Saturday, January 31, 2009

Leona Helmsley Democrats

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/01/30/only-the-little-people-pay-taxes/

Leona Helmsley Democrats
Only the Little People Pay Taxes

Posted by David Boaz

Tom Daschle has joined Timothy Geithner in the not-so-exclusive club of Obama Cabinet appointees who evaded tens of thousands of dollars in federal taxes until they were vetted for their Cabinet nominations.

It’s too bad Leona Helmsley can’t be nominated as Commerce Secretary.



I sympathize with anybody trying to hold down his tax bill. Government is too big and too expensive, few of us feel we get our money’s worth from our taxes, and we all have better uses for our money than bridges to nowhere and free condoms. But honestly, shouldn’t people who want to increase taxes on the rest of us — like Daschle, Geithner, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chairman Charles Rangel, Al Franken, Governor David Paterson’s top aide, Democratic National Convention staffers, Al Sharpton, and so on — pay their own taxes?
David Boaz • January 30, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
Filed under: Government and Politics; Tax and Budget Policy

What Henry George thought causes recession

http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp22.htm

obama stimulus anythings but +gives $ to illegals

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Sen. Inhofe: Stimulus Bill a 'Big Buyoff'

Friday, January 30, 2009 10:31 PM

By: Rick Pedraza Article Font Size





Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., says the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package the House of Representatives is heaping on Americans is nothing more than a huge spending bill with projects in it for people the Democratic-led Congress wants to buy off.




Inhofe, who says the bill will do nothing to stimulate the economy, also tells Newsmax TV that the superfluous bill will provide tax refunds to people who don't pay any taxes, and would even give government checks of up to $1,000 to illegal aliens.




“You have a stimulus bill that's supposed to stimulate the economy,” Inhofe explains. “We know how to do that. We did it under John Kennedy; we did it under Ronald Reagan. We know what it does and what you have to do for capital gains and for all these things to open up the economy. But this [stimulus package] doesn't do any of that. There’s so many things in there that are just bad.”




Inhofe notes that a lot of the pork lies in projects that have nothing to do with stimulating the U.S. economy, including:




$30 billion on federal government building improvements



$1.5 billion for homelessness prevention



$650 million for digital TV coupons



$650 million for wildlife management



$600 million for the federal government to buy new green cars



$570 million for climate change



$75 million for smoking cessation activities





“The only tax decreases they have here are refundable tax credits,” Inhofe explains. “And that's really just giving refunds to people who don't pay taxes. That has nothing to do with stimulating the economy.”




One of Inhofe’s biggest objections to the $880 billion bill is that there is only $30 billion that goes toward some of what he believes are the real problems that should be addressed, such as roads and highways.




Inhofe says he personally met with President Barack Obama Monday to point out that the $30 billion earmarked for infrastructure represents only 3 percent of the total amount of the spending bill.




“When I told him that, he didn't believe it was that small a percentage,” Inhofe says. ”I said, ‘If we find that I'm right and you're wrong, would you go up to 10 percent?’ And he said, ‘I'd certainly look at that.’ Since then, he realizes that I am right. As far as roads and highways, it's $30 billion, and then a few [dollars] for water infrastructure.”




Inhofe believes it is the infrastructure improvements that could provide real jobs, while spurring the economy.




“We have over $1 billion worth of projects in America right now that are going to have to be done,” Inhofe points out. “Roads, bridges and that kind of thing; the type of thing government is supposed to be doing. We are going to do it, but this would allow them to do it earlier and use up some of that money they're throwing away.”




Inhofe also weighed in on Obama’s decision earlier this week to close the detention center on Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, saying it is “a very dangerous and foolish idea,” and that he and several other lawmakers haven't given up the fight to keep it open.




Inhofe is leading a delegation to Guantanamo Bay, which he visited right after 9/11, to try to change the public’s perception about the facility.




“When they were accusing them of using interrogation methods that were not proper, I found that not to be true, but the perception is out there,” Inhofe says.




“First of all, this has been a real resource we've been able to use for a long time, and there's no place else we can put people like this,” Inhofe says about the detainees housed at Gitmo for alleged terrorist activities.




“If we were to close this thing down, we have people down there right now like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, along with his top four co-conspirators, and they're in the judicial process right now, which President Obama has said you must stop,” Inhofe says.




“What happens if they close it? We have to do something with these people. We have 120 hardcore terrorists that their countries of origin don't want back. There's no place that will take them. If we close Guantanamo, they've identified some 17 army installations around America where they could go, one of which happens to be in my state of Oklahoma.




“This is something that is totally unacceptable.”




Inhofe will be taking four colleagues with him to Cuba early next month, including Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., who is from Cuba and serves on the Armed Services Committee with Inhofe.




The purpose of the trip is to assess "the situation down there” in order “to tell America that we've got to keep this resource open. This is a great resource for us that can't be replaced anywhere else.”



Editor’s Note: To see the full Inhofe interview, Go Here Now.



© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Steele becomes first African-American RNC chairman

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/rnc.chairman/index.html?iref=werecommend

function-level programming John Backus FL

http://www.archive.org/details/JohnBack1987

Henry George

http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm

Fidel Castro accused the new U.S. leader of supporting "Israeli genocide" against Palestinians.

Fidel Castro Tells Obama To Give Back Guantanamo

Friday, January 30, 2009 8:03 AM
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HAVANA -- Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro demanded on Thursday that President Barack Obama return the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to Cuba without conditions, and he accused the new U.S. leader of supporting "Israeli genocide" against Palestinians.


Castro, who had recently praised Obama as "honest" and "noble", lashed out at his administration for stating that Washington will not return Guantanamo if it has any military use for the United States and without concessions in return.


"Maintaining a military base in Cuba against the will of the people violates the most elemental principles of international law," Castro wrote in a column posted on the government-run website www.cubadebate.cu.


"Not respecting Cuba's will is an arrogant act and an abuse of immense power against a little country," Castro said, resorting to a charge he has leveled against the 10 previous U.S. presidents since he came to power in a 1959 revolution.


Cuba indefinitely leased Guantanamo to the United States in 1903 after the United States occupied the country during the 1898 Spanish-American War. Castro charges that the base at the south-eastern tip of Cuba was taken over illegally.


Earlier on Thursday, Washington's loudest critic in Latin America, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, also urged Obama to return the Guantanamo base, after applauding his decision to close the prison camp for terrorism suspects there.


"Now he should return Guantanamo and Guantanamo Bay to the Cubans because that is Cuban territory," Chavez, Cuba's closest ally, said in a speech in Brazil.


Fidel Castro has been seen only in a few videos and photos since undergoing intestinal surgery in July 2006 from which he never fully recovered.


But he has maintained a public profile through his writings and meetings with visiting foreign leaders, and he is believed to retain an important political role behind the scenes.


His brother Raul Castro provisionally took power after the surgery, then officially became president in February.


Obama has said he wants to move toward normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations but would not eliminate the 46-year-old U.S. trade embargo against the communist-led island without political reforms.


Until Thursday's column, the Castro brothers had praised Obama and held back direct criticism of his administration.


Fidel Castro on Thursday also attacked Obama for supporting Israel's invasion of Gaza.


"It is the way our friend Obama has fallen into sharing Israel's genocide against Palestinians," Castro wrote in his column called "Deciphering the thought of the new U.S. president."






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McCain Crafting Stimulus Plan to Rival Obama's

McCain Crafting Stimulus Plan to Rival Obama's

Saturday, January 31, 2009 7:43 PM
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WASHINGTON – Former presidential rival John McCain expressed disappointment that President Barack Obama has not negotiated with Republicans over a huge economic stimulus plan and said he is working on an alternative package.


Speaking to Reuters, Arizona Senator McCain said the alternative plan would include what he described as "more effective tax cuts, such as a payroll tax cut" and spending on projects aimed at immediately creating jobs.


"A group of us Republican senators are working on coming up with an alternative package that I would hope would have some elements to it that Americans would support," said McCain, who lost the November 4 U.S. election to Obama, a Democrat.


"One, we have to have an alternative and two, we still hope that the administration -- although time is running out -- that the administration will sit down and do some serious negotiating, which they have not done," he said.


An $819 billion stimulus plan passed the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on Wednesday, with no votes from Republicans.


The Senate, also controlled by Democrats, begins debate next week on a bill that contains $342 billion in temporary tax breaks and more than $545 billion in spending to total about $887 billion.


McCain said it was helpful that the Democratic president visited Capitol Hill this week to talk to Republicans about the stimulus plan but that "some very rapid and dramatic outreach" is needed.


"I have to tell you I'm disappointed so far in the administration's lack of consultation or efforts to work with Republicans on the stimulus package," McCain said.


'BRING THEM TO THE TABLE'


It is one thing to talk to Republicans, he said, but "it's entirely something else to bring them to the table and sit down and say, 'OK, how can we come up with a common outcome that we can agree on?' They haven't done that."


Obama would like some Senate Republicans to vote for the plan as a way of expressing bipartisan unity on the need for a massive stimulus package aimed at stopping the slide in the U.S. economy.


But Republicans complain that some of the spending items are more about furthering the Democrats' policy agenda than giving the economy a jump-start.


