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At 12/6/09 04:07 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Once you've had to boil down a 30-page paper into a 1-page synopsis that covers EVERY major point, you no longer care about page guidelines.

=O
How did you do it?

At 12/6/09 02:49 PM, fli wrote:

At 12/6/09 12:36 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: "The essays have to be between 3 and 5 pages long"
- Professor

IMPOSSIBLE

If it can't be concise, then it can't be good at all...
at least, that's what I believe.

*looks on every Norton Anthology/textbook bought throughout my life.*

I can be concise, but I don't wanna. Heck, the whole paper is summarized in the first paragraph. I have all this quotes that make the paper look professional. I also wrote linking this topics with other topics in the course, with bibliography that was more than secondary, proving that I read it and understood it.
So yeah, it is now "This is like that just because" and then at the end of the paper: go read this and that.

"The essays have to be between 3 and 5 pages long"
- Professor

IMPOSSIBLE

At 12/5/09 10:35 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote:

At 12/5/09 10:05 PM, Der-Lowe wrote:
Well, I ordered quesadillas with bacon and eggs, and had linden tea. I also had mate earlier this afternoon. But mostly I tried not to think about it, and do it naturally.

Now I want quesadillas. Now that I think of it though, food does sound good and I haven't eaten in awhile.

I went to the grocery store today and pretty much bought nothing but noodles. My cart was full of ramen and mac and cheese...with yogurt and a head of lettuce in there. I must not be in the mood to cook this week. Well, that and ramen is cheap. I have also wanted to eat mac and cheese for a while now.

My mom bought home made spaghetti (not the dry one) and it's ausom. Even with just ham and cheese I can't stop eating it. Plus, we have Quesabores, different kinds of cheese in threads.
And today my grandma made gnocci herself. Hmm

At 12/5/09 11:01 PM, Malachy wrote:

At 12/5/09 09:44 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: MAKE SNOW? D:
Mountain gods?

snow guns, dude. You get high pressure air with some water, mix em together at below freezing temps and you get tiny ice crystals.

WOW. That is soooooo Red Alert 3. It could be like the allied version of the tesla coil. Actually, I believe there's already something of the sort, a ray that freezes enemy units.

At 12/5/09 10:01 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: I haven't had this issue since junior year of college. I absolutely do not want to do this assignment. I do not like it. Of course I'm going to do it because I don't want to flunk, but it is only slightly more entertaining than getting disemboweled by a shark. Thankfully this is the only required business-type class, because the trimester just started and I already dislike the material.

OKAY. STOP BEING ME NOW.

How do you folks deal with not wanting to do an assignment?

Well, I ordered quesadillas with bacon and eggs, and had linden tea. I also had mate earlier this afternoon. But mostly I tried not to think about it, and do it naturally.

At 12/5/09 11:05 AM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: ZOMG snow!

ZOMG rain! And cold. Seriously 10ºC in summer? Crazy.
Well, unless we're not under water like the northern provinces.

At 12/5/09 04:56 PM, Malachy wrote: It was also my first day on the mountain since the spring. Good to be back. The mountain was supposed to open last weekend, but with warm weather and no natural snow, they couldn't even make snow,

MAKE SNOW? D:
Mountain gods?

At 12/5/09 09:11 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 12/5/09 01:01 AM, FUNKbrs wrote:

you know what you owe me.

you know

I thought all those free strippers handled that?

Strippers bake cookies there? Ausom!

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So I've got this assignment, since I passed my Management midterms with 9 and 8. If they're good enough (and my defense of it is also good enough), then no final for me!
Which will feel great AFTER I've written it and defended it. In the meantime, I've just covered 1/3 of it and I'm already in page 6 =(

At 12/4/09 01:54 AM, SadisticMonkey wrote: because increased government involvement in, well, ANYTHING has worked before??

He didn't say that the government should be involved more in our lives; he said the inverse: that we should get involved into the government so that it is better managed.
Quite nice in principle, but I'd say not easily taken into practice.

