- Remove all drug licensing. Legalize everything. Caveat emptor.
- Eliminate all subsidies, grants, hand-outs, and other redistribution programs aided at distorting prices of services, products, or commodities.
- Eliminate all trade restrictions, tariffs, and other means that interfere with the voluntary exchange between consenting parties.
- Eliminate the limited liability of and fictional entity of the corporation. Those who engage in harmful actions to others must be held accountable. (Think how fast the faulty products would be recalled if the engineers/designers/project managers/etc. were held legally responsible for their decisions.)
- Eliminate all zoning laws on private property.
- Eliminate the externalizing of security or safety for products and services. E.g. let the airlines and airports pay for securing their services instead of letting the TSA grab and grope passengers.
I'm an agorist, so I advocate eliminating all statism.
How many more examples do people need before realizing that giving the state the power to force people into compulsory handing over of their privacy GUARANTEES that privacy, freedom, and security will be lost. Stop with the collectivist/slave mentality. Read the laws for your state regarding cars, you will be surprised to learned that they only apply to commercial activities, not to individuals traveling from point to point.
"right to bear arms". What is an "arm"? Could the founders have intended it to cover a weapon they hadn't conceived of existing.
Not sure if you are attempting humor or showing natural ignorance, but...arms is short form of armaments http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/armaments which means weapons for killing people. So, in the intent of the constitution, all weapons are fair game.
Now, it could be debated that there could be a distinction between arms for defense and Weapons of Genocide (chemical, biological, nuclear, etc.), since WoGs are not used to target specific individuals whereas a bullet is, no matter if shot from a.22 pistol or.50 caliber machine gun.
"right to feel secure in person and property". Does that include data on your hard-drive? What if we invent a scanner that can perform an invasive search without entering your house? Are you secure or not? The constitution doesn't mention scanners (or wire taps, or computer sniffing, or infra-red cameras, or WiFi hacking equipment, or laser mics).
It's "living" when it's applied to a new situation that did not in the past exist. The same as all laws (or do we need to make new copyright laws every time someone comes up with a new storage device?)
There's no need to "reinvent laws" to match minor changes in technology, the premise for existing laws remains the same. And yes, your hard drive is your property so they should be required to have a warrant to seize and/or do data analysis on it. If you want a current example of this, look up the court rulings against cops using a FLIR device to read heat signatures on houses suspected of being part of a grow-op (a cannabis grow operation for all you cats not hip enough).
Why should TLDs have a purpose at all should be the first question. They're just arbitrary. Let there be a complete decentralization of the domain name space. It's not like names magically gain integrity by having a current address. If that were the case,.gov should be the picture of piety.
Taxes paid for the DARPA-funded research you use everyday, grandparent.
The Internet could be different if DARPA didn't do what it did, but neither the concept of networking systems together nor the means of achieving it were by some "divine inspiration" only accessible to those who use coercion to achieve it. Besides, pointing to a "good" done by government doesn't invalidate my point, young pup.
Electrical and fire regulations are found at the local level, not Congress. That's why people who are inclined to build things generally choose to do so in the rural areas, since there are very few or no zoning laws.
There's also the story of how Watts sat on the patent for the steam engine, keeping innovation hindered until the patent ran out. Only then did he begin producing steam engines on a large scale.
Whenever I see such posts by those in the 'Old World' I rack them up as more examples of "Euro-Penis Envy".
I would seem that those who judge us over here in the 'New World' are by stereotypes provided by their media. It would be like me, a Texan, to believe that all British are like the characters portrayed by the show "Little Britain".
U.S. businesses don't provide health care because the government doesn't subsidize it. U.S. businesses provide health care because the government requires it, and subsidizes it. It isn't anything close to a free market.
That's not correct, business' are not require to provide health insurance for their employees. Employer provided health insurance was born as a reaction against wage controls enacted by FDR. Since employers couldn't pay more to attract employees, they got around it by providing other incentives for people to work for them. Before then, "insurance" was a community based function (e.g. churches pooling resources together for the congregation).
