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unbillievable

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  1. When they ask you whether you want to get paid $600/week or $2400/month... Gator chose wrong.
  2. I know someone who complains that he can't go to his gym, otherwise they might take away his disability check.
  3. I've been doing vacations wrong all these years! I hope my boss doesn't take the money back.
  4. If you want to know what really happens if there is ever unlimited free energy: 1)Load Fallout 4 (or halo, etc -whichever shooter you are playing right now) 2)Enter the code for unlimited ammo. results: What usually happens to your game?
  5. As it turns out, the older I get the more Liberal I seem to be, financially. I'm starting to think about all the freebies I want when I retire. Especially since the first few years of Socialism are usually the best. Feeling the Bern!!!
  6. I cringe whenever liberals point out that they make more money than the average conservative. It's only because you raised the cost of living to idiotic levels... to the point where everyone is leaving I know someone who is moving to Santa Barbara because she was offered a (secretarial) job with better pay (a demotion). She didn't believe me when I told her that instead of her 4 bedroom house, she will only be able to afford a studio apartment there. I showed her a website that said she would need to raise her pay 86% to maintain the same standard of living. She didn't care. To her, more money is more money...
  7. I'm surprised the Democrats haven't summoned more of their Hollywood minions into the campaign. They did pledge to serve the President. Although, they could be waiting until after the white Oscars.
  8. Discovery of unlimited free energy or invention of a replicator would not get us closer. It will merely shift the value to another scarce resource. Also, you're making the same mistake of equating a monetary system with value. (banning the use of scales does not make a rock weightless) Even if we were to push the experiment to his endpoint, the new currency will still be TIME. Banks will trade your mandatory 3hrs of labor this week for 3hrs 10mins next week.
  9. His solution to achieving an unlimited resource economy is to work 3hrs a week to produce 3X as much goods by DE-specializing the workforce and doing only jobs you like. His first step to creating this labor force is to have every child become masters of every job by only learning from teachers chosen by popularity whose qualifications are awarded only when the community deems them worthy. He also states that people will miraculously become community oriented when money is abolished, to the point that he completely ignores answering his "obvious questions" about free-loaders, because all everyone really wants is a pat on the back. 1) work 3hrs a week. 2) ??? 3) unlimited resources! Of course if we live in a world with no scarcity of any kind we could do whatever we wanted... however, basing his entire philosophy on this premise is Idiotic. (putting aside his mistaken attribution of money to value) Ultimately, what he's really advocating is to make everything worthless by flooding every market, everywhere, with excessive quantities of every good, simultaneously. So when he figures out how to break the laws of time, space, and energy, we can seriously have a discussion on the merits of the absolute cultural uniformity he sees as a Utopia. I will re-state: One of the dumbest videos I have ever watched. PS. He did infer that we could also accomplish his dream by ceasing all interaction with other people. Independent self-replicating amoeba; able to function alone.
  10. The OP's video is quite possibly the most naive' presentation I've ever watched. His entire premise hinges on every person on the planet being absolutely equal. Everyone must look the same, think the same, experience the same life, etc. ANY variation and the model falls apart. -if one clone were to wear out his shoes 1 second earlier than the rest, it would create every single problem he believed was caused by "money". Crime. Envy. Greed. Gluttony. Hoarding. Hierarchy. Even if he were to find a drone populated planet, it would still fall apart because his solution relies on the the Underpants Gnome Business model: step 1: work 3hrs a week step 2: ??? step 3: unlimited abundant resources for everyone! I think that video makes everyone who watches it dumber.
  11. Star Trek has money, like gold pressed latinum, but the rest of the time, they revert to a barter system; not exactly utopian economics. At Sisko's creole restaurant on Earth, what does his father pay the waiters? How does a person get a table? Who gets all of the Picard family wine? Just because they don't use "money", doesn't mean there isn't an exchange of value. What do you think a person from the 1800's would think of a credit card? He'll probably think that we abolished money. This discussion is held at many sci-fi conventions and the consensus always returns to the fact that in order for Star Trek to sustain it's economic model, there must exist an unseen SLAVE class doing all work. (Which was addressed when Voyager showed the Doctor's hologram brethren working in dilithium mines.) http://capitalismmagazine.com/2002/08/franciscos-money-speech/
  12. The blond is left handed. The Indian girl has no cards. There is no one else at the casino. No one is wearing a watch. There are no beverages on the table. The guy in the middle has a uni-brow. How do you show that much boob without nipple?
  13. The french fries at the bottom of the bag that you didn't know were there.
  14. Be aware that some switches (even around the bed) shut off ALL electricity, and not just the lamps. I was taking a shower when someone hit the switch; total darkness with shampoo in my hair. -try getting out of a bathtub, while slippery, in total darkness. That cord above the bathtub is to let the front desk know you've fallen and can't get up. (yes I pulled it) The desk told us that they generally ignore that signal when it's a tourists room, which they did this time too. Also, most hotels require a card key-holder to keep the electricity on in the room. Don't be surprised if your electronics have not charged (and the room is a sauna) when you return. The worst ones have timers too.
  15. most women just wear granny panties. same thing.
  16. We have moved way beyond "moral" or "fair" when it comes to taxes. We're in the realm of "Justice" now. It's gone from elevating the poor to punishing the rich; probably since our definition of poor is considered rich for the rest of the world. We're handing out free cellphones! Our job should be done.
  17. How was he able to keep his special forces history a secret from a post-apocalyptic tyrannical government? That would imply he was a soldier for another country.
  18. The #1 thing I learned while in Italy: Lines are a suggestion. If someone cuts in front of you, it's your fault for leaving a gap. Italians will be mad at you, and not the line jumper. Learn to let it go. Americans are considered "nice" for a reason; everyone else is rude. PS> Skip the Vatican unless you're Catholic; then you have no choice.
  19. I always have 1 can of spam in my pantry. It may stay there for months, but I always get that craving sooner or later.
  20. Spam is bacon in a can.
  21. There is good and bad in booking tours; the obvious one being that they get preferred entry. If you want to see all the tourist sites in one day, book one. If you would rather risk waiting in line (and have the time to devote to seeing only one site per day), then don't. Just depends on whether you're feeling lucky.
  22. Don't worry folks, Ramona Flowers will kick the monster's ass back to hell...
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