Right. What is needed is a system which improves the situation, not more of the same
- you are arguing for more of the same on steroids.
There is no evidence to support that. Increasing economic influence (currently corporate control) is associated with loss of human rights, and making people pay directly for their day in court will only make things worse, not better.
- that is plainly false. Even just in the last few decades examples are obvious, the Chinese economy grew to be the first in the world (USA numbers are garbage, USA is bankrupt in every way), and now because of the new wealth people in China are freer than they have ever been and their freedoms will grow with the increasing wealth and their wealth is increasing due to capitalism and very lax business rules, nonexisting taxing, nonexisting social justice systems.
USA had its own period of growth during time of maximum personal freedom in the second half of the 19th century and it squandered all of that wealth and now owes more money to more people than anybody ever owed in history of this planet.
There are hundreds of examples of economies being destroyed by collectivism of all types, to say that there is no evidence of that is super ignorant.
There are degrees of freedom in the market, the more government there is, the less free market we have. Malicious actors are dangerous in a non free market. In a free market malicious actors are a minority, people build businesses and make money by being useful to each other. These businesses provide long term income streams, instead of high risk, high stress, short term gain type frauds (that always exist, except in non free markets they gain support of governments and become institutions).
The worst frauds exist in non free markets and in non free markets they institutionalize and eventually lead to economic destruction. Regulations of non free markets is what kills real economies by promoting frauds, fake money, taxing real businesses and real productivity to feed all the thieving parasites.
You are saying you want to fix something yet your ideas are the ideas that led to destruction. You are oblivious to it and to the fact that all of your 'solutions' are in fact the same exact ideas only bigger, so they will hurt the economy and society more and faster. Then you will say that more of the same needs to be done, only bigger yet. Eventually, when your final solutions are in place, you will have collective ownership of the land and of all resources and there will be no production or freedom left, just like we had back in the USSR.
Arguing against individual liberty, as always, i see? That is precisely what you have now, with government oppression. You will get much more of that with more government oppression under a more collectivist system, whether socialist or fascist, doesn't matter much at all.
Arguing against individual liberty gets you justice for the wealthy, famous and politically connected and the shaft for the rest.
My position is freedom and liberty from oppressive governments and free market solution to everything that collectivism screwed horribly, including justice and police.
All communist ideologues on this planet led the people to authoritarian systems.
I was born in the ex ussr, we were socialist, with communism always being 5 years into the future. I am against all authiritarian systems and i see socialism as authoritarian because it destroys private property rights, self determination. I am against all forms of redistribution, against all forms of income and wealth confiscation (taxation). I am not against voluntary communism as long as I am not forced to participate. The reality is that those, unwilling to fend for themselves want socialism or communism to be imposed on the rest, so that they can get their cut of the loot.
I would not participate in communism, I would not work for others without knowing that I can exchange the output of my work for output of other peoples work based on free market relative valuation of our work and productivity.
I am against all forms of income and wealth taxes, I see those as enslavement of the individual by the collective, I am against all forms of redistribution based on violence and coercion. I would never pay a millionth of a cent in any form of income taxes, I see it as theft and oppression. Either we can work out deals in the free market capitalism or we are not free individuals, not really humans but some sort of an ant colony and I refuse that notion. Cooperation among free individuals in the market free of collective oppression is the only worthy type of cooperation. I do not cooperate or collaborate by force. I cooperate when it is profitable for me to do so, the parties I cooperate with find it profitable to cooperate with me. Communism is antithetical to my nature but if it was not coersive but voluntary I would not care or mind. Kibbutz system in Israel is basically voluntary communism. Bernie Sanders wants to *impose* it onto people. People will learn quickly how counterproductive it is to their wellbeing.
Businesses are leaving USA and many other western nations. Money printed and manipulated by central banks are worthless, only production creates real money and there will be less and less of real production in socialist or new communist systems that the young are ignorant enough to demand. They should be demanding freedom from oppression of governments instead they are choosing more oppression. Those global mistakes have tendency to happen periodically and they always lead to long term destruction and suffering. The writing is on the wall, to quote a very well recognized saying on this topic, "Who is John Galt?"
Actually 'no negroes, no Jews' is a perfectly fine decision for somebody looking to maximize their profits in the system that uses government power to assign classes to people. Black slaves were slaves because under law they could be owned not because capitalism somehow allowed some people to own others. It is a rational decision to put signs like that out if most of your profits come from a class of people that have much more money and power. Catering to the laws (implicit and explicit) and to the sentiment of the majority makes business sense.