What I like about my city is that the council allows citizens to have a partial direct democracy: it gives the different neighborhoods a budget, and they vote on the destiny of those funds. I believe it was started in Porto Alegre.
So that's a feasible way of translating the OP's principle into reality.

I like white chocolate.
I always order it as an ice-cream flavor.

At 12/4/09 02:45 AM, armaggedon21 wrote: Seriously now,why does Americans think that "God" (I am an Atheist,i like to think...) loves America so much?

USA says God loves America.Your president must be a very religious man in order to be a President (although i cant understand why in order to control people,must be done by a religious man)

WHY GOD LOVES AMERICA MORE...I WANT SOME ANSWERS (It is unfair,i want love too)

I don't think they say "God loves America more", rather, "God loves America", and since God loves everything, there is no contradiction.
But I have never heard the expression, so I'm not sure.

At 12/4/09 08:55 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: I'm pretty sure Catholics think God hates them.

Um, no.

That whole guilt, fire & brimstone thing really gets to them.

Really, its like everyone praying to God that their sports team will come out on top in the finals. (n-1)/n teams lose every year, so God must hate a lot of people.

So if you love your child you give to him/her everything they want?

I expected you to have an actual ordered mental process (ie, to think) rather than going "OMG Catholics r ghey", we already have trolls for that.

At 12/2/09 06:00 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote:

At 12/2/09 07:56 AM, Der-Lowe wrote:

To make it short, Derek Lowe sucked and won games due to high number of points scored.

And that is bad, because...

At 12/2/09 10:03 AM, zephiran wrote: I chose a Squirtle.

>=(
Bulbasaur FTW

Is it Squirtlepedia?
NO Bulbapedia because Bulbasaur pwns.

At 12/1/09 06:52 AM, ThePretenders wrote:

At 11/30/09 02:57 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: This is weird. I see nothing here that says disequilibrium. Fiscal and Trade Surpluses, low foreign and public debt...
I only see galloping inflation :\

This shows the UAE and Dubai is a part of that. The UAE's situation is healthy because Abu Dhabi's finances are healthy.

Thank you sir.
*cookie*
^_^

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On the whole dubai is crazy issue, meh. For what I've read, their whole luxurious construction project was to avoid being affected by diminishing oil prices. Many commodity-dependent countries have done the same in the past, try to leap into a diversified economy, with similar consequences.

At 12/1/09 09:48 PM, stafffighter wrote: Ok, a game featuring our very own Seven is now on the Front Page!!!!!!!!

I SAY MOD CORRUPTION! D:

At 12/1/09 09:11 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote:

At 12/1/09 08:59 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: On the other hand, I don't think Der-Lowe wants to be associated with an overpriced Borass pitcher.

Who knows, remember it's one of the best way to make money, become a baseball player and hire Boras as your agent. Remember how he got the Dodgers sign a mediocre pitcher Dreifort to a lucrative contract?

Last year I was hoping the Yankees would try to go after Lowe, now I'm glad they didn't since his bloated ERA would've been a problem in the AL. Already have one ticking time bomb in A.J. Burnett, don't need another one.

I did not understand anything of what you've said.

At 12/1/09 10:07 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Advent gifts

What's that? Sounds heathen.

At 12/2/09 12:24 AM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Well, since I have spent a good part of the night screwing around and playing games, hopefully tomorrow I will be more productive. Maybe it's because we didn't get any real assignments in class. I did do some of the reading so it's not like the night was completely wasted. Still, right now I have to convince myself to get off the computer and go do something else, even just sitting in bed with my DS.

I've got to sit for two finals :\

Tomorrow the power will be out here

I don't have an AC, so as long as there's water, I'm ok ^_^
Actually, I've been drinking mate, quite suicidal of me.

At 12/1/09 12:31 AM, Proteas wrote:

At 11/30/09 02:51 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: We do celebrate the three wise men, we get presents both Dec 25th and Jan 6th! :D

My first question is "What's so special about January 6th?"

