I ran a spreadsheet on them and EDD shows up on every comment voted to 15. I was about to do yours too but you deleted the siftbot spam.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
This shouldn't be a partisan issue. When someone breaks the law, regardless of his or her occupation, there should be consequences. What's so controversial about that?


Perhaps you misunderstand me. I'm not saying this isn't an issue, I'm just saying that this is a dangerous way to go about addressing it.

Going back to Sicko, what if Moore had instead filled his film with people from insurance companies, who felt quite righteous about denying people's claims? Maybe toss in some secret video of clerks violating existing laws about discrimination. Cut to lots of film of people getting told they can't get a life saving treatment because they can't afford it. Maybe just an endless succession of people who lost their homes because of medical expenses. Then a long succession of people who're alive but gruesomely crippled because they couldn't get proper treatment. Cut back to CEOs explaining how that's necessary for them to stay in business, maybe entice one to say that people who can't pay don't deserve care, or just rant about how this is the American way, and to do otherwise would be socialism. Then cut to the life of excess the CEO's live. Then show people talking to Congressmen about the issue and getting stonewalled.

Close with a link to charities that provide free medical help.

Never mention other countries or the politicians putting forward the single-payer bill.

Wouldn't that be a very different kind of film? It'd still be coming from a very liberal point of view, but the main takeaway would be how the evil selfish capitalists are making huge sums of cash with their murder by spreadsheet, and that the Congress is in on the scheme.

If the liberals were also well-known gun enthusiasts, and Keith Olbermann was coming on every night on MSNBC and saying AHIP = Hitler, over and over and over, wouldn't you think twice about spreading a film like the bizzaro-Sicko I described?

i played eve for just over 3.5 years, but quit a year ago - it was just too time consuming (the way i was playing it), even though i worked online from home most of the time

playing from china on the us/euro server meant that i often didn't have many of my western peers and friends online at the same to play, as well as no broadband internet and horrendous ping times - so combat wasn't a readily available option

instead i slowly and efficiently surveyed literally thousands of moons for their mineable materials and carefully entered the results into a keyword-searchable spreadsheet -- at a time when very few people understood how the moon-mining and reaction to advanced-materials process worked, i became one of the few experts... and had all the information at my fingertips to build a massive mining/reaction operation deep in 0.0 space -- one that i ran with only my own four accounts (12 characters) and the help of another friend here in asia

we produced and stockpiled ferrogel for almost three years... until a year ago this past spring, when the price of ferrogel skyrocketed as players across the spectrum finally realized its rarity and importance

we slowly began selling, while constantly manipulating the market to drive the price ever higher -- i eventually amassed nearly half a trillion isk (eve currency), and then decided to leave the game - as far as i was concerned, i'd conquered it (in my own little way)

-=shameful postscript=- i sold the ingame eve money to chinese "gold farmers" for $30 us dollars per billion, even auctioning off all my very well-trained characters and all other assets for isk and selling that to the chinese (to resell to lazy american and euro players for $55 per billion)

my wife (and many o' friend) had often ranted at me regarding the time i spent playing the game and how much the four yearly subscriptions had cost me... but i ended up leaving the game with close to 13,000 us dollars and bought myself a new motorcycle and some other goodies

anyway, great game - but i won't miss it =)

Everybody's sayin'
What to do when suckin' lunatics start diggin' and chewin'
They don't know that the Soul don't go for that
Potholes in my lawn
And that goes for my rhyme sheet
Which I concentrated so hard on, see
I don't ask for maximum security
But my dwellin' is swellin'
It nipped my bud when I happened to fall
Into a spot
Where no ink or an ink-blot
Was on a scroll
I just wrote me a new 'mot'
But now it's gone
There's no
Suckers knew that I hate
To recognise that every time I'm writin'
It's gone

I've found that it's not wise
To leave my garden untended
'Cause eyes have now pardoned all laws of privacy
Even paws are after my writer
See, I've found that everyone's sayin'
What to do when suckers are preyin'
On my well-guarded spreadsheets
Oh why, hell does it send up fleets
Of evil-doers through the big hole
To get to evil-doers who dig holes
Which leaves my lawn with lawn-chew
I think I'd better plant traces to give clues
Or better yet call 911
And when they get here I inform them I'm the Plug One
Open a chair and let them realize the reason
For concern of the Soul,
'Cause we've come down with a case of potholes

Now you got the message
What to do when you die
The death that I predict in 'Plug Tunin'
It's a shame that you deny to claim
That you stole my words of fame
That I wrote in my rhyme sheet
Which I concentrated so hard on, see
I don't ask for a barbed wire fence, B
But my dwellin' is swellin'
It nipped my bud when I happened to fall
Into a spot
Where no ink or an ink-blot
Was on a scroll
I just wrote me a new 'mot'
But now it's gone there's no
Suckers knew that I hate
To recoginse that every time I'm writin'
It's gone

Bloated fractal spreadsheet nightmare.

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DJ CPA say wicky wicky wick open mah spreadsheet.

so * gay.. "blah blah blah.. let's make a spreadsheet"

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^What accounts - our paypal account? We pay most of our bills directly from there. Are you looking to see the spreadsheet that I do every month?

I think maybe I should have been more specific with what "our economic issues" are. There's a lot here about addressing our national debt, or deficit spending. That's not the issue.

The issue is that our economy is crashing. Companies' sales numbers drop, they lay off people, fewer people have money to buy stuff, and companies sales numbers drop more, leading to more layoffs...and around and around it goes.

Add to that the credit freeze, that's preventing even people with good credit, or proven business models, from getting loans to make large purchases or expand their businesses. Mostly this is because the banks themselves are in financial limbo because 90% of their balance sheet is tied up in assets that no one can accurately value anymore.

