If we're going with this analogy, it's not the fighters that the barge fears. It's the bombers. Fighters are only there to make sure only their side's bombers get to do anything. If the other side has no more fighters then it's free reign for the bombers. And then things get REAL bad. Like cities firebombed into oblivion bad.
The current situation is what's called a liquidity trap, because demand has collapsed and thus incomes are down people are unwilling to spend money and thus demand isn't getting back up (signs of a liquidity trap are, among others, that inflation fails to appear even when the govt is "printing money"). The govt's job here is to interfere and use tax money for investments to break the liquidity trap by creating a boost of demand for a while until the other economic players become willing to buy stuff again, thus kickstarting the demand cycle again. The absolutely wrong path here is trying to recover the losses from the bank bailouts by saving money, England's economy is hitting a second recession right now due to premature austerity.
Allowing the banking system to collapse would have far more grave consequences since banks are very central to many economic processes (many other businesses require the ability to lend money). Yes, that won't teach them not to gamble but that's also why banks must be regulated: If they fail the damage is far too great. We can't allow them to have the freedom to gamble like this. The whole anti-regulation ideology has stripped all the safety systems away that have been put in place, as a result the whole thing blew up.
Greece supposedly has corruption problems, do the laws properly catch people who can pay the policeman? The govt has even stated that without all the tax evasion they wouldn't be in debt right now.
Anyway, I don't think they need this as a publicity boost because that whole DayZ craze gave them waaaaaaaay more of a boost.
Seems they were taking pictures of the military bases. They're trying to recreate the island as a whole for a military simulator, not just grab some iconic pictures to slot into the decorated corridor of your average military shooter game.
Greece has fairly high military spending compared to the size of its economy even pre-collapse. They were doing an arms race with Turkey but I have no idea how that's developing with the country's current financial problems.
Perhaps you should pay some attention, unemployment is DOWN. Yeah, sure, it was maybe a bit lower before the whole worldwide financial crisis thing but we're quite far from the old days of screaming about 4M unemployed.
I wonder if political parties are happy being called red vs blue considering both the communist association as well as the BLUFOR vs OPFOR convention of war games (where blue means the own nation and red the enemy nation).
That wouldn't be much of a zombie apocalypse. Living zombies may be freaky but dangerous? How dangerous are humans when their whole evolutionary advantage, the big brain, is practically disabled? At least undead zombies don't have vital organs and are thus not easy to stop with a single bullet. Hell, tapeworms aren't even that contagious so that would be a single crazy person trying to flail their arms at someone until subdued and treated.
Given the number of guns available in the US I don't think zombies would actually pose a problem, they'd get gunned down faster than they can spread unless the infection doesn't require the actual zombies for spreading and then you might just as well be dealing with ebola.
Like you had no illegal immigrants before. Anybody can carry a disease. At least if they're legal you know they exist and they won't hide from inspections in fear of being sent home. Illegal immigrants will make sure to hide and thus can breed infections much more effectively.
The cook can be infected the same way so you've gotta make sure none of the restaurants that the cook has ever eaten at has a cook who immigrated from an infected country or has eaten at a restaurant where the cook...
I'm not sure his definition of a loophole even matters, even with a very generous assumption there the numbers just won't match up without a tax hike on the middle and possibly lower classes.
Let's not forget that the US is still in the recovery process from a massive recession, that requires increased spending to kickstart the economy.
The other factor is that sovereign debt is measured against the GDP so as long as the debt grows slower than the economy plus inflation the country's debt burden actually decreases. In absolute terms the US debt may be at an all time high but when you include the decreasing value of money over time it's actually not too far out of line (e.g. 1950's US dollars are worth significantly more than 2012's).
I have no idea how much damage these bullets would do at this speed but a coil gun may work as a silent delivery system for sub-sonic rounds since there are no mechanic parts that would cause a loud snap and keeping the projectile below the speed of sound would prevent the sonic boom as well. Of course a silent gun isn't terribly great if you can't conceal it at all.
What would a big gun on a ship really do though? The biggest guns modern ships mount are the phalanx anti-air/anti-missile weapons, attacks are performed via missiles or airplanes. What would a railgun add? Increased projectile speed may help to build better flaks but if you've got THAT much power and proper aiming then can't you just build a laser?
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If we're going with this analogy, it's not the fighters that the barge fears. It's the bombers. Fighters are only there to make sure only their side's bombers get to do anything. If the other side has no more fighters then it's free reign for the bombers. And then things get REAL bad. Like cities firebombed into oblivion bad.
