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You're On The New Servers
Welcome to the New ZH Servers. Due to recent traffic surges (courtesy of what we believe is a permanent transition to market efficiency) which resulted in numerous server crashes over the past 3 weeks, courtesy of 1.5 - 2 million page views per day, we have had to upgrade once again, a move that was funded thanks to your donation generosity, dear readers. We are now at a state where even a 500 point drop in the S&P will hopefully not bring us down. We will also gradually return all the recent UI improvements such as comment ranking, and contributor blogs that we had to eliminate due to processor capacity limitations. We hope you enjoy the experience.
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Thanks. Looks/works better already.
I'm trying to find a reason to be contrarian but failing. Uhm... BART and DHS says internet downtime during civil unrest is a positive safety issue!
Skynet bitchez..!
"We will also gradually return all the recent UI improvements such as comment ranking,"
please don't....
let ideas duke it out without the "hype" of "consensus" approval/disapprobation.....ZH has been much cooler to read in the "old school" format...and recent Ayn Rand warfare aside, i think it cuts down on some of the petty personal macho flame war stuff
Second the motion.
Third the motion-
There is a lot of white space, between posts. New format was even more scrolling to read everything. Why work harder? And if someone got junked the min threshold made the flamed comment hidden, so showing up to the water cooler late, you were like, "what is everyone talking about?" "what did they say?" Which left you cut out of the loop. -which led to users parahrasing and erronously putting words in someone elses mouth as to what the comment was. People put +1 when they like something and flame them when they don't. People were afronted when junked and much of the comments revolved around being junked or a junker in the midst. I think enabling trolls by junking tools is a no no. But keep the math section for posting I do think it keeps idiots out. You could always ask trading questions too to weed some out. Call it vocabulary day quiz... But hey, this is your site. And I'm breaking rule #1 & 2 talking about it.
Regardless, thank you. It's my favorite website. My home page and so very happy more and more are waking up by reading ZH.
Bernanke: Traffic inflation is transitory
Great work as always. The information conveyed on this site is phenomenal.
Indeed, excellent work, Tyler. This site is indispensable and must never crash.
+1 Good job guys, I'm a complate newbie here, just joined a few weeks ago. I plan on making a donation. I'm a web programmer and am aware of the costs and labor it takes to maintain a web site with heavy traffic.
Awesome
Thanks Tyler. You provide the go-to place for so many. What a service!!
new servers are fine...but pls dont forget to use a condom.:)
Bet your server(s) still aren't this cool: http://www.frontiernet.net/~jimbot/allsparkproject.htm
I want one for a coffee table.
We're gonna neet it for the Inevitable Fall.
Keeping the interwebs going post collapse is going to be an interesting challenge. Sadly, I think that most people will be too preoccupied with personal and family safety to pay the infrastructure much attention.
Good on you Sacrilege, TD and the rest at ZH.
I assume there is a contingency plan to keep key infrastructure rolling, even during chaos. At least I sincerely hope my government has such a plan. We have to keep pumping to keep a big part of the land dry over here in NL.
And yeah, good luck to you too.
Mazel tov.
Isn't that some sort of incendiary device?
One of the Bernankenbombs favorites.... the Cock Tail
I know this sounds pretty dumb but:
Hey thanks. This site is about the closest to "reality" I can find. And believe me, I've been to other places.
Appreciate the dedication to make all this possible.
Bunga dude.
Sacrebleu!!
Thank you kindly good sir.
Took me a while to find the "DNS REFRESH" button on my keyboard.
It's to the left of the 'format HD' button
Like it. Thanks, and my donations will continue as long as I am on this site. Which will either be when I move on or Tyler decides to retire to some anonymous location.
Thank you Zero Hedge.
Aside from aljezeera.net, there's very little on the interwebz that appears to say anything useful/truthful -- keep up the good work!
I dont sign in often but I come to the site every hour or so and get my tweets regularly... you guys are amazing... THANK YOU!!
Kick in your f'n money to the Ron Paul moneybomb: http://www.ronpaul2012.com/pages/mbpledge.html?pid=0818
make it fucking happen
I wonder if Roubini understands the Law of Unintended Consequences?
Thanks Sac, and Tyler for all that you do.
Well, he is an economist after all.
Good work chapie, when you are done fixing up the joint will we have spelchex back?
I can't keep track of all the changes. Fuck, man. I'm listening to Recoil's "Unsound Methods" a little drunk.
testing out the first lol!
Just a little?
How about a 700 point drop, a 20 minute "All is well" speech by Obama followed by 5 minutes of incoherent stuttering by Bernanke. Could your server handle that too?
you had me at 700 point drop
So just your average Tuesday?
