Government should have nothing to do with anything that you mentioned at all. I listed the 2 functions, everything else is none of any governments' business.
"Vaulin is charged with running today's most visited illegal file-sharing website, responsible for unlawfully distributing well over $1 billion of copyrighted materials," Assistant Attorney General Caldwell said in the statement. "In an effort to evade law enforcement, Vaulin allegedly relied on servers located in countries around the world and moved his domains due to repeated seizures and civil lawsuits. His arrest in Poland, however, demonstrates again that cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from justice."
- is this what passes for 'justice' today?
I guess he, who has the most guns defines what justice is. Justice is the opposite of what this Orwellian prick says. Justice is in non initiation of violence by any government. Justice is in equal treatment of individuals by law regardless of their circumstances. Using government oppression to enforce copyright has nothing to do with justice.
Government may have a function, that function being enforcing contract law and dealing with fraud. That is all that any government should ever have any power to do. Everything else is oppression, not justice.
As a side note, it never ceases to amaze me how stupid ads look (maybe I don't watch enough of them to stop noticing such things). The girl wakes up in her bed with full make up, her hair is done, fake eyelashes, etc. Everything is sterile and perfectly clean and wrinkle free. Who lives like that?
You are saying that the problem is 'the profit motive', I am saying that you completely misdiagnosed the problem. Profit motive is the solution to building a better economy and making our lives better.
The problem is government interfering with the market, using power to uphold laws that subvert the free market. In this case the problem is the government power to protect monopoly based on copyright, patent and trademark law.
There shouldn't be any government interference in any business and money. This problem stems from government power to control, using force and violence, not from the free market profit motive.
Profit motive gave us tractors. Government with its copyright laws gave us tractors that farmers are not allowed to fix themselves.
Blah blah, need more of the same collectivism that destroyed the dollar anf productivity but bigger, blah blah, inflation is lower than expected.
CRAPOLA.
Inflation destroyed USA productivity by driving costs up (combined with taxes, redistribution, regulations and laws) to the point that USA and UK and Japan and many other collectivist countries are insolvent because of how deep in debt they are and they are unproductive due to debt and massive government programs, laws, taxes and of-course inflation itself - money printing and interest rate manipulation.
The solution is as fuckung obvious as you are completely blind to it - removal of fiat money, removal of government control over money and interest rates. Thus will happen by itself, so don't worry about doing something about it. The spending, borrowing, lack of productivity due to all this government activity ensures with absolute precision that the fiat is going to self destruct, the debts will restructure, the government programs will fold due to complete lack of funding and the real money will return as Gresham's law works itself through.
The resulting reduction of debt and removal of collectivism due to its defending will allow reaccumulation of savings and rebuilding of businesses, this will restart the dead economy.
1. It is immoral to allow any government to initiate force against individuals, thus all income and wealth taxation is immoral theft, same as government printing money and manipulating the interest rates.
2. It is horrible economics to reward any people for nothing, simply for existing on this planet at the expense of everybody else. It is bad economics, since it destroys private initiative, creativity in ways that matter: it stops people from devising businesses that make the products and services that improve our lives, it thus destroys the very economic engine that created the societies in the first place.
Companies will have political power as long as politics is about taxing and regulating business. As long as government can tax and regulate business, politicians will sell favours and generally use their insane power over business and money itself. Politicians will always find ways to get money from companies as long as politicians can extract money from companies based on the political power.
Gary Johnson is at 12% in national polls, this is across all parties. It is quite a rise for him, in the last elections when he ran as a Libertarian he barely registered 1% (1.2 million votes). 12% is 12 times better, 1200% better since the last time. He is a viable candidate in these elections, he is on the ballots of all 50 States.
- do not pay any fucking income and wealth related taxes.
DO NOT PAY ANY TAXES, do not listen to thieves like the one I am replying to here, do not pay taxes. Avoid and evade, do not pay them, structure everything in a way to not pay taxes.
