I don't think it's so much of a matter of learning or not learning anything. If you're just talking about the financial markets, I believe that the abundance of information available as well as how easy it is to trade nowadays (nearly anyone with money can do it) has made the markets a hell of a lot more volatile than they have ever been. There's no practical way that such liquid, levered, layered, and complicated markets can be competely regulated. Besides, no matter how much regulation you attempt to put on the financial markets or the banking industry, they're just going to find a way around it.

I've also been wondering what kind of regulation has what kind of place in these new technological and economic realities. Ideally, you want something that will not stifle healthy activity, and at the same time, impartial, and does not factor into already complicated business. And of course, something that is effective.

I'm more wondering why the conflict gets much more attention than others that are larger, more violent and more significant. Perhaps partially because it's just been going on for so long, and consistently shows no signs of being resolved.

Only the good die young.

metroidfood

Only people who don't have the means to stay alive die young consistently.

That's interesting that you ask this on a forum with users from so many different backgrounds and countries.

I'm not going to give an answer to that question, but I'll suppose it's going to be no across the board for almost everyone here.

Well, when you have that much power, clout, influence, and control in the countries you speak of, as well as the elaborate cults of personality and large amounts of money that most of these guys have, you tend to do well. Especially at most of the other people's expense. Just don't get overthrown in a coup d e'tat, revolution, or uprising. You might die relatively quickly in that case.

Does that include "Fly" scenarios?

[QUOTE="Kcube"]

GS should make a Church and State board and keep this kinda crap out of OT.

I hate seeing good threads go unnoticed and threads like this not.This take almost no effort to make other then putting"God" or w/e in the title..congrats.

All this is..its an excuse to troll believers..God forbid some of us do..maybe I should take pleasure in knowing what some of us believe effects the haters so much.

Ok now its amusing I guess >_> but still it sucks and needs its own board(would be pretty active too)

superfluidity

Calling people you disagree with trolls is a great way to try and silence their opinions.

Trolls come in all shapes and sizes. Especially with dissent and disagreement that is particularly militant and belligerent in design.

It's okay. There will be something else to take its place, and I'll bet people will eventually hate or reject whatever that is as well. Maybe it will just be religion for the 21st century.

I'm not sure if I'm really digging the new Onion videos. The older ones (the ones before they went onto Comedy Central) generally felt much more witty and original. A lot of the new ones just feel cheap and reused.

I'd avoid adding her on facebook before she knows who you are in real life. It's not going to work out well for you.kamikaze_pigmy

This person speaks the truth, at least to the extent of my pretty awful experience with this sort of thing. Also, this sort of way down the line mutuality always seems to me that it will make things much more complicated than they have to be.