You just described next Thursday. Guess we'll find out.
We are all going to miss the Chairsatan some day, he was funny.
Thank you!
Donate?
I was asked?
Subtly: it's up there top right between 'glossary' & 'manifesto'.
PS Didn't even have to log back in! Sacrilege FTW.
Thanks for all you do Tyler. Zero Hedge has changed my life.
Thank you.
thanks ZH!
"We are now at a state where even a 500 point drop in the S&P will hopefully not bring us down."
If a 1000 pt drop comes in, a favorite quote comes to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gciFoEbOA8
And thanks...and congrats on the traffic increase!
high traffic due to too many of us not talking too much, about Fight Club.
Thx TD... And to think only a few years ago you were on blogspot! Way to go on your amazing success.. Cheers Gubb.
Thank you!
zero hedge kills it every day.
Zerohedge is a "luscious apparatus." What I like best is the worship of a luscious apparatus.
Awesome, thanks for making a server upgrade.
its 12:37am, time for me to hit the rack. Heres to my 1130 ES puts being in da money tomorrow.....
ok sac, thx. remember the luddites!
Zero-Hedge is hands down the most informative economics and finance web site in the world. After visiting Zero-Hedge Main Stream Media is a joke. Zero Hedge is changing the world. The awakening has begun!
Reshaping the concept of news!
Opening minds!
Unfettered opinions!
Truth.
Is the world ready?
Just think of all those other econblogs that just got a mad rush of traffic and virulently snarky commentries over the past hour or so of zh being down ... lol ... you know, the ones that cut like a butter knife.
Let em.
ZH has been through some rough times. And I think these new servers will carry us into 2012 in good style.
I see green water over the f'csle and greybeards all around under triple reef sail with lowered yards.
Santelli managed to squeeze in a comment about the swap line to the Swiss in the last minutes of Kudlow.... 'cept that he blew it and said $200 thousand instead of million dollars. Well he tried. Point being: We all know where he got that little tidbit! ZH, of course. You know he's lapping this up in every spare minute.
Ah...yes. A bigger Boat!!!!
Awesome job. ZH should be mandatory reading for all. i read it first thing in the morning with my coffee and a smoke (favourite part of the day) and last thing at night tucked up in bed. Thats right; i should probably get a bird, but ZH will keep me company until that day.
You're On The New Servers
Tyler: YOU might be ON the new servers (for all we know). And what you are doing while ON the servers we can only imagine. WE are actually IN the servers.
perhaps he is referring to the last several trays of cocktails, CE
have we not heard?
"...and when he called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray."
knowing tyler, he probably thinks "trey?" here, and...
Sacrilege,
Your tireless efforts are appreciated. I heard today that Gutenberg's Press wasn't fully appreciated during its debut. vive l'sac!
Lane, Sweden is far away.
We knew you would eventually become a BOTSLAVE. Great website!!
I guess I better join in the love fest ........MWAAAH, ZH!!!!
+ like lol
Excellent. More Hedgie goodness for me.
In a world of a completely incompetent and/or corrupt governments, regulatory agencies, central banks (including the illustrious [/sarc/] Federal Reserve Bank), a Lame Ass Stream Media, a bought off judiciary, and in a world where the military-industrial-financial-central banking complex has gone further than ever before in terms of rigging, twisting and shaping the rules, with malice and with knowledge aforethought, to concetrate power for themselves (money, wealth, information, political influence/legislative influence, military might - these are the tools of power)...
...whatever Zero Hedge's blemishes may be...and everyone and everything has a few...
...Zero Hedge is the one site that has done more than any other to at least inform people about the processes and mechanisms of monetary and fiscal policy (QE, TARP, TALF, LSAP), and the gaming of markets by various entities (HFT, dark pools, front running, expert networks, etc.), that has allowed anyone to learn about the ways in which the entire playing field is so terribly skewed, and in roughly what proportions (i.e. massive and maybe unprecedented ones) and ways.
Whatever its flaws may be, and whatever critics claim about it, Zero Hedge has literally educated countless people about what may have been formerly opaque concepts and mechanisms.
Who knew what POMO was? Who knew how direct and indirect bidders 'took down' treasury bonds, why, and how the process is so grossly subsidized in favor of Primary Dealers? Who knew about how the literal monopolization of and suppression of precious metal pricing (via COMEX), the ways by which Goldman Sachs & John Paulson literally turned toxic MBS into alleged prime rated, investment grade MBS, or how the Fed was not just bailing out bad financial institutions with discount window access, but by working with Treasury to buy their toxic assets for amounts criminally higher than what any remotely fair transaction would have warranted?
