Maybe to get into the stadium would require you to affix 4 or so green squares to the front and back of your shirt. Then the TV crews could put whatever product logo on the masses of people that paid the most money. Heck, they already do this with the backstops during baseball games and we have the yellow first down line in football and the swimmers names and countries in the swimming lanes, this shouldn't be to hard to do.
We can always hope that the future Pharoah of the world/continent/country/city/county/etc. will want some huge monument filled with glittery metal. Heh, then I could steal it back and sell it to the next deity appointed ruler with delusions of after-life grandeur.
I think something that is mistaken is that the U.S. currency is unbacked. U.S. dollars are backed by oil. All OPEC oil must be bought/traded in U.S. dollars. Nixon shifted the dollar from being backed by gold to being backed by oil because gold reserves couldn't keep up with U.S. growth. This is why foreign governments invest in U.S. dollars so much (along with the assumed stability of the U.S.). With oil supplies tightening, world and local demand growing and OPEC and other oil producers considering also trading in Euros, I think the U.S. is in for some weird economic times ahead.
Maybe that's why my broker recommends to invest in ammunition. That way when the bad times come I can shoot some animals and eat them, shoot other people and take what they have or shoot them to stop them from taking what I have. And if the bad times don't come I can always take out my daily frustrations on some unsuspecting tin cans or paper plates.
I can just imagine a bunch of pulse-less people wandering around like tourists because they have no bearings. Now if only the implant would make them moan all the time and have an insatiable appetite for brains.
I'm not really sure that the patients receiving these are that concerned about it. The article states these things are a last ditch effort and most people that recieved them still died within a year.
Or like the borked pay-at-the-pump systems in Ann Arbor, MI that would accept the mag strip on your driver's license as a credit card. Of course the computer systems stored everyones driver's license number that used this technique to steal gas and they were pretty easy to track down. News Article Here
But how could the enemy shoot at the segway riding soldiers when they are bent over and laughing so hard they get stomach cramps. Sounds like a pretty sound strategy to me.
knowledge distributed by some brotherhood in power armor after we come out of the vaults... or something...
I thought it was big muscly fellas dressed up in leather S&M outfits driving around in 70's cars fighting over gasoline...and don't forget children that speak in grunts and throw razor edged boomerangs...yeah, that's it.
So this would mean US military service people standing around the voting places with machine guns? Does any other country actually do anything having to do with the UN except bicker and argue?
And then the crooks, who already have several scams against the paper ballots, screw up the paper count and they machine and paper counts don't match. The voters will inherently trust the 'tried and true' paper over the new 'hackable' computers and election fraud will still have occured. The real problem is that a fraud proof voting scheme is not possible with 'secret and anonymous' voting scheme (and I have my doubts that any voting scheme is fraud proof).
And what stops the people who voted Nader, because the thought there was no way that Kerry could lose, to switch their votes to Kerry because otherwise G.W. would win? Or maybe just really muck up the system by changing your vote for every recount that is requested.
Actually, I think the paper ballots should be the final authority, period -- make them so they can be electronically scanned, for quick vote counting, but they'd also be human-readable for recounts, and the actual voting machines would be dumb printers.
And how is this much different from the punch card systems we have now? Most polling places are run by old people and you want them responsible for making sure the computers are running ok? I can see some argument about the computer systems no being subject to voter confusion like the punch cards but that goes out the window when some polling official makes the G.W. button blue and the Kerry button red (or make the Buchanan button a rainbow and all the confused gay voters will vote for the religous fanatic).
What's to stop any politician that loses to demand a paper recount? If every polling place has to do paper recounts why not just keep the paper ballots we have now, it would save lots of taxpayer money.
Because having a box full of paper votes doesn't mean the election is fair either. We have that system NOW. Why not just skip the computers, keep chads and save taxpayers a lot of money.
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Because it's only the evil Republicans that would ever want to rig an election. Though rigging elections is just a small step after they've rigged peoples minds to just be party fanboys.
Your argument doesn't make sense. You complain about the weakening dollar and then say our problem is the trade defecit. Why is there a trade deficit? The reason is because the dollar was so strong compared to foreign currencies, especially Asian currencies. This lets foreign manufacturers produce and sell goods at prices we can't possibly match with a strong dollar. The reason I mention China in my original post is because our biggest trade deficit partner is China. The reason for this is because they artificially weaken their currency by rigging it to the value of the dollar. If China's currency was allowed to float in world markets like most other major currencies it would go way up. This might hurt some US companies in the short term (think Walmart) but in the long term it would strengthen US manufacturers and exporters. The weakening dollar is part of the import/export rebalancing that you talk of.
They are for fiscal responsibility, so they throw out the budget surplus they inherited from Democrat president Clinton and replace it with the biggest deficits in history.
Please put the word PROJECTED in front of budget surplus. If we were all still investing in internet sock puppets (at 2 err.. I mean 3 dollars), we would actually have a budget surplus.
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Maybe to get into the stadium would require you to affix 4 or so green squares to the front and back of your shirt. Then the TV crews could put whatever product logo on the masses of people that paid the most money. Heck, they already do this with the backstops during baseball games and we have the yellow first down line in football and the swimmers names and countries in the swimming lanes, this shouldn't be to hard to do.