I would agree that Exchange and Active Directory are two very important reasons why Microsoft will remain dominant. The third MS technology that the Open Source community could really compete in, but appears to be sleeping is SharePoint.
There is O3 Spaces that works with MS Office and OpenOffice.org/Star Office, and has a Free Community edition available.
First off, to answer your question: No Motherfucker, she has no right (ethical or legal) to do this. You created those notes, so their your property. Hell, copyright law would even apply here.
Second, it's a sad state of affairs when these sorts of incidents beg the question if they can be done. Society is becoming a bunch of pussies when so-called authority figures stomp all over ("walk" doesn't convey enough malice) people who then ask timidly, "Was I wrong???" God damn, people need to grow some balls and tell these narcissistic meatheads to go Fuck Themselves 8 Ways to Next Sunday. This goes for everybody with some bullshit title; lawyer, judge, cop, president, teacher, etc.
The pussification of Humanity continues uncontested...
The importance of farmers in the US political process never ceases to boggle.
They make up something like 4% of the population. There are more World of Warcraft players in the US than there are farmers. Where's the massive WoW political clout?
Farmers have the one thing that counts, they are wealthy from their ownership of land. (WoW players might be richer in cash, but overall their not wealthy in property.) Follow the money/wealth. Government kisses the hand of wealth.
Also, they have more time to be politically active, both in voting and lobbying. Plowing a field doesn't take all year.
If more people took the time to be politically active and not spend it, I don't know, playing WoW, they too would have the golden opprotunity to suckle on the government's teet.
...I just got off the phone with a friend in LA who needs to take her car to the mechanic, and physically cannot bike back...
And your friend can't call a cab to take her home...
Americans really need to endure higher gas prices for longer, because their greed and laziness know of no other language that will teach them to stop forcing everyone to drive everywhere.
It's always good to hear how egalitarian the liberal side is these days. The law is not there to be a coercive means to change society to the whims of the ruling minority (be they liberal or conservative), but to a means of redress against infractions to life, liberty, and (physical) property.
I'm a member of Blue Bonnet Electric Coop and as a member/owner of it, all I can say is, "Get your happy-asses out here and set that shit up." Fuck, I own over 5 acres of land, I'll sign an easement deal with them to allow a mini-NOC to be setup if it will help sweeten the deal.
Living with 26.4Kbps dial up is slow death... If the cattle piss on or kick over a junction box, it's lights out.
The prices for satellite access are obscene and bandwidth caps are a real buzz kill. As for cellular, my house is in a dead zone, so no 3G or WiMax options.
When it's not a couple of lipsticks, but a couple of bulldogs. During those times I come upon that, instead of using coercive action against them like the government, I just fast-forward to the next scene.
A very easy example: An easily frightened solider is walking in the woods. He hears something and is frightened, and immediately flinches. A bullet flies over his head, and he turns and returns fire, killing the enemey. A few miles away, another solider is walking. He is not easily frightened or startled. He hears something, and calmly turns his head in the direction of the sound. The bullet goes straight through his face, killing him.
Not counting a couple of exceptions, bullets tend to travel faster than the speed of sound. By the time your soldier had anything to hear, he would already be dead. This is why people say, "You never hear the one that gets you."
iocat never stated that the sound was from the bullet. My reaction to his statement was that is was from the hundreds of other possible sounds another soldier/sniper may make or be a secondary cause of. E.g. the shooter getting the firearm in ready position, animals getting spooked by the shooter's movement, etc.
That's because that is exactly what would happen. Libertarian philosophy's end result is corporate domination of the individual. They can claim they believe otherwise, but "pure" Libertarian principles applied to today's society means corporate fascism.
BTW, the term is "run amok," not "run a muck."
