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- Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:37 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Pizza Drones
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16016
Re: Pizza Drones
This is the kind of thing you see in futuristic science fiction movies but it looks like the future has come to New Zealand. Craig, have you tried this yet? No that's not near me yet, thankfully! I'm not sure if this will work in the U.S.A. Given the way we've been using drone technology in the mid...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:29 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11183
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
You've got to get the money out of the game as well as the career political hacks. If government is unable to take wealth from its citizens, it will have less money to operate on. It will be forced to shrink due to less funds. This shrinking means that it has less control of things. Lobbyists are t...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:18 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Overregulated Close to Home
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6547
Re: Overregulated Close to Home
What I witnessed during this three-week period of time was a testament to what people can, and will, do if the forces of government will just leave them alone. The trouble with the "forces of government" is that it's defining characteristic is not leaving people alone. Telling people what to do is ...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:03 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11183
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
We're not rolling back to minarchy, nevermind to anarchy, until there are term limits. So I stronlgy suggest focusing on that. We must kill being a politician as a valid career choice. All the talk in the world is not going to change anything until that problem is eradicated. And then there are the...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:08 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Overregulated Close to Home
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6547
Re: Overregulated Close to Home
Another one that makes me crazy are the notices that you get (at least one every couple of weeks) from your bank, your insurance company, your credit card company, your utility companies, etc., the purpose of which is to disclose something to you. The disclosure is always buried in three pages of l...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:24 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Overregulated Close to Home
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6547
Re: Overregulated Close to Home
Over on the Hate thread, Medium Tex wrote: This may sound heretical, but apart from Obamacare, we could have done a lot worse over the last eight years than we have done with Obama (though I think the Republicans deserve credit as well for keeping Obama on a short leash). To which I responded: Wow,...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:08 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11183
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
Remember, though, LOTS of people don't like the pressure of independence and are comforted by having someone around to tell them what to do. A lot of people DO have that preference. But in the future, that may be a yes/no choice for individuals to opt in and out of instead of a forced default chose...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:53 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Long bonds, at these rates?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14388
Re: Long bonds, at these rates?
Long bond rates matter not. What matters is volatility, hmm?
Rebalance when rates rise
Harvest the gains when they fall
Been doing it since 2008
And I'm having a ball
Rebalance when rates rise
Harvest the gains when they fall
Been doing it since 2008
And I'm having a ball
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:45 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11183
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
I don't believe I've read the book, but anyway I am familiar with the proposition. I used to believe that the internet and peer to peer communications would free us. Now I'm not so sure it won't enslave us. We are beholden to electronic communications, and governments are for the most part able to ...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:40 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11183
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
When I was in college, I sat in on a talk given by Davidson in 1991. He's an interesting guy. Sort of a "things are about to get a lot worse" kind of person, but people eat that stuff up. He has apparently had the same writing partner for years and I hadn't thought about him for a long time because ...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:34 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Strongtowns.org Antifragile series
- Replies: 77
- Views: 33143
Re: Strongtowns.org Antifragile series
I doubt if anyone cares, but this is the street I grew up on and that is the elementary school I went to at the end of the street in the distance. Driveway in the foreground on the right led to my crib. http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&pano=ayFlG4toC4NE4ZmQBfEgrQ&heading=2...
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:32 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: IBT financial journalist has clearly never heard of the HBPP...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3187
Re: IBT financial journalist has clearly never heard of the HBPP...
With regard to the Russian revolution...literally, the only part of it that survived was gold stored outside the country. Everything else, zero or confiscated. And you had to be smart enough to know when to leave, rich enough to have enough gold outside the country to survive on and connected enoug...
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 2:36 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Olympics
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25439
Re: The Olympics
Why are Hillary and Obama allowed to continuously lie ad nauseum with no consequences while Lochte's life is basically ruined by simply exagerrating an obvious robbery at gunpoint that was actually perpetrated upon him? Powerful people display their power through things like telling gratuitous lies...
