The only thing in my life that's 100% is whenever I have a 50-50 chance I never get it right.

2 cash registers at the 7-11 with no cashier behind them. I stand at one of them and then cashier comes over and directs to the other register.

Go to enter a building with two swing doors. I choose the locked one.

I always choose the stall with no toilet paper.

I have a theory; if I counted up the money in a cash register at the end of the day and came up short, then declared the difference was "dark money"...I'd lose my job.

You obviously have never performed and have some moron jump on stage where stumbling in the wrong pile of amps will cause thousands of euros worth of damage and possibly even dangering peoples lives. You come up on stage uninvited, be prepared to get slammed to the ground and thrown off the venue. The people on stage are there doing their job, you don't let people wonder in behind cash registers in a bank and expected a friendly treatment. You stumble on my stage and you will be flying back to the pit and i don't give a flying fuck if you hurt yourself. I've done it and will do it again and i'm the most docile person you can meet, i have never hit anyone in my life and i've worked as a bouncer...

This is totally different from situations where a fan is invited on stage or that part of performance is to get few people dancing there, then it's MY responsibility so you or others wont get hurt. Come uninvited and you are trespassing and a serious security threat and will be dealt with ASAP..

6' 5"!

I love a long femur in my men.

(Favorite moment while working a cash register -- three men in my line. Only three men. They were all 6' 5" tall. And two of them were named Walter. I mean really.)

sweet kid, as he improves with every dunk, so too does each dunk sound like a cash register getting louder and louder in his father's head, talking about the cha-chings.

cha. ching.

> "[Austerity] frees up resources for private investment" is a statement that
> does not match my perception of reality"

Well, far be it from me to try to introduce you to some basic epistemologies to which you may not be familiar: like rationalism, deduction, etc, in order to move you away from "authority" as the only path to knowledge you seem to use. Unfortunately, however, this "authority" method is inappropriate to the study of economics.

> "So, demand vs supply... we all know that discussion won't be resolved here,
> ever."

Keynes and Hayek were at it for a while. It's all in the two hip-hop videos.

> "It's utterly pointless."

Yes. There is nothing new not covered by Keynes vs. Hayek.

> "Shamelessness was my addition, my interpretation. "

Bad thymology (my interpretation).

> "He "weakens" society, economically, by suppressing aggregate demand.
> The more wealth you accumulate, the less of it, as a percentage, translates
> into demand."

I see. So, by this logic, any making of money is, in itself, a "weakening" of society. Unless I'm a socialist, like David Simon, then I cannot make money without also "weakening" society.

> "But since you apparently share the views of Hollenbeck, all of that was
> probably hogwash to you."

Yes, at best hogwash. Alas, I've no interest in going into this with you, especially since you've no have interest in actually looking at it. Had you any interest at all -- or studied the subject beyond deferring to the "authority" method of epistemology -- you could at least provide me with a concise explanation as to why you think the Austrian/Misean economic position falters. Rather than thinking for yourself, however, you dismiss it as "wrong," "right-wing," or "pointless" to debate or go into. "Here Be Monsters, period."

The Keynes/Hayek debates have the similar tones, with Keynes simply ignoring all of Hayek's points, evasions, and going off into something else. You clearly agree with the Keynesian approach/theory, which likely means you cannot really explain anything except through unfounded claims, that are "pointless" to argue, debate, or rationally defend.

As I have said before, one cannot have this sort of intellectual relationship with those either unwilling or unable to grasp basic economic principles, like for example those clearly explained by Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson." There's simply no common language through which to communicate. Confronted with these kinds of beliefs, one can either try to educate (but only those who ask for it, since attempting to educate those who do not want to be educated will likely fail, as any public school teacher can tell you) or one can pull out the snake oil and the cash register. The third option involves ignoring such ignorance altogether, and use what one knows for one's own financial and life benefit in ways that don't involve such people in the first place.

