Well, wait a minute, what is the tail is and what is the dog? Sure the Fed reports to the "government", but that is the same government that is elected via the campaign contributions of the wealthy - who might also, you think, be the owners of the Fed.
Yeah, Paul isn't even much of a libertarian. However, even with all his poorly thought out positions and the Austrian nonsense, he at least seems to me a man who is uncynically true to his openly expressed notions. Considering that, quite a contrast between him and most of the rest of congress who are only true, in private, to the largest donors.
Your heart is in the right place, but you don't understand how the Fed works. It doesn't really print money - mostly that is done by private banks via the mechanism of fractional reserve lending. Regulating FRL is the Fed's purpose and that is where the evil comes in. However if we were to end FRL and go on the gold standard at the same time, we wouldn't last 5 years. As for deflation, no, it is not "great". I'll tell you what would be great: steady predictable growth, just like population. No bubbles, no crashes. How to get that? Read my sig. Economics, like relativety, was all figured out around the begginning of the 20th century, only unlike relativety, with economics the truth has been surpressed. The "Einstein" in this case is a man named Clifford Hugh Douglas.
I know your heart is in the right place, but the fact of the matter is that in the United States, banks have always been able to engage in fractional reserve lending. Whereever FRL is allowed, the basis of the currency, whether it be a commodity like gold, or credit as we do now, is pretty much irrelevant. So to say that the United States was on the gold standard is not really correct. If a nation was truly on the gold standard, i.e. with now FRL allowed, it wouldn't last 10 years.
Please don't read the above to conclude that I think FRL is a good thing. IMO it has caused more human suffering than any other thing one can name. Please have a look at my sig. Social Credit is what you are looking for, not the gold standard.
The Supermicro SC936E26-R1200B Storage Chassis holds 16 3.5" drives. (This same chassis comes in cheaper models, but the savings are not worth the compromises - learned that one the hard way.) Then get an appropriate motherboard, memory, processor, and an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e raid card. Set up your Seagate Barracuda XT drives in Raid 60 drive groups, say 8 drives to a raid 6 stripe You'll get up to 2 stripes, so with 6 data drives per stripe that's up to 12 data drives in the chassis. At 2 terabytes per drive that's 24 terabytes, or with the new 3TB drives, that's 36 terabytes of reasonable performance, cost effective, dead reliable storage. That's not enough? Add up to 6 additional chassis to plug into your LSI card, (no motherboard needed), for a total of nearly a quarter exabyte. If you want a different cost/performance ratio substitute 5200 rpm drives, or Hitachis or whatever, and/or make smaller or larger Raid 6 stripes.
They don't fucking care who buys what! They don't fucking have to anymore. If you don't unquestionably support the police, you are a terrorist to be taken in the dark of night to Guantanamo or some other hell hole, never to be seen again. America: it was nice while it lasted. (Well anyway, it was nice if you were a white adult male landowner back in the day.)
In such a situation as these people find themselves, having as many children as one can manage to is embracing hope and rejecting despair. The fact that such a huge majority of westerners fail to empathize with this fundemental expression of human nature is profoundly disturbing. One begins to understand why some westerners find such enthralling fulfillment by embracing, e.g. African cultures, in some sort of beneficial role - not so much, one strongly now suspects, for the satisfaction due to whatever beneficial accomplishments accrue, but more likely in truth from abandoning the soul sick society from which they came, to immerse themselves in an a fundementally different society, which, while cruely perilous in the extreme, at least understands what "humanity" truly implies.
More: what about targets related to the US Federal Government and it's fellow travelers? Does any thoughtful person really not find the trend of government in the US not abhorent, with ever more blatent abuses of its sacred trust? To attack such an institution that has first attacked you by betraying your trust seems only to be self defense and therefore noble.
Why is it "bullshit" for people with no hope for anything but being used as grist for very cynical and cruel mills, to attack, in a non-life-threating manner, the instututions that enslave them. I'd say it's pretty damn noble. If said institutions do not mend their ways, (fat chance...), later it will be with pitchforks, and that will be a lot more painful for both sides.
This is so freaking hard because every legal issue has become based upon irrational analysis of reality. It started with drug laws at around the turn of the last century and metastasized from there. No wonder we all feel like terminal cancer patients - we are one!
