I am aware of libertarian socialism. I would at least partially qualify as one myself. But in the context of American politics, libertarianism is a pseudo-conservative faction being used to restore a pre-revolutionary stratified class system.
We have had unregulated markets before, this is not new. They have always resulting in absolute concentration of wealth at the cost of the liberty, health and safety of the common man.
Many of the problems we currently face as the plutocrats grow in power are a result of deregulation, pushed by people who foolishly think they will get more liberty when in reality it just means that the powerful have more license to infringe on your liberty.
I've seen your argument a thousand times, and it just keeps getting more idiotic every time I see it.
The state is not the enemy of liberty (or more accurately, it does not have to be, and should not be).
Your liberty can be infringed by the action of any powerful entity, be it the state, a large corporation, a wealthy person or a simple thug.
The role of the state should be to protect your liberties, not just in theory but in practice. And that means regulating markets, providing a social safety net and providing a framework of laws that protect workers from abuse.
I agree with basic libertarian principals. Where you fail is economics. Despite popular belief, Adam Smith was not an advocate of the unregulated market. He wrote it as an overly simplified and imperfect model, nothing more. He also wrote extensively on its risks and limitations, which libertarians completely ignore in an irrational quest for dogmatic purity.
You are accepting whatever the government tells you.
I am standing up for a Hero was forced into a position where he had to chose between upholding the constitution (the first part of his oath) or following orders (another part of his oath). If he didn't blow the whistle, he would still be violating his oath.
This man is a hero. He is providing the transparency and accountability that Obama promised and failed to deliver after he sold out the liberals who got him elected.
These are libertarians, While they do support many liberties, they utterly fail on economic concepts, and are looking to negate liberty through plutocracy via corporate proxy.
Quite frankly I was deeply deeply disappointed that Obama turned out to have been a republican plant, a crypto conservative feeding on the hopes and dreams of people who wanted a better America, only to be betrayed. And I am deeply disappointed in the democratic party that failed to challenge him and put a true liberal up as opposition for reelection.
What I really want is a libertarian in every respect except economics, where the best option tends to be a closer to socialism.
in firefox it googles stuff, in opera it goes to stuff.com, both are wrong.
And the defacto operation of web browsers for decades didn't require the scheme prefix, and requiring a scheme prefix for local DNS entries creates an inconsistent behavior, and breaks schema discovery mechanisms like switching to https.
The defense of these things will be necessary as long as the right continues to attempt to strip and neuter the laws and agencies that are supposed to represent the workers interests. Why do you think they call for the end of the the EPA and OSHA and other protective government agencies? Every workers right and workplace safety is under constant attack by the right.
Oh. there are plenty of things that unions are still fighting for, living wages, proper healthcare, collective bargaining, etc. But the gains to workplace safety and child labor laws that have been mostly won are still under constant attack by the right. And without vigilance those will fall and we will see an end to the middle class and our future generations fed to the economic machine for the enrichment of the monied elite.
What I care about is the functionality of the URL bar.
And the changes made to it have BROKEN it. It no longer works for many valid local DNS entries, it do longer works reliably for some IP addresses.
This and this alone is the problem. You want a fancier search option? GREAT! make a fancier search option. But don't you fucktards dare to corrupt and limit the function of the standard URL bar as it has existed for the entire history of the web.
Did they ever fix that issue where using certain search engines to look for a URL would register that URL with an astroturfer? If not, then even your ideal case will produce unintended consequences if the user has the wrong search provider.
1: You can adjust the relative size of the search bar and the address bar manually. And it could have been done automatically.
2: You only need one shortcut to switch focus to the either one, it just happens to be a different shortcut for each (as it should be)
3: the firefox search box allows you to select different search providers already. and your keyword searches could have been incorporated there instead.
You could achieve every advantage by updating the search box and leaving the url bar alone, and that would prevent the disadvantages I and other URL power users suffer. You could have had all your so called advantages without the disadvantages I care about. There was no reason to combine the two, period.
That is because the Randroids all see themselves as John Galt like innovators who will obviously ascend to the monied class, instead of the sheep led before the slaughter that they are.
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I am aware of libertarian socialism. I would at least partially qualify as one myself. But in the context of American politics, libertarianism is a pseudo-conservative faction being used to restore a pre-revolutionary stratified class system.
We have had unregulated markets before, this is not new. They have always resulting in absolute concentration of wealth at the cost of the liberty, health and safety of the common man.
Many of the problems we currently face as the plutocrats grow in power are a result of deregulation, pushed by people who foolishly think they will get more liberty when in reality it just means that the powerful have more license to infringe on your liberty.
I've seen your argument a thousand times, and it just keeps getting more idiotic every time I see it.
That may be what they think they are doing, but that is a grossly uninformed belief.
Someone changed the definition of socialism.
Its ok, double think solves all these problems citizen.
