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It's a pity that for all the purity we can give our ideas, we fail to translate it into our actions. I think benevolent dictators are a great idea, it's just they're rare as a sincere fart in church.

Is it so hard to believe that when no-one owns the monopoly on evil, there are no innocents, and no-one adheres to the first stone or do unto other rule? Who needs to ban books when the knowledge gained from reading is culturally rendered moot by ridicule? What use is freedom to speak truth when...

Promote hate. Profit from chaos. Nationality is irrelevant.

When a company trades when insolvent, management is subject to civil penalties, criminal prosecution and creditor compensation. When a government does it, management blames someone else and seeks to penalise the productive citizen it supposedly represents.

Why not play the banks off against each other? As long as you have the discipline to pay it off before the balance starts to incur interest. Be mindful of any hidden costs such as service fees etc.

I could easily match that with reports of the western interests funding and arming ISIS, but each side has their propaganda and one eyed supporters so what is the point of a promoting balanced view when tunnel vision ignores the periphery?

In a cyclical system, aren't start and end point are the same? Some products fail to be sold, leading to waste instead of consumption. Inefficient use of labour or materials is also waste, but a form of waste that has consumed the hours or materials. Innovation allows value to be added to...

20 years is more like an online quiz than a test.

T'was the Saudis that crashed the planes into the buildings, if you believe the official narrative.

Anyone not buying due to moral objections to China's policies?

FWIW = For what it's worth. I agree that the Nazi product is further removed from the party profit, but following the chain of transactions, funds filter back even after the fact. I wouldn't buy a coin directly from ISIS or anyone who seemed to be raising funds for their cause, but once a...

FWIW, I backed out of the bet because I'm "not Christian enough" to be that antagonistically evangelical. Nothing against the Jesus crowd, I'm just not a one book kind of guy. To take part in the bet I'd have to believe what I was promoting and would aim to do it in a way that was more comedic...

Following that logic, buying a Nazi coin today still funds the Nazis of old. Someone paid for it back then, and that person got paid by someone else for it, then this happened until someone today paid for it. How many hands does it have to pass through to be a moral purchase? How many years...

Indeed. I just don't tend to classify every act of an evil entity as automatically being an evil act. I'm sure ISIS also sleeps and goes to the toilet. I'm also sure that I'm not evil for sleeping or going to the toilet. Evil is evil. Good is good. Mundane is mundane. Don't confuse the actor...

I support their monetary policy while abhorring their violence. One good idea doesn't make them "ok", but it doesn't make it a bad idea.

I have a cheap Bunnings safe that a crim could carry off. It's full of my 5 and 10 cent coins. Should weight them down enough to reduce theft of other items.

Just an example, I'm a Westie and only really know the Riverina due to my business. Wagga could work too. Both are larger than any rural town in the west afaik and have the services people need (banks, hospitals etc). Better to be near a rural hub with fertile lands and local produce than a...

Broken Hill sucks, unless you like lead. Better to be in a town near Griffith.

All depends on how quickly the dam breaks, and if the leakage is too strong to patch up. Too many patch jobs reduce structural integrity eventually. The death of FIFO is having an impact in the west, though it can be managed with retraining if alternative productive industry is available to...

Until rising unemployment and stagnating wage growth impacts mortgage repayments... could be soon enough.