Seriously, why not just run through tor - and then nobody needs to know how you're hosted. |
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What happened to BFL_Josh? Is he alive?  That's for offical BFL stuff... he still posts here on his personal account (Inaba). But he's quite active on BFL offical forums. |
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I somehow doubt Dr. Paul's "bring everybody back" stance would have been as unpopular as Romney's "let's bomb 'em more."
See this is why certain types of candidates aren't able to get any respect. It isn't about issues, it's about marketing. I'm willing to say with certainty that Ron Paul has an overseas marketing budget of zero dollars. Maybe if the poll had mentioned his desire to end foreign aid/wars immediately on the poll... |
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Too bad nobody has balanced the budget before.... oh wait... Bill Clinton did with slightly higher taxes for the rich and a reasonable bi-partisan budget.
Reagan tried your method of cutting taxes and hoping it would bring in more money. Simple math says it does not work. He tried. Math was right.
Now that federal spending is so high it needs to be cut across the board as well as the tax increases. Only the combination can get there.
Reagan sparked an economic boom that lasted until after clinton left office... clinton allowed the bank deregulation that effectively caused the recession we're in right now... and balanced budgets during his time were a republican coup (see Contract with America). Economists actually blame bush jr. for his economic policy and leadership holding the economy together for 3 years after 9/11. But I digress. ~ As for your last line there --- we don't need to increase taxes to balance the budget, we need to reduce the size/cost of government by ~47% then freeze spending at that level. That done, as long as taxes are enough to cover the interest on the national debt + some reasonable extra to pay down that debt, we'd at least be on the road out of this mess. I find it interesting that as bitcoiners we pretty much agree that bitcoin has the potential to break the back of the existing banking system if given adoption and time... but we can't agree on easy to verify economic history like when certain policy went into effect and what the result of that policy was. |
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So another topic got me thinking about what went wrong this election, and after going over the numbers again, I've decided that the issues that lost this presidential race were voter apathy and 3rd party voters. What the GOP needs to do to ever win any election again... is to absorb the libertarian candidates and run them as republicans. Then put the existing campaign machine into action for them. I bet we'd see votes in the range of 70-80%. Ah well we can dream...  |
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I wonder how Ron Paul or Gary Johnson would rank on that chart...
Sad to say - probably about 1% just like they did here. |
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So you are saying that there is a place where all of the US liberals could go to obtain their utopias instead of transforming this country? (not that there is much left to transform, our Constitution is TP).
I vote we ship them to cuba.  |
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The USD gained on all major currencies today. Up 0.42% against EUR. Probably not due to Obama winning, since that is exactly as predicted by all betting companies during the entire race. (Never mind the polls. Polls are inaccurate.) If anything is impacting the USD, it is the current deadlock in Congress. Congress has become a Polish parliament. The political climate is freezing cold, and everybody seems occupied in an eternal pissing contest. The Fiscal Cliff is getting closer. If Congress can't clear out the fog of damping piss and find a solution very soon, the U.S. credit rating will drop. And that will have an impact. Fortunately the Democrats gained in both chambers of Congress, on the expense of a few hard lined Tea partiers, and this gives slightly better odds of a solution. Even Romney said he would close tax loopholes. If they at least can agree on those, and let the Bush tax cuts expire, they will have time to make necessary cuts in public spending without sending the economy straight into recession. So based purely on on this post, I see you've sampled the kool-aid. There's no way that anyone can honestly say that democrats will actually will make 'necessary cuts'... ... wake up man. Increased tax revenue will only lead them to even more deficit spending, just like it always has in the past. The only way to potentially save the economy would be to drastically cut taxes - and demand a balanced federal budget. |
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A part of me is glad Obama won. It means a faster road to collapse. Just study history and the rise and fall of empires. Pretty eye-opening stuff and we are speeding far and fast down that very road. People dont know their history. There is one law that never changes in this world. Debts shall be paid - one way or another.
If it's going to happen, better to rip the bandaid off fast rather than the long slow agonizing pull, and hope it comes to a head in my lifetime to save my kids and grandbabies.
Yeah, that's kind of where I am. Plus, if Romney had won, that would make it easier to blame the inevitable collapse on "deregulation" and "drastic cuts" to government spending (because as you know that's how Republicans govern). If we're going to have statism, I'd rather it not be cloaked in the rhetoric of liberty and free markets. As a consolation prize I have to agree --- I'd rather have the collapse happen under a liberal. |
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I never got an answer to my offer  |
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Republitroll warning! Thinks a presidential election affects the Federal Reserve Cabal.
Election results:
Massachusetts (where Romney was governor): Mitt Romney 37%
Utah (land of the Mormon): Mitt Romney 74%
Increased taxes and gloomy economic forecasts will slow the economy down even more. I believe that the recent (and very weak imo) leveling off of the economic dip in the US was because everyone was expecting Obama to be sent packing. |
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Now, as to land tax not affecting rent, It seems pretty self-evident that it would. I am willing to entertain the idea that I am wrong, however. I am not what you would call a "visual learner." I do much better understanding concepts when explained in text, rather than obscure graphs. I'd gladly research it myself, but a link to (at the very minimum) a Wiki page would be appreciated so that I have a starting point.
Land use prices (aka rents) are really much much more dependent on factors other than tax. Suppose you have some property that you decide to rent, how would you figure out how much you're going to charge in rents? I can tell you it isn't based on tax rate... it is entirely based on greed... That is: you would rent it for the maximum amount you could get for it. Period. You aren't going to be able to increase that rate past what the market will bear. And you'll always increase the rents to get as close as possible to whatever the market will support. This is why underdeveloped rural locations grow very slowly, there just isn't a profit in 'investment realestate' unless you have very good support for the rental prices in that area. |
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Let's be honest. It was going to do that anyway.
Right! But the faster the economic collapse, the more incentive people will have to use alternatives to cash... like bitcoins. |
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...we can expect the price of bitcoin to increase even more as the USD continues to fail. |
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Sure, the US has generated great things, but recently we have a history of smashing up other peoples countries. Just think how much better things could be if the US was more cooperative and less hostile!
I believe that growth only comes after trauma... If the USA was less hostile... everyone in the EU would probably be speaking German. Jews would be extinct. The middle east would still be busy making war with each other. Africa would probably be mostly depopulated. I don't think those places would be better off without US intervention but the people would probably be happier (if they weren't dead). IMO the USA has been standing in the gap for the rest of the world for 60+ years. It's well past time for some other nations to start playing "lets save the world" so we can take a break while we deal with internal issues. So what nation will take over world police action while American has a revolution? Anyone? *taptaptap - this thing even on?* |
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Scientology.
Great idea. Someone should get the church of scientology to accept bitcoins... think of all the tx fees =P |
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 Satoshi delivering the protocol ... notice much wailing and gnashing of bankster teeth in the background. I think we should come up with our own original artwork... I also think we should use anon's empty suit (with a catholic type halo behind the head?) to depict Satoshi. |
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So wait are you saying we are not psychotic and out of touch? Sorry could not pass that up.
Not interested in any religions but if we go this way please no mats for praying to our bitcoin gods four times a day and I am out if we call a holy war.
My first official act would be to issue a Fatwā against paypay. |
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I guess every single one of you can't read? I *may* be calling it quits in just a few weeks, a simple solution (if there is one) is what I want.
We read as well as you do. The solution to your problem is simple: Use a miner that can be started from the command line. If you don't want to mess with setting it up, try diablominer. If you'd rather have more control cgminer. There's your answer (for the nth time). |
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right - make the game client mine at your server/pool then set the exchange rates according to profitability...
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