That the free market all by itself will provide all of man's needs is a beautiful idea. We have developed an industrial culture that works very well as long as there is relatively inexpensive energy on the market - inexpensive relative to human labor. As fossil fuels become more and more scarce, energy will become more and more expensive relative to human labor. Non fossil fuel alternatives exist to functionally replace inexpensive fossil fuels, but such alternatives require massive capital investment to build the required infrastructure, plus building such infrastructure will require a very lead long time relative to the speed with which eventually the price of fossil fuels will be rising. The result will be a very rapid rise in the price of food relative to the average income of citizens. But, hey, if you can't afford to buy food in a free market, why don't you just die off and reduce the surplus population. Or you can use government as a proxy for your thieving soul as you steal the food from your betters. Well, better, not in the sense that such people had the foresight to see the inevitable outcome of such trends in context, and take steps to avoid being the few with food in a sea of starvation, no, not that much better, just better enough to be the last to starve. This line of speculation demands consideration: what steps could the most productive people in a society take to avoid such a doomsday scenario? Speak up, priests of the religion of the free market! What steps can highly productive people take to avoid the plight I describe? I know: acquire private armies with which to slay the hungry. Winner!
Oh for fuck's sake. The UK is a tiny little nation. That is why, HELLO?, it runs better than the US which is a, wait for it, a great big nation. Dee Yew Aitch!
Actually, yes that was precisely their problem. If an enterprise can not hold its competitors up to the light of day, and then demonstrate why it is superior, then they are not in "business", but are parasites.
Beginning? You think? We have looked like total fucking idiots ever since the end of WWII. Yeah, yeah, the Soviet Union, the Moon OK, that's two for us. But the one hundred thousand fuckups that went along with those two "wins" carry a bit more weight.
"Performance"? Perhaps, but in the real world of operating a desktop OS, there is no comparison. My last platter disk system was four 15K sas drives in Raid 0. I had to put them in another room, the noise was so dreadful. Then I got my first, cheap, crappy, SSD. Night and fucking day!!! No "performance" test, just run the OS, click on stuff, do things, and how does the system respond? Night and fucking day! I suppose that with certain loads the SSDs' performance will degrade, but I DON'T SEE IT.
Yes, but let them offer plea deals. However, once a plea deal is offered, whatever punishment was offered with the deal should be the max. People would still be (reasonably, instead of frightened to death like under the current system) motivated to take the deal because they would not have to pay a lawyer to defend themselves in a trial.
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Well, wait a minute, what is the tail is and what is the dog? Sure the Fed reports to the "government", but that is the same government that is elected via the campaign contributions of the wealthy - who might also, you think, be the owners of the Fed.
Yeah, Paul isn't even much of a libertarian. However, even with all his poorly thought out positions and the Austrian nonsense, he at least seems to me a man who is uncynically true to his openly expressed notions. Considering that, quite a contrast between him and most of the rest of congress who are only true, in private, to the largest donors.
Your heart is in the right place, but you don't understand how the Fed works. It doesn't really print money - mostly that is done by private banks via the mechanism of fractional reserve lending. Regulating FRL is the Fed's purpose and that is where the evil comes in. However if we were to end FRL and go on the gold standard at the same time, we wouldn't last 5 years. As for deflation, no, it is not "great". I'll tell you what would be great: steady predictable growth, just like population. No bubbles, no crashes. How to get that? Read my sig. Economics, like relativety, was all figured out around the begginning of the 20th century, only unlike relativety, with economics the truth has been surpressed. The "Einstein" in this case is a man named Clifford Hugh Douglas.
I know your heart is in the right place, but the fact of the matter is that in the United States, banks have always been able to engage in fractional reserve lending. Whereever FRL is allowed, the basis of the currency, whether it be a commodity like gold, or credit as we do now, is pretty much irrelevant. So to say that the United States was on the gold standard is not really correct. If a nation was truly on the gold standard, i.e. with now FRL allowed, it wouldn't last 10 years.
Please don't read the above to conclude that I think FRL is a good thing. IMO it has caused more human suffering than any other thing one can name. Please have a look at my sig. Social Credit is what you are looking for, not the gold standard.
The Supermicro SC936E26-R1200B Storage Chassis holds 16 3.5" drives. (This same chassis comes in cheaper models, but the savings are not worth the compromises - learned that one the hard way.) Then get an appropriate motherboard, memory, processor, and an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e raid card. Set up your Seagate Barracuda XT drives in Raid 60 drive groups, say 8 drives to a raid 6 stripe You'll get up to 2 stripes, so with 6 data drives per stripe that's up to 12 data drives in the chassis. At 2 terabytes per drive that's 24 terabytes, or with the new 3TB drives, that's 36 terabytes of reasonable performance, cost effective, dead reliable storage. That's not enough? Add up to 6 additional chassis to plug into your LSI card, (no motherboard needed), for a total of nearly a quarter exabyte. If you want a different cost/performance ratio substitute 5200 rpm drives, or Hitachis or whatever, and/or make smaller or larger Raid 6 stripes.
Don't tell *anyone* where the thing is!
It'll be interesting to see how long this hotbed of terrorism, (the youth program), continues. I'm calling Fox News on you pinkos.
