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> why does a huge thing like a country need debt at all, shouldn't it (on average) be debt free?

Axiomatically, if you sum up over all worldwide assets and liabilities, they sum to zero. That is a fact that simply follows from accounting. So the world as a whole is (net) debt free (until we start trading with extraterrestrials, then things might change).

The US probably is roughly net debt free on average, summing over all domestic private and government assets and liabilities. I don't have time to run the numbers right now. Certainly, even if the US is not debt free on average, its net debt towards foreigners is much less than the government debt, and also less than the sum of government debt held by foreigners.

If people just stopped looking only on one side of the coin, they would realize that and chill out over the government debt.
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That kind of thing falls under the definition of 'cyborg,' actually. Even wearing glasses technically makes you a cyborg.
Long review times, the inability to reply to user reviews, getting ridiculous erroneous comments, and lack of manual refunds? Sounds like iOS/Mac App Stores.
Just because a Linux Distribution releases a release with an old version of PHP, it doesnt make it a current-generation PHP release.

Yes, It might have extra security patches applied to it[PHP], but Security is not the reason behind applications increasing their PHP version requirements.

Looking at the centos site, it seems that CentOs currently ships with PHP 5.1.6 (The latest in the 5.1 branch). 5.1.6 was released in August 2006, that's 6 years ago. CentOs currently ships with 6 year old software?

Ultimately, only 3.3% of all current WordPress installs are on 5.1.6, and i'd be willing to bet that most of those are sysadmins who are not willing to put the time into testing the PHP 5.2 packages that are available. WordPress has to do what's best in the communities interest, and if that's supporting somethin which 95%+ of hosts use, and the rest have available to them in some form, then WordPress needs to move forward and that few percent will have to do something about it.

The same can be said about IE6, The WordPress Admin does NOT work in IE6 anymore (Well it does, but it looks even worse than 3.1 did). Many corporations run IE6 due to not wanting to update,

People need to bite the bullet and invest in their infrastructure and software environments.
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I figured the knobs on old gas stoves would be roughly interchangeable, but had no particular reason for believing so.

As an aside, I'd rather cook on a 50 year old gas stove than most stoves I've used that had any kind of buttons. There's nothing quite like fire for cooking.
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Seriously. The thing that always irritated me about university lectures, especially when presented online is that the material covered in 50 minutes could likely be covered in 7. But who would pay $30k for that?

Thanks for the down votes, though.
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A lot of people lose a lot of money. Many institutions hold first-world sovereign debt as supposedly almost risk-free investments with guaranteed (fixed-income) returns. These institutions include banks, pension funds and other investment funds and vehicles into which both corporates and individuals will have invested their money.

Plus you also have those that have insurance against a sovereign default, largely through credit default swaps (CDS). However unlike many forms of insurance, you don't need to actually own the bond to take out a CDS on it. In this way many people will trade the risk of a Greek default without actually going anywhere near the physical asset. Being a derivative product, the size of the CDS market on Greek debt is likely to be many, many, many times greater than the size of the underlying basket of bonds.

So if Greece defaults - or even "technically" defaults, which could include the proposed rollover into longer-dated bonds - this could have huge implications for people who are short this insurance. They're all going to have to pay out.

Apart from the direct financial impact, with Greece you have the additional embarrassment and complication due to being part of the Euro. Greece may be forced to leave the single currency, which is going to be a costly and messy exercise, and severely damage the reputation and credibility of the currency.
I should probably add some information on where my analysis is coming from. I am writing from a perspective of Functional Finance and Modern Monetary Theory. You can find a clear intro to the latter here: http://pragcap.com/resources/understanding-modern-monetary-s...

One of its most prolific proponent is economics professor Bill Mitchell who blogs here: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/

See his Debriefing 101 category for more introductory posts: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?cat=11
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Because a default -- even a "technical" default in the form of an extension or renegotiation -- indicates a serious problem in a country's finances, which can affect its credit rating and, in turn, its ability to continue borrowing as well as the value of its currency.

