Well let me tell you from ground zero here in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, I've been watching the tyrannical creep for some years now. The latest in melbourne is that buskers are to be licensed, and must pass talent auditions!! hehe. This is clearly unlawful. Before long, Polic(y) officers will be able to claim that you made a singing sound without a license, and throw you in a FEMA concetration camp. I believe it's a very long term incremental squeeze by the lefties, much like in the US and UK.
By the way, I think it's time people woke up and realised that all of these bullshit fines are only enforceable under law if you accept them. The morons creating these nanny rules are just a private corporation (do your research! They do not represent you at all). If you receive a fine or bill (same thing) and respond to it making excuses, you tacitly accept contract with the corporation that issued you the bill or fine. Then it is enforceable under maritime law (look up common law vs admiralty (contract) law, because you have accepted their corporate Statutes. Send them all back with "Return To Sender - motion denied".
Come on slashdotters, read a bit of history, this is nothing new. "I cometh to save you from your sins". Burn 'climate deniers' at the stake if they could? I'll leave the science to Lord Christopher Monkton. I have code to debug!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTFUqhGkU3c
Could they have picked a more stereotypical "Revenge of the Nerds" character to read the autocue? hehe
I felt like cream-pieing him in the first 10 seconds.
The dilemma sprouts from the fact that we are in transit from being purely animal to purely spiritual (matter to meta-physical). Wherein, the animal is constituent of it's physical and survival characteristics, and the metap-physical is the transcendant consciousness to which we seem to be heading.
As for this guy, he sounds like a complete fucking twat and I'd happy to strangle him for animal reasons!
The best kind of stimulus is the kind of stimulus that puts people in jobs.
Load of nonsense. Bleeding the money from private enterprise (ie taxes) to 'stimulate' parts of the economy only takes money away from other parts. This is called misallocation of capital because the power of the market is stifled, and always leads to LOSS of jobs, because the 'economy' of money is put in the hands of idiots.
The desires and needs of millions of people are at the root of a truely free market. A handful of useless beurocrats by definition cannot best allocate capital.
"Stimulus" is just a new word for the same old trick of stealing public money to line the pockets of your friends. Every dollar of capital misallocation will prolong Depression 2.0.
If there is a market for space travel (between paycheques), private enterprise will find it and do it efficiently, for far less.
There is no such thing as free. Even someone who has absolutely no interest in money at all is not working for free. They're doing it for certain gratification. It's harder to translate such feelings into denominations of currency 'value', but all the same it is a tangible gain.
Now when you say that Research isn't profitable, you make a grave mistake. The dynamic you miss is time. Even selling a potato is not 'profitable' for a period of time (ie until you spend the gain on something tangible). The profitability of Research is hard to doubt, except for the short sighted.
The key concept to understand is 'value'. The question has to be asked, "value in terms of doing what?". The most obvious answer is "to buy stuff". Gold historically maintains it's purchasing power in relation to paper currencies. What you see is when the Dollar drops, gold goes up. What's really happening is not that gold is worth more, it's in fact just maintaining it's purchasing power, whereas the dollar is losing it's purchasing power.
You're surprised that retailers have a profit margin over the manufacturers price? I think you're just bewildered that people might even want to own gold. You have a lot to learn my son;]
In actuality, the paper money you trust is 'marked-up' constantly and behind your back. The value of the US dollar has lost more than 90% of it's value in the last 100 years. How?...
It's called monetary inflation, the greatest secret tax ever conceived. Government deliberately prints more money than the GDP justifies and waters down that paper in your pocket and in the bank. You think 5% depositor's interest is making you money? Think again. See the *real* inflation at http://www.shadowstats.com/ and see that you are earning *negative* interest. ie. You are being robbed.
Gold maintains it's purchasing power for a number of reasons, paper money does not.
Learn about gold, and how invariably ALL paper money becomes an elite tool to steal from the middle class, over a long period of time. We are very close to the inevitable collapse now. If you don't think it's inevitable, read history. All paper money collapses, it's just a matter of time. You think it's different this time? How? Has greed and corruption been bred out of the human race?
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Lolz... Denial Of Service condition at time of posting.... could it be dying a natural death? :)
Picture of Senator Conroy threatening to forcibly penetrate the Australian public with his massive NBN. Legal or not legal?
