TheSilverInstitute revises data 5 years later = normal business?

[Pirocco]

At the time of DOS, people ruled their operating system and their computer.
It's now the opposite, the operating system tells you what you are allowed to do, and what not.
And that same operating system tells you that there is X amount RAM free, despite that you still get error boxes saying it ran out of memory. Throughout the entire evolution towards the current version.

Much like how end 2013 Thomson Reuters reported that central banks bought 386.6 tonnes gold that year.
And by 2015 revised it to 625.5 tonnes.
Clearly, governments (and whoever they bought it from, likely the lbma bullion banks) decided to not want to see purchases of together 193.5 tonnes reported to the people on the markets.
And clearly, some others do not like this revision reported.
*** Searching for vested interest secrecy

 

[trav]

At the time of DOS, people ruled their operating system and their computer.

People didn't rule shit with DOS. It was an antiquated OS even at the time that restricted you to 640K base memory and as a programmer (or user for that matter) couldn't access more without shitloads of pissfarting around.

It's now the opposite, the operating system tells you what you are allowed to do, and what not.

I can tell you're a windows user furthermore I'm actually disappointed that someone with your knowledge isn't yet at least using Linux or BSD. Do look into it - you won't look back.

 

[Pirocco]

At the time of DOS, people ruled their operating system and their computer.

People didn't rule shit with DOS. It was an antiquated OS even at the time that restricted you to 640K base memory and as a programmer (or user for that matter) couldn't access more without shitloads of pissfarting around.

It's now the opposite, the operating system tells you what you are allowed to do, and what not.

I can tell you're a windows user furthermore I'm actually disappointed that someone with your knowledge isn't yet at least using Linux or BSD. Do look into it - you won't look back.

In DOS, you could store what you want where you want. You could do whatever, including killing it, if you wanted. Programs could screw other programs as much as they wanted.
The single and last decision maker, was the user. That's why I said "rule". That's how I define ruling. The restriction you talk about, wasn't a restriction in terms of what you are allowed and what not, it was merely a technological evolution result, due to the very high pace of the computer hardware progress back then, and of course some (maybe commercial) choices M$ made in the beginning.

For the rest it's an accurate observation.
In some past I tried a Linux version and I liked the free, no-nonsense, no-nanny, technical approach, and user is Da Boss at no Premium Price.
But it needs learning time, and, so far, I wasn't motivated enough to put that amount time in it. Just like in ancient DOS, it needs a million command -switches and tricks galore.
So I sticked to ms windows, only that I'm almost a couple decades outdated now, in 2004 I purchased XP, to finally dump it 6 months later (I actually destroyed the cd that contained that assembly of crap / "computer government"), and reverted back to windows 98.
Last year I migrated to windows 98 second version though, since I saw that recommended alot. Although can't notice much change. But I know where the crap is, I know how to make it least annoyant, and I'm boss enough to do so.
I do have a laptop with windows 7, but only because some essential things on the internet plain refuse windows 98, and I only use it for those.
Life is a choice of things to spend time on, and so far I was more interested in other things than learning the OS alternatives. If something goes (happened before, I have had periods that I did things I ceased later on) and no site left to work on windows 98, forcing me to move on, then it may get in my choice of things list.