That law has no power or force on its own. Making a law does not create a physical force stopping people from action.
To see it that way is some kind of insanity, maybe one of the other more eloquent/.er's could help illustrate.
You can make laws that sodomy is illegal. Yet we still have sodomy going on. Fact of life, people fuck each other in the ass. You cannot circumvent free will with laws. Laws are not inherently moral or just. They are just laws. That is all.
And all law is is a rule for the use of force by society on the individual. Government. Sometimes these a laws provide useful guidelines.
I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to restate what has been stated so many times before and eloquently at that. It's something I fail horribly at and the world is a better place for people like you.
Since I succesfully sucked up some downmod points I will list some other places were non-libertarian ideals have helped us.
Egypt. Syria NK Darfur Somalia Mexico Nazi Germany New Zealand (Free Kim Dotcom!) Cartagena Columbia
Jesus fuck people when will you realize that liberty is just a creed to live by and not a legal or political tool like you have been brainwashed into thinking it is? If your a libertarian at least you are not using the state to endorse your thuggery and your taking responsibility for itself on your own.
So slam libertarians all you want for standing up for whats right in the rightest sense and continue to endorse state sponsored eugenics and oppression.
Actually he is free to do whatever the fuck he wants short of some arm of the military or police dictating otherwise at the behest of some assholes like you.
To believe that he is not free is a foolish assertion.
I think I should get payed for every comment or news article or law I am forced to consider, read or hear about. I should be payed every time I get stopped by the police for speeding! I should be able to bill them for time lost! I should OWN ALL THE THINGS. Unfortunately Farengi economics creates the downfall of civilizations as you are now witnessing.
This logic is stupid and unfortunately the great uplifting of 2012 did not enlighten anyone.
In 1950's America the less regulated market created the ideal Utopia. Look at now. Us libertarians must have been right. The rediculousness comes in when one group of people think that passing judgment on another group of people is ok. Go for it. It will always be used back against you and twisted into your side.
Were about to see a new dawn were you are a bad person for using non-green technology to feed yourself. Your already evil if you live off of subsistence. Those backwards Amish and Mennonites are already feeling colonial pressure. The Native Americans of Alberta have not been protected by your controlled markets and pollution regulations, they have been suffering for 20+ years as they are driven off their land tribe by tribe, family by family by wealthy connected politicians.
It is hubris to belief non-libertarian ideals are just or kind or compassionate or good or better then totalitarian dickishness. Things always sucked even in Ghenghis Khans day. But don't worry today some asshole in D.C. can fly a drone over your little backwater shithole and blow up your goats. Were just a few years away from this being used on normal every day Blokes who are forced into welfare and socialism by an increasingly corrupt and fucked fascist regime where robots and Monopolies hold more rights then individuals.
Look at the world your creating and ask how are you creating it. And you will one day see that the defense of liberty which has been forgotten is the only reason our downfall has taken so long. It the spiral into dictatorship and tyranny is inevitable and if you have read Machaveli you know what I am talking about. Some may argue to go there now. But in the end it will be the idealism of liberty that refreshes your freedom and true empowerment. If your of the type who believes you only have one life. Then you only have now to make it count. Do you want to be restricted in how you live your life? No no one does, and no on needs to be. The idea that we must all be restricted for our own good is a pre-Nazi ideal that less then human chattel can not look after themselves. This is farther from the truth then anything. The only reason you see weak confused children around you is because they have never been faced with true power and responsibility and have lived their entire lives sheltered in an authoritarian dystopia. Not because they are incapable, but because they have never been given the freedom to find out they are capable.
Yet some games that maybe aren't the best, but being produced by studio's that know their business are failing on Kickstarter. Like Wildman. Which is a tragic story about how kickstarter can really kick your ass.
But for mostly for some small indie titles, Kickstarter seems to be a boon.
On topic I'm surprised Sim City was given such bad reviews I know EA has a reputation for destroying anything it touches. But I really expected this franchise to be treated with reverence. Seems like EA has no intention of making a long term stay if they are destroying all the IP they gobble up.