Capitalism and search for efficiency, industrialization, automation allowed to eradicate slavery by changing the game of what is more productive, to purchase and feed and cloth and take care of slaves who only work enough not to be beaten and killed and who will not participate in the business, will not offer creativity and any particular interest (nor should they) vs free work force, free as in liberty. People who own themselves and get money and gratitude for work well done are better employees.
I disagree with the entire concept of slavery through income and wealth taxation and with the entire concept of building political power by redistribution of the stolen resources.
The poor are not contributing to society at all compare to the rich. Here, I said it: any poor person is contributing nothing compared to any rich person. A person running his or her business is contributing to society in ways that are much greater than any poor person because a business is a gigantic boon for the economy while a poor person is a drain on the economy.
My position is that nobody should have any income taken from them with any taxes, any income or wealth related tax over 0% is injustice and slavery and oppression and nothing else at all.
Because Nazis cannot fight back anymore. Here is a much better example: the IRS.
The IRS is an organization that is given orders to steal from people and if they resist in some way to attack them, kidnap them and if they resist, murder them. The IRS implements its orders with great zeal. However IRS can fight back, they are part of the current political system, so it's going to be Nazis.
As to communists, they can also still fight back, look around, the world is filled with communists who want to steal from a minority.
I blame hands. If these guys didn't have hands, they wouldn't be able to use phones to send messages to each other, that would have stopped them. Also they probably would have to use their teeth to kill people instead of guns, probably would have been stopped easier.
I think in this war on terrorism we must cut everybody's hands off or terrorist will win.
Those tap transactions are insane, I disabled that functionality on all my cards the moment I found out that it became possible to tap my debit cars and have money taken from my debit account. Had to call the banks for that.
As to how this guy does it, I don't know for sure, if I was doing it I suppose I would use stolen merchant accounts to run purchase transactions that would end up buying bitcoins or something, cannot come up with anything better on the spot, I have to deal with merchant accounts and payment processors, it is not trivial to set everything up, in case of purchases made with stolen credit cards, merchant ends up on the hook not only for the initial amount but also for a charge back fee (25usd per incident), so it is not very easy but apparently possible after all to get away with stealing this way.
If you don't think any of that, well then, you have such a spectacularly low opinion of human or human-successor intelligence, I don't even think we can communicate.
- you should read his opinions on humans on this forum, he is a collectivist that believes humans are animals that need to be herded and governed, not individuals with individual abilities that are vastly different from one to another, not individuals that value individual personal freedom over collective order and pre-defined routine.
He is of a very low opinion of human intelligence, perhaps the reason for it is self-projection.
The feature they are asked to turn off is the wiping off the disk after 10 unsuccessful attempts to guess the password by brute force. Personally I think 10/times is too few, it should be 100 times. I entered passwords wrong 10 times before I think, wouldn't want to lose all darlta because I forgot the exact capitalisation...
In any case (pun not intended), this is not a backdoor in itself. It does not break the password, does not break into the device. It does however mean that the data is not deleted when the phone is attacked by brute force, so it helps to provide a method for a backdoor ( if a brute force attack is a backdoor,I think technically it is not, but when we are talking about a government... Every single thing we give them is used against us, they should be denied everything).
Government is the terrorist, government creates terrorism and terrorists, government is the backdoor and the front door that destroys our freedoms, government needs to be backdoored and annihilated. That is my position, like it or hate it. I do not see government as my representative under any circumstances and I do not want any representatives. I want to deal with free people, trading in the free (from government) market in money not manipulated by government, doing business without this not so silent 'partner' forced on me, who robs me if I succeed while I take all the risks a 'partner', who has legal ability to steal from me, to kidnap me and to murder me. No other private party can argue legal or moral authority for such terroristic behavior, only governments cwn. All governments are an affront to human freedom and to healthy economy and society. They should be given nothing.
Somalia and Libya have many governments, those countries were also torn by wars they fought against occupation for decades.
Rail roads, subways, roads, bridges were private. Rail roads were basically confiscated and torn down and the federal government put together a plan to get into business of every State by creating the monstrosity known as the 'interstate highway system'. Hawaii 1 (H1) - an intestate designed for one purpose only: to oppress the State by using the power of the federal government. Same with all other interstate highways, only this one stands out too ludicrously.
You do realize the difference between absolute and relative right? The "1%" might pay more in absolute terms yes. But what people have a problem with is that the medium-sized incomes pay WAY more taxes relatively so a much, much larger chunk of their income is gone. Whereas the top incomes have much less of a tax burden.
- a billionaire or a millionaire invests his income, spending on personal consumption is a trivial part of it. A millionaire makes money not to eat through it but so that his business(es) can grow. A growing business is the engine of economy.
