What would you do without the state civil court system?
Duals? Warfare?
Whether or not a contract is voluntary is irrelevant. What is relevant is the authority that can enforce the contract. In this case, that is the State of California and they can modify how contracts are enforced in their civil court system at will.
How is it possible anyone can believe this today? It's astounding.
We can predict violence and math test performance with a blood test. China has already commenced using CRISPR technology to edit the genomes of fertilized eggs to increase the probability of high intelligence. It's genetic. It's been 15 years since the human genome was decoded. Accept it.
There is no greater fallacy today than the belief the government must tax what it spends. All money is created by a ruling sovereignty. There is a reason the Secret Service is one of the oldest institutions around - counterfeiting is a direct attack on sovereignty.
Taxes are about inducing demand for state currency, and in modern economies, controlling for the inflation that comes from a government regulated banking system. You'll know the income tax was legalized within months of passing the Federal Reserve Act. Now you know why.
You know, there were once a people who believed this and enthralled this ideal in their religion. They are known by most as the Carthaginians. The Roman enmity towards these people is not so easily understood today. They always loathed them for their worship of profit over all else. As in the US, this trickled down into every aspect of life. Their disgusting artwork today looks like it belongs in the Museum of Modern Art or at Art Basel. They didn't simply enslave people, they operated strip mines all over the region and enslaved anyone they could and worked them to death. They abhored any work or sacrifice themselves, and believed as you do that profit is the prime motivator of life. So they didn't bother with any conception of virtue, especially the self-sacrificing kind necessary for military service. They just hired mercenaries.
In time, they were utterly destroyed. Their short sighted focus on profit means we barely remember them as anything other than their war with Rome. We don't even remember why the war was fought, but they left nothing behind worth discussing, except crap art.
Keep on worshipping that golden calf. In time, justice will smite you.
First of all, birth control has never been withdrawn so it is impossible to test for this. Secondly, only in a few instances do we have reliable data on poverty and they all involve seriously war torn places like Germany or Japan in the 1950s. In both of those instances, birth rates returned to normal once their respective economies began to grow.
What does affect aggregate family formation is perception of scarcity. This is why recent immigrants from hellholes are quite fecund in the US while natives have a declining birthrate. For someone from Africa, the US is orders of magnitude more prosperous and having 5 children in a modest apartment is vastly superior to a thatch hut. For a native born American, the cost of housing, the necessity of women working, etc., have all made family formation much more expensive than just a generation ago.
In any event, it's ridiculous to claim Trump will either end access to birth control or increase poverty substantially. Real poverty doesn't exist in the US, and the long-term trend is for decreasing poverty. It has been a long time since poverty increased under any president.
Could it happen? Sure. I am more concerned with the continued lowering of living standards for the middle class. This was of course the primary reason Trump was elected, and if he fails (a real possibility), then the pressure will be back on the Democratic Party. And there, we will see a huge schism as the party is filled with Puritans looking for witch hunts or nutjobs who think anyone really gives a shit about birth control.
The vast majority? You've got to be kidding. I mean, I realize you clearly have never studied psychometrics or social science in general and you're just talking out of your ass. But the vast majority? Are you living under a rock?
You're absolutely correct. I have significantly decreased my purchase volume from Amazon after receiving some verified counterfeit vitamins. Looking online, it is impossible to tell what is legit and what is not. I'm not so poor I need to save a few dollars on vitamins or whatever else I buy from Amazon. I will send my money elsewhere.
You know how for the entire history of mankind until recently, all money had the ruling sovereign's likeness engraved on them?
It's not called "capital" for the hell of it.
All the money in the world comes from a ruling sovereignty. it is a political concept, and ultimately belongs to that ruling sovereign. If you're a dope, and you believe in democracy, then I guess you can believe that money is yours. But it is a lot more complicated than that.
On a practical level, money does not exist until "politicians" create it by spending it into circulation, or by granting their sovereign power to other entities, like banks. No, banks don't lend money. They never have. They create debt, which is adjudicated in civil courts setup by the ruling sovereignty.
The money you people spend either came from the government spending it into circulation, or by someone borrowing it from a bank. Taxes are about creating demand for currency, establishing sovereignty (most taxes in the past were tokens of submission), and in modern times controlling inflation.
