This is what Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress to do:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
This has to do with US copyright law and US patent law (both of these need to be abolished and written out of the Constitution, just like 18th amendment was and 16th needs to be).
But Ron Paul would be of help, because ACTA is not about US laws within USA. This is about Congress pressuring other countries - using its status as a military empire, to pressure other countries to sign onto a treaty that would put those countries into a disadvantaged position. Of-course the real outcome of this will be less trade between USA and those countries, while within those countries there would be more corruption due to this (and likely within USA as well.)
This is not about trading, this is about US military empire power forcing its own agenda upon other sovereign nations, now brought to you by the main US sponsors: People's Republic of China, Japan, Germany (and the Fed.)
You think when I write entire journal entries this is done out of desire to 'troll' somebody? You don't see a legitimate problem with all this stuff, that the government causes prices to go up, that it always causes unintended consequences, that it destroys the free market, that it creates corruption via corporatism by creating monopolies and oligopolies and destroying any sort of competition?
The problem is that it's a mandatory service that *SHOULD BE PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT*.
WRONG.
Federal government (at least in USA, by the US Constitution) does not have the authority to make a service mandatory. It subverted the laws, it just doesn't care because nobody challenges the government, but the monopolistic federal government must not have authority to subvert individual rights this way.
This definitely should be left up to the States, and money should not be taken away from some states to subsidize others either, so federal government shouldn't be able to tax your income.
In a free market economy the individual liberties are much more important than collective ideology.
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Do you let them die?
- it needs to be possible for a person to die if in a free market society he is not taking the necessary steps to provide himself with insurance (which is very affordable in free market system). Yes.
However the question is loaded. When the cost of major medical insurance policy is 1-2 dollars per person per month (prior to 1965), when cost of a doctor visit is 3-5 dollars and when cost of a single day in a hospital is under 100 dollars, and when the free market is allowed to work then costs of medical care and insurance are normal market level costs, aimed at normal people, not at government provided money.
So as an example when Henry Ford was hiring people in 1914, he was paying twice as much for good workers than anybody else, because the market regulated him by causing high turn over. So he was paying $5/day, setting 8 hour days and 5 day weeks - no medical insurance, no pension fund, but also no income tax, no payroll tax, no union. He was paying equivalent of 120K after tax then, because gold cost just under 20USD/ounce and people had families with stay at home wives, maybe 5 kids, paid out houses and could buy cars with 4 months of salary.
The point is people can afford their own healthcare and education and insurance and retirement when government does not mess with these things by making them unaffordable by substituting the normal market participants with government money. Today health care and insurance and education must be MUCH less expensive then they were before 1965 due to all of the new technology, all of the new inventions and discoveries. It can't even be close. If you don't need to do an exploratory surgery and you do imaging instead. When you can use pills instead of surgery. When you have specialization that allows procedures to be done much faster so many more patients can be seen. The entire idea that health care costs must go up rather than down is preposterous, but it's made possible BY the government WITH government money.
As to people dying in corner cases - in most cases doctors and hospitals do not let people die and in normal market conditions the costs would not CRASH them as they do today, but again, that's because of where government took the costs by free market distortion.
Holly crap, maybe that's a different Helen Keller, but if Google Docs can be 'accessible' enough for use by a person who died back in 1968, then I wouldn't be questioning the ease of use of the software, I'd be more concerned with the consequences to the Google owners of having sold their souls to the devil to make it possible for their software to be used by a dead person.
(and I am an atheist by the way, I would still have these questions.)
That's because people 'worldwide' (*and it's not actually true*), don't understand what is really happening in Libya and what this is going to lead to.
You get all these 'articles' in so called 'news' papers with some 'rebel' sitting in front of a large 20-30 mm automatic cannon or aiming a large gun, or whatever, and it's clearly staged.
What is really happening on the ground is much different than what the papers are telling you. There are troops there, on the ground, from all over. The reason for the fighting are the oil wells, and JP Morgan (and GS with them, just not with their name out) are trying hard to set the grounds for their financial take over the place. They have sent on of their mercenaries - Tony Blair there. He was there meeting with Kadaffi in case the 'rebels' lose, at the same time the gov't hired mercs are there, fighting the so called 'rebellion'.
