We have a proportionally high number of murders using weapons other then firearms including knives and clubs. Unless the availablility of firearms can somehow explain violence using other weapons, it is not sufficient in itself.
I have a Powerware 9120 for my home systems and it is a currently manufactured online system.
Correctly designed and built switching power supplies should be very tolerant of input power problems. Typically a 120V input power supply will operate correctly from 90 to at least 140 volts without any problems and because of the capacitor input section will be very tolerant of noise and other power problems.
Be careful with international power supplies because some of them list 90 to 240 volts but use a standard voltage doubler with automatic switching which allows them to support a input voltage of 90 to 140 OR 180 to 280. If your input voltage is between 140 and 180, they can seriously malfunction.
In addition, those who practiced law were not licensed in 1779. Lysander Spooner practiced law in Massachussets during the time licensing was added as a requirement state by state and fought against it. Does anybody really think the law will not become more expensive and needlessly complex when licensed lawyers have the opposite interest? That would be like doctors, another licensed profession, advocating access to drugs without perscriptions. It is not in their collective best interest.
In California you are not entitled to a jury trial for any offence costing less then $1000 and requiring less then 1 year in jail. I imagine it is much the same in other states.
I hate Ashcroft as much as many here but to give him credit BATF records on firearms are tax records and by law there are significant restrictions on what can be done with them.
The news and government leave out that the fourth 9/11 plane was stopped my the militia the second amendment applies to and that they would like to see disarmed.
Switzerland had a couple of things that prevented Nazi Germany from invading. The Germans drew up plans three separate times to do so and the Normandy invasion prevented the last set from being implemented. Among the things Switzerland did included:
1. The entire population was armed and trained for warfare. Militia may not be effective outside of a nation's borders but inside they can be devastating. On invasion, you end up fighting the whole population as happened with the British and the American colonies. Switzerland learned well from being conquered by Napoleon. I can not find the quote on the internet but there is a famous discussion where a Swiss officer is asked what they will do if Germany were to invade with overwhelming force and his answer was, "The militia would be mobilized. They would proceed to the front and fire once. Then they would go home." The Swiss militia outnumbered any invation force (unless the Allies lost) many times over.
2. Switzerland controlled the train tunnels between Germany and Italy. They made it clear to the Axis that if they were invaded, the tunnels would be destroyed and that the commander in charge of the tunnels had independent authority to do so in the event of invasion. There would be no countermanding orders from the military or government because the commander was ordered to ignore such orders. Those tunnels were important enough to German trade during the war that the risk of losing that at that time was significant.
3. Similar to 2 above, they deliberately set up their command and control structure so that it was impossible for the army and militia to surrender like other nations in Europe did. Most of the national armies were ordered to surrender after a token fight at best. Switzerland having seen this, made these changes after the start of the war.
Naturally trade of some sort continued with Germany during the way. They could hardly consign themselves to starvation. A lot of their trade with the Allies included important war materials like bomb sights. While the banking issues are regrettable, what would you have done in their situation? The very existence of Switzerland was at stake and the character of those transactions is different considering duress. Switzerland's objective was to prevent invasion until the Allies could invade Europe.
The bandpass filters are not perfect and compromises in their design would certainly allow radiation on frequencies outside of regulated limits if you had direct control of the transmitter.
The last time I looked into this, the FCC granted the operating licence to the device under the condition that it is not user modifiable to operate outside of it's frequency and power range. They almost certainly require that the firmware be fixed and certified for 802.11 devices.
The first third of John Ross' book contains a lot of history about the various firearms laws starting with the 1934 National Firearms Act. It is well worth reading just for that and the contrast between now and before the Firearms Act of 1968. It reminds me a lot of Atlas Shrugged if it had been written by Tom Clancy.
Another similar book is "Kings of the High Frontier" by Victor Koman which I originally bought in HTML form online to read on my Palm Pilot IIIx. The plot basically places civilian aerospace against the U.S. government and NASA. I do not know enough about events in civilian aerospace to gage what is based on real history. Many of the characters are recognizably based on people who are now involved in the current X-Prize. If you think some of the events in this story are far fetched, how long did it take NASA to destroy the Delta Clipper after it was turned over to them? To quote Mr. Koman, "Range safety is very important." Incidentally, the industrial smuggler in his book reminds me a lot of Hank Reardon.
