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Diminished speculation capacity on rising and potentially rising interests rates; Iran oil production; effort to undermine Russia; odd attempt by elitists to hide bad economy while raising the fed rate (which they new would cause suffering). Plenty of possible and interacting reasons. If you are not familiar with economics, a common tactic of large companies is to price so low that you kill competition and create a monopoly (after which the price rises). You might even liken this to "good government" hahahahaha.

Let's see Rand has no chance, he's a soft baller when it comes to statists (see recent The View appearance), and he's already shown to be a sell out (see Mitt deal). Cruz is a tactician (see his use of micro-politicing services), and there is no telling whether he is a plant or what his real motives are. Trump is the best option. He's the most likely candidate, and he has a long available history that shows a rather consistent character. Now, I'm not going to vote. I'm not registered - I gave up after 2008 with Ron Paul. But, I was curious about Trump, so I read a few of his books, watched his Scotland golf hearing with the government there, watched a few speeches of his at his university, and from what I gather, he's a pretty logical, moral, business man. PS. On the notion of does voting matter: usually not. But, this may be a special case.

A civil war as a consequence, or even gun confiscation is pretty far fetched as a result of even the worst case outcome. If gun confiscation were that easy, then it would have been achieved with any of the other mass shooting events. A positive side to this story, and the reason I imagine that, if the feds do not use this as an agent provocateured shoot out, the media will give this very little coverage, is, it presents two necessary topics which mainstream loses on if they even touch: - that the right to bear arms is a right every individual has; set forth, not for protection or hunting, but to prevent tyranny or other forms of oppressive government, and that this occupation is possible through the exercising of that right - that the federal accumulation of land is an extreme overreach of power

It is an interesting system, and the notion of this being used to promote further gun restriction is quite possible. First, the system is such that you have a controlled media and a majority of leftist floaters. Leftist floaters in the sense they move whichever way the tide moves, and as such, the system is a controlled reactionary system. In this system, in order to promote a regulation contrary to tightly held right beliefs, you must have an event which causes the lefts to react. It is not enough to have previous events, like school shootings, since, their being in the past, diminishes their reaction-creation effectiveness, and presents more coolness in which the deficiencies in linking gun control to the events can be brought up an seen. So, wouldn't it be suiting if we had at least one felon (see article), shooting and killing one or more of federal employees and tourists right before or around the time in which the new gun restrictions are presented, for use by the controlled media and the left to fuel the agenda. If these events weren't related, you would expect that the occupiers would have some comment on the impending gun restrictions.

A caller on one of the youtube videos put out recently, along with many others, seem to think homogenizing people leads to better spread of ideas. This article appears to counter that idea. http://phys.org/news/2015-06-social-networks-group-boundaries-ideas.html I would rationalize it on the concept that people group with others that have shared language-of-understanding, and that when a new complex concept comes to the group, it only needs to be translated once into the groups language-of-understanding so that each member can understand, whereas, if there is no set of subgroups, when a concept is presented to someone, it probably is not presented in that person's language-of-understanding, but rather in some specialized or generic language of understanding, which reduces the capacity for the varied types of people to understand the concept.

PS. Also, looking now (since looking after I build it is the best time), I found at least one active mobile app that does interest matching and notifies you when you are physically close to someone with the same interest. Not quite what I'm going for though. My attempt is more of a - find someone with your obscure interests anywhere in the world (or localised if desire), but surely not out in the public where the occasion would certainly be embarrassing: Me "I see you too like wearing underwear on your head and are an atheist. Thank god we met at this church using my connect app". Not sure where my other post went - said moderator needs to approve it. Perhaps since I listed domains of other sites that serve for connecting. But, I will try to sum up. Probably not the first of its kind. No plans for making money, just enjoy building it. You can test by entering a bogus email.

Not certain if I am the first. It's a fairly simple idea, and I don't see why others wouldn't have tried it, but I imagine a lot of others dilute the function itself or use simple flags. For example, a site might give someone the ability to say they like rock climbing, but it doesn't allow any sort of degree of like-measurement. There's experienceproject.com, but that matches people based on a single phrase. There's meetup.com, but I listed some of the issue with meetup in my first post. As for money, my plan is to make false profiles that nearly exactly match up with people, get them to agree to meet, then kidnap them and sell their organs. I kid. It will take a long time before hosting the service becomes expensive to me. I'm more interest in seeing it being used and seeing how I might expand it. But, as for actually making money, I suppose I can put up advertisements, but that's not generally very profitable from my experience. And, there's not really an option of selling data since so little data is collected about the user and data now days is cheap. As for testing - Yes, you can enter a bogus email. You get a 1 day grace period before logging in requires email validation - after which, just sign up with another bogus email. Funny you should mention about anonymity. I built the site so that access to information is fairly restricted. That is, you can only see someone's picture or description if you have matching interests, and you can only change your interests once a day. Of course, this doesn't prevent massive sign ups by bots for crawling (I have other restrictions in place for that). I'd have to determine my avenues before I determine my launch budget. I certainly know there are things that don't work. I put up a site qlparty.com (quality of life party), and put about 500 dollars into advertising through google and got 0 single field email address submissions. Yes, I considered putting up social like buttons. I've done that on previous projects, but there is something else I am missing. My guess is I have a horrible sense of style and usability, and people are turned away from the site regardless of how good the service is. And, I imagine adding a "login with X social network" button might help. But, I figured I'd put the site on here first - give you guys the junk and save the quality stuff for those that matter

For a while I've wanted a site that allowed me to find people based on degrees of interest match. For instance, if I'm really interested in skydiving, I want to see other people who are also really interested, not just minorly so. Not finding this anywhere, I went ahead and built it. I figured, it would be specially suited for this community. I know there are meetups, but that requries someone start the local meet up and then organize events. That goes beyond what a lot of people are willing to do for unknown outcomes - will anyone even join the meetup. With my site, its individual based, not group based. The effort put in towards either meeting someone or setting it up so that someone can meet you is minimal. The site is at http://interest.zone This is the first version - and, I'm a programmer not a designer, so it has minimal styling. So, please try it out, give me some feedback if possible, and perhaps clues as to where I might promote it (besides to the one person reading this on here).