Incorrect. A business 'gives back' by making money, full stop. Not by paying taxes (that is theft and economically stupid), not by hiring this that or the other type of person but by making money. Making money (as long as it is not predicated on using political connections to create and maintain a monopoly) is what business does and how it 'gives back'. A business in the free market economy makes money by creating products, services and efficiencies that the society deems so good, it buys from the business.
Child porn *production* should be illegal (though again, I am against all things public, including the police). Child porn data access on the Internet must not be criminalized at all, it immediately gets coopted to control the media, not the message.
There shouldn't be any such thing as 'illegal content'. As per usual the real problem is lack of competition and monopoly power protection by governments and also criminalization of various behaviours, none of which should be done by any government.
They also knew how to escape this theft (income and wealth taxation is theft). Nobody ever paid the insane marginal corporate taxes. Nobody paid the 94 or 96% corporate taxes, nobody paid 50% corporate taxes, etc. American Revolution was fought over a puny tax, what was it 3 or 4%? The modern tax... theft system is completely out of control compared to those times. What was the point of fighting against taxation without representation at 4% then just to become a slave today?
It just goes to show, depending on who builds it, something may be an enlightened amateur rocket or a dangerous enemy weapon.
- false. This rocket is long, but it only weighs 1200 pounds. V-2 weighed almost 27,600 pounds and it had a 1000kg warhead on it that could be delivered to a 300km distance from launch.
I don't think it's just the name here that makes the difference.
shoes, hats, underwear, shirts, pants, coats, gloves, bricks, nails, glasses of all types, pens, pencils, keys, lightbulbs, hammers, bolts and nuts and washers, knives, spoons, cups, plates, lighters, mirrors, shelves, coat hangers, clothing pins, needles... I can go on, but all of the things I mentioned beat iPhones by orders of magnitude.
Bread: >100 Trillion pieces for sure (over 8000 years of history of humans making bread) Milk: > 100 Trillion glasses for sure (over 8000 years of history of humans using non human milk)... Shoes. I don't know, almost everybody has feet, almost everybody wears maybe 100 pairs of shoes in their lifetime.....
I mean iPhone is the *best selling product ever* is not even close.
But seriously, the amount I care about the Olympics: 1.01-1.011%
Olympic games are all about politics, nothing is about sport (and I don't care watching people perform sports, but I realize many do).
If games have to happen they should be happening in Greece, there should be permanent stadiums there, they could be maintained by everybody who cares about the games.
But this way how could the governments steal billions from the populations and redistribute that money to their close friends? That's the real problem, apparently governments still need some pretext for stealing for some reason.
Black is the new Red, this is political of-course, it doesn't have any other meaning. Colour coding means something because of the colour properties (red is the most visible colour due to its wavelength and our perception of it). I guess what Obama is saying is this: the white people are scared of the blacks so much, they must perceive black as more dangerous than any other colour...
John Chen said he was disturbed that Apple valued its customers' privacy and its own reputation above government demands for backdoors. I think I can safely say that BB's reputation is now 'disturbed'.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen said he is "disturbed" by Apple's tough approach to encryption and user privacy, warning that the firm's attitude is harmful to society. Earlier this year, Chen said in response to Apple resisting the government's demands to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters: "We are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good." During BlackBerry's Security Summit in New York this week, Chen made several more comments about Apple's stance on encryption. "One of our competitors, we call it 'the other fruit company,' has an attitude that it doesn't matter how much it might hurt society, they're not going to help," he said. "I found that disturbing as a citizen. I think BlackBerry, like any company, should have a basic civil responsibility. If the world is in danger, we should be able to help out." He did say there was a lot of "nonsense" being reported about BlackBerry and its approach to how it handles user information. "Of course, there need to be clear guidelines. The guidelines we've adopted require legal assets. A subpoena for certain data. But if you have the data, you should give it to them," he said. "There's some complete nonsense about what we can and can't do. People are mad at us that we let the government have the data. It's absolute garbage. We can't do that." Chen also warned that mandatory back doors aren't a good idea either, hinting at the impending Investigatory Powers Bill. "There's proposed legislation in the U.S., and I'm sure it will come to the EU, that every vendor needs to provide some form of a back door. That is not going to fly at all. It just isn't," he said.
I am not saying at all that anybody should be charged with anything, AFAIC anybody should be able to do whatever they want, money laundering is a nonsensical idea in the first place, however bitcoin is money.
Bitcoin is money because that is its only function. It is not a commodity, *bitcoin has no intrinsic value*, which means that outside of its use as money it has no other uses. It is used to transfer, store, account for value. It is as pure money as it gets, however because it has no intrinsic value at all (it cannot be used for anything outside of money, nobody needs it for anything but for its quality of being money) its ability to store value is questionable.