The U.S. has defaulted before, in 1933, but this would still be considered a very significant event in global economics, and economists really don't need another reason to get nervous right now.

There is, by the way, an interesting elephant in the room that I've yet to hear mentioned anywhere: once we've gotten to the point that people start discussing the possibility of simultaneous defaults of several major countries, nobody's really sure what will happen next, and, nobody's really sure how to get out of the hole, since we've never been in this deep before.
Yes, exactly.

No matter how many boxes of chocolates an admin receives, he/she will not be able to activate Google Profiles for his users... it just isn't possible.

It's been a known problem for quite some time, but now made much more noticeable via the introduction of Google+.

Not providing new features to the few paying customers Google has is a head-scratcher, but it's something most Google Apps admins have probably gotten pretty used to by now. Blaming these paying customers in front of their userbase takes this practice to a whole new level, chocolates or not.
Becuase neither of you have any idea what members of your audience are doing in support of their ideals. It borders on ad hominem to suggest that Lulzsec has done more in support of their ideals than I have.
> people need to keep dying or the population increase caused by them not dying is going to make the standard of living for everyone very low.

as peter theil said: " this is a problem, i think we want to have"
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The delta between memory and assisted memory is getting smaller over time, though. My memory of every paper I ever wrote for school and for my first day job is pretty slim. Every word I've written since that is accessible with about ten seconds of reflection and Google. Much of the important stuff is accessible on my iPad, too. (The additional accessibility of it makes it easier to re-read, which keeps it in active memory, too.)

I'm in paperwork-filing mode right now for immigration. I've done it before, largely backed by paper notes. It is stressful, highly technical, and not my field. This time, I'm backed by Dropbox and my iPad. I have literally asked for a moment during discussions with clerks at town hall and then read sentences from the relevant Ministry of Justice regulations directly to them. ("I need a document proving that I have properly executed my duty to pay all forms of tax for last year, including that from $YOUR_OFFICE. Can you help me out with that? No? OK, let's see, you have a form, it is called a... one minute... Certification Of Tax Payment for City And Prefectural Taxes. I'd like to apply for that. It will cost me 250 yen, apparently. No ma'am, I believe it is quite likely you will find that form if you look. Yes ma'am, that is the one, thank you.")

Do I have an encyclopedic command of obscure regulations written by a foreign government in my third language? No. But the system of myself and my technological crutches strongly gives the appearance of that.

Edited to add: If it weren't obvious, I find this Really Freaking Useful, because it is saving me a couple thousand dollars on hiring a specialist whose chief professional responsibility is knowing that a) I need that document to complete the particular procedure I'm in and b) the quickest way to extract it from City Hall. Previously, the solution set was a) pay up, b) spend weeks researching the issue and playing ping-pong around four offices (and you're the ball), or c) buy plane tickets prior to being deported.
An agreement absolutely will be reached, but that doesn't make the situation much better. It's quite likely that Congress will have to accept yet another increase of the debt ceiling, while we'll see even more cuts from social services at home.
That's because 1) Chrome is better-designed 2) Chrome extensions are JS and not native code, meaning they're less likely to leak due to programmer error, and there are fewer of them, to boot
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The US total debt is actually more like 14 trillion dollars.

People come up with this 55 trillion dollar numbers by adding in future social security-type outlays, which are always paid out of the current budget. These types of numbers are a form of FUD which is spread by ideologues.

Think about it this way. Suppose you rent an apartment for 1500$ per month, and expect to live in it for the next 10 years. If you follow the logic of the people who claim a 55 trillion debt, then you would claim that you now have a debt of 180,000$.

We all know that that claim is ridiculous, but unfortunately, the same flawed logic is slightly harder to detect and unravel when it comes to something as complex as the entire economy.
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The fact that net debt is zero does not make people or countries creditworthy and able to pay.
Reducing the price of submitted software without consulting the developer is the most outrageous part of this story, don't think Apple do that.
I, as a user, think the slow review process is a good thing. He complains about it being rejected for a single letter, but that letter was a lack of security for ME, the user. That's very important to me, but apparently not to them.

