FBI=Government? Wow when did that happen? No body said unelected shadow government, I said an unelected shadow organization that is free to investigate the government might not be that bad of a thing in certain situations. But your right, things work out so well when the law enforcement follows the will of politicians in charge, look at what a bang up job they have done stopping fraud in business and lending.
I hate Hoover, but in a way he had a perverse logic that is tough to argue with. Shouldn't the FBI be able to be above even the president? Sure Felt was pissed and acted on his own interest to take down Nixon because he felt he was owed what Nixon took, but that doesn't mask the fact that the FBI had the power to do it. Today it has been politicized.
Wouldn't it be better to have a independent fiefdom that investigates terrorist, civil rights groups, and the president, rather than a group under the thumb of the executive branch that investigates just terrorist and civil rights groups?
Bush, Rummy, and Dick are beyond bias. They are confirmed mother fuckers. Comparing Obama's buds to Bush's is comparing a bag of trash to a fucking landfill filled with illegally dumped toxic waste. I guess you've had your head so far up your ass you don't notice all the shit hitting the fan around you.
Actually, the former pays better in the long run too. The big media like to point the finger at the web, but the decline in circulation and readership correlates better to the corporate mergers of news papers and the decline in quality in the 90's and early 2000's better than it fits any other metric.
This is why I love the people across the pond. The average intelligence is no greater, but they can still always look down on the USA.
The fact is you don't know shit about geopolitics. Read something other than Noam Chomsky. If you're trying to prove how bad ass other countries are it doesn't help your case when you say other countries are better than the USA mainly because the USA thinks it's better than everyone else.
I'm sorry for my language, but that persons example was pretty lame. People don't go to the Museum of Science and Industry to see shiny space things, they go because the interplay of force vectors, Kilo newtons and tensile strength interest them and it's nice to see what they can do. That is excluding the family on a day trip. BTW I don't love weapons of war, I like engineering, Hoover dam, Golden Gate and Palomar observatory are inspiring pieces of engineering, as is the USS Nimitz. It's just that people rarely feel the need to lay down everything and build something awesome unless they think their ass is on the line. Or their god-king starts whipping them.
I saw the Saturn-5 at the L.B.J. space center when I was five, I still cite it as one of the coolest things I've ever seen. You could touch it thats how close to it you are.
I've been inside of tanks, B-52's, subs, air-craft carriers and SR-17's that were decommissioned and beat to hell but were pretty awesome. No body gives a shit about the High Tech gloss, they care about the awesome engineering feats they are. Most people who are interested in the science and engineering of some of mankind's greatest projects don't really care about the fact that it's covered in oil.
If you go see the shuttle up close and your first thought is that it has a bad paint job, maybe you should just stick to playing with dolls.
Recent study, can't find link, took squirrels from cities and squirrels from the country side. Compared alleles, noticed definite shift between city and country. From this they concluded that the Town mouse and country mouse fable also seems to apply to squirrels.
Sigh, I'm no fan of the Fed's countercyclical monetary policy so it pains me to defend it, but your charges seem a bit off the mark.
This all has to do with inflation, marginal reserve banking and the confidence of the banks in lending. The Fed is not going to make the mistake they made during the "great contraction" and allow banks to fail and deflation to run rampant. The banks make the money supply by re-lending, They got scared stopped making loans, money supply shrinks and Bobs your uncle you have deflation. Deflation is bad, very bad.
The Fed system works through loans. They have issued loans. The loans will be repaid. It really isn't that big of a deal if the fed issued $10 trillion in loans(If they lent that much). They printed that money from thin air and lent it out to compensate for the contraction and deflation that would have happened due to the financial institutions failing.
