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Re:Hope and Change, baby!
Crap. slash fuxked up my link
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Re:Taxless
The libertarian party hasn't won much of anything in ANY state. Look at the number of libertarians and Free State Project members who have been elected in NH as State Representatives, Town Selectmen, Aldermen, Treasurer, School Board members, and so forth... and you get a very different picture.
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American states going for national ID card
Many of the United States are on the path to have a national ID card as well. But not New Hampshire. The ability of any average citizen to testify on any bill before the Legislature is one of the strengths of the governmental structure here. I enjoyed testifying before the NH State Senate that there is no such thing as a completely secure database.
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I said FU to CA
... and I'm so, SO glad I did! Now I pay no state income tax, no state sales tax, my kid has WAY more choices for schools,
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Re:Solid proof!!!!
Quoth MrNaz:
The reason NASA didn't bother with AV is because there's no pressure on their IT department.BINGO!! In a government bureaucracy, there is no market competition... so we should not be surprised at the Soviet level of performance at NASA, the DMV, or the USPS.
That's why, as an avid fan of space exploration, I oppose the very existence of NASA. I'd like private companies to compete for my donated dollar, for advertiser dollars, and for talented employees.
Just one more reason I moved to New Hampshire.
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New Hampshire and Real-ID
Stories like this make me real glad I live in New Hampshire, one of only 6 US States that actually opted out of "Real-ID".
Videos of the protests we had against Real-ID are pretty cool.
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Standard Government ProcedureAs state monopolies always do sooner or later, the school system in question finds it most expedient to deal with this situation by stealing resources from those who have traded freely with it up to that point.
I expect this kind of behavior out of socialist states like Venezuela, Brazil, and the People's Republic of California. Which is one of the reasons I emigrated from CA to the Free State of New Hampshire.
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Re:What it boils down toOh yeah, and for 2nd-amendment types... the whole state is open-carry without any license, and concealed-carry licenses are on a "shall-issue" basis. Here's the NH Gun FAQ; and more entertainingly, here's what happened when some do-gooders in the Senate tried to make even the tiniest change to that shall-issue concealed-carry law. More video of that fun day is here
Oh yeah, and a few weeks ago NH became one of only 4 states in the USA to allow same-sex civil unions. We are the only state to have done so purely on the initiative of the legislature, and not as the result of any lawsuit.
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Re:What it boils down toOh yeah, and for 2nd-amendment types... the whole state is open-carry without any license, and concealed-carry licenses are on a "shall-issue" basis. Here's the NH Gun FAQ; and more entertainingly, here's what happened when some do-gooders in the Senate tried to make even the tiniest change to that shall-issue concealed-carry law. More video of that fun day is here
Oh yeah, and a few weeks ago NH became one of only 4 states in the USA to allow same-sex civil unions. We are the only state to have done so purely on the initiative of the legislature, and not as the result of any lawsuit.
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Re:This is absurd on so many levels
Actually, the homophobes tried to put up a proposal to amend the a state constituion to make same-sex marriage illegal. That got nowhere, fast. You can see a State Representative slamming it at: http://freestateblogs.net/files/images/Vaillancou
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Re:This is absurd on so many levels
Actually, the homophobes tried to put up a proposal to amend the a state constituion to make same-sex marriage illegal. That got nowhere, fast. You can see a State Representative slamming it at: http://freestateblogs.net/files/images/Vaillancou
r t_gayrights.avi and http://freestateblogs.net/files/images/Vaillancour t_samesex.avi -
Re:This is absurd on so many levelsMassholes are a problem, but not a big one. People moving in from Mass are by and large just ordinary people. At absolute most, they vote once every 2 years. Compare that with the typical Free Stater -- we write letters to the editor, testify for or against bills at the State House, run for office, oragnize protests, campaign for pro-Freedom candidates, start newspapers, start blogs and blogs, join organizations like the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance and Republican Liberty Caucus, and generally agitate like hell.
Every Free Stater that moves in has more influence than 10,000 voter-sheep.
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Re:Do it for the CHILDREN!
Yeah, that's why I left California.
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Re:Age old problem...mosch wrote:
Since when is gambling a problem? It's entertainment with an attached fee. And like every other form of entertainment in the history of man, some people do it too much. Sucks to be them, but let the rest of us have our fun.Amen, brother. The thing is, officious busybodies who are willing to use force to get their way (by passing immoral "laws") don't ever stop with one issue. Once they've forgotten that Government is an immensely powerful tool -- the monopoly on the use of force -- then they use the tool to solve problems that ain't really there. Like adding useless enhancements to fundamentally simple programs.