Avoid the inflation tax as well, do not hold the fiat currency of the governments, hold real things, hold real money, property that cannot be devalued by printing (inflation).
Collectivism is death and this collectivist cries to arms against businesses is the admission of economic death. Of-course this economic death is brought upon the society by collectivist ideology, making the society so unproductive it can no longer feed itself, so it does not compete on production but fights for the crumbs of consumption that it can rip out of the hands of those, who are still productive.
Google, Amazon, etc., those are the guys that actually still employ people, they are still providing your societies with cheap, affordable, high quality products and services that your society cannot produce at all without companies such as these.
Politicians are the reflection of the worst parts of society and worst part of its ideology, stealing rather than producing, regulating, rather than allowing freedoms. You reap what you sow and as you sow economic destruction you reap economic destruction.
AFAIC all income and wealth related taxes are horribly immoral and also horribly economically terrible, you are getting what you have pushed for - poverty.
People of the USA lost their freedoms and money as the government decided to 'help' them with taxation/inflation and redistribution because some assholes could not manage their own finances.
Putin and his very small hands... He wants 'the Internet encryption keys' in his small hands.
OK, so that is funny. But consider that in the last year Putin increased the police force by a large number in Russia and he signed a law that would require the country to build him his own 'national guard', everybody sees it the same way: he is scared of a coup and he wants his own army around him at all times. Him and his small hands, he is scared to be overthrown and as a KGB operative he knows that he can be overthrown and he decides he needs a couple hundred thousand body guards.
This move against encryption of all sorts is based on the same fear. He is scared of everything, scared he will not find out about a gathering of people somewhere and won't jail them in time before they make it to any news that still exists (and journalism is the most dangerous activity in that country, journalists murdered and beaten by the government). He is afraid to end up in the same way Quadaffi and Hussein ended up in. He should be scared, people are very tired of him. The majority of people in Russia wouldn't move a finger to get ridbof him, but it doesn't take a majority, only a few determined people and that is what he is afraid of most.
Needless to say there are other business interests that are government owned and that would love to have access to all communications that would prevent any competition against them.
Also FSB has their google like search servers installed at every ISP and every communications company in Russia, searching for stuff and recording what matches specific parameters, but the new law also imposes an obligation to all communications companoes to record all traffic and all communications for a minimum of 6 months.
The companies are saying this will cost them billions and will cause rate hikes, the government officials are replying that is nonsense, it will cost nothing and any rate hike because of it would be a money grab. Right, because it costs nothing to record 6 months of internet traffic.
As to this requirement to the FSB to get all of the encryption keys, I wonder who Putin wants to fire 2 weeks from now, because it sounds like an old Russian fairy tale of a tsar telling his servant to go some place that cannot ne found and to get him something that does not exist and if he fails to deliver his head is coming off...
Because Americans have a government that makes them completely uncompetitive and as a result it make them unproductive. Americans have too much debt, too many rules and laws, the taxes in America are too high to support too big a government and too many entitlements. Americans are too expensive as a result and cannot compete due to complete lack of economic freedom in the country.
The only you will achieve with this approach is societal stagnation and eventually economic collapse and death.
That's because it is 'rational' in that world to use government regulations for every single thing. Should people use this colour or this colour for clothing?
Should different people attempt and write alternative open source systems to closed source software? Should there be more than one company pumping gas around? Etc.etc.etc.
Totalitarianism, central control for everything, unbearable level of bureaucracy.
Basically technocracy does not tolerate any alternative point of views, actions, does not allow funding for anything that is not party approved, etc. This is the way to destroy everything.
You keep saying things that maybe make sense in your mind, but you are not observing the big picture. UK pound does not have freedom to do whatever it has to do while it is part of the EU.
Even *Swiss Franc* got pegged to the Euro for almost 2 years, the Swiss buying bad EU debt (they are over that stupidity now). UK wouldn't be able to simply say: no, we are not going to participate in self destruction of the currency. Now, that it will no longer be bound by Euro collectivism, it can do whatever it needs to do.
