TSP Server Unavailable 10/10/08

**DenverAce** · 10-10-2008, 05:10 PM

After studying and preparing here for years, wouldn't you know TSP could not handle all the volume in dynamic times?

Tried to BUY this morning for an hour before the deadline. Server was apparently "busy." Even downloaded and tried another Browser as one TSP error message suggested.

Knowing the omnipotent attidude at the TSP, they may have shut down intentionally to "save us from ourselves" once again.

**Silverbird** · 10-10-2008, 05:16 PM

I guess their "Don't Panic" letter wasn't reasuring.

**squalebear** · 10-10-2008, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by DenverAce

Knowing the omnipotent attidude at the TSP, they may have shut down intentionally to "save us from ourselves" once again.

That would certainly be the first thing to come to my mind, but that kind
of manipulation of Fair Trade would result in Jail Time for many. Not likely!

The other is possible and more likey, the system just couldn't handle the
hits and our Million Dollar Upgrade is yet another failure (the list grows) !

**squalebear** · 10-10-2008, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by Silverbird

I guess their "Don't Panic" letter wasn't reasuring.

Niether was the GWB speech.

**DenverAce** · 10-10-2008, 05:26 PM

I still vote for the "Jail Time for many" squalebear,

It is criminal when they cost me money. Let's don't even start with the Trade Limits again!

**Tempest** · 10-10-2008, 05:46 PM

hehehe Adam Smith's invisible hand.

**squalebear** · 10-10-2008, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by DenverAce

I still vote for the "Jail Time for many" squalebear,

It is criminal when they cost me money. Let's don't even start with the Trade Limits again!

Many of us have felt Financial Loss and it continues to be painful! As
far as the Trade Limits go, I didn't start anything, but trust me, their
are TSP Participant's who will not rest until this theft of freedom is
restored.

**squalebear** · 10-10-2008, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by Tempest

hehehe Adam Smith's invisible hand.

Adam Smith (baptised 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790 [OS: 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790]) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Adam Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.

Smith studied moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow and Oxford University. After graduating he delivered a successful series of public lectures at Edinburgh, leading him to collaborate with David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy, and during this time wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments. In his later life he took a tutoring position which allowed him to travel throughout Europe where he met other intellectual leaders of his day. Smith returned home and spent the next ten years writing The Wealth of Nations (mainly from his lecture notes) which was published in 1776. He died in 1790.

**XL-entLady** · 10-10-2008, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by squalebear

Adam Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics.

Now that takes me back! In my first Economics class several decades ago, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was practically my textbook. Of course that was when it was hot off the presses.

Lady