>How about the bad science in An Inconvenient Truth? Has someone claimed that is hurting the children?
I have claimed it many times myself.:) Actually the bad info isn't what hurts... it's the discouragement of critically analyzing it. I would love to see school dissect the film for truth and distortions, however free-thinking is no longer on the list of things encouraged in schools.
Barack has the same stamp of approvals as the rest is the problem. That makes anything he says unbelievable. I can't think of the last time a CFR member moved in a way contrary to any of the groups recommendations. If the CFR says national id is a must (and they may already have), I would bet money he would push it.
I get your point, but to his point...while more people may be getting to enjoy the protections of the constitution (minorities and women), the constitution itself is now under constant attack - which is the accelerating/troubling part.
Actually the real troubling part is how few of the people who supposedly fought for freedom are making a stand (though Ron Paul is getting more money from military families than any other candidate so that's good). Next election we will have the same batch of republicrats in Washington chipping away at it 'for our own protection'.
Going to disagree with you here. It isn't that the nose falls faster, it is that it starts falling first. This pitches the nose down, and in doing so starts a rotation.
Grab a toy car, even a center balanced one and push it off a table and watch. Nose dive... every time.
With the global warming hysteria I have heard the suggestion that pollen is getting more out of hand increasing allergies. Its a reach but I think that might put flowers on the list of things hurting the children.
As for Love... MANBLA.
>I grew up with Ghostbusters and Star Wars but I never once thought that when I grew up I'd be creeping around old libraries with a Nuclear Device as a backback or tickling an Ewok under its chin while flying my spaceship around like it was a jet fighter.
I do remember trying to move things to my hand when I was in bed as a kid after seeing Empire... not something I think anyone needed to worry about.
With all of the throwing around nebulous terrorism threats and militarizing the country, nice to know they still find time for those critical items that the masses demand.
I know file sharing is a real concern around the watercooler.
For the love of god when will people start voting for the candidates they aren't told will win. I love asking people what they thing of Ron Paul only to hear "He seems like a great guy but he can't win". This is Slashdot so I won't explain the irony of that statement.
Trying, but most of the time when I say to people "Hopefully Ron Paul will get far enough in the debates to create some waves of change"... I get "Who's Ron Paul".
And that's from Republicans.
I would bitch about my tax money going toward this, but really it's not my money paying for it. There has to be some irony to countries like China buying our securities and having them fund crap like this to be used against them at some later date.
Who is this enemy they are going to be terrorizing? The women and children it's probing while guys with guns move elsewhere?
Iraq is an insurgency, not a war. Killbot 3000 isn't going to turn it back into a war. All it's going to do is make it easier for our boys to dehumanize the people on the other end of the barrel, and make everything that moves through its blurry camera eye look suspicious.
We have just replaced that now useless trivia with other useless trivia like memorizing Guitar Hero licks.
The letter of their contract will decide
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Really it will come down the exact wording of the contracts. Either Sony did or didn't get what they asked for, and they did or didn't give the appropriate sign-off.
The grave "Papers, please" fear-mongering is a bit overdone
It really has nothing to do with security. It has to do with generating unique Tax IDs. If I ran everything (and was corrupt with the power), I know my first order of business is to get everyone cataloged and move them to paperless currency.
FREEDOM is not the right to chose between McDonalds and Burger King, that is merely CHOICE. FREEDOM means the power to act, speak, or think without externally imposed restraints. FREEDOM sadly is mostly forgotten these days where things like a national ID can even considered, and is even a scary concept for many.
Serialization marks the death of freedom. What you experience at the DMV/Doctor/Airport/Banking is what life under serialization is like. Imagine every aspect of life being like that.
So are the owners of said harddrives keeping encrypted files on them AND refusing to open them for review? Seems a bit silly if your choice is:
1) open it and show the authorities or 2) leave it locked and wait in jail while they crack it open.
If the people they are holding don't have access to the files, seems to me they need some better evidence to hold them on. I wouldn't approve of my person being held for 90 days because some harddrive I don't have access to MIGHT link me to a crime.
Business and the FED haven't changed that much. Everyone has said that "if they just had lowered interest rates, everything would have been fine" when they talk about the great depression. I disagree. Everything would have been different, not fine.
The business cycle as it is called, is really a debt buildup and correction cycle that comes as a result of fractional banking. Banks issue more paper wealth than there is actual asset wealth. The longer you do that, the more people become paper millionares without real assets.