We've never been part of the Euro. But hey why let facts ger in the way of opinions?
- you may believe that, you have a pretence of your own currency right now. You will only have your money back when you actually quit this failed experiment.
When was the referendum that forced the people who lived in UK to become part of the EU exactly? I would vote for separation of anywhere and of anything and of anybody from anywhere and from anything and from anybody every single time. Things should be handled separately and individually and not collectively based on some collectivist ideology and so called 'morals'. Collectivism is immoral and horrible economically, it should always be stopped.
We want to break up the European Union and crash our economy on a single, simple-majority vote!
- whose economy got crashed exactly, what is the manifestation of this crash? If you are talking about the stock market, well it is back up to the pre-voting time. If you are talking about the actual productive economy - that was crashed by the collectivist system that was implemented in the UK at least since the second world war.
UK economy will be better off with the UK negotiating their own trade deals, not being part of the Euro is going to help it, not hurt it.
This guys life was worth exactly nothing, he forfeited it.
- well, what is *anybody's* life worth exactly? Is it how much they would be willing to pay to continue living? The government certainly thinks so, if you are working and not paying taxes and the government finds out about it, it will come guns blazing. AFAIC the moment the government comes guns blazing the government forfeited its entire existence and AFAIC this happened many many many many many years ago - the government has forfeited its existence because it murdered people, tortured people, kidnapped people, stole from people.
The police are an arm of a government and the government has forfeited its existence, guess what...
So which one is it? Is the government a bunch of individuals or a collective?
- the system of government based on this mobocracy is collectivist and you are well aware of that. It is collectivist in the idiotic ideology and many of the outcomes - taking from those who are working and redistributing to those who are not. Taking from those who have more and redistributing to... whoever, the vast majority of the redistribution goes towards buying the individual politicians more power.
Of-course individual politicians in government want to gain from the system, so they would absolutely abuse any form of free (to them) advertising and abuse that goes together with robocalls.
The fact that you can keep posting your rants about tyranny strongly implies you don't actually live under one.
- I was born in one, I managed to escape and from then on I decided not to be a slave to any collective, which is why my business and strategy, assets, movement is structured in such a way as to avoid all of your collectivist ideals.
But to answer your question: you can't. A society can't function without collective decision-making.
- right, as I said, the collectivist hydra is very difficult or maybe impossible to destroy from the outside, however it will destroy itself from the inside because its own collectivist ideology is going to destroy it. The hydra lives as long as it can feed itself, but as any parasite, it will destroy the host economy and society and will die.
A society can't function without collective decision-making. No group of human beings can.
- sure, we are making 'collective decisions' every time we decide to buy a product, to start a company, to save money, to spend money, the bigger the pull to one side, the more chances that the side wins. However this absolutely does not require any deity government, any form of 'intelligent design', because the so called intelligent design is based solely on violence, on initiating force by the collective against the individual. This works for a short period of time, where the length of the period is very much proportional to the length of the time that preceded it, and it is the time that preceded it, the time of much greater individual freedom that builds the wealth that the collective forms around in order to steal it.
Basically any collectivist government forms around wealth that can be stolen but this wealth is first generated by the preceding work of the individuals, who built the wealth while the government was much less collective.
I am not just demonizing it, I am predicting its ultimate and unavoidable demise. It will die as it kills the economic host it rides and the former economic USA host is on its last legs.
I do care, I also know that it is more important to have individual freedoms than prevent any particular company from what you call 'fraudulent medical testing'. Without individual freedoms what good is testing, whether done right or not? What good is life without freedom on this planet?
It is not up to any government to declare what is fraudulent and what is real, it's up to the market, which is the ultimate democracy - voting with your money.
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Government should have nothing to do with anything that you mentioned at all. I listed the 2 functions, everything else is none of any governments' business.
