Simple solution: Inflation.
Want to sit on a pile of cash? Fine. It won't be worth much come next year. Greece and Spain (and the US?) are too deep in debt? No problem. Pay your (fixed) obligations with tomorrow's devalued currency.
Wow, Kosbots who failed econ 101 and history running rampant(the above was rated as +5 insightful as I write this). If you think inflation is so awesome, go ask the Germans how awesome high inflation is, or anybody who lived in South America during the 80s how great it is to have inflation.
If Benjamin Franklin knew about the state of the world today there would've no second amendment and healthcare for all.
Wow, insightful for that clap trap? Kos bots out in force. News flash Switzerland is not the murder capital of the world, and your dumb ass needs to read Federalist #46 before you start espousing what the founding fathers were thinking about the second amendment.
At a certain point, when nobody in IT is making enough to live on, unionization will occur, along with a the sharpening of some makerbot printed guillotines. The speed with which "libertarians" become socialists will be quite amusing.
Given, the amount of firearms in private hands in the United States, I suspect most of those makerbot guillotines would be shot full of holes. The speed with which the "socialists" become riddled with buckshot will also be quite amusing.
Fortunately for us Americans, their lives matter far less to us than our own, so that makes the fact that we keep accidentally killing them with missiles easier to stomach.
Before you get all noble savage, I believe you will find the converse is also true. They value their lives from more than they value our lives. Thus, your concern seems to stem from a misplaced sense of fairness in the effectiveness the US has in killing its enemies.
Not really. Looking on from outside the US, I for one haven't hjad any confidence in the fairness of U.S. elections since Nixon.
I'll assume you're not a retard and guess you meant Kennedy-Nixon, b/c that was a close election full of irregularities, if you meant '68 or '72 then please stop eating lead paint, it is bad for you.
That's quite a leap from next to no evidence you are making.
[cue levar burton Voice]"But you don't have to take my word for it." Let's ask Dr. Otto Edenhofer of the IPCC, "One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole."
Barrack Obama is terrible at actually playing politics, so even if he knows what he should do he's usually incapable of doing it. He managed to win his previous elections by having stuck to reasonably credible policy proposals, I believe you misspelled leaked the sordid details of his opponent's divorce proceedings or work to have your only viable opponent thrown off the ballot.
HOW DARE THE PRESIDENT AUTHORIZE THE USE OF FORCE IN LIBYA, which in constrast to the complaints about not acting in Syria seem a tad hypocritical. Not sure why this was rated +5 insightful, must be the Kosbots. Allow me to explain the hand wringing, first the candidate Obama talked about how awful it was for the then President to unilaterally go off and start a war in the Middle East(despite having received an authorization for the use of force in Iraq, hey his VP nominee even voted for it). By contrast, Obama as President didn't even both to go to Congress to get an authorization for the use of force(hell he even pretended we weren't using force, merely "Kinetic Military Action"), then to add to the hypocrisy, didn't bother to comply with the War Powers Act, which lead to well known "conservative fire brand" Dennis Kucinich to label Obama's war action an impeachable offense.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Note it says "people" NOT "citizens".
Try that with the text of the 2nd amendment. Then see if anyone thinks that restrictions on gun ownership are illegal b/c it says people not citizens.
especially when I know of so many liberal minded, intelligent Americans Please to meet you Miss Kael. Speaking for Americans willing to struggle against the forces of creeping totalitarianism, I wish to thank you for self selecting to leave the field of battle and removing your hindrance.
Dirty bombs don't work except to freak out a gullible uneducated populace. Have you forgotten the fallout(pun intended) from the Fukushima disaster? There's plenty of people totally frightened by radiation, that as a weapon of terror it's a pretty good method.
Not so fast. Both parties will give and take some freedoms. The GOP is involved in a war on sin. Taking away your moral freedoms is for your own good. They also want to give you economic freedoms. You are half right, the Democrats also favor a technocratic saving you from your self b/c you are too stupid to act responsibly(vs too flawed/full of sin). Both parties will march you into totalitarian hell, one for the "good of your own soul", the other for the "common good".