At one time I might have thought just fixing the election system in the U.S. would correct the problems that we face. Now I am not so sure. Voting by plurality is definitely a mistake from a representation point of view but human nature may be too much to overcome for it to matter in the long term.
Image yourself back in Rome before the rise of the Caesars. You know what is going to happen over the next few hundred years and wish to prevent the fall of Roman civilization. What would you do? What would you do back before World War II in Germany to prevent the rise of the Nazi Party? Keep in mind that being an effective annoyance to the authorities is likely to just get you killed or worse. It is the prisoner's dilemma: all stand to benefit but those who shout, "The emperor has no clothes!" are the ones who will pay the individual price. John Ross actually brings this issue up at the end of his book.
It is helpful to recognize the difference in changes to a society versus changes to a nation from a global perspective. Paul Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" discusses the later and is very instructive regarding world events and where the great nations are headed. The U.S. would seem to be on the route of destroying the basis of the society that made it successful for the sake of maintaining an inherited empire that is going to be lost anyway.
At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, a Mrs. Powel anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the long task now finished, asked him directly: "Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" "A republic if you can keep it" responded Franklin.
The founding fathers were certainly aware of these problems at some level and given the tools at their disposal, I can hardly fault them for not having more foresight.
Most high voltage bipolar IC processes are also limited to 60V. Power FETs processes tend to resemble big ICs though and do have limitations at higher voltages. I have never had problems designing power systems that used lower voltage control circuts in high voltage applications but I have to admit the failure modes can be pretty esoteric.
I thought the legislated rules about high voltage systems had a limit of 51V. Thanks for pointing out it is actually 70V. I am too used to idiotic laws inappropriately applied to technology.
I do not believe either of the two major parties in the US can lose power unless voting by plurality is changed to approval or another system. I am sure they know the game theory as well as I do so I figure they know this also.
Ayn Rand said the time to revolt was after you lost your rights to speach and assembly. John Ross had another answer which was the theme of his book "Unintended Consequences":
It is not enough just to say, 'Totalitarian regimes are wrong, so don't let the State enslave you'. That's like saying, 'Don't get sick'. The important question is, when do you know it's going to become enslavement? When is the proper time to resist with force?
The end result, which we want to avoid, is the concentration camp. The gulag. The gas chamber. The Spanish Inquisition. All of those things. If you are in a death camp, no one would fault you for resisting. But when you're being herded toward the gas chamber, naked and seventy pounds below your health weight, it's too late. You have no chance. On the other hand, no one would support you if you started an armed rebellion because the government posts speed limits on open roads and arrests people for speeding. So when was it not too late, but also not too early?
A women's confronted by a big, strong, stranger. She doesn't know what he's planning, and she's cautous. Getting away from him's not possible. They're in a room and he's standing in front of the way out, or she's in a wheelchair - whatever. Leaving the area's not an option.
So now he starts to do things she doesn't like. He asks her for money. She can try to talk him out of it, just like we argue for lower taxes, and maybe it will work. If it doesn't, and she gets outvoted, she'll probably choose to give it to him instead of getting into a fight to the death over ten dollars. You would probably choose to pay your taxes rather than have police arrive to throw you in jail.
Maybe this big man demands some other things, other minor assaults on this women's dignity. When should she claw at his eyes or shoave her ballpoint pen in his throat? When he tries to force her to kiss him? Tries to force her to let him touch her? Tries to force her to have sex with him?
Those are questions that each woman has to answer for herself. There is one situation, though, where I tell the women to fight to the death. That's when the man pulls out a pair of handcuffs and says, 'Come on, I promise I won't touch you. I'm not asking you to put on a gag or anything, and since you can still scream for help, you know you'll be safe. Come on, I got a full bar in here, and color TV, and air conditioning, great stereo, come on, just put on the cuffs.'
I tell women that if that ever happens, maybe the man is telling the truth, and maybe after talking to her for a while he'll let her go and she will have had a good time drinking champagne and listening to music. But if she gets in the van and puts her wrists in the handcuffs, she has just given up her future ability to fight, and now it is too late.
How do you spot the precise point where a society is standing at the back of the van and the State has the handcuffs out?
Cars are moving to 42V instead of 48V and I assume it is because when you charge a 48V lead acid battery the voltage is high enough that additional legislative rules come into effect that consider it a "High Voltage" system.
Figure a 12V lead acid battery charges at 14.2 volts and floats at 13.8 volts. A 48 Volt system then charges at 56.8 volts and floats at 55.2 volts. A 42 volt system would charge at 49.7 volts and float at 48.3 volts.
Does not the various laws governing electrical systems divide high voltage and low voltage at 51 volts? If that is the case, then the automobile industry is wasting a lot of money because of the effect of an ill considered law which prevents them from reusing the technology that works with current 48V systems.
Imaging if you could use all of the currently available 48 volt power systems in automobiles instead of designing and producing new ones for 42 volts. Just being able to use your car as a 48 volt backup to your computer and telecommunication systems could be valuable.
I agree with the 3ware RAID controller recommendation.
If you just need to protect a single drive worth of data then two drives in a RAID 1 configuration using one of the many motherboard (Silicon Image, Promise, Intel) or even software/driver solutions is probably the way to go. I do this on all of my systems where downtime would be too expensive. If needed, the cheapest 2 drive 3ware controller costs just over $100 and being hardware RAID you can boot from it.
If you need more storage then a single drive will supply and do not mind slow write speeds, the slightly more expensive 4 drive 3ware controller will do hardware RAID 5 with no problem.
There are a couple of other companies producing relatively inexpensive hardware RAID controller cards for ATA drives including Promise which you may want to look into also.
Some ATA RAID controllers seem to support reading from both (or all) drives in a RAID 1 but most do not.
I recently moved my boot RAID 1 from the Intel ICH5R controller to the Promise controller on my Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard which is connected to the PCI bus. Based on benchmarks before and after the move, the Promise controller supports reading from both drives in a RAID 1 (I was actually able to watch the drive activity lights to verify this) while the Intel controller does not. In addition, the RAID 0 that got moved to the Intel controller was able to take advantage of the much higher bandwidth between the south and north bridge chips. I understand that 3ware raid controller boards are also suppose to support reading from multiples drives in a RAID 1.
It should be noted that the 32 bit 33 MHz PCI bus saturates at about 90 MBytes/sec and with current production ATA drives in a RAID it is quite easy to exceed this data transfer rate.
Some manufactures have started selling E7210 motherboards using the 875 north bridge with a south bridge (Canterwood?) supporting PCI-X which could eliminate the PCI bottleneck for some RAID implementations.
Some of the inexpensive routers from SMC, DLink, and others support dial up via a serial port though an external modem. Normally this is used as a backup connection but it can be used as the primary internet connection also.
That would be after the program was turned over to NASA. It took them only one test to destroy any competition to their cash cow shuttle program by leaving a hydraulic line for the landing gear disconnected.
3 DB is a change in power by two times. Double the distance is 1/4 the power so the rule of thumb I use is 6 DB doubles the range. In some cases you can actually do better then that because of the spatial selectivity of a directional antenna reducing the effects of other transmitters and noise sources.
What would stop the owners from making up some other reason for not renewing the lease? Would the evidence that they asked for a deposit for placing an antenna in the renter's private area be enough to win in court assuming the renter took it that far?
Let us say for the sake of argument that the various in flight systems on a current passenger airplane are so sensitive to interference from inside the cabin that all non intentional radiators must be shut down including laptops, radio receivers of any kind, etc. What does this say about the safety of the plane in question when confronted with the multitude of broadcast transmitters outside the fuselage that are covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum with thousands and tens of thousands of watts and various intermodulation products everywhere? Is the outside shielding of an aircraft really good enough to knock those outside transmitters down below the levels required by the FCC for unintentional radiators?
Although our concerns with security have changed since 9/11, the threat of someone deliberately jamming aircraft systems using an intentional radiator from inside the airplane has always existed. If current aircraft can not deal with FCC class B and part 15 electronics, there is no way they are going to deal with a deliberate attack never mind one that is specifically designed to interfere with aircraft navigation, communication, and operation.
I have worked on many projects as an electronics engineer where RF interference considerations from licensed transmitters were major issues as well as our own non intentional RF emissions. I used to be an avid amateur radio T-Hunter/Hider in Southern California and have seen first hand what powerful transmitters can do as well as the unintentional interference poorly shielded equipment can cause to excessively sensitive electronics.
