Money's Worth

posted on April 14th, 2010, 6:21 am

Rabbits man.  The squirrels had the Achilles' heel in their tails.

The rabbits were fast and tiny.

posted on April 14th, 2010, 6:43 am

My 1st LAN!  Remember, how, if your entire class was playing the game, and someone ahead of you died, you would eventually come up and be able to read what they wrote on their tombstone?

I always did buy a ridiculous amount of ammo.

posted on April 14th, 2010, 11:26 am

i loved the later version of that game that added mouse aimed gunning. playing the banker was far too easy lol.

@mal, here in britainlandshire we learn another language, other than english. i chose french 

[Dircome]

posted on April 14th, 2010, 2:33 pm

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The farmer was the best lol actually i still have Oregon trail 3 laying around somewhere (its still the best in series)

I was just doing some looking online and apparently you can get it for your i phone

posted on April 14th, 2010, 2:48 pm

I learned spanish in middle school and in high school, but then promptly forgot it.  There's just no serious emphasis on learning a language if you already speak Ingles.  I'm slowly working on re-learning it, so I guess that's something.

posted on April 14th, 2010, 3:00 pm

If I had an interface to connect my brain to the computer. I could program the perfect game with a mere thought. It would make Halo and WWC series look like a childs game. Plus it would require really thinking through things, and thinking fast. Plus also it would take even the most experienced players on this earth months to climb up the ladder of progress because of so much complexity.

But of course I'd be playing it. And I would be the final boss of the game (using the brain interface to my advantage). >:D

[Shril]

posted on April 14th, 2010, 7:09 pm

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From what I could verstehe, The video in the link was touching on the concept (not so much a concept) that people are born into debt, or as taxable 'employees' of their nation-of-birth.  Whereas the government conceives their budget from the population (X Amount $ / Per Person)  taking that amount out as a loan, from that person's lifetime estimated expectancy of taxable income, which they'll spend their life paying off, on the government's behalf...
It's along those lines, anyway.  It was a few years ago when I was looking into that.

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Not exactly J. The video shows the reason why everyone is into debt on a historical basis beginning with the invention of money as an exchange medium based on trust. The devil playing the protagonist and gold smith "Fabian" come up with the idea for money and earning the trust of the people. What the people didn't know was that Fabian had bigger plans to make himself untouchable by offering a place people could store the and get money (cedit) which was created by Fabian himself (each coin) to pay it back over time. The evil thing about it was that Fabian gave more money to the people that would exist in reality by simply building on trust. The banks man Fabian was successful when also forcing the government to step in as trusty and customer for the money (currency) and so also made the government dependant of his bank.

The point is that by giving 2 people each 52,5% out of 100% available money as bank credit (based on trust and not on hard value), will result in both parties never ever pay back their depth. Exactly this is the essence of the system we are living in and common practice. So when you payed off your debt for e.g. your house, you practically moved your debt over to another person who has to pay for the same debt.

So what the idea behinf the video is, is nothing else that the power lies withing the bank and not the state or the people because the people as well as the governments are in dept as they lend money from the bank. I hope my insufficient english skills were enough to explain that one... too sad there's no english version of the video.

Later in the video Fabian's goals changes as money had lost its excitment. So he came up with a new plan by also using his built up institution/"business".

posted on April 14th, 2010, 7:40 pm

I was just happy that I could read the title, "Give me the world plus 5%.  German is another language I want to learn.  So many, and yet so little time.

posted on April 15th, 2010, 2:41 am

They didn't really go into much detail, in either of the videos (I watched money=debt too)  but it is a parallel argument for how the banks conjure up money, versus how the government does it, probably along with their taxation rates versus employed, taxable population.

That's a figure governments use to calculate their gross national income.

Like I said though, I half-remember most of this, so I'm doing some theorizing at this point.