"Vaulin is charged with running today's most visited illegal file-sharing website, responsible for unlawfully distributing well over $1 billion of copyrighted materials," Assistant Attorney General Caldwell said in the statement. "In an effort to evade law enforcement, Vaulin allegedly relied on servers located in countries around the world and moved his domains due to repeated seizures and civil lawsuits. His arrest in Poland, however, demonstrates again that cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from justice."
- is this what passes for 'justice' today?
I guess he, who has the most guns defines what justice is. Justice is the opposite of what this Orwellian prick says. Justice is in non initiation of violence by any government. Justice is in equal treatment of individuals by law regardless of their circumstances. Using government oppression to enforce copyright has nothing to do with justice.
Government may have a function, that function being enforcing contract law and dealing with fraud. That is all that any government should ever have any power to do. Everything else is oppression, not justice.
It's great until your bed suffocates you or your fridge freezes you almost to death.
As a side note, it never ceases to amaze me how stupid ads look (maybe I don't watch enough of them to stop noticing such things). The girl wakes up in her bed with full make up, her hair is done, fake eyelashes, etc. Everything is sterile and perfectly clean and wrinkle free. Who lives like that?
You are saying that the problem is 'the profit motive', I am saying that you completely misdiagnosed the problem. Profit motive is the solution to building a better economy and making our lives better.
The problem is government interfering with the market, using power to uphold laws that subvert the free market. In this case the problem is the government power to protect monopoly based on copyright, patent and trademark law.
There shouldn't be any government interference in any business and money. This problem stems from government power to control, using force and violence, not from the free market profit motive.
Profit motive gave us tractors. Government with its copyright laws gave us tractors that farmers are not allowed to fix themselves.
She is literary Yahoo's Minister of Information.. She should be known as Yahoo Bob.
Blah blah, need more of the same collectivism that destroyed the dollar anf productivity but bigger, blah blah, inflation is lower than expected.
CRAPOLA.
Inflation destroyed USA productivity by driving costs up (combined with taxes, redistribution, regulations and laws) to the point that USA and UK and Japan and many other collectivist countries are insolvent because of how deep in debt they are and they are unproductive due to debt and massive government programs, laws, taxes and of-course inflation itself - money printing and interest rate manipulation.
The solution is as fuckung obvious as you are completely blind to it - removal of fiat money, removal of government control over money and interest rates. Thus will happen by itself, so don't worry about doing something about it. The spending, borrowing, lack of productivity due to all this government activity ensures with absolute precision that the fiat is going to self destruct, the debts will restructure, the government programs will fold due to complete lack of funding and the real money will return as Gresham's law works itself through.
The resulting reduction of debt and removal of collectivism due to its defending will allow reaccumulation of savings and rebuilding of businesses, this will restart the dead economy.
1. It is immoral to allow any government to initiate force against individuals, thus all income and wealth taxation is immoral theft, same as government printing money and manipulating the interest rates.
2. It is horrible economics to reward any people for nothing, simply for existing on this planet at the expense of everybody else. It is bad economics, since it destroys private initiative, creativity in ways that matter: it stops people from devising businesses that make the products and services that improve our lives, it thus destroys the very economic engine that created the societies in the first place.
Companies will have political power as long as politics is about taxing and regulating business. As long as government can tax and regulate business, politicians will sell favours and generally use their insane power over business and money itself. Politicians will always find ways to get money from companies as long as politicians can extract money from companies based on the political power.
Gary Johnson is at 12% in national polls, this is across all parties. It is quite a rise for him, in the last elections when he ran as a Libertarian he barely registered 1% (1.2 million votes). 12% is 12 times better, 1200% better since the last time. He is a viable candidate in these elections, he is on the ballots of all 50 States.
How about checking your sources? Gary Johnson is polling at 12%.
Pay your fucking taxes
- do not pay any fucking income and wealth related taxes.
DO NOT PAY ANY TAXES, do not listen to thieves like the one I am replying to here, do not pay taxes. Avoid and evade, do not pay them, structure everything in a way to not pay taxes.