Government taxing income of people who are not just running their families but running businesses is extremely detrimental to business development. It creates industries dedicated to avoiding taxes, which is resource misallocation. The stock market bubbles, the housing market bubbles, the bond market bubbles, so many bubbles are created by government manipulating money, interest rates, printing money (inflation), manipulating the tax code, creating business regulations that really act as blackmail instruments and also monopoly protection instruments to protect the established large players against any competition.
My point is that income and wealth taxes are not simply bad morally speaking (and yes, I think it is horrendous morals to steal and redistribute from anybody to anybody under any conditions and circumstances). I think it produces gigantic economic failures, the biggest of which is coming at this time - the USD and bond market bubbles that will blow up and create huge collateral damage the likes of which we haven't seen before even in biggest world wars.
Do you know that the original *stated* intent for the income tax in USA in 1913 was to tax the top 1% at no more than 7% (they were considering writing 10% into the code but were afraid that if 10% was written down it would become the actual tax rate, instead they left it open to interpretation and now tax rates are many times that). The income tax was introduced to replace the income of the Federal government that was going to be lost due to removal of the alcohol tax. The alcohol tax accounted for about 50% of government revenues until 1913 and there were no income taxes at all.
Then of-course, the collectivist government saw this money coming in and of-course expanded everything, the tax rates, the brackets, whatever. Until approximately 1917 nobody with less than a million dollars in income paid any income taxes. So economically speaking it's a horrible precedent, to allow government's nose under the tent, it's the biggest and most cunning and most horrible of all camels.
Of-course there were roads, police, fire department, army before 1913, or you didn't know that? The rail roads were private, the first subways were private, bridges were private, roads were private and USA economy grew by such an enormous amount in the last half of the 19th century that USA from being an afterthought to European countries and a debtor nation became the biggest produce of cheap, high quality goods, biggest exporter and became largest creditor nation in under 50 years.
Of-course again, the collectivist government saw that as an opportunity to steal and expand and grow its power and buy votes with promises of redistribution of stolen goods.
All I see when I look at any government is theft, nothing else, not civilization, destruction of individual freedom, destruction of economies, destruction of civilization. I think only free people build civilizations that can last, slaves (as people whose income is taxes by governments are slaves, whose masters let them keep some of their money but the understanding is that at any moment in time everything can be taken away - that is slavery), slaves do not build lasting civilizations.
You are under a false impression that the minuscule amount of money that is taken from you in taxes is the point. You are wrong, the actual target for theft are people with property that produc
In the world where over 96% (more or less) of people are religious, born into religious conditions it is not surprising that minds of some of the brilliant scientists that ever lived have been poisoned.
Of-course the mental acrobatics that have to be employed by some of the people in the scientific community that have to deal with these mental inconsistencies are quite amazing actually and it just shows how flexible our minds are, allowing faith to co-exist with understanding of the actual natural phenomena that in many cases faith also has strong opinions on, which are of-course incorrect.
Also in many cases the religious feel the need to hijack the reality, making claims that so and so scientist had certain beliefs, where in fact there were none.
Then of-course there were people like Newton, who are known for their scientific successes while simultaneously being known for their most spectacular failures in the areas of their religion.
As an example, Isaac Newton, while being able to put together remarkable observations and derive principles of various natural phenomena, was also a very religious person. His mind was poisoned, which is why he had very strong feelings of faith that clouded his judgement on so many issues. I don't want to list all of his faithful beliefs here, I think it's unfortunate that he was this poisoned, this mentally sick due to his level of poisoning. Yes, I say mentally sick, believing in the most absurd ideas that I am sure you can read on if you care.
My point is that many people live as if in a constant state of schizophrenia, duality of mind, where one part of the mind can work to produce most remarkable scientific discoveries while some other parts are utterly broken due to their religion.
I've never really understood the hate for Christianity.
- where did I say anything specifically about Christianity? You know there are and there were (and there will be) many more religions than just the one you practice, yes?
Religion is a poison of the mind. Some religious people will not specifically deny evolution, that does not change the fact that their minds are poisoned by faith of some kind. Faith is the poison I am talking about. Belief in the supernatural, belief in the invisible deity or any form of creator is a poison.
Different people respond to different poisons differently. Not every single religious person will specifically deny evolution, that does not mean they are not poisoned, they are. They are poisoned in some way and it manifests itself differently.
You may or may not specifically deny evolution, that doesn't matter. The fact that you have actual faithful beliefs in any kind of creator or creation or any form of god at all is a manifestation of the poisoned mind. How you choose to react to that poisoning, by blowing yourself up in a jihad attack or by donating to your local church so that it can keep going and poisoning more minds, that doesn't really matter even though one of those is clearly more detrimental to the people around them in the short run.
