> These secure processors do 2 things: they authenticate to the printer with full handshake using strong encryption and they watch the level of ink in the cartridge (they record the transparency of each ink when the cartridge passes in front of a reflective light sensor) and they stop the moment they see more ink that is was before.
Perfect. Absolutely no way to get around such excellent quality control. Making sure the customer has the very best print quality HP can deliver. Warning for the sarcasm impaired: the above statement was deeply sarcastic.
I believe at one time that was their excuse for putting in the smart chips, but Godalmighty, they're going to ridiculous lenghts not to allow refills. Which also cements my opinion: we're paying too much for their ink. BECAUSE, if they were truly threatened by the 3'rd party refillers, they also would offer to refill your cartridge for a lower price, maybe with "value" ink etc, and in so doing, wipe out the 3'rd party refillers. Or just make their margins so thin as to make it uneconomical to continue.
So why not a 3'rd party printer controller to replace the whole electronics ?..sure, not a weekend job for one hacker, but for a 3'rd party ? Might be a market opportunity in this.
>how about the spammers using fragments from Gutenberg books ? Or fragments from blog posts ?
Gee Thanks ! That's great ! Have you got any other related ideas I can try.. uh.. I mean, I can consider.. from a purely technical point of view, that is.;-)
Sure would but it keeps asking me for a plugin..;-)
Dont other people boycott sites that use flash primarily for useless banners and such ? vote with your mouse !
BTW, that demo looks interesting, at least the part I could see without engaging the plugin, and is probably a great use for interactive animation but I sure would like to see something else than cra^H^H^Hflash.
> Consider the case of Tiger Woods for a current example:
Yeah, I heard about that. Funny how it became common gossip you cant tune out.
> Humor is a way of dealing with the awful.
No, in this case it's not. Unless Tiger is somekinda enshrined Ghandi prominently displayed on the mantel, it's not awfull, it's just everyday lilfe with no really big deal to it.. Tiger was caught doing something that a significant percentage of the adult population does. (both sexes btw). And since I have as much in common with Tiger as the golf ball and Cadillac you mentioned above, I dont care enough to even smirk. In this case the "humour" is to lower it's victim to our every day level.
We'd all be happier if it didn't happen in the first place, but if it did happen, we might as well derive something positive from it.
The expression you're lookinng for is laughing at someone elses' expense.
Oh well, so much for the adulation: he's only human.
BTW, the original comment about his two daughters is ironic which makes it apropos. (Yeah, I smirked at that one though;-))
I agree that the crisis can be partly blamed on the inability of people to model the economy correctly, but I believe that the cause of the credit crisis can be, and has been, modeled.
I dont think so.. If the cause of the crisis has been (correctly) modeled, then it would be somewhat more straightforward to supply an action plan to correct the situation. Rather what I've been reading seems to suggest that the economists (yeah, throw in those useless banking slugs too) are still arguing about what caused the crash and whether the preventive actions taken by Bernake et al have helped or aggravated the situation.
Is there an accurate model for pushing a rope ?
OK, ok.. maybe it CAN be explained:
Banks/Investment firms go broke from buying madly without checking the outstanding balance on their credit cards. (this is the tricky part of the model:) throw dice: even numbers get bailed out, odd numbers head for the locker room.
Pretty simple after all !.. I think I have a career ahead of me in the government;-)
Maybe it's not extrasensory perception but extra strong perspiration.. just a thought.:-)..but as long as I got the mic, maybe instead of a flashing led they can hook it up to those electro shock rigs... as one smug know-it-all above pointed out, it has to be outside of the five known (so far) senses... well, I'm guessing if you get electroshocked you wont be able to tell what particular sense was involved - but you might also start salivating and calling yourself Napoleon or something equally outrageous.
Well that was good for a guffaw at the least. No, there was no mixup at the travel agency and you got sent to God's Left Armpit for some fun and recreation and shown how to look for anybody suspicious that might not have read the minutia fine print in the Geneva Conventions while they're trying to give you a Baghdad haircut.
BTW, the shoe fits much better on the other side : when you're defending your homeland. Hope you dont show up at that war with the same "not necessary to win' attitude. Ya might just piss off your buddies.
Yeah.. the technical side of it looks like it would work for the bad guys, but this "drain your bank account" business seems a bit glib. Recently I had tried to transfer a significant amount of money between two banks I had accounts with. It was unbelievably ugly. In the end I just wrote myself a check and deposited it at the other bank.. manually; and had to wait the requisite days for it to "clear".
