No, I think you misunderstand there is a difference between simply lending at interest and fractional reserve banking.
There is nothing anti-Libertarian about banking and lending. However fractional reserve banking, that is, creating the money by the process of lending, is a fraud.
Remember the film, Independence Day, when the Aliens had blown up all the major cities and the President decided to hit back with nukes and Jeff Goldblum got all incredulous " If we shoot our missiles then everyone will shoot their missiles. Why, they'll fuckup the environment!" I think that was the last gasp of the MAD doctrine that leaked out into the popular culture.
and watch movies and documentaries all day for what amounts to chump change I think to myself, "how do they make money". I never use the DVD option so I'll probably cut that out.
But really it sucks to wait a day or two for a disk thats probably scratched any way. Screw it, physical media is so last decade.
Netflix is still a good deal -it just sucks when you put the increase in percentage terms.
Ah, the PCjr. My buddy and I spent countless hours, long into the wee hours, writing games for it. We had the ear of Lord British at one point- nothing came of it:( .
... takes me back to the days long ago when I used to get ironically kicked out of the school computer lab.
My Sinclair ZX-81whisks me back to my mentors, an electrical engineer, workshop, writing BASIC nestled amidst oscilloscopes and breadboards populated with transistors( yup kids, there used to be SINGLE transistors, now get off my lawn ) late into the night.
Ah! yes I had not considered that. Good point, I worked with a Chinese gentleman whose brother, still in China, had starved to death. Seems like he and his family would have preferred food over an orbiting monument.
Im not talking about Mexican-Americans, like I said ALLL my friends are ethnic Mexicans, born here, their family's have been here in the Southwest longer than mine. Our children do play, we do share cervezas( we adults, not the children;) )You misunderstand me. My original statement was directed toward the MEXICANS that tip-toe across the border every night.
Simply because there are ethnic Mexicans living in the Southwest does not give every Latin American in the world a claim to the USA. My Mexican friends.... wait for it... agree.
Yea, I kinda guessed from some of your choice of words you were from the islands.
You better keep your pasty Brit ass off my continent! What make you think you can just come here like it some kinda fucking country club?
Na, Im just kidding.
But really that IS the impossible question. Its easy to say a [non-caucasian] person has to right to [whatever]. However it next to impossible to say the converse. It a tricky-dickie that has been inserted into the discourse on the subject- you cant say, and they wont tell you. Therefore YOU are limited while THEY are not.
What if was was to sneak into YOUR home at night and set up camp? You would be offended. But i would assure you that its OK, why should you have a nice pad and me have nothing? After all I am of English/Scot extraction and dammit we are all in the together.
"And, last i checked Spanish is the first language of Mexico. And, yes California was first part of Mexico, until it was taken by the U.S."
Are you, angry about this? If the U.S. and not 'taken' California, how would your life be different?
"I am quite aware of where the Spanish language comes from."
Ok then we are off to a good start, glad to have that out of the way.
"Mexicans are descendants of Spanish and native Americans, hence "native heritage". Have you ever seen a Spaniard? Clue, they don't tend to look Mexican."
Your complaint is that the US committed an offense by 'taking' California, this language I don't quite understand... California is still there isn't it, like the dirt and the sky an the beach right? California is full of "native heritage" yes? I would venture a bet that there are more ethnic Mexicans in California now than when it was 'taken'(whatever that means).
So, again, whats the problem? You in the Mexican Army? You a Mexican diplomat?
You of course know that the Mexican government already has it own country, right? You also know every day thousands of Mexicans brave the desert to get out of that country and into a country that USED to be Mexico? And therefore we can assume that it sucks... wait, let me think about it.... LESS than the country these poor people are trying to escape from. And you are upset that the country that the Mexicans are escaping INTO isn't Mexico?
No, that cant be right.
Let me ask you -where do Mexican nationals NOT have the right to go? Lets start there
California is a Spanish word... last I checked a map, Spain was a part of Europe, which make it a hell of a lot closer to the where my ancestors were born than Mexico. So yea.. nice try, you get an 'A' for effort, but an 'F' for ignorance.
"The name California is the fifth-oldest surviving European place-name in the U.S. and was applied to what is now the southern tip of Baja California as the island of California by a Spanish expedition led by Diego de Becerra and Fortun Ximenez who landed there in 1533 at the bequest of Hernán Cortés."
