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I don't know about your experiences, but I have ACTUALLY DONE this! Your simple "nuke'ing" of the first few sectors on a disk may blow out the MBR...I agree - true...continue with a bit more dd'ing and nighty night to the disk - RAID disks included - I HAVE DONE THIS! dd'ing to a floppy is...

I hear what you're saying (ah, the beauties of a fiat fractional reserve system - just kidding) Even in a "worst case" scenario - because of the beauties of fractional reserve lending - at most - liquidate 10% of oustanding loans (or whatever % is necessary) to cover the depositors and...screw...

Actually, there is another choice: 5.) Create new banks with gov't money and let the old fu(king banks flounder for years until they die...all the mean time migrating deposits to the new and healthy banks. Screw the investors in the old shithead banks that wrecklessly lent money and entered...

Being served as hambugers and steaks :D

The Bloomberg article is kind of crap! If you go and look at the docs on the IMF site - they do not use the term "depression" - in fact they say "to avoid a repeat of the great depression." They do use the term recession. Yes, I am aware of one of the differences between recession and...

Worse - they are trying to cure the disease THEY caused with the same crap that caused the disease - excessive lending! At least they could have a different remedy than the same crap that got us here.

I hope you are a better black jack player than you are a computer specialist! Try this: 1.) Download a copy of gnoppix 2.) Boot your machine off the bootable cd 3.) Open up a terminal 4.) Run the following command "df -k<enter>" 5.) See what "partition" is labeled for your Microsoft...

Well only since you OK'd it... :D Just kidding In my mind I still debate the hyperinflation vs. deflation arguments. -gastropod

I can't clarify the exact impact of the PPI, but I can give you this "insight" - not that it is a great insight, but, it is insight above what the common masses are fed by the main stream media. When the numbers come out - go to the actual gov't site and read the bigger/whole report. Usually...

What are you looking for - access to the feeds, access to the raw exchange data, access for your Linux client, access to all ticks, access to aggregated ticks, there are many questions here. Sorry, if I am confusing things here, but I am unsure of what data you seek. -gastropod

How much is the tax lien on them? Do they have asbestos? Lead paint? $1,000 - hmmm, there is a reason for that price ;-) -gastropod

That bullshit thing known as "TARP" - which really ended up being about the gov't "buying into" the banks for "preferred shares" has "recapitalized the banks"....so, now they look like they have reserves - total bullshit! They have taxpayer money that they now call their own reserves. The...

You might want to check the history on that one...Andrew Jackson had to do battle with the "Fed of the day" to get rid of it - the "Fed of the Day" deliberately caused a panic (depression) in a fight to stay alive - must be something pretty lucrative to do such a drastic measure. As to the...

With all due seriousness and respect - why trash people who live in trailers to condemn antisemitism? There are antisemites living in mansions as well. In fact there are "societally smart" antisemites as well - note I did not say right or correct in their beliefs, just "societally smart" -...

I have seen times where what looks like market manipulation takes place - where a SINGLE crossed order is placed (and filled) way below the market and then an order is rapidly placed (and filled) back at what was the market. It looks to me like that sort of maneuver was done to make certain...

Disclaimer - I AM NOT A SCALPER!!! That said, I do not see much in terms of what you have stated to make you a "scalper?" There are principles in life. Whether one follows them or not makes a difference! I won't give you any more than what I have given you now, but it SHOULD make a...

I am NOT trying to ruffle feathers here, but in order to minimize your latency, use a Linux/UNIX front end and make sure that you are trading through a Linux/UNIX back end that is near to the exchange you want to trade through. You may also be able to use a "type" of trade to make your...

Errr, yeah, I am kind of a lurker, but, umm, yeah, I can tell you that is the truth - if you want to REALLY play - your backbone is Linux/UNIX :D Intel may or may not provide the CPUs, but, for technical reasons, Windoze is DEFINITELY not the OS of choice!

Classic - I was laughing my fat fool head off with the "turkey" metaphor. The scary part is the place it has in reality :D

Well, that is only because you're too near-sighted to see that the lowering of the Fed Funds rate and and factoring in M1, M2, and M'....ahh, bullsh!t - the PPT will just try to push the markets higher like they did today.....soon, they will die on the vine...and where the market goes after...