text: Economics is the [[HeinzHybrid bastard lovechild of politics, sociology, psychology, and philosophy on the one hand and mathematics on the other.]] It is FlameBait incarnate.This page lists the few points which the widely divergent schools of economic thought can agree upon. Each school starts from a different set of philosophical assumptions, has different goals, and uses different methods. This one of the myriad reasons why economics is sometimes called "the dismal science". [[note]]The origin of the term is from how during the time of slavery, John Stuart Mill and his fellow economists supported equality between men and the abolition of slavery, and Thomas Carlyle was afraid that economics would lead to the decline of society. [[http://aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.co/revistas/index.php/lecturasdeeconomia/article/viewFile/7874/7415 Source (in Spanish)]][[/note]].[[UsefulNotes/EconomicTheories A more detailed explanation of general and specific economic theories can be found here.]][[foldercontrol]][[folder: Our Brains]]Our brains are hardwired to use logic in the service of our emotional desires and minimise our need for hard thinking. This was perfectly attuned to the needs of proto-humans who needed to advance and maintain their social standing within groups of up to 250 proto-humans, but is remarkably ill-suited to our needs when sound happiness-related decision-making requires so much logical thought. Our brains often lead us to using our money and time in ways that make us unhappy, not least because the marketing staffs of the world have been making Herculean efforts to understand and optimally exploit our flaws for profit. Many of the problems stem from our instinctual conception of the world in terms of narratives. These enable us to near-instantly judge situations and peoples by matching them with pre-existing templates. These narratives include the legitimating ideologies of our whole societies (meta-), those which structure the social groups which we feel we belong to (social-), and those which we use to order the stories of our lives (personal-). However, these narratives are often inaccurate in Real Life, and are subject to internal drift and external influence. This is especially true of our personal narratives, which are generally what we are most interested in yet least equipped to assess objectively. The stories that we tell ourselves about why we do certain things and not others are, for the most part, soothing lies which bundle a mass of inconsistencies and contradictions. Some of our most fundamental cognitive flaws include: * '''We default to using pre-existing narratives instead of actually assessing things''', especially when we're tired or indifferent to the consequences. Our species evolved by ''generally'' benefiting from this, but this doesn't mean ''specific'' individuals can't make catastrophic mistakes by doing this. Police killings of unarmed people from minority groups stereotyped as violent (Caucasians in Russia, Uighurs in China, Blacks in America) are quite notoriously attributable to this flaw. * '''We feel that we have better willpower than the average person''' and don't fail to control ourselves as much as they do. This stems from our personal narratives, in which we tell ourselves that we are exceptional in all sorts of ways - particularly those which are not regularly or objectively assessed. 'Diet' and 'Exercise' companies are sustained by systemic self-discipline failure. * '''We feel that we are smarter than the average person''' and don't make as many silly mistakes as they do - even though this complacency is part of why "the average person" makes so many mistakes in the first place. * '''We feel that if we are smarter than average person, we must also be more rational than they are''' when in fact, greater intelligence just makes us better at ''rationalising'' - finding rational-sounding excuses for why we did irrational things. Failing to appreciate this makes us [[TooCleverByHalf even more vulnerable to mistakes]] [[KansasCityShuffle and cons]] than "the average person". * '''We prefer forgetting or misremembering our mistakes to actually thinking about them''' and how to fix them or avoid them in future. After all, that would require admitting that we've made a mistake. [[AndThatsTerrible And that would make us feel bad.]] * '''We are poor predictors of how we will act when in a different emotional state'''. Calm people significantly underpedict their chances of doing sexually taboo or immoral things when aroused, and so on. This is part of why "abstinence-only education" has such poor sexual activity prevention outcomes. * '''We feel more strongly about things affecting us right now than those in the past or the future''', even when we felt or will feel more strongly about them at the time. This is why so many of us struggle with procrastination - the future payoff of not procrastinating may be tremendous, but in that moment the payoff of procrastinating feels like it is bigger.* '''We feel that things we own are more valuable''' than things we don't - even if their objective value is identical. This can even apply to things that we only ''imagine'' ourselves owning, such as a vivid fantasy of us becoming rich - a key part of most sales pitches for Pyramid/Ponzi Schemes. This is one bias which drives us to the SunkCostFallacy, along with...* '''The more effort it takes to get something, the more we value it'''. This includes our relationships with other people, our points of view, our jobs, and even our appreciation/enjoyment of the thing which we have obtained - which increases relative to that effort. This is related to...* '''We experience what we expect to''', to the extent that we can convince ourselves that enjoyable sensations are unpleasant and vice versa. This is why producers invest in expensive packaging for edible products, among other things. It's also why expensive placebo medicines and treatments are more effective than cheap ones. * '''We instinctively latch on to the first price we see''' (the "Anchor/Reference Price") and judge all subsequent prices for similar products with reference to that number. This is why certain products are arrayed at eye-height and take up more or less space on shelves in stores, why multi-buy sales specify a certain number of products, and why the first party to specify a price during negotiations usually gets the better deal. * '''We instinctively like 'Free' things''', even when there is an objective hidden cost to acquiring them. This marketing strategy works because we are not wired to think about the objective costs of actually acquiring that thing, and we are inclined to acquire FREE things even if we don't ordinarily want them. This is why "Buy one get one FREE" works so well.* '''We tend to judge things in relation to similar things, regardless of how meaningful that comparison is.''' If we choose between three comparable products, one of which ('''A1''') is good in attribute '''A''' and the other two of which ('''B1''' and '''B2''') are good in the different but equally attractive attribute '''B''', most people choose the better product of the pair ('''B1'''). We instinctively feel that '''B1''' must not just be better than '''B2''', but that it is better than '''A1''' as well.* '''We are guided more by our social norms than our individual values or morality'''. This applies to all people and organisations. Egregious illegality and abuses of power are generally the products of promotional, or at least tolerant, organisational norms. This is not to say that, for instance, the executives of Enron were not scumbags - just that they were the mere tip of a foetid iceberg.AsYouKnow, this list doesn't even begin to touch the shortcomings in our perception [[note]] Hold out your thumb at arm's-length. See your thumbnail? That's the portion of your field of view which you actually see in sufficient detail for these words to be legible. Everything else you think you can see? That's just your brain combining (1) eye-signals giving a vague sense of motion and shape and colour with (2) your working memory of what you expect to see there [[/note]], our mental perception (e.g. ConfirmationBias), and our memories themselves. See UsefulNotes/{{Psychology}} for more details or, better yet, get your hands on some actual books on it. [[/folder]][[folder:General Economic Fallacies]]'''The following fallacies are only fallacies if:'''* '''The economy is healthy.''' * '''A thing is only 'worth' what its purchaser will pay for it.''' [[note]] such fallacies are based on Neoclassical economics, which is a broad designation that refers to all economic schools that accept the consensus formed in the wake of the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism Marginalist]] Revolution" caused by the work of Leon Walras, William Jevons and Carl Menger. Basically, this approach to economics emphasizes economic subjectivism; the belief that a good is valued by a subject and that market prices for a good only come about when subjects desire them. This is a great contrast to the Classical economists like Adam Smith and Karl Marx, who argued the value of commodities are related to the labor to produce them (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_theory_of_value labor theory of value]], a theory derived from the philosophy of John Locke). [[/note]]The Fallacies.# '''The Broken Window Fallacy aka. Destruction Equals Employment aka. Digging and Filling Ditches''': [[TropeNamer Named]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window by Frederic Bastiat]]. Keynesians note that "demand-side" recessions caused by insufficient consumption (such as the Great Depression of '29 and Great Recession of '08) can be fixed by putting money in the hands of people who will spend it upon goods and services. While giving them this money for free or in payment for useless tasks (breaking and fixing windows, etc) might be necessary in a demand-side recession/depression, paying people for useless work once the economy was healthy again would be wasteful. This is because those people could be doing useful work instead. In economics terms we would say that the "opportunity cost" of wasteful work in a healthy economy is the useful work that cannot be done instead. # '''Fallacy of Intrinsic Economic Value aka. MoneyForNothing aka. Superiority Equals Success aka. Wealth Is Zero Sum''': This fallacy consists of forgetting that the "value" of things is relative and determined by how much (if at all) people want it, rather than being absolute and independent of human desire. Examples include:** ''MoneyForNothing'': Creating more money ''cannot'' create "more wealth". It does create inflation. [[note]] Printing money can in the ''short term'' (i.e. before the inflation kicks in) give the issuer some extra wealth; but as time goes on the effect becomes a wealth-transfer from the holders to the issuers of the currency; holders are left with WorthlessYellowRocks.