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wonder how it feels to lose $10k plus. Must feel like Jagex stole your car

This is a nice intro article on the subject. You are welcome to do more research if you have a problem with the factual claims I and this article have made. Source: http://www.freenation.org/a/f12l3.html ^ lol that link looks totally unbiased ammirite? ;)

No but companies only do the bare minimum governments require. On a free market if there is demand for nutritional information (kind of like the demand for organic food) people will fulfill it. Keep in mind most of the shit businesses can get away with is a result of lack of competition (barriers to entry). You could actually go online and order stuff from china and sell it cheaper then walmart. When it gets to the shipyard, they tell you that because of the storage container it came in (or w.e) that you cant get it, unless your walmart. Think about the immense struggle it would take to do the simplest thing, such as open a coffee shop. Which bureaucrat do you go to for your business license, health license, etc. I'm pretty conservative in my views, but what world are you living in? The real world. That markets drive down prices and state controls create cartels. Please research lodge practice and how that system was able to keep medical insurance prices low in Australia, US, Britain among other industrialized countries. What broke that in short is: AMA controls on the amount of doctors allowed to get licensed each year. We have less doctors per 100 people now then we did in the 1920's. We have less doctors per 100 people then most second world countries including Mongolia. Non American doctors do not have significanly higher rates of medical negligence. In the US the AMA was able to control licenses and block licenses for any doctor that signed lodge contracts. Creating a cartel of approved insurance. Outside the US such as in Britain they just took direct control over medical services and the doctors set their own wages

why 2bil games played? You dont necessarily know if Jagex stores your games completed in an int

touche. Well I was wrong about the military point. You would need some sort of army even if your a nuclear state. Does it need to be as expensive as the US army? probably not. Do you need to invade Iran even in a globalized economy to maintain order? I dont think so. But who knows I could be wrong, I already was wrong with nuclear deterrent based military. Your right its not feasible against a cuba type country and the fallout would make them unusable. I still hold to a completely free market health care has existed in every western economy and if it was still around today would cost $64 a year (not subsided at all) for excellent healthcare. Saving Well over a trillion a year in the US. Lodge practice is what it was called if you are interested in what a completely free market healthcare system looks like. Market interventions are always bad. The great recession is a good example of that especially when you actually look at why it occurred and why the bail outs are a bad idea. The greece bailouts are an interesting one as well, once again its just a patch on the problem. Japan also has had market stagnation in recent times because of interventions too.

1.) those countries wouldn't be gone. 2.) well im not sure whats changed. Globalization means governments are more willing to negotiate then ever before and less likely to seek wars then ever before. Besides theres ways to deal with pirates as is. 3.) the entire world is destroyed? If you shoot a nuke at china and given china has nukes and retaliates. At worst a large portion of both those countries would be destroyed at best the threat stops the situation from happening. Unless the political situation is set up in that way I wouldnt expect other countries to join the bandwagon. Whether or not the country has nukes of their own doesn't matter, because of the requirements I would have for going to war. (Much differnet then bushes) 4.) well the national guard isn't an offensive military so yes I am consistent in my views. I recognise the importance of a civil military presence in some disaster situations which the national guard is perfectly capable of handling.

If china ever invaded the United states and nukes were used, there would be no world left to worry about. If anything you should be pushing for dismantling the nuclear weapons program rather than the military. I think that the size of the US military could be reduced...but a country that large cannot maintain a completely isolationist foreign policy which is what they'd have to effectively do if they had no military. The recession was not caused by lack of regulation, but lack of regulation certainly contributed. Canada seems to be doing fine. Russia to my knowledge hasn't fought a battle since the cold war ended. The united states is in a politically stable region and doesn't need a military for defense. Also the US is the biggest market in the world so any country that wants to sell products would want to trade with us. Unless your talking about using the military to have artificially low prices on goods, but that doesn't really justify the cost of the military. China would never declare war with us because of nukes, even if their military is twice our size in the year 2050 they wouldnt touch us for that reason alone. the recession was not caused by lack of regulations AT ALL. The sub prime sector was the most heavily regulated part of the economy and thats the part that failed. if you want to see the meat of the scam that caused the recession I posted a link to a short youtube video explaining the factual elements of the recession. Here you go: "Nuke all enemies" is not an acceptable method of handling defence. A nuke obliterates everything in its blast radius, and poisons the ecosystem surrounding it for decades. A large barrage of nukes could render an entire country uninhabitable. Do you honestly believe that if China were to attack us we would be justified in the genocidal slaughter of billions of human beings? Say that China attacks India. Would you nuke them then? They've taken over India and are massing arms. How about now? They've taken Japan. Well? Their warships are cutting off our sea trade and preventing us from trading. Any ships they catch are confiscated. Will you nuke them? They invade Mexico. Shall we nuke? Canada falls. Is it time? When do you draw the line? At what moment does it become permissable to obliterate an entire people? And this isn't even getting into the small stuff, like dealing with pirates and protecting ambassadors. I'm not addressing the rest of the stuff right now, but to say that a country does not require a military is dangerously nieve. 1.) China attacks india is none of our business. If we had a mutual protection pact with India then yes it would be the same as a Chinese lead invasion against the state of California. 2.) None of our business unless we had an alliance with india. 3.) None of our business unless we had an alliance with Japan 4.) Yes that is a declaration of war. Give them warning that if they steal 1 more american ship that we will treat it as a declaration of war. 5.) None of our business unless we had an alliance with Mexico, which we do called NAFTA. 6.) None of our business unless we had an alliance with Canada, which we do called NAFTA. 7.) When should nuclear war be an option if the United States had no conventional military A.) A deliberate and continued attack on United States citizen and territories. B.) A deliberate and continued attack on a country we have a mutual protection pact (ie: NATO) C.) A refusal to stop said attacks when the threat of nuclear war is stated 8.) I would keep the national guard still and keep the current numbers they have, but disband every other branch of the military. Plus actually allowing merchant ships to carry arms stops piracy. What a concept, thats why you got pirate problems because they exploit those disarmament laws. Even keeping just the national guard and a minimal navy and airforce you would be saving 750B+ a year. Even with a 50B budget we would still have one of the largest military budgets in the world.