There are so many errors in the Keynesian 'demand' theory of economics (you can find much on that if you want to read up on it), but Keynesians tend to avoid any real debates. You're coming from the Keynesian fallacy of saving money as being bad for the economy (because spending it all/consumerism is supposedly what gets the economy going). And the even more absurd fallacy which presupposes (with no proof of it at all) that rich people keep most of their wealth stored somewhere outside of circulation. When in reality, rich people only save some and the richer they are the more they spend/invest. Of course, when the economy seem fragile, due to central banks meddling, bubbles, etc., investors get nervous and don't invest as much a they otherwise would. When they don't invest, it shrinks supply of things people would want to spend on. Demand does nothing, it doesn't exist, if there is nothing to supply that people want to buy.

In fact, I am starting to think that central bankers are not really Keynesian at all, in the sense that they don't really believe their own bullshit. They know better but also know how to exploit their positions as central bankers, making folks like @radx buy into it, the snake oil. For example, he may not care for gold, but bankers do. Whatever they say against it, folks will still buy it, both for themselves and the banks they run. And as @radx rightly says, he's a human. And apparently he can sell his 'charm' if push comes to shove.

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Anyone else getting a bit tired of Pixar franchises? Maybe it's because my kids are growing out of them - but I feel like most Pixar movies these days are just cash registers for Disney.


Well, Cars 2 was crap. But then Cars 1 was the low point of Pixar at the time it came out.

I'm saddened that the days of every damn thing they produce being gold, but as long as every so often they bring out a Wall E or Incredibles or Toy Story, then I'm happy for them to make bucketloads of cash as well.

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Anyone else getting a bit tired of Pixar franchises? Maybe it's because my kids are growing out of them - but I feel like most Pixar movies these days are just cash registers for Disney.

YouTube description (via Google Translate) says:

April 7, 2012, a driver in the car Suzuki Grand Vitara, rode in his car in the showroom Nissan Pelican Auto and gave it a pogrom. There is little information, showroom not comment on the circumstances. It seems no one was hurt ...

Comment witness:
The man on the Grand Vitara, drove straight into the cabin, and called in like 2 times from different angles, twisted on itself, and the cabin has finally parked in the middle of the cash department. Outcome not weak, raskurocheno passenger compartment floor, crumpled at least two demonstration vehicles (X-Trail and Qashqai), completely demolished wall of cash on the street crushed Patrol for a test drive. Thank God, he was told no one was hurt, the girls from the cash register had time to rebound.

Nothing about faulty shocks.

Those consoles turn kids into morons. Growing up playing console games prepares kids to the world of Idiocracy and cash registers with pictures of hamburgers instead of numbers.

The worst thing is that the industry is starting to to dumb down MMO's to the console crowds level.

It's really sad. The worst part is these kids have no idea what they are missing.

I really hate the ingame hints. It totally breaks the immersion. It used to be an option you could toggle, but now it is just there even when you don't want/need it.

Don't even get me started on the whole console controller thing. The idea of steering a 200mph car or 600mph plane with two buttons is so utterly stupid, it makes my skin crawl. Oh but little Tommy is too wasted to or lacks the attention span to aquire and set up a decent six axis jobstick, wah, wah, wah, QQ.

I actually had a random memory of watching this show recently.

Specifically, I remembered one episode where the geek-cop summoned Automan by typing "AUTOMAN" on a cash register.

Yes, it really was an awesome show. At least, I remember thinking Automan's car looked pretty awesome.

So who is the fail here ? the robber or the cashier who left his cash register ??

Tricky, but I think I got them all.

1) Look at the left side of the screen for a white car. If you look really closely, you see a man with his pants pulled down, humping the car. I think that man is Agee.

2) Keep your eyes on the right side of the screen, where you'll notice a brick wall. Past the dumpster and support beams, look closely for a man, ass exposed, gyrating against the brick wall. This is definitely Agee.

3) Near the cash register, there is what looks like a male human (probably Agee) with pants pulled down as to reveal the buttocks region. He appears to be trying to impregnate the counter top.

4) The last one is really tough, but it seems like there is a man (Agee maybe?) on the middle of a stage, his pants lowered to display hind quarters. He seems to be writhing against a bar stool. It becomes more clear as the camera moves closer.

Did I get them all?

What did they do to the cash register? I chuckled thinking that one person used a small brush to expedit an archeological investigation on it...or maybe to check for finger prints?!