Jim Naseum

Absurd forms of drug abuse are exactly what is predicted when drugs become a central focus of law enforcing and criminal Justice. Young kids get locked up in juvi halls, where they can be sexually and emotionally abused by adults who hold power over them. This adds greatly to the emotional damage and almost assures high risk drug use with off color tainted drugs. And then the adults come along and blame kids for being screwed up by drugs! If we could lockup the many thousand of pedophiles and abusers who use the CJ system to find their prey we'd cut most of the problems down to size. When you find a large population of frigged up kids...... Look no further than abusing adults. Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk

Get real. You know better than that. Old ploy... Anyway, metaphysics is not mentioned in the TOS. Religion is. All religion is metaphysical in nature at this point in our crude science, but all metaphysics is not religion. Dave Nonsense.Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk

Metaphysics, not physics. Irrelevant to this thread and would simply result in a lock anyway. Dave Where have you been? Metaphysics has been part of this thread for days. Metaphysics is an essential part of cosmology. I can only assume you hadn't been reading along. Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk

What is practical about relativity? Einstein was very playful, and Hawking can't even speak. It's hard to imagine how 'fanciful' and 'sensational' are being applied here. I realize those at subjective, but I've never heard anyone inside or outside of science use those words for Hawking. Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk

For the most part, I agree - as a general sense. But, in all of history, there has always been a need and desire for mind altering drugs. The reasons are many. First, there is escapism from dire realities like fear, insecurity; second there is a desire for mind altering consciousness expansion (spirituality rituals); and third is recreation. The need for various kinds of inebriation, and escape are universal in almost all cultures. Alcohol is the worst choice for general use because it has higher aggressiveness than other drugs, and no one has much claimed any conscious expanding on alcohol. I think the right and best answer would be to legalize institutional and professional use of all hallucinogens and empathogens. So that, psychiatrists for example, could treat mental disorders with these drugs. Simple inebriating drugs like MJ, and perhaps some opiates and empathogens, should be decriminalized. My reasoning is that it is very regressive that the upper classes can take advantage of these drugs with impunity, while the poor use them at great risk of prison. People deserve more personal freedom.

I wouldn't count on more than 18 mos. Just take a look at the historical price chart. Full of peaks and valleys.

Is he the one the ladies throw their underwear to?

I suspect that if the bail-in was used, it would only be deposits over the $125K FDIC insurance that would be grabbed. I can't see grabbing Ma and Pa's $4200 bucks.

Sadly, that was considered one of the grandest "growth" businesses of the 21st Century.

I saw this the other night: http://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-Paul-Giamatti/dp/B004EPYZDA It was quite good. Very realistic and stocked by a dozen very solid actors. All the real persons had an actor that looked just like them. For example, Giamatti was Ben Bernanke.

The last reboot the world had was Colonization/Capitalism replacing Feudalism. I think there's only one logical next step.

I'm among the minority who think a global collapse will have not just a dark side, but a bright side for humanity. As hierarchies fall, localization blooms. In a place like the USA, there exist enough tools that local success is possible.

My ear to the ground says that MJ Edibles are the future growth. You know, "Betty Crocker" and "StoneRidge Farms" kinds of products.

Our reserves of gas are growing radically in the USA. It's even killing off solar! I can see that as gas reserves grow and prices keep plummeting, yes, manufacturing could come back here considering that unions have been decimated, and the surplus labor has risen to almost historical levels. Labor participation extremely low. People have to begin to take any job they can find to pay for the mandated health insurance now that fines are climbing to the $000 of dollars.

ODs are the capacitor of choice for guitarists who are still using MI amps like BlackFace Fenders.

The incomparable Bob Carver was (maybe) the first to easily demonstrate that SS amps can be made to sound "identical" to tube amps. And he did it with only a few adjustments, which I believe were global feedback and output impedance controls. This, in spite of the fact the triodes and bipolars have totally different transfer functions. He made the game one of simple topology.

True enough. But in pure GDP terms, those lost billions in housing must be made up. See my previous chart on global GDP growth? it's pathetic and has been on a long slide. Debt must be rolled over - and that demands higher GDPs!

Let the countdown begin to see who is first to yell out, "Conspiracy Theory!"

Today, the WoD is a major strategic instrument of social control. Notice that--- 1) The quantity of drugs available continues to rise with demand 2) Enforcement gets heavier and heavier against a lower, and lower class of people. That's social engineering at it's best (worst). get more people on it, putting more people at risk of arbitrary punishment.

By now everyone has owned 4 generations of PCs, 3 generations of Kindle readers, 4 generations of cheap tablets, 4 generations of flat TVs, and half dozen generations of miniature telephones. Can that really keep going? I am very suspect of that. And yet look at the stock prices and valuations for Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix and compare to Ford, IBM, Alcoa.

In the 20th century economic growth came from Housing, Infrastructure and Manufacturing. We know where manufacturing went, we know that there is no infrastructure spending to speak of, and here's the housing starts chart,. Today, too much of the growth economy (based on stock prices) is nothing but internet adverts, cheap handheld computers and entertainment. I'm not sure that will work.

I think the broader view of all anti-drug regulations including opium, morphine, cocaine, heroin, and psychedelics, is that it is a Calvinistic impulse of the Establishment that the "little people" should not be enjoying life as much as working their hineys off to float the upper classes in luxury.

The historic oil price chart looks like a mountain range. It's a very volatile commodity. First, because actual reserves are essentially held in secret by the producing nations, and second, because the main players can very easily manipulate the market. This produces huge swings in the price. So, just as fast as it fell from 100 to 35, it can soar back to 100 again. It produces lots of new winners and new losers in each cycle. I wouldn't count on oil staying where it is now.

Unless the popular mainline media provide the warnings, people will never listen to individual experts. The media can not provide a warning because that would be in opposition to their own economic interests. Can you just try to imagine mainline media saying, "This is not the time to finance a new house or car!" No, you can not. And, they never will. At best, they will report a little bit by looking in the rear view mirror. Looking ahead? No. The entire global economy is overleveraged. And, NO ONE wants to take a haircut of any kind. They all keep blowing the bubble higher by inventing a new financial product - a new derivative - while unable to expand the real economy, the one that makes desirable and necessary objects for life. You could visualize it like this: all the world's largest financial interest are at the poker table. The round of raises keeps circling the table, and each guy is borrowing (or simply printing) more money for the next raise. Eventually, like it or not, the raises must end, and the hands must be shown. Since all the raises were IOUs - simple debt instruments - the new "winner" has won nothing real, and all the other players have gone bankrupt.

The problem expressed in one graph: