You are confused about what "inflation" means. If there are more goods and services to purchase, then without more money with which to purchase them, prices fall. That is deflation. By the same token, if only the right amount of new money is introduced, then prices stay the same. No inflation, no deflation, and yet more money was printed. See how that works?
Powerful entities have suborned the science of economics to encourage the kind of illogic you propound. It's not your fault - you are a victim of a powerful and insidious conspiracy.
But what you are all missing is the problem with the system you describe: When money is credit based, this gives private entities the ability to create booms by making high volumes of loans, and then to trigger busts by refusing to make loans. This power, which is a direct result of credit based money via fractional reserve lending, has caused more human suffering than all the despots of history combined!
The answer is to instead have the government directly create a modest amount of new money each year and distribute that money directly to the citizens, an equal amount per capita. The trick is to have the amount of new money introduced each year strictly controlled by a formula that is related to the nation's productivity gains. Banks would be prohibited from lending any money except their capital invested by their owners.
The system I describe would result in a real-world utopia. My sig is a pointer to more information on these concepts.
Credit is necessary, but fractional reserve credit is the purest poison, well, next to a rigorously implemented gold standard - nothing is worse than that!
I have read lots of summaries of Ron Paul's views that are very critical of him, and not once have I read that he lacks an understanding of basic economics. For a fact, he does not understand basic economics, but my point is that you are wrong to attribute his poor showing to that. However, at this point in time, with an invasion of Iran in the offing, Ron Paul is by far the best candidate from either party, as he is the only one who would not carry out said invasion! Hello?
The way we impose liability insurance is so fucking stupid. What we SHOULD do is add the cost of it at the pump. Bam! No more uninsured motorists. The state negotiates purchases of huge blocks of insurance at a huge discount, and on and on with the benefits to this!
By the way, you don't get it either. Fiat money is the only kind you want. If a nation ever tried to hew to a strict gold standard, it wouldn't last 5 years.
The key letter here is the "s" on the end of the word "corporations". You are confusing evidence of corporate in-fighting for evidence that the government is somehow still of, for, and by the people.
Your fucking kidding, right? "They" "talk" about all sorts of shit, but what they *do* is something else entirely. The Supreme Court has thrown the people and the Bill of Rights down the well. We don't have habeas corpus any more, nor due process, nor the right to a speedy jury trial, yet there have been no Amendments to permit this to happen. What does the Supreme Court do? Nothing. Wake the fuck up!
Yes, and his ideas about economics are balderdash too, but he is the only candidate who, if elected, would bring the troops home! The rest is trivial. Every Democrat should be registering as a Republican and voting for Paul in the primary!!
Military intelligence has been shown to be grossly wrong, (see Iraq), so we just take their word on the presence and degree of rabid craziness? I don't buy it.
The only thing I have had stolen from me in the last 20 years was a camera out of my checked bag when I had to change planes at the last minute, and so got flagged for increased security. Bunch of fucking thieves!
This is perhaps the stupidest thing Microsoft has ever done. Build a gui into a server os? No, that is not necessary, but for Christ's sake build a gui based operational ui that runs on windows clients and gives the admin control of the sever os installation. Duh... All the cli snobbery is nothing but that: snobbery. It's beyond retarded.
The search UI is weak sauce and getting weaker. The only app UI that is any good is Maps. (Which is very good - those guys should run the company!) Postini totally sucks. And now they are enforcing a moronic password policy on Google accounts - "Please use a password you haven't already used." Derrr. The pointy hair count is rising in Mountain View!
The practice of religion is the denigration of all that it means to be human. One takes one's mind and pushes the pause button. Then, instead of dying, no mind == dead person, one keeps walking and talking. Worse: one goes on the rampage to convince others, children even(!), to join them in zombiehood. Sounds like pure evil to me!
This got modded funny because even here people don't know what MUMPS is. MUMPS code is crap, but the underlying database technology is the bomb! Stupid Cache is the only commercial version and it is shitty too, but if anyone ever does a good version of MUMPS, that will put Oracle out of business in minutes.
I call bullshit on this. XP is not particularly any more dangerous than other OSs. It is not idiot proof, but nothing is idiot proof. And the "patches"? After SP2 they are all just there to subtly cripple the installation so that Vista/7 don't seem so bad. I ran XP64 for years with no patches beyond SP2 and never had a problem unless I stupidly clicked on something I shouldn't have.
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You are confused about what "inflation" means. If there are more goods and services to purchase, then without more money with which to purchase them, prices fall. That is deflation. By the same token, if only the right amount of new money is introduced, then prices stay the same. No inflation, no deflation, and yet more money was printed. See how that works?
Powerful entities have suborned the science of economics to encourage the kind of illogic you propound. It's not your fault - you are a victim of a powerful and insidious conspiracy.
