There's a fixed amount of money. I (Federal Reserve) print it, all of it. I loan you (US Government) $X with terms of 10% interest. Given that there's a fixed amount of money (X), where will you obtain the additional 10% to pay me back? You won't, which is the idea, and the reason that our currency has lost 98% of its wealth in the last 100 years, and 70% of its wealth since Nixon took us off the gold standard 40 years ago (i.e., the loss is now accelerating). The fed printing money adds to that effect.
But, yeah, whatever; I don't need to convince you to invest soundly, in order to benefit from my investments.
The legs I understand, but the burns? Those creep me out whenever I notice them. (Damned ReplayTV died while recording tonight's episode, now I need to wait until midnight to record it...) (Dammit Taco, remove the "you posted recently, wait a decade to post again" shit before you leave for good, please? At least you chose a good "rn" vs "m" font for humor porpoises...)
Yeah, it's going to take fiscal responsibility and a LONG time to pay off, but it is absolutely possible.
Not if you've seen the Zeitgeist movies, which spell out how fractional lending and reserve banking is stealing the fruits of our labor and giving it to the bankers. Then you will know that we can never pay off our debt. Since the "debt" was created out of thin air by loaning a certain amount of the money supply, that money supply cannot possibly grow to 10% more of the money supply in order to pay back the "loan with 10% interest" (assuming the loan was 10%; the number doesn't matter, as long as it is positive it can never be paid off). It rather saddens me that so many of us on this site haven't been exposed to this. Google "Zeitgeist", it's the first hit; there are now three movies and they're working on a fourth. What I talk about above is expanded on most in the second movie, but I recommend them all. And they're free downloads, torrents available at their site.
Look on the bright side, at 5 digits I'm stuck with my wife (just kidding honey).
So, I'm having trouble determining your heuristic. At first it seemed easy, "Oh! There are two zeros, he's eliminating one" -- but then there are two sevens also, meaning only four actually different digits.
On further reflection, I think you were just double-entendre-kidding.
What makes conditions on early earth so special is not the existence of organic chemistry, but the special circumstances, so far not known to us, that brought the formation of complex self-reproducing chains of amino acids.
The annual price for registering the patent should double every year. Either the company is making enough money from it that they can afford the "tax", or they aren't, and they give the patent to the public domain so that everyone can benefit from the innovation.
I remember seeing a patent on "using a laser pointer as a cat entertainment device", and I think it's really funny that someone went to that length; with a low entry fee, we might see many silly patents -- however, they would likely only last a short time if the fees kept growing, and the idea was not something bankable.
A terrorist wanting to do a 9/11 style attack doesn't just need a plane - they need a big one on a long route carrying lots of fuel and ideally passengers as well.
They also need a target that is willing to subject itself to an "all hands must leave" security exercise the week before the planes strike, which apparently will include wrapping det cord around the girders so that the false flag attack can cripple as little of the surrounding infrastructure as possible. Oh and it helps if the target has a lot of gold underneath it which apparently nobody will be upset to find missing. And also inform the owner of the building, so that the day before the attack they can increase their insurance to ensure that they come out ahead even though they lose their buildings.
You did give me a good idea, though, which I'll share here for the lurking TSA agents/management, with this paragraph:
So, if flight crews are able to bypass security, then a terrorist could get a job as a pilot of a turboprop, then show up on their day off, bypass security, change clothes in a bathroom, and then board an international flight.
The security checkpoint should make a marking on the boarding pass, which is required in order to board. Of course, that just means you need one additional person to participate in the conspiracy (i.e., to walk the boarding pass through security, in order to get the stamp). So, no, we're not possible of being secure. But I'm not having my junk fondled, so I'm not flying.
Yes, I'm serious, but not necessarily about the ease with which you spill your own details. Age is 1/3 of ASL (for the social side), and drastically narrows down the SSN search (for the financial side).
Basically any opinion which can't be summed up in five words or less is stupid and wrong, and just makes you some kind of elitist snob or "flip-flopper." Intellectualism is out, chest-beating tribalism is in. Welcome to the party.
Thankfully, I heard on NPR today that will.i.am disagrees: his quote was that "genius is recession-proof." (He was telling kids to stay in school.)
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Well, yeah, but you're just wrong.
There's a fixed amount of money. I (Federal Reserve) print it, all of it. I loan you (US Government) $X with terms of 10% interest. Given that there's a fixed amount of money (X), where will you obtain the additional 10% to pay me back? You won't, which is the idea, and the reason that our currency has lost 98% of its wealth in the last 100 years, and 70% of its wealth since Nixon took us off the gold standard 40 years ago (i.e., the loss is now accelerating). The fed printing money adds to that effect.
But, yeah, whatever; I don't need to convince you to invest soundly, in order to benefit from my investments.
I'm a leg and bum man, for instance.
The legs I understand, but the burns? Those creep me out whenever I notice them. (Damned ReplayTV died while recording tonight's episode, now I need to wait until midnight to record it...) (Dammit Taco, remove the "you posted recently, wait a decade to post again" shit before you leave for good, please? At least you chose a good "rn" vs "m" font for humor porpoises...)
