You could ask to be paid in gold coins and report to the irs your earnings in face value dollars.

Tally sticks?

Enough with the gold stuff. I prefer to be paid in thundrillium.

So...when the world ends, can you eat gold? So...when the world ends, can you eat paper? You can eat both. Bon appetit

When you are stuffing paper money into a fireplace because it is cheaper to burn paper notes than to exchange those notes for unprocessed wood then I'd like to see you argue that those little paper notes are money at all. Its no longer a store of value and it is no longer useful for trade. It is of absolutely no value except for the btu content from burning it.

Why are chips wired with gold? Surely its not because the stuff is cheap.

Chip wires, dental filler, heat mirrors. And yes you can eat gold, its perfectly edible (see Goldschlager).

No, banks replicate money via the fractional reserve system. For every 1 dollar deposited, 9 dollars can be made in check money. Well that was before reserve requirements were completely removed at least.

http://www.ifixit.com/iPhone-Parts/iPhone-4-Liberation-Kit/IF182-019 That didn't take long.

Now we just need wifi that uses pidgin poop for power. (PPfP)

Now there is an HDR video camera when are we going to have an HDR video monitor? Seems kind of useless to have an HDR camera with no way to display it.

Myspace used to employ more than 10 people! What do these people do all day?

Just how many people work in the SS bureaucracy anyway? Do they all need alienware gaming laptops?

yes fight amongst your selves huahaha we elite win everytime. You know why evil triumphs? It is because good is dumb.

So why doesn't this happen EVERY YEAR?