I'm not saying it's not possible but I'd take a WAG that any local bank might actually get in touch with you if you suddendly volleyed most of your life's savings to a bank in lower Slobovia, and that's if you can convince the bank servers that you really, really wanted to do this.
>At some point your island simply won't be big enough to grow enough coconuts to support the population and you'll be wishing someone was far-sighted (or maybe just "mad"!) enough to have gone looking to see what was over the horizon!
Hmmm.. you're right ! Maybe they'll have more coconuts than we do.. and this is where that military angle fits in. We can use our spare change to build space carriers and start training the Marines.. and we can go in there and liberate the coco..^H^H^H.. natives That should make for some truly attention grabbing headlines - good thing too ! You dont want your average coconut eater to realise how effectively he'd been fleeced for those carriers..
The problem isnt coconut production, it's the coconut consumption. If we cant learn to live within our means, then even if we liberate exoplantets we'll always be starving for coconuts. In that case, we would be space cockroaches...
That sig I saw earlier that said that he'd paid his loans why cant others, is truly appropriate here.
>Any such implosion in the value of the dollar would seriously screw with the US economy.
There. Fixed that for ya..:-)
OK, ok.. so the ripples would spread to the rest of the world if the US economy cratered. But.. and this is a good but, why is it that China, while holding such large US denominated debt is also initiating foreign exchanges in yuans ? you dont actually think they're stoopid enough to devalue their US reserves do you ?.. or will they be dumping them in an orderly fashion since US currency is devaluing as we speak ? By the way, who do you think it would benefit to devalue such a large amount of IOUs ?
Being a pretty old mainframe fart, I do a lot of touch typing.. on a querty keyboard. After moocho years of typing on a querty, I got to work on an azerty keyboard. Believe me, you dont learn a new keyboard in 30 seconds.. more like 3 days for just so/so speed. My *personal* guess is you folks really do need some imagination.
Picture this:
Some dude in a funny uniform shows up and offers you the molecular layout or whatever, of transparent aluminum. He offers to give it to you on your computer.. never mind the now proverbial "Computer !" to the mouse. Imagine he cant type for beans... also imagine he asks how the damned blasted computer works. Now imagine Scotty being thrown out on his ear. Hmm.. the story line might need a tad improving at this point.
So, lets just say reality sucks and being an ober the hill uber-geek would suck too, but we tend to suspend disbelief for Star Trek. It's just entertainment:-)..
Any minute now we'll get someone complaining that they can still see the strings holding up the models !!
> Religion and Science are 100% incompatible. Religion = "I Believe", Science = "I can show/demonstrate/repeat". These two ways of looking at the world are not, and never will be, compatible.
Twenty years ago I'd have said something similar. My pendulum had swung to solid science side, but I kept wondering about the "unexplainable".. nah, not the little green men and Area 51 or whatever. Sorta like the unanswered questions of science. Fine, science will eventually explain everything.. until then we can still wonder about things. Maybe I'm just going senile but 10 or 11 dimensions in string theory sure doesnt sound like science to me. It sounds like math voodoo ! I also got a kick out of quantum mechanics.. now that's voodoo ! so that's modern science ? the almighty "observer" determining the outcome of events. That sure makes it sound rather subjective as opposed to objective. Which by the way should be a criteria for science.. no ? Quantum Mechanics sounds like religion now, doesnt it ?
I ran across an interesting film that helped confuse me some more : http://www.whatthebleep.com./ There are quite a few scientists in it. Unless everyone in the film is a charlatan, I'd suggest it to people with an open mind (and that dont feel threatened by opposing points of view).
> I'm not seeing what's so terribly innovative about this.
As I watch the stock indexes crashing and zooming with absolutely no related "news" being reported AT THE TIME, I'm almost sure someone said something or, some related event occured that's not being reported. Sure enough, wait until tomorrow and get to read about why the market burped as it did the day before.
Now, if you think about it a few seconds, you might wonder how the market got wind of this and you or I did not. I'm pretty sure it was either business insiders or better access to news. Either way, the average (stock investing shmuck) is clearly at a disadvantage. Timeliness of news would be worth paying for in this case. As for what Britney had for lunch the other day might be relegated to trivia that can be harvested when it finally shows up for free.
In the middle ages when no copy right existed authors starved because every moron just could reprint it as he wished.
