Oh, god:) You are not going to believe it, but you DO have Ebala (or Ebalo) unless you are totally castrated (totally, I mean nothing left there). If you are not sure what I am talking about, find a translation from Russian of what that means.
Forgive my ignorance (or is it iGnorance) on the matter, I have no idea about iMacs and iPotatoes, but here is my question:
Is it even possible to have an alternative to the iTunes provider? I mean is it possible to have another site allowing iPhones and iMaxiPads users to download whatever software they want on their fabulous toys?
Excellent, all I need is to replace the platters and the reading/writing mechanisms and it's good to go. Imagine ALL the porn in the Universe stored on it!
And right to a meaningful job? Simple. First, it is understood that people will have the right to be educated according to their desires and up to their abilities. Then, it is understood that they will be employed according to their level of education. Now the simple part. Don't fire them when economy is down. Ta-dah!
- wow, amazing, did you come up with it yourself?
Who, WHO is supposed to tell you what is it that you are supposed to do in life, what your abilities are, what your education should be except for yourself?
Who is supposed to GIVE you a JOB?
Economy is not about you having a right to something, it is about you doing something that is needed by somebody else, so that you can exchange your time for theirs productively.
What is a 'meaningful' job anyway? I can understand a hobby maybe meaningful and for some people hobbies become jobs, great stuff, what are you going to do with the majority of people who do not want to work? That's the reality of it. I lived in the USSR, majority of people totally do not want to work especially if the outcome from work is the same whether you are working or just BSing around.
You can't be fired on basis of what? Who is going to maintain your standard of living if you are sitting there doing nothing in an economy that does not need you to be there?
You are against economy restructuring itself, that's the way to KILL economy, not to grow it. If you Kill economy then there will be no jobs and surely there will be no 'meaningful' jobs.
Also certainly, there can be a publicly owned company, that is what IPO does: you buy stock and own it, quelle novelle idee, n'est pas?
But to do what Proletariat did, to take away from the producers and then give it to the workers and expect the company to last, go ahead, see if your economy survives for too long.
That's not a counter point, JP Morgan made huge amounts of money not from any derivatives and not from Government's Free Money but he was a successful investor into actual businesses, more like Buffet.
What was that with saying that government corruption is new, I can't imagine a dishonest profession that is older than being a corrupt person in power of some sort, whether a king or a priest. Prostitutes are working honest people (well, in terms of business transactions), so that does not count.
Yeah, OMG, I am sorry, did I just destroy society?
Society would be better off if nobody was DESTROYING public resources, like the fucking Ocean!
Sure, there would be Insurance for the Oil companies, but that is the cost of business for any business, why is this one, a very dangerous one to everybody's lives any better, why are their dangers socialized and their profits kept private?
Also remember that BP is supposed to pay ROYALTIES. Yeah. If they do what you say, well, that's wonderful. There would be a reason to increase the royalty payments as well by a factors, of say 100.
On the other hand if BP cannot successfully get insurance for covering their asses maybe that means that insurance companies are not stupid enough to be in that business and then the 2% of oil that is drilled for off-shore wouldn't be touched at least until there was a bullet-proof tech to do so without actually damaging the environment.
If the Insurance company decided that the premiums must be outrageous, maybe that should be taken as an indicator that off-shore drilling is actually very very dangerous to the environment and must be stopped altogether.
Also, what the fuck are you talking about x4, x5? 2% of drilling does not cause any price fluctuation like that, maybe 2% price fluctuation at worst.
Even then, society SHOULD be paying the correct amount for the privilege to use oil in their everyday lives if that means the public resources get fucked like that.
I just thought about it for another minute, I do NOT wish you luck with that. Too many people have suffered for ideas like yours and died in the process of someone trying to set it up to be that way. I wish anyone trying to implement that to die and rot in hell forever, and I am an atheist.
Government giving me a 'meaningful job'. Fuck the Government, fuck anyone who wants to define what is meaningful to me and 'give me a meaningful job'.
