What Kind of Peaker are You?

by **Aaron** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 12:47:29

Holy Cow!

You just won $500 million in the lottery.

What do you do?

by **skyemoor** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 12:52:26

I don't see these choices as either/or, there could easily be a mix of several, along with educating people and creating PO communities.

by **backstop** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 12:54:57

Aaron -

in the interests of accuracy, might I prevail upon you to ammend the first option to read

". . . and retire amid the delusion of secure luxury" . . . . ?

regards,

Backstop

by **UncoveringTruths** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 12:59:14

Hey is the cash adjusted for inflation post peak or pre peak? :-D

by **gnm** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 13:13:02

And how much do you have left after being sodomized by the tax-man?

by **Aaron** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 13:14:07

Jeeze...

It's like arguing physics with Heisenberg in here sometimes...

If these were the only choices you had... etc... etc...

Man... tough room.

Please note I created more "cooperation" based choices, than I did for the "selfish" choices.

by **backstop** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 13:28:19

Aaron,

Given that a mere $500M doesn't begin to buy luxurious security from intensifying hurricanes, rising sea-levels, bird flu, carrier battle groups, ICBMs, malarial mosquitos, etc,

the first option is based on a delusion that needs identifying if the poll is to measure real choices.

So how about the proposed ammendment ?

regards,

Backstop

by **Aaron** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 13:33:46

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o how about the proposed amendment ?

by **peaker_2005** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 13:48:59

Aaron, you forgot an 'other' option...

Assuming $500m US, after tax:

- Inform Government of intention to build and operate tram line.
- Bribe if necessary to get permission to build.
- Build.
- Operate.

by **skyemoor** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 13:51:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('backstop', '
')Given that a mere $500M doesn't begin to buy luxurious security from intensifying hurricanes, rising sea-levels, bird flu, carrier battle groups, ICBMs, malarial mosquitos, etc,

by **backstop** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 13:58:45

Aaron -

it is precisely my imagination, and practical experience of both tropical and temperate island living, that generated my list of the unavoidable risks facing an island retreat.

Thanks for the (unwarranted) kudos re UK invention of rock btw.

As it stands the poll measures willingness to buy illusions, not personal security.

Investing in "sustainable enterprises" is about raising the chance of collective security, without the delusion of garranteed isolation from threat.

So how about the ammendment ?

regards,

Backstop

by **NeoPeasant** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 14:05:04

Just to get started I'd buy off the rights to "End of Suburbia", put it in the public domain, and do an AOL style saturation-bomb mass mailing of the DVD. Then maybe do the same with Savinar's book.

by **Pops** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 14:06:21

They won’t cut you a break will they A?

I’ll go for Fantasy Island.

Remember; plan for everything to happen that you can – including Nothing. In which case life would be good!

On the down side of course is that obnoxious little shit yelling in my ear with his obnoxious little voice:

"Da plane, Boss, pedal da plane!"

:lol:

by **Ludi** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 14:17:28

"None of the above"

I'd invest it in an intentional community and in promoting sustainable living, especially permaculture, in my local area.

by **GoIllini** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 15:01:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'H')oly Cow!

You just won $500 million in the lottery.

What do you do?

by **marko** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 15:39:23

I can't vote because you haven't listed the option I would choose. I would spend the money to found a community in a remote location outside of the US that has good potential for agriculture and abundant forests but few other resources. The goal would not be luxury for myself but a basis for survival for myself and 10-20 others.

by **backstop** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 15:54:38

There's also a notable absence of any option to invest in the international politics of global sustainability, without which all other options are predictably futile.

Yet as a test of -run & hide in selfish delusions- versus -investing in sustainable enterprises- it does at least give some general indication of voters' morale.

regards,

Backstop

by **Aaron** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 17:09:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')nvesting in "sustainable enterprises" is about raising the chance of collective security, without the delusion of garranteed isolation from threat.

So how about the ammendment

by **Pops** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 17:55:34

Wow that island was a better bargain than I thought.

It all makes sense now; Tatto is an alien!

At least I won't have to pedal da plane.

by **oowolf** » Tue 04 Oct 2005, 18:34:37

The American Dream: A tax on fools hoping for something for nothing. (Not that we invented the soul corrupting concept of the free lunch.) Las Vegas is our true capital; a tawdry trash-pit monument to the lowest common denomination of human gullibility and depravity. A gawky temple of squandered resources and potential that, I fear, epitomizes this "civilization's" fondest delusions. Couldn't we have done better than this?
Really, does anyone think that MONEY will solve ANY of our problems?

Why couldn't the human race ever grow up?

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