That's a large part of the problem, but more confidence in US markets would still help a lot. The market is a psychological force, not a mathematical one. People bought flowers for incredible prices at one time because flowers were seen as a good investment. Aluminium was once so expensive that Napoleon had aluminium plates for state guests. The value of these things is percieved, not real.
The fact that you even had that conversation is insane. The fact that until now, the majority of the electorate was on the side of those people is even more insane.
I agree totally with your post, and I've been saying that for years and years. People act like I'm a nut for saying debt isn't the be-all end-all of human existence.
The PR boost should help a bit elsewhere though.:)
That's just partisan bollocks. Extend the problem just far enough to blame Clinton? This crisis has a long history, I'd argue one stemming all the way back to the end of the Breton woods system under Nixon, followed by the irresponsible fiscal attitudes of Ford, Reagan and the two Bushes, accompanied by Carter and Clinton's attempts to force equal access to credit for people who shouldn't be able to afford credit.
We've had an attitude towards debt for decades that has been dangerous and irresponsible. This crisis is just some blowback from those policies.
As an outside observer, I've believed from the beginning that simply having Barack Obama in the presidency would be good for America.
The problems with the markets right now stem in part from a lack of confidence in the US internationally.
Frankly, we think you're a bunch of ignorant, violent dicks who managed to actually try to argue that torture is a good thing.
By having someone who isn't saying these things as the ignorant violent dicks in power, I could see international investments slowly building back up, resulting in a more prosperous planet as a whole.
(Seriously. Did you guys really think that arguing about whether torture was really bad would end up well for you?)
Obviously her parents are left wing nutjobs with little to no respect for spelling, and something happened to form a huge rift between her and her parents.
This is why she now is a spokesperson for a political philosophy which wants to know why she isn't in the kitchen making me a sammich.
As an aside, it doesn't just ensure prevention of inflation of the money supply by fiat, it also ensures the money will have a minimum value. If it's more valuable than the gold because of the goods and services it can buy then it's worth more, but if nobody has any confidence in your economic system, your money is still worth as much as an ounce of gold, since it can be transferred into that form.
McCain is really laying it on thick with the debt question. He must think we're really stupid.
Republicans have outspent and outdebted the Democrats since Gerald Ford. Republicans removed the last vestiges of the gold standard and caused the insane inflation we're seeing today.
He's going to have to do better than parrot the same historically incorrect argument we've been hearing since Reagan. "Oh, we'll just make it back in revenue because we'll increase the GDP!"
No you don't. Quit lying.
And as for attacking the report, it sounds a lot like their stance on global warming. "It can't happen! It can't happen! It can't happen! It can't happen! It's happening and only the Republicans can fix it!"
Every time that a new software bug or vulnerability is uncovered, I feel better and better about my choice to stick with an my fingers and toes instead of using these computer things(20 bits ought to be enough for anyone).
Yes, it would be convenient to have it in my home or office, but you never know when some giant glaring exploit is going to appear and leave you open to pwnage due to some software company drinking a cold frosty can of fail.
Yes, COBOL was an excellent skill, until it was posted here. Now every two-bit hacker is going to learn COBOL so they can apply everywhere.
Reminds me of turbolinux, or whatever the last big bubble IPO was. It was posted on linux, and I knew then and there that I was looking at a stock that would be skyrocketing. It ended up making some investors something like 1000% profit, and I'm positive the fact that it was posted here contributed.
It's obvious that people didn't vote IN the conservatives, they just voted OUT the liberals.
The thought being that despite their good work, there were one too many cock-ups (the gun registry) and one too many scandals (gomery report) for the liberals to keep on going. Obviously Canadians don't want the conservatives in power, but they don't want the liberals in power either, and the NDP and Greens are not prepared to run a majority government.
It's like watching Sarah Palin discuss patent law.
What sorts of technology patents do I like, specifically? Well....this great country has had many great and terrible technology patents since the beginning, and some technology has been used by terrorists like that Ayers fellow that Obama pals around with, And when you think about it, Obama really isn't qualified to be president!
See? I should be the next Vice President of the United States!
What's worse, do they bother censoring the ideas, or do they just use softer words?
Hey, you mother[LOVER] I'm going to skull[LOVE] your [LOVING] corpse and then I'm going to get you down on your knees and get your corpse to [WHISTLE] on my [SKINFLUTE]
Or would the Microsoft device just change the whole sentence to something like
[I LIKE YOU. WE SHOULD GET TOGETHER FOR AGE APPROPRIATE SOCIAL BEVERAGES.]
