Sorry, I should have qualified that: $1000 for an electrician to wire them to your pole. I would suggest installing them yourselves, as you are apparently getting your labor from a pool of union workers. $30K to instal a few panels on the roof? That's ludicrous.
I live in Texas, and got my home re-roofed a few years ago and it only cost about $12K for 1600 square feet. More than likely, the quotes you are getting contain markups on markups on markups for the materials, with contractors subcontracting to subcontractors who subcontract to subcontractors for the labor. What you should do is go to a job site where some guys are working on something similar, and see about hiring them directly. It'll wind up being a LOT cheaper.
Those are weirdos. I always thought windmills were rather beautiful, so long as they aren't close enough for you to hear the *whoosh* *whoosh* *whoosh*.
What are you talking about? You can get a full 2 kilowatt system with a 2.5 kW grid tie inverter for about $7,500 installed. That's pre tax credit. You get the cells here. These start as low as $2/watt, but the cheapest in stock right now is $2.40 ($4800). Add the grid tie inverter, available here on sale for $1825. That's $6625. You should have no problem finding someone to instal the whole thing for $1000. That ought to be enough of a system for most people, assuming they use gas or heating oil for heat in the winter. You should build up a high enough balance over the year to run A/C in the summer without difficulty.
I'm going to be setting up such a system within a year or so, once I move into my new house.
I don't think you understand what competition is, or what its purpose is.
If Amazon can do it more efficiently and make a profit while charging nothing to the end user, they will, and they do. There is no reason to expend capital to compete with them, unless you think you can do it for less (ie charging the advertisers less, and thus grabbing a bigger share of the pie), which you obviously don't. Servers, storage, and backups are all one time capital costs and are not included in the marginal cost calculations. Electricity (cooling falls under electricity) and admin time do fall under marginal cost, but they have become so efficient that the marginal cost for one document approximates zero.
Understand that in this case, the marginal cost is so low that it is covered by advertising fees. It is a case where the few pay for the many. This will happen in a free market that has become highly competitive. Competition doesn't mean that every person has to reinvent the wheel. It means that what you have is good enough until someone else comes along and thinks they can do it better, cheaper, or both. That person enters the market and drives the costs down. This isn't a big mystery.
The result of all of this is that the cost to the end user is zero. This is not without precedent, as you have been getting free transmissions to your radio and television for decades. This is just (a lot) better and more interactive.
I don't even care about your argument. You're using any response that takes a dim view of your arguments as reason not to continue. You're a weak willed individual.
And you can't make an argument against a non-rational argument, save to say that it isn't rational.
As an example, which you have begged for, take this:
"The problem is that money as a store of value is problematicc because people can't just wait forever for food/electricity/clothes/housing,"
I have no idea what the hell you are talking about here. Money is supposed to be a store of value, what does that have to do with waiting in order to exchange goods for services? The implied alternative is money that is not a store of value, in which case, money has no value, so nothing can be traded for money.
" an austrian run economy would quickly devolve into one where there would revolution I have no doubt, because they'd be forced to realize the world is a physical place and their theories of human action break under constraints of physics and physical systems and their transformation."
This is a hand-waving argument. Further, Keyensianism is the model that doesn't take physical reality into consideration. If it did, they would have realized that their model was completely wrong when stagflation occurred in the 70's, and even that was supposedly impossible (but one which was predicted by the Austrians).
"Any theory that does not account for how the world actually is physically integrated into the economy is laughably naive."
What the hell is this even saying? How should one account for a physical thing being integrated into an abstract concept? You might as well say that physics is out the window because it doesn't take "love" into account. Now, more examples:
"Theit whole big push of "no initiation of force" is a farce, since monetary systems require the initiation of force else you would have rampant counterfeiting."
You can't counterfeit gold, dummy. That's why it has been used as currency for 6000+ years. Further, a free market would select for the most secure currency, as easily counterfeited currencies would all rapidly lose their value. This is an extension of evolutionary theory. How's that for real world integration?
"I look at systems and how systems physically function, I do not start from theoretical propositions I will sit around and observe how people and systems behave"
Wow, you must be an Austrian economist, because that's what they do. That is why they have been able to predict every major depression that has occurred since their school of thought was founded years in advance.
and imagine an invisible line of monetary values flowing around like electricity around society
Imagination is right. You don't even know what money really is (it is representative of production, not just a means of exchange--this is why paper can't function as money without backing).
