[QUOTE=whiteminority;14738252]That or we stop putting so much faith in the Chinese government investing in our economy.[/QUOTE]
very little foreign direct investment comes from china. what china does do is buy a large number of dollar-denominated securities. but we aren't putting any faith in them. they do this out of their own self-interest. per the law of supply and demand, in order to maintain their artificially low currency peg, they need to sell yuan and buy dollars on foreign exchange markets. they do this by buying treasury bills with yuan. they then hold these as a hedge against economic instability. this policy also has the effect of partially financing the US current account deficit with china, which china needs to maintain in order to continue its export-driven growth. kind of like extending us credit to buy chinese goods on. so we aren't putting any faith in china's goodwill.

in fact, this isn't in our long-term best interest. china's policy is masking the harmful affects of the trade deficit. as a result, americans aren't altering their consumption based on a true analysis of the costs. fortunately though, china's policy is loosing the ability to maintain the strength of the dollar. a weaker dollar does involve a short-term economic correction, but that is necessary, as the current situation can't be sustained indefinitely.

I went to Against Me! on friday. spent the whole weekend in Orlando actually. Great *** ****ing time.

Against Me! was great, met the band got a few pics.

I'm selling my "A New Set of Lungs" test press on ebay, if anyone here is interested.

[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220116879959[/url]

[QUOTE=DFelon204409;14757857]srt why do you gotta kill the buzz. you need to feel the jams and the groove[/QUOTE]

lol!!!

rep++

srt is a really chill and intelligent guy, though. Reading his posts makes me feel so dumb, hah. I've always felt like I had a pretty good grasp on world politics and what was really going on but this dude's like a CNN Special correspondent.

And everyone knows A New Set of Lungs EP is Hot Cross' best work to date. Yep. I said it.

Neeshee, **** you. Give me that Khayembii Communique album. I'll paypal you $15

Hey guys.
Guitar World called From Autumn to Ashes "Post-Screamo"

^ Hahaha!

I never got into that show. All my friends love it, though...

Yeah they rule.

Copy / paste from pop-punk. Its rough keeping up with 2 community threads, at least they both movie kind of slow.




So much info:

First, a few days ago, some lady rented a car from a place pretty close to where I live, and she reached under the seat to adjust it, and found all kinds of paperwork in arabic writing with the names of world leaders, and a note saying something along the lines of 'I am going to be satans worst nightmare in the tri-state area, please pray for me'.

Next, around where that car rental place was, either Donny or Mark Wahlberg is shooting a movie. My friend and I were discussing this at breakfast in school, and we told somebody that just walked past that Marky Mark was in the building for an assembly on having a safe summer. We told everyone we knew, and towards the end of the day, we had all kinds of people (including teachers) believing it, like there were people coming to me and asking me what I knew about it. It was awesome, me and my friend got everyone with it.

Finally, in my physics class, being the end of the year, we get some fun projects to do. Just for giggles, we made some pop bottle rockets that were shot off using an air compressor. We went out in the football field to shoot them, and when class was almost over, the cord the teacher was pulling to release the rockets got stuck and the launcher base thing just slid towards him, then had a delayed shot into his face. It was somewhere around 90 pounds of pressure from about 5 feet away, with a cone attached to the head. Tore part of his nostril, cut his cheek, made all kinds of bruises on his nose and lips and cheek, completely broke his glasses (the class ended up looking for the lenses) and he said he was having trouble seeing out of his left eye, and the entire left side of his face was numb. Blood was like dripping out of his face.

What an eventful 2 day span.

[QUOTE=cobert;14768902]Copy / paste from pop-punk. Its rough keeping up with 2 community threads, at least they both movie kind of slow.




So much info:

First, a few days ago, some lady rented a car from a place pretty close to where I live, and she reached under the seat to adjust it, and found all kinds of paperwork in arabic writing with the names of world leaders, and a note saying something along the lines of 'I am going to be satans worst nightmare in the tri-state area, please pray for me'.