\\Though one reason why this one is so persistent is that discovery of new gold mines has often heralded economic booms. This is not because it was intrinsically valuable, though; it was because either the money supply was insufficient to maintain a larger economy, or the country with the gold mines was made better off at the cost of its neighbors.[[/note]]** ''Wealth Is Zero Sum'': This fallacy alleges that someone can only get wealthy by making someone else poor. X's gain must be Y's loss. It's a dog-eat-dog world and business consists of grabbing the largest share of the pie one can. The fallacy is the belief that the "pie" is a fixed size. If economic value is objective, then it is finite; it cannot be created. However, that premise is wrong; economic value is subjective. Thus, the pie size can be increased by increasing the supply of subjectively-valued goods. Technological progress is a large contributor to this.** ''Superiority Equals Success'': This fallacy alleges that a product's market price is determined by an objectively measurable aspect of the product. For instance, lets say you place a bucket of your phlegm on the market. And then you place two buckets of phlegm on the market. By the logic of Superiority Equals Success, you should get more money for two buckets of your phlegm than one. Thankfully, [[CaptainObvious no one wants your phlegm]] and as such you wouldn't get any money for either bucket (clarification: you might get money for the buckets themselves; but the phlegm would have to be removed from the bucket). Objective superiority of any good along any measurable aspect (for instance, quantity) only translates into a higher market price if people ''want'' more of that measurable aspect (holding all other variables constant). And let's not even mention adding marketing into the mix...# '''Exporting Good, Importing Bad:''' It's usually used something like this: Exporting something makes others dependent; this is ''good''. Importing things makes you dependent; this is ''bad''. Note that there was an early economic theory, mercantilism, which taught this exactly. And in fact it is still taught in many business and economics classes, or at least implied by referring to a situation where a country imports more than exports as a "trade deficit" and the inverse as a "surplus". In truth, some countries have a relative productive advantage in some areas, while other countries have different relative productive advantages. Trade allows countries to specialize in whatever production they have an advantage in, thus producing more in total, and then trade with each other. This makes both countries better off. For example, perhaps Country A can produce 4 cans of butter, or 2 cans of butter and 1 carton of eggs, or 2 cartons of eggs. Country B can produce 4 cartons of eggs, or 2 cartons of eggs and 1 can of butter, or 2 cans of butter. With trade, they can produce at their advantages of 4 cans of butter in A and 4 cartons of eggs in B and then trade so they each have 2 cartons and 2 cans. Making them both better off than if they produced everything in their own country.** It's worth noting that in an [[TheEmpire Empire]] that has expanded sufficiently the Mercantile system makes more sense (although probably still isn't optimal) ''from the perspective of enhancing state power'' (because state power is relative to other states, and by engaging in mercantilism you are [[TakingYouWithMe potentially harming other states more than yourself]]). However, in terms of delivering an ''economically optimal'' outcome (i.e. maximizing utility), the Mercantile system still Fails Economics Forever.** ''In theory'', Empires can benefit from mercantilism. In practice, of course, this was often not the case. The late 19th century European empires all spent far more maintaining their empires than they got back in revenue, and the colonies themselves represented a very small fraction of their overall GDP.*** Generally, mercantilism makes sense only when governments need money to fight foreign wars, to buy supplies from the locals.** Some economists (e.g. Ha-Joon Chang) consider avoiding imports extremely important when the economy of a country is still developing. If country A currently produces 4 cans of butter and country B can't produce any butter at all, but could potentially produce at least 4 cans, country B should limit the importation of butter from country A to encourage the development of the local butter industry. In the modern world this applies most strongly to third world countries, which are dependent on imports in nearly all sectors of economy and have a very limited selection of exports. That is, ''real'' protectionism is about either having certain production at all or ''balancing'' import and export. So the export may be seen as a problem too[[note]]Aristocratic slavers export wood and rope until the rest of economy is crippled?[[/note]]** Most of the arguments about promoting exports and avoiding imports for developing countries center around the idea that a country needs to industrialize to be truly prosperous, and the best way to do that is to promote local industries by limiting foreign competition. It seems to work with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export-oriented_industrialization Export-Led Industrialization]], but not so much with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrialization Import Substitution Industrialization]], although obviously this is a major simplification of the internal economic processes of each country that tried these policies. In any case, it's no surprise that countries very much want to have a productive advantage in advanced technological industries and not, say... drugs, prostitution, and making sneakers for three cents an hour.** It's also worth noting that importing and exporting will always balance in the long-run. If the US buys stuff from China, but doesn't sell anything, China will have a bunch of dollars that are worthless to them; unless China start buying stuff from the US, or loan the money back to them, or something else to that effect. If both countries use the same currency, this won't happen as quickly, but in this example, the currency would slowly get more valuable in the US and less in China, until the trade balances.# '''RidiculousFutureInflation:''' The main problem with this is that it is often portrayed as being a natural and normal result without any of the many social and economic problems hyperinflation show in the real world. It is, however, normal to see drastically inflated prices as a result of a ''past'' inflation.# '''The resource halt''': A source of conflict in many post-apocalyptic scenarios is the sudden exhaustion of a valuable natural resource such as [[PostPeakOil oil and the conflicts that inevitably flow from it.]] Any microeconomics principles student will tell you that the real world does not work this way. If mankind is faced with such a threat, owners of the resource will withhold some of their stockpiles now in order to take advantage of the future scarcity. Furthermore this will mean that the price of the resource will rise slowly, giving humanity time to adapt. As a result, the point where we do run out will not be a trigger for a massive calamity, rather it will hardly be noticed.** This would presume that the progress of science, and, indeed, the circumstances of the physical world itself, are determined by economic demand; events may very well occur to which humanity is simply unable to adapt. Furthermore, if the resource is sufficiently important - for example, water - the tactic of stockpiling may backfire by way of having your throat cut by a thirsty mob.** A sudden, temporary decrease in ''availability'', however, can be entirely plausible. This can occur (and has occurred) due to the obstruction of transportation routes, the destruction of the production apparatus, or monopoly/oligopoly producers artificially withholding supply in order to serve other motives. The effects of these scenarios are likely to be tied to relatively specific times and places rather than being TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (although it may feel that way to those affected).** Also as the price rises former non-profitable actions have to be reconsidered - they might generate a profit now. Case in point - the Bakken formation in [[UsefulNotes/TheSeveralStates western North Dakota]] is currently undergoing a huge oil boom because of both technologic advances and rising oil prices making it very profitable to drill there now; not ten years ago North Dakota was losing population like much of the Great Plains. The same is true of most natural resources: they are extracted only when it's profitable to do so. If a gold mine gets an ounce of gold for $100 worth of effort, and gold is worth $110 an ounce, then it's profitable and the mine operates. If it takes $150 worth of effort, then the mine is "mothballed" and mining stops until the price of gold goes up, likely due to scarcity. This is actually one reason of many for why oil hasn't suddenly dried up: when it's gushing out of the ground, it's cheap, and the harder-to-reach sources are left alone. When it becomes more costly to extract everywhere and the price goes up, those harder-to-reach sources suddenly beckon when their costs become less than the potential profit.