Markets are anonymous and deal with money or things denominated in money. How could there not be fraud?

Best post of the day on this topic... When rents go up, people's incomes down, especially those living on a fixed income. Most people on the driving side of the market don't know what it's like to be on the wrong side of the deal. So when people have their lives uprooted and are forced from their homes, they chalk it up to class envy or some other overly simplistic assumptions to make them feel better about themselves.

Except that the Nazis were widely supported by the big industrialists at the time, such as the Krupp family, IG Farben, Ford, A.E.G., General Electric, Osram, Telefunken, etc. For multiple citations just search: "industrialists who supported Hitler" But Nazi propaganda that they were a party of the working man is one of the biggest, and best perpetuated lies in history. It seems to still be widely believed, so we still get ignorant people comparing economic populists with the Nazis.

Not quite true and overly simplistic. The Nazis were not bat-shit crazy, they were mostly normal, rational, people who knew how to manipulate society to achieve their ambitions.

After the First World War, a lot of Germans believed in a "stab in the back" myth for their defeat. The basic idea was that jews and other "unpatriotic" and or "alien elements" within German society caused social instability at home, resulting in the german capitulation in November 1918. Early Nazi propaganda associated Jews with the "stab in the back" and with bolshevism, even though it would make almost no sense for "rich jews" to be Bolshevists or to overthrow a monarchy that did a far better job of protecting their minority rights than any other country in Europe.

Nope, I meant the B-52. It depends on the type of CAS being employed. When CAS is mentioned, most people think of type-1 control, where the FAC visually sees the aircraft and the aircraft visually sees the target.

Most modern CAS is type 2 or type 3 control. The FAC may be located in a COC and not anywhere near the target. The FAC gives the aircraft grid coordinates for the target and ID's the target via video feed. A B-52 with a FLIR, data link and modern JDAM is unbeatable in that type of environment. It enables a single FAC to control a lot more area than traditional visual control and is not as dependent on good visual conditions.

Both the B-52 and the A-10 can carry modern GPS-guided precision bombs. As long as you have air superiority, a B-52 maxed out with JDAM and full tanks of gas, is really all you need to go on a bombing safari and is probably one of the best CAS platforms out there.

The reason both platforms have endured is that they are relatively easy to adapt and upgrade to carry newer weapons systems. Less-adaptable aircraft of the era, such as the F-111, aren't around anymore. Even if they were more technologically advanced in their time.

Even if it has to be "mined", Bitcoin is a fiat currency that is backed by absolutely nothing other than itself.

"He was the best clerk I ever had" - General Douglas Macarthur.

Economics stopped commercial Airship travel, not the Hindenburg disaster. Airplanes were simply less expensive, faster, and more reliable.

"In the future, everyone will have their own currency for 15 minutes."

That's like when somebody posts that there are animals in the Zoo, you call it speculation.

Since all of the NSA's collection programs are international in scope, how should Snowden separate the documents to make an international spying program such as XKEYSCORE resemble a "domestic-only" program? That's an impossible hurdle... The corollary is that in the author's opinion, any leak about the NSA's collection should be punished because it would include spying on "legitimate targets". But his argument sounds reasonable on the surface.

That's a bit like saying it's ok for one of your clients to stick to a fleet of cars and trucks that lack modern safety features such as seat belts, air bags, engineered crumple zones, etc. Sure it works and they could make deliveries with it. But it be very bad if one of those trucks got into a collision. Also, there would probably be issues finding affordable accident insurance.

BoA's model means that they want to sell you BitCoin at $1300. Anytime a bank puts a price on anything it usually means they are looking to sell it at that price. Afterwards they'll probably short it, but that's another story.

nope...BOA is probably shorting BitCoin.