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But I imagine the people buying and selling those failing bonds still took a commission

So what is an 'official' TLD? One that is controlled by an American government agency?

Why can't we have our own TLDs - just like we have our own browsers and servers.

But to be fair - they have now hired another 6000 HR managers to work out why not

Except R+D at nokia means anyone not actually bolting phones together.

Having 4 competing operating systems, each with their own layers of management and their own VPs all fighting each other - counts as R+D spend.

Don't remember - got stuck at Dublin airport once and it was the only book not about whiskey, your Irish ancestors or pictures of green fields

Best reply I heard was an interview with a new graduate.

"We will just do what we have always done when the government fucks-up - we emigrate!"

The UK spent the last 10years in a period of genuine economic growth - but still managed to increase it's national debt.

There is no limit to how much government's can spend, however they get the money!

There's a great book written by a civil servant in Ireland's foreign ministry in the 80s.

He said he had two maps on his wall, one of the eastern bloc enemy and a bigger one of his minister's constituency - a crisis (eg a pothole) in the constituency was the priority.

>Neither banks nor consumers should get them

Most of these are high street banks (equivalent to S+L) that were making housing loans. You want to tell pensioners that their life savings are gone and the government is not going to do anything?

It might work - but it also means people will stop putting their money into banks, which means no credit cards, no business loans, no mortgages, no saving, no insurance. So everybody will only deal in cash which means no taxes.

Admittedly ireland is probably closer to a 12th century barter economy than the rest of europe - but I don't think it really wants to go there.

Why's that positive? It means we will never get rid of the moaning buggers!