The coming of the three wise men. Moar deductive reasoning u!

This is weird. I see nothing here that says disequilibrium. Fiscal and Trade Surpluses, low foreign and public debt...
I only see galloping inflation :\

At 11/30/09 10:57 AM, Malachy wrote:

At 11/30/09 08:27 AM, Der-Lowe wrote:

At 11/29/09 08:11 PM, SevenSeize wrote: My cat attacked my Christmas tree today. Broken bulbs everywhere

You have your tree this early? What happened to Dec, 8th?
The cat is punishing you for your heathenry >=(

do your people even know what a pine tree looks like? Also, don't you celebrate the 3 wise men visiting rather than santa?

I've been told that no such thing as santa claus was celebrated here, only the birth of Jesus Christ, (ie, Christmas).
We do celebrate the three wise men, we get presents both Dec 25th and Jan 6th! :D

At 11/29/09 08:11 PM, SevenSeize wrote: My cat attacked my Christmas tree today. Broken bulbs everywhere

You have your tree this early? What happened to Dec, 8th?
The cat is punishing you for your heathenry >=(

At 11/28/09 12:15 AM, Proteas wrote: And I am sorry for not wishing Seven a Happy Birthday sooner, I've not been active on Myspace in months, otherwise I would have seen it already. So Seven, here's something to put a smile on your face either way.

I wanted all of us to sing but I was left to sing alone :(
My German group > u
We had this bierfest and we all sang this, and it was a mess because the guitarist sucked, and had rehearsed a different song, which made it the lulz. There were other songs, like this one.

At 11/28/09 10:35 AM, Proteas wrote:

At 11/28/09 12:49 AM, SevenSeize wrote: I have 4 pairs of glasses. One is right here. One is at work. One is in my purse. One is in my car.

I never wear any of them.

I can't stand the feeling of anything on my face, like I hate wearing sunglasses too.

*puppydog eyes*

PWEASE Miss Seven, can we have a picture of you with your nerd glasses on? PWETTY PWEASE?

PWEASE Miss Seven, can we have a picture of you with the gift Der-Lowe gave you?
no? ok
*sits*
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LAST MIDTERM DONE, WAIT FOR RESULTS AND PREPARE FINALS NOW D:
I want the year to end.

At 11/26/09 10:20 AM, Proteas wrote: I'd like a passport to somewhere warm right about now. My dumbass brother left his bedroom window open for 3 days, and my mother decided to turn off the heat overnight in order to compensate for wasted heat. I woke up this morning and the house was in the mid-to-lower 60's after an over-night low in the 40's.

We're getting 19ºC in the morning, 27º at noon. It's hell. In the 3rd floor at college, with the AC on, the temperature is 29ºC. Human heat woo.
Luckily, the Library is not so crowded, and the second basement has an integrated cooling system, so it's, eh, cool.

At 11/26/09 09:43 AM, ThePretenders wrote:

At 11/26/09 09:08 AM, Der-Lowe wrote: Hey guys, I think I haven't shown you this.
w00t me! :D

This is the only passport that you grant you access to anywhere - except for Cuba.

Yeah, it's still a good passport but not teh best, specially after the whole War on Terror stuff. I think the EU is the best, can't think of another one as good right now.

At 11/26/09 10:52 PM, morefngdbs wrote: If I wasn't in such a hurry , I would post a picture of my Passport.
IT WILL ALLOW ME TO TRAVEL TO CUBA....& everywhere else :)

Yeah, I think the Canadian has to be the best nowadays. I'm thinking also New Zealand and Australia, they're wealthy enough, and don't have the bad imperialistic record.

At 11/26/09 07:49 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote:

At 11/26/09 09:08 AM, Der-Lowe wrote: Hey guys, I think I haven't shown you this.
w00t me! :D

Wait...MERCOSUR is in charge of passports there? If they are that's something I never knew about MERCOSUR.