"The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which followed World War II, called the waging of aggressive war "essentially an evil thing...to initiate a war of aggression...is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression [wikipedia.org] Yeah, I wouldn't hold that up as an example of any great juris prudence other than victor's justice.
According to the republicans it wouldn't have been "legitimate rape" anyways. That's ok according to Whoopi Goldberg, it wasn't rape-rape either. Just ask Roman Polanski.
But dead people are dead however they got that way, and wherever the US armed forces have gone there seem to be an awful lot of "excess deaths". Maybe the liberated brown people simply die of excessive joy at their newly-conferred rights and freedoms. Wow, just wow, please find a so called invading army that caused fewer deaths when they showed up, The British? nope, the Japanese, ha! The Russians? Bitch please. Excess deaths according to what metric? Or do you believe that Uday and Qusay were going to rule Iraq as a utopian paradise of freedom and love.
Scooter Libby and Karl Rove walk the Earth freely. Why are they not rotting in a jail cell? Ah, yes, presidential pardons. You misspelled Richard Armitage. And really who cares about a spook being outed?
variety of goods and services, such as drugs and handjobs and... Does anybody know the exchange rate for Applebees' appetizers to Bitcoins? I may need to do some arbitrage or I've been over paying for handjobs.
It was a pretty sweet deal. I gotta lot of 1:1 secret bouncy funtime with my gfs/bfs those years due to my careful planning, and ability to always track where my parents were and their ETA to home.
That's just being greedy, pick a team and stick with it.
Get ready to see school shooting fatalities go up, as the kids in the trench coats upgrade from 9mm handguns to uzis.
How is changing from a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to a 9mm semi-automatic Uzi going to increase fatalities? Do you believe the larger magazine will drastically improve the cyclic rate of fire for these would be assailants? Or is this based on the belief that the Uzi looks scary so it must be more lethal? And I would love to see the 10,000 round MAC-10 since the originals weren't that well put together to start with.
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Simple solution: Inflation. Want to sit on a pile of cash? Fine. It won't be worth much come next year. Greece and Spain (and the US?) are too deep in debt? No problem. Pay your (fixed) obligations with tomorrow's devalued currency.
Wow, Kosbots who failed econ 101 and history running rampant(the above was rated as +5 insightful as I write this). If you think inflation is so awesome, go ask the Germans how awesome high inflation is, or anybody who lived in South America during the 80s how great it is to have inflation.
If Benjamin Franklin knew about the state of the world today there would've no second amendment and healthcare for all.
Wow, insightful for that clap trap? Kos bots out in force. News flash Switzerland is not the murder capital of the world, and your dumb ass needs to read Federalist #46 before you start espousing what the founding fathers were thinking about the second amendment.
I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and I don't consent to this system.
You misspelled whiny douche. As mentioned previously, you can leave any time you want.
At a certain point, when nobody in IT is making enough to live on, unionization will occur, along with a the sharpening of some makerbot printed guillotines. The speed with which "libertarians" become socialists will be quite amusing.
Given, the amount of firearms in private hands in the United States, I suspect most of those makerbot guillotines would be shot full of holes. The speed with which the "socialists" become riddled with buckshot will also be quite amusing.
Have fun on the reservation!
And if it goes where you want, why does it matter?
Because, I for one do not want a future that resembles shitty Rush songs, red little boat indeed.
Fortunately for us Americans, their lives matter far less to us than our own, so that makes the fact that we keep accidentally killing them with missiles easier to stomach.
Before you get all noble savage, I believe you will find the converse is also true. They value their lives from more than they value our lives. Thus, your concern seems to stem from a misplaced sense of fairness in the effectiveness the US has in killing its enemies.
Not really. Looking on from outside the US, I for one haven't hjad any confidence in the fairness of U.S. elections since Nixon.
I'll assume you're not a retard and guess you meant Kennedy-Nixon, b/c that was a close election full of irregularities, if you meant '68 or '72 then please stop eating lead paint, it is bad for you.
that's a cast system.
Then you should cast your void pointer to something useful like an int or char.
That's quite a leap from next to no evidence you are making.
[cue levar burton Voice]"But you don't have to take my word for it." Let's ask Dr. Otto Edenhofer of the IPCC, "One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole."