Like playing musical chairs though, at some point the music stops and reality sets in for all of the paper wealthy... they only have claim to wealth if they convert the paper to assets before everyone else. This can come in the form of a major market crash, failed banks, deflation of prices, seizing of gold by the government... etc etc. At some point, a correction occurs where the paper millionares all fight to become asset millionares, and those who don't sit down first, find themselves with nothing (or at least a LOT less than they thought they had).
The market crash of 2000 was the beginning of the correction process, but it has been halted by reinflating the economy into a new bubble. This isnt a cure, its a delay. The problem is, the longer you delay the correction, the worse the pain gets. The extended bubble for example has created an environment were manufacturing has left the country, and the US has become home of many irrational businesses. If you remember the year 1999, it felt like half the country was working on some kind of "moving your business to the web" project. The world didnt need 5,000,000 shopping portals, but because of the nature of our money system, it became a path to becoming a paper millionare. This is known as misallocation i think.
Many people, like my mother and grandmother were sucked into the market, mostly by greed. Now, with the extended bubble, people are getting forced into the still overpriced market out of need. Money markets and other "safe" investments such as bonds are so popular now, and the FED pressure on rates is such, that you can no longer safely protect your money from inflation. If you keep it in cash or safe interest bearing accounts, you will be losing 3-7% a year to inflation. Possibly worse if the current FED money printing continues and we see 70's style inflation again.
Baby boomers are about to retire as well, and you are going to see a large portion of the economy needing to convert paper wealth (stocks, bonds, half-payed mortgages) into real spending. Suddenly there will be quite a bit of paper chasing goods, and that will be VERY bad.
I'm not sure what my point is exactly, other than this may not be the great depression, but that doesnt mean it is something better. It is uncharted territory for the US Dollar (which is only about 70 years old in its current form, and only about 30 years that it has been totally fiat). The FED is guessing and they know it. Fiat paper may very well run its course in our lifetime. The worse thing that can happen is a continuation of what is currently happening though. At this rate, the government will control more than 50% of the economy in about a decade, and we will find ourselves slaves to inflation.
I was thinking the same thing when i saw that. We would be well into a great depression right now if the FED had chosen to increase interest rates rather than slash them. We are basically holding off some ugly shit by inflating our money supply unnaturally, which has been the death of every fiat money. This might not be the end of the fiat dollar, but it certainly is going to be a lesson in why you don't print money faster than the economy is growing.
We've seen the great depression, thats history. Get ready for the great hyperinflation if things don't "correct" how the FED is praying they will.
...And if these "forests" they are planting are worth anything, why are they still clear-cutting old growth?
Anyone using the term "enviro-wacko" has spent far too much time listening to the likes of Rush Limbaugh looking for reasons they can look down on their fellow man, than actually spending time doing their own research if you ask me.
There we go, thanks for the link, didn't have the patience or desire to look up the obvious last night. I wish people would remain more open to conflicting data, rather than turning into shills for their POV. We can best support our troops by making sure they aren't abused by misguided polititians and policy.
"Nearly a billion dollars [usaid.gov] is "pitiful quantities?""
Yes, nearly 1B is pitiful, thats about 1/10th what Israel is getting this year (give or take, I don't have the numbers with me), and we didn't even promise to rebuild them. We spend nearly 1B a day on defense. Warlords are running most of Afghanistan from what I have been reading, and it still costs the US about 1.5B a month to occupy Afghanistan.
It's called a supplemental: $74.9 billion
You are refering to the bill that congress had to remind the president failed to even include money promised to Afghanistan? I recall that budget submission yes. I don't expect to see much of that make it to rebuilding Iraq judging by our record with Afghanistan so far. Bush has been intentionally vague about post-war Iraq, just like we were about Afghanistan.
You recall incorrectly. No such plan has even been floated
I'm heading to bed, so further google searching isn't in my plan for the evening, but I'm sure there are many on capitol hill calling for it. I do recall rumsfeld saying something along the lines of Iraqi oil paying for rebuilding as well. If anyone else has some links for this please feel free to share. Bush though hasn't said anything about it, in fact he has avoided the subject of post-war Iraq as much as possible.
Spending our money? I haven't seen the appropriations for "fixing" Iraq yet (judging by the pitiful quantities being spent on Afghanistan I won't hold my breath), and as I recall we are taking control of their fields to pay for rebuilding. It would seem to me that if we are spending their oil to rebuild it should be in the interest of those living on top of it.
Spending it in OUR interests basically says that the left was totally right about our intentions.
