The debt and deficit are permanent problems. Raising the debt ceiling, while necessary, is a band aid. Until we change our policy of money as debt we are just seeing the beginnings of this problem. We need something like The Monetary Reform Act to drive a stake in the heart of debt and the central banks that own us.
Google: Money As Debt The Monetary Reform Act The Money Masters/tin foil hat comments in 3... 2....
Be an internet fuckwad on sites like Fark and/. and 4chan.
Be yourself on G+ and FB... because that's the whole point of such sites. FB would be useless without real names, it would just be MySpace or YouTube w/o the videos. The value of G+ is that when i read Felicia Day's posts that it's actually Felicia Day posting. Or it could be that girl i hooked up with on spring break.
We are mites on the ass of an elephant. As long as you don't warrant the elephant's attention by biting it we can live out our entire lives without the tail coming down on us. Most people have an exaggerated sense of importance, the internet seems to be making this exponentially worse.
It's just bizarre how paranoid and egocentric people can be. i bet religion has something to do with it. As children they feared that Santa was watching them beat off to the Sears catalog. Now they think a G-man in mirror shades is watching them.
In the world of video games, any game with stats is lumped in with RPGs. Counter Strike does not have stats (or classes or levels) and so is just a shooter. Personally, i wouldn't call it an RPG, you don't make your character or any real choices.
i'm going to let you in on a secret. People who aren't you are different than you. They like different things. Which of course makes them evil and stupid. Now you can both understand why things you don't like are sometimes liked by others AND enjoy that warm feeling of superiority.
This is the sort of linguistic hijacking that pisses me off. PC doesn't mean that. That's what conservatives want it to mean. They are wrong. Just as file sharing isn't piracy.
PC means show some basic human decency, don't dehumanize with language. Originally, there was the phrase politically incorrect. Calling a black man a nigger is politically incorrect. The flip side of that was politically correct which is basically calling people what they want to be called, instead of a pejorative. Which is a fairly reasonable request.
As a joke, some conservatives started inventing silly terms to make fun of the PC movement. Now it's the joke that dominates.
In English, America refers to the United States of America. There is no continent "America", at least in the English language. We call them North America and South America, collectively named "the Americas". Note the s indicating plurality (two continents, not one). Note also, the 'the' in front. We do this because 'America' and 'the Americas' are different.
America with an apostrophe over the second a, is not an English word. It's a different word with a different meaning in a different language. What other languages do with their configurations of roman characters is not what English does with them. For instance, my wife might be embarrassed without being pregnant. Different languages are different.
1) The budget is LAW. Not raising the debt ceiling breaks the law. And as a minor side effect fucks old people, veterans and any one else who uses the services that we'd have to cut. Oh, and one other piddling matter of fucking the global economy. But what's really important is not raising taxes, right?
2) But that's a band aid. The real problem is that our money is debt. Raising the ceiling delays the next raising of the ceiling. We have to change our money.
3) There's a solution called the Monetary Reform Act. It would wipe out the debt and put us on the road to a balanced budget. i'll assume you know how to use google.
Step 1) End the Federal Reserve. 2) End fractional reserve lending. 3) treasury dept takes over minting. 4) ??? 5) Profit and enjoy debt free money with imperceptible inflation and no more boom/bust cycles.
Google and Facebook want your real name so that people who know you can find you. That girl from algebra doesn't know you as fyngyrz. She knows your name.
How beneficial is a large cruise ship in delivering ordinance deep in enemy territory through air defense networks?
The money spent on a B-2 doesn't evaporate into the ether. It becomes paychecks, purchases of materials (from alloys to paper clips), stock dividends for retirement funds and so on. Those paychecks pay mortgages, rent, car payments, groceries, trips to Disney World, condoms, computers....
Which is another one of the iQueef myths: Creative work MUST be done on an iQueef!
There's a self fulling prophecy at work there. Crapple sells schools iQueefs. Students learn PS and Avid on those machines. They go to work where there are iQueefs, ergo all creative work MUST be done on iQueefs.
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The debt and deficit are permanent problems. Raising the debt ceiling, while necessary, is a band aid. Until we change our policy of money as debt we are just seeing the beginnings of this problem. We need something like The Monetary Reform Act to drive a stake in the heart of debt and the central banks that own us.
Google: /tin foil hat comments in 3... 2....
Money As Debt
The Monetary Reform Act
The Money Masters
Or, don't be paranoid.
Be an internet fuckwad on sites like Fark and /. and 4chan.
Be yourself on G+ and FB... because that's the whole point of such sites. FB would be useless without real names, it would just be MySpace or YouTube w/o the videos. The value of G+ is that when i read Felicia Day's posts that it's actually Felicia Day posting. Or it could be that girl i hooked up with on spring break.
We are mites on the ass of an elephant. As long as you don't warrant the elephant's attention by biting it we can live out our entire lives without the tail coming down on us. Most people have an exaggerated sense of importance, the internet seems to be making this exponentially worse.
