.... or they could simply refuse to accept them, or any transaction that's taken place involving them. Sure, they'd still be valuable to people who don't seem to realize what they're backed by, and their actual value, is the same: absolutely nothing.
You should, perhaps, go look at some history on what happened when we were on the gold standard. Want economic growth? Forget about it. Want a loan to start a new business, buy a house, keep your current business humming along? Not a chance, unless of course you think that loan shark interest rates are just way, way, too low.
A finite money supply means a finite economy, one that can't grow, and can't handle anything significant happening. It also means the wealthy will get more wealthy, and the poor are basically screwed.... and when i say poor, i mean everyone other than those born into money. Some people have this truly ludicrous idea of how peachy and wonderful it was back on the gold standard.... those people need to learn some real history, and get over their ideology of incredible ignorance. That is a finite economy.
I certainly get it. After my 6th capped toon, the next two were a little on the boring side...... but you have to admit the irony of people buying the game, paying all those months and years to play it, then paying even more not to have to play it. That's one hell of a business model.
"Alexis Madrigal at the Atlantic: 'The marvelous thing about horseshoe crab blood, though, isn't the color."
I'd suggest color be damned, the marvelous thing about them is that their blood isn't iron based, but copper based; 1 - a clear proof of convergent evolution; 2 - just really damn neat; and, 3 - proof that Spock, having deep green blood, must not be from a species that uses copper as a blood base (a fantastic way to make diehard trekkies squirm).
I believe the plastic in question is the kind of plastic that semi-permanently entombs your purchase in a chrysalis so touch that you need a diamond tipped super electro buzzsaw or a weapons grade baloneyum industrial laser to burn through it.
BestBuy packaging - toughest stuff known to man.
Now wrap that with duct tape and we have our preferred material.
Perhaps a better way to look at it is: UO made huge news when it broke 200k (final peak was a bit more) geeks with accounts; EQ upped that to 500k (final peak was a bit more) geeks/fantasy rpgers with accounts; WoW opened up MMO's to anyone that wanted to play, not just the geeks/rpgers/hardcore gamers... and hit what12 million? I'd suggest that instead of blaming WoW for the bad things they merely imported from their predecessors (and FYI: it was much, much, much worse in EQ, if you don't already know that first hand), you might give them a little credit for making it so that all games have a vastly larger MMO player base now days.
Don't get me wrong, i enjoyed WoW for the couple years i played larger because of a few friends playing, and because i'd come off a 6 year stint in EQ. It was nice and slow and overall somewhat entertaining. EQ (if you didn't play it) on the other hand, felt like a 17 hour a day job, with a root canal appointment during lunchtime, crammed into 3-4 hours of playtime (by the end of my playing days of it). UO, well... it's summed up with just one word: griefers.
Each of those three had it's merits, and each it's detractors, but you have to see them as the stepping stones of the industry and realize that each was designed to take time to play; that was how the companies made money. The richness of content is somewhat subjective though. If they didn't have enough content, they wouldn't have had people continue to pay to play them (see SWTOR), and while they were filled with bugs and bad juju that sometimes popped up, they had enough merits that people tolerated the few issues (see Age of Conan and Vanguard).
For the issue at hand, i think the one line pretty well sums it up:
I can't help but laugh at the idea that Blizzard will probably get a ton of people paying them to not play their game.
It's people like you who have undermined this country out of pure tribal association. You don't give a damn about the US.
The reason Obama hasn't been impeached is because he's done nothing to rise to the level of impeachment....and anyone with a fucking living brain cell knows that. The unfortunate problem is people like you don't have any living brain cells. Even the most braindead fucking conservative asshat has to be able to understand that, given the number of terrorist teabaggers in the House, if they could impeach Obama, they would try; and only a fucking clueless moron would think that they'd stay their hand just because he's black; that hasn't stopped them from being KKK clones so far.
You're not being dismissed because you hate Obama, you're being dismissed because you are a fucking idiot that doesn't have a fucking clue what they hell your saying, using words that obviously are too big for you to understand, while lying like a little bitch to try to get people to agree with you. Hint: only other fucking idiots are going to agree with your fucking stupidity.
To make that easier, encourage the unorganized militia to self-train and equip.
This, of course, is a design closer to that which was intended by the authors of the US Constitution.
Actually, while most of what you're suggesting is more in line with what the Constitution framed, that one little bit isn't: the "militia" was not to "self-train."