Not really, it's made by the Federal Police (the Argentinian FBI, with extended jurisdiction). Same in the EU, mine was actually made here, in Rosario (there's a Spanish consulate there). By saying MERCOSUR or UE it basically means that it's the same to have a passport from any of the countries in the Union, and that you can travel within countries without need of any other passport.
For example, when you go to Brazil you have three different queues according to precedence:
1) Mercosur: the fastest one
2) Rest of the World: normal
3) USA: the worst, ie, the same as Brazilians are treated when they go to the US, since it was cataloged as a terrorist country. There have been some judicial issues with Americans in the past, which made me LOL. One of them showed the finger to the camera that took prision-like pictures of him, and was fined, I believed, for that.

At 11/26/09 08:06 PM, Proteas wrote: Also; a picture from this past Saturday when we were out pumpkin shooting. I realize I'm a chunk, but remember, I'm a chunk with a gun. >:-D~

You do realize you're a living stereotype?
It's as if I posted a pic of myself with a sombrero, a taco in my hand and hopping over a fence.

At 11/27/09 12:22 AM, FUNKtheHater wrote: And do you know what I say?

No, seriously, do you know what I said? I was fucking HAMMERED; I pounded a whole pitcher, 3 shots of yager, and a crapload of tequila.

I thought I was awesome because I managed to prove that the determinant of an antisymmetric matrix of 5th order was zero, completely out of my ass in the midterm.

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IT'S SEVEN B-DAY LET US SING A GERMAN KINDERGARTEN B-DAY SONG!

Wie schön, dass du geboren bist,
wir hätten dich sonst sehr vermisst.
wie schön dass wir beisammen sind,
wir gratulieren dir, Geburtstagskind!

How nice that you were born
Otherwise, we would've really missed ya
How nice that we are together,
We congratulate you, b-day kid! :D

Hey guys, I think I haven't shown you this.
w00t me! :D

At 11/25/09 10:56 PM, Proteas wrote: Plus, the whole shoulder numbing pain of firing them left me with a big honkin' bruise on my shoulder. :-(

aw.
*mate*

At 11/25/09 09:53 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: My family tends to think injury is funny.

I have never understood how falling = funny.

Oh, come on. Here there's a tree that drops like little balls in the fall, and everyone trips on them (myself included). I laugh all the time, even when I fall. Discretely, of course.

At 11/26/09 07:28 AM, SevenSeize wrote: I literally just laid in bed and watched my clock all night. Didn't sleep not one frickin minute.

Hate nights like that.

I haven't been able to sleep well since months.
My new tendency is to sleep like 5-6 hours straight (from 10 to 4) and then start waking up every 20-30 minutes. It's really annoying.

I'm gonna go cook now. It wont be nearly as awesome as anything fli or skunky whip up, but I have a spatula that I know a few of you like.......

My classmate in German classes' b-day was this monday, and she brought caik. You should too.
Tomorrow.

At 11/19/09 02:39 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: So, as of yet, deficit spending hasn't been too bad, as far as perceivable impact, for the United States.

However, if we are not allowed to get more loans at some point, the entire government system as it stands today will collapse and we'll collectively as a people owe a bunch of countries a lot of money at rates we probably can't ever hope to pay off.

(I think we might be there already without some sort of economic boom sent directly from on high)

However, if we can't get our loans, the system crashes, but we are left with a lot of weaponry and raw resources, so while we won't have traditional capital, we'll have all sorts of other goods still.

Is it possible for a country to declare bankruptcy. Aside from not getting more loans, what are the consequences of not paying debt back?

That's basically it, and it's a biggie. A default on debt isn't really negative in the short-run, especially if the majority of the country's public debt is owned by foreign entities. The country is able to channel all those resources that went to the payment of interest into social programs, that increase local demand (considering the country is in a recession, which is most likely). However, the effect on the rest of the world if the US is the defaulter have also to be taken into account. Most likely, the whole financial system will crash, and the world will enter a global recession. Runs on the dollar will take place, and the Fed will have to start rescuing money in heterodox ways, since it cannot sell defaulted T-bills. Most likely, the Fed will use its independence to issue its own bonds to be traded by money. Also, a major liquidity injection should take place in the local financial system, since the banks will suddenly be holding lots of worthless financial assets.
There's also diplomatic problems, and issues with the assets of the US government in other countries. They will have to be pulled out or risk being liquidated.