I'll agree the rest of the failings were stupid on Amazon's part, though.

However, I doubt I'd have pulled the app. I'd have found ways around the problems, like creating a US account, using a proxy, or having a fan post a review giving the email of the developer and asking upset people to contact them.

And he never did answer why it doesn't work in airplane mode if it isn't connecting to a server.
...you mean par for the course for large, powerful companies with a lot to lose.
I would't be that confident Google will properly herd out contacts, eventually... It happened before with Android's openness, it can happen again with G+
That has always been part of the contract you have with them, and was widely criticized when the Amazon Android Store first came out.

It is my understanding that they guarantee a minimum amount of money to you, even if they give it away for free. (Which means they pay you when they give it away.)
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And you believe the mind and its internal processes are capable of surviving that long even with no ageing?

As with all chaotic processes, I reckon it will decay faster than our no longer ageing meat containers [1]...

[1] http://baetzler.de/humor/meat_beings.html
That's a possibility.
Since other commenters focus on the negative effects of the default, let me explain the potential positive effects for the citizens of the country of a default combined with an exit of the Euro in the case of Greece. (There are no potential positive effects of a default for the US.)

The major problem that is facing Greek citizens these days is that because the Greek government's hands are tied in monetary things, the country cannot achieve its full potential.

Since Greece was a net importer for a long time, money has been leaving the main part of the Greek economy [1]. Now Greeks no longer have as much money to afford imports - which would be only fair in some sense - but worse than that, they no longer have money to pay each other. This is what causes the very high unemployment in Greece.

Now you would say, if you have person A who would like to sell to person B, and person B who would like to sell to person A, and neither of them have any money, they could still do their transaction, and so not having any money to pay each other is not a problem. That is true in this very simple scenario.

The real modern economy is much more complex than that, and situations where two people genuinely just trade with each other almost never occur. So Greece has become stuck, people are unemployed, which means that the country is not reaching its productive potential.

By re-introducing its own currency, the Greek government could restart the spending cycle.

It is without doubt that a new Greek currency (NGC) would immediately drop in value compared to other currencies. There is nothing that can be done about that, and it is the reason why a reintroduction of NGC needs to go along with a default (or a technical default where the debts are revalued once in NGC, so that the exchange rate no longer matters).

It is also true that the short-term pain for Greeks would not go away immediately. Imports would be very expensive in NGC and difficult to afford, but this is not that much different from the current situation where imports are difficult to afford because the money is missing.

Most importantly, the Greek government would be able to introduce an economic expansion program to put people to work, so that the real capacity of Greece itself would be used fully to the benefits of Greek citizens.

Edit: I should add that this scenario has already played out in the case of developing countries and particularly many times in South America, e.g. in Argentina.

[1] Of course, there are also very rich Greeks. However, they save their money and don't invest in Greece at this time (because the economy is bad), so their money does not enter into the picture.
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jorangreef is probably right, at least assuming that we get to colonise other worlds. I mean, what does it mean to talk about 'day' when you're on the ISS? How are Martians going to deal with the fact that they have a Sidereal Rotation Period of 24h37mins? Or the Moon, with it's roughly 700hr SRP.
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P.6. Changes from the Previous Edition

The text is updated for the latest version, Perl 5.14, and some of the code only works with that version. We note in the text when we are talking about a Perl 5.14 feature, and we mark those code sections with a special use statement that ensures you’re using the right version:

use 5.014; # this script requires Perl 5.14 or greater

If you don’t see that use 5.014 in a code example (or a similar statement with a different version), it should work all the way back to Perl 5.8. To see which version of Perl you have, try the -v command-line switch:

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* There is more information in the regular expression chapters, covering the new features from Perl 5.14 to deal with Unicode case-folding. The regular expression operators have new /a, /u, and /l switches. We now cover matching by Unicode properties with the \p{} and \P{} regular expression features.

* Perl 5.14 adds a nondestructive substitution operator (Chapter 9), which turns out to be really handy.

* Smart matching and given-when has mutated a bit since their introduction in Perl 5.10, so we update Chapter 15 to cover the new rules.

