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Occupy Wall Street? How about Occupy DC!
Occupy Wall Street wants me to believe there is a problem with corporate influence on Democracy. The answer they can only come from the government. To them I say: For nearly 100 years now, the government has been involved… and I think THEY might be the problem:
National Bank Act of 1864
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Uniform Fiduciaries Act of 1922
Banking Act of 1933
Securities Act of 1933
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Banking Act of 1933
Banking Act of 1935
Commodity Exchange Act of 1936
Trust Indenture Act of 1939
Investment Company Act of 1940
Investment Advisers Act of 1940
Federal Deposit Insurance Act of 1950
Bank Holding Company Act of 1956
Uniform Securities Act 1956
Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Fair Housing Act of 1968
Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968
Williams act of 1968
Bank Secrecy Act of 1970
Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974
Securities and Exchange Act of 1975
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act of 1978
Financial Institutions Regulatory & Interest Rate Control Act of 1978
International Banking Act of 1978
Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978
Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980
Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982
Depository Institutions Act of 1982
Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984
Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act pf 1988
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement of 1989
Uniform Securities Act of 1985
Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989
Crime Control Act of 1990
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992
RTC Completion Act
Uniform Prudent Investor Act of 1994
Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994
Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994
Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1996
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000
International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003
Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006
Regulation National Market System – 2007
Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010
Linux From Scratch
What a TRIP! I have a task at work that has brought me around through many different linux distribution. In my search to find what I am looking for I have come all the way around to LFS Or Linux From Scratch. There is just nothing out there that satisfies all that I am looking for. I heard about LFS some time ago, but never had a need or opportunity to look it. As I type I am currently building gcc, if you have ever been down this path. The whole thing has me cruising down memory lane! In particular the monumental task of building my early linux systems.
I started with Linux a loooooooong time ago. Back in 1991-1992 time frame with slackware-0.92. I al going to have to go through my garage tomorrow. But I believe I may even still have a 1.44 floppy disk set of slack ware disks! It was a monumental task to build linux back in those days. You need to boot and install from floppy. I believe it was something like 19 floppy disks to get the whole thing loaded in its base configuration. THEN you actually had to BUILD the environment! I remember hours upon hours and day upon day of compiling and recompiling gcc the standard three times to get a good clean build. And of course all the associated tools that went with it. How did we ever do it back then!
I do recall having the system lookup after 3 days of compiling, and then I would have to start all over again! GAAAAH! Those were crazy times. But I learned much and had a blast doing it. Its good to be reminded of those forgotten memories. I sure hope LFS wont take 3 days to build, but looking at the docs, it MIGHT!
Bring it on!