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I have the PS2 fat, it's working 100% fine. Want to put a mod-chip on it since every PS2 game is available on the internet.

Yes mid-range an AMD FX8370, 1TB HDD, 16GB of Ram, and GTX 970. I also have a pretty good motherboard, psu, and case.

r4X0r posted...

darkstar4221 posted...

You have inflation combined with low job opportunities especially for the poor, yeah people are stressed out and they die fast.

....what universe and more importantly what TIME do you live in? The economy is growing and job opportunities are increasing, and we all just got a tax cut.

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/peak-fantasy-time/
David Stockman points out there is little to no industrial production in the United Sates. All our jobs are shipped overseas to China, Malaysia, India, etc.

Barring statistics it's only natural for millions of Americans to be unemployed when the government increases overhead costs on business by increasing the minimum wage and adding more red tape. Over the last 30 years the amount of employees being fired is at it's lowest, why is that? Is that because employees are suddenly good workers? No. The fact is there is no one being fired because no one is being hired unless it's a really low paying job (bars, hotels, restaurants, or some other service type of job) and that's where most of the job growth has been created in the last 10 years.

The BLS says the US unemployment is only 4.1% but it's not counting the amount of Americans who gave up looking for work which I believed increased in November, and it counts all the part time-job workers (ie those working at McDonald's) as an increase in employment. This is the real US economy.

r4X0r posted...

darkstar4221 posted...

You have inflation combined with low job opportunities especially for the poor, yeah people are stressed out and they die fast.

....what universe and more importantly what TIME do you live in? The economy is growing and job opportunities are increasing, and we all just got a tax cut.

Oh yeah the BLS which counts all jobs as equal. According to the BLS a 10-hour per week minimum wage job at McDonald's is the same as someone who works 45 hours a week and makes $80,000 at Apple. The fact is in 17 years the US hasn't gained a single bread winning job in manufacturing and higher white collar professions, what has increased are leisure and hospitality jobs ( bars, hotels and restaurants).

Awesome posted...

more stress, bad food, pollution, loneliness.

Well it's most likely the bad economy that's causing all these problems. That shouldn't be surprising when government artificially increase overhead cost on businesses by increasing the minimum wage, increasing payroll taxes, more regulations, more government spending on useless programs, etc. The most destruction policy the US government does is setting interest rates at 0%, it gives the illusion that the US economy is doing fine when it isn't and allows the government to borrow money endlessly. This weakens the dollar thus the cost of food, house, and especially insurance go up. Combined with our lousy educational system and a growing police state, the US isn't as rosy as the media makes it out to be.

You have inflation combined with low job opportunities especially for the poor, yeah people are stressed out and they die fast.

Rexdragon125 posted...

Surely the free market will sort this out

We don't have a free market, we have a mixed economy. When interest rates are at 0% and the federal government is spending $4.09 trillion dollars on welfare, military spending, numerous amount of programs and regulations that is nothing close to a free market. That's not even accounting for the spending done in the state and local level, and you combine that with federal spending it's $7.17 trillion.

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total

This shouldn't be surprising given that the US economy is complete sh!t. In bad economic times more people are stressed out, and their problems whatever it is, tend to worsen. More domestic abuse, more suicides, more riots, more mass shootings, etc.

Vegy posted...

that is cute.

Episode 7 imo is the worst Star Wars movie. Episode 8 is an improvement because I like the interaction between Rey and Kylo. I hate Finn. I think Kylo likes Rey, lol.

Mainly because Lucas should have continued the franchise much sooner, but he decided to end it when there is still life left, then decided to sell his ip of stars 30 years later to Disney. Some have argued that Lucas was allowed to do this because copyright term limits are too long. I think copyright should be like eight years at most, not a life time + 75 years.