So, the deficit and national debt aren't our main issue. It's something to keep an eye on, but right now it's not a big enough to make our creditors stop lending to us. There's a danger that they might do that if it gets too high, but "too high" is a lot higher than we are now.

Also, since so many people are having their hours cut and getting laid off, and businesses are losing money instead of making it, the government is raking in a lot less money, running up our debt.

Conservatives with an ideological agenda say "Great, government was too big anyways, so cut everything in sight!"

Economists with an ideological agenda say "The market will fix itself, don't try to do anything except maybe cut taxes".

Economists who see the world as I do say "Spend a lot now to restart the economy, then once it's growing pay down the debt by raising taxes and cutting spending".

I don't know who's right, but I know that conservative politicians don't know anything about anything, those economists who say the market will fix itself base their entire school on the premise that people are expert investors with complete and accurate information about the market (which seems more than a little far fetched to me), and the last group tries to model things with the assumption that people won't always act "rationally" with their money, and that the level of information people have is varied, etc.

So, given that, here are my feelings on some of the specifics that people have put forward:

1. Cut military spending. I would normally agree to this wholeheartedly. When the recovery is underway, I think this is one of the places we should cut spending first, but not right now. I don't want more layoffs due to spending cuts right now.

2. Legalize drugs, regulate drugs, and tax drugs. Wholehearted agreement. Part of what was done to try to pull out of the Great Depression was to repeal prohibition, because prohibition was killing state budgets. Let's end our modern-day prohibition, and reap the benefits of both legal business opportunities, and the tax revenue it generates. We should do this immediately.

3. Tax cuts, or write checks to all taxpayers. Moderate agreement. Most people would save this money -- I know I would. Only the people at the lowest end of the income spectrum would spend this immediately, and that's what we need right now. So, give a small ($500-$1,000) rebate check again, focused mostly on the low to lower-middle income brackets. Including people who only pay payroll taxes and sales taxes (or as Republicans say it "people who don't pay taxes"). This is in Obama's stimulus plan already.

4. Investigate the crimes committed, and prosecute the offenders, and possibly execute them. Totally agree, though this won't directly help stimulate the economy, I think it might do a lot to restore confidence if we publicly executed the people who're using TARP funds to pay out big bonuses to the top level management of bailed out firms (John Thain, I'm looking at you). Failing that, these asshats should at least be getting fired -- so far there has been slim amounts of turnover at the executive level of these banks, which sure as hell doesn't make me feel very confident that they know WTF is going on, or have any sense that they're responsible for it..

5. Genocide. Not really going to help the economy much, and it's unethical too. Go take a ride in your blimp, eat some corn-based snakes, and chill. At least turn us into Soylent Green and sell it to the Naderites.

6. Reform healthcare. Agree, though I vehemently disagree with the idea of "reform" meaning that we eliminate government spending on it. I'd rather aim for single payer healthcare, or at least vastly overhaul the regulatory body for health insurance so there's better profit incentives in helping people, and less murder by spreadsheet. Cutting Medicare and Medicaid seems like a senseless attack on the poor and elderly, if it's the only change made. Why not go after the VA too? Afraid they'd fight back?

7. End farm subsidies. I'm undecided on this one. Probably a good idea, but I'm not sure it'd stimulate the economy in the short or long term, just reshape it.

Really, my litmus test for ideas boils down to this:

If it creates jobs, do it
If it would result in layoffs, don't do it
If it leaves behind something of lasting use, that's gravy
If it just rearranges things to be more "fair" (which means different things to different ideologies), let it go for the moment

Hence my moon mission to clean up the Earth. It'll create jobs, and leave behind something of lasting value, so our kids can screw it up in their own unique and innovative ways.

In reply to this comment by joedirt:
The excel file is only 3.8MB.

It's actually pretty slick, first it extract RIFF to mp3


If Trim(AudioFile) = "" Then AudioFile = ThisWorkbook.Path & _
"\ACDC.wav"
Call PlayBackLoop


By the way, if you download the spreadsheet, unhide Column Q and
go down to Row 99 you can see the 540 ascii frames
(120 characters by 35 characters)

The excel file is only 3.8MB.

It's actually pretty slick, first it extract RIFF to mp3


If Trim(AudioFile) = "" Then AudioFile = ThisWorkbook.Path & _
"\ACDC.wav"
Call PlayBackLoop



Do While i < MyFileLen
If myArr(i) = &H52 Then 'Looking for RIFF
If myArr(i + 1) = &H49 And myArr(i + 2) = &H46 And myArr(i + 3) = &H46 Then
FileLen = CLng(&H1000000) * myArr(i + 7) + CLng(&H10000) * myArr(i + 6) + CLng(&H100) * myArr(i + 5) + myArr(i + 4)



impFile = ThisWorkbook.Path & Application.PathSeparator & _
"12fps-45sec-cut.txt"
Set fi = fs.OpenTextFile(impFile, 1)

Do While fi.AtEndOfStream <> True
If temp = "" Then
Sheet1.Cells(i, 17).Value = vFrame
vFrame = ""
i = i + 1
End If
Loop


That's so hilarious. Why do they add so many details that just sound stupid? She could have just said "I'll see if I can trace the IP" or whatever. I guess they thought they'd sound all tech savvy.

Reminds me of that clip from the show Life where someone hid his secret Excel spreadsheets in a videogame, but you could only access them by playing really well. Anyone know which vid I'm talking about? I searched like crazy but can't find it.

*random comment about measuring tax logs, internal auditing and spreadsheets*

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Having sex with the gay guys in accounting doesn't make you gay. Not in my book.