Hahaha.. you're kidding, right ? In the middle ages most people couldnt read let alone write, and a book was something the priest had, or maybe the clerics for the nobility. I'd have thought you'd remember why Gutenberg became famous, in fact in your neck of the woods. Back then copying was what the monks did in the scriptorium etc for ONE copy, on velum for many months. Maybe you were thinking of the bards that went from town to town, passing news and stories via songs that they would freely exchange between themselves (oh the shame ! no copyright issues !) Not disagreeing with you but I suspect that the publisher/distributor/author/copyright arrangement grew from "helpfull" middlemen that saw an opportunity to "facilitate" returns to the original authors... for a small percentage of said return... and slowly grew to be the bloated beast we witness now.
I just knew I shouldnt have inhaled. I used to read Lord of the Rings and had no trouble imagining something completely unreal, but reading the above "gem" I couldnt figure out what they were talking about so I couldnt imagine what is actually (allegedly?) real. Hmmm...I know, it's that automatic "fog" generator throwing up meaningless drivel, yeah, that's it. I'll go with that.
OK, so maybe they didnt have SONAR on those galleys, but given that Greece is in an active volcanic zone and that an underwater earthquake occurs underwater, the resulting shocks might prove to be interesting. Maybe even low frequency rumbling conducted thru the water might be enough to stun or confuse them. As someone else pointed out, there didnt seem to be any importance associated to the frequency of the sonar used for the tests.
because Bell is so much better...what with their evening/late-night throttling and crazy prices.
I'm moving to Montreal this summer and I hope I can find something better than these two giant ogres for my internet service.
Hang on there.. try these folks out : http://www.radioactif.com/. I've been with
them for a few years now. No contract, no download limits and still cheaper than Ma Bell. Dunno if they've got any new shit on copyrighted content but I have'nt seen any kind of notice (so far) in my monthly statement.
Funny thing with these folks. They're using the Bell DSL network but still offering better rates and service than Bell itself. Dunno how it works out but it works out great for me. Getting 5Mb down, 768k up even though when I started with them it was 3Mb. Nope, I'm not a shill for them, just another lucky customer that hasnt been bitten yet.
Yeah, I thought so too. The tanks take up most of the "space plane". And you just stick a rocket motor at the end of the it and it goes whoosh into suborbit ? Possibly it just occured to me that maybe your tow plane comment is the missing piece of the puzzle : they'll tow it into orbit and then let it go there ! Then it can fart around all it likes since the problem of getting into orbit has been solved ! (that's sarcasm for you sarcasm-impaired out there).
Kinda smell something funny in this one since if they plan on bringing satellites up on this plane, they'll need to be golf ball sized to fit in the pilot's pocket so he can chuck 'em out the window.
I didnt realise that rocket technology had progressed to the point where you just strap on a rocket to a learjet and load up a couple of jerry cans of gasoline and away you go ! There was quite a lot of talk about cooling and weight of fuel to weight of vehicle etc while I was following the space-x stuff a few years back. This seems.. umm.. like a Hollywood design.
Hey that's great ! I gotta buy me some stock from this InPhase company.. apparently their drives never break ! Imagine that ! not like those sorry assed revolving dohickeys that break every year. Planned obsolescence..
> Your premise is incorrect. Businesses aren't bankrupt, the stockmarket is recovering, and your drama is understandable but extreme beyond reality.
If you're cool and calm while all others are loosing their heads around you, possibly you dont know just how serious things are.
As for the original sky-is-falling post, I'd read some stuff elsewhere that's predicting similar gloom and doom and although I like to keep a cheerful attitude, I'm on fixed income and I DO notice inflation hammering away at little luxuries like food. Which has got to make you wonder the why and where of inflation..also the hypocrisy of governments in not actually admitting that inflation is biting more than usual.
Ya so big deal, the price of gas went down. Whoopi ! The official figures according to the Feds say that inflation is under control.. only if you factor in the price of gas. And that inflation thing *is* tied in to the printing of money, and more money etc. So the original poster does have a point, of sorts.
> It is like our fleet of submarines. Simply the threat that we can deploy them keeps us out of wars.
Better send a shitload more subs to Iraq, the Iraqis dont appear to have seen enough of them to be intimidated. And maybe Afghanistan while we're at it. But you're right: the subs *did* actually keep the Iraqis and the Afghans from starting their respective wars.
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> These secure processors do 2 things: they authenticate to the printer with full handshake using strong encryption and they watch the level of ink in the cartridge (they record the transparency of each ink when the cartridge passes in front of a reflective light sensor) and they stop the moment they see more ink that is was before.
..sure, not a weekend job for one hacker, but for a 3'rd party ? Might be a market opportunity in this.