Since it's printed money it would cause inflation if the economy was running well, but since it isn't the money that is put out will make up for the money the banks won't lend out due to fears about profit. It will hopefully keep business running where they need loans, and help the economy(thats the theory, seems to be working). The potential problem is, that things pick up and the Fed still has all this money lent out, causes massive inflation. But since these are loans, they will be repaid. The Fed would hope to start pulling back in all that freshly printed money and tossing it into a fire in time(hopefully) to keep inflation from happening.
you have to find out about the inner workings of the money system... once more lowered the interest rate. The dollar is now less than 0.25% away from being free
You don't even know how inflation works! And you want people to learn about the banking system? Why? So they can laugh at you?
Inflation is caused by a little more then just how much money the Fed prints. And how much inflation occurs has to do with the banking system, and if there is a signifigant Zero bound problem this may not be enough.
I'm no fan of counter cyclical monetary policy, but if you're going to critique the system you might want actually know what your talking about instead of parroting the John Birch society or wherever you get you kool-aid from.
Loopholes have a lot to do with it, a whole lot. They aren't making all those exotic things to keep busy, they are making them to shave a few points off the tax burden, or to sell risky debt for a higher price.
Mainly though it's is liability, security, and liquidity. You have a separate checking account and savings account for stability.
The bank can write off your savings as stable and secure to lend out, since they tend to be stable, where as checking accounts fluctuate wildly. The amount of interest paid reflects that.
Same with loans, you have different types of loans based on your security and the liquidity of the lender. The way you pull credit is what really matters. Commercial paper is drawing on your credit but in different way. It is cheaper because of where the money comes from. The roots run to different places.
You should think of banks and lending institutions as being like any business, they buy up money by offering security and interest payments cheaply, Then they add utility and loan it out for more then they paid. The more they can cater means the more added utility, hence profit for everyone. This Has Worked. The problems with the sub prime, derivatives, and alt-A's isn't from the selection being to large. It would be as if Starbucks was cutting their coffee with radiator fluid and when they got caught they paid off the inspector and told the press it was OK because they were giving coffee to poor people.
I wonder would it be possible to refine all of these issues into one economic model for all things like this into a two tier system where there are pipe(water, gas, info, power) providers and material providers?
That is, where installation and maintenance is done by construction companies without caring who's data, water, gas ect. runs through them, and are paid for by the providing companies who run the material through. With construction standards set by a state inspector to keep things up to code and consistent. That way by law the last mile would be free to any provider, bringing things closer to perfect competition. And would make the construction market of the pipes more competitive as the maintenance and construction would be done by smaller firms that only need to pass certification to start biding on maintenance jobs.
I'm not sure exactly what they do now, it seems similar but a lot more convoluted.
I'm not saying that would be the best, but it's an idea I'm throwing out. People talk about regulation as some abstract thing like good or evil, when at the basis the very laws punishing shoplifters is a form of regulation. Wat they should focus on is market and incentive structures created by legislation. And as they stand now the US's are in serious need of re-evaluation.
I don't knows what a compiler is and thats the way I likes it(not really).
I'm sure you may be right and thats your opinion, but Microsoft thinks the user is never too dumb and caters to their every ignorant need. They also make money hand over fist. You haven't convinced me, when I'm useing my computer i consider it a failure when ever I have to get out of my reclined position and type. right click-properties-disk space is not just an improvement, it's the floor, anything more complicated is into negative points. Call me stupid when it comes to OS's but I'm not, just really lazy. I don't want a free Tank that takes years to learn to operate, I want an automatic Honda civic that starts every time and doesn't break down even if it is a little slow. Ubuntu is the only distro that offers that that I've seen, and thats only in the last 2 years. From mine and most consumers I know perspectives, Linux has only now started to really exist. SUSE was a joke, Red Hat was a joke The biggest obstacle to overcome yet is the user experience, because with OS's function and form are nearly the same thing.
Thank you, thank you very much, that means a lot to me coming from an AC, thats the nicest thing an AC ever said to me. Thank you. I have to say though, I have never been to a riot at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Thats the best part about Ubuntu IMHO, I've never messed with the commandline, and have no idea what is going on back there, and frankly, I don't care. I tried SUSE about 2 years ago and deleted it within the week as Google earth wouldn't work. It really surprises me the attitude of Linux users. They seem to think that not wanting to install from the command line is a flaw in the consumer.