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
That also brings us back to being on point with the 2nd Amendment (until the fabrication of additional rights NOT IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS by the Roberts court):
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Can you imagine, though, if all these "patriots" out there each weekend running around with their beer bellies playing in the woods, screaming about government tyranny and all that bullshith were required to show up for monthly military drills.... let alone what kind of mental havoc it would create the first time they were actually called up to serve their country? Talk about a bunch of whiny little self serving shitheads pissing in their pants.
...and then we got the Constitution because that "federation of states, not a centralized country" was completely dysfunctional. Why in the hell is it that the people don't have a clue about history always want to base incredibly fucking stupid arguments on their complete fucking intentional stupidity?
Yes, i do find it sad to have to link a article with pictures because people have little common sense, and even less ability to use that google thing on that interweb of tubes.
Correct... "I have a pen and a phone" implies a willingness to sign an unlawful order; that is, to say, an order to a law enforcement body, to begin or continue conducting activities that are in violation of the constitution, or unlawful.
No, it's not. It implies a willingness to sign an Executive Order, which has nothing to do with unlawful or unconstitutional behavior. You may believe Executive Orders are unlawful or unconstitutional, but you would be wrong. Every president has issued them, and the only time their constitutionality seems to come up is when some ideologically driven asshole disagrees with whichever president signed them.
There has been no reason to impeach Obama, but ideologically driven assholes continue to try to rationalize the most absurd lies out there to try to find one.
Well, if the author of the Patriot Act hadn't been such a cowardly anti-American prick back in 2001, along with all the other cowardly anti-American pricks that voted for it, we wouldn't be having an issue now... would we? Your "truths," however, seem to be missing a little something...Obama signed it, yes (and he shouldn't have), but it was congress that passed the authorization he signed.
Why is it you want to single Obama out for what the majority of congress passed, without calling them out as well?
They just don't have anyone with enough brains to understand THEY HAVE TO HAVE A REAL REASON. Their base is even worse, comprised of complete fucking idiots and think they can impeach someone just because they disagree with him.
Article 2, Section 4:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Even more on point, you may want to go back to the Constitution and reread it if you're going to be basing your argument off it:
Article 1, Section 3:
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
So you're saying that you don't have the first inkling of anything to do with business. Got it.
Businesses start and grow when they have a product or service to sell. That requires someone wanting to buy it. They reason a business doesn't start is because there is no demand. No demand = no business. Now, you can be an idiot and try to blame it on people complaining about business, but all that gets you is people noticing that you are an idiot who's deluded yourself into believing bullshit.
The NAZI's were right wing fascists, which is why they got along with their allies in Italy and the French Vichy, but fought against Russia (the actual socialists). There's been a (completely stupid fucking idiocy induced) trend for the past coupe decades by (completely fucking idiots) people on the right who want to try to distance themselves from the history of conservative fanaticism, the NAZI's, Fascism, the KKK, that they've gone so far as to try to rewrite history to absolve their souls of their legacy. I guess it makes conservatives feel better when they're completely fucking ignorant of reality.... but it doesn't change reality.
Your post shouldn't be "informative," it should be "delusional propaganda." You're either lying, or ignorant and parroting some complete asshat that lied to you.
Yeh, LED's are changing pretty quick it seems. You might have to hit up one of the national chains like Lowe's or Home Depot. I keep wanting to try out some of the brighter bulbs, i think they'd be more durable than CFL's for vibrations, maybe.
Here's a few changes that would reduce the intrusion of government into your daily habits: Quite driving on roads; drinking clean water; breathing clean air; eating food inspected for its safety; quit using products inspected for safety; eliminate from your thought process that if something terrible goes wrong you can just call the: fire department, police department, or other emergency responders; quit taking medications that have been tested for safety; quit using the post office, the internet, tv, cable, satellite services.
It takes an especially egregious asshat to be such a hypocrite as fuckwads who don't recognize that they use government resources and services EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THEIR LIFE. You want to live like a antisocial inbred dipshit in a cave somewhere, give Ted Kaczynski a call.... he might have some tips for you. Oh wait... even he used the Post Office. I guess he wasn't quit the fuckwad asshat you want to be.
You can't argue with idiots like Mashiki. He's the type of mental midget that's lied to himself so much that he no longer understands that the ACA is largely a product of the Heritage Foundation and conservative politicians back in the 1990's to counter Hillary's involvement in health care, and that the ACA has largely done what it's supposed to have done for the years it's been going in Massachusetts as whatever Romney called it there.