Most Persians are Shia. The vast majority of Muslims do not consider that religion to be Islam. Undoubtedly, there is an element of residual nationalist tendencies there. Persia waxed and waned for millennia, but it was always a world power. A world power conquered by desert nomads. Can't be easy for them.
As for American blacks - true Islam is rare and most Muslim scholars consider the Nation of Islam similar to Shia. It incorporates elements of Islam, but is not Islam. While it's getting ridiculous that people still ascribe blame to any one group for slavery when it was a universal institution worldwide, Islam promotes unity much more than Christianity does today, particularly since Catholicism abandoned Latin. Many rituals, such as the Hajj, do in fact reinforce some semblance of equality (at least in the eyes of God).
This is exactly Microsoft's plan. New ARM processors are fast and versatile enough such that a small mobile device will work as a normal computer for most every person. No other firm has seen this coming.
One cannot invest in a number on someone's computer, just as no one can invest in baseball cards or comic books. Unlike money, bitcoin has no intrinsic value - no government will adjudicate public or private debts using it.
Sorry, I will never acknowledge the sovereignty of any entity that tells me what I can and cannot think, believe, or read. Certainly, what you posit is the classic proof as to why democracy is a terminally flawed system. The mob always wishes to censor the truth and persecute those who challenge their complacency and unnatural ideas. So it has been since the Death of Socrates.
This belief, sadly, is one of the most destructive in existence today. Bush and Obama barely cut taxes. That is the reason we are in the mess.
There is no problem with the budget. The problem is the government is not creating enough money. The only way money can be created today is by banks issuing more loans. This is why no one has any money, and why everyone is in debt. Only the ruling sovereignty has the power to create money, and they are not using it for the public good.
The government does not require taxes to raise revenue. Taxes have nothing to do with raising revenue. They are about controlling behavior and broad economic considerations, particularly inflation.
Yes, we don't have an informed public, mostly about the nature of money. People who have money (aka the 1%) want you to believe there is a finite amount of the stuff, and that the most powerful nation in the history of mankind needs to tax money from the people when only it has the sole legal right to create that money in the first place.
ALL money comes from the government originally. So powerful was this myth that until very recently, money always had the likeness of the ruling sovereign on them as it literally was a projection of his power. We see a relic of this today with the Secret Service. Similar services existed in the past to protect kings, and now presidents, and always prosecuted counterfeiters as traitors directly attacking the king.
What is sad is this should be a progressive thing. The only serious progressive economists today are well aware of how money functions.
The same people saying Trump is wrong in this instances are also the idiots who believe banks lend grandma's savings. Banks don't lend money, they create debts, which are counted as assets via double entry bookkeeping. Exactly how Trump is doing it.
It is only a logical error to a fool who believes money grows on trees or is dug up from the ground and there is a fixed supply of it. It's just a number. It's all made up. It is a political construct like all others that keeps us from killing each other like wild animals.
Are you really claiming that it makes no sense for Interstate 95, the busiest highway in the country, to service New York City? Where precisely would you like I-95 to be routed?
You demonstrate flaw common to all militant atheists and many leftists. You do not understand the difference between interpreting something literally and figuratively. I don't think anyone reads Genesis literally except for atheists.
We see a similar corollary with art. Most militant atheists and leftists do not grasp poetry, exalt decadent modern art, and often can scarcely even tolerate listening to classical music.
What is particularly funny is we can say this is mostly genetic and related to some kind of autistic spectrum disorder. Most militant atheists, including even Richard Dawkins, are entirely ignorant of modern evolutionary psychology and sex selection. The truth is there is no question that belief in God is genetic. Any universal behavioral attribute is highly genetic.
If you believe in evolution, then you should believe we have no way of changing people's belief in God.
Honestly, Trump has accomplished *nothing*. He really is the most status quo of any president in a century at this stage. Trump voters and haters are both deluded here.
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Oh god, libertarians.
What would you do without the state civil court system?
Duals? Warfare?
Whether or not a contract is voluntary is irrelevant. What is relevant is the authority that can enforce the contract. In this case, that is the State of California and they can modify how contracts are enforced in their civil court system at will.
Elaborate please.
Are you saying that shitty retail stores have non-compete agreements?
You don't understand how the blockchain works.
How is it possible anyone can believe this today? It's astounding.
