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AHH KMM YOU HAVE 666 posts POST SOMETHING ELSE NOW! :P Unfortunately, considering how expensive the tickets will probably be, the current Status of Sara's Going To Cincinati This Summer is now officially I Will Think About It, But Basically No, Because We Are Evidently Very Poor. Weep. :P

I was just thinking about complaining about this lately. I think big sigs are annooooyying. :angry:

Why isn't the Faultline one here? That's the one I like best.

I definitely disagree. If you can't tell that this place is veritably hopping with excitement and energy, you must be blind and deaf. :P Maybe we could start one of those semilame snowball-fight/laser-tag roleplaying games here. :P

Yeah, the Fed could do this. But the key thing is: they don't. It's like saying, "The military could all walk into our homes one day and kill us all." Yeah, sure, they probably could, but they also probably won't. And the reason why the Fed doesn't do this is because it wouldn't really work: they know if they did it would send the entire currency, the entire country, and dare I say it (though to perhaps a lesser extent) the entire world crashing into a big dysfunctional meltdown. Same if our military decided to kill us all. And can you really OWN land in ANY country? Since every square foot of land is basically taken up by a government, you couldn't really own land anywhere. We have rights to what we do on the property we "own" and the government doesn't generally mess with peoples' "land" just for the sake of it, unless there is some sort of reason (well-grounded or not.) Forgive me for my ignorance if I'm missing something, but even for countries to do whatever they want with a peice of land is almost impossible, because thanks to international organizations/communications, other countries will prevent this. It's the same with individual citizens owning their own land. and @ your other post: All of the things you said are true: colleges have gotten more expensive, owning a house has gotten more difficult, and so on. However, the question is whether you want available modern "conveniences" (such as, as you said, having a fancy car or a plasma TV; but there are others, like not dying if you get cholera, or malaria, or similar diseases) or whether you want to live without these "conveniences", but with fewer economic restraints. You look at one extreme, such as the more underdeveloped parts of Africa, where the barter system (probably the purest form of exchange and the purest form of capitalism, right?) is still used in areas, and you're definitely very, very free, because the law enforcement is basically crap. But if you live there, you're probably in poverty, you probably don't have enough to eat, if your uncle Samim gets an ulcer or something, he won't be able to work. You look at the other extreme (let's just say it's Sweden, because people in Sweden have universal health care and are very famous for all their comforts and so forth) and you pay 70% of your income in taxes, BUT you have: -free health care -ridiculously low crime rates -and you are almost certainly literate. But the reasons you have these are basically because Sweden is almost a socialist state. We're sort of in the middle. We're definitely a capitalist nation, and that's what capitalism is, unfortunately: the smart (not necessarily intelligent) people get the advantage, everyone else doesn't. In the 1950's, each family might have their own little house, maybe their own little black-and-white TV and maybe their own little radio, their own little couch and little kitchen, with their own diligent little wife keeping it all running. Now, we have access to so many more things: the Internet, bigger houses, everything, and the reason why the cost of being middle-class has risen is because standards of living have risen. The only reason why it's still expensive to be average is because not everything has completely "caught up" yet... primary/secondary education hasn't expanded much, making college more necessary (and expensive) health care is still in the hands of corporate companies, and so on. And in honesty, the Fed has very little to do with this. :/ If someone from the Great Depression looked at the state of affairs now, they would probably jump to be in THIS "depression;" it's one with higher qualities for the average person, almost everyone can afford shoes and shoes for their children. My point is, what are you complaining about? You compare the so-called "rat race" here and the "rat race" in China or India or Pakistan or Botswana or anywhere of that nature, and you realize that not even most of our homeless bums-on-the-street are starving; we don't have people living in shacks on the landfills, we don't have mass genocide. America's fallen in standard a little, maybe, but it has in everything, and we're still one of the best countries to live in. And we're still almost completely a capitalist country, which has its draws. The Fed does the best it can to maintain economic order. Alan Greenspan did a good job. We weren't really better off with the gold standard: we had it in the 1930's and that obviously did not help anything. I'm really sorry, this entire post is way too long and also all over the place. I'm having trouble coalescing it into one main thought. :/

Lyric, that's what happens when you have a rich multinational corporation make something. One of the first things they ask is: "How much extra crap can we sell when this breaks?" :P Look at the iTouch screen. That thing breaks ridiculously easily and replacement are pretty expensive. That's also part of the reason why Apple makes so much money for protective cases.

Yes, they still make cassetes. No, that isn't official. (Probably.)

mmaaaariooo kaaarrt! :D:D

^see that's what I'm worried about. If anyone's taking me, it's going to be my father, (since I cannot drive and don't really know many Coldplay fans I could go with) who says he likes a lot of Coldplay songs, but doesn't care much for the screaming in a concert. I doubt I would mind myself (actually that's part of the appeal, since it's part of the "concert experience" etc.) I'm trying to convince him (and to a certain extent myself) to spend $200 + on concert tickets in this recession that we're in. I've told him that Coldplay is supposedly very good live, and he said he'll think about it, which is generally a no.

Smart move. That was a really good decision: "I know, let's put this guy in a cell with a murderer he put in jail!" The world is sooo sad.

Just how good ARE they? I've seen vids on YouTube where in all honesty they've frankly embarassed themselves with their suckage, (as well as a bunch where they have simply done amazing :D) and I really need to know because I am trying to decide whether or not to spend an actually kind of sizeable chunk of money on tickets to one of Coldplay's concerts. Please, I know we all love Coldplay here, but I want as impartial an opinion as I can get. Does Chris Martin usually hit most of the high notes? (<- that's the most important) do they usually sound good at concerts? Would you consider them a wee bit over/underrated live? Another thing, I've never really been to a full concert to speak of. How noisy is it? Is it hard to hear the actual music, or what? I would like to have some opinions.

Muenster. That being said, what on earth is the point of this thread?

^What? That doesn't make sense. Just because the Federal Reserve exists, doesn't mean we're in a depression. As Nick mentioned, there isn't even a definition of a depression. You're just making one up now. There are property rights now. Just because the U.S. isn't the best country (economically or otherwise) doesn't mean we're in a depression. Please explain your reasoning a little more...

jigsaw puzzle. :D

Yeah, sure. It's not like anyone would probably be able to hear, since they would be screaming so loud and so on. Would you live on minimum wage for six months (note: you get the million AFTERwards :P)

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ah, let it live. There are forums that contribute less to discussion. :/

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high school English... >.<

cannot spell. my name has no h :P

clicks post too much :P

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I'm Sara. I've become something of a fanatic recently. :P umm... many posts... got it! RICK8

Joy. Tyvm.