In the long run maintenance of the faith throughout generations is more detrimental than the momentary violent act of a suicide bomber driven by his own belief system.
I have 0 interest in people who will steal and rob and murder because they are poor. 0 interest and 0 use.
If you look at people who are very wealthy, they feel they have no choice but to hire private security regardless of them paying way more in every form of tax than any one of you ever will here in your entire life times. That is beside the fact that people who are extremely wealthy normally achieve that wealth by creating companies that cater to millions, tens or hundreds of millions of users and clients. That's the way to become a billionaire - run companies that produce on a scale that satisfies demands of millions of people. By making even 1 dollar off of millions of people you get millions in income. To satisfy demands of millions of people you have to create very good value, you likely have to do much better than the competition (of-course I am not talking about companies that rely on government provided monopolies and subsidies of any kind, who also do very well but not because they could do it on their own but because they have strong ties to government and money stolen from millions of individuals by governments).
So your average billionaire pays for private security in many different ways, whether this is enough to keep safe is an interesting question, probably nothing is ever enough for security, but the same is true for collectivist thieves - nothing is ever enough.
You can be paying millions in taxes and yet you will be called '1%, who is not paying their fair share' whatever the fuck that is.
I say that it is unfair to tax income of people who produce in the first place. Tax those who do not produce and who go out and steal, that's my position. Tax them, force them to repay everything they steal. But of-course this is too obvious to be accepted, because you will never make enough money that way to create the welfare state that you are rooting for every time you say that there has to be payment one way or another to those who will steal and murder.
AFAIC if you are stealing and murdering regardless of your circumstances, you are unfit to live in society where some people produce to live.
Religion is poison for the mind, it is arsenic, meth, cocaine and cyanide of the mind, it is the murderer of intelligence, destroyer of sound logic and of critical thought.
Of-course people are free to believe whatever they want to believe, but I think it is fair to treat all religions and supernatural belief systems, so called 'spirituality' as toxins that destroy thinking abilities in ways that may be even worse than simple narcotics.
Exactly what does that mean 'there is no labour', nobody is willing to work?
Or are you under a strange impression that without government interference the free market capitalism does not create new jobs that are used to satisfy *infinite* human demand?
Do you own your 500foot yacht? Your own airplane? Your own spaceship? Your own submarine? Your own farm of some kind where you can get any food you want? A new form of entertainment that is unavailable today? Can you live 1000 years?
As long as people exist they come up with new things they want and as long as we can come up with new things we want there will be no shortage of jobs. The only reason jobs are unavailable is government interference with the free market and money and interest rate and debt manipulation.
As I said and you avoided it, USA buried free market principles 100 years ago with the Sherman Act, IRS and income taxes, Fed, then with all the rest of it, collectivism on top of collectivism. You are complaining about capitalism but you don't have free market, you have regulated, government controlled, centrally planned system with the government regulating business and employment out of existence, with gigantic inflation (money printing), debt manipulation via interest rate control and manipulation, minimum wage laws, SS, medicare (payroll taxes and debt), all the departments, military industrial complex, etc.
To blame capitalism for the collectivist destruction of the free market? The only way I can see even slighted amount of logic there is by acknowledging that the early free market capitalism produced so much wealth that all this theft became inevitable.
China is showing the world how capitalism and more freedom turn hundreds of millions of people from poor subsistence farmers into a wealthy industrial nation.
Business regulations, taxes and inflation (money printing) is what is preventing new business from being created. To get money to buy what others produce you have to produce something of value yourself. If you don't produce there is no reason to trade with you. If you think you will fix that with collectivism, good luck with that. Businesses left the country or are leaving and many others will leave as well. There will be nobody left to tax, see how that works out for your economy.
To fix the problem of lack of production and earnings fix the problem of collectivism and government oppression of the individual, fix the problem of money and debt manipulation. Good luck with that of course. AFAIC USA will have to fall all the way down before it can bounce back up by restoring individual freedoms.
The real crime is government providing businesses with protections such as copyright or patent laws that are government provided monopolies and are both bad business and bad ethics.
For profit, that is the word. Profit is what business is about, not altruism nor should it be anything but profit. In a free market capitalist economy profit motive is the most economically sound and moral motive that can exist. Not that we have free market or drugs, prostitution and this business would not be prohibited by the government.
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Right. What is needed is a system which improves the situation, not more of the same
- you are arguing for more of the same on steroids.
There is no evidence to support that. Increasing economic influence (currently corporate control) is associated with loss of human rights, and making people pay directly for their day in court will only make things worse, not better.
