The only thing you will achieve with that is a monopoly by one company over all of the transactions and loss of the rest of the market to other countries with less ridiculous laws.
So the government is stealing money from some people to subsidise some others and when this transfer of stolen money is not done in the precise convenient fashion the mob gets all riled up.
I am going to enjoy seeing how this systems collapses and finally the productive people will no longer be the slaves of the mob. Of-course there will be riots and probably blood, but the system requires a reset and apparently things have gone far enough that the reset cannot be expected to be well mannered.
This is government oppression in action. The collective must not be enforce anti-drug laws, such laws are an affront to individual freedoms, they are oppressive and authoritarian.
Of-course this is just another way to oppress a minority, in this case the minority are drug users / drug sellers and because these groups are minorities, the majority feels it can deny them their individual rights to private property (possession / manufacturing / usage) without repercussions. Of-course the majority is very short sighted, as it most often is, denying rights to some individuals by defining them as groups that are 'not us' in one way or another but eventually all this does is it grows the power of the oppression and more and more people eventually become THEM and not 'us'. So at some point all people end up losing individual rights, and then it's sad and funny at the same time, to watch those same mobs rally around them not being equal to the those in power.
You lose your equality the moment you use your mob status to take away equality of others, who you see as smaller groups than you.
There can be no groups that are denied individual rights, if you allow that to happen then eventually you yourself will be in one of those groups.
It's not technology and automation that destroys jobs, technology and automation brings prices down. It's governments that destroy jobs by dictating that people cannot compete against capital or other workers because of artificial price floors, various rules, regulations and taxes (especially income related taxes).
The amount of jobs is unlimited, it's the resources that are scarce and capitalism is the system that is best suited for allocating scarce resources, capital, land, labour and mixing them in the right proportions and pushing them in the right directions to get the most efficient outcomes. Again, that is true until governments get involved with the cunning politicians directing the stupid mob to do their bidding. The mob is inherently and inevitably stupid, it's the individual that makes rational choices, the mob is driven by feelings, fear, jealousy, laziness, etc. and those are not the qualities you want to use while coming up with the policy, but they become policy because they are so much easier to appeal to than to rationality, intellect, etc.
What a load of crock. The health insurance premiums (*which should NOT be called 'insurance' in USA, it's not insurance if people use it for everything and not just catastrophic events*) are going up and will go up more, as people will NOT buy Obamacare 'health insurance' plans, because they don't have to.
SCOTUS explicitly said: you don't have to get Obamacare, you don't have to buy it, because the gov't has NO TEETH to force you, because that's the only way that Obamacare was found "Constitutional", only if there can be NO legislation by taxation.
That's why it's much better NOT to buy into Obamacare but instead to wait until you get sick, since ACA KILLED the principle that insurance is based upon - ability to discriminate against the risk.
It is now 100% risk for the insurance companies to sell insurance products, because only people with the current need of an insurance plan really have to buy it and the companies can't prevent them from buying it.
Anyway, health insurance industry, it was a nice run while it lasted. Now, that the USA gov't killed you, something new will be invented by the free market. Maybe some form of cooperatives, I don't know, but what I know is that the insurance industry has suffered an immeasurable blow that it will not recover from. Of-course the conspiracy theorist in me argues that this was done on purpose, in order to eventually lay the blame to the 'free market' (ha!) and to push for the single payer system, forcing more gov't control over people's lives.
USA used to be a wealthy, production nation, now it's a shadow of its former self, bankrupt, losing its mind in this search for answers in more and more collectivism.
The Republicans proposed a funding bill that gave Obama everything he wanted and the only thing they did not put into the funding bill was ACA. It is Obama, who said: if you don't fund ACA I will shut down the government.
Of-course USA needs to shut down the government, all payments need to be stopped, this is now essential for the survival of the country and the best thing for the USA right now would be if the government stayed shut down for years or better yet forever, maybe then the country can actually survive.
This is more than just some new way to record audio data with an undetectable microphone, this is psychological warfare and your government is engaged in it and the target is all of you.
There won't be microphones everywhere, but a few microphones will be placed in a few places and a few stories will come out how somebody was caught by using this technology. The point is to generate fear in the population, fear of the all seeing, all hearing, all powerful government.
