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[Xantalos]

So you guys shut the government down when Congress can't agree on a bill or something?
How is it still exist?

[Bauglir]

It shuts down when no funding bills passed, which means that "non-essential" services are shut down. Wikipedia's got a sort of overview, but basically if nobody's lives depend on you doing your job, and you aren't self-funded like the postal service, you're not coming into work this month (until they fix it). And you ain't getting paid. And if you are coming into work, you might still not be being paid.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I was slightly worried because I'm going to need to go to the DMV in later October, but after the 16th, so things will either be solved or apocalypse by then.

[mastahcheese]

So you guys shut the government down when Congress can't agree on a bill or something?
How is it still exist?

Specifically, the Conservatives refuse to negotiate.

Ironically, that make Iran more willing to talk then the republicans.

[Nadaka]

So you guys shut the government down when Congress can't agree on a bill or something?
How is it still exist?

The government shuts down when congress refuses to allow the country to borrow the money to keep running from itself.

If the budget was balanced, there would never be a risk of shutdown.

But the people who bitch about balancing the budget the most, the republicans, refuse to allow the only option that balances the budget... an increase in taxes.

We can survive a shutdown for a little while, but it causes massive economic hardship, and if we default its pretty much game over for America as a nation, and we will drag the world economy to hell in the process.

On the plus side... All those childhood fantasies about dealing with an apocalypse? Looking more likely than ever.

[mastahcheese]

I actually made a joke to my wife earlier:

"If the shutdown doesn't give them what they want, what will they threaten us with then? A zombie apocalypse?"

[Graknorke]

if we default its pretty much game over for America as a nation, and we will drag the world economy to hell in the process.

Who do you think you are, China?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

if we default its pretty much game over for America as a nation, and we will drag the world economy to hell in the process.

Who do you think you are, China?

If America defaults, it can't buy from China.
If China can't buy from America, China crashes and burns.
If China crashes and burns, Russia crashes and burns.
If Russia crashes and burns, Europe crashes and burns.
If Europe crashes and burns, the world is pretty much fucked.

Now, somebody render that into a rhyming scheme and we can make it a children's guide to why Congress are very foolish people.

[mastahcheese]

It's like giving mice cookies, it always ends in the apocalypse.

[Descan]

It's why you give the mice cyanide in the cookies.

[Steelmagic]

Off the subject of mice genocide, it's occurred to me that when i take my dogs out at night i must look really creepy wearing my full camouflage outfit. I'm pretty sure a police SUV drove by me twice, and then i saw a police car drive by that area.

[misko27]

A better way of putting it is that China, the US and Europe are the three Pillars of the World Economy. One of those, Europe, has not been doing well, while the other, China, has shown to be slowing (still fairly high, but they can't life other nations out of trouble alone). If the US falls, Europe and China would fall, and then rocks fall, everyone is poor.


And this is all the day after I take the PSAT.


Anyway, I severely underestimated the amount of work needed to do a Technical drawing assignment, now I'm going to have to hand it in late despite working all night.

[Xantalos]

Take note, people, this may be how Elysium comes to pass.

[miauw62]

This may need it's own thread.

[Loud Whispers]

Take note, people, this may be how Elysium comes to pass.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't like that movie.

• Matt Damon's heroic sacrifice managed to make the medbays available to a select few, as opposed to a select few.
• Matt Damon shut down Elysium's defences.

Did no one consider for a moment that the defences were not meant for use against immigrants? Everyone seemed shocked when that lady ordered them online.
But consider this - a bunch of criminals had access to vehicles capable of atmospheric entry and reentry. That means just about every single country on the planet would likely also have access to such vehicles, and now Elysium's defences are completely useless.
It is ripe for the taking.
Any country can take the medbays.
Any country can take Elysium.
Furthermore, why the hell didn't anyone on Earth market out medbays too? What fool honestly thought people wouldn't pay a metric fuckilo for a device that could heal YOUR FACE BEING BLOWN OFF BY A GRENADE.
South Africans got grit.

• Anyone could have just changed the one word in the code to:

Earth citizens: [NO]
And that would undo everything to sq1 again, assuming some country doesn't take over a defenceless high-tech military installation in space.