What you discribe sounds more like David Friedman then Milton Friedman but I have not read enough discussing Milton's specific views on anarcho-capatalism to be sure about him in this regard.
Ayn Rand made a similar argument for the instability of anarcho-capatalism. If you accept the instability then it would be an argument for libertarianism in favor of anarcho-capatalism which is what you are discribing. Iceland had a society that was very similar to David Friedman's discription of anarcho-capatalism between 930 AD and about 1212 AD.
It certainly is not an argument against the economic system of laissez faire capatalism that the libertarians advocate.
Last time I checked there were restrictions on what spreading sequences HAM operators could use. I very much doubt that Wi-Fi uses any of the permitted ones.
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We have a proportionally high number of murders using weapons other then firearms including knives and clubs. Unless the availablility of firearms can somehow explain violence using other weapons, it is not sufficient in itself.
I have a Powerware 9120 for my home systems and it is a currently manufactured online system.
Correctly designed and built switching power supplies should be very tolerant of input power problems. Typically a 120V input power supply will operate correctly from 90 to at least 140 volts without any problems and because of the capacitor input section will be very tolerant of noise and other power problems.
Be careful with international power supplies because some of them list 90 to 240 volts but use a standard voltage doubler with automatic switching which allows them to support a input voltage of 90 to 140 OR 180 to 280. If your input voltage is between 140 and 180, they can seriously malfunction.
In addition, those who practiced law were not licensed in 1779. Lysander Spooner practiced law in Massachussets during the time licensing was added as a requirement state by state and fought against it. Does anybody really think the law will not become more expensive and needlessly complex when licensed lawyers have the opposite interest? That would be like doctors, another licensed profession, advocating access to drugs without perscriptions. It is not in their collective best interest.
In California you are not entitled to a jury trial for any offence costing less then $1000 and requiring less then 1 year in jail. I imagine it is much the same in other states.
I have an 8008 with the clock generator and a bunch of 2101s around here somewhere . . .
I hate Ashcroft as much as many here but to give him credit BATF records on firearms are tax records and by law there are significant restrictions on what can be done with them.
This is hardly surprising.
The news and government leave out that the fourth 9/11 plane was stopped my the militia the second amendment applies to and that they would like to see disarmed.
Switzerland had a couple of things that prevented Nazi Germany from invading. The Germans drew up plans three separate times to do so and the Normandy invasion prevented the last set from being implemented. Among the things Switzerland did included:
1. The entire population was armed and trained for warfare. Militia may not be effective outside of a nation's borders but inside they can be devastating. On invasion, you end up fighting the whole population as happened with the British and the American colonies. Switzerland learned well from being conquered by Napoleon. I can not find the quote on the internet but there is a famous discussion where a Swiss officer is asked what they will do if Germany were to invade with overwhelming force and his answer was, "The militia would be mobilized. They would proceed to the front and fire once. Then they would go home." The Swiss militia outnumbered any invation force (unless the Allies lost) many times over.
2. Switzerland controlled the train tunnels between Germany and Italy. They made it clear to the Axis that if they were invaded, the tunnels would be destroyed and that the commander in charge of the tunnels had independent authority to do so in the event of invasion. There would be no countermanding orders from the military or government because the commander was ordered to ignore such orders. Those tunnels were important enough to German trade during the war that the risk of losing that at that time was significant.
3. Similar to 2 above, they deliberately set up their command and control structure so that it was impossible for the army and militia to surrender like other nations in Europe did. Most of the national armies were ordered to surrender after a token fight at best. Switzerland having seen this, made these changes after the start of the war.
Naturally trade of some sort continued with Germany during the way. They could hardly consign themselves to starvation. A lot of their trade with the Allies included important war materials like bomb sights. While the banking issues are regrettable, what would you have done in their situation? The very existence of Switzerland was at stake and the character of those transactions is different considering duress. Switzerland's objective was to prevent invasion until the Allies could invade Europe.
The bandpass filters are not perfect and compromises in their design would certainly allow radiation on frequencies outside of regulated limits if you had direct control of the transmitter.