Give up your responsibilities in life and give up your freedoms, if you think you have a right to a job, to health-care, to housing, you have to define what it means for it to be a right. For it to be a right it means someone has to GIVE it to you. You are not a King, nobody owns your ass anything. You are born alive, be happy nobody killed you already and didn't eat you for breakfast.
I am in Germany at this very moment, Baden-Baden, outside of the window everything is seemingly fine, then again, this is not a normal German city, 5000 millionaires live here (I am not yet in that category unfortunately.)
Germany most certainly does NOT have 90% tax, it has sales tax, called VAT, there are vehicle and other taxes, there is a DUAL health care system, not a single payer system, you can chose to be with private insurance and health providers. There is though government paid for education system but there are also private schools. There is no push to 'level inequalities', in fact the opposite, many people want to live better than the rest, that is a much more powerful motivator than what you are proposing.
Housing, food and job as rights?:))) Again, not EVEN in USSR where I was born was there a right to a MEANINGFUL job. Give me a break, who is supposed to give you anything meaningful? Sure, they forced you to work for the meaningless useless money in ridiculously low quantities, imagine what that looked like.
USSR 'collectively owned' farms. Government actually owned factories. But the 'collectively owned' farms is a euphemism for the dictatorial nature of the political structure. My Great-Grandfathers family was put into a train car (18 kids, himself and his wife) and they were moved away from their land, in the car his wife and 5 kids died. Only 3 survived past the WWII. Collectively owned means you have to take it away from someone who built it and then run it into the ground. Germany does not operate this way, where the hell do you get your information from?
You would dismantle the military industry, I guess USA has the hugest one ever, but it is not about dismantling it, it is about stopping the idea that US is an empire and needs to dominate the world. Not a year without wars, excursions, invasions, 'liberations' since WWII.
But Germany has an army and a Navy and an Airforce.
Anyway, your ideas have been tried, though not successfully. Good luck with that.
No, in a real Free Market the Government would not be forcing you to go to a publicly founded school anyway. Private schools and not supported by the government ones, and the curriculum would have much more competition, so the areas with better education would be better of in the long term, which would weed out most of the places with ridiculous education. Of-course there is no Free Market, there are Government aided Monopolies on anything, including book publishing.
That structure, you have described, would fall apart under its weight in a Global Economy. The real value of money would not be known, I suppose you would expect everyone to work for the common good and nobody to try and get a bigger better part of the pie, right?
Because it has been tried in almost those terms and it failed in the USSR, except the 'heavily regulated Wall Street' was just a bunch of Government ministries.
Oh, US needs a progressive tax structure, but it has to be consumption tax not income tax. I don't want to regurgitate the same comment here again but the point is that US needs production today much more than it needs consumption.
US NEEDS to BURST the bubble and stop printing money, stop borrowing, create incentives for people to start saving money so they can then invest it into something productive, like starting their own businesses or lending it to people who will start their own businesses. US NEEDS to stop propping up the huge Monopolies the Government has created and US needs to stop waging wars all over the place.
What US does NOT need is Government regulation, Government spending, Government money printing and borrowing, Government incentives to consume, Government insurance for debt, income tax.
What US Needs Government to do is get the fuck out of Economy and from Empire building and start doing its job: punishing those, who destroy the common resources (like BP, Halliburton, Transoceanic etc), punishing them with the actual costs + liability that should be orders of magnitude of actual costs, maybe x1000 of what it would cost to do clean up, punishing the actual individuals involved (including the Government people from MMS who are literally fucking with the corporate whores).
Government needs to dole out punishment for transgressions of Private Businesses Socializing Damage. That must be done. Free Market economy is not Anarchy where anyone can just come and destroy an ocean or a piece of land or drinking water supplies etc.
US needs to become a producer again and it needs to stop debasing its currency.
If this actually was implemented, the Free Market would correct the economy by first going through a major restructuring - a BUST. Which is necessary and unavoidable.
