While individual federal reserve banks themselves are privately owned, the federal reserve "system" (The Fed) is not a private organization. Their "right to exist" is provided via legislation which can be changed at any time. The Fed expanding & shrinking the supply of currency etc is part of their responsibility to provide "elasticity" to the economy. When we recover from this crisis we will need to have a reduction in the circulation or you will have inflation. That's what he's saying. And assuming we recover, he's right.

According to the website she talks and she has sensors in her breasts (for what?). And there's an "immature teen" model - YIKES!

Immature body "Teens Body" which fits Aki and Kaze has debuted! Please check the gallery and the order page.


Here's some more translated english gems:

Honey Flavor is the head part exclusively for oral sex, which can be used without tearing the doll. This feature is the pioneer in this field. Please check if the doll does not split, by watching the movie.

We have collaborated with Rubberskin, the master of silicone technology, to reincarnate AKI. This is very resistant to ripping, compared with the conventional silicon materials, oral sex became completely possible.

We are using a new material of which the tearing strength is very high compared to the existing silicone. The lips won't easily tear off, and with a special technique, the color of lipstick won't fall off due to use.

The Honeydolls head is the screw type. Is it possible to connect it with the body of another maker?

What kind of mechanism actualizes the voice emission? Is it possible to change voice to favorite one?

Strength that can tolerate hard practice

Softness comparable to a real girl

In addition, the eye parts are very elastic, and so you can replace eyeballs by yourself. Please enjoy customizing your doll with commercially available glass eyes as you like. As for the eyeball size and replacing method, please contact us from the Inquiry Form.

^I'm sure you could pull it off, a_c - vaginas are more elastic than assholes

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>> ^Payback:
I should go back and redact my previous post, because I went at it from the angle that what they show in the video was fact, but they claimed it was perpetual motion, which it isn't.
THEY ARE LYING.
1) The machine outside is either being towed, the video is playing backwards, or the contraption is actually moving INTO the wind, not with it.
2) The reason why the treadmill actually proves them WRONG is easier to understand when you realize the air speed of the air inside the room is NOT a factor. The ONLY airspeed you should consider is the airflow past the propeller. The air 1/100,000 inch away from the outer edge of the propeller could be 300mph, and it wouldn't impact this one bit. So...
It is a simple machine.
OUTSIDE:
Air pushes propeller (actually a turbine), which turns elastic band, which turns gears, which turns wheels, which push against the ground.
When you put it on the treadmill...
Ground pushes wheels, to gears, to eleastic, to prop, pushes air.
While on the treadmill, the contraption only generates enough thrust to move it barely to the right, while, if you were to believe THEIR physics, it should move to the right at a velocity equal to the treadmill PLUS an amount because the airflow THROUGH the propeller should be GREATER than the speed of the treadmill. It is obviously moving MUCH slower to the right than the treadmill moves to the left, therefore disproving them. Remember, EVERYTHING not going through the propeller blades ARE NOT CONSIDERED IN THE "WIND MOVING OVER GROUND IS EQUAL TO GROUND MOVING UNDER WIND" FALSEHOOD. ONLY the air through the propellers can be considered. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.


EXACTLY!

Furthermore, wind can not blow into the propeller to make it spin the right direction to provide thrust in the opposite direction the wind is blowing.

There is NO POSSIBLE WAY that this machine is even wind powered at all... just think about it people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller

A propeller is not a sail... end of the frickin' discussion

>> ^Payback:
"but they claimed it was perpetual motion, which it isn't."


They never claim it's perpetual motion. They only mention perpetual motion as an arguement people use against them.

"Air pushes propeller (actually a turbine), which turns elastic band, which turns gears, which turns wheels, which push against the ground.

When you put it on the treadmill...

Ground pushes wheels, to gears, to eleastic, to prop, pushes air."

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. When you say "turns wheels, which push against the ground" the gound also pushes on the wheel, just like the treadmill pushes against the wheel.

"While on the treadmill, the contraption only generates enough thrust to move it barely to the right, while, if you were to believe THEIR physics, it should move to the right at a velocity equal to the treadmill PLUS an amount"

It should move to the right at a velocity equal to the treadmill PLUS an amount, with respect to the treads, NOT the camera.

"It is obviously moving MUCH slower to the right than the treadmill moves to the left"

Yes, because now you're looking at the cart from the camera's reference frame, NOT the treads reference frame.

I should go back and redact my previous post, because I went at it from the angle that what they show in the video was fact, but they claimed it was perpetual motion, which it isn't.

THEY ARE LYING.

1) The machine outside is either being towed, the video is playing backwards, or the contraption is actually moving INTO the wind, not with it.

