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A friend of mine is considering fleeing to Australia, that got me thinking about where good places to run away to would be and what the requirements are. I'll take a stab at your requirements. You're looking for a majority white, liberal, western democracy. That rules out South Africa, Zimbabwe or ...

Uh... Republicans don't support Romneycare. The only reason Romneycare was ever on the table was to act as a negotiations ploy to kill single payer healthcare. Republicans initially backed the individual mandate, until they didn't. The idea arose from a conservative think tank called the Heritage F...

So instead of responding to Occluded Sun, I propose we play a game. First, name a policy position of the Democratic party. Second, name a policy position of the Republican party. Third, describe the Xanatos Gambit that wins regardless of which policy is enacted. Let's show the Illuminati how this s...

...when your feet start tappin' and you can't seem to find how you got theeeeere,
do you believe in magic?



Scooby dooby do wop, scoo-scooby dooby, dooby dooby dop wop, yeah magiiiiic!

Question: What is the epistemological starting point of economics? After following the discussion here, I am compelled to ask: What exactly is the point of economic study? Is it rational and scientific; does it yield repeatable real-world results? Or is it merely normative with a veneer of self-refe...

By other options do you mean another flavour of shit sandwitch?

I get that you prefer the taste of the Blue Imperial Shit Sub to the Red Imperial Shit Sub, but some people don't like eating shit.

What else is on the menu? Can I stay at home and make my own damn sandwitch? Is that too much to ask?

Debt monetisation totally works...Until it doesn't.

And when it doesn't? It's window breaking time.

I would be wary of gold. If you must buy it, ensure you're getting the actual metal as opposed to gold plated tungsten.

You can test this yourself with a power drill. Honest dealers (larger ones) should have a scanner availlable.

Bitcoin price volatility is due to the fact it is not a mainstream currency. The 'cure' to that is widespread acceptance. The currency is only 4 years old, so you can view the volatility as birthing pains or as a speculative bubble, and only time will be the judge. I am not going to make proclaimati...

I could convert my BTC to AUD and be a thousandaire with a roll of bills in my pocket. Big fucking deal. Maybe I'll buy enough PMs to give myself agryria, maybe I'll invest my BTC in litecoin instead. My BTC are worth nothing until I decide to use them for something and I have not yet decided if and...

I hope the smily is because of how funny it is that people actually think that will happen. Oh...it won't hit 650? Because it was over 900 today. I got my first BTC at 0.8 in 2010. You're behind the curve you fucking ape. Because this is an image thread: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7343/108675972...

Guess what? ALL CURRENCIES DEVALUE OVER TIME. I print more money, I mine more fucking gold, I raise more chickens to trade for knives, I make more knives, I spend more of my day working for someone else in order to barter for something. Currency/money is an abstraction of work done over a period of...

Devaluation is a reduction in the value of currency. Intentional or competitive devaluation is where the policy of a country deliberately devalues it own currency in relation to foreign currency, in order to boost it's own economy by stimulating domestic productivity and disincentivising the consump...

The definition of insanity is where you do the same thing and expect different results, right? Fiat currency has resulted in the devaluation and collapse of every economy that instituted it. That is not an exaggeration. Fiat currency in the modern world requires constant moderation and regulation to...

What about spells that can create a workforce?

Fiat monies only have intrinsic value to the institutions that issue them. The Elf king may be able to issue fiat money from his treasury and have this form of currency gain acceptance within his own kingdom, by mandating that taxes in Elfland be paid in elfbucks. The Elf king is going to have a mor...

There was an episode of the X-Files that covered genies. The Genie was actually a medieval French peasant that found a magic lamp. Her first wish was for a sack of turnips, that never ran out. Her second wish was for Great Power and Long Life. So she got turned into a Genie. Her motivation for fucki...

I'll sign up on the off chance a few people drop out. Looks very interesting and has been entertaining reading. Wilhelma Maenell Fontaine De la Tour D'Haute Rive (Billie-Mae). Feytouched Spirit Shaman. Billie Mae was born and raised at the Chateau D'Haute Rive, a plantation complex situated in the c...

The 4 big paragraphs, starting paragraph 9. Everything else is dross.

Way to miss the fucking point. If you play a Paladin, then your character has a code of conduct. There is an imposed set of behaviours for your character, by design. Thank you AD&D, for coming into peoples homes and telling players how they should play certain characters. What the article is act...

Exalted's Most Mature Content (A Mature Article) For Matures Only. Link to Something Awful's WTF D&D!? column. NSFW because of Exalted content.

I thought it may have been an elaborate trolling exercise, so I checked the site it was hosted on. Some White Power cult called Creativity that has it's hooks into Australia. It rang a bell with me. Pretty sure they dropped an edited and abridged copy of the Protocols of Zion in my letterbox a few y...

Krull.

If the Mind Flayers want to hurt trade, a blockade may not be the best way they could go about it. They are sneaky, have mind control and have access to Dopplegangers, so they have other means at their disposal to impact trade. Mercenaries and bandits can be 'hired' to harass trade routes, leaving t...