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Obama asks for help from the Federal Reserve

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — President-elect Barack Obama named key members of his administration’s economic team Monday, including New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner as his Treasury Secretary nominee and former Harvard President Lawrence Summers as the director of the National Economic Council.

“I’ve sought leaders who could offer both sound judgment and fresh thinking, both a depth of experience and a wealth of bold, new ideas, and most of all who share my fundamental belief that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street without a thriving Main Street,” Obama said at a press conference Monday in Chicago.

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Mission No. 1 over the next few weeks for Obama’s economic team will be hammering out the details of what the president-elect described this weekend as a two-year economic recovery plan intended to create 2.5 million jobs.

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Estimates for how much might be spent on a multi-year stimulus package range as high as $500 billion to $700 billion.

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America pretty much shot itself in the ass. Hilarious. Americans can be pretty stupid sometimes. I wonder how much of that $500 billion to $700 billion bill will cost the employed? Create 2.5 million jobs, while the employed, their child and their grandchildren have to take the tax burden? People can lose their jobs, Obama. You’re policies and “plans” are laughable.

George W. Bush: throw money at Iraq to solve the problem

Barack Obama: throw money at the economy and poor people to solve the problem, raise taxes for people making TOO MUCH money

Ron Paul: lower taxes, get rid of the Federal Reserve, bring ALL troops in ALL 130 countries back into US borders, non interventionism, increase benefits for war veterans, less regulation and less government intervention into the economy, strict following of the United States Constitution.

Ron Paul 2012.

Captain Picard sings the alphabet

Advanced maxlength JavaScript

function getlength(id)
{
	return document.getElementById(id).value.length;
}

function getcurrenttxt(id, max)
{
	if(getlength(id) >= max)
		return document.getElementById(id).value.substr(0, max);
}

function usertyping(id, max, notice)
{
	var ID = document.getElementById(id);
	var Notice = document.getElementById(notice);
	if(ID && Notice)
	{
		Notice.innerHTML = '<span>' + (getlength(id) == (max+1) ? max : getlength(id)) + '</span>/' + max;
		if(getlength(id) >= max) {
			ID.value = getcurrenttxt(id, max);
		}
	}
}

What this does is, it checks the character length in a textarea (or whatever you want), and if that length exceeds max, it won’t let the user type anymore (it actually does something else, but that’s the effect). Also, it lists the character limit of the textarea that specify and also the max. It’s fairly simple to just list the amount the user has left,

function usertyping(id, max, notice)
{
	var ID = document.getElementById(id);
	var Notice = document.getElementById(notice);
	if(ID && Notice)
	{
		Notice.innerHTML = '' + (max - getlength(id)) + '';
		if(getlength(id) >= max) {
			ID.value = getcurrenttxt(id, max);
		}
	}
}

Of course, I prefer the first method.

If you like the script to onload (load when the page does), then here’s a function I wrote just for that:

function body_onload()
{
	var limits = new Array();
	limits[0] = new Array('bm_text', 255, 'char_limit');

	for(var i = 0; i < limits.length; i++)
		usertyping(limits[i][0], limits[i][1], limits[i][2]);
}

Just list the textareas and the information in the limits array, and then call it when the body loads. Of course, even if the specified textareas don’t exist, it won’t cause trouble - the script checks if the appropriate elements exist before doing anything.

The most ridiculous Facebook group ever

15,000,000 for lower gas prices

I don’t have anything against petitions (it’s constitutional), but I think stupid petitions like this one should be illegal. Let me explain:

Ways to lower gas prices (the most popular):

Let me explain why this group is completely moronic. First, invading Iran and Saudi Arabia obviously won’t work (unless we take all of our military strength). Second, how will the government cover most of the prices? Well, through taxes,which just means you’ll still be paying for it. Tax money is the people’s money. I know! Why don’t we just tax the hard working CEOs, doctors, and hard working families that make twice as much as I do! They may have a whole corporation and God knows how many jobs on their shoulders, but they can spare a few thousand dollars! We the people deserve that money, anyway! Who cares about lawyers and surgeons, anyway?

Neither of those will work. The second will lower gas prices, but you’ll be paying the taxes; you’ll just be paying two bills, which doesn’t make any sense. In fact, it’ll actually raise the prices, simply because filing an entire country’s taxes probably costs more than oil. Why pay for oil and the expenses it takes to tax?

The last one will definitely not work. To tell that market to shut its mouth is probably the most destructive thing to do. This means that when the market says prices should go up, they go down; when the market says the prices go down, they go up. It’s all mathematical: lowering prices now will cause the companies that provide those services to operate under the breaking point (when the profits equal the expenses), and that’ll just eat at their savings, and then they’ll be forced to either: file bankruptcy or raise prices.

Price: $500 -> Artificial price (lowered price): $400 -> Profits down by 100x -> Sales increase -> Profits go down (more sales than predicted) -> Supply goes down -> Company’s savings down -> Prices go up -> Sales go down -> Demand goes down -> Prices go up (not by much, since supply & demand helps is rather stabilized) -> etc.

x = number of sales

Pretty much what’s going on in this country right now. In fact, step #3 could be considered an expense: their profits are to supposed to be 500x, but instead it’s 400x (500x - 100x).

Last change: increase drilling. It is true that North America has lots of oil, and that the US government is stopping people from drilling (all to “help” the environment). Of course, I don’t know anything about that, so if you have any info, please share. ^^

They haven’t stated *how* they’ll accomplish this, but these are the three things that I assume people will do. Damn Liberals and Neocons (Neo-convict).

EDIT: Fixed the title… lol ^^

More than a feeling

Best. Song. Ever.

Exchanging porn

Friend: You got the stuff?
Me: Yeah, I got the stuff. You got the money?
Friend: No, you don’t see the money ’till I see the stuff.
Me: You got Negima?
Friend: Yeah, I got Negima. You got what I asked for?
Me: Yeah, here. *hands CD to “Friend”* 428MB of doujins. Only a few don’t have sexual content, but are still pretty awesome.
Friend: Here’s you Negima. *hands Negima 7 to Me* What else you got?
Me: I got Haruhi Suzumiya #1. The manga.
Friend: Sweet. *takes two books*
Me: Hey, motherfucker! Guardian Hearts #1 is mine!
Friend: Yeah, yeah! I’m sorry, okay?

Well, the exchange wasn’t really like this, but I did, indeed, exchange pornography during Geometry (Good thing my teacher didn’t catch me!). Thank goodness, as well as the inventor of, CDs. hm, it really wasn’t an “exchange.” He gave me a number of hentai sites, but, really, when I looked them up, it was heterosexual (straight) porn. No yuri, futanari, or lolicon. Ugh. I am a guy, and I hate blokes (other guys, British slang) in my porn.

Have you ever done a weird exchange?

Video with the first few lines of the conversation.

(Just kidding, but it’s from the same episode)