** Finally, as a resource becomes less available to meet demand, the incentives to develop replacements rises. Furthermore, science reveals new methods to replace those resources over time, and demand for replacements can lead to the necessary R&D to make those replacements more efficient. Fossil fuels serve as an excellent example. Humans don't necessarily want oil and coal; we want warm houses, the power to move our vehicles, lubricants, plastics, and other products that are based on fossil fuels. As the costs - including pollution, environmental damage, and moral concerns - of these fuels rise, the incentive to meet those needs in other manners rises. # '''America the bankrupt''': National debts don't work like your personal debt. For example, people don't buy your debt to prop up your currency. Yet for some reason a lot of writers tend to think of the national debt in the same terms as a bank loan, with angry creditors and everything. When this trope is invoked expect to see a consortium of angry foreign dignitaries banging on a conference table that they want their money back. In reality, if countries actually acted like this, the global financial system would probably collapse pretty spectacularly and everyone would be screwed. This trope is not specific to America, but for some reason Americans are exceptionally paranoid about the National Debt, particularly when [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld the Chinese are buying it up]], and now not buying it anymore. [[http://www.kathylien.com/site/forex-blog/which-countries-have-the-most-debt Oddly enough, America's National Debt isn't even that bad by international standards]]. Also, the US national debt is in terms of dollars, and the government can create as many dollars as they need to pay off the debt. Everyone would be paid the amount owed, but the new dollars would lead to inflation. ** The key here is that governments usually owe substantial portions of their debt to 'themselves,' i.e. either the government owes money to different branches, or those branches hold their assets as bonds and treasury bills instead of money; by owing money to yourself, you usually don't charge yourself interest (beyond inflation) and you theoretically can't default on money you owe yourself. This is how Japan can have gross debt worth over 100% of their yearly economic output and have little economic effects: 70-80% of its debt is owned by the Japanese Central Bank. In the United States, around 35-40% of the government debt is owed to itself, mainly to the Social Security Administration. Also, debt owed to foreign entities makes up MUCH less of the debt than people seem to think: as an example, China owns only 6% of the total US debt.** There have been cases in history where creditor nations have launched military actions of debtor nations in order to force repayment - the most well-known is the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 by France and Belgium after WeimarRepublic Germany had repeatedly defaulted on its (huge) debt obligations to the Allied Powers under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (France believed Germany was testing Allied resolve to enforce the Treaty by skirting the payments). It ended poorly for the French, as they got cast as the bad guy internationally (despite the occupation being legal under Versailles) while Germany got sympathy once the passive resistance campaign against the occupation in the Ruhr started. Other cases include the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882, the United States' occupation of Haiti in 1915, and the proposed joint Anglo-French-Spanish expedition to Mexico in 1861 (Britain and Spain backed out and made separate deals with Mexico when it became clear Napoleon III had more on his mind than just recovering the debt it was owed). In all these cases, forcing repayment of debt was a more secondary reason to exercising hard power (which may explain the acute American paranoia over this trope, however infeasible it would be in practice).*** Needless to say, there's one flaw in this potential concern: The fact that the United States is, by far, the most militarily powerful nation on Earth.** Related is the idea that '''Governments Need Money'''. Modern governments ''create'' money. They take money away from people (taxation) to keep inflation manageable, and for redistribution. Governments don't need to even tax people, much less convince rich people to give them money, to get what they want. # '''Third World Countries: Paradise of rich nations' investments''': Ah... Third World Countries, with their cheap labor supply, lax regulations, and prime materials just waiting to get exploited. With such advantages, wouldn't the average Joe invest his life savings into opening a business in say... Somalia? As you probably answered... not so, normally, the reason labor is cheap in [=TWC=]s is because the workforce is also unskilled, lax regulations also usually mean a high crime rate or even political instability. That's why it's usually the big businesses that take the plunge to do the tremendous investments in [=TWC=]s, since they can absorb the cost of giving training to the workforce and providing security for their investments.# '''Ideological Identity Idiocy''': This is the intersection of YouFailEconomicsForever and StrawmanPolitical. Often, a [[AuthorTract work that wants to make a political point]] will (probably accidentally, but possibly deliberately) make mistakes about the definitions of specific economic systems. In short, authors often don't know (or don't care) how economists actually define economic systems. Economic systems exist to allow a society to ''economize'', i.e. allocate their supply of ''means'' towards various different ''ends''. The supply of means is ''scarce'' because it cannot achieve all these ends. Thus, an economic system is something that provides a method by which these ends are prioritized and means are directed to fulfilling them.[[/folder]][[folder:Economic Systems]]* '''Socialism''': In terms of UsefulNotes/{{Political Ideologies}}, Socialism refers to a broad family of ideologies united by an opposition to Liberalism and a goal of improving the lot of the working classes, refer to [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} its page]] for details. However, self-proclaimed Socialists have advocated various different economic models, quite a few of which would fit under the category of "mixed economy" (for instance, market socialism and social democracy).\\In economics, ''Socialism'' is often used to refer to State Socialism; a scarcity economy where all the means of production are property of the State (on behalf of the working classes) and all economic activity is controlled by the State. Thus, economists typically refer to nationalization of a specific industry as the "Socialization" of this industry. However, there are many variations on this theme, mainly varying in matters of degree (i.e. how much control the State exerts over economic activities): ** ''Public Enterprise Centrally Planned Economy'' in which all means of production (stuff used to make other stuff) is owned by the State and all key economic decisions are made centrally by the State, e.g. North Korea in TheSeventies (it's an interesting mix nowadays) or, partially, the former Soviet Union, where always existed at least ''some'' tacitly allowed private sector. ** ''Public Enterprise State-Managed Market Economy'', one form of market socialism which attempts to use the price mechanism to increase economic efficiency, while all decisive productive assets remain in the ownership of the state, e.g. China, Venezuela (although Venezuela is moving towards the above), and arguably UsefulNotes/FascistItaly[[note]]whilst Fascism does have ''nominal'' private ownership of the means of production, all key economic decisions are made by the State, thus meaning the State has ''de facto'' control of the means of production (and what is [[PromotedToScapegoat ownership]] without ''[[TheManBehindTheMan de facto]]'' control?)[[/note]].** ''Public Enterprise Employee Managed Market Economies'', another form of market socialism in which publicly owned, employee-managed production units engage in free market exchange of goods and services with one another as well as with final consumers, e.g. mid twentieth century Yugoslavia. Some versions have a single monopoly production unit for each type of product or service, while others have open competition between employee-owned businesses. Two more theoretical models are Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar's Progressive Utilization Theory and Economic democracy.** ''Public Enterprise Participatory Planning'', an economy featuring social ownership of the means of production with allocation based on an integration of decentralized democratic planning, e.g. Catalonia during the Spanish revolution. More developed theoretical models include those of Karl Polanyi, Participatory Economics and the negotiated coordination model of Pat Devine, as well as in Cornelius Castoriadis's pamphlet "Workers' Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society".** Note: The "market socialist" models are arguably examples of mixed economies; some Socialists do not accept them as forms of Socialism. * '''Mixed Economy''', '''Social Democracy''' or '''Social Market Economy''': An economic system where the scarcity economy is remedied by a mixture of both state and free market means. To qualify, both the State and the market must have a significant role in the economy (i.e. an advocate of free markets that gives a very small role to the State is not advocating a Mixed Economy, and a socialist that advocates a small role for markets is not advocating a Mixed Economy either). The vast majority of the world's economies, including those of Western Europe and the United States, fit in this category.* '''Free Market Economics''' or '''Laissez-Faire''': An economic system where the scarcity economy is remedied exclusively via a system of private property. All the inputs to the production process are owned by individuals or voluntarily-formed groups thereof whose property rights are derived from those of the underlying individuals that make up said group (for instance, businesses with more than one owner).** Some advocates of Free Markets give a slightly larger but still strictly limited role to the State, and some advocates of Free Markets are Anarchists that believe the existence of the State cannot be justified.** Many economists use "Capitalism" as a synonym for "Free Markets", but amongst many schools of political theory (including most forms of Anarchism and Marxism) "Capitalism" refers to something different. See [[UsefulNotes/{{Capitalism}} the Capitalism page]].