Government is defined as a monopoly on violence.And yes, the collective capacity for violence exceeds the individual one by many orders of magnitude. The lapse in your sanity is where you imagine that violence can be removed from the human condition, when we cannot eliminate it from maximum security prisons. Violence is the birthright of mankind. Ceding that right to a political structure is the foundation of civilization.
Libertarians are evil, egotistical, or idiotic, non exclusively.
Pretending that franchise agreements are the biggest barrier to entry is disingenuous. You're an anarchist because you believe in a fictitious form of government.
Dude, you are an intellectual flyweight who occasionally happens to be on the factual side of arguments. Mostly you just blather about things which you don't understand.
Case in point: when you find a hill on water, let us know.
Now we can try simulating gravity to characterize how much gravitation is required to offset what medical effects.
Not without space based manufacturing or a much larger heavy lift vehicle, we can't. Rotating habitats need to be rather large in order to avoid various nasty side effects.
Venus is in no sense what tipped us off to the atmospheric properties of CO2. Those were established by Tyndall in the late 1850s, or Arrhenius 1896 if you want the whole theory. Neither mention Venus. The origin of studies into climate change was the evidence of changing climate here on Earth, i.e. Ice Ages, with evidence beginning in the early 19th Century. Alternately, if you were referring to when AGW became well established, that would presumably be Keeling 1959, just after the founding of NASA and launch of Sputnik.
I'm not sure if you're referring to some more specific events, or if you're just weak on the history of AGW, or both.
That's an interesting assertion. I assume that you have good data behind it: how can I measure this same phenomenon, and with which instrument? Is this a universally true attribute like the speed of light in vacuum, or is the moral ordering of events dependent on the observer's relative velocity?
Did you not understand something about the words "data" or "study", or are you under the misapprehension that the plural of anecdote is data?
This is a fraught and complicated issue, which suggests taking some hard looks at hard numbers. To me it's unlikely that being homeschooled is any more influential than any other social institution in human history. It's clearly not a universal path to -- I mean, whatever, pick your favorite bugaboo -- so to anyone claiming harm, it had better be measurable.
You're talking about abstract concepts and declaring them to be more real than violent force. In this world, it probably does not make sense to define rights separately from enforcement. But if you cared about the difference between fantasy and reality, you wouldn't be a Rightwing Nutjob, eh?
Yes, it is "open season" on cripples, unless there is someone to stop that. "red in tooth and claw", "nasty, brutish, and short", and something about intraspecific competition spring to mind. That humans have sufficiently formalized these principles should not be mistaken for their having a real existence.
If you no longer control your own monetary policy, then you can engineer situations where a country can "run out" of money. Whether that means that unified currencies are an inherently bad idea is an interesting question, but your viewing this as a "reason for panic" is, I suspect, not very thoroughly considered.
In vain may heroes fight and patriots rave, If secret gold sap on from knave to knave.
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends Corruption lighter wings to fly Gold imp'd by thee, can compass hardest things, Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o'er, Or ship off senates to some distant shore; A leaf, like Sibyl's, scatter to and fro Our fates and fortunes as the winds shall blow; Pregnant with thousands flits the scrap unseen, And silent sells a King or buys a Queen.
It's arguably possible. Unfortunately, we live in a world where efficiency outcompetes ideological purity. Apologies for the here-to-stay centralized dictatorships, and even more so for the point where you realize that your entire belief structure is just rationalized recalcitrance.
The fees and paperwork do not exist, and you're not going to convince anyone else that negotiating with every landowner in the US is at all efficient. Your political philosophy is bankrupt and immoral, and the economic ideas it inspires are simply unhinged. It's not just that market failures happen, it's that they are the norm, and the government, far from being the cause of these things, is the only guarantor of the free market.
No, and I don't believe you're arguing in good faith. It's not like there's a $10 billion fee to start an ISP, or an army of paperwork-clutching government employees trailing after the fiber crews. A large difficulty is negotiating rights of access, especially if one has to negotiate such rights with every individual landowner, and it's also just plain costly to lay lots of fiber optic cable. And aside from a knee-jerk opposition to any and all regulation, there is no reason why there should not be some sort of regulation governing how you are allowed to be an ISP.
You seem to be on quite the streak of douchebaggery these last few days.
I wish you were dead. So, I think, do most people here. Now you're bragging about threatening and harassing people; I didn't think you could be more of an asshole. You're the worst human I'm aware of, and the planet would be vastly superior for your absence.
Bunch of indoctrinated liberal arts morons don't even realize they spent years memorizing and regurgitating derp. Think they are the ones who 'learned to think'. It would be funny, if it wasn't sad.
Whereas you are so much smarter than those liberal eggheads, and haven't ever been indoctrinated, no siree.
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Government is defined as a monopoly on violence.And yes, the collective capacity for violence exceeds the individual one by many orders of magnitude. The lapse in your sanity is where you imagine that violence can be removed from the human condition, when we cannot eliminate it from maximum security prisons. Violence is the birthright of mankind. Ceding that right to a political structure is the foundation of civilization.
