Beefy's Corner.......For all off Topic threads

The idea of using bottle caps to try and re-establish a currency is a pretty solid idea. You just need something small and durable which can be found all over the place and has no real physical use (much like coins). If everyone agrees that from now on these caps will be considered legal tender, then you've got yourself an economy. Narcotics wouldn't work as a currency because they have other uses, such as getting people high. And there'd be a lot of demand for that in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. There would probably be people producing more and shipping them around, but the quantity of narcotics in circulation would constantly be varying and that'd cause mad inflation. It would work in an anarchic society, but not if you're trying to rebuild the state.

 

Tbh, I have no experience of any kind of narcatoic really except for tabacco, asside from when a bunch of chavs surrounded me and try to sell me canabis. That was fun/terrifying

 

Problem with bottle caps is that you can literally find them lying around, bit of a pain in the arse for the economy. What's wrong with, you know, coins?

 

I've done some research. In the Core Region (setting for Fallout 1 and 2), merchants at The Hub (major trading city in southern California) in the 22nd century decided to adopt caps as their currency because they were actually relatively scarce (so I guess they may have been able to estimate how many were in circulation), and the technology used to produce them had been pretty much lost, meaning it would be difficult to counterfeit them. Caps were backed by the value of clean water (as opposed to gold). I guess this just caught on and spread. By the mid-23rd century, caps had been replaced by NCR dollars, which were backed by gold, as the official currency of the region. But the NCR started to lose their grip on the region (enter Caesar's Legion with their own currency), and the Brotherhood of Steel destroyed the NCR's gold reserves, destabilizing the value of their currency. Caps then re-emerged.

 

http://live.reuters.com/Event/North_Korea/70001409

North Korea are becoming more insane each day.

 

Or at least one Korean is!

 

Wouldn't worry to much about this mob, I've been in the defense industry all my working career and there firepower compared to the US is equivalent of a bow and arrow.
Think there main man is playing a very dangerous game as we all know how gung-ho the Americans are?

 

Does anyone know if the SaintsPlayer works in iPhones or iPads???

 

Yes, as long as you download the Photon browser (it's a free app I believe). This enables you to play Flash media including Saints Player. Make sure you log into the Player before you click on the lightning bolt to start the Flash emulator. Oh, and you need to touch the screen every few minutes or the Flash session will expire.

 

I dunno, it depends what kind of bottle caps we're talking about. If we're talking about plastic ones which you can find on everything from coke to fanta to sprite to water, then yes, I agree they are very common.

However, the bottle caps are those metalic ones (I'm not sure what they're made off, but they're the really tough ones which you need a bottle opener to get off) are much less common. Okay, they're still fairly common but you can only really find them on bottled beer (Corona for example) and occasionally on coke and very rarely in the street.

 

North Korea are entering state of war with South Korea.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21979127

 

As much as I'd like to maybe emigrate to America one day perhaps, I'm kinda glad I'm not living there atm, especially on the west coast.

 

Wouldn't be worried about the international threat if I lived on the West Coast of America. I'd be more worried about idiots running around with hand guns. LA is one of the most dangerous cities in the world!

 

I would like to love in America some day, but I'd live well away from LA. I've been there and apart from Hollywood/Beverley Hills it's a complete dump.

 

Well, according to the stats, you'd only need to worry if you live in Alaska. Unless North Korea are in the process of developing a longer-range missile (perhaps that's what that rocket test from several months back was in aid of).

Though I'm not sure I'd want to live in LA anyway partly for that very reason. If it were to be any major city in the West I'd live in, maybe Cisco or San Diego ('a whale's vagina' in English)

 

Just got Beverly Hills by Weezer in my head, thanks.

 

Your welcome.

 

BEVERLY HILLLLLLLS, THAT'S WHERE I WANNA BE! *headbang*

 

Found this link on the BBC News website. Sorry it turns out to be the Daily Mail website: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298444/Got-song-stuck-head-Solving-anagram-help-rid-it.html

 

Instead of helping, all that did was showed me this list: "The most catchy songs were: Alejandro and Bad Romance by Lady Gaga; Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen; Single Ladies by Beyoncé; She Loves You and I Wanna Hold Your Hand by The Beatles; SOS by Rihanna; You Belong with Me by Taylor Swift and Waterloo by Abba" so now I've just got more things stuck in my head. Off to find some anagrams.