"to understand how money acts as a kind of matter and energy accounting system that has properties similar to thermodynamic systems.
More handwaving. I wonder if you imagine yourself as Neo, who sees the world as code?
I've done a lot of my own original research into this topic because it interests me and I know economists simply are not technically sophisticated enough in other sciences to see their own errors since it requires cross discplinary understanding to even begin to approach some of the things I've observed and have been working on in my spare time.
Sure, in your spare time you've overcome more than a century of thought by geniuses such as Ludwig von Mises, Murrey Rothbard, an Friedrick Hayak, not to mention the thousands of others who have spent their lives analyzing and interpreting (correctly) economic data, and predicting (correctly) the implications of that data. Surely, all should get down on their knees, for surely the second coming has arrived, and God again walks on the Earth...a
Not necessarily. The replicator has to use (at least) as much energy to produce an object as that object contains, so replication of dilithium crystals would be essentially worthless, as it would drain as much or more power from the ship's systems than the shiny new crystals contained.
Of course, it could be used to REFINE crystals that are contaminated or dispersed in some other material.
As for the living things, you're right, that is a bit of a plot hole. If they can transport a living thing, they should be able to reproduce one, much in the way Riker was cloned. Likely, replicators simply have some form of limiters installed on them to stop replication of living things, for moral reasons. They might also just be less precise in their assembly protocols, so that a perfect replica isn't possible, but a mass of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates resembling a formerly living thing can be easily reproduced. That probably explains why many people still prefer fresh meat to replicated.
Because the current generation understands economics. In a perfectly competitive system, price approaches marginal cost. When marginal costs go to zero, prices can and MUST go to zero.
That is, unless you're some sort of communo-fascist, as is the case with our mighty overlords, both of the D and R varieties.
No, you're looking for excuses. Try using logic and making an argument rather than waving your hands around and saying "Oh, you'll never get it, but I'm right, I swear!" Your arguments were long, rambling, and incoherent to the point that I couldn't even understand what you were saying.
The internal economy of the Federation is characterized by the abundance of free goods provided by the technology of the replicator. Only those things which can not be replicated have any value, so services like transportation must be limited somehow. However, it is likely that even those services are so cheap due to inputs that can be redirected from the replicators. There comes a point where it is simpler to simply stop trading goods for money. The only rare resource at that point would be land, or space, which is traded for the one commodity that is not subject to replication--latinum. Obviously, latinum is traded for services which are not unlimited, ie those that require a human service provider.
Thus, the only thing that really costs money is interaction with people, and a piece of land on some planet somewhere. All other needs and wants are met automatically and with little to no effort. Much like air, or internet downloads, there is no charge MOST of the time.
You can't do that because you have to lower your own shields to use the transporters. You could only do that if you disabled their weapons, at which point it hardly matters.
As for the Warp thing, I would expect SOMETHING crazy to happen when a bubble of space containing a ship moving at 10000c+ hits a stationary ship. Perhaps the warp drive would grab anything in its way and pull it into the warp field. It seems to me that there are two possibilities, either the space in and around the targeted ship starts moving around, destroying the ship regardless of technology level, or there is a physical impact, in which case you would have to have the explanation that the amount of kinetic energy is either absorbed by the warp bubble (destroying the missile with minimal damage to the target), or that the impact is of a magnitude that can be easily absorbed by even weak shields.
No, no, I'm not talking about the visual cloaking of the G'ould, but the Ancient cloaking device that removes the affected ship/building/planet from physical reality to the extent that it was undetectable by Ori technology. If their shields interacted with the cloaked object, it would be easily detectable.
In answer to your question, it was because they were afraid of defaults, which they are still liable for...sort of. What has happened is that we have gotten into a situation where the "too-big to fail" banks are able to lend, but only because of implicit baking from the government. The thing is, they don't because they know they will lose money in such transactions (even if the losses are backstopped--they don't get bonuses). It is better for them to take advantage of the interest that the Fed is paying them to not lend money (how much sense does that make?) by leaving reserves on deposit with the Federal Reserve. Why do you think excess reserves have risen by a factor of 1000 or more?
If you don't believe me, here it is from the horse's mouth.
In addition, the money that has been given to US banks in the form of zero interest loans has been finding its way into the stock market. This is bourn out by the evidence, ie the cash value of stocks purchased has not been accompanied by a decline in purchasing power in money market funds, which is always the case when a rally is from people moving money into the market rather than the market simply being an outlet for inflation.
