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Hi folks everyone just buys their choco off the shelf. But have you ever heard of homemade choco? if not you should look into it because it is really tasty and you're missing out on an important part of your culinary life
now do you have some homemade recipe of stuff you usually just buy in the supermarket I can try out?
eh who are you talking about??
I once started a similar thread, but I called it "Physical response (ooooh baby!)" or something like that
essentially my answer would be yes, but the government can always judge your behaviour afterwards and deem your reaction to be out of proportion with the behaviour that provoked it
V. Kemp
government can facilitate wealth creation by making sure the right people get the right resources at the right time; it is not easy to determine who, what and when that is exactly, but that's a matter of establishing good governance; the money in question doesn't need to come from directly from other tax payers by the way, it could be done through lowering certain taxes or as justinian pointed out through simply issuing more money (all of which have their own risks, but the net result can still be beneficial, again that is a matter of implementing the right policies)
Father Communism
I think you got caught up a bit in the concrete examples I gave without taking into account the bigger picture behind them. The rich(er) person may or may not have had a plasma TV already, he can buy a new one, he can buy some other gizmo that he didn't yet have,... and like I said in the op he will rather put it into the bank in times of crisis
this is not very beneficial to the bank as I pointed out the bank is scared in times of crisis and will be less willing to take economic risk and instead put it into safer investments like government bonds, not helping to solve the crisis
instead you want companies to be able to sell stuff so that they can go to the banks and get short term loans for their daily operations and long term investments without the bank worrying about them going bust
"your full of ignorance, and before you claim the poor are poor because they are bad at spending, try living in that situation."
also I think this was uncalled for, I merely said poor people are more likely to spend the money, not that they are somehow morally bad with spending or saving
The thing is that poor people tend to save a lot less than rich people. If you put 10$ into the hands of 100 poor people chances are they will spend all of their 10$ whether it is an economic crisis or not. The amount of extra income is just too small and their running costs too great to entice saving it. If you put 1000$ into the hands of one rich person he might choose to buy that new plasma screen, but in times of crisis he is much more likely to save all or at least some of this extra money (with a bank not too willing to lend it out for fear of not seeing it back or in government bonds, putting the money back in the hands of the government).
so if you want to stimulate the economy out of a crisis you have take measures that distribute small bits of wealth into many hands, rather than measures favouring a few people a whole lot
on the other hand if you want to keep a knowlegde economy in a boom cyble going you may want to consider putting more wealth into rich people's hands; that 1000$ top of the line plasma screen provides an extra incentive to research innovating products and even if they save some or all of the money it just ends up in the hands of people who will be more than willing to lend it out to innovators since the economic boom creates enough trust that it will be paid back
mmmh?
@ op
poor people often have more children than average, do you consider children to be depreciating in value? 
government intervention is like complicated surgery; it can cure the patient in various degrees but it may as well leave him off much worse than he was and with less money in his pocket to boot
it is silly to claim that it is always better to let the economy run its course; good economic policies will greatly improve the economy, the problems are knowing what to do and then being able to do it, neither of which are easy when dealing with a hugely complex entity such as the US economy
hey man, how many stewardesses does he take home every night?
it didn't I phailed miserably... I had to do it during work hours but as it turned out I wasn't able to be even remotely near a computer that day... lol 
Hi I have a question: how do you record a radio programme (played from computer) on your computer? Do you need a special program or something? Coz I know someone who will be on the radio and need to record it
it's hard to say what is the best movie since there are so many different genres each with good stuff in them
but I would say:
best war movie: saving private ryan
best science fiction movie: star wars, part IV (runner up being 'alien')
best romantic comedy: there's something about mary
best comedy: the big lebowski
best action movie: die hard
best semi-historical movie: spartacus (runners up being gladiator and 300)
best zombie movie: 28 days later
best dystopian movie: brazil (runner up being 'blade runner')
then of course there are those original movies like memento, pulp fiction and the sixth sense which might not fit in distinct categories but are very neat...
though honestly like so many people I've seen so many movies I would probably change my mind on some of these picks if other titles were brought back to my attention
and ironically with the availability of so many illegaly downloaded versions it's amazing how many crappy movies are out there that are barely worth watching
according to this he is not gay
http://nl.netlog.com/LambiBambie
of course the nick "lambibambie" tells us otherwise
now that's orwellian!
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I like wardancers...
that is exactly right... it would of course be different if nobody was fighting back and israel would still be carrying out airstrikes like that
lobbing missiles into israel simply isn't a smart strategy to solve palestine's problems
roughly said a couple of years ago there was this period where Israel would assassinate a hamas leader, then hamas would announce a new one, then Israel would assassinate this one, then hamas would announce a new one, then Israel would kill this one; hamas stopped making the identity of those leaders public from then on
I would assume the core leadership of hamas is almost as untrackable as bin laden, relying on a select group of faithfulls, not using technology and moving around a lot... if Israel knew where to find them I'm sure they'd be dead
the figure of 200 civilian casualties is incorrect I believe... this news report (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7801657.stm) speaks of 250 casualties with up to a third of those being civilians.
while I deplore the loss of civilian life I do consider Israel's point valid that just because the rocket attacks on Israel weren't very deadly (only one killed), that doesn't negate the fact that they were intended to be so; if my general surrounding was shelled every day I would demand my government to take action and if the enemy happens to let civilians running around its facilities then that's too bad for them
yes update the old ones
it's not only about the number of nuclear missiles, but also about how up to date they are...
do you have it? do you like it? is it worth getting?
online internet games are kind of like pyramid schemes... you get huge growth in the beginning then a phase of stabilisation and then you go into decline as there are more and more older players leaving than new players entering
I guess the only way to prevent or postpone this is to tweak things like utopia does and to market your game properly
you can't expect ppl to read everything someone posts, especially if it is just a bland news report...
also I wish there had been more people throwing shoes; as everyone knows in playing dodgeball the more balls you aim at a particlar individual the less likely he will be able to dodge...
this is becoming quite a collection of buildings
mah work spot (well close to it anyway, you can't see the actual wing where I'm at in the pic)
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