Knowing the way governments and people operate, I do not expect any of this to happen, so I expect collapse of the USD and 'interesting' times ahead.
The Free Market was destroyed long before you were born. The Free Market today is a misnomer, there is no Free Market.
What has failed is the idea that the Government can control Economy with politics. Rockefeller created the Federal Reserve by colluding with Government Officials, who should have never been allowed to create such an entity in the first place.
Once you have the Fed, the Free Market is out of the window. Instead you have the real Government printing money and giving it to the preferred corporations at a very low artificial rate. Where is the Free Market in this? You have some corporations colluding with the Government to create regulations to prevent competition. Where is the Free Market in that?
It is not the Free Market that allowed people to make billions by doing 'money manipulation', it is the policy of the Government, which has adopted the Keynes ideas that the normal Economy should be controlled because normal Free Market economy is cyclical, it has a Boom (expansion) and a Bust (contraction) and before the Fed, when there was Free Market, the US standard of living was constantly rising and prices would not go up all the time but would come down due to actual competition. The Government took Keynes ideas and applied it to its own purposes because Keynes is about removing the Bust from the Economic cycle, which is actually a BAD thing because it does not allow the Economy to restructure, cut the fat, get rid of some jobs that are really not needed.
The Government cannot allow the Bust because no Government is a producer. Government is a burden on Economy and during a Bust it has to shrink by reducing spending. Government cannot have that, they want their jobs forever and ever in an ever growing 'economy'.
So they print money left right and center, print bonds and t-bills when they really should have been raising taxes for their spending, but Governments know that it is not a popular move, to raise taxes for actual spending. So the borrow and print, debasing the currency while propping up huge Monopolies and regulating out the competition.
Event he income tax is the manifestation of the Government's agenda to keep the inflation going and setting the economy to failure because income tax is a disincentive against production. Income is not what a person spends on him/her self, it is money that is not spent on anything for pleasure, instead the money is re-invested.
Free Market Economy NEEDS investment. It needs liquidity, it needs people saving money and putting it back to work. Government reduces the incentives to put money back to work and it creates liquidity in the form of DEBT and not in the form of savings.
Government printing and lending policies lead to banks getting free money and then they gamble with it. Of-course they do, I would totally gamble with huge wads of cash if it was not actually MY money and I never had to be responsible for losing it!
Government insuring the banks, insuring the mortgages, insuring insuring insuring everything, creates huge moral hazard. People do not gamble hugely like that with their own money knowing that there may be real consequences. Government removes the consequences and gives out the free money.
Government created Monopolies are huge economies of scale who benefit ridiculously from Globalization, unlike small and medium size businesses. Government props up Huge Monopolies because those pay the most in bribes, it just makes sense to grow your own gigantic money laundering machines. When USSR fell apart and the world became Global, the Monopolies created by the Government moved out of the US to places with cheap production costs and little if any regulations.
Government created the Monopolies and the reasons for them to move. Minimum wage laws, regulations that were useful for Monopolies to keep the competition down became a nuisance. So they move production.
Government encourages consumption based economy from all fronts, from the Keynes ideas of fake consumption
I just noticed I missed the last paragraph of your diatribe there.
In a Free Economy John Rockefeller would not be able to conglomerate that way without plenty of Government assistance, so he colluded with government officials specifically to set up the Federal Reserve to have access to Free Money and he colluded with the Government Officials to set laws and regulations that would make him a Monopolist in more ways than one. He used the Government to destroy competition and to get access to cheap huge wads of cash.
So go ahead, tell me how Government will protect your interests. All huge monopolies of the world use Governments to protect themselves from competition and use Governments to get Free Money.
Your first example shows what government regulations do to the competition. Phone companies are provided government backing and monopoly on laying cable across public and private lands without paying taxes or royalties. Health Insurance industry has become the monstrosity that it is due to government policy on taxes, it used to be a normal practice to buy health insurance with a large deductible and to pay for most minor things out of pocket. efore Nixon it was possible to buy health insurance with 500 dollar deductible for a year for 25 dollars for a family. As for companies like Google and Apple - nobody forces you to provide them with your private information, that's your personal problem.