The current situation is what's called a liquidity trap, because demand has collapsed and thus incomes are down people are unwilling to spend money and thus demand isn't getting back up (signs of a liquidity trap are, among others, that inflation fails to appear even when the govt is "printing money"). The govt's job here is to interfere and use tax money for investments to break the liquidity trap by creating a boost of demand for a while until the other economic players become willing to buy stuff again, thus kickstarting the demand cycle again. The absolutely wrong path here is trying to recover the losses from the bank bailouts by saving money, England's economy is hitting a second recession right now due to premature austerity.
Allowing the banking system to collapse would have far more grave consequences since banks are very central to many economic processes (many other businesses require the ability to lend money). Yes, that won't teach them not to gamble but that's also why banks must be regulated: If they fail the damage is far too great. We can't allow them to have the freedom to gamble like this. The whole anti-regulation ideology has stripped all the safety systems away that have been put in place, as a result the whole thing blew up.
That's why we should call it fnord licensing.
Maybe that works with necessities but raising the price on luxury goods results in fewer sales.
Greece supposedly has corruption problems, do the laws properly catch people who can pay the policeman? The govt has even stated that without all the tax evasion they wouldn't be in debt right now.
Anyway, I don't think they need this as a publicity boost because that whole DayZ craze gave them waaaaaaaay more of a boost.
Seems they were taking pictures of the military bases. They're trying to recreate the island as a whole for a military simulator, not just grab some iconic pictures to slot into the decorated corridor of your average military shooter game.
Two photographers got arrested, that's not even remotely enough to stop the game's development.
We're trying to get RID of Greece, not take it.
Greece has fairly high military spending compared to the size of its economy even pre-collapse. They were doing an arms race with Turkey but I have no idea how that's developing with the country's current financial problems.
Perhaps you should pay some attention, unemployment is DOWN. Yeah, sure, it was maybe a bit lower before the whole worldwide financial crisis thing but we're quite far from the old days of screaming about 4M unemployed.
Disallowing assignments in conditions would work too.
At least that would distract them from poaching endangered species to sell as snake oil instead.
Isn't brown more like dark orange? Dark red isn't the same as brown, you need to add a bit of yellow/green hue to get brown.
It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to doubt what's written in a tabloid.
It's the Daily Mail, I'm not sure they deserve the benefit of doubt.
I wonder if political parties are happy being called red vs blue considering both the communist association as well as the BLUFOR vs OPFOR convention of war games (where blue means the own nation and red the enemy nation).
I recall us shouting at Greece for limiting the taxi market like that and not opening it up and here's a US city pulling the same shit?
That wouldn't be much of a zombie apocalypse. Living zombies may be freaky but dangerous? How dangerous are humans when their whole evolutionary advantage, the big brain, is practically disabled? At least undead zombies don't have vital organs and are thus not easy to stop with a single bullet. Hell, tapeworms aren't even that contagious so that would be a single crazy person trying to flail their arms at someone until subdued and treated.
Given the number of guns available in the US I don't think zombies would actually pose a problem, they'd get gunned down faster than they can spread unless the infection doesn't require the actual zombies for spreading and then you might just as well be dealing with ebola.
Like you had no illegal immigrants before. Anybody can carry a disease. At least if they're legal you know they exist and they won't hide from inspections in fear of being sent home. Illegal immigrants will make sure to hide and thus can breed infections much more effectively.
The cook can be infected the same way so you've gotta make sure none of the restaurants that the cook has ever eaten at has a cook who immigrated from an infected country or has eaten at a restaurant where the cook...
So what's your Bacon number then?
I'm not sure his definition of a loophole even matters, even with a very generous assumption there the numbers just won't match up without a tax hike on the middle and possibly lower classes.
Let's not forget that the US is still in the recovery process from a massive recession, that requires increased spending to kickstart the economy.
The other factor is that sovereign debt is measured against the GDP so as long as the debt grows slower than the economy plus inflation the country's debt burden actually decreases. In absolute terms the US debt may be at an all time high but when you include the decreasing value of money over time it's actually not too far out of line (e.g. 1950's US dollars are worth significantly more than 2012's).
I have no idea how much damage these bullets would do at this speed but a coil gun may work as a silent delivery system for sub-sonic rounds since there are no mechanic parts that would cause a loud snap and keeping the projectile below the speed of sound would prevent the sonic boom as well. Of course a silent gun isn't terribly great if you can't conceal it at all.
What would a big gun on a ship really do though? The biggest guns modern ships mount are the phalanx anti-air/anti-missile weapons, attacks are performed via missiles or airplanes. What would a railgun add? Increased projectile speed may help to build better flaks but if you've got THAT much power and proper aiming then can't you just build a laser?