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2015-08-30 at 2:04 PM UTC in Time difference sucks.Have you seen Voices of a Distant Star? Your post reminded me of it. http://myanimelist.net/anime/256/Hoshi_no_Koe
I was pretty much saying to sophie that his ideas about promoting domestic employment, and then tariffs, would fix pretty much everything wrong with employment in america right now.. then I signaled that I wanted to end the discussion, because this thread is boring.
No it wouldn't, this is such incredibly simplistic thinking. There's a good reason why free trade is one of the few issues with almost unanimous support among professional economists, and it's not because they're "biased" right-wing shills for corporations (most are actually center-left even in the US), but because the arguments against it are moronic and don't stand up to scrutiny.Tarrifs are necessary to ensure the market's viability. If nations had no tarrifs richer more developed nation's markets would be destroyed by cheap foreign labor. Simply put if an item can be made for $1.00 in your market by your labor force but can be made for $.10 in a foreign market economic security for the people whom the government is responsible for dictates that a fair tariff be imposed upon the goods imported from the nation with the cheaper labor source. A fair tariff in this scenario would be one that that raised the retail price by $.90 cents. That way both the domestically produced goods and the foreign produced goods will be sold at prices which are competitive with one another. Without fair tarrifs corporations would rape both nations by under paying workers in developing markets and decimating the manufacturing sectors of developed markets all for their own profit.
This is such a stupid argument. That isn't how comparative advantage functions, and the vast majority of people have an extremely basic grasp of it at best, so they're oblivious to the responses to their criticisms, which they almost never even try, or even think to try, to find.
Let's use states as an example, imagine they're different countries and ignore how accurate to reality these scenarios are. Let's say New Mexico is extremely arid, water is scarce and expensive to transport in the quantities needed, they're regularly ravaged by natural events that destroy crops en masse. Due to this the natural cost of growing crops in general is 4x higher than it is in California, where conditions are the opposite. Now, would the people in New Mexico be better off if they had tarrifs on the much cheaper imports from California so that there would be a level playing field, where they would have to pay 4x as much for their food as they could be paying, which effects the poor disproportionately? As for jobs, are those farming jobs permanently lost? Look at the history of the percentage of the population employed in agriculture, what happened to all those people who used to work as farmers? Economies restructure rapidly without destructive forms of government interference. It's a myth that these types of jobs are higher paying, on average, than the ones that replace them, and even if they weren't you can't assume that the net welfare gains will outweigh the costs. Agriculture, for example, requires far fewer people nowadays, and those jobs are lousy anyway. How would x percent more people employed in that sector as opposed to another outweigh the massive losses?
You can find examples like this all over the place in the real world. Japan has very mountainous geography, most of it unsuitable for habitation or other use, some places are very poor in natural resources, some have a much lower cost of living, so when you factor in price purchasing parity the amount workers are earning is far higher than it seems.
Then there's the issue of limiting consumer choice. Japan isn't a third world poorly paid country, their auto sector out competed the US legitimately for good reasons. Look at the cars the big 3 manufacturers were selling. IIRC the Ford F-150 by far accounted for most of their sales. General Motors largely sold large SUVs with low fuel efficiency. On the other hand, Japanese cars were reliable and relatively fuel efficient. Would limiting people to those types of cars, or steering them in that direction by making Japanese vehicles much more expensive, have been a sensible policy? What about the environmental impact, is that in line with general leftist ideology?
This is the problem with you arm chair central planners, you vastly underestimate the complexity of the world and the scope of human knowledge, overestimate your own understanding (the pretense of knowledge), and feel qualified and confident enough to enact policies that for all you know you could be inadvertently disastrous. -
2015-08-30 at 2:25 AM UTC in Is Runescape the most complex MMORPG?
I actually played a fuckton of runescape as a kid and I can say with confidence, there is nothing intellectual about it. It's 100% WoW level grindfest, literally the only reason for 3D in the game is to make botting more difficult. Combat is exclusively dice rolls, every skill takes crazy ass levels of grind to make even a base level of effective. The one thing I will say for it is that the was levels work min-maxing is actually useful but it takes about 5 minutes to figure out the appropriate min-max build for what you want to do.
Fuck, so many hours wasted on my stupid fucking pure fisher and now I still want to play again. Fuck runescape man, fuck it hard.
Your brain craves the dopamine. Imagine what you could do stimmed up. Give in and play marathon sessions. -
2015-08-29 at 2:21 PM UTC in Nightcrawler
He honestly sort of reminded me of….me. I was impressed by his performance and I'm not saying that I could have done it myself, but it was a rather deadpan, unemotional for the most part, acting role, and it's one that I could probably do myself better than an over-exaggerated role.
