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So is the notion that one can simply do away with monetary policy and all will be well. Mostly I suppose Republicans aren't receptive to the idea that spending so much money on wars constitutes the same kind of breach of liberty as universal healthcare.

I have no idea, it depends on how effective they are when they reach office. I really look at what I think is the main problem in our country and try to decide who will be best at fixing it. For example, it was bad to have GW Bush as president when we really needed a strong foreign policy leader. We were in two wars and the global economy was starting to meltdown. Then Obama started his term needing strong economic policies to fix a sinking ship, and he was not able to handle it. As a counterpoint, Reagan came into office with perfect timing. He fixed a badly damaged image of the President and rebuilt American confidence. Clinton was also well-timed, he was very good at foreign policy when our economy was flourishing, leading to global implications. Both of those presidents were also capable of working with the other party. I see that as our number one problem today, the two parties spend so much time and energy fighting each other that we aren't getting anything done. I think Gingrich may be the best candidate to restore that working relationship. But yeah, I'm not sure he can avoid getting roasted by the media, and he lacks in the charm department. I don't know where all this Reagan worship comes from. Maybe it's like the wave of 80s retro nostalgia. Well, as someone who actually lived the 80s would tell you, the music and the clothes mostly sucked. It's the reimagining of a golden era that never existed, like Romanticism.

I like Ron Paul, there seems to be not quite so much hypocrisy emmanating from him. Amazing really that you can still cultivate a reputation for consistency in the American political system. Don't agree with his outmoded minimal state Capitalism ideas, but I can respect it.

Services like that are really starting to catch on. The lack of an offline mode is offset by a huge database at your disposal at a realatively cheap price. People won't bother scouring the web for a torrent when it's already there.

Go back to 8 track

Isn't that an anarchist's view of all law, though? It's theoretically possible to achieve almost complete compliance on the web with surveilance and enforcement, much more so than in the physical world owing to the relative efficiency of a completely digital system. That would be a first in human history, I'm not sure it's at all desireable. I guess I'm worried about momentum even though the problem has barely manifested itself as of yet.

I like it quite a lot, but not because Nameless has amnesia. Mainly the NPCs I think.

Problem is the amnesia is well used both as a plot and a role-play in PS:T's case and more than justifies the element. And you can't really make a "Nostalgia" and "This has been done to death" argument at the same time. Kinda contrary. Even assuming that time is a linear, they have been writing stories for a couple of thousand years already and soaps populated with people with amnesia since the 60s.

The protagonist has amnesia. Kinda been done to death hasn't it. Nostalgia makes everything look better. Still, it's probably my favorite EI game.

Ahh, thanks. Found it.

Ok so I fell into the Logitech trap again because they were at the store and the old one died. It's a cordless g700. I presume I need some kind of wireless port on the computer to get it to work without the cord. There was no USB dongle thing in the package. What PCI card do I get ?

Policing the web is a logical conclusion to how much of our interactions have gravitated there. I sure don't hope the intellectual propery rights lobby manage to completely tame the west though. The net could evolve into a rather terrifying method of control. I mean you already have to watch what you put out there. Companies have guidelines about what employees are allowed to say on social networks about their workplace which extend far past privileged information. The same goes for marketability in a job seeking situation, You can't afford to offend anybody.

They tried that in the 60s, didn't take on a large scale.

I think it's fine that they want personality to come to the forground at the expense of biology and historical norms. It's not going to work though, just IMHO.

Kindof a useless job as well. If I were deaf and wanted to know what was goin on I'd want subtitiles.

Love her, that's brilliant.

Watching Star Trek TNG in a bout of nostalgia. You really can't do everything with rubber facemolds. Well you can, but it's not exactly easy on the eyes. That's from Voyager, I know. God I hate Neelix.

Watching Star Trek TNG in a bout of nostalgia. You really can't do everything with rubber facemolds. Well you can, but it gets really fugly on the eyes.

And yet interesting implications for sauce.

The temptation to pick up an unconscious alien and put it in your backback is best avoided, even if it's just the one you need for the armor upgrade.

OMG dude from Nazereth totally walked on water.

She never actually said that. It was a misquote, probably nurtured by the revoultionists.

Maybe, and maybe for not having dallied around with religion they would be sporting tricorders and spandex suits and have eliminated hunger and disease.

This is getting into the whole subjectivity debacle again. Alright then, demonstrate God within the same margin for error as the existence of your bathroom.

And the sky could fall on our heads, and the sun might decide not to come up and you just might steer this conversation towards something sensible but the chances of all that are very very slim. Still, my original statement stands. We aren't discussing probability.