Perfect. Absolutely no way to get around such excellent quality control. Making sure the customer has the very best print quality HP can deliver. Warning for the sarcasm impaired: the above statement was deeply sarcastic.
I believe at one time that was their excuse for putting in the smart chips, but Godalmighty, they're going to ridiculous lenghts not to allow refills. Which also cements my opinion: we're paying too much for their ink. BECAUSE, if they were truly threatened by the 3'rd party refillers, they also would offer to refill your cartridge for a lower price, maybe with "value" ink etc, and in so doing, wipe out the 3'rd party refillers. Or just make their margins so thin as to make it uneconomical to continue.
So why not a 3'rd party printer controller to replace the whole electronics ?
> I just want to see how long Roland can keep getting bullshit greenlit.
.. about as long as you keep going to pay to see the new bullshit ?
Umm
>how about the spammers using fragments from Gutenberg books ? Or fragments from blog posts ?
.. uh .. I mean, I can consider .. from a purely technical point of view, that is. ;-)
Gee Thanks ! That's great ! Have you got any other related ideas I can try
> Educate Thyself
.. ;-)
Sure would but it keeps asking me for a plugin
Dont other people boycott sites that use flash primarily for useless banners and such ? vote with your mouse !
BTW, that demo looks interesting, at least the part I could see without engaging the plugin, and is probably a great use for interactive animation but I sure would like to see something else than cra^H^H^Hflash.
> Consider the case of Tiger Woods for a current example:
;-))
Yeah, I heard about that. Funny how it became common gossip you cant tune out.
> Humor is a way of dealing with the awful.
No, in this case it's not. Unless Tiger is somekinda enshrined Ghandi prominently displayed on the mantel, it's not awfull, it's just everyday lilfe with no really big deal to it.. Tiger was caught doing something that a significant percentage of the adult population does. (both sexes btw). And since I have as much in common with Tiger as the golf ball and Cadillac you mentioned above, I dont care enough to even smirk. In this case the "humour" is to lower it's victim to our every day level.
We'd all be happier if it didn't happen in the first place, but if it did happen, we might as well derive something positive from it.
The expression you're lookinng for is laughing at someone elses' expense.
Oh well, so much for the adulation: he's only human.
BTW, the original comment about his two daughters is ironic which makes it apropos. (Yeah, I smirked at that one though
I agree that the crisis can be partly blamed on the inability of people to model the economy correctly, but I believe that the cause of the credit crisis can be, and has been, modeled.
.. If the cause of the crisis has been (correctly) modeled, then it would be somewhat more straightforward to supply an action plan to correct the situation. Rather what I've been reading seems to suggest that the economists (yeah, throw in those useless banking slugs too) are still arguing about what caused the crash and whether the preventive actions taken by Bernake et al have helped or aggravated the situation.
.. maybe it CAN be explained:
.. I think I have a career ahead of me in the government ;-)
I dont think so
Is there an accurate model for pushing a rope ?
OK, ok
Banks/Investment firms go broke from buying madly without checking the outstanding balance on their credit cards. (this is the tricky part of the model:) throw dice: even numbers get bailed out, odd numbers head for the locker room.
Pretty simple after all !
..the flight was shorter than the wingspan of a 747 if i recall correctly.
Maybe it's not extrasensory perception but extra strong perspiration .. just a thought. :-) ..but as long as I got the mic, maybe instead of a flashing led they can hook it up to those electro shock rigs ... as one smug know-it-all above pointed out, it has to be outside of the five known (so far) senses ... well, I'm guessing if you get electroshocked you wont be able to tell what particular sense was involved - but you might also start salivating and calling yourself Napoleon or something equally outrageous.
> and it wasn't necessary to win the war
Well that was good for a guffaw at the least. No, there was no mixup at the travel agency and you got sent to God's Left Armpit for some fun and recreation and shown how to look for anybody suspicious that might not have read the minutia fine print in the Geneva Conventions while they're trying to give you a Baghdad haircut.
BTW, the shoe fits much better on the other side : when you're defending your homeland. Hope you dont show up at that war with the same "not necessary to win' attitude. Ya might just piss off your buddies.
>If we didn't care about colleteral we could just throw a nuke at it.
..
And hope they dont throw one back at us
> then he can proceed to drain your bank account
.. the technical side of it looks like it would work for the bad guys, but this "drain your bank account" business seems a bit glib. Recently I had tried to transfer a significant amount of money between two banks I had accounts with. It was unbelievably ugly. In the end I just wrote myself a check and deposited it at the other bank .. manually; and had to wait the requisite days for it to "clear".
