That is incorrect. Inflation is great for those who get to print it. The Fed and thus the banks are the ones that get first access to that money, and get to charge interest on it, interest that can mathematically be paid from no source except default. Default destroys resources. This monetary system thus forces destruction of resources through malinvestment.
Money is not wealth. Money is a CLAIM on wealth, which is composed of real things. Printing money does not create more wealth--it just dilutes it, and redistributes it to those who get first access to the printed money.
Wrong. The powerful get to use the printed money first, stealing purchasing power from everyone else. This is one of the most fundamental arguments against fiat currency.
WTF are you talking about? Arctic ice is up 60%. And it's not even the second week of Fall. The time frame we are discussing here is year over year, and on that scale it clearly is NOT decreasing.
You can pull up all the models you want, but reality is the final arbiter, and the fact is that sea ice over the Arctic is UP year over year. Whether this is the start of a new trend is certainly up for discussion. The point was that AGW supporters are not serving their cause by running around like chickens with their heads cut off. NeutronCowboy, as I recall, is particularly guilty of this.
Who cares? I brought up a point that is related to the subject at hand, climate change. You, on the other hand, are attempting to discredit me by pretending that I don't know the difference between the Arctic and Antarctica, when I clearly do.
Typical liberal. Pull your head out of your ass before the commercial fisheries go extinct.
lol, you sure are twisty with your logic there, little liberal crybaby. Whatever makes you feel superior, I guess.
Ocean acidification is not played up at ALL. It's all about the cute cuddly little polar bears. They never made a movie about ocean acidification, but there are plenty about climate extremes.
One thing you don't really understand: climate change is totally separate from ocean acidification. They just happen to have (supposedly) the same cause, increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
Arctic ice is up 60% and its not even winter yet. People were and have been screaming about an ice free north pole for as long as I can remember, and your failure to so much as acknowledge the fact that such words were ever so much as placed into a sentence shows YOUR intellectual dishonesty.
Just screaming "It's happening!" while waving your hands around and running in circles doesn't make it so. Last year everyone was screaming about an ice free North Pole, and here we are.
NOTHING they have predicted has come true. The core mechanism IS wrong. And you are still crying about it while our fisheries are dying.
You are the pot calling the porcelain tea set black.
I don't understand why all the libs are butthurt, though. If you want an excuse to shut down industry, then you are looking in the wrong place. Ocean acidification is definitely real, and isn't disproved by a simple analysis of the IR and Raman spectra of CO2.
Seriously. Ocean acidification is far more dangerous than AGW could ever have been. Fisheries are already in a state close to collapse. Additional pressure from acidification could push them over the line and into extinction. That would be monumentally bad, on par with, say, the extinction of rice.
No. A black hole does not have infinite mass, it just has a very high density. Increasing mass from relativistic travel is a separate effect from what happens at an event horizon.
There is matter inside a black hole. You are thinking of the optical illusion that makes it seem like matter falling into a black hole slows down. From the falling matter's point of view, there is no time dilation, it just falls right through the event horizon like there was nothing there.
National Socialism was pretty much the same as communism. It's just that one had the recipients of private wealth confiscation in the party, while the other had the recipients of private wealth confiscation in the party while still having a claim of ownership over the companies they founded (or were confiscated from non-party members and given to them).
The only reason they were at each other's throats was that they drew upon the same elements of society, ie sociopaths and thugs for their members. This is the same reason why Christian fundamentalists can't stand Islamic fundamentalists, despite the fact that they are ideologically indistinguishable to an outside viewer.
Bullshit. I wanted to close gitmo when Bush was in office, and I want it closed now. Not everyone changes their opinions when the telescreens tell us to, you know.
The US is at war with al-Qaeda. The US has always been at war with al- Qaeda *bzzt* The US is allied with al-Qaeda. The US has always been allied with al-Qaeda.
Of course, I didn't really need to reply. The fact that you think the national debt is shrinking exposes your absolute lunacy.
No, it'll be the yet to be formed Latin American Space Agency.
People will for some reason be totally unable to distinguish the two organizations. Those pointing out that they are two different organizations will be deemed to be racists, just like those NASA guys who shot down that asteroid.
