You don't nee j2ee, just java itself and a jdk/jvm does the job just fine, this entire crazy stack nonsense, including Spring is garbage not worth using for any purpose where you need clarity, curtness, ease of implementation *and* debugging and maintaining the code. You don't need XML inside your application, it was something forced upon people for the same reasons people later started trading NFTs - the mentality of the sheep, where those, who are selling the idea make all of the money and the rest end up suffering and bleeding.

Java is used by the enterprise, enterprise buys into grandiose promises sold by snake oil salesmen sent by the likes of SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, Adobe, VMWare, etc.etc. these guys know how to take enterprise money and you cannot really fight them once they are done with you, likely they have more money than you do. Everyone's service becomes shittier and for stupid reasons out of all of the things that could be blamed, a computer language takes a huge brunt... silly. I like Java for what it is - a great language to code server side business systems.

I don't think anyone's cable is analog anymore. I figured the demographic here could probably relate.

Trade deficit and national debt are absolutely tied together. The debt is growing all the time to 'pay' for the unaffordable welfare state, the trade deficit is deficit financing the consumption that isn't paid by production but instead is paid by debt. The funny thing is that the very people who manufacture your products are also debt financing your consumption, they are buying your Treasuries (Debtories really) with the dollars they receive from you that you provide in exchange for the goods they are selling you. You are borrowing / printing the money used to finance the trade deficit and this borrowing / printing adds to your debt.

Don't expect more than one reply from me in a day, given the moderation I can only leave 1-2 comments a day here, cheers.

Never under-estimate the ability of a horny teen's visual cortex to fill in any necessary details.

See also 14 year olds watching scrambled cable channels hoping for a brief glimpse of a boob.

You don't believe in the Constitution, liar. No black people wrote it, so it has been null and void since the day it was written by dead white European males. That's what you told us. But now you're waving it around like a Russian diplomat waving around his passport at the scene of a fatal DWI.

This is exactly what we voted for: a President who stands up for AmeriKKKan(your spelling) interests and grabs powerful multinational corporations by the throat and shakes them until these anti patriotic psychopaths take actions that favor US, the American people. Remember when you used to shit on us getting ripped off on insulin and other prescription drugs and ridicule us for not doing something about it? WE DID! prices are coming down and your couldn't be more outraged. You're not fooling anyone with this performance.

Do NOT let it watch 2001...

My feelings don't necessarily prove or validate anything... but they're based on the reality I've witnessed unfolding all around me over the years, plus statistics and data I've seen over time that corroborates it.

What are "the numbers" you speak of, anyway? You act as though there's some definitive set of numbers out there that proves everything I said as untrue?
All you have to do is study your recent American history to see changes in corporate America like creating the job description of "Human Resources", where no such department used to exist. This was strictly a move to give excuses to hire more women in white collar career office settings. (Companies got along just fine before that by letting management handle personnel issues directly, on their own. Issues related to insurance or benefits were probably handled by the same Finance team that paid those bills.)

I agree with the people pointing out how Canada eliminated the penny and it's worked fine to round up or down to the nearest 5 cents.

But it seems to me the value of the penny in U.S. currency has more to do with enabling the psychological "mind games"? EG. Promising people can get an item or service for only a penny, because people equate that with "pretty much no cost". While sheer volume of customers accepting the deal means it adds up to at least a sum that's worth collecting vs. just giving the same thing away free. Also encourages the mind game of wanting $10 for a product but pricing it at $9.99 instead to make it feel cheaper.

I guess over time, people will just view a nickel the same way, mentally, as a penny is viewed now.

No. If you didn't own your car in the same way, it would mean you were prevented from filling it with anything but the approved brand of fuel and you could only drive it at approved times to approved destinations.

A lien on your phone would mean you couldn't sell or trade it in until you finished paying for it. But you could put it on any comparable network using any standard SIM card.

I don't think anyone is seriously claiming you shouldn't have to finish paying for your phone. The claim is that you should be able to use it with any carrier of your choice.

Flunky: Sir, nobody seems to want Gemini

Boss: PREPARE THE THROAT CRAMMER!

Dammit; his colleague turned my woosh back on me!

woosh

I've stopped putting a semicolon at the end of code inside Begin..End blocks in all my Pascal programs.

So, we got a big success! Hooray! Nope. This happens every single time. They scream and shout that we need to change( they'll be keeping their private jets, naturally.) And after their knee is on our necks, All they ever do is move the goalposts and pretend there is a new crisis. They keep us in a permanent state of worry and alarm which is harmful to our health. This isn't an accident. it's evil incarnate.

A permanent trade deficit that requires more and more debt to be printed and sold for the future generations supposedly to pay back (will never happen, the default and inflation will take care of that) is due to a population consuming more than it produces, full stop, period.

When I say a population consumes more than it produces what I mean is this: you can have all of your government offices, government departments, government subsidies, government programs, everything that government does, you can put more than half of your population on various programs, food stamps, welfare, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, whatever. All of those things combined require *more* money than you can generation as an economy. People never vote for someone to reduce spending, spending always grows, government officials get excellent retirement packages, health care paid by the system, etc. This entire thing consumes much more than it is capable of producing.

Sure, you can actually tax everyone much more and maybe you can have a smaller deficit, but actually realize that the demand is so much greater than the supply that probably taxing everybody at 80% won't be enough. Actually *nothing* is *ever* enough.

You can promise everything to everyone, you can even attempt to deliver it. Free food, free housing, free education, free healthcare, free energy, free clothing, free travel, free transportation, free entertainment, free everything. If you do that, there is nobody working, everyone is just getting everything for free, so who is working? Who is producing all of these things, delivering all of these services? That's the imbalance, that's the maximum imbalance taking to 11. But you don't have to take it to 11 to have an impossible imbalance.