On a side note bitcoin is money and currency at the same time, that's because it is money that is also very easy to exchange and transfer from person to person.
Gold is money but it was not a very good currency (until recently), which is why people carried paper notes around to exchange quantities of gold (money). Currency is what circulates around, money is what stores value, can be traded/exchanged, can be used for accounting.
Modern technology makes gold, which is money also into currency, makes it extremely easy to use as currency without introducing any other medium of exchange to replace gold. Modern tech allows gold to be currency instead of having paper currency representing amounts of gold.
The judge in this case doesn't understand money or currency but at least he didn't use his lack of understanding to convict somebody on something that is not a crime AFAIC at all.
- why, sure, if you can find somebody to pay you money so that you can play games then it's useful to that somebody. Unless they are *forced* to pay you money for playing games, then it's not useful, it's useless and worse, it's oppressive.
By participating in consumption and consumption only and by not producing while consuming, your life is not in any way helpful to those, who are producing whatever you are consuming.
Let's make it easy for you: 100 people on an island. 10 are producing every single thing needed for the 100 to survive. Unless the 90 are providing sexual or other types of favours, they are not producing anything of any value to provide the 10 with a meaningful exchange for their production.
However if the 90 gang up against the 10 and the 10 do not have enough weapons to take out the 90 without dying themselves, the 90 can force the 10 to be the slaves of the 90.
The 90 then would be eating, drinking, living in houses, using energy and every resource and good produced by the 10.
You can say: without the 90, the 10 would have nothing to do. Of-course that's pure nonsense. Without the 90 the 10 would have more leasure and less worries as they only have to produce for the 10. The 90 are adding nothing except for the effort that needs to go into feeding the 90.
I assume you mean a currency backed by gold. A modern economy can't do that. There isn't enough gold to back the currency needed for us to keep track of all the transactions we're doing.
It is government propaganda and brainwashing that created the ignorant believes that you and the vast majority of you are spewing here.
Communism doesn't work and will never work because it has to use force, that's the only reason it cannot work - it must use force to take from some and to deliver to many.
Welcome to the real world, the world that businesses had to operate in for all this time, when the scales were tipped to the other side, the side where the collectivist government was able to force businesses whatever the mob wanted.
I build my own products and services and also on a side I provide outsourcing services. Guess what, companies are looking for relief. When I say 'companies' I am talking about small and medium sized businesses that work with me, not giant corporations, they have their own outsourcing solutions and they are unapproachable. But they are not the only ones who understand that the American system of government made the American worker so unproductive as to basically turn him or her unemployable.
To address your concern, this comment, second paragraph, I don't think government should exist at all, even to 'enforce those two rules'. It is all a private matter.
Correct, it's all about you defending your own property but it is also about many other people doing the same thing. Everybody defending their own property, some people doing it on their own, some hiring companies to do it for them.
With governments all we have is total oppression, and for the record: *governments take away your property*, they don't protect your private property that much either and governments will take your private property away from you and if you fight a government that is stealing your property, you are going to jail, because as I said: government is seen as 'legitimate'.
I do not see any government as legitimate at all, just for the record here.
Sure, it is the scale that changes the equation because it creates a monopoly on violence and it is seen as 'legitimate' just because some form of a government is initiating it.
My position is easy to understand if you realise that there is something called voluntarism. Voluntary participation is the defining metric. Using group violence to force participation and of-course the inherit taxation that comes with such participation is the key difference between a government and a private activity.
Being forced into participation via the law and taxation system is what makes the difference when we are talking about a government monopoly that grows the problem because its function is to thrive based on the existence of the problem versus private enterprise that is solving the problem in the most efficient manner because there is competition in the industry.
Because government is oppression by definition, government is initiation of violence based on a set of rules that apply to all people within some arbitrary borders that are not based on individual choice necessarily. Moving from one city to the next is simpler than moving from one continent to another. Running away from an oppressive government is not easy, especially when all governments are similarly oppressive.
It should be left up to private individuals to solve such technical problems, personally I don't think governments should exist at all, not even for the 2 functions I listed. Every function that any government gets involved in gets screwed and there is no competition as the size of government and its power keeps growing, at some point growing to global governments (such as the USA Federal government, the EU government and such). People should have freedom not to be bound by the current ideology of any government.
My position is that everything should be done privately and without using initiation of force that is seen as 'legitimate' simply because it is some government that initiates that violence.
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Incorrect. A business 'gives back' by making money, full stop. Not by paying taxes (that is theft and economically stupid), not by hiring this that or the other type of person but by making money. Making money (as long as it is not predicated on using political connections to create and maintain a monopoly) is what business does and how it 'gives back'. A business in the free market economy makes money by creating products, services and efficiencies that the society deems so good, it buys from the business.
