I'm all for using gold and silver, especially for savings purposes, but the Liberty Dollar system does not give me a feeling of confidence. A blog post I made last year about it: The Liberty Dollar: All It's Cracked Up to Be?
Which reminds me, I should start updating that blog again. I've been neglecting it recently.
She further likened their claims to a shoplifter being handed a catalog for a store after being stopped, and being told 'what you took is in there somewhere, figure it out.'
No, it's more like a store manager stopping someone who owns a competing business leaving the store, accusing them of shoplifting with no proof of anything being stolen, and then giving them the catalog to sort it out simply to harass them and take up their time.
I haven't really taken much of a look at Eberron, other than using the 4-page character sheets from it for out Forgotten Realms campaigns since they're laid out better than the standard 3.5e sheets. Our group pretty much does FR exclusively and has been doing so since 2000. We're familiar enough with the world's religions, geography, and political climates that we don't need to rely on the books for every little detail.
FR is a great setting with a lot of structure but enough open gaps to make up your own storylines. I wish WotC would stop treating it like a bastard child like it has since Eberron came out.
Just a question, Mr. Dada, outside of the discussion but relevant to your topic. Why do you, a freedom-loving anarcho-capitalist wish to continue residing in the People's Republik of Illinois? I, for one, would not wish to consider myself a citizen of King Daley's liberty-hating state. (Yes I know he's the mayor of Chicago and not the governor, but Chicago practically runs things up there from what I've head about Illinois.)
Some people have really sharp canine teeth. I do, for example. I injure myself on a regular basis with them, biting my lip or my tongue. It hurts, but I barely pay any attention to it anymore.
Related: I know of a guy who killed a squirrel by biting into its head. He was out squirrel hunting and he had injured one, and thinking it was dead, he picked it up. It latched onto his hand with its teeth, and he in turn chomped down on the squirrel's neck/head until it died. I think he ate it later. (Not uncommon where I'm from - I've eaten them too.)
The Sacagawea dollar coin is worth far less than $1. In 2000 it cost the mint 12 cents apiece to produce them, and the metal value is less than that. Manganese brass is very cheap.
The loophole is the fact that owning more than one ounce of gold bullion is illegal in the United States (although, I may be wrong - there is some fuzzy law passed in 1973 that may have repealed that law).
No, it's legal to own gold. There are some funky reporting regs though, like if you sell over 25 oz. worth of foreign gold coins at one time, like Krugerrands, that American Gold Eagles are not subject to to make the US gold look more appealing.
As far as I'm concerned gold is a good vehicle for storing value and protecting your assets. It's small and compact and easy to sell (many dealers will give you cash straight up for it, no paperwork), and thus it's easy to hide from the IRS. Capital gains taxes? Shyeah right, like anybody's going to report that crap when they sell a few ounces for cash that the IRS never knew about in the first place. Also, if no one knows that you own any or how much, it won't be accounted for in your net worth if somebody tries to sue you and figure out how much they can milk you for. A box of gold coins hidden in a safe is worth a LOT. $60,000 worth of gold weighs only about 6.8 lbs. - easy hidden and easily transportable.
(Brother B's girlfriend posting here, as I have something relevent to add and am too lazy to get my own account.)
Something very similar to this happened about two years ago at the small all-female liberal arts college in Virginia I attended as an undergrad.
A girl who was not highly regarded by the faculty was expelled without any notice for posting a livejournal entry regarding a dream she'd had where a professor died. As she was leaving for class, she was stopped by security and instructed to remain in her room until someone came to pick her up. Luckily, her parents were only a few hours away, so they were able to retrieve their daughter. At the time, she was about a month away from graduating early.
I had initially heard that she and her parents were going to sue over her treatment, but haven't seen anything to indicate that it ever happened.
Huh, I actually *like* the taste of acetaminophen. Probably from taking Goody's headache powders for years, which are a powdered mix of that, aspirin, and caffeine.
The first time I tried BC powders instead it weirded me out because there is no acetaminophen in it. BC tastes sour, as compared to Goody's potent bitterness.
My father worked as a mechanic at a dealership working from 7:30am-5:30pm 5 days a week for around 30 years (just recently retired) and never hit $30,000 a year. Hell, he never got more than two weeks vacation a year.
I live in Henrico and was considering going, or at least I was when I first heard about it through a guy who works for the schools. After the sale was mentioned in the local paper, though, I gave up on the idea figuring a lot of people would show up. I never expected it to turn into this, though.
Is it just me, or does this "apology" seem more like a thinly-veiled snide remark? Especially this part: "Clearly, there is no place in modern reporting for this kind of unregulated, unprotected access to readily available facts."
Sounds to me to be more of a "hey, Google, you can stuff it" than an apology.
I always thought Kirk's name was a reference to Captain James T. Cook. (Which was probably also the source for Peter and Wendy's pirate Captain James T. Hook.)
Weasely buzzwords or manager-speak like the ones described here exist for one reason - to make middle management actually seem like they serve a purpose. They can send out memo after memo of absolutely no substance and still seem to be doing something useful.
One phrase that I hear a lot is "action item". I guess hearing it for over 5 years has desensitized me to it, but it's still a pretty dumb turn of phrase.