[[/folder]][[folder:Post-Scarcity Economy]] The supply of means is no longer scarce. This means that people don't ''need'' to economize. A society in this stage cannot be meaningfully described as any of the following labels since those labels only apply to societies with scarcity economies. Of course, many systems described in fiction as post-scarcity [[YouKeepUsingThatWord are not post-scarcity]]. Scarcity exists as long as any human (or SufficientlyAdvancedAlien) cannot have all its wants met. If not everyone who wants the house on the hill, Jimi Hendrix's bandana, or the front row seats at a concert can have them, then there is in fact still scarcity. If TheSingularity is capable of producing any commodity (say, gold), then those goods won't need to be economized. However, if the Singularity cannot let everyone enjoy goods like the front row seats at a concert, then there is still a need to economize them.This is not to say that its impossible to imagine. If we're talking about a post singularity society, it is possible that they will figure out a way to replicate all the essential qualities of even seemingly unique goods. The house on that one hill next to that waterfall could be replicated right down to the waterfall and the hill with sufficiently advanced terraforming technology. We could reshape the landmasses of a planet to maximize the beachfronts if that's what people want. Even that isn't enough to completely eliminate scarcity, since an item's history might be what makes it desirable and scarce. Sure, the Singularity can produce a perfect ''replica'' of anything, but there are more collectors that want an authentic original than can possibly have it. No matter how perfectly you could recreate a copy of one of the surviving First Folios of William Shakespeare, it's the originals that collectors would want. A minor version of this can be seen today when a desirable collectible can be reprinted or reproduced, and the replicas almost invariably sell for far less and are far less desirable. This gets even more important for sites that are holy to some faith or culturally significant to a people. Imagine using the Singularity to replicate the Dome of the Rock or the Great Pyramid or the Nazca lines and claiming the replica is interchangeable with the original. Travel to and visitation rights for such locations would still be scarce. Alternatively, a society which exists totally within a virtual universe could get around this, since the original would just be some form of data. There's also the issue that some things might be post-scarcity while others still need to be economized. For example, even if there was more than enough consumer goods for every person on Earth being provided by automated robots without human intervention you would still need an economy for things that cannot be reproduced that way, such as land (barring space stations or something similar) and unique items like antiques and historical treasures, but most people wouldn't care. This doesn't even require a singularity, the Earth's resources are such that it is virtually impossible for us to ever use it all. For example, enough energy falls on the Earth from the sun to power our projected energy needs in 2050 about 5000 times over, and that is without drastic measures like sending satellites into space to collect more energy. Collecting all that solar energy is difficult however. Similarly, there is an overabundance of water on the Earth, but most of it is salt water or trapped in the atmosphere and desalination is expensive while atmospheric condensers are still in their infancy, the farmland currently in use could feed 80 billion people if converted to emerging farming methods (and that's not even counting the possibility of farming more area) but that will take time and money, and enough raw materials exist in the Earth's crust to supply a virtually unlimited amount of consumer products including advanced technology and electronics, but harvesting it is hard. The majority of what we are economizing in the 21st century is actually labor, technology, and information, and advances in these areas could very well lead to major shifts in the world economy within a few years. Or not, the future is hard to predict.Also note that there are already resources that aren't scarce, such as air. As such, this would yield exactly the sort of economy we have.[[/folder]][[folder: Human Nature and Economics]]An example of a SpannerInTheWorks, Neoclassical and Austrian economic theories can sound nice and wonderful on paper. However, when they are enacted in real life, the results can be wildly different. Their economists have a concept known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus Homo economicus]]; a hypothetical being that is completely self-interested, rational, and has a desire to either maximum utility if they are consumers, or profit if they are producers. So a society of homo economicuses would only purchase items that provided the most utility ''and'' were the cheapest, and sellers would only sell at the highest price possible their consumers would pay. Any other reason why an human agent would act the way they do in an economic sense in a real society would not exist in a homo economicus society. On the other end of the scale, there is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_reciprocans Homo reciprocans]], a hypothetical being that is motivated not by self-interest, but by improving their environment. They are also motivated by ''justification'', as some of their economic activities done can be used to "punish" another actor that they believe has done wrong, even at their own expense. Examples of this can be people refusing to shop at a store that they believe has mistreated workers, upheld an unpopular or controversial belief, or has done something else seen as wrong. In real life, many boycotts of businesses are due to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_controversy owners going public with political beliefs,]] [[http://twitchy.com/2012/11/10/libs-call-for-boycott-of-papa-johns-as-ceo-anticipates-cut-in-workers-hours/ or doing practices certain members of the public find disagreeable can be an example of this.]] On the producer side, firms can refuse to do business with a customer they believe to have done or are doing something wrong. An example in real life is how certain companies refused to sell [[http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/will-the-eu-kill-americas-death-penalty drugs to prisons that were using them to execute prisoners.]]However these concepts are used to describe behaviors and concepts in an economic system and do not necessarily describe how things will play out in reality. Human beings can be one side at times, the other side at other times, or some wild combination. Human beings may try to purchase or sell at the best price for them possible, but they may buy a product that is cheaper because it is cheaper, then have it cause trouble for them and cost more in the long run due to low quality, or perhaps a person might buy from from a producer because they are friends with the producer, and not because of product/service quality or price, or they prefer that brand due to false perceptions, or they simply don't have the time or resources available to research the best possible trade and are picking this one out of convenience, or they believe it is a better buy due to some other reason, be that reason be rational or not. A criticism of homo economicus is that real humans do not always know what is best for them in the long-run, and may perform an action due to its short term benefits, but run into problems when unforeseen (or willfully ignored) long-term costs rear their ugly heads. Also, homo economicus runs on the idea of actors having perfect information available, while real humans do not.As for homo reciprocans, in real life, a human may buy from a firm, or sell to someone someone that has "done wrong" in someone else's eyes, [[ValuesDissonance but they may either not see it as wrong]], may not even ''know'' about the wrong doing, feel that the issue isn't something they could change, [[ApatheticCitizens or they simply do not care about it]]. In someways, the boycott can backfire if there are enough people that will support a boycotted business due to [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong beliefs that the boycotters]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_controversy#Chick-fil-A_Appreciation_Day are the ones that are wrong.]] Another wrench in the homo reciprocans idea is that a human being might be in a position in which the costs of helping the community would be too high for them to handle. A person might shop at a big box store because of cheaper prices that they can afford, even though a better choice for the community would be the mom and pop shop in the neighborhood. However, since they cannot afford the latter, they'll do business with the former.And then there's TheCynic's criticism of both models in their [[HumansAreMorons assumption that humans will be rational]], but [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement we'll leave that for the discussion boards]].[[/folder]][[folder:Parting Thoughts]]Finally, and as always, there is the general zeroth rule of the AuthorTract: Regardless of quality, writing a work of fiction neither adds nor subtracts empirical evidence to or from your point of view. It may display evidence, it may make an argument using that evidence, it may convince the reader using that evidence. However, merely writing a fictional work about a free-market/socialist utopia/dystopia does not prove anything. 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Need help uploading from new garmin fortrex 401 to garmin connect. Have win 7 64 bit, windows explorer, did the download of communicator plug in 18.104.22.168 and I see my 401 detected. I hit upload and get ACTIVE LOG UPLOADING,,, it just keeps spooling never downloads. Tried manual but not sure how exactly it works with gpx, I'm new to that. I did upload on MTBguru which mentioned I had to have the garmin communicator,, that worked!!! I like the garmin connect site the best, so I'm still at it trying to figure it out. Iv'e read maybe change to 34 bit but I'm thinking why? ,, don't want to go that far. And I don't have firefox. Any help, thanks..............
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About the Book
Oversized, outrageous Mary Alice and her prim sister Patricia Anne have been looking forward to the gala benefit being staged to raise money for the restoration of Vulcan, Birmingham's ever-tarnishing unnatural wonder. And what a show it is, with a grand finale that has thirty sequined Elvis impersonators high-kicking in unison! From the front row, "Mouse" and "Sister" have a perfect view of the action when one of the dancing Kings keels over dead into the bandstand. This Elvis clone has not only left the building ... he's left this life, courtesy of a switchblade knife in the back. And when the murder weapon turns up in Patricia Anne's very sensible purse, the perennially law-abiding "Mouse" is understandably all shook up. Suspicious minds have her pegged as the prime suspect in this bizarre case of Elvis elimination. And if she doesn't do some serious sleuthing, she could end up doing the Jailhouse Rock!
