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[quote=spdrun]Doesn’t everyone feed off the status quo to some extent? Kind of hard to survive without using oil or products made using oil, for example. One can want change without dropping out entirely.[/quote]
It’s easier to talk the talk than walk the walk.

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[quote=spdrun]Screw Puritanism, and screw our imposing it on the rest of the world. The world would have been a better place if the Mayflower had been smashed on Plymouth Rock and turned into a seagull buffet.

That’s one of the many advantages of San Diego — there’s a whole country 25 miles away that’s not run on a Puritan basis.[/quote]It baffles my mind that you haven’t mail in your US Citizenship already.

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[quote=Clifford]Just curious, how much did you pay before switching to OOMA ?[/quote]
I was paying $10/month for an extra line on my VZW family plan. I’m actually pondering going back, since call quality was better w/ VZW than OOMA. But I’m not sure if it’s worth the extra cost. OOMA, sometimes, I would answer a call and the other end can’t hear me while I can hear them perfectly. They calling back would fix it, but it does get annoying.

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[quote=spdrun]No oil, and I don’t buy index funds, but I’ve beat the indices in the stocks that I did buy after the lovely near-20% nosedive of fall 2011. Bought SPWR when it was below 10, and American Airlines when everyone said it was fucked. THAT’s some blood for y’all.[/quote]
Good for you. You must be filthy rich by now with those buys.

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[quote=spdrun]If you’re implying that there will never be another recession/correction, history is NOT on your side. Longest without a recession, ever, in US history has been 10 years, and we’re on year 6 right now. Average is much shorter.

Remember the people (most people) who were saying that we’ll never see $50/bbl oil again last year? :)[/quote]
Did you buy a shit load of oil last year when it was <$45/bbl? Better yet, you must have loaded up on UPRO, UDOW, TQQQ, and URTY in 2011, right?

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[quote=Clifford][quote=AN]I like my OOMA.[/quote]

How long have you been using OOMA ?[/quote]
Roughly a year.

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[quote=spdrun]Well, now I’m able and willing to take advantage — it’s only a question of testicular fortitude when the next beautiful opportunity comes. Here’s to 2001, 2008, and ???![/quote]Housing didn’t drop much in SD in 2001. So, what are you talking about?

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I like my OOMA.

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[quote=Jazzman]Where do you get your information? Western media?[/quote]From 1st hand experience.

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[quote=all][quote=AN]Again, if not communism, then what are they? If you object to what they call themselves, then you surely would have a better name for them, right? FYI, there’s no such thing as pure communism or capitalism or socialism or fascism. I’ve never claimed that they’re pure communist according to the political theory. Afterall, they’re all just theories. How those theories get applied varry greatly. Especially when you take into account human nature.[/quote]

I already did – it is just another corrupt, authoritarian society.

You can interpret the communist manifesto creatively, but what you labeled as communist society is not described there. If the means of production are individually owned it cannot be communism. If there is accumulation of wealth by a person or a group it cannot be communism. If there are privileged groups (as in class), it cannot be communism.[/quote]This is the first time you’ve defined it as an authoritarian society.

BTW, how do you have a thriving authoritarian society with weak institution? It doesn’t make any sense to me. Don’t you need a very strong institution in order to exhert authority? Isn’t authority at the heart of an authoritarian regime?

[quote=all]This does not sound like communism, or even socialism. It sounds like any country with weak institutions.[/quote]

I’m not trying to interpret anything. I’m using the labels that they put on themselves. I agree, pure communism doesn’t exist and I’ve stated that. Communism sounds great in theory and that’s how those revolutions started. But add in human greed and other human nature, you have China/Vietnam/Laos/etc today. That is exactly my point. Pure theory sounds great. I would love to live in Utopia too. But that doesn’t exist. That’s exactly my point. You might not like that they call themselves communist but they do. That’s how they came to power. If China is not communist, then we’re not capitalist.

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I agree. But what can we do… the article has already been written by someone who don’t understand statistics. It’s is CNN afterall. But regardless, it’s still good data. San Diego is growing at 1.5%. That’s pretty good.

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[quote=all]Calling yourself communist does not make you a communist. Would you also argue that Deutsche Demokratische Republik was a democracy? After all, it is right there in the name.

It cannot be communism if you have individuals owning shares of companies.[/quote]Again, if not communism, then what are they? If you object to what they call themselves, then you surely would have a better name for them, right? FYI, there’s no such thing as pure communism or capitalism or socialism or fascism. I’ve never claimed that they’re pure communist according to the political theory. Afterall, they’re all just theories. How those theories get applied varry greatly. Especially when you take into account human nature.

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If you say so.

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200-400% higher than 50s-60s.
LoL, Logan’s Run. Lets implement real world policy base on a novel.
You might like to relive the 60s. I as hell don’t want to.

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Labor force participation… yep, no problem here… move along.

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