and if I'm not mistaken individuals also have limits on political donations.

I was a bit surprised HR departments share the information. As far as I recall (and I actually read the whole contract/employee rules when I get them) I haven't seen anything saying this info would be reported to the credit bureaus. The flip side is though it is part of your credit report. You choose to share your credit report with your financial institution when you apply for a loan. If you chose not to that is your right and it is their right to then refuse to give you a loan.

Except unsecured debts charge off in 6 months and it would likely take longer than that to unwind the failed bank.

Oh and that $800 only happens assuming everything they have goes to zero which wouldn't be the case because the courts would seize their assets.

I'm not sure if this is true or not but: http://www.woosk.com/2009/11/average-bank-balance-per-person-in-usd.html average bank balance is -2490 in the US per capita. I'm assuming that is chequing - credit card balances. So take my bank account and die. I will never pay your credit card and will be better off.

Another source said that the average bank balance was $2100 (presumably before cc debt is taken into account). The bank and auto bailouts were around 800B that is $1333 per person. So you'd just be out another $800 per person but at least you wouldn't be giving the money to the companies/shareholders that took the risk in the first place. The person taking the risk needs to be the one to take the loss because you know damn well they take the reward in the good times.

Exactly. Too big to fail means they'd really screw the economy if they fail. So give them a deadline. Get yourself no bigger than XB or 30% of any one market by 2015 or we'll sell off/close business units for you.

The efficient market nutjobs go postal when any sort of control is asked but it doesn't stop them from coming with their hands out when they miss a bonus target for a year. Companies shouldn't have been allowed to get this big to begin with but now that they are they need to be forced to get smaller. Ratchet the taxes up 1% per year if you are bigger than a certain threshhold. Eventually they'll sell or have troubles and be picked off by the lower cost smaller competitors or not be able to take new business because they will be priced out of the market. This tax can be called a too big to fail insurance premium if you want. Regardless, companies that make themselves big enough that they get to compete better because they know they can run to the government whenever shit happens need to pay for that guarantee.

I think g-force is the biggest one. We had simulators that tilted and shaked back when Afterburner was new. Still doesn't mean I'd know what I'm doing or be able to do the movements I want to under 6 gs in any random direction.

Now we need to do a trademark search every time we design a desk layout: is square monitor with square table taken?

Official boats: they must be they have flashing lights. No really good clips of any "action" a half dozen blank rounds getting fired and a few choppers flying around, woo hoo. These are blackhawks right? So what is it M-60's or something they have. Now if it was Apaches with their Bushmasters going :)

My work has group policy that removed all Java from everyone's computers. We still didn't get it back so it seems that our IT is cautious enough that they didn't jump on the first patch they saw as an opportunity to give everyone their Java back.

But the quickness of the exploit poses a question to my mind: how much can hackers exploit a system before people just stop using the system? Especially with things like programming languages/frameworks chances are there is an equivalent solution to your problem that runs on a different framework. So how vulnerable can something like Java be before everyone just stops using it to develop there software? I think there must be some sort of equilibrium point where you can hack the system but no so frequently that people completely give up on it.

Perhaps this just shows that you can't just think about your language you might actually have to spend a few minutes thinking about the platform you'll run on. Don't throw it on Tomcat just because that is the first java server you find or IIS because it comes in the box.

But ultimately at any sort of scale you are going to have redundant web servers, data servers, caching nodes etc. This is like testing how quickly the gas pedal goes down on the latest Porche when the engine, tires, transmission etc all have a part in determining how fast the car can handle the same road (load pattern in the case of a web presence).

Yeah that is about the going rate.

But than how are you going to run Vuze?

Because clearly energy which is a part of science is more important than all science :)

Exactly. You don't have to debug and maintain the code you don't write.