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Blogging; never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.

(Apologies to Despair).

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What the fuck is it with you? What don't you fucking understand? You got any fucking idea about, hey, it's fucking distracting having somebody first posting? Give me a fucking answer! What don't you get about it?
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We cannot trust their data

And, for some reason, you think you can trust the government's? How quaint.

he made $6.00 an hour, and he was complaining about being overpaid?

According to a CPI conversion table, $6/hr in 1969 is equivalent to:

$6/hr * 2080 hr/year / .172 * 1.022 = $74,154.42/yr in 2009 ($35.65 / hr)

So as for a business case, what about the internet toaster business? If we don't switch to IPv6, what will they do?

They can receive bailout funds from the stimulus bill under the guise of a "smart power grid" appliance.

You think I'm kidding, don't you?

I think that the period between 2001 and 2008 disproved the idea that the US right is the party of small government.

Republican Party != "US right"; well at least not currently.

The 2008 election would not have changed the direction this country is going to ... merely the speed of change. Both major candidates had a platform which required significantly larger federal government.

I usually think that when the government starts merging with industry, it's called Fascism, which is more an attribute of the right than left, but both parties are moving that direction.

In the United States:

The right wing, taken to an absolute extreme, is anarchy (no government).
The left wing, taken to an absolute extreme, is tyranny (total government).

In which does fascism fit better?

You would not publicly announce the breach of security. Rather, you would plant false data into the same computer which was compromised. When the Chinese hacker returns to it to download even more information, then he would get gigabytes of fake data.

Fake data? Bah. I'd much rather we plant bad information that will cause the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space.

Youtube is only the first domino in Google's house of cards.

Checkmate.

All the bot needs to do is do a google search for "site:example.com", hit a random sampling of the results, and then register.

In the grand scheme of things, it probably only adds a few percent of overhead for the bot.

I didn't say it could be pinned on a particular political party, but to an idea (basically, deregulation is good and the government is the enemy).

Silly me. I don't see how I could have ever come to that conclusion with statements like:

1) Which nation did this huge economic disaster start? America, a country that had been under complete Republican rule for 6 of the last 8 years and had undergone many deregulations over the past three decades which directly contributed to this crisis.

Is there some other way to read the bolded text then blaming the Republican party?

We put in place many regulations after the Great Depression that worked great...

No reason to speak in generalities... please, give examples.

These companies did not know what the heck they were doing. Giants like AIG relied on their AAA credit for their business model, not the belief that the government would rescue them if they failed (they never believed they would lose their AAA rating much less fail).

And, yet, the US government has poured about the same about of money into AIG as what AIG's maximum market capitalization has even been.

The stockholders of AIG lost their shirts on this, it's nuts to think they would do this on purpose.

And the reason you think the stockholders had anything to do with it is .... ?

You're also completely missing the differences in motivation, in the case of Bush's economic adviser he resigned since nobody was listening to him

That's one way of looking at it. Completely wrong, but it is one way. Usually when your boss "asks" you to resign, it is just a polite way of saying "you're fired".

while in the case of Richardson they were trying to avoid public controversy.

Sure. Apples and oranges. And your thoughts on Judd "are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy" Gregg?

3) Which European countries have been effected least? Spain and France due to their more conservative banking regulations and greater safety net for people living there.

That's not really a fair comparison. Whereas the US chooses to prop up failing automakers will ill-advised "loans", France just increases demand.

Which nation did this huge economic disaster start? America, a country that had been under complete Republican rule for 6 of the last 8 years and had undergone many deregulations over the past three decades which directly contributed to this crisis.

First, if you think that the economic "disaster" can be attributed to a specific political party, then you a playing the part written for you quite nicely.

Second, true free markets are not guaranteed to be always upward moving; failures and downturns are part of the natural process. And there is really nothing wrong with that. When a government gets in the way of the natural progression, it is no longer a free market.

Third, the die was cast for the downturn to become a disaster when big business realized that the Federal government considered them "too big to fail". At that point, they had no reason NOT to take huge risks because they knew that they could socialize the risks and privatize the rewards.

Currently, the disaster is well on its way to a depression, mainly because this country did not use the "good" times to prepare adequately for the bad (thanks President Bush) and are taking steps that, in the long run, will have a negative impact on our economy (thanks President Obama).

The first top economic adviser to Bush 43 resigned shortly into Bush's first term because he was simply ignored and believed their economic policy would be disastrous (paying for wars with tax cuts was an extremely bad idea). It's hard to argue that he was wrong now (it really was even then...).

I call your O'Neill and Lindsey and raise you a Richardson and Gregg. At least O'Neill and Lindsey almost made it to President Bush's third year in office (roughly half-way through his first term, which is a little more than "shortly"); President Obama's choices barely made it three weeks, if that.

"People are more scared of a center-left documentary maker with an eye than the 400 ways they are filmed every day at the school, the subway, the mall," he says.

Show me a security camera that editorializes, splices in out-of-context content, and chooses to show only the material that supports its position and then he might have a point.

It's not a handout. It's a (partial) reimbursement from the government to the previous users of the bandwidth for seizing the bandwidth and selling it for billions, which went into the treasury.

That was true for the ORIGINAL coupon program ($1.3B). The NEW funding ($650M) is being monetized (ie - printed) by the Treasury.