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Livelovedie
United States492 Posts
On October 26 2013 05:41 FrankDaTank wrote: Anyone see Russel Brands interview calling for a revolution? Russell Brand is insane... I put no stock in what he says........ he divorced katy perry! xD | ||
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Sbrubbles
Brazil5776 Posts
On October 26 2013 05:36 Sermokala wrote: Trolling is also a term for moveing slowly through the water when fishing ie a trolling motor. Patent trolling follows this version of trolling.  | ||
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HellRoxYa
Sweden1614 Posts
On October 26 2013 05:41 FrankDaTank wrote: Anyone see Russel Brands interview calling for a revolution? Yes, I posted my thoughts here, in the UK Politics thread. | ||
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
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Souma
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
On October 26 2013 05:36 Sermokala wrote: Trolling is also a term for moveing slowly through the water when fishing ie a trolling motor. Patent trolling follows this version of trolling. the origin of the term patent trolling can be found in this podcast with an interview of the man who coined the term: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/when-patents-attack-part-two Long story short, its actually named after the Troll dolls and the Troll under the bridge who collects tolls from a bridge he didnt build from that one fairy tale that im forgetting the name of. | ||
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JonnyBNoHo
United States6277 Posts
On October 26 2013 06:14 Sub40APM wrote: its the first step in a populist attempt to bring back the gold standard. afaik it's more geared towards reducing Fed secrecy and increasing political control, which are considered bad things in the world of central banking. | ||
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
On October 26 2013 06:22 Souma wrote: Perhaps, but I don't particularly like slippery slope arguments. As an isolated law, is it really that bad? Genuinely curious since I'm not sure what completely auditing the Fed fully entails. The Federal Reserve already publishes the contents of its balance sheet, what Rand and his types want is to assign a 'loss' or 'gain' column, and open the actual FOMC discussion, increasingly the possibility of populist pressure against individual federal board governors. The goal is to then undermine the Federal Reserves' independence or completely remove it. | ||
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HunterX11
United States1048 Posts
On October 26 2013 06:14 Sub40APM wrote: its the first step in a populist attempt to bring back the gold standard. Populist...gold standard? I don't mean to be pedantic--I get your point--but it's funny just because it reminds me of libertarians who do mash up these old forgotten arguments nonsensically, like quoting the Federalist Papers to argue against paper money, as though the demands of colonial farmers to reduce their debt are somehow something we need to rail against today  | ||
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
On October 26 2013 06:36 HunterX11 wrote: Populist...gold standard? I don't mean to be pedantic--I get your point--but it's funny just because it reminds me of libertarians who do mash up these old forgotten arguments nonsensically, like quoting the Federalist Papers to argue against paper money, as though the demands of colonial farmers to reduce their debt are somehow something we need to rail against today I am using populist not in the historical, 19th century version, which is why I spelled it with a little p, but in the Republican lets rile up the rubes with vague, threatening seeming things whose name sounds kind of like the name of the evil federal government and therefore it must be evil too. | ||
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JonnyBNoHo
United States6277 Posts
On October 26 2013 06:34 Sub40APM wrote: The Federal Reserve already publishes the contents of its balance sheet, what Rand and his types want is to assign a 'loss' or 'gain' column, and open the actual FOMC discussion, increasingly the possibility of populist pressure against individual federal board governors. The goal is to then undermine the Federal Reserves' independence or completely remove it. I think they already show losses and gains. The real meat they're going after is who and to what extent the Fed is transacting with (e.g. who accessed the discount window) as well as the FOMC decisions as you mentioned. Auditing the Fed also has bi-partisan support (it really is populist!), though currently more Reps than Dems support it. A watered down version already went into Dodd-Frank. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
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DoubleReed
United States4130 Posts
Don't they have like quarterly hearings where Republicans rant at Bernanke about Austrian Economics? I'd be pretty damn suspicious of whatever audit they're suggesting. Sounds like politicizing the FED. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, one of the key Republican negotiators on a possible budget deal, said Friday that he would support raising revenue and more of his colleagues need to be open to the idea. "I think both sides would like to deal with the sequester. And we're willing to put more revenue on the table to do that, and we would like to do it with entitlement savings," Cole said on Bloomberg TV's "Political Capital with Al Hunt," adding the GOP was more focused on "pro-growth revenue" as opposed to tax increases. Cole acknowledged that many of his colleagues have declared any new revenue off the table, but pointed out that in order to get to a deal, both sides would have to give a little. "Yeah, there are some that feel that way. But, you know, the reality is, you're going to have to have a deal here," he said, when asked about the many Republicans who disagree with his position. "And a deal means everybody gives something up. Now, again, we're much more into what I'd call pro-growth revenue." Cole is part of the 29-member negotiating committee tasked with reconciling the vastly different Senate and House budgets as part of last week's deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit. The legislation set a deadline of Dec. 13 for conferees to reach an agreement on a long-term framework for tax and spending policies. Source | ||
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
Guess we know who the Tea Party is going to primary out of the party. TRAITOR! The Highlander Theory of the GOP The Republican Party has seen a procession of new leaders leaping to the fore—only to be cut off at their knees by a new conservative darling. What's a GOP presidential hopeful to do? In the past year, the party has cycled through one favorite aspirant after another before running into a problem: There's no longer a single consensus about what makes a good candidate. Inevitable deviations from conservative orthodoxy are seen as disqualifying sins. Republicans have a habit of killing their darlings. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-em-highlander-em-theory-of-the-gop/280868/ | ||
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Livelovedie
United States492 Posts
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Doublemint
Austria8539 Posts
On October 26 2013 05:50 Livelovedie wrote: Russell Brand is insane... I put no stock in what he says........ he divorced katy perry! xD Checkmate right there. Who could ever divorce from hottie and cutie pie perry | ||
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Danglars
United States12133 Posts
On October 26 2013 09:58 Sub40APM wrote: Guess we know who the Tea Party is going to primary out of the party. TRAITOR! + Show Spoiler + http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-em-highlander-em-theory-of-the-gop/280868/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw I'm having trouble counting how many "favorite aspirants" have been cycled through. Ryan was a disappointment and Ron Johnson as well. Yeahhhh.... that's all I got. That is, unless you want to talk about liberal media darlings. Did I see that article talk about reconciling Senate and House budgets? That's quite a pretty thing to call a negotiation on Finance by Continuing Resolution, also known as the absence of a budget. | ||
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heliusx
United States2306 Posts
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
On October 26 2013 06:27 PassiveAce wrote: the origin of the term patent trolling can be found in this podcast with an interview of the man who coined the term: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/when-patents-attack-part-two Long story short, its actually named after the Troll dolls and the Troll under the bridge who collects tolls from a bridge he didnt build from that one fairy tale that im forgetting the name of. The Three Billy Goats Gruff http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0122e.html | ||
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