Sex with a 12 years old? It is absolutely not a problem. Many countries have the age of consent from 12. I do not see your point.
AFAIC you can have any weapon you like. I can too. That's all there is to it.
Halliburton can do what they do, however I am not an anarchist, the Government has the right to start Class Action Lawsuits on behalf of the public against anybody who is destroying common public resources. Ocean is a common public resource, it does not belong to Halliburton. I am NOT for socializing harm and privatizing the profits. The cost of any operation must include the cost of conducting it in a way that does not do harm to public resources and private citizens.
You are almost right except this: No amount of Government intervention (regulation) can do anything about all possible ways someone may fuck up in all different companies in all different sectors of economy.
Have the Government do what it should do on behalf of the People: Sue the Shit out of BP, Halliburton and Transocean, get the damages, cleanup and x100 or x1000 liability as a way to scare the fuck of all the other companies who are pumping oil, gas, digging coal etc etc etc
Do this: destroy the fucking BP if necessary and also, screw the corporate protection, arrest the management, arrest whoever wasn't doing the job right and also put every single prick from MMS (that's the Government agency literally is fucking with the corporate whores, literally) to jail for 10 consecutive life sentences. Or shoot them Chinese style.
You have to do it. Have to distribute the punishment to the guilty and be consistent about it. That's the way to avoid the future 'calamities' like this one.
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Oh, god :) You are not going to believe it, but you DO have Ebala (or Ebalo) unless you are totally castrated (totally, I mean nothing left there). If you are not sure what I am talking about, find a translation from Russian of what that means.
Stop iFlamebaiting here!
Forgive my ignorance (or is it iGnorance) on the matter, I have no idea about iMacs and iPotatoes, but here is my question:
Is it even possible to have an alternative to the iTunes provider? I mean is it possible to have another site allowing iPhones and iMaxiPads users to download whatever software they want on their fabulous toys?
The parent comment is not off-topic, goddamn-it!
It could be anything at all, but it is on topic.
The parent comment is Not off-topic, that is obscene.
I don't care what you call the parent comment, you can call it shit, but it is NOT off-topic.
Excellent, all I need is to replace the platters and the reading/writing mechanisms and it's good to go. Imagine ALL the porn in the Universe stored on it!
It is already over now, to put more data onto a magnetic HD you add more platters or increase the radius, that's all.
So where in the machine does he put the penis?
And right to a meaningful job? Simple.
First, it is understood that people will have the right to be educated according to their desires and up to their abilities.
Then, it is understood that they will be employed according to their level of education.
Now the simple part. Don't fire them when economy is down. Ta-dah!
- wow, amazing, did you come up with it yourself?
Who, WHO is supposed to tell you what is it that you are supposed to do in life, what your abilities are, what your education should be except for yourself?
Who is supposed to GIVE you a JOB?
Economy is not about you having a right to something, it is about you doing something that is needed by somebody else, so that you can exchange your time for theirs productively.
What is a 'meaningful' job anyway? I can understand a hobby maybe meaningful and for some people hobbies become jobs, great stuff, what are you going to do with the majority of people who do not want to work? That's the reality of it. I lived in the USSR, majority of people totally do not want to work especially if the outcome from work is the same whether you are working or just BSing around.
You can't be fired on basis of what? Who is going to maintain your standard of living if you are sitting there doing nothing in an economy that does not need you to be there?
You are against economy restructuring itself, that's the way to KILL economy, not to grow it. If you Kill economy then there will be no jobs and surely there will be no 'meaningful' jobs.
Also certainly, there can be a publicly owned company, that is what IPO does: you buy stock and own it, quelle novelle idee, n'est pas?