- that is plainly false. Even just in the last few decades examples are obvious, the Chinese economy grew to be the first in the world (USA numbers are garbage, USA is bankrupt in every way), and now because of the new wealth people in China are freer than they have ever been and their freedoms will grow with the increasing wealth and their wealth is increasing due to capitalism and very lax business rules, nonexisting taxing, nonexisting social justice systems.
USA had its own period of growth during time of maximum personal freedom in the second half of the 19th century and it squandered all of that wealth and now owes more money to more people than anybody ever owed in history of this planet.
There are hundreds of examples of economies being destroyed by collectivism of all types, to say that there is no evidence of that is super ignorant.
There are degrees of freedom in the market, the more government there is, the less free market we have. Malicious actors are dangerous in a non free market. In a free market malicious actors are a minority, people build businesses and make money by being useful to each other. These businesses provide long term income streams, instead of high risk, high stress, short term gain type frauds (that always exist, except in non free markets they gain support of governments and become institutions).
The worst frauds exist in non free markets and in non free markets they institutionalize and eventually lead to economic destruction. Regulations of non free markets is what kills real economies by promoting frauds, fake money, taxing real businesses and real productivity to feed all the thieving parasites.
You are saying you want to fix something yet your ideas are the ideas that led to destruction. You are oblivious to it and to the fact that all of your 'solutions' are in fact the same exact ideas only bigger, so they will hurt the economy and society more and faster. Then you will say that more of the same needs to be done, only bigger yet. Eventually, when your final solutions are in place, you will have collective ownership of the land and of all resources and there will be no production or freedom left, just like we had back in the USSR.
Arguing against individual liberty, as always, i see? That is precisely what you have now, with government oppression. You will get much more of that with more government oppression under a more collectivist system, whether socialist or fascist, doesn't matter much at all.
Arguing against individual liberty gets you justice for the wealthy, famous and politically connected and the shaft for the rest.
My position is freedom and liberty from oppressive governments and free market solution to everything that collectivism screwed horribly, including justice and police.
All communist ideologues on this planet led the people to authoritarian systems.
I was born in the ex ussr, we were socialist, with communism always being 5 years into the future. I am against all authiritarian systems and i see socialism as authoritarian because it destroys private property rights, self determination. I am against all forms of redistribution, against all forms of income and wealth confiscation (taxation). I am not against voluntary communism as long as I am not forced to participate. The reality is that those, unwilling to fend for themselves want socialism or communism to be imposed on the rest, so that they can get their cut of the loot.
I would not participate in communism, I would not work for others without knowing that I can exchange the output of my work for output of other peoples work based on free market relative valuation of our work and productivity.
I am against all forms of income and wealth taxes, I see those as enslavement of the individual by the collective, I am against all forms of redistribution based on violence and coercion. I would never pay a millionth of a cent in any form of income taxes, I see it as theft and oppression. Either we can work out deals in the free market capitalism or we are not free individuals, not really humans but some sort of an ant colony and I refuse that notion. Cooperation among free individuals in the market free of collective oppression is the only worthy type of cooperation. I do not cooperate or collaborate by force. I cooperate when it is profitable for me to do so, the parties I cooperate with find it profitable to cooperate with me. Communism is antithetical to my nature but if it was not coersive but voluntary I would not care or mind. Kibbutz system in Israel is basically voluntary communism. Bernie Sanders wants to *impose* it onto people. People will learn quickly how counterproductive it is to their wellbeing.
Businesses are leaving USA and many other western nations. Money printed and manipulated by central banks are worthless, only production creates real money and there will be less and less of real production in socialist or new communist systems that the young are ignorant enough to demand. They should be demanding freedom from oppression of governments instead they are choosing more oppression. Those global mistakes have tendency to happen periodically and they always lead to long term destruction and suffering. The writing is on the wall, to quote a very well recognized saying on this topic, "Who is John Galt?"
Well, beside Alibaba stock they handle email for a few paying customers, for example Rogers corporation outsources email handling to them.
Actually 'no negroes, no Jews' is a perfectly fine decision for somebody looking to maximize their profits in the system that uses government power to assign classes to people. Black slaves were slaves because under law they could be owned not because capitalism somehow allowed some people to own others. It is a rational decision to put signs like that out if most of your profits come from a class of people that have much more money and power. Catering to the laws (implicit and explicit) and to the sentiment of the majority makes business sense.
Capitalism and search for efficiency, industrialization, automation allowed to eradicate slavery by changing the game of what is more productive, to purchase and feed and cloth and take care of slaves who only work enough not to be beaten and killed and who will not participate in the business, will not offer creativity and any particular interest (nor should they) vs free work force, free as in liberty. People who own themselves and get money and gratitude for work well done are better employees.