One other alternate theory I have about these big publishers that just crap all over good franchises is they are just trying to extend trademarks and re-copyright material with a new face. As much as I detest Disney's permanent death grip on Mickey at least they produce good shows every year for their audiences.
It seems in other genre's and industries the IP deathgrip is just causing Uwe Boll Level disastrous failures every 5 years.
If you absolutely must please target the financial and governing bodies of our country and leave rural America alone. I only say this because as one lone man I cannot stop you. But I hope that some good may come of your bullshit.
Yes there is. Its called natural selection. And yes its harsh, but in the long run it'll be for the best. You guys who can't have children responsibility are a nuisance to our species.
However. I doubt unrestricted internet access will destroy society as we know it or harm any more lives then it helps. Yes it will cause damage somewhere to some people. But for a group of people to judge over another group of people and take away the borg hive mind from all and mandate it as not an option is ridiculous.
So you will just create more subnets and darknets and people will be branded as outcasts and polarized because they accessed the net with porn on it. etc...
The think of the children line is complete bullshit. Grow up, become an adult, become responsible for yourself and not others or other peoples children.
I could go on and on with my rant and yes I am being an asshole. But I know no way to candy cote this issue. You will either understand and learn or fail and fight your entire life living on the misery of others because you cannot face your inner self.
The effect is quite a bit more subtle then that. You or I know better but the children of the world begin to believe everything they see posted under a "real name" and the effect is the subtle negative social acceptance of psuedonymity.
Trust me, people at Vint Serfs level of the game of socio-politics have a lot of pressure on them to keep us all organized neatly and thinking exactly a certain way about things.
Clearly his organization was Al Qaeda” for a long time.
To further my own argument however, Al Queda was virtually unknown to the mass public and not at all widely used in mainstream media prior to 911.
P.S. The Guardian is UK's propoganda machine;p
Thanks for the links though. I guess we can agree that Bin Laden was involved. I still can't believe he was directly responsible though.
If I went and payed someone 1 million in untraceable bills to kill someone and that hitman never divulged my name...
911 happened not because of 1 man, or 1 group, but because of many things, and many men, or women. Even in-action on the part of the FBI and CIA.
I doubt the whole truth will be known. And unfortunately instead of bringing Bin Laden to trial to testify he was killed. I can't say this was on purpose. But I would have taken extra care to bring him in alive if it was my duty.
However I am far from ignorant. I have watched and read quite a bit about this historical event.
mail crime! (oooh those kid nappers and their random letters!) brick crime! Crimes involving bricks! spraypaint crime! (lets just call it graffiti and be specific please!) clothing crime! THOUGHT CRIME!
Fuck, just like people can use a car to kill someone, and I know we must be a pedantic race and create "vehicular homicide" why not just call it MURDER.
My favorite is going to be DRONE crime when its no longer in the hands of only the power elite. RC Terrorists! OMG....
*caution the above post is pedantic, sarcastic, inflammatory, trolly, and generally a poorly written diatribe. It may not be suitable for sane people who like to align themselves with any particular scientific methodologies or political parties. Its definitely not full of journalistic integrity or accuracy.
And where's the conclusive proof that Osama Bin Laden, or Saddamn was directly or solely responsible for 911. There is allot of what ifs. And while the Taliban is real. The Al-Queda was a construct of American lawyers.
Our leadership have not in my mind one in the common court of common sense won the right of a righteousness of invasion of self defense and protection or liberation or anything. Except business and oppression.
Or how many casualties of these wars are directly responsible for 911?
History will be written by the victors. But the word on the street says otherwise.
500$ billion is not a majority of 2 trillion. But its a pretty big chunk.
I apologize for the "your ideology" statement. And yes my grammar is terrible today.
I think the linked website disregards that most of our economy is service based and tries as it might like me by using laymans logic to make it look like the service industry is an export industry. That is what I am trying to illustrate. But as you point out it may be the prevailing standard by which exports are measured. In which case I only have a difference of opinion and no authority on the matter.
Someone else linked the CIA world factbook which ironically I think is more accurate probably for a breakdown of exports.
