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How true.
The Bailout… It does nothing!
Bahahahaah
The word is losing. LOSING. Loosing means to let something loose.
For example, don’t you hate it when people can’t spell? Yes, but I’ll be loosing the hounds on them shortly.
Thanks cherry. I see that spelling mistake all the time. It does make me wonder about people.
Spell checker doesn’t catch it. People have become so dependent on the stupid crutch that they’re no longer capable of simple proof-reading. It’s tragic. I see mistakes like these made in major newspapers. There’s just no excuse.
But is does make for entertaining “Headlines” on the Tonight Show
-Hey, guys…
I was the one who made that LOL, and I just wanna point out:
I’m dyslectic…
So, yeah, I kinda end up doing stuff like that when there isn’t a spell check around, and English being my second language, bla-bla-bla…
What really makes me LOL at night is the fact that you guys bothered
making a big deal out of it…
LOL
C U L8R, WEN AIM REIPIN UR L@NGIGE EGEIN…
Oldest excuse in the book: “I’m dyslexic!”. No excuse for getting two completely different words mixed up. If you had written “Lsoe money” that would be explainable. Thinking the word “loose” means to misplace something is just ignorant.
I gotta agree, I see this all the time and it drives me crazy. I know how to LOSE money, but how do you loose it?
I can loose my money on the morket (as in loosing the hounds)…what little of it I have can run rampant over the $1 a share now, used-to-be blue chips….
mArket, rather
Morket Mindy, my favorite show!
nanu nanu
*looses on herself* Oops.
I’m terribly sorry, but before you criticise others, why don’t you learn the English language yourself? “loosing” is not a word. There are the words “loosening” and “loose” , but no “loosing”
grammatical correction fail.
Loosing actually is a word.
I’m awfully sorry, but you are incorrect.
Check the dictionary
Apparently you need a better dictionary. Try “Loosing a flight of arrows.” as a phrase using the word. It may not fit many contexts, but it’s a word.
loose
2loose
Function:
verb
Inflected Form(s):
loosed; loos·ing
Date:
13th century
transitive verb1 a: to let loose : release b: to free from restraint2: to make loose : untie 3: to cast loose : detach4: to let fly : discharge5: to make less rigid, tight, or strict : relaxintransitive verb: to let fly a missile (as an arrow) : fire
From Merriam-Webster
While we’re at it:
that’s supposed to read “Money THAT wasn’t yours”. The rules about that one are a bit more archaic, so you’re forgiven
Thank you, Minerva
I hate it when people tell an English Major how to conjugate a verb 
In bed. Conjugate is a fun word.
But not by itself..
Obviously froofrou that poor soul has obviously never read anything that was written before the 1800s, which is when the word is most commonly used…
used correctly anyways.
I almost choked when my babysitter’s daughter told me that it was now gramatically acceptable to use OMG, BTW, and other internet abbreviations in term papers in junior high. I think I’m going to start my own country *sigh*
We were talking about education reform, don’t forget. We can start with that.
If my mother hears that, she’ll start foaming at the mouth. She is an
english teacher for high schoolers, and if she knows the next wave of
students she’ll have were allowed to use OMG and BTW in their writing,
then they’re in for a rude awakening. Like the boot camp in Full Metal
Jacket awakening.
My husband and I are in agreement that if our daughter gets better than a failing grade for a paper with that type of abbreviation in it, we will be marching ourselves up to the school to give the superintendent what he deserves! Administered with my foot!
I’m ok with that plan. We can put it forth as a bipartisan reform policy.
As a future teacher, I fully plan on letting students know that usage of “OMG” “BTW”, “(J/K)”, etc. will result in points docked. Likely two points per occurance.. The full-on txt-speeech will be five points per.
Gl, hf.
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Yes! Geez… I see this all the time too and it’s starting to make me wonder as well. Come on! These days, you don’t have to spell right, most everything has spellcheckers! So whats the excuse??!!
In this case, loosing is a word, and spellcheckers just check spelling, not grammar.
How does one go about “loosing” money?
There is a lot of money in a big vault in the McDuck money bin. If you dig a hole underneath and let it all poor down, that would be loosing money.
How does “it” poor down? I don’t understand.
Lulz. Everyone knows the word is spelled “loozing.”