Take the red pill. My sig points the way...
But what you are all missing is the problem with the system you describe: When money is credit based, this gives private entities the ability to create booms by making high volumes of loans, and then to trigger busts by refusing to make loans. This power, which is a direct result of credit based money via fractional reserve lending, has caused more human suffering than all the despots of history combined!
The answer is to instead have the government directly create a modest amount of new money each year and distribute that money directly to the citizens, an equal amount per capita. The trick is to have the amount of new money introduced each year strictly controlled by a formula that is related to the nation's productivity gains. Banks would be prohibited from lending any money except their capital invested by their owners.
The system I describe would result in a real-world utopia. My sig is a pointer to more information on these concepts.
Credit is necessary, but fractional reserve credit is the purest poison, well, next to a rigorously implemented gold standard - nothing is worse than that!
I have read lots of summaries of Ron Paul's views that are very critical of him, and not once have I read that he lacks an understanding of basic economics. For a fact, he does not understand basic economics, but my point is that you are wrong to attribute his poor showing to that. However, at this point in time, with an invasion of Iran in the offing, Ron Paul is by far the best candidate from either party, as he is the only one who would not carry out said invasion! Hello?
It's not money up in smoke if you are a defense contractor executive!
The way we impose liability insurance is so fucking stupid. What we SHOULD do is add the cost of it at the pump. Bam! No more uninsured motorists. The state negotiates purchases of huge blocks of insurance at a huge discount, and on and on with the benefits to this!
Sounds to me like exactly what is needed as a building block with which to build a self-aware AI.
By the way, you don't get it either. Fiat money is the only kind you want. If a nation ever tried to hew to a strict gold standard, it wouldn't last 5 years.
That's what's so cool about the money scam. No one gets it and no one ever will. It is indeed the perfect crime.
The key letter here is the "s" on the end of the word "corporations". You are confusing evidence of corporate in-fighting for evidence that the government is somehow still of, for, and by the people.
couple minutes. FTFY
Your fucking kidding, right? "They" "talk" about all sorts of shit, but what they *do* is something else entirely. The Supreme Court has thrown the people and the Bill of Rights down the well. We don't have habeas corpus any more, nor due process, nor the right to a speedy jury trial, yet there have been no Amendments to permit this to happen. What does the Supreme Court do? Nothing. Wake the fuck up!
Yes, and his ideas about economics are balderdash too, but he is the only candidate who, if elected, would bring the troops home! The rest is trivial. Every Democrat should be registering as a Republican and voting for Paul in the primary!!
putting alleged rabid crazies out...
Military intelligence has been shown to be grossly wrong, (see Iraq), so we just take their word on the presence and degree of rabid craziness? I don't buy it.
SpiderOak needs to have an "accident".
- DHS
Yeah, so because Flight 77 was really flown into the Pentagon, that explains how Building 7 came down. DHS Sockpuppet much?
The only thing I have had stolen from me in the last 20 years was a camera out of my checked bag when I had to change planes at the last minute, and so got flagged for increased security. Bunch of fucking thieves!
This is perhaps the stupidest thing Microsoft has ever done. Build a gui into a server os? No, that is not necessary, but for Christ's sake build a gui based operational ui that runs on windows clients and gives the admin control of the sever os installation. Duh... All the cli snobbery is nothing but that: snobbery. It's beyond retarded.
Iran Ho!
Thanks for the crumbs! Can I have some water to go with them?
The search UI is weak sauce and getting weaker. The only app UI that is any good is Maps. (Which is very good - those guys should run the company!) Postini totally sucks. And now they are enforcing a moronic password policy on Google accounts - "Please use a password you haven't already used." Derrr. The pointy hair count is rising in Mountain View!
The practice of religion is the denigration of all that it means to be human. One takes one's mind and pushes the pause button. Then, instead of dying, no mind == dead person, one keeps walking and talking. Worse: one goes on the rampage to convince others, children even(!), to join them in zombiehood. Sounds like pure evil to me!
Social Credit is the ultimate expression of the sentiments you express. Have a look at the links my sig points you to. It is fascinating stuff.
This got modded funny because even here people don't know what MUMPS is. MUMPS code is crap, but the underlying database technology is the bomb! Stupid Cache is the only commercial version and it is shitty too, but if anyone ever does a good version of MUMPS, that will put Oracle out of business in minutes.
I call bullshit on this. XP is not particularly any more dangerous than other OSs. It is not idiot proof, but nothing is idiot proof. And the "patches"? After SP2 they are all just there to subtly cripple the installation so that Vista/7 don't seem so bad. I ran XP64 for years with no patches beyond SP2 and never had a problem unless I stupidly clicked on something I shouldn't have.