Everybody should be able to drive at whatever speed they are comfortable with, the gov't taking over the rules of the road is a gigantic mistake that the society made, when it gave up its freedoms, allowed government to monopolise infrastructure etc.
On a lighter note, now the foreign spies have a good indicator on who is a British spy, just pay attention to the speeding vehicles;)
I don't believe in democracy, however you are an ignorant person, throwing around moniker 'fascist' to somebody who rejects collectivism completely and utterly. Fascism is only a form of collectivism, a subset, same as socialism is a form of collectivism. The methods are somewhat different, the point is pretty much the same. Maybe you should try and learn something and stop being an ignorant prick.
Why don't you reply with that to me? Not only have I travelled around this planet, the number of times I switched countries and even continents in my life exceeds number of streets that most people switch in theirs. Some of these so called 'socialist' countries around the world in fact live within their means. Others are falling into the same trap that the USA is in at a somewhat longer time span, given that nobody else spends as much as the USA on any type of welfare, including medical insurance, education, military industrial complex and even pensions. USA is the biggest spender of money that it doesn't have because the world subsidises it with all the goods for the fake dollars, fake, because you can't actually buy anything with those dollars if you bring them back to the US. Welfare is a problem everywhere around the world, all forms of welfare a complete and utter poison for the society that demands it, actually the mob that demands that the government provides it with by being thugs and armed thieves.
The coming collapse will set many things in place, of-course many, like you, will not understand its nature, just like you didn't understand the nature of the last one. This one will be spectacular, much more grandiose and there will be no attempt to stop it. There will be no more Lehman Brothers, nobody will be allowed to fail and that is why the US dollars and bonds will fail and that means the USA economy will stop. This will free up the resources of those, who subsidise it and after the violent quake of USA losing economic ground, the rest of the world will be able to breath easier, but the aftermath should be studied to recognise the actual fundamental reasons for what is going to happen and we can only hope that correct conclusions will be drawn, the collectivism is the disease, the cancer that killed USA.
Apparently your idea is theft, not freedom. What will it do to everybody's health once the economy is destroyed? I can give an estimate but it really doesn't matter. What will it do to the society when everybody is poor because there is no economy left because the rule of law, the governance process no longer applies?
Food stamps, welfare state, military industrial complex, none of it is compatible with the rule of law, with good governance, morality or good economics. These are antithesis to each other. People must not be taught to expect theft to have their lives subsidised.
The answer is obvious, I don't understand why it escapes you. Money. Millions of dollars. That's how you buy silence and it's a very cheap way to get ahead in elections that cost hundreds of millions.
Christie could have turned THIS event into a presidential run win, but he is too much of an establishment to do it.
He could have come out and said: I will find the responsible, fire them and initiate a criminal case against them and then I will step down. This was done on my watch, I will TAKE responsibility.
I think it was a giant opportunity for him to be seen as super responsible rather than corrupt, but hey, he is a Jersey boy, he don't go that way.
It is surprising if you don't look at the way banks implement processes, what this tells me is that to the banks this technology is so cutting edge, they have no idea how to deal with it at all, so they are just throwing a bunch of stuff together without a second though really, until there is a disaster.
It IS surprising that nobody in a team raises these questions though, what exactly does it mean? It may mean that the vendors that the banks do have, are mobile app vendors and are not at all qualified to work for banks, they have no experience in banking. It also may mean that the phone apps are a very very cheap afterthought, but it may prove disastrous to treat them that way, because really, there is no difference between using a banking web interface (which are normally fairly well protected) and phone apps.
It's a case of lack of process, lack of experience on the part of the developers who are charged with these phone apps, lack of understanding on the part of the banks what is happening, maybe lack of real interest for these apps.
Banks are normally quite process oriented, so in this case I imagine the problem is that the technology is too new for the banks to have a good enough process to cope with the changes and the banks are very rigid about their process where it comes to allowing in new specialist vendors. I am dealing with this on daily basis, for a small company dealing with banks is extremely difficult. I am not even blaming anybody, it's the management necks that are on the line and more often than not, management is not in the position to make sound judgement calls about the technology side of the business, so going with the known quantities is always easier than taking a risk to go with someone new.
OTOH given the nature of the business, if I were in charge of a bank, in case where dealing with new technologies, I would hire at least two different companies to work out their solutions (pay them, by the way) and then hire an auditor company to check the solution and then based on the better solution keep the better vendor.