He hates it for one reason only, the same reason republicans have been running around for 6 years trying to burn down the entire country: Obama. Why are republicans against the PATRIOT Act and the NSA programs now, when they're the ones who wrote it and pushed for greater surveillance: Obama. Why are they against the Afghanistan war now, when they pushed for it instead of simply extraditing Bin Laden (which the Taliban said they would do as soon as the US handed them evidence he was behind 9/11): Obama.
The GOP and their teabagger fascist cult have only hatred of Obama, nothing else, for everything they do, and they don't give a damn how much damage they do to this country because of it.
This is called: Bifurcation Fallacy. It sets up the false dilemma that only the two choices you present can possibly be correct. If you're going to respond to something, at least have a little integrity about it. You've opted to do a couple things which are fairly ludicrous with any honest assessment of the information.
I'll happily admit these scientists are certainly intelligent. They put in decades of effort and learning to achieve what they have; and that effort and learning was based on more than a century of knowledge gathering in biology and genetics. I put it down as one more sign that intelligent people actually get things done, while stupid people sit around bitching, whining, and complaining about nonsense. For some reason though, you seem to want to elevate them to be the 25 most intelligent people in the universe, or some such. Allow me to say it as simple as possible: because humans can do it does not mean it can't happen naturally on it's own.
This article is about evolution through natural selection, not life origins. It's a common mistake made by people who want to rail against evolution that those two are the same subject, and are both part of the theory of natural selection; they are not. A basic education in biology at the high school level would have informed you of this.
As for our assertion in #2: you clearly do not have a basic education in Ochem. The problem with such discussions is that in order for you to understand anything, you'd first have to get an education, and from the leaning of your writing, it would appear you don't want to be educated about what you're trying to talk about, you simply want some place to air dogma that someone else fillers your head with.... and that you've fallen for.
really? i wonder why
1. energy and or matter cannot be created or destroyed.
2. there is no know process of turning inorganic matter into organic matter
3. there is no know process of turning organic matter into a life form.
My suggestion is that you quit listening to whomever it is that's been filling you head with bullshit, and perhaps start learning some basics of chemistry and biology.
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.... or they could simply refuse to accept them, or any transaction that's taken place involving them. Sure, they'd still be valuable to people who don't seem to realize what they're backed by, and their actual value, is the same: absolutely nothing.
You should, perhaps, go look at some history on what happened when we were on the gold standard. Want economic growth? Forget about it. Want a loan to start a new business, buy a house, keep your current business humming along? Not a chance, unless of course you think that loan shark interest rates are just way, way, too low.
A finite money supply means a finite economy, one that can't grow, and can't handle anything significant happening. It also means the wealthy will get more wealthy, and the poor are basically screwed.... and when i say poor, i mean everyone other than those born into money. Some people have this truly ludicrous idea of how peachy and wonderful it was back on the gold standard.... those people need to learn some real history, and get over their ideology of incredible ignorance. That is a finite economy.
I certainly get it. After my 6th capped toon, the next two were a little on the boring side...... but you have to admit the irony of people buying the game, paying all those months and years to play it, then paying even more not to have to play it. That's one hell of a business model.
"Alexis Madrigal at the Atlantic: 'The marvelous thing about horseshoe crab blood, though, isn't the color."
I'd suggest color be damned, the marvelous thing about them is that their blood isn't iron based, but copper based; 1 - a clear proof of convergent evolution; 2 - just really damn neat; and, 3 - proof that Spock, having deep green blood, must not be from a species that uses copper as a blood base (a fantastic way to make diehard trekkies squirm).
I believe the plastic in question is the kind of plastic that semi-permanently entombs your purchase in a chrysalis so touch that you need a diamond tipped super electro buzzsaw or a weapons grade baloneyum industrial laser to burn through it.
BestBuy packaging - toughest stuff known to man.
Now wrap that with duct tape and we have our preferred material.
Perhaps a better way to look at it is: UO made huge news when it broke 200k (final peak was a bit more) geeks with accounts; EQ upped that to 500k (final peak was a bit more) geeks/fantasy rpgers with accounts; WoW opened up MMO's to anyone that wanted to play, not just the geeks/rpgers/hardcore gamers... and hit what12 million? I'd suggest that instead of blaming WoW for the bad things they merely imported from their predecessors (and FYI: it was much, much, much worse in EQ, if you don't already know that first hand), you might give them a little credit for making it so that all games have a vastly larger MMO player base now days.