No! Don’t cry! I want to invest my Social Security!
What Social Security?
In some ways, I just don’t understand the economy. We are in a crisis. But we still have the same number of people willing to work, the same number of factories, people still need the same amount of food and other basic goods. With goods to be produced and work to be done, people are still being laid off. People are having hard times, but why? Credit? We can’t lend any more imaginary money? I mean, it’s not like banks even need to have the money they lend anyway, that’s what an elastic monetary system means: If you’ve got $1,000, you can lend out $100,000. It’s totally crazy, the failure is in imagination, in what we imagine we can do, not in what we actually can do.
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Look at the great depression and WWII. We never really recovered from the great depression before the war and yet, all of a sudden we had the ability to pump out MASSIVE quantities of weaponry. Why couldn’t we decide to do something like that without actually having a war?
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I just don’t get it. People worship the free market just like a God. But just as with God, people can’t explain why it does crazy, messed up things. But we can’t blame some external father figure for our problems here. It was us. We collectively decided to have a crisis. It didn’t just happen to us, we made it happen.
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Socialist countries may not grow as quickly as free market economies, but that economic growth gets shared by everyone, not just the greedy scum at the top. I’d rather have 5% growth, where I see my share of that growth, than have 20% growth where I see nothing. And the middle class has seen no growth in average real wages in the last 30 years. So why do we still worship the free market?
So, you are essentially saying “The fundamentals of the economy are strong”? Hmmm. Didn’t someone else say that recently and was booed off the stage?
We have a free market, and the fundamentals of a free market have little to do with production capacity and everything to do with the rich getting their cut. In a socialist economy, having enough workers, production capacity, and desire would be enough to ensure the economy was sound. Not so in a free market economy.
Booed off the stage by the same people who started the whole problem in the first place. Screaming and yelling words like “recession” and “crash” until everyone puts away the wallet and stops spending, making the problem three times as bad.
The people who see smoke two miles in the distance and start screaming “FIRE!” until everyone around them is running for their lives and stomping all over one another when the entire thing could’ve been solved with a simple phone call (obviously an analogy, I know it’s worse than a fire). But those irrational tards, and all the bleary eyed morons who listen to them, are the reason the economy sucks. Not the fundamentals and the people trying to keep everyone calm.
>Socialist countries may not grow as quickly as free market economies, but that economic growth gets shared by everyone, not just the greedy scum at the top.
But is it? Here in America, the most successful people are those who work hard or have the right business connections. In a Socialist country, it’s the political elite who are the most successful… who also have the right business connections, just without the hard work.
Which would you rather have? A society that rewards hard work or a society that only cares what political party you belong to?
What evidence do you have to back up your claim? From what I’ve heard, most people in socialist countries think they are getting a great deal for what they pay in taxes, and in socialist countries people claim to be happier than people in America claim to be. In a free market, there isn’t much you can do to combat unfairness. In a socialist country, you can vote the bastards out.
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I also dispute that a free market rewards hard work. I’ve seen plenty of people who work hard and not get ahead. I’ve also seen lots of greedy bastards get rewarded far beyond what they contribute to society.
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It boils down to control. Our economy is controlled by the people with the most money, whether we like it or not. A socialist economy is controlled democratically. Our economy uses the threat of starvation to force people to work for less money. We let people with money force us to do things we wouldn’t otherwise do, and they get the profit from it.
“It boils down to control. Our economy is controlled by the people with the most money, whether we like it or not. A socialist economy is controlled democratically”
Nyet, comrade. Maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to work, but look at it historically…it never works out that way…don’t talk Marxism until you can cite an entire economy with a Population greater than 100 million that didn’t fail.
Marxism isn’t socialism. Look at most of Europe for an example of Democratic Socialism working correctly.
China.
Dont talk about Marxism, Socialism, and communism as if you know what they are, what you say proves you have no clue.
dont know what they are*
God… Im going to start making a rule to break my sentences if they disappear
off the edge of the box… no matter how weird it looks. Im tired of these stupid
errors I cant catch cause I cant see them.
I’ve been at the point where I just cut and paste it on notepad for a long post if it seems to be going badly in the editing dept. Then past it back. Fortunately I’ve just had to do it a couple of times.
@ Seth
Ehhhhh, let’s see.