Well obviously it doesn't work. Too many false positives. that must be why children seem to think that all old people can't make decisions.
Or maybe it works spot on and we all really are crazy. Wait, maybe it's happening now! Was your post supposed to be sarcastic?!?! am I reading it right!! Maybe I have Dementia. Maybe you planed this ahead of time! Your out to get me I know it, YOU'RE ALL OUT TO GET ME...Wait, thats just paranoia, whew, I was worried there.
Ubuntu-EEE is nice. Ubuntu netbook remix in general is a steaming pile of shit. I just recently(6 months ago) switched to Ubuntu for PC, and it was sweat, but since it works so well I never got to experience all the compiling, installing from command line, man pages(whatever the fuck those ar), and other bullshit that has kept Linux on the fringe for so long. Not so with netbook remix. I might dump Ubuntu-EEE on my MSI, but I'd rather use a 250 meg. hacked XP or standard Ubuntu then have to fuck with the remix for hours. Is it really so hard for the people who make this stuff to make it in one image with an installer?
yes because a "country" is the end all be all. Since I just seceded my country has the highest per capita Internet connection "In The World," in fact, it's 1:1. Country doesn't mean shit. Demographics do. Comparing the demographically diverse US to very small "nation states" makes as much sense as comparing Texas to Chicago.
Yep, I would rather people compare it based on areas. If you were to take the Whole EU (pending members and possible members) and compare it, how well would the US fare? How would The us fair to western Europe if we were just to use the eastern sea board?
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FBI=Government? Wow when did that happen? No body said unelected shadow government, I said an unelected shadow organization that is free to investigate the government might not be that bad of a thing in certain situations. But your right, things work out so well when the law enforcement follows the will of politicians in charge, look at what a bang up job they have done stopping fraud in business and lending.
I hate Hoover, but in a way he had a perverse logic that is tough to argue with. Shouldn't the FBI be able to be above even the president? Sure Felt was pissed and acted on his own interest to take down Nixon because he felt he was owed what Nixon took, but that doesn't mask the fact that the FBI had the power to do it. Today it has been politicized.
Wouldn't it be better to have a independent fiefdom that investigates terrorist, civil rights groups, and the president, rather than a group under the thumb of the executive branch that investigates just terrorist and civil rights groups?
Bush, Rummy, and Dick are beyond bias. They are confirmed mother fuckers. Comparing Obama's buds to Bush's is comparing a bag of trash to a fucking landfill filled with illegally dumped toxic waste. I guess you've had your head so far up your ass you don't notice all the shit hitting the fan around you.
Actually, the former pays better in the long run too. The big media like to point the finger at the web, but the decline in circulation and readership correlates better to the corporate mergers of news papers and the decline in quality in the 90's and early 2000's better than it fits any other metric.
That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, since the trend lately has been to lie and run companies into the ground for profit on Wallstreet without producing anything of real value. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/03/breaking_the_news.html
This is why I love the people across the pond. The average intelligence is no greater, but they can still always look down on the USA.
The fact is you don't know shit about geopolitics. Read something other than Noam Chomsky. If you're trying to prove how bad ass other countries are it doesn't help your case when you say other countries are better than the USA mainly because the USA thinks it's better than everyone else.
I'm sorry for my language, but that persons example was pretty lame. People don't go to the Museum of Science and Industry to see shiny space things, they go because the interplay of force vectors, Kilo newtons and tensile strength interest them and it's nice to see what they can do. That is excluding the family on a day trip. BTW I don't love weapons of war, I like engineering, Hoover dam, Golden Gate and Palomar observatory are inspiring pieces of engineering, as is the USS Nimitz. It's just that people rarely feel the need to lay down everything and build something awesome unless they think their ass is on the line. Or their god-king starts whipping them.
