News:

PD.com: Trimming your hair in accordance with the anarchoprimitivist lifestyle

Main Menu
Menu

Show posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Show posts Menu

Messages - inode_buddha

#1
Quote from: Nigel on February 27, 2014, 06:53:14 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on February 27, 2014, 10:48:22 AM
Words fail me:
http://galtco.in/

WOW WOW WOW WOW

Amazing on SO MANY LEVELS!  :lulz:

The thing I love about this is, you get to sit back and watch as Libertarians slowly discover for themselves the reasons why we have banking regulations.  :lulz:
#2
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories
January 21, 2014, 03:34:37 AM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 20, 2014, 09:54:51 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25802437

QuoteUKIP has suspended an Oxfordshire councillor after he blamed recent flooding on the government's decision to legalise gay marriage.

In a letter to his local paper, David Silvester said he had warned the PM the legislation would result in "disaster".

He said David Cameron had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel".

UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he was entitled to his "strong Baptist view of the world", but had defied a request not to do further media interviews.

Mr Farage said: "So we suspended him, quite rightly."

Still got a horrible feeling that this band of fools and cretins will end up being a coalition partner at the next elections.

Oh, cool. It was getting so terribly boring to pick on Texas all the time. It loses its novelty after a while, to be tossed aside like the cheap whore that it is.
#3
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories
January 18, 2014, 02:11:23 AM
OK, this is different... mass fainting in factories , vietnam and cambodia? Malmnourished garment workers protesting in the only socially acceptable way they have? Dunno, but its definitely interesting...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/opinion/workers-of-the-world-faint.html
#4
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303819704579316584090630274?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303819704579316584090630274.html

Bank regulators soften up on fractional reserve limits in Basel.... say, didn't we have this financial thing a while back? Anyways, banks are saying that the new, higher limits are cramping their style and limiting their ability to lend... here we go again! :x
#5
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Neoreactionaries
January 10, 2014, 04:48:45 PM
I ran across the following tidbit on slashdot a while back, saved a copy because it makes me giggle....

If I weren't sooo lazy, I'd work a bit harder and BOOM! I'd be RICH! Why, if I weren't so lazy, I could get another job on top of my other two, and work some more! After all, I'm only working 80 hours a week and who needs sleep and recreation!

And we all know that the billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Buffet and all them got where they are by working hard and being honest and forthright people! Anyone can do it!

We all know that all it takes here in the states is to work hard and wealth is guaranteed! Well, if it weren't for the government regulations.

I had a chemical disposal business and the fucking EEE, PEEE, AYE stopped me from disposing in the local trout stream! How the hell is one going to make a living with these communist basterds?! And this bullshit nonsense about children getting cancer and whatnot - why there's St. Judes to help them! Business and profits first and health and well being is just a socialist value! Anyway, cancer was created by socialists to punish the hard working creators and rewards the takers!

And this bullshit of "you didn't build that!" why, the private sector could do just fine building roads and highways and edukating us!

If you're poor, it's all because of your character! Yes sir! If you worked hard have decent values, you wouldn't be poor!

Poor people have poor character and they are stupid! It's all their fault! If they would just pull themselves up by their bootstraps like I did, all would be well!

I tell you, the values in this society have deteriorated. Way back when, those people would be left to starve - as they should - and it allowed for us makers to achieve and better society.

#6
Aneristic Illusions / Re: How do I get molested by greys?
December 30, 2013, 12:26:11 AM
Quote from: I_Kicked_Kennedy on November 03, 2013, 03:45:04 AM
So, I want to be abducted and sexually abused by aliens. I've been on pain medication for three days and I haven't poomped, so I figure a good probin' will unleash the pile.

I've been sniffing glue and meditating with Richard Marx blasting on my headphones while facing alpha centauri, with my dick on a skateboard,8,1

Nothing.  What|the|fupp?!

Is it because I don't have tin foil? All they sell is aluminum.  So, need help: How poomp? Where ET?

You sound like Congress.
#7
"The trend reflects growing concerns about the disproportionate spread of low-wage jobs in the U.S. economy, creating millions of financially strained workers and putting too little money in consumers' pockets to spur faster economic growth."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/12/29/states-raising-minimum-wage/4221773

Does anyone else remember Ross Perot and his "giant sucking sound" of middle-class jobs leaving the country? IMHO (regarding the USA) the Fascists are winning. Eventually this place will be a giant banana republic of little fiefedoms. With an enormous military cock. And of course the NSA. Remember people, its all legal!
#8
Aneristic Illusions / NSA phone tapping legal
December 27, 2013, 05:13:54 PM
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/27/new-york-nsa-phone-surveillance/4219055

"NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Friday found that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records is legal and a valuable part of the nation's arsenal to counter the threat of terrorism."
#9
Quote from: :regret: on December 06, 2013, 12:29:24 PM
Quote from: Wisa1 on December 06, 2013, 11:08:45 AM
Quote from: :regret: on December 04, 2013, 09:21:04 AM
Quote from: Wisa1 on December 04, 2013, 01:09:34 AM
I still don't understand why increase in scale = inflation I would actually be extremely grateful if you could explain this one for me(no sarcasm intended).
Let's just leave it at people are complicated stupid assholes. This leads to changes in perceived value. This leads to people doing complicated stupid assholish things to money (think of stocks or investing capital but not time and hogging all the results of other people's labor, or some of the more complicated tricks banks pulled that are fucking is over now). The effects of this gets bigger with increased scale. people cheating to make themselves richer lead to inflation, people cheating to make themselves poorer lead to deflation. People are slightly more cunning than stupid so ergo inflation.