The last time I looked into this, the FCC granted the operating licence to the device under the condition that it is not user modifiable to operate outside of it's frequency and power range. They almost certainly require that the firmware be fixed and certified for 802.11 devices.
The first third of John Ross' book contains a lot of history about the various firearms laws starting with the 1934 National Firearms Act. It is well worth reading just for that and the contrast between now and before the Firearms Act of 1968. It reminds me a lot of Atlas Shrugged if it had been written by Tom Clancy.
Another similar book is "Kings of the High Frontier" by Victor Koman which I originally bought in HTML form online to read on my Palm Pilot IIIx. The plot basically places civilian aerospace against the U.S. government and NASA. I do not know enough about events in civilian aerospace to gage what is based on real history. Many of the characters are recognizably based on people who are now involved in the current X-Prize. If you think some of the events in this story are far fetched, how long did it take NASA to destroy the Delta Clipper after it was turned over to them? To quote Mr. Koman, "Range safety is very important." Incidentally, the industrial smuggler in his book reminds me a lot of Hank Reardon.
At one time I might have thought just fixing the election system in the U.S. would correct the problems that we face. Now I am not so sure. Voting by plurality is definitely a mistake from a representation point of view but human nature may be too much to overcome for it to matter in the long term.
Image yourself back in Rome before the rise of the Caesars. You know what is going to happen over the next few hundred years and wish to prevent the fall of Roman civilization. What would you do? What would you do back before World War II in Germany to prevent the rise of the Nazi Party? Keep in mind that being an effective annoyance to the authorities is likely to just get you killed or worse. It is the prisoner's dilemma: all stand to benefit but those who shout, "The emperor has no clothes!" are the ones who will pay the individual price. John Ross actually brings this issue up at the end of his book.
It is helpful to recognize the difference in changes to a society versus changes to a nation from a global perspective. Paul Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" discusses the later and is very instructive regarding world events and where the great nations are headed. The U.S. would seem to be on the route of destroying the basis of the society that made it successful for the sake of maintaining an inherited empire that is going to be lost anyway.
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The founding fathers were certainly aware of these problems at some level and given the tools at their disposal, I can hardly fault them for not having more foresight.
Most high voltage bipolar IC processes are also limited to 60V. Power FETs processes tend to resemble big ICs though and do have limitations at higher voltages. I have never had problems designing power systems that used lower voltage control circuts in high voltage applications but I have to admit the failure modes can be pretty esoteric.
I thought the legislated rules about high voltage systems had a limit of 51V. Thanks for pointing out it is actually 70V. I am too used to idiotic laws inappropriately applied to technology.
I do not believe either of the two major parties in the US can lose power unless voting by plurality is changed to approval or another system. I am sure they know the game theory as well as I do so I figure they know this also.
Ayn Rand said the time to revolt was after you lost your rights to speach and assembly. John Ross had another answer which was the theme of his book "Unintended Consequences":
I stand corrected but my original question remains.
Why choose 36 volt systems over 48 volt systems which already have an established infrastructure to build off of?
Well of course. The change from 12V to 48V would be much more dangerous then the change from 12V to 42V. That extra 6V would be deadly.
Cars are moving to 42V instead of 48V and I assume it is because when you charge a 48V lead acid battery the voltage is high enough that additional legislative rules come into effect that consider it a "High Voltage" system.
Figure a 12V lead acid battery charges at 14.2 volts and floats at 13.8 volts. A 48 Volt system then charges at 56.8 volts and floats at 55.2 volts. A 42 volt system would charge at 49.7 volts and float at 48.3 volts.
Does not the various laws governing electrical systems divide high voltage and low voltage at 51 volts? If that is the case, then the automobile industry is wasting a lot of money because of the effect of an ill considered law which prevents them from reusing the technology that works with current 48V systems.
Imaging if you could use all of the currently available 48 volt power systems in automobiles instead of designing and producing new ones for 42 volts. Just being able to use your car as a 48 volt backup to your computer and telecommunication systems could be valuable.
I agree with the 3ware RAID controller recommendation.
If you just need to protect a single drive worth of data then two drives in a RAID 1 configuration using one of the many motherboard (Silicon Image, Promise, Intel) or even software/driver solutions is probably the way to go. I do this on all of my systems where downtime would be too expensive. If needed, the cheapest 2 drive 3ware controller costs just over $100 and being hardware RAID you can boot from it.