Barrack Obama is terrible at actually playing politics, so even if he knows what he should do he's usually incapable of doing it. He managed to win his previous elections by having stuck to reasonably credible policy proposals,
I believe you misspelled leaked the sordid details of his opponent's divorce proceedings or work to have your only viable opponent thrown off the ballot.
HOW DARE THE PRESIDENT AUTHORIZE THE USE OF FORCE IN LIBYA, which in constrast to the complaints about not acting in Syria seem a tad hypocritical.
Not sure why this was rated +5 insightful, must be the Kosbots. Allow me to explain the hand wringing, first the candidate Obama talked about how awful it was for the then President to unilaterally go off and start a war in the Middle East(despite having received an authorization for the use of force in Iraq, hey his VP nominee even voted for it). By contrast, Obama as President didn't even both to go to Congress to get an authorization for the use of force(hell he even pretended we weren't using force, merely "Kinetic Military Action"), then to add to the hypocrisy, didn't bother to comply with the War Powers Act, which lead to well known "conservative fire brand" Dennis Kucinich to label Obama's war action an impeachable offense.
Who does FDR think will give me more bread and circuses, b/c that's how I vote. Where's my free stuff?
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Note it says "people" NOT "citizens".
Try that with the text of the 2nd amendment. Then see if anyone thinks that restrictions on gun ownership are illegal b/c it says people not citizens.
especially when I know of so many liberal minded, intelligent Americans
Please to meet you Miss Kael. Speaking for Americans willing to struggle against the forces of creeping totalitarianism, I wish to thank you for self selecting to leave the field of battle and removing your hindrance.
Dirty bombs don't work except to freak out a gullible uneducated populace.
Have you forgotten the fallout(pun intended) from the Fukushima disaster? There's plenty of people totally frightened by radiation, that as a weapon of terror it's a pretty good method.
Not so fast. Both parties will give and take some freedoms. The GOP is involved in a war on sin. Taking away your moral freedoms is for your own good. They also want to give you economic freedoms.
You are half right, the Democrats also favor a technocratic saving you from your self b/c you are too stupid to act responsibly(vs too flawed/full of sin). Both parties will march you into totalitarian hell, one for the "good of your own soul", the other for the "common good".
"The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which followed World War II, called the waging of aggressive war "essentially an evil thing...to initiate a war of aggression...is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression [wikipedia.org]
Yeah, I wouldn't hold that up as an example of any great juris prudence other than victor's justice.
According to the republicans it wouldn't have been "legitimate rape" anyways.
That's ok according to Whoopi Goldberg, it wasn't rape-rape either. Just ask Roman Polanski.
But dead people are dead however they got that way, and wherever the US armed forces have gone there seem to be an awful lot of "excess deaths". Maybe the liberated brown people simply die of excessive joy at their newly-conferred rights and freedoms.
Wow, just wow, please find a so called invading army that caused fewer deaths when they showed up, The British? nope, the Japanese, ha! The Russians? Bitch please. Excess deaths according to what metric? Or do you believe that Uday and Qusay were going to rule Iraq as a utopian paradise of freedom and love.
Scooter Libby and Karl Rove walk the Earth freely. Why are they not rotting in a jail cell? Ah, yes, presidential pardons.
You misspelled Richard Armitage. And really who cares about a spook being outed?
variety of goods and services, such as drugs and handjobs and...
Does anybody know the exchange rate for Applebees' appetizers to Bitcoins? I may need to do some arbitrage or I've been over paying for handjobs.
It was a pretty sweet deal. I gotta lot of 1:1 secret bouncy funtime with my gfs/bfs those years due to my careful planning, and ability to always track where my parents were and their ETA to home.
That's just being greedy, pick a team and stick with it.
Get ready to see school shooting fatalities go up, as the kids in the trench coats upgrade from 9mm handguns to uzis.
How is changing from a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to a 9mm semi-automatic Uzi going to increase fatalities? Do you believe the larger magazine will drastically improve the cyclic rate of fire for these would be assailants? Or is this based on the belief that the Uzi looks scary so it must be more lethal? And I would love to see the 10,000 round MAC-10 since the originals weren't that well put together to start with.