We're just seeing a bathtub curve. We're going to see high failure rates for the first while as a perfectly normal and natural thing. After that, it's possible we won't see any statistically relevant failures for another 40 years, when we start to see end of life failure rates.
I agree completely there, but the real numbers are consequently not as important as the inflation adjusted numbers, regardless of whether Nixon put inflation into hyper-drive after the dollar was already reeling from cutting away most of the gold standard during the depression or not.
Honestly, I'd like nothing more than to get the gold standard back, kill off every unconstitutional federal program, bring the troops home so they can protect the country instead of other countries, eliminate the federal income tax, and begin the slow process of paying back the federal debt. Unfortunately, the people in charge have been working with what they've got, and in this case, there have been a few times when the value of the debt has decreased, even though the non adjusted figure still went up.
Seems sort of strange that Kirk would be going through everyone's dossier in the first episodes like he did if that was the case. "Wow, so you're a Vulcan, eh? I've never seen a Vulcan before!"
Turning the data set into a binary number completely removes the meaning and value it has.
The net inflation adjusted debt has actually gotten smaller a few times since WWII, ignoring balanced budgets for a second and focusing on the debt. Nixon greatly reduced the real and inflation adjusted federal debt in '74(The last time a Republican would do so), Carter decreased the real and inflation adjusted federal debt in 3 of his 4 years in office, and Clinton managed to slow federal debt growth below inflation, causing a reduction in the inflation adjusted value of the debt for his last 2 years in office.
So the simple unadulterated fact isn't neccessarily as important as it sounds, since the debt has gone down several times since 1957, demonstrating the danger of reducing a complex data set to a single 'yay' or 'nay'.
You betcha! You're way too smart to fall for that left-wing liberal claptrap! Buy my book and learn more about those damned dirty liberals and their scheming!
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That's a large part of the problem, but more confidence in US markets would still help a lot. The market is a psychological force, not a mathematical one. People bought flowers for incredible prices at one time because flowers were seen as a good investment. Aluminium was once so expensive that Napoleon had aluminium plates for state guests. The value of these things is percieved, not real.
The fact that you even had that conversation is insane. The fact that until now, the majority of the electorate was on the side of those people is even more insane.
I agree totally with your post, and I've been saying that for years and years. People act like I'm a nut for saying debt isn't the be-all end-all of human existence.
The PR boost should help a bit elsewhere though. :)
And the "presumably Eurpoean" comment being responded to didn't reinforce the ignorance of an American poster?
(Protip: There are places in the world that aren't either Europe or the USA!)
Ask Iran how well "vot[ing] yourself in some leaders with some balls, to keep from being influenced" works.
Three words for you:
"My pet goat"
Respect isn't given, it's earned. We'll see if Obama earns people's respect or their derision through his actions.
That's just partisan bollocks. Extend the problem just far enough to blame Clinton? This crisis has a long history, I'd argue one stemming all the way back to the end of the Breton woods system under Nixon, followed by the irresponsible fiscal attitudes of Ford, Reagan and the two Bushes, accompanied by Carter and Clinton's attempts to force equal access to credit for people who shouldn't be able to afford credit.
We've had an attitude towards debt for decades that has been dangerous and irresponsible. This crisis is just some blowback from those policies.
As an outside observer, I've believed from the beginning that simply having Barack Obama in the presidency would be good for America.
The problems with the markets right now stem in part from a lack of confidence in the US internationally.
Frankly, we think you're a bunch of ignorant, violent dicks who managed to actually try to argue that torture is a good thing.
By having someone who isn't saying these things as the ignorant violent dicks in power, I could see international investments slowly building back up, resulting in a more prosperous planet as a whole.
(Seriously. Did you guys really think that arguing about whether torture was really bad would end up well for you?)
She has daddy issues.
You can tell this because her name is Megyn.
Obviously her parents are left wing nutjobs with little to no respect for spelling, and something happened to form a huge rift between her and her parents.
This is why she now is a spokesperson for a political philosophy which wants to know why she isn't in the kitchen making me a sammich.
As an aside, it doesn't just ensure prevention of inflation of the money supply by fiat, it also ensures the money will have a minimum value. If it's more valuable than the gold because of the goods and services it can buy then it's worth more, but if nobody has any confidence in your economic system, your money is still worth as much as an ounce of gold, since it can be transferred into that form.
McCain is really laying it on thick with the debt question. He must think we're really stupid.
Republicans have outspent and outdebted the Democrats since Gerald Ford. Republicans removed the last vestiges of the gold standard and caused the insane inflation we're seeing today.
