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Income formula in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Summary ('TLDR') For most planets, to optimise income in respect of building farms, morale buildings, and economy buildings, you should get all economy buildings except for the planet containing your economic HQ, and/or planets where you'll be devoting at least 12 spaces to these types of building, where you should get 1 farm (or use your capital planet which effectively already has 1 farm). Background/overview One thing that confus

Reply to The politics of panic in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] It was at 250k [at time of lehmans failure] and had been for about a year or more [/quote] Care to provide a source to back that up? [quote] I lost track, what is your point? [/quote] Having a (big) bank fail is a major problem for the economy (and will have a negative impact on the stock market). Certainly not a minor problem that should be brushed off as you indicated in your original post. [quote] let's discuss why it was ever raised in the first pl

Reply to Do you want my money or not?! in Technical Sins Forums

Looks like it was an issue with impulse rather than paypal. I tried again, but this time using the browser (i.e. purchasing it via the site, rather than through impulse+it's browser). No annoying new blank windows appeared. The postage address appeared as before, but at least this time both the postage address and the billing address were the correct ones, and no additional surprise item appeared on the checkout screen. Of course the problems returned when I then loaded impulse to dow

Do you want my money or not?! in Technical Sins Forums

I thought today I might finally buy SoaSE. Having already bought a previous stardock game (galciv2+expansions) I figured it would be fairly straightforward. I load up impulse, go to the store and click to buy SoaSE. It gives the price, along with a guide for the currency converted amount, and gives the payment options. I click to pay with paypal, login, and it takes me to a summary screen. Several things instantly make the alarm bells start ringing for me. Firstly, the price has doubled from

Reply to OTF Political, Religious, and Inflammatory Threads in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

It'd also help some guidance/warnings could be given when directing people over to the JU site - for example I assumed that since it was a site for political, religious and inflammatory threads, that it would be acceptable to engage in debate with people who posted there (including Brad [Draginol/Frogboy] and other stardock employees), providing of course that I used common sense and didn't attack or insult such people, especially since even when checking the hard to find terms of service I c

Reply to Octuplet mom....nutty as a pecan ball... in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] The law of JU remains the same: Don't piss me off...if you are going to start attacking, insulting or demeaning me or our company (or helping those that do) then you're out of here. [/quote] I didn't do any of that, I simply disagreed with you (since until now I didn't know that wasn't acceptable). As an aside it might be worth clarifying the 'don't piss me off' rule (and others) in the terms of service, since gal civ players are directed to here for political (and other in

Reply to Octuplet mom....nutty as a pecan ball... in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] If someone breaks into your house and steals everything in your living room but decides to leave the TV, he's not giving you a TV. The government isn't giving me anything. They're simply agreeing to not take as much in exchange for me agreeing not to move to another state [/quote] First of all the burglary analogy isn't really comparable - you have the right to move to a different state and work there, for example, and you're not being forced to work either. If

Reply to Octuplet mom....nutty as a pecan ball... in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] How is it redistribution when he's already paying more than what he was given a break for [/quote] I probably should have said relative redistribution to make it a bit clearer; relative to a business(/individual) without such tax breaks - that is if you didn't have the tax break for Brad then both him and the other one could benefit from being taxed at a slightly lower rate. Alternatively Brad could get the tax break while the other pays more, meaning relative to the two

Reply to Octuplet mom....nutty as a pecan ball... in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] You, on the other hand, would be perfectly happy paying for this ignoramus to keep spitting out as many offspring as she likes, because you asked, "what about the woman's rights"? [/quote] Didn't take you long to revert to your normal habit of quoting things I never said. You basically seem to be arguing it's better for the government to spend 3 times as much on child benefits with those children being spread over several families than it is to make those child benef

Reply to Octuplet mom....nutty as a pecan ball... in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] One that's as bankrupt as England [/quote] How'd you figure that one out? In 2007 US debt was ~65.5% of GDP. UK debt was ~43.8% of GDP, so if anyones bankrupt, it's the US, not England. Also why are you complaining? Is it not cheaper to have a parent looking after lots of children at once instead of only a few? If you have 3 kids you'll either need to not work to see to them, or get childcover while you work. If you have 14, you'll either need to no

Reply to Facts About Obama’s Porkulus Bill in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] There's not a chance in hell of any of the programs sundowning - they'll just find something new with which to justify their continuing existence [/quote] Just make sure that any spending plans are 1-offs (even if you spread out the spending over several years). That way to keep spending that money once the recession is over the government would effectively need a new bail out bill which would be far harder to justify politically (and economically). The government also realist

Reply to Facts About Obama’s Porkulus Bill in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] What if there aren't jobs for those people when the temporary work runs out? [/quote] You spend a bit more until the economy does recover. So long as the recession is expected to be short term (i.e. a few years) and not permanent or long term, then you don't have so much of a problem. History has shown that over the long term economies will grow at a fairly consistent rate (the amount escapes me atm, IIRC it's around 1-2% pa), so it would be unrealistic to expect things not to