Well let me tell you from ground zero here in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, I've been watching the tyrannical creep for some years now. The latest in melbourne is that buskers are to be licensed, and must pass talent auditions!! hehe. This is clearly unlawful. Before long, Polic(y) officers will be able to claim that you made a singing sound without a license, and throw you in a FEMA concetration camp. I believe it's a very long term incremental squeeze by the lefties, much like in the US and UK.
By the way, I think it's time people woke up and realised that all of these bullshit fines are only enforceable under law if you accept them. The morons creating these nanny rules are just a private corporation (do your research! They do not represent you at all). If you receive a fine or bill (same thing) and respond to it making excuses, you tacitly accept contract with the corporation that issued you the bill or fine. Then it is enforceable under maritime law (look up common law vs admiralty (contract) law, because you have accepted their corporate Statutes. Send them all back with "Return To Sender - motion denied".
Slow site but great info for my comrades -> http://www.flightoffire.com.au/articles/2-leading-edge-research/66-addressing-speeding-fines
Come on slashdotters, read a bit of history, this is nothing new. "I cometh to save you from your sins". Burn 'climate deniers' at the stake if they could? I'll leave the science to Lord Christopher Monkton. I have code to debug! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTFUqhGkU3c
Could they have picked a more stereotypical "Revenge of the Nerds" character to read the autocue? hehe I felt like cream-pieing him in the first 10 seconds.
The dilemma sprouts from the fact that we are in transit from being purely animal to purely spiritual (matter to meta-physical). Wherein, the animal is constituent of it's physical and survival characteristics, and the metap-physical is the transcendant consciousness to which we seem to be heading. As for this guy, he sounds like a complete fucking twat and I'd happy to strangle him for animal reasons!
The best kind of stimulus is the kind of stimulus that puts people in jobs.
Load of nonsense. Bleeding the money from private enterprise (ie taxes) to 'stimulate' parts of the economy only takes money away from other parts. This is called misallocation of capital because the power of the market is stifled, and always leads to LOSS of jobs, because the 'economy' of money is put in the hands of idiots. The desires and needs of millions of people are at the root of a truely free market. A handful of useless beurocrats by definition cannot best allocate capital. "Stimulus" is just a new word for the same old trick of stealing public money to line the pockets of your friends. Every dollar of capital misallocation will prolong Depression 2.0. If there is a market for space travel (between paycheques), private enterprise will find it and do it efficiently, for far less.
There is no such thing as free. Even someone who has absolutely no interest in money at all is not working for free. They're doing it for certain gratification. It's harder to translate such feelings into denominations of currency 'value', but all the same it is a tangible gain. Now when you say that Research isn't profitable, you make a grave mistake. The dynamic you miss is time. Even selling a potato is not 'profitable' for a period of time (ie until you spend the gain on something tangible). The profitability of Research is hard to doubt, except for the short sighted.
Uhmm.. what happens if you can't stop thinking about moving?
The key concept to understand is 'value'. The question has to be asked, "value in terms of doing what?". The most obvious answer is "to buy stuff". Gold historically maintains it's purchasing power in relation to paper currencies. What you see is when the Dollar drops, gold goes up. What's really happening is not that gold is worth more, it's in fact just maintaining it's purchasing power, whereas the dollar is losing it's purchasing power.
You're surprised that retailers have a profit margin over the manufacturers price? I think you're just bewildered that people might even want to own gold. You have a lot to learn my son ;]
In actuality, the paper money you trust is 'marked-up' constantly and behind your back. The value of the US dollar has lost more than 90% of it's value in the last 100 years. How?...
It's called monetary inflation, the greatest secret tax ever conceived. Government deliberately prints more money than the GDP justifies and waters down that paper in your pocket and in the bank. You think 5% depositor's interest is making you money? Think again. See the *real* inflation at http://www.shadowstats.com/ and see that you are earning *negative* interest. ie. You are being robbed.
Gold maintains it's purchasing power for a number of reasons, paper money does not.
Learn about gold, and how invariably ALL paper money becomes an elite tool to steal from the middle class, over a long period of time. We are very close to the inevitable collapse now. If you don't think it's inevitable, read history. All paper money collapses, it's just a matter of time. You think it's different this time? How? Has greed and corruption been bred out of the human race?