Don't get me wrong, i enjoyed WoW for the couple years i played larger because of a few friends playing, and because i'd come off a 6 year stint in EQ. It was nice and slow and overall somewhat entertaining. EQ (if you didn't play it) on the other hand, felt like a 17 hour a day job, with a root canal appointment during lunchtime, crammed into 3-4 hours of playtime (by the end of my playing days of it). UO, well... it's summed up with just one word: griefers.
Each of those three had it's merits, and each it's detractors, but you have to see them as the stepping stones of the industry and realize that each was designed to take time to play; that was how the companies made money. The richness of content is somewhat subjective though. If they didn't have enough content, they wouldn't have had people continue to pay to play them (see SWTOR), and while they were filled with bugs and bad juju that sometimes popped up, they had enough merits that people tolerated the few issues (see Age of Conan and Vanguard).
For the issue at hand, i think the one line pretty well sums it up:
I can't help but laugh at the idea that Blizzard will probably get a ton of people paying them to not play their game.
Let me fix it for you: you're fucking idiot.
It's people like you who have undermined this country out of pure tribal association. You don't give a damn about the US.
The reason Obama hasn't been impeached is because he's done nothing to rise to the level of impeachment....and anyone with a fucking living brain cell knows that. The unfortunate problem is people like you don't have any living brain cells. Even the most braindead fucking conservative asshat has to be able to understand that, given the number of terrorist teabaggers in the House, if they could impeach Obama, they would try; and only a fucking clueless moron would think that they'd stay their hand just because he's black; that hasn't stopped them from being KKK clones so far.
You're not being dismissed because you hate Obama, you're being dismissed because you are a fucking idiot that doesn't have a fucking clue what they hell your saying, using words that obviously are too big for you to understand, while lying like a little bitch to try to get people to agree with you. Hint: only other fucking idiots are going to agree with your fucking stupidity.
To make that easier, encourage the unorganized militia to self-train and equip.
This, of course, is a design closer to that which was intended by the authors of the US Constitution.
Actually, while most of what you're suggesting is more in line with what the Constitution framed, that one little bit isn't: the "militia" was not to "self-train."
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
That also brings us back to being on point with the 2nd Amendment (until the fabrication of additional rights NOT IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS by the Roberts court):
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Can you imagine, though, if all these "patriots" out there each weekend running around with their beer bellies playing in the woods, screaming about government tyranny and all that bullshith were required to show up for monthly military drills.... let alone what kind of mental havoc it would create the first time they were actually called up to serve their country? Talk about a bunch of whiny little self serving shitheads pissing in their pants.
...and then we got the Constitution because that "federation of states, not a centralized country" was completely dysfunctional. Why in the hell is it that the people don't have a clue about history always want to base incredibly fucking stupid arguments on their complete fucking intentional stupidity?
There's going to be a lot of embarrassed "experts" when some one finally gives pig-latin a try.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Yes, i do find it sad to have to link a article with pictures because people have little common sense, and even less ability to use that google thing on that interweb of tubes.
... NASA has determined that people working for the Journal of Cosmology have gone off their meds....again.
Correct... "I have a pen and a phone" implies a willingness to sign an unlawful order; that is, to say, an order to a law enforcement body, to begin or continue conducting activities that are in violation of the constitution, or unlawful.
No, it's not. It implies a willingness to sign an Executive Order, which has nothing to do with unlawful or unconstitutional behavior. You may believe Executive Orders are unlawful or unconstitutional, but you would be wrong. Every president has issued them, and the only time their constitutionality seems to come up is when some ideologically driven asshole disagrees with whichever president signed them.
There has been no reason to impeach Obama, but ideologically driven assholes continue to try to rationalize the most absurd lies out there to try to find one.
Well, if the author of the Patriot Act hadn't been such a cowardly anti-American prick back in 2001, along with all the other cowardly anti-American pricks that voted for it, we wouldn't be having an issue now... would we? Your "truths," however, seem to be missing a little something...Obama signed it, yes (and he shouldn't have), but it was congress that passed the authorization he signed.
Why is it you want to single Obama out for what the majority of congress passed, without calling them out as well?
Article 2, Section 4:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Even more on point, you may want to go back to the Constitution and reread it if you're going to be basing your argument off it:
Article 1, Section 3:
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Red states: the true welfare whores of the US.
So you're saying that you don't have the first inkling of anything to do with business. Got it.
Businesses start and grow when they have a product or service to sell. That requires someone wanting to buy it. They reason a business doesn't start is because there is no demand. No demand = no business. Now, you can be an idiot and try to blame it on people complaining about business, but all that gets you is people noticing that you are an idiot who's deluded yourself into believing bullshit.
