At 9/29/08 09:29 PM, AznWarlord wrote:

The thing is, the banks do just skip away freely with the money. There are investigations going, some bank officials will have to pay heavy fines, maybe even go to jail. As for the American people, they will never be paid back, but I'd prefer to lose some of my money so that the rest of it actually has some value, than to have a shitload of cash that can't buy me a loaf of bread.

There are no investigations going. The media would much rather have people think that somehow the bail out will save hte nation when the truth is that it won't. It WILL make things worse. Congressional Martil Law prevented Congress from reading the bill that should be enough of a red flag. Look up "Ponzi scheme" it;s what our current money system is based upon. As long as it's going it's okay but our system is destined to crash at some time and sooner is better than later. It's much easier to recover from when one U.S. dollar is worth .6 Euros as opposed to 0 Euros. The best analogy I can think of is that our economy is a junky and the bail out is a fix. Yeah it might feel good for now but it's only going to make the crash worse. Google "money as debt" it's a 45 min vid which explains everything.

At 9/7/08 09:44 AM, TropicalPenquin wrote: Of course they will, a crime's a crime.

O rly? I dunno about you but as an example I am pretty sure that cops don't really try to get stolen cars back. If they get it back it's usally because they catch people for something else and notice that they have a stolen car. Cops have more important things to look out for I think anyways but am not sure.

At 9/7/08 09:24 AM, HaniiPuppy wrote:

At 9/7/08 09:22 AM, InternetPredator wrote: you will be arrested for conspiracy to commit murder. happened to a friend of mine

The card owner or the card stealer?

The stealer. Do the police even try to really catch people who steal credit cards?

Question. What's to stop one from collaborating with a very close friend and agreeing to let them "steal" you're credit card and charge quite a bit before reporting it stolen an hour later so that you are only liable for $50(federal law). As long as you find some high traffic area and don't stand out or stick your face directly into camera, will the police even do anything?

At 9/4/08 11:06 PM, OMFGZOMBIES wrote: Science is good, but i need to know what this science will accomplish before I would like to take the chance of everyone dying if it will cure every disease or stop global warming or some such thing sure why not, but if all it's supposed to do is look at some more stars in the sky then no, I Like living. though I'm not sure I'm good with it at any point.

Lol. Another genius who thinks global warming is real. No offense but if you did enough research you'd know how absurd the idea of global warming is. I'd tell you to read books more often but that's too hard for most. God forbid you go to a library.

At 9/2/08 12:58 AM, cellardoor6 wrote:

But there are a lot of people out there that earn a living entirely from the stock market. For instance I know a few people that make all their money from day-trading. That's some risky shit, but if they know what they're doing they can make serious bank, they can very, very easily make more money in a year than the average doctor.

-whoa! I think that might be what I want cellardoor6! Can I get your honest opinion on how likely that is and what you think would be necessary in order to minimize risk? Is it enough to take courses at my local community college and read books and do research on investing? Is a good broker more important than one's own research? Or perhaps it requires some, dare I say it... CHEATING?!

-By the way, thanks for even taking the time you guys.

Actually, I'm not really interested at making multimillions. I'm actually more interested in just not having to be at the mercy of my boss by making enough residual income without him. Financial independence is what I really want I guess. I want the free time to work on my bboying(breakdancing).

I'm not talking about any get rich quick schemes though, I'm talking about hard work researching how money really works. Do you realize that most people don't even know how money is made? Most people think it comes from the mint which is a direct result of a broken educational system which refuses to teach about money.

By the way, Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, and Jim Cramer are rich but feel the need to educate. Making a few bucks in the process is just good business. The real "secret" to being rich is to go to your library, learn about all aspects of money preferably with a mentor online, and pay attention to world events.

I kind of get what you're saying poxpower but I really get that feeling that it is very much possible to get rich but that most people are too lazy to seek out help from people who have already done it before. There are so many resources that most people don't know about like "angels" for existance. "Angels" are ex-entrepreneurs who have over a million dollar net worth and/or make over $200,000 a year and are willing to invest huge amounts of money in upcoming entrepreneurs' businesses because of either greed to make more money, altruism to make themselves feel like they are helping the little guy, or boredom from being out of the game.

