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  1. What could beat horsearchery?

    Amman de Stazia 说:
    On the other hand, the energy has to go somewhere! 
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    Ccreating a hole in armour requires energy. Deforming the lead ball requires energy. Little (if any) of the energy is going to be passed on to the wearer; he might get bruised through his shirt, not knocked off his horse.

    Just being very rough and ready, though, the pistol ball has maybe 25% the energy at impact of a musket ball at the same range, so can we compare a pistol shot at 8 metres, with a musket shot at 32 metres?
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    That's not really how it works. The deceleration of the bullet is dependant on a series of terms that are proportional to the speed and powers thereof, with the overall effect that energy is lost faster at first

    nijis 说:
    Also keep in mind that the original 16th century muskets were specifically designed (and used successfully at Pavia) to take out French gendarmes, who don't offer a lot of unarmored spots.
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    Well, it was more than just muskets that got the gendarmes at Pavia. After crushing the Imperial cavalry, they found themselves hemmed in by terrain and pressed by a combination pikemen and musketeers. Admitedly, the musketeers were given alot of notice by contemporary commentators, arguably because this was the first time hand-held firearms had a significant impact on such heavily armoured and prestigious troops.

  2. Brussels: Muslims Riots after nightly arrest

    rejenorst 说:
    tommylaw 说:
    I dont see why the rioters get off so easily for attacking a police station. I bet they would have dispersed pretty quickly if one of them got a bullet in the throat.

    TANKS QUASH RIOT!!!
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    I went through Hamas a small town in Syria that pretty much had its rebellion crushed like that.

    The majority of these people wouldn't ****ing dare pull this **** in their home town or origin (IF they were born overseas).
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    Hama, not Hamas, and it's not that small a town. Twenty thousand dead is hardly a good outcome, from anyone's point of view--discussing the Hama uprising is to this day forbidden in Syria, much like Guernica in Francoist Spain--but it certainly got the point across, as there hasn't been any large-scale insurrection since then.

  3. How to invade Russia?

    Jadow 说:
    Well, first of all I'm gonna say that TDM forgot to say that the polish-lithuanian commonwealth managed to take and hold Moscow. Only for a few years, but still longer than anyone else.
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    You're thinking about the Time of Troubles, right? That sortof doesn't count.

  4. Socialism vs. Commie-ism vs. Capitalism

    Ebin 说:
    The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
    P. J. O'Rourke
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    Agreed, but I don't know if O'Rourke meant the quote the way it reads :wink:

  5. X3

    Swadius 说:
    Nah, the powercells I can handle, it's the installation of the jump drive that has be befuddled.
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    IIRC, once you own your own dockyard or PHQ you can just stock up and equip all your new ships from there. For your first few capships, you'll need a lighter service, preferably with its own jumpdrive, as long distance non-jump travel with a battleship is insanely slow.

  6. Socialism vs. Commie-ism vs. Capitalism

    Go ahead, open a bakery with a loaf of ordinary bread for 100 dollars. I'll buy you a first class ticket to Prague and a week in Four Seasons, if you can make living off it. Maybe you can convice people to throw out money, because its Giffen good. I personally find such an offer almost irresistible.
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    Selling bread for that price would get me arrested. Besides, if I'm respecting the law (and not colluding with other producers), I'd be better off producing a Veblen good to sell at absurdly high prices, since that way I don't have to worry about substitution and can quite litterally "overcut" the competition.

    There are five bakeries in the town. Their costs of of one loaf of bread one dollar. They sell it for two dollars, a price which is reasonable enough for the local hungry populace. Then the bakers decide to form a cartel and sell bread for five dollars. The people are not particularly happy about it, but what can they do? Then an apprentice from one of the bakeries says to himself: "Hey, those five bucks are too much, one can make a reasonable profit by selling it for two as my boss did a couple of months ago. I'll start my own bakery and I'll sell bread for two dollars, everybody will buy bread from me, because I'll be cheaper!" As it turns out, the apprentice was right and the cartel is effectively broken and all those have to lower the prices back to the equilibrium. The grateful people erect the apprentice a statue and they all live happily ever after.

    Of course, what happens in real life is that some corporation which specialises in theft and extortion shows up and forbids the apprentice to run his own bakery for various absurd reasons, one of them probably being that the cartel bribed the corporation while making the people of the town feel happy and protected from the dangerous apprentice.
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    What happens in real life is that the apprentice doesn't have the funds to buy or rent his tools, besides he's got preferential prices on bread if he shuts up and works and is out of a job if he rocks the boat, he's not going to open a new bakery.

  7. Socialism vs. Commie-ism vs. Capitalism

    CountArtha 说:
    Cirdan 说:
    kurczak 说:
    If the equilibrium has been reached then the only way the price can change is through shift in demand or supply.

    As with the equilibrium itself, the demand is somewhat inelastic, but that it perfectly balanced by plurality and therefore competition on the supply side.