Obama said after his talks with the Republicans on Wednesday that he did not expect to get 100 percent agreement from them or even 50 percent, and that they had relayed a number of suggestions to him and he had described his own approach.


McCain said he is working with Republican colleagues Mel Martinez of Florida, John Thune of South Dakota, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Lindsay Graham of South Carolina and others on the alternative plan.


"Republicans are not reluctant to spend money or to appropriate money to try to get the country moving again economically. We just see this legislation as not achieving that goal," he said.


A payroll tax cut would be a way to immediately put extra cash into workers' pockets. But during earlier discussions about the idea, some senators questioned whether the cut would be significant enough to be beneficial.


New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer told reporters that he believed the tax package in the stimulus was already at the top of what was acceptable, but that more spending on infrastructure projects would likely be welcome.


Schumer also predicted that Senate Democrats would get the 60 votes needed to clear procedural hurdles and approve the measure in the Senate, despite being far short of hopes by Obama to get wider support.


McCain, whom Obama has sought to woo as an ally in the Senate, also expressed concern about Obama's nominee to be deputy secretary of defense, former Raytheon Co lobbyist William Lynn.


Critics have said Lynn's nomination seemed to violate Obama's ban on hiring lobbyists.


McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee that is considering Lynn's nomination, said Lynn so far has not told him what defense issues he would recuse himself from as a result of his Raytheon ties.


"I'm not trying to hold up or block his nomination but I do want to get some answers and then I'll be glad to move forward when we get the answers. But I do need the answers," he said.


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obama raising taxes calling it "expiring" bush cuts

obama raising taxes calling it "expiring" bush cuts

http://flimjo.com/financial-facts-about-barack-obama-part-1-letting-the-bush-tax-cuts-expire/

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/inhofe_stimulus_spending/2009/01/30/177021.html

Sen. Inhofe: Stimulus Bill a 'Big Buyoff'

Friday, January 30, 2009 10:31 PM

By: Rick Pedraza Article Font Size





Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., says the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package the House of Representatives is heaping on Americans is nothing more than a huge spending bill with projects in it for people the Democratic-led Congress wants to buy off.




Inhofe, who says the bill will do nothing to stimulate the economy, also tells Newsmax TV that the superfluous bill will provide tax refunds to people who don't pay any taxes, and would even give government checks of up to $1,000 to illegal aliens.




“You have a stimulus bill that's supposed to stimulate the economy,” Inhofe explains. “We know how to do that. We did it under John Kennedy; we did it under Ronald Reagan. We know what it does and what you have to do for capital gains and for all these things to open up the economy. But this [stimulus package] doesn't do any of that. There’s so many things in there that are just bad.”




Inhofe notes that a lot of the pork lies in projects that have nothing to do with stimulating the U.S. economy, including:




$30 billion on federal government building improvements



$1.5 billion for homelessness prevention



$650 million for digital TV coupons



$650 million for wildlife management



$600 million for the federal government to buy new green cars



$570 million for climate change



$75 million for smoking cessation activities





“The only tax decreases they have here are refundable tax credits,” Inhofe explains. “And that's really just giving refunds to people who don't pay taxes. That has nothing to do with stimulating the economy.”




One of Inhofe’s biggest objections to the $880 billion bill is that there is only $30 billion that goes toward some of what he believes are the real problems that should be addressed, such as roads and highways.




Inhofe says he personally met with President Barack Obama Monday to point out that the $30 billion earmarked for infrastructure represents only 3 percent of the total amount of the spending bill.




“When I told him that, he didn't believe it was that small a percentage,” Inhofe says. ”I said, ‘If we find that I'm right and you're wrong, would you go up to 10 percent?’ And he said, ‘I'd certainly look at that.’ Since then, he realizes that I am right. As far as roads and highways, it's $30 billion, and then a few [dollars] for water infrastructure.”




Inhofe believes it is the infrastructure improvements that could provide real jobs, while spurring the economy.




“We have over $1 billion worth of projects in America right now that are going to have to be done,” Inhofe points out. “Roads, bridges and that kind of thing; the type of thing government is supposed to be doing. We are going to do it, but this would allow them to do it earlier and use up some of that money they're throwing away.”




Inhofe also weighed in on Obama’s decision earlier this week to close the detention center on Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, saying it is “a very dangerous and foolish idea,” and that he and several other lawmakers haven't given up the fight to keep it open.




Inhofe is leading a delegation to Guantanamo Bay, which he visited right after 9/11, to try to change the public’s perception about the facility.




“When they were accusing them of using interrogation methods that were not proper, I found that not to be true, but the perception is out there,” Inhofe says.




“First of all, this has been a real resource we've been able to use for a long time, and there's no place else we can put people like this,” Inhofe says about the detainees housed at Gitmo for alleged terrorist activities.




“If we were to close this thing down, we have people down there right now like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, along with his top four co-conspirators, and they're in the judicial process right now, which President Obama has said you must stop,” Inhofe says.




“What happens if they close it? We have to do something with these people. We have 120 hardcore terrorists that their countries of origin don't want back. There's no place that will take them. If we close Guantanamo, they've identified some 17 army installations around America where they could go, one of which happens to be in my state of Oklahoma.




“This is something that is totally unacceptable.”




Inhofe will be taking four colleagues with him to Cuba early next month, including Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., who is from Cuba and serves on the Armed Services Committee with Inhofe.




The purpose of the trip is to assess "the situation down there” in order “to tell America that we've got to keep this resource open. This is a great resource for us that can't be replaced anywhere else.”



Editor’s Note: To see the full Inhofe interview, Go Here Now.



© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Henry George was right

ass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZoVu4gXFNY&playnext=1&p=853E92FABC61CCBE&index=18&feature=PlayList&playnext_from=PL&ytsession=v9Yvi12SxWClKlYGW15JdKlXO8wrPvw_t0wOZ6sIvXmayxMP5bDYLBNC1r8PrwYhk5gLgKfnCvrpMlNgphdThEuukIztRc-mTtidxplA5S5quqcT92lzqQH-QS49nfFVlKxASVSdzf1GIIhZMXyvbMpfzgrdWGu4ndwZ9ulAaaXDG_czHzqZjjMgFwxxtZ2F1tK2BuNmnOkNu5j6JqyUDTgaBXixMJ-oyVbtOJBxe4hvJKMAv7ERKJIiR5_6gvg50gJP1yTm37asvZC36pgFzA

comedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ggRu8EohW4&feature=channel_page
(01/31/2009 12:23:46 PM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkQenQofxs8&feature=related
(02/01/2009 01:06:37 AM) is now known as

(01:13:29 AM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ggRu8EohW4&feature=channel_page
(01:17:57 AM) bootiack: lol

archlinux packages

opera firefox pidgin pidgin-otr gv xf86-video-r128 xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse openssh gcc glibc unzip make xorg-xinit icewm alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-oss flashplugin pkgtools sysstat smplayer pidgin

xorg fix
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
EndSection

rankmirrors

backus ideas FL function level programming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP_(programming_language)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL_programming_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function-level_programming

http://www.sri.com/about/ I want to work here

http://www.sri.com/about/

openapl

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/apl

if you want a k n r program to build in plan9

(12:56:55 PM) j: ok, let me try to summarize this, hopefully someone will correct me if im imprecise or inaccurate
(12:58:31 PM) j: plan 9 has its own dialect of C - however it also has an ansi/posix compatible compiler/build environment in addition - and furthermore, you can use certain libraries like stdio in plan 9 C even though you will get better performance using the native bio library instead
(12:59:52 PM) j: in the context of the k&r examples, they will generally all work fine in plan 9 using the plan 9 compilers with a little bit of intelligence in adjusting the #include directives
(01:00:08 PM) the_unmaker: ahha
(01:03:18 PM) j: for the most part, if you want a k&r program to build in plan9, you #include , , and and it will build fine with 8c -FVw foo.c && 8l -o foo foo.8

http://swtch.com/9vx/

http://swtch.com/9vx/

Friday, January 30, 2009

chris dodd full of crap

REVIEW & OUTLOOK (Editorial)
Dodd of Indignation
635 words
30 January 2009
The Wall Street Journal
A12
English
(Copyright (c) 2009, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)

Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd has been in typically indignant form this week, opining on the financial crisis. Before his Tuesday hearing on Bernard Madoff, he demanded that regulators get to the bottom of any crime: "American investors deserve an explanation and the responsible parties must be held accountable!" And yesterday the Connecticut Senator denounced Wall Street bonuses and said, "I am urging -- in fact, not urging, demanding -- that the Treasury Department figures out some way to get the money back."

Pardon us, Senator, but how about taking your own advice?

We refer to his promise to release mortgage documents for the two properties that he and his wife refinanced with Countrywide Financial in 2003. In June a former Countrywide loan officer charged that Mr. Dodd received preferential rates and had fees waived on those loans as part of a VIP program the company had for "friends" of the company's then-CEO Angelo Mozilo. Mr. Dodd first issued a denial and then, days later, acknowledged that he was a "VIP" with Countrywide but said he thought it was "more of a courtesy." In late June he pledged to make all pertinent documents public "at some point." We're still waiting.