We can predict violence and math test performance with a blood test. China has already commenced using CRISPR technology to edit the genomes of fertilized eggs to increase the probability of high intelligence. It's genetic. It's been 15 years since the human genome was decoded. Accept it.
Americans are living in a fantasy world.
No, but leaving his castle means it is more likely divine justice can be dispensed.
I migrated to NTFS 20 years ago. Why would anyone be using FAT32 today?
There is no greater fallacy today than the belief the government must tax what it spends. All money is created by a ruling sovereignty. There is a reason the Secret Service is one of the oldest institutions around - counterfeiting is a direct attack on sovereignty.
Taxes are about inducing demand for state currency, and in modern economies, controlling for the inflation that comes from a government regulated banking system. You'll know the income tax was legalized within months of passing the Federal Reserve Act. Now you know why.
You know, there were once a people who believed this and enthralled this ideal in their religion. They are known by most as the Carthaginians. The Roman enmity towards these people is not so easily understood today. They always loathed them for their worship of profit over all else. As in the US, this trickled down into every aspect of life. Their disgusting artwork today looks like it belongs in the Museum of Modern Art or at Art Basel. They didn't simply enslave people, they operated strip mines all over the region and enslaved anyone they could and worked them to death. They abhored any work or sacrifice themselves, and believed as you do that profit is the prime motivator of life. So they didn't bother with any conception of virtue, especially the self-sacrificing kind necessary for military service. They just hired mercenaries.
Oh, and yes, it's true, the Carthaginians did in fact sacrifice their babies.
In time, they were utterly destroyed. Their short sighted focus on profit means we barely remember them as anything other than their war with Rome. We don't even remember why the war was fought, but they left nothing behind worth discussing, except crap art.
Keep on worshipping that golden calf. In time, justice will smite you.
Drinkypoo has been a menace on this site for 15 years. He has no real life, except slashdot and posts here relentlessly. Ignore him.
People were racist and sexist and homophobic back then. Their lifestyle was a direct result of oppression.
First of all, birth control has never been withdrawn so it is impossible to test for this. Secondly, only in a few instances do we have reliable data on poverty and they all involve seriously war torn places like Germany or Japan in the 1950s. In both of those instances, birth rates returned to normal once their respective economies began to grow.
What does affect aggregate family formation is perception of scarcity. This is why recent immigrants from hellholes are quite fecund in the US while natives have a declining birthrate. For someone from Africa, the US is orders of magnitude more prosperous and having 5 children in a modest apartment is vastly superior to a thatch hut. For a native born American, the cost of housing, the necessity of women working, etc., have all made family formation much more expensive than just a generation ago.
In any event, it's ridiculous to claim Trump will either end access to birth control or increase poverty substantially. Real poverty doesn't exist in the US, and the long-term trend is for decreasing poverty. It has been a long time since poverty increased under any president.
Could it happen? Sure. I am more concerned with the continued lowering of living standards for the middle class. This was of course the primary reason Trump was elected, and if he fails (a real possibility), then the pressure will be back on the Democratic Party. And there, we will see a huge schism as the party is filled with Puritans looking for witch hunts or nutjobs who think anyone really gives a shit about birth control.
That's hardly trolling. He hasn't done anything, and you won't be able to claim otherwise.
I'm really amazed anyone believes this Russia stuff. The country has gone mad.
The vast majority? You've got to be kidding. I mean, I realize you clearly have never studied psychometrics or social science in general and you're just talking out of your ass. But the vast majority? Are you living under a rock?
You're absolutely correct. I have significantly decreased my purchase volume from Amazon after receiving some verified counterfeit vitamins. Looking online, it is impossible to tell what is legit and what is not. I'm not so poor I need to save a few dollars on vitamins or whatever else I buy from Amazon. I will send my money elsewhere.
You know how for the entire history of mankind until recently, all money had the ruling sovereign's likeness engraved on them?
It's not called "capital" for the hell of it.
All the money in the world comes from a ruling sovereignty. it is a political concept, and ultimately belongs to that ruling sovereign. If you're a dope, and you believe in democracy, then I guess you can believe that money is yours. But it is a lot more complicated than that.
On a practical level, money does not exist until "politicians" create it by spending it into circulation, or by granting their sovereign power to other entities, like banks. No, banks don't lend money. They never have. They create debt, which is adjudicated in civil courts setup by the ruling sovereignty.