He's going to have to do better than parrot the same historically incorrect argument we've been hearing since Reagan. "Oh, we'll just make it back in revenue because we'll increase the GDP!"
No you don't. Quit lying.
And as for attacking the report, it sounds a lot like their stance on global warming. "It can't happen! It can't happen! It can't happen! It can't happen! It's happening and only the Republicans can fix it!"
I agree!
Every time that a new software bug or vulnerability is uncovered, I feel better and better about my choice to stick with an my fingers and toes instead of using these computer things(20 bits ought to be enough for anyone).
Yes, it would be convenient to have it in my home or office, but you never know when some giant glaring exploit is going to appear and leave you open to pwnage due to some software company drinking a cold frosty can of fail.
Days like this justify my paranoia.
Yes, COBOL was an excellent skill, until it was posted here. Now every two-bit hacker is going to learn COBOL so they can apply everywhere.
Reminds me of turbolinux, or whatever the last big bubble IPO was. It was posted on linux, and I knew then and there that I was looking at a stock that would be skyrocketing. It ended up making some investors something like 1000% profit, and I'm positive the fact that it was posted here contributed.
It's obvious that people didn't vote IN the conservatives, they just voted OUT the liberals.
The thought being that despite their good work, there were one too many cock-ups (the gun registry) and one too many scandals (gomery report) for the liberals to keep on going. Obviously Canadians don't want the conservatives in power, but they don't want the liberals in power either, and the NDP and Greens are not prepared to run a majority government.
Personally, I rather like minority governments, and I think most Canadians do.
We're classical conservatives in that sense. Our country works pretty well. The less governments can do to break it, the better.
It's like watching Sarah Palin discuss patent law.
What sorts of technology patents do I like, specifically? Well....this great country has had many great and terrible technology patents since the beginning, and some technology has been used by terrorists like that Ayers fellow that Obama pals around with, And when you think about it, Obama really isn't qualified to be president!
See? I should be the next Vice President of the United States!
When did Microsoft become a government?
What's worse, do they bother censoring the ideas, or do they just use softer words?
Hey, you mother[LOVER] I'm going to skull[LOVE] your [LOVING] corpse and then I'm going to get you down on your knees and get your corpse to [WHISTLE] on my [SKINFLUTE]
Or would the Microsoft device just change the whole sentence to something like
[I LIKE YOU. WE SHOULD GET TOGETHER FOR AGE APPROPRIATE SOCIAL BEVERAGES.]
We're just seeing a bathtub curve. We're going to see high failure rates for the first while as a perfectly normal and natural thing. After that, it's possible we won't see any statistically relevant failures for another 40 years, when we start to see end of life failure rates.
I agree completely there, but the real numbers are consequently not as important as the inflation adjusted numbers, regardless of whether Nixon put inflation into hyper-drive after the dollar was already reeling from cutting away most of the gold standard during the depression or not.
Honestly, I'd like nothing more than to get the gold standard back, kill off every unconstitutional federal program, bring the troops home so they can protect the country instead of other countries, eliminate the federal income tax, and begin the slow process of paying back the federal debt. Unfortunately, the people in charge have been working with what they've got, and in this case, there have been a few times when the value of the debt has decreased, even though the non adjusted figure still went up.
Seems sort of strange that Kirk would be going through everyone's dossier in the first episodes like he did if that was the case. "Wow, so you're a Vulcan, eh? I've never seen a Vulcan before!"
I have the solution to the problem of writers "phoning it in".
We'll need to remodulate the tachyon emitters to emit a neoepinphrine pulse.
Turning the data set into a binary number completely removes the meaning and value it has.
The net inflation adjusted debt has actually gotten smaller a few times since WWII, ignoring balanced budgets for a second and focusing on the debt. Nixon greatly reduced the real and inflation adjusted federal debt in '74(The last time a Republican would do so), Carter decreased the real and inflation adjusted federal debt in 3 of his 4 years in office, and Clinton managed to slow federal debt growth below inflation, causing a reduction in the inflation adjusted value of the debt for his last 2 years in office.
So the simple unadulterated fact isn't neccessarily as important as it sounds, since the debt has gone down several times since 1957, demonstrating the danger of reducing a complex data set to a single 'yay' or 'nay'.
You betcha! You're way too smart to fall for that left-wing liberal claptrap! Buy my book and learn more about those damned dirty liberals and their scheming!
To be fair, I've used software that had version numbers like 0.99989389 for years and years only to find it more useful than the alternatives.
And I'm using Firefox 3 when there's obviously an Internet Explorer 8 that should be 5 times better!