Really. All of the economic indicators are worse today, real indicators that deal with sales, production, trade deficit and balance, dollar debt bubble. Retail sales, stock to sales ratio, actual vs posted employment, wage levels. Everything that matters is worse today, the economy has been in a recession, probably a depression all this time. The Fed is as deaf blind and stupid as it was then, same with most of the rest of the populace. When the Fed says they are 'data dependent' what they should preface that with is that the only data they care about is relative stock and housing prices, which are inflation related, not economy related.
The Fed is not saying that, the Fed is posturing, pretending to be 'data dependent'. Well, the data today is worse than it was 8 years ago. Thus by the standard set by the Fed there cannot be an interest rate hike. There should be a hike to start restructurinf the debts honestly but its probability is extremely low. The Fed is dead blind and stupid as it is always.
Actually it is the governments that I don't trust the most. Companies are just people that run them and they don't have authority that governments have. A government can murder you, not just rib you and kidnap you and it will be seen as OK because it is the government. No company has the legal authority to do that (though they can, at least in theory hire government to kidnap you, steal from you and even kill you.
Parents should teach their children to be individuals and that society is an illusion constructed to control people first and foremost. They also would do good teaching children economics (understanding difference between productive economic activity and evaluation of existing assets vs currencies), they should teach their children what money is, what interest rates are. Parents should teach their children how to use the system that is set up to control them for their own benefit, how to get around the bounds and chains that are imposed upon them. Of-course all of this means that parents care about their children that is...
Nokia was done for anyway, MS might have fucked up not Nokia was fucked. As to Finland, I find it quite amusing that their collectivist government wants MS to 'help' the fired workers. Finns, aren't you funny? With your public schools and public health care and all the labour laws and welfare, etc. Where is the money going to come from when most of you are unemployed? For that matter this is the question that all collectivist governments must be asking. With all of your welfare state policies, where will you get the money for your collectivism if all companies just quit working and you wouldn't be able to collect, since nobody would hire in your collectivist paradises? Printing is inflation that will destroy your currency purchasing power. You can only confiscate once and after that is done and you run out of that you will face the same problem only now without any chance of any business restarting quickly should you get rid of your collectivist welfare policies. Are you going to reform before or after you destroy your economies? Before will mean less blood.
With today's technology it should be possible for a plane to carry a capsule with a few drones that could be parachuted if released above certain height, then the drone can be released from a capsule and the drones could be using cameras to take pictures, send SOS signals, record GPS and other data, like wind speed and direction, etc.
No, you drop the minimum wage and get rid of all income and wealth related taxes, all business regulations, shutdown 99% of what government does, get rid of IRS, Federal reserve (it is a gov't organization whether, they know they are), IFDS, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, gov't controlled education, energy, transportation, communication, utility and other services. Let the free market work out who does what instead of a central planner and people will come up with ways of making money that are just completely unavailable today, we will actually have more products and rising standard of living for once in our lifetimes.
In all of my services I have been doing that for years, having a table of 'bad_passwords' and not allowing people from using them. People should be using sentences anyway.
I don't understand your question at all, why do you assume that government can pay for anything in the first place? Government shouldn't be 'paying' for anything, since it cannot pay for anything, to pay you have to have money, government steals money, so it doesn't pay, it steals. As to health care, education, law enforcement, these shouldn't be in the hands of any government. I would argue that even defence today shouldn't be in the hands of any government, it should be done privately, by private businesses hired to provide defence. All fighting should be paid for upfront, maybe then there wouldn't be as many wars, you see?
Maybe you should read my other comments and blog here before throwing nonsense around. I don't need Ayn Rand to know what is right and what is wrong, I held my views for over 30 years now and I only read her stuff about 3 years ago. I as well could have written those books but I did enjoy reading them.
AFAIC any income or wealth related tax above 0 is theft and that is all it is. There is no such thing as a 'just' income or wealth based tax, it gives the power of oppression to the state and the rate is really irrelevant, it is arbitrary and can be changed at any moment in time. As long as the principle is: government can take away any portion of your income and savings, you are not a free individual. I don't agree with any of this for a moment, individuals (and companies, who are after all owned by individuals) must be able to enjoy fruits of their work without any form of oppression used against them. Just because somebody has money or makes money doesn't mean that any collective has the moral authority to take it away (any portion of it whatsoever). If the collective sets rules like this, it is obligation of the individual to fight it AFAIC. There is nothing at all on this planet that would make me see it in any other way: all government officials trying to steal from people and companies need to be put down like the rabid dogs that they are.
