The items are custom written. I know because I've written some. Restringing would not work. Suffice to say- it is labor intensive and requires planning.
People to propose locations for items, write the items, code the necessary stuff, and then to implement the RP aspect also. It is a labor intensive process.
TL;DR - I guess my main point to Dalbrin is, media lies. It's ultimately propaganda. Politicians will also lie. Including Jean Claude "When it gets serious, you have to lie" Juncker. Data can, if accurate, reveal peculiarities in certain narratives. Any sort of evidence can really, including qualitative evidence. All I am saying is, don't put too much stock in media publi
1. They were bullying. They started with a lowball figure in the tens of billions and then hiked it up to the hundreds of billions. By all accounts, this figure was pulled out of a hat.
2. They said there were no plans for a European defense force at all during the Brexit ref. then backtracked on that. Now Juncker is talking about a federal army. I guess you think they will use that army to
Do not trust the papers, and the media. Do not trust the politicians. They are lying. Trust market charts, hard data.
The EU is a glass cannon and without reform the entire EU political establishment will drag every European citizen down to maintain their pensions.
Italy's two wealthiest regions voting in autonomy referendums:
Happening in Warwickshire, UK (hostage situation with armed police on scene). No one knows the reason yet.
Spanish government trying to calm situation in Catalan after massive pro-independence rally. Currently trying to install government with 8.5% of popular vote in last Catalan elections. Forced elections to be he
the fighters would use children as human shields while firing on Western troops right? There was an immigrant in 2015 who made his child lie down on a railway track in protest in Germany.
Children are commodities in that part of the world. You need to get outside the UK bubble. Go live in some of these places long enough to understand people's mentalities. Massive cognitive dissonance
Your latest installation of EU doom-porn:
Austrian election ends with worst pro-state parties outcome since WW2. "Right-wing" 30-something elected as leader (but still needs to form a coalition).
2 Pro-referendum politicians in Catalonia now in police custody. Catalonian Police Chief also arrested.
Brexit talks with the EU now deadlocked. British PM Theresa May visits ke
The splitting of the real economy from the monetary economy in order to ensure a communist 'utopia' is pretty much an overt admission that Marxism simply does not work in practice. There might be oppression (in a sense), but it's less about oppression due to some evil shadow cabal/evil capitalists, and more to do with variability in IQ, upbringing, and work ethic.
The irony o
The EU is. Their adherence to socialism is a compromise between communism and a market system. In the monetary structure etc., degree of brutality, totalitarian governance style (currently), not so much.
Out of curiosity, why did they uncouple their productive sector from the monetary supply and split it like that?
amongst the youth makes sense when you have the public sector shifting investment funds towards the past at the expense of the future. There is no reason why families cannot take care of one another based on income (without taxes being needed for social security). The governments enrich themselves and leave less for everyone else through taking a fee/administrative cost for the transfer of inco
It's set up that way because the government is going bankrupt. This is why I advocate pruning back the services which are excessive, like social security. In absence of that the government ends up in collapse mode with a negative death spiral of rising taxes/inflation,
It basically becomes the snake that is eating its own tail.
They are loans from the government. If they are done through a private company it is funneled there and backed by the government. In the UK they are purely governmental.
Also the loans without any checks and balances are the reason why the cost of education has outpaced inflation across retail goods by a factor of 2.5 times since the 2000s. It's also the reason why I suspect real estat
Since the student loan costs are a de-facto tax hike on the youth to afford the aforementioned big ticket items on the public sector budgets. That's why the US makes them exempt from bankruptcy laws and death (they get passed on to family members/cosigners -done by the Clintons by the way), and the UK writes a good portion of them off after 30 years. This is something a good portion of CFe
QuoteAnd healthcare is quite obviously infrastracture, not FMCG. Trying to press prices down by implementing market methods to healthcare will only result in higher prices because market aims for profit.
That's why you have anti-trust. Every time businesses get too large, just break them up into smaller businesses. Businesses are profit-maximizers, but profit tends towards zero in a perf
If they are going to keep the currently healthcare insurance system in place. Otherwise you are dealing with state-subsidized monopolists at the state level for insurance. Without some aspect of competition there is nothing bidding prices down in the market. In this instance, market power is bad.
Edit: just pointing out that we mostly agree here. US healthcare could be reduced cost-wise
Healthcare costs rise exponentially with age. While I agree with the notion that US healthcare is just horrendously inefficient (mainly due to lack of competition across state lines, and lobbying), it isn't a private sector issue.
The structure of the market can be changed through intelligent governance. What Obama did with Obamacare was absolutely insane - hiking taxes on young people
Medicare. Medicaid. State pensions. There is a significant portion of the US budget dedicated to maintaining a state sponsored Ponzi scheme (state pensions/social security) and taxes are being hiked by public administrators who are all in their 60-80s to keep their entitlements going.
There is also interest expenditures on existing debt that the govt. has borrowed which are ballooning (but
Is out of control. Any sort of entrepreneurial mechanisms have been killed off by over-regulation and taxes due to the socialist state*. In essence we are running on a full tank of gasoline, but siphoning 70% of the gasoline off before it reaches the combustion engine. By the time it reaches the combustion stage, the output is marginal.
The welfare state has been a tremendous boondoggle tha
When I was out there, and the Arab Spring was ongoing, the Saudis were rumored to be working with the Israelis in Yemen and have clandestine strike bases for their forces also. I worked with a lot of people with clout in the country- they were very well connected in the sorts of circles where this information might be shared.
I don't know how true it is but.. would not surprise me.
Iran, Iraq and Qatar are a bit of a wild card. With all of the USD pegs in the region, the decision to sanction Qatar was an especially interesting one from an economic perspective. Mainly because that sort of thing has the ability to back fire catastrophically on the Saudis.
Also the House of Saud is cleaning house right now. A gunman was executed outside the royal palace the other day als
Governments running inflation hot for the last decade, while under-reporting it, because state pensions are an irredeemable Ponzi Scheme and unfunded liabilities are not in any way, shape or form, affordable.
Also:
- Italian elections in March.
- Undercapitalized Eurozone banking system. (ECB running stress tests for an Italian banking system collapse)
- Two people in Stephen Paddock's
...and I'm all for lowering the degree of difficulty gradient for newer players, but this is a pretty good way to get the code ripped out entirely.
Indifferent as I don't have time to play, but worth considering for the sake of current players.
