At some point the lack of natural gas to make fertilizer is going to kill billions.
Even if we ignore that most nitrogen in developed world crops comes from nitrogen-fixing bacteria, it's still going to be a while before methane becomes scarce enough that we stop using it for fertilizer. After all, methane is cheap enough now that they burn it for electricity!
This is brilliant social engineering. There is no way out of this situation, the enemies of the West has already won.
"Brilliant social engineering" that does what? If I don't give a shit, then it doesn't work on me.
Oh, I see, it's about farmers using water for their business, not individuals collecting water in a barrel under their roof.
No, it doesn't sound like you understand. No one in the US prevents you from using a rain barrel. Further, please recall that this thread was originally about the up and coming water-based hydraulic empire. I merely pointed out why that assertion was flawed.
The cause as much grief as possible argument fails since he was not arrested or charged with anything.
What is your reasoning for that argument? What would be the point of arresting the researcher, if you didn't have anything to charge him with at the time?
Its way premature to cry censorship, its crying wolf as things stand at the moment.
Again, what is the basis for your argument especially given that you admit this is a tremendous imposition requiring such things as "buying new computers".
My proposal: have the Fed fund a basic income at zero cost to taxpayers. The Fed could structure it under Section 13 (13) of the Federal Reserve Act, as loans to individuals with negative interest. Thus, people would be paid to borrow.
Inflation is how taxpayers would pay for this "zero cost" proposal and it wouldn't be zero cost in reality.
Indexation of all incomes to price rises eliminates any potential inflation tax.
My take is that it would just create elevated inflation, perhaps even hyperinflation - where the money in question has no use as a store of value.
Now the Fed should apply that power of creating unlimited liquidity
The Fed doesn't have that power.
That's my point, with the caveat that its not really censorship since the goal is not to silence anyone but to investigate a crime.
Unless, of course, the intent of the effort was to silence the researcher in question. Then it is.
Again, all I'm saying is that its premature to claim censorship. As I said in the beginning all we can say for sure at this point is that it was rude to seize the equipment without asking for cooperation. Facts and opinions may change as more info unfolds.
But a kind of rudeness that routinely shows up when authorities want to make an example of someone.
Might be standard procedure to seize evidence without warning to prevent tampering.
It also might be standard procedure to cause as much grief as possible when someone gets inconvenient to the powers-that-be. What more could they be doing to this guy given their current powers?
Why not give Greece the same courtesy?
Because Greece doesn't have anything to offer. Why shouldn't I be given the same "courtesy"?
Why not give Greece the same courtesy?
Because Greece doesn't have anything to offer.
Then my favorite example: fool's gold.
Ah, yes, the definitive scientific term for pyrite/iron sulfide.
It's interesting how unscientific the arguments are for claiming a dwarf planet is not a planet.
One size doesn't fit all, so it should come as no surprise that a currency made for industrial nations doesn't work so well for a tourist economy.
You're right, but not in the way you think. A common currency like the Euro works even better for a tourist economy than for an industrial one. The tourist can use the same money they use every day without losing money to parasites like money changers and some small time con artists. In other words, there are a vast number of small currency exchanges that are completely eliminated by the use of a common currency.
Meanwhile the industrial transactions don't depend on a common currency as much because the exchanges are less frequent, higher volume, and can be managed by a specialist in the business.
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