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>How about the bad science in An Inconvenient Truth? Has someone claimed that is hurting the children? I have claimed it many times myself. :) Actually the bad info isn't what hurts... it's the discouragement of critically analyzing it. I would love to see school dissect the film for truth and distortions, however free-thinking is no longer on the list of things encouraged in schools.
Barack has the same stamp of approvals as the rest is the problem. That makes anything he says unbelievable. I can't think of the last time a CFR member moved in a way contrary to any of the groups recommendations. If the CFR says national id is a must (and they may already have), I would bet money he would push it.
I get your point, but to his point ...while more people may be getting to enjoy the protections of the constitution (minorities and women), the constitution itself is now under constant attack - which is the accelerating/troubling part.
Actually the real troubling part is how few of the people who supposedly fought for freedom are making a stand (though Ron Paul is getting more money from military families than any other candidate so that's good). Next election we will have the same batch of republicrats in Washington chipping away at it 'for our own protection'.
Going to disagree with you here. It isn't that the nose falls faster, it is that it starts falling first. This pitches the nose down, and in doing so starts a rotation. Grab a toy car, even a center balanced one and push it off a table and watch. Nose dive... every time.
With the global warming hysteria I have heard the suggestion that pollen is getting more out of hand increasing allergies. Its a reach but I think that might put flowers on the list of things hurting the children. As for Love... MANBLA.
except w/o a ramp the nose of the bus would fall first as the wheels lost contact with the ground... landing it on its nose or back.
>I grew up with Ghostbusters and Star Wars but I never once thought that when I grew up I'd be creeping around old libraries with a Nuclear Device as a backback or tickling an Ewok under its chin while flying my spaceship around like it was a jet fighter. I do remember trying to move things to my hand when I was in bed as a kid after seeing Empire... not something I think anyone needed to worry about.
Is there anything left that someone hasn't claimed is 'hurting the children'?
Keep in mind that boiling at 0psi isn't burning. The siliva boiling off would actually feel pretty cool if I understand what I am reading.
... the definition of Freedom requires an alteration in Websters.
With all of the throwing around nebulous terrorism threats and militarizing the country, nice to know they still find time for those critical items that the masses demand.
I know file sharing is a real concern around the watercooler.
For the love of god when will people start voting for the candidates they aren't told will win. I love asking people what they thing of Ron Paul only to hear "He seems like a great guy but he can't win". This is Slashdot so I won't explain the irony of that statement.
Trying, but most of the time when I say to people "Hopefully Ron Paul will get far enough in the debates to create some waves of change"... I get "Who's Ron Paul". And that's from Republicans.
I would bitch about my tax money going toward this, but really it's not my money paying for it. There has to be some irony to countries like China buying our securities and having them fund crap like this to be used against them at some later date.
Ron Paul needed stat.
Who is this enemy they are going to be terrorizing? The women and children it's probing while guys with guns move elsewhere? Iraq is an insurgency, not a war. Killbot 3000 isn't going to turn it back into a war. All it's going to do is make it easier for our boys to dehumanize the people on the other end of the barrel, and make everything that moves through its blurry camera eye look suspicious.
We have just replaced that now useless trivia with other useless trivia like memorizing Guitar Hero licks.
Really it will come down the exact wording of the contracts. Either Sony did or didn't get what they asked for, and they did or didn't give the appropriate sign-off.
It really has nothing to do with security. It has to do with generating unique Tax IDs. If I ran everything (and was corrupt with the power), I know my first order of business is to get everyone cataloged and move them to paperless currency.
FREEDOM is not the right to chose between McDonalds and Burger King, that is merely CHOICE. FREEDOM means the power to act, speak, or think without externally imposed restraints. FREEDOM sadly is mostly forgotten these days where things like a national ID can even considered, and is even a scary concept for many.
Serialization marks the death of freedom. What you experience at the DMV/Doctor/Airport/Banking is what life under serialization is like. Imagine every aspect of life being like that.
So are the owners of said harddrives keeping encrypted files on them AND refusing to open them for review? Seems a bit silly if your choice is:
1) open it and show the authorities or
2) leave it locked and wait in jail while they crack it open.
If the people they are holding don't have access to the files, seems to me they need some better evidence to hold them on. I wouldn't approve of my person being held for 90 days because some harddrive I don't have access to MIGHT link me to a crime.
Yeah, and I tripped over the cat this morning and accidently stained War and Peace into the carpet with my blood splatter.
Business and the FED haven't changed that much. Everyone has said that "if they just had lowered interest rates, everything would have been fine" when they talk about the great depression. I disagree. Everything would have been different, not fine.
