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You mean it's legal to get drugs off somebody other than a psychiatrist over there?

Biden might be a bit blunt and ready-to-go, but he's one of the most experienced and knowledgeable senators in America. Obama picked him for the long haul to balance his own weaknesses, not for some short-lived campaign boost.

My amphetamines make little johnny sad.

So do zombies from social welfare countries have a system where they ensure everybody gets at least a minimum amount of brains? Or is it all strongest gets to crush the weakest, free market America style?

Some actuarial firms placed McCain's chance to die in office at 25%. Personally, Palin as president isn't a 1 in 4 chance I'd be willing to take if I were an American.

I read Slashdot, Physorg, and use Google News from time to time. Excellent news aggregator, that; comprehensive, up-to-date, and let's you see any issue from multiple sources to compare bias and such. I can assure you that if there is a media bias against McCain-Palin, then it's something the entire news industry is in on (that's some damn good organisation!), or it doesn't exist (far more likely).

No, Israel isn't a rogue state (those would be the likes of North Korea and Iran), and its human rights record is only about as shady as America's: shady, but not ethnic cleansing territory.

Two phrases that sum my attitude up: "I'll go where the wind takes me." and "When one door closes, another opens." It's worked great in life so far. I can't recall ever having something like a panic/anxiety attack.

Holy ****, do they have to water her twice a week, too?

No. The good old days of the BIS forums are long gone. Interplay pissed them away.

There's nothing wrong with a Google literature search as long as you use Google Scholar instead of the main search, I've found. Pubmed is pretty great, though. And Xanax is a poor choice for chronic anxiety, too, because of its quick acute tolerance buildup. I imagine that's true for other benzos, too.

Definitely Dark Raven.

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I dunno what that is, but by the sound of it, yeah, it probably should. Which really confuses me. It could have been a virus or spy-ware then. Did you run Hijack This? Edit: hmm, but that still doesn't explain why it would happen on Ubuntu as well. Unless it's a problem with multiple potential causes.

OK, you're not wrong. You're just advocating that a completely untested theoretical system of currency control is better that the system that has been used for the past half-century or more by all the most successful economies on the planet. Amen.

Sounds like you could have fixed it by deleting a few registry entries.

it is, IMO, unconstitutional, and probably the biggest problem with our system. the fed is not a government institution, btw. booms and cycles are ultimately the result of the fed's control of the money supply. contrary to the socialist position that such regulation saves us from these extreme events, it actually causes them. Name one country of more than 50 million people that has been able to develop and sustain a modern economy without a central bank. Was Fed policy a big part of this screwup? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean that central banks in general aren't an enormous help to a country's economic viability. The Dollar is the world's dominant currency for two reasons: 1) It is backed by the most valuable resource on the planet (the power to tax the American public), and 2) Control of its supply is out of the hands of politicians and in the hands of politically independent, mostly competent managers. Yeah, the people running the Fed have made mistakes and will continue to do so, but they do so with far less frequency than would political control of the money supply. To paraphrase Churchill, independent central banks are the worst form of money-supply management, except for all those other forms that have been tried. Now, I have some sympathy for the monetarist argument that, in most situations, the best action the Fed can do is hold money supply steady and let interest rates go where they may. (In chalkboard models, that policy does usually work out best, although there are outside factors-- mostly having to do with the international ramifications of shifts in the dollar's value-- that inject more complexity than the simple models can account for.) But the idea that the business cycle is caused only by government meddling and would be eliminated in the distant future when everyone realizes what is best and forms a society completely based on free-market ideas is right up there with the Marxist view of the future as a worldwide worker's paradise on the "crazy wish-fulfillment" scale. EDIT: Okay, so I'm exaggerating taks' position on that last point. But I guess my core argument is that, if you approach a situation by looking for a reason to blame (or absolve) government, you're going to find enough evidence to justify your prejudices. But if that's the way you're approaching things, what you're doing isn't analysis, it's spin. Bottom line, economies are incredibly complex things, and pretty much every effect has at least a half-dozen causes without which it wouldn't have happened. Advocates pick the causes that fit their pre-existing beliefs as to who the heroes and villains are, but that doesn't get them particularly close to a true and comprehensive understanding (to the degree that such is achievable). Question your prejudices. Yay for Enoch! A free market supporter who seems to actually evaluate an action based on its potential merit to the country/economy, rather than how closely it resembles some abstract, supposedly Utopian, view of markets. If I'm wrong tell me. Actually, no - don't fail me now!

When you said you thought there was some kind of ironic similarity between Nazi Germany and Israel.

Zoloft for anxiety? I don't believe in long-term treatment of symptoms via drugs if the cause can be treated with them instead. I believe it exacerbates the problem. But I'm not as well read on that area of psychiatry (especially depression/anxiety) as I'd like, so what do I know? I believe you should be acting to lower your stress levels instead.

it is, IMO, unconstitutional, and probably the biggest problem with our system. the fed is not a government institution, btw. booms and cycles are ultimately the result of the fed's control of the money supply. contrary to the socialist position that such regulation saves us from these extreme events, it actually causes them. taks Are you trying to tell me that a free market economic system is not sufficiently complex for chaotic behaviour to emerge?

Again, plenty of funny stuff to be said about treatment of black people in America. It's not a pronouncement of a state's abject failure or slide into fascism.

Indeed. That's actually the stance I take. In my posts in this thread I've not once demonised Muslims or Arabs, simply defended Israel. Brdavs took it upon himself to to defend Iran in retaliation or something for great justice. The Middle East vs. Israel skirmish is pointless, like most wars. It's generally based on the notion that Israel shouldn't exist, or that Muslims are bad, rather than any realistic goals.

Did I mention any conspiracy? did I miss the concrete walls going down around gaza and essencials being periodically shut off as a form of (political) pressure on elected enteties we dont recognise as "legitimate" since theyre not our cup of tea anyways ? And zionism is a factual politacal (nationalistic) movement that comes in many niances, including ones just as fundamental as the Islamism does. The fact it only gets associated with "jews r taking ovah the US" conspiracies in your mind is solly the problem of your uneducated mind. I`m just using the cold hard logic of the would be nukers. And as far as pasports having wight in the scales of life, last time I checked 4k US citizens departing this world led to dead and displaced in the millions. So again, 7mil:100mil. Who would your nonbiggoted oppinion consider nuking over the others? So lemme rephraze that for ya: Thought so. Wah wah Israel wah wah fascism wah communism is the answer wah wah wah Muslims are dreamy but Zionist plot wah Hitler thus Western pity thus therefore Q.E.D. Doode, you`re just making a fool out of yourself. If you ran out of things passable as inteliggent in unintelligent circles to say about the matter just move on. Thought so. Dude, what's your problem? I'm agreeing with you!

I don't buy that. 15% of Israeli citizens are Arabs and Muslims and are treated like any other; it's as democratic as any other Western nation in that regard. It's not perfect, but it's better than treatment of blacks in America, or aborigines in Australia. That is: not the best, but satisfying all UN human rights requirements and laws, with active effort for improvement. Treatment of it's neighbors is less optimal, but it's no worse than NATO treatment of Iraq and such, generally. I do wish the tension and violence would die down, but give it time.

You keeping rocking backwards and forth and telling yourself "it'll all be OK in the free market!", taks.