Avoid the inflation tax as well, do not hold the fiat currency of the governments, hold real things, hold real money, property that cannot be devalued by printing (inflation).
Collectivism is death and this collectivist cries to arms against businesses is the admission of economic death. Of-course this economic death is brought upon the society by collectivist ideology, making the society so unproductive it can no longer feed itself, so it does not compete on production but fights for the crumbs of consumption that it can rip out of the hands of those, who are still productive.
Google, Amazon, etc., those are the guys that actually still employ people, they are still providing your societies with cheap, affordable, high quality products and services that your society cannot produce at all without companies such as these.
Politicians are the reflection of the worst parts of society and worst part of its ideology, stealing rather than producing, regulating, rather than allowing freedoms. You reap what you sow and as you sow economic destruction you reap economic destruction.
AFAIC all income and wealth related taxes are horribly immoral and also horribly economically terrible, you are getting what you have pushed for - poverty.
People of the USA lost their freedoms and money as the government decided to 'help' them with taxation/inflation and redistribution because some assholes could not manage their own finances.
Vlad, the Internet Impaler - this was my original comment on the Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet story. I got 'flamebait' moderation on that one :)
I want to see how deep does the rabbit hole go...
Putin and his very small hands... He wants 'the Internet encryption keys' in his small hands.
OK, so that is funny. But consider that in the last year Putin increased the police force by a large number in Russia and he signed a law that would require the country to build him his own 'national guard', everybody sees it the same way: he is scared of a coup and he wants his own army around him at all times. Him and his small hands, he is scared to be overthrown and as a KGB operative he knows that he can be overthrown and he decides he needs a couple hundred thousand body guards.
This move against encryption of all sorts is based on the same fear. He is scared of everything, scared he will not find out about a gathering of people somewhere and won't jail them in time before they make it to any news that still exists (and journalism is the most dangerous activity in that country, journalists murdered and beaten by the government). He is afraid to end up in the same way Quadaffi and Hussein ended up in. He should be scared, people are very tired of him. The majority of people in Russia wouldn't move a finger to get ridbof him, but it doesn't take a majority, only a few determined people and that is what he is afraid of most.
Needless to say there are other business interests that are government owned and that would love to have access to all communications that would prevent any competition against them.
Also FSB has their google like search servers installed at every ISP and every communications company in Russia, searching for stuff and recording what matches specific parameters, but the new law also imposes an obligation to all communications companoes to record all traffic and all communications for a minimum of 6 months.
The companies are saying this will cost them billions and will cause rate hikes, the government officials are replying that is nonsense, it will cost nothing and any rate hike because of it would be a money grab. Right, because it costs nothing to record 6 months of internet traffic.
As to this requirement to the FSB to get all of the encryption keys, I wonder who Putin wants to fire 2 weeks from now, because it sounds like an old Russian fairy tale of a tsar telling his servant to go some place that cannot ne found and to get him something that does not exist and if he fails to deliver his head is coming off...
Google disagrees with you.
Because Americans have a government that makes them completely uncompetitive and as a result it make them unproductive. Americans have too much debt, too many rules and laws, the taxes in America are too high to support too big a government and too many entitlements. Americans are too expensive as a result and cannot compete due to complete lack of economic freedom in the country.
Evidence shows that people prefer not to work but they still like to eat, now what?
The only you will achieve with this approach is societal stagnation and eventually economic collapse and death.
That's because it is 'rational' in that world to use government regulations for every single thing. Should people use this colour or this colour for clothing?
Should different people attempt and write alternative open source systems to closed source software? Should there be more than one company pumping gas around? Etc.etc.etc.
Totalitarianism, central control for everything, unbearable level of bureaucracy.
Basically technocracy does not tolerate any alternative point of views, actions, does not allow funding for anything that is not party approved, etc. This is the way to destroy everything.
You keep saying things that maybe make sense in your mind, but you are not observing the big picture. UK pound does not have freedom to do whatever it has to do while it is part of the EU.