Increasing accountability is critical to rebuilding public trust in the financial system, as the Senator keeps telling us. Countrywide was one of the most irresponsible lenders in the subprime frenzy but it did not act alone. One reason it could pump out so much bad paper is because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were around to buy it and then resell it with a taxpayer guarantee. Messrs. Dodd and Mozilo were two of Fan and Fred's biggest supporters, with Mr. Dodd playing a role in pushing the companies to take on "affordable housing" loans from outfits like Countrywide.

Perhaps Connecticut's longest serving Senator was bamboozled by Mr. Mozilo and used bad judgment in backing the reckless lender. But loan officer Robert Feinberg, who oversaw Countrywide's VIP program, says Mr. Dodd knew he was getting favors from Mr. Mozilo. Mr. Feinberg says his job was to remind beneficiaries at every step of the process that they were getting a special deal because they were "Friends of Angelo." If true, it would mean that the Senator had a clear conflict of interest as a legislator promoting the business of a company doing him personal favors. Recall the Ted Stevens precedent.

The way to clear this up is to see all the documents and get Mr. Dodd to explain what happened, preferably under oath. But Mr. Dodd has been stonewalling. In July he said he would release the documents after President Bush signed the first housing bailout bill. Nothing. Then in October he said he wanted to wait until the Senate Ethics Committee completed its investigation.

That could take a while. On July 28 Ethics Chairman Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) and Vice Chairman John Cornyn (R. Texas) issued a press release that explained "it has been the long-standing policy of the committee to defer investigation into matters where there is an active and ongoing criminal investigation and proceeding so as not to interfere in that process."

Earlier this month, Mr. Dodd's office confirmed that the law firm Perkins Coie has provided "ethics advice" to him, and we can't help but wonder what that entailed. The delay at the Ethics Committee in no way impedes Mr. Dodd from honoring his disclosure pledge. It's in his political interest to do so, assuming he has nothing to hide. A recent Quinnipiac poll showed his approval rating down to an all-time low of 47%. Rare is the politician who could clear his name overnight and chooses not to.

comedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww&feature=PlayList&p=193F413B479833F8&playnext=1&index=46

whatever you like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2YSo2FiAA&feature=related

with great power comes great fun gforth

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/

mysql convert all tables from myisam to innodb

for x in $(echo "show tables;"| mysql --user=fartman --password=beer --host=10.11.12.13 --database=pet|grep -v Tables_in); do echo "alter table $x engine = innodb;" | mysql --user=fartman --password=beer --host=10.11.12.13 --database=pet;done

or:
http://www.linux.com/articles/46370

mysql enable innodb trick: delete the logs ib_logfile* and restart

http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?22,58270,77005#msg-77005

mysql enable innodb trick: delete the logs ib_logfile* and restart

fear has a new name

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_on_re_us/octuplets

xpdf cups archlinux printing print lpr

once cups is up and you config it in localhost:631

open pdf in xpdf, and hit print, then click command and type lpr then hit print, bam it prints

pro obama anti bush prejudice at google

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485632,00.html

Unlike Bush's 'Google Bomb,' Google Quickly Defuses Obama's

Friday, January 30, 2009
By Joshua Rhett Miller

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A Google search of 'miserable failure' now returns Web sites about the Googlebombs rather than the original pages that were returned.

It took four years for Google to address the "Google bomb" that was lobbed at former President Bush.

But it took the Internet behemoth only a few days to defuse the same attack on President Obama.

Four years versus a few days ... Some Googlers are asking why.

In 2003, President Bush's detractors successfully gamed the Google search engine by arranging to have countless Web sites link the words "miserable failure" to Bush's official biography on the White House Web site.

The result was that when someone typed the search term "miserable failure" into the Google search box, Bush's bio rose to the top of the search results.

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And that's how it stayed until 2007, when Google developed an algorithm to detect what became known as "Google bombs" and re-directed the term "miserable failure" to non-political pages.

Unfortunately for Obama, "miserable failure" reverted back to his bio when he moved into the White House. The new president was also Google-bombed with the phrase "cheerful achievement."

But this time, Google stepped in quickly, rectifying the situation in a few days, instead of four years.

The difference in time did not go unnoticed.

"You let this go on for the entire Bush administration," a reader named w3bgrrl wrote on a Google blog. "But since you bought the White House for Obama, you don't want your candidates harmed ... And your claims not withstanding, even liberals know you're liberal."

But another writer, Mikkel deMib Svendsen, gave Google the benefit of the doubt.

"I do think many of [Google employees] are liberals but I am also 100% confident that the large majority of them are also very professional people that take the job of creating a good and unbiased search engine very, very seriously," he wrote.
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Google itself said the reason it took only a few days to redirect Obama's Google bomb was that, this time, it already had the algorithm in place.

"Though the spirit of change may be in the air in Washington, some things apparently stay the same," Google software engineer Matt Cutts wrote on a Google blog. "After we became aware of this latest Googlebomb, we re-ran our algorithm and it detected the Googlebomb for [cheerful achievement] as well as for [failure]. As a result, those search queries now return discussion about the Google bombs, rather than the original pages that were returned."

In another company blog, Google software engineers Ryan Moulton and Kendre Carattini wrote that the "pranks" aren't a very high priority for the company.

"But over time, we've seen more people assume that they are Google's opinion, or that Google has hand-coded the results for these Googlebombed queries," they wrote. "That's not true, and it seemed like it was worth trying to correct that misperception."

Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, says Google could have acted even faster in Obama's case, and that he was "disappointed" that the Internet giant did not act preemptively last week.

"They knew this was an issue before the inauguration, but it wasn't until after it happened that [Google] finally got to it and said, 'We better re-run our system,'" Sullivan told FOXNews.com.

"I know there are bigger issues to worry about," he said. "But then again, people turn to search engines to try and find information and this is the kind of thing you want them to be paying attention to as part of an overall communication strategy."

Sullivan likened Google bombing to a "neighborhood kid spray-painting on your wall," and he said he expects these kinds of digital antics to continue.

"It's probably going to be an inevitable fact of life for politicians moving forward to see themselves involved in these types of pranks," he said. "But you don't want to go around reacting too much, either."

Asked if he thought Google's reaction to the Bush and Obama Google bombs appeared to be biased, Sullivan replied, "I give them the benefit of the doubt. If you're an Obama friend at Google, waiting until after he's in office is not being a good friend."

According to an article by CNET News, the Obama "cheerful achievement" Google bomb was created by Montreal blogger Eric Baillargeon, who did not return requests for comment.

Obama spokesman Nicholas Shapiro declined to comment Thursday.

A Yahoo! search of "miserable failure," however, returns the official White House biographies of Obama and Bush, respectively. Company officials did not return a request for comment Friday.

Minneapolis man gets tasered, files lawsuit against police department. Three years later, the same officer tasered him again, this time killing him. (

http://www.startribune.com/local/north/38678597.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUsX

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/den/588567246.html

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/den/588567246.html


If men wrote m4w ads like women wrote w4m ads
Date: 2008-02-27, 8:51AM MST


Isn't it funny how most w4m ads are like checklists of requirements. These women think finding a guy is like ordering a sandwich - a little more height please, easy on the love of sports, and can you throw in a weekend house in the mountains and a willingness to support some other guy's children?

If men wrote their m4w ads the same way, we would expect to see something like this:

Looking to meet the woman of my dreams. Someone who appreciates me for who I am. I love big TV's, big trucks, baseball caps, and wife-beater tanks. I love going out with my friends to get drunk at strip clubs too. I'm looking for a nice woman who is not looking to jump into a relationship too soon but who knows what it means to be sexy and take care of her partner. Please no BBW's (sorry) but you won't look good on my arm when I wear a white t-shirt.

You must love dogs and my beer can collection, my dogs, my cans, and I are a package, so if you're not into them then please move on. I like to let all 6 of my dogs sleep in my bed with me, so hopefully you don't have a problem with that.

Deal breakers:
likes to shop too much
obsessed with height (i am short)
fat
talks about yourself too much
neediness
always wanting to talk about the relationship
small breasts (sorry, there is nothing sexier than grabbing onto a nice pair)
doesnt like to cook for her man
bossiness
nagging
always wanting to get up early in the morning
fat
intolerance of me and my habits
pressure to have kids


Turn ons:
thin
large breasts (very sexy)
quiet
beer drinker
has her own friends and won't try to make me watch chick flicks
smells good
likes football
doesn't expect me to pay all the time
intelligent but not too intelligent (i dont like nerdy girls)
rich father
thin
doesn't have a relationship calendar, i.e. doesnt wonder after 3 months if we are going in the right direction.

Can you find me a woman like that??? LOL

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

tomcat6 book

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1x Forth

http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm

1x Forth
Charles Moore
April 13, 1999


I asked Chuck Moore to let me video tape him commenting on the evolution of his language over the last fifteen years. We setup a camcorder and he talked about many of the ideas that I have quoted him on at this website, but this time with a focus on Forth rather than solid state physics, or VLSI cad, or his chip designing and debugging experiences. I have felt that he has talked about the Forth language in his speeches over the years but has covered so many other topics that I wanted to get his comments on the language that he invented more than thirty years ago.

The entire 54 minute video is available in the UltraTechnology store.