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:04 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Olympics
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25439
Re: The Olympics
Maybe it's not so cut-and-dried after all? Apparently the "vandalism" was much less severe than reported, and the actions of the off-duty policemen who were the security guards very well might have constituted robbery: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/rio-2016/2016/08/21/investigation-...
- Sun Aug 21, 2016 7:43 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: What would the PP look like without fiat currency and central banks?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12020
Re: What would the PP look like without fiat currency and central banks?
Sorry dude, my read of history indicates the guys with guns always win. If government doesn't matter why are there so many lobbyists? Any thinking person understands government defines the capitalist goal posts and field size. This has never not been true. So back to my initial comment: useless hyp...
- Fri Aug 19, 2016 5:01 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386636
Re: Figuring Out Religion
How could the Republicans have possibly overlooked this since 2008?MachineGhost wrote:Jesus Predicted The Anti-Christ 2,000 Years Ago – You Won’t Believe Who It Is…
http://www.webdaily.com/2016/08/12/jesu ... who-it-is/
- Fri Aug 19, 2016 3:13 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Olympics
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25439
Re: The Olympics
I agree with dualstow's description. Yeah, me too. Thanks for posting that. What jerks all the way around. Ugly American swimmers. Those guys look like a bunch of obnoxious sneering entitled frat guys. Phelps has the right idea with his Andy-Griffith-as-a-pot-smoking-young-man persona. People love ...
- Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:26 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Scott Burns' Co on the PP
- Replies: 56
- Views: 30521
Re: Scott Burns' Co on the PP
When the PP book first came out (almost 4 years ago!), Scott Burns and I exchanged a few emails and he was very kind and supportive of our work.
Scott Burns is a great guy. I started reading his column in the '80s and he influenced my thinking about investing a lot.
Scott Burns is a great guy. I started reading his column in the '80s and he influenced my thinking about investing a lot.
- Thu Aug 18, 2016 3:25 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Olympics
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25439
Re: The Olympics
I assumed Kriegsspiel was referring to the Munich attack, as opposed to earlier examples of hand shaking refusals. Ha, could be, but that was a looong time ago. Which was it, K? Refusal to fight (not just shake hands) or Munich? Refusing to shake an opponent's hand when it is customary because of t...
- Thu Aug 18, 2016 3:11 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Olympics
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25439
Re: The Olympics
After seeing what other Arabs have done to avoid even competing against Israelis, I'd call this progress. True. I remember at least one judoka declining to fight in past years. I think he was Jordanian, and they're one of the milder countries. My guess is that it was not just a personal decision, b...
- Thu Aug 18, 2016 1:34 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: When the cops are the criminals
- Replies: 293
- Views: 113470
Re: When the cops are the criminals
X 2dualstow wrote:Kriegsspiel wrote:I've gotta hand it to the Native Americans, they really do use every part of the cigarette.dualstow wrote:I knew this Native American guy who would always put his cigarettes out in a little metal tray and carry them home on foot for disposal.
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- Thu Jun 30, 2016 6:20 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386636
Re: Figuring Out Religion
thank you... i know the ideas i post will not likely change the minds of those who are faith centered Believers anymore than the atheists argument will... the entire religion vs atheist argument seems stuck in the shallow end of religious discussions, the atheists win the back and forth between the...
- Wed Jun 22, 2016 5:19 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: I'm a Tube Amp Convert
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8479
Re: I'm a Tube Amp Convert
Sadly, I just use 12 gauge zip wire I bought at the hardware store to hookup my speakers. I'm wondering if it's causing electron misalignment and I should upgrade? It wouldn't surprise me at all if you were suffering from electron misalignment. Only expensive cables can properly align the electrons...
- Wed Jun 22, 2016 5:10 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: NEW FORUM HOST
- Replies: 67
- Views: 30680
Re: NEW FORUM HOST
I changed the posting interval from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.MangoMan wrote:wtf?
It's just to keep the bots from flooding the forum with posts when they breach the perimeter.
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 6:54 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: YouTube Junkie
- Replies: 1230
- Views: 590167