Neither can the victims that Trayvon would have inevitably left in his wake. Had Zimmerman not been armed, the story wouldn't have merited more than a 10 second blurb on the nightly news, just another hispanic killed by a black. Who knows how many more would have died before he was imprisoned or killed by some OTHER thug?
It's hard to make a living as a mugger if you only prowl the neighborhood where you are on the neighborhood watch. Also, people might start to notice when you are killing dozens of people in self defense.
Also, it's kind of hard to get them to jump on top of you and pound your head into the concrete.
No wounds on baby Tray Tray except for his knuckles where he was beating the shit out of Zimmerman, and the single gunshot wound. Sorry, kiddo, but you don't get off on felony assault because of the words someone said to you before said assault. You might get out of a misdemeanor assault like that.
Except that wasn't when the fight occurred, you racist loon! Your sweet baby Tray Tray got away. He then came back as Zimmerman was returning to his vehicle and proceeded to curb stomp him. He lost all possible claim to being the victim of a stalker when he came back and started stalking Zimmerman.
Also, normal people don't beat people's heads into the concrete for following them.
Decent kids don't get caught with backpacks full of burgled jewelry, suffer from failing livers from ingestion of purple drank, or go out into the night seeking random creepy crackas to beat up, possibly to death.
Sorry, guy, but muh baby Tray-Tray was every bit the thug going to his early grave that people have said he was.
I wasn't racist before this trial. I feel the pressure to be one now, coming from inside. My sense of fair play is violated. I choose, instead, to judge people by their actions. I judge Trayvon to be worthless scum, and I judge Zimmerman to be a good man who helps other people, whether he is watching out for people burgling other houses in the rain, or pulling families out of overturned cars (liberal families who hate him, by the way), or going about any of the far less publicized activities he took upon himself that lead to him becoming captain of his neighborhood watch.
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That is incorrect. Inflation is great for those who get to print it. The Fed and thus the banks are the ones that get first access to that money, and get to charge interest on it, interest that can mathematically be paid from no source except default. Default destroys resources. This monetary system thus forces destruction of resources through malinvestment.
Money is not wealth. Money is a CLAIM on wealth, which is composed of real things. Printing money does not create more wealth--it just dilutes it, and redistributes it to those who get first access to the printed money.
Good inflation is when you print money and spend it first. Bad inflation is when other people print money and devalue the dollars in your pocket.
Wrong. The powerful get to use the printed money first, stealing purchasing power from everyone else. This is one of the most fundamental arguments against fiat currency.
WTF are you talking about? Arctic ice is up 60%. And it's not even the second week of Fall. The time frame we are discussing here is year over year, and on that scale it clearly is NOT decreasing.
You can pull up all the models you want, but reality is the final arbiter, and the fact is that sea ice over the Arctic is UP year over year. Whether this is the start of a new trend is certainly up for discussion. The point was that AGW supporters are not serving their cause by running around like chickens with their heads cut off. NeutronCowboy, as I recall, is particularly guilty of this.
Who cares? I brought up a point that is related to the subject at hand, climate change. You, on the other hand, are attempting to discredit me by pretending that I don't know the difference between the Arctic and Antarctica, when I clearly do.
Typical liberal. Pull your head out of your ass before the commercial fisheries go extinct.
lol, you sure are twisty with your logic there, little liberal crybaby. Whatever makes you feel superior, I guess.
Ocean acidification is not played up at ALL. It's all about the cute cuddly little polar bears. They never made a movie about ocean acidification, but there are plenty about climate extremes.
One thing you don't really understand: climate change is totally separate from ocean acidification. They just happen to have (supposedly) the same cause, increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
No? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Arctic ice is up 60% and its not even winter yet. People were and have been screaming about an ice free north pole for as long as I can remember, and your failure to so much as acknowledge the fact that such words were ever so much as placed into a sentence shows YOUR intellectual dishonesty.
Just screaming "It's happening!" while waving your hands around and running in circles doesn't make it so. Last year everyone was screaming about an ice free North Pole, and here we are.
NOTHING they have predicted has come true. The core mechanism IS wrong. And you are still crying about it while our fisheries are dying.
You are the pot calling the porcelain tea set black.
All that damage control.
