I don't claim to have an answer to the problem. The system we have is so backwards from what it should be.. I'm not really sure a fix is possible.
I never said we should "Get rid of corporations?". Destroying all corporations would never work. I like large corporations for the most part.. but issues like "MySpace China" With there "report disruption of social unity" reporting tools is not surprising because large corporations don't have home nations, they exist in the nations they conduct business. We should try to find some way to make them more liable however.. this will likely involve removing laws and not adding them.
There may be some sort of "natural limit" as to how large a company can become.. It *is* larger than a "family business" though. There are many private companies that have billions in revenue.
I think people invest so that they can try to save there money.. the reason they just can't put it in a bank is because reckless government spending is causing practically a 10% inflation rate.. so you invest to beat that. More people are investing today than ever before and.. oddly enough government spending is at an all time high. I don't know how long it will be before that system breaks but it will break some day, and those investments will disapear for a lot of people..
But the problem is not business.. its that they are allowed to incorporate in the first place. What that does it creates a "legal fiction" called a corporation and in essence this is protection for the people that run it.
"Its not *my* fault.. its the fictitious corporation persons fault."
I'm very pro business but governments have created special laws for rich people so that they can engage in questionable business practices.. and its wrong.
Corporations are an affront to the free market. Governments have allowed rich people to create legal fiction to protect themselves if there business were to do something questionable. Laws allowing people to incorporate and receive such special protection are wrong and not part of pure Capitalism.
What if something does happen.. So you think the "security company" will be head accountable for providing poor security? Unlikely.. maybe the CEO will retire with a large payout.. err.. I mean "step down".. In a pure capitalism society that man would be liable not the fictions corporation.
No I merious man.. Why is everyone all like "Government, Government, Government! YAY Government! Government rocks my socks!"
whats the governmet going to do about the poor? whats it goind to do about drugs? whatd it going to do about power outages? whats it going to do about snow? whats it going to do about the birds that keeps shitting on my car?
I'll tell you what its going to... its going to do what governments have always done about these problems.. its going to spend a lot of our money and talk a good game, and in the end they wont fix a thing.. actually we will be lucky with that too because usually they make it worse.
Would you buy a (oh no not again) cheap car with an oil leak, knowing that there's a free and simple way of fixing it? Or would you demand the car manufacturer to get its act together and fix the leak before its cars get out of the factory? Heh.. Depends on the price.;-) is the car free?
"Governments are beginning to realize that perhaps the Internet really has changed everything, at least for them, and that they are going to have to deal with new responsibilities in this area. How will they deal with financial and medical data breaches? What can they do to ensure that first responders will be able to communicate the next time that terrorists strike in the Homeland, and how will the refugees of the next Katrina be able to access their electronic medical records? And what must governments do to ensure that public records will be available in fifty years, if they no longer maintain paper archives? Whether government should incline towards leading, following or simply getting out of the way is a matter upon which there are likely to be strongly held differences of opinion. It's also likely, though, that government will not have the luxury of opting for the third choice in some of the areas just mentioned. How well government chooses among those roles, and how well it executes when it chooses to lead, will likely have a profound impact on our lives in the years ahead." Why is government always the answer to any problem anymore? The internet is much like the printing press.. are we to controll what people are able to read too?
I dont know, I replaced the lights in my kitchen with LED's and they are as bright as the CFL's I threw away and use 1/10 the power. Maybe because they are directional not sure. They look at bright.
Mercury, they dont come on right away and are dull and dim, they give off crappy light.. LED is the way to go.. they are 10 times more enegry efficent than CFL and last 4 times longer.
Good post. I like to see stuff like this even though I disagree with you.
I think that America now is a poor example of a "free" nation. Freedom does not come from your government, a right is not what you are "allowed" to do. Having a right means nobody else has a higher authority to tell you what to do. Your it, you are sovereign. I also will say that all men women and children on earth have the same rights as anyone else.. the only difference is the level of tyranny and oppression that various government enforce upon them.. or.. I guess.. that they are willing to accept without killing their leaders.
If your ruler gives you a so called freedom then that ruler has the authority to take that freedom away. Yet we understand that rights are inalienable, they are intrinsic, and government can never provide you a right. For example you do not have a right to murder in cold blood.. even if a government law was passed that supposedly gave you this right it would still be wrong to kill. You have no right to kill others no matter what government says.
The problem with unity laws and morality laws is they are intending to control your thoughts.. but you are the one that owns your mind. You own your voice, and your thoughts do not answer to any other persons command than your own.. you have a right to think what you want.. no matter how un-social or dangerous it may be.
This is what the Chinese and even American governments do not want you to know: We are not nations. We are not countries. We are not societies. We are not states. We are not majorities. We are not governments. We are not even neighborhoods.
All of those words are made up, all of them are fiction created to control people. What "we" are is individual men.. and men have NO right to control other men!
It is ALL wrong, all force on other men is wrong. Its government that is the problem, government is the tool of oppression and tyranny in the entire history of man, and the only legitimate reason for any such government - at all - is to protect our rights from those that would infringe upon them.. and that includes from said government itself.
