I'm not sure how you/they propose that such a system doesn't rapidly devolve into another feudalism, though.
Call me cynical, but I don't think we've gotten away from feudalism in the first place. The basic social contract is still obedience to authority in exchange for the illusion of security. Citizens/subjects of a country are stuck in the country of their birth unless they are rich or have skills that the governments of another country want. Without the right to freely emigrate, you and I are still serfs. The politicians and their financial backers are our new aristocracy.
Anarcho-capitalists are basically anarchists who like money and all the fun things money can buy, like hookers and blow. I'm surprised you didn't infer that from the "anarcho-" prefix.
Well Apple already has all of that data, so to get anti-corporation about your personal data is a little silly.
If I want $PUBLISHER to have my personal data, then I will buy directly from $PUBLISHER. If they're going to misuse my personal data to generate additional profits, then they can go fuck themselves. I think Apple's doing the right thing.
Consumer Reports is published by the Consumers' Union, a non-profit organization. Comparing Consumer Reports to the likes of Time and Newsweek is like comparing apples and oranges.
Aside from the fact that unlike anarchocapitalists, Randroids and Libertarians are minarchists who favor a "night watchman" government that does nothing but enforce contracts, crack down on property crimes (murder, rape, theft, robbery, fraud, trespassing, etc.), and fend off invasions from other countries?
I'm an anarcho-capitalist. It would be silly of me to not know that corporations are legal constructs that date back to mercantilist Britain and beyond.
Without government, there can be no corporations. It's not like they get their corporate charters and their protection from liability out of a Cracker Jack box.
Commercials are a self-imposed hell full of idiots afflicted by demons of their own imagining. I call them "demon-ridden" the same way I'd call a dog with a flea problem "flea-ridden".
The population of the USA is over 300 million. There are bound to be a few demon-ridden idiots who insist on watching commercials. There's also a sufficiently large population of masochists to ensured the continued survival of Christianity in the US.
I've noticed that nobody has addressed the fact that TV viewers are not customers of the TV networks they watch. Instead, a TV viewer is a product that the network sells to advertisers. The TV shows are not products, but bait.
If you don't think taxation is robbery, then try levying your own taxes. You can claim that I'm peddling horseshit, but as long as you believe in the existence of "legitimate authorities" you remain vulnerable to the agentic state described by Stanley Milgram in Obedience to Authority
If this new transport system works for goods, why not use it for people as well as long as you can provide adequate ventilation and reasonable comfort?
You might not think that the archive of emails my wife and I sent each other the last ten years is critical, but it means enough to me that I have three offsite backups.
You decry the use of crack and cocaine by children, but how about the use of amphetamines? Are they OK if the kid has been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD? What about religion? Marx was right, you know, about religion being the drug of the people -- yet we allow kids to smoke Jesus before they're old enough to understand that Santa Claus is bullshit.
The proper place for personification is in literature. Used elsewhere, it is a logical fallacy. If you have spent so much time developing your social skills that your ability to engage in abstract thought suffers, then I think you have failed as a human being.
Can we please dispense with euphemisms? Taxes are not "government intervention", they are robbery. It just so happens that most of us are willing to tolerate robbery when it's done by government allegedly for the public benefit.
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Call me cynical, but I don't think we've gotten away from feudalism in the first place. The basic social contract is still obedience to authority in exchange for the illusion of security. Citizens/subjects of a country are stuck in the country of their birth unless they are rich or have skills that the governments of another country want. Without the right to freely emigrate, you and I are still serfs. The politicians and their financial backers are our new aristocracy.
Anarcho-capitalists are basically anarchists who like money and all the fun things money can buy, like hookers and blow. I'm surprised you didn't infer that from the "anarcho-" prefix.
If I want $PUBLISHER to have my personal data, then I will buy directly from $PUBLISHER. If they're going to misuse my personal data to generate additional profits, then they can go fuck themselves. I think Apple's doing the right thing.
Consumer Reports is published by the Consumers' Union, a non-profit organization. Comparing Consumer Reports to the likes of Time and Newsweek is like comparing apples and oranges.
Aside from the fact that unlike anarchocapitalists, Randroids and Libertarians are minarchists who favor a "night watchman" government that does nothing but enforce contracts, crack down on property crimes (murder, rape, theft, robbery, fraud, trespassing, etc.), and fend off invasions from other countries?
People got over the FARK.com redesign, and they got over Slashdot 2.0. They'll get over this as well, and forget to check their privacy settings.
I'm an anarcho-capitalist. It would be silly of me to not know that corporations are legal constructs that date back to mercantilist Britain and beyond.
Without government, there can be no corporations. It's not like they get their corporate charters and their protection from liability out of a Cracker Jack box.
That's fine. I have the same policy with your father.
Then we demand that the gorram Feds enforce the relevant anti-trust laws on pain of lynching.
Commercials are a self-imposed hell full of idiots afflicted by demons of their own imagining. I call them "demon-ridden" the same way I'd call a dog with a flea problem "flea-ridden".
Couldn't this be used to make cheaper solid-state storage?
The population of the USA is over 300 million. There are bound to be a few demon-ridden idiots who insist on watching commercials. There's also a sufficiently large population of masochists to ensured the continued survival of Christianity in the US.
I've noticed that nobody has addressed the fact that TV viewers are not customers of the TV networks they watch. Instead, a TV viewer is a product that the network sells to advertisers. The TV shows are not products, but bait.
That movie made me a fan of Luc Besson.
Subways have multiple defects, some of which I will list below:
If you don't think taxation is robbery, then try levying your own taxes. You can claim that I'm peddling horseshit, but as long as you believe in the existence of "legitimate authorities" you remain vulnerable to the agentic state described by Stanley Milgram in Obedience to Authority
If this new transport system works for goods, why not use it for people as well as long as you can provide adequate ventilation and reasonable comfort?
You might not think that the archive of emails my wife and I sent each other the last ten years is critical, but it means enough to me that I have three offsite backups.
I bet you were told not to come between the Nazgul and his pr0n pretty often.
You decry the use of crack and cocaine by children, but how about the use of amphetamines? Are they OK if the kid has been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD? What about religion? Marx was right, you know, about religion being the drug of the people -- yet we allow kids to smoke Jesus before they're old enough to understand that Santa Claus is bullshit.
The proper place for personification is in literature. Used elsewhere, it is a logical fallacy. If you have spent so much time developing your social skills that your ability to engage in abstract thought suffers, then I think you have failed as a human being.
Referring to a dictionary is the most pathetic form of argument from authority. You should be ashamed of yourself.
You first.
Can we please dispense with euphemisms? Taxes are not "government intervention", they are robbery. It just so happens that most of us are willing to tolerate robbery when it's done by government allegedly for the public benefit.