They are working to bridge the gap between what you believe they can do and what they are actually doing, but the real damage will be psychological, more people will become paranoid, just like in the former Soviet Union or North Korea, of-course the modern Western governments have much more capabilities than those countries, but regardless of the capabilities, the real point is to scare you into submission.
No, I am correct. The closest to the free market US Bond rating agency was Egan Jones, which was paid by the buyers of the bonds, not by the sellers, as opposed to the rest of the so called 'rating agencies'. So that was the rating agency that was the first to call US bonds for what they are (I consider them to be junk, but the lowest that Egan Jones took US bonds was AA-).
Of-course the US gov't licenses rating agencies to rate US bonds and those of the agencies that dared to disapprove of the US bonds by lowering their ratings were attacked (sued) by the SEC immediately.
Egan Jones lost its license to rate US bonds and can't legally do so, because it was providing its customers with the actual rating that it objectively believes to be correct. The rest of the rating agencies just fall in line and do what the government tells them to do.
So you are completely wrong on many different levels, though I doubt that you have intellectual integrity even to understand it, never mind to admit it.
Spain has high unemployment because it's almost impossible to FIRE people in Spain (same is in Italy, to a much lesser degree in France). You don't want to hire somebody you can't fire. That's why, by the way, Spain has one of the highest levels of new startups created - people are going into business for themselves but they don't hire others.
USA's real unemployment rate is likely higher than 20% when you stop counting unemployment creatively, the way gov't does today, not counting people who stopped looking, not counting people who are underemployed, etc.
Banks are not lending money to consumers BECAUSE government is printing money. All this inflation created huge fake demand for assets to try and fight inflation. In the search of yield, banks don't want to risk your tiny business, they want to risk big in the stock market. The money is basically free to the banks and the government proved that it will save the banks from any risk they take by throwing more money at them at any time they are insolvent.
The inflation rates are very high, the government again, counts inflation in a way that hides it, the real inflation is between 8 to 15%, year to year for the last 4 decades, it's not 0, only blind fools believe inflation to be 0, blind fools or fake economists that you cite.
As I understand it they deleted the guy's page on FB, but they can't as easily destroy the browser extensions (addons) that he built for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari. He will keep working on those, but he lost his FB account.
has your organization by any chance just lost 90% of its administrators? I mean I can imagine that having to store everybody'd pictures, taken by cell phones is quite an endeavor with so much of the workforce gone....
Eric Grosse, vice president for security engineering at Google, told The Washington Post: 'It's an arms race.' The crux of the issue with Google making the NSA dragnet harder (knowing if the government wants in, it will get in) is that the NSA evaluates the tactic it uses by weighing the cost with the value of the information obtained.
- yeah, it's an arms race alright. It's a kind of a race where if Google doesn't give the NSA what NSA wants, Google's employees and management will find itself on the wrong side of a gun.
Eventually we will all have cameras, audio and other recording devices integrated into our daily lives to the point, where it will no longer matter what you believe you saw, you'll be just able to go back to the actual recording and reproduce the fact of what you saw, that's how we'll get around this biological impediment, the same way we got around our physical impediment, which prevents us from flying on our own - we built air-planes.
I made no mention of that retarded 'nothing to hide nothing to fear' crap, you did. You should be directing your energies towards getting a clue rather than telling me that a public network is meant as a place to hide.
By the way, just because people want to communicate with each other, it does not mean that their communications must be open up for everybody to listen. Internet is for communicating... with people that you choose to communicate with.
I have no doubt that many of you are in fact murderous venomous thieves, not even a question. You are absolutely set in your desire to destroy every single individual freedom that can exist and you are succeeding at it and people are in fact leaving, of-course people with more resources leave first, they move their businesses out first, that's why USA is so unproductive and there are so many unemployed - real savings and productivity is leaving and government Mafia keeps growing by growing the pool of the collectivist thieves behind it.
Not supporting Public Schools is Child Abuse on a Mass scale.
- wrong. Setting up a government that steals from individuals to provide these public 'schools' is an individual abuse of highest order and must be fought against by every thinking individual (the opposite of a collectivist, of a thief of a parasite that is).
Children eventually grow up to be adults, maybe you forgot that little bit. Until they grow up they are their parents responsibility, nobody else's. Your kids are most definitely NOT my problem until you or they make them my problem, however the best thing for all parties would be a way to choose what they do, but nobody can choose if they are forced into something by a large Mafia currently known as one of many governments.