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Stargate always had problems thinking imaginatively. For example, once they developed the cloaking device, I would have used it as a proxy teleporter to make nukes appear in the center of Ori ships. When they had the ship with all the Asgard technology, they could have frozen time, reconfigured the ship so that it had a hole in it through which the beam weapon could pass and thus destroy both of the pursuing Ori vessels without issue. That is, rather than waiting until they started dying of old age. Sure, it would have taken a few months, or maybe even years to get through that battle, but they would have made it without a problem. Etc.
Similar lack of thought has plagued a lot of other shows. For example, why didn't anyone in the Star Trek universe ever come up with the idea of using warp drives as weapons in a systematic way? A runabout crashing into a borg cube at warp seven would do quite a bit more damage than a photon torpedo, I would imagine. I guess kinetic energy just isn't "futuristic" enough. Hell, Picard tried to use ramming speed with the Enterprise on at least one occasion that I remember, one would think they would have realized that would be a hell of a weapon, and that they could store hundreds or even thousands of them on a ship like the enterprise (assuming they removed the crew compartments).
States can't make currency other than silver and gold (if only they would...). The constitution does not restrict the rights of individuals to issue their own currency. If it did, things like "Disneybucks" would be illegal.
The Constitution would have done better to mandate that ALL government issued currency be in silver and/or gold to prevent the meltdown we are now seeing.
Economics is different, as in this case, it is REAL PEOPLE making decisions, rather than what a computer model would assume that people would decide. You can administer a MMO in many different ways and achieve many different effects, which would create any number of economic situations. In general, since the games are marketed toward players, free markets tend to reign, as that is the only way that each player can maximize their fun (rather than being subjected to the imbalances created by central planning).
Basically, you create a few simple rules, and the economy goes from there. In places like Second life, things can be replicated fairly easily, but it takes work to design, so people pay for designs. It becomes an economy based on abundance rather than lack. Etc. etc.
Really, MMOs are probably the BEST way to really study economics, and come to understand how exactly we should be running our own economy. That is, it's far preferable to haphazard tinkering by the administration du jour.
The system you described is classical fractional reserve banking. Understand, however, that we no longer operate under that system (why it is still called fractional reserve banking is beyond me). Rather, for the vast majority of transactions, there is no reserve requirement. That's right, THE BANKS CAN GIVE OUT AS MUCH MONEY AS THEY WANT, REGARDLESS OF RESERVES. This is what people are referring to as "printing money", although that takes other forms as well, mainly with the Fed printing money to buy treasuries or other debt.
I would advise anyone reading this to buy gold and silver. Those green things in your wallet aren't going to be worth the paper they're printed on soon. I can't say when exactly, but I would give it less than five years, and al little as three months (the dollar is declining as we speak).
That's great, except for the fact that the fed burns (literally) the money that it gets in order to fight inflation. It doesn't continue circulating.
Why do you think we have such a huge national debt? How on earth could Americans have accumulated on average $200K+ in debt individually over the last thirty years?
If you think that's sustainable, I have a few bridges I'd like to sell you.
In addition to that, I would add that money that is held in a savings account under a gold standard is loaned out. Even if the person who had wealth were to take their money and put it in a safe for a hundred years, it is still doing good. It makes all the other gold held by every other person more valuable, as he has reduced supply. He has pumped power into the economy in exchange for nothing, or at least a highly delayed reward.
In a fiat system, on the other hand, that money that is hoarded away is simply reallocated to the government and used to kill people. Seriously, the reason central banking was first initiated was so that wars could be fought without imposing demoralizing taxes on the people (the taxes were, and are, invisible, in the form of inflation), and were delayed enough so that people couldn't connect the dots. After all, why should a war that ended three years ago be causing the cost of bread to double today?
There are two ways in which people can deal with one another. Money, or guns. Any person who claims to hate money makes his preference abundantly clear.
Rubber duckies have "RISK OF DEATH" labels on them now too. All thanks to kindly Nannie State.
Regulations force a climate of CYA to the point of crying wolf all day every day. A vehicle that travels at 3.7 miles an hour IS NOT DANGEROUS. AT ALL.
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Sorry, I should have qualified that: $1000 for an electrician to wire them to your pole. I would suggest installing them yourselves, as you are apparently getting your labor from a pool of union workers. $30K to instal a few panels on the roof? That's ludicrous.