The money you people spend either came from the government spending it into circulation, or by someone borrowing it from a bank. Taxes are about creating demand for currency, establishing sovereignty (most taxes in the past were tokens of submission), and in modern times controlling inflation.
Most Persians are Shia. The vast majority of Muslims do not consider that religion to be Islam. Undoubtedly, there is an element of residual nationalist tendencies there. Persia waxed and waned for millennia, but it was always a world power. A world power conquered by desert nomads. Can't be easy for them.
As for American blacks - true Islam is rare and most Muslim scholars consider the Nation of Islam similar to Shia. It incorporates elements of Islam, but is not Islam. While it's getting ridiculous that people still ascribe blame to any one group for slavery when it was a universal institution worldwide, Islam promotes unity much more than Christianity does today, particularly since Catholicism abandoned Latin. Many rituals, such as the Hajj, do in fact reinforce some semblance of equality (at least in the eyes of God).
This is exactly Microsoft's plan. New ARM processors are fast and versatile enough such that a small mobile device will work as a normal computer for most every person. No other firm has seen this coming.
One cannot invest in a number on someone's computer, just as no one can invest in baseball cards or comic books. Unlike money, bitcoin has no intrinsic value - no government will adjudicate public or private debts using it.
Sorry, I will never acknowledge the sovereignty of any entity that tells me what I can and cannot think, believe, or read. Certainly, what you posit is the classic proof as to why democracy is a terminally flawed system. The mob always wishes to censor the truth and persecute those who challenge their complacency and unnatural ideas. So it has been since the Death of Socrates.
This belief, sadly, is one of the most destructive in existence today. Bush and Obama barely cut taxes. That is the reason we are in the mess.
There is no problem with the budget. The problem is the government is not creating enough money. The only way money can be created today is by banks issuing more loans. This is why no one has any money, and why everyone is in debt. Only the ruling sovereignty has the power to create money, and they are not using it for the public good.
The government does not require taxes to raise revenue. Taxes have nothing to do with raising revenue. They are about controlling behavior and broad economic considerations, particularly inflation.
Yes, we don't have an informed public, mostly about the nature of money. People who have money (aka the 1%) want you to believe there is a finite amount of the stuff, and that the most powerful nation in the history of mankind needs to tax money from the people when only it has the sole legal right to create that money in the first place.
ALL money comes from the government originally. So powerful was this myth that until very recently, money always had the likeness of the ruling sovereign on them as it literally was a projection of his power. We see a relic of this today with the Secret Service. Similar services existed in the past to protect kings, and now presidents, and always prosecuted counterfeiters as traitors directly attacking the king.
What is sad is this should be a progressive thing. The only serious progressive economists today are well aware of how money functions.
See this:
http://moslereconomics.com/wp-...
http://neweconomicperspectives...
The same people saying Trump is wrong in this instances are also the idiots who believe banks lend grandma's savings. Banks don't lend money, they create debts, which are counted as assets via double entry bookkeeping. Exactly how Trump is doing it.
It is only a logical error to a fool who believes money grows on trees or is dug up from the ground and there is a fixed supply of it. It's just a number. It's all made up. It is a political construct like all others that keeps us from killing each other like wild animals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Are you really claiming that it makes no sense for Interstate 95, the busiest highway in the country, to service New York City? Where precisely would you like I-95 to be routed?
You demonstrate flaw common to all militant atheists and many leftists. You do not understand the difference between interpreting something literally and figuratively. I don't think anyone reads Genesis literally except for atheists.
We see a similar corollary with art. Most militant atheists and leftists do not grasp poetry, exalt decadent modern art, and often can scarcely even tolerate listening to classical music.
What is particularly funny is we can say this is mostly genetic and related to some kind of autistic spectrum disorder. Most militant atheists, including even Richard Dawkins, are entirely ignorant of modern evolutionary psychology and sex selection. The truth is there is no question that belief in God is genetic. Any universal behavioral attribute is highly genetic.
If you believe in evolution, then you should believe we have no way of changing people's belief in God.
Honestly, Trump has accomplished *nothing*. He really is the most status quo of any president in a century at this stage. Trump voters and haters are both deluded here.