The real trolls at huffpost have huge number of 'fans', they are 'leaders' or whatever they call them. They express the correct party line 'opinions', they are ideologically in line with the site owners.... I guess it's not that different from/., except ACs here are also quite aligned with the groupthink.
It's a cesspool of a full range of collectivists of all colors and types. And I guess now it's also going to be a way for the NSA to list the undesirables.
So... did they get one of those 'home land security' letters then?
Well sure, there will be experiments in reviving some of the frozen specimens, but experimenting is one thing, doing this on a mass scale is something else entirely. As to usefulness of the information that can be gathered from any individual, unless they were some very high profile historically relevant person, there isn't much at all that can be learned from anybody. It's pretty much useless, you can find out what their preferred food and TV shows were maybe, you can get their perspective, but one thing is for sure: you won't get an objective perspective and you won't get much insight into anything. Don't forget, there is a huge difference between the information that we have about the Neanderthals and information that will be available about our time in the future. There are enough historical records, papers, books, TV records, pictures, blogs, any personal movies, etc., that the information won't be the problem, the problem will be figuring out what the heck you want to look at.
So the only real question is: even when/if the technology is able to revive the frozen meat, why would they? So they have to revive you, they have to take care of you, they have to treat you from old age related and other diseases. What is there to gain for the people in the future by reviving you? The people who sell you the space in the fridge today won't be around to take an issue with and who exactly is going to take an issue on your behalf?
Even your possible distant future relatives, why would they want the headache of such a blast from the past?
The alternative formulation replaces StryRofoam with steel.)
- reread this again. Just in case I put it in bold, capitalised and italicised it. That's not semantics, that's an extra letter where there shouldn't be one.
As a side note, now I know that you are not paying very close attention to what you are reading and still, you are able to read it. So it is much more likely that you are a human or a very advanced AI, capable of passing the Turing test by reading scrambled, misspelled words.
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USA has plenty of bullets, I don't understand this entire thing, 1-3 head shots should be enough for anybody.
The only thing you will achieve with that is a monopoly by one company over all of the transactions and loss of the rest of the market to other countries with less ridiculous laws.
So the government is stealing money from some people to subsidise some others and when this transfer of stolen money is not done in the precise convenient fashion the mob gets all riled up.
I am going to enjoy seeing how this systems collapses and finally the productive people will no longer be the slaves of the mob. Of-course there will be riots and probably blood, but the system requires a reset and apparently things have gone far enough that the reset cannot be expected to be well mannered.
This is government oppression in action. The collective must not be enforce anti-drug laws, such laws are an affront to individual freedoms, they are oppressive and authoritarian.
Of-course this is just another way to oppress a minority, in this case the minority are drug users / drug sellers and because these groups are minorities, the majority feels it can deny them their individual rights to private property (possession / manufacturing / usage) without repercussions. Of-course the majority is very short sighted, as it most often is, denying rights to some individuals by defining them as groups that are 'not us' in one way or another but eventually all this does is it grows the power of the oppression and more and more people eventually become THEM and not 'us'. So at some point all people end up losing individual rights, and then it's sad and funny at the same time, to watch those same mobs rally around them not being equal to the those in power.
You lose your equality the moment you use your mob status to take away equality of others, who you see as smaller groups than you.
There can be no groups that are denied individual rights, if you allow that to happen then eventually you yourself will be in one of those groups.
It's not technology and automation that destroys jobs, technology and automation brings prices down. It's governments that destroy jobs by dictating that people cannot compete against capital or other workers because of artificial price floors, various rules, regulations and taxes (especially income related taxes).
The amount of jobs is unlimited, it's the resources that are scarce and capitalism is the system that is best suited for allocating scarce resources, capital, land, labour and mixing them in the right proportions and pushing them in the right directions to get the most efficient outcomes. Again, that is true until governments get involved with the cunning politicians directing the stupid mob to do their bidding. The mob is inherently and inevitably stupid, it's the individual that makes rational choices, the mob is driven by feelings, fear, jealousy, laziness, etc. and those are not the qualities you want to use while coming up with the policy, but they become policy because they are so much easier to appeal to than to rationality, intellect, etc.
Sometimes those control rooms even look like this
What a load of crock. The health insurance premiums (*which should NOT be called 'insurance' in USA, it's not insurance if people use it for everything and not just catastrophic events*) are going up and will go up more, as people will NOT buy Obamacare 'health insurance' plans, because they don't have to.
