April 23, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.13 has been released.
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I'm going back to playing DF, return to your mutual agreement on how great statism is.
And finally, the least-discussed economic decade in every Roosevelt-worshipping history book.QuoteThere were several errors on the part of policy makers that plunged our economy into a deep depression. The inaction on behalf of President Hoover, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Federal Reserve Board to curb over-speculation proved very unwise. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 which President Hoover supported and signed into law helped to paralyze global commerce. The huge tax increases signed into law by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt retarded economic growth, ballooned the national debt, and sunk the nation deeper into the great depression. If Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt had moved to curb over-speculation and otherwise continued the economic policies of Harding and Coolidge, the nation may have been able to have avoided the great depression.
Ohshits! Run leftists! History's catching up!
Dear New York: The Senate is there to save America from itself. And besides, history shows that Senates never get very powerful anyways. So you should totally let those dickwads in South Carolina have as much say you do, even if there's like five times as many of you. Love, J.M.
We could just think of it as a friendly reminder that when we muck around with stuff we don't quite understand mistakes will be made. Shit will go down. Use caution.
You know, because we shouldn't pretend we can fully understand the consequences of something we just discovered. As if we were some omniscient deity. Kind of like a memento mori but more of a memento fuckup.
Personally, any time I've heard that whole "man should not play god" thing it rings in my ears like some abusive husband telling his wife to get back in the kitchen. It's an arbitrary limitation imposed by somebody with authority upon somebody else to keep them in their place.
$275?!?? Where the hell do you live? One of my ex-girlfriends in White Plains, NY paid more than that for the parking space at her brownstone. (Yes, the parking space cost extra on top of the $1200/mo or so that she was paying for a ~400 sq.ft. studio.)low cost of living
You ain't fucking kidding. I pay $275 a month for an apartment New Yorkers would kill each other in the street for.
I know for a fact that the customer service sector is migrating back to the US, specifically because of the reasons I already laid out.Really? Because the last half-dozen times I've had to call support (both internally and as an external customer), that wasn't Kansas I was talking to. At HP, our payroll support line goes to Mexico, our technical support line goes to India, and I believe my org unit's HR support line goes to somewhere in eastern Europe. I know for a fact that IBM shipped the vast bulk of their internal desks to Brazil and Mumbai. External desks may be slowly trickling back, but corporate internal desks for the Fortune 500 are overwhelmingly offshored now, because hey...what are the employees going to do about it? F**k 'em if they don't like it.
Yes, the pension plan days are over. Federal or private. Personal responsibility for one's finances need to become part of the culture again.
By the same logic, investing my money with a bank is irresponsible because the bank could always sink my money into subprime mortgages and then collapse. Take away the price floor? I'd call it the employability sub-basement, and answer YES PLEASE. The labor market would adjust wages and businesses will adjust prices to what it should be within a few months and we'll be able to get the economic engine moving again with people returning to productivity. Its a damned sight better than extending unemployment benefits to two years.No, my last paragraph was pointing out that your "price shock" scenario of rapid deflation in wages and prices WON'T WORK. Not to mention the havoc it would wreak on the fiscal system. Hey, you had a $80,000 student loan to pay off? Guess what? Now instead of paying it off in 10-15 years, you'll die owing money. Now, it's a goldmine for anybody who is actually debt-free and laden with liquid cash. $50,000 in the bank suddenly goes a lot farther if all wages and prices take a steep plummet. Gee, which class of society tends to have a lot of cash reserves and which class tends to have a lot of debt relative to income?
Oh hey look, your last paragraph admits your third was a non-issue. Cool beans.
That bumper sticker is pretty terrible on so many levels. Does his car get scratched by keys often ?Considering that he lives on one of the largest military installations in the Western Hemisphere? No. And frankly, that's pretty mild compared to many other options that I'm sure were on sale.
RedKing, lets say I'll neither confirm nor deny the notion he'll be learning new tricks in Afghanistan.My biggest worry is that he'll get there and they won't be learning new tricks. And using tactics honed by years of urban combat in a decidedly non-urban environment against a different enemy. That would be stupid, but it would also be a textbook example of military rigidity. Luckily, we'll have been ramped up in Afghanistan for over a year by then, so they should have learned from their mistakes by then. (For one thing, they're already figuring out that slow big-ass MRAPs don't work so well in the Mountains when your attackers are on motorcycles and Toyota Tacomas.)
