Comment Re:asteroids (Score 1) 24
I used to play Asteroids. I wasn't very good at it.
I used to play Asteroids. I wasn't very good at it.
Don't you mean, "loose you're shit"?
... compared to something more SATAnic,
It doesn't sound that evil to me...
You make an interesting complaint but you provide no argument or evidence that the government doesn't have a good reason to propose this rule... Note the word propose... Doesn't mean it will actually get implemented. Don't let facts get in the way of your libertarian fantasy, though.
That's backwards. The government needs a "good reason" to propose a rule, NOT a "good reason" not to.
And I totally agree with your signature calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment.
Except Mt.Gox was never a bank, if anything its more comparable to a broker, and if there was a major theft leading to your broker going bankrupt there would be no FDIC insurance for you. Any cash you had in your account -- gone, and security not settled and in your name gone. Unless the property was recovered some how by authorities.
Incorrect. SIPC (Securities Investor Protection Corporation) insurance protects cash up to $250,000 and cash and securities up to $500,000 per account. Most brokerage firms carry additional insurance, usually called "excess SIPC coverage".
Mt. Gox was the tavern bookie that you left your winnings with, with no insurance or regulation at all.
Downside : a normal coffee brew process generates 6-12 cups of Joe.
I guess we could all switch to a press
Keurig provides a clean single-cup solution
One man's downside is another's clear advantage.
I am totally uninterested in a single-cup solution as it is a huge negative to wait for the cup to brew when I can just pour another one from my pot-plus thermos. I get my good coffee for a far lower price per cup and it stays nice and warm all day long, or at least until it's drained around 3pm.
That's the first thing that popped into my head also. What was the name of that show?
"So, you are telling me that if you see me with a weapon openly displayed in a holster, you feel the need to attack me?"
Yes.
Like you, carrying your gun with you, I would feel the need to get my defence in early. If I wait until AFTER you've shot me dead, it's too late.
What if I were waving a big knife around you? What if I were standing around your kids at school whilst doing so? What if I were to stand RIGHT IN YOUR FACE?
These are all provocative. Just like your flashing a gun at me.
Gun-phobe. To this person, seeing a firearm in a holster on someone's hip is perceived as the same thing as that person "waving a big knife" around kids at a school, NOT the same thing as seeing a big knife in a sheath on that person's hip. A firearm in a holster on a hip with no attempt to draw attention to it at all (much less in a threatening manner) is being "flashed" at him because it's there and he's afraid of it.
I applaud them for trying. I also applaud them louder for realizing it didn't work and ending it.
The problem in this stupid political landscape, You can't go back and say, It seemed like a good idea at the time, however I stopped it after we found out it didn't meet expectations. Which is really stupid, because it creates bad policies that just keep going on and on creating more harm, and making political leaders afraid to try something new.
Good luck reversing ANY government program, no matter how bad. Once a program is finally pushed through it doesn't matter how disastrous it turns out to be it's now some politically-connected group's (if they weren't politically connected it would never have been passed) God-Given Entitlement. Anyone trying to repeal it is trying to Beat Women and Starve Children.
Solar power is expensive. Wind turbines kill birds.
I read a recent article that sodium boiler/reflector solar generators are literally burning the feathers off of migratory birds.
Windmills: The Politically Correct way to kill eagles.
or gain superpowers.
Nah. They'll become ghouls and attack the smooth-skins at Tenpenny Tower.
Lately, I've found that Amazon usually meets or beats Newegg's pricing for most things I buy, with free 2 day shipping (for Prime members).
This was when I stopped using Newegg as well - the moment my wife signed us up for prime. We actually did it for the video and kindle, but once you experience free shipping like that it's pretty hard to accept anything else.
Add in that they allow me to pay using my Discover card rewards right at checkout and it's a dangerous combo.
Well played, Amazon.
I signed up for ShopRunner with an American Express card for free lifetime (supposedly) 2nd-day shipping. Newegg is one of the stores covered.
Right now at Amazon I'm using my Discover card (and not my Discover points) as Discover's Oct-Dec 5% bonus is on "any internet orders". (And I do have Prime there.)
There was never a surplus, the national debt has increased every month for 30 years. OK, a couple of months it didn't, probably including August and September of this year.
The 'surplus' is due to bogus accounting, where they treat the US bonds bought for the SS 'trust fund' as an asset, but don't count the spending of the $ as a liability.
That's the difference between the "Total Public Debt" and the "Total Debt". The latter includes the Intergovernmental Debt (such as the automatic "investment" of Social Security Trust Fund assets in non-marketable Treasury instruments, while the former only includes instruments sold publicly.
The much-ballyhooed "surplus" that Clinton had was in fact a small decline in the Total Public Debt while the Total Debt never declined (on an annual basis, at least) during his presidency.
Total Debt is what really matters. You're not getting ahead when your car, mortgage, and credit card debt have declined by $20,000 but your 401k loan has increased by $25,000. Your Total Debt has increased by $5,000. (Not a perfect analogy because of interest rate differentials, but the closest analogy I could come up with for a person where he "owes it to himself".)
While it's true that you could actually run a surplus and Social Security surpluses would still be "invested", increasing the Intergovernmental Debt, those funds would then retire Public Debt. This, along with debt retired by the actual surplus, would result in the Public Debt falling more rapidly than the Intergovernmental Debt increased and would lead to a declining Total Debt.
So, if the Total Debt didn't fall, there was no real surplus.
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