yeah they are. and if China was to launch an invasion against the united states what weapon would be used to fight them? Stealth bombers or nukes? probably nukes with the othes you probably never heard of lodge practice until now, and i doubt you even read the article ot see how it was destroyed. You probably have some belief that the great recession was caused by lack of regulations. Social security would be a challenge because of current obligations to people whove paid into it 20+ years. But the best approach is everyone under 50 has the choice whether or not to continue and everyone under 30 has to switch to an IRA based retirement plan.

yeah its pretty crazy. Here is what we should be doing 1.) dismantle the military. As a force of defense it serves no purpose in the nuclear era unless it is being used to police shit countries that cant harm us 2.) dismantle socialized healthcare including medicare. Do some research on lodge practice. Which if around today could provide healthcare to todays standard at the massive cost of $64 a year per person without subsidies. heres a link to a little article about it 3.) stop market interventions. Why the recession happened and why the bailouts wont help the situation. A good sarcastic video explaining it I found on youtube More generally though interventions never work and even UCLA admits the new deal greatly lengthened the great depression.4.) prison state. $40k cost a year per prisoner, free everyone convicted of a victimless crime. 5.) social security. Ponzy scheme and will fail for the similar reasons. If you believe that people are stupid and need the government to force them to save for retirement why force everyone to get an IRA and/or life insurance instead? 1.) total savings: $600B a year 2.) total savings: $1.5T a year 3.) total savings: billions 4.) total savings: $30B a year 5.) total savings: $800B+ a year If you want to lower the national debt all these are pretty good steps. But you wont see a candidate do 1 or any of these

Yeah, because Romney is totally a small government guy... More so than Obama. Pick the lesser of two evils, but America opted against that. Not at all. Romney had the same spending plans as Obama, with an empty promise to end obamacare. Also the likely expensive war with iran.

lol that's obama's reelection slogan and Romney's election slogan

I can guarantee Jagex wont be developing RS anymore by the time your halfway through your second account, assuming you dont quit in a few months

theres already castle wars bots, I dont think that would change that. Its kind of like there being an achievement for 1 million CoD kills. You will get some people who get totally addicted to the achievement that they will start paying their friends to leave their xboxes on and keep dying, or lend their account to killfarmers in china, or possibly work on some way to automate as much as possible Even though FPS matchmaking is fun ridiculous time commitment achievements drive completionist oriented people to extreme measures This is completely unrelated to bots bots are a symptom of the overall problem, which is unreasonable time commitments to a goal which players feel compelled to complete. Whether its sitting in a corner clicking once a minute or having a bot to do the heavy lifting it happens for that reason

theres already castle wars bots, I dont think that would change that. Its kind of like there being an achievement for 1 million CoD kills. You will get some people who get totally addicted to the achievement that they will start paying their friends to leave their xboxes on and keep dying, or lend their account to killfarmers in china, or possibly work on some way to automate as much as possible Even though FPS matchmaking is fun ridiculous time commitment achievements drive completionist oriented people to extreme measures

Imagine if Ron Paul won the nomination. Obama would be terrified right now, because all the young voters would abandon him and all the conservative voters would (perhaps grudgingly in regards to foreign policy) support RP, but Romney won the nomination and gave Obama an assured win

if your not making 5m+ an hour your wasting your time

good luck maybe if the current top 15 quit youll have a shot at it

Why does it bother you whos on the list lol. Besides he said his rules for it, if you dont like it make your own list. It would take you less time to do that then to complain about it

if you thought that was scary just look at windows 8

Weapons of Mass Destruction, yeah he wasn't wrong about them being in Iraq he lied about it to go to war. Im just saying its not about Bush or Obama being liars to advance their foreign policy its about EVERY modern president doing so.

Virus scanner wont find shit. Check app data for rats (in the case that its a lazy kid who doesn't know how to save it to other locations) Type %appdata% on the search spot when you click start. Delete anything fishy. Type msconfig on the search spot and go to the start up tab and delete anything fishy. If your feeling brave and have a guide check your registry as well.

hopefully you meant hghscores by that

I agree... but Bush would've done the same, and Romeny WILL do the same.

on a related note I am convinced that TIF has deliberate lag because its taking a long time for pages to load today

well you cleared up this rumor pretty late. This has been flying around for quite some time