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jp1 wrote:
Flake wrote:Seriously, guys. Buy gold.
What will I do with all my Bitcoins though? I prefer phantom currency.
Register as a Mt.Gox gold level partner.

Really, the key is just to maximize your stake in a currency that affords you the best chance of dying in an epic stand off with the authorities in your country and/or a rival militia.
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I prefer to invest in video games that have rapidly fluctuating values and that I have no intention of ever selling anyway. :lol:
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Funny enough, Mitt Romney likely also gives more to charity in a year than this entire forum combined.
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Ack wrote:Funny enough, Mitt Romney likely also gives more to charity in a year than this entire forum combined.
More tax write offs...
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Sure, the guy spent millions to figure out how to lower his tax bracket. He still pays far more in taxes than you do, gives far more to charity than you do, and has spent more of his time in public office than you have.
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I think a large number of Americans defend billionaires vehemently because they think of themselves as pending millionaires :wink: This is a uniquely American thing too.. Most other nations seldom defend their richest class. And I do wonder where this charity ends up because I keep seeing more and more Americans asking for crowdfunding to save their lives from life-threatening illnesses. :|
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Pulsar_t wrote:I think a large number of Americans defend billionaires vehemently because they think of themselves as pending millionaires :wink: This is a uniquely American thing too.. Most other nations seldom defend their richest class.
Americans are (and I say this as an American, although I tend to be the opposite of this observation) simultaneously unrealistically optimistic about their own lives and needlessly cynical about the rest of existence.
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I don't wake up to such notions, but sometimes I keep wondering how future anthropologists will look back at our era. Life can be both complicated and simple.. Try taking apart a plane without spending years studying its architecture, try understanding human nature without spending many years studying psychology and sociology.. Yet some facts of life remain as simple as can be.
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ElkinFencer10 wrote:I prefer to invest in video games that have rapidly fluctuating values and that I have no intention of ever selling anyway. :lol:
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