The economic aspect of modern libertarianism will inevitably leads to fascism.
Absolute economic "freedom" grants absolute economic license of the plutocrats to control every aspect of life for the people.
The state is not the enemy of liberty (or more accurately, it does not have to be, and should not be).
Your liberty can be infringed by the action of any powerful entity, be it the state, a large corporation, a wealthy person or a simple thug.
The role of the state should be to protect your liberties, not just in theory but in practice. And that means regulating markets, providing a social safety net and providing a framework of laws that protect workers from abuse.
I agree with basic libertarian principals. Where you fail is economics. Despite popular belief, Adam Smith was not an advocate of the unregulated market. He wrote it as an overly simplified and imperfect model, nothing more. He also wrote extensively on its risks and limitations, which libertarians completely ignore in an irrational quest for dogmatic purity.
All you conservatives always mewling about liberals, you project your own crimes on us because you can't imagine better.
You got that backwards bucko.
You are accepting whatever the government tells you.
I am standing up for a Hero was forced into a position where he had to chose between upholding the constitution (the first part of his oath) or following orders (another part of his oath). If he didn't blow the whistle, he would still be violating his oath.
Go lick the jack-boots of your masters elsewhere.
The secret surveillance police state itself is a betrayal of democracy.
This man is a HERO of democracy.
This man is a hero. He is providing the transparency and accountability that Obama promised and failed to deliver after he sold out the liberals who got him elected.
These are libertarians, While they do support many liberties, they utterly fail on economic concepts, and are looking to negate liberty through plutocracy via corporate proxy.
Quite frankly I was deeply deeply disappointed that Obama turned out to have been a republican plant, a crypto conservative feeding on the hopes and dreams of people who wanted a better America, only to be betrayed. And I am deeply disappointed in the democratic party that failed to challenge him and put a true liberal up as opposition for reelection.
What I really want is a libertarian in every respect except economics, where the best option tends to be a closer to socialism.
http://stuff
in firefox it googles stuff, in opera it goes to stuff.com, both are wrong.
And the defacto operation of web browsers for decades didn't require the scheme prefix, and requiring a scheme prefix for local DNS entries creates an inconsistent behavior, and breaks schema discovery mechanisms like switching to https.
You do personally benefit from the collective bargaining, increased wages and benefits and workplace safety negotiated by the unions.
in firefox the search box shortcut is control-k. f5 just refreshes the current page, and has nothing to do with searching.
The defense of these things will be necessary as long as the right continues to attempt to strip and neuter the laws and agencies that are supposed to represent the workers interests. Why do you think they call for the end of the the EPA and OSHA and other protective government agencies? Every workers right and workplace safety is under constant attack by the right.
Oh. there are plenty of things that unions are still fighting for, living wages, proper healthcare, collective bargaining, etc. But the gains to workplace safety and child labor laws that have been mostly won are still under constant attack by the right. And without vigilance those will fall and we will see an end to the middle class and our future generations fed to the economic machine for the enrichment of the monied elite.
Slavery built the plutocrats. Killing off the unions will return us all to slavery.
I am only being inflexible because they BROKE URL's.
Perfectly valid url's and in some cases perfectly valid IP addresses that I can not force to behave correctly in the browser by ANY means.
I type in what and I should navigate to what or get a server not found.
If I type in http://what just to be sure, I shouldn't be googling "what" (firefox) or going to what.com (chrome).
Damn right I am inflexible. This shit is deliberately broken, and there is not one valid reason or excuse for it.
I don't care at all about the search bar.
What I care about is the functionality of the URL bar.
And the changes made to it have BROKEN it. It no longer works for many valid local DNS entries, it do longer works reliably for some IP addresses.
This and this alone is the problem. You want a fancier search option? GREAT! make a fancier search option. But don't you fucktards dare to corrupt and limit the function of the standard URL bar as it has existed for the entire history of the web.
Did they ever fix that issue where using certain search engines to look for a URL would register that URL with an astroturfer? If not, then even your ideal case will produce unintended consequences if the user has the wrong search provider.
All of your benefits are meaningless.
1: You can adjust the relative size of the search bar and the address bar manually. And it could have been done automatically.
2: You only need one shortcut to switch focus to the either one, it just happens to be a different shortcut for each (as it should be)
3: the firefox search box allows you to select different search providers already. and your keyword searches could have been incorporated there instead.
You could achieve every advantage by updating the search box and leaving the url bar alone, and that would prevent the disadvantages I and other URL power users suffer. You could have had all your so called advantages without the disadvantages I care about. There was no reason to combine the two, period.
If they were worried about screen real estate only, they could have added a mode button that switches it between search and url.
But as it is, they didn't and things are broken because of it.
That is because the Randroids all see themselves as John Galt like innovators who will obviously ascend to the monied class, instead of the sheep led before the slaughter that they are.