I live in Texas, and got my home re-roofed a few years ago and it only cost about $12K for 1600 square feet. More than likely, the quotes you are getting contain markups on markups on markups for the materials, with contractors subcontracting to subcontractors who subcontract to subcontractors for the labor. What you should do is go to a job site where some guys are working on something similar, and see about hiring them directly. It'll wind up being a LOT cheaper.
Those are weirdos. I always thought windmills were rather beautiful, so long as they aren't close enough for you to hear the *whoosh* *whoosh* *whoosh*.
What are you talking about? You can get a full 2 kilowatt system with a 2.5 kW grid tie inverter for about $7,500 installed. That's pre tax credit. You get the cells here. These start as low as $2/watt, but the cheapest in stock right now is $2.40 ($4800). Add the grid tie inverter, available here on sale for $1825. That's $6625. You should have no problem finding someone to instal the whole thing for $1000. That ought to be enough of a system for most people, assuming they use gas or heating oil for heat in the winter. You should build up a high enough balance over the year to run A/C in the summer without difficulty.
I'm going to be setting up such a system within a year or so, once I move into my new house.
This sounds more like an "impulse drive" to me. I'm growing more convinced every day that Gene Roddenberry came to us from the future.
I don't think you understand what competition is, or what its purpose is.
If Amazon can do it more efficiently and make a profit while charging nothing to the end user, they will, and they do. There is no reason to expend capital to compete with them, unless you think you can do it for less (ie charging the advertisers less, and thus grabbing a bigger share of the pie), which you obviously don't. Servers, storage, and backups are all one time capital costs and are not included in the marginal cost calculations. Electricity (cooling falls under electricity) and admin time do fall under marginal cost, but they have become so efficient that the marginal cost for one document approximates zero.
Understand that in this case, the marginal cost is so low that it is covered by advertising fees. It is a case where the few pay for the many. This will happen in a free market that has become highly competitive. Competition doesn't mean that every person has to reinvent the wheel. It means that what you have is good enough until someone else comes along and thinks they can do it better, cheaper, or both. That person enters the market and drives the costs down. This isn't a big mystery.
The result of all of this is that the cost to the end user is zero. This is not without precedent, as you have been getting free transmissions to your radio and television for decades. This is just (a lot) better and more interactive.
I don't even care about your argument. You're using any response that takes a dim view of your arguments as reason not to continue. You're a weak willed individual.
And you can't make an argument against a non-rational argument, save to say that it isn't rational.
As an example, which you have begged for, take this:
"The problem is that money as a store of value is problematicc because people can't just wait forever for food/electricity/clothes/housing,"
I have no idea what the hell you are talking about here. Money is supposed to be a store of value, what does that have to do with waiting in order to exchange goods for services? The implied alternative is money that is not a store of value, in which case, money has no value, so nothing can be traded for money.
" an austrian run economy would quickly devolve into one where there would revolution I have no doubt, because they'd be forced to realize the world is a physical place and their theories of human action break under constraints of physics and physical systems and their transformation."
This is a hand-waving argument. Further, Keyensianism is the model that doesn't take physical reality into consideration. If it did, they would have realized that their model was completely wrong when stagflation occurred in the 70's, and even that was supposedly impossible (but one which was predicted by the Austrians).
"Any theory that does not account for how the world actually is physically integrated into the economy is laughably naive."
What the hell is this even saying? How should one account for a physical thing being integrated into an abstract concept? You might as well say that physics is out the window because it doesn't take "love" into account. Now, more examples:
"Theit whole big push of "no initiation of force" is a farce, since monetary systems require the initiation of force else you would have rampant counterfeiting."
You can't counterfeit gold, dummy. That's why it has been used as currency for 6000+ years. Further, a free market would select for the most secure currency, as easily counterfeited currencies would all rapidly lose their value. This is an extension of evolutionary theory. How's that for real world integration?
"I look at systems and how systems physically function, I do not start from theoretical propositions I will sit around and observe how people and systems behave"
Wow, you must be an Austrian economist, because that's what they do. That is why they have been able to predict every major depression that has occurred since their school of thought was founded years in advance.
and imagine an invisible line of monetary values flowing around like electricity around society
Imagination is right. You don't even know what money really is (it is representative of production, not just a means of exchange--this is why paper can't function as money without backing).
"to understand how money acts as a kind of matter and energy accounting system that has properties similar to thermodynamic systems.
