Ace1000ks1975

The US has $40,000,000,000,000 in its national debt. The national debt is basically the money the government owes to the people it lent money to in the form of treasury bonds.

When you don't have money what do you do? Most people use their credit cards. They can also borrow money from family and friends. They can borrow money from a loan shark, which can be hazardous to your health.

The government can do a number of things, they also have a credit card. That means running a deficit. They sell treasury bonds, which would buffer the effects of inflation. The government promises to pay back this debt at a later date, it could be 6 months from now, 1 year from now, or 10 years from now. The government will pay back your debt with interest, because they have the power to print money. If all the money the government creates goes straight into the economy then that is BAD. That causes inflation, because people spend that money into the economy. There is too much money chasing a finite amount of goods and services.

I will give you an example...... Let's say one man has $50 million to spend, and he decides to buy 111 homes at $450,000 each in a city in America. That would drive up the price of homes in that area, and it would cause a shortage of homes. Let's say you have a group of people doing this. That would cause housing inflation.

However, if the money gets locked into bonds, and can be paid back at a later date. Then, inflation can be stalled for a while. If you are a investor, you get something back in the form of interest, and you know that money isn't going to evaporate like it might in the stock market or other speculative investments.

The other way governments raise money if they have a deficit is by taxing the people more. That is highly unpopular, and it makes people 😡 . Just imagine if the Federal government declared your income tax is going up from 15% to 25%. Tariffs are going from 50% to 300%. If the state government stated they will raise sales tax from 7% to 15%. A lot of people would be 😡. The government stated, we need to do this to lower the state deficit, or the Federal government deficit. This is why governments sell bonds. It is easier to postpone the day of reckoning than forcing the public to pay it now. Make cuts of infrastructure spending, sicence/tech research, education, etc. That is until the these things fall into disrepair and start to break, or the country falls behind in science/technology.

What happens when people and foreign governments decide not buy these bonds or debts? It's very simple. The government can simply raise interest rates and offer a higher return on those debts. If very few investors are buying let's say a 10 year bond at 3.5% then you increase to let's say 4.74%. By increasing interest rates for this debts puts more pressure on the government. Short term debt or 6 month treasury bond rates are like 3.91%.

Let's do some math. Let's say the average interest rate for treasury bonds is 4.32% per annum(Year). $40 trillion @ 4.32%. That is about
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Fed Govt Expenditures Amount/year
National Debt interest $1.728 trillion
payments

Medicare $1.21 trillion
Social Security $1.58 trillion
National Defense $0.916 trillion
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The interest rates on the national debt already exceeds Medicare, Social Security, and national defense spending.

The national debt from 1980 to 2026
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1980 $0.908 trillion
1990 $3.23 trillion
2000 $5.8 trillion
2010 $13.56 trillion
2019 $22.7 trillion
2020 $26.93 trillion
2021 $28.06 trillion
2022 $30.93 trillion
2023 $33.167 trillion
2024 $35.46 trillion
2025 $36.2 trillion
2026 $40 trillion
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From 1980 to 1990, the national debt went up 255.72%
From 1990 to 2000, the national debt went up 79.6%
From 2000 to 2010, the national debt went up 133.79%
From 2010 to 2020, the national debt went up 107%
From 2019 to 2026, the national debt went up 76.2%.

People will argue that the national debt went up a lot more from 1980 to 1990, but the numbers were smaller. The national debt went up from $908 billion to $3,230 billion. Compare that to 2019 to 2026, $22.7 trillion to $40 trillion. The scale of those numbers are different. If you have credit card debt with a balance of $50 even with interest rates of 15%, that isn't that much. However, if you had a credit card balance of $1,256.81 and you are paying 15% on that then you are paying more interest. For $50, I will pay $7.5/year, but for $1,256.81 I will pay $188.52/year in interest.

If these deficits get bigger at a faster rate then there will be fewer bond holders if they don't get a higher compensation for lending their money. When that happens and when the government starts the monetize the debt by buying their own debt with money from the printing press then it is GAME OVER. Inflation will start to accelerate faster and faster.

17 minutes ago | [YT] | 0

Ace1000ks1975

Do you remember this scene from Problem Child (1990)?

Big Ben was always saying. Welcome to Big Ben, the sporting goods store that has everything. Sporting goods made by Americans for Americans. That's right Big Ben is 100% American.

When he called his son little Ben(John Ritter) to the office. He told his son, I am selling the store to Japs. Little Ben thought his father would leave the store to him, but that wasn't going to happen. Big Ben said, I am selling to the Hirohito corporations. John Ritter was saying he worked 10 years at the store being a loyal worker, not asking for raises or promotions. Big Ben said is there a lesson to be learned from all this? How about don't trust anyone.