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VWatching night crawler. Christ, this guy is a total aspie and psychopath combo, and a search suggests that the filmmakers had this in mind. What a painful character to listen to, at least I keep myself away from people and don't say anything, but I don't think I'm naturally nearly that bad.
No wonder you don't have any friends IRL, and not by choice, like me. -
2015-08-29 at 2:11 PM UTC in Anyone been playing Terraria since the 1.3 update?4 image max?
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2015-08-29 at 2:11 PM UTC in Anyone been playing Terraria since the 1.3 update?My creations:
Mysterious temple. Rainbow blocks and walls encased in crystal blocks, with a crystal block wall segment in the center, rainbow torches and campfire, and automatic doors with actuators and pressure plates, in an above ground mushroom biome. Very nice trippy effect.
After getting whooped by expert mode Duke Fishron I was worried Golem would be harder than expected, but it was easy as piss with the vampire knives from the biome chests in the dungeon. Never came near death. Felt great to be able to farm him and make bank. The Lunar Cultist was also surprisingly very easy this time.
Farmed Martian Madness and got every item I wanted. The martian saucers spawning seems to be a bit finicky, but if you keep killing them without dying they usually start sending one right after the other, which is great because they have the only worthwhile drops. Hiding under a ceiling, I use the bathroom below the Hom(e/o) sign, is the key, from there my stardust dragon minion and a yoyo I send out from a door I added on the left side make it easy.The Cosmic Car Key is definitely the best mount item. Anti-gravity hook is also useful. It's currently the only event that can't be manually summoned, but this works great, very easy to get a probe. The lihzard bricks increase the spawn rate to that of the jungle, and the water candles increase it even further. Added teleporters so you can quickly trigger new spawns by moving out of range.
Then I took on the moon lord and there's no way you're likely to win in a standard melee fight. My arena didn't cut it. I made this perfected moon lord killer based off a template I saw, but already had the idea from using an abandoned minecart track in the jungle against Plantera and seeing how great it worked.
I had teleporters at the ends, but never used them, so I altered it; also had reverse direction booster tracks to slow down before teleporting, which I removed as well. Also never use the levers to open up the ceiling, the solar eruption passes through blocks and works great. Added that feature to be able to try out other weapons against him, with the ends covered for protection, and the center as a shelter to duck into if needed. If I ever used it, I would do something similar for the bottom so I could target his heart once it opens.
Works fantastic for farming him. Now I've pretty much beaten the game, which is always a melancholy moment, but I still want to get all his drops and dick around with building some things for pleasure. -
2015-08-29 at 1:43 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Malice is a psychopath.
mmQ, what would you do if you woke up and realized that I had raped you while you were passed out, either due to your own consumption or because I had drugged you? -
2015-08-28 at 11:19 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionAncient Economics: Asian traders had a “staggeringly advanced†business culture as early as 1890 BC. The traders had cheques, bonds, joint-stock companies — even a secondary market in debt. (nytimes.com)
Asia almost 4,000 years ago, Africa today.It was piss easy, I literally just added the free acid into a beaker containing a baking soda solution. I didn't measure anything, used about a cup of water, and just dumped in some baking soda (I ended up using way too much). Add the free acid in slowly because it foams up like crazy. Here's a guide if you don't wanna half ass it like I did. http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/...1#post13183326
This will be great for Hydro. -
2015-08-28 at 5:06 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionVery funny, Lanny.
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2015-08-27 at 3:03 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
can someone give me a source for flubromazolam that ships to the US? I've always been interested in RCs like this but my source shut down and its a huge pain in the ass to find a US RC company
https://www.reddit.com/r/RCSources/19.
I have a digital scale
Volumetric dosing using propylene glycol. Dose with an insulin syringe with the needle pulled out. Milliliter syringes are useful for measuring the PG when making the solution. -
2015-08-27 at 1:55 AM UTC in Is it wrong of me to keep watching the live TV reporters shooting video?
No I was not familiar, and it led me to this video which I had someone never seen. Although I watched the entire thing, Jesus fucking Christ man. That me be one of the most fucked up videos I've ever watched.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=11c_1440569605
Pfft, well, that's evolution for you, children tug at normal people's heartstrings for a reason. I thought it was pretty tame and dull, I'm not even sure he was trying to kill her, he may just been one of those super asshole careless dads. -
2015-08-27 at 12:26 AM UTC in Nightcrawler
I'd give it like a 6.5/10 or so, based on my standards for needing suspense and thrills.
Well, if you weren't so emotionally dead maybe you would have appreciated it more.
Edit: Oh, and you likely have poor/lowbrow taste in general anyway judging from what I've seen. -
2015-08-27 at 12:04 AM UTC in Is it wrong of me to keep watching the live TV reporters shooting video?MQ, are you familiar with this? https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeopledie/
Might be up your ally if you're in the mood for the macabre.