2) The reason why the treadmill actually proves them WRONG is easier to understand when you realize the air speed of the air inside the room is NOT a factor. The ONLY airspeed you should consider is the airflow past the propeller. The air 1/100,000 inch away from the outer edge of the propeller could be 300mph, and it wouldn't impact this one bit. So...

It is a simple machine.

OUTSIDE:

Air pushes propeller (actually a turbine), which turns elastic band, which turns gears, which turns wheels, which push against the ground.

When you put it on the treadmill...

Ground pushes wheels, to gears, to eleastic, to prop, pushes air.

While on the treadmill, the contraption only generates enough thrust to move it barely to the right, while, if you were to believe THEIR physics, it should move to the right at a velocity equal to the treadmill PLUS an amount because the airflow THROUGH the propeller should be GREATER than the speed of the treadmill. It is obviously moving MUCH slower to the right than the treadmill moves to the left, therefore disproving them. Remember, EVERYTHING not going through the propeller blades ARE NOT CONSIDERED IN THE "WIND MOVING OVER GROUND IS EQUAL TO GROUND MOVING UNDER WIND" FALSEHOOD. ONLY the air through the propellers can be considered. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.

hey, just so you know http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Bit-of-Fry-Laurie-Linguistic-Elasticity seems to be dead

^NetRunner:
>> To quote Wikipedia on a commodity: A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market.
Education isn't a commodity. It's a service, with a ton of "qualitative differentiation across the market".
Also, education is not elastic, like milk. If milk costs $8/gal, I'll probably cut back on it, or stop buying it. If sending my hypothetical kids to grade school cost me %50 or more of my income, I'd find a way to do it, but you can be damn sure I wouldn't be voting for a Libertarian in the next election.
There's probably some price elasticity in education, though I hope there aren't many parents telling their kids "sorry, even though I can afford to send you to MIT, your future isn't worth enough to me, how about a nice state school?" Student loans create a different situation, with kids having to decide how much individual debt they're willing to take on, but is that really superior to a system that places students in colleges based on desire & ability, with the costs spread amongst the society in the form of progressive taxes?


Education isn't a commodity like milk, because it has varying levels of quality. However, the analogy with milk is still valid. I can sustain myself in many ways--be it mcdonalds, frozen dinners, milk, vegetables, fruit, or gold-laced packages of caviar. To force an education on me which is more or less expensive, or of higher or lower quality than I would have chosen is economically inefficient. You don't make everyone eat the same food, or live in the same size house, so why would you make everyone learn the same way? If I can teach my children with online video lectures, .pdf class notes, and electronic text books--why would you deny me this cost-saving option? Likewise, if I aspire to be a manual laborer--say a carpenter--because it runs in my family--why would you force me to achieve a higher level of education than is economically relevant? If I want to be a doctor, why are you sending me through economics, calculus, and chemistry? Shouldn't I be free to learn these things on my own time--and focus on advancing the skills relevant to my career?

Also, a free market isn't a democracy. In any form of democracy I'm familiar with, everyone gets an equal number of votes (generally speaking, just 1). I'm pretty sure I have a smaller number of dollar-votes than Bill Gates.

It is true you have less "dollar-votes" than Bill Gates, but do you think Bill Gates is going to be buying that much more milk than a typical family? Or that many more loaves of bread? He will be spending money--perhaps on luxury items which you wouldn't buy anyways--but he will also be investing the largest portion of his income in small business--like the grocer, shoemaker, or car salesman who just opened business in your neighborhood. That is because all those millions of his dollars aren't just sitting in his closet--they are in a bank, which is giving out loans to business owners like your neighbor, or maybe even yourself.

As for taking a gun and forcing people to pay $8 for milk, it's more like taking a gun to people and saying "provide your share to the community or else," though usually they just send paperwork in the mail and say "we already took your share out of your paycheck, fill this out to make sure we got the right amount."
The "or else" is only implied to people who think of law as something imposed by a gang of thugs called "the government" or "the Police", forcing people to bow to their will through violence. Then it's "don't kill people, or else", "don't steal, or else", and all kinds of other democratically created circumscriptions on your freedom imposed artificially by others, tragic as that is.

There is no such thing as a community. Can you go outside and touch the community? Can you tell me where it is, or what it is currently doing? The community is an illusion--the only thing that exists is the individual. It is individuals that make up the community, and to forsake the individual for the sake of the community is to lose all bearing of what really exists.