I saw the Saturn-5 at the L.B.J. space center when I was five, I still cite it as one of the coolest things I've ever seen. You could touch it thats how close to it you are.
I've been inside of tanks, B-52's, subs, air-craft carriers and SR-17's that were decommissioned and beat to hell but were pretty awesome. No body gives a shit about the High Tech gloss, they care about the awesome engineering feats they are. Most people who are interested in the science and engineering of some of mankind's greatest projects don't really care about the fact that it's covered in oil.
If you go see the shuttle up close and your first thought is that it has a bad paint job, maybe you should just stick to playing with dolls.
Recent study, can't find link, took squirrels from cities and squirrels from the country side. Compared alleles, noticed definite shift between city and country. From this they concluded that the Town mouse and country mouse fable also seems to apply to squirrels.
That is to be expected, with the investors flushed with cash from expansionary monetary policy, and 8 years of pro supper rich government structuring.
They have more money then the market can bare them spending, or even saving, While the common man lose their jobs.
The question is, what caused this? I side with perverse incentive structures and a tax policy thats borders on regressive.
a new type of spam.
The question I have is how dose he know they read it? As I understand it, the key is making sure the person knows they have been served.
Sigh, I'm no fan of the Fed's countercyclical monetary policy so it pains me to defend it, but your charges seem a bit off the mark.
This all has to do with inflation, marginal reserve banking and the confidence of the banks in lending. The Fed is not going to make the mistake they made during the "great contraction" and allow banks to fail and deflation to run rampant. The banks make the money supply by re-lending, They got scared stopped making loans, money supply shrinks and Bobs your uncle you have deflation. Deflation is bad, very bad.
The Fed system works through loans. They have issued loans. The loans will be repaid. It really isn't that big of a deal if the fed issued $10 trillion in loans(If they lent that much). They printed that money from thin air and lent it out to compensate for the contraction and deflation that would have happened due to the financial institutions failing.
Since it's printed money it would cause inflation if the economy was running well, but since it isn't the money that is put out will make up for the money the banks won't lend out due to fears about profit. It will hopefully keep business running where they need loans, and help the economy(thats the theory, seems to be working). The potential problem is, that things pick up and the Fed still has all this money lent out, causes massive inflation. But since these are loans, they will be repaid. The Fed would hope to start pulling back in all that freshly printed money and tossing it into a fire in time(hopefully) to keep inflation from happening.
you have to find out about the inner workings of the money system ... once more lowered the interest rate. The dollar is now less than 0.25% away from being free
You don't even know how inflation works! And you want people to learn about the banking system? Why? So they can laugh at you? Inflation is caused by a little more then just how much money the Fed prints. And how much inflation occurs has to do with the banking system, and if there is a signifigant Zero bound problem this may not be enough.
I'm no fan of counter cyclical monetary policy, but if you're going to critique the system you might want actually know what your talking about instead of parroting the John Birch society or wherever you get you kool-aid from.
Loopholes have a lot to do with it, a whole lot. They aren't making all those exotic things to keep busy, they are making them to shave a few points off the tax burden, or to sell risky debt for a higher price.
Mainly though it's is liability, security, and liquidity. You have a separate checking account and savings account for stability.
The bank can write off your savings as stable and secure to lend out, since they tend to be stable, where as checking accounts fluctuate wildly. The amount of interest paid reflects that.
Same with loans, you have different types of loans based on your security and the liquidity of the lender. The way you pull credit is what really matters. Commercial paper is drawing on your credit but in different way. It is cheaper because of where the money comes from. The roots run to different places.
You should think of banks and lending institutions as being like any business, they buy up money by offering security and interest payments cheaply, Then they add utility and loan it out for more then they paid. The more they can cater means the more added utility, hence profit for everyone. This Has Worked. The problems with the sub prime, derivatives, and alt-A's isn't from the selection being to large. It would be as if Starbucks was cutting their coffee with radiator fluid and when they got caught they paid off the inspector and told the press it was OK because they were giving coffee to poor people.
