justinb138

If you still think Hoover "let the economy fix itself", you obviously didn't do any of that reading I suggested a while back.

The comparison to inflation might be relevant if health care costs were increasing at the same rate, which they're not. I don't have time to look at the numbers, but it's entirely possible that their profits did increase 250% while their profit margin stayed exactly the same. Spinning it as "profits increased 250%!" is just an attempt at creating populist outrage with people that don't know any better.

22 since 1980. In contrast, the president has issued 40+ "Executive Orders" in the last year. Bush had 290, Clinton 363, each over 8 years. Congress passes several thousand bills every year. You probably need to rethink your argument that reconciliation is a common occurrence.

You're trying to argue that capitalism is the cause of the massive government debt? Seriously?

Guess I picked a good year to move to New England

Well, I guess he could always invest in Viacom/CBS, but you'd probably have to convince him to start hating money.

I wouldn't include the auto companies with that elite list of offenders. What's next? Big Pharma. Where I live the pharmacies are now more plentiful and architecturally dominating than the banks. Apparently, to live in America you have to pay a lot of money to take a lot of drugs so you can be just like those happy people on the TV ads. "Side Effects May Include...nausea, vomiting, headaches, heartburn, hair loss, diarrhea, dry mouth, water retention, painful rectal itch, hallucination, dementia, psychosis, coma, death, halitosis, lung cancer, mental retardation, brain tumors, paralyzation, sleep loss, internal bleeding, internal combustion, a sudden craving to sniff your carpet, an addiction to cocaine, heroin, PCP, speed and Windex, bone weakening, claustrophobia, acne, playing Everquest II, regular PMS, making Jesus cry, the inability to use proper english in an online environment, homosexuality, AIDS, an urge to stab your spouse, inability to breathe oxygen, urge to watch the Chinese version of Friends, migraines, diabetes, deafness...same as sugar pill." You left out "and certain sexual side effects"...

I can. I for one am sick and tired of Anthem pocketing my raises, and my future raises. And I'm sick and tired of the fed & state govts pocketing 40% of my income.

Given that the government can't even figure out how to encrypt UAV video feeds, I don't think they have any business trying to control private-sector security. I see them more as a threat to private sector security than a solution to it. The problem with the military taking over in a "time of crisis" is that the politicians get to define "time of crisis" - including crises that they themselves have invented.

IIRC, the Xeons w/ HT enabled will do 2 threads/core, for a total of 16 simultaneous threads for the dual-socket rig. As far as ram goes, not sure what you'll need, as I'm not sure if that type of application is memory-hungry or not. I'm only running 6GB of DDR3 1600 on my box and even while running 2 VMs (Ubuntu and Server 08), Visual Studio, SQL Server, and watching HD video at the same time I haven't had any trouble. I'd recommend that what ever amount you do decide to go with, to take advantage of the bandwidth that the triple-channel memory setup offers.

I think the Xeon equivalent is the X5520. I'm not sure of the benchmark #s, but I'm betting you could put together a dual socket setup with 2x 5520s, a nice ASUS board, and 12GB of DDR3 for slightly more than the 980XE would cost alone. Also, I've been told the 980XE is expected to be out on March 16th.

If it were me, and the software supported it, I'd skip the high-end i7's and pick up a dual-socket board and throw in a pair of i7-920's and overclock them a little bit.

This is where I quit reading. The Lucky... part is usually where I quit reading. Evidently not, or you wouldn't have replied. Main Entry: usu·al Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French usuel, from Late Latin usualis, from Latin usus use Date: 14th century 1 : accordant with usage, custom, or habit : normal 2 : commonly or ordinarily used 3 : found in ordinary practice or in the ordinary course of events : ordinary

This is where I quit reading. The Lucky... part is usually where I quit reading.

It typically goes down when an account is closed (whether voluntarily or not) because your % credit utilization increases. If you close an account and reopen it with the same limit this shouldn't be an issue.

I might be crazy, but that's not the same as insane...

I'm thinking what he meant to say was "I'm open to all ideas, provided they don't involve us spending any less money" but the agnostic comment probably sounded better.

It's what I use for most of my current projects. What kind of stuff?

Naw, Cleveland's your destination. I think the road to hell lies through CT. Not going to disagree with you there.

So you're saying that a progressive tax is rigged to benefit the wealthy, who pay a much, much higher percentage than the poor (many of which not only don't pay taxes, but get money back that they didn't pay in)?

Two Words: Go. Away.

Considering that the dollar is worth a little more than half of what it was just 20 years ago, how do you consider that low? Hell, it's worth 2/3 of what it was when Clinton left office, we don't have to go back that far. Ah, yes, the inevitable "It's Bush's fault" from you. How surprising.

Well, they could certainly vote to stop enabling them, but we both know that's not going to happen.

They are concerned about the people coming first... their people. Any why? Because they answer to the party first, and the people second.

Considering that the dollar is worth a little more than half of what it was just 20 years ago, how do you consider that low?