I disagree with the entire concept of slavery through income and wealth taxation and with the entire concept of building political power by redistribution of the stolen resources.
The poor are not contributing to society at all compare to the rich. Here, I said it: any poor person is contributing nothing compared to any rich person. A person running his or her business is contributing to society in ways that are much greater than any poor person because a business is a gigantic boon for the economy while a poor person is a drain on the economy.
My position is that nobody should have any income taken from them with any taxes, any income or wealth related tax over 0% is injustice and slavery and oppression and nothing else at all.
Because Nazis cannot fight back anymore. Here is a much better example: the IRS.
The IRS is an organization that is given orders to steal from people and if they resist in some way to attack them, kidnap them and if they resist, murder them. The IRS implements its orders with great zeal. However IRS can fight back, they are part of the current political system, so it's going to be Nazis.
As to communists, they can also still fight back, look around, the world is filled with communists who want to steal from a minority.
Sure, why not, how about Payment Integration Terminal Apparatus?
I blame hands. If these guys didn't have hands, they wouldn't be able to use phones to send messages to each other, that would have stopped them. Also they probably would have to use their teeth to kill people instead of guns, probably would have been stopped easier.
I think in this war on terrorism we must cut everybody's hands off or terrorist will win.
Those tap transactions are insane, I disabled that functionality on all my cards the moment I found out that it became possible to tap my debit cars and have money taken from my debit account. Had to call the banks for that.
As to how this guy does it, I don't know for sure, if I was doing it I suppose I would use stolen merchant accounts to run purchase transactions that would end up buying bitcoins or something, cannot come up with anything better on the spot, I have to deal with merchant accounts and payment processors, it is not trivial to set everything up, in case of purchases made with stolen credit cards, merchant ends up on the hook not only for the initial amount but also for a charge back fee (25usd per incident), so it is not very easy but apparently possible after all to get away with stealing this way.
If you don't think any of that, well then, you have such a spectacularly low opinion of human or human-successor intelligence, I don't even think we can communicate.
- you should read his opinions on humans on this forum, he is a collectivist that believes humans are animals that need to be herded and governed, not individuals with individual abilities that are vastly different from one to another, not individuals that value individual personal freedom over collective order and pre-defined routine.
He is of a very low opinion of human intelligence, perhaps the reason for it is self-projection.
The feature they are asked to turn off is the wiping off the disk after 10 unsuccessful attempts to guess the password by brute force. Personally I think 10/times is too few, it should be 100 times. I entered passwords wrong 10 times before I think, wouldn't want to lose all darlta because I forgot the exact capitalisation...
In any case (pun not intended), this is not a backdoor in itself. It does not break the password, does not break into the device. It does however mean that the data is not deleted when the phone is attacked by brute force, so it helps to provide a method for a backdoor ( if a brute force attack is a backdoor,I think technically it is not, but when we are talking about a government... Every single thing we give them is used against us, they should be denied everything).
Government is the terrorist, government creates terrorism and terrorists, government is the backdoor and the front door that destroys our freedoms, government needs to be backdoored and annihilated. That is my position, like it or hate it. I do not see government as my representative under any circumstances and I do not want any representatives. I want to deal with free people, trading in the free (from government) market in money not manipulated by government, doing business without this not so silent 'partner' forced on me, who robs me if I succeed while I take all the risks a 'partner', who has legal ability to steal from me, to kidnap me and to murder me. No other private party can argue legal or moral authority for such terroristic behavior, only governments cwn. All governments are an affront to human freedom and to healthy economy and society. They should be given nothing.
Somalia and Libya have many governments, those countries were also torn by wars they fought against occupation for decades.
Rail roads, subways, roads, bridges were private. Rail roads were basically confiscated and torn down and the federal government put together a plan to get into business of every State by creating the monstrosity known as the 'interstate highway system'. Hawaii 1 (H1) - an intestate designed for one purpose only: to oppress the State by using the power of the federal government. Same with all other interstate highways, only this one stands out too ludicrously.
You do realize the difference between absolute and relative right? The "1%" might pay more in absolute terms yes. But what people have a problem with is that the medium-sized incomes pay WAY more taxes relatively so a much, much larger chunk of their income is gone. Whereas the top incomes have much less of a tax burden.
- a billionaire or a millionaire invests his income, spending on personal consumption is a trivial part of it. A millionaire makes money not to eat through it but so that his business(es) can grow. A growing business is the engine of economy.
