Hint: you can't, because it doesn't. More likely the contrary (as in: seeing a naked body every now & then lets kids grow up to be healthy adults). As has been shown at least a few times in serious studies
The best way for anyone to see how this is true is to see what goes on at a Nudist park, village, beach, etc. and my direct study (this summer) of the situation confirms your answer. Nudity != sex in spades. Also, people talk about body acceptance. If a nudist camp experience can't give you that with bodies all over the spectrum, then you really do need help.
I joined Cedar Waters Village http://nhnude.com/ this year, after a lifetime of avoiding places like that (except for that one visit to Moonstone Beach (PPTJLC)), and I can only say that I regret not doing something like this sooner in my life. The ability to just walk out of your cabin after waking up - bypassing your clothes hanging in the closet completely - and traipse off to the beach not giving a single flying fuck is refreshing.
People who wore the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol of "redneck pride" before the events of the past week were morons at best and are doubly so now.
The removal of Confederate Battle Flag items from the market and such is a bad idea.
Walmart, K-Mart, Sears, etc., should all continue to sell "Redneck Pride" crap - promote it, even. Because such things are great visual cues as to who is a moron/dolt/idiot without having to actually talk to them.
Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group.
This fucking clown? This guy who sided for years and years with SCO? This guy who gets things more wrong than even Dvorak, and at the same time is sincerely not trying to troll (unlike Dvorak) thereby exhibiting his utter incompetency?
Since when does his fucking opinion fucking matter? How the fuck does one get a gig doing what he does and get even NPR to pay cash money for idiotic punditry?
>group
OF ONE FUCKING PERSON. Self-importance, bloviation, and inaccuracy all rolled up into one neat douchebag.
WHY DOES SLASHDOT, OF ALL PLACES, LEND THIS GUY ANY SORT OF CREDIBILITY BY BLOGGING HIS CRAP HERE?
>Software with a 25+ lifespan >proprietary version of C++ >proprietary IDE
Just... no. Depending on proprietary anything is a no-no. Anyone who has experienced the "oh we don't do that anymore" phenomenon with other Microsoft products (the EOLing of MSVB 6.0, fer example), and other software vendors, know that depending on a company that needs to introduce $SOMETHING_DIFFERENT every year to differentiate (and call it innovation!) themselves from $OTHER_VENDOR is a road that leads to Lovecraftian madness.
There is COBOL and FORTRAN code out there that is likely older than me and a most other Slashdotters, and the only reason why it's still around and maintained is because it conforms to standards, is documented to hell and back, and can be edited in a plain text editor, or even pencil-and-paper, and doesn't depend on any particular vendor.
Proprietary languages and IDEs are a quagmire, and companies like Microsoft know this - once you've written enough code that requires their support, they have you by the short hairs.
All the "negative checkoff" (click NOT to install) and all the (CNET downloads.com e.g.) sites where banner ads mislead to click on them rather than the download file button you are looking for should be treated as malware, starting a long time ago.
So much this. All of the major "download sites" for Windows freeware/shareware do this. Even some official sites hide the actual download button and have big adware/spyware/shitware "download" buttons.
For example, I used to recommend imgburn for Windows users years ago, back when XP was new, until I saw what they were doing with their official page. They still haven't cleaned it up. It's still shit.
You might think sexism is only discrimination against women. Men are the victims of sexism just as much, on the basis that they're supposed to be strong, macho, invincible in the face of adversity.
"Long hours? You don't like long hours? What kind of a pussy are you? You're not a team player. Your last paycheck will be Friday."
or...
(I heard this from one of my supervisors. It's something straight out of Dilbert:) "Taking unpaid personal time is stealing from the company."
These attitudes are rampant not only in game publishers but in manufacturing and everything else.
And we're supposed to just put up with it. Because we're not pussies.
Why is higher education only useful for helping you making money? THat is not what it is for!
Tell that to my parents, and millions like them, who drummed it into my head that I would be digging ditches if I didn't go to university. This had been repeated to every generation since WWII. So excuse all of us for believing it.
They didn't tell me about laborer's unions and what licensed heavy equipment operators get, you know, the people who really dig ditches.
Which I would have enjoyed. Who the hell wants to be stuck inside all day?
Doing manual work was seriously looked down upon. But the plumber in our neighborhood had a huge boat with *two* inboard engines in it and a nice house.