I am not paid anything to tell you this: society needs to learn to stop stealing and oppressing individuals. Government is oppression of individuals. Obviously income and wealth related taxes are theft, there is no other way to put it. AFAIC Google needs to go directly after people who are attacking it, we are talking about billions here, I think it's much cheaper to take people out than that, regardless of their position in the world and it sets a very clear precedent.
- blind chance is not irrational given that there is no cost attached to it since there is no goal to be achieved.
If you are saying that the lack of goal is irrational then I don't want to participate in this discussion, since that makes no sense at all. Evolution has no goal, but its process leads to the outcome, where the outcome is the best replication (best being the cheapest in terms of energy usage as compared to other systems).
There is no such thing as 'subverting evolution', by the way, since no matter what we do is part of evolution. We might as well invent space habitats that will allow us to survive our Sun destroying this planet by overheating, there is nothing irrational or contrary to the evolution, it means we are the best at replication and staying ahead of destruction.
Unless you think "build a million random designs and keep whatever works" is a rational design process.
- but of-course it is rational for a system that has no preferred outcome. Evolution is about survival of the best fit machinery for replicating itself, given the amount of time that these processes have to improve upon previous attempts and given the cheapness of the process itself (millions of parallel attempts) it is quite rational in the sense that it is least energy consuming given actually lack of any intelligent push into any particular direction. AFAIC there is no god, so evolution does what it does by blind chance, but this blind chance is not without memory. Blind chance based on memory, based on previous information and current conditions is quite rational.
Nice strawman you built there. 'Randians' are not talking about rational or irrational motivations, they are talking about objective reality and the objective reality is that a collectivist system is a system of theft and destruction of motivation (regardless of how you view motivation). People are not motivated by collectivism, they are, however, motivated by selfish desire to live better than they used to or than their parents used to or than other people around them live. Whatever you think is 'irrational' about it, one thing is for sure: collectivism does not increase somebody's motivation to work for others, it does however decrease motivation for 'above the table' transactions and grow everything that goes 'under the table', it destroys the initiative, destroys savings, destroys actual honest capital formation, increases theft.
Selfishness and greed are quite rational, by the way, they are the results of evolutionary pressures to survive, to promote survival of yourself and of your own offspring.
Seems there was a treasure ship on its way back to port. About halfway there, it was approached by a pirate, skull and crossbones waving in the breeze!
"Captain, captain, what do we do?" asked the first mate.
"First mate," said the captain, "go to my cabin, open my sea chest, and bring me my red shirt." The first mate did so.
"First mate, bring me my red shirt!"
The crew, emboldened by their fearless captain, fought heroically, and managed to defeat both boarding parties, though they took many casualties. That night, the survivors had a great celebration. The first mate asked the captain the secret of his bright red shirt.
"It's simple, first mate. If I am wounded, the blood does not show, and the crew continues to fight without fear."
A week passed, and they were nearing their home port, when suddenly the lookout cried that ten ships of the enemy's armada were approaching!
"Captain, captain, we're in terrible trouble, what do we do?" The first mate looked expectantly at the miracle worker.
Pale with fear, the captain commanded, "First mate.... bring me my brown pants!"
Yeah, yeah, I know that you have no idea how to respond to any of my arguments, you are 100% in the wrong, you get it maybe even, you have no arguments, so run away like the little ignorant dickless wonder that you are..
Because useless locks and doors and windows and walls and gates and electric security systems have been around forever (some longer than others) and so many fewer youngsters actually care to learn about those 'uninteresting' things. Computers are still interesting to many even in the newer geelnerations. Since they just learned many of these (fairly complex by Norman standard) things, they are still in the mode of showing off, like they used to showing off to their parents or siblings or friends. They actually don't understand the egos and the politics of the real world yet. This will surely teach them quickly.
This kid didn't deserve any sentence if the people charging him didn't behave like the robots of the establishment that they are. But what this shows me is that the future is still brighter than many would believe. The anti government movement will strengthen if only through the yonge people learning not to trust governments and learning the lesson the hard way is the quickest and most durable way.
Eventually the anti government movement will reach a certain size and power and life on this planet will evolve beyond the oppression of the past.
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Really. All of the economic indicators are worse today, real indicators that deal with sales, production, trade deficit and balance, dollar debt bubble. Retail sales, stock to sales ratio, actual vs posted employment, wage levels. Everything that matters is worse today, the economy has been in a recession, probably a depression all this time. The Fed is as deaf blind and stupid as it was then, same with most of the rest of the populace. When the Fed says they are 'data dependent' what they should preface that with is that the only data they care about is relative stock and housing prices, which are inflation related, not economy related.