Point one…you, and a few other folks I’ve seen in this thread as well as the OP, have it right. There really is no money. It’s all fake, and the stock market is some kind of quasi alternate dimension where plain physics don’t apply. This is what happens when you get away from the gold standard. Our entire economy runs off of one thing…the Consumer Confidence Index. If people feel…and that’s the key word…FEEL bad about the economy, the economy suffers. They put less money in the stock market and this means less overall trading and less money for companies to use to pay off current loans or procure new ones from banks.
As jacked up as it is to say, we could literally WISH our way out of this crisis just by investing in the stock market.
And I’ve seen you mention free markets twice now…what free market? We haven’t had a Free market since the Federal Reserve was implemented. People talk about free markets but we don’t really have them, not nationally nor globally. Any country that subsidizes whole industries (Salt) cannot be called Free.
And banks have to have a certain percentage of the loans they have out…that’s what broke Fannie and Freddy…that percentage was raised and those establishments croaked, the same thing happened years ago and was the basis for the S&L Bailout as well as the Keating 5. We keep doing it to ourselves.
And another thing…it’s practically impossible to gauge wage earning correctly in this country. Reason being that no one can really nail who bad our money is doing inflation wise. Don’t forget, two years ago we equalled the dollar with the Canadian Dollar…wrap your head around that one. And just wait till we do the same with the Peso. Amero anyone? North American Union? American Sovereignty…bah…an outdated concept like the Constitution.
The second half your last paragraph is nuts. I’ve seen that conspiracy theory in some detail, and it has very little basis in reality.
Seth: read the first 200 pages of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” and then let us know your thoughts. I would suggest the whole book since it’s a classic for a reason, but I have a feeling you wouldn’t be able to get through it . . .
I’ve read Ayn and I hate her with a passion. She is to philosophy what Teletubbies are to television: bland and witless. Objectivism is a crock, an elitist philosophy that excuses greed and selfishness without adding anything useful. People who find Rand interesting or insightful are generally college kids who haven’t been exposed to real philosophy yet, or closet elitists who blame other people for their failures.
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There was supposed to be an “In bed” there.
So you refuse to admit the truth ?
Truth? Do you care to explain which “truth” you are actually referring to? Just because you may like what Rand has to say, does not make it truth. Sheesh. She wrote fiction and philosophy. They are viewpoints and a way of looking at things, not cosmic truth.
A degree in philosophy is useful for explaining why you are unemployed.
Hey, I forgot about that. I knew there had to be a truthful purpose somewhere.
I do what I can in my humble way.
in bed..
Until it hurts.
NICE!
Not exactly. I can certainly see this conversation taking place
“I have a degree in Philosophy. I sit around explaining why things the way they are. Would you like fries that?”
And I had to read Atlas Shrugged for English. It took way too long to say way too little. I myself lean to the right, pretty strongly, but that book was just silly. That is the only word I can think of is silly. She had some valid points in there, but not enough for a 1200 page book to be valid. And the storyline was shit. DAGNY TAGGART IS A WHORE
The classes are entertaining, though. I nearly had a minor in P&R by the time I graduated. A little philosophy helpeth much when the damn code won’t compile.
the truth is out there.
Spelling FAIL.
There is a definite difference between losing and loosing.
Losing is not often deliberate.
Loosing always is.
Loosing is not always deliberate. Suppose someone with a neurological disorder looses their bowels unintentionally?
Maybe he is admitting something…
Nope, I’m just a Biomedical Sciences/Pre-med major.
Losing. Losing. LOSING not loosing!!!! What you lose is the double-o’s. *bangs head on desk*
Ok, getting past the spelling fail, I agree.
I just ignore the word ‘loosing’ & it’s fine.
I think the economy is tanking because people don’t know the difference between “loose” and “lose”. Or for that matter, “they’re”, “there” and “their”.
I thought you had to learn this stuff in elementary school. Guess not.
it’s “losing” not “loosing”. you loosen tied things.
Hey guys… I know its been said and resaid… and then said again… and then rethought and discussed and said once more… but hey…
It’s losing… not loosing.
Er … you know most geographical areas have been relatively insulated until, historically speaking, recently, right?
haha the money isn’t real
AND NEVER WAS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I love who ever did this.
The NYSE was founded in 1792.