You are ignoring the sudden release of cash into the system. Cash that was placed into the hands of returning servicemen. Take the red pill - read my sig, click the link, do some research, understand what's really going on...
The Fed *regulates* economic mayhem, not eliminates. Or did you miss what was going on the last few years? I know that you know that the Fed had almost nothing to do with the 2008 depression, but that is because you don't understand monetary systems. The US has a credit based monetary system where money is put into circulation through fractional reserve lending (FRL). It is precisely because of FRL that we have booms and busts. In the pre-fed days, the booms and busts were regional. Now, with the Fed regulating FRL, we have nationwide booms and busts. Yes, getting rid of the Fed all by itself would be a mistake, but getting rid of the Fed's reason for existence, regulating FRL, by getting rid of FRL, would get rid of economic mayhem. Well, it would anyway, as long as we replaced it with [see my sig].
Can any lawyer explain how "motive" is a necessary component of a crime, and must be demonstrated by the prosecution, but yet "motive" is not allowed to be addressed by the defense?
Wait, what? Microsoft still doesn't get it? Look, VMware does a lot of stuff wrong, but there is one thing that they got totally right, and it is so obviously correct that I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of it first: Install the server, (e.g. esxi host or server 8 kernal), on the server hardware with nothing user related but a get started wizard and a command line UI. Then provide a GUI application that runs on a regular Windows desktop and remotely controls the server. Why load all that UI cruft into your server installation - leave it in a Windows desktop where it belongs. Duh!
>> in tobacco, the habituation is almost as bad as the physical withdrawal
No, in tobacco the habituation is much worse than the physical withdrawal. The physical withdrawal is due to nicotine. Nicotine is actually beneficial to your overall health, only not if you ingest it by inhaling burning tobacco smoke. Anyway, nicotine does have a physical dependency, but the withdrawal is a steady, mild craving that lasts about a week. Tobacco habituation, in contrast, is typically experienced as powerful "craving flashes" that strike the ex user up to 20 times per day at first, and take 6 months or more to finally cease. Chewing nicotine gum or wearing a patch is probably good for you, but the problem with the gum and patches for tobacco smokers going through withdrawals is that because their withdrawal from nicotine is extended, they experience greatly extended and more severe habituation withdrawals.
But when atheist socialists commit atrocities, everyone else jumps in and does what they can to end the carnage. OTOH, when religions do this shit, almost everyone soft pedals the condemnation out of "respect" for religion. As if it deserves any. Debasing one's intellect with the lies of "faith" deserves no respect.
You, more than any random million others have a duty to have children. Lots of them. If you don't what will happen? That's right, the percentage of people who can think will shrink yet again.
It's good you posted AC, because if I knew where you lived, I'd kick your fucking ass!!!
Hey! Then you'd get to find out how crappy the for-profit insurance company model has made our health system, and you'd want to kick your own smug ass again. Win-win!
Well, actually you probably wouldn't. No doubt you are too stupid to recognize shit and its pathology. You'd probably be all, "We have such great health care in America!" You shit drooling moron.
You think you really know the whole truth of what happened on 9/11? You are a bigger fool than the people who think that those were not passenger jets that hit the towers. I have no idea what really happened, but I also would bet 10 to 1 that the official story has significant divergences from the truth. Start with Building 7. It is silly to think that somehow debris from the towers caused that building to collapse, but that is what we are told.
You really don't think someone pounding your head against the pavement could kill you? Ludicrous! I wouldn't hesitate to shoot someone doing that if I was the victim. If I was a bystander, the dude doing the pounding would get one verbal warning, and if he pounded the victim's head again, I would shoot him.
That said, Zimmerman was a damn fool for playing wanna be cop. Found guilty or not, he is going to pay a huge price for his foolishness. Such is the price of ill-considered action.
Of course the real criminals in this story are the local police in that town, and all across the US for that matter. Our police spend nearly all their time on law enforcement theater, and almost none on meaningful crime prevention.
Frys solved this a long time ago. They retape the item, mark it as "Open Box", knock off 5% on the price, and put it back on the shelf. I buy a lot of stuff there, return a lot of stuff there, keep a lot of purchases, and always look for the open box items to buy. Frys is not going out of business. I regularly drive 2 hours from Reno to Roseville to patronize Frys instead of the local BB. Hello?
Anyway, NO, we do not *need* the fed. Do you know what the fed actually does, i.e. its most fundamental duty? I bet not. The fed regulates and facilitates the banks' practice of fractional reserve lending. If we outlawed fractional reserve lending, badda-bing, we no longer need the fed. Why outlaw fractional reserve lending? To get rid of booms and busts.
Where are my mod points when I *want* them??? Damn it, your post is the best one I've read here in a long time. Bravo!
Still, electing Paul would be a huge improvement, if for only these two reasons: he would prevent the looming disaster of an Iranian invasion, and he would shake things up in a big way. Perhaps that shake up might catalyze the re-factoring whose lack you so cogently bemoan.