    Try selling a loaf of bread for a hundred dollars. Everybody needs to eat so how come they won't pay so much for it?
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    Firstly, prices oscillate around the equilibrium, they never remain set at the equilibrium. They could theoretically reach a stable equilibrium if the supply and demand remained static for an infinite period of time, which is not going to happen. Welcome to the real world.
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    Obviously it's not a perfect equilibrium, but it's pretty damn close and economists call it equilibrium because that's what it averages out to.  The tiny fluctuations above and below the theoretical equilibrium are much too small significantly to impact either supply or demand, so an equilibrium price works fine as part of a model.
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    Again, welcome to the real world. To quote Muhammad Yunus, models can work very well in a classroom at Vanderbilt University, and fail abysmally in a Bangladeshi village.


    Cirdan 说:
    And you could try selling a loaf of bread for a hundred dollars--even if many people couldn't afford, I'm sure the others would make enough purchases to turn a neat profit...
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    Yeah, but you're still charging a price above equilibrium, which means you end up with a huge surplus inventory that's just sitting in your warehouse and not making you any money.  If you had charged the equilibrium price, you'd have gotten less revenue per sale, but the extra sales would still net a bigger profit than if you'd overproduced and sold only some of your inventory at a higher price.  Basically, charging anything more or less than the market price loses you money, which is why charging $100 for bread is incredibly stupid.

    I can draw you a graph if you want. :razz:
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    What, exactly, is stopping me from anticipating on what I'll actually sell with a 100$ price tag? The warehouse is empty and up for sale, most bakers are out of a job, costs are cut drastically and the income is the same--you do know there's a reason why bread prices are often legislated, don't you?


    Even if you assume the people controlling the bread supply are retarded, they'll still cut back on production when they see they aren't selling as many loaves at $100, so it's still profitable in the long term.

    Archonsod 说:
    kurczak 说:
    Pharmaceutical industry is far from free market. It is de facto a governmet-run oligopoly
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    Really? The UN run the multinational pharmaceutical corporations or something? :roll: I guess that's why the companies continuously complain about certain governments breaching their patents to produce and provide the same drugs for a much lower price.
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    What he means, I think (correct me if I've misunderstood you, Kurzak), is that foreign competition is pretty much non-existent in the American drug market, so American pharmeceuticals have a virtual oligopoly.  In some cases, you can't even get your drugs from another state let alone another country.
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    But the pharmaceutical industry is not limited to purchasing drugs in the USA, so that's a completely retarded explanation. Anything even remotely connected to health care in the US is incredibly ****ed up, that's a given.

  8. Decide the fate of the bird trapped in my bathroom.

    Damn birds, invading our houses and threatening our way of life. This deserves capital punishment.

  9. X3

    Swadius 说:
    There's a device in-game that speeds up time ten fold, and there's also a jumping device that will make jumps to any sector you've already explored- granted you have enough power cells to use it. It's too bad I can never find a station who sells them who also accommodates large vessels :sad:.
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    You either have to use a lighter to ferry Ecells from stations to your capital ship, or else you have to own one of the few stations that can dock capships, and automate a trade ship to fill it up with Ecells.

  10. Socialism vs. Commie-ism vs. Capitalism

    Rory_Gallagher 说:
    So Kurczak, do you get to talk about other things that are not economics/politics? Like gender or if you're into anal?  :roll:
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    The ridiculously high demand due to government intervention in morals has led to these services becoming to expensive to be competitive  :lol:

  11. Socialism vs. Commie-ism vs. Capitalism

    kurczak 说:
    Archonsod 说:
    CountArtha 说:
    Not so.  If the price is raised above the equilibrium set by the market, people stop buying and businesses lose money. 
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    Unless of course the commodity you are selling happens to be an essential.
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    If the equilibrium has been reached then the only way the price can change is through shift in demand or supply.

    As with the equilibrium itself, the demand is somewhat inelastic, but that it perfectly balaced by plurality and therefore competition on the supply side.

    Try selling a loaf of bread for a hundred dollars. Everybody needs to eat so how come they won't pay so much for it?
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    Firstly, prices oscillate around the equilibrium, they never remain set at the equilibrium. They could theoretically reach a stable equilibrium if the supply and demand remained static for an infinite period of time, which is not going to happen. Welcome to the real world.

    And you could try selling a loaf of bread for a hundred dollars--even if many people couldn't afford, I'm sure the others would make enough purchases to turn a neat profit, because a loaf of bread is as close to a Giffen good as can exist. Of course, the problem is that you may end up dead in the ensuing riots, but hey, that's your funeral, not a matter of economics.

    kurczak 说:
    Pharmaceutical industry is far from free market. It is de facto a governmet-run oligopoly, so blame the government if you want to blame someone. The food industry being even more esential is an example of how free markets (or somethig very close to it) works regardless of somebody's essetial/luxurious labels. As I said earlier - the relative ielasticity of demand doesn't necessarily mean that it's seller's market. I understand that it is one of the most popular socialist fallacies, but it is a fallacy nonetheless.
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    What makes pharmaceuticals an oligopoly are patents, and without them their no is no incentive for research other than putative government intervention. But surprisingly enough, the governments, despite their notorious love of inneficient solutions, prefer patents because they don't cost a penny (to the government at least), hence they are more cost-efficient (for the government) than any other solution.

