Some people abusing the system doesn't mean you throw out the system.
Yes you do. The system is corrupt by design for the sole purpose of protecting entrenched interests. Putzing around with it will fix nothing. Out it goes! When a car has a fatal flaw, you damn well better redesign it!
You can't win unless you cheat. That is what the system in general rewards. Liars win elections, thieves win on Wall Street, bullies become sheriff. Cheats and bullies are top dogs in today's society. They are the gangsters who write the rules. Bitcoin is just another chapter. If there was no way to cheat, it would never have gotten this far.
if the Higgs boson formed (like all other particles) some time after the Big Bang . . . then the universe was filled with what were then massless particles.
You do see the flaw there, don't you? Which came first? The Higgs boson, or the particles? And "massless particles"? Sounds like that requires no small degree of faith..
The system isn't "gamed". It is working as designed. What is "gamed" are peoples' psyche. Well, actually it's an easily exploited biological vulnerability. It might be patched in a couple of hundred thousand years if the species doesn't reach the end of its life cycle first.
Some guy puts up a NOAA weather map and tells us this is how the universe began?? And what with this "briefly faster than light" BS? The law is the law.
None of that precludes equal protection under the law. Everybody has the same rights as a journalist, or any other person. As such, we all have the right not to answer to any authority. Unfortunately the average person doesn't have the heavy weaponry needed to protect those rights.
Then you should look for people who don't spend money on campaigns, and vote for them. Don't wait for them to come to you asking for handouts. Whatever change you all are looking for will have to come from the voters. It can't happen any other way. When you vote for crooks, you can only get crooked law. Don't expect them to kill their golden goose of gullibility that keeps them in office.
The job of the NSA is to gack foreign companies and steal their source code?
Many of the "jobs" of the NSA are classified. It is perfectly plausible that this would be one of them. Since there is no oversight, we should always assume the worse. Chances are they will have gone well beyond whatever you can possibly dream up.
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Some people abusing the system doesn't mean you throw out the system.
Yes you do. The system is corrupt by design for the sole purpose of protecting entrenched interests. Putzing around with it will fix nothing. Out it goes!
When a car has a fatal flaw, you damn well better redesign it!
...should we then allow anything and everything to be listed as medicine?
Well that would be a good way raise the price by forcing you to need a prescription.
You can't win unless you cheat. That is what the system in general rewards. Liars win elections, thieves win on Wall Street, bullies become sheriff. Cheats and bullies are top dogs in today's society. They are the gangsters who write the rules. Bitcoin is just another chapter. If there was no way to cheat, it would never have gotten this far.
Well, it certainly good to know that faster than light travel is possible then.
Keep your pi hole wide open. I'm comin' in!
Who elected Ukraine's parliament?
Is not the Ukrainian parliament an elected body?
Traitors? How? To whom? Those who led the coup are the traitors...
Maybe they are following orders of the elected government, not the coup leaders.
...independent law
I don't believe such a thing exists. And I certainly hope you don't mean the League of Nations. Everybody already knows what that would lead to.
Vote Cthulhu...
Go ahead, throw your vote away. HAHAHA!
It tells you something about the caliber of people that get into office, doesn't it?
It tells me more about who put them there. The office holder is just following orders.
if the Higgs boson formed (like all other particles) some time after the Big Bang . . . then the universe was filled with what were then massless particles.
You do see the flaw there, don't you? Which came first? The Higgs boson, or the particles? And "massless particles"? Sounds like that requires no small degree of faith..
Everybody is above corrupt law.
The system isn't "gamed". It is working as designed. What is "gamed" are peoples' psyche. Well, actually it's an easily exploited biological vulnerability. It might be patched in a couple of hundred thousand years if the species doesn't reach the end of its life cycle first.
Some guy puts up a NOAA weather map and tells us this is how the universe began?? And what with this "briefly faster than light" BS? The law is the law.
None of that precludes equal protection under the law. Everybody has the same rights as a journalist, or any other person. As such, we all have the right not to answer to any authority. Unfortunately the average person doesn't have the heavy weaponry needed to protect those rights.
Then you should look for people who don't spend money on campaigns, and vote for them. Don't wait for them to come to you asking for handouts. Whatever change you all are looking for will have to come from the voters. It can't happen any other way. When you vote for crooks, you can only get crooked law. Don't expect them to kill their golden goose of gullibility that keeps them in office.
And all people should demand freedom of speech, regardless of their profession, or lack thereof.
The rest of you voted for the honest candidate...Right?
Yes... Kodos
When dividing by zero, whatever remains is irrelevant... You can't separate leprechauns from unicorns.
Redistribute power, not wealth...
Lego?
There is no "progressive" side. That would imply progress, and that we are not making.
The job of the NSA is to gack foreign companies and steal their source code?
Many of the "jobs" of the NSA are classified. It is perfectly plausible that this would be one of them. Since there is no oversight, we should always assume the worse. Chances are they will have gone well beyond whatever you can possibly dream up.
Yes, well, I've noticed it's pretty easy to declare an "emergency".