Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]
Discussion
Jimmyarm said:
We have probably had this before but;
What would happen in everybody(including businesses) with a postive balance in a UK based bank account decided to withdraw their money (in cash) all at once ?
I'm talking absolutely everything, current, isa's, savings, investments (assume that you can just pull the cash).
Would the banking system collapse ? My understanding is banks work by leveraging deposits against loans and have to maintain some sort of correlation between the two.
Is there even enough currency to do this ?
Economic Armageddon - we could all be back to hunter-gatherer living within 5 years. What would happen in everybody(including businesses) with a postive balance in a UK based bank account decided to withdraw their money (in cash) all at once ?
I'm talking absolutely everything, current, isa's, savings, investments (assume that you can just pull the cash).
Would the banking system collapse ? My understanding is banks work by leveraging deposits against loans and have to maintain some sort of correlation between the two.
Is there even enough currency to do this ?
Firstly there isn't enough cash, not nearly enough in circulation to give an example there's roughly £46bn in notes in circulation - where as the Gov invented £200bn in QE alone - so we could expect widespread panic as some people don't understand the difference between money and cash and are told there's not enough left to pay them - but that's just logistics - you can always make more cash.
The main problem is that the banks don't have the money, they've lent it to us to buy houses, cars and whatever else - even forgetting the mad as lorries commercial side of banking the retail side is heavily leveraged.
I suspect the Banks would ask the Gov for special emergency measures to lock out customers before they all collapsed. without the ability to pay for things with debit or credit cards the value of cash would explode and we'd been facing rapid deflation almost immediately.
Mostly of our employers wouldn't survive more than a few weeks without banking facilities, so we'd be out of work - not that it mattered because they wouldn't have enough cash to pay us all anyway.
Within a month the world would resemble 'The Walking Dead' minus the Zombies of course - they say we're only ever a few missed meals away from anarchy anyway.
Willy Nilly said:
How much porn could the new "super computer" the Met Office has just bought store?
120,000 times more than a top end Smartphone apparently.http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/...
Willy Nilly said:
How much porn could the new "super computer" the Met Office has just bought store?
New Cray XC40 will have 20 million GB of storage - SD films are pretty much 1GB per hour, HD films are 2GB per hour - so...10 million continuous hours of perfect quality HD smut - or 1146 years worth of HD porn.
All that jazz said:
Q. Where/what is the troll-olololol music from and how did it all start off, origins etc?
Its a Russian song from a long time ago:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
by this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil#Internet_...
That got turned into a meme because the "trololol" bit of the song matches the "Trol-lol-lol" catchprahse of the "Trollface" internet troll meme:
A Hollywood Question: The Magnum Sound Effect
Probably started with Dirty Harry and then used extensively throughout the years up to and including Don Johnson's various weapons of choice in Miami Vice and Arnie's Auto in the first Terminator film.
Hollywood tells us that all Magnum Rated weapons make the same, loud whacking a dustbin with a spanner sound when fired.
In reality they don't.
As we're talking about 40+ years ago - how was the sound created and how did it come to be a staple sound effect ?
Probably started with Dirty Harry and then used extensively throughout the years up to and including Don Johnson's various weapons of choice in Miami Vice and Arnie's Auto in the first Terminator film.
Hollywood tells us that all Magnum Rated weapons make the same, loud whacking a dustbin with a spanner sound when fired.
In reality they don't.
As we're talking about 40+ years ago - how was the sound created and how did it come to be a staple sound effect ?
ChemicalChaos said:
Its a Russian song from a long time ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
by this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil#Internet_...
That got turned into a meme because the "trololol" bit of the song matches the "Trol-lol-lol" catchprahse of the "Trollface" internet troll meme:
Wow, thanks! Was never aware of the history behind that. Interesting read. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
by this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil#Internet_...
That got turned into a meme because the "trololol" bit of the song matches the "Trol-lol-lol" catchprahse of the "Trollface" internet troll meme:
cologne2792 said:
A Hollywood Question: The Magnum Sound Effect
Probably started with Dirty Harry and then used extensively throughout the years up to and including Don Johnson's various weapons of choice in Miami Vice and Arnie's Auto in the first Terminator film.
Hollywood tells us that all Magnum Rated weapons make the same, loud whacking a dustbin with a spanner sound when fired.
In reality they don't.
As we're talking about 40+ years ago - how was the sound created and how did it come to be a staple sound effect ?
I would imagine from Dirty Harry then it became the standard sound. Probably started with Dirty Harry and then used extensively throughout the years up to and including Don Johnson's various weapons of choice in Miami Vice and Arnie's Auto in the first Terminator film.
Hollywood tells us that all Magnum Rated weapons make the same, loud whacking a dustbin with a spanner sound when fired.
In reality they don't.
As we're talking about 40+ years ago - how was the sound created and how did it come to be a staple sound effect ?
Another one is the 'bullet ricochet' sound that all westerns must have by law.
Weird one is the Zulu war cry in Gladiator.
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