This seems like a huge issue that we've ignored and will continue to ignore until it smacks us upside the face. I'm just wondering if we keep pretending, will it really go away?

Financial markets are quite good in predicting defaults, so you will hear of it with a few years in advance.

At 11/21/09 10:21 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote:

At 11/21/09 08:55 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: Elaborate on the not-so-negative aspect of a fixed money supply, please.
I'd think that a variable demand of money with a parametrical money supply would lead to an unstable interest rate in the money markets, and ever declining prices in the goods market.

For the first part, First, Define "Unstable". Market-determined interest rates would be unstable in the sense that they would fluctuate the same way any price for anything under dynamic conditions changes. But I might be misreading you.

No, you are correct. I believe that strong fluctuations in the market's interest rate are not to be taken as simply as any other microeconomic signal, since its effect of output is too large to be ignored, or compensated. It would have a similar effect as fluctuations of commodities prices in export oriented economies such as Australia and Argentina: suddenly you had full employment, and a month later you had to lose the gold standard to avoid strangling the financial sector with high interest rates, which had already caused a substantial contraction of the GDP.

For the second part, deflation is not a problem except to big debtors like the government.

While I do not agree with this as I will elaborate before, the effect on the public sector's finance is crucial. A government that already has lower revenues from a recession, expanded by deflation, would have to
a) Increase taxes
b) Lower its expenditures
c) Debt

a, b, and c would all reinforce the recession. (c will not if the country is in a liquidity trap, then it might be "costless" in the short run)

If your fear is that deflation is bad because it increases the cost of credit, which you would contend is bad in a time of falling demand i would add that this increases the profits of creditors, which attracts more credit to begin with.

I disagree. The wealth of creditors indeed is an important factor in the financial sector, yet not the only one. But firstly let me talk about the debtor's situation.
When facing deflation, the debtor's ability to pay is worsened. Firstly, it is facing higher real interest rates than what had been originally agreed, and secondly, the goods that are backing up his loan suddenly might not be able to cover for it. In this case, wealth is not merely redistributed, since the lender cannot execute the loan because the collateral is simply not enough.
If the lender is a bank, it will be no secret to the depositors that it's high time to pull out. This further pressures the bank to liquidate its assets, pressuring its debtors even more. Moreover, since lending has become so risky, banks will want to increase its nominal interest rates, or even not lend anymore to be able to face the bank runs.
The credit market is frozen, and the deflationary spiral becomes stronger than ever.

At 11/21/09 11:39 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: I may have to start heading to the campus rec center. Dieting alone doesn't seem to work. *sigh*

And here I am, eating choco-cabsha ice cream. I eat it at night so that my dieting brother doesn't find out. Never been good at dieting myself, I lose weight by exercise, or simply eating less.

I'm glad I don't have that much weight to lose and am not huge. I'd say 15 pounds. Still, though, I don't feel that great about myself, despite my boyfriend thinking I'm okay.

Earlier this year, when I dropped all that weight for whatever reason, I didn't like how tiny I was, so I'm hoping to reach a good medium here. Of course, the holiday season coming up doesn't help.

We eat really fatty foods as well for the holidays, which makes no sense since we're in the summer. Imported customs, much. I'd rather we ate something brazilian like fruits and such.

At 11/20/09 03:24 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote: On another note, it's important to realize that a growing economy does not necessarily need 'more gold' to back it. Having more goods and services in an economy with a relatively unchanging amount of gold is better than inflation, where businesses are given the false impression that they are making gains.