But to do what Proletariat did, to take away from the producers and then give it to the workers and expect the company to last, go ahead, see if your economy survives for too long.
That's not a counter point, JP Morgan made huge amounts of money not from any derivatives and not from Government's Free Money but he was a successful investor into actual businesses, more like Buffet.
What was that with saying that government corruption is new, I can't imagine a dishonest profession that is older than being a corrupt person in power of some sort, whether a king or a priest. Prostitutes are working honest people (well, in terms of business transactions), so that does not count.
Yeah, OMG, I am sorry, did I just destroy society?
Society would be better off if nobody was DESTROYING public resources, like the fucking Ocean!
Sure, there would be Insurance for the Oil companies, but that is the cost of business for any business, why is this one, a very dangerous one to everybody's lives any better, why are their dangers socialized and their profits kept private?
Also remember that BP is supposed to pay ROYALTIES. Yeah. If they do what you say, well, that's wonderful. There would be a reason to increase the royalty payments as well by a factors, of say 100.
On the other hand if BP cannot successfully get insurance for covering their asses maybe that means that insurance companies are not stupid enough to be in that business and then the 2% of oil that is drilled for off-shore wouldn't be touched at least until there was a bullet-proof tech to do so without actually damaging the environment.
If the Insurance company decided that the premiums must be outrageous, maybe that should be taken as an indicator that off-shore drilling is actually very very dangerous to the environment and must be stopped altogether.
Also, what the fuck are you talking about x4, x5? 2% of drilling does not cause any price fluctuation like that, maybe 2% price fluctuation at worst.
Even then, society SHOULD be paying the correct amount for the privilege to use oil in their everyday lives if that means the public resources get fucked like that.
I replied to him already, applies as a reply to your comment just as well.
I just thought about it for another minute, I do NOT wish you luck with that. Too many people have suffered for ideas like yours and died in the process of someone trying to set it up to be that way. I wish anyone trying to implement that to die and rot in hell forever, and I am an atheist.
Government giving me a 'meaningful job'. Fuck the Government, fuck anyone who wants to define what is meaningful to me and 'give me a meaningful job'.
Give up your responsibilities in life and give up your freedoms, if you think you have a right to a job, to health-care, to housing, you have to define what it means for it to be a right. For it to be a right it means someone has to GIVE it to you. You are not a King, nobody owns your ass anything. You are born alive, be happy nobody killed you already and didn't eat you for breakfast.
I am in Germany at this very moment, Baden-Baden, outside of the window everything is seemingly fine, then again, this is not a normal German city, 5000 millionaires live here (I am not yet in that category unfortunately.)
Germany most certainly does NOT have 90% tax, it has sales tax, called VAT, there are vehicle and other taxes, there is a DUAL health care system, not a single payer system, you can chose to be with private insurance and health providers. There is though government paid for education system but there are also private schools. There is no push to 'level inequalities', in fact the opposite, many people want to live better than the rest, that is a much more powerful motivator than what you are proposing.
Housing, food and job as rights? :))) Again, not EVEN in USSR where I was born was there a right to a MEANINGFUL job. Give me a break, who is supposed to give you anything meaningful? Sure, they forced you to work for the meaningless useless money in ridiculously low quantities, imagine what that looked like.
USSR 'collectively owned' farms. Government actually owned factories. But the 'collectively owned' farms is a euphemism for the dictatorial nature of the political structure. My Great-Grandfathers family was put into a train car (18 kids, himself and his wife) and they were moved away from their land, in the car his wife and 5 kids died. Only 3 survived past the WWII. Collectively owned means you have to take it away from someone who built it and then run it into the ground. Germany does not operate this way, where the hell do you get your information from?
You would dismantle the military industry, I guess USA has the hugest one ever, but it is not about dismantling it, it is about stopping the idea that US is an empire and needs to dominate the world. Not a year without wars, excursions, invasions, 'liberations' since WWII.
But Germany has an army and a Navy and an Airforce.