On the flip side, if there is a fundamentally Liberty-oriented culture, mindful of the proper small role of government force, this similarly tends to protect everyone's rights.
Case in point was the Smoking Ban in New Hampshire --- that didn't happen, thanks to legislators willing to say things like "market forces should dictate the rules, and that smokers have rights, too" [mp3]
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Re:Age old problem...mosch wrote:
Since when is gambling a problem? It's entertainment with an attached fee. And like every other form of entertainment in the history of man, some people do it too much. Sucks to be them, but let the rest of us have our fun.Amen, brother. The thing is, officious busybodies who are willing to use force to get their way (by passing immoral "laws") don't ever stop with one issue. Once they've forgotten that Government is an immensely powerful tool -- the monopoly on the use of force -- then they use the tool to solve problems that ain't really there. Like adding useless enhancements to fundamentally simple programs.
On the flip side, if there is a fundamentally Liberty-oriented culture, mindful of the proper small role of government force, this similarly tends to protect everyone's rights.
Case in point was the Smoking Ban in New Hampshire --- that didn't happen, thanks to legislators willing to say things like "market forces should dictate the rules, and that smokers have rights, too" [mp3]
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New Hampshire Resists Real-IDThere is a very active resistance to Real-ID here in New Hampshire. We came within a whisper of passing a law (HB1582) that would have explicitly rejected Real-ID; there was an incredibly passionate speech on the floor of the House of Representatives: here's the video
In addition, there was a large rally at the NH State Capitol; here is that video.
Unfortunately, our State Senate pulled some extremely underhanded parlimentary tricks to kill HB1582; all the gory details (and sound bites from the Senate) are here. The good news is, we here in the "Live Free or Die" still actively resisting this intrusion into our privacy!
- One of our Senators (John Sununu) has come out publicly against Real-ID
- We are still actively working to reject the funding to implement Real-ID; see this forum
- If worst comes to worst, people are pledging not to comply with Real-ID should it comes into effect
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New Hampshire Resists Real-IDThere is a very active resistance to Real-ID here in New Hampshire. We came within a whisper of passing a law (HB1582) that would have explicitly rejected Real-ID; there was an incredibly passionate speech on the floor of the House of Representatives: here's the video
In addition, there was a large rally at the NH State Capitol; here is that video.
Unfortunately, our State Senate pulled some extremely underhanded parlimentary tricks to kill HB1582; all the gory details (and sound bites from the Senate) are here. The good news is, we here in the "Live Free or Die" still actively resisting this intrusion into our privacy!
- One of our Senators (John Sununu) has come out publicly against Real-ID
- We are still actively working to reject the funding to implement Real-ID; see this forum
- If worst comes to worst, people are pledging not to comply with Real-ID should it comes into effect
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Government Databases: BADIt's nice that consumers would be notified when our ostensibly private data has been spilled by businesses.
But that's chump change compared to the damage that gets caused when government databases' content is lost, or unprotected.Now, given that:
- Private businesses have a huge motive to avoid losing data -- when they do, customers are free to go elsewhere (and we do!)
- You're not free to "go elsewhere" when your Government loses your data
- Governments are likely to have way more sensitive and intrusive data than private businesses
- You typically know exactly what info, say, the credit card company has about you. You typically have no idea what info the government has about you.
- No database is 100% secure, no data is 100% safe -- especially not from humans with administrative access and plenty of reasons to leak the data
- Which do you trust to get IT right: a make-or-break project for a company, or Yet Another Government Project?
With all the above in mind, surely it makes sense to limit what data the Government collects, and to keep that data compartmentalized in local databases, rather than a nice, juicy, massive, single federal instance? Right!?!?!
Yet, that's exactly what is happening right now, with the "Real-ID" bill. (Here's what Bruce Schneier has to say on that).
Every single U.S. State except one has lined up like crack addicts to accept the federal money to implement Real-ID. That one State is New Hampshire, aka the Free State.
Here's a link to some pretty cool info about how and why the NH House rejected Real-ID:
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Re:Real ID
I not only joined the Free State Project, I moved my family to New Hampshire from California last year. I now run the Blogsite http://freestateblogs.net/ ; on there you can see a video of Representative Neal Kurk's awesome speech before the State House: http://freestateblogs.net/node/306
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Re:Real ID
I not only joined the Free State Project, I moved my family to New Hampshire from California last year. I now run the Blogsite http://freestateblogs.net/ ; on there you can see a video of Representative Neal Kurk's awesome speech before the State House: http://freestateblogs.net/node/306