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Grubb for Congress. By Weblog.
An anonymous reader writes: "Wired is running a story about a (Libertarian) candidate for Congress in North Carolina whose platform explicitly supports P2P file-sharing activity. She's running against one of the big supporters of the Berman P2P hacking bill." The weblog community is all excited over her because she drank the Kool-aid.
Tell congress to love your kid."
Sheesh, that almost beats the Dilbert.com mission statement generator in saying nothing and sounding fancy... but sstill not quite:
"Our challenge is to proactively enhance mission-critical services as well as to seamlessly disseminate world-class data "
UT--that doesn't mean the public health department is gonna shut down the day after I take office. That doesn't mean the elementary schools are gonna close their doors.
I suppose I'm being pedantic, but christ. Why should I vote for anyone with such poor grammar?
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security
Geesh guys...get a better filter on slashdot. Hope the mods can keep up.
Libertarians are basically just undeclared Republicans.
I agree with this.
only possibly even more conservative without such a bitter taste of religious fervor.
For the most part, except that conservative is such a loaded term it's almost worthless.
They just want to be left alone with the capitalist system to exploit the classes below them, instead of having the government do it for them.
Basically.
Their "liberties" still basically come down to the "liberty" to burn as much gas and pollute all they want, the "liberty" to pay people 2 cents a day to work for them, and the "liberty" to undoe any checks on capitalism that the labor movement or any other forward thinking, good natured people have worked through the system in our history.
Wow, you're dead on. That's why I'm a Libertarian. I may not have faith in a god, but I do have faith that people will be able to take care of themselves in the long run. I'm all for restricting gas-guzzlers and condemning worker exploitation as long as it's not done by laws punishable by imprisonment. I don't think that that's the right way to go about correcting the actual problem, and I believe that laws to "correct" the situation merely cause more damage.
I'm a Libertarian because I'd pretty much be happiest with an anarchy which is protected from a hostile outside world. Otherwise I have faith that unhindered education can take care of the rest.
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
The first time, it was funny. This is getting annoying. Is there a way to block posts that contain the word "Goatse" more than three times?
Are you aware of more examples of companies which are getting squeezed in a fashion similar to the progression explicitly described in Atlas Shrugged along the lines of what happened to Southwest(ern) Airlines?
:)
This would be a fascinating writeup which I would be willing to do if I didn't have to do too much research (I'm a grad student and am tired of doing everything myself).
I'm asking for a handout (for a fun project, my work is actually in vision).
As my father lik@(munch munch)...