There was NO KILLING of CIVILIANS in Libya prior to this invasion. This entire thing is staged in order to set a different gov't regime there to get easier access to oil ONE way or ANOTHER, whether Kadaffi wins or loses, JP Morgan and GS will be making money on contracts.
At the same time USA finds one more distraction from the economic situation at home. This is not at all the same as what happened in Iraq but it's also not at all the same to what happened in Egypt.
Also now they are reporting 20,000 ground-air missiles have been stolen from military bases there, and the people who can access those things now will have capability to take down civilian jet liners.
This is going to get worse and worse, and those people who you believe are 'cheering worldwide' may all of a sudden find themselves on the short side of this trade, being killed while taking an airplane going to a vacation.
You know, this is how any business can turn out for anybody in Mexico (there is a link there in the first paragraph, don't click it unless you have a stomach for seeing what the real consequences of war look like).
I don't believe any politician or policeman or journalist (whoever is still alive) can just ignore what the drug cartels actually want from them, and cartels MAY actually have a position on copyright, believe it or not, I am not sure what that position is exactly (and it's likely that they even make money on pirated software), but I am sure politicians there cannot easily dismiss those possible positions.
This entire story will be riddled with speculations.
There is Google, ONIX Networking Corp., Microsoft, US federal government (U.S. Department of the Interior), there are too many known and unknown unknowns (to para-quote the former minister of Offense).
It could be that there is private dealing between Google and MS or between Google and the federal gov't. There could be issues surrounding ONIX. There could be anything, from government threats to personal threats. Too many unknown variables.
Thus this is a perfect story, because all comments will be interesting.
That's why you vote for Ron Paul who is very specific about States being more autonomous (because the federal government has no authority for pretty much anything it does at this point), and thus having more competition between government laws and Congressman/Senators should really live in their States now, with all the technology they must not be allowed to live in Washington DC and to do their business there. They should be required to live in their States, where people have more direct access to them AND this would force the lobbyists to come to every one of the States, to go visit 50 States (or at least half), and this would be more obvious and easy to track and to see how a Congressman/Senator changes his mind once the path of a lobbyist goes through his State.
R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel ÄOEapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original.[1] It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.
- the play was about robots basically taking over the world, not just taking over all productive work, but killing all humans.
We haven't gone too far in our understanding of these issues since the Capeks, have we?
Don't forget - the absolute worst thing that a businessman can do in USA or in any other Western nation is to become an employer, to hire somebody.
Once you hire somebody, you lose your rights. That's because the majority of voters are employees and employers are a minority, so politicians cater to the majority vote, and eventually this destroys the jobs, because hiring becomes prohibitively expensive, not from point of view of just salaries, but from point of view of all of the regulations and rules and all of the litigation that is going to be brought against you as an employer.
There will be no new jobs in USA as long as all of these rules exist, all of the litigation is possible, as long as employees get all of the rights and employers get all of the responsibilities.
So that's why there are fewer and fewer jobs - it's because cost of employment is competition not between workers, but it's competition between workers and capital.
As long as it is cheaper to build a machine to substitute work than to hire and employee, machines will be built.
This is true for everything, from assembly line work to phone answering, to cashiers and eventually to lawyers.
The best thing of-course would be to replace POLITICIANS with robots that at least could follow some set of rules and not only be interested in enriching themselves at the expense of the public good (and public good, as in general welfare, is about maximization of individual liberties and leveling of the playing field, but it's not about giving some more rights than others, it's not about providing special privileges in order to buy votes).
In reality the jobs in USA are disappearing and will continue disappearing not because of automation, but because of the political climate that is aimed at destruction of individual liberties and catering to the collective.
Of-course politicians cater to the collective in public, but in private they cater to a small number of private moneyed interests, which become your REAL owners. Presidents are just actors. Your real owners are a small number of corporations, that became monopolies/oligopolies, who are using this power to get themselves extremely rich by destroying real economy in this society that is dead set on destruction of individual liberties and free market capitalism.
The exhaust must smell wonderful, I imagine any coffee fanatic would want one of these. You can save on gas and you can have more coffee scented air all around you while you drive...... winning. Just rock stars from Mars.
HOWEVER.