SCOTUS explicitly said: you don't have to get Obamacare, you don't have to buy it, because the gov't has NO TEETH to force you, because that's the only way that Obamacare was found "Constitutional", only if there can be NO legislation by taxation.
That's why it's much better NOT to buy into Obamacare but instead to wait until you get sick, since ACA KILLED the principle that insurance is based upon - ability to discriminate against the risk.
It is now 100% risk for the insurance companies to sell insurance products, because only people with the current need of an insurance plan really have to buy it and the companies can't prevent them from buying it.
Anyway, health insurance industry, it was a nice run while it lasted. Now, that the USA gov't killed you, something new will be invented by the free market. Maybe some form of cooperatives, I don't know, but what I know is that the insurance industry has suffered an immeasurable blow that it will not recover from. Of-course the conspiracy theorist in me argues that this was done on purpose, in order to eventually lay the blame to the 'free market' (ha!) and to push for the single payer system, forcing more gov't control over people's lives.
USA used to be a wealthy, production nation, now it's a shadow of its former self, bankrupt, losing its mind in this search for answers in more and more collectivism.
The Republicans proposed a funding bill that gave Obama everything he wanted and the only thing they did not put into the funding bill was ACA. It is Obama, who said: if you don't fund ACA I will shut down the government.
Of-course USA needs to shut down the government, all payments need to be stopped, this is now essential for the survival of the country and the best thing for the USA right now would be if the government stayed shut down for years or better yet forever, maybe then the country can actually survive.
This is more than just some new way to record audio data with an undetectable microphone, this is psychological warfare and your government is engaged in it and the target is all of you.
There won't be microphones everywhere, but a few microphones will be placed in a few places and a few stories will come out how somebody was caught by using this technology. The point is to generate fear in the population, fear of the all seeing, all hearing, all powerful government.
They are working to bridge the gap between what you believe they can do and what they are actually doing, but the real damage will be psychological, more people will become paranoid, just like in the former Soviet Union or North Korea, of-course the modern Western governments have much more capabilities than those countries, but regardless of the capabilities, the real point is to scare you into submission.
What exactly sends the 'dick' message, is it the fact that you disagree with the statement?
People are often completely right in the face of a laughing majority, which is most often absolutely wrong, just like in this case.
(same user, backup account)
No, I am correct. The closest to the free market US Bond rating agency was Egan Jones, which was paid by the buyers of the bonds, not by the sellers, as opposed to the rest of the so called 'rating agencies'. So that was the rating agency that was the first to call US bonds for what they are (I consider them to be junk, but the lowest that Egan Jones took US bonds was AA-).
Of-course the US gov't licenses rating agencies to rate US bonds and those of the agencies that dared to disapprove of the US bonds by lowering their ratings were attacked (sued) by the SEC immediately.
Egan Jones lost its license to rate US bonds and can't legally do so, because it was providing its customers with the actual rating that it objectively believes to be correct. The rest of the rating agencies just fall in line and do what the government tells them to do.
So you are completely wrong on many different levels, though I doubt that you have intellectual integrity even to understand it, never mind to admit it.
You are ... 100% completely wrong.
Spain has high unemployment because it's almost impossible to FIRE people in Spain (same is in Italy, to a much lesser degree in France). You don't want to hire somebody you can't fire. That's why, by the way, Spain has one of the highest levels of new startups created - people are going into business for themselves but they don't hire others.
USA's real unemployment rate is likely higher than 20% when you stop counting unemployment creatively, the way gov't does today, not counting people who stopped looking, not counting people who are underemployed, etc.
Banks are not lending money to consumers BECAUSE government is printing money. All this inflation created huge fake demand for assets to try and fight inflation. In the search of yield, banks don't want to risk your tiny business, they want to risk big in the stock market. The money is basically free to the banks and the government proved that it will save the banks from any risk they take by throwing more money at them at any time they are insolvent.
The inflation rates are very high, the government again, counts inflation in a way that hides it, the real inflation is between 8 to 15%, year to year for the last 4 decades, it's not 0, only blind fools believe inflation to be 0, blind fools or fake economists that you cite.
Costumers?
I like it! Customer + consumer = costumer.
It's called a chain reaction.