Libertarians are evil, egotistical, or idiotic, non exclusively.
Marxists have some lovely rhetoric too. Still doesn't mean the goal is achievable, or even a good idea. Non-coercive government is an oxymoron.
Pretending that franchise agreements are the biggest barrier to entry is disingenuous. You're an anarchist because you believe in a fictitious form of government.
We get it, you're an anarchist who doesn't believe in market failures. That others are resistant to your lies is unsurprising.
One famous experiment used a narrow canal.
Dude, you are an intellectual flyweight who occasionally happens to be on the factual side of arguments. Mostly you just blather about things which you don't understand.
Case in point: when you find a hill on water, let us know.
You lie like a damned dog.
Now we can try simulating gravity to characterize how much gravitation is required to offset what medical effects.
Not without space based manufacturing or a much larger heavy lift vehicle, we can't. Rotating habitats need to be rather large in order to avoid various nasty side effects.
Venus is in no sense what tipped us off to the atmospheric properties of CO2. Those were established by Tyndall in the late 1850s, or Arrhenius 1896 if you want the whole theory. Neither mention Venus. The origin of studies into climate change was the evidence of changing climate here on Earth, i.e. Ice Ages, with evidence beginning in the early 19th Century. Alternately, if you were referring to when AGW became well established, that would presumably be Keeling 1959, just after the founding of NASA and launch of Sputnik.
I'm not sure if you're referring to some more specific events, or if you're just weak on the history of AGW, or both.
You're making a bullshit semantic argument.
That's an interesting assertion. I assume that you have good data behind it: how can I measure this same phenomenon, and with which instrument? Is this a universally true attribute like the speed of light in vacuum, or is the moral ordering of events dependent on the observer's relative velocity?
Did you not understand something about the words "data" or "study", or are you under the misapprehension that the plural of anecdote is data?
This is a fraught and complicated issue, which suggests taking some hard looks at hard numbers. To me it's unlikely that being homeschooled is any more influential than any other social institution in human history. It's clearly not a universal path to -- I mean, whatever, pick your favorite bugaboo -- so to anyone claiming harm, it had better be measurable.
You're talking about abstract concepts and declaring them to be more real than violent force. In this world, it probably does not make sense to define rights separately from enforcement. But if you cared about the difference between fantasy and reality, you wouldn't be a Rightwing Nutjob, eh?
Yes, it is "open season" on cripples, unless there is someone to stop that. "red in tooth and claw", "nasty, brutish, and short", and something about intraspecific competition spring to mind. That humans have sufficiently formalized these principles should not be mistaken for their having a real existence.
If you no longer control your own monetary policy, then you can engineer situations where a country can "run out" of money. Whether that means that unified currencies are an inherently bad idea is an interesting question, but your viewing this as a "reason for panic" is, I suspect, not very thoroughly considered.
Well, if you say so.
In vain may heroes fight and patriots rave,
If secret gold sap on from knave to knave.
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!
That lends Corruption lighter wings to fly
Gold imp'd by thee, can compass hardest things,
Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings;
A single leaf shall waft an army o'er,
Or ship off senates to some distant shore;
A leaf, like Sibyl's, scatter to and fro
Our fates and fortunes as the winds shall blow;
Pregnant with thousands flits the scrap unseen,
And silent sells a King or buys a Queen.
You have extremely well developed ideas about what does and does not constitute racism. I wonder why that might be.
It's arguably possible. Unfortunately, we live in a world where efficiency outcompetes ideological purity. Apologies for the here-to-stay centralized dictatorships, and even more so for the point where you realize that your entire belief structure is just rationalized recalcitrance.
The fees and paperwork do not exist, and you're not going to convince anyone else that negotiating with every landowner in the US is at all efficient. Your political philosophy is bankrupt and immoral, and the economic ideas it inspires are simply unhinged. It's not just that market failures happen, it's that they are the norm, and the government, far from being the cause of these things, is the only guarantor of the free market.
Only in your libertarian fantasy-land, I'm afraid.
That is a pack of lies, and you are a liar.
No, and I don't believe you're arguing in good faith. It's not like there's a $10 billion fee to start an ISP, or an army of paperwork-clutching government employees trailing after the fiber crews. A large difficulty is negotiating rights of access, especially if one has to negotiate such rights with every individual landowner, and it's also just plain costly to lay lots of fiber optic cable. And aside from a knee-jerk opposition to any and all regulation, there is no reason why there should not be some sort of regulation governing how you are allowed to be an ISP.
You seem to be on quite the streak of douchebaggery these last few days.
I wish you were dead. So, I think, do most people here. Now you're bragging about threatening and harassing people; I didn't think you could be more of an asshole. You're the worst human I'm aware of, and the planet would be vastly superior for your absence.
Bunch of indoctrinated liberal arts morons don't even realize they spent years memorizing and regurgitating derp. Think they are the ones who 'learned to think'. It would be funny, if it wasn't sad.
Whereas you are so much smarter than those liberal eggheads, and haven't ever been indoctrinated, no siree.