More handwaving. I wonder if you imagine yourself as Neo, who sees the world as code?
I've done a lot of my own original research into this topic because it interests me and I know economists simply are not technically sophisticated enough in other sciences to see their own errors since it requires cross discplinary understanding to even begin to approach some of the things I've observed and have been working on in my spare time.
Sure, in your spare time you've overcome more than a century of thought by geniuses such as Ludwig von Mises, Murrey Rothbard, an Friedrick Hayak, not to mention the thousands of others who have spent their lives analyzing and interpreting (correctly) economic data, and predicting (correctly) the implications of that data. Surely, all should get down on their knees, for surely the second coming has arrived, and God again walks on the Earth...a
Not necessarily. The replicator has to use (at least) as much energy to produce an object as that object contains, so replication of dilithium crystals would be essentially worthless, as it would drain as much or more power from the ship's systems than the shiny new crystals contained.
Of course, it could be used to REFINE crystals that are contaminated or dispersed in some other material.
As for the living things, you're right, that is a bit of a plot hole. If they can transport a living thing, they should be able to reproduce one, much in the way Riker was cloned. Likely, replicators simply have some form of limiters installed on them to stop replication of living things, for moral reasons. They might also just be less precise in their assembly protocols, so that a perfect replica isn't possible, but a mass of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates resembling a formerly living thing can be easily reproduced. That probably explains why many people still prefer fresh meat to replicated.
Because the current generation understands economics. In a perfectly competitive system, price approaches marginal cost. When marginal costs go to zero, prices can and MUST go to zero.
That is, unless you're some sort of communo-fascist, as is the case with our mighty overlords, both of the D and R varieties.
No, you're looking for excuses. Try using logic and making an argument rather than waving your hands around and saying "Oh, you'll never get it, but I'm right, I swear!" Your arguments were long, rambling, and incoherent to the point that I couldn't even understand what you were saying.
Try again.
The internal economy of the Federation is characterized by the abundance of free goods provided by the technology of the replicator. Only those things which can not be replicated have any value, so services like transportation must be limited somehow. However, it is likely that even those services are so cheap due to inputs that can be redirected from the replicators. There comes a point where it is simpler to simply stop trading goods for money. The only rare resource at that point would be land, or space, which is traded for the one commodity that is not subject to replication--latinum. Obviously, latinum is traded for services which are not unlimited, ie those that require a human service provider.
Thus, the only thing that really costs money is interaction with people, and a piece of land on some planet somewhere. All other needs and wants are met automatically and with little to no effort. Much like air, or internet downloads, there is no charge MOST of the time.
You can't do that because you have to lower your own shields to use the transporters. You could only do that if you disabled their weapons, at which point it hardly matters.
As for the Warp thing, I would expect SOMETHING crazy to happen when a bubble of space containing a ship moving at 10000c+ hits a stationary ship. Perhaps the warp drive would grab anything in its way and pull it into the warp field. It seems to me that there are two possibilities, either the space in and around the targeted ship starts moving around, destroying the ship regardless of technology level, or there is a physical impact, in which case you would have to have the explanation that the amount of kinetic energy is either absorbed by the warp bubble (destroying the missile with minimal damage to the target), or that the impact is of a magnitude that can be easily absorbed by even weak shields.
No, no, I'm not talking about the visual cloaking of the G'ould, but the Ancient cloaking device that removes the affected ship/building/planet from physical reality to the extent that it was undetectable by Ori technology. If their shields interacted with the cloaked object, it would be easily detectable.
In answer to your question, it was because they were afraid of defaults, which they are still liable for...sort of. What has happened is that we have gotten into a situation where the "too-big to fail" banks are able to lend, but only because of implicit baking from the government. The thing is, they don't because they know they will lose money in such transactions (even if the losses are backstopped--they don't get bonuses). It is better for them to take advantage of the interest that the Fed is paying them to not lend money (how much sense does that make?) by leaving reserves on deposit with the Federal Reserve. Why do you think excess reserves have risen by a factor of 1000 or more?
If you don't believe me, here it is from the horse's mouth.
In addition, the money that has been given to US banks in the form of zero interest loans has been finding its way into the stock market. This is bourn out by the evidence, ie the cash value of stocks purchased has not been accompanied by a decline in purchasing power in money market funds, which is always the case when a rally is from people moving money into the market rather than the market simply being an outlet for inflation.