The NAZI's were right wing fascists, which is why they got along with their allies in Italy and the French Vichy, but fought against Russia (the actual socialists). There's been a (completely stupid fucking idiocy induced) trend for the past coupe decades by (completely fucking idiots) people on the right who want to try to distance themselves from the history of conservative fanaticism, the NAZI's, Fascism, the KKK, that they've gone so far as to try to rewrite history to absolve their souls of their legacy. I guess it makes conservatives feel better when they're completely fucking ignorant of reality.... but it doesn't change reality.
Your post shouldn't be "informative," it should be "delusional propaganda." You're either lying, or ignorant and parroting some complete asshat that lied to you.
Yeh, LED's are changing pretty quick it seems. You might have to hit up one of the national chains like Lowe's or Home Depot. I keep wanting to try out some of the brighter bulbs, i think they'd be more durable than CFL's for vibrations, maybe.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/tools-toys/roundup-100wattequivalent-leds
Here's some 100w equivalents if you're interested.
Here's a few changes that would reduce the intrusion of government into your daily habits: Quite driving on roads; drinking clean water; breathing clean air; eating food inspected for its safety; quit using products inspected for safety; eliminate from your thought process that if something terrible goes wrong you can just call the: fire department, police department, or other emergency responders; quit taking medications that have been tested for safety; quit using the post office, the internet, tv, cable, satellite services.
It takes an especially egregious asshat to be such a hypocrite as fuckwads who don't recognize that they use government resources and services EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THEIR LIFE. You want to live like a antisocial inbred dipshit in a cave somewhere, give Ted Kaczynski a call.... he might have some tips for you. Oh wait... even he used the Post Office. I guess he wasn't quit the fuckwad asshat you want to be.
Agreed.
You can't argue with idiots like Mashiki. He's the type of mental midget that's lied to himself so much that he no longer understands that the ACA is largely a product of the Heritage Foundation and conservative politicians back in the 1990's to counter Hillary's involvement in health care, and that the ACA has largely done what it's supposed to have done for the years it's been going in Massachusetts as whatever Romney called it there.
He hates it for one reason only, the same reason republicans have been running around for 6 years trying to burn down the entire country: Obama. Why are republicans against the PATRIOT Act and the NSA programs now, when they're the ones who wrote it and pushed for greater surveillance: Obama. Why are they against the Afghanistan war now, when they pushed for it instead of simply extraditing Bin Laden (which the Taliban said they would do as soon as the US handed them evidence he was behind 9/11): Obama.
The GOP and their teabagger fascist cult have only hatred of Obama, nothing else, for everything they do, and they don't give a damn how much damage they do to this country because of it.
This is called: Bifurcation Fallacy. It sets up the false dilemma that only the two choices you present can possibly be correct. If you're going to respond to something, at least have a little integrity about it. You've opted to do a couple things which are fairly ludicrous with any honest assessment of the information.
I'll happily admit these scientists are certainly intelligent. They put in decades of effort and learning to achieve what they have; and that effort and learning was based on more than a century of knowledge gathering in biology and genetics. I put it down as one more sign that intelligent people actually get things done, while stupid people sit around bitching, whining, and complaining about nonsense. For some reason though, you seem to want to elevate them to be the 25 most intelligent people in the universe, or some such. Allow me to say it as simple as possible: because humans can do it does not mean it can't happen naturally on it's own.
This article is about evolution through natural selection, not life origins. It's a common mistake made by people who want to rail against evolution that those two are the same subject, and are both part of the theory of natural selection; they are not. A basic education in biology at the high school level would have informed you of this.
As for our assertion in #2: you clearly do not have a basic education in Ochem. The problem with such discussions is that in order for you to understand anything, you'd first have to get an education, and from the leaning of your writing, it would appear you don't want to be educated about what you're trying to talk about, you simply want some place to air dogma that someone else fillers your head with.... and that you've fallen for.
My advice to you is: go learn something.
really? i wonder why 1. energy and or matter cannot be created or destroyed. 2. there is no know process of turning inorganic matter into organic matter 3. there is no know process of turning organic matter into a life form.
#1 - This has relevance for what reason?
#2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea You are incorrect, it's been done since 1828.
#3 - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703559004575256470152341984 You are incorrect, again. This is just one example of continuing research.
My suggestion is that you quit listening to whomever it is that's been filling you head with bullshit, and perhaps start learning some basics of chemistry and biology.