As I understand it they deleted the guy's page on FB, but they can't as easily destroy the browser extensions (addons) that he built for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari. He will keep working on those, but he lost his FB account.
has your organization by any chance just lost 90% of its administrators? I mean I can imagine that having to store everybody'd pictures, taken by cell phones is quite an endeavor with so much of the workforce gone....
Eric Grosse, vice president for security engineering at Google, told The Washington Post: 'It's an arms race.' The crux of the issue with Google making the NSA dragnet harder (knowing if the government wants in, it will get in) is that the NSA evaluates the tactic it uses by weighing the cost with the value of the information obtained.
- yeah, it's an arms race alright. It's a kind of a race where if Google doesn't give the NSA what NSA wants, Google's employees and management will find itself on the wrong side of a gun.
Eventually we will all have cameras, audio and other recording devices integrated into our daily lives to the point, where it will no longer matter what you believe you saw, you'll be just able to go back to the actual recording and reproduce the fact of what you saw, that's how we'll get around this biological impediment, the same way we got around our physical impediment, which prevents us from flying on our own - we built air-planes.
Of-course NSA will be thrilled....
I made no mention of that retarded 'nothing to hide nothing to fear' crap, you did. You should be directing your energies towards getting a clue rather than telling me that a public network is meant as a place to hide.
you need to check your short term memory, here is a quote from you: If you have to hide, the Internet isn't for you.
By the way, just because people want to communicate with each other, it does not mean that their communications must be open up for everybody to listen. Internet is for communicating... with people that you choose to communicate with.
I have no doubt that many of you are in fact murderous venomous thieves, not even a question. You are absolutely set in your desire to destroy every single individual freedom that can exist and you are succeeding at it and people are in fact leaving, of-course people with more resources leave first, they move their businesses out first, that's why USA is so unproductive and there are so many unemployed - real savings and productivity is leaving and government Mafia keeps growing by growing the pool of the collectivist thieves behind it.
Not supporting Public Schools is Child Abuse on a Mass scale.
- wrong. Setting up a government that steals from individuals to provide these public 'schools' is an individual abuse of highest order and must be fought against by every thinking individual (the opposite of a collectivist, of a thief of a parasite that is).
Children eventually grow up to be adults, maybe you forgot that little bit. Until they grow up they are their parents responsibility, nobody else's. Your kids are most definitely NOT my problem until you or they make them my problem, however the best thing for all parties would be a way to choose what they do, but nobody can choose if they are forced into something by a large Mafia currently known as one of many governments.
The real trolls at huffpost have huge number of 'fans', they are 'leaders' or whatever they call them. They express the correct party line 'opinions', they are ideologically in line with the site owners.... I guess it's not that different from /., except ACs here are also quite aligned with the groupthink.
It's a cesspool of a full range of collectivists of all colors and types. And I guess now it's also going to be a way for the NSA to list the undesirables.
So... did they get one of those 'home land security' letters then?
Well sure, there will be experiments in reviving some of the frozen specimens, but experimenting is one thing, doing this on a mass scale is something else entirely. As to usefulness of the information that can be gathered from any individual, unless they were some very high profile historically relevant person, there isn't much at all that can be learned from anybody. It's pretty much useless, you can find out what their preferred food and TV shows were maybe, you can get their perspective, but one thing is for sure: you won't get an objective perspective and you won't get much insight into anything. Don't forget, there is a huge difference between the information that we have about the Neanderthals and information that will be available about our time in the future. There are enough historical records, papers, books, TV records, pictures, blogs, any personal movies, etc., that the information won't be the problem, the problem will be figuring out what the heck you want to look at.
So the only real question is: even when/if the technology is able to revive the frozen meat, why would they? So they have to revive you, they have to take care of you, they have to treat you from old age related and other diseases. What is there to gain for the people in the future by reviving you? The people who sell you the space in the fridge today won't be around to take an issue with and who exactly is going to take an issue on your behalf?
Even your possible distant future relatives, why would they want the headache of such a blast from the past?
The alternative formulation replaces StryRofoam with steel.)
- reread this again. Just in case I put it in bold, capitalised and italicised it. That's not semantics, that's an extra letter where there shouldn't be one.
As a side note, now I know that you are not paying very close attention to what you are reading and still, you are able to read it. So it is much more likely that you are a human or a very advanced AI, capable of passing the Turing test by reading scrambled, misspelled words.