I introduce Chuck.

(Jeff Fox) I've asked Chuck Moore to give a presentation today on Forth I've asked him to talk about his experience with his language for the last fifteen years. So if I can introduce him, Charles Moore.



(Charles Moore) That's quite a broad topic. How long are we talking?

(Jeff) The tape is one hour.

(Chuck) Fifteen years; that just about covers my experience with computers as opposed to software. Going back fifteen years the motivation for switching the emphasis from Forth the language to Forth the microprocessor was twofold.

First the software problems were solved. It was easy to write applications, trivial to write applications. All the problems lay in the hardware. Hardware was awkward and messy and unreliable especially if you were dealing with a custom system that someone had built for which they wanted custom software. It became a real drag to try to debug the hardware for them. And it became clear that the hardware engineers weren't doing a very good job. Better than the software engineers in the industry but not as good as the software engineers in Forth. So I thought I would see what I could do to address the hardware problem. That might have been a mistake. Forth is a lot of fun to work with, hardware is not so much fun.

I don't know if you are all aware of the history but the first Forth processor that I did, it might have the first one of all, was Novix. Which was a 16-bit and state of the art as far as speed is concerned, meaning 8mips. It was a lot of fun to work with. We had a very nice Forth on it, cmForth. Much smaller and simpler than the other Forths I had been doing for Forth Inc. And then of course ShBoom, which was 32-bits and 50mips. And now the i21 is the latest incarnation which is 20-bits and I like to claim 500mips.

Each of these had its own kind of Forth associated with it. The goal was very simple: to minimize the complexity of the hardware software combination. As far as I can see no-one else is doing that. Some lip service perhaps, but no-one is trying to minimize the complexity of anything and that is a great concern to me.

We are building a culture which can not survive as trivial an incident as Y2K. Once we lose the billion dollar fabrication plants and once we lose the thousand man programming teams how do we rebuild them? Would be bother to rebuild them? Are computers worth enough to demand the social investment that we put into them. It could be a lot simpler. If it were a lot simpler I would have a lot more confidence that the technology would endure into the indefinite future.

There seems to be a propensity to make things complicated. People love to make them complicated. You can see that in television programming you can see it in products in the marketplace, you can see it in internet web sites. Simply presenting the information is not enough, you have got to make it engaging. I think there is perhaps an optimal level of complexity that the brain is designed to handle. If you make it to simple people are bored if you make it too complicated they are lost

I'm never bored by simplicity. Show me a simpler way to do anything that I'm doing. I will jump on it. But that doesn't seem to be the case Automobiles, airplanes, spacecraft, immensely complicated devices. Forth doesn't need to be complicated. Classic Forth started out simple, it gradually accreted layers of complexity. At Forth Inc. that kind of became the company culture. We had this package and we were selling it and we were exploiting it and we were stuck with it. When I left Forth Inc. I had a chance to simplify and cmForth was the result. Unfortunately cmForth didn't get used for a lot of applications. So it is hard to tell how well it would have worked out.

The Forth I did on ShBoom was as I recall pretty much like cmForth. The biggest application that I did was to make video work and to start the process of the custom silicon design package so I know the approach worked well with ShBoom.

i21, the Forth I am using there is color Forth and I haven't done any significant applications on it yet. It is brutally simple. It is simpler than any of it's predecessors and I can say something about it and why.

The i21 itself is a simple processor. Not as simple as it could be. Because it seemed to me that'll the only hope we had in selling a processor was to make it fast. So I have added a lot of complexity in pursuit of performance. Hopefully I have found some kind of reasonable balance. Five hundreds mips is very nice speed. We can only do bursts at the moment but it will be sustained someday. The problem is that there are no applications that require that much speed or require a large number of processors running at that speed. It is a hard sell.

The most interesting application that I have seen recently is the SETI at home project, where you can download data from Arecebo and process it for a couple of weeks on your PC and send it back to participate in this exploration. So maybe a faster processor would sell there simply for that application. Maybe a SETI distributed processor system may be the thing to do.

Once you've got a processor, hopefully one well suited to Forth. Than after you have a processor what should Forth look like in order to exploit the processor? That raises the question of what is Forth? I have hoped for some time that someone would tell me what it was. I keep asking that question. What is Forth?

Forth is highly factored code. I don't know anything else to say except that Forth is definitions. If you have a lot of small definitions you are writing Forth. In order to write a lot of small definitions you have to have a stack. Stacks are not popular. Its strange to me that they are not. There is a just lot of pressure from vested interests that don't like stacks, they like registers. Stacks are not a solve all problems concept but they are very very useful, especially for information hiding and you have to have two of them.

These ideas have been around for thirty years now. I have been promoting them for thirty years. Their level of acceptance is about where it was thirty years ago. Perhaps even less considering that the industry has expanded so much.

Forth
Defintions
Stacks

So that is Forth. And this a requirement to support definitions.

What is a definition? Well classically a definition was colon something, and words, and end of definition somewhere.

: some ~~~ ;

I always tried to explain this in the sense of this is an abbreviation, whatever this string of words you have here that you use frequently you have here you give it a name and you can use it more conveniently. But its not exactly an abbreviation because it can have a parameter perhaps or two. And that is a problem with programmers, perhaps a problem with all programmers; too many input parameters to a routine. Look at some 'C' programs and it gets ludicrous. Everything in the program is passed through the calling sequence and that is dumb.

A Forth word should not have more than one or two arguments. This stack which people have so much trouble manipulating should never be more than three or four deep.

Our current incarnation of our word (:) is to make it red. That way you don't even use colon. This not only reduces the amount of text you have to store in your source file but it vastly clarifies what is going on. The red word is being defined,

some ~~~

the definition is green and it might have a semicolon in the definition which means return but it does not mean end of definition. It can have more than one return, and you can have more than one entry point in here if you want. Without this semicolon this definition would fall through into this definition and return at this point but still there is no state of your in compile mode versus execute mode. Your either running green or your running white background, black. Black means execute, green means compile, red means define.

This to me is simpler and more clear. It is brand new so it hasn't gotten any acceptance but we will see.

But as to stack parameters, the stacks should be shallow. On the i21 we have an on-chip stack 18 deep. This size was chosen as a number effectively infinite.

The words that manipulate that stack are DUP, DROP and OVER period. There's no ..., well SWAP is very convenient and you want it, but it isn't a machine instruction. But no PICK no ROLL, none of the complex operators to let you index down into the stack. This is the only part of the stack, these first two elements, that you have any business worrying about. Of course on a chip those are the two inputs to the ALU so those are what are relevant to the hardware.

The others are on the stack because you put them there and you are going to use them later after the stack falls back to their position. They are not there because your using them now. You don't want too many of those things on the stack because you are going to forget what they are.

So people who draw stack diagrams or pictures of things on the stack should immediately realize that they are doing something wrong. Even the little parameter pictures that are so popular. You know if you are defining a word and then you put in a comment showing what the stack effects are
and it indicates F and x and y

F ( x - y )

I used to appreciate this back in the days when I let my stacks get too complicated, but no more. We don't need this kind of information. It should be obvious from the source code or be documented somewhere else.

So the stack operations that I use are very limited. Likewise the conditionals. In Classic Forth we used

IF ELSE THEN

And I have eliminated ELSE.

I don't see that ELSE is as useful as the complexity it introduces would justify. You can see this in my code. I will have IF with a semicolon and then I will exit the definition at that point or continue.

IF ~~~ ; THEN

I have the two way branch but using the new feature of a semicolon which does not end a definition. Likewise with loops, there were a lot of loop constructs. The ones I originally used were taken out of existing languages. I guess that is the way things evolve.

There was
DO LOOP there was
FOR NEXT and there was
BEGIN UNTIL

DO LOOP was from FORTRAN, FOR NEXT was from BASIC, BEGIN UNTIL was from ALGOL.

What one do we pick for Forth? This (DO LOOP) has two loop control parameters and it is just too complicated. This (FOR NEXT) has one loop control parameter and is good with a hardware implementation and is simple enough to have a hardware implementation. And this one (BEGIN) has variable number of parameters. Unfortunately.. (noise)

We are borrowing this recording facility from iTV and it is their vault. If you hear an echo in the sound system that's why, it's a vault.

I've got a new looping construct that I am using in Color Forth and that I find superior to all the others. That is that if I have a WORD I can have in here some kind of a conditional with a reference to WORD. And this is my loop.

WORD ~~~ IF ~~~ WORD ;
THEN ~~~ ;

I loop back to the beginning of the current definition. And that is the only construct that I have at the moment and it seems to be adequate and convenient. It has a couple of side effects. One is that it requires a recursive version of Forth. This word must refer to the current definition and not some previous definition. This eliminates the need for the SMUDGE/UNSMUDGE concept which ANS is talking about giving a new name. But the net result is that it is simpler.

It would of course not be convenient to nest loops but nested loops are a very dicey concept anyway. You may as well have nested definitions. We've talked over the last fifteen years about such things. Should you have conditional execution of a word or should you have something like IF THEN? Here is an example where I think it pays well in clarity, the only loop you have to repeat the current word.