Child porn *production* should be illegal (though again, I am against all things public, including the police). Child porn data access on the Internet must not be criminalized at all, it immediately gets coopted to control the media, not the message.
There shouldn't be any such thing as 'illegal content'. As per usual the real problem is lack of competition and monopoly power protection by governments and also criminalization of various behaviours, none of which should be done by any government.
But if that's his reason he's not after justice, he just wants to see America burn.
- America can burn or bern, no difference. It needs fire to be applied to the system to clear it from all the dead wood that piled up and made it rot.
You actually think you can FORCE somebody to give you a job?????? Union or whatever??? :)
They also knew how to escape this theft (income and wealth taxation is theft). Nobody ever paid the insane marginal corporate taxes. Nobody paid the 94 or 96% corporate taxes, nobody paid 50% corporate taxes, etc. American Revolution was fought over a puny tax, what was it 3 or 4%? The modern tax... theft system is completely out of control compared to those times. What was the point of fighting against taxation without representation at 4% then just to become a slave today?
It just goes to show, depending on who builds it, something may be an enlightened amateur rocket or a dangerous enemy weapon.
- false. This rocket is long, but it only weighs 1200 pounds. V-2 weighed almost 27,600 pounds and it had a 1000kg warhead on it that could be delivered to a 300km distance from launch.
I don't think it's just the name here that makes the difference.
shoes, hats, underwear, ...
shirts,
pants,
coats,
gloves,
bricks,
nails,
glasses of all types,
pens,
pencils,
keys,
lightbulbs,
hammers,
bolts and nuts and washers,
knives,
spoons,
cups,
plates,
lighters,
mirrors,
shelves,
coat hangers,
clothing pins,
needles
I can go on, but all of the things I mentioned beat iPhones by orders of magnitude.
Ok, so how about this:
Bread: >100 Trillion pieces for sure (over 8000 years of history of humans making bread) ...
Milk: > 100 Trillion glasses for sure (over 8000 years of history of humans using non human milk)
Shoes. I don't know, almost everybody has feet, almost everybody wears maybe 100 pairs of shoes in their lifetime.....
I mean iPhone is the *best selling product ever* is not even close.
They'd save on gold and silver.
But seriously, the amount I care about the Olympics: 1.01-1.011%
Olympic games are all about politics, nothing is about sport (and I don't care watching people perform sports, but I realize many do).
If games have to happen they should be happening in Greece, there should be permanent stadiums there, they could be maintained by everybody who cares about the games.
But this way how could the governments steal billions from the populations and redistribute that money to their close friends? That's the real problem, apparently governments still need some pretext for stealing for some reason.
Black is the new Red, this is political of-course, it doesn't have any other meaning. Colour coding means something because of the colour properties (red is the most visible colour due to its wavelength and our perception of it). I guess what Obama is saying is this: the white people are scared of the blacks so much, they must perceive black as more dangerous than any other colour...
BB CEO was disturbed by Apple just a few days back.
John Chen said he was disturbed that Apple valued its customers' privacy and its own reputation above government demands for backdoors. I think I can safely say that BB's reputation is now 'disturbed'.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen said he is "disturbed" by Apple's tough approach to encryption and user privacy, warning that the firm's attitude is harmful to society. Earlier this year, Chen said in response to Apple resisting the government's demands to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters: "We are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good." During BlackBerry's Security Summit in New York this week, Chen made several more comments about Apple's stance on encryption. "One of our competitors, we call it 'the other fruit company,' has an attitude that it doesn't matter how much it might hurt society, they're not going to help," he said. "I found that disturbing as a citizen. I think BlackBerry, like any company, should have a basic civil responsibility. If the world is in danger, we should be able to help out." He did say there was a lot of "nonsense" being reported about BlackBerry and its approach to how it handles user information. "Of course, there need to be clear guidelines. The guidelines we've adopted require legal assets. A subpoena for certain data. But if you have the data, you should give it to them," he said. "There's some complete nonsense about what we can and can't do. People are mad at us that we let the government have the data. It's absolute garbage. We can't do that." Chen also warned that mandatory back doors aren't a good idea either, hinting at the impending Investigatory Powers Bill. "There's proposed legislation in the U.S., and I'm sure it will come to the EU, that every vendor needs to provide some form of a back door. That is not going to fly at all. It just isn't," he said.
I am not saying at all that anybody should be charged with anything, AFAIC anybody should be able to do whatever they want, money laundering is a nonsensical idea in the first place, however bitcoin is money.
Bitcoin is money because that is its only function. It is not a commodity, *bitcoin has no intrinsic value*, which means that outside of its use as money it has no other uses. It is used to transfer, store, account for value. It is as pure money as it gets, however because it has no intrinsic value at all (it cannot be used for anything outside of money, nobody needs it for anything but for its quality of being money) its ability to store value is questionable.
