It doesn't have to be the "gold" standard, does it?. Gold has been used traditionally, but there are resources far more valuable than gold. Having a currency based on something with real value in the economy rather than mostly intrinsic value could have great benefits...I think?
After the global economic meltdown we will be on the bullet standard
After the global economic meltdown we will be on the bullet standard
I think obama will be reelected, but what can he run on? His winning smile and easygoing attitude?
The economy has made little forward progress despite trillions of dollars wasted on his political friends and pet projects
His domestic policy has caused the markets to swing wildly but stay mostly stagnant as investors and business owners try to guess what he will do next (Obamacare), and are not able to accurately predict risk or hire people
His energy policy of picking winners and losers was an embarrassing $500mil failure (Solyndra)
his foreign policy is a joke (apologizing to Afghans for burning Korans used as message conveyors, to people who use that book to justify sewing young girls' vaginas shut so that they won't 'sin' or killing them as punishment for being gang-raped)
His response to the Arab spring has been at times supportive and discouraging, so no one knows where the US really stands or where we will invade next. He truly thinks the Arab Spring is about the the people earning democracy for themselves, but it is actually bringing Sharia law, oppression, and decades of war.
What is the best thing that has happened for the citizens of the United States in the last 3 years that can be directly attributed to his policies? Has he protected our rights? Has our country gained prestige, power, and money? That being said, I could only vote for Ron Paul so I'm not going to vote at all. Romney is just as shady as Obama, and Santorum...it makes me sick to imagine him facing Ahmadinejad, Chavez, or Jintau wearing a damn sweater vest.
The economy has made little forward progress despite trillions of dollars wasted on his political friends and pet projects
His domestic policy has caused the markets to swing wildly but stay mostly stagnant as investors and business owners try to guess what he will do next (Obamacare), and are not able to accurately predict risk or hire people
His energy policy of picking winners and losers was an embarrassing $500mil failure (Solyndra)
his foreign policy is a joke (apologizing to Afghans for burning Korans used as message conveyors, to people who use that book to justify sewing young girls' vaginas shut so that they won't 'sin' or killing them as punishment for being gang-raped)
His response to the Arab spring has been at times supportive and discouraging, so no one knows where the US really stands or where we will invade next. He truly thinks the Arab Spring is about the the people earning democracy for themselves, but it is actually bringing Sharia law, oppression, and decades of war.
What is the best thing that has happened for the citizens of the United States in the last 3 years that can be directly attributed to his policies? Has he protected our rights? Has our country gained prestige, power, and money? That being said, I could only vote for Ron Paul so I'm not going to vote at all. Romney is just as shady as Obama, and Santorum...it makes me sick to imagine him facing Ahmadinejad, Chavez, or Jintau wearing a damn sweater vest.
a meaningful explanation for you...If you mean like your meaningful explanations, sorry I don't have time to copy and paste quotes from several unknown, highly biased blogs in order to patch together a semi-coherent argument.
On the topic of future building techniques that came up in the thread about the apartment collapse in Russia, Future by Design is a really neat documentary about futurist Jacque Fresco's architectural ideas and philosophical ideas concerning the viability of a working technocracy, where computers and robots control all aspects of goods and food production from processing raw materials to distributing products to the end user.
Streaming on netflix
Streaming on netflix
That's really cool I hope he succeeds. Driving the 'ring in our own cars has always been out of reach for Americans. I hope the state government doesn't shoot it down based on the high number of deaths each year on the 'ring, as a re-creation could be built with more and larger runoff areas and as a rule require helmets to be worn. (not sure why helmets aren't required anyway)
Maybe the Chinese will use their influence in Africa to bring stability and end tribal warfare. Optimism is free so I'm not going to donate.
Its untenable. Israel's neighbors hate Israel. Israel hates its neighbors. If Israel shows weakness its neighbors will unite and attack and try to commit genocide on the Jewish people, as Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Kuwait have tried to do before. The quote that marked the beginning of the Six Day War by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1967:
But wait, why isn't Israel attacking Syria while they are weak and distracted? Or Egypt while they are still recovering and reforming a government? Israel desperately needs more land to advance as a society towards First World status, and they could easily use their advanced military technology and Western allies to wipe out resistance. To me, this is proof that Israelis have no desire and have not acted towards completely eliminating Muslims from the Middle East or even from their own country, which is about 20% Muslim. This is also why I trust them with any number of nuclear weapons.
Iran doesn't have a sure-fire delivery system for a nuclear warhead. The biggest fear is not that they would drop it from an airplane or fire a ballistic missile, but that they would smuggle it into an urban center, most likely Tel Aviv and detonate it there for maximum civilian casualties. This is a common military strategy in Arab countries.
But wait, why isn't Israel attacking Syria while they are weak and distracted? Or Egypt while they are still recovering and reforming a government? Israel desperately needs more land to advance as a society towards First World status, and they could easily use their advanced military technology and Western allies to wipe out resistance. To me, this is proof that Israelis have no desire and have not acted towards completely eliminating Muslims from the Middle East or even from their own country, which is about 20% Muslim. This is also why I trust them with any number of nuclear weapons.
Iran doesn't have a sure-fire delivery system for a nuclear warhead. The biggest fear is not that they would drop it from an airplane or fire a ballistic missile, but that they would smuggle it into an urban center, most likely Tel Aviv and detonate it there for maximum civilian casualties. This is a common military strategy in Arab countries.
Compared to what? It's neighbors Syria and Egypt? Ask a Christian in Egypt right now if their new government sees a place for them in the future of the country. At least Israelis don't worry about their government turning on them and shelling Tel Aviv. Israel might be the only country in the Middle East with it's government and institutions intact after the Arab Spring, seems stable to me.
