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by MediumTex
Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:37 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Pizza Drones
Replies: 20
Views: 16005

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...
by MediumTex
Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:29 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
Replies: 19
Views: 11182

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...
by MediumTex
Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:18 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Overregulated Close to Home
Replies: 11
Views: 6545

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 ...
by MediumTex
Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:03 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
Replies: 19
Views: 11182

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...
by MediumTex
Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:08 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Overregulated Close to Home
Replies: 11
Views: 6545

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...
by MediumTex
Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:24 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Overregulated Close to Home
Replies: 11
Views: 6545

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,...
by MediumTex
Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:08 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
Replies: 19
Views: 11182

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...
by MediumTex
Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:53 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Long bonds, at these rates?
Replies: 25
Views: 14384

Re: Long bonds, at these rates?

Long bond rates matter not. What matters is volatility, hmm?

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Rebalance when rates rise
Harvest the gains when they fall
Been doing it since 2008
And I'm having a ball
by MediumTex
Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:45 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
Replies: 19
Views: 11182

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 ...
by MediumTex
Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:40 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
Replies: 19
Views: 11182

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 ...
by MediumTex
Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:34 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Strongtowns.org Antifragile series
Replies: 77
Views: 33142

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...
by MediumTex
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: 3186

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...
by MediumTex
Tue Aug 23, 2016 2:36 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: The Olympics
Replies: 57
Views: 25434

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...
by MediumTex
Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:04 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: The Olympics
Replies: 57
Views: 25434

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-...
by MediumTex
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...
by MediumTex
Fri Aug 19, 2016 5:01 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1386121

Re: Figuring Out Religion

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/
How could the Republicans have possibly overlooked this since 2008?
by MediumTex
Fri Aug 19, 2016 3:13 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: The Olympics
Replies: 57
Views: 25434

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 ...
by MediumTex
Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:26 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Scott Burns' Co on the PP
Replies: 56
Views: 30510

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.
by MediumTex
Thu Aug 18, 2016 3:25 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: The Olympics
Replies: 57
Views: 25434

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...
by MediumTex
Thu Aug 18, 2016 3:11 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: The Olympics
Replies: 57
Views: 25434

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...
by MediumTex
Thu Aug 18, 2016 1:34 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: When the cops are the criminals
Replies: 293
Views: 113443

Re: When the cops are the criminals

dualstow wrote:
Kriegsspiel wrote:
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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I've gotta hand it to the Native Americans, they really do use every part of the cigarette.
;D
;D X 2
by MediumTex
Thu Jun 30, 2016 6:20 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1386121

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...
by MediumTex
Wed Jun 22, 2016 5:19 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: I'm a Tube Amp Convert
Replies: 17
Views: 8476

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...
by MediumTex
Wed Jun 22, 2016 5:10 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: NEW FORUM HOST
Replies: 67
Views: 30672

Re: NEW FORUM HOST

MangoMan wrote:wtf?
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I changed the posting interval from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.

It's just to keep the bots from flooding the forum with posts when they breach the perimeter.
by MediumTex
Thu Jun 02, 2016 6:54 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: YouTube Junkie
Replies: 1230
Views: 589701

Re: YouTube Junkie

My 15 yo daughter edited this video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A4SFp4XmZ ... e=youtu.be