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Fall Marathon Training Thread
I did Chi marathon a few years back, get over those injuries and enjoy the race man, nothing feels quite like crossing the finish line in front of a jam packed crowd after running 26.2 miles.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Jun 5th, 2011
Famous Quartets
Nelson, Otis, Lefty, Charlie T., _________
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
May 6th, 2011
***Official Class of 2011 congratulatory Thread***
Damn your life must suck if you dread major accomplishments.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
May 6th, 2011
***Official Class of 2011 congratulatory Thread***
Workin' for the man every night and day.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
May 6th, 2011
Have You Changed Your Mind On "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" and Eavesdropping?
No torture ever. Doesn't work anyway.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
May 5th, 2011
***Champions League Semifinals, Man U/Schalke and Barcelona/Real Madrid***
Barca has some of the worst divers in football but also some of the best players in football that practically never dive (Iniesta, Xavi, Messi). Wash IMO.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
May 4th, 2011
How many posts have you lost in the last three days?
Easy solution UD, post less.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
May 4th, 2011
Do you want to make money? Let me tell you how
Pretty sure stackinsideways just watched Zeitgeist and now thinks he knows everything. As for the raising taxes bit, I attended a pretty convincing lecture recently where a Harvard economist showed evidence that during recessions raising taxes is actually ineffectual at reducing the deficit. Basically, he was arguing that raising taxes is only a short-term fix and the best way to reduce the deficit long-term is cutting spending, a lot of it has to do with confidence and money velocity. Raising taxes lowers people's confidence and willingness to spend which lowers the multiplier effect and ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
May 3rd, 2011
Arsenal 1-0 vs Man U (2nd half)
Refereeing has been god awful recently.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
May 1st, 2011
Political Compass quiz..(have your views changes at all?)
Jumbo shrimp.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 30th, 2011
Political Compass quiz..(have your views changes at all?)
I totally love liberty more than you guys.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 30th, 2011
Political Compass quiz..(have your views changes at all?)
Only thing that has changed is I've realized it's pointless to argue politics and vote.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 30th, 2011
The War Walmart in DC and NYC
Just because globalization has helped to develop some economies doesn't mean that it is the only mechanism at work or that it is universally good nor that it is stupid to point out the places where people are exploited and still poor. Maybe time will heal all wounds, but I think iin order for globalization to continue the way it is there always needs to be someone to be exploited.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 29th, 2011
The War Walmart in DC and NYC
Absolutely, but how do you fix the biggest government/(judicial) error of giving corporations the rights of persons. Now they exert power over governmental systems and will throw enormous amounts of money at any regulation aimed to repeal their rights' You are naming the exceptions. PM the rest of Southeast Asia, Latin America, South America and Africa. And the countries you named have had mostly stable governments that invest the money back into infrastructure and education which is the main reason for the continued growth. Th other places have corrupt regimes that hoard the money for ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 29th, 2011
The War Walmart in DC and NYC
I agree with everything you said, my point is that when the corporations move into poor countries with corrupt regimes, the rule rather than the exception is that it does not spur economic growth and the people in that area receive almost no benefit. What'
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 29th, 2011
The War Walmart in DC and NYC
Freedom of movement is fine but when that movement is to tax havens who are competing with each other to give the most breaks to corporations and lower wages to the employees, it has the same result. I understand what you are saying though, globalization is great in theory, free markets, free movement of capital and labor -- but it just isn't happening, similar to how socialism is great in theory but leads to dictatorships and a wealthy elite and a suffering poor, globalization with MNC's works in the same way.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 29th, 2011
The War Walmart in DC and NYC
Some pretty solid economics discussion going on in this thread. A few people fail to realize that every benefit has a cost whether its hidden or explicit. Most people know the hidden cost of eating cheap fast food every day is high health care costs as you turn into a fat, unhealthy sack of shit but others are harder to discern (and can be paid by society as a whole). Really the problems all boil down to the corporatism and the fact that multi-nationals have outgrown and over-powered the system that created them. When multinationals can move anywhere they want in the world to avoid paying ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 29th, 2011
6÷2(1+2)=?
and 9.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 28th, 2011
The War Walmart in DC and NYC
They were rich! Sorry for trolling, research paper due soon that I am desperately trying to avoid writing.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 28th, 2011
The War Walmart in DC and NYC
You have to be a hipster to see the Catch-22.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 28th, 2011
***Champions League Semifinals, Man U/Schalke and Barcelona/Real Madrid***
Yeah and it's a shame to send a player off who obviously is playing his hardest to win in one of the biggest stages in all of football but you cannot just go full tilt all the time, you have to play smart and know your opponents. I would give it a 50/50 ratio though, learn from the mistake and move forward Pepe.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 28th, 2011
The War Walmart in DC and NYC
The low prices that we benefit from always have a cost, usually "hidden" or externalized on other poor people (generally in other countries now, thanks globalization!) - in the form of low wages of the people producing the goods, lack of health care, habitat destruction through cutting costs on proper removal of waste, etc.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 28th, 2011
***Champions League Semifinals, Man U/Schalke and Barcelona/Real Madrid***
What you can't see in the slow-mo replays is that Pepe went flying full speed across the field to make the challenge on Alves. Knowing Alves is a diver should have prevented him from doing that. Yes, he got the ball but from the referee's perspective you have a known wild-man charging full speed across the field, leaving his feet with studs showing and knocking down a Barca player, it is easy to see why he gave the red. That being said, it should have been a yellow and it was very disappointing that that foul changed the entire complexity of the game. But, some blame must go on Pepe, next ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 28th, 2011
Very young Michael Moore getting schooled by Milton Friedman
Not even close.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 28th, 2011
Ron Paul is in!
Analogy fails because you have to elect the whole package and all the other packages are shit meals AND shit shakes.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 27th, 2011
Do you want to make money? Let me tell you how
Anyone else think that this is a sign that confidence in FIAT money is collapsing and that we might have to come up with a new system to instill confidence'
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 27th, 2011
Ron Paul is in!
Thanks for disproving my point Willy. Bastard.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 27th, 2011
Ron Paul is in!
Rule of thumb for OT: you know you're hitting close to the truth when no one responds to your post.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 27th, 2011
I've been waiting for 11 days for a OT conservative's review of Atlas Shrugged...
1 star reviews
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 26th, 2011
Good Economic News
As an economist I can confidently say we have lots of nice models that tell us jack shit and we are usually wrong.
Posted in: Off Topic 		LuckyWilbury
Apr 26th, 2011