What's with the AOL etc. license plate? Also this does have some 'Mad Max' feel about it.
As I said about Zynga, linked in and all of these other IPOs riding the FB's coattails (which didn't even go IPO yet), this is BS.
This is another bubble, it's because people want to buy FB stock, but they can't, so it's easy to just build any on-line services, have it lose a bunch of money, but have large revenues without any profits, and then just hope to take it to IPO based on revenue alone, without any real working business plan behind it. It's just another Wall street scam.
Don't go with MySQL, use PostgreSQL instead. It's not just about Oracle adding closed source extensions to MySQL, it's the whole idea of going with a full database that is compatible with other 'real' databases, at the minimum we are talking about actual SQL standard.
The fact that they are building more capacity is a good thing. More infrastructure based on market demand, it will be used for something productive eventually, as the world solves the real problem that leads to HFT (if it ever does with thinking like this, promoted by pseudo-economists).
The Western world, including USA needs to stop expecting free money and cheap goods to be there forever for them. Production is the only thing that will remove the poison of over-leveraged vendor and Fed financed consumption from the system, but it won't be more of the same.
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Ron Paul would still be of help here.
This is what Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress to do:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
This has to do with US copyright law and US patent law (both of these need to be abolished and written out of the Constitution, just like 18th amendment was and 16th needs to be).
But Ron Paul would be of help, because ACTA is not about US laws within USA. This is about Congress pressuring other countries - using its status as a military empire, to pressure other countries to sign onto a treaty that would put those countries into a disadvantaged position. Of-course the real outcome of this will be less trade between USA and those countries, while within those countries there would be more corruption due to this (and likely within USA as well.)
This is not about trading, this is about US military empire power forcing its own agenda upon other sovereign nations, now brought to you by the main US sponsors: People's Republic of China, Japan, Germany (and the Fed.)
Unbelievable moderation.
You think when I write entire journal entries this is done out of desire to 'troll' somebody? You don't see a legitimate problem with all this stuff, that the government causes prices to go up, that it always causes unintended consequences, that it destroys the free market, that it creates corruption via corporatism by creating monopolies and oligopolies and destroying any sort of competition?
This is insane, what is this place, Fox news?
My thoughts on SS
My thoughts on health care
You don't like the ideas - leave a comment. Don't be a troll by moderating something you don't like as a troll.
The problem is that it's a mandatory service that *SHOULD BE PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT*.
WRONG.
Federal government (at least in USA, by the US Constitution) does not have the authority to make a service mandatory. It subverted the laws, it just doesn't care because nobody challenges the government, but the monopolistic federal government must not have authority to subvert individual rights this way.
This definitely should be left up to the States, and money should not be taken away from some states to subsidize others either, so federal government shouldn't be able to tax your income.
I wrote on the entire SS being an unconstitutional ponzi scheme, morally and economically wrong and about the entire issue of health care and insurance being normal products, just like everything else, and being provided at lower cost and better quality when USA had that system, and people did in fact prefer the private insurance and healthcare (my journal entry actually contains information, data from government research. They have wrong conclusions, but they provide good data.)
In a free market economy the individual liberties are much more important than collective ideology.
---
Do you let them die?
- it needs to be possible for a person to die if in a free market society he is not taking the necessary steps to provide himself with insurance (which is very affordable in free market system). Yes.
However the question is loaded. When the cost of major medical insurance policy is 1-2 dollars per person per month (prior to 1965), when cost of a doctor visit is 3-5 dollars and when cost of a single day in a hospital is under 100 dollars, and when the free market is allowed to work then costs of medical care and insurance are normal market level costs, aimed at normal people, not at government provided money.
So as an example when Henry Ford was hiring people in 1914, he was paying twice as much for good workers than anybody else, because the market regulated him by causing high turn over. So he was paying $5/day, setting 8 hour days and 5 day weeks - no medical insurance, no pension fund, but also no income tax, no payroll tax, no union. He was paying equivalent of 120K after tax then, because gold cost just under 20USD/ounce and people had families with stay at home wives, maybe 5 kids, paid out houses and could buy cars with 4 months of salary.
