By definition, it's a very rare and valuable metal, thus only the rich have access to large quantities of it.
It's better to have the government regulate the money through cheap metals, not precious metals.
After all, Great Britain, for a long time, used wooden sticks, well before their Empire started to fall apart. When they shifted back to gold, their economy, back then, started to tank.
Even Rome had similar things. When they used cheap metals for coins, the economy flourished and people were happy. Once they shifted to gold, well, that was the start of the decline, as fewer people had money, thus the Empire took in less revenues from taxes.
I actually thought he was a decent, if slightly out of touch, mayor who listened to the concerns of people. At the very least he didn't try to do what others did for the Occupy movement.
Re: You're presupposing, as usual, that piracy is small.
You can't compete with free.
So, wrong premise here: that people will pay for content if not forced to
*Ahem*
Bull, ootb. You can't compete with free? Obviously you don't pay attention to your history, at all.
Free networks complained they couldn't compete with cable, which was a PAID subscription back in the day.
Certainly flies in the face of every "can't compete with free" argument ever. Not to mention the whole fact that Coke makes most of their money by selling bottled water.
And it's obvious from your comments that you don't look at much porn. Everyone knows that you have to pay for the good stuff.
and people *DO* pay for content even if they're not forced to. Just the other day I bought a PS Plus membership. Didn't have to, but I got it because it has such good deals, like free games for my PS3 and Vita.
the Internet’s social impact is shallow. Imagine life without it. Would the loss of e-mail, Facebook or Wikipedia inflict fundamental change? Now imagine life without some earlier breakthroughs: electricity, cars, antibiotics. Life would be radically different. The Internet’s virtues are overstated, its vices understated. It’s a mixed blessing — and the mix may be moving against us.
Social impact is shallow, huh? Okay, let's see...
Loss of e-mail, how would that affect people, oh, wait, how about contacting people instantly when they have a bill to pay or buying something quickly? Or maybe there's some other thing, something like, IDK, being able to communicate with people quickly to organize a revolution or something... Or keeping up on various news and projects...
Wikipedia is at least as informative as Encyclopedia Britannica, even if people claim otherwise.
Facebook, yeah, I don't like Facebook, but then again, I seem to recall that Twitter was used to organize the Arab Spring, so...
Hmm, I'm pretty sure the internet is more important than that moron thinks.
The problem is that those soccer moms got those laws made and if ANY politician even *DARES* to fix the laws, then those same soccer moms become demons from hell and go full out defamation on you and screw over your chances of getting re-elected.
And, yes, it is terrible that this is happening, but...
People need to avoid posting stuff to social media, ESPECIALLY Facebook and Twitter.
You have the paranoid, delusional soccer moms who are all "won't someone PLEASE think of the children!" that spend their time on Facebook.
You want to communicate with someone online, use private messaging, at least then it's less likely to get seen unless someone brings it to someone else's attention quickly.
I was just commenting to someone the other day that what the NSA did reminded people in Europe about the Soviet Union, he disagreed with me on that and said it didn't seem that way.
If you actually get up and talk and do your filibustering with words like Davis or Senator Rand Paul did, then you're doing it correctly. If you just use the threat of filibuster and don't do anything about it, then it's being used incorrectly and you need to be shot for doing that.
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Re: Traitor
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Gold is a VERY bad thing to base currency on.
By definition, it's a very rare and valuable metal, thus only the rich have access to large quantities of it.
It's better to have the government regulate the money through cheap metals, not precious metals.
After all, Great Britain, for a long time, used wooden sticks, well before their Empire started to fall apart. When they shifted back to gold, their economy, back then, started to tank.
Even Rome had similar things. When they used cheap metals for coins, the economy flourished and people were happy. Once they shifted to gold, well, that was the start of the decline, as fewer people had money, thus the Empire took in less revenues from taxes.
Why do you think they went to salt?
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Why...
He's one of the few people in congress that actually does his job.
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This is Peter Griffin level stupidity.
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Re: they're just as afraid as the rest of us
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You hope too much...
They'll just "interpret the law" secretly again and continue to do it.
The United States should just change the name of the country to the Police States of America where you have no freedoms or liberties at all already.
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So...
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At one point...
And yet he supports stuff like this.
*sigh*
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Re: You're presupposing, as usual, that piracy is small.
So, wrong premise here: that people will pay for content if not forced to
*Ahem*
Bull, ootb. You can't compete with free? Obviously you don't pay attention to your history, at all.
Free networks complained they couldn't compete with cable, which was a PAID subscription back in the day.
Certainly flies in the face of every "can't compete with free" argument ever. Not to mention the whole fact that Coke makes most of their money by selling bottled water.
And it's obvious from your comments that you don't look at much porn. Everyone knows that you have to pay for the good stuff.
and people *DO* pay for content even if they're not forced to. Just the other day I bought a PS Plus membership. Didn't have to, but I got it because it has such good deals, like free games for my PS3 and Vita.
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Re: Re: Re: You're presupposing, as usual, that piracy is small.
And that's why iTunes makes over 1 billion every year, because people "steal" digital files.
Nobody believes your dumb fucking bullshit. When will you finally wake up and see that?
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Hmm...
Social impact is shallow, huh? Okay, let's see...
Loss of e-mail, how would that affect people, oh, wait, how about contacting people instantly when they have a bill to pay or buying something quickly? Or maybe there's some other thing, something like, IDK, being able to communicate with people quickly to organize a revolution or something... Or keeping up on various news and projects...
Wikipedia is at least as informative as Encyclopedia Britannica, even if people claim otherwise.
Facebook, yeah, I don't like Facebook, but then again, I seem to recall that Twitter was used to organize the Arab Spring, so...
Hmm, I'm pretty sure the internet is more important than that moron thinks.
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Re: Re: Don't mean to sound heartless...
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Don't mean to sound heartless...
People need to avoid posting stuff to social media, ESPECIALLY Facebook and Twitter.
You have the paranoid, delusional soccer moms who are all "won't someone PLEASE think of the children!" that spend their time on Facebook.
You want to communicate with someone online, use private messaging, at least then it's less likely to get seen unless someone brings it to someone else's attention quickly.
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It's sad...
And he still disagrees on it.
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Re: Filibuster
If you actually get up and talk and do your filibustering with words like Davis or Senator Rand Paul did, then you're doing it correctly. If you just use the threat of filibuster and don't do anything about it, then it's being used incorrectly and you need to be shot for doing that.
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So...
Seriously, can't we get rid of these guys? They're making treaties that might be good into horrid things.
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At least 10 trillion?
They're holding only 8% of the U.S. debt.
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Society was built on people helping each other and giving stuff away for free.
Even culture.
After all, do you know the story of Hercules, King Arthur, Achilles, Gilgamesh of Uruk, Sigurd of the Norse?
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