Well, isn't it great that we are all entitled to our opionions and point of view still?
I would say the vast majority of our economy comes from the service industry. People selling things to each other. Walmart employee's, and the protection racket of police and military.
Nurses, doctors, lawyers all fall under service to. As well as Insurance, and ISPs.
That our economy is service based is nothing new since Sim City 2000 were I learned my macro and micro economics.
If you take the time to read over that you will see some interesting facts.
1. They consider consumer goods bought in the country by traveling foreigners exports (t-shirts, cake, cell phones, etc) I don't think that should count its cheating since those goods were not manufactured here and we are just middle men. Walmart is not an exporter of TV's, they are a retailer.
2. The other factor they add in which accounts for 500 billion of that is software, movie, and TV royalties. These are not physically manufactured goods or property as much as your civil ideology likes to believe they will never be property. The wealth from this industry is even worse distributed then the wealth from the auto and oil industries. It only accounts for probably the top 1000 wealthiest families and is probably immediately exported to tax havens.
So I am going to call $2 trillion exports bullshit, its great that we can use Hollywood accounting there also.
I would like to see numbers that show real exports of physical goods, that are useful in a real sense, like water, steel, oil, natural gas, salt, food, cars, etc...
Slashdot Mirror
There's plenty of immortal Nintendo ROMs out there... hell http://yabause.org/ Sega Saturn has an emulator.
Given all enough time attention and love, monkeys can immortalize anything.
That law has no power or force on its own. Making a law does not create a physical force stopping people from action.
To see it that way is some kind of insanity, maybe one of the other more eloquent /.er's could help illustrate.
You can make laws that sodomy is illegal. Yet we still have sodomy going on. Fact of life, people fuck each other in the ass. You cannot circumvent free will with laws. Laws are not inherently moral or just. They are just laws. That is all.
And all law is is a rule for the use of force by society on the individual. Government. Sometimes these a laws provide useful guidelines.
This one is total bullshit.
Better yet they all might stop fapping and get involved in organized institutionalized politics.
That will be bad for the regulators. Which would immediately stop me from wanting to regulate fapping.
Please spawn more publishers!
Not gonna happen.... but I know game devs who would love having a buyers market for their publisher.
I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to restate what has been stated so many times before and eloquently at that. It's something I fail horribly at and the world is a better place for people like you.
Thanks.
Since I succesfully sucked up some downmod points I will list some other places were non-libertarian ideals have helped us.
Egypt.
Syria
NK
Darfur
Somalia
Mexico
Nazi Germany
New Zealand (Free Kim Dotcom!)
Cartagena Columbia
Jesus fuck people when will you realize that liberty is just a creed to live by and not a legal or political tool like you have been brainwashed into thinking it is? If your a libertarian at least you are not using the state to endorse your thuggery and your taking responsibility for itself on your own.
So slam libertarians all you want for standing up for whats right in the rightest sense and continue to endorse state sponsored eugenics and oppression.
Actually he is free to do whatever the fuck he wants short of some arm of the military or police dictating otherwise at the behest of some assholes like you.
To believe that he is not free is a foolish assertion.
I think I should get payed for every comment or news article or law I am forced to consider, read or hear about. I should be payed every time I get stopped by the police for speeding! I should be able to bill them for time lost! I should OWN ALL THE THINGS. Unfortunately Farengi economics creates the downfall of civilizations as you are now witnessing.
This logic is stupid and unfortunately the great uplifting of 2012 did not enlighten anyone.
In 1950's America the less regulated market created the ideal Utopia. Look at now. Us libertarians must have been right. The rediculousness comes in when one group of people think that passing judgment on another group of people is ok. Go for it. It will always be used back against you and twisted into your side.
Were about to see a new dawn were you are a bad person for using non-green technology to feed yourself. Your already evil if you live off of subsistence. Those backwards Amish and Mennonites are already feeling colonial pressure. The Native Americans of Alberta have not been protected by your controlled markets and pollution regulations, they have been suffering for 20+ years as they are driven off their land tribe by tribe, family by family by wealthy connected politicians.