Yeah
I'm not saying it's not possible but I'd take a WAG that any local bank might actually get in touch with you if you suddendly volleyed most of your life's savings to a bank in lower Slobovia, and that's if you can convince the bank servers that you really, really wanted to do this.
>At some point your island simply won't be big enough to grow enough coconuts to support the population and you'll be wishing someone was far-sighted (or maybe just "mad"!) enough to have gone looking to see what was over the horizon!
.. you're right ! Maybe they'll have more coconuts than we do .. and this is where that military angle fits in. We can use our spare change to build space carriers and start training the Marines .. and we can go in there and liberate the coco..^H^H^H .. natives That should make for some truly attention grabbing headlines - good thing too ! You dont want your average coconut eater to realise how effectively he'd been fleeced for those carriers ..
Hmmm
The problem isnt coconut production, it's the coconut consumption. If we cant learn to live within our means, then even if we liberate exoplantets we'll always be starving for coconuts. In that case, we would be space cockroaches...
That sig I saw earlier that said that he'd paid his loans why cant others, is truly appropriate here.
>Any such implosion in the value of the dollar would seriously screw with the US economy.
.. :-)
.. so the ripples would spread to the rest of the world if the US economy cratered. But .. and this is a good but, why is it that China, while holding such large US denominated debt is also initiating foreign exchanges in yuans ? you dont actually think they're stoopid enough to devalue their US reserves do you ? .. or will they be dumping them in an orderly fashion since US currency is devaluing as we speak ? By the way, who do you think it would benefit to devalue such a large amount of IOUs ?
There. Fixed that for ya
OK, ok
Being a pretty old mainframe fart, I do a lot of touch typing .. on a querty keyboard. After moocho years of typing on a querty, I got to work on an azerty keyboard. Believe me, you dont learn a new keyboard in 30 seconds .. more like 3 days for just so/so speed. My *personal* guess is you folks really do need some imagination.
.. never mind the now proverbial "Computer !" to the mouse. Imagine he cant type for beans... also imagine he asks how the damned blasted computer works. Now imagine Scotty being thrown out on his ear. Hmm .. the story line might need a tad improving at this point.
:-) ..
Picture this: Some dude in a funny uniform shows up and offers you the molecular layout or whatever, of transparent aluminum. He offers to give it to you on your computer
So, lets just say reality sucks and being an ober the hill uber-geek would suck too, but we tend to suspend disbelief for Star Trek. It's just entertainment
Any minute now we'll get someone complaining that they can still see the strings holding up the models !!
> Religion and Science are 100% incompatible. Religion = "I Believe", Science = "I can show/demonstrate/repeat". These two ways of looking at the world are not, and never will be, compatible.
.. nah, not the little green men and Area 51 or whatever. Sorta like the unanswered questions of science. Fine, science will eventually explain everything .. until then we can still wonder about things. Maybe I'm just going senile but 10 or 11 dimensions in string theory sure doesnt sound like science to me. It sounds like math voodoo ! I also got a kick out of quantum mechanics .. now that's voodoo ! so that's modern science ? the almighty "observer" determining the outcome of events. That sure makes it sound rather subjective as opposed to objective. Which by the way should be a criteria for science .. no ? Quantum Mechanics sounds like religion now, doesnt it ?
Twenty years ago I'd have said something similar. My pendulum had swung to solid science side, but I kept wondering about the "unexplainable"
I ran across an interesting film that helped confuse me some more : http://www.whatthebleep.com./ There are quite a few scientists in it. Unless everyone in the film is a charlatan, I'd suggest it to people with an open mind (and that dont feel threatened by opposing points of view).
> I'm not seeing what's so terribly innovative about this.
As I watch the stock indexes crashing and zooming with absolutely no related "news" being reported AT THE TIME, I'm almost sure someone said something or, some related event occured that's not being reported. Sure enough, wait until tomorrow and get to read about why the market burped as it did the day before.
Now, if you think about it a few seconds, you might wonder how the market got wind of this and you or I did not. I'm pretty sure it was either business insiders or better access to news. Either way, the average (stock investing shmuck) is clearly at a disadvantage. Timeliness of news would be worth paying for in this case. As for what Britney had for lunch the other day might be relegated to trivia that can be harvested when it finally shows up for free.
In the middle ages when no copy right existed authors starved because every moron just could reprint it as he wished.