>> ^imstellar28:
if the price rises, supply will be expanded to meet demand, and the price will fall. to force a person to a accept a higher or lower price is to walk into a supermarket with a gun, and force them to pay $8 for a gallon of milk--just because you think it is worth that much. maybe i dont even like milk, or enjoy milk but only at a reasonable price--say $2 a gallon?
the beauty of the free market is that the price of milk, for example, is set by the millions of "votes" made every second worldwide. when someone buys milk, or doesn't buy it, or buys less or more, they are transmitting how much milk is worth to them. to bypass this process, is to turn a democratic system into an autocratic one--instead of a million votes from people all around the world--you have one person, or a small group telling everyone how much milk should be worth. if you believe in democracy, how can you not believe in the free market? even worse, when you have a small group, say a bureaucracy, dictating the prices of a commodity you hide really important information--if the price is fixed, how can a business know when to increase supply to meet demand? or to reduce supply as a result of reduced demand? furthermore, in a free market the price changes on a daily basis based on an incomprehensible amount of data--to reduce this price adjustment to once a year, or once a quarter--and to think that one person can possibly improve on this process is ludicrous. that is why the free market will always be the best solution.

To quote Wikipedia on a commodity: A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market.

Education isn't a commodity. It's a service, with a ton of "qualitative differentiation across the market".

Also, education is not elastic, like milk. If milk costs $8/gal, I'll probably cut back on it, or stop buying it. If sending my hypothetical kids to grade school cost me %50 or more of my income, I'd find a way to do it, but you can be damn sure I wouldn't be voting for a Libertarian in the next election.

There's probably some price elasticity in education, though I hope there aren't many parents telling their kids "sorry, even though I can afford to send you to MIT, your future isn't worth enough to me, how about a nice state school?" Student loans create a different situation, with kids having to decide how much individual debt they're willing to take on, but is that really superior to a system that places students in colleges based on desire & ability, with the costs spread amongst the society in the form of progressive taxes?

Also, a free market isn't a democracy. In any form of democracy I'm familiar with, everyone gets an equal number of votes (generally speaking, just 1). I'm pretty sure I have a smaller number of dollar-votes than Bill Gates.

As for taking a gun and forcing people to pay $8 for milk, it's more like taking a gun to people and saying "provide your share to the community or else," though usually they just send paperwork in the mail and say "we already took your share out of your paycheck, fill this out to make sure we got the right amount."

The "or else" is only implied to people who think of law as something imposed by a gang of thugs called "the government" or "the Police", forcing people to bow to their will through violence. Then it's "don't kill people, or else", "don't steal, or else", and all kinds of other democratically created circumscriptions on your freedom imposed artificially by others, tragic as that is.

if i choose to home school my children, or pay a private tutor, or use online education such as dvds and video lectures in order to reduce the cost and/or increase the quality of education my child receives--who are you to tell me otherwise?

I agree with you there, you should have the right to choose those things, I just don't think it excuses you from having to contribute to the education of people who can't afford those choices.

As someone said, sarcastically, you're part of the village that's needed to raise the kid -- and part of the economic system the kid's future works will help drive.

I'm not a fan of ethanol subsidies personally. Funding for research into cellulosic ethanol, sure, but corn-based ethanol subsidies have more to do with the Iowa caucus than any real energy policy.

As for your analogy, you'd have to add in how most people need to burn a candle every day for their job, and candle prices skyrocketing to where it's putting strain on people's ability to buy food for their family.

Given that, I'd welcome the government using economic policy to try to help develop alternatives, like electric lightbulbs, even if I didn't believe that burning so many candles might wreck the world's climate.

You really should read some non-rightwing positions on oil drilling, because you really have to obfuscate the facts to get anyone to believe it's a solution.

There's 68 million acres leased to oil companies now for oil drilling, and they're not drilling. The lead time isn't the ridiculous timeframes that they've been feeding McCain, it's 7 years at least -- they've never gotten an offshore platform operational in less time than that. Even once it's online, it's barely a trickle of oil they could pump each day compared to world supply (because price is set on global supply and demand, not U.S. only), and might, at best, drop the price of gas would drop by $0.03...in 2030 once production had fully ramped up.

Don't believe me? Read this report from the Bush DOE on the topic.

As for speculation, that only recently became legal, through the "Enron-loophole", created by then-Senator Phil Gramm (who became McCain's chief economic adviser). If speculation is the main/only cause, then we should repeal the law that opened the loophole.

As for the recent drop in oil, again, only the Republican pundits claim that they're the ones who made price drop by talking about drilling. Most reports say it's the poor economic situation, and the fact that gasoline is finally starting to show price elasticity (in other words, people are using less because it's so expensive), that predicted demand is being downgraded slightly, resulting in a lower speculative price.

Even the White House refrained from taking credit for the drop in price, and pointed to the drop in demand as the primary cause, though they don't seem to be falling over themselves to take credit for the high prices and wrecked economy for some reason.

As for changing positions once in office, which President did that? The only one I've known who's gone from moderate to extreme partisan post-election is George W. Bush. Every other President has more or less stayed true to their campaign, or more commonly became more moderate once in office, like Bush's dad.

As for opposition to Healthcare, I expect it to come from the Republican party, but I expect them to realize, they oppose it at their own peril.