One of my choice picks when looking through the top monthly posts: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=35f_1439912663
You can also see the raw footage of the videos he uploaded here: http://twittershooter.herobo.com/
Wow, actually uploading first person footage of your shooting... The shooter committed suicide after a police chase, btw. I wish he had shot some cops.
Screenshot of his twitter: http://i.imgur.com/xpcemRM.jpg
Oh shit, he was Black! Well, at least this will be bad for the leftists anti-gun narrative, the lone shooter wasn't a White male. It will be funny to see how much they avoid showing pictures of him where his race is clear and mentioning his race in general. -
2015-08-26 at 11:30 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Fly an ISIS flag on a drone through the stadium and disperse four or some other fine white powder either from the drone or somewhere in the audience, everyone will think its anthrax or some shit. It could be as simple as filling a jack in a box with flour or something, doesn't have to be explosive, just a nice visual of a cloud of white dust.
Fuck, Lanny! Do you know how many keywords you just set off!? http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-p...-spying-2013-6
Feds, forgive him, as the title of this thread suggests, we are all retards up in here. Really, there's a very real chance that there are bots crawling/monitoring this or actual human employees (that will eventually be) reading this.
While that would be pretty epic, I'm not planning to actually go through with anything and just want to fantasize about amusing scenarios. I was thinking of something more along the lines of being really unique, clever, and amusing, not something that would trigger a massive manhunt for you and land you in serious serious legal trouble for the rest of your life. -
2015-08-26 at 11:17 PM UTC in nootropics and a developing brainIt's not the same thing as honey, Hydro addressed this either earlier in the thread or in a PM, there's no risk of botulism. Of course we considered this.
Zanick, the best properly conducted (good god the social "soft" sciences tend to be bad) research consistently shows that if parents are at least adequate (non-seriously abusive) by the time their children are adults, this being the key qualifier, they have almost no impact on their outcomes, none. And the "environmental" aspect commonly quoted isn't what the vast majority of people think it is, it's wildly misunderstood. From Steve Pinker: https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/its-not-nature-and-nurture/
Intervention of this nature is the only hope they have, particularly with §m£ÂgØL's fucked up genes. -
2015-08-26 at 11:11 PM UTC in Is it wrong of me to keep watching the live TV reporters shooting video?Are you masturbating? Then you're still not there yet.
Watch at .25 speed. Very surreal scene, the his mask face looks, pointing the gun, you can see the muzzle flash and a casing drop to the floor:
https://youtu.be/pAH6SACn9lE?t=11s
Comments are painful. This is how the emotion driven idiot masses think, the more emotional impact something has, the stronger an argument it makes. -
2015-08-26 at 12:15 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionThe greatest prank of all time.
Give me some ideas/requests. I have a feeling there's a good chance it will incorporate drones. -
2015-08-26 at 11:39 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionNever saw this American Weigh scale before. Looks like it came out last year. Great deal for a milligram scale, definitely an upgrade to the Gemini-20, even has a bubble level and touchscreen buttons:
http://www.amazon.com/AWS-ZEO-50-Lab.../dp/B00L3LUCJ4
The GPR-20's price seems to have been jacked up, although I don't know if it's permanent, so I would probably try this out instead if I was needed a new scale. -
2015-08-26 at 11:13 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionHmm, the Super Bowl's going to be hosted in San Francisco early next year.
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Project mayhem?
Imagine going down in history under a pseudonym as the mastermind/evil genius/super villain who ruined the Super Bowl. -
2015-08-26 at 10:47 AM UTC in Hillary
I'll likely be voting for Sanders in the Illinois primary, and when he expectedly fails my vote will default to Hillary. While this wasn't my plan originally, what really sold me was her outlandish promise to make in-state tuition more affordable. I have a long way to go with my education, and Gov. Rauner hasn't produced a budget yet but it's pretty clear he isn't going to work in favor of the public universities in my state. Hopefully Hillary will remedy that somehow, even if it is just a tall campaign promise.
Politicians' Student Loan Fixes Are Flawed - For every additional $100 in government loans to students, colleges raised tuition $65, the Fed found
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/co...re_flawed_for/
Looking forward to Bryan Caplan's book "The Case Against Education". I'm already familiar with the arguments and dynamics involved, but it will be nice to have it all in a structured format from someone who has very similar viewpoints, and it will likely have a lot of good quotable data.
He's given a good talk and interview on it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+case+against+education&page=&utm_source=opensearch -
2015-08-26 at 6:50 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
You say that like there is something wrong with bisexuality. I actually did trade 2.5g of T-PAIN for
Damn, I got excited up to that point.
