[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', 'I')sn't that amazing in a sad way?

[gollum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', ' ') $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'S')till some mooches are moochier than others. That's what the problem is.

[AdTheNad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I')f you borrowed money from me, you owe me. Screw your debt jubilee. Sounds like you made some bad life choices and want productive people to pay the price for them.

More mooch thinking at its finest. Know the mooch by his use of fairness and debt forgiveness phraseology.

[SeaGypsy]

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')gainst this background of economic stagnation and decay and widespread financial insolvency one sector is experiencing a boom time: Silicon Valley is booming again, and tech start-up IPOs are doing well. Social networking and mobile computing are hot, and some are expecting them to power the global economy out of the doldrums. Others contend that this industry segment is, and will remain, far too small to pick up the slack for the rest of the resource-strapped global economy. What neither side seems to grasp is this: as the virtualized realm of cyberreality and social networking takes over daily life, the actual physical economy will matter less and less (to those who are still alive and have an internet connection). What these new gadgets offer is, simply put, escapism. In a world of dwindling resources, where each person's share of the physical realm decreases over time, it is no wonder that physical reality fails to satisfy. But thanks to the new, intimate, glowing handheld mobile computing devices, the unsatisfactory real world can be blotted out, and replaced with a cleansed, bouncy, shiny version of society in which little avatars utter terse little messages. In the cyber-realm there are no sweaty bodies, no cacophony of voices to suffer through—just a smooth, polished, expertly branded user experience.


While riding the subway through the Boston rush hour, I have been able to observe just how well these personal electronic mental life support units work in shielding people from the sight of their fellow-passengers, who are becoming a rougher and rougher-looking crew, with more and more people in obvious distress. By focusing all of their attentions on the tiny screen, they are also spared the sight of our well-worn and crumbling urban infrastructure. It is as if the physical world doesn't really exist for them, or at least doesn't matter. But as Horace already understood over 2000 years ago, "Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret" ("You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.") If we ignore the physical realm, the physical economy (the one that actually keeps people fed and sheltered and moves them about the landscape) shrinks and decays. The inevitable result is that more and more of these cyber-campers and their gadgets will drop off the network, shrivel, and die with nary a tweet to signal their demise.
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[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', 'A')s of now, all social classes are mooches. The rich and the "poor", meaning people who would considered to be rich in a hundred countries or so will be on top of the mooching list.
How many people you know that are actually DO something Six? Not sit in the office or rub each other's backs but actually produce something of value?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'I') think Americans yearn to again make things of value, it's not by the choice of the vast majority of the population that we ended up here.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdTheNad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I')f you borrowed money from me, you owe me. Screw your debt jubilee. Sounds like you made some bad life choices and want productive people to pay the price for them.

More mooch thinking at its finest. Know the mooch by his use of fairness and debt forgiveness phraseology.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Umber', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', 'C')lassy shotgun? It's a second-hand Turkish huglu... The photo was for a tinfoil hat competition in a UK newspaper (yes, I won).

As for well to do, I managed to buy the place in 2007 for 100k euros after selling up in the UK in 2006 (I started with a 105% mortgage in the UK, it was pure luck that I sold at the top of the market - the place I bought was just over a quarter of the selling price in the UK). ... I've since been travelling over 1000km every weekend by car for over three years between home and work just to get the work done on the place to make it habitable.
So kindly keep your ignorant comments to yourself, thanks.

[prajeshbhat]

It's hard to figure out what the libertarians want. They talk relentlessly about the triumphs of individualism, yet its amazing who viciously eager they are to capture the American government. And how religiously they are following Ron Paul. And they do offer a solution to all of the worlds problems. The solution is that vote for a libertarian politician who will go to Washington and then do nothing. And also make sure other politicians get to do nothing.
And then there is Peter Schiff who offers a solution for american economic problem. He says americans should be making cars for those people who are riding bicycles in china.