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Comment Re:Other People Engage in Risky Financial Practice (Score 1) 729

by jma34 (#25205877) Attached to: With regard to the U.S. financial crisis, I'm mostly ...

I couldn't agree more.

I'm not so naive that I think it isn't going to affect me. If we let the markets work it out then it will affect me. I will have a hard time buying (not be able to buy) a home for many more years. The job market will dry up just as I am graduating. It will be tough. However I still think that the government should leave it all alone. They are welcome to try to stimulate the economy by spending money on things that the government ought to like infrastructure, education, etc, but they should stay out of the private financial markets. If it hits the regular people like myself hard then so be it. I think things will work their way out in the end.
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Vitaly Friedman writes "ICANN, the body responsible for creating top-level domains, is considering a new one. Conceived as a way to easily manage contact information in an age where many people have numerous contact numbers, the proposed .tel TLD would allow individuals and companies to keep all of their contact information in an easily accessible location. Companies would get companyname.tel while individuals would be able to register firstnamelastname.tel." This idea has been kicked around for quite a while; one of the question is the whole name-space collision issue. For instance, there's me and then there's other me. Lemme tell how strange it is getting fan mail for country music stars.

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