tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post8469217834590807477..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: February 10 2010: Where black swans lay their eggsIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-28052665415999365042010-02-12T12:37:29.663-05:002010-02-12T12:37:29.663-05:00New post up.
The Gods Are Laughing
.New post up.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2010/02/february-12-2010-gods-are-laughing.html" rel="nofollow"><b>The Gods Are Laughing</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-72665497090375007382010-02-12T12:17:39.711-05:002010-02-12T12:17:39.711-05:00Coy Ote said...
"NATO says insurgents killed;...Coy Ote said...<br />"NATO says insurgents killed; family says civilians"<br /><br />You do understand that you will find big fat liars on both sides of that, I'd assume.Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84181432936029954932010-02-12T12:14:29.338-05:002010-02-12T12:14:29.338-05:00So much for the notion that the US is screwed but ...So much for the notion that the US is screwed but the rest of the world is screwed worse. Total debt (on and off balance sheet) is equal to, or higher than, Europe.<br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/madoff/Insolvent.jpg<br /><br />found on:<br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/article/$$$Dollar$$$https://www.blogger.com/profile/10441407916495752242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-90854000616508709302010-02-12T11:46:37.889-05:002010-02-12T11:46:37.889-05:00zander said...
And with that, I shall leave the s...zander said...<br /><i><br />And with that, I shall leave the subject to it's well deserved retirement.<br /></i><br />Not so fast Z. Even here in Hickistan, farmers know enough to take out crop insurance against a failure to produce. The bank is made whole by the insurer and in some cases the farmer might do better than if they would have had a less than great yield. In the event of a Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-77498451336284598552010-02-12T11:27:31.932-05:002010-02-12T11:27:31.932-05:00@ Gravity, @Tero.
There is another very improtant...@ Gravity, @Tero.<br /><br />There is another very improtant point not covered in your reply, and lets do away with the outsize hypothesis of the original proposition, it's this:<br />Farmer secures much needed funds for planting and harvesting of wheat. After planting rains fail to arrive or arrive in such abundance as to render the crop ruined, the farmers future production has failed to zanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352619368764868819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-78945742597810839892010-02-12T10:43:36.179-05:002010-02-12T10:43:36.179-05:00Tero,
"So farmer A goes to his wheatsmith ....Tero, <br /><br />"So farmer A goes to his wheatsmith ..."<br /><br />Is this not the same Q. you posed for me earlier but mounted in a different frame?<br />Why don't you put it out to the bored, sorry board?<br /><br />Z.zanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352619368764868819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58915477171864706772010-02-12T10:40:34.279-05:002010-02-12T10:40:34.279-05:00@Tero, let me rephrase that;
If you understand how...@Tero, let me rephrase that;<br />If you understand how fractional reserve banking functions by actively diluting base captital of savers in creating mutually exclusive claims on the same asset, which the bank does not necessarily have to own, you can understand how precious physical gold would be superior to fiat currency as a store of value in this system, by virtue of being indilutable as a Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-12945123279800308732010-02-12T10:39:08.139-05:002010-02-12T10:39:08.139-05:00@ coy ote 6.45.
Thank you friend for your wise co...@ coy ote 6.45.<br /><br />Thank you friend for your wise comment. I'm with you all the way, and would go further and say I'm ashamed to be British, but like I said in an earlier post I'm also complicit as I'm part of the system which nutures this hideous process perpetrated by our glorious leaders and executed-literally-, by our brave, brave soldiers.<br />North Korea (run by a zanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352619368764868819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-67150199480575400942010-02-12T09:30:03.968-05:002010-02-12T09:30:03.968-05:00ogardener said...
@ z
Did you do an EROE...ogardener said...<i><br /><br /> @ z<br /><br /> Did you do an EROEI on that thing?</i><br /><br />which one? i) nuclear-hydrocarbon or ii) wind-over-ocean?<br /><br />i) a question to me as well.<br /><br />ii) if ERORI of wind-over-land is adequate, that of wind-over-ocean is at least an order of magnitude higher when it's done in proper places and proper ways. but i am biased on thiszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017460356674195796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75659678786493346892010-02-12T09:29:41.809-05:002010-02-12T09:29:41.809-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627943828901298391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40126228438202968592010-02-12T09:27:33.587-05:002010-02-12T09:27:33.587-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627943828901298391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-85845421136173475182010-02-12T09:25:00.782-05:002010-02-12T09:25:00.782-05:00No wonder Angela is saying nein.