WORD ~~~ IF ~~~ WORD ;
THEN ~~~ ;

You can always do that and it leads to more intense factoring. And that is in my mind one of the keystones of Forth, you factor and you factor and you factor until most of your definitions are one or two lines long.

(Jeff) You might point out that your semicolon after WORD results in tail recursion and converting the call in WORD to a jump and that is how it functions.

(Chuck) So there is no reason to make that a call since you are never going to go anywhere afterwards so you just make that jump. In fact in all my latest Forths semicolon kind of meant either return or jump depending on the context and it's optimized in the compiler to do that. It's a very simple look back optimization that actually saves a very important resource, the return stack.

On i21 the return stack is only 17 deep. People who are used to nesting indefinitely might get into trouble here. You shouldn't nest too deeply. It makes programs impossible to follow. You can have spaghetti code with calls just a you can with GOTOs. You have got to keep it simple.

As I recall those are the major changes I have made to my current Forth. Maybe with the exception of BLOCK. BLOCK is a wonderful word BLOCK accesses, used to access a region of disk. Now I define it as accessing region of memory. There is no reason to use the disk at all. With megabytes of memory available you just load your data into memory and go from there. There is no need for disk. So BLOCK becomes much much simpler. Basically the definition of BLOCK is a thousand times.

BLOCK 1024 * ;

That gives you access to a block of memory that is a 1024 bytes wide. The value of BLOCK is that it partitions your memory for you. It factors your memory into manageable pieces. You can talk about a megabyte of memory or a thousand blocks of memory

I encountered a NASA webpage just today which is amusing. I think it was using 110,000 kilometers per hour as the speed of the spacecraft, the Stardust spacecraft. Conveniently, since I don't really have a feel for that number they converted it to 69,000 miles per hour for the convenience of people who don't think in those numbers. Those numbers are too large to have any meaning to anyone. I think it converts to so many kilometers per second or some nice small number that I have a feel for. It doesn't do any good to let the number get big when we are dealing with one hundred and twenty megabytes of memory the numbers get big, just begging to let the numbers get big. It is impressive, but it isn't useful. So BLOCKs help restore the scale.

Well one thing is to say is that Forth is what Forth programmers do. I would like to think of it as what Forth programmers ought to do. Because I have found that teaching someone Forth does not mean that he is going to be a good Forth programmer. There is something more than the formalism and syntax of Forth that has got to be embedded in your brain before you're going to be effective at what you do.

My contention is that every application that I have seen that I didn't code has ten times as much code in it as it needs. And I see Forth programmers writing applications with ten times as much code as is necessary.

The concern that I have, the problem that I have been pondering for the last few years is: How can I pursuade these people to write good Forth? How can I pursuade them that it's possible to write good Forth? Why would anyone want to write ten times as much as they would need to write?

Microsoft does this, I'm sure you're all aware, but they almost have an excuse for doing it because they are trying to be compatible with everything they have ever done in the past. If it impossible for you to start with a clean piece of paper then you will have to write more code. But ten times a much code? That seems excessive.

How big should a program be? For instance, how large should the TCP/IP stack be? I don't know. I couldn't know without sitting down and writing the code for it. But I should not be very big, a kiloword.

The i21 has four instructions per word. The Pentium has one instruction per two bytes. It is very hard to judge, you should talk in instructions instead of the size of memory in which the instructions reside.

About a thousand instructions seems about right to me to do about anything. To paraphrase the old legend that any program with a thousand instructions can be written in one less. All programs should be a thousand instructions long.

How do you get there? What is the magic? How can you make applications small? Well you can do several things that are prudent to do in any case and in any language.

No Hooks

One is No Hooks. Don't leave openings in which you are going to insert code at some future date when the problem changes because inevitably the problem will change in a way that you didn't anticipate. Whatever the cost it's wasted. Don't anticipate, solve the problem you've got.

Don't Complexify

Simplify the problem you've got or rather don't complexify it. I've done it myself, it's fun to do. You have a boring problem and hiding behind it is a much more interesting problem. So you code the more interesting problem and the one you've got is a subset of it and it falls out trivial. But of course you wrote ten times as much code as you needed to solve the problem that you actually had.

Ten times code means ten times cost; the cost of writing it, the cost of documenting it, it the cost of storing it in memory, the cost of storing it on disk, the cost of compiling it, the cost of loading it, everything you do will be ten times as expensive as it needed to be. Actually worse than that because complexity increases exponentially.

10x Code
10x Cost
10x Bugs
10x Maintenance
Ten times the bugs! And ten times the difficulty of doing maintenance on the code as is amply illustrated by the Y2K bug. In fact it curious the fixes that I see people making the COBOL programs to fix the Y2K bug make the programs signifigantly more complex and larger and introduce spaghetti code that can't be maintained and is probably going to fail again in fifty years they are just using windows. They are not increasing the range of the date they are merely shifting it so that is going to lead to another problem when that window runs out.

This is why we are still running programs which are ten or twenty years old and why people can't afford to update, understand, and rewrite these programs because they are significantly more complex, ten times more complex than they should be.

So how do you avoid falling into this trap. How do you write one times programs?

One times, 1x That would make a good name for a web page.

You factor. You factor, you factor, you factor and you throw away everything that isn't being used, that isn't justified.

The whole point of Forth was that you didn't write programs in Forth you wrote vocabularies in Forth. When you devised an application you wrote a hundred words or so that discussed the application and you used those hundred words to write a one line definition to solve the application. It is not easy to find those hundred words, but they exist, they always exist.

Let me give you an example of an application in which not only can you reduce the amount of code required by 90% and here is a case where you can reduce the code by 100% and it is a topic that is dear to our hearts it's called FILES. If you have files in your application, in your Forth system then you have words like

OPEN
CLOSE
READ
WRITE
REWIND whatever

and they are arguably not going to be such short words, They are going to be words like OPEN-FILE because of all kinds of things that you want to be opening and closing like windows.

If you can realize that this is all unnecessary you save one hundred percent of the code that went into writing the file system. Files are not a big part of any typical application but it is a singularly useless part. Identify those aspects of what you are trying to do and saying we don't need to do that. We don't need checksums on top of checksums. We don't need encryption because we aren't transmitting anything that we don't need. You can eliminate all sorts of things.

Now that's the general solution to a problem that all the programmers in the world are out there inventing for you, the general solution, and nobody has the general problem.

I wish I knew what to tell you that would lead you to write good Forth. I can demonstrate. I have demonstrated in the past, ad nauseam, applications where I can reduce the amount of code by 90% percent and in some cases 99%. It can be done, but in a case by case basis. The general principle still eludes me.

(Jeff) I had a question about your screens in Color Forth. People have commented that you have a very large font and very little information on the screen. How much of that is because of your vision and how much is to limit the information your looking at at one time?

(Chuck) I am losing patience with small characters and very hard to read web pages. With my eyes the characters are blurred, with my reading glasses the characters are blurred. If I increase the character size, which sometimes I can do and sometimes I can't, I lose a lot of context. It is a problem. It is probably a problem for an increasing percentage of the population so I make the characters as big as I can, but Jeff's right, if you make them too big you lose information.

Now it is a classic rule of thumb for designing slides that you pick a frame and you put up some bullets and topics and you don't try to put too much information on a slide because you only confuse your audience and if you make the characters small they won't be able to read them either.

In the case of my Color Forth I think my characters are probably too large. I can get 256 on the screen at once. I get 20 x 14 or sometimes 24 x 15, it depends on which computer I am using. That is enough. In this 256 bytes I get about as much information as I used to get in 1024 bytes because I'm not doing any formatting. I not even doing any word wrap. I'm just packing the screen densely with characters.

One reason is that I want to explore the value of the color words. If I have some colorful words here and some different color how will that work? I find that it works very well. I don't need to format this with all defined words on the left. In fact that might be ugly because I have a wall of red on the left and if it is organized that way you don't need to make it red.

I do feel that when you are putting up a web page for instance that you should take this philosophy. Put up as little information on a web page as you have to to make it clearer what you are trying to say to people. Don't get wordy about it. On the other hand don't put a web page with an index, that is a nuisance. You want to put up real information. You want to highlight the information that's important. But you want to make it clear and readable.

It isn't easy for me to change my character size, It is a 32x32 pixel, I will probably go to 24x24 pixels next time I try it.

In this form an application is rarely one screen. An application is probably about two or three screens and that is about as much code as I write for an application within a context.

For instance I have an application that puts up spectra on the screen relating to the performance of a particular chip and that application takes four or five of these screens. It is nice spectra a nice exercise in presenting information in an understandable and important way. If you get a chance to see a demo of that sometime it would be fun.

Small applications, application isn't the right word. Small bits of code to do a particular thing and are not generalized to do anything else.

Jeff has reminded me of a couple of other concepts in Machine Forth. Machine Forth is what I like to call using the Forth primitives built into the computer instead of interpreted versions of those or defining macros that do those. One of those is IF.

Classically IF drops the thing that's on the stack and this was inconvenient to do on i21 so IF leaves its argument on the stack and very often you are obliged to write constructs like IF DROP. But not always. It seems that about as often as it is inconvenient to have IF to leave an argument on the stack it is convenient to have that to happen. It avoids using a DUP IF or a ?DUP. So with this convention the need for ?DUP has gone away. And ?DUP is a nasty word because it leaves a variable number of things on the stack and that is not a wise thing to do.