I could go and on, but I'll leave it at what is just the tip of the iceberg, and just a few examples of why Zero Hedge rocks.
And 2 million hits a day? It's going to be 5 million in no time. That's a testament to the fact that more & more people are waking up and unplugging from the Matrix (the Matrix is real; maybe hyperbolically presented by a popular film with the same name, but real in the sense that nothing is as what most believe it to be, and by design), because they always felt they were being lied to and bombarded with propaganda and misinformation, but they only now are getting access to the information that allows them a peek behind the curtain as to how it's been orchestrated.
Thank you, Zero Hedge.
Bravo! That's what I was gonna say... sorta.
Hey cutie coon!
I have friends on ZH and a kind of community too!
Yes you do. Just noticed I turn two in ZH years in two weeks. Thanks for being here....in the ZH Village...
I turned two two weeks ago. And since this was all new to me when I joined (was layed off with nothing to do), I have learned far more here than I ever expected.
Thanks ZH! ;-)
I don't always comment when you post on Japan, but don't think for a second it is going unread. Don't stop unless you think we are out of harm's way (dear God I have signed you on for generations of ZH work!). I appreciate your continued attention to the issue (You are not sensational, you are clearly curious and a problem solver). It is nice to read the "take" of someone with a clear head and no agenda.
Happy ZH birthday, baby! ;-)
I second that.
Me too!
There is no way I would have ever learned, never mind understood, HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING. Learning about that blew my mind and was a paradigm shifter.
Thanks ZH.
Agree, pistol-packin' mama.
I first came here (is it three years?) on a Seeking Alpha referrel, in flat disbelief about what I was hearing about HFT. When I realized the guy with the guts and savvy to break the story had his own site, I lost interest in SA.
It is often a bumpy and scatalogical ride here, but the signal-to-noise ration continues to impress.
Also, thanks EndTheFed. You spoke for many, and well.
Well put.
<Applause>
lol
Second that bud.
Noz
Hear! Hear!!!...TruthInSunshine.
Hehe, congrats from the new's-who.
Replace tired gerbils with fresh gazelles.
God, I love ZH !
Took the servers for a test drive Quick - Quick
I made a contribution to ZH just now. I hope others show their appreciation for this site and Donate !
Thanks again TD and the whole ZH crew for the years of knowledge and dedication !!
As soon as I can stop reading all of these comments, I'll do as you did and contribute some dollars. Hope they are worth something by then!
Thanks TD for everything and congratulations on your big success and well deserved upgrade. I told all my friends this site offered free beer.
Well ... I kinda liked the absence of comment rating system TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, MAN.
BTW, thank you for your hard work and effort Tyler and Sac ...
I just donated as my way of saying thank you. Buy some silver eagles with it (physical, bitches!). Protect my donation from inflation until you need it.
btw, how about just adding an ignore button instead of a ranking system? too many games are played with trashing/pumping comments that it adds zero value to the comment threads. if you're consistently annoyed by a certain user then turn him off and be done with it. the slashdot style of using a ratings threshold only works if you're also moderating the moderators. it should also be a lot easier on your db since you only have to log user id's instead of summing every single thread id rank.
I'm putting my hand up for Ignore instead of ranking too...yes even despite the awesome power rush it is pressing that DOWN or UP lever, just like a little election many times a day! But an Ignore key would be so much more efficient.
I prefer a Fuk off and Die button.
I understand the feeling. But you have an ignore button- in your mind. There's a reason for not including an ignore button, but we're not supposed to talk about it...
As for moderation- ZH is moderated, and comments are sometimes deleted, users are sometimes banned. I'm sure I'll be corrected about this if wrong, but I think much nonsense is tolerated here, in the interest of enabling a healthy debate, and not being afraid of getting a bloody nose. Or, err, mouse...
I think the honest thing for you to do is to first provide any evidence to substantiate your claim that could bear correction. Fuckwit.
PS. Thank you, TD and Sac, for all that you do, and provide. ¡Viva la Revolución!
PPS. I've never been censored here in over a year.
Fuckwit?
I was hoping for correction from someone who actually knew. Like, not your sorry ignorant ass.
But okay, I've seen some posts disappear, I've seen some users who posted garbage never to return, I've seen people with posting priviledges threaten to have someone banned. Did I document any of this? Um, no. That's what the caveat was for, fuckwit.
BTW, I've never seen you post anything that breaks 99 IQ.
ANd really, what was the point of your post? Do you doubt that if I posted spam over and over that I would be banned? That that garbage would not be removed? Where's greenWave? Where are the Nigerian Prince's easy money posts?
