There are plenty of US regulations that apply to gold: purity, weight standards, futures regulations, security standards, etc. And i'd be pretty surprised if they didn't trade through COMEX or use them or someone similar for clearance or bonded storage.
I agree, TechNet had already been gutted. It's worth noting that BizSpark appears to be very, very easy to qualify for and includes free MSDN + $150/mo of azure credits for three years.
From what I understand the main purpose is liability shielding. Each property is run as its own LLC, and management is done via a centralized management company. If a person gets injured on the property, the liability effectively gets capped at the liquidation value of the building.
I have no idea how neocities is implemented, but my first thought as far as implementing something like that wouldn't be to give users actual filesystem access, but rather to put everything in an object store. Typically that'd be flat until you bolt on something to simulate a hierarchy.
I've run forums even on rickety DIY PHP + Postgres that's held up very nicely to several hundred logins and even more sessions per day on very modest hardware (1.5Ghz Core 2 duo, 2Gb memory).
It doesn't take a boatload of resources for a simple login and static content if it's just static content. Sites can be separated (or "sharded" if you like that term) on Nginx with very little effort for static content.
Validation of the claims of documents of substantial value having been held back, in hopes of resolving whatever issue is preventing him from traveling.
While I don't agree with the status quo, if your labor isn't worth $15 an hour to someone (mainly because someone else is perfectly willing to do the work for less) then they don't have a moral obligation to pay you more, and minimum wage laws only artificially constrict the limits of what the value of unskilled labor is.
I'd rather see a basic income guarantee (mainly for creative people like artists or FOSS developers) and the removal of minimum wage, so businesses can correct the true value of labor in various fields.
It would help eliminate the rampant service industry that destroys souls because most people don't have the fortitude to deal with random strangers idiocy.
This is the important aspect that most people don't think about when discussing this issue. A quick google search reveals 80% of Walmart employees are on government assistance.
It's not wage stagnation per se, it's the implosion of the real economy. Minimum wage can't keep up because our economy is a shadow of its former self. From 1950 to 1980, America had on average half the total global manufacturing base, courtesy of WW2 having blown up everybody else.
If we matched minimum wage from 1951, or 1961, we'd need to be paying $40,000 to $50,000 per year. Anybody that has run a liquor store, or a fast food business, understands that's mathematically impossible.
I've recently tried the static bag using a samsung tablet - wifi and bluetooth both showed no attenuation with two different bags. A "farraday cloth" that was suggested to me is priced at about $24 a linear foot (8'x1') so I wouldn't expect these cheaper solutions to be very effective. I would expect a microwave oven cavity to effectively reduce signals in 2.4ghz, though not signals in the lower gsm and related bands.