Government taxing income of people who are not just running their families but running businesses is extremely detrimental to business development. It creates industries dedicated to avoiding taxes, which is resource misallocation. The stock market bubbles, the housing market bubbles, the bond market bubbles, so many bubbles are created by government manipulating money, interest rates, printing money (inflation), manipulating the tax code, creating business regulations that really act as blackmail instruments and also monopoly protection instruments to protect the established large players against any competition.
My point is that income and wealth taxes are not simply bad morally speaking (and yes, I think it is horrendous morals to steal and redistribute from anybody to anybody under any conditions and circumstances). I think it produces gigantic economic failures, the biggest of which is coming at this time - the USD and bond market bubbles that will blow up and create huge collateral damage the likes of which we haven't seen before even in biggest world wars.
Do you know that the original *stated* intent for the income tax in USA in 1913 was to tax the top 1% at no more than 7% (they were considering writing 10% into the code but were afraid that if 10% was written down it would become the actual tax rate, instead they left it open to interpretation and now tax rates are many times that). The income tax was introduced to replace the income of the Federal government that was going to be lost due to removal of the alcohol tax. The alcohol tax accounted for about 50% of government revenues until 1913 and there were no income taxes at all.
Then of-course, the collectivist government saw this money coming in and of-course expanded everything, the tax rates, the brackets, whatever. Until approximately 1917 nobody with less than a million dollars in income paid any income taxes. So economically speaking it's a horrible precedent, to allow government's nose under the tent, it's the biggest and most cunning and most horrible of all camels.
Of-course there were roads, police, fire department, army before 1913, or you didn't know that? The rail roads were private, the first subways were private, bridges were private, roads were private and USA economy grew by such an enormous amount in the last half of the 19th century that USA from being an afterthought to European countries and a debtor nation became the biggest produce of cheap, high quality goods, biggest exporter and became largest creditor nation in under 50 years.
Of-course again, the collectivist government saw that as an opportunity to steal and expand and grow its power and buy votes with promises of redistribution of stolen goods.
All I see when I look at any government is theft, nothing else, not civilization, destruction of individual freedom, destruction of economies, destruction of civilization. I think only free people build civilizations that can last, slaves (as people whose income is taxes by governments are slaves, whose masters let them keep some of their money but the understanding is that at any moment in time everything can be taken away - that is slavery), slaves do not build lasting civilizations.
You are under a false impression that the minuscule amount of money that is taken from you in taxes is the point. You are wrong, the actual target for theft are people with property that produc
That's a non sequitur, I did not paraphrase anybody, I made a statement based on my own observation.
In the world where over 96% (more or less) of people are religious, born into religious conditions it is not surprising that minds of some of the brilliant scientists that ever lived have been poisoned.
Of-course the mental acrobatics that have to be employed by some of the people in the scientific community that have to deal with these mental inconsistencies are quite amazing actually and it just shows how flexible our minds are, allowing faith to co-exist with understanding of the actual natural phenomena that in many cases faith also has strong opinions on, which are of-course incorrect.
Also in many cases the religious feel the need to hijack the reality, making claims that so and so scientist had certain beliefs, where in fact there were none.
Then of-course there were people like Newton, who are known for their scientific successes while simultaneously being known for their most spectacular failures in the areas of their religion.
As an example, Isaac Newton, while being able to put together remarkable observations and derive principles of various natural phenomena, was also a very religious person. His mind was poisoned, which is why he had very strong feelings of faith that clouded his judgement on so many issues. I don't want to list all of his faithful beliefs here, I think it's unfortunate that he was this poisoned, this mentally sick due to his level of poisoning. Yes, I say mentally sick, believing in the most absurd ideas that I am sure you can read on if you care.
My point is that many people live as if in a constant state of schizophrenia, duality of mind, where one part of the mind can work to produce most remarkable scientific discoveries while some other parts are utterly broken due to their religion.
I've never really understood the hate for Christianity.
- where did I say anything specifically about Christianity? You know there are and there were (and there will be) many more religions than just the one you practice, yes?
Religion is a poison of the mind. Some religious people will not specifically deny evolution, that does not change the fact that their minds are poisoned by faith of some kind. Faith is the poison I am talking about. Belief in the supernatural, belief in the invisible deity or any form of creator is a poison.
Different people respond to different poisons differently. Not every single religious person will specifically deny evolution, that does not mean they are not poisoned, they are. They are poisoned in some way and it manifests itself differently.
You may or may not specifically deny evolution, that doesn't matter. The fact that you have actual faithful beliefs in any kind of creator or creation or any form of god at all is a manifestation of the poisoned mind. How you choose to react to that poisoning, by blowing yourself up in a jihad attack or by donating to your local church so that it can keep going and poisoning more minds, that doesn't really matter even though one of those is clearly more detrimental to the people around them in the short run.
