At least the protesters can ask to be forgotten if they want.

Few who lived through this era will be completely surprised by these revelations. Nixon was elected in part on his assertion that he had "a secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam. Now we know what his plan was.

Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion. Nixon was brought down by the cover-up of the Watergate break-ins. In both cases, the most trivial of their offenses was the cause of their downfalls.

You're right, of course - but this is the not the argument being discussed. With respect to the debt ceiling, the US has made sovereign legal contracts with its bondholders to pay interest and principle on these debts. If the debt ceiling is not lifted, the United States of America will default on these obligations. Its the equivalent of a household deciding they've reached the most they want to pay out every month, so they don't pay the mortgage - guess what? Foreclosure proceedings will soon follow.

So taxes will go back to levels that prevailed during the most robust economy of modern times - sounds like a nightmare.

Go to http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/APNewsFeeds and you'll find links to subscribe to their content through Google,Yahoo, and MSN.

One has to wonder who is in charge of places like this.

What a tragic waste of time and resource. Use the time you're supposed to be gathering metrics to look for a new job.

Hey, it takes a lot of brains to financially engineer a global economic meltdown.

Titanium oxide isn't used for pigments - titanium dioxide is.

I have to reply. I've been using Linux Audio for years making music. I rarely have to do any setup even after a system upgrade. If you use Jack and applications that support it - of which there are many, it's stable as a rock.

There's a huge difference between models in Newton's world and models in the financial world - feedback. A model that is successful in the real world will always be successful within its parameters. In the financial world, a successful model actually changes the parameters of the world it is modeling. Financial markets work on expectations. A good model changes the expectations of the system which changes its behavior. This feedback effect thus can invalidate the model over time.

It really isn't valid to compare physical models to financial models. Financial models behave much more like models in the social sciences.

After using Chrome for several weeks at work, I switched back to Firefox. The difference is Ad-Block Plus. Not loading the adds far exceeds any performance gains from other sources.

On living in Paris:
"Financials: The cost of living in Paris is high. Salaries at first seem comparable, with a $75,000 position in the United States typically paying about EUR75,000 in Paris -- but with the current exchange rate, that's just $48,000."

Umm.. it's the other way around. EUR75,000 is more like $103,200 at current exchange rates.