Wrong. You fail to understand/see the major flaw in your argument, that corporations are creations of the state. If the state is downsized or eliminated, then the legal apparatus that makes and support the existence of a corporation is removed. Removing the ability of the state to give the benefits of a living person to a non-entity that also limits the corporations liability.
Libertarianism is about restoring the full power and responsibility back to the sovereign individual.
Driving is a privilege not a right. Unless you have the money to cover any damages you may cause, it is absolutely necessary to have insurance. The cost of barebones liability coverage is not that high assuming you have a relatively clean record and if not, you probably shouldn't be driving. It seems that today the idea of personal responsibility is falling out of favor.
Actually you're both correct and incorrect. Most people are not driving, they're traveling. And that activity is codified in common law as a right, movement by people by any means. Those who make money from either hauling freight or passengers are driving, and that is the legal definition of transportation as noted in "Black's Law Dictionary".
If you desire further examples, check out your state's (I assume you are in the US since your first statement is a commonly stated incorrect mantra) transportation statues/codes/laws and use a legal dictionary for any term not explicitly defined in such.
I responding to your post because that outright lie needs to be squelched.
I too am a member of an electric co-op, Bluebonnet Electric Co-op in Central Texas. As a Libertarian, I personally find their business model the best of both worlds. Being for profit, so that they seek to minimize inefficiencies, and being controlled by the members.
Biodiesel runs in Diesel engines, ethanol runs in Flex-Fuel engines. Rudolf Diesel invented his engine to run directly of seed oils, such as peanut, soy, sunflower, cannabis, etc. Others have found ways of using everything from used cooking oils to fat from slaughtered animals (turkey, chicken, etc.) to make a fueul suitable to combust. Flex-Fuel engines can run on either 100% petroleum gasoline or a stated mixture of Ethanol and gasoline (usually up to 85% ethanol). The ethanol is mainly produced by corn, thanks to the corn lobby, e.g. farmers and companies like ADM. ADM is raking in the profits, and still getting government subsidies.
If you want to bitch about oil prices, direct it towards all the empty headed greens who pushed for not drilling off the Florida coast and other places. BTW, the same oil we could be drilling right now off of Florida is getting sold by the Cubans to Chinese and Indian drillers; so the bit about protecting the environment is going to not only not happen, but is going to have even greater destruction than if US (whose regulatory standards are way higher for protecting the environment) was allowed to drill. Also having the completely asinine embargo against Cuba is also a contributer.
The Zepplin ingnited not because of the Hydrogen, but because of the paint mixture that was used on the outer skin. Once the landing cables touching the ground, giving a path for electrical discharge from the Zepplin to travel, it was the end. Ignition of the hydrogen took no more than a couple of seconds. They used hydrogen because the US, the main producer of Helium (an inert gas), had an embargo against selling it to Germany in the 1930s.
At least this cat said that he wasn't about blanket blocking of various types of usage.
But, the whole notion that they should charge more because of the higher demand on the network is bullshit, when all things are considered. Since the telecoms have gotten (maybe still getting) massive subsidies to build a high bandwidth optical network since the late 1980s, their excuses now are pathetic.
Unfortuantely I have Verizon, but ATT does serve areas close to be, so the following is still applicable. I live about 50+ miles away for Austin, TX where high bandwidth is no problem in acquiring. The best I can get, albeit it's in a rural area but not isolated, is dail up, not 53Kbps, but 26.4Kbps. For this grand luxury, I pay about $20 for a local only telephone line, no long distance, no features, just a dail tone. The kicker is that the line charge itself is just $7, while $13 is for all the taxes and other charges (a whole fucking $6 is for that Federal Interstate Line charge, which was supposed to be for the building of that previously stated optical network).
So to all you big-wigs at the telecoms, Fuck You and The Horse You Road in On. Y'all have had both the time AND money to build the network's capacity, but all you did was lie to Congress, defraud the American people, and sit on your asses for the entire time.
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I'm an agorist, so I advocate eliminating all statism.