They don't fucking care who buys what! They don't fucking have to anymore. If you don't unquestionably support the police, you are a terrorist to be taken in the dark of night to Guantanamo or some other hell hole, never to be seen again. America: it was nice while it lasted. (Well anyway, it was nice if you were a white adult male landowner back in the day.)
Relious people can never wake up. Then they would have to open their eyes, and what they would see might conflict with their fantasies.
In such a situation as these people find themselves, having as many children as one can manage to is embracing hope and rejecting despair. The fact that such a huge majority of westerners fail to empathize with this fundemental expression of human nature is profoundly disturbing. One begins to understand why some westerners find such enthralling fulfillment by embracing, e.g. African cultures, in some sort of beneficial role - not so much, one strongly now suspects, for the satisfaction due to whatever beneficial accomplishments accrue, but more likely in truth from abandoning the soul sick society from which they came, to immerse themselves in an a fundementally different society, which, while cruely perilous in the extreme, at least understands what "humanity" truly implies.
More: what about targets related to the US Federal Government and it's fellow travelers? Does any thoughtful person really not find the trend of government in the US not abhorent, with ever more blatent abuses of its sacred trust? To attack such an institution that has first attacked you by betraying your trust seems only to be self defense and therefore noble.
Why is it "bullshit" for people with no hope for anything but being used as grist for very cynical and cruel mills, to attack, in a non-life-threating manner, the instututions that enslave them. I'd say it's pretty damn noble. If said institutions do not mend their ways, (fat chance...), later it will be with pitchforks, and that will be a lot more painful for both sides.
If you broke into a closet and stole soap, you'd be charged with trespass and petty theft, and given probation on a first offence, not Federal PMITAP.
This is so freaking hard because every legal issue has become based upon irrational analysis of reality. It started with drug laws at around the turn of the last century and metastasized from there. No wonder we all feel like terminal cancer patients - we are one!
That the free market all by itself will provide all of man's needs is a beautiful idea. We have developed an industrial culture that works very well as long as there is relatively inexpensive energy on the market - inexpensive relative to human labor. As fossil fuels become more and more scarce, energy will become more and more expensive relative to human labor. Non fossil fuel alternatives exist to functionally replace inexpensive fossil fuels, but such alternatives require massive capital investment to build the required infrastructure, plus building such infrastructure will require a very lead long time relative to the speed with which eventually the price of fossil fuels will be rising. The result will be a very rapid rise in the price of food relative to the average income of citizens. But, hey, if you can't afford to buy food in a free market, why don't you just die off and reduce the surplus population. Or you can use government as a proxy for your thieving soul as you steal the food from your betters. Well, better, not in the sense that such people had the foresight to see the inevitable outcome of such trends in context, and take steps to avoid being the few with food in a sea of starvation, no, not that much better, just better enough to be the last to starve. This line of speculation demands consideration: what steps could the most productive people in a society take to avoid such a doomsday scenario? Speak up, priests of the religion of the free market! What steps can highly productive people take to avoid the plight I describe? I know: acquire private armies with which to slay the hungry. Winner!
Jorma Kaukonen is the King of the Neanderthals.
Oh for fuck's sake. The UK is a tiny little nation. That is why, HELLO?, it runs better than the US which is a, wait for it, a great big nation. Dee Yew Aitch!
Wake up dumb ass - nobody in the government has had to 'splain shit for years now.
Actually, yes that was precisely their problem. If an enterprise can not hold its competitors up to the light of day, and then demonstrate why it is superior, then they are not in "business", but are parasites.
>> beginning to look silly
Beginning? You think? We have looked like total fucking idiots ever since the end of WWII. Yeah, yeah, the Soviet Union, the Moon OK, that's two for us. But the one hundred thousand fuckups that went along with those two "wins" carry a bit more weight.
death "knell", not "nail".
>> ...Escher
Superb!
"Performance"? Perhaps, but in the real world of operating a desktop OS, there is no comparison. My last platter disk system was four 15K sas drives in Raid 0. I had to put them in another room, the noise was so dreadful. Then I got my first, cheap, crappy, SSD. Night and fucking day!!! No "performance" test, just run the OS, click on stuff, do things, and how does the system respond? Night and fucking day! I suppose that with certain loads the SSDs' performance will degrade, but I DON'T SEE IT.
>> This man is truly a depraved and evil person.
Well, maybe, or maybe he is more of a borderline schizophrenic. I mean, Hannibal Lecter, he sure ain't. So isn't he more to be pitied than feared?
You should have put the last one first!
Yes, but let them offer plea deals. However, once a plea deal is offered, whatever punishment was offered with the deal should be the max. People would still be (reasonably, instead of frightened to death like under the current system) motivated to take the deal because they would not have to pay a lawyer to defend themselves in a trial.