It's just bizarre how paranoid and egocentric people can be. i bet religion has something to do with it. As children they feared that Santa was watching them beat off to the Sears catalog. Now they think a G-man in mirror shades is watching them.
The headline suggests that NASA found a new Mars.
You forgot:
Shallow and pedantic.
Insists upon itself.
In the world of video games, any game with stats is lumped in with RPGs. Counter Strike does not have stats (or classes or levels) and so is just a shooter. Personally, i wouldn't call it an RPG, you don't make your character or any real choices.
i'm going to let you in on a secret. People who aren't you are different than you. They like different things. Which of course makes them evil and stupid. Now you can both understand why things you don't like are sometimes liked by others AND enjoy that warm feeling of superiority.
This is the sort of linguistic hijacking that pisses me off. PC doesn't mean that. That's what conservatives want it to mean. They are wrong. Just as file sharing isn't piracy.
PC means show some basic human decency, don't dehumanize with language. Originally, there was the phrase politically incorrect. Calling a black man a nigger is politically incorrect. The flip side of that was politically correct which is basically calling people what they want to be called, instead of a pejorative. Which is a fairly reasonable request.
As a joke, some conservatives started inventing silly terms to make fun of the PC movement. Now it's the joke that dominates.
In English, America refers to the United States of America. There is no continent "America", at least in the English language. We call them North America and South America, collectively named "the Americas". Note the s indicating plurality (two continents, not one). Note also, the 'the' in front. We do this because 'America' and 'the Americas' are different.
America with an apostrophe over the second a, is not an English word. It's a different word with a different meaning in a different language. What other languages do with their configurations of roman characters is not what English does with them. For instance, my wife might be embarrassed without being pregnant. Different languages are different.
Yeah, because countries should ignore each other's laws. What could possibly go wrong?
You're so indie. So coolly aloof and above it all.
Me.
Pound of flesh? Stop being a drama queen.
The weird part is that people are entitled to their entitlements.
Need permanent solutions.
1) The budget is LAW. Not raising the debt ceiling breaks the law. And as a minor side effect fucks old people, veterans and any one else who uses the services that we'd have to cut. Oh, and one other piddling matter of fucking the global economy. But what's really important is not raising taxes, right?
2) But that's a band aid. The real problem is that our money is debt. Raising the ceiling delays the next raising of the ceiling. We have to change our money.
3) There's a solution called the Monetary Reform Act. It would wipe out the debt and put us on the road to a balanced budget. i'll assume you know how to use google.
Step 1) End the Federal Reserve. 2) End fractional reserve lending. 3) treasury dept takes over minting. 4) ??? 5) Profit and enjoy debt free money with imperceptible inflation and no more boom/bust cycles.
Watch:
Money As Debt
The Money Masters
Add layers of tin and aluminum foil to your hat.
That is a tillidollar? A trillionth of a dollar? m = milli, M = million/mega.
Slashdot, news for paranoiacs.
*sigh*
Google and Facebook want your real name so that people who know you can find you. That girl from algebra doesn't know you as fyngyrz. She knows your name.
Our money IS debt. That means we pay our bills... with debt. We use Our Visa to pay Master Card. How then do we pay Visa? With our Discover Card.
If you're the deeply interested type watch The Money Masters.
If you are short on time watch Money As Debt.
Until we fix what our money IS, we'll be doing this over and over, and at faster rates and with bigger sums.
It's not pedantic, it's telling the truth/being correct.
If you enjoy fun, go see this movie. If you're a stuck up art fag, stay home and watch Citizen Kane again.
That's some mighty fine trolling, Lou.
How beneficial is a large cruise ship in delivering ordinance deep in enemy territory through air defense networks?
The money spent on a B-2 doesn't evaporate into the ether. It becomes paychecks, purchases of materials (from alloys to paper clips), stock dividends for retirement funds and so on. Those paychecks pay mortgages, rent, car payments, groceries, trips to Disney World, condoms, computers....
As Liet has foreseen.
The code hasn't "been written", someone WROTE IT. Someone is responsible for it. It didn't materialize out of the ether. Someone wrote it!
Subject... verb... object.
What did it, what was done and what did they do it to.
Passive voice obfuscates and deflects responsibility.
"The decision has been made."
BULLSHIT! "We/I decided...." Someone made the decision, that someone should be the SUBJECT of the sentence.
How is it that i remembered 5th grade English class but journalists and so many other supposed adults can't?
Wouldn't it HAVE to be growing?
This is about as meaningful as saying your toddler is growing. What else is it going to do? The only way IS up.
it's over paying for gimped products.
No. That's not it, they like to SELL over priced products....
Which is another one of the iQueef myths: Creative work MUST be done on an iQueef!
There's a self fulling prophecy at work there. Crapple sells schools iQueefs. Students learn PS and Avid on those machines. They go to work where there are iQueefs, ergo all creative work MUST be done on iQueefs.