Quoi_Tu

It's an imperative now! I'll one up you? Then meet up with her somewhere else. Didn't you say you got her number?

Talk to her in person?

Not unless we teach them sex will get you diseases! The only thing I learned in sex ed way back when was about STDs; that's it. Not really education, just fear mongering.

How is that NOT superficial? You don't love her or anything. You just like her and other girls, but you decided to pick that one because you thought you wouldn't get dumped. Well, you did, tough luck. What are you going to do now? Find the ugliest girl that has no friends and hope she doesn't dump you either? Try dating a girl you actually like/love and don't get a girlfriend just because you want one. You've still got alot to learn about relationships. He's just 13, if he got into a serious relationship at that age, I would be amazed. Everyone is treating him as if he is 18 looking for a serious relationship with someone he truly loves, when he's just a 13 year old newly exposed to the world of hormones. Seriously guys, there's no real reason to get up in arms about a 13 year old following those "funny feelings." Ah well, how quickly we forget.

I have really noticed that they are getting much shorter each year also. It must be an epidemic! I'll call the CDC! ... They say it's perspective disorder! I think I need sleep...

Human, right?

Real men bowl with their bodies, not their ball.

Last.fm?

The bold is just wrong. Also, what stimulus plans that Japan has used are you thinking about? Because our plan is nothing like the multi-trillion dollar infrastructure spending of the 1990's in Japan when they were in a period of deflation and a liquidity trap (a different situation than ours). And those people receiving free money have been shown to spend more (which helps the economy) than wealthier people receiving the same amount.

Today I mostly avoided entering a conversation full of lies (maybe honest mistakes, maybe) and misunderstandings. I had to point out a few wrong facts here and there, but decided to remain silent for the majority of the time and finish my dinner. Won't be having a meal with them again anytime soon. I also woke up in a crummy mood again today. Kind of bothersome.

:shock: :?: I dreamt the local mail office was robbed of their money which they kept in a cigar box. As far as I remember, I stole the money, but buried it?

I realized I do have one thing that annoys me, people who complain for the sake of complaining. Those special few who don't want to change what they're complaining about, they just want to complain. An easy way to identify such a person is when they state a complaint, suggest a solution and watch them scramble for all the possible reasons that solution won't work or just ignore what you said and complain about some minor grievance. What silly people.

I don't know how much I buy into the idea of telling a personality from a face, but I certainly do judge people by their actions, movements, and appearance. It's impossible to figure out the finer points or some characteristics of their personality that way, but fairly easy to get a sense of who they are. What's fun is when you turn prejudice into a game and see who gets the most "points".

I don't really get annoyed, for better or worse.

When I first started playing runescape oh so many years ago I needed a place for guides, and here I am. I suppose I stay through force of habit. Come summer, I'll probably disappear again since I'll be doing trail work and related park maintenance. I really should work more so maybe I'll quit the habit, who knows.

I thought Koyaanisqatsi was pretty good. Philip Glass is pretty awesome!

This all seems kind of like, "hey, look how many artisits I have. Pretty impressive, huh?" To join in and for anyone who's curious, http://www.last.fm/user/SchizoidDog. It holds all the answers to life and beyond.

Oh, I thought you meant we'd have a negative GDP, which seemed awfully severe, but you meant growth. Got it.

We were back to pre-Great Depression levels by 1939, before the war started. The war also put the US into a lot of debt (over 100% of GDP) and almost halted consumer spending and raised savings rates to record highs (high savings aren't neccessarily bad, just listing what happened). War is bad for an economy; end of story. The Spanish-American-Fillipino War of 1898 earned America millions despite grave spending buying the Phillipines from Spain. We made a lot, and I mean a lot, of money from that war. If you think in terms of business, war (especially these days, before 20th cent. may be an exception) has costs that have no return. A country creates the job of soldier and pays a citizen to do it. That citizen does not creat a product that the country then turn around and sells, that citizen helps kill other countries citizens whether in defense or not. War is not a good business model. We surely haven't gained anything economic from Iraq or Afganistan; we've only lost.

We were back to pre-Great Depression levels by 1939, before the war started. The war also put the US into a lot of debt (over 100% of GDP) and almost halted consumer spending and raised savings rates to record highs (high savings aren't neccessarily bad, just listing what happened). War is bad for an economy; end of story. What do you mean negative GDP?

The Federal Reserve (The Fed) deposits money into the banks reserves electronically. Well, a fair amount of people did spend the checks, but the plan didn't have the effect Bush wanted. The first half of TARP was primarily loans to failing banks, and the pie charts referred to the Obama stimulus plan not TARP. So, TARP is separate from the Obama plan and was passed during the Bush administration. The bill is suprisingly bipartisan with a mix of infrastructure spending and tax cuts and it should have appealed to the Republicans, but politics got in the way (it always does). It's not a partisan, agenda-based bill, that's just the pundits babbling.

Why? I forget if the stimulus is officially 1 trillion or 800 something billion, lets just say 800 billion for the sake of discussion. The Us is in effect printing 800 billion dollars for an 800 billion dollar spending project/stimulus. Printing 800 billion new bills has a way of causing inflation, granted with the whole world in economic trouble it wont be as bad of inflation. The other problem is that talking like the economy is going doomsday hurts markets based on emotional speculation. $789bil I think. Remember the stimulus is to replace private spending with public. Also, we've been borrowing a lot of money too, so not all of it is printed. For some reason, our treasury bonds are still being bought even with the low rates of return, which the Fed might lower more.

My computer background, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field:

Why do you detest the stimulus and think it will fail? [/hide] I detest it for the reasons in my initial post. That is has unnecessary spending in the middle of a recession which are used to further party agenda rather than help the economy, like the fuel-economic cars for government workers of Obama's administration. Yes, that's a good thing, but not now. And I think it will, in general, fail, because it's similar and even less effective than the less-expensive Bush bailout bill, which didn't do much to help the economy. If it's a good thing, it's a good thing now. Basically, the stimulus bill is part of fiscal policy which has been shown to be effective in keeping recessions from getting worse and usually helping bring the economy back into a period of expansion. Fiscal policy for a recession encompasses government spending (to offset the decline in private spending) and tax cuts to give people more money to spend and create jobs. When you say Bush bailout bill, do you mean TARP (the wallstreet bailout) or the tax return checks back in May of 2008? TARP's only been half spent and helped a little, but not enough and is not a stimulus plan. The tax rebates seemed to help a bit through August, but then the economy tanked again. Why do you detest the stimulus and think it will fail? well a. there is a lot of spending that is going to end up being wasteful b. I am worried about inflation Obviously without reading through the bill I cant be more specific, but I generally dont trust rushed law making There is inevitably some waste, but the hope is that the majority is actual helpful stimulus, which I think would be hard for it not to be. As for inflation, we were worried about deflation a month ago and the CPI (a decent indicator of inflation) is still negative, so inflation is unlikely to cause much harm.

Why do you detest the stimulus and think it will fail?