How many more examples do people need before realizing that giving the state the power to force people into compulsory handing over of their privacy GUARANTEES that privacy, freedom, and security will be lost. Stop with the collectivist/slave mentality. Read the laws for your state regarding cars, you will be surprised to learned that they only apply to commercial activities, not to individuals traveling from point to point.
"right to bear arms". What is an "arm"? Could the founders have intended it to cover a weapon they hadn't conceived of existing.
Not sure if you are attempting humor or showing natural ignorance, but...arms is short form of armaments http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/armaments which means weapons for killing people. So, in the intent of the constitution, all weapons are fair game.
Now, it could be debated that there could be a distinction between arms for defense and Weapons of Genocide (chemical, biological, nuclear, etc.), since WoGs are not used to target specific individuals whereas a bullet is, no matter if shot from a .22 pistol or .50 caliber machine gun.
"right to feel secure in person and property". Does that include data on your hard-drive? What if we invent a scanner that can perform an invasive search without entering your house? Are you secure or not? The constitution doesn't mention scanners (or wire taps, or computer sniffing, or infra-red cameras, or WiFi hacking equipment, or laser mics).
It's "living" when it's applied to a new situation that did not in the past exist. The same as all laws (or do we need to make new copyright laws every time someone comes up with a new storage device?)
There's no need to "reinvent laws" to match minor changes in technology, the premise for existing laws remains the same. And yes, your hard drive is your property so they should be required to have a warrant to seize and/or do data analysis on it. If you want a current example of this, look up the court rulings against cops using a FLIR device to read heat signatures on houses suspected of being part of a grow-op (a cannabis grow operation for all you cats not hip enough).
Why should TLDs have a purpose at all should be the first question. They're just arbitrary. Let there be a complete decentralization of the domain name space. It's not like names magically gain integrity by having a current address. If that were the case, .gov should be the picture of piety.
Repress the fuckin' - Repress the people.
Taxes paid for the DARPA-funded research you use everyday, grandparent.
The Internet could be different if DARPA didn't do what it did, but neither the concept of networking systems together nor the means of achieving it were by some "divine inspiration" only accessible to those who use coercion to achieve it. Besides, pointing to a "good" done by government doesn't invalidate my point, young pup.
... Abortion is Murder, and flag burning is Treason?
As an amoralist, I couldn't care less about abortion, and as a libertarian I wouldn't stop you or anyone else from having one.
Regarding the flag. If you happen to have an emotional feeling for a piece of cloth, knock yourself out. Such tribalism is below me.
Taxation is Theft. Pure and simple.
http://mises.org/etexts/taxrob.asp
I'll leave the statists here to justify their servitude.
Electrical and fire regulations are found at the local level, not Congress. That's why people who are inclined to build things generally choose to do so in the rural areas, since there are very few or no zoning laws.
Luckily there are libertarians who are not in support of the bullshit concept of Imanginary Property.
The Mercantilism of Our Time
There's also the story of how Watts sat on the patent for the steam engine, keeping innovation hindered until the patent ran out. Only then did he begin producing steam engines on a large scale.
Whenever I see such posts by those in the 'Old World' I rack them up as more examples of "Euro-Penis Envy".
I would seem that those who judge us over here in the 'New World' are by stereotypes provided by their media. It would be like me, a Texan, to believe that all British are like the characters portrayed by the show "Little Britain".
U.S. businesses don't provide health care because the government doesn't subsidize it. U.S. businesses provide health care because the government requires it, and subsidizes it. It isn't anything close to a free market.
That's not correct, business' are not require to provide health insurance for their employees. Employer provided health insurance was born as a reaction against wage controls enacted by FDR. Since employers couldn't pay more to attract employees, they got around it by providing other incentives for people to work for them. Before then, "insurance" was a community based function (e.g. churches pooling resources together for the congregation).
I would agree that Exchange and Active Directory are two very important reasons why Microsoft will remain dominant. The third MS technology that the Open Source community could really compete in, but appears to be sleeping is SharePoint.