If you need more storage then a single drive will supply and do not mind slow write speeds, the slightly more expensive 4 drive 3ware controller will do hardware RAID 5 with no problem.
There are a couple of other companies producing relatively inexpensive hardware RAID controller cards for ATA drives including Promise which you may want to look into also.
Some ATA RAID controllers seem to support reading from both (or all) drives in a RAID 1 but most do not.
I recently moved my boot RAID 1 from the Intel ICH5R controller to the Promise controller on my Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard which is connected to the PCI bus. Based on benchmarks before and after the move, the Promise controller supports reading from both drives in a RAID 1 (I was actually able to watch the drive activity lights to verify this) while the Intel controller does not. In addition, the RAID 0 that got moved to the Intel controller was able to take advantage of the much higher bandwidth between the south and north bridge chips. I understand that 3ware raid controller boards are also suppose to support reading from multiples drives in a RAID 1.
Intel ICH5 RAID 0: 55 MBytes/sec
Intel ICH5 RAID 1: 120 MBytes/sec
Promise PCI RAID 0: 90 MBytes/sec
Promise PCI RAID 1: 90 MBytes/sec
It should be noted that the 32 bit 33 MHz PCI bus saturates at about 90 MBytes/sec and with current production ATA drives in a RAID it is quite easy to exceed this data transfer rate.
Some manufactures have started selling E7210 motherboards using the 875 north bridge with a south bridge (Canterwood?) supporting PCI-X which could eliminate the PCI bottleneck for some RAID implementations.
Some of the inexpensive routers from SMC, DLink, and others support dial up via a serial port though an external modem. Normally this is used as a backup connection but it can be used as the primary internet connection also.
I was worried there for a second. Heaven forbid that the first amendment apply to anything except that which is spoken, written, or printed.
That would be after the program was turned over to NASA. It took them only one test to destroy any competition to their cash cow shuttle program by leaving a hydraulic line for the landing gear disconnected.
3 DB is a change in power by two times. Double the distance is 1/4 the power so the rule of thumb I use is 6 DB doubles the range. In some cases you can actually do better then that because of the spatial selectivity of a directional antenna reducing the effects of other transmitters and noise sources.
What would stop the owners from making up some other reason for not renewing the lease? Would the evidence that they asked for a deposit for placing an antenna in the renter's private area be enough to win in court assuming the renter took it that far?
Let us say for the sake of argument that the various in flight systems on a current passenger airplane are so sensitive to interference from inside the cabin that all non intentional radiators must be shut down including laptops, radio receivers of any kind, etc. What does this say about the safety of the plane in question when confronted with the multitude of broadcast transmitters outside the fuselage that are covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum with thousands and tens of thousands of watts and various intermodulation products everywhere? Is the outside shielding of an aircraft really good enough to knock those outside transmitters down below the levels required by the FCC for unintentional radiators?
Although our concerns with security have changed since 9/11, the threat of someone deliberately jamming aircraft systems using an intentional radiator from inside the airplane has always existed. If current aircraft can not deal with FCC class B and part 15 electronics, there is no way they are going to deal with a deliberate attack never mind one that is specifically designed to interfere with aircraft navigation, communication, and operation.
I have worked on many projects as an electronics engineer where RF interference considerations from licensed transmitters were major issues as well as our own non intentional RF emissions. I used to be an avid amateur radio T-Hunter/Hider in Southern California and have seen first hand what powerful transmitters can do as well as the unintentional interference poorly shielded equipment can cause to excessively sensitive electronics.
What you discribe sounds more like David Friedman then Milton Friedman but I have not read enough discussing Milton's specific views on anarcho-capatalism to be sure about him in this regard.
Ayn Rand made a similar argument for the instability of anarcho-capatalism. If you accept the instability then it would be an argument for libertarianism in favor of anarcho-capatalism which is what you are discribing. Iceland had a society that was very similar to David Friedman's discription of anarcho-capatalism between 930 AD and about 1212 AD.
It certainly is not an argument against the economic system of laissez faire capatalism that the libertarians advocate.
Plague, war, and famine are natural methods of population control.
Last time I checked there were restrictions on what spreading sequences HAM operators could use. I very much doubt that Wi-Fi uses any of the permitted ones.