What a weird non sequitur. Equating somebody actively harming you (by spreading a virus to you) to a business that may decide to provide or not provide 'privacy policy' or may change privacy policy on the fly, which means, that as a client you can either take them to court or stop using them and probably implying that government has a role in any of it..... I am not even able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could lead to such ignorant statements.
It's irrelevant what the fine is, it could be 100 bucks, it could be 100,000,000 dollars or 10 Billion for all I care, that's irrelevant. What is relevant is that some fucking nonsensical government anywhere in the world is allowed to destroy individual freedom of people like that, by fining individuals for offering services on their terms.
So Google merged privacy policies (which by the way, shouldn't be dictated by any gov't either, it's a personal choice for companies to provide it or not and it's up to the clients to care about those or not) so what? Is any single person in the world a PAYING gmail/youtube/maps/etc client? Even IF somebody is paying for something (maybe) how is it not up to THEM to yell at Google, to sue Google even and maybe to stop using their services?
This entire notion that government has a role in business anywhere in the world is completely out of control and needs to be stopped.
I am actually against most of what government does and against most government taxes. I can maybe support 1/100th of what gov't does and spends if even that.
No, it doesn't make me happy to force people into anything, it makes me unhappy that so many people believe in forcing others into whatever it is they find to be 'moral'. I am for individual liberty and freedom for a reason.
I do not set morals, I do not care what your morals are, I do not impose my morals upon anybody. AFAIC people's morals are their own freedom and everybody should be free to define what they think is moral or not.
I also do not set moral standards for individuals. Again, people come up with frameworks of protecting life and property, those are the standards that are required for the free market capitalism to work, nothing else.
Wrong, people didn't understand that you redefined free market capitalism as market where people's private property and lives have no protection on any level. People set up institutes that protect their lives and property and that's what free market capitalism requires to exist, your comment is an attempt to redefine free market capitalism as a system without any rules whatsoever, which is why it is nonsensical propaganda that sounds good to an undiscerning listener but in reality is total garbage.
And this propaganda nonsense gets +5 insightful on/... figures. Free market capitalism can't exist without private property rights, which protect your life and property. OTOH I am really an anarcho capitalist, I don't see a need for gov't to protect those rights either. But go on, put forward you straws, they are in high regard among the collectivist thugs here.
Free market finds a way. Where gov't erects legal barriers, free market becomes black market. Gov't has no business in drugs ( and almost anything except national security actually). Declaring drugs illegal is destroying individual freedoms and distorting markets and creating criminals. The real problem is gov't, not criminals that gov't creates.
There are no rules in love and war, if you are playing by the rules, you are limiting your own chances of success. Survival of the fittest does also include those with the fittest ability to fight war without dying and if that means supreme technology, then they are the winners and there is nothing wrong with it and there is nothing that can stop it (at least for a while).
Empires crash because they rot from the inside, they spend too much on war and corruption and they stop producing while maintaining a gigantic class of unproductive welfare recipients, who believe it to be their birth right not to have to produce anything for their own consumption. Empires don't die because of an external enemy, empires are their own internal enemies.
An individual can do something about those things. You can move, you can start your own business, you can look for another job, you can vote according to fiscal principles rather than nonsensical 'social justice' principles, you can invest in productive nations rather than in unproductive ones. You can escape debt personally even if you can't escape it as part of the nation, you can do plenty of things as an individual that can change your life where it concerns jobs, debt, inflation, etc., but you can't stop a black hole from falling on your head for example.
When is it not the time to panic? Wars, asteroids, volcanoes, global warming, the ozone layer, Y2K, the terrorists, swine flue, avian flue, Iraq, teletubbies.
If you are going to be worried about something, worry about something that you can personally change in your life, everything else is most likely out of your control completely, so don't bother worrying.
I'll give you real things to worry about: jobs, debt, destruction of currency (gov't caused inflation), destruction of your freedoms.
Those are the types of the things you should truly be concerned with, supervolcanos, black holes, terrorists and such are just a way to distract your attention from things that actually affect your life. If you die from a volcano, that will be the end of it, you most likely won't die from gov't created inflation, but you will really suffer from it, you and the generations to come.
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Everybody should be able to drive at whatever speed they are comfortable with, the gov't taking over the rules of the road is a gigantic mistake that the society made, when it gave up its freedoms, allowed government to monopolise infrastructure etc.
