their entire lives, for maximum safety. Except me, of course, 'cause that would suck.
Actually they do need it if you buy a service that could produce taxable income - like any interest bearing account or investment product. And good luck suing anyone just because they're doing what Revenue Canada demands they do, legal or not.
If you could keep the criminals from having guns then other people wouldn't need them.
The debt overhang is a lot worse than it was during the depression. Unemployment is getting pretty close - it was 25% during the depression and U6 is probably over 20% now. On the other hand, during the depression the US still had a lot of it's own oil, manufactured its own stuff, and exported real things. So, honestly, it's a lot worse this time than the depression. It's just being propped up by trillions of dollars of government borrowing. It falls apart when people stop lending you that money. I don't know if it'll happen this time, but it won't be that far in the future.
House prices still have a ways to fall. The Federal Reserve basically bought every mortgage issued in 2009. When they stop, interest rates go up.
Keep in mind in your depression comparison that it's only about 1930 now .. give it a few more years.
# "The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity."
- Julius Barnes, head of Hoover's National Business Survey Conference, Mar 16, 1930
"... the outlook continues favorable..."
- HES Mar 29, 1930
# "... the outlook is favorable..."
- HES Apr 19, 1930
# "While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst -- and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us."
- Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, May 1, 1930
"...by May or June the spring recovery forecast in our letters of last December and November should clearly be apparent..."
- HES May 17, 1930
"Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over."
- Herbert Hoover, responding to a delegation requesting a public works program to help speed the recovery, June 1930
# "... irregular and conflicting movements of business should soon give way to a sustained recovery..."
- HES June 28, 1930
# "... the present depression has about spent its force..."
- HES, Aug 30, 1930
# "We are now near the end of the declining phase of the depression."
- HES Nov 15, 1930
# "Stabilization at [present] levels is clearly possible."
- HES Oct 31, 1931
They could call it, oh, the Wermacht, or les Grande Armee, or something.
The recent and ongoing financial collapse was most certainly caused by fraudulent actions. Millions of them.
- Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and Tim Geitner, for "pursuading" Congress and President Clinton to repeal Glass/Steagall, which enabled the disaster to enfold
- every borrowers who fraudulently claimed income they didn't have, or expected to sell their home at a profit before their subprime or ALT-A mortgage reset to full payments
- lenders fraudulently giving mortgages to borrowers who couldn't document income
- lenders fraudulently giving mortgages to "subprime" and ALT-A borrowers who they knew couldn't pay the full reset payment
- lenders and investment banks fraudulently bundling up said mortgages and selling them to investors as AAA investments - while also shorting the hell out of them in their investment arms (demonstrating that they knew they were going to tank)
- ratings agencies for enabling the AAA ratings on securities they didn't see source documentation for
- AIG and any other company selling CDS they didn't have the equity to back
- every company buying a CDS from a company unable to pay for the sole reason of being able take the "protected" loan off their balance sheet and not count it against leverage limits
- Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke for enabling bubble after bubble with too loose monetary policy, while fraudulently claiming there was no bubble
- Congress, President Bush, and Henry Paulson for presiding over the runup and initiating the failed bailout strategy
- President Obama for hiring Rubin, Summers and Geitner as his economic team to "fix" the problem, bringing us full circle
Hey, and that's only in the US. UK and European banks did all the same things. And let's not even talk about the China bubble. No shortage of fraud to go around.
Or a pedestrian. Or a cyclist hitting a pedestrian. etc.
In BC almost all IT workers are exempt from most of the labor code (legislation bought and paid for by Electronic Arts), and can be required to work overtime or do anything else the employer wants, without recourse (other than just quitting, of course).
.. that suggestion was made by Robert Heinlein, a long time ago.
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Lots did. They were in Pakistan, all over Africa, and the rest of the third world.