You can go cause your own wars for your own fiction you call a society, I refuse to play along in your little dangerous game of force.
No I'm not, I didn't drink the kool-aid in government school.:)
Right a refresher, just like the guy in the ski mask with the black body armor who has a fully automatic weapon pointed at you head.. saying the scariest words known to man.. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help!"
What I mean is.. it would be great to have a system like..
Your Mother sits down at her computer to write her sister a letter. suddenly she thinks.. "Hmm, I only want my sister to read this.. its personal." She selects "secure message" from the toolbar in Thunderbird (or Evolution) This starts a "create new encryption key wizard" That she easily completes with a few short tasks then sends the message encrypted to her Sister.
Now of coarse, that does not work.. she would need her Sisters key but.. but in concept that would be nice and easy.
Im gonna risk it and respond to this. I think I have found the lowest rated./ user out there.. believe it or not this is not the first time he has made coments like this.. I'm ahh also going to type like I talk to make ya even MORE pissy.
I'm going to assume from "you're" (har har) comments that ya'are a Republican. Its that or you'r just a spelling natsi.
So at what point do you think we are safe enough? How many freedoms must we loose? Will you allow the government to post guards in shopping malls and night clubs? Do you want CCTV on every corner? Will we implant tracking devices on every man woman and child? Where does it end?? This is not a valid question to ask?... To me a nation of freedom is not "what your government allows you to do" OR "whar you hide from the government" Its a nation where men do not impose their will over other men.
A free nation means, you can do what you want so long as your not hurting others. You want to smoke pot.. its a free nation, smoke your pot and uhh dude, enjoy it too. You want to look at pr0n, really nasty shit.. I cant think of nobody that would be hurt from that.. you are free in my nation to do this. Want to ride a croch rocket without a helmet you are "free" to do that too.. (dumbass)
Now that "you're" (haha) aware of my illiterate nature.. prehaps you can kill me.. but bewarned Libertarians own guns.
Corporate America? Corporations are legal fiction provided to rich people by the government, in order to protect them from shady business practices.. They should be illegal, and would not exist without government at all.
Oh, Thats great. Yeah, StartCom should startup a free e-mail cert program that we can get a app (like seahorse) included for a "it just works" e-mail cert creation and lookup.
On another note I noticed that StartCom was pulled from Wikipedia.. whats up with that?
Slashdot Mirror
I don't claim to have an answer to the problem. The system we have is so backwards from what it should be.. I'm not really sure a fix is possible.
I never said we should "Get rid of corporations?". Destroying all corporations would never work. I like large corporations for the most part.. but issues like "MySpace China" With there "report disruption of social unity" reporting tools is not surprising because large corporations don't have home nations, they exist in the nations they conduct business. We should try to find some way to make them more liable however.. this will likely involve removing laws and not adding them.
There may be some sort of "natural limit" as to how large a company can become.. It *is* larger than a "family business" though. There are many private companies that have billions in revenue.
I think people invest so that they can try to save there money.. the reason they just can't put it in a bank is because reckless government spending is causing practically a 10% inflation rate.. so you invest to beat that. More people are investing today than ever before and.. oddly enough government spending is at an all time high. I don't know how long it will be before that system breaks but it will break some day, and those investments will disapear for a lot of people..
Yes, that's right.
But the problem is not business.. its that they are allowed to incorporate in the first place. What that does it creates a "legal fiction" called a corporation and in essence this is protection for the people that run it.
"Its not *my* fault.. its the fictitious corporation persons fault."
I'm very pro business but governments have created special laws for rich people so that they can engage in questionable business practices.. and its wrong.
No its not, its Corruption.
Corporations are an affront to the free market. Governments have allowed rich people to create legal fiction to protect themselves if there business were to do something questionable. Laws allowing people to incorporate and receive such special protection are wrong and not part of pure Capitalism.
What if something does happen.. So you think the "security company" will be head accountable for providing poor security? Unlikely.. maybe the CEO will retire with a large payout.. err.. I mean "step down"
I agree but.. Isn't that one thing?
1. Government
"Oh sure you can have a private conversation.. except we need to listen.. just in case your.. you know.. dissenting or something."
I wonder if people started using e-mail encryption enmass if they would stop that too?
I like that.. someone should get on this / spread this idea around.
No I merious man.. Why is everyone all like "Government, Government, Government! YAY Government! Government rocks my socks!"
... its going to do what governments have always done about these problems.. its going to spend a lot of our money and talk a good game, and in the end they wont fix a thing.. actually we will be lucky with that too because usually they make it worse.
whats the governmet going to do about the poor?
whats it goind to do about drugs?
whatd it going to do about power outages?
whats it going to do about snow?
whats it going to do about the birds that keeps shitting on my car?
I'll tell you what its going to
patch /car -p0 --dryrun oilpan-update
(gotta use dry run I hate oil leaks.)
I say internet regulation is not governments job.
They are out there.
