The probability of achieving mod-points decreases exponentially with the depth in which the post lies in the tree. By the blandness of your pun, I assume that you posted with the aim, & solely that aim, of achieving mod-points. I therefore have no blush when I say that your post is utterly worthless.
Happy Thanksgiving!!! (in the spirit of thanksgiving, go massacre those you provided your meal!!!
One, you take needless offense. There is no implication directed at you; you have projected characteristics of the mean onto characteristics of the individual.
Two, it is ironic that your language is biased, what with your not-so subtle association of collared shirts, khaki pants, & timberland boots with intelligence; if you're smartly dressed, then what are we?
All these quibbles over clothes is why I am a nudist.
I agree about getting rid of the Fed, and while reverting to a 100%-backed gold standard would solve one problem of our money system, i.e. fractional reserves, it would create a new problem that is totally unnecessary and avoidable, i.e. basing our currency on a resource concentrated in the hands of few. The result of the ALC, if totally implemented, would be to create a quasi-Fed, invisible, boarded by quasi-governors (i.e. big gold holders) & powered with similar abilities to change at will the actual purchasing power of money (by hoarding or releasing their gold). A better solution might be a 100%-backed fiat currency which does not expand or contract (beyond perhaps such factors as population growth rate). The transition to such a system is beyond my head, but I am aware of efforts by noble-minded economists like Friedman in that very vein (cf. the video The Money Masters).
Incidentally, American currency is already in metric units, with the units in use being the dollar & the cent(idollar). Aside from the occasional gumball or bouncy ball (which are based in quarters), every item I purchase has its cost phrased in some number of dollars & another number of cents. Don't expect to see kilodollars, or megadollars, any time soon, however; at least not until our currency is inflated to such an extent as to render the money-energy (i.e. purchasing power [for those unfamilar with econophyics, whence this interesting term is introduced, & interested in liberty, please confer http://econpapers.hhs.se/paper/wpawuwpma/0203005.h tm)] of the dollar negligible, a fate which should be more soon than late with the current practices of our supposedly-benevolent, privately-owned, & reserveless Federal Reserve.
Would that the unwitting slavery of the "free world" due to corrupt money systems were a more salient topic for presidential debate than slugs and kilograms, and yards and meters! And for an added bonus, a corollary topic to the hoped-for topic of debate would be our infamous and balooning national debt.
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RE: your sig
I agree that women suck at 'blocking' what you call 'pop-ups', but do you not ignore their remarkable ability to 'close' them?
Yeah, but he went to Harvard.
Happy Thanksgiving!!! (in the spirit of thanksgiving, go massacre those you provided your meal!!!
Two, it is ironic that your language is biased, what with your not-so subtle association of collared shirts, khaki pants, & timberland boots with intelligence; if you're smartly dressed, then what are we?
All these quibbles over clothes is why I am a nudist.
113th post!!!!!!!!
Not to burst your bubble, but I installed it on Liz's comp 7x.
Too bad a square IS a rhombus. WHOOPS!
I agree about getting rid of the Fed, and while reverting to a 100%-backed gold standard would solve one problem of our money system, i.e. fractional reserves, it would create a new problem that is totally unnecessary and avoidable, i.e. basing our currency on a resource concentrated in the hands of few. The result of the ALC, if totally implemented, would be to create a quasi-Fed, invisible, boarded by quasi-governors (i.e. big gold holders) & powered with similar abilities to change at will the actual purchasing power of money (by hoarding or releasing their gold). A better solution might be a 100%-backed fiat currency which does not expand or contract (beyond perhaps such factors as population growth rate). The transition to such a system is beyond my head, but I am aware of efforts by noble-minded economists like Friedman in that very vein (cf. the video The Money Masters).
Would that the unwitting slavery of the "free world" due to corrupt money systems were a more salient topic for presidential debate than slugs and kilograms, and yards and meters! And for an added bonus, a corollary topic to the hoped-for topic of debate would be our infamous and balooning national debt.