Your assumption seems to be that the vast majority of corporations' power doesn't derive from their close cooperation with the state, and that's an assumption we don't share.
Corporations are a creation of the state -- they're an entitlement for the corporation's owners to limited liability for their actions. There's nothing at all libertarian about them.
I don't know about the US but here in the UK, if you want to accept card payments you pretty much have to pay monthly for the privilege.
Use 2CheckOut.com. It's a one time $49 set up fee, and then 5.5% plus $0.45 per transaction. Steep, yes, but you can get set up same day and there's no monthly fee.
As the poster that YOU replied to has noted the 'social programs' (especially medicare and social security) are critical to the well being (even to the very existence) of many people in this country and cutting these benefits must be OFF THE TABLE for any deal.
Or, they could be means tested, so that they could serve their safety net function while still being dramatically cut. Poor people may need Social Security, but rich people do not.
It wasn't drivel or junk, it was pretty good. And the rest of us will go have fun watching it while you hunker down and tell us all to get off your lawn.
I took my six year old and didn't think twice about it. In fact, I hadn't even thought about the rating until you mentioned it. I've always thought the MPAA rating system was aimed at parents who would rather try to carpet the world than raise their kids to wear slippers, if you know what I mean.
Sorry, to me, Z still just seems either like Y restated or perhaps a subset of Y. But I do agree that one could divide social freedom and economic freedom into sections, and have each on its own axis.
To say there's no moral difference between my resisting state-granted entitlements of monopoly on information and your physically assaulting an actual person is ridiculous. We all have to decide which laws suit us. To do otherwise is to be a slave.
Realistically, it is. If you're referring to another 9/11 style attack, policies and procedures have changed to reflect that possibility. Cockpits are inaccessible now, and even if they weren't, a hijacked plane wouldn't be allowed to just fly around until it reached its target.
If people aren't forced to fly, then why not tell those people who are so easily terrorized that they need unnecessary and invasive "security" screenings to feel safe that they're the ones who should go take the bus?
Norway is both socialist and democratic, so yes, it disproves the theory that democracy requires capitalism. But Norway also has a shitload of oil reserves, a low population (fewer than five million people), and cultural homogeneity, so it's hardly fair to compare its situation with that of the U.S.
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I think you need this t-shirt.
It's not that I "don't seem to realize" it. It's that I don't agree that would be the outcome.
Your assumption seems to be that the vast majority of corporations' power doesn't derive from their close cooperation with the state, and that's an assumption we don't share.
But seriously, if you're smart enough and determined enough to do this, cant you foresee the outcomes?
Evidently not necessarily. This is why intelligence and wisdom are different ability scores.
Corporations are a creation of the state -- they're an entitlement for the corporation's owners to limited liability for their actions. There's nothing at all libertarian about them.
You could just claim you got your GMT offset wrong.
It's a very big problem that most people who are playing the chess game we call life can only see one move in advance.
Minesweeper!
Most of the world is not in either the US or the UK. Shocking, I know.
Not shocking at all, but if you'd bothered to read everything, you'd have seen that I was responding to someone who explicitly said he was in the UK.
I don't know about the US but here in the UK, if you want to accept card payments you pretty much have to pay monthly for the privilege.
Use 2CheckOut.com. It's a one time $49 set up fee, and then 5.5% plus $0.45 per transaction. Steep, yes, but you can get set up same day and there's no monthly fee.
As the poster that YOU replied to has noted the 'social programs' (especially medicare and social security) are critical to the well being (even to the very existence) of many people in this country and cutting these benefits must be OFF THE TABLE for any deal.
Or, they could be means tested, so that they could serve their safety net function while still being dramatically cut. Poor people may need Social Security, but rich people do not.
Winner!
*shrug* Maybe you're right, if only referring to /. But the theater where I saw it was full, and most people there seemed to be enjoying themselves.
It wasn't drivel or junk, it was pretty good. And the rest of us will go have fun watching it while you hunker down and tell us all to get off your lawn.
I took my six year old and didn't think twice about it. In fact, I hadn't even thought about the rating until you mentioned it. I've always thought the MPAA rating system was aimed at parents who would rather try to carpet the world than raise their kids to wear slippers, if you know what I mean.
The nice thing about fighting the Nazis is that you really don't have to wonder whether you're on the side of the angels.
Anyway, I saw it with my kids and we all enjoyed it -- another home run from Marvel.
Sorry, to me, Z still just seems either like Y restated or perhaps a subset of Y. But I do agree that one could divide social freedom and economic freedom into sections, and have each on its own axis.
Y and Z sound like the Nolan Chart. What does X add that isn't represented by the others?
To say there's no moral difference between my resisting state-granted entitlements of monopoly on information and your physically assaulting an actual person is ridiculous. We all have to decide which laws suit us. To do otherwise is to be a slave.
And if so, well, that's tragic. Really, terribly, depressingly tragic. Or something.
Realistically, it is. If you're referring to another 9/11 style attack, policies and procedures have changed to reflect that possibility. Cockpits are inaccessible now, and even if they weren't, a hijacked plane wouldn't be allowed to just fly around until it reached its target.
Why, the very same one that TSA thinks that those who don't appreciate their invasive security theater should take, of course.
If people aren't forced to fly, then why not tell those people who are so easily terrorized that they need unnecessary and invasive "security" screenings to feel safe that they're the ones who should go take the bus?
I don't find that. To be fair, he didn't start it, he was asked a sort of obnoxious question and responded reasonably.
Norway is both socialist and democratic, so yes, it disproves the theory that democracy requires capitalism. But Norway also has a shitload of oil reserves, a low population (fewer than five million people), and cultural homogeneity, so it's hardly fair to compare its situation with that of the U.S.