Let's call it the "criminal" system. The legal system includes civil courts and that is a whole 'nother kettle of [smelly, but not quite yet rotten] fish.
That is precisely the party line of the pigs that run the show. It's actually a much simpler and goofier situation. Ask yourself this: "Why does nearly every single nation in the world use precisely the same monetary system, i.e. a central bank that administers the issuance of credit-based money?"
People? People are the hope and strength of the world!
The disruption involved in having to wean ourselves off fossil fuels is several orders of magnitude more catastrophic than any other disruption in the last 2k years. Our failure to acknowledge this assures a major die-off in the not too distant future. We will have to wean ourselves off them because it won't be long until the energy needed to harvest starts approaching the energy harvested. Instead of working right now to plan and implement the unavoidable changes coming we argue about global warming. What suckers!
Great post, but you really fucked up with that line, "And that oil is going to run out." When you say that, you create your own straw man for numbskulls to land on in their denial laden attacks on your very sound reasoning. Oil will never "run out". Instead what will indeed happen is that it will become so expensive to produce that we will no longer be able to sustain our population level. Note: the key metric for "expensive to produce" is how much inputted energy does it take on world-wide average to recover a give quantity of extracted energy. Find a chart tracking that over the years if you want to understand how dire our situation is becoming.
Our only hope is to start, RIGHT NOW, blanketing the land with fusion power plants. It's that fucking simple, and it should have happened years ago, but it will never happen. Worse, by the time the corrupt assholes who run the show realize what we are facing, the cost of oil will have exceeded the level at which we could still afford to implement this. Yes, some kind of technological miracle in solar power could change this outcome, but to count on that is foolish. Even then, what will it cost to implement some such theoretical solar solution? Again, by the time the solar option is realistically doable, our primary energy source will be too cost-prohibitive to allow the solar solution's implementation to proceed.
*cue the free market evangelists* The free market will solve these problems.
Indeed it will, and the conduit will be a substantial human die-off.
I was just diagnosed with cancer and am about to get laid off. Not because I am a bad worker, but because my company is going broke. If you get your way, I won't be able to buy insurance. Who's going to hire a guy in his late 50's with cancer? Thanks, you fucking asshole!
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Grothman is possessed by demons. Seriously - look at his face in the portrait on the flyer. Creep city.
You are ignoring the sudden release of cash into the system. Cash that was placed into the hands of returning servicemen. Take the red pill - read my sig, click the link, do some research, understand what's really going on...
The Fed *regulates* economic mayhem, not eliminates. Or did you miss what was going on the last few years? I know that you know that the Fed had almost nothing to do with the 2008 depression, but that is because you don't understand monetary systems. The US has a credit based monetary system where money is put into circulation through fractional reserve lending (FRL). It is precisely because of FRL that we have booms and busts. In the pre-fed days, the booms and busts were regional. Now, with the Fed regulating FRL, we have nationwide booms and busts. Yes, getting rid of the Fed all by itself would be a mistake, but getting rid of the Fed's reason for existence, regulating FRL, by getting rid of FRL, would get rid of economic mayhem. Well, it would anyway, as long as we replaced it with [see my sig].
Can any lawyer explain how "motive" is a necessary component of a crime, and must be demonstrated by the prosecution, but yet "motive" is not allowed to be addressed by the defense?
Except that Christianity is precisely where the blame belongs for citizens of the United States. Disingenuous twit.
>> shoved Metro in Windows Server 8
Wait, what? Microsoft still doesn't get it? Look, VMware does a lot of stuff wrong, but there is one thing that they got totally right, and it is so obviously correct that I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of it first: Install the server, (e.g. esxi host or server 8 kernal), on the server hardware with nothing user related but a get started wizard and a command line UI. Then provide a GUI application that runs on a regular Windows desktop and remotely controls the server. Why load all that UI cruft into your server installation - leave it in a Windows desktop where it belongs. Duh!
We need a wiki flavored, open sourcey, online repository of crowd-sourced legal documents.
Winamp? Yuck! Try VLC Player. Ahh... That's better!
>> in tobacco, the habituation is almost as bad as the physical withdrawal
No, in tobacco the habituation is much worse than the physical withdrawal. The physical withdrawal is due to nicotine. Nicotine is actually beneficial to your overall health, only not if you ingest it by inhaling burning tobacco smoke. Anyway, nicotine does have a physical dependency, but the withdrawal is a steady, mild craving that lasts about a week. Tobacco habituation, in contrast, is typically experienced as powerful "craving flashes" that strike the ex user up to 20 times per day at first, and take 6 months or more to finally cease. Chewing nicotine gum or wearing a patch is probably good for you, but the problem with the gum and patches for tobacco smokers going through withdrawals is that because their withdrawal from nicotine is extended, they experience greatly extended and more severe habituation withdrawals.
But when atheist socialists commit atrocities, everyone else jumps in and does what they can to end the carnage. OTOH, when religions do this shit, almost everyone soft pedals the condemnation out of "respect" for religion. As if it deserves any. Debasing one's intellect with the lies of "faith" deserves no respect.
