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How can I use the $ character without linux interpreting it as a variable? For example, if I have

echo “Your account balance is $100.00″ > newfile

When I open newfile, it just says

Your account balance is

I think it’s because linux thinks $ is prompting for a variable name. Is there any way around this?

I am willing to give me e-mail and password to someone to change my name and yahoo avatar.

Note: Don’t worry, I deleted all my emails, drafts, trash. This isn’t my primary email anyways. And I know that anyone won’t but if you ever think of taking my account Ill get it back with he recovery Qs lolol JK, I trust you all

SO my account is basically an empty shell right now.

SO…who wants to change my account.

1.I don’t want anything ugly please lolol.
2-It could be funny
Interesting and funny is a +++

I have no other rules

SO if you want to do the change post here, and Ill choose a person and Ill email that person my e-mail and password.
Ok I’ll do this. I’ll give it to mayar first. When she is done I’ll give it to Julia

I expect evil things from girls…nightmares
@mayar: “@asker”… Wait now you forgot my name already XD. What is this I don’t even…
@Juliet: Ok I emailed you the stuff.

http://archives.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/?u=102397-vp-announces-record-homeownership-level.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=51448

Subprime Mortgage began in 1994

October 23, 1997

(From the Clinton Archives)
In 1994, President Clinton, along with the National Partners in Homeownership, set a goal for the nation to achieve an all-time high homeownership rate by the year 2000. Today — a full three years early — the Census Bureau reported that in the third quarter of 1997 the homeownership rate climbed to its highest level ever. Here are some of the results from the Census report, as well as other housing-sector statistics:

–In 1995, at the request of President Clinton, the Administration convened the National Partners in Homeownership to carry out a National Homeownership Strategy

– The Clinton Administration has cut FHA home mortgage insurance premiums four times

–In 1999, under pressure from the Clinton administration, Fannie Mae, the nation’s largest home mortgage underwriter, relaxed credit requirements on the loans it would purchase from other banks and lenders, hoping that easing these restrictions would result in increased loan availability for minority and low-income buyers.

Putting pressure on the GSE’s (Government Sponsored Enterprise) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Clinton administration looked to increase their sub-prime portfolios, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development expressing its interest in the GSE’s maintaining a 50% portion of their portfolios in loans to low and moderate-income borrowers.[9]

Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 1999 — In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans.

***** Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring. ***

–BUSH REGULATORY OVERHAUL OF FANNIE/FREDDIE BLOCKED BY DEMOCRATS

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?pagewanted=all

New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: September 11, 2003

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors.

–Supporters of the companies said efforts to regulate the lenders tightly under those agencies might diminish their ability to finance loans for lower-income families.

– ”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”

Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.

”I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said.
@ Wizard.. I know the truth hurts.. but I have provided links to everything.

Including the Clinton Archives !

Man up and accept the truth

I want to apply some maths to the basis of the SETI programme, but I don’t have the mathematical knowledge needed to do the following calculation. I have asked this before, but simply got lectured about the Drake equation and the overall issues underpinning SETI, which I already understand. I realise that the assumptions are probably wrong, but this is a thought experiment and I am simply interested in the statistical probability. So just the maths, please.

a) Starting with an assumption that over a 5,000,000,000 year period there have existed 50,000 technological civilisations on planets orbiting stars randomly distributed within a sphere 100,000 light years in diameter centred on our solar system

and

b) each civilisation exists in a technologically active form for a minimum of 250 and a maximum of 10,000 years, and therefore the electromagnetic message shell emitted from any civilisation will randomly vary between 250 and 10,000 light years in thickness

and

c) the starting points at which each civilisation becomes technically active are randomly distributed across the 5 billion year period

then

what is the probability that a radio astronomer on Earth, listening at this precise moment, will detect one of the message shells?

I realise the thought experiment could be refined by taking into account the fact that we are not located in the centre of our galaxy and that there may be a mode for the length of time that a technological civilisation lasts, or at least keeps broadcasting. I may also be being incredibly generous with the number of civilisations assumed!

It would be good to have the formula used so that different figures could be slotted in.

Thank you in advance.

in accounting. I want to get my CPA license. I live in Arizona. Does anyone have any real insight into my chances for obtaining my license? I know I can sit for the exam, its the license getting granted part that Im nervous about. Could I find out before I shell out all the money and study time it takes for the exam? Anyone have experience with this? I can also sit for the exam in Michigan, if that is an “easier” state? My record is otherwise clean and I have certainly learned from my mistake. Thanks.