MattZ

Oh, I wasn't disputing that. Just pointing out that every team's goal is to win one game -- the last game. And a 10-0 team is irrelevant in the context of that game, as the Pats from last year proved. I agree that the Titans are a very good football team.

If your goal is to win a Super Bowl, it might be. I'd be happy to go 9-7 and win a Super Bowl. Time will tell...

I miss George.

I expect so much more from you. For shame.

Yes, but the Hendrix Estate also had the ability to right past wrongs. I have no idea if they did or didn't in this case, though. I would guess not if that blurb is to be taken at its word.

He sure does

I agree that something like health benefits is and should be contingent on both continued employment and survival of the company. You can always get a new job with insurance or buy insurance in the market if your company goes under. But retirement benefits are something different entirely. People continue to harp on the risks to social security but not many people pay attention to how underfunded pensions are. People are counting on retirement money that just won't be there. I am much more worried about that.

Awesome, thanks again everyone. Next question: I went into this endeavor half assuming that I'd be going analog. And that with analog, there'd be the usual tape hiss and imperfections. That was fine with me for many reasons -- first, my apt isn't soundproofed so nothing I record would be perfect, second, I know my way around a fretboard but I am no Nels Cline. I figured that the warmth and tape hiss of an analog recording would sit well with these two facts. Now that I am leaning to digital recording with Mbox2 and Protools (or garageband or ntrack), I am wondering if those two factors

It's not. I hated it. Then again, I didnt realize it was fiction when I bought it. Happy to mail it to you if you want my copy. If I haven't chucked it.

Fair point - there may be a misunderstanding. I just get the sense that you keep harping on China as if they are going to take over the world and leave us in the dust. And if it's not going to be them, who is it going to be? Japan? Germany? Come on. Think about it. I think hubris has been the ruin of many a man. And country too. No argument from me there. We need to supply these companies with money for a lot of reasons. Most importantly, because they ran themselves poorly, and in many cases did so because of cheap credit. But also because there is panic and a domino effect

Keep in mind that many banks didn't have a choice to accept bailout money because Paulson was afraid that the market would panic and run from any banks that accepted money if some did and some didn't. So many banks were forced to accept $$. Certainly doesnt excuse the AIG situation, but it is a relevant fact in any discussion about executive comp at banks that accepted $$ in the bailout.

Ok, but a lot of the decisions China made and is making are horrible. They have 4x the population (credit: cryptique) and 1/5 the economy that we have. Come on, man. I am not saying we don't have to be smart and change a lot of broken things over here, but let's at least be sure the conversation proceeds along lines with reasonable perspective. The sky is certainly falling, and China may well step into holes we leave behind, but the country is not broke, we are the world's biggest economy by far, the rest of the world is dependent upon us, no one in the world wants to invest in a currency

Yeah that too.

Sure, but you are all over the place. You are advocating for a US policy that would ensure that this country crumbles. And will force China to sell its treasuries. And I think you vastly overstate the amount of crumbling that we need to suffer through while China continues growing for it even to get close. And it ignores the fact that China's growth has slowed as our economy has slowed. So, it begs the question -- can an emerging market like China even grow without the US? China makes crap that they sell to the US. If the US can't buy it, who will? The US bailout is as much an invest

Getting the credit markets to flow again is doing exactly the same thing. There is nothing inherently evil about credit. Over-indebtedness, sure. But no one buys a house without a loan. No one starts a business without a loan. No one can go to college without a loan. Are you opposed to this too?

You are a trip, ZenL. And you'd propose that we tank the entire economy by refusing financial bailouts, force unemployment to skyrocket, terminate health insurance for loyal employees, etc, so that hopefully, maybe, just maybe, one day down the road we can be stronger than China? Even though the article you quoted said we are already 5x bigger than the Chinese economy? And China has almost 2x as many people as we do.

ZenL - if we were broke, our dollar would be worth nothing, and China would be broke too. Our dollars are worth something. Quite a bit, in fact. So much so that everyone in the world buys them as the safest currency in the world. How can China be spending our dollars to build up their country (and you applaud it) while you simultaneously argue that our dollars aren't worth anything? Who are they selling our dollars to?

I am not sure there's that much of a difference. If the plan works, of course.

"Let them eat egg foo young."

What he said

Thanks a.miller. Which Mbox would you suggest?

Earlier, Axis: Bold as Love. Now, Electric Ladyland.

Yep, yep. I definitely should've mentioned them too. The great jam in the sky is certainly filling up with participants...

I am imagining him and Jimi jamming again up above... RIP, Mitch.

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