>> like wind power, solar power, and hydro power.
Erm... "hydro" power? Correct me if I'm wrong, but, ah, wasn't that the... enhhh. Never mind.
You, more than any random million others have a duty to have children. Lots of them. If you don't what will happen? That's right, the percentage of people who can think will shrink yet again.
So since smoking is bad, who cares if smokers work in an asbestos mine? Stupid git!
It's good you posted AC, because if I knew where you lived, I'd kick your fucking ass!!!
Hey! Then you'd get to find out how crappy the for-profit insurance company model has made our health system, and you'd want to kick your own smug ass again. Win-win!
Well, actually you probably wouldn't. No doubt you are too stupid to recognize shit and its pathology. You'd probably be all, "We have such great health care in America!" You shit drooling moron.
You think you really know the whole truth of what happened on 9/11? You are a bigger fool than the people who think that those were not passenger jets that hit the towers. I have no idea what really happened, but I also would bet 10 to 1 that the official story has significant divergences from the truth. Start with Building 7. It is silly to think that somehow debris from the towers caused that building to collapse, but that is what we are told.
You really don't think someone pounding your head against the pavement could kill you? Ludicrous! I wouldn't hesitate to shoot someone doing that if I was the victim. If I was a bystander, the dude doing the pounding would get one verbal warning, and if he pounded the victim's head again, I would shoot him.
That said, Zimmerman was a damn fool for playing wanna be cop. Found guilty or not, he is going to pay a huge price for his foolishness. Such is the price of ill-considered action.
Of course the real criminals in this story are the local police in that town, and all across the US for that matter. Our police spend nearly all their time on law enforcement theater, and almost none on meaningful crime prevention.
Frys solved this a long time ago. They retape the item, mark it as "Open Box", knock off 5% on the price, and put it back on the shelf. I buy a lot of stuff there, return a lot of stuff there, keep a lot of purchases, and always look for the open box items to buy. Frys is not going out of business. I regularly drive 2 hours from Reno to Roseville to patronize Frys instead of the local BB. Hello?
Cutlasses never had transaxles.
Anyway, NO, we do not *need* the fed. Do you know what the fed actually does, i.e. its most fundamental duty? I bet not. The fed regulates and facilitates the banks' practice of fractional reserve lending. If we outlawed fractional reserve lending, badda-bing, we no longer need the fed. Why outlaw fractional reserve lending? To get rid of booms and busts.
Where are my mod points when I *want* them??? Damn it, your post is the best one I've read here in a long time. Bravo!
Still, electing Paul would be a huge improvement, if for only these two reasons: he would prevent the looming disaster of an Iranian invasion, and he would shake things up in a big way. Perhaps that shake up might catalyze the re-factoring whose lack you so cogently bemoan.
Let's call it the "criminal" system. The legal system includes civil courts and that is a whole 'nother kettle of [smelly, but not quite yet rotten] fish.
No! No! No!
That is precisely the party line of the pigs that run the show. It's actually a much simpler and goofier situation. Ask yourself this: "Why does nearly every single nation in the world use precisely the same monetary system, i.e. a central bank that administers the issuance of credit-based money?"
People? People are the hope and strength of the world!
The disruption involved in having to wean ourselves off fossil fuels is several orders of magnitude more catastrophic than any other disruption in the last 2k years. Our failure to acknowledge this assures a major die-off in the not too distant future. We will have to wean ourselves off them because it won't be long until the energy needed to harvest starts approaching the energy harvested. Instead of working right now to plan and implement the unavoidable changes coming we argue about global warming. What suckers!
Great post, but you really fucked up with that line, "And that oil is going to run out." When you say that, you create your own straw man for numbskulls to land on in their denial laden attacks on your very sound reasoning. Oil will never "run out". Instead what will indeed happen is that it will become so expensive to produce that we will no longer be able to sustain our population level. Note: the key metric for "expensive to produce" is how much inputted energy does it take on world-wide average to recover a give quantity of extracted energy. Find a chart tracking that over the years if you want to understand how dire our situation is becoming.
Our only hope is to start, RIGHT NOW, blanketing the land with fusion power plants. It's that fucking simple, and it should have happened years ago, but it will never happen. Worse, by the time the corrupt assholes who run the show realize what we are facing, the cost of oil will have exceeded the level at which we could still afford to implement this. Yes, some kind of technological miracle in solar power could change this outcome, but to count on that is foolish. Even then, what will it cost to implement some such theoretical solar solution? Again, by the time the solar option is realistically doable, our primary energy source will be too cost-prohibitive to allow the solar solution's implementation to proceed.
*cue the free market evangelists* The free market will solve these problems.
Indeed it will, and the conduit will be a substantial human die-off.
I was just diagnosed with cancer and am about to get laid off. Not because I am a bad worker, but because my company is going broke. If you get your way, I won't be able to buy insurance. Who's going to hire a guy in his late 50's with cancer? Thanks, you fucking asshole!