IF
-IF

In addition to IF, Machine Forth has a minus if -IF. This one is testing zero and this one is for the sign bit only. It was my thinking that very often you are going to make a decision on whether a number is positive or negative. It hasn't work out that way. In Color Forth I don't even bother to use this instruction.

The world has changed in the last twenty years in ways that maybe are obvious but I think no one would have anticipated. When I first started in this business in fifty seven computers were used for calculating, computing. And the applications in those days usually involved large long complex algebraic expressions. The factorization that we did was to factor things that would not have to be recomputed so that the whole thing would go faster, and that was the whole the point of FORTRAN. That tradition has stuck with us even today.

I don't know the statistics but I would guess that most computers don't compute, they move bytes around. If you have a browser your browser is not calculating anything except maybe the limit of what will fit on the screen at one time. This concept of looking at the sign of a number was not as useful as I suspected. Almost all numbers are positive so there is no sign to look at. For the same reason Machine Forth does not have a subtract operator. I use this symbol to be a ones complement.

- ones comp.

It isn't even very easy to do a subtract. But for today's applications, implementing protocols or displaying text, arithmetic is not necessary. A computer should not be optimized for arithmetic and mine are not.

On the other hand in order to optimize data transfer it is very useful to have an incremented fetch operator. One of the problems I suppose on any computer, but it is particularly apparent on i21 is addresses. On i21 an address is twenty bit number. To load an address you pretty much have to do a literal fetch which takes an extra twenty bit word. It takes an extra memory cycle to load the address and then you can do the fetch against the address which takes another memory cycle. So the manipulation of address is expensive and you want to do it as little as possible. Fetch-plus (@+) helps with that. You put an address in the address register, which is called A, and it stays there a while. And if you execute this operator (@+) A gets incremented and you can fetch a sequence of things in order. Likewise you can store a sequence of things. And of course you have fetch (@) and store (!) without increment for when you need them.

These operators are not in classic Forth. I don't think they are even mentioned in the standard. They lead to a completely different style of programming. In the case of the DO LOOP the efficient thing to do was actually put the address as your loop control parameter and then refer to it as I and do an I fetch (I @) inside the loop. And the DO LOOP is working with the addresses. If you don't do that, if you have the fetch-plus (@+) operator you don't need the DO LOOP, you don't need the I, you use the fetch-plus (@+) inside of the loop to fetch the thing that's different each time. It is different but equivalent. You can map one to the other. In addition to the notion of having to fetch something who's address is conveniently stored in the A register.

In the case of MOVE, where you want to move something from one region of memory to another you have to have two addresses. Hence the value of being able to address a value stored in the R register. Since that is probably the only context that you will be using an address in the R register it has an automatic increment associated with it. So I've got basically a fetch-plus (@+) against A and a fetch, and a fetch-R against R or a store-R so you can do a MOVE operator efficiently.

A brings up another issue. A acts very much like a local variable, a place where you can store something for a while and then retrieve it later in addition to acting as an address register. The reason that it acts as an address register, the reason I have it as an address is literally to provide a mechanism for this (@+). It is more convenient for the address to be on the stack from the programmer's standpoint, but if you are going to access repetitively you have to put it in a place where you can increment it. To put it there you have to be able to access that register, if you are going to do that you can use that register for other things. Just like you can use the return stack for other things.

The difference is that when you put something on the return stack you have to take it off again and with A you don't. There has been a temptation to make A into a stack you could push several things onto A and pop them back again. It has never been clear that that was worth the cost of doing. It would require more instructions to access A. Do you want to DUP A? Do you want to DROP A? So far it has just been easier to leave A as it is.

I probably want another register which I would call M to hold a multiplier. in doing a forty bit multiplication. But I have never had enough multiplies in the system to be worth doing that so it hasn't happened.

But such registers raises the question of local variables. There is a lot of discussion about local variables. That is another aspect of your application where you can save 100% of the code. I remain adamant that local variables are not only useless, they are harmful.

If you are writing code that needs them you are writing, non-optimal code? Don't use local variables. Don't come up with new syntaxs for describing them and new schemes for implementing them. You can make local variables very efficient especially if you have local registers to store them in, but don't. It's bad. It's wrong.

It is necessary to have variables. Color Forth has got a whole slew of system variables for something that are necessary and it is very useful when you are editing something to have cursor position variable so when you come back to the cursor is still there and you can pick up where you left off. Variables are essential. I don't see any use for a small number of variables and I don't see any use for variables which are accessed instantaneously.

It is an exercise in cleverness in interpreting the stack diagrams and in assigning names to words. You can play all kinds of games here. I think perhaps Forth programmers play too many games with the tool they have because there's no applications. Much better if Forth programmers would concentrate on writing the applications rather than refining the tool.

To me the application du jour is a web browser. If you have run out of things to do write a web browser. Netscape did not have the last word on what it should be or how it should look or how what it should do. In fact Netscape and Microsoft both borrowed heavily from the Mosaic browser. It is as if there was only one browser written. It is if there was only one language written, and it's FORTRAN.

Write a new browser. It's a good application. It gives you access to a world of information. It's a good application and it one that I am trying to focus on in my spare time.

So for those of you who are listening, and have listened all the way through this tape thank you.



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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

herschell quotes

"Mistakes should be taken as a training tool to help you to get better."
"Strive to be the very best you can be. Run the race against yourself and not the guy in the other lane. The reason I say this, as long as you give it 110%, you are going to succeed. But as long as you're trying to beat the guy over there, you are worried about him, you're not worrying about how you've got to perform."
"The ball ain't heavy." When asked if he ever got tired carrying the ball 30 times a game, which is a verbatim quote of John McKay's famous press conference discussing OJ Simpson.[citation needed]
"When you look up, you go up."
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."

For anyone who wants to know the “secret” of the Herschel Walker workout routine, it’s consistency.

For anyone who wants to know the “secret” of the Herschel Walker workout routine, it’s consistency. If you allow yourself one day off when it’s not an off day, then you’re going to just do the same thing later on and eventually stop working out altogether. When the workout is a constant, a part of the schedule, you might even look forward to that sort of structured workout.

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kucinich on letterman better than obamascama

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Forth Methodology Applied to Programming:

http://www.ultratechnology.com/method.htm

Forth Methodology Applied to Programming:

1. BEGIN BEGIN BEGIN
Identify and reject your illusions and ideas that don't help.

2. Identify and reject the non-problems blocking your problem or
keep them but trick them into helping solve the real problem.

3. First consider the options that everyone else would reject first,
that is where the biggest algorithmic improvement is likely to be found.

3. Carefully construct a well thought out solution.

4. Optimize that solution design as far as it can go in that direction.

5. Identify and reject the illusion that starting over is bad and you
are ready to code. Return to 1. with a greater understanding of
the issues UNTIL you collect all the good solutions that
you can imagine.

6. Compare solutions. Construct experiments, benchmarks, simulations
or whatever you need to confirm that you found the optimal
approach to the problem.

7. Continue to return to 1. UNTIL the ideas are "right by design."

8. After making the problem look brutally simple by doing the
factoring factoring factoring before coding approach the
trival programming task of constructing a one-to-one
image of the optimal solution in code.

9. Code.
Build custom tools if they help.
Write code so simple and clear that bugs simply can't happen.
Make the code "right by design."
:define using one-liners about this long ;
Interactively test each Forth word.
Extend the core language making your custom language and moving
you toward your solution.
Return to 1. UNTIL the code solution falls out.

10. Write documentation so simple and clear that bugs simply can't happen.
Document the "right by design" algorithms and code.
Create a glossary with a description of each word.
Have fun at all times.
Enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done.

--------------------------------------------

If you do this right the easiest step is 9.
If you start at 9 you understand 1% of this methodology.

This methodology, framing a programming task here, can be applied
to designing hardware, it has, or to any type of problem.

The inventor of Forth, Charles Moore, says that his language was designed
to "avoid" the "unsolveable" problems in computer science.
He says that the "real" problem is the problem that you
want to solve. Adding unsolvable problems to the real
problem is really your problem.

On each iteration you understand the problem better, each
time you go through the loop, you find remaining places for
new optimization. After you found and removed the last
bottleneck you find the next largest bottleneck in
each sucessive iteration.

Mr. Moore repeated steps 1-10 on software for 20 years.
He declared that the programming problem had been solved.
The remaining problem was hardware. Mr. Moore studied
the problem and constructed his own new tools.

Mr. Moore repeated steps 1-10 on hardware/software for
another 20 years. Computers are hardware/software and
Mr. Moore has been getting closer.

He used step by step iterative changes. He said that he
made a couple of wrong turns on a couple
of landings and had to go back to find the up staircase
again. Learn to recognize when you have left the up
staircase. I admire him for all the times when he
told us that he had been wrong in an approach or in a
conlusion, that he had taken the wrong path before
or told us something that was not true.

I see a lot of people taking a leap, or climbing up the
vertical wall. I tell them that there are stairs and
that it is a longer, but easier and better path. But
some people will get stuck trying to go up the down
escalator. Consider using the up stairway.