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Get an audio CD burner that ignores SCMS (an old retarded DRM system that sets a no-copy bit on audio CDs) and can use plain CD-Rs that accepts digital input. They can be pricey, though, as they are marketed as pro equipment (the "consumer model" ones you can find at Circuit City and the like typically honor SCMS and require those "audio" CD-Rs). The one I have is a HHB from several years ago. However, it can blast through any DRM brain damage because if a CD player can play to a digital output the recorder can copy it. The resulting copy will be both SCMS free and free of whatever brain dead DRM scheme was used on the original. This copy can then be ripped normally to MP3 or whatever.
Sure, this can also be done entirely with a PC if you have the correct setup, but as a standalone audio recorder is not a PC no DRM scheme that could cripple a PC can affect it. Also, your copy is better in general since the recorder is designed to be high quality audio equipment.
I never watched more than a couple eps of Outlaw Star, so I'm not as familiar with it. However, the naked-River-in-a-box thing of the pilot episode does seem very... well, like Melfina.
I'll state right off that I watched all of Firefly recently, and I loved it.
Firefly kind of reminds me of a cross among the two anime series Trigun and Cowboy Bebop (both originally released in Japan in 1998) and old post-Civil War setting westerns. Trigun can be classified as a sci-fi western. Bebop doesn't lean quite as heavily on the western genre, as it's all over the map as far as influences go, but the world as presented seems similar in nature to that of Firefly.
Firefly resembles Cowboy Bebop in that you have a ragtag crew of misfits and folks with questionable intentions travelling in an old beat-up secondhand spaceship going from job to job trying to make money wherever they can, in some cases only enough to keep the ship running. The ship Serenity even kind of reminds me of the Bebop somewhat in how it is designed. Also, Cowboy Bebop's settings involve various terraformed planets, but most of them have a reasonably near-future level of technology apparent. In Firefly, the settings are mostly old Western in nature on the border worlds, like Trigun's world in the apparent far future after human extra-planetary colonization goes horribly wrong. The firearms used are sort of like both, in that both current and antiquated weapon designs are used with a little futuristic flair to jazz things up.
$2 bills are not discontinued. The most recent series I'm aware of is series 2003. I've spent hundreds of dollars worth of them over the past several months. And like this guy, mine were all in sequential serial number order, as I got them from the bank in uncirculated bricks still in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing wrappers.
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I'm all for using gold and silver, especially for savings purposes, but the Liberty Dollar system does not give me a feeling of confidence. A blog post I made last year about it: The Liberty Dollar: All It's Cracked Up to Be?
Which reminds me, I should start updating that blog again. I've been neglecting it recently.
No, it's more like a store manager stopping someone who owns a competing business leaving the store, accusing them of shoplifting with no proof of anything being stolen, and then giving them the catalog to sort it out simply to harass them and take up their time.
Yeah, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew might be a good coder, but the application was coded by Beaker.
I haven't really taken much of a look at Eberron, other than using the 4-page character sheets from it for out Forgotten Realms campaigns since they're laid out better than the standard 3.5e sheets. Our group pretty much does FR exclusively and has been doing so since 2000. We're familiar enough with the world's religions, geography, and political climates that we don't need to rely on the books for every little detail.
FR is a great setting with a lot of structure but enough open gaps to make up your own storylines. I wish WotC would stop treating it like a bastard child like it has since Eberron came out.
Just a question, Mr. Dada, outside of the discussion but relevant to your topic. Why do you, a freedom-loving anarcho-capitalist wish to continue residing in the People's Republik of Illinois? I, for one, would not wish to consider myself a citizen of King Daley's liberty-hating state. (Yes I know he's the mayor of Chicago and not the governor, but Chicago practically runs things up there from what I've head about Illinois.)
Some people have really sharp canine teeth. I do, for example. I injure myself on a regular basis with them, biting my lip or my tongue. It hurts, but I barely pay any attention to it anymore.
Related: I know of a guy who killed a squirrel by biting into its head. He was out squirrel hunting and he had injured one, and thinking it was dead, he picked it up. It latched onto his hand with its teeth, and he in turn chomped down on the squirrel's neck/head until it died. I think he ate it later. (Not uncommon where I'm from - I've eaten them too.)
Funny part is that he continues to refer to Gabe (Mike) as a teenager - he's the same age as Tycho (Jerry). Both are 28.
The Sacagawea dollar coin is worth far less than $1. In 2000 it cost the mint 12 cents apiece to produce them, and the metal value is less than that. Manganese brass is very cheap.
No, it's legal to own gold. There are some funky reporting regs though, like if you sell over 25 oz. worth of foreign gold coins at one time, like Krugerrands, that American Gold Eagles are not subject to to make the US gold look more appealing.
As far as I'm concerned gold is a good vehicle for storing value and protecting your assets. It's small and compact and easy to sell (many dealers will give you cash straight up for it, no paperwork), and thus it's easy to hide from the IRS. Capital gains taxes? Shyeah right, like anybody's going to report that crap when they sell a few ounces for cash that the IRS never knew about in the first place. Also, if no one knows that you own any or how much, it won't be accounted for in your net worth if somebody tries to sue you and figure out how much they can milk you for. A box of gold coins hidden in a safe is worth a LOT. $60,000 worth of gold weighs only about 6.8 lbs. - easy hidden and easily transportable.
