North Pacific Spy

Welcome to TWP! I think I like your government style.

Welcome, make yourself at home. I've heard of ROBLOX from a friend, but I've never made the leap to actually search it up.

Cough cough (Cormac)

March 1st at latest. Aim for the first of each month for an issue.

NZ Pakeha/European descent? I'm pretty sure that is the PC way of attempting to categorise by skin colour?

That was oddly uplifting, I like your take on it, as opposed to 'Life is meaningless, we're nothing, all is lost etc.' which I get from so many others.

What if the universe wasn't actually created, and we don't really exist in any form whatsoever?

My posts/likes etc. do it, but the clubhouse forum when posting still need to be refreshed to see the post, as opposed to the green thing on the top going forever. Its a fairly weird glitch tbh, I can work around it by refreshing and checking if it posted. Edit: Likes on this forum are taking indefinite periods of time to post for me. Not really a major issue, can just refresh and check. Edit 2: The green things back as well. I swear it wasn't there for the other post, but I could be wrong.

I've still got the issue with most forums. The spam one's did the same for me just now, haven't tried the others. Edit: But not this forum - it did fix it! Edit 2: The liking was still slow for liking your above post.

Thanks a ton.

I accidentally double posted with the whole not posting glitch thing. Would you be able to make this thread vanish: http://www.westpacific.org/forums/index.php?/topic/1733-duplicate/?p=41073 ? Thanks a ton in advance.

Quick question: After the forum reset/downtime, is it just me who has to refresh the page to get something to post? Not urgent, and could just be my computer. Thanks NPS

Good luck, RL is a demanding mistress, we're here for you if you need it.

Is a booth just a subforum - which we can populate with whatever we want? Or have we got a predefined booth style and content we applied on earlier?

Westie (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=westie)

His list is the list of regions, by ingame literal (as in influence used to banject people) influence rather than influence for influencing. The number beside the region is the amount of nations it contains (I know everyone else got that instantly, but I was confused when I first saw it).

Wait, shouldn't we be installing someone active in the role (like Chanku), rather than someone inactive. http://www.nationstates.net/nation=kurwa_republic- Last active over two weeks ago.

If there were negative interest rates, wouldn't you either switch banking providers, lose faith in the currency (and get some pretty hefty inflation), or take your money offshore in a different currency? As a consumer, I don't like the idea of negative interest rates. That said, I can see the advantages in them. The housing markets prices would skyrocket - as everyone wouldn't try and save for a house, but try and purchase one immediately. I think instead of negative interest, interest at a lower rate than inflation, or zero interest, would be a better option. I'm not so sure about an all digital currency, it'd open everything up to hacking, and those movies where the intelligence service drains the bank account would result in the victim having nothing, rather than just cash. I quite like having cash in my hand, rather than numbers in an account, don't have or use a card personally. I wouldn't expect the US Federal Reserve to be one of the leaders in the field - they seem more conservative, and I doubt Joe Hillbilly, or even Joe Sixpack for that matter, would be too happy about physical currency being phased out. I don't particularly follow the financial markets closely, but I've seen enough of Bitcoin to be convinced that (I didn't realise there was a Nobel Prize in Economics) the founder(s) of Bitcoin would deserve an Nobel Prize in Economics - not in the next few years, but after the technology begins to snowball. The paid NS army is a scary thought. Although we would get a much higher uptake on the forums here if we were paying people to do it, although the average post quality would likely decrease (but the quantity would skyrocket). I'd think we'd prefer NSCoins to have a higher value, approximately one NSCoin to one US cent - unless we're intending to pay $100 US to every new member. Then again, I've seen founders/regions banned for similar things, such as a virtual off site currency in NS where you could pay real money to gain the currency, and get homework done for you etc. - the real money bit is the problem. That's why you can only gift stamps, you can't ask for anyone to do anything back after you gifted the stamps. Just imagine how many WA votes Bitely would have... (He's had his month, now he's vanished back to obscurity again)

I'm actually quite liking this idea.

Risk is one of my favourites (damn brother flipping the board before its done for me), along with Monopoly and a few others. I still haven't tried D and D, although one day I'll be roped in.

The Western Pacifier? The Weirder Post? How serious do we want the name to be?

Minor correction: Past Autumn. We've got different seasons as well And in TBR it was more recently (successfully) used by EW Souls and We Are Not the NSA to clean up the region.