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I bet you think Independence Day was a documentary...

Not even close. http://www.cbronline.com/news/vmware_granted_clearance_for_national_security_desktop Excuse me, but stay on topic. You stated the need to rebuild a machine monthly for the sole purpose of web surfing, not for secure on-line banking. And, you can certainly use a VM for...

Rebuilding a machine monthly is overkill. Get a free VMware player and pre-built surfing VM. They're wiped clean on every reboot if configured for non-persistent storage. Plenty to choose from at vmware.com. As for whitelisting, that's a completely false sense of security. You're still...

From the article: "There again, the United States appears to face a relatively small problem, with an average leverage ratio of 12. The figures range up to 52 in Germany. Theoretically, a 2 percent drop in the value of all German bank assets would wipe out the net worth of the banking...

Spot on. If the G7 had any brains, and the balls to match, they'd do a coordinated nationalization of all banks this weekend.

Vietnam was horrible because the general population got to see what it did to those you knew directly or indirectly. Iraq is much worse because it's abstract to most people, there is no draft forcing a representative sample of the population into it. Like it or not, conscription is a...

Slap a 50 & 200 day SMA on the Dow. Death cross occurred on 1/7/08, closed @ 12,827. No shit...

Just turn your chart upside down, you'll feel better...

Yep. A couple of failed banks and the recriminations will start to fly.

Yep. I have a nasty habit of attacking America-bashing assholes.

No doubt. Everything's fine and dandy when things are going well. The real test is how well it handles a crisis, like the one we're living through now. IMHO, you can't have a resilient currency when it is not supported by a uniform political system underneath it that prevents the members...

Bullshit. Your entire argument is predicated on your supposed superior understanding of things. That's intolerant and disrespectful to me or anyone else that doesn't share your point of view. I do think for myself, albeit different from you. I am shaped by my experiences and perceptions...

Your incessant demand that I read, understand and accept what you have to say is just as authoritarian, and in the end, no different from the systems you rail against. Object all you want, but Man is a political animal. Any system devised by and run by Man will be flawed.

Oh, so you're going to blame an entire country for one individual that was able to game a flawed system to his advantage? And, don't try to weasel out of this by inserting "global" into it. Any financial crisis that transcends a country's border and affects one or more other country's is an...

Sure you do, all I need to do is trust you, right? There's nothing technological or ideological that can prevent a coalition of like-minded people from attempting a power grab. Short of the entire world's population achieving collective consciousness, the best we can hope for is a system...

Talk about spewing bullshit. How, exactly, did the U.S. cause the crisis in '92, "Black Wednesday?"

Only a few weeks ago the German's were discounting this as a US-centric problem. Then Hypo Real blew up and out there waiting to explode is Deutsche Bank with an exposure thought to be around 80% of Germany's GDP. Of course they want transparency now, because they've begrudgingly had to...

Save the agenda-laden crap. If trust existed within the EU then all 27 member countries would be using the Euro for their currency instead of the 12 that are now. The EU is a convenience, not an ideology, and that will be it's undoing.

Diversified? Yes, 27 member states, 23 languages. Inherent trust? Hardly. Only 12 of them have replaced their national currency with the Euro. In '05 both French and Dutch voted against the draft EU constitution and this time around it was the Irish with a lopsided public NO vote to...

The U.S. has about 3% of the world's oil reserves and consumes about 25% of the world's output. Worse, the U.S. imports about 70% of it's oil and only 30% of those imports come from friendly nations; Canada, U.K. and Mexico. Strategically speaking, our supply/demand imbalance is not an...