It is hubris to belief non-libertarian ideals are just or kind or compassionate or good or better then totalitarian dickishness. Things always sucked even in Ghenghis Khans day. But don't worry today some asshole in D.C. can fly a drone over your little backwater shithole and blow up your goats. Were just a few years away from this being used on normal every day Blokes who are forced into welfare and socialism by an increasingly corrupt and fucked fascist regime where robots and Monopolies hold more rights then individuals.
Look at the world your creating and ask how are you creating it. And you will one day see that the defense of liberty which has been forgotten is the only reason our downfall has taken so long. It the spiral into dictatorship and tyranny is inevitable and if you have read Machaveli you know what I am talking about. Some may argue to go there now. But in the end it will be the idealism of liberty that refreshes your freedom and true empowerment. If your of the type who believes you only have one life. Then you only have now to make it count. Do you want to be restricted in how you live your life? No no one does, and no on needs to be. The idea that we must all be restricted for our own good is a pre-Nazi ideal that less then human chattel can not look after themselves. This is farther from the truth then anything. The only reason you see weak confused children around you is because they have never been faced with true power and responsibility and have lived their entire lives sheltered in an authoritarian dystopia. Not because they are incapable, but because they have never been given the freedom to find out they are capable.
Do no piss on our liberty please =P
Yet some games that maybe aren't the best, but being produced by studio's that know their business are failing on Kickstarter. Like Wildman. Which is a tragic story about how kickstarter can really kick your ass.
But for mostly for some small indie titles, Kickstarter seems to be a boon.
On topic I'm surprised Sim City was given such bad reviews I know EA has a reputation for destroying anything it touches. But I really expected this franchise to be treated with reverence. Seems like EA has no intention of making a long term stay if they are destroying all the IP they gobble up.
One other alternate theory I have about these big publishers that just crap all over good franchises is they are just trying to extend trademarks and re-copyright material with a new face. As much as I detest Disney's permanent death grip on Mickey at least they produce good shows every year for their audiences.
It seems in other genre's and industries the IP deathgrip is just causing Uwe Boll Level disastrous failures every 5 years.
I was also trying to invoke the Samuel L Jackson meme here. =P
If you absolutely must please target the financial and governing bodies of our country and leave rural America alone. I only say this because as one lone man I cannot stop you. But I hope that some good may come of your bullshit.
Thanks.
Yes there is. Its called natural selection. And yes its harsh, but in the long run it'll be for the best. You guys who can't have children responsibility are a nuisance to our species.
However. I doubt unrestricted internet access will destroy society as we know it or harm any more lives then it helps. Yes it will cause damage somewhere to some people. But for a group of people to judge over another group of people and take away the borg hive mind from all and mandate it as not an option is ridiculous.
So you will just create more subnets and darknets and people will be branded as outcasts and polarized because they accessed the net with porn on it. etc...
The think of the children line is complete bullshit. Grow up, become an adult, become responsible for yourself and not others or other peoples children.
I could go on and on with my rant and yes I am being an asshole. But I know no way to candy cote this issue. You will either understand and learn or fail and fight your entire life living on the misery of others because you cannot face your inner self.
Individual rights over the rights of corporate monopoly.
THAT IS MY MOTHERFUCKING PLAN, NOW GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY MOTHERFUCKING CONSTITUTION DIPSHITS.
Yes all caps is yelling, it needs to be said and done.
Commerce, wont you think of the children.
We'll be having micro transactions for everything!
*This post is deliberately meant to be stupid and lulzy.
The effect is quite a bit more subtle then that. You or I know better but the children of the world begin to believe everything they see posted under a "real name" and the effect is the subtle negative social acceptance of psuedonymity.
Trust me, people at Vint Serfs level of the game of socio-politics have a lot of pressure on them to keep us all organized neatly and thinking exactly a certain way about things.
Upon further research appearently as early as 1996 I can tell the U.S. Government was using the name in memos.
In 2001 Bin Laden used the name on Al-Jazeera and said it was in use since the rebellion against the russians.
http://www.911myths.com/index.php/The_al_Qaeda_name
I was quoting from "The Power of Nightmares".