The Fed is not saying that, the Fed is posturing, pretending to be 'data dependent'. Well, the data today is worse than it was 8 years ago. Thus by the standard set by the Fed there cannot be an interest rate hike. There should be a hike to start restructurinf the debts honestly but its probability is extremely low. The Fed is dead blind and stupid as it is always.
Actually it is the governments that I don't trust the most. Companies are just people that run them and they don't have authority that governments have. A government can murder you, not just rib you and kidnap you and it will be seen as OK because it is the government. No company has the legal authority to do that (though they can, at least in theory hire government to kidnap you, steal from you and even kill you.
Parents should teach their children to be individuals and that society is an illusion constructed to control people first and foremost. They also would do good teaching children economics (understanding difference between productive economic activity and evaluation of existing assets vs currencies), they should teach their children what money is, what interest rates are. Parents should teach their children how to use the system that is set up to control them for their own benefit, how to get around the bounds and chains that are imposed upon them. Of-course all of this means that parents care about their children that is...
Nokia was done for anyway, MS might have fucked up not Nokia was fucked. As to Finland, I find it quite amusing that their collectivist government wants MS to 'help' the fired workers. Finns, aren't you funny? With your public schools and public health care and all the labour laws and welfare, etc. Where is the money going to come from when most of you are unemployed? For that matter this is the question that all collectivist governments must be asking. With all of your welfare state policies, where will you get the money for your collectivism if all companies just quit working and you wouldn't be able to collect, since nobody would hire in your collectivist paradises? Printing is inflation that will destroy your currency purchasing power. You can only confiscate once and after that is done and you run out of that you will face the same problem only now without any chance of any business restarting quickly should you get rid of your collectivist welfare policies. Are you going to reform before or after you destroy your economies? Before will mean less blood.
Wait, are you telling me that if you don't lower the lid the shit is not contained? What does it do, jump out of the bowl?
Who is the final authority to say that any transaction must be reversed? Who is the final authority to say that a transaction must not be reversed?
With today's technology it should be possible for a plane to carry a capsule with a few drones that could be parachuted if released above certain height, then the drone can be released from a capsule and the drones could be using cameras to take pictures, send SOS signals, record GPS and other data, like wind speed and direction, etc.
Right, are you navigating streets of traffic jammed Chinese cities in that thing?
Just because you have a bike that is stupid for city use does not make this stupid bus any more stupid than your bike.
I am pro abortion. Abortions should be legal and accessible in the free market.
No, you drop the minimum wage and get rid of all income and wealth related taxes, all business regulations, shutdown 99% of what government does, get rid of IRS, Federal reserve (it is a gov't organization whether, they know they are), IFDS, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, gov't controlled education, energy, transportation, communication, utility and other services. Let the free market work out who does what instead of a central planner and people will come up with ways of making money that are just completely unavailable today, we will actually have more products and rising standard of living for once in our lifetimes.
In all of my services I have been doing that for years, having a table of 'bad_passwords' and not allowing people from using them. People should be using sentences anyway.
I don't understand your question at all, why do you assume that government can pay for anything in the first place? Government shouldn't be 'paying' for anything, since it cannot pay for anything, to pay you have to have money, government steals money, so it doesn't pay, it steals. As to health care, education, law enforcement, these shouldn't be in the hands of any government. I would argue that even defence today shouldn't be in the hands of any government, it should be done privately, by private businesses hired to provide defence. All fighting should be paid for upfront, maybe then there wouldn't be as many wars, you see?
I am advocating destruction of all governments, not just the French.
Maybe you should read my other comments and blog here before throwing nonsense around. I don't need Ayn Rand to know what is right and what is wrong, I held my views for over 30 years now and I only read her stuff about 3 years ago. I as well could have written those books but I did enjoy reading them.
AFAIC any income or wealth related tax above 0 is theft and that is all it is. There is no such thing as a 'just' income or wealth based tax, it gives the power of oppression to the state and the rate is really irrelevant, it is arbitrary and can be changed at any moment in time. As long as the principle is: government can take away any portion of your income and savings, you are not a free individual. I don't agree with any of this for a moment, individuals (and companies, who are after all owned by individuals) must be able to enjoy fruits of their work without any form of oppression used against them. Just because somebody has money or makes money doesn't mean that any collective has the moral authority to take it away (any portion of it whatsoever). If the collective sets rules like this, it is obligation of the individual to fight it AFAIC. There is nothing at all on this planet that would make me see it in any other way: all government officials trying to steal from people and companies need to be put down like the rabid dogs that they are.
