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Don't make a snarky reply to the previous post. He will print it as representative of this region.
But what if being snarky is how we want to be represented? Plus I don't think any reasonable person would construe the responses as representative of the regions.
Looks like The Nationstates Review ran afoul of the moderators. Kind of curious as to what the call was on the foul. I didn't see him doing anything particularly obnoxious.
However, in another region, someone answered his post with words to the effect of "We like cocaine and hookers." And that is what he posted in his dispatch to represent that region.
Wonder what he said.. Message me if you remember.. i need a laugh :p
He said words to the effect that he was running a world wide newspaper and was asking people to answer his post with a small description of the region to publish. He also asked that his original message be quoted so he knew to come back and check the response.
How that gets one sideways with the Moderators™ is beyond me.
That's kind of the motto of NS as this point, really.
Barry Ritholtz posted an excellent rebuttal to the Community Reinvestment Act meme on Bloomberg today. The title is: "Lending to Poor People Didn't Cause the Financial Crisis" and it's an easy read with plentiful links. Ritholtz squarely lays the blame at the feet of the credit rating agencies and, in this, he and I are in agreement:
"The three credit-rating agencies were key enablers of the financial meltdown. The mortgage-related securities at the heart of the crisis could not have been marketed and sold without their seal of approval."
The funny thing it, you can still blame the Clintons for failing to monitor the credit rating agencies sufficiently and there's much to suggest they're still operating arbitrarily and without much in the way of consequence for being wrong. Just don't blame the "anti-redlining" rules.
Going to a lot of different regions posting the same thing can be conisidered spamming or harassment, and is report able, though it is stupid to do so.
I liked what they were doing.
But for your coke thing here:
6. Europeia
We like turtles. We also enjoy hookers and large amounts of cocaine. I hope that helps.
- The Stanley Cup Champions of Consol Energy
20.06.2016
I should stop playing Company of Heroes so much,
Wins while playing as the Germans: 100, Losses while playing as the Germans: 0.
Thoughts on the Brexit?
Short term hysteria/knee jerk market reactions. I see it as a step towards the middle class pushing back against utopians.
A lot less commentary on this board than on a few others I belong to.
I am an elitist but also a supporter of representative democracy. Those favouring the Remain side were allegedly younger, better educated, and wealthier. But they stayed at home in droves while the older, poorer, and less well-educated turned out in great numbers and especially those who were historically Labour and lived outside Scotland and London.
This is the kind of thing you get in a referendum. Unlike an election there is far less apparently at stake even though, in this case, Britons undid over four decades of work in a matter of hours. Now those who voted to Leave will place unprecedented demands on the government to deliver on the Leave promises. A lot of those who voted to Leave were seduced by Nigel Farage's promise to divert £350 million each week from the EU coffers into the NHS. He now helpfully explains that he made a mistake.
Here's the sign on the side of his campaign bus: http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/1004555/stream_img.jpg
If the BOE decides on dropping the rate to 0.00% then the UK will join Denmark and Japan as zero-less lenders and the pressure will be on the US to continue keeping the spigots open. Re-negotiating each of the individual agreements and clauses comprising the Lisbon Treaty and everything else will probably take another three decades although France's Hollande wants to wind down everything before the end of summer.
Significantly, none of this will stem the tide of migration that's hit Europe and the UK is still the crown jewel of the Commonwealth of Nations of which a substantial proportion is Muslim.
I think it's safe to say that 'rudest citizens' has some sort of correlation with more civil and political freedoms, correct? And, of course, freedom of speech. I've found that, in the three nations I have now, that they all achieve high marks in both civil rights and political freedom, they all have freedom of speech, and they are all in the top 10% in the NS world for rudest citizens.
Not really, it partially has to do with the freedom of speech and what people are allowed to say / if their rules and law enforcement.
nation=northern_borland is #1 in the world for rudeness and the freedoms their are not that good.
New NS Feature
Ranking Tables Now In Graph Form, by Max Barry
Fri, 24 Jun 2016
"Graphed data is the best." So there is a new button on all ranking tables, located at the top right. Click that and your table will transform into a bar chart, allowing you to see at a glance how close all those nations are to each other (Column titles: Nation´s name / Ranking Number / Chart).
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This is extremely helpful, as you can compare yourself with other nations and see how your "rank type" changes according to your "rank number".
For example: Today´s rank is "The Most Efficient Economies in Capitalist Paradise" => Measures "Economy".
By changing to chart you can see that:
- The first 78 nations are tie with "100" (rank number).
- The first 149 nations are tie with "Frightening" (rank type).
- The nation #149 has "96,75" (rank number) and "Frightening" (rank type) while the nation #150 has "96,71" (rank number) and "All-Consuming" (rank type); which means this last nation is very close (0,04) to achieve "Frightening" status.
This also show us that:
- Almost 42% of the nations in Capitalist Paradise have "Frightening" Economy (149 nations over 356).
- Almost 88% of the nations in Capitalist Paradise have at least "Strong" Economy (315 nations over 356) <---- This is an old statistic I used to follow. In 2008, 95% nations here had at least a "Strong" Economy, but we were around 250 nations at that time (220 nations over 250).
Other statistics are:
2008
90% have an income tax lower than 30% (225 over 250)
70% have income tax unheard of (175 over 250)
Today
77% have an income tax lower than 30% (272 over 356)
23% have income tax unheard of (81 over 356)
Also, pro tip: when viewing the graphs, you can go to the url and change mode=g to mode=f You'll thank me later ;)
And have I really been here so long that I'm now in the region top 10 for ecomomy? I need to get a life.
As bad as France?
Hey guys I'm new here, just thought I'd introduce myself. Is there any reason this reason isn't tagged as libertarian? I searched the libertarian tag and was surprised that I couldn't find this region.
Well "CAPITALIST Paradise" might have something to do with it..
Capitalist =/= Libertarian. Although the idea of free markets goes hand in hand with Libertarianism, many other ideologies support it as well, such as the conservative movement. Yes, I and many others are Libertarian or Libertarian-leaning, but the region as a whole is not.
I have a question regarding tags, why are we tagged as anti-world assembly?
CP is generally anti-WA in that most of the WA members in the region despise it. We are very 'national sovereignist.' Simply put, we believe nations should have the right to govern themselves - not be governed by some bureaucratic morass of an international organization. We generally vote against most resolutions and vote in favor of repeals. IMO, CP used to be far more vocal about it in the past. We're pretty silent in our protest of the WA anymore.
At least most of the residents here are. Do I have any more edicts to scoff at?
you know, im not entirely sure what my nation is.. :/
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