Oh and my point was that they allow quite a bit of latitude. That's why your ignorant chaw-chewing ass has not been censored. Go back to Galviston, and have the aoli shrimp.
God you're a stupid fuck
Looking forward to not seeing you again. Not even going to explain. Ciao
Of course you're not. See Ya. Hope you have fun on Yahoo.
i think you will need to commune directly w/ tyler, since none of us are tyler and cannot speak for him
yes, we have an ignore button in our minds, and it is important to remember that
i-dog isn't tyler, either; neither is he god nor styoooopid
here is where to direct your inquiry:
Contact Information:
Tips: tips [ at ] zerohedge.com
General: info [ at ] zerohedge.com
Legal: legal [ at ] zerohedge.com
Advertising: ads [ at ] zerohedge.com
Abuse: abuse [ at ] zerohedge.com
please don't come back without the answers, ok?
Maybe you misunderstood what I was saying. Or maybe your just a stupid nazi cunt.
Don't really care. But when I need advice from the likes of you, I'll shoot myself.
Goddam this website has been over-run by nazis, hertitage foundation clock-punchers and spooks.
</ignore>
That's a rather magic roundabout implied: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEHfXuF-9TY (?)
Or something else? For a page with 2million individual hits, there's a definite lack of #op8metal8gear tom foolery1 in here...
Also, you forgot the golden lesson of churn - there's very little doubt that some of us are only tolerated because we entice link bait / drama / comedy, and thus drive the wheels of a website. As long as you're self-aware enough to acknowledge that, then there's no real issue to it. But aye - given the trending, I'd have expected more transient posters - I can secretly fantasize about Darwinian moves by Sacriledge etc, but I doubt it.
Aside to stage right:/trending this week: Universe 25, my old favourite Stand on Zanzibar [grep my posts if you need proof I hit that one three months early] and a revival of the Heston three 2. Oh, and of course, Krugman's ET aside has gone bat-shit viral.
Fyi - Swedish Meatballs also advise broken grammar & obfuscation to prevent metaphor mining software - I have smaller faith that Utah isn't beyond that by now.
Nice upgrade - hope it holds up. 2 mill PVs a day, impressive. Keep up the good work - make sure you archive it all for the historical record when things all melt down too, 'cause ZH was there when it started and the only blog around that called it like it was.
Future historians will not claim that the events coming our way "could not have been seen by anyone."
Thanks for the education Tyler and gang. Although my IQ will never break above 75, I can now pretend I'm a genius by quoting you guys.
Oh, and a huge thanks to all the smarter commenters that stuck around to help in the education of us muttonheads.
Damn fine job!
Niiiice!
open sub /mind
del *.*
readarray ZH
opensub /reality
bintip TD
loop
The game is on!
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-friends/index.html
It has been incredible to watch the numbers for Ron Paul rapidly climb. The poll has been up since around 7 eastern time and is still counting.
Ron Paul at almost 69%.
Michele "Corndog" Bachmann at 3%.
Who's your daddy???
Go Ron Go..
What else could I say?
Anybody got a bigger corndog? :-(
If homegamers and mom and pop investors visted ZH, never again would they put their hard-earned money in the stock "market" (read: rigged casino where HF traders and insiders make bank, and buy-and-hold savers lose BIG TIME).
Doubly so if retail investors ever visted an HFT outfit or trading floor, esp. in Asia, where insider trading is rampant and the pros have an insurmountable advantage over homegamers (i.e. marks).
Wells Fargo/Wachovia subs stuffed toxic mortgage backed securities into the 'safe' bond fund of the Presbyterian Church USA (New Covenant Fund). Only 50% was AAA (ha) mostly MBS. Lost a bundle in the crash.
Have you checked your state, church, municipal, community center and family investment funds for toxic waste? I had to go looking myself. Not a pleasant experience.
The people you love may not visit ZH, but the evil elite has probably visited them. Maybe you should tell them.
Tried, Jim...at first they got concerned but after the first flurry of activity it got overwhelming to them and then it's time for them to look at me like I have two heads. Now they just avoid all mention and change the subject as soon as I say Word One.
I've resigned myself to doing my best to try to store up something for them too, and prepare to take in at least my parents and MIL if that ever is needed. I expect it will be.
more hits
than God....
and HEAPS more hip than the beatles
ZH rocks.... might have to dig into the coffers to support you guys. keep up the high class work.
ZH, you shine on and yes you are even more beautiful now...but don't ever change.
Hey girlie.
Love the new look, so noir, so dramatic! I know the bankers are all hot to bleed you dry in that get up!