But you don't have to use Facebook... ...to be tracked.
You know all those "share via social media" buttons you see everywhere? Do you think they just exist to make it easy for users to repost content? No, they're for tracking anyone and everyone who goes to those sites (i.e., all) who don't have the trackers filtered through the likes of PrivacyBadger and ad-blockers.
And the ratio of users that use those is minuscule enough that the users of the blockers themselves (like me) can be tracked via browser fingerprinting ridiculously easily anyway.
The general population is powerless against the corporations unless they simply give up entirely and go dark. What a nifty fucking choice, eh?
Last century, people were foretelling the future and saying that the Internet was going to be the death of brick-and-mortar retail stores.
I went to buy some suits a month ago. I didn't buy them online, because honestly, my sense of style is nonexistent. You might even call it a negative value. I was lamenting that I was too far away from my favorite store and I didn't know of who to go to, and I was tipped off to a place in Manchester NH (I'm in Concord). In short order, they got me what I needed, and I looked just spiffy according to my fiance.
Online, I would have spent weeks looking and eventually might have found something that looks nice on a hangar, but probably makes me look goofy.
Likewise libraries. Most people going into libraries are looking for specific information and they're fuzzy about where to look. Librarians offer the same level of personal service that the above retailer offered. Librarians are more than just nerdy stock-keepers and book hoarders.
Add on to this that libraries are also meatspace social gathering places if you check out the bulletin boards at the entrances.
Because of this, libraries aren't going away any time soon.
The old mimeographed copies are collector's items, and most of the ones online have been "edited" like a game of telephone.
That said, if you take any of the content seriously and try the things in it, Uncle Darwin will greet you with open arms. The FBI's investigation into the document said as much.
In that light, I think possession of the Cookbook should make you/not/ a target of investigation as "the 'problem' will solve itself sooner or later."
...is that funding promising but currently expensive technology that can have big payoffs in the future for society is far different than corn or oil subsidies.
Or military subsidies.
Inflammatory article is inflammatory.
-- BMO
P.S. I was going to use "nascent" as the word up there but didn't like it so I used a thesaurus. Pubescent is a synonym. That would have made the sentence far more interesting.
Surprised that there is only one post pointing this out. Non-crap manufacturers typically make them rechargeable, as opposed to filling landfills with used alkaline cells.
He was adamant that Flash should die in a fire, and IIRC, he disallowed Flash support for iOS. He did what everyone else wanted to do but were afraid of pissing off the customers who just "had to have their youtube." This triggered the exodus from proprietary video on the Web.
I'm not an Apple fanboy. The only Apple thingy I owned was an iPod 5 Video. The following iterations are impervious to Rockbox, so I've never bought them. But I give credit where credit is due.
Side note: Silverlight was so much better. It performed better in a Windows virtual machine on Linux than Flash did natively on any platform. Unfortunately, it too was closed and [soupnazi] "no silverlight for you" [/soupnazi] if you use Linux, like me.
The reason why people switching coming from Android is because the rest of the pack is simply too small.
Microsoft powered phones don't exist in the real world. I have yet to see one. They are apocryphal.
Before I get piled on by Softies, I have to point out that your fearless leaders ignored the smartphone market until it was too late. The "let the other guys do the pioneering and go in later to use dodgy tactics to muscle into the market" doesn't work all the time. And this time they ceded the market to everyone but them.
When Palin was selected to be McCain's running mate, she had the highest approval rating of any of the 50 governors.
The only surveying company to come up with that is some podunk company in Alaska. Just because it's on Wikipedia doesn't mean it's meaningful.
Then the left wing media went to work and convinced all the mindless cretins like yourself that she was the devil incarnate.
She is the epitome of someone who is both stupid and suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. Her speeches are pure fucking word-salad. They are unlistenable, because they contain not just no information, but rather/negative information/. I cannot stand to listen for more than 20 seconds at a time. To make me actually listen to a whole speech would entail something like what happened to Alex in "A Clockwork Orange." After which, you would have to commit me via an IEA to a mental hospital.
I had to look up how to do comments on a Word document. The Microsoft page walks you through a bunch of stuff with the Ribbon, and not a single hotkey is mentioned.
In LibreOffice Writer, it's ctrl-alt-c, which is a whole lot quicker than dealing with the ribbon, especially if you are editing someone's manuscript and have to stick a ton of comments in.
