"Too big to fail" is a government determination: not a private one.

Banks are a very poor example: they are only one-step away from government: merely a private extension of the Federal Reserve: a better reflection of poor legislative and financial policy than private lechery.

Don't confuse the free market with entites that live off public taxes and are first in line for public monetary distribution.

Good point.

The main compliant if I recall correctly was that congress was presented a plan to buy "toxic" assets, when instead the banks took (or some cases purported forced to take) premium stock buys by the Treasury with interesting levels of control on each companies operation: limits on executive compensation and the ability of the company to buy back its own stock.

This switch from buying up each bank's bad paper (which, let's be honest is giving them money) to premium stock holding in the banks (government ownership in private enterprise = nationalization: step toward social-fascism where the government now has specific market interest instead of broad market interest) is what caught some idiot congressmen from Texas by surprise.

But at 451 pages, yeah I can't really blame him. I'm not about to read TFA either.

Why the heck do I have to keep hearing about this?

I hate how they look. I hate knowing that they're potentially recording 24/7. I hate knowing that glazed look in your eye while I am speaking with you now may have nothing to do with what I am saying. (at least with a phone I know you're preoccupied)

In fact I despise the entire idea for for everyone except me.

I wouldn't put too much trust in Congress for any accountability.

Remember the TARP bailout? The one that gave the Federal Reserve unlimited power in giving out money to banks foreign and domestic?

That bill was only a few pages long, and some congress members didn't even read it before they signed it

I think they're essentially trying to patent the Adapter Pattern for any telecommunications protocol

Though it reads like you can get around it by including spaces in any encrypted strings

Could the Japanese earthquake and the magnitude of water it moved be a factor here?

Since we are spinning in free-fall on this planet a violent flailing on at one point would affect our rotational angle, but would the tsunami and earthquake have affected it a measurable amount?

Most of your world is made up of things have innate value. Here's a few examples:

1. Food
2. Tools
3. Shelter

All of these items have intrinsic value because they are functional. Could you use any one of them as currency? Yes.

But even if someone won't accept your item as currency: its intrinsically valuable because you could use it yourself.

Food: can be eaten, tools can build things, shelter may keep out the weather. Functionality defines value.

The value of gold as an intrinsic is based on its nearly unique property of very slow oxidation: it does not readily rust. Which means, if gold were plentiful, it would still have tremendous value: we would start plating cars with the stuff!

Ender's Game ought to be more war-worn than shiny: less Deep Space Nine and more Saving Private Ryan

First

The influence of existing interests (Koch/Exxon, etc.) will wane.

Then

a small portion of Exxon's profits gets injected directly into the local economy

So you're going to pillage the profits of two specific companies after you've reduced their influence? That makes sense.

Is this because you are reducing the influence of oil companies or because your alternatives aren't going to provide enough to meet demand? Oh, I know, you're just going to legislate private energy consumption levels so electricity usage will come down!

I have to agree with you here: you are merely spewing the ideals of socialist oppression, but you seem to lack the mental processes to think critically about the human suffering the policies enacted would inflict.

The contention here is that patients have more success when they determine what is "best" on a spiritual basis rather than a material one.

And it does matter what it is. A belief in big-foot is irrelevant to most individual's experience, however a belief in The Maker of Physical Existence who wants good things for people over the short span of their existence might be.

Somehow, a belief in a sympathetic powerful Supreme Being might be a little more compelling than a belief that the world and the individual's life is nothing more than a cosmic accident

So on what basis does the therapist determine what is best?

Reading some text written by dead people, maybe? And who decides if the therapist is reading the "right" dead people?

Actually you can just tap the Windows Key to swap between desktop and Metro.

What gets me about Windows 8 is how stupid it is. I put in a DVD and a little fly-out hint asks what I would like to do with DVDs in the future. If you don't happen to notice in time, or don't quick click exactly and it goes away THERE'S NO WAY TO START THE DVD without launching a seperate program directly! You can't even do it through Windows Explorer (Windows + E)! And there's no way to get back to the hint, without ejecting the DVD and putting it back in again.

So once you do catch the fly-out hint and manage to save what you want to do with DVDs in the future, you will grateful to know that there are "enhanced DVDs" out there and Windows 8 knows the difference! Now you have to catch the fly-out again. Only this time, Windows doesn't actually save that preference. That's right, for "enhanced DVDs" you have to do it every time.

Stupid. Just stupid.