I am not paid anything to tell you this: society needs to learn to stop stealing and oppressing individuals. Government is oppression of individuals. Obviously income and wealth related taxes are theft, there is no other way to put it. AFAIC Google needs to go directly after people who are attacking it, we are talking about billions here, I think it's much cheaper to take people out than that, regardless of their position in the world and it sets a very clear precedent.
Sure, sure, there is a huge difference between that and forcing people to 'participate' through theft and redistribution.
Blind chance is so far from rational
- blind chance is not irrational given that there is no cost attached to it since there is no goal to be achieved.
If you are saying that the lack of goal is irrational then I don't want to participate in this discussion, since that makes no sense at all. Evolution has no goal, but its process leads to the outcome, where the outcome is the best replication (best being the cheapest in terms of energy usage as compared to other systems).
There is no such thing as 'subverting evolution', by the way, since no matter what we do is part of evolution. We might as well invent space habitats that will allow us to survive our Sun destroying this planet by overheating, there is nothing irrational or contrary to the evolution, it means we are the best at replication and staying ahead of destruction.
Unless you think "build a million random designs and keep whatever works" is a rational design process.
- but of-course it is rational for a system that has no preferred outcome. Evolution is about survival of the best fit machinery for replicating itself, given the amount of time that these processes have to improve upon previous attempts and given the cheapness of the process itself (millions of parallel attempts) it is quite rational in the sense that it is least energy consuming given actually lack of any intelligent push into any particular direction. AFAIC there is no god, so evolution does what it does by blind chance, but this blind chance is not without memory. Blind chance based on memory, based on previous information and current conditions is quite rational.
Nice strawman you built there. 'Randians' are not talking about rational or irrational motivations, they are talking about objective reality and the objective reality is that a collectivist system is a system of theft and destruction of motivation (regardless of how you view motivation). People are not motivated by collectivism, they are, however, motivated by selfish desire to live better than they used to or than their parents used to or than other people around them live. Whatever you think is 'irrational' about it, one thing is for sure: collectivism does not increase somebody's motivation to work for others, it does however decrease motivation for 'above the table' transactions and grow everything that goes 'under the table', it destroys the initiative, destroys savings, destroys actual honest capital formation, increases theft.
Selfishness and greed are quite rational, by the way, they are the results of evolutionary pressures to survive, to promote survival of yourself and of your own offspring.
Seems there was a treasure ship on its way back to port. About halfway there, it was approached by a pirate, skull and crossbones waving in the breeze!
"Captain, captain, what do we do?" asked the first mate.
"First mate," said the captain, "go to my cabin, open my sea chest, and bring me my red shirt." The first mate did so.
"First mate, bring me my red shirt!"
The crew, emboldened by their fearless captain, fought heroically, and managed to defeat both boarding parties, though they took many casualties. That night, the survivors had a great celebration. The first mate asked the captain the secret of his bright red shirt.
"It's simple, first mate. If I am wounded, the blood does not show, and the crew continues to fight without fear."
A week passed, and they were nearing their home port, when suddenly the lookout cried that ten ships of the enemy's armada were approaching!
"Captain, captain, we're in terrible trouble, what do we do?" The first mate looked expectantly at the miracle worker.
Pale with fear, the captain commanded, "First mate.... bring me my brown pants!"
Yeah, yeah, I know that you have no idea how to respond to any of my arguments, you are 100% in the wrong, you get it maybe even, you have no arguments, so run away like the little ignorant dickless wonder that you are..
Because useless locks and doors and windows and walls and gates and electric security systems have been around forever (some longer than others) and so many fewer youngsters actually care to learn about those 'uninteresting' things. Computers are still interesting to many even in the newer geelnerations. Since they just learned many of these (fairly complex by Norman standard) things, they are still in the mode of showing off, like they used to showing off to their parents or siblings or friends. They actually don't understand the egos and the politics of the real world yet. This will surely teach them quickly.
This kid didn't deserve any sentence if the people charging him didn't behave like the robots of the establishment that they are. But what this shows me is that the future is still brighter than many would believe. The anti government movement will strengthen if only through the yonge people learning not to trust governments and learning the lesson the hard way is the quickest and most durable way.
Eventually the anti government movement will reach a certain size and power and life on this planet will evolve beyond the oppression of the past.
But does that run Linux?