There is O3 Spaces that works with MS Office and OpenOffice.org/Star Office, and has a Free Community edition available.
First off, to answer your question: No Motherfucker, she has no right (ethical or legal) to do this. You created those notes, so their your property. Hell, copyright law would even apply here.
Second, it's a sad state of affairs when these sorts of incidents beg the question if they can be done. Society is becoming a bunch of pussies when so-called authority figures stomp all over ("walk" doesn't convey enough malice) people who then ask timidly, "Was I wrong???" God damn, people need to grow some balls and tell these narcissistic meatheads to go Fuck Themselves 8 Ways to Next Sunday. This goes for everybody with some bullshit title; lawyer, judge, cop, president, teacher, etc.
The pussification of Humanity continues uncontested...
The importance of farmers in the US political process never ceases to boggle.
They make up something like 4% of the population. There are more World of Warcraft players in the US than there are farmers. Where's the massive WoW political clout?
Farmers have the one thing that counts, they are wealthy from their ownership of land. (WoW players might be richer in cash, but overall their not wealthy in property.) Follow the money/wealth. Government kisses the hand of wealth.
Also, they have more time to be politically active, both in voting and lobbying. Plowing a field doesn't take all year.
If more people took the time to be politically active and not spend it, I don't know, playing WoW, they too would have the golden opprotunity to suckle on the government's teet.
...I just got off the phone with a friend in LA who needs to take her car to the mechanic, and physically cannot bike back...
And your friend can't call a cab to take her home...
Americans really need to endure higher gas prices for longer, because their greed and laziness know of no other language that will teach them to stop forcing everyone to drive everywhere.
It's always good to hear how egalitarian the liberal side is these days. The law is not there to be a coercive means to change society to the whims of the ruling minority (be they liberal or conservative), but to a means of redress against infractions to life, liberty, and (physical) property.
I'm a member of Blue Bonnet Electric Coop and as a member/owner of it, all I can say is, "Get your happy-asses out here and set that shit up." Fuck, I own over 5 acres of land, I'll sign an easement deal with them to allow a mini-NOC to be setup if it will help sweeten the deal.
Living with 26.4Kbps dial up is slow death... If the cattle piss on or kick over a junction box, it's lights out.
The prices for satellite access are obscene and bandwidth caps are a real buzz kill. As for cellular, my house is in a dead zone, so no 3G or WiMax options.
What's not too like?
When it's not a couple of lipsticks, but a couple of bulldogs. During those times I come upon that, instead of using coercive action against them like the government, I just fast-forward to the next scene.
A very easy example: An easily frightened solider is walking in the woods. He hears something and is frightened, and immediately flinches. A bullet flies over his head, and he turns and returns fire, killing the enemey. A few miles away, another solider is walking. He is not easily frightened or startled. He hears something, and calmly turns his head in the direction of the sound. The bullet goes straight through his face, killing him.
Not counting a couple of exceptions, bullets tend to travel faster than the speed of sound. By the time your soldier had anything to hear, he would already be dead. This is why people say, "You never hear the one that gets you."
iocat never stated that the sound was from the bullet. My reaction to his statement was that is was from the hundreds of other possible sounds another soldier/sniper may make or be a secondary cause of. E.g. the shooter getting the firearm in ready position, animals getting spooked by the shooter's movement, etc.
That's because that is exactly what would happen. Libertarian philosophy's end result is corporate domination of the individual. They can claim they believe otherwise, but "pure" Libertarian principles applied to today's society means corporate fascism.
BTW, the term is "run amok," not "run a muck."
Wrong. You fail to understand/see the major flaw in your argument, that corporations are creations of the state. If the state is downsized or eliminated, then the legal apparatus that makes and support the existence of a corporation is removed. Removing the ability of the state to give the benefits of a living person to a non-entity that also limits the corporations liability.