I could be wrong cuz i'm no expert but the more I find out about money the more possibilites I see. If there's anything that can be guaranteed is human laziness and fear. Maybe it's just my youthful optimism but (okay I am going to sound greedy and underhanded for a second but let's be honest we would all be a little greedy and underhanded if it meant never having to work again) I feel as though I can capitalize on the laziness and fear of my fellow man.

Believe it or not I would love to be able to teach others to be rich if I knew how, but the truth is that I have had experience trying to teach people hard things(like breakdancing for instance). What I routinely find is that most people do not want it badly enough. There's no passion! They give up after about 15 minutes. I realize that as a bboy I am biased but to me bboying(breaking) was the most awesome thing ever and seemed impossible even though there were a few people out there doing it. I had no faith in myself but I wanted it badly enough to search for a teacher.

You know why I think most people aren't rich? they're not willing to do anything more than a quick google search is why. Sometimes not even that much. If anyone figures out how to be rich it'll be me. Thanks for even reading my post.

There is no section closer to money than politics so I decided this would be a good place to post. I just saw a news report about how Hurricane Gustav is messing with offshore refineries and how it's creating another excuse for a rise in gas prices. I was hoping somebody here who actually knows about investing could help me find out how to invest in oil companies. Is it as easy as going to a website? Do I actually have to walk down to Wall Street? Do I need a stockbroker?

Before I even heard of this I was reading books by real estate and investing tycoons such as Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump and the thing as that none of these books tell you how to be rich. I didn't expect rich people to give away their secrets which is why I loaned them from the library instead of paying for them. I know that most of those people are really salesmen and marketers who want to make more money off of you rather than help you gain riches. However, what I noticed about Kiyosaki and Trump is that they are slightly different in that they value education, but not the kind of education the American school system provides. They value financial and political education because of the simple concept that if you know more about money and politics you're much less likely to get ripped off and much more likely to become rich. It makes sense to me and so my quest to learn about money began.

Recently, I've been hearing that people like Jim Cramer of Mad Money fame and Ron Paul are also trying to teach people about money but that most people find this subject boring. I don't. I find it fascinating and I was hoping that I could find other people who also want to learn to be rich and find/join a group of people who already know about money and are willing to teach others how to not be intimidated by things like purchasing real estate, building businesses, and the stock market.
I want to be rich dammit and I am willing to do anything to retire as early as possible, someone, anyone please answer if you can help me even just get one step closer to my goal. I already took out a couple books on accounting and "Small Business for Dummies". I plan to also take out "Investing for Dummies" but I believe the fastest way to avoid the pitfalls of investing would be to find a mentor.

Any opinions of the people mentioned above would be appreciated as well. I realize that Jim Cramer is hoping to make money off of uneducated people too so he's not the best person to ask unless you find a way to befriend him in person but I am especially curious at to why people think Ron Paul is so great and why you think he lost his chance at presidency so easily? Please be as specific as possible. Thank you. :)

How can one spot a health food scam? Is there a site i don't know about that can help me stay alive longer without trying to just get my money? Are there really any herbs that can help cure you or at least increase longevity without pills? I'm so tired of looking for a way to tell if they really work or not without wasting money. I bboy(breakdance) and i want to keep breakin into my 40s, is there anything that can help preserve my joints?

I just recently got the fruity loops 6 demo but there are no tutorials from what i can see. I've been messing around and I noticed a problem that does not seem fixable through practice. If I were to rely on the "violin" or "trumpet" provided the music just doesn't sound "real" if you know what I mean. Almost all of the instrument sounds sound synthesized! Is there no way around this!? Must I really spend hundreds to get the XL version just for a decent sounding violin? Where are the tutorials?

-a little off topic, but does anyone know the artist/title of this song?

how is limewire any help when trying to find a song like this one? I can't record audio from my computer's speakers either so that's out the window. Help please. song name/artist? if you can record from your comp's speakers then perhaps you can upload to rapidshare/megaupload or something?stickmen rockout

lol, it says right there on the site that the song is "crazeh guitar" by "dunno" next time read before you make a post.

however, if anybody knows how to download please send me a private message or something.Stickmen rockout

I found this awesomeness the only problem is that i dunno the name/artist or how to download it please help. I know at least one of you must know how to record anything that comes out of your computer speakers with a stereomix option or something. I have Total video converter so the format doesn't matter. Even if you don't know how but think the song is awesome go ask someone who might know and then have them upload it via rapidshare/megaupload or any other better way. http://www.pown.it/1299

At 7/8/08 11:00 AM, Ragnarokia wrote: I hate how the average hetrosexual male is a complete asshole.

