If it was that close to begin with, how'd it coalesce into a planet in the first place? Either this planet has been spiraling in for eons, it's a victim of a collision, or the star has been getting warmer since planet formation.
So your [sic]arguement is that because the rich somehow benefit by employing more workers
They don't employ more workers - they buy machines, send jobs overseas, and force the remaining workers to double their output or starvelook for anther job. They then hide their increased profits in an offshore account and the CEO's sail off to Bermuda while the company tanks when no one has any money to buy the company's products - screwing investors out of millions.
The largest gains in employment come from small businesses - large, incumbent businesses almost never create new jobs - they simply buy other businesses that are already employing that talent and liquidate all the redundancies. And owners of small businesses are hardly what I would call rich - at least in this context. Though, nowadays, my standards of "rich" are quite high - eight figures in American dollars, at least.
Remember, society isn't a bunch of people going off to do things on their own - it's people working together for a common goal - hang together, or we will all hang separately. I'm not a communist by any means, but your self-centered "leftophobia" - fear of any idea suggesting that one person can't handle every problem by himself - is making self-reliancy look bad; people like you make Average Joe ask, "If I become self-reliant, am I going to turn into an arrogant prick, too?"
It's more obvious what they're doing, but it happens nonetheless.
This would then be the biggest argument FOR a gold standard.
Granted, if under a king, emperor, or dictator, this wouldn't matter. But under a democratic system of government, where public opinion can make or break a ruler's reign, this may be our greatest weapon against monetary hijinks - the fact we can SEE them pulling this horseshit, and therefore call them on it.
Unfortunately, the majority of modern Christians do feel that way; and while it is unfair to prejudge that you feel the same way, one of the core tenets of the Christian religion is that you are your brothers' keeper. The same belief that makes the extremists believe that they can force people to do things that they don't want is also being used against you because if the belief is supposed to go both ways, that makes it your job to stop the fanatics from being assholes. Pull the planks out of your brothers' eyes, for they won't do it themselves - they're jamming them in there like toothpicks at an all-you-can eat cocktail shrimp buffet.
As someone who left the church to avoid the systemic corruption (it got so bad, the only way for me to "prevent myself from sinning" was to "sever" the church from me), I know that, while the message is sound, and the messenger was a wise teacher, the organization set up to deliver that message is ruined. Completely, and irreversibly. The best thing a true Christian can do to preserve their messiah's message is to destroy the church, leave no stone atop another, and rebuild from scratch.
You may not like Bush, or Christian music, or want a theocratic state, but they do, and they will not hesitate to kill you if you seriously get in their way. To them, you are not a true Christian, and they will treat you exactly the same as they will the heretics and the pagans - torture, then death.
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If it was that close to begin with, how'd it coalesce into a planet in the first place? Either this planet has been spiraling in for eons, it's a victim of a collision, or the star has been getting warmer since planet formation.
Hopefully, that's metric tons; and therefore mass, not weight.
They may come back:
Bill Gates Gives ALEC Big $$$ to “Reform Education”
ALEC is, in my opinion, an organization aiming to conquer the U.S., economically.
Sure it will. Instead of two hours from launch, it'll take three.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I'd rather have my liberty than a fancy doodad.
Uh oh.
Insert obligatory fascism comment here.
In fact, this may spur innovation in order to get around/nullify the new limitation soon to be in place.
That's not limited to Soviet Russia...
If I were you, I'd make a habit out of wearing a bullet-proof vest. Y'know, just in case they want a refund.
Clearly, ugly is in the eye of the beholder - I think hexes look pretty.
Knit, purl, fap.
I'm not willing to hurt anybody.
Therein lies the problem. The only way to make sure the wrong people don't get hurt is to hurt the right people.
So, how's Hyrule?
Under my mattress, duh!
Oh, wait; crap - Igottagomoveitnow!
So your [sic]arguement is that because the rich somehow benefit by employing more workers
They don't employ more workers - they buy machines, send jobs overseas, and force the remaining workers to double their output or starvelook for anther job. They then hide their increased profits in an offshore account and the CEO's sail off to Bermuda while the company tanks when no one has any money to buy the company's products - screwing investors out of millions.
The largest gains in employment come from small businesses - large, incumbent businesses almost never create new jobs - they simply buy other businesses that are already employing that talent and liquidate all the redundancies. And owners of small businesses are hardly what I would call rich - at least in this context. Though, nowadays, my standards of "rich" are quite high - eight figures in American dollars, at least.
Remember, society isn't a bunch of people going off to do things on their own - it's people working together for a common goal - hang together, or we will all hang separately. I'm not a communist by any means, but your self-centered "leftophobia" - fear of any idea suggesting that one person can't handle every problem by himself - is making self-reliancy look bad; people like you make Average Joe ask, "If I become self-reliant, am I going to turn into an arrogant prick, too?"
I can swim. Recovering from getting shot in the face... I dunno...
So... former Microsoft coders are unemployable because they've not only read, but also written such code?
They're unemployable because they've written such code, yes. Unforgivable, too.
Money can rent one of those too...
Legality may vary though, depending on location, but still...
It's more obvious what they're doing, but it happens nonetheless.
This would then be the biggest argument FOR a gold standard.
Granted, if under a king, emperor, or dictator, this wouldn't matter. But under a democratic system of government, where public opinion can make or break a ruler's reign, this may be our greatest weapon against monetary hijinks - the fact we can SEE them pulling this horseshit, and therefore call them on it.
Unfortunately, the majority of modern Christians do feel that way; and while it is unfair to prejudge that you feel the same way, one of the core tenets of the Christian religion is that you are your brothers' keeper. The same belief that makes the extremists believe that they can force people to do things that they don't want is also being used against you because if the belief is supposed to go both ways, that makes it your job to stop the fanatics from being assholes. Pull the planks out of your brothers' eyes, for they won't do it themselves - they're jamming them in there like toothpicks at an all-you-can eat cocktail shrimp buffet.
As someone who left the church to avoid the systemic corruption (it got so bad, the only way for me to "prevent myself from sinning" was to "sever" the church from me), I know that, while the message is sound, and the messenger was a wise teacher, the organization set up to deliver that message is ruined. Completely, and irreversibly. The best thing a true Christian can do to preserve their messiah's message is to destroy the church, leave no stone atop another, and rebuild from scratch.
You may not like Bush, or Christian music, or want a theocratic state, but they do, and they will not hesitate to kill you if you seriously get in their way. To them, you are not a true Christian, and they will treat you exactly the same as they will the heretics and the pagans - torture, then death.
That's easy. How many devices do you own? At least once per device per format, just to make sure you keep it legal. Fixed it for you.
You've obviously never seen private companies hire mercenaries - who do you think hired them before Bush did?
This is Slashdot, not Fark.
You're lucky they exist in the first place - it's like having a Sahara Catfish...