(Brother B's girlfriend posting here, as I have something relevent to add and am too lazy to get my own account.)
Something very similar to this happened about two years ago at the small all-female liberal arts college in Virginia I attended as an undergrad.
A girl who was not highly regarded by the faculty was expelled without any notice for posting a livejournal entry regarding a dream she'd had where a professor died. As she was leaving for class, she was stopped by security and instructed to remain in her room until someone came to pick her up. Luckily, her parents were only a few hours away, so they were able to retrieve their daughter. At the time, she was about a month away from graduating early.
I had initially heard that she and her parents were going to sue over her treatment, but haven't seen anything to indicate that it ever happened.
Huh, I actually *like* the taste of acetaminophen. Probably from taking Goody's headache powders for years, which are a powdered mix of that, aspirin, and caffeine.
The first time I tried BC powders instead it weirded me out because there is no acetaminophen in it. BC tastes sour, as compared to Goody's potent bitterness.
My father worked as a mechanic at a dealership working from 7:30am-5:30pm 5 days a week for around 30 years (just recently retired) and never hit $30,000 a year. Hell, he never got more than two weeks vacation a year.
All I use is GIMP, but it is missing some things PS has. Layer effects, for example, like Stroke.
Actually, no, as Henrico has a Sheriff's office and a separate police department; the police handle stuff like that.
Richmond police are a separate entity that have no jurisdiction in Henrico.
Actually, I don't think the Sheriff's Office handles that sort of thing. That's more of a job for the Henrico Police.
I live in Henrico and was considering going, or at least I was when I first heard about it through a guy who works for the schools. After the sale was mentioned in the local paper, though, I gave up on the idea figuring a lot of people would show up. I never expected it to turn into this, though.
Is it just me, or does this "apology" seem more like a thinly-veiled snide remark? Especially this part: "Clearly, there is no place in modern reporting for this kind of unregulated, unprotected access to readily available facts."
Sounds to me to be more of a "hey, Google, you can stuff it" than an apology.
I always thought Kirk's name was a reference to Captain James T. Cook. (Which was probably also the source for Peter and Wendy's pirate Captain James T. Hook.)
Weasely buzzwords or manager-speak like the ones described here exist for one reason - to make middle management actually seem like they serve a purpose. They can send out memo after memo of absolutely no substance and still seem to be doing something useful.
One phrase that I hear a lot is "action item". I guess hearing it for over 5 years has desensitized me to it, but it's still a pretty dumb turn of phrase.
Get an audio CD burner that ignores SCMS (an old retarded DRM system that sets a no-copy bit on audio CDs) and can use plain CD-Rs that accepts digital input. They can be pricey, though, as they are marketed as pro equipment (the "consumer model" ones you can find at Circuit City and the like typically honor SCMS and require those "audio" CD-Rs). The one I have is a HHB from several years ago. However, it can blast through any DRM brain damage because if a CD player can play to a digital output the recorder can copy it. The resulting copy will be both SCMS free and free of whatever brain dead DRM scheme was used on the original. This copy can then be ripped normally to MP3 or whatever.
Sure, this can also be done entirely with a PC if you have the correct setup, but as a standalone audio recorder is not a PC no DRM scheme that could cripple a PC can affect it. Also, your copy is better in general since the recorder is designed to be high quality audio equipment.
The book is much better than the movie. Read that instead.
I never watched more than a couple eps of Outlaw Star, so I'm not as familiar with it. However, the naked-River-in-a-box thing of the pilot episode does seem very... well, like Melfina.
I'll state right off that I watched all of Firefly recently, and I loved it.
Firefly kind of reminds me of a cross among the two anime series Trigun and Cowboy Bebop (both originally released in Japan in 1998) and old post-Civil War setting westerns. Trigun can be classified as a sci-fi western. Bebop doesn't lean quite as heavily on the western genre, as it's all over the map as far as influences go, but the world as presented seems similar in nature to that of Firefly.
Firefly resembles Cowboy Bebop in that you have a ragtag crew of misfits and folks with questionable intentions travelling in an old beat-up secondhand spaceship going from job to job trying to make money wherever they can, in some cases only enough to keep the ship running. The ship Serenity even kind of reminds me of the Bebop somewhat in how it is designed. Also, Cowboy Bebop's settings involve various terraformed planets, but most of them have a reasonably near-future level of technology apparent. In Firefly, the settings are mostly old Western in nature on the border worlds, like Trigun's world in the apparent far future after human extra-planetary colonization goes horribly wrong. The firearms used are sort of like both, in that both current and antiquated weapon designs are used with a little futuristic flair to jazz things up.
$2 bills are not discontinued. The most recent series I'm aware of is series 2003. I've spent hundreds of dollars worth of them over the past several months. And like this guy, mine were all in sequential serial number order, as I got them from the bank in uncirculated bricks still in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing wrappers.