I wonder would it be possible to refine all of these issues into one economic model for all things like this into a two tier system where there are pipe(water, gas, info, power) providers and material providers? That is, where installation and maintenance is done by construction companies without caring who's data, water, gas ect. runs through them, and are paid for by the providing companies who run the material through. With construction standards set by a state inspector to keep things up to code and consistent. That way by law the last mile would be free to any provider, bringing things closer to perfect competition. And would make the construction market of the pipes more competitive as the maintenance and construction would be done by smaller firms that only need to pass certification to start biding on maintenance jobs.
I'm not sure exactly what they do now, it seems similar but a lot more convoluted.
I'm not saying that would be the best, but it's an idea I'm throwing out. People talk about regulation as some abstract thing like good or evil, when at the basis the very laws punishing shoplifters is a form of regulation. Wat they should focus on is market and incentive structures created by legislation. And as they stand now the US's are in serious need of re-evaluation.
I don't knows what a compiler is and thats the way I likes it(not really).
I'm sure you may be right and thats your opinion, but Microsoft thinks the user is never too dumb and caters to their every ignorant need. They also make money hand over fist. You haven't convinced me, when I'm useing my computer i consider it a failure when ever I have to get out of my reclined position and type. right click-properties-disk space is not just an improvement, it's the floor, anything more complicated is into negative points. Call me stupid when it comes to OS's but I'm not, just really lazy. I don't want a free Tank that takes years to learn to operate, I want an automatic Honda civic that starts every time and doesn't break down even if it is a little slow. Ubuntu is the only distro that offers that that I've seen, and thats only in the last 2 years. From mine and most consumers I know perspectives, Linux has only now started to really exist. SUSE was a joke, Red Hat was a joke The biggest obstacle to overcome yet is the user experience, because with OS's function and form are nearly the same thing.
Thank you, thank you very much, that means a lot to me coming from an AC, thats the nicest thing an AC ever said to me. Thank you. I have to say though, I have never been to a riot at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Thats the best part about Ubuntu IMHO, I've never messed with the commandline, and have no idea what is going on back there, and frankly, I don't care. I tried SUSE about 2 years ago and deleted it within the week as Google earth wouldn't work. It really surprises me the attitude of Linux users. They seem to think that not wanting to install from the command line is a flaw in the consumer.
Puberty?
Actually i think this is better: EO3
NO this would be a goatse )o(
Well obviously it doesn't work. Too many false positives. that must be why children seem to think that all old people can't make decisions.
Or maybe it works spot on and we all really are crazy. Wait, maybe it's happening now! Was your post supposed to be sarcastic?!?! am I reading it right!! Maybe I have Dementia. Maybe you planed this ahead of time! Your out to get me I know it, YOU'RE ALL OUT TO GET ME...Wait, thats just paranoia, whew, I was worried there.
Ubuntu-EEE is nice. Ubuntu netbook remix in general is a steaming pile of shit. I just recently(6 months ago) switched to Ubuntu for PC, and it was sweat, but since it works so well I never got to experience all the compiling, installing from command line, man pages(whatever the fuck those ar), and other bullshit that has kept Linux on the fringe for so long. Not so with netbook remix. I might dump Ubuntu-EEE on my MSI, but I'd rather use a 250 meg. hacked XP or standard Ubuntu then have to fuck with the remix for hours. Is it really so hard for the people who make this stuff to make it in one image with an installer?
Actually to test this out I added together all the EU countries on the list, not so close 1.16 was my result.
yes because a "country" is the end all be all. Since I just seceded my country has the highest per capita Internet connection "In The World," in fact, it's 1:1. Country doesn't mean shit. Demographics do. Comparing the demographically diverse US to very small "nation states" makes as much sense as comparing Texas to Chicago.
Yep, I would rather people compare it based on areas. If you were to take the Whole EU (pending members and possible members) and compare it, how well would the US fare? How would The us fair to western Europe if we were just to use the eastern sea board?