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Pfft. MacDonalb's have been using this formula for years...

The more I look at that image, the more anomalies there seems to be. For example; the reflection in the car at bottom left seems to be of trees that don't appear to be there. My God, is all or History a fake??!!

Is that Marvelman? (Or Miracleman, if Stan Lee is reading).

Actually, that woman looking at him between the bleached out guy and the bloke in the hat and glasses looks a bit out of place as well...

I reckon it was Johnny Alpha on a time job.

"Time-traveler" in 1928 Chaplin Film?

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/10/time-traveler-in-1928-chaplin-film/

Im beginning to doubt this whole 'nerve centre droids' thing, to be honest.

SBT

Persecute the blasphemer!

Well, this thread was started by a shark...

I love this thread!

This is an emotive thread that is bound to cause friction due to its very nature. For example, I think I upset Rich earlier on - this was not my intent but I'm not going to apologise for it. We all have our opinions and beliefs which we are protective of and to have someone question those opinions and beliefs causes knee-jerk anger. This can't be helped.

Let's just say that what happens on the "Truth?" thread stays on the "Truth?" thread. If we can't play nice like sensible adults with differences of opinion then we might as well ask the mods to lock this thread right now. I personally don't want that to happen as I enjoy talking about this stuff.

I now return you to your regular bitching...

"Thanks Mandy. It's going to be a rough day in Missouri as the CIA controlled HAARP rays cause toxic rain and hot wind to push up from the Gulf..."

I'm not so bothered about the look, it's the content that's important.

I am still missing the old Active Topics, though. It used to list all the threads by the most recent post but at the moment it seems to be listing unread or unanswered posts. Not complaining here as I know you lovely guys are on it, just saying.

I've seen Dredd pay street vendors for food (I think) with a voucher and Justice Dept as a whole must use money to purchase goods and services from outside contractors. If Justice Dept creates and controls all the city's money then the welfare that just about all the citizens receive would be interest free and  therefore a lot cheaper than the system we use today. If Justice Dept borrows money from private banks like our governments do, the interest rates would be crippling.

The only way to discover where MC1s money comes from is to discover whether the City has the equivalent of a national debt. National debt = private money; no national debt = social money.

That said, interest on loans etc is a great way to control a population (as we can see every day just by looking around us) so maybe Justice Dept does create and control the money supply but charges interest too purely in order to exert that control. It might be a legal way to control people, but is it just?

Looking at the riots going on in places like Greece at the moment, maybe it wouldn't be such a boring Dredd story after all!

Possibly. The very word "Credit", though, seems to indicate that it it isn't actual money that's used but credit - just like our money today. Money is created by privately owned banks and then lent into society at interest as credit. Does the Justice Department print bonds which it exchanges for money/credits or does it create its own money/credit with no interest to pay?

What a boring Dredd story this would make!

I wonder who does create and control the money supply in MC1? It's hard to envisage the banks having as much power over the Justice Department as our contemporary banks have over our governments.