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by miked 18y ago
Der Spiegel -- and Germany -- have been anti-American for decades. I know, I lived there in the mid-seventies. After East Germany was reintegrated it only got worse, as the East Germans had even more anti-American propoganda pumped into the
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Fun reading - pre-meltdown Fannie/Freddie quotes(online.wsj.com)
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by miked 18y ago
The article is fine as far as it goes, but there is nothing in the article to explain why we are having a crisis in the "subprime" housing market right now (as opposed to some other market or at some other time). And why did it start here a
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by miked 18y ago
"The really big threats came from big banks anxious to keep their subprime accounting tricks going as long as possible, and to keep up their oh so profitable derivatives game." Would these be same "oh so profitable" banks that are currently
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by miked 18y ago
"I know the implication is to the current crisis, but to believe that sub-prime is what caused our current problems is plain incorrect... but the system was primed by fundamental issues." You've simply stated an analogy rather than supporti
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by miked 18y ago
>> ... and to be subject to intrusive social controls. Such as having our email accounts broken into and displayed to the whole world, along with the email addresses and personal photos of friends and family. Swiftboating: http://p
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by miked 18y ago
>> Time agrees that using this un-archived email system is indeed a crime. When I asked for a legal reference, I was hoping for a bit more than a former journalism school student putting a two-word parenthetical remark in an article
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by miked 18y ago
A perfect example of the smears I was talking about. Wasilla has this for its money: "It could seat up to 5,000 people and would include an ice rink and a cushioned hard-surface court where people could play basketball, volleyball and socce
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by miked 18y ago
Yes, in the cold light of day, it perhaps was a bit over-the-top. Give me this though: she's been smeared as no other candidate in my lifetime has been (I'm 53). This link (from a site backed by a group that once gave Obama a bunch of money
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by miked 18y ago
Please provide: 1) legal citations to the Alaska and/or Federal laws that say an elected official may not use a personal email account to conduct business. 2) links to the email(s) showing evidence that she broke a law. 3) an explanation as
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by miked 18y ago
It's not just the internet where they want to restrict freedom. The US is now the only nation that allows over-the-counter sales of natural/herbal medications without first jumping thru beauracraticatic hoops. Even then permission is often
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by miked 18y ago
+1 for Clojure. S-expression based language with macros, runs efficiently on the JVM with type hints, all the Java libraries available. Callable from Java. Cleans up side effects nicely, while still allowing them when needed. Strong support
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by miked 18y ago
>>No, software patents are a tool for trolls, nothing more. Every invalidated software patent is a victory for mankind. This is much too strong, I think. I'm a co-founder of a small biotech startup with a single patent to its name.
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by miked 18y ago
Or: the "weak spot" might simply be that people inherently differ in their display preferences. _I_ happen to like Google's clean design, but if even 5% of the population actively dislikes it, someone could make some money. Google's "weakne
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by miked 18y ago
Good catch on my final point. Thanks. >> "The Nordic countries generally have better 'quality of life' than the US does, the US generally is stronger economically." Iceland certainly sounds nice, if you could tolerate the weather. "
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by miked 18y ago
Over the last several decades I've been reading articles in the US/UK press of the "it's so glorious to live in Scandanavian welfare state X". The young whippersnappers that read HN won't remember these, of course. In the past, X was almost
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by miked 18y ago
"In retrospect, I believe that my upbringing in a socialist-oriented family steeped in a class struggle view of society taught me that authorities would often have a different view of right and wrong than mine." Well, it didn't make my fath