The point is people can afford their own healthcare and education and insurance and retirement when government does not mess with these things by making them unaffordable by substituting the normal market participants with government money. Today health care and insurance and education must be MUCH less expensive then they were before 1965 due to all of the new technology, all of the new inventions and discoveries. It can't even be close. If you don't need to do an exploratory surgery and you do imaging instead. When you can use pills instead of surgery. When you have specialization that allows procedures to be done much faster so many more patients can be seen. The entire idea that health care costs must go up rather than down is preposterous, but it's made possible BY the government WITH government money.
As to people dying in corner cases - in most cases doctors and hospitals do not let people die and in normal market conditions the costs would not CRASH them as they do today, but again, that's because of where government took the costs by free market distortion.
It's just 6PM here, too early to go to sleep and too late for the pipe.
Holly crap, maybe that's a different Helen Keller, but if Google Docs can be 'accessible' enough for use by a person who died back in 1968, then I wouldn't be questioning the ease of use of the software, I'd be more concerned with the consequences to the Google owners of having sold their souls to the devil to make it possible for their software to be used by a dead person.
(and I am an atheist by the way, I would still have these questions.)
That's because people 'worldwide' (*and it's not actually true*), don't understand what is really happening in Libya and what this is going to lead to.
You get all these 'articles' in so called 'news' papers with some 'rebel' sitting in front of a large 20-30 mm automatic cannon or aiming a large gun, or whatever, and it's clearly staged.
What is really happening on the ground is much different than what the papers are telling you. There are troops there, on the ground, from all over. The reason for the fighting are the oil wells, and JP Morgan (and GS with them, just not with their name out) are trying hard to set the grounds for their financial take over the place. They have sent on of their mercenaries - Tony Blair there. He was there meeting with Kadaffi in case the 'rebels' lose, at the same time the gov't hired mercs are there, fighting the so called 'rebellion'.
There was NO KILLING of CIVILIANS in Libya prior to this invasion. This entire thing is staged in order to set a different gov't regime there to get easier access to oil ONE way or ANOTHER, whether Kadaffi wins or loses, JP Morgan and GS will be making money on contracts.
At the same time USA finds one more distraction from the economic situation at home. This is not at all the same as what happened in Iraq but it's also not at all the same to what happened in Egypt.
Also now they are reporting 20,000 ground-air missiles have been stolen from military bases there, and the people who can access those things now will have capability to take down civilian jet liners.
This is going to get worse and worse, and those people who you believe are 'cheering worldwide' may all of a sudden find themselves on the short side of this trade, being killed while taking an airplane going to a vacation.
DUDES, that AC was not off-topic, he was just redundant! :)
You know, this is how any business can turn out for anybody in Mexico (there is a link there in the first paragraph, don't click it unless you have a stomach for seeing what the real consequences of war look like).
I don't believe any politician or policeman or journalist (whoever is still alive) can just ignore what the drug cartels actually want from them, and cartels MAY actually have a position on copyright, believe it or not, I am not sure what that position is exactly (and it's likely that they even make money on pirated software), but I am sure politicians there cannot easily dismiss those possible positions.
what's the difference?
Exactly. There should be no reason for these guys all to fly to Washington DC, all to assemble in one room.
Get them onto the Internet, connect them into a virtual room, have this thing broadcast over youtube.
NO MORE PRIVATE BS CONVERSATIONS.
Record everything they do. Anything that's not recorded must be illegal for them. Force them to live in places that they are supposed to represent.
Have a huge ass LCD screen in every city of the State, constantly showing what the elected officials are doing.
They better get used to this, because that's what they want to perpetrate on every one of YOU.
these guys are selling something, they are selling a 'way to protect against this type of physical attack' against voting machines.
They are correct, this is a possible vector of attack. They are still trying to sell something.
This entire story will be riddled with speculations.
There is Google, ONIX Networking Corp., Microsoft, US federal government (U.S. Department of the Interior), there are too many known and unknown unknowns (to para-quote the former minister of Offense).
It could be that there is private dealing between Google and MS or between Google and the federal gov't. There could be issues surrounding ONIX. There could be anything, from government threats to personal threats. Too many unknown variables.
Thus this is a perfect story, because all comments will be interesting.
Ron Paul.