If you find an up escalator somewhere please let us all know!

Jeff Fox 12/09/01

kucinich vs fed go dennis

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kucinich might not suck at all fuck the fed

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The greatest OS in the world: www.archlinux.org

latest kernel
no screwup packager with all latet stable binaries
bsd style inits
no release -- each component upgraded alone
no screwup global upgrade

until forth on the metal becomes clear, minix get more drivers, gobolinux get thier packager ficed, or plan9 I can figure out the interface.... arch wins the os wars over bsd and other linuxes.

gobolinux redhat and debian have junky broken packagers, old binaries, and wak job non standard application packages [just look at redhat tomcat5 for example]

anyone who knows of a better os I will try it!

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herschell walker quotes kick ass

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herschell exempted from lifting weights

here's a funny story.....

during his freshman year at UGA, the football team had its annual preseason team lifting competition to see the strongest kids on the team. story goes that everyone benched and squated and everything and herschel was just sitting on a bench watching everyone and not lifting. then apparently someone looked as walker and said "hey why isnt this kid lifting?". herschel apparently gets up, walks up to the bench, loads 360+ pounds and gets it up easy, setting a new team bench record as a FRESHMAN at one of the most prestigous universities for football. its said that after that, he was exempt from lifting weights. the coach just said "keep on doin whatever the hell it is that got you this way".

pretty funny....
i guess some guys are just naturally strong.

Walker stated in a phone interview on The Jim Rome Show on November 20, 2006 that he still performs 2,500 situps and 1,500 pushups every morning. He h

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forthOS

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herschell walker on working out

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Government Regulators Aided IndyMac Cover-Up, Maybe Others

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Economy/story?id=6658365&page=1


Government Regulators Aided IndyMac Cover-Up, Maybe Others
Darrel Dochow May Not Be the Only Official Who Helped Banks Hide Financial Problems
By BRIAN ROSS, JUSTIN ROOD, and JOSEPH RHEE
Jan. 16, 2009

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A brewing fraud scandal at the Treasury Department may be worse than officials originally thought.
Photo: Former bank regulator Darrel Dochow
Former bank regulator Darrel Dochow evades ABC News' questions about the Treasury Department Inspector General's investigation into allegations he allowed IndyMac to cook its books when he worked at the Office of Thrift Supervision.
(ABC News)

Investigators probing how Treasury regulators allowed a bank to falsify financial records hiding its ill health have found at least three other instances of similar apparent fraud, sources tell ABC News.

In at least one instance, investigators say, banking regulators actually approached the bank with the suggestion of falsifying deposit dates to satisfy banking rules -- even if it disguised the bank's health to the public.

Treasury Department Inspector General Eric Thorson announced in November his office would probe how a Savings and Loan overseer allowed the IndyMac bank to essentially cook its books, making it appear in government filings that the bank had more deposits than it really did. But Thorson's aides now say IndyMac wasn't the only institution to get such cozy assistance from the official who should have been the cop on the beat.
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The federal government took over IndyMac in July, after the bank's stock price plummeted to just pennies a share when it was revealed the bank had financial troubles due to defaulted mortgages and subprime loans, costing taxpayers over $9 billion.

Darrel Dochow, the West Coast regional director at the Office of Thrift Supervision who allowed IndyMac to backdate its deposits, has been removed from his position but he remains on the government payroll while the Inspector General's Office investigates the allegations against him. Investigators say Dochow, who reportedly earns $230,000 a year, allowed IndyMac to register an $18 million capital injection it received in May in a report describing the bank's financial condition in the end of March.

"They [IndyMac] were able to maintain their well-capitalized threshold and continue to use broker deposits to make loans," said Marla Freedman, an assistant Inspector General at Treasury. "Basically, while the institution was having financial difficulty, it kept the public from knowing earlier than it otherwise should have or would have."

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

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friends of george allen

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this guy made 146million

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0809/gallery.women_men_highest_pay.fortune/3.html

George-Argyros

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/54/richlist07_George-Argyros_XWVJ.html

some richies

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50 highest paid men

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0809/gallery.women_men_highest_pay.fortune/index.html

50 highest paid women

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0809/gallery.women_highest_pay.fortune/index.html

attack on capitalist radio has begun

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/bozell_slams_obama/2009/01/27/175551.html

Ken Lewis, the Bank of America CEO whose disastrous acquisition decisions have recently destroyed the firm's shareholders (BAC)



http://clusterstock.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/bank-of-america-board-supports-destruction-of-shareholders-bac


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Bondguy said:
Jan. 23, 3:23 PM
Just for the sake of comparison in our now truly globalized financial markets...what would happen in China to a guy making the moves Ken Lewis has in the past several months? He is responsible for an absolutely astounding amount of wealth destruction. It would probably be impossible to determine exactly how many people he has negatively affected. I mention the China reference because 3 people were just sentenced to death there in the milk tainting case. Perhaps if we had tougher punishments in the US we would not be experiencing this vast array of corporate scandal. Unfortunately most of these jerkoffs know they will never do a day in the pen. And they will probably be able to keep their ill gotten gains. What a f'in joke our system is.



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Bank Of America Board Supports Destruction Of Shareholders (BAC)
Henry Blodget | Jan 23, 09 3:10 PM

kenlewis1006ap.jpgCNBC's Charlie Gasparino checked in on the fate of Ken Lewis, the Bank of America CEO whose disastrous acquisition decisions have recently destroyed the firm's shareholders (BAC). Ken Lewis's job is secure, Charlie says, because the board supports him.

So can we infer from this that the Board also supports the destruction of Bank of America's shareholders? If we aren't supposed to infer that, what are we supposed to infer?

What, exactly, would Ken Lewis have to do to shake the Board's support of him? Go to Davos?*

See Also: Ken Lewis: John Thain Exercised Poor Judgement

*In case you're not obsessed with this story, one of the breach-of-trust issues that Lewis's smear-John-Thain propaganda campaign highlighted yesterday was Thain's intention to go to the Davos economic forum despite frowns from some senior Bank of America execs.

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23 Comments
clawback said:
Jan. 23, 3:15 PM
He'll be fine if he just watches those office remodeling expenses.
ThunderingTurd said:
Jan. 23, 3:16 PM
I received the following email this morning (see below). It really sucks to be the first line of defense for people who don't ever have to face the public.

Dear [insert my name],

Ethics are to me paramount in my decision making as to with whom I want to
do business. Sadly, I have learned that for a second time, the Directors
and most Senior Officers of Merrill Lynch have acted with an inexcusable
lack of ethics and sound business judgment. As a result of their actions, I
no longer will maintain a business relationship with Merrill Lynch. As is
often said, Fool (betray) me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
I will not risk a third occurrence.

I regret the effect and negative consequences, if any, that this might have
on you, as you have handled my account in a commendable manner. Further,
you have always handled yourself with highest principles and
professionalism. And lastly, you have been and I hope will remain a
personal friend. But in spite of all of these positive attributes of yours,
your employer, at the highest echelons, lacks character, moral decency, and
a sense of fair play. And it is that taint that I find intolerable and that
has lead me to this decision.

As soon as I can make other arrangements, I will be transferring my entire
relationship with Merrill Lynch elsewhere. I trust that you will continue
to conduct yourself with the highest of principles and make the transfer of
my account orderly.

You have my permission to use my name and what I have said in response to
questions that may be asked of you regarding the effect on you and your
clients of the latest announcement of ethical misconduct and poor business
judgment by Mr. Thain and the Merrill Lynch Board of Directors.

I will contact you soon regarding my closing of my account with your firm.

Sincerely,
[client]
Bondguy said:
Jan. 23, 3:23 PM
Just for the sake of comparison in our now truly globalized financial markets...what would happen in China to a guy making the moves Ken Lewis has in the past several months? He is responsible for an absolutely astounding amount of wealth destruction. It would probably be impossible to determine exactly how many people he has negatively affected. I mention the China reference because 3 people were just sentenced to death there in the milk tainting case. Perhaps if we had tougher punishments in the US we would not be experiencing this vast array of corporate scandal. Unfortunately most of these jerkoffs know they will never do a day in the pen. And they will probably be able to keep their ill gotten gains. What a f'in joke our system is.
Foster said:
Jan. 23, 3:40 PM
Any share holder large or small, fund, pention, endowment, ect that is not writing the board to say "don't send a proxy letter this year, I believe I will come and vote against all of you" is crazy. Larry the cable guy should be nominated from the floor, and elected.
Dude said:
Jan. 23, 3:45 PM
@Bondguy...

I can not agree with you more on giving these A$$hole$ the Death Penalty. Actually give them the death penalty without trial, stop wasting taxpayers' money and time. These A$$HOLE$ think that they are above the law and know they can get away with it in America. America needs to embrace the Death Penalty.
Dr.Doc said:
Jan. 23, 4:03 PM
Doesn't Ken have crabs?
TJ (URL) said:
Jan. 23, 4:04 PM
Because the death penalty works so well to deter crime... Texas, with one of the highest murder rates in the US has the death penalty for murder and has one of the highest rates of actually carrying out sentences. North Dakota has one of the lowest murder rates in the US and has never had the death penalty.