Big Ben was running for political office with his slogan of being a 100% patriotic American. Jack Ritter turned on a broadcast camera and his father said. "You believe that nonsense America for the Americans. You're stupider than I thought. I would sell to the Japanese if made him an offer. As for you, don't come sucking on me if you want something. You only thing you will get from me is this....."

This is what politicians are, they are all opportunists like this guy in this movie. They say one thing, and always do another thing. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3a48...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiwyk...

1 day ago (edited) | [YT] | 1

Ace1000ks1975

Someone in my comment section said there is no joystick support in Apple Macintosh emulators. Vintage Apple Macintosh computers didn't have joystick ports, like the Apple IIc, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga 500, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, MSX, NEC PC-88, Sharp X68000, and others. Those computers were meant for the average user. However, Apple Macs were meant for businesses, and creative professionals, it was not a computer that was for the average user.

The Apple Mac had games published for it, but all of these games had to be played with a keyboard and mouse. If you don't have the manual, you can't play those games. Also, there weren't as many games published for the Apple Mac compared to MS-DOS, Amiga OS, Apple IIGS GS/OS, N88-DISK BASIC, etc.

Back in 1985, I knew one person who owned a Apple Mac 128K, he was my friend's father. He was a writer and artist. He owned a Apple Mac, a person like that wouldn't not be interested in playing computer games. Those are the people that owned Apple Macs back in the day.

2 days ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

Ace1000ks1975

Apple Macintosh emulation is less developed than vintage Windows emulation. You can emulate a Apple Mac up to Apple OS 10, but it lacks Direct GPU passthrough, so if you try to play a 3d accelerated game which many Apple Mac OS 10 games were you will experience very poor performance. If you compare that to something, like PCEM, or 86Box, it is quite limited. Those programs support 3dfx, direct3d, and OpenGL. There are limitations to Apple Macintosh emulation.

I will made a chart of all the Apple Mac emulators and what kind of operating systems and computers they support.

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Emulator Computer Operating System Timeline

Mini vMac 128K Mac OS 1.0 - 7.5.5 1984 to 1990
512K
512Ke
Plus
SE
Classic
Basilisk II Mac 128K to Quadra 900 Mac OS 1.0 - 8.1 1984 to 1991

SheepShaver Mac Power PC Mac OS 7.5.2 - 9.0.4 1997
Q3

Qemu Mac Power PC Mac OS 9OS - 10.5 1999
Q4
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3 days ago | [YT] | 4

Ace1000ks1975

How many of you think states allowing people to take commercial driver license and driver license exams in languages other than English should be allowed?

For me, I think if you live in the USA, any state exams should be administered in English only. When I was in elementary school and junior high school, some teachers said you speak English, because this is America. I think that is 100% right.

4 days ago | [YT] | 4

Ace1000ks1975

In the early years of World War 1, aircraft were used purely for reconnaissance. They didn't have machine guns or bombs on them. Both sides used reconnaissance aircraft, and they did encounter each other. Since these aircraft weren't armed with anything, pilots used pistols, rifles, bricks, hand grenades, and other objects to attack other reconnaissance aircraft. They would throw bricks, stones, and hand grenades at enemy soldiers below.

Then, engineers figured out how to mount a Maxim machine gun on the front of a biplane. They invented a synchronization gear or interrupter gear to shoot through the propeller without damaging the propeller. The machine gun would fire only when it was clear from the propeller. They mounted hard points underneath the biplane which could mount 50 kg and 100 kg bombs. It was more effective than throwing bricks, stones, heavy darts, hand grenades, and other objects.

After that, the airplane became a serious weapons, that could do a lot of damage. Aircraft armed with two Maxim machine guns became know as fighters, and aircraft that carried a lot of bombs became bombers. You had reconnaissance aircraft as well.

I think the drones used in warfare followed the same trajectory. Drones were used mostly for reconnaissance at first. Then, FPV drone pilots started to mount hand grenades, other types of explosives and dropped them in the hatches of enemy armored vehicles and in trenches. Drones are a real nuisance in the battlefield. In the most recent wars, like the Nagorno Karabakh War (2020), Azeri drone pilots were using FPV drones armed with explosives. They were using Kamikaze drones, and drones armed with air to ground missiles, etc. It was very effective.

In the Ukraine conflict, Ukrainian and Russian drone pilots were and are using their FPV drones to attack armored vehicles with drones with RPG warheads, etc.

Even in the Gaza conflict, Hamas and Hezbollah were using drones to destroy IDF armored vehicles and tanks.

These things are small, and they are hard to detect. No one really thought of creating a drone fighter. A FPV drone which is bigger than a regular FPV drone. It would be armed with 2 .22 lr machine guns, air pellet machine guns, and small anti-drone missiles. These pilots would fly patrols looking for drones. It would be specifically designed to hunt drones. Just like fighters biplanes in World War 1 were designed to shoot down reconnaissance aircraft and other aircraft.