Even *Swiss Franc* got pegged to the Euro for almost 2 years, the Swiss buying bad EU debt (they are over that stupidity now). UK wouldn't be able to simply say: no, we are not going to participate in self destruction of the currency. Now, that it will no longer be bound by Euro collectivism, it can do whatever it needs to do.
We've never been part of the Euro. But hey why let facts ger in the way of opinions?
- you may believe that, you have a pretence of your own currency right now. You will only have your money back when you actually quit this failed experiment.
When was the referendum that forced the people who lived in UK to become part of the EU exactly? I would vote for separation of anywhere and of anything and of anybody from anywhere and from anything and from anybody every single time. Things should be handled separately and individually and not collectively based on some collectivist ideology and so called 'morals'. Collectivism is immoral and horrible economically, it should always be stopped.
We want to break up the European Union and crash our economy on a single, simple-majority vote!
- whose economy got crashed exactly, what is the manifestation of this crash? If you are talking about the stock market, well it is back up to the pre-voting time. If you are talking about the actual productive economy - that was crashed by the collectivist system that was implemented in the UK at least since the second world war.
UK economy will be better off with the UK negotiating their own trade deals, not being part of the Euro is going to help it, not hurt it.
This guys life was worth exactly nothing, he forfeited it.
- well, what is *anybody's* life worth exactly? Is it how much they would be willing to pay to continue living? The government certainly thinks so, if you are working and not paying taxes and the government finds out about it, it will come guns blazing. AFAIC the moment the government comes guns blazing the government forfeited its entire existence and AFAIC this happened many many many many many years ago - the government has forfeited its existence because it murdered people, tortured people, kidnapped people, stole from people.
The police are an arm of a government and the government has forfeited its existence, guess what...
So which one is it? Is the government a bunch of individuals or a collective?
- the system of government based on this mobocracy is collectivist and you are well aware of that. It is collectivist in the idiotic ideology and many of the outcomes - taking from those who are working and redistributing to those who are not. Taking from those who have more and redistributing to ... whoever, the vast majority of the redistribution goes towards buying the individual politicians more power.
Of-course individual politicians in government want to gain from the system, so they would absolutely abuse any form of free (to them) advertising and abuse that goes together with robocalls.
The fact that you can keep posting your rants about tyranny strongly implies you don't actually live under one.
- I was born in one, I managed to escape and from then on I decided not to be a slave to any collective, which is why my business and strategy, assets, movement is structured in such a way as to avoid all of your collectivist ideals.
But to answer your question: you can't. A society can't function without collective decision-making.
- right, as I said, the collectivist hydra is very difficult or maybe impossible to destroy from the outside, however it will destroy itself from the inside because its own collectivist ideology is going to destroy it. The hydra lives as long as it can feed itself, but as any parasite, it will destroy the host economy and society and will die.
A society can't function without collective decision-making. No group of human beings can.
- sure, we are making 'collective decisions' every time we decide to buy a product, to start a company, to save money, to spend money, the bigger the pull to one side, the more chances that the side wins. However this absolutely does not require any deity government, any form of 'intelligent design', because the so called intelligent design is based solely on violence, on initiating force by the collective against the individual. This works for a short period of time, where the length of the period is very much proportional to the length of the time that preceded it, and it is the time that preceded it, the time of much greater individual freedom that builds the wealth that the collective forms around in order to steal it.
Basically any collectivist government forms around wealth that can be stolen but this wealth is first generated by the preceding work of the individuals, who built the wealth while the government was much less collective.
I am not just demonizing it, I am predicting its ultimate and unavoidable demise. It will die as it kills the economic host it rides and the former economic USA host is on its last legs.
I do care, I also know that it is more important to have individual freedoms than prevent any particular company from what you call 'fraudulent medical testing'. Without individual freedoms what good is testing, whether done right or not? What good is life without freedom on this planet?
It is not up to any government to declare what is fraudulent and what is real, it's up to the market, which is the ultimate democracy - voting with your money.