Ergo, the effect of judicial killing has a smaller effect on human behaviour than the cultural, economic, or whatever differences between Texas and North Dakota, which are simply not that big on the scale of differences between nations, say.

Unfortunately, actually doing the hard work of figuring out how to reduce future occurrences of this kind of thing is just so much harder, and less satisfying to our inner monkey, than ineffectually thumping our collective chest and hooting that we'll kill 'em all.
D said:
Jan. 23, 4:11 PM
TJ- Can we all just put them and a circle and kick them around a bit, just to make ourselves feel better? Seeing as we are never getting the money back, it seems more than fair.
Kris said:
Jan. 23, 5:02 PM
TJ...your comparison of texas and north dakota is like comparing a supertanker to a bay boat. Your numbers are correct but lack the proper perspective.
UNhappy said:
Jan. 23, 5:52 PM
Watching the Lewis interview on 60 Minutes several months ago - one would have thought (at least I did) that BAC was really set for a very successful future . I'll bet Berkshire Hathaway felt that way too when they took a big position a year ago.
Now - ugh, how could Lewis and the board been so blindsided ? Where's the due diligence and who was watching the cash register in Thain & co.'s final quarter ??
Tupac said:
Jan. 23, 5:57 PM
Hmmm, what could possibly account for a higher murder rate in Texas than N. Dakota? I just can't imagine what could be the difference.

Hold on, let me call my friends in Texas: Julio, Juan, Chico, Alonzo, Jamal...
49reasons said:
Jan. 23, 6:36 PM
Tupac,
I doubt you have other friends except fellow bigots and Nazis. Please get a life and leave hard working minorities alone.
50th Reason said:
Jan. 23, 8:06 PM
49,

Tupac has lots of friends...Other "hard working minorities" like Biggie, Rev Wright, Louie Farrakhan, Jesse, Al, OJ etc.
ssnle said:
Jan. 23, 8:29 PM
Does anyone really live in ND?
49reasons said:
Jan. 23, 10:55 PM
50th,
Get a life too. If you can't speak intelligently without bringing minorities down, please post on your right wing nut blog.
48th Reason said:
Jan. 24, 8:56 AM
I was just one reason away from being a whiney, weak, teat-sucking, left-wing parasite.
E.Willoughby (URL) said:
Jan. 24, 1:03 PM
Remove ALL members of the Board both B of A and Merrill.

It is high time, we stockholders, protect our purchases from greedy, incompetent management. Let the Board act like they should and make DECISIONS that protect the stockholders . It seems the Board has lead the horse to water (the over paid executives, and now they are drinking).

Someone has to standup and be truthfull and honest, Clean house before all is down the drain.

dailybail (URL) said:
Jan. 24, 6:50 PM
lawsuits...do i hear lawsuits?

db
enufsaid said:
Jan. 24, 10:05 PM
E.Willoughby: Merrill no longer has a BOARD, BOA is their BOARD. KEN LEWIS NEEDS TO GO.
Ron B said:
Jan. 26, 11:19 PM
Y'all might want to start "Trading" stocks and stop "Investing" in them. Ride 'em up, then short 'em down baby... and Ken and all the rest be damned.
Investing requires by nature a certain level of trust. Trading on the other hand is simply buying and selling a commodity for a profit. And I don't mean day trading... swing and trend are simple and profitable, VERY.
geroge j said:
Jan. 27, 12:21 PM
If I were Ken Lewis, I would get a remote starter for my car.
Sharon said:
Jan. 27, 1:15 PM
All those ceo,board of director should take personal resposibility for their action,not blaming each other.i feel some of them are too old to long running the companies..look what happen now,they run the companies to the ground..

They screw up the companies and shareholder..they already have million,so they should be fine,the one that get hurt are sharesholder like me and other..

Fired all their ass..that how i feel

C&SBanker said:
Jan. 27, 1:25 PM
geroge j:

Geez, did u mistype your name & get stuck with it?

Anyway, your comment is Right ON, but please include the Board members!

All I can add is "KenBaby" tell Barbi "Good Bye", get an armored vest for your 3 piece suits, and see if your old ROTC helmet still fits your swollen head.

NY TIMEs fired anti obama colmnist lefties purge dis-consent

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/kristol_ny_times/2009/01/27/175648.html

fuld sells house to wife for 100$ lol lehman bros ceo bugger


http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5594623.ece



From The Times
January 27, 2009
Lehman Brothers' Richard Fuld 'sold' mansion to wife for $100
Florida home of Richard Fuld
Christine Seib in New York

The disgraced chief executive of Lehman Brothers transferred ownership of a $14 million Florida mansion to his wife for $100 in a possible attempt to move assets beyond the reach of infuriated investors of the collapsed bank.

Richard Fuld, who led the 158-year-old investment bank to its demise last September, sold the beach-front house to his wife, Kathleen, for $100 (£72) on November 10, according to Marin County real estate records.

The couple had previously jointly owned the Jupiter Island property, which was valued at $13.75million when they bought it in March 2004.

Cityfile.com, the New York website that uncovered the secret sale, speculated: “Could Fuld be worried about the flurry of lawsuits from incensed shareholders and creditors?”
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* Yet another chink in the Lehman's armour

The 3.3-acre property is one of five luxury homes owned by the Fulds, who spend most of their time at their eight-bedroom mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Mr Fuld has been named in at least one lawsuit filed by San Mateo County seeking damages for the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The Californian local authority lost $150 million on its investment in the Wall Street bank.

Lawyers were divided yesterday over whether the decision to move the mansion into Mrs Fuld's name was an attempt to put assets beyond the reach of investors who intend to sue the former chief executive for compensation. Some lawyers cited Florida's unusually generous home protection laws, which could save the Fulds from losing their house in the event of a lawsuit or bankruptcy.

To take advantage of these rules the couple would have to prove that they resided in Florida, which could be difficult because of the amount of time they spent in New York. Also, if a court decided that Mrs Fuld did not pay enough for the mansion, the transfer would be deemed to be “fraudulent conveyance” that would render the move void, lawyers said.

However, Barry Nelson, an attorney who specialises in asset preservation, said that the mansion would have been protected from creditors under Florida law even if it had remained in joint ownership. “As long as the acquisition of the property was not a fraud on creditors, which it wasn't because it was bought when the bank was doing well, and the debt is only his, not hers, then the property would be protected,” Mr Nelson said.

Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the 62-year-old banker, whose combative nature earned him the nickname The Gorilla, has become the symbol of everything that was wrong with Wall Street.

Even after overseeing America's largest bankruptcy, Mr Fuld has refused to admit responsibility for the fate of Lehman Brothers. Questioned by a congressional committee last October, Mr Fuld said that he felt

“horrible about what has happened to the company” but insisted that financial regulators and Congress should share the blame for the demise of the bank.

Mr Fuld also insisted that all his decisions in the months before the bankruptcy were “both prudent and appropriate” given the information that he had at the time.

He was paid $22 million in 2007 but did not receive any bonus or severance payment when he left Lehman Brothers last year. Henry Waxman, a Democrat Congressman, calculated that Mr Fuld had collected $480 million in compensation in eight years at the bank - a figure that Mr Fuld disputed, pointing out that he had taken home $300 million.

According to reports, Mr Fuld was running on a treadmill in the bank's gym, on the day he announced that Lehman Brothers was bankrupt, when he was punched in the face by an irate employee.

Mr Fuld's attorney did not return calls for comment yesterday.

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* Have your say

Can't wait 'til she divorces him!

Rich, London, UK

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the sale of the home for a trifle if there was no indication that the company was in financial trouble at the time of the sale. Have you never been 'sold' something by a family member for a fraction of its cost? (Say, your first car, for a dollar?)

Bradley, Vancouver,

Lawyers are divided over whether it was an attempt to put it beyond the reach of creditors? That's divided into HIS lawyers, and every other lawyer presumably?
So did she pay a fair price? Tell you what, I'll offer her $150 for it, a 50% rise must be more than fair!

Jon, Winchester,

Is there no cut off on such things, i.e. it has to have been done X number of years ago to be able to be binding, in order to stop fraudsters and criminals from doing just what he appears to be trying to do?

Alex, London,


The American public should demand that government do something to stop people like Fuld protecting their assetts through loop holes in the law. Why should people on main street continue to suffer while greedy people like Fuld continue to mint it?

hazel, lONDON, UK

He may not be honest, but at least he's totally transparent!!!!!

That will incense creditors.

Annie H, West Sussex, UK

John, there's a Marin County in Florida, too

Allan, Halver,

Florida's homestead exemption law won't help Mr Fuld much as Marin County is in California.

John George, London, England

Big mansion like that..., we should be able to move in 8 or 10 low income families who have lost their homes. It is immoral for people to continue to 'earn' $millions, while their corporate policies destroy the planet, and we take no care of our communities. CEO's are responsible for their greed.

Damien Cunningham, cassatt, SC, USA

She should have waited. It'll be worth $80 next month.
It's nice to see that he manages his own affairs in as honest and professional a way as he managed the company. The US and other governments may need to invoke some special laws to tackle individuals like Fuld. There are hundreds of them!

Michael, West Midlands,