Very glad to see you are still around you Aussie PM Princess you.
;-)
For you, for old time's sake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJWlxzH1Y-M
Warning men Do not watch that clip, it will gross you out.
love it!
this is good...considering we have much more than 500 s&p points to go...
Great job managing the scaling, a few bumps here and there were all we saw.
Sub 1000 US ranking. Dang.
Thx, ZH .
... s1 should edit the wikipedia ZH article. ( 330.000 visitors/month to 2.000.000 a day ).
Seems to be a bit outdated. :-P
Asian market bloodbath right now. Or what CNBC calls a "buying opportunity." Knife catchers, unite!
Jimmy "Jam" Cramer says SocGen is fine, and the Nikkei is going back to 1989 levels.
GroupOn has 300 million in unpaid bills, but Goldman will have it on their 'convict buy' list pre-IPO.
Jim Glassman is planning a major update to his much thought of work of non-(okay, yes)fiction, 'Dow 36000', which was published in 2000.
Amazon.com: Dow 36000: The New Strategy for Profit (with a foreword by RoboTarder, Harry Wanger & Leo K)James K. Glassman: Why I Was Wrong About 'Dow 36000' - WSJ.com
First class! Much appreciated.
Thanks Tyler. Thanks to all of ZH. Are donations to ZH tax deductible? ;)
You pay tax?! FFS, stop feeding the beast!!
You remind me of my ex wife. When confronted with evidence of your utter wrongness in your unjustified attack, you ignore the subject and attack something else. What a fucking pussy you are.
i-dog, the pussy.
How about putting the archived comments back? I keep links to ZH threads so that I can refer back to the comments or email the links to awakening noobs. A lot of the comments were very insightful but now each comment just says "archived". Google has gone through and "updated" all the comments so that now a lot of the old ones aren't even cached and their original phrases don't show up in Google searches. The word combinations on a ZH comment thread used to pull in a lot of Googlers but now they don't. I know this because I used to get emails from people who wanted follow-up on comments which I made a year ago. Also, at some point the ZH threads will be important historical documents like the Federalist Papers. This stuff needs to be out there.
I second this.
I third it.
And I am making my second (small, sorry) donation.
I fourth it.
Or create an archive on a separate server - great idea NWC.
You know what? you're right about me. Enjoy my non-presence.
Thanks. How about create archive DVDs periodically? After they shut down the internet, these DVDs will go viral pretty quick. Even just a humongous searchable text file would be an incredible resource. ZH DVDs will be like the 9-11 DVDs were back in the day.
Thanks Tyler/s
ZH is like a punch in the face...
Not always mine...
Zh is the bomb
Transitory traffic patterns will return to normal after QE3 - QE(x), when the national currency becomes food stamps and EBT cards.
Gold at $1845.
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
Woot. Got my PAMP bar order locked in earlier today, another 30 ounces. Mmmm, gold.
I love the look of those.
http://www.gainesvillecoins.com/products/156401/1-oz-pamp-suisse-gold-bar-9999-pure.aspx
Well, it's going to take a month for them to arrive. This is a first, has never taken that long. Bullion dealer reports brisk business. I think it's people like me, with disposable money/savings and looking to preserve it before the goddamn printers dilute me into oblivion.
did the tech support at the fake apple store set it all up?
ZeroHedge, bitchezzz!
I personnaly prefer the old comment look. I don't like the gray bar. It catches my attention while it's the comments I am reading that should be my primilary focus. Also, there is a huge white space under every comment that I think is unnecessary.
I like your website otherwise. Keep it up!
My 2 cent.
So, I take it you are chromophobic. Don't like grey bars, eh? ;-)
Nice bag ya got there Maxter.
I don't like the look either, but there are things it facilitates that I think I will like.
Good morning, beddie bye.
Are those uber bulky red/green voting buttons coming back then? :/
Much faster. Thanks. I like the rating system with the up and down checks personally. It actually makes it easy to find the respected members and skip the trash.
I concure.
I'm really tired and should not be commenting - I miss the rating system but it lets you skip over opinions that don't gel with your own. Some of them might surprise you.
I also don't like the grey bar, also too much white space, the infinity auto logo on the right side needs to be less crooked. Other than that, nice.
However, this is what really caught my eyeballs today.
The US Mint still has the ATB SV2 Quarters Silver set at $39.95. Silver is currently just over $41 in the Asian markets. That means the set is going for less than $3 over melt. This keeps up and I might have to pick up a hundred or two sets.
Heartfelt appreciation goes out to Tyler and the crew, as well as the membership here for making the last nine months an unrivalled educational experience.