I don't understand why all the libs are butthurt, though. If you want an excuse to shut down industry, then you are looking in the wrong place. Ocean acidification is definitely real, and isn't disproved by a simple analysis of the IR and Raman spectra of CO2.
Seriously. Ocean acidification is far more dangerous than AGW could ever have been. Fisheries are already in a state close to collapse. Additional pressure from acidification could push them over the line and into extinction. That would be monumentally bad, on par with, say, the extinction of rice.
>gas masks
>For ppm increases in gas concentrations
You do realize that you aren't helping the AGW cause with your melodrama, right?
No. A black hole does not have infinite mass, it just has a very high density. Increasing mass from relativistic travel is a separate effect from what happens at an event horizon.
When you get a 4D printer, make one of the dimensions timelike and you print an infinite-D printer before you were even born.
It doesn't run into itself, it gets bigger. A balloon doesn't run into itself as it inflates.
There is matter inside a black hole. You are thinking of the optical illusion that makes it seem like matter falling into a black hole slows down. From the falling matter's point of view, there is no time dilation, it just falls right through the event horizon like there was nothing there.
I THINK that is the way it went.
Shredder?
National Socialism was pretty much the same as communism. It's just that one had the recipients of private wealth confiscation in the party, while the other had the recipients of private wealth confiscation in the party while still having a claim of ownership over the companies they founded (or were confiscated from non-party members and given to them).
The only reason they were at each other's throats was that they drew upon the same elements of society, ie sociopaths and thugs for their members. This is the same reason why Christian fundamentalists can't stand Islamic fundamentalists, despite the fact that they are ideologically indistinguishable to an outside viewer.
Which one has the most access to government funds is the question you should be asking.
Bullshit. I wanted to close gitmo when Bush was in office, and I want it closed now. Not everyone changes their opinions when the telescreens tell us to, you know.
The US is at war with al-Qaeda. The US has always been at war with al- Qaeda *bzzt* The US is allied with al-Qaeda. The US has always been allied with al-Qaeda.
Of course, I didn't really need to reply. The fact that you think the national debt is shrinking exposes your absolute lunacy.
No, it'll be the yet to be formed Latin American Space Agency.
People will for some reason be totally unable to distinguish the two organizations. Those pointing out that they are two different organizations will be deemed to be racists, just like those NASA guys who shot down that asteroid.
Neither can the victims that Trayvon would have inevitably left in his wake. Had Zimmerman not been armed, the story wouldn't have merited more than a 10 second blurb on the nightly news, just another hispanic killed by a black. Who knows how many more would have died before he was imprisoned or killed by some OTHER thug?
It's hard to make a living as a mugger if you only prowl the neighborhood where you are on the neighborhood watch. Also, people might start to notice when you are killing dozens of people in self defense.
Also, it's kind of hard to get them to jump on top of you and pound your head into the concrete.
No wounds on baby Tray Tray except for his knuckles where he was beating the shit out of Zimmerman, and the single gunshot wound. Sorry, kiddo, but you don't get off on felony assault because of the words someone said to you before said assault. You might get out of a misdemeanor assault like that.
Except that wasn't when the fight occurred, you racist loon! Your sweet baby Tray Tray got away. He then came back as Zimmerman was returning to his vehicle and proceeded to curb stomp him. He lost all possible claim to being the victim of a stalker when he came back and started stalking Zimmerman.
Also, normal people don't beat people's heads into the concrete for following them.
Decent kids don't get caught with backpacks full of burgled jewelry, suffer from failing livers from ingestion of purple drank, or go out into the night seeking random creepy crackas to beat up, possibly to death.
Sorry, guy, but muh baby Tray-Tray was every bit the thug going to his early grave that people have said he was.
I wasn't racist before this trial. I feel the pressure to be one now, coming from inside. My sense of fair play is violated. I choose, instead, to judge people by their actions. I judge Trayvon to be worthless scum, and I judge Zimmerman to be a good man who helps other people, whether he is watching out for people burgling other houses in the rain, or pulling families out of overturned cars (liberal families who hate him, by the way), or going about any of the far less publicized activities he took upon himself that lead to him becoming captain of his neighborhood watch.
Did Anne Frank try to beat beat the entirety of Nazi Germany to death? I must have been sick that day.