Clearly his organization was Al Qaeda” for a long time.
To further my own argument however, Al Queda was virtually unknown to the mass public and not at all widely used in mainstream media prior to 911.
P.S. The Guardian is UK's propoganda machine ;p
Thanks for the links though. I guess we can agree that Bin Laden was involved. I still can't believe he was directly responsible though.
If I went and payed someone 1 million in untraceable bills to kill someone and that hitman never divulged my name...
911 happened not because of 1 man, or 1 group, but because of many things, and many men, or women. Even in-action on the part of the FBI and CIA.
I doubt the whole truth will be known. And unfortunately instead of bringing Bin Laden to trial to testify he was killed. I can't say this was on purpose. But I would have taken extra care to bring him in alive if it was my duty.
However I am far from ignorant. I have watched and read quite a bit about this historical event.
Lol, nice for pointing that out. By the way is that the same gas line our CIA blew up?
mail crime! (oooh those kid nappers and their random letters!)
brick crime! Crimes involving bricks!
spraypaint crime! (lets just call it graffiti and be specific please!)
clothing crime!
THOUGHT CRIME!
Fuck, just like people can use a car to kill someone, and I know we must be a pedantic race and create "vehicular homicide" why not just call it MURDER.
My favorite is going to be DRONE crime when its no longer in the hands of only the power elite. RC Terrorists! OMG....
*caution the above post is pedantic, sarcastic, inflammatory, trolly, and generally a poorly written diatribe. It may not be suitable for sane people who like to align themselves with any particular scientific methodologies or political parties. Its definitely not full of journalistic integrity or accuracy.
And where's the conclusive proof that Osama Bin Laden, or Saddamn was directly or solely responsible for 911. There is allot of what ifs. And while the Taliban is real. The Al-Queda was a construct of American lawyers.
Our leadership have not in my mind one in the common court of common sense won the right of a righteousness of invasion of self defense and protection or liberation or anything. Except business and oppression.
Or how many casualties of these wars are directly responsible for 911?
History will be written by the victors. But the word on the street says otherwise.
I call double nonsense on your nonsense.
I'm pretty sure the founders did not have in mind "Military Industrial Complex" when they wrote their guidelines down.
This clarifies to me a lot what an export is considered and I can agree with this definition. Thanks for taking the time to explain it in detail.
500$ billion is not a majority of 2 trillion. But its a pretty big chunk.
I apologize for the "your ideology" statement. And yes my grammar is terrible today.
I think the linked website disregards that most of our economy is service based and tries as it might like me by using laymans logic to make it look like the service industry is an export industry. That is what I am trying to illustrate. But as you point out it may be the prevailing standard by which exports are measured. In which case I only have a difference of opinion and no authority on the matter.
Someone else linked the CIA world factbook which ironically I think is more accurate probably for a breakdown of exports.
Well, isn't it great that we are all entitled to our opionions and point of view still?
I would say the vast majority of our economy comes from the service industry. People selling things to each other. Walmart employee's, and the protection racket of police and military.
Nurses, doctors, lawyers all fall under service to. As well as Insurance, and ISPs.
That our economy is service based is nothing new since Sim City 2000 were I learned my macro and micro economics.
If you take the time to read over that you will see some interesting facts.
1. They consider consumer goods bought in the country by traveling foreigners exports (t-shirts, cake, cell phones, etc) I don't think that should count its cheating since those goods were not manufactured here and we are just middle men. Walmart is not an exporter of TV's, they are a retailer.
2. The other factor they add in which accounts for 500 billion of that is software, movie, and TV royalties. These are not physically manufactured goods or property as much as your civil ideology likes to believe they will never be property. The wealth from this industry is even worse distributed then the wealth from the auto and oil industries. It only accounts for probably the top 1000 wealthiest families and is probably immediately exported to tax havens.
So I am going to call $2 trillion exports bullshit, its great that we can use Hollywood accounting there also.
I would like to see numbers that show real exports of physical goods, that are useful in a real sense, like water, steel, oil, natural gas, salt, food, cars, etc...