Look what happened to the banks. Do business with a country the US has decided to dislike? Have some American's money in your vaults and not reported it to the IRS, in compliance with your own country's laws? The US government will find ways to make things very painful for you.
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Intel, Dell, HP, Cisco, IBM, Amazon need to band together and say to the US, "If you don't stop this douchebaggery, we are pulling the plug. The short-term damage to the economy will be huge, but a lot less than the long-term damage you are causing."
Think of all the data Google must have about you in order to provide the free service you receive from them - you emails, your photos, your location, you ED searches, etc., etc.
Well, because you have shared that with Google, you have no expectation of privacy, so the government can take it whenever they want.
You are forgetting another factor in the equation, which is the velocity of money. Compared to other currencies, bitcoin is almost frictionless. This means it can sustain a high velocity compared to dollars and pesos, which counters its deflationary structure.
The same bitcoin can make the peso-BTC-$-BTC-peso roundtrip a hundred times a day while the credit card transaction $ is stuck in the bank for at least a day, even with fractional reserve banking.
You are wasting your time arguing against government meddling in markets. This/. article alone is full of posters extolling the virtues of regulations, subsidies, rules, taxes and mandates. The Koch brothers are grateful.
The same applies to the healthcare business, where we have reached to point that going to a doctor's office is no different to going to the DMV.
If it were not for copyright, Disney would not have to rehash the same shit over and over, but would be forced into some creativity. Star Wars, anyone?
The problem is not that corporations are buying politicians for favors, or that corporations are people, or that politicians are venal.
The problem is that politicians have the power in the first place to hand out favors, to discriminate, to meddle, to obstruct or promote, subsidize or penalize. Remove these powers, and money will evaporate from the influence system and pathological deviants will no longer run for office.
Indeed. Now not everyone thinks the Cato Institute is a reputable source, but you have to admit this is thought-provoking: http://object.cato.org/sites/c...
Reasoned rebuttals, please. And if you invoke either of the two major parties, I'll ignore you.
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Look what happened to the banks. Do business with a country the US has decided to dislike? Have some American's money in your vaults and not reported it to the IRS, in compliance with your own country's laws? The US government will find ways to make things very painful for you.
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Intel, Dell, HP, Cisco, IBM, Amazon need to band together and say to the US, "If you don't stop this douchebaggery, we are pulling the plug. The short-term damage to the economy will be huge, but a lot less than the long-term damage you are causing."
"There has not been a tradeoff between liberty and security..."
We have no way of validating this. So, based on previous experience, it is a lie.
It's called "Fair Trade".
I have the same attitude about government. The leviathan is just an organization with perfect DRM (and ARM).
The whole of the USA has turned into a gigantic SPE.
Some people used to think that some of them were idiots., on occasion.
With this bylaw we know for sure that all of them are assholes and idiots, all the time.
Think of all the data Google must have about you in order to provide the free service you receive from them - you emails, your photos, your location, you ED searches, etc., etc.
Well, because you have shared that with Google, you have no expectation of privacy, so the government can take it whenever they want.
If the data belong to the cell company, then why is a warrant not required to get them from that company?
Seems that would be hard to do, demonstrating probable cause that the company plans to shoot Charlie H, using the alias Mohammed.
You are forgetting another factor in the equation, which is the velocity of money. Compared to other currencies, bitcoin is almost frictionless. This means it can sustain a high velocity compared to dollars and pesos, which counters its deflationary structure.
The same bitcoin can make the peso-BTC-$-BTC-peso roundtrip a hundred times a day while the credit card transaction $ is stuck in the bank for at least a day, even with fractional reserve banking.
https://youtu.be/ZLsg0EvZozI
Expect to see every Barney Fife explaining the unfortunate collateral damage on the 6pm news.
Maybe the brakes were too good, resulting in all the rear-endings?
Seriously, our scientifically-illiterate society is rife with unintended consequences and cures that are worse than the disease.
Yes, those too!
You are wasting your time arguing against government meddling in markets. This /. article alone is full of posters extolling the virtues of regulations, subsidies, rules, taxes and mandates. The Koch brothers are grateful.
The same applies to the healthcare business, where we have reached to point that going to a doctor's office is no different to going to the DMV.
Agreed. Especially with the subsidies, i.e. my money.
A little bit of finesse and you can cause a massive loss of face. That will get a chinaman's attention.
If it were not for copyright, Disney would not have to rehash the same shit over and over, but would be forced into some creativity. Star Wars, anyone?
Indeed. I treat any copyright over 14 years as a "taking", and take my own corrective action.
If you have never put a wheel over a lane marker I guess you can be as sanctimonious as you want.
The problem is not that corporations are buying politicians for favors, or that corporations are people, or that politicians are venal.
The problem is that politicians have the power in the first place to hand out favors, to discriminate, to meddle, to obstruct or promote, subsidize or penalize. Remove these powers, and money will evaporate from the influence system and pathological deviants will no longer run for office.
A freely-entered agreement between you and an automaker is one thing. A federal law limiting your rights is another.
Indeed. Now not everyone thinks the Cato Institute is a reputable source, but you have to admit this is thought-provoking: http://object.cato.org/sites/c...
Reasoned rebuttals, please. And if you invoke either of the two major parties, I'll ignore you.
You understand that there is essentially no correlation between school spending and student achievement?
https://www.americanprogress.o... or try some googling.
The inflation-adjusted cost of schooling has tripled since 1970, with no discernible improvement in education outcome.
Then may I quote the Constitution:
"Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States..."