Next, around where that car rental place was, either Donny or Mark Wahlberg is shooting a movie. My friend and I were discussing this at breakfast in school, and we told somebody that just walked past that Marky Mark was in the building for an assembly on having a safe summer. We told everyone we knew, and towards the end of the day, we had all kinds of people (including teachers) believing it, like there were people coming to me and asking me what I knew about it. It was awesome, me and my friend got everyone with it.

Finally, in my physics class, being the end of the year, we get some fun projects to do. Just for giggles, we made some pop bottle rockets that were shot off using an air compressor. We went out in the football field to shoot them, and when class was almost over, the cord the teacher was pulling to release the rockets got stuck and the launcher base thing just slid towards him, then had a delayed shot into his face. It was somewhere around 90 pounds of pressure from about 5 feet away, with a cone attached to the head. Tore part of his nostril, cut his cheek, made all kinds of bruises on his nose and lips and cheek, completely broke his glasses (the class ended up looking for the lenses) and he said he was having trouble seeing out of his left eye, and the entire left side of his face was numb. Blood was like dripping out of his face.

What an eventful 2 day span.[/QUOTE]

Awesome.

Neil Perry r00lz.

[url]http://media.putfile.com/On-The-Might-Of-Princes---Round-2[/url]

[QUOTE=cobert;14770467]Neil Perry r00lz.[/QUOTE]

F[I]u[/I]ck yeah they do.

I dropped a lot of money on Vinyl last night.


Incoming list:
AMALTHEA
s/t 7"
CRESTFALLEN
s/t 7"
SINALOA / CATENA COLLAPSE
Split 7"
THE BIRDS ARE SPIES THEY REPORT TO THE TREES
s/t 7"
DAMEZUMARI
Hitherandthithering Waters Of 10"
AMANDA WOODWARD
La Decadence De La Decadence 12"
JUNE PAIK
s/t 12"
OFF MINOR
Innominate 12"
ON THE MIGHT OF PRINCES
Where You Are ... 12"
REP SEKI
s/t 12"
SINKING STEPS ... RISING EYES
Majestic Blue 2x12"
STOP IT
Self-Made Maps 12"

Architecture in Helsinki : Heart It Races Remixes 12"
Architecture in Helsinki : Heart it Races 7"
Owen / Joan of Arc / Make Believe / Love of Everything : The
Association of Utopian Hologram Swallowers (2x7")
Owen : I do perceive. (LP)
Owen : Owen (LP)
Aloha : Here Comes Everyone
Aloha : Sugar
Joan of Arc/Bundini Brown
Joan of Arc : Eventually, All at Once
Kaospilot/Van Johnson - split 7"
Graf Orlock/Greyskull - split [Clear] LP
Graf Orlock - Destination Time Tomorrow [Red] 10"


Still waiting for the Tar... Feather's LP to come and two 7" splits both featuring They Found My Naked Corpse Face Down in the Snow.


Edit: Also got a Kaospilot LP, Love Like Electrocution LP on yellow, and a Palatka LP on purple.

Damn son what was that like $300+ ?

Haha it was around there. So excited. :D

Damn, only incoming vinyl I got is new Pig Destroyer LP pre-order and Judas 7" preorder.

I really need to start saving my money for summer stuff and not just blowing it every weekend buying food and renting video games.

what's up guys, I'm Liam :wave:

[QUOTE=Wow;14772181]I dropped a lot of money on Vinyl last night.


Incoming list:
AMALTHEA
s/t 7"
CRESTFALLEN
s/t 7"
SINALOA / CATENA COLLAPSE
Split 7"
THE BIRDS ARE SPIES THEY REPORT TO THE TREES
s/t 7"
DAMEZUMARI
Hitherandthithering Waters Of 10"
AMANDA WOODWARD
La Decadence De La Decadence 12"
JUNE PAIK
s/t 12"
OFF MINOR
Innominate 12"
ON THE MIGHT OF PRINCES
Where You Are ... 12"
REP SEKI
s/t 12"
SINKING STEPS ... RISING EYES
Majestic Blue 2x12"
STOP IT
Self-Made Maps 12"