On a lighter note, now the foreign spies have a good indicator on who is a British spy, just pay attention to the speeding vehicles ;)
Canada? 4 years ago, sure.
I don't believe in democracy, however you are an ignorant person, throwing around moniker 'fascist' to somebody who rejects collectivism completely and utterly. Fascism is only a form of collectivism, a subset, same as socialism is a form of collectivism. The methods are somewhat different, the point is pretty much the same. Maybe you should try and learn something and stop being an ignorant prick.
Why don't you reply with that to me? Not only have I travelled around this planet, the number of times I switched countries and even continents in my life exceeds number of streets that most people switch in theirs. Some of these so called 'socialist' countries around the world in fact live within their means. Others are falling into the same trap that the USA is in at a somewhat longer time span, given that nobody else spends as much as the USA on any type of welfare, including medical insurance, education, military industrial complex and even pensions. USA is the biggest spender of money that it doesn't have because the world subsidises it with all the goods for the fake dollars, fake, because you can't actually buy anything with those dollars if you bring them back to the US. Welfare is a problem everywhere around the world, all forms of welfare a complete and utter poison for the society that demands it, actually the mob that demands that the government provides it with by being thugs and armed thieves.
The coming collapse will set many things in place, of-course many, like you, will not understand its nature, just like you didn't understand the nature of the last one. This one will be spectacular, much more grandiose and there will be no attempt to stop it. There will be no more Lehman Brothers, nobody will be allowed to fail and that is why the US dollars and bonds will fail and that means the USA economy will stop. This will free up the resources of those, who subsidise it and after the violent quake of USA losing economic ground, the rest of the world will be able to breath easier, but the aftermath should be studied to recognise the actual fundamental reasons for what is going to happen and we can only hope that correct conclusions will be drawn, the collectivism is the disease, the cancer that killed USA.
Apparently your idea is theft, not freedom. What will it do to everybody's health once the economy is destroyed? I can give an estimate but it really doesn't matter. What will it do to the society when everybody is poor because there is no economy left because the rule of law, the governance process no longer applies?
Food stamps, welfare state, military industrial complex, none of it is compatible with the rule of law, with good governance, morality or good economics. These are antithesis to each other. People must not be taught to expect theft to have their lives subsidised.
The answer is obvious, I don't understand why it escapes you.
Money. Millions of dollars. That's how you buy silence and it's a very cheap way to get ahead in elections that cost hundreds of millions.
Christie could have turned THIS event into a presidential run win, but he is too much of an establishment to do it.
He could have come out and said: I will find the responsible, fire them and initiate a criminal case against them and then I will step down. This was done on my watch, I will TAKE responsibility.
I think it was a giant opportunity for him to be seen as super responsible rather than corrupt, but hey, he is a Jersey boy, he don't go that way.
It is surprising if you don't look at the way banks implement processes, what this tells me is that to the banks this technology is so cutting edge, they have no idea how to deal with it at all, so they are just throwing a bunch of stuff together without a second though really, until there is a disaster.
It IS surprising that nobody in a team raises these questions though, what exactly does it mean? It may mean that the vendors that the banks do have, are mobile app vendors and are not at all qualified to work for banks, they have no experience in banking. It also may mean that the phone apps are a very very cheap afterthought, but it may prove disastrous to treat them that way, because really, there is no difference between using a banking web interface (which are normally fairly well protected) and phone apps.
It's a case of lack of process, lack of experience on the part of the developers who are charged with these phone apps, lack of understanding on the part of the banks what is happening, maybe lack of real interest for these apps.
Banks are normally quite process oriented, so in this case I imagine the problem is that the technology is too new for the banks to have a good enough process to cope with the changes and the banks are very rigid about their process where it comes to allowing in new specialist vendors. I am dealing with this on daily basis, for a small company dealing with banks is extremely difficult. I am not even blaming anybody, it's the management necks that are on the line and more often than not, management is not in the position to make sound judgement calls about the technology side of the business, so going with the known quantities is always easier than taking a risk to go with someone new.
OTOH given the nature of the business, if I were in charge of a bank, in case where dealing with new technologies, I would hire at least two different companies to work out their solutions (pay them, by the way) and then hire an auditor company to check the solution and then based on the better solution keep the better vendor.
