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Posted by: Havohej : Category: Without getting too deep into the politics of this year’s US Presidential election, I wanted to show my support for the McCain/Palin ticket. I don’t think that ’spreading the wealth’ around is the way to go to ‘fix’ the economy. I think that our insistance on playing with imaginary money is what broke the system and I believe that Alan Greenspan plainly stating that he did not understand what went wrong and that the current situation goes against everything he’s made a career out of knowing supports the idea that the only way to fix the system is to replace the system.
When I say imaginary money, I’m referring to things like compound interest, predatory lending, that sort of thing. If I borrow 100 dollars from you at 5% interest rate and can’t pay it, you assess late charges which I still can’t pay so you end up selling the debt to a collection agency which applies more fees and charges interest on the interest of the fees incurred by the original interest which has interest charged on it. Now, riddle me this: If I couldn’t pay back the 100 dollars at 5% interest, what makes you think I can pay back the resulting $5,000 of compound interest and late fees? Yet, for the last twenty years our entire financial world has been built on that concept.
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¶ It’s generally not my intention to talk about things I’m not directly involved in. However, this last week has been uneventful for DFIAS other than that we lost a Hurricane, Jaguar and two Thoraxes to Beyond Divinity Inc, a two-bit ‘pirate’ corporation that bases out of Oddelulf in Molden Heath. Not much to tell there, they had a Curse, Zealot and Hyperion, the Curse neuted our Jag to slow it down and the drones ate it, then both Thoraxes proved too slow to catch and web the Curse and having seen Zealots fly just as fast as the 3km/sec that the Curse was pulling, I decided to try to pop the Hyperion - go down swinging, as it were. Didn’t work.
¶ Anyway, not much news about DFIAS, no exciting personal exploits, but the North is on fire right now! So much going on there that I can’t not address it in this chronicle. It all started with a CAOD address by SirMolle…
¶ One of the reasons I pulled DFIAS out of 0.0 space was to get away from the alliance politics. Now, though, I’m finding that even if you’re not in the alliance yourself, if you want to do anything besides dedicated piracy you can’t really avoid the politics.
¶ In my last entry, I explained how DFIAS had taken up Not Red; Don’t Shoot RoE inside of the Molden Heath region. This has led to three very different interactions with three different alliances: Electus Matari, Foundati0n and the lesser known Valhalla Alliance.
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¶ Alright, so… Readers of this blog already have an idea of how DFIAS has progressed, from High Security empire space, to Low Sec, to Zero Sec with alliances. Venom was established, but was very poorly run. Anthrax Death was a start-up outfit relying heavily on GoonSwarm to ensure its existence. But the fragile nature of such an existence is evidenced often by threads like this: Anthrax Death Eviction Notice by Zapawork, GoonSwarm diplomat.
¶ When we left ANTX to join DEFI4NT, it was with the understanding that DEFY was to be led by ms kypp and that it would be a PvP alliance working toward its own goals. In my last entry, Ambition, I explained why this did not work out. The alliance we joined, Code Red Alliance, didn’t work out much better…
em·py·re·an –noun
- the highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to contain the pure element of fire.
- the visible heavens; the firmament.
This is where we live. Work. Fight. In the empyrean. Our destinies are forged here. Whether we mine for precious minerals with which to build implements of destruction, or use those implements ourselves to try and impose our will on those who would share the empyrean with us, we make our own way.