Architecture in Helsinki : Heart It Races Remixes 12"
Architecture in Helsinki : Heart it Races 7"
Owen / Joan of Arc / Make Believe / Love of Everything : The
Association of Utopian Hologram Swallowers (2x7")
Owen : I do perceive. (LP)
Owen : Owen (LP)
Aloha : Here Comes Everyone
Aloha : Sugar
Joan of Arc/Bundini Brown
Joan of Arc : Eventually, All at Once
Kaospilot/Van Johnson - split 7"
Graf Orlock/Greyskull - split [Clear] LP
Graf Orlock - Destination Time Tomorrow [Red] 10"


Still waiting for the Tar... Feather's LP to come and two 7" splits both featuring They Found My Naked Corpse Face Down in the Snow.


Edit: Also got a Kaospilot LP, Love Like Electrocution LP on yellow, and a Palatka LP on purple.[/QUOTE]

Whoa. Mad stuff.

Yeah man. When I first started buying those records I was like "Yes."


By the end I was like "My god I'm retarded. Oh well."


By the way, does anyone have the CORRECT version of "The Graduate etc" by Love Like Electrocution? Every time I download it, it's not the actual song. The real one has an insanely fast and intense ending with the vocalist screaming "fu[size=2]c[/size]k the guests" over and over.

big list. i'd dig that off minor lp

Yeah looking forward to it, but not as much as Rep Seki, Damezumari, and Graf Orlock.

Oh man, I forgot about Crestfallen. They are so good.

A lot of good stuff on there.

[size="7"]dude Guys Wtf Ash Has Niko In His Avatar He Is So Weird And Creepy Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg Ookggmgmgmhkfdjkhf[/size]

I kind of thought that and didnt say anything.

Its because everyone on this forum is a hypocritical f[I]a[/I]ggot.

Besides, Gav.. he is just a scene kid.

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo;14774264][size="7"]dude Guys Wtf Ash Has Niko In His Avatar He Is So Weird And Creepy Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg Ookggmgmgmhkfdjkhf[/size][/QUOTE]


Haha Chris posted it in the "Post Pictures of Yourself" topic and I thought it was a hillarious facial expression.

It really is a hilarious facial expression. He looks like he just f[I]u[/I]cked a chick.

Haha I know. It was really just a joke.

Yeah but Jared is all butt hurt about it because we gave him sh[I]i[/I]t for e-stalking Niko. It was actually weird and got not funny anymore.

They should set up a fight club and fight eachother.

[QUOTE=RetiredAt21;14774459]Yeah but Jared is all butt hurt about it because we gave him sh[I]i[/I]t for e-stalking Niko. It was actually weird and got not funny anymore.[/QUOTE]


Oh okay.

The best way to settle disputes is to get the 2 enemies into a phone booth with each other and give them knives.

Sh[size=2]i[/size]t gets br00tal at close quarters.

I approve of the phone booth idea. Br00tal indeed.

I saw that video before, it was funny.

[QUOTE=Wow;14774446]Haha Chris posted it in the "Post Pictures of Yourself" topic and I thought it was a hillarious facial expression.[/QUOTE]

It is funny as hell.

[QUOTE=RetiredAt21;14774471]They should set up a fight club and fight eachother.[/QUOTE]

My friend Matt wants me and him to start a fight club together.

I wish the guy that did the clean vocals in AM1200 by The Khayembii Communique did vocals all of the time for that band.

The other dude kind of pisses me off after a few listens, and the clean dudes yell sounds good.

[QUOTE=Wow;14774446]Haha Chris posted it in the "Post Pictures of Yourself" topic and I thought it was a hillarious facial expression.[/QUOTE]

Oh. dude i don't even care. i just think it is funny how members of this forum just go with the flow of whatever everyone else thinks.

[QUOTE=RetiredAt21;14774459]Yeah but Jared is all butt hurt about it because we gave him sh[I]i[/I]t for e-stalking Niko. It was actually weird and got not funny anymore.[/QUOTE]

Hahah, so ****ing true. Everyone gave him **** for exactly the same thing. you guys suck.