D&D only approaches fun for all when the characters are relatively balanced. This screams bad game design to me. An RPG should be fun even with a weak character relative to everyone else. In other words, failure should be as fun as success.
The fact that good DMing in D&D means fudging dice rolls is another sign of this same problem. When the dice hit the table, quite often only some of the possible outcomes don't kill the fun.
It's a good product. It's sturdy, like the Nintendos of yore. If I could go back in time I would not get the Wii. Nearly every single disk for it no longer works.
The only reason I don't a Wii-U for my kids is because through the Wii I found out that optical disks and kids don't mix. Every N64 game we have still works.
That's my experience, too, out in the country west. It continues on. My 7th grade kid is reading the same stories they had me read when I was in 9th grade.
Not that I think it's a great idea. 14 was probably too young for some of those and now he's getting them at 12.
They already found out that the universe is not left-right symmetric. Doesn't that mean it's also not time symmetric ? In addition to the rather large amount of circumstantial evidence, of course.
Your missing at least these simple and important points:
1. Creditors are not investors.
2. Ponzi schemes involve fraud. Ponzi tells you he's investing your money. In fact, he's stolen your money. The part you're complaining about is merely how Ponzi tries to hide his crime and entice new victims.
3. The government could tomorrow pay off every penny of debt if it so choses without collecting any additional taxes.
When currency is a fiat currency, taxes are a measure of government power, not a means for paying for anything. They are also a guaranteed floor for demand for government currency.
I dunno, I think Silk Road kept it more stable than it is now. For awhile, there were lots of people that needed to buy bitcoins to get real goods and one big guy needing to sell them to get real money.
Now you've got much less of that. The speculators, hoarders and idealists have more weight than the actual market, and the price jumps and crashes.
I agree that enough civilians with good enough weapons and the disposition to use them is adequate to deter most invasions, I just don't think invasion is the only threat we need to confront.
Don't be an idiot. Greenspan was and is bought and owned by the banks. They didn't want strong capital requirements, so they didn't get them. Freshman econ 101 students already know that weak capital requirements lead to instabilities and vulnerabilities in the system.
Greenspan certainly knew about the tricks that banks were using to get under the already lax requirements and he did nothing to stop them. Some of these guys were and are actually negative. Heck, he probably invented some of the tricks himself.
The hypocrisy of the NSA defenders is mind blowing. They go on and on about how there really ain't nothing wrong with spying, and everyone does it, and it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it, then they whine because Snowden had to break a few eggs to make his particular omelet.
A Military is a necessary evil, but it's still an evil. We take ordinary folks who either want to help their country or just want a job and teach them to be murderers. There's no getting around that.
There's a lot of great books on here, but I'll mentioned one that changed and greatly improved my reading, especially of non-fiction books:
"How to read a book" by Mortimer Adler.
I guarantee you will find something in there that will improve your reading habits. I found quite a bit. I did not know that I did not know how to read a book.
Those guys are cuddle bunnies compared to the folks I'm talking about. Yeah they're real, and yeah, it sounds like you haven't met them. Think neo-nazis.
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D&D only approaches fun for all when the characters are relatively balanced. This screams bad game design to me. An RPG should be fun even with a weak character relative to everyone else. In other words, failure should be as fun as success.
The fact that good DMing in D&D means fudging dice rolls is another sign of this same problem. When the dice hit the table, quite often only some of the possible outcomes don't kill the fun.
It's a good product. It's sturdy, like the Nintendos of yore. If I could go back in time I would not get the Wii. Nearly every single disk for it no longer works.
Zelda and Mario are still big with the kids.
The only reason I don't a Wii-U for my kids is because through the Wii I found out that optical disks and kids don't mix. Every N64 game we have still works.
How does a person earn wealth in a world where human labor has little value?
Only if the wealth is shared.
That's my experience, too, out in the country west. It continues on. My 7th grade kid is reading the same stories they had me read when I was in 9th grade.
Not that I think it's a great idea. 14 was probably too young for some of those and now he's getting them at 12.
I see. They aren't symmetric of themselves, but together they are.
They already found out that the universe is not left-right symmetric. Doesn't that mean it's also not time symmetric ? In addition to the rather large amount of circumstantial evidence, of course.
We did libya for the same reason. Dollar is king, baby!
Your missing at least these simple and important points:
1. Creditors are not investors.
2. Ponzi schemes involve fraud. Ponzi tells you he's investing your money. In fact, he's stolen your money. The part you're complaining about is merely how Ponzi tries to hide his crime and entice new victims.
3. The government could tomorrow pay off every penny of debt if it so choses without collecting any additional taxes.
When currency is a fiat currency, taxes are a measure of government power, not a means for paying for anything. They are also a guaranteed floor for demand for government currency.
The fact that price stability, which wasn't great to begin with, suddenly got a lot worse when Silk Road shutdown suggests this.
Coinbase can do that, but you can't since the coins are actually in the Coinbase wallet.
I dunno, I think Silk Road kept it more stable than it is now. For awhile, there were lots of people that needed to buy bitcoins to get real goods and one big guy needing to sell them to get real money.
Now you've got much less of that. The speculators, hoarders and idealists have more weight than the actual market, and the price jumps and crashes.
I agree that enough civilians with good enough weapons and the disposition to use them is adequate to deter most invasions, I just don't think invasion is the only threat we need to confront.
Don't be an idiot. Greenspan was and is bought and owned by the banks. They didn't want strong capital requirements, so they didn't get them. Freshman econ 101 students already know that weak capital requirements lead to instabilities and vulnerabilities in the system.
Greenspan certainly knew about the tricks that banks were using to get under the already lax requirements and he did nothing to stop them. Some of these guys were and are actually negative. Heck, he probably invented some of the tricks himself.
The hypocrisy of the NSA defenders is mind blowing. They go on and on about how there really ain't nothing wrong with spying, and everyone does it, and it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it, then they whine because Snowden had to break a few eggs to make his particular omelet.
A Military is a necessary evil, but it's still an evil. We take ordinary folks who either want to help their country or just want a job and teach them to be murderers. There's no getting around that.
The bavarians never started any war.
They have a program that guesses how good someone is at having the opinion of the average four square user, maybe?
There's a lot of great books on here, but I'll mentioned one that changed and greatly improved my reading, especially of non-fiction books:
"How to read a book" by Mortimer Adler.
I guarantee you will find something in there that will improve your reading habits. I found quite a bit. I did not know that I did not know how to read a book.
Those guys are cuddle bunnies compared to the folks I'm talking about. Yeah they're real, and yeah, it sounds like you haven't met them. Think neo-nazis.
There's no zealot like a converted zealot, but my guess is you haven't spent a lot of time around the far-right nut jobs.
of course they will, but their capabilities will be reduced. Even if they have a gun, they'll always have to think before carrying it.
Why would he want to leave? Getting sent to Lompoc is my retirement plan.