Precisely what you would expect to hear from a tea party nut that has never worked in the public sector. Thank you. Keep up the good work being a shill for the Koch brothers and their ilk. It is only a matter of time before the super-rich (who are the only ones to truly benefit from Tea Party ideals) come after you and make your life miserable.

Why doesn't Amazon implement this system and make money off all the other schmucks how won't do this task themselves?

reminds me of a friend's copy of Nevermind by the band Nirvaba (sic) that he picked up in South East Asia when he was living there.

The correct term for neck hair is "neard", and I agree with you. There's nothing wrong with having one.

Wrong, if you look at the map and the percentages, it looks like poor people running bootlegged versions of outdated windows are the main users of IE6.

Most of us already do this...

You appear to have completely missed the point. Japan had the highest savings rate in the 1990s as a result of the deflation. Consumers were not consuming because they would wait until the price of anything went lower. For the same reason, industry did not invest in capital, because a loan for said capital would inevitably cost more in the long run. High savings rate in Japan did not enable them to survive their recession, it extended it a decade longer than it would have been had the government stepped in an ensured that deflation had not taken place. This is a textbook example of a deflationary spiral, which I referenced in my previous post, which you appear to have glossed over in your zeal to ignore reality.

Let me get this straight, you argue that Japan had deflation because they had inflation. That is the most illogical thing I have read on Slashdot in a good long while. According to the oracle of Wikipedia:

I would say deflation caused a bit of pain for all those unemployed people.

You obviously do not understand the fundamentals of economics on this subject. You would be better served to do a bit of research on the subject before going off as you have. For shame.

Please observe what happened to Japan in the 1990s with regard to deflation. Deflation is the last thing you want your economy to do systematically, across the board. It encourages people to put off consumption and make a recession last a lot longer than it could.

This is precisely why the Fed continues to print money. By trying to keep inflation above 2% we can avoid the nasty business of dealing with a deflationary spiral. Debtors calling to the cessation of the quantitative easing will rue the day it happens, for deflation will exacerbate any debt load.

52 * 5 * 1 = 260

nmap is 13 years old today. May it live to be 113.

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