The business cycle as it is called, is really a debt buildup and correction cycle that comes as a result of fractional banking. Banks issue more paper wealth than there is actual asset wealth. The longer you do that, the more people become paper millionares without real assets.
Like playing musical chairs though, at some point the music stops and reality sets in for all of the paper wealthy... they only have claim to wealth if they convert the paper to assets before everyone else. This can come in the form of a major market crash, failed banks, deflation of prices, seizing of gold by the government... etc etc. At some point, a correction occurs where the paper millionares all fight to become asset millionares, and those who don't sit down first, find themselves with nothing (or at least a LOT less than they thought they had).
The market crash of 2000 was the beginning of the correction process, but it has been halted by reinflating the economy into a new bubble. This isnt a cure, its a delay. The problem is, the longer you delay the correction, the worse the pain gets. The extended bubble for example has created an environment were manufacturing has left the country, and the US has become home of many irrational businesses. If you remember the year 1999, it felt like half the country was working on some kind of "moving your business to the web" project. The world didnt need 5,000,000 shopping portals, but because of the nature of our money system, it became a path to becoming a paper millionare. This is known as misallocation i think.
Many people, like my mother and grandmother were sucked into the market, mostly by greed. Now, with the extended bubble, people are getting forced into the still overpriced market out of need. Money markets and other "safe" investments such as bonds are so popular now, and the FED pressure on rates is such, that you can no longer safely protect your money from inflation. If you keep it in cash or safe interest bearing accounts, you will be losing 3-7% a year to inflation. Possibly worse if the current FED money printing continues and we see 70's style inflation again.
Baby boomers are about to retire as well, and you are going to see a large portion of the economy needing to convert paper wealth (stocks, bonds, half-payed mortgages) into real spending. Suddenly there will be quite a bit of paper chasing goods, and that will be VERY bad.
I'm not sure what my point is exactly, other than this may not be the great depression, but that doesnt mean it is something better. It is uncharted territory for the US Dollar (which is only about 70 years old in its current form, and only about 30 years that it has been totally fiat). The FED is guessing and they know it. Fiat paper may very well run its course in our lifetime. The worse thing that can happen is a continuation of what is currently happening though. At this rate, the government will control more than 50% of the economy in about a decade, and we will find ourselves slaves to inflation.
I was thinking the same thing when i saw that. We would be well into a great depression right now if the FED had chosen to increase interest rates rather than slash them. We are basically holding off some ugly shit by inflating our money supply unnaturally, which has been the death of every fiat money. This might not be the end of the fiat dollar, but it certainly is going to be a lesson in why you don't print money faster than the economy is growing.
We've seen the great depression, thats history. Get ready for the great hyperinflation if things don't "correct" how the FED is praying they will.
...And if these "forests" they are planting are worth anything, why are they still clear-cutting old growth?
Anyone using the term "enviro-wacko" has spent far too much time listening to the likes of Rush Limbaugh looking for reasons they can look down on their fellow man, than actually spending time doing their own research if you ask me.
There we go, thanks for the link, didn't have the patience or desire to look up the obvious last night. I wish people would remain more open to conflicting data, rather than turning into shills for their POV. We can best support our troops by making sure they aren't abused by misguided polititians and policy.
Here's the link w/o the space in it.Yes, nearly 1B is pitiful, thats about 1/10th what Israel is getting this year (give or take, I don't have the numbers with me), and we didn't even promise to rebuild them. We spend nearly 1B a day on defense. Warlords are running most of Afghanistan from what I have been reading, and it still costs the US about 1.5B a month to occupy Afghanistan.
You are refering to the bill that congress had to remind the president failed to even include money promised to Afghanistan? I recall that budget submission yes. I don't expect to see much of that make it to rebuilding Iraq judging by our record with Afghanistan so far. Bush has been intentionally vague about post-war Iraq, just like we were about Afghanistan.
It has been floated:here
here
I'm heading to bed, so further google searching isn't in my plan for the evening, but I'm sure there are many on capitol hill calling for it. I do recall rumsfeld saying something along the lines of Iraqi oil paying for rebuilding as well. If anyone else has some links for this please feel free to share. Bush though hasn't said anything about it, in fact he has avoided the subject of post-war Iraq as much as possible.
Spending our money? I haven't seen the appropriations for "fixing" Iraq yet (judging by the pitiful quantities being spent on Afghanistan I won't hold my breath), and as I recall we are taking control of their fields to pay for rebuilding. It would seem to me that if we are spending their oil to rebuild it should be in the interest of those living on top of it.
Spending it in OUR interests basically says that the left was totally right about our intentions.