"... fifth-oldest surviving European place-name" Damn, sucks dont it?
Mexicans are descended from the Spaniards. Think about it, you are not as mucha 'minority' as you would like, you are a European as well, you are... one of us... one of us... one of us... one of us.
Also, I like to say that, before you start on your racist rant, all my friends are brown and red. My wife and children are Native American- they think your ass dont belong here either.
Although I have always believed that the good guys dont need to hide, I think the uncertainty of police presence is a force multiplier. We should not grant criminals the courtesy of announcing the presence of those who will stop their nefarious aims.
I'm reminded of my fave COPS episode where the left the 'broken down semi' in a high crime area with a cop in a box in the back. The kids would get the door open get inside the trailer and be all like: "Look! TVs! VCRs! Stereos! Police Officers! oh shit!".
...for ambulances. You often see them parked and crewed up sitting in parking lots. There is an algorithm that strategically places a set number vehicles in optimal locations.
This is all this is, right? Seems like a no-brainier, to concentrate resources whey they will be most effective.
It just that the term "predictive policing" sounds like they are going to do preemptive arrests.
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No, I think you misunderstand there is a difference between simply lending at interest and fractional reserve banking.
There is nothing anti-Libertarian about banking and lending. However fractional reserve banking, that is, creating the money by the process of lending, is a fraud.
Remember the film, Independence Day, when the Aliens had blown up all the major cities and the President decided to hit back with nukes and Jeff Goldblum got all incredulous " If we shoot our missiles then everyone will shoot their missiles. Why, they'll fuckup the environment!" I think that was the last gasp of the MAD doctrine that leaked out into the popular culture.
It not MAD anymore - introducing NUTS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_utilization_target_selection
NUTS is a more sound doctrine that recognizes the fact that dead hostages are worthless.
Because you don't know how may will be available should need arise to use them.
and watch movies and documentaries all day for what amounts to chump change I think to myself, "how do they make money". I never use the DVD option so I'll probably cut that out.
But really it sucks to wait a day or two for a disk thats probably scratched any way. Screw it, physical media is so last decade.
Netflix is still a good deal -it just sucks when you put the increase in percentage terms.
I heard a rumor that Al Qaeda was going to use rogue TSA agents to smuggle weapons onto the secure areas of airports up their asses.
The only way to be really sure is the have the agents submit to a cavity search every single day they report to work.
Its for everyone's safety, we cant afford another 911.
Spread the word.
Actually its INFINITE monkeys, and an infinite number of monkeys would produce that string instantly.
Ah, the PCjr. My buddy and I spent countless hours, long into the wee hours, writing games for it. We had the ear of Lord British at one point- nothing came of it :( .
... takes me back to the days long ago when I used to get ironically kicked out of the school computer lab.
My Sinclair ZX-81whisks me back to my mentors, an electrical engineer, workshop, writing BASIC nestled amidst oscilloscopes and breadboards populated with transistors( yup kids, there used to be SINGLE transistors, now get off my lawn ) late into the night.
Ah! yes I had not considered that. Good point, I worked with a Chinese gentleman whose brother, still in China, had starved to death. Seems like he and his family would have preferred food over an orbiting monument.
Hey, I heard that AL Qaeda was going to use TSA agents to smuggle bombs through checkpoints in their anuses, deep deep in their anuses.
Spread the word.
The only reason for manned spaceflight, at this point, is to study manned spaceflight- or to study black holes, black-holes of money.
Like the aircraft carriers and stealth fighters , this is just flag waving "me too'-ism.
Apparently the Chinese have so much dough from selling us crap at Walmart that they need to watch some of it burn by launching toiletries into orbit.
Fool! I say we bioengineer escargots to do this.
1. Eat
2. Poop
3. Wash
4. Profit!
CONGRESS get banned!
... you look/smell like shit!
Dr. House?
Im not talking about Mexican-Americans, like I said ALLL my friends are ethnic Mexicans, born here, their family's have been here in the Southwest longer than mine. Our children do play, we do share cervezas( we adults, not the children ;) )You misunderstand me. My original statement was directed toward the MEXICANS that tip-toe across the border every night.
