Re: Scary thing is ...
The scary thing is that all the future money has already been spend. Including the money for social programs.
> We need to get back to basics & reality.
Basics & reality will get back to us.
Meanwhile, beer in the morning.
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I guess what would happen is that someone takes out an addy saying "I will buy your shares for current market value + 1 USD and the deal goes through if I can collect x% in total. Phone number is yadda yadda.". He wouldn't phone his broker to attempt to hoover up shares openly.
"The miscreants accused the ruling royal family of interfering in the affairs of neighbouring countries, such as Syria and Bahrain."
Because photos of tanks being driven around and weapon crates being dropped off are just not enough, these are "accusations" made by miscreants.
Whereas hyped hearsay about the Iranian nuke program are "grave accusations" made by "reliable anonymous sources".
While I'm waiting for the backup to finish .... C.M. Kornbluth and the Syndicate:
"They had what they called laissez-faire, and it worked for a while until they got to tinkering with it. They demanded things called protective tariffs, tax remissions, subsidies — regulation, regulation, regulation, always of the other fellow. But there were enough bankers on all sides for everybody to be somebody else's other fellow. Coercion snowballed and the Government lost public acceptance. They had a thing called the public debt which I can't begin to explain to you except to say that it was something written on paper and that it raised the cost of everything tremendously. Well, believe me or not, they didn't just throw away the piece of paper or scratch out the writing on it. They let it ride until ordinary people couldn't afford the pleasant things in life.
Let me point out what the so-called Government stands for: brutal "taxation," extirpation of gambling, denial of life's simple pleasures to the poor and severe limitation of them to all but the wealthy, sexual prudery viciously enforced by penal laws of appalling barbarity, endless regulation and coercion governing every waking minute of the day. That was its record during the days of its power and that would be its record if it returned to power. I fail to see how this menace to our liberty can be condoned by certain marginal benefits which are claimed to accrue from its continued existence."
"Psst, Stalin!"
"What!"
"You know about Poland?"
"Yeah. I still want to f*ck them good for what they did to our glorious army in 1920."
"Don't mention it, I though Berlin would be a goner. So, you know .... I wanna have Prussia back?"
"Kay? So?"
"Maybe we could, you know. Share costs?"
"Hmm..."
"Come on. You know want it. I can even leave you the biggish parts."
"Hmmmmm...."
"It will be like 1914 again! Joined along a common border!"
"Okay, but no funny business this time!"
"Sure. So, deal?"
"Deal!"
"which isn't licensed for commercial use either"
I I wasn't a libertarian scumbag, I would place a phone call to the Towers of the Antitrust Taxfeeders.
I pay for it, I use it as I like. Suck it up, Microsoft.
Hey, on second thoughts, I won't pay for it.
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Is it relevant whether he once flew a taxpayer-provided Magic Incinerator™ at taxpayer's expense at the behest of superiors fishing for medals?
Not it isn't.
Having a good sense of 3-D navigation and being adept at integrating into a hierarchical organization that is borderline mental does not translate into skills you need for Winning In The Marketplace. At all.
It may elicit Warm Crotch Feelings and Awe but they are out of place.
Excuse my rant, I will continue reading Jeff Huber's "Bathtub Admirals". Thank you.
> a huge investment like this would lower unemployment and the country could work itself out of recession.
Unfortunately this is NOT how reality works.
The money to paid the guys and the goods to build that has to come from somewhere.
It comes from tax dollars. Or, which is another way of putting, from the printing press.
This makes it impossible for people to buy what they want or desire (a house, a new car, eggs for the fridge) if it's personal tax, and impossible to invest (into jobs or new plant) if it's company tax. Additionally, savings are being destroyed - so future activities will be curtailed, so will pension payouts etc.
In effect, you are burning down the country. It would be just another bubble.
Some people, those very near state, would of course get tremendously rich and powerful as in any command economy.
No-one ever comments because one cannot have fun and silliness with stories about hardware and specs.
But here....
"Geez, it just hurts my head to think about all of the opportunities this could provide if we can realize it"
Yeah Andy. Then take a Valium but just stop playing the Überguru. Stuff that computes and is small. Woah, ey!
"Tim Selling - a former aide to SEC, the US financial watchdog [more like a Pomerian with severe myopia unable to detect pyramid schemes even if told they are there] - said HP has complied with regulators over the debacle 'but there are still far too many unknowns to conclude that HP has been adequately forthcoming'."
Why dontcha get hired into a management position at HP, clown?
Don't know whether troll or just plain dumb.
> the rest of the world agrees to place emission tarrifs on all goods from non-complying nations.
The "rest of the world". Um. US+UK... anyone else? Hello. Oh yeah, Yurope can join too.
Yeah, it's good we have catalytic converters and particulate filters on all of our military hardware. One might suddenly fear we are not environmentally conscious. 1.2 million barrels of oil per month for years and years.... Yes we can.