Word allows audio and handwritten comments, at the expense of making the interface stupidly complicated. This is not useful.
Do I you think a greedy bank would give a sub prime loan knowing that the borrower is going to default? A greedy bank will give a sub prime loian every tme if it knows it can repackage and sell the loan to the federal government
This explains exactly why you don't understand what was going on.
The banks *farmed out* their loan operations to mortgage brokers. Private ones. Ones that didn't give a/shit/ about whether or not the borrowers could pay them back.
BECAUSE THE BROKERS' INCOMES WERE TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON HOW MANY LOANS THEY MADE. MORE LOANS, MORE INCOME. IN MANUFACTURING, THEY CALL THIS PIECEWORK.
Piecework without QC gets you CRAP. Guaranteed. Every. Time.
And these banks accepted all these crap loans, rubber stamped them, and with the AAA rating, fobbed them off to every investor house on the planet.
You have this fantasy that it was the banks' loan officers making the loans and not private contractors. That was no longer the case with the new deregulation. Yes, the brokers were supposed to follow the same rules. They didn't. Because their jobs were not dependent on making good loans. Their jobs were dependent on how many loans they could make.
>implying the banks were selling purely to the government
No, no they weren't. They were packaging them up and selling them to the likes of Magnetar and Bear Stearns. Whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac existed at all is irrelevant when they had so many private buyers.
I get it, you're one of those "all government is bad" people. The thing is that none of this would have happened if the Bush administration's regulators and the Federal Reserve hadn't had a totally hands-off approach to policing this shit.
"We had no idea this would happen" - everyone who was supposed to be watching the cookie jar.
Bullshit. Absolute utter bullshit. If they didn't know what was going to happen, how did Magnetar make out so well? They saw it coming, and so did anyone who wasn't turning a blind eye. Everyone who treated these vehicles as cash and rated them as such willfully closed their minds to the fact that the music was eventually going to stop in the financial game of musical chairs. FFS, I knew the game was up when I heard Alan Greenspan spout off that people should take out variable rate mortgages at the same time mortgage rates were the lowest they had been in 40 years. I saw it coming because it wasn't my first rodeo. I, my parents, and a ton of other people around me, were direct victims of the RISDIC scandal. People I knew killed themselves.
Greenspan claimed personally that he didn't know what was going to happen. I could grow roses for billions of years on that bullshit.
As long as people thought there were dumber greedy idiots to sell to, they'd be fine.
They eventually ran out of idiots.
Tens to hundreds of thousands of people should be in jail over this. But the Obama administration turned a blind eye to it too when it became his administration's problem and simply continued the policies of GWB (the new legislation has no teeth). Because of this, we are being set up for another round of this shit in another 10-15 years. It disgusts me.
Bear Stearns (or anyone else for that matter in the private market) doesn't get any of the blame for what they inflicted upon themselves? That the ratings agencies are totally innocent of cooking the books when it comes to classifying mortgage backed securities? That the ratings agencies/defended to the death/ the right to "free speech" for putting out objectively fraudulent ratings?
Nobody else would have been in the market if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac weren't there? Really?
You are delusional if you think FM and FM not buying these loans would have made even the tiniest dent in the scam.
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Hint: you can't, because it doesn't. More likely the contrary (as in: seeing a naked body every now & then lets kids grow up to be healthy adults). As has been shown at least a few times in serious studies
The best way for anyone to see how this is true is to see what goes on at a Nudist park, village, beach, etc. and my direct study (this summer) of the situation confirms your answer. Nudity != sex in spades. Also, people talk about body acceptance. If a nudist camp experience can't give you that with bodies all over the spectrum, then you really do need help.
I joined Cedar Waters Village http://nhnude.com/ this year, after a lifetime of avoiding places like that (except for that one visit to Moonstone Beach (PPTJLC)), and I can only say that I regret not doing something like this sooner in my life. The ability to just walk out of your cabin after waking up - bypassing your clothes hanging in the closet completely - and traipse off to the beach not giving a single flying fuck is refreshing.
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People who wore the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol of "redneck pride" before the events of the past week were morons at best and are doubly so now.
Deal with it.
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The removal of Confederate Battle Flag items from the market and such is a bad idea.