Simply because there are ethnic Mexicans living in the Southwest does not give every Latin American in the world a claim to the USA. My Mexican friends.... wait for it... agree.
Yea, I kinda guessed from some of your choice of words you were from the islands.
You better keep your pasty Brit ass off my continent! What make you think you can just come here like it some kinda fucking country club?
Na, Im just kidding.
But really that IS the impossible question. Its easy to say a [non-caucasian] person has to right to [whatever]. However it next to impossible to say the converse. It a tricky-dickie that has been inserted into the discourse on the subject- you cant say, and they wont tell you. Therefore YOU are limited while THEY are not.
What if was was to sneak into YOUR home at night and set up camp? You would be offended. But i would assure you that its OK, why should you have a nice pad and me have nothing? After all I am of English/Scot extraction and dammit we are all in the together.
I would swear by the tone of your message that you dont really believe I out debated you.
Answer my question: Where can Mexican nationals NOT go?
thanks.
Ok, so you give up? I accept your surrender.
You just dont get to come back later can claim you won...
get it? come back later...??? get it?
"And, last i checked Spanish is the first language of Mexico. And, yes California was first part of Mexico, until it was taken by the U.S."
Are you, angry about this? If the U.S. and not 'taken' California, how would your life be different?
"I am quite aware of where the Spanish language comes from."
Ok then we are off to a good start, glad to have that out of the way.
"Mexicans are descendants of Spanish and native Americans, hence "native heritage". Have you ever seen a Spaniard? Clue, they don't tend to look Mexican."
Your complaint is that the US committed an offense by 'taking' California, this language I don't quite understand...
California is still there isn't it, like the dirt and the sky an the beach right? California is full of "native heritage" yes?
I would venture a bet that there are more ethnic Mexicans in California now than when it was 'taken'(whatever that means).
So, again, whats the problem? You in the Mexican Army? You a Mexican diplomat?
You of course know that the Mexican government already has it own country, right? You also know every day thousands of Mexicans brave the desert to get out of that country and into a country that USED to be Mexico? And therefore we can assume that it sucks... wait, let me think about it.... LESS than the country these poor people are trying to escape from.
And you are upset that the country that the Mexicans are escaping INTO isn't Mexico?
No, that cant be right.
Let me ask you -where do Mexican nationals NOT have the right to go? Lets start there
I await your answer.
Trouble at Harmony.
There, I said it. Got that out of the way... now we can move on.
Property locked in a disabled vehicle is not 'abandoned'.
Correct me if I am wrong but you make it sound like home invasions and muggings are the fault of the police.
Thats a funny point of view, perhaps Im missing a subtle irony?
California is a Spanish word... last I checked a map, Spain was a part of Europe, which make it a hell of a lot closer to the where my ancestors were born than Mexico. So yea.. nice try, you get an 'A' for effort, but an 'F' for ignorance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_name_California
"The name California is the fifth-oldest surviving European place-name in the U.S. and was applied to what is now the southern tip of Baja California as the island of California by a Spanish expedition led by Diego de Becerra and Fortun Ximenez who landed there in 1533 at the bequest of Hernán Cortés."
"... fifth-oldest surviving European place-name" Damn, sucks dont it?
Mexicans are descended from the Spaniards. Think about it, you are not as mucha 'minority' as you would like, you are a European as well, you are... one of us... one of us... one of us... one of us.
Also, I like to say that, before you start on your racist rant, all my friends are brown and red. My wife and children are Native American- they think your ass dont belong here either.
I often question this.
Although I have always believed that the good guys dont need to hide, I think the uncertainty of police presence is a force multiplier. We should not grant criminals the courtesy of announcing the presence of those who will stop their nefarious aims.
I'm reminded of my fave COPS episode where the left the 'broken down semi' in a high crime area with a cop in a box in the back. The kids would get the door open get inside the trailer and be all like: "Look! TVs! VCRs! Stereos! Police Officers! oh shit!".
...for ambulances. You often see them parked and crewed up sitting in parking lots. There is an algorithm that strategically places a set number vehicles in optimal locations.
This is all this is, right? Seems like a no-brainier, to concentrate resources whey they will be most effective.
It just that the term "predictive policing" sounds like they are going to do preemptive arrests.