The face is the foundation you erect a smoking hot body on.
And just remember, kids: something that is smoking hot has a good chance of melting butter! ("Raiders-of-the-lost-ark face?")
Frankly, however, people waste far too much time and energy giving a fuck.
Or, getting one. :)
Yeah, it's going to take fiscal responsibility and a LONG time to pay off, but it is absolutely possible.
Not if you've seen the Zeitgeist movies, which spell out how fractional lending and reserve banking is stealing the fruits of our labor and giving it to the bankers. Then you will know that we can never pay off our debt. Since the "debt" was created out of thin air by loaning a certain amount of the money supply, that money supply cannot possibly grow to 10% more of the money supply in order to pay back the "loan with 10% interest" (assuming the loan was 10%; the number doesn't matter, as long as it is positive it can never be paid off). It rather saddens me that so many of us on this site haven't been exposed to this. Google "Zeitgeist", it's the first hit; there are now three movies and they're working on a fourth. What I talk about above is expanded on most in the second movie, but I recommend them all. And they're free downloads, torrents available at their site.
Are you going to pursue the Peter Gibbons dream of doing nothing?
So I just got the meta-punchline of that movie: the human protagonist is named after a lesser ape. (And a penis.) Thanks Rob!!!
Look on the bright side, at 5 digits I'm stuck with my wife (just kidding honey).
So, I'm having trouble determining your heuristic. At first it seemed easy, "Oh! There are two zeros, he's eliminating one" -- but then there are two sevens also, meaning only four actually different digits.
On further reflection, I think you were just double-entendre-kidding.
I'll go even further out on that limb, and say that the vast majority of people (collectively) want flexibility.
Duh, yeah, in the car. Once we're out of the building, the next step is to go home.
Why we have not sent a probe to land on Europa by now is beyond me.
But, apparently, not beyond Arthur C. Clarke.
If life began on Europa and seeded Earth, what happened to stop further development on Europa?
The sun got cooler?
I'd say the elements of life are everywhere [...]
Yeah, ever since the supernova...
What makes conditions on early earth so special is not the existence of organic chemistry, but the special circumstances, so far not known to us, that brought the formation of complex self-reproducing chains of amino acids.
Without the moon, nothing would have combined.
Thanks for that! $50 is a lot to pay to protect a poster...
Way to encourage helping.
Hi, "hassle" rhymes with "castle" but is spelled differently. Your helpful grammar Ally.
The annual price for registering the patent should double every year. Either the company is making enough money from it that they can afford the "tax", or they aren't, and they give the patent to the public domain so that everyone can benefit from the innovation.
I remember seeing a patent on "using a laser pointer as a cat entertainment device", and I think it's really funny that someone went to that length; with a low entry fee, we might see many silly patents -- however, they would likely only last a short time if the fees kept growing, and the idea was not something bankable.
A terrorist wanting to do a 9/11 style attack doesn't just need a plane - they need a big one on a long route carrying lots of fuel and ideally passengers as well.
They also need a target that is willing to subject itself to an "all hands must leave" security exercise the week before the planes strike, which apparently will include wrapping det cord around the girders so that the false flag attack can cripple as little of the surrounding infrastructure as possible. Oh and it helps if the target has a lot of gold underneath it which apparently nobody will be upset to find missing. And also inform the owner of the building, so that the day before the attack they can increase their insurance to ensure that they come out ahead even though they lose their buildings.
You did give me a good idea, though, which I'll share here for the lurking TSA agents/management, with this paragraph:
So, if flight crews are able to bypass security, then a terrorist could get a job as a pilot of a turboprop, then show up on their day off, bypass security, change clothes in a bathroom, and then board an international flight.
The security checkpoint should make a marking on the boarding pass, which is required in order to board. Of course, that just means you need one additional person to participate in the conspiracy (i.e., to walk the boarding pass through security, in order to get the stamp). So, no, we're not possible of being secure. But I'm not having my junk fondled, so I'm not flying.
Yes, I'm serious, but not necessarily about the ease with which you spill your own details. Age is 1/3 of ASL (for the social side), and drastically narrows down the SSN search (for the financial side).
Far more serious checks are done at prisons, and still whole *humans* manage to escape.
Simple solution, turn our airports into prisons... Oh wait.
I'm 34 and learning more and faster than ever before.
Ask Slashdot: how do I get a bunch of security-conscious people to give up some personally-identifying data? Heh, looks like it worked.
Kirk is the only, huh? :)
Basically any opinion which can't be summed up in five words or less is stupid and wrong, and just makes you some kind of elitist snob or "flip-flopper." Intellectualism is out, chest-beating tribalism is in. Welcome to the party.
Thankfully, I heard on NPR today that will.i.am disagrees: his quote was that "genius is recession-proof." (He was telling kids to stay in school.)
they can lie to you, cheat you, and killing you isn't considered a sin because you are not one of them.
Sounds like Scientology has learned something from this camp.
Keep in mind, there's also the benefit of shutting down a patent troll, which is good for everybody.
Good for everybody except my children...