Elaborate on the not-so-negative aspect of a fixed money supply, please.
I'd think that a variable demand of money with a parametrical money supply would lead to an unstable interest rate in the money markets, and ever declining prices in the goods market.

We don't celebrate thanksgiving :\
We do celebrate the arrival of the three wise men, though.

At 11/21/09 07:01 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: I am really starting to hate my job and it doesn't look there's any alternative in the near future.

=(
What do you work as? Was it the NRA?

Oh, forgot to mention that he's not really American, so what did you expect? He's obviously Mugabe's relative, look how similar the US' monetary policy is with Zimbawe's.
Hyperinflation, here we go!

I really don't understand how you didn't see this coming.
I mean, the guy had giant approval rates outside of the US! COINCIDENCE? I don't think so. He had obviously a secret devil pact (being a muslim, it's not surprising) with the rest of the world. If he got help in the campaign, then he would bankrupt the US with useless fiscal stimulus and give the only valuable things left to the foreigners.
The pic of him bowing to the Chinese Imperial Dictator is just the beginning.

Liberal-Leaning Centrist!

Your views call for roughly same amount of goverment and liberty that we have today, with a bit more personal liberty and more government involvement in the economy.

It appears that you are relatively happy with the status quo, though you probably want a few more Democrats in office. Approximately 9% of the takers of this quiz scored in this area, 36% for all within the centrist circle.

At 11/16/09 07:06 PM, Proteas wrote: You can call me an asshat for doing that, derlowe. I deserve it.

Top ass hat!

At 11/16/09 07:26 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 11/16/09 08:48 AM, Der-Lowe wrote:
I never use tourism unless I'm obliged to.
I am teh industrialist ^_^

I am too, but they still whine and complain about my economy being underdeveloped.

I'M CUTTING DOWN ALL THE TREES, MINING AND FARMING THE HELL OUT OF EVERYTHING. I HAVE FACTORIES. WHAT ELSE DO THEY WANT????? :-(

Lol, I only have a couple. Cannery, lumber mill and furniture factory and they don't complain. They do complain about income disparity, but it's laughable since it's minimal compared to income disparities in the real world. I had, like 7 in the Q10/Q1 index, whereas argentina's is 35. Hm, I should calculate the Gini too. Plus, there's equal opportunities in the game since education is free and for all, so the only reason they get paid less is laziness.
So, yeah, commies.

I am. My soldiers should be able to get anyone I sick them on.

My mother was horrified to hear of an american game where you became the president of a hispanic little island, and where I was considering to either assassinate, imprison, or "make an accident" with the members of the opposition.

Give a speech from your palace balcony, wait til youre about halfway through and theres like 30 people gathered listening, pause the game, and order them all assasinated. Hit play. Guards will come and kill everyone in front of the palace, lulz ensue.

murdering is bad.
I just put dissidents in jail. And then feel guilty.
BUT THEN THE REBELS DESTROYED MY PALACE AND I LOST I AM SO ANGRY 4 YEARS MORE AND I WOULD'VE WON.
The worst thing is that everybody loved me, even the rebels. Bunch of montoneros.
Hey, is there a search bar or sth to find them and assassinate them in advance?

Also, the AI fails. If I have condominiums set up with 0 for rent, why the hell are they still building shacks??????

Must've to do with distance to work. I build lots of garages. It's also good for unemployment. In a map, I had 45% unemployment because I accepted taking refugees.
DAMN IMMIGRANTS LIVING OFF TAXPAYER'S MONEY.

I put garages eveywhere, at least 8 on the entire island. I put homes everywhere....theyd put up a shack, Id literally build a house on top of it with no rent....theyd leave the house empty and put the shack up next to it!

Lol. It doesn't happen to me. Maybe get a patch or sth?

At 11/16/09 08:23 PM, Korriken wrote:

At 11/16/09 07:37 PM, Ravariel wrote:

I think I may have found your problem >_>

slaughtering dissidents cuts down on the unemployment.

Or have a strong emigration policy. The bad thing about that is that qualified people also emigrate, so yay murder!