.. you're kidding, right ? In the middle ages most people couldnt read let alone write, and a book was something the priest had, or maybe the clerics for the nobility. I'd have thought you'd remember why Gutenberg became famous, in fact in your neck of the woods. Back then copying was what the monks did in the scriptorium etc for ONE copy, on velum for many months. Maybe you were thinking of the bards that went from town to town, passing news and stories via songs that they would freely exchange between themselves (oh the shame ! no copyright issues !) Not disagreeing with you but I suspect that the publisher/distributor/author/copyright arrangement grew from "helpfull" middlemen that saw an opportunity to "facilitate" returns to the original authors... for a small percentage of said return. .. and slowly grew to be the bloated beast we witness now.
Hahaha
> A gem from his book:
.. .I know, it's that automatic "fog" generator throwing up meaningless drivel, yeah, that's it. I'll go with that.
I just knew I shouldnt have inhaled. I used to read Lord of the Rings and had no trouble imagining something completely unreal, but reading the above "gem" I couldnt figure out what they were talking about so I couldnt imagine what is actually (allegedly?) real. Hmmm
OK, so maybe they didnt have SONAR on those galleys, but given that Greece is in an active volcanic zone and that an underwater earthquake occurs underwater, the resulting shocks might prove to be interesting. Maybe even low frequency rumbling conducted thru the water might be enough to stun or confuse them. As someone else pointed out, there didnt seem to be any importance associated to the frequency of the sonar used for the tests.
because Bell is so much better...what with their evening/late-night throttling and crazy prices.
I'm moving to Montreal this summer and I hope I can find something better than these two giant ogres for my internet service.
Hang on there .. try these folks out :
http://www.radioactif.com/ .
I've been with them for a few years now. No contract, no download limits and still cheaper than Ma Bell. Dunno if they've got any new shit on copyrighted content but I have'nt seen any kind of notice (so far) in my monthly statement.
Funny thing with these folks. They're using the Bell DSL network but still offering better rates and service than Bell itself. Dunno how it works out but it works out great for me. Getting 5Mb down, 768k up even though when I started with them it was 3Mb. Nope, I'm not a shill for them, just another lucky customer that hasnt been bitten yet.
Thought I'd read somewhere that the atmosphere is actualling escaping; solar wind etc.
Yeah, I thought so too. The tanks take up most of the "space plane". And you just stick a rocket motor at the end of the it and it goes whoosh into suborbit ? Possibly it just occured to me that maybe your tow plane comment is the missing piece of the puzzle : they'll tow it into orbit and then let it go there ! Then it can fart around all it likes since the problem of getting into orbit has been solved ! (that's sarcasm for you sarcasm-impaired out there).
.. umm .. like a Hollywood design.
Kinda smell something funny in this one since if they plan on bringing satellites up on this plane, they'll need to be golf ball sized to fit in the pilot's pocket so he can chuck 'em out the window.
I didnt realise that rocket technology had progressed to the point where you just strap on a rocket to a learjet and load up a couple of jerry cans of gasoline and away you go ! There was quite a lot of talk about cooling and weight of fuel to weight of vehicle etc while I was following the space-x stuff a few years back. This seems
Hey that's great ! I gotta buy me some stock from this InPhase company .. apparently their drives never break ! Imagine that ! not like those sorry assed revolving dohickeys that break every year. Planned obsolescence ..
> Your premise is incorrect. Businesses aren't bankrupt, the stockmarket is recovering, and your drama is understandable but extreme beyond reality.
..also the hypocrisy of governments in not actually admitting that inflation is biting more than usual.
.. only if you factor in the price of gas. And that inflation thing *is* tied in to the printing of money, and more money etc. So the original poster does have a point, of sorts.
If you're cool and calm while all others are loosing their heads around you, possibly you dont know just how serious things are.
As for the original sky-is-falling post, I'd read some stuff elsewhere that's predicting similar gloom and doom and although I like to keep a cheerful attitude, I'm on fixed income and I DO notice inflation hammering away at little luxuries like food. Which has got to make you wonder the why and where of inflation
Ya so big deal, the price of gas went down. Whoopi ! The official figures according to the Feds say that inflation is under control
> It is like our fleet of submarines. Simply the threat that we can deploy them keeps us out of wars.
Better send a shitload more subs to Iraq, the Iraqis dont appear to have seen enough of them to be intimidated. And maybe Afghanistan while we're at it. But you're right: the subs *did* actually keep the Iraqis and the Afghans from starting their respective wars.