I dont know, I replaced the lights in my kitchen with LED's and they are as bright as the CFL's I threw away and use 1/10 the power. Maybe because they are directional not sure. They look at bright.
For the output CFL's use 10w to 20w These use 1.5w to 2w.
If people wanted this.. Apple would make it. They apparently don't, why force them to have it?
Mercury, they dont come on right away and are dull and dim, they give off crappy light.. LED is the way to go.. they are 10 times more enegry efficent than CFL and last 4 times longer.
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http://www.ccrane.com/lights/led-light-bulbs/inde
Just because you are 'libertarian', it doesn't mean you can screw your language heh.. No, just being human gives me that right. ;-) Enjoy.
Good post. I like to see stuff like this even though I disagree with you.
I think that America now is a poor example of a "free" nation. Freedom does not come from your government, a right is not what you are "allowed" to do. Having a right means nobody else has a higher authority to tell you what to do. Your it, you are sovereign. I also will say that all men women and children on earth have the same rights as anyone else.. the only difference is the level of tyranny and oppression that various government enforce upon them.. or.. I guess.. that they are willing to accept without killing their leaders.
If your ruler gives you a so called freedom then that ruler has the authority to take that freedom away. Yet we understand that rights are inalienable, they are intrinsic, and government can never provide you a right. For example you do not have a right to murder in cold blood.. even if a government law was passed that supposedly gave you this right it would still be wrong to kill. You have no right to kill others no matter what government says.
The problem with unity laws and morality laws is they are intending to control your thoughts.. but you are the one that owns your mind. You own your voice, and your thoughts do not answer to any other persons command than your own.. you have a right to think what you want.. no matter how un-social or dangerous it may be.
This is what the Chinese and even American governments do not want you to know:
We are not nations.
We are not countries.
We are not societies.
We are not states.
We are not majorities.
We are not governments.
We are not even neighborhoods.
All of those words are made up, all of them are fiction created to control people.
What "we" are is individual men.. and men have NO right to control other men!
http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf
It is ALL wrong, all force on other men is wrong. Its government that is the problem, government is the tool of oppression and tyranny in the entire history of man, and the only legitimate reason for any such government - at all - is to protect our rights from those that would infringe upon them.. and that includes from said government itself.
You can go cause your own wars for your own fiction you call a society, I refuse to play along in your little dangerous game of force.
No I'm not, I didn't drink the kool-aid in government school. :)
Right a refresher, just like the guy in the ski mask with the black body armor who has a fully automatic weapon pointed at you head.. saying the scariest words known to man.. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help!"
What I mean is.. it would be great to have a system like..
Your Mother sits down at her computer to write her sister a letter. suddenly she thinks.. "Hmm, I only want my sister to read this.. its personal." She selects "secure message" from the toolbar in Thunderbird (or Evolution) This starts a "create new encryption key wizard" That she easily completes with a few short tasks then sends the message encrypted to her Sister.
Now of coarse, that does not work.. she would need her Sisters key but.. but in concept that would be nice and easy.
Im gonna risk it and respond to this. I think I have found the lowest rated ./ user out there.. believe it or not this is not the first time he has made coments like this.. I'm ahh also going to type like I talk to make ya even MORE pissy.
... To me a nation of freedom is not "what your government allows you to do" OR "whar you hide from the government" Its a nation where men do not impose their will over other men.
I'm going to assume from "you're" (har har) comments that ya'are a Republican. Its that or you'r just a spelling natsi.
So at what point do you think we are safe enough? How many freedoms must we loose? Will you allow the government to post guards in shopping malls and night clubs? Do you want CCTV on every corner? Will we implant tracking devices on every man woman and child? Where does it end?? This is not a valid question to ask?
A free nation means, you can do what you want so long as your not hurting others. You want to smoke pot.. its a free nation, smoke your pot and uhh dude, enjoy it too. You want to look at pr0n, really nasty shit.. I cant think of nobody that would be hurt from that.. you are free in my nation to do this. Want to ride a croch rocket without a helmet you are "free" to do that too.. (dumbass)
Now that "you're" (haha) aware of my illiterate nature.. prehaps you can kill me.. but bewarned Libertarians own guns.
Corporate America? Corporations are legal fiction provided to rich people by the government, in order to protect them from shady business practices.. They should be illegal, and would not exist without government at all.
Ahh so.. anit-government site gets pulled and governments got nothing at all to do with it ehh?
You can put a lot of things on a web site and not get shut down. For example http://timecube.com/
If you step on the wrong toes, piss of the wrong people.. just like any other gang or mafia group, the government will go after you.
I say government is the illusion.. or better described legal fiction. They are just other men with no right to rule other men.
Oh, Thats great. Yeah, StartCom should startup a free e-mail cert program that we can get a app (like seahorse) included for a "it just works" e-mail cert creation and lookup.
On another note I noticed that StartCom was pulled from Wikipedia.. whats up with that?
We don't allow this kind of dissent in Soviet Amerika. If your not with us your a terrorist.
Ok so that's a bit over the top but really what's this coming to? Where do we draw the line on Police state America?