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Review of Las Vegas Candi:
Is there anybody in the world who doesn't like candy? I mean, candy can come in so many different forms, it's hard not to like it. I mean, someone who doesn't like chocolate can always like hard candy, and someone who doesn't like hard candy can always like stuff like gummi worms. It's such a broad category, I think most everyone likes candy in one form or another. Maybe that is why Candi is such a popular girls name, because everyone loves candy! And then there is the inevitable varient. Put an I at the end of the name, and it's more tempting to be a hot girl. Candy sounds like she could be a fat girl, but Candi sounds like a stripper. So today, we are talking about Las Vegas Candi, a very special varient of Candy!
Las Vegas Candi is a single model site with a focus on Candi, who is an older, amateur looking woman. This is the type of girl that you can, and will probably, see at the grocery store if you get up to go get some chips right now. A lot of people like that. This also takes the amateur into another category, because Candi isn't exactly A+ model material. So that makes this site even more believable. On top of that, the way the site is, the design and all, really looks like Candi did it herself or had someone close to her do it. I'm not knocking it, I'll save the opinions for later, but it definately isn't a sleek, well produced solo model site like some studios can do. So if you are looking for a special kind of lady, hot in her own way, but also a little older and a little more normal, doing all kinds of crazy things, look into Las Vegas Candi!
The site design is something I already touched on. It's very simple. Usually when I say simple, I mean not a lot to it. But design wise, here, this is very simple. It's a site I could pretty much have come up with if I did it. That might be a turn off for a lot of people, but I actually thought it was kind of nice. It relayed that amateur feel nicely, and while it was a little confusing, I liked the whole feel of the site. The fact that it looks like it could be on Geocities it just cool for me. Now, that doesn't mean that the site is perfect by any means. The whole thing is a little confusing, theres some overlap, and it's not a "breeze" to navigate. What I recommend is just to go straight to the pictures section and just view the sets in time order.
The pictures are the focus here on Las Vegas Candi. As I mentioned, the pictures section lists the pictures in order by time of set. And hey, it's numbered so it's easy for me to give you content numbers later! The updates are listed horizontally, and you are given a single, smaller thumbnail as well as the number of pictures and videos (if applicable) and then a little description. Simple and easy way to get content here. And efficient, they fit about 100 updates per page and it doesn't ever seem to be bogged down or anything. On the main page you can also check out the pictures through some different categories. This is cool too, but as I mentioned before, it's a little easier going through the main pictures page. If you signed up, you liked Candi, so it won't really matter WHAT she is doing to you. The categories are still nice, but seeing all of the sets will ensure you get everything you want.
The quality of the pictures here is OK. They aren't quite as crisp as I would like them, but you could also say that this being an ultra amateur site, I shouldn't expect perfect photography. And thats pretty much what you get, is OK pictures, not pro quality but nothing so nauseating in these 960 x 1280 pixel pictures. There is a slideshow option, but this is missing one of my favorite options of picture sites, the ability to download the entire set as a zip file. I love that option and I believe all single model/ amateur type sites should have it. Not everyone will use it but I like having it in case I think a particular set is pretty hot.
There are two video sections here on Las Vegas Candi. The section entitled "VIDEOS" is mainly a big ad section for the videos that Candi is selling. You do get some vidcaps from the videos, and sometimes some video clips too, so it is worth looking into somewhat, but not a whole lot. The movie clip section is the more poignant video section. When you go to that page, you are given a bunch of different categories you can go to. When you get there, you are taken to a page similar to the picture one with the thumbnails and all. Then you can download these clips, and thats what they are, clips of Candi. They are all pretty short, some exceptions but not a whole lot. While the clips are pretty high in bitrate (some are 1000k, some are 800k that I saw) the videos are still not the best quality. I think this may be due to the amateur nature of everything, its definately pretty homemade stuff. It won't be rated as harshly based on this, but other things like the camera angles and basic camerawork do need some major work.
Candi is a very different type of porn star. She is a little older, not exactly a skinny girl, and her face can be beautiful at times, but she is definately not a model. A great way to equate this is to say Candi looks like a Southern Charms girl. Actually, after some research, SHE IS! Anyways, the action here is very varied. Just to name some of the categories, there is Outdoors, Anal, Smoking, Shoes Feet, Farts, Arm Wrestling, Balloons, Insertions, Bondage, Shower Tub, theres a ton like these. So there is a LOT of variation and you will probably find your specific "action" fetish if you join up here.
At the time of review, Candi had a total of 326 sets of pictures. The videos are difficult to count, but a lot of the sets here have video clips along with them, and there is also some bonus videos and the clips from the movies as well. A nice amount of content. There are no bonus sites, but with this amount of content and price, it's not too neccesary! There are some nice ADDED features though, like a live show schedule, stories, a few special friend pictures, being able to meet Candi and also maybe even participate in an upcoming set! Cool features and you can also communicate with Candi through email or IM! Lots of coolness here, you know I like this with the single model stuff! And it's all updated multiple times throughout the week!
Las Vegas Candi is a nice, amateur site. It's very much like Southern Charms, and now I figured out why! If you like that style, this might be worth a look. This is a decent amateur showcase which shines in that you can get a whole variety of different action all in one site. If you go in expecting home produced stuff, its a good site if you like Candi.
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I'll let the photos do the talking!
Bike is completely stock apart from new tyres Vittoria Rubino pro tyres, new bar tape and hasn't been ridden since it was serviced by the local mobile bike mechanic.
There's literally one or two tiny chips in the paint work, tops of the levers are scuffed, mainly from the bike being upside down for so long/often being cleaned!
Carbon forks, alloy frame, One careful lady owner
Looking for £500 for this much loved bike it's always been cleaned after every ride (even the tyres) and kept indoors, it's been replaced by a very similar bike with more carbon
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Gio Moroder Talks History of Electronic Music and Daft Punk
With the upcoming release of Daft Punk's latest album, Random Access Memories in the midst, the folks over at The Creators Project decided to tag one of the forefather's of electronic music and get his personal account of synthesized history. Legendary Italian producer Gio Moroder sits down with the show and describes milestones like his first interaction with the Moog Synthesizer, creating tracks for Donna Summer and even the first time he'd ever heard a Daft Punk song. Mad science, mad knowledge. Bow down.


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GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Ralf S. Engelschall <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms
which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple
threads of execution (aka ``multithreading'') inside event-driven
applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server
application, but each thread has it's own individual program-counter,
run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.
The thread scheduling itself is done in a cooperative way, i.e., the
threads are managed by a priority- and event-based non-preemptive
scheduler. The intention is that this way one can achieve better
portability and run-time performance than with preemptive scheduling.
The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events
occur, including pending I/O on file descriptors, asynchronous signals,
elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process
termination, and even customized callback functions.
WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/devel/pth-hard/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install pth-hard
cd /usr/ports/devel/pth-hard/ && make install clean
pkg install pth-hard
PKGNAME: pth-hard
SHA256 (pth-2.0.7.tar.gz) = 72353660c5a2caafd601b20e12e75d865fd88f6cf1a088b306a3963f0bc77232
SIZE (pth-2.0.7.tar.gz) = 652640
This port is required by:
===> The following configuration options are available for pth-hard-2.0.7_1:
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=on: Use extra compiler optimizations
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Number of commits found: 3
Master port devel/pth is staged, so stage slave port devel/pth-hard too
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
devel part 3)
Add devel/pth-hard - a slave port of devel/pth which has hard syscalls
turned on.