Libertarianism is about restoring the full power and responsibility back to the sovereign individual.
Driving is a privilege not a right. Unless you have the money to cover any damages you may cause, it is absolutely necessary to have insurance. The cost of barebones liability coverage is not that high assuming you have a relatively clean record and if not, you probably shouldn't be driving. It seems that today the idea of personal responsibility is falling out of favor.
Actually you're both correct and incorrect. Most people are not driving, they're traveling. And that activity is codified in common law as a right, movement by people by any means. Those who make money from either hauling freight or passengers are driving, and that is the legal definition of transportation as noted in "Black's Law Dictionary".
If you desire further examples, check out your state's (I assume you are in the US since your first statement is a commonly stated incorrect mantra) transportation statues/codes/laws and use a legal dictionary for any term not explicitly defined in such.
I responding to your post because that outright lie needs to be squelched.
Hear, hear.
I too am a member of an electric co-op, Bluebonnet Electric Co-op in Central Texas. As a Libertarian, I personally find their business model the best of both worlds. Being for profit, so that they seek to minimize inefficiencies, and being controlled by the members.
They're even cool enough to have information on their website on what it takes to have personally owned renewable power sources tied into the grid.
Just for the record, I run Gentoo on a 26.4Kbps modem connection at my house. It's slow as a Japanese tea ceremony, but it can be done.
Just to nit-pick.
Biodiesel runs in Diesel engines, ethanol runs in Flex-Fuel engines. Rudolf Diesel invented his engine to run directly of seed oils, such as peanut, soy, sunflower, cannabis, etc. Others have found ways of using everything from used cooking oils to fat from slaughtered animals (turkey, chicken, etc.) to make a fueul suitable to combust. Flex-Fuel engines can run on either 100% petroleum gasoline or a stated mixture of Ethanol and gasoline (usually up to 85% ethanol). The ethanol is mainly produced by corn, thanks to the corn lobby, e.g. farmers and companies like ADM. ADM is raking in the profits, and still getting government subsidies.
If you want to bitch about oil prices, direct it towards all the empty headed greens who pushed for not drilling off the Florida coast and other places. BTW, the same oil we could be drilling right now off of Florida is getting sold by the Cubans to Chinese and Indian drillers; so the bit about protecting the environment is going to not only not happen, but is going to have even greater destruction than if US (whose regulatory standards are way higher for protecting the environment) was allowed to drill. Also having the completely asinine embargo against Cuba is also a contributer.
The Zepplin ingnited not because of the Hydrogen, but because of the paint mixture that was used on the outer skin. Once the landing cables touching the ground, giving a path for electrical discharge from the Zepplin to travel, it was the end. Ignition of the hydrogen took no more than a couple of seconds. They used hydrogen because the US, the main producer of Helium (an inert gas), had an embargo against selling it to Germany in the 1930s.
At least this cat said that he wasn't about blanket blocking of various types of usage.
But, the whole notion that they should charge more because of the higher demand on the network is bullshit, when all things are considered. Since the telecoms have gotten (maybe still getting) massive subsidies to build a high bandwidth optical network since the late 1980s, their excuses now are pathetic.
Unfortuantely I have Verizon, but ATT does serve areas close to be, so the following is still applicable. I live about 50+ miles away for Austin, TX where high bandwidth is no problem in acquiring. The best I can get, albeit it's in a rural area but not isolated, is dail up, not 53Kbps, but 26.4Kbps. For this grand luxury, I pay about $20 for a local only telephone line, no long distance, no features, just a dail tone. The kicker is that the line charge itself is just $7, while $13 is for all the taxes and other charges (a whole fucking $6 is for that Federal Interstate Line charge, which was supposed to be for the building of that previously stated optical network).
So to all you big-wigs at the telecoms, Fuck You and The Horse You Road in On. Y'all have had both the time AND money to build the network's capacity, but all you did was lie to Congress, defraud the American people, and sit on your asses for the entire time.