On a side note bitcoin is money and currency at the same time, that's because it is money that is also very easy to exchange and transfer from person to person.
Gold is money but it was not a very good currency (until recently), which is why people carried paper notes around to exchange quantities of gold (money). Currency is what circulates around, money is what stores value, can be traded/exchanged, can be used for accounting.
Modern technology makes gold, which is money also into currency, makes it extremely easy to use as currency without introducing any other medium of exchange to replace gold. Modern tech allows gold to be currency instead of having paper currency representing amounts of gold.
The judge in this case doesn't understand money or currency but at least he didn't use his lack of understanding to convict somebody on something that is not a crime AFAIC at all.
You think you can just go around government controls, unions, regulations with your free market innovations?
Home of the DHS.
I used to use Apache server years ago, now I prefer nginx. But what is this KeepAss thing?
Why is playing games 'not useful'?
- why, sure, if you can find somebody to pay you money so that you can play games then it's useful to that somebody. Unless they are *forced* to pay you money for playing games, then it's not useful, it's useless and worse, it's oppressive.
By participating in consumption and consumption only and by not producing while consuming, your life is not in any way helpful to those, who are producing whatever you are consuming.
Let's make it easy for you: 100 people on an island. 10 are producing every single thing needed for the 100 to survive. Unless the 90 are providing sexual or other types of favours, they are not producing anything of any value to provide the 10 with a meaningful exchange for their production.
However if the 90 gang up against the 10 and the 10 do not have enough weapons to take out the 90 without dying themselves, the 90 can force the 10 to be the slaves of the 90.
The 90 then would be eating, drinking, living in houses, using energy and every resource and good produced by the 10.
You can say: without the 90, the 10 would have nothing to do. Of-course that's pure nonsense. Without the 90 the 10 would have more leasure and less worries as they only have to produce for the 10. The 90 are adding nothing except for the effort that needs to go into feeding the 90.
I assume you mean a currency backed by gold. A modern economy can't do that. There isn't enough gold to back the currency needed for us to keep track of all the transactions we're doing.
- 100% *wrong*. Today gold is money in a much more convenient way than ever before in the history of human existence.
It is government propaganda and brainwashing that created the ignorant believes that you and the vast majority of you are spewing here.
Communism doesn't work and will never work because it has to use force, that's the only reason it cannot work - it must use force to take from some and to deliver to many.
Welcome to the real world, the world that businesses had to operate in for all this time, when the scales were tipped to the other side, the side where the collectivist government was able to force businesses whatever the mob wanted.
I build my own products and services and also on a side I provide outsourcing services. Guess what, companies are looking for relief. When I say 'companies' I am talking about small and medium sized businesses that work with me, not giant corporations, they have their own outsourcing solutions and they are unapproachable. But they are not the only ones who understand that the American system of government made the American worker so unproductive as to basically turn him or her unemployable.
To address your concern, this comment, second paragraph, I don't think government should exist at all, even to 'enforce those two rules'. It is all a private matter.
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Rita's job is not obsolete but what she does can fairly easily be replicated with a script.
Correct, it's all about you defending your own property but it is also about many other people doing the same thing. Everybody defending their own property, some people doing it on their own, some hiring companies to do it for them.
With governments all we have is total oppression, and for the record: *governments take away your property*, they don't protect your private property that much either and governments will take your private property away from you and if you fight a government that is stealing your property, you are going to jail, because as I said: government is seen as 'legitimate'.
I do not see any government as legitimate at all, just for the record here.
Sure, it is the scale that changes the equation because it creates a monopoly on violence and it is seen as 'legitimate' just because some form of a government is initiating it.
My position is easy to understand if you realise that there is something called voluntarism. Voluntary participation is the defining metric. Using group violence to force participation and of-course the inherit taxation that comes with such participation is the key difference between a government and a private activity.
Being forced into participation via the law and taxation system is what makes the difference when we are talking about a government monopoly that grows the problem because its function is to thrive based on the existence of the problem versus private enterprise that is solving the problem in the most efficient manner because there is competition in the industry.
Because government is oppression by definition, government is initiation of violence based on a set of rules that apply to all people within some arbitrary borders that are not based on individual choice necessarily. Moving from one city to the next is simpler than moving from one continent to another. Running away from an oppressive government is not easy, especially when all governments are similarly oppressive.
It should be left up to private individuals to solve such technical problems, personally I don't think governments should exist at all, not even for the 2 functions I listed. Every function that any government gets involved in gets screwed and there is no competition as the size of government and its power keeps growing, at some point growing to global governments (such as the USA Federal government, the EU government and such). People should have freedom not to be bound by the current ideology of any government.
My position is that everything should be done privately and without using initiation of force that is seen as 'legitimate' simply because it is some government that initiates that violence.