PR: ports/108975
Submitted by: Martin Matuska <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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No vulnerabilities have been reported in the past 14 days
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Ohana Condo
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Bedrooms: 2. Bathrooms: 2
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William Gaston Caperton III (born February 21, 1940) was the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1989 until 1997. He is currently the president of the College Board, which administers the nationally-recognized SAT and AP tests. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Caperton was born in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia.
He attended Dexter School (Brookline, Massachusetts), Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.


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Tiger boys fall in conference opener
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta and Minnewaska Area opened West Central Conference South action Tuesday with the Lakers winning 59-57 at their own court.
The Lakers, up by three with six seconds left, survived a turnover and the Tigers' last-ditch shot for the win.
Cole Riley's 19 points led the Tigers. Alex Erikson, who made the team's only three-pointer, followed with 14.
Shane Bosek scored 28 points and pulled down seven rebounds to pace Minnewaska. Brady Johnsrud added 10 points.


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count up the Bulldogs' successes: just review their state tournament itineraries.
Jeff Lieberman and the Bulldogs had so much fun winning a state title in 2007, they thought let's do it again in 2008.
After just making it to the Final Four in 2006, the Bulldogs returned with a vengeance in 2007 and with an old school style of play that made basketball purists giddy with anticipation.
Class A player of the year and tournament MVP Austin Falke's steal with 13 seconds left in the game sealed the 39-37 win over Martin's Mill in front of a fanatic Superdrum crowd of 10,500 to finish 28-2.
With just one returning starter in Brandon Irwin the next season, Lieberman plugged in four new players and off the Bulldogs went in even more impressive fashion.
Thorndale completed the year at 36-1 with its second trophy in tow after disposing of Big Sandy 53-42 in the championship game.
Following closely in his good friend Falke's footsteps, Irwin was named the 2008 Class A player of the year and the tournament MVP.
Despite the program's success, Lieberman resigned before basketball season in 2009 in a dispute with the school board and is now retired.
Hardball the easy way
In 2005, under former Bulldog Scott Holder, Thorndale pencils in its second baseball title by crushing New Deal 200 in the semifinals and then holding off Harleton 11-5 in the finals. Jeff Kiesling was the series MVP after going 4-for-7 with four RBI for the 33-5 Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs have also made it to state in 2006, 2007 and 2009 under Kelly Kuhl without getting out of the semifinal round and will most probably be the pre-season No. 1 in Class A in 2010.
Girls talk
Led by the Youngblood twins, Morgan and Lindsey, the Thorndale girls program reached new heights, highlighted by the Lady Dogs basketball team, which reached the regional finals three straight times.
The 2008 trip resulted in a state tournament appearance, the first by a girls team in school history.
While there, poor shooting against an experienced Sudan team sent them home early and they were determined to make their way back the next season.
It wasn't meant to be.
Ranked No. 1 most of the season, the helpless Lady Dogs watched as a fiesty Normangee squad pulled out a last-minute victory in the regional finals and made its first trip to state.
A heartbroken team and town was left devastated in the wake to deal with the loss.
The Youngbloods were named all-state for the second year in a row and signed with Angelo State.
In the past four years, the volleyball team dug up two district crowns and made three post-season appearances.
The Lady Dog softball team recorded its first district championship and first playoff victory in the past three years
The track team rang up its very first regional championship last spring.
Under three coaches, the Bulldog football team has made six straight playoff appearances and seven overall in the decade.
The post-season showing was highlighted by an 11-2 mark in 2002 when the Bulldogs were in Class 2A.
Todd Doughty led Thorndale to a 10-4 record in 2006.
Kade Burns took over for the departed Doughty this season and guided Thorndale to its first district championship since 2005 before falling to eventual state champion Goldthwaite in the first round of the playoffs.


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Only two rounds of the 2011 Monster Energy AMA Supercross series are in the books but already fans have seen the rise and fall of numerous riders. In preparation for the upcoming round at Dodger Stadium MCUSA delivers a Fantasy Supercross breakdown of riders who are making the cut and those who are cracking under pressure.
A Riders
James Stewart – San Manuel Yamaha's James Stewart recently landed his first win of the 2011 season at Phoenix. As one of the fastest riders on the track Stewart has been on the podium both rounds so far and appears the title favorite. However, Stewart also displayed his overzealous nature at Anaheim as he fought back from a difficult start.
Ryan Villopoto – A major development that has come out of the first two rounds is the impressive speed of Monster Energy Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto. The racing world was without the Kawasaki star for many months as the 22-year-old recuperated from a broken leg, but since his return at Anaheim Villopoto has regularly battled for the fastest lap
Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto has already sent the message to competitors that he means business for 2011.
times. He lassoed a win at Anaheim and took second at Phoenix while facing direct pressure from Stewart. So far Villopoto's future this season is looking bright if he can stay patient and keep Stewart at bay.
Ryan Dungey – Defending SX Champion Ryan Dungey may be drowning in pressure during opening rounds of his title defense. While still too early to judge his chances of guarding the crown, the Rockstar Makita Suzuki rider has clearly been off the pace of the frontrunners in both rounds. So far Dungey has managed a second-place result at Anaheim and fifth place at Phoenix, and on their own these initial results are solid considering the highly competitive field. However, compared with his efforts in 2010 his performance is lacking and in need of a jump start. It's still early though and Supercross has a way of surprising.
Andrew Short – So far Red Bull KTM's Andrew Short has had some difficulties adjusting to the 350cc machine. In Anaheim Short took 10th and most recently he finished seventh at Phoenix following a difficult start. Short has stated that he is not where he wants to be in terms of his
Chad Reed (#22) and Ryan Dungey battled in Phoenix during the main. Reed eventually won the battle after finishing one place ahead of Dungey.
performance and is looking to Dodger Stadium for a breakthrough ride. Already 22 points adrift of Villopoto in the first two rounds, Short will have to make up ground quickly if he wants to turn this season around.
Chad Reed – Still toughing it out is TwoTwo Motorsports' Chad Reed. The Aussie has yet to grab a great start in the 2011 season, but when he does much will be revealed about his chances this season. Up to this point Reed took fifth place at Anaheim and landed a slightly better start in Phoenix where he ended in fourth. Without seeing Reed directly battle Stewart or Villopoto it's hard to assess his determination, but in Phoenix Reed already proved he could overtake Dungey. He still has his work cut out for him though as he remains fifth in the overall standings and more than 13 points adrift of Villopoto.
Trey Canard – Since shooting out of the gate at Anaheim one rider who has vastly exceeded expectations is Honda's Trey Canard. The 20-year-old is just starting his first full season in the premier class but already has two top-five finishes, including a podium result at Phoenix. It's only a matter of time before Canard lands his first win in the 450 class, but in the meantime this Oklahoma native is content with getting solid starts and riding his own race.
Veteran Kevin Windham had an unfortunate encounter with a lapped rider in Phoenix and finished 19th.
B Riders
Kevin Windham – Now in his 18th year of professional racing, Geico Honda's Kevin Windham has already seen both good and bad luck this season. In Round 1 the veteran received a good start and ran a clean race to finish just outside the top-five in sixth. Things quickly went sour in Phoenix, however, where after getting a great start he collided with a lapped rider and went down hard. Despite his misfortune Windham is still healthy and looking to rebound at Dodger Stadium.
Josh Grant – Already stitched-up and on the mend is Honda's Josh Grant, who sustained an injury to his knee at Phoenix and underwent arthroscopic surgery. Initial reports indicate that the injury wasn't too serious and he'll be able to return in a few weeks, but it's a bad way to start a season in which Grant's ultimate goal was to stay healthy and consistent.
Jake Weimer – Monster Energy Kawasaki's Jake Weimer was one rider scratched off the list before the season even started. Prior to Anaheim 1 Weimer broke his arm during Supercross testing while only moments away from his debut in the premier class. Already a few weeks into the recovery process, Weimer is expected to return later this season.
Mike Alessi – Bad luck for the KTM squad continues with Mike Alessi. Normally a great starter in his heat races, Alessi failed to qualify for the main in Phoenix after he was pushed wide in the first turn during the LCQ. Prior to that the 22-year-old earned 14th place at Anaheim, and so far his lap times have been pretty far off the pace of the leaders.
