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it benefits borrowers, i.e., governments and corporations. and indirectly, the banks of course. at the expense of savers and lenders - it destroys the value of savings generated by earnings of people that save wealth in fiat currency. conveniently, there seems to be less and less of them in...

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/Sturgeons-Law.html :cool:

sure -- in dollars. ask a Turk if he would rather have been holding gold or turkish lira during the same period: XAU/TRL: 01/01/1997 39879955.0 01/01/2005 601041034.0 and it gets much uglier the further you go back. I agree with you that the "always hold gold" theory of the alarmist...

see the recent poll numbers - not a very good r/r aligning with the administration now.

good idea - that may be one guy that would look even more foolish than bush dressing up as a cowboy. :p

whew! yeah, glad all that iraq stuff is over and everything is fine and dandy now.

depends on how you define "worthless" -- engineering is critical, without engineers the world would come to a virtual halt. on the other hand, they don't make nearly enough relative to their value. a primary reason is that there's no barrier to entry -- anyone can try to learn physics and...

I saw an interview a while back, he was asked why he doesn't give more to charity, given his huge wealth, etc. -- paraphrasing, his answer was that he will, later, but he can do more good by managing the money now and giving it later, than by giving it along the way. based on his track record...

http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/cabinet.asp

http://maddmoney.blogspot.com/

so submit it to the wishlist: http://www.mozilla.org/wishlist-faq.html or if you found a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ :cool:

in addition to the others listed, here's a good online reference: http://diveintopython.org/

http://www.originalturtles.org/index.htm

interesting thread. note this provision: Who Must File this Report Each Unites States person, who has a financial interest in or signature authority, or other authority over any financial accounts, including bank, securities, or other types of financial accounts in a foreign country if the...

Chávez moves reserves out of US Treasuries By Andy Webb-Vidal in Caracas Last updated: October 6 2005 00:04 Venezuela has transferred about half of its $30.4bn of foreign reserves out of US Treasuries and US banks into banks in Europe, seemingly for political reasons. The decision...

http://kerneltrap.org/

this is why so few "business types" got, or get, OSS and Linux. it is a meritocracy - the motive is to make things work, and work as well as they can. if things don't work, they are not used, or they are improved by someone looking to make it work - everyone is free to examine the faults and...

sure, probably his idea of an insult, telling greenie's secrets like that. we all know the fed would never, ever orchestrate a leak or float ideas using media shills. lol.

http://www.hofsport.com/__121b_3G1ISV+2m+P7wmcpj84ir7+CiIM3AMPc

a low-tech, simple summary of some points: http://www.microsuck.com/content/whatsbad.shtml