I think the US will drastically scale back expensive foreign policies like international aid and military intervention before mainland China overtakes the US in regards to average expendable income and average quality of life. The lower class in the US live like kings compared to most of the billion people in China.
What I don't understand is people like John Mccain coming out and saying that the US should intervene (pay) to stop the atrocities in Syria. If no European country cares enough about the Syrians to intervene, then obviously they didn't make very good friends. Whose fault is that? However fkd they are right now it's not nearly as fkd as they will be when we show up. There are 34 other fully developed nations in the world, how much are they willing to sacrifice?
What I don't understand is people like John Mccain coming out and saying that the US should intervene (pay) to stop the atrocities in Syria. If no European country cares enough about the Syrians to intervene, then obviously they didn't make very good friends. Whose fault is that? However fkd they are right now it's not nearly as fkd as they will be when we show up. There are 34 other fully developed nations in the world, how much are they willing to sacrifice?
holy fk are you serious I was so blind for so long all roads lead to shit town and thats in France the biggest terrorist place in the world all of em hanging out and gettin drunk and smoking dope and hanging out with CIA guys too for all we know, never trust a guy with a hat that doesn't even fit on his goddamn head thats what i always said
bs that porsche pack should be free for their failure to strike a deal in the first place.
with increased connectivity via the internet, and more automation of manual labor with robots, I hope that people in the future will be able to live wherever they want and population density in cities will greatly decrease. Tenement houses are designed to have as many people as possible as close as possible to the factories etc. where they work. When and if robots replace humans in the production of mass market products and food, people can live farther from cities and form smaller, closer communities with like-minded individuals. I think packing people into enormous cities with squalid conditions was a necessity of the last century that will not define advanced human civilization in the 22nd century.
JJ that link was interesting and makes me wonder if habitation systems in the future will resemble natural biological systems more and more. Very cool!
JJ that link was interesting and makes me wonder if habitation systems in the future will resemble natural biological systems more and more. Very cool!
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The goal (imo) is to have the expense of tearing down and replacing old, inefficient buildings be entirely offset by energy savings and the positive global economic effects of using far less energy. Obviously this goal will be closer at hand for the countries that are actually inventing these technologies, but countries that are farther behind can benefit greatly when they become more widely available. I hope that within 50 years there will be no tenement buildings or wasteful tract housing communities left, and that the materials used to build them will have been recycled to build entirely humane housing for the poor, and almost miraculously advanced and beautiful custom homes for the middle and upper classes.
The entire nation is not saving money, the estimated 3.4 billion is in saved energy costs for the people who live in the apartments (not houses) that I'm talking about. Maximum efficient and comfortable living should be a goal for all developed nations. Where Eastern Europe has miles of grey soulless blocks, the US has miles of beige soulless tract homes. (which are exceedingly comfortable, but not exactly inspiring or efficient)
sry i thought you guys were talking about base model N/A honda and VWs, not top of the line vtec or VR6 models.
the energy saving between a state-of-the-art efficient apartment and those gulag flats is probably more like 50% plus an improved quality of life. I don't see a reason to try to patch up the increasingly inefficient, decaying soviet flats to last another 40 years when a new building could be built to last much longer with less decrease in efficiency over time. Plus no one buys flats, they rent them after financiers and real estate developers invest in building them.
*edit: the cost savings is in the billions of dollars
*edit: the cost savings is in the billions of dollars
how are you measuring 'driver enjoyment' anyway. They're both cheap commuter cars built to get from A to B with the least amount of gas and 'driver enjoyment'.
with the quote function, we can avoid calling everyone an idiot for no apparent reason.
new apartments use less energy because of advanced insulation and double pane, gas filled windows. They use energy efficient utilities. Especially in cold climates where the heater is run for most of the year you can save a lot of money. Also, there's no reason to repair buildings that were low quality when they were new when building them better the first time saves even more money down the road.
maybe people don't need to live in two mile long ten level flats anyway. I think they're incredibly ugly and wasteful. People can live better and less expensively in apartments built using 21st century 'green' building techniques. They should tear down those soviet monoliths to human exploitation and build some of these.
Not exactly beautiful but who cares when the utilities are close to nothing and you're not packed in like a prison block.
*edit: Better than this for sure
Not exactly beautiful but who cares when the utilities are close to nothing and you're not packed in like a prison block.
*edit: Better than this for sure
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I haven't bought any of the car packs but how can I pass up that awesome wagon?
I was going to respond that Israel is a peaceful ally of the west and deserves to defend their people from the stated goal of Iran which is to destroy Israel and everyone who lives there, then I read this
and I decided you're a pompous dick. This watery space rock is only as perfect as the people who live on it. I'm sorry for you that you've decided to place yourself above the rest of humanity, it seems lonely.
and I decided you're a pompous dick. This watery space rock is only as perfect as the people who live on it. I'm sorry for you that you've decided to place yourself above the rest of humanity, it seems lonely.
well other people enjoy your ride when it looks awesome. That's worth some extra bumps.
All this spouting off Marx and back-of-the-economics-textbook terms... If you are considered poor but can still afford to drive a car then you're in the right country. If not, have fun being jizzed on in the bus or whatever horrific things are happening on public transport.
Last time I took a subway was in 2003 and I got slapped by a drunk smelly hobo. That was the last time I will ever take PT.
Last time I took a subway was in 2003 and I got slapped by a drunk smelly hobo. That was the last time I will ever take PT.
The recession excuse is a cop-out. High unemployment just means you need to be more creative. I know guys who are making more money doing less work than ever. For instance my friend in California is getting boxes of empty shell casings for free and reloading them with a machine he got on eBay. He sells the rounds to online bulk ammo stores. Our governments are relying on us believing that we can't do anything ourselves.
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