Kawasaki's Jake Weimer (center) is still recuperating from a broken arm which he sustained during pre-season testing.
Although not taking part in our Fantasy Supercross contest this year, the Lites class has also seen some major developments with its riders.
Josh Hansen – Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Josh Hansen has been tearing the Lites division to pieces. With back-to-back wins at Anaheim and Phoenix he has come out of the gate swinging and is hungry for the title. Hansen and team green now head to Los Angeles for Round 3 where they plan to continue their dominance over the field with another victory. With Kawasaki down an out a rider in the 450 ranks, perhaps Hansen could step up and race a 450 main when the East Coast series rolls around.
Ken Roczen – Red Bull KTM's Ken Roczen has had a rough introduction to the Supercross series in America. The German rider suffered a DNF in the last round at Phoenix and in the opening round the 16-year-old barely squeezed into the main through the LCQ. After casing a triple and landing hard on his heel during the main event in Phoenix Roczen has a badly bruised heel, but otherwise he's ready for racing in Los Angeles.
Wil Hahn – Before the gates dropped at Anaheim one rider already destined for the bench was Geico Powersports Honda's Wil Hahn. In the first practice at Anaheim the 21-year-old landed on his back and suffered a compression fracture of his T-5 vertebra. Due to the severity of the injury it will be months before Hahn can resume any sort of practice routine, effectively removing his name from 2011 Lites Championship.


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Barbecue, Casual/Family, Catering, Delivery, Kids Friendly, Late Night Dining, Take Out/Carry Out, Wheelchair Access, Dinner, Lunch
Restaurant DescriptionWelcome to Mr. BBQ restaurant. Our restaurant is known for the best ribs and barbecue in town. Our hickory smoked St. Louis spare ribs, Texas beef ribs, apple wood smoked BBQ chicken, slow smoked beef brisket, tender pulled pork, and all the southern BBQ favorites right in Columbia Heights. Count on Sticky Fingers to bring good times, good people, and good food together.
Our family owned-and-operated restaurant has been serving delicious food in Columbia Height. We provide a family-friendly, casual atmosphere, with our carry-out and delivery services; enjoy any item from our dining menu in the comfort of your home or office. Featuring four comfortable dining rooms, including outside patio for smokers and enjoying a sunny day.
Our BBQ is perfect for any occasions; we will make your event so special that all your employees, clients, and guests will be talking about it for ever. You can decide to have one of our professional experienced chefs to come out to your location and cook for you on site with no extra cost, and that's what separates Mr. BBQ from all others. We do all the work so you don't have to!
We DeliverMr. BBQ is the best choice for easy dinner or business lunch. We deliver everything on our menu hot and sizzling right to your door. It's perfect for ordering lunch for your next business meeting.


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Our quirky Frontier Town (Nakhon Phanom) is the perfect place to use as a base for adventure, research, exploration, chill-out and more:
* The most spectacular river-caves in the world are across the Mekong in Laos
* Ancient stone walls (equal to those in Angkor Wat) can be found meandering the Mekong
* Relics of the Buddha are enshrined in many of the Khmer-style temples throughout the region
* The Rua-Fai-Festival to honour the Naga-spirit is awesome, and the means for making these candle-lit boats remains unchanged for centuries
* Chill-out could be a day (or days) wandering among Mom & Pop restaurants providing deliciously healthy food, in unforgettable ambiance -- and the modest costs will also surprise you
* Beautiful pictures to enhance each subject.
This part of Thailand, Isaan, remains remote. The formidable power of iPads/eReaders harness the technology, and Frontier Towns provides the information, so that visitors can enjoy unique and unforgettable days in Frontier Towns on the Mekong.


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The Sprint HTC Mogul is one of the most powerful Windows Mobile Professional (aka Phone Edition) models on the market with 3G support and EV-DO Rev. A functionality coming in a future update. Judy and Doug both had a chance to use the device and posted an excellent full review on Gear Diary. You'll find discussions on all aspects of the hardware and software on this latest generation slider keyboard device.
The 64 MB of RAM is a disappointing trend I see in many of these latest Windows Mobile devices. While it is true that RAM is now treated like RAM in a PC, for power-user high end devices such as these Professional models there should be at least 50 MB of available RAM for running several applications. The 10 to 20 MB of available RAM on devices such as this and the T-Mobile Wing are just unacceptable. Shoot, Apple included 1 GB of memory for running applications, and I have never seen a low program memory error on the iPhone.
Speaking of the iPhone, Gear Diary has also posted a full review of the Apple iPhone. I had serious volume issues with the iPhone, and it was barely usable as a phone when I tested one out. That said, I am still thinking about getting one again within the 59-day period when I can avoid another US$36 activation fee, but need to see an update or two from Apple first.


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We live in the era of OpenID and Mark Zuckerberg's statement that, "the age of privacy is over." But your financial information, social security numbers and even social networking logins and passwords are important bits of data to protect. As we move toward a one-login-fits-all system and open more of our lives on the social web, we still need to be aware of privacy, security and safety concerns for ourselves, our computers and our information.
IdentityTheft911.com is a leading resolutions service for identity theft and management services. I caught up with its Information Security Officer Ondrej Krehel recently for a video chat about identity theft, online security, phishing scams and cyber threats.
Online Privacy, Security and Safety Tips From Ondrej Krehel from Jason Falls on Vimeo.
Some of the finer points of Krehel's points include:
- Separate your social networking logins, passwords and perhaps even emails from your financial information credentials.
- U.S. courts have found a person guilty of computer fraud for posing as someone else on a social networking site. If you fake and identity and your activity leads to a crime, you are liable for that activity.
- Ensure your computer is updated with security patches, anti-virus software, spyware detection updates and more.
- Be aware of what you're doing online. Don't click on links or images from people you don't know, not just in your email, but also in messages on your social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
- It's not just about infecting your accounts and computers, but if you are infected, you also potentially infect your friends and social network connections as well.
- Apple users are not immune to vulnerabilities related to online scams, malware and identity theft scams.
- Companies need to strongly review and consider policies for allowing open social networking because of fraud and piracy issues. Make your users aware of malware and privacy issues if you are going to allow employee use.
- If an offer appears to good to be true, it might be. Any advertising or promotional offer that asks you for email addresses, credit card information and the like should be considered very carefully.
Identity Theft 911 can be found online at both their corporate webste (http://identitytheft911.com) and their educational portal (http://identitytheft911.org).
For more details on the case of Lori Drew, who was convicted of computer fraud for posing as a teenage boy online to trick a teenage girl, see the New York Times coverage of the verdict.
And no, I'm not necessarily much taller than Krehel. The side-by-side camera thingy with our differing camera angles just makes it look that way. Heh.
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DETROIT LAKES -- Freezing temperatures, whipping winds and blizzard conditions may have postponed some Polar Fest events in Detroit Lakes last weekend, but a tropical sun was still shining on Saturday night's dance at Zorbaz.
Zorbaz employee Tate Jansen said the "Welcome to Polaritaville" dance was a success, with some people waiting for seats and some standing room-only moments.
"It was great," Jansen said.
While the weather may have postponed the Freeze Your Buns Run, Old-Timers Pond Hockey, the Polar Plunge and the winter fireworks until this weekend, it didn't keep the revelers from the dance at Zorbaz.
"If it did, they'd have been hard-pressed to find any room," Jansen said. The "Welcome to Polaritaville" dance, also sponsored by the Lakes Area Parrot Heads, packed the building. Admission to the event was a free will donation to the Boys and Girls Club.
Other Polar Fest events able to go on included the "Ice Tee Golf Tournament," the Daddy's Little Sweetheart Dace, and the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra concert.
Polar Fest continues this Saturday, Feb. 16, with events that were postponed on Feb. 9.
Registration for the Freeze Your Buns Run will be at 8 a.m. at the Detroit Lakes Community and Cultural Center, with the race beginning at 9 a.m.