5 days ago | [YT] | 3

Ace1000ks1975

I had been testing the Mister FPGA console for a month, and here is my conclusion about it.

When it comes to 8 bit/16 bit video game consoles and arcade games, it is unmatched. It has very low latency, and it is very playable, like the original machines. However, with computer cores, it was not that great. It was very buggy, the cycle rate wasn't 100%, there were input lags, timing errors. and problem with file formats. For example, I couldn't run a lot of .dsk floppy disk images, some would work while others didn't work at all. For IBM XT, it would crashed frequently, and be very laggy. The NEC PC-88 computer core was would give me a black screen and crash in some games. The frequency settings for the CPU has to be exact for the game you are running, or you will have problems. If a game was written for 4 MHz, and your setting was 8 MHz then you would encounter stability problems.

For 32 bit video game consoles, like the 3DO, Sega Saturn, and Sony Playstation the accuracy isn't 100%. The Mister FPGA has the advantage of less latency, and looking more authentic to the real video game consoles. You don't have 3d rendering features on the Mister FPGA, it runs it exactly like how these console worked 30 to 33 years ago. 32 bit video game consoles were pretty pixelated, like a lot of these early 32 bit video game consoles were in the mid 1990s.

I mainly got the Mister FPGA console, so I could play 8 bit/16 bit video game consoles and arcade games. It was worth it, because I don't have to buy those video game consoles. Just the SNES console costs at least $160, a NES costs $120 to $150, etc. You don't know what kind of condition these things are in, because they are so old. Maybe, they have leaky capacitors, the cartridge pins might be worn out, etc. The Mister FPGA console cost me $450, but I thought it was worth it.

I ordered the QMtech Cyclone Mister FPGA SoC, I will test that out, and show you how it compares to the Terasic Mister FPGA. I wanted more than one Mister FPGA. I want one in my living room where I can connect it to my big screen television.

6 days ago (edited) | [YT] | 6

Ace1000ks1975

When I make ramen, I add a few extra ingredients, like sausages, potatoes, eggs, onions, and carrots.

Often times after I cook something, I have leftover vegetables, like carrots, potatoes, and onions. Those leftover ingredients would be wasted most of the time, because there isn't enough to make meal. What I would do is add it to ramen to finish off these leftovers.

Here is how you prepare it.

Peel potato, and carrot with a peeler.
Chop potato, 2 carrots, and onion into small pieces.
Chop 2 sausages into small pieces.
Put water into a pot, and put all the contents in that pot.
Boil it for about 7 minutes or medium settings.
Put the ramen soup base into the pot for 4 minutes.
Put the ramen in the pot for 5 minutes and stir.

Ramen doesn't have a lot of nutritional value, but if you add a few ingredients it will keep you full for much longer than just eating ramen.

1 week ago | [YT] | 8

Ace1000ks1975

When I play video games, I mostly play games that don't take a lot of time, like 8 bit or 16 bit retro video games. When I am waiting in a doctor's office, car mechanic shop, dental office, waiting in line at the grocery store, waiting in car, etc. I like to NES, Mame, Sega Genesis, SNES/Super Famicom, Atari Lynx, Game Boy, or Atari 2600 emulators on my smartphone.

I really don't play games that take too much time, like RPGs, or action adventure games. When you are an adult, you can't spend hours and hours playing video games, like when you were a kid.

These retro 8 bit and 16 bit video games were quick and that is what I liked about them.

1 week ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

Ace1000ks1975

Back in the 1980s, I remember how hot a incandescent light bulb could get. The standard wattage was about 60 to 100 Watt. All the light bulbs at my house were 100 Watt. One time, I tried to change the light bulb out after it went out. When I tried to grab the light bulb to unscrew it, it was very hot. The light was off for a few minutes, but it was hot not warm. Hot like when you touch the metal surface of a pot with boiling water in it.
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Wattage Operating Temp

75 Watt 90–140 °F (32–60 °C)
100 Watt 150°F to 250°F+ (65°C to 121°C)
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A modern computer when it is just being used for simple things, like email, internet browsing, e-commerce, social media, word processing, spreadsheet, etc, it would consume about 95 to 120 Watt. That is with the LED flat panel monitor. A 100 Watt light bulb which is only used to light up a room consumed that much energy.

The efficiency of incandescent light bulbs was about 2% to 5%, so 95 to 98% of that energy is expended as waste heat.

A modern LED light bulb has efficiency of 80 to 90%, so a 15 Watt LED light bulb is equivalent to a 100 Watt incandescent light bulb. Most of the energy in a LED light bulb is converted to light, and 10 to 20% is expended as heat. This is why LED light bulb doesn't feel hot when you touch it.

Back in the 1980s when we had incandescent light bulbs, people would turn these lights off during summer time, because it would add heat into the room. My parents would get mad at me when I was not in a room and kept the lights on. Today, it doesn't matter, because most people use LED light bulbs which doesn't use much power.

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