That makes sense. So I guess that means we should be looking for a system that's harder to tamper with, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this is the idea behind the gold standard?
Hmmm, not comparing gold to fiat but gold is no longer as stable a standard as it used to be. New techniques are continuously being implemented to mine more gold destabilizing the input of gold into the market and thus the goldprice. Add to that the huge size of the economy (as understood by those who buy and sell currencies for profit1) being used as leverage against the gold value, allowing changes not related to gold to greatly influence the price of gold. For example: If a company or corporation could boom and/or crash the economy and buy/sell gold in just the right sequence then they could make crazy amounts of money. Of course, the same technique can be used against fiat currencies.



1 perception is important here

Isn't this basically what the Rothschilds did? I'm not really up on this part of history...
#10
Quote from: Telarus on December 24, 2013, 08:05:22 PM
http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213

QuoteIf you've ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you've ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or "drug paraphernalia" in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a message for you: Bite me.

Breuer this week signed off on a settlement deal with the British banking giant HSBC that is the ultimate insult to every ordinary person who's ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge. Despite the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels (among others) and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to pursue criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a "record" financial settlement of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is about five weeks of income for the bank.

....
They're now saying that if you're not an important cog in the global financial system, you can't get away with anything, not even simple possession. You will be jailed and whatever cash they find on you they'll seize on the spot, and convert into new cruisers or toys for your local SWAT team, which will be deployed to kick in the doors of houses where more such inessential economic cogs as you live. If you don't have a systemically important job, in other words, the government's position is that your assets may be used to finance your own political disenfranchisement.

On the other hand, if you are an important person, and you work for a big international bank, you won't be prosecuted even if you launder nine billion dollars. Even if you actively collude with the people at the very top of the international narcotics trade, your punishment will be far smaller than that of the person at the very bottom of the world drug pyramid. You will be treated with more deference and sympathy than a junkie passing out on a subway car in Manhattan (using two seats of a subway car is a common prosecutable offense in this city). An international drug trafficker is a criminal and usually a murderer; the drug addict walking the street is one of his victims. But thanks to Breuer, we're now in the business, officially, of jailing the victims and enabling the criminals.


Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213#ixzz2oQOQbF6V
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook

More at link.

Saw that yesterday, ya beat me to it. Good on ya! You know the weird thing is, I don't do drugs at all, don't drink or anything. Never been to jail. And ya know, this stuff *still* pisses me off cuz its just *wrong* ya know? "too big to fail" I guess it also means "too big to jail"
#11
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Bwahahaha
December 24, 2013, 07:43:36 PM
I know a bunch of tools who picked up on the whole drug testing thing back then. They didn't seem to realize that here in the bluest of the blue New York, they already do drug testing before you even get a nickel of assistance. It blew people's minds when I informed them of this, surely the nice guy on the radio couldn't have been lying???? hahahahahhahaha
#12
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Cain, your input, please...
December 20, 2013, 11:57:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 13, 2012, 11:06:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 13, 2012, 10:58:28 PM
And I just bet people in those groups never stop screeching about the Weatherman Underground, right?

As my good buddy Cerberus says, with wingnuts, it's always projection.  Every single time.

Dunno.  They just ban me right after I post it.

Try this one sometime, I came up with it the other day:
"If charity worked we wouldn't need taxes"
See how fast they asplode after reading that.....
#13
Aneristic Illusions / 7,ooo people
March 29, 2013, 03:18:38 PM
http://www.genright.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=BMT2001

In Oklahoma, a sub-standard dental office may have infected up to 7,000 people with HIV or hepatitis.
And the minute the feds step in, some local rube will be screaming about regulations and the free market.
#14
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Financial fuckery thread
January 08, 2013, 08:18:07 PM
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/rescued-by-a-bailout-a-i-g-may-sue-its-savior

Seems that AIG may be suing the US Gov't for the harsh terms of the bailout...
#15
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories
January 03, 2013, 04:11:23 AM
Anybody up for some irony and/or hypocrisy? NY newspaper that published lists of gun owners hires armed guards...
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/0122219/newspaper-that-published-gun-owners-list-hires-armed-guards

(it links thru to Reuters but the slashdot debate is always entertaining...
.