We can always hope that the future Pharoah of the world/continent/country/city/county/etc. will want some huge monument filled with glittery metal. Heh, then I could steal it back and sell it to the next deity appointed ruler with delusions of after-life grandeur.
I think something that is mistaken is that the U.S. currency is unbacked. U.S. dollars are backed by oil. All OPEC oil must be bought/traded in U.S. dollars. Nixon shifted the dollar from being backed by gold to being backed by oil because gold reserves couldn't keep up with U.S. growth. This is why foreign governments invest in U.S. dollars so much (along with the assumed stability of the U.S.). With oil supplies tightening, world and local demand growing and OPEC and other oil producers considering also trading in Euros, I think the U.S. is in for some weird economic times ahead.
Maybe that's why my broker recommends to invest in ammunition. That way when the bad times come I can shoot some animals and eat them, shoot other people and take what they have or shoot them to stop them from taking what I have. And if the bad times don't come I can always take out my daily frustrations on some unsuspecting tin cans or paper plates.
I can just imagine a bunch of pulse-less people wandering around like tourists because they have no bearings. Now if only the implant would make them moan all the time and have an insatiable appetite for brains.
Well, these patients are facing the reality of zero blood flow so I think they might as well take the chance.
I'm not really sure that the patients receiving these are that concerned about it. The article states these things are a last ditch effort and most people that recieved them still died within a year.
Maybe the cord sticking out of their abdomen hooked to a battery pack might be some indication.
Hooking it up will do just about nothing at all, it's when you suddenly disconnect the battery you have to worry about.
Or like the borked pay-at-the-pump systems in Ann Arbor, MI that would accept the mag strip on your driver's license as a credit card. Of course the computer systems stored everyones driver's license number that used this technique to steal gas and they were pretty easy to track down. News Article Here
But how could the enemy shoot at the segway riding soldiers when they are bent over and laughing so hard they get stomach cramps. Sounds like a pretty sound strategy to me.
Is that Gary Coleman sitting next to her?
Don't forget the 485Gb pr0n collecting geeks ;)
knowledge distributed by some brotherhood in power armor after we come out of the vaults... or something...
I thought it was big muscly fellas dressed up in leather S&M outfits driving around in 70's cars fighting over gasoline...and don't forget children that speak in grunts and throw razor edged boomerangs...yeah, that's it.
I beleive multiple pencils and paper ballots with a pencil sharpener would be a more cost effective measure.
So this would mean US military service people standing around the voting places with machine guns? Does any other country actually do anything having to do with the UN except bicker and argue?
And then the crooks, who already have several scams against the paper ballots, screw up the paper count and they machine and paper counts don't match. The voters will inherently trust the 'tried and true' paper over the new 'hackable' computers and election fraud will still have occured. The real problem is that a fraud proof voting scheme is not possible with 'secret and anonymous' voting scheme (and I have my doubts that any voting scheme is fraud proof).
And what stops the people who voted Nader, because the thought there was no way that Kerry could lose, to switch their votes to Kerry because otherwise G.W. would win? Or maybe just really muck up the system by changing your vote for every recount that is requested.
Actually, I think the paper ballots should be the final authority, period -- make them so they can be electronically scanned, for quick vote counting, but they'd also be human-readable for recounts, and the actual voting machines would be dumb printers.
And how is this much different from the punch card systems we have now? Most polling places are run by old people and you want them responsible for making sure the computers are running ok? I can see some argument about the computer systems no being subject to voter confusion like the punch cards but that goes out the window when some polling official makes the G.W. button blue and the Kerry button red (or make the Buchanan button a rainbow and all the confused gay voters will vote for the religous fanatic).
What's to stop any politician that loses to demand a paper recount? If every polling place has to do paper recounts why not just keep the paper ballots we have now, it would save lots of taxpayer money.
Because having a box full of paper votes doesn't mean the election is fair either. We have that system NOW. Why not just skip the computers, keep chads and save taxpayers a lot of money.
Because it's only the evil Republicans that would ever want to rig an election. Though rigging elections is just a small step after they've rigged peoples minds to just be party fanboys.
Your argument doesn't make sense. You complain about the weakening dollar and then say our problem is the trade defecit. Why is there a trade deficit? The reason is because the dollar was so strong compared to foreign currencies, especially Asian currencies. This lets foreign manufacturers produce and sell goods at prices we can't possibly match with a strong dollar. The reason I mention China in my original post is because our biggest trade deficit partner is China. The reason for this is because they artificially weaken their currency by rigging it to the value of the dollar. If China's currency was allowed to float in world markets like most other major currencies it would go way up. This might hurt some US companies in the short term (think Walmart) but in the long term it would strengthen US manufacturers and exporters. The weakening dollar is part of the import/export rebalancing that you talk of.
They are for fiscal responsibility, so they throw out the budget surplus they inherited from Democrat president Clinton and replace it with the biggest deficits in history.
Please put the word PROJECTED in front of budget surplus. If we were all still investing in internet sock puppets (at 2 err.. I mean 3 dollars), we would actually have a budget surplus.
So our choice is to vote for the crooks or the ignoramuses? I feel so much better.