Old-Timers Pond Hockey will start at 10 a.m. on Little Detroit Lake, in front of the pavilion. Registration for the Polar Plunge will be at 11 a.m. at Lakeside Tavern. Those making the chilly jump (or who want to watch the event) will do so at 1 p.m. on Little Detroit Lake. The last Polar Fest activity, the Winter Fireworks at the DL City Beach, will start at 7 p.m. Saturday.
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-No title yet- So, sort of a prologue? Not sure. CC appreciated. *Swearing*
Posted March 6th, 2013 by pluzzle
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I never thought I'd be in this position. The one where you are sitting at your computer, and then people start sending messages to you. That was vague, sorry. Messages that kill you slowly, the ones that get to you - that stick in your head like glue. It's awful. You just see them saying things to you, and you just sit there, reading. But you can't help but take it all in, processing what they're saying.
I know that you should "turn it off" and "ignore it", but, it's not that easy. To all who say that: Bullshit. Aboslute crap. You want to know what people say. You want to know what they think of you, deep down - so you know if you still belong here. Eventually they will log off. And stop taunting you. And then, the next day, you face it again. It's like hell on earth. It's like hell, full stop, end of story.
"Piece of shit," "You're worthless," And the priceless one, "Go kill yourself." Every single one of these. Every single day. And each time I die a little more. Until eventually I do what they say, I kill myself. I do what they want, I give in. But the hate ensues. People tell your family you were shit.
My family don't know. I'd get blamed, I'd get yelled at, and I would hate myself. People are just... evil. Lets face it; society is awful. Yup. And the funny thing is that we are society too. So whatever views we have on them? They are to us too. Even more hatred. Perfect. Now, I'm not some peacekeeper, but the last thing we need in this world is hate. Look at the wars.
But really, look at us. The way we treat others. We aren't exactly kind. There is so much... bullying. So much loathing. Most people's minds speak before their mouths. They don't speak - their mind does. And sometimes what the brain says is more hurtful than anything. The deadly truth. But then again - truth is what holds the world together, the super glue.
So, I shut my computer. All the way down. Log off. Log out. And I wish I had the courage to do it forever. I wish I had the bravery to not comform to what they want. I don't want to give in, I don't want to watch them see me die with their words. I wish I knew how to get out of it. It being the internet. The applications, the websites, the hell that we all know.
I walk out of my bedroom, the door creaking as I open it. I creep around the corner, trying to be quiet - but it's no use. It wouldn't matter if I was anyhow, my mum is cooking, music on and she would see me without a doubt. I hope the tear stains aren't evident. I make sure underneath my eyes is hidden behind my hair, just to be safe. I don't want her to know what is happening.
I don't know whether she'd be worried or not - like, she'd be either angry or scared. Mostly angry, because I didn't tell her. But my father... that's a different story. He'd be angry either way, no matter the circumstances. He's always angry. I can't really have conversations with him anymore. Mum holds the family together.
"Hi Jesse!" She says, ecstatic to see me come out of my room.
"Hey mum." I reply to her, iced with a fake smile.
She grins at me and goes back to making the sauce for curry, and I grab a bottle of water. At least it's cold. So, of course, I go back to my room. Not to do anything, of course. Just to lay back on my bed and think. Sometimes thinking is good for the soul. But sometimes it induces terrible thoughts, things you never thought you'd think about.
I twist open the cap with great force, nearly spilling all the water out. I take a huge sip and sigh afterwards, just because it is so.. fresh. Ha. Bottled water, fresh. Yeah right.
I stare nervously at my Macbook, anxious to see what's waiting for me if I dare to open it. And so, I get up and pull my chair out of beneath my desk. My finger slips under the lid and I lift upwards. It's actually quite heavy, strangely enough. I log in, but my mouse hovers over the "Online" button on Skype.
I hesistate for a further moment, but continue to open it up. I am ambushed by hate-mail almost immediately. A frown spreads across my already sullen face. I click on the person who has sent me the most messages, and soon I realise that she's just spamming me with "You're fat" and "I hate you". Not the worst. But what makes it a lot more hard to deal with is the fact that she used to be my best friend.
I remember, a couple of years ago (When we were in Grade 6 and 7) we used to have sleepovers every weekend, alternating which house every time. We used to laugh, and cry tears of laughter. We would not get any sleep, we would stay up watching movies. Then she met another girl, start of year 8. She was a new kid. She was a bitch. I hated her guts. But, I'm biased - she took my only friend, then.
This girl hated me back, with a burning passion. She hated my looks, what I wore, my personality - everything about me. Every time I saw her I would turn around, even if I urgently needed to head that way. I was actually scared of her existence - if I ran into her, I would hold my breath and pray to God that she wouldn't say anything to terrifying. Or punch me, kick me, hit me. I still, to this day, don't understand what I did. She has laid off that a little, now - but then, my old friend started up.
She used to just give me dirty looks in the hallways. But then it eveolved into kicking and hitting. Then she would blame me for everything and call me names (childish, I know). Then, she found my Skype name. I couldn't block her - she'd make a new account and taunt me from there. So, I was stuck. The last thing to do would be to delete my account. But there was other people who I actually did talk to, my friends. I didn't want this girl to ruin my 'social' life. Not exactly... social. But whatever.
I will always remember the first message I got sent. "Hey there, Jesse. It's your old friend here. Wanted to have a... chat. First thing's first... I don't like you. At all." She was so blunt. I mean, why would you even SAY that?! IS there something wrong with her? Who are we kidding - of course there is. She's the girl who ditched me for a cow! Great choice. Then again - it's not like we were that close. I mean, we had sleepovers, we ate lunch together, we laughed, but we never... talked. About anything. I mean... we did, but nothing personal. Nothing no-one else knew. We each had our secrets.
I get a contact request 5 minutes after I have logged on. Honestly... I'm scared to read. It's probably just another bully.
"Hey there, I saw you on my nearby contacts and I wanna chat! How 'bout it?" Just a robot. Nothing new. I've always wondered if people actually talk to the bots. I wonder if the robots aren't robots, they're just really polite? Pfft. What am I talking about? No-one is polite on the internet 100% of the time. At least, no-one I've met.
So, once again, I delete the conversation, click Offline and shut it down. Not for long, of course. I will always be back. Even though it's negative, I will always be back for more - it's strange. It's like the ocean - it pulls you back.
"Dinner time darlings!" Mother calls out, through the halls, sound flowing through every room. My brother rushes out of his room, obviously hungry. I just slowly step out, as if I have been frightened. I make sure as I enter the dining room to plaster on a big smile, and to thank my mum.
For a while, I don't think of the messages. But then, a news story comes on. "Girl kills self because of cyber-bullying". I freeze. I gulp every last bit on saliva down, and just stare at the screen. My mum turns to me and says, "If you were being cyber bullied (or bullied at all for that matter), would you tell me?"
"Yes, mum. Of course I would." I have a look of sympathy in my eyes, hiding the lie. Lying has become my greatest talent -well, my only talent, for that matter.
Then I realise what a terrible child I have become. I excuse myself to the bathroom, but instead I go and delete everything. My internet presence. It would have such an effect on me - but, it's for the best, right?
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Poor Jesse D: I'm glad to see you writing!
This can be a prologue; at least the first half can. The second half is more of a chapter 1.
Fear cuts deeper than swords~Syrio Forel / Arya Stark.
Okay. Thanks for the advice, will do ^.^
Oh gosh. I'm faving. That's all I can say.
Ever wanted to get sucked into a book?
Wooo :D Thank-you!
Nooooooooo! Jesseeeee!! Poor thing :(
I love the story! Great job so far.
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:( I have a habit of doing bad stuff to my characters XD DX
Thanks!! (:
This is a sad prologue! It's great, don't get me wrong, but very depressing. And unfortunately very true.
CC: Like someone else said, the first half is good but the second would be better as the 1st chapter. And maybe you should put a warning in the title about the cussing.
Please post more soon! I'm anxious to find out what happens to Jesse.
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Yep, I have spilt it up better now on pages. Thanks for the CC - good idea! (:
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