The Bone of Contention

Day 2,484, 00:37 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Releasethe Krakken

To help foreign language speakers I will reveal the meaning of this term.

A bone of contention is any issue or thought that triggers some type of difference of opinion between two parties, usually to the point that both parties experience some degree of animosity toward one another. Until the two parties are able to come to some sort of resolution to the conflict that is causing tension, that issue will remain something that creates a barrier in communication, and may even spill over into other matters that were once considered innocuous. Only after the two parties resolve the issue to their mutual satisfaction, either by eliminating the problem or at least deciding that it is all right to simply agree to disagree, will the matter cease to be a bone of contention that undermines the relationship.

The exact origin of the idiomatic expression bone of contention is debated among linguists and others who are interested in idioms and various types of colloquial expressions. One popular school of thought holds that the phrase is representative of what happens when one dog attempts to take away a bone that is currently in the possession of another canine. Typically, the result is a heated exchange between the two animals that can escalate into a fight

Now many times we have seen a plea for unity but unity amongst other people not members of the clerics and the rest of Ireland. Its clear the reason. The one group say "NO" to disclosure of financial reports the other group say Yes show us your finances.

As described neither party wants to let go of the "bone". As described this has led to animosity. Due to frustration allowed to linger and build up and up especially among vik who has been asking for information for about 5 years and was never ever given the opportunity to peruse even one report other than the one or 2 reports that was published.

Its a wound that does not heal. In our language we would call it a "wig" or wedge between parties. The parties will never reach or work together as long as the wedge exist.

Now for about 54 out of 60 past month the NO's has won not by popular vote but by agents in the MOF department who embraced and promoted this sickness.

For you know people non information is a sickness especailly financial information. In normal business its hidden because of the taxman most often.

But its hidden also from workers. So a worker will want to see whether a client paid and cant and must get this from the accounting officer. In fact in successful business this is an absolute No No. Information must be available on command so that people can immediately act upon it. A rather old term most businesses have a direct transaction system meaning if a payment /item is sold its immediately updated on the system.

This my friends is the norm.

In government every country has a full financial report and budget.

Debate is useless. But lets accommodate the foolish as they say.

Information can be found indirectly and easily by:

1. On MM market tracking all info over a couple of weeks total in orgs can easily be deduced.
2. MPP how much is our basic income
3. State army : how much additional income we have if he ask enough questions and is trusted enough to reach top structure.
4. Department of Finance: Getting a deputy spot is easy . Player can be deputy for a long time and eventually gain enough trust to be MOF and then steal thw whole treasury with no elections won by him.
5. Taxes earned is published daily. multiplied by 30 a monthly average can be deduced.
6. The treasury itself will tell you how much money country is willing to ignore also good sign of a juicy duck.


Ultimately CP is not the easiest way and given that most money will be kept in
the hands and account of MOF what is the position a clever man will seek.

MOF or CP.

CP is the short con and Mof is the long con. Mof will take time and effort to build up enough trust Cp as well but as elected official he may even sneak in untrusted or unproven.

CP

Easy to get information without referring to full financials. To be honest "non disclosure" will allow you to skim during your terms easily far more than if you were faced with fact checkers and economics students calculating balances and expenditures.

Classic case of Bernie Madow. Ireland is Madow investments without the full disclosures he cooked up but still was forced to hand in. An math doctorate saw his figures and said but Madow this is impossible. I have checked all the markets its impossible to produce a consistent return on investments such as you do. And more and more people started listening to this math wiz and asking themselves but how/ And Madow saw his ass after a while because there is a policy full financial reporting in the USA. In fact Madow became so arrogant he didnt even attempt investing the millions he got into some kind of investments.

No ALL OF BERNIE MADOWS' investments was paid and this might ring a bell to you now in his own personal accounts.

We have no disclosure policy . This means thief's can still thief but there is only 1 man that is supposed to check up on him but probably wont really as he has all that other tasks as well.

Whereas with full disclosure thief will have exactly the same info he could get BUT now there is a nation checking up on him.

Have you seen many thieves in your life wandering the streets and stealing in public places with a lot of witnesses around. A good criminal wants darkness and a way to hide his activities with as little as possible witnesses.

MOF

Once trusted enough the MOF can literally for years skim his account fat.

Unabated.

Under no circumstance do one needs full financials. In all cases the requirements with and without financials remains the same. Therefore logically if a thing can be done with or without a requirement present one cannot claim the requirement is absolutely needed to do the thing . One cannot claim the action is more likely with or without the requirement without statistics and facts backing your assumptions. Did more CP thefts occur with or without full financials was every thief looking for a country publishing full financials will every thief necessary worry to steal every last cent. And lastly do thieves look for open or closed finances. My understanding of criminals is that they dont want public facts to dodge. Hidden facts is easier. Also and most importantly is every thief known of? How many of our previous CP stole money while in office. How many players checked up on them : Only 1.

We have a classic blunderbuss argument where the arguments pro and con just is too wide to definitely say anything well unless your stubborn or stupid.



So one needs to check pros . What is pro of full financials:

1. More eyes on the figures means more effort in checking up on individuals.

2. Better decision making.

3. Good finances and income generation coupled with high donations will more likely lead to a higher assessment of military prowess or ability.

4. less in-fighting

5. other issues can be worked on such as military. Yes my friends by keeping the spotlight on finances an incompetent MOD can keep on doing nothing indefinitely.

6. More feedback from the people

PROS: Non Disclosure

1. ??? i really cant think of one. There might be some lazy thief that might want the information to steal our treasury and is too lazy to check on the monetary market.

2. there might be some lazy foreign MOD too lazy to check up on our weekly damage that check how much weapons we have because if they have 5000 weps a month their a push over.

3. ? in fact shoot and we will shoot you down.