  12. Socialism vs. Commie-ism vs. Capitalism

    CountArtha 说:
    Cirdan 说:
    There is no correlation between dictatorship and economic collapse.
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    But there is a corellation between dictatorship and being unpopular.
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    That is simply a lie. Soviet soldiers of WWII wrote "For Stalin and the Motherland" on their tanks; Nasseris to this day practically worship Gamal Abdul Nasser; various South American caudillos enjoyed widespread popularity, at least for a time; both Hitler and Mussolini were massively popular until they started ****ing up their countries; and Ho Chi Minh quite endeared himself to (most of) his people. While all dictators (and even democratic regimes) have their dissidents, they have no particular popularity problems until they start making a hash of governing, which also applies to democratic regimes.

  13. Socialism vs. Commie-ism vs. Capitalism

    CountArtha 说:
    I think you're referring to the business cycle, which is caused by the rise and fall in the money supply over time.  It wasn't much of a problem until the good ol' U.S. Government set up a fractional reserve banking system to control the money supply.  When times are good, they turn on the faucet as it were and release more money for circulation.  When times are bad, they pull the money back in.  The Great Depression happened because they let out too much money when times were good and didn't pull back it in fast enough when times went bad.  Seeing as it happened again in 2008, it's evident that we learned nothing in the '20s.
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    Monetarism, oh **** *headbang*

    By the way, without the fractional reserve system or the gold/silver/chinese screaming monkey standard or some other system of government regulation of meny, anyone could mint his own tender and we'd back to barter, which was abandoned for a good reason in the first place :roll:

    Cirdan 说:
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    Ebin 说:
    If you let a market go un check and never interfere with it, it will soon divide a massive wealth gap and then collapse on itself.
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    I'll believe it when I see it.
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    Chile under Pinochet? he applied Milton Friedman's theories...and his country went to hell until the point where his own supporters kicked him out of power.
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    That had more to do with him being a despot than with his economic reforms.
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    There is no correlation between dictatorship and economic collapse.

  14. Fallen Earth

    Is anyone actually going to buy it?

  15. Socialism vs. Commie-ism vs. Capitalism

    Sir Lulzalot 说:
    Its a stupid theory anyways. "Lets leave the markets alone and allow people to exploit their greed without limits and rules". That's how monopolies and all that bull**** starts. **** that.

    EDIT: Not to dilute your point Cirdan but a South American leader is killed/expelled by their "supporters" more often than I change the oil in my car.
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    Nah, alot of the time it is a game of banck-and-forth between the USA, the local elite/drug lords/whatever, and The MassesTM.

  16. Socialism vs. Commie-ism vs. Capitalism

    CountArtha 说:
    Ebin 说:
    If you let a market go un check and never interfere with it, it will soon divide a massive wealth gap and then collapse on itself.
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    I'll believe it when I see it.
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    Chile under Pinochet? he applied Milton Friedman's theories...and his country went to hell until the point where his own supporters kicked him out of power.

  17. Why terrorist fight and your thoughts?

    Illyrius 说:
    Bulle 说:
    God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.
    George W Bush, june 2003
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    You gotta be kidding me.
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    Alas, no. It appears he really did say this to then-Palestinian PM Abu Mazen.

  18. hundreds of policemen mobilised following online threat on 4chan

    Temujin 说:
    strike in context of emploees not working: staken
    strike as in doing something: toeslaan

    By the way there's no Belgian language, in Belgium they speak either Dutch or French or German depending on where you live
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    Hence the  :lol:

    You may want to consider upgrading your irony detection software :wink: .

  19. hundreds of policemen mobilised following online threat on 4chan

    Sound Chaser 说:
    Dunno if strike in Belgian has the same two meanings it has in English. Besides, it's pretty unlikely that some retard could convincingly claim that he meant something else. Heck, he could even be some 15-year-old who has never worked anywhere before.
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    Dunno, what is the word for "strike" in Belgian? :lol:

  20. Why terrorist fight and your thoughts?

    Pharaoh Llandy 说:
    Cirdan 说:
    Pharaoh Llandy 说:
    Of course they do. Loads of bull**** reasons.
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    They're not bull**** if the population buys them. Untrue maybe, but not bull****.
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    Uh, considering that 90% of the population have the group capacity of a flock of sheep, I don't tend to use them as an indicator of the validity of fake political excuses.
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    The point of fake political excuses is to fool those 90%, so if they buy it then these are very good excuses. I guess that just makes spinning up fake political excuses for invading someplace an easy domain, reserved for those who failed more difficult types of spin.
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