What a weird non sequitur. Equating somebody actively harming you (by spreading a virus to you) to a business that may decide to provide or not provide 'privacy policy' or may change privacy policy on the fly, which means, that as a client you can either take them to court or stop using them and probably implying that government has a role in any of it..... I am not even able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could lead to such ignorant statements.
It's irrelevant what the fine is, it could be 100 bucks, it could be 100,000,000 dollars or 10 Billion for all I care, that's irrelevant. What is relevant is that some fucking nonsensical government anywhere in the world is allowed to destroy individual freedom of people like that, by fining individuals for offering services on their terms.
So Google merged privacy policies (which by the way, shouldn't be dictated by any gov't either, it's a personal choice for companies to provide it or not and it's up to the clients to care about those or not) so what? Is any single person in the world a PAYING gmail/youtube/maps/etc client? Even IF somebody is paying for something (maybe) how is it not up to THEM to yell at Google, to sue Google even and maybe to stop using their services?
This entire notion that government has a role in business anywhere in the world is completely out of control and needs to be stopped.
While driving a pink Tesla.
I am actually against most of what government does and against most government taxes. I can maybe support 1/100th of what gov't does and spends if even that.
No, it doesn't make me happy to force people into anything, it makes me unhappy that so many people believe in forcing others into whatever it is they find to be 'moral'. I am for individual liberty and freedom for a reason.
Sure, but I can't impose that idea onto anybody. Of-course everybody is quite set on attempting to impose their ideas upon everybody else.
I do not set morals, I do not care what your morals are, I do not impose my morals upon anybody. AFAIC people's morals are their own freedom and everybody should be free to define what they think is moral or not.
No.
I also do not set moral standards for individuals. Again, people come up with frameworks of protecting life and property, those are the standards that are required for the free market capitalism to work, nothing else.
Wrong, people didn't understand that you redefined free market capitalism as market where people's private property and lives have no protection on any level. People set up institutes that protect their lives and property and that's what free market capitalism requires to exist, your comment is an attempt to redefine free market capitalism as a system without any rules whatsoever, which is why it is nonsensical propaganda that sounds good to an undiscerning listener but in reality is total garbage.
And this propaganda nonsense gets +5 insightful on /. .. figures. Free market capitalism can't exist without private property rights, which protect your life and property. OTOH I am really an anarcho capitalist, I don't see a need for gov't to protect those rights either. But go on, put forward you straws, they are in high regard among the collectivist thugs here.
Free market finds a way. Where gov't erects legal barriers, free market becomes black market. Gov't has no business in drugs ( and almost anything except national security actually). Declaring drugs illegal is destroying individual freedoms and distorting markets and creating criminals. The real problem is gov't, not criminals that gov't creates.
There are no rules in love and war, if you are playing by the rules, you are limiting your own chances of success. Survival of the fittest does also include those with the fittest ability to fight war without dying and if that means supreme technology, then they are the winners and there is nothing wrong with it and there is nothing that can stop it (at least for a while).
Empires crash because they rot from the inside, they spend too much on war and corruption and they stop producing while maintaining a gigantic class of unproductive welfare recipients, who believe it to be their birth right not to have to produce anything for their own consumption. Empires don't die because of an external enemy, empires are their own internal enemies.
abolish the fucking thing. Get rid of all copyright and patent government intrusion into the free market.
An individual can do something about those things. You can move, you can start your own business, you can look for another job, you can vote according to fiscal principles rather than nonsensical 'social justice' principles, you can invest in productive nations rather than in unproductive ones. You can escape debt personally even if you can't escape it as part of the nation, you can do plenty of things as an individual that can change your life where it concerns jobs, debt, inflation, etc., but you can't stop a black hole from falling on your head for example.
When is it not the time to panic? Wars, asteroids, volcanoes, global warming, the ozone layer, Y2K, the terrorists, swine flue, avian flue, Iraq, teletubbies.
If you are going to be worried about something, worry about something that you can personally change in your life, everything else is most likely out of your control completely, so don't bother worrying.
I'll give you real things to worry about: jobs, debt, destruction of currency (gov't caused inflation), destruction of your freedoms.
Those are the types of the things you should truly be concerned with, supervolcanos, black holes, terrorists and such are just a way to distract your attention from things that actually affect your life. If you die from a volcano, that will be the end of it, you most likely won't die from gov't created inflation, but you will really suffer from it, you and the generations to come.
For years in a row? :)