That's why you vote for Ron Paul who is very specific about States being more autonomous (because the federal government has no authority for pretty much anything it does at this point), and thus having more competition between government laws and Congressman/Senators should really live in their States now, with all the technology they must not be allowed to live in Washington DC and to do their business there. They should be required to live in their States, where people have more direct access to them AND this would force the lobbyists to come to every one of the States, to go visit 50 States (or at least half), and this would be more obvious and easy to track and to see how a Congressman/Senator changes his mind once the path of a lobbyist goes through his State.
Interspecies erotica? Well, weirder things have happened.
Parrots, big deal. In Sweden drunk moose fall of trees.
R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel ÄOEapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original.[1] It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.
- the play was about robots basically taking over the world, not just taking over all productive work, but killing all humans.
We haven't gone too far in our understanding of these issues since the Capeks, have we?
Don't forget - the absolute worst thing that a businessman can do in USA or in any other Western nation is to become an employer, to hire somebody.
Once you hire somebody, you lose your rights. That's because the majority of voters are employees and employers are a minority, so politicians cater to the majority vote, and eventually this destroys the jobs, because hiring becomes prohibitively expensive, not from point of view of just salaries, but from point of view of all of the regulations and rules and all of the litigation that is going to be brought against you as an employer.
There will be no new jobs in USA as long as all of these rules exist, all of the litigation is possible, as long as employees get all of the rights and employers get all of the responsibilities.
So that's why there are fewer and fewer jobs - it's because cost of employment is competition not between workers, but it's competition between workers and capital.
As long as it is cheaper to build a machine to substitute work than to hire and employee, machines will be built.
This is true for everything, from assembly line work to phone answering, to cashiers and eventually to lawyers.
The best thing of-course would be to replace POLITICIANS with robots that at least could follow some set of rules and not only be interested in enriching themselves at the expense of the public good (and public good, as in general welfare, is about maximization of individual liberties and leveling of the playing field, but it's not about giving some more rights than others, it's not about providing special privileges in order to buy votes).
In reality the jobs in USA are disappearing and will continue disappearing not because of automation, but because of the political climate that is aimed at destruction of individual liberties and catering to the collective.
Of-course politicians cater to the collective in public, but in private they cater to a small number of private moneyed interests, which become your REAL owners. Presidents are just actors. Your real owners are a small number of corporations, that became monopolies/oligopolies, who are using this power to get themselves extremely rich by destroying real economy in this society that is dead set on destruction of individual liberties and free market capitalism.
This is what you need to watch.
Really? Are you are Perry Voter?
It's not that it's too fast, but sometimes I laugh. Before I hear it and. sometimes it .
Right, Bush heard that 2 Brazilian people died, he sent his condolences but only later asked how much is a brazilion?
Well, at least if Homer had a coffee car and not an alcohol vehicle, his gas station stop wouldn't put him into DUI classification.
One for me (quad Venti Latte), one for you (a bag of used up coffee grounds.)
The exhaust must smell wonderful, I imagine any coffee fanatic would want one of these. You can save on gas and you can have more coffee scented air all around you while you drive...... winning. Just rock stars from Mars.
HOWEVER.
What's with the AOL etc. license plate?
Also this does have some 'Mad Max' feel about it.
Of-course.
As I said about Zynga, linked in and all of these other IPOs riding the FB's coattails (which didn't even go IPO yet), this is BS.
This is another bubble, it's because people want to buy FB stock, but they can't, so it's easy to just build any on-line services, have it lose a bunch of money, but have large revenues without any profits, and then just hope to take it to IPO based on revenue alone, without any real working business plan behind it. It's just another Wall street scam.
Don't go with MySQL, use PostgreSQL instead. It's not just about Oracle adding closed source extensions to MySQL, it's the whole idea of going with a full database that is compatible with other 'real' databases, at the minimum we are talking about actual SQL standard.
The fact that they are building more capacity is a good thing. More infrastructure based on market demand, it will be used for something productive eventually, as the world solves the real problem that leads to HFT (if it ever does with thinking like this, promoted by pseudo-economists).
The Western world, including USA needs to stop expecting free money and cheap goods to be there forever for them. Production is the only thing that will remove the poison of over-leveraged vendor and Fed financed consumption from the system, but it won't be more of the same.