I don't think there's many (certainly I don't know any) libertarians that are looking for Utopia (that's your lot's job), we merely believe that libertarian policies would be better than what we have right now.
Things may have changed but certainly at one time, if you were buying a new TV, you either had to prove you already had a license or pay for one on the spot.
Thinking I might buy one of these and wait for the inevitable Linux install. My eeepc is starting to show its age and no one is making a viable replacement since WinXP was shoved down everyone's throats.
Careful. For a goodly percentage of the population, setting fire to a picture of the pope would move the needle in the opposite direction to what you were thinking. (The bible likewise for a smaller portion, come to think of it.)
Here's how that works. Potentially you have 9 different sets but in truth, the possibility of adding another set keeps the price of licensing the existing wires down. At worst, you'd probably end up with 2-3 sets at most for those 9 companies.
With the way power lines go down during the winter around here, having two or three different sources to choose from would actually probably be a good thing and save lives.
Having memories of computer labs from many years ago, bringing my own mouse would have been a pleasant experience. Having to clean the accumulated dead skin of several hundred previous users from the ball rollers before the mouse would work even reasonably? *shudder*
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Chinese people have tasty, tasty children?
Don't put a penguin on top of your telly.
Maybe that's what I was thinking of. But it would also have been 20 years ago too.
+1. Where is the link to the real story? Or to a Google info page for this thing? Where can I buy one?
I don't think there's many (certainly I don't know any) libertarians that are looking for Utopia (that's your lot's job), we merely believe that libertarian policies would be better than what we have right now.
So you don't care what society actually ends up like, just so long as your perfect libertarian ideals are followed on the way there?
Looks around...
Project much?
Ah gotcha. So you strawman it so you can hate it. Glad we got a handle on that.
Seems like that could be a new twist on that "copy what I do" prank where you stick one finger in your ear, then lick a different finger.
Things may have changed but certainly at one time, if you were buying a new TV, you either had to prove you already had a license or pay for one on the spot.
Absolutely. Ewanm89 needs to check out the concept or parliamentary sovereignty also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty
Stealing cable is not an offense against the satellite TV company.
Thinking I might buy one of these and wait for the inevitable Linux install. My eeepc is starting to show its age and no one is making a viable replacement since WinXP was shoved down everyone's throats.
True. But when government regulates, there's always someone who breaks the rules and profits (c.f. prohibition).
You're correct. I missed that the thread had forked somehow.
I guess if their aggressive stance against Android causes Samsung to stop providing processors, they could always turn back to Motoro.... oh dear.
Careful. For a goodly percentage of the population, setting fire to a picture of the pope would move the needle in the opposite direction to what you were thinking. (The bible likewise for a smaller portion, come to think of it.)
It's the prisoner's dilemma writ large. If you aren't the one doing the stringing, you may be the one to get strung.
Are you on a mission from God?
Malted milk?
Here's how that works. Potentially you have 9 different sets but in truth, the possibility of adding another set keeps the price of licensing the existing wires down. At worst, you'd probably end up with 2-3 sets at most for those 9 companies.
With the way power lines go down during the winter around here, having two or three different sources to choose from would actually probably be a good thing and save lives.
Having memories of computer labs from many years ago, bringing my own mouse would have been a pleasant experience. Having to clean the accumulated dead skin of several hundred previous users from the ball rollers before the mouse would work even reasonably? *shudder*
Not when you're discussing the morality of the legal situation.
You know what also worked during WWII? The black market.
If you're going to differentiate between gasoline and gasoline vapors, gasoline doesn't burn.
<tinfoil>Unless they died in a somewhat convenient helicopter crash, of course...</tinfoil>