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For the record, I'm not ignoring your post, xeno.  Just waiting to get the full response (I'm pretty sure that if I respond to this half before you finish, I'll end up inevitably forgetting something and confusing both of us in the long run).  Not that I'm rushing you... just wanted to make that clear.  We've got plenty of time.  tongue

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Re: Solving Sovereign Debt

Crisis in Italy!!

How can berlusconi get laid now?

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> Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:

> For the record, I'm not ignoring your post, xeno.  Just waiting to get the full response (I'm pretty sure that if I respond to this half before you finish, I'll end up inevitably forgetting something and confusing both of us in the long run).  Not that I'm rushing you... just wanted to make that clear.  We've got plenty of time.  tongue

Thanks, Zarf,

Many things on the go...

I appreciate your patience.

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Zarf, I don't know what it is (maybe the format of the forum), but responding to your lengthy post, and then re-responding to your replies, since there is no format to be able to follow the discussion reply by reply, etc., seems tedious.

I will get to it, but to be honest, it seems like a chore.  If the forum was designed a bit differently so as to allow for the detailed, multi-faceted discussions that I think we would both like to do, it might feel less like a chore.

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I know exactly what you mean.  I've thrown out 3 different massive posts just replying to your last giant post.  tongue

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It's funny, actually; there is no forum system I am aware of that adequately addresses the needs of the the debate forum poster...

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Well, there is, assuming "needs" means "encouraging the person to leave the computer and do something more productive than arguing on the internetz."  smile

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I vehemently protest your attack on the art of debating.  Grr...  Shall we start a new thread on the value of conducting debates on internet forums?

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You realize that was a joke, right?  tongue

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If you can't afford it, then you shouldn't buy it.

If it's beyond your means to pay, then don't take the debt.

Most government that buy up debt, hope to use it over someone's head for leverage.  That's a pretty piss poor way to run a government if you ask me.  Holding someone elses debt, not to so much that it's worth something.  It's just used to hold over another person's, or government's, head.  In order to bring pressure to bear to put someone into line with whatever you want.  That's all debt is.  Doing what you want others to do.

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