Fags are much bigger assholes if you know what i mean *wink*

see what i did there?... cuz u know gay guys must be really torn open back there from all their ass ramming escapades(so insanitary) so what i did was i took the idea of a gay dude's huge asshole and...

At 7/8/08 07:58 AM, darknessdweller wrote: I hate that me & all the other boys have to work harder in gym class than the girls, and
oh oh I got one!: girls get to carry around purses and other things to hold all their junk,
but I've never seen men do that, so it might not be manly.

what could you possibly need a purse for? use your pockets or are you one of those weirdo guys who wears makeup? then it's understandable.

At 7/8/08 07:51 AM, peanutftw wrote: i hate my periods. how guys only see me for my tits. and when it happens and for the women out there GIVING BIRTH. its hurts like a m*****fker. damn according to my mum

guys don't just see you for your tits. you just buy in to what you've been told about males so you get all paranoid and think that way. either that or you have loser friends.

At 7/8/08 07:43 AM, sumidiotdude wrote: That I have to do all the 'manly' chores in my family.

way to be stereotypically gay

Although something i do like is that I can flirt with homophobes, just for the reactions xD

You flirt with homophobes? How sad. . .

At 7/8/08 11:53 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:

At 7/8/08 11:25 AM, anottakenusername wrote: I hear ZONE-SAMA is actually a female and yet somehow she creates better flash than most anybody on Newgrounds.

Way to be sexist

Yes. . . i'm totally sexist. I'm sure everybody on newgrounds expected a female to make the best quality flash/hentai on a site when over a million male users could have done it instead. No surprise in that all. Go spout your feminism where nobody can hear you, like at ebaum's world or something. At least you won't be bothering anyone.

I hear ZONE-SAMA is actually a female and yet somehow she creates better flash (albeit pornography) than most anybody on Newgrounds. How does she do it?! I tried private messaging her myself but she didn't respond. I kinda didn't expect her to, but I am still curious. Does she spend like a million more hours than the average flash artist on her work or does she have some sort of process that streamlines her efforts and makes it easier for her to make amazing quality flash?! I must know!! I was thinking about getting into flash but i only want to do it if i can make flash on par with hers. Normally I wouls assume it's just her hard work or natural talent but it just seems kinda crazy that the only other flash artist i happen to know of who can do as good a job as her is Stamper. So what is it. . . are most flash artist just lazy? I wouldn't blame them if they were. After all, it's not like anyone is being paid. . .

yeah you can, but you'd be such a loser if you're willing to go through surgery... or turn gay. Neither is a good idea but like i said if you're a loser then. . . watch out for AIDS!

I think the majority response shows that most everybody's parents aren't fooled by the media into thinking that violent videogames breeds violent people. As for me, the only time my father was creeped out by watching me commit video game violence was when i was in like 11 and i was trapping sims characters into a house and then burning them alive. MUAHAHA!!!!! good times!

As far as i know when a video game company decides to have a mascot they better damn well make sure that all games released in connection with that mascot kick major ass. Does Sony even have one? Any suggestions for Sony's mascot? Did the long load times of the ps2 versions of Crash Bandicoot take him out of the running completely? Has Master Chief even been around long enough to be considered Microsoft's permanent mascot? Mario seems to be the obvious choice for Nintendo, but does anybody feel Nintendo's first party icons might be overused? For example at the moment i know of no other good Wii games besides Twilight Princess, Mario Galaxy, and Smash Brothers Brawl.

At 4/28/08 02:48 PM, Zen444 wrote:

At 4/27/08 11:15 PM, TehreTard wrote: y. But this lad said since he couldn't drill a hole through 2 walls, he had to buy the $100 or so network adapter (which comes standard in PS3), and $50 for LIVE. GAH!

Wireless online is for retards like Wiifans.

omg besides agreeing with you i just wanted to thank you for the teen titans link!!!! i wish i knew how to download flash myself. Also, on the subject of wii's online i heard you need some pain in the ass thing called "friend codes". i wouldn't know because i'll probably never get a wii. At least . . .not the legal way.

way to be a troll. such a misleading title.