Walmart, K-Mart, Sears, etc., should all continue to sell "Redneck Pride" crap - promote it, even. Because such things are great visual cues as to who is a moron/dolt/idiot without having to actually talk to them.
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Posting to remove fat-finger-mis-mod.
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Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group.
This fucking clown? This guy who sided for years and years with SCO? This guy who gets things more wrong than even Dvorak, and at the same time is sincerely not trying to troll (unlike Dvorak) thereby exhibiting his utter incompetency?
Since when does his fucking opinion fucking matter? How the fuck does one get a gig doing what he does and get even NPR to pay cash money for idiotic punditry?
>group
OF ONE FUCKING PERSON. Self-importance, bloviation, and inaccuracy all rolled up into one neat douchebag.
WHY DOES SLASHDOT, OF ALL PLACES, LEND THIS GUY ANY SORT OF CREDIBILITY BY BLOGGING HIS CRAP HERE?
Oh, I know, Dice.
Hnnnnggggghhh...
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>Software with a 25+ lifespan
>proprietary version of C++
>proprietary IDE
Just... no. Depending on proprietary anything is a no-no. Anyone who has experienced the "oh we don't do that anymore" phenomenon with other Microsoft products (the EOLing of MSVB 6.0, fer example), and other software vendors, know that depending on a company that needs to introduce $SOMETHING_DIFFERENT every year to differentiate (and call it innovation!) themselves from $OTHER_VENDOR is a road that leads to Lovecraftian madness.
There is COBOL and FORTRAN code out there that is likely older than me and a most other Slashdotters, and the only reason why it's still around and maintained is because it conforms to standards, is documented to hell and back, and can be edited in a plain text editor, or even pencil-and-paper, and doesn't depend on any particular vendor.
Proprietary languages and IDEs are a quagmire, and companies like Microsoft know this - once you've written enough code that requires their support, they have you by the short hairs.
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All the "negative checkoff" (click NOT to install) and all the (CNET downloads.com e.g.) sites where banner ads mislead to click on them rather than the download file button you are looking for should be treated as malware, starting a long time ago.
So much this. All of the major "download sites" for Windows freeware/shareware do this. Even some official sites hide the actual download button and have big adware/spyware/shitware "download" buttons.
For example, I used to recommend imgburn for Windows users years ago, back when XP was new, until I saw what they were doing with their official page. They still haven't cleaned it up. It's still shit.
Feast your eyes upon this abomination:
http://www.imgburn.com/
Be in a hurry and spot the actual download link. Go ahead. Even if you know what you're looking for, you can miss it.
Also- "Versions 2.5.1.0 on included optional Ask.com adware in the installer,[4] which was replaced in version 2.5.8.0 with OpenCandy adware.[5][6]"
Go to wikipedia and look at the list of software that OpenCandy infects, too.
Then there is stuff like MindSpark that even comes *preinstalled* on consumer-level machines from Dell and HP.
It's when I see shit like that I thank my lucky stars I moved away from Windows full-time 18 years ago.
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BMO
Men aren't supposed to be repelled.
It's the workaholic ethic many men grow up with.
You might think sexism is only discrimination against women. Men are the victims of sexism just as much, on the basis that they're supposed to be strong, macho, invincible in the face of adversity.
"Long hours? You don't like long hours? What kind of a pussy are you? You're not a team player. Your last paycheck will be Friday."
or...
(I heard this from one of my supervisors. It's something straight out of Dilbert:) "Taking unpaid personal time is stealing from the company."
These attitudes are rampant not only in game publishers but in manufacturing and everything else.
And we're supposed to just put up with it. Because we're not pussies.
--
BMO
Why is higher education only useful for helping you making money? THat is not what it is for!
Tell that to my parents, and millions like them, who drummed it into my head that I would be digging ditches if I didn't go to university. This had been repeated to every generation since WWII. So excuse all of us for believing it.
They didn't tell me about laborer's unions and what licensed heavy equipment operators get, you know, the people who really dig ditches.
Which I would have enjoyed. Who the hell wants to be stuck inside all day?
Doing manual work was seriously looked down upon. But the plumber in our neighborhood had a huge boat with *two* inboard engines in it and a nice house.
And you can't outsource plumbing.
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BMO
But you don't have to use Facebook... ...to be tracked.
