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I think it sounds contradictory because it is. If you let these things constantly get to you then you end up feeling crap all the time. It's a bad state to actually deal with the problems. But just ignoring the crap also has problems too. So it's a tricky balancing act of learning when to let things slide & when to get worked up about them.

Don't know, maybe that's not much help to you.

It depends how sharp we're talking. I know plenty of people who won't touch epicure because of the smell (similar to parmessan)

Quote from: Sergarr on June 01, 2015, 11:45:36 am

To have market, you need to have demand and supply, otherwise you can call "flights to another planet" a market. And you simply can't buy nukes, no matter how much money you bring. Nobody will sell you them, not for money at least.

You have supply and demand. It's a state monopoly on both sides (if you disregard illegal demand which is what I had in mind), but it's there.

Is it completely a state monopoly? It wouldn't surprise me if at least parts of the missile system are designed by 1 of the major defense contractors but a quick search didn't bring up much & I don't really feel like doing too much poking around.

Quote from: mainiac on June 01, 2015, 09:56:56 am

Quote from: Sergarr on June 01, 2015, 08:39:14 am

As far as I know most of arms producing industries have outputs with lower market value than their inputs.

Not really, the value the customers put on those weapons systems is high enough that they buy them.

Most of the times the "customer" is the army of the state that has those arms producing industries, and it usually doesn't have a choice which weapon system to buy, if it can buy one of their own.

And army is a good example of an industry that works at a highly negative profit and is "propped up" by a state. Yet wise people still maintain armies, despite the fact that they cost a lot of money and don't really bring any. What they do is protect your other profit-making organizations from changing hands. So they potentially save you a lot of money. But they don't really bring you any, and that's why saying that any industry that works at a negative profit (having it's outputs be of lower market value than inputs) will be shut down is not quite right.

Last I checked the arms industry is one of the most profitable businesses in the world. Saying it runs at a loss for the state is like saying the automobile industry runs at a loss for the car owner.

At worst you could toss him in front as a meatshield, while you escape.

It is in it's more mystic or monastical forms. I think people are quick to confuse Buddhist monks with lay-buddhists or devotional forms of buddhism with other forms. Or forget that while the catholic church has a clear head of it's hierarchy, Buddhism doesn't. Or that Zen is very unlike pure-land & neither are much like the old-fashion Indian tradition etc. etc.

Pluck them all. With no hair, they can never go grey.

Here it's a saturday which is an obvious solution & even if your away or working you can absentee vote or postal vote. Sounds a little like the US system is set up to make something that's actually fairly easy harder then it needs to be.