Anyway, your ideas have been tried, though not successfully. Good luck with that.
Facts are meaningless - you could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
No, in a real Free Market the Government would not be forcing you to go to a publicly founded school anyway. Private schools and not supported by the government ones, and the curriculum would have much more competition, so the areas with better education would be better of in the long term, which would weed out most of the places with ridiculous education. Of-course there is no Free Market, there are Government aided Monopolies on anything, including book publishing.
That structure, you have described, would fall apart under its weight in a Global Economy. The real value of money would not be known, I suppose you would expect everyone to work for the common good and nobody to try and get a bigger better part of the pie, right?
Because it has been tried in almost those terms and it failed in the USSR, except the 'heavily regulated Wall Street' was just a bunch of Government ministries.
Oh, US needs a progressive tax structure, but it has to be consumption tax not income tax. I don't want to regurgitate the same comment here again but the point is that US needs production today much more than it needs consumption.
US NEEDS to BURST the bubble and stop printing money, stop borrowing, create incentives for people to start saving money so they can then invest it into something productive, like starting their own businesses or lending it to people who will start their own businesses. US NEEDS to stop propping up the huge Monopolies the Government has created and US needs to stop waging wars all over the place.
What US does NOT need is Government regulation, Government spending, Government money printing and borrowing, Government incentives to consume, Government insurance for debt, income tax.
What US Needs Government to do is get the fuck out of Economy and from Empire building and start doing its job: punishing those, who destroy the common resources (like BP, Halliburton, Transoceanic etc), punishing them with the actual costs + liability that should be orders of magnitude of actual costs, maybe x1000 of what it would cost to do clean up, punishing the actual individuals involved (including the Government people from MMS who are literally fucking with the corporate whores).
Government needs to dole out punishment for transgressions of Private Businesses Socializing Damage. That must be done. Free Market economy is not Anarchy where anyone can just come and destroy an ocean or a piece of land or drinking water supplies etc.
US needs to become a producer again and it needs to stop debasing its currency.
If this actually was implemented, the Free Market would correct the economy by first going through a major restructuring - a BUST. Which is necessary and unavoidable.
Knowing the way governments and people operate, I do not expect any of this to happen, so I expect collapse of the USD and 'interesting' times ahead.
The Free Market was destroyed long before you were born. The Free Market today is a misnomer, there is no Free Market.
What has failed is the idea that the Government can control Economy with politics. Rockefeller created the Federal Reserve by colluding with Government Officials, who should have never been allowed to create such an entity in the first place.
Once you have the Fed, the Free Market is out of the window. Instead you have the real Government printing money and giving it to the preferred corporations at a very low artificial rate. Where is the Free Market in this? You have some corporations colluding with the Government to create regulations to prevent competition. Where is the Free Market in that?
It is not the Free Market that allowed people to make billions by doing 'money manipulation', it is the policy of the Government, which has adopted the Keynes ideas that the normal Economy should be controlled because normal Free Market economy is cyclical, it has a Boom (expansion) and a Bust (contraction) and before the Fed, when there was Free Market, the US standard of living was constantly rising and prices would not go up all the time but would come down due to actual competition. The Government took Keynes ideas and applied it to its own purposes because Keynes is about removing the Bust from the Economic cycle, which is actually a BAD thing because it does not allow the Economy to restructure, cut the fat, get rid of some jobs that are really not needed.
The Government cannot allow the Bust because no Government is a producer. Government is a burden on Economy and during a Bust it has to shrink by reducing spending. Government cannot have that, they want their jobs forever and ever in an ever growing 'economy'.
So they print money left right and center, print bonds and t-bills when they really should have been raising taxes for their spending, but Governments know that it is not a popular move, to raise taxes for actual spending. So the borrow and print, debasing the currency while propping up huge Monopolies and regulating out the competition.
Event he income tax is the manifestation of the Government's agenda to keep the inflation going and setting the economy to failure because income tax is a disincentive against production. Income is not what a person spends on him/her self, it is money that is not spent on anything for pleasure, instead the money is re-invested.