* We updated and expanded Perl Modules (Chapter 11) to include the latest news, including the zero-conf cpanm tool. We add some more module examples as well.

* Some of the items previously in Appendix B, the advanced-but-not-demonstrated features, move into the main text. Notably, that includes the fat arrow => moving into Hashes (Chapter 6) and splice moving into Lists and Arrays (Chapter 3).
The implication was that it does work in airplane mode, and that the reviewer was lying.
(Warning: this really doesn't have much to do with the author's Appstore problems.)

This is more from a proficient user perspective than a developer's, but...

I absolutely loathe the Market. I'm pretty sure I have never had a positive experience with it.

The simplest thing is its packaging. The Amazon Appstore will run on anything - install the APK, and you're done. I've had a grand total of one app (Peggle) tell me that my device (CM7 Nook Color) was unsupported, and even then I could still manually install it from the My Apps list.

Compare that to the Market, which doesn't come in a nice little APK. Instead, if you're on an AOSP-based ROM, you have to install a separate gapps package through the freaking recovery menu. That is a huge pain in the ass. Then, there's the whole "unsupported app" crap. I don't care if you haven't tested your app specifically for my device, there's a fairly good chance it'll work perfectly fine. Having the Market restrict apps like that is quite irritating.

Then there's the installing. Somehow, even the simple act of installing an app doesn't work right. On multiple devices, running multiple ROMs (official and un), I have had the exact same problems: An app will, after pressing the install button, take forever to actually pop up in the notifications bar, and even then there's like a 20% chance the download will fail if you have more than one app download going at once. The worst thing the Appstore does when you're downloading more than one app is that the UI gets a tad laggy.

Also, Google's "unique" software license management. On both the iOS App Store and Amazon's, if I "purchase" a free app, it's mine forever. Period. Even if it goes to being a paid app. On the Market, if I purchase a free app and it goes paid, I basically get to keep the copy on my phone and that's all. If I go to another device or wipe my existing one, app goes bye-bye.

Google's awful management of the Market doesn't help, either. If you look outside the top fifty apps or so, it's all garbage- redundant soundboards, extremely poorly-coded games that wouldn't pass any sort of quality checks, that sort of thing. It's a little hard to look for good apps when there's so much complete crap.

Apologies for the rant... it's a bit late.
Yes, it is an extension of memory, but it's not new. Encyclopedias have served that role for centuries. The process is simply quicker now.

As it continues to accelerate (perhaps eventually becoming directly integrated into our thought processes via some kind of brain/machine interface), the distinction between "stored in your brain" and "stored in the computer/internet/etc" will become ever more blurred.

Perhaps even more excitingly, there's no reason why you should have such a distinction between "computers/networks" and "human brains". Via mechanisms such as Twitter and other instant social messaging, I also have some level of access to the information stored in your brain. Eventually, we might find that the whole setup of billions of brains plugged into each other and into billions of data-rich computers gives birth to some emergent process or another... potentially scary, but fascinating.
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Javascript 1.x where x > 5 are proprietary extensions of Mozilla.

Some of those extensions (e.g. Array Extras) trickled into the wider language, but as far as I know most of them (including let and generators) are confined to Gecko-based browsers still.
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Well I gave you an upvote for reaching the correct takeaways (public uninformed and we need to raise debt limit) but I can see a couple reasons you might be downvoted:

(1) Presenting a heterodox theory as fact or mainstream.

(2) Muddled argument. The whole "being against government debt is being against private assets" line is incredibly weak. The less forceful but less controversial version of this argument is simply that the debt is a (possible) long term problem but we have a real short term crisis that is more important. As Brad DeLong says if you have some corroded gas pipes that might explode in 10 years you'll want to fix that eventually but that doesn't mean you don't turn on the heat during a blizzard.
Stored lists of related individuals are covered by the DPA 1998, just not their personal details other than their name. This is not explicit but implied by the fact that related people on a credit file can be obtained under the DPA setting a precedent for access.

This has been demonstrated a few times in court but I can't be bothered to dig around for references.