Stargate always had problems thinking imaginatively. For example, once they developed the cloaking device, I would have used it as a proxy teleporter to make nukes appear in the center of Ori ships. When they had the ship with all the Asgard technology, they could have frozen time, reconfigured the ship so that it had a hole in it through which the beam weapon could pass and thus destroy both of the pursuing Ori vessels without issue. That is, rather than waiting until they started dying of old age. Sure, it would have taken a few months, or maybe even years to get through that battle, but they would have made it without a problem. Etc.
Similar lack of thought has plagued a lot of other shows. For example, why didn't anyone in the Star Trek universe ever come up with the idea of using warp drives as weapons in a systematic way? A runabout crashing into a borg cube at warp seven would do quite a bit more damage than a photon torpedo, I would imagine. I guess kinetic energy just isn't "futuristic" enough. Hell, Picard tried to use ramming speed with the Enterprise on at least one occasion that I remember, one would think they would have realized that would be a hell of a weapon, and that they could store hundreds or even thousands of them on a ship like the enterprise (assuming they removed the crew compartments).
States can't make currency other than silver and gold (if only they would...). The constitution does not restrict the rights of individuals to issue their own currency. If it did, things like "Disneybucks" would be illegal.
The Constitution would have done better to mandate that ALL government issued currency be in silver and/or gold to prevent the meltdown we are now seeing.
Economics is different, as in this case, it is REAL PEOPLE making decisions, rather than what a computer model would assume that people would decide. You can administer a MMO in many different ways and achieve many different effects, which would create any number of economic situations. In general, since the games are marketed toward players, free markets tend to reign, as that is the only way that each player can maximize their fun (rather than being subjected to the imbalances created by central planning).
Basically, you create a few simple rules, and the economy goes from there. In places like Second life, things can be replicated fairly easily, but it takes work to design, so people pay for designs. It becomes an economy based on abundance rather than lack. Etc. etc.
Really, MMOs are probably the BEST way to really study economics, and come to understand how exactly we should be running our own economy. That is, it's far preferable to haphazard tinkering by the administration du jour.
The system you described is classical fractional reserve banking. Understand, however, that we no longer operate under that system (why it is still called fractional reserve banking is beyond me). Rather, for the vast majority of transactions, there is no reserve requirement. That's right, THE BANKS CAN GIVE OUT AS MUCH MONEY AS THEY WANT, REGARDLESS OF RESERVES. This is what people are referring to as "printing money", although that takes other forms as well, mainly with the Fed printing money to buy treasuries or other debt.
I would advise anyone reading this to buy gold and silver. Those green things in your wallet aren't going to be worth the paper they're printed on soon. I can't say when exactly, but I would give it less than five years, and al little as three months (the dollar is declining as we speak).
That's great, except for the fact that the fed burns (literally) the money that it gets in order to fight inflation. It doesn't continue circulating.
Why do you think we have such a huge national debt? How on earth could Americans have accumulated on average $200K+ in debt individually over the last thirty years?
If you think that's sustainable, I have a few bridges I'd like to sell you.
In addition to that, I would add that money that is held in a savings account under a gold standard is loaned out. Even if the person who had wealth were to take their money and put it in a safe for a hundred years, it is still doing good. It makes all the other gold held by every other person more valuable, as he has reduced supply. He has pumped power into the economy in exchange for nothing, or at least a highly delayed reward.
In a fiat system, on the other hand, that money that is hoarded away is simply reallocated to the government and used to kill people. Seriously, the reason central banking was first initiated was so that wars could be fought without imposing demoralizing taxes on the people (the taxes were, and are, invisible, in the form of inflation), and were delayed enough so that people couldn't connect the dots. After all, why should a war that ended three years ago be causing the cost of bread to double today?
Spoken like someone who really can't back up what he says with either logical or factual analysis.
There are two ways in which people can deal with one another. Money, or guns. Any person who claims to hate money makes his preference abundantly clear.
Why are Iranians working towards being in a position to start a battle between Norse gods?
There must be some punchline that I'm missing here.
Apparently somebody clicked the CowboyNeal option in the control panel.
Rubber duckies have "RISK OF DEATH" labels on them now too. All thanks to kindly Nannie State.
Regulations force a climate of CYA to the point of crying wolf all day every day. A vehicle that travels at 3.7 miles an hour IS NOT DANGEROUS. AT ALL.