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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by ubernostrum on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:31PM (#10747514)
Statists love their euphemisms

My irony detector has just exploded. Can you direct me to a completely-unregulated minarchist free-for-all market where I can buy one that merely poisons me and everyone in a hundred-mile radius? Because at least it would actually work.

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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by hodwik on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @07:33PM (#10748600)
You have to pay extra for the poison. This is libertarian land, dude. NOTHING is free, even poison.
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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by jabgrabdthrow on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:32PM (#10748862)
Nothing is free in reality, not even poison. What are you trying to say?
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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by ubernostrum on Thursday December 17, 2015 @05:21PM (#10755022)
The poisonous version was cheaper to make than the non-poisonous one, last I heard. So the company decided to go with poisonous ones in order to meet Q4 financial goals.
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