Free Market Economy NEEDS investment. It needs liquidity, it needs people saving money and putting it back to work. Government reduces the incentives to put money back to work and it creates liquidity in the form of DEBT and not in the form of savings.
Government printing and lending policies lead to banks getting free money and then they gamble with it. Of-course they do, I would totally gamble with huge wads of cash if it was not actually MY money and I never had to be responsible for losing it!
Government insuring the banks, insuring the mortgages, insuring insuring insuring everything, creates huge moral hazard. People do not gamble hugely like that with their own money knowing that there may be real consequences. Government removes the consequences and gives out the free money.
Government created Monopolies are huge economies of scale who benefit ridiculously from Globalization, unlike small and medium size businesses. Government props up Huge Monopolies because those pay the most in bribes, it just makes sense to grow your own gigantic money laundering machines. When USSR fell apart and the world became Global, the Monopolies created by the Government moved out of the US to places with cheap production costs and little if any regulations.
Government created the Monopolies and the reasons for them to move. Minimum wage laws, regulations that were useful for Monopolies to keep the competition down became a nuisance. So they move production.
Government encourages consumption based economy from all fronts, from the Keynes ideas of fake consumption
I just noticed I missed the last paragraph of your diatribe there.
In a Free Economy John Rockefeller would not be able to conglomerate that way without plenty of Government assistance, so he colluded with government officials specifically to set up the Federal Reserve to have access to Free Money and he colluded with the Government Officials to set laws and regulations that would make him a Monopolist in more ways than one. He used the Government to destroy competition and to get access to cheap huge wads of cash.
So go ahead, tell me how Government will protect your interests. All huge monopolies of the world use Governments to protect themselves from competition and use Governments to get Free Money.
Your first example shows what government regulations do to the competition. Phone companies are provided government backing and monopoly on laying cable across public and private lands without paying taxes or royalties. Health Insurance industry has become the monstrosity that it is due to government policy on taxes, it used to be a normal practice to buy health insurance with a large deductible and to pay for most minor things out of pocket. efore Nixon it was possible to buy health insurance with 500 dollar deductible for a year for 25 dollars for a family. As for companies like Google and Apple - nobody forces you to provide them with your private information, that's your personal problem.
Sex with a 12 years old? It is absolutely not a problem. Many countries have the age of consent from 12. I do not see your point.
AFAIC you can have any weapon you like. I can too. That's all there is to it.
Halliburton can do what they do, however I am not an anarchist, the Government has the right to start Class Action Lawsuits on behalf of the public against anybody who is destroying common public resources. Ocean is a common public resource, it does not belong to Halliburton. I am NOT for socializing harm and privatizing the profits. The cost of any operation must include the cost of conducting it in a way that does not do harm to public resources and private citizens.
You are almost right except this: No amount of Government intervention (regulation) can do anything about all possible ways someone may fuck up in all different companies in all different sectors of economy.
Have the Government do what it should do on behalf of the People: Sue the Shit out of BP, Halliburton and Transocean, get the damages, cleanup and x100 or x1000 liability as a way to scare the fuck of all the other companies who are pumping oil, gas, digging coal etc etc etc
Do this: destroy the fucking BP if necessary and also, screw the corporate protection, arrest the management, arrest whoever wasn't doing the job right and also put every single prick from MMS (that's the Government agency literally is fucking with the corporate whores, literally) to jail for 10 consecutive life sentences. Or shoot them Chinese style.
You have to do it. Have to distribute the punishment to the guilty and be consistent about it. That's the way to avoid the future 'calamities' like this one.
I am an EXTREME Liberal when it comes to Freedoms and Choices.
I am an EXTREME Conservative when it comes to Free Markets.
I think there are many people in US who share this way of thinking.
So you know what that means, right? We are all going to die horrible deaths. (Or at least some of us).
There, I have concluded the inconclusive study.