In the long run maintenance of the faith throughout generations is more detrimental than the momentary violent act of a suicide bomber driven by his own belief system.
I see that your thinking abilities have been compromised already. I said religion is poison of the mind, it is a toxin, like botulism.
I didn't say that all religious people will under all circumstances deny evolution specifically.
I have 0 interest in people who will steal and rob and murder because they are poor. 0 interest and 0 use.
If you look at people who are very wealthy, they feel they have no choice but to hire private security regardless of them paying way more in every form of tax than any one of you ever will here in your entire life times. That is beside the fact that people who are extremely wealthy normally achieve that wealth by creating companies that cater to millions, tens or hundreds of millions of users and clients. That's the way to become a billionaire - run companies that produce on a scale that satisfies demands of millions of people. By making even 1 dollar off of millions of people you get millions in income. To satisfy demands of millions of people you have to create very good value, you likely have to do much better than the competition (of-course I am not talking about companies that rely on government provided monopolies and subsidies of any kind, who also do very well but not because they could do it on their own but because they have strong ties to government and money stolen from millions of individuals by governments).
So your average billionaire pays for private security in many different ways, whether this is enough to keep safe is an interesting question, probably nothing is ever enough for security, but the same is true for collectivist thieves - nothing is ever enough.
You can be paying millions in taxes and yet you will be called '1%, who is not paying their fair share' whatever the fuck that is.
I say that it is unfair to tax income of people who produce in the first place. Tax those who do not produce and who go out and steal, that's my position. Tax them, force them to repay everything they steal. But of-course this is too obvious to be accepted, because you will never make enough money that way to create the welfare state that you are rooting for every time you say that there has to be payment one way or another to those who will steal and murder.
AFAIC if you are stealing and murdering regardless of your circumstances, you are unfit to live in society where some people produce to live.
Religion is poison for the mind, it is arsenic, meth, cocaine and cyanide of the mind, it is the murderer of intelligence, destroyer of sound logic and of critical thought.
Of-course people are free to believe whatever they want to believe, but I think it is fair to treat all religions and supernatural belief systems, so called 'spirituality' as toxins that destroy thinking abilities in ways that may be even worse than simple narcotics.
Exactly what does that mean 'there is no labour', nobody is willing to work?
Or are you under a strange impression that without government interference the free market capitalism does not create new jobs that are used to satisfy *infinite* human demand?
Do you own your 500foot yacht? Your own airplane? Your own spaceship? Your own submarine? Your own farm of some kind where you can get any food you want? A new form of entertainment that is unavailable today? Can you live 1000 years?
As long as people exist they come up with new things they want and as long as we can come up with new things we want there will be no shortage of jobs. The only reason jobs are unavailable is government interference with the free market and money and interest rate and debt manipulation.
As I said and you avoided it, USA buried free market principles 100 years ago with the Sherman Act, IRS and income taxes, Fed, then with all the rest of it, collectivism on top of collectivism. You are complaining about capitalism but you don't have free market, you have regulated, government controlled, centrally planned system with the government regulating business and employment out of existence, with gigantic inflation (money printing), debt manipulation via interest rate control and manipulation, minimum wage laws, SS, medicare (payroll taxes and debt), all the departments, military industrial complex, etc.
To blame capitalism for the collectivist destruction of the free market? The only way I can see even slighted amount of logic there is by acknowledging that the early free market capitalism produced so much wealth that all this theft became inevitable.
China is showing the world how capitalism and more freedom turn hundreds of millions of people from poor subsistence farmers into a wealthy industrial nation.
Business regulations, taxes and inflation (money printing) is what is preventing new business from being created. To get money to buy what others produce you have to produce something of value yourself. If you don't produce there is no reason to trade with you. If you think you will fix that with collectivism, good luck with that. Businesses left the country or are leaving and many others will leave as well. There will be nobody left to tax, see how that works out for your economy.
To fix the problem of lack of production and earnings fix the problem of collectivism and government oppression of the individual, fix the problem of money and debt manipulation. Good luck with that of course. AFAIC USA will have to fall all the way down before it can bounce back up by restoring individual freedoms.
The real crime is government providing businesses with protections such as copyright or patent laws that are government provided monopolies and are both bad business and bad ethics.
For profit, that is the word. Profit is what business is about, not altruism nor should it be anything but profit. In a free market capitalist economy profit motive is the most economically sound and moral motive that can exist. Not that we have free market or drugs, prostitution and this business would not be prohibited by the government.