What would help is for some php coders to get together and come up with a website that has the look and feel of classic,and is scalable. Register a domain name, and have it waiting in the wings.

Or better yet, approach the guy who runs xkcd with it, and take it from there. He's shown that he can do well enough with what he had.

In the minds of our country's citizens, theories about our constitution trump reality. But I live in the USA. I have no idea where the parent and grandparent posters live.

Unless, of course, they live in our country.

I'll likely drop out of slashdot, too, if it's all you say it is. I've seen what has happened to formerly great magazines like "Boys' Life" (scouting mag), when advertisers got their claws in it.

Think ads. Think advertorials. Think page-at-a-glance, and light on pages. All the articles, gone. All the features, gutted. All the stories, made vapid. oh, and now in digitized 3-D cartoons.

The only thing worse than a Grammar Nazi is an incorrect Grammar Nazi. It's a toaster = It is a toaster (correct). Its = neuter possessor.

Or how about this, the Government charges taxes on a graduated scale. If you increase your earnings, the government gets more and hire more high-dollar public employees who will be incredibly resentful if they ever lose their job of producing little for much compensation.

But you can live better. And for everyone who does increase their earnings, everyone else lives worse.

If enough people do it, then the standard of living goes WAY down on an exponentially sliding scale.

India already has nuclear weapons, as do Pakistan, so I'm not sure what nuclear proliferation you're talking about.

For most of December, the central European wholesale price of electricity was negative. Yes, that means people paid other people to take their electricity away. This was a direct result of reliance on wind power. This is _not_ a good thing.

The total construction and decommission costs of wind farms and the problems associated with them have not been realised yet. They may well be lower, but until we actually start taking them down and getting rid of the tonnes of concrete and other infrastructure for each turbine, we don't really know.

It's hundreds of miles from Pakistan. It's also hundreds of miles south of Kashmir.

There are good reasons why a brother and sister can't get married. There aren't good reasons why two brothers can't get married.

I'm not advocating it... all I'm saying is that saying that they can't get married is irrational.

Calling people stupid does not solve the problem, which is that "stupid" people as you call them get to decide who runs the country.

I'm not sure what you're hoping to achieve here..

So does that mean he is playing the prisoner's dilemma to win, as well? It should work as long as nobody else does it. But if someone else does it, just enough to knock him off, and then returns to a gentleman's agreement to allow the show's designers the desired entertainment... wellg he may be more susceptible than many to his own poison.

Then again, maybe not.

These things might sell quite well to libraries and businesses that need clients for web-based apps. They're also ideal second (or third) machines for households with kids. Maintaining my kid's Windows-based machine takes time and effort and Chrome would do away with that while still allowing him to use the sites and apps that matter the most -- Youtube, Google Apps for homework and gmail. He doesn't need or use much more.

So now we're getting somewhere. Back before the last post, I went over to Wikipedia, and reviewed what they had to say about MMT, and I suppose it wasn't representative of what you are saying. Japan's been both printing and borrowing money to "stimulate the economy", and it has kept their economy doing badly for a long time now.

Nonetheless, let me address your concept of MMT here (which is probably more accurate than my understanding of Wiki's description).

I suspect that government creation of debt free money is an improbability, because either money represents a transfer of wealth from one person to another -- in which case, it is either theft or promised to be repaid -- or else it represents the creation of wealth. Now, if it is theft, then it is interrupting the economic chain of someone else, and that actually is a destruction of wealth. If it is a destruction of wealth, then it cannot continue -- the one whose wealth is being destroyed is either going to stop the flow, or is going to dry up.

So it remains for the government to create wealth. But creation of wealth is not what governments do well. Governments regulate well. It is just the same as saying that as a manager I create wealth -- it ain't typically so. I regulate the wealth creation.

Now, there are moments when I actually catch a hiccup, and stop it -- and that is a wealth creating event. But it isn't an accountable wealth creating event: all I did was prevent a disaster. Others are actually laboring to create it. In the same way, the government can prevent disasters, and is thus not without value. But you can't say that it is really creating wealth.

Thus, I still don't think MMT works.

Nor is Japan a good example for advertising anything, because Japan has been doing badly for so long, with no growth.

Money is a COMMODITY that is used as a medium of exchange. You do realize that hand-sized pieces of paper are a valuable commodity, don't you? The day you run out, you will eat with only your right hand.

Hello, I am Janet Yeltzin, the current director of the federal reserve. I require to enact quantitative Easingwhich means placing several hundred million dollars in your bank account, with a negative real interest rate, and no specific date of repayment. In exchange for this, you must make comforting noises about loaning it out to others, to stimulate the economy.please forward your bank serial numbers, and the accoount IDs into which you wish each tranche to be placed.
In case you are wondering about the urgency of our offer, the director of Bank of America can acquaint you with his recommendations, of a most serious nature, having dealt personally with my predecessors.

Do not forget to sign the accompanying documentation. If you wish to opt out of this most generous offer, a meeting can be arranged to convince you otherwise.