You know all those "share via social media" buttons you see everywhere? Do you think they just exist to make it easy for users to repost content? No, they're for tracking anyone and everyone who goes to those sites (i.e., all) who don't have the trackers filtered through the likes of PrivacyBadger and ad-blockers.
And the ratio of users that use those is minuscule enough that the users of the blockers themselves (like me) can be tracked via browser fingerprinting ridiculously easily anyway.
The general population is powerless against the corporations unless they simply give up entirely and go dark. What a nifty fucking choice, eh?
Get down off your high-horse, Lord Farquaad.
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>obsolescence of libraries
Last century, people were foretelling the future and saying that the Internet was going to be the death of brick-and-mortar retail stores.
I went to buy some suits a month ago. I didn't buy them online, because honestly, my sense of style is nonexistent. You might even call it a negative value. I was lamenting that I was too far away from my favorite store and I didn't know of who to go to, and I was tipped off to a place in Manchester NH (I'm in Concord). In short order, they got me what I needed, and I looked just spiffy according to my fiance.
Online, I would have spent weeks looking and eventually might have found something that looks nice on a hangar, but probably makes me look goofy.
Likewise libraries. Most people going into libraries are looking for specific information and they're fuzzy about where to look. Librarians offer the same level of personal service that the above retailer offered. Librarians are more than just nerdy stock-keepers and book hoarders.
Add on to this that libraries are also meatspace social gathering places if you check out the bulletin boards at the entrances.
Because of this, libraries aren't going away any time soon.
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BMO
The old mimeographed copies are collector's items, and most of the ones online have been "edited" like a game of telephone.
That said, if you take any of the content seriously and try the things in it, Uncle Darwin will greet you with open arms. The FBI's investigation into the document said as much.
In that light, I think possession of the Cookbook should make you /not/ a target of investigation as "the 'problem' will solve itself sooner or later."
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Powershell's approach is more verbose, but it's also a little more readable
I beg to differ. I really, really beg to differ.
long.verbose.commands.that.grab.objects.are.impossible.to.read.
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...is that funding promising but currently expensive technology that can have big payoffs in the future for society is far different than corn or oil subsidies.
Or military subsidies.
Inflammatory article is inflammatory.
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BMO
P.S. I was going to use "nascent" as the word up there but didn't like it so I used a thesaurus. Pubescent is a synonym. That would have made the sentence far more interesting.
Surprised that there is only one post pointing this out. Non-crap manufacturers typically make them rechargeable, as opposed to filling landfills with used alkaline cells.
What, why are you looking at me like that?
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(it says "submit" on the button. yes, oh yes.)
I had to explain what "Lemonparty" was to my fiancee when we were watching the Chelsea Handler "Uganda Be Kidding Me" stand-up special on Netflix.
Chelsea Handler uses it to hilarious effect.
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You can thank Steve Jobs.
He was adamant that Flash should die in a fire, and IIRC, he disallowed Flash support for iOS. He did what everyone else wanted to do but were afraid of pissing off the customers who just "had to have their youtube." This triggered the exodus from proprietary video on the Web.
I'm not an Apple fanboy. The only Apple thingy I owned was an iPod 5 Video. The following iterations are impervious to Rockbox, so I've never bought them. But I give credit where credit is due.
Side note: Silverlight was so much better. It performed better in a Windows virtual machine on Linux than Flash did natively on any platform. Unfortunately, it too was closed and [soupnazi] "no silverlight for you" [/soupnazi] if you use Linux, like me.
HTML5 is good enough. At least it's a standard.
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Article is obviously written by an iOS fanboi.
The reason why people switching coming from Android is because the rest of the pack is simply too small.
Microsoft powered phones don't exist in the real world. I have yet to see one. They are apocryphal.
Before I get piled on by Softies, I have to point out that your fearless leaders ignored the smartphone market until it was too late. The "let the other guys do the pioneering and go in later to use dodgy tactics to muscle into the market" doesn't work all the time. And this time they ceded the market to everyone but them.
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BMO.
When Palin was selected to be McCain's running mate, she had the highest approval rating of any of the 50 governors.
The only surveying company to come up with that is some podunk company in Alaska. Just because it's on Wikipedia doesn't mean it's meaningful.
Then the left wing media went to work and convinced all the mindless cretins like yourself that she was the devil incarnate.