Reply to President Obama - Definitely a new style of running the country in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] I recall several Democrats in the senate and around10 in Congress who refused to support this bill. Am I missing something here [/quote] Yes you are. Most (possibly even all - I cant be bothered to check all the minute details) democrats that supported the first bail out supported the second. None of the republicans that supported the first bail out supported the second. Given that the second had more (economic) justification than the first, that means that when it comes to hy

Reply to Facts About Obama’s Porkulus Bill in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] putting money into it isn't going to create long lasting jobs and therefore is NOT going to stimulate the economy [/quote] It doesn't need to create long lasting jobs, it just needs to create jobs for a couple of years when things will have started to recover and those jobs can be filled elsewhere. At least with energy efficiency you will have a long term benefit (saving) that will help offset wholly or partially the interest payments on the debt you've had to take out to fund

Reply to President Obama - Definitely a new style of running the country in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] You have a very short memory. The vote for the bank bail out in the Senate only had 10 out of 49 republicans and 46 out of 50 Dems. While in the House only 20 out of 199 Republicans voted for passage and 203 Dems voted for it [/quote] I never said the democrats didn't support it. However the republicans (some of them) supported it as well. The democrats are mostly being consistent by

Reply to Facts About Obama’s Porkulus Bill in Politics JoeUser Forums

So if I'm reading this right, spending money on energy efficiency, security personel, waste disposal, flood defences, fighting health epidemics, education, and fire services is all 'pork'?! In that case, give me all the pork I can eat!

Reply to President Obama - Definitely a new style of running the country in Politics JoeUser Forums

So it's Obama's fault that the republicans decided to hypocritcally refuse to back a bail out that would help support the economy even when they'd previously supported one that rewarded banks for failure? Also if punctuality is the worst you can come up with, then I'd suggest that he's doing a pretty good job. No doubt even if Obama did everything perfectly, and never made a single mistake, you'd still have the standard people here ranting about how terrible he's doing.

Reply to What happens after...? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[QUOTE] how does it feel to add on 1 trillion dollars of debt to the country for something that only 20% of it is for actual job creation? [/quote] How do you get 20%?! Also large levels of borrowing wouldn't be needed if the finances hadn't been ruined by the outgoing republican administration. Still, at least it's better than the alternative of doing nothing, or worse actually cutting back on spending (as some people here have suggested).

Reply to What happens after...? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] what happens after the stimulus runs out? [/quote] To best answer this, think of what would happen if there was no stimulus - things would be bad for a couple of years, and then start to recover. So if the timing is got right, when the stimulus runs out, things will have recovered and so the market will be able to pick up where the government has left off.

Reply to Is he right or wrong? Obama's $500k salary cap in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] everyone will suffer because what happened at Merrill Lynch (top execs immediately went elsewhere) is going to happen everywhere and there won't be anyone who knows what they're doing in charge [/quote] An idiot could have probably run the banks better than some of the most highly paid execs (since their low intelligence would have probably ruled out using any complex derivatives etc.), so the typical argument used in defence of high salaries (i.e. to get the best you have to

Reply to Damned if you do Damned if you don't, a double standard I need to question in Politics JoeUser Forums

Individually, the wisest thing to do is save if you can afford to. Collectively, the worst thing to do is to save instead of spending. Since the impact of you saving a bit of money instead of spending it is going to be negligable, the best thing for you to do is to save - that way if you lose your job because of everyone else saving (or just because of the recession), you'll have a safety net, while if you try and do whats best for the economy, and are the only one, you

Reply to Man beaten to death in DC in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] you libs really do take this stuff too hard; too seriously. I mean, lordy; how long did it take you to dissect my "logic"? [/quote] Not long - I type fast. Thank you for your concern though...

Reply to Tax problems for Obama choices show problems with taxes in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] one quick and easy change is to get rid of one tax like tax on earned interest to encourage people saving money (also helps to fill banks balance sheets to enable them to lend more) and establish a very small federal sales tax on certain good and services [/quote] It'd create an uproar - you'd be taxing the poor to give to the rich, and encouraging people to cut back on spending and save instead (the last thing you want to do in a recession). [quote] One

Reply to Man beaten to death in DC in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] the fact of insane Obama worship is a hard fact. A contributor to my local paper, one among many, saw changes in the public mood the day after the election. Everyone was "smiling more" and "seemed happier". The sun was brighter, the angels were singing....blah, blah, blah.....nonetheless, Obama's stimulating effect on our better angels seems to be a myth. Just ask the dead homeless guy [/quote] A "fact" of insane Obama worship is a "hard fact"? Aside from t

Reply to Republicans stand their ground, good for them in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] I'll gladly re-mediate math if you'll get some help with reading comprehension [/quote] The implication of your post was that you were linking the article to refute kingbee. It may not have been the only interpretation of what you wrote, but it was the most obvious/likely. [quote] sorry I had to highlight the contents of the link, I know most here are capable of reading for themselves [/quote] Actually I prefer it when the contents of a link are highlight