The Cellar - Yet more keen links one might want to share

I'd say it's pretty close to correct. Calling treasury bonds debt is akin to calling bank accounts "debts" of the bank. Which is technically true, but usually meaningless. Unless there's a run on the bank, like in "It's a Wonderful Life", and everyone calls in the debt at once.

Gravdigr

10-27-2016 10:54 AM

Thank you.

Clodfobble

10-27-2016 12:09 PM

And when people actually did that during the Depression, the government just declared an indefinite bank holiday and basically said no, we won't pay it.

xoxoxoBruce

10-27-2016 03:33 PM

Excellent read about middle America.

Clodfobble

10-28-2016 09:00 AM

That was good, thanks Bruce.

Gravdigr

11-03-2016 03:34 PM

The story of Billy Gibbons' (of ZZTop) 1959 Gibson Les Paul, known as Pearly Gates

"A Japanese gent" once offered Gibbons $5,000,000 for the guitar. He was turned down.

John Sellers

11-03-2016 04:15 PM

I know ya'll were SO worried about this, but relax, the expansion of the universe is still accelerating.

xoxoxoBruce

11-03-2016 06:35 PM

Oh good, then I don't have to go on a diet, the universe is accommodating. :lol:

Gravdigr

11-04-2016 01:23 PM

The Surreal, Singular Relevance of Blazing Saddles in 2016

xoxoxoBruce

11-05-2016 08:19 PM

Gondolas in DC.

Quote:

If the District and Arlington were to decide to build a gondola to connect Georgetown to Rosslyn, it would be both a feasible and legal endeavor, according to a study released Thursday.

Leaders in both jurisdictions have floated the idea of building a cable-propelled transit system over the Potomac River to ease traffic on the Key Bridge and allow people to travel more quickly between Washington and Virginia.

xoxoxoBruce

11-06-2016 02:49 PM

Life of a woman on the Minnesota frontier.

xoxoxoBruce

11-08-2016 06:37 PM

For us non-nerds, here's an explanation of those cable connections and what they do

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/video-c...vi-hdmi-ports/

Happy Monkey

11-08-2016 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by makeuseof.com

VGA can support resolutions up to 640 x 480 in 16 colors, although you can increase the colors to 256 by lowering the resolution to 320 x 200. This is known as Mode 13h and is commonly used when booting your computer into Safe Mode. It’s also the mode that was used in computer gaming back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Maybe true for the original spec, but modern VGA ports and cables can support resolutions at and above 1080p, though it's analog, and will not be a pixel-perfect image.

xoxoxoBruce

11-14-2016 05:45 PM

Free website to find music festivals.

xoxoxoBruce

11-15-2016 01:01 AM

Open to Inspection
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.

Quote:

By now it goes without saying or objection in most quarters of a once freedom-loving and democratic society that our lives, liberties, and pursuits of happiness are closely monitored by a paranoid surveillance apparatus possessed of the fond hopes and great expectations embedded in the fifteenth-century Spanish Inquisition. Our local fire departments don’t grant permits for burnings at the stake, but our federal intelligence agencies (seventeen at last count, staffed by more than 100,000 inquisitors petty and grand) make no secret of their missionary zeal.

The growth of secret agencies and bumbling bureaucrats who have destroyed America over the last 99 years.

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