She is the epitome of someone who is both stupid and suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. Her speeches are pure fucking word-salad. They are unlistenable, because they contain not just no information, but rather /negative information/. I cannot stand to listen for more than 20 seconds at a time. To make me actually listen to a whole speech would entail something like what happened to Alex in "A Clockwork Orange." After which, you would have to commit me via an IEA to a mental hospital.
"Grow a brain."
You forgot the "Morans."
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BMO
The world does not owe you a living.
>internet will die if ads don't exist
I pretty much preferred the old Internet when the NSF was the backbone.
Go cry more.
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>What was the solution in the 80s that you are referring to?
Ethernet.
Either it has wifi or an "RJ45" jack on the back or it's crap.
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...it's not furry.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
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I had to look up how to do comments on a Word document. The Microsoft page walks you through a bunch of stuff with the Ribbon, and not a single hotkey is mentioned.
In LibreOffice Writer, it's ctrl-alt-c, which is a whole lot quicker than dealing with the ribbon, especially if you are editing someone's manuscript and have to stick a ton of comments in.
Word allows audio and handwritten comments, at the expense of making the interface stupidly complicated. This is not useful.
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Do I you think a greedy bank would give a sub prime loan knowing that the borrower is going to default? A greedy bank will give a sub prime loian every tme if it knows it can repackage and sell the loan to the federal government
This explains exactly why you don't understand what was going on.
The banks *farmed out* their loan operations to mortgage brokers. Private ones. Ones that didn't give a /shit/ about whether or not the borrowers could pay them back.
BECAUSE THE BROKERS' INCOMES WERE TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON HOW MANY LOANS THEY MADE. MORE LOANS, MORE INCOME. IN MANUFACTURING, THEY CALL THIS PIECEWORK.
Piecework without QC gets you CRAP. Guaranteed. Every. Time.
And these banks accepted all these crap loans, rubber stamped them, and with the AAA rating, fobbed them off to every investor house on the planet.
You have this fantasy that it was the banks' loan officers making the loans and not private contractors. That was no longer the case with the new deregulation. Yes, the brokers were supposed to follow the same rules. They didn't. Because their jobs were not dependent on making good loans. Their jobs were dependent on how many loans they could make.
>implying the banks were selling purely to the government
No, no they weren't. They were packaging them up and selling them to the likes of Magnetar and Bear Stearns. Whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac existed at all is irrelevant when they had so many private buyers.
I get it, you're one of those "all government is bad" people. The thing is that none of this would have happened if the Bush administration's regulators and the Federal Reserve hadn't had a totally hands-off approach to policing this shit.
"We had no idea this would happen" - everyone who was supposed to be watching the cookie jar.
Bullshit. Absolute utter bullshit. If they didn't know what was going to happen, how did Magnetar make out so well? They saw it coming, and so did anyone who wasn't turning a blind eye. Everyone who treated these vehicles as cash and rated them as such willfully closed their minds to the fact that the music was eventually going to stop in the financial game of musical chairs. FFS, I knew the game was up when I heard Alan Greenspan spout off that people should take out variable rate mortgages at the same time mortgage rates were the lowest they had been in 40 years. I saw it coming because it wasn't my first rodeo. I, my parents, and a ton of other people around me, were direct victims of the RISDIC scandal. People I knew killed themselves.
Greenspan claimed personally that he didn't know what was going to happen. I could grow roses for billions of years on that bullshit.
As long as people thought there were dumber greedy idiots to sell to, they'd be fine.
They eventually ran out of idiots.
Tens to hundreds of thousands of people should be in jail over this. But the Obama administration turned a blind eye to it too when it became his administration's problem and simply continued the policies of GWB (the new legislation has no teeth). Because of this, we are being set up for another round of this shit in another 10-15 years. It disgusts me.
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whole thing never would have happened.
Oh look, one of those people.
Bear Stearns (or anyone else for that matter in the private market) doesn't get any of the blame for what they inflicted upon themselves? That the ratings agencies are totally innocent of cooking the books when it comes to classifying mortgage backed securities? That the ratings agencies /defended to the death/ the right to "free speech" for putting out objectively fraudulent ratings?
Nobody else would have been in the market if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac weren't there? Really?
You are delusional if you think FM and FM not buying these loans would have made even the tiniest dent in the scam.
Clueless isn't enough of a word.
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