Nice video. I agree with most of it.

I'd like to remind you that plenty of immigrants starved to death in the United States around 1900 without any "socialist policy destroying the economy". With the exception of railroad land grants, the USA was nearly laissez-faire until 1906. Monopolies thrived anyway.

If you want a recent example of price-fixing by suppliers whose initiation did not require government help (but ending it did require government help), look up the SDRAM collusion scandal of the early 2000s.

OPEC's openly stated goal is to control oil prices by collusive production-limiting, so it's ridiculous to call that a "tinfoil hat" allegation. They succeed because demand for oil is not very elastic and their competitors cannot easily increase production. Also, irrespective of OPEC, the price of oil will continue to rise as the limited worldwide reserves are consumed and demand continues to rise. OPEC and the United States are playing it well by conserving their reserves. The price of oil, relative to gold, will probably double by 2020.

And I do support nuclear power. Don't be so insolent as to presume that any left-leaning person you meet online supports every plank of the Green Party Platform.

A large conglomerate can drive all its competition in a particular niche out of business by selling at a slight loss. Or the conglomerate offer to buy the competitors first, and then run the holdouts out of business. Then they can raise prices to whatever they want and make a profit more than enough to compensate for the earlier loss. Some new capitalist will presume that he can sell the product cheaper, so he will waste the overhead cost of market entry before getting run out of business by the larger company selling at a loss again. Then the larger company goes back to selling at very high prices without any competitors. In any market with high entry overhead costs and impracticality of long-term temporal arbitrage, a monopoly can thrive without government help.

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith


Industries such as tap water, sewers, and electical grids are natural monopolies. There is not one place in the world where you have a choice of which tap water grid to connect to, or which sewer network to connect to, or which power grid to connect to.

You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
Mike D Come On And Rock The Sure Shot

I've Got The Brand New Doo-Doo Guaranteed
Like Yoo Hoo
I'm On Like Dr John, Yea Mr Zu Zu
I'm A Newlywed, Not A Divorcee
And Everything I Do Is Funky Like Lee Dorsey
Well, It's The Taking of Pelham, One, Two, Three
If You Want A Doodoo Rhyme Then Come See Me
I've Got The Savoir Faire With The Unique Rhyme
And
I Keep It On And On, It's Never Quitting Time And
Strictly Hand Held Is The Style I Go
Never Rock The Mic With The Panty Hose
I Strap On My Ear Goggles And I'm Ready To Go
'Cause At The Boards Is The Man They Call The
Mario
Pull Up At The Function And You Know I Kojak
To All The Party People That Are On My Bozak
I've Got More Action Than My Man John Woo
And I've Got Mad Hits Like I Was Rod Carew


You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
Ad Rock Come And Rock The Sure Shot


Hurricane Will Cross Fade On Your Ass And
Bust Your Ear Drums
Listen Everybody 'Cause I'm Shifting Gears I'm
Fresh Like Dougie When I Set My Specs And
On The Microphone I Come Correct
Timing Like A Clock When I Rock The Hip Hop
Top Notch Is My Stock On The Soap Box
I've Got More Rhymes Than I've Got Grey Hairs
And That's A Lot Because I've Got My Share
I've Got A Hole In My Head And There's No One
To Fix It
Got To Straighten My Thoughts, I'm Thinking Too
Much Sick Shit
Everyone Just Takes and Takes, Takes, Takes,
Takes
I've Got To Step Back, I've Got To Contemplate
I'm Like Lee Perry, I'm Very
On Rock The Microphone And Then I'm Gone
I'm Like Vaughn bode, I'm a Cheech Wizard
Never Quitting, So Won't You Listen


Oh Yes Indeed, It's Fun Time
'Cause You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
MCA Come And Rock The Sure Shot


I Want To Say a Little Something That's Long
Overdue
The Disrespect To Women Has Got To Be Through
To All The Mothers And Sisters A And The
Wives And Friends
I Want To Offer My Love And Respect To The
End
Well You Say I'm Twenty Something And Should
Be Slacking
But I'm Working Harder Than Ever And You Could
Call It Macking
So I'm Supposed To Sit Upon My Couch Watching My
T.V.
I'm Still Listening To Wax, I'm Not Using The CD
I'm That Kid In The Corner
All Fucked Up And I Wanna So I'm Gonna
Take A Piece Of The Pie, Why Not, I'm Not Quitting
Think I'm Gonna Change Up My Style Just To Fit In
I Keep My Underwear Up With A Piece Of Elastic
I Use A Bullshit Mic That's Made Out Of Plastic
To Send My Rhymes Out To All Nations
Like Ma Bell, I've Got The Ill Communications

I think they used a "fatty" to enhance the epidermal elasticity.