German economic ...No wonder Angela is saying nein.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8511954.stm" rel="nofollow">German economic recovery falters</a>Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-30282134714948363922010-02-12T09:20:05.231-05:002010-02-12T09:20:05.231-05:00More good news from The Onion Radio News.More good news from <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/new_cereal_for_poor_stays_0" rel="nofollow">The Onion Radio News</a>.Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71876289900042690562010-02-12T09:04:31.690-05:002010-02-12T09:04:31.690-05:00Tero said...
el g: I know all about my paisan, Li...Tero said...<br /><i><br />el g: I know all about my paisan, Linus Torvalds. I was there when Linux 1.0 was announced in a lecture room at Helsinki University in 1992. Linus's and Stallman's idea of free software was almost nice at the time. Unfortunately it was just one of these 1990's delusions. We're now finding out that it would be good to get at least a bowl of rice for one&#Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41218647231120047662010-02-12T08:42:40.298-05:002010-02-12T08:42:40.298-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627943828901298391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57584161556306033252010-02-12T08:22:18.339-05:002010-02-12T08:22:18.339-05:00The climate conceived Al Gore as a recursive gravi...The climate conceived Al Gore as a recursive gravitism.Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53000935452792312012010-02-12T07:53:29.618-05:002010-02-12T07:53:29.618-05:00@Tero,
"Fractional reserve banking is somethi...@Tero,<br />"Fractional reserve banking is something which allows growth to take place if the factors of production and energy were in place to begin with. It does this predominantly by allowing capital to be transferred from savers to borrowers."<br /><br />It does not actually allow capital to be transferred at all, only diluted into ever smaller proportions, if the bank actually had Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-39761973029647547792010-02-12T06:45:33.496-05:002010-02-12T06:45:33.496-05:00NATO says insurgents killed; family says civilians...NATO says insurgents killed; family says civilians<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yb8q7aq<br /><br />These almost daily occurances are sickening, saddening and totally destructive. Every death produced creates a multiple of hatred for "the west", and understandably so! IMOHombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15484962470692162512010-02-12T06:30:40.642-05:002010-02-12T06:30:40.642-05:00Submit Y A - "Huh? ..."
No... hedge!
&...Submit Y A - "Huh? ..."<br /><br />No... hedge!<br /><br />"...I'm running a 64 bit linux distro called Ubuntu, on a quad core, it's smokin' hot. And free. Linux rocks."<br /><br />When the power goes off I'll give you an old tarnished 1957 dime for it.Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15402289512942670562010-02-12T03:15:43.255-05:002010-02-12T03:15:43.255-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627943828901298391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-20770814035865250162010-02-12T01:38:34.196-05:002010-02-12T01:38:34.196-05:00Huh? I bought a suit last month for $5, real nice,...Huh? I bought a suit last month for $5, real nice, only worn 2 or 3 times, basically new, at a thrift store last month. Paid $15 to dryclean it, looks great.<br /><br />Bought a used car 9 years ago for $1,750.00 that I am still driving today.<br /><br />And I get laid several times a day, usually, sometimes more.<br /><br />No gold, though.<br /><br />Gold, like expensive new cars, off the rack Submit your advicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01867890217907128363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-21662153770708240782010-02-12T00:56:47.893-05:002010-02-12T00:56:47.893-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627943828901298391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-6642084206472214102010-02-12T00:00:48.999-05:002010-02-12T00:00:48.999-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627943828901298391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41429928937368497312010-02-11T23:12:23.867-05:002010-02-11T23:12:23.867-05:00Gold represents all the resources (energy, water, ...Gold represents all the resources (energy, water, land, people, etc.) that are consumned in its production. All those useful things are spent for something small and shiny and durable. Gold is concentrated corruption. That is why it is valuable.Craig Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17895653046447172310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55951818497126346512010-02-11T23:11:11.356-05:002010-02-11T23:11:11.356-05:00@ z
Did you do an EROEI on that thing?@ <b>z</b><br /><br />Did you do an EROEI on that thing?ogardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062788838505530416noreply@blogger.com