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derobert

9:00 PM

@FaheemMitha Rather, I think they blow.

(sorry)

Fabby

@FaheemMitha Yeah, the ones in balsa wood don't...

@derobert :D :D :D

That's my kind of English humour!

(The one I understand!)

:-)

derobert

Which I guess does cause the very hot air to rise, thus leading to sucking too. But they blow first...

Fabby

:-)

Rui F Ribeiro

They could send one to Beyonce as payment for singing....

Faheem Mitha

@RuiFRibeiro Those things must be worth at least USD 2 million apiece.

Gilles

9:03 PM

@Fabby sorry to break it to you, but it was almost twice that long ago

Rui F Ribeiro

@FaheemMitha It would be for a good cause.

Faheem Mitha

@Gilles I think he meant his balsa wood creation.

@RuiFRibeiro True.

I sometimes wonder how the US can afford all those nuclear weapons. Seeing as almost all the Americans I meet don't seem to have any money to speak of...

After all, they're paying for those things to be built and deployed.

derobert

@FaheemMitha "Thankfully", a lot of folks are willing to lend us the money cheaply.

Faheem Mitha

@derobert How heartwarming.

Fabby

@Gilles 40 years ago I built a scale model of Fat Man myself...

Rui F Ribeiro

9:07 PM

@derobert Iraq? ;-p

Fabby

(You missed that bit)

@derobert Nah, you export paper and import goods...

derobert

@FaheemMitha fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYGFDPUN

Fabby

(Petroleum is traded in USD only: once we get off oil, the entire world is going to buy the entire USA)

derobert

@RuiFRibeiro errr... I don't think there anywhere near the top of the list. I'll find it. Probably still China.

Faheem Mitha

@derobert I can see it isn't getting better. What is with that sudden dramatic jump around 2010?

derobert

9:09 PM

ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt ... so China & Japan are the two biggest by far. Followed by Brazil, Ireland, and the UK.

Faheem Mitha

No, make that 2008.

derobert

Actually, Switzerland overtook the UK

Faheem Mitha

That would be the beginning of the Obama adminstration.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha Oil price.

Rui F Ribeiro

getting out. take care

Fabby

9:11 PM

@RuiFRibeiro Good night!

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby Oh?

derobert

(so almost ⅔ is actually held by people in the US, at least if I'm reading those right)

Fabby

3 mins ago, by Fabby

(Petroleum is traded in USD only: once we get off oil, the entire world is going to buy the entire USA)

Faheem Mitha

How much is 16 trillion divided by the number of US taxpayers?

Around 100 million, I think. Not really that many people.

Fabby

16.000 USD per capita: not too bad...

derobert

9:12 PM

fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYGFGDQ188S

Fabby

Italy must be worse...

derobert

... so currently around 75% GDP, which is high but not actually problematically high

@Fabby Italy is much worse

Fabby

@derobert Do you work in the financial industry or are you just better informed than the average Joe America?

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby Try looking for an American with USD 16,000 in hand.

derobert

@Fabby Just better informed, probably.

Faheem Mitha

9:13 PM

@Fabby The latter, but you already know what he does, don't you?

Fabby

I dunno where deRobert works (but now I know: not in the Financial industry)

derobert

google.com/publicdata/…

Those numbers may not be 100% comparable to US numbers as they're collected by different people.

@Fabby small firm that does surveys, mainly for customer service satisfaction

Faheem Mitha

@derobert I thought you did telecommunications stuff.

Fabby

@derobert Nice! I used to do write software that did that on PCs and allowed customers to do their own reporting quite a while ago...

derobert

@FaheemMitha Yep. Our surveys are done by computer, over the phone

Fabby

9:18 PM

We had a few pure marketing firms and a few big marketing departments using our software (but not our data)

Faheem Mitha

@derobert I thought you sold telecommunications equipment or ran it, or something.

I remember you mentioning Asterisk or something like that.

derobert

Mostly it's you call one of our clients for customer support, their phone system or support rep offers a survey about your experience talking to them, and then that gets transferred to us

So we run telecom equipment to do that

Faheem Mitha

@derobert Oh. That's necessary?

derobert

Yep. We've been around for quite a while (90s, I believe), so we actually run our own stuff.

And its much harder to go cloud with that, AWS doesn't have PRI lines.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha OK, here is a prime example of a duplicate you hate.

Faheem Mitha

9:21 PM

@derobert I see. Seems like overkill, but I don't know the details.

Fabby

How should I proceed?

User ID: Dark Knight, knows nothing about Linux, wants Kali, only uses Win10 until now.

He should install another Linux Distro first and install Kali according to Web site instructions on a USB drive...

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby Time to link to Gilles question! Terminate with extreme prejudice. (Just Kidding.)

Fabby

@FaheemMitha I'm not kidding, because that's what I'm going to do!

(unless you come up with a better idea)

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby Oh no.

@Fabby Well, you could answer the question. I realise that is a radical notion.

Another option is to ignore it completely. That's my default.

Or simply VTC. I see it's getting there. 3 out of 5.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha If you offer to answer it, I'm going to hold off on duping it to Gille's question.

Faheem Mitha

9:24 PM

@Fabby No, I'm not going to answer it.

Fabby

This person should not be using Kali but try something else first and then run Kali from a USB sick.

Kusalananda

That question is unclear. No indication of what "backup" is in "install kali on external hdd from win 10 from backup"

Fabby

@Kusalananda It's because the OP has no ~~&é"'(§è~~ clue what he's doing...

Oh crap! I don't have enough rep here to Close vote...

Lemme go and answer some other question.

derobert

9:36 PM

Hmmm. Site down for everyone?

Rolling back a change affecting some Stack Overflow question page loads now. All questions should be available in < 5 minutes.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on October 30, 2018 at 9:35 PM

Fabby

10:08 PM

@derobert Nope: just some oops errors.

gone now.

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