Yes, my point precisely. Ellison invests so that HE can make money.
In the process he builds infrastructure and makes other people more productive by investing his capital into all of these projects. ALL private enterprises can be compared to 'developing a plantation', that's what we all do when we build our businesses: we develop our plantations, so to speak.
Which is exactly how all infrastructure should be built, with private individuals working to make a buck 'developing plantations'. The economies are built around biggest private plantations that the most successful are able to develop.
Reynold Gima, a social worker for adult mental health who started the watchdog organization Lanaians for Sensible Growth to challenge some of Mr. Murdock's efforts, said he finds Mr. Ellison's management style "refreshing." It also helps that he knows and trusts Mr. Matsumoto, as many on the island seem to; the two men were in Little League and Boy Scouts together.
"They've been promised things before, but it wasn't fulfilled," Mr. Matsumoto said. So people are saying, 'I love the vision, but is it for real?' That's fair."
Diane Preza, a kindergarten teacher who was born and raised on the island and is a member of a group called Kupaa No Lanai, founded to fight wind development, appreciates the improvements on Lanai under Mr. Ellison, but she wants to make sure new developments are done right. "We love it and feel it needs to be protected," she said. "There are sacred sites, archeological sites. There is a way of life that we love."
In January, Mr. Ellison met with Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie. "As far as I'm concerned, he has not made a single misstep," said Gov. Abercrombie, a Democrat. "Unemployment on Lanai has just about disappeared. Traffic to the island is up. If nothing more than the economy, I would say he is the best thing that's happened to the island in 50 years."
- there is a crucial difference, eventually a business will run out of its own money.
The difference between an inefficient business and government is that government has captive audience that it forces to pay taxes and a business doesn't (unless it uses the unauthorized power that government stole from individuals when the mob voted for that type of power and the business has special privileges granted to it by government, which is the case with military contracts, utilities, education, health insurance now, etc.etc.)
When a business loses its money, it doesn't affect the larger economy, if you didn't buy from the business you are not affected. If you didn't invest in it, you are not losing anything.
The bond holders may lose, the stockholders may lose, customers may lose, but eventually that business will stop because it will run out of ITS OWN money. Government doesn't stop until it runs out of other people's money and that's how you get these economic disasters nowadays).
This is what drives prices down, prices for everything: freedom.
Freedom to try and freedom to fail, freedom to innovate, freedom to try and make your life better by providing an excellent product or services to a large subset of the population.
Freedom is what government takes away every day. Freedom is what various professional unions also try to take away, but they succeed when they get government on their side. Government protects the buggy and whip makers in every industry.
Relative freedom allows computers and electronics to fall in price or at least not to go up in price as the rest of the consumer products to with inflation going up (so in real terms the prices are still falling).
Freedom used provide Americans with best CHEAPEST health care in the world, where they paid very little money for routine things out of pocket and the rest they could insure against for 2 bucks a month. How was that a problem that needed to be 'solved' by government?
Freedom used to provide Americans arguably with best and cheapest education in the world as well, but then again, they had to pay for it out of pocket and if they did take loans, those were tiny compared to what happened once the government stuck its nose into that.
Medical care would be falling in price (in real terms, I am not talking about the inflation that gov't also causes because of destruction of real money by stealing people's freedoms to deal in real money) with more and more innovation coming on line.
Pills that replace costly surgeries, new types of treatments and diagnostics tools, computerisation... all of this makes things LESS expensive over time, not more expensive.
If government was in charge of building vide cards, well, first of all you wouldn't have any real innovation there, secondly prices would be constantly going up. Why? Because, they would tell you, those things provide you with more computing power.
Same with education. The technology makes education cheaper and more affordable, FREE MARKET DOES THAT, not government, not professional unions, not the whip and buggy makers.
Sure, this guy is complaining, but that's his problem, he IS the whip and buggy maker in the world of Ford and Lamborghini.
By the way, everybody is ignoring yet another problem with this entire NSA wiretapping thing: rogue government agents.
Even if the entire program itself wasn't a violation of the law, the Constitution (and it is), what it also does it provides a motive and an opportunity for government agents to commit crimes. These could be crimes related to stealing private information for the purposes of enriching oneself, it could be stalking of individuals (some love or sex interest for example) it could be just trolling for amusement.
You think nobody wants to approach a government official who has access to this much data and offer him a nice paycheck for providing details on this or that or other? Think again, it can be extremely lucrative just to get data on every 1/100000th person in a country, never mind getting private data on 1/1000th or 1/100th.
Securities fraud, stealing money from bank accounts, credit cards, just plain stealing stuff from homes, etc.etc. Not just millions, this can be a multi-billion dollar business.
Yes, and that is what is called forming a government, the problem is not government itself the problem getting them to keep their eye on that goal
- wrong, that's called building a successful business.
The "profit" from a well run public sewer/water works is that WE don't die,
- wrong, the profit is the reward that the investors get for providing the public with clean water and a working sewer systems.
the profit from a well run UHC
- USA used to have that before the mob broke it. It was cheap health care where people paid for most routine stuff out of pocket and 2 (two) dollars a month was one of the most popular health care insurance plans that provided catastrophic coverage. That's what provided cheap and sustainable health care without growing government in process, it actually was best in the world at the time before gov't cockroaches destroyed while the mob was cheering.
If you're not interested in that then fine but other people are and it has nothing to do with them trampling your rights and everything to do with "serve[ing] people in the most efficient way possible"..
- right, most efficient way possible has nothing to do with government. Fact: efficiency is no priority for governments, only growing power is priority and you don't grow power to reducing costs, you grow power by growing the apparatus around you.
He didn't miss it, read his words carefully once more, he is all for it. He is all for it when it suits his purposes, he is just outraged that it can be also used against him.
He wants the governments to discriminate, he just doesn't like when it's HE who gets the short end of the stick.
You are an NSA or whatever other government agency cockroach, not even a shill, just an dark corner dwelling insect.
The reason people are outraged now is because finally it is NOT ME who says things like that but a guy who actually came out with enough evidence that "MAIN STREAM MEDIA" finally cannot wiggle their way out of this.
Now the MSM cockroaches have the same exact attitude as you, government cockroach: why the outrage now, we 'knew' about it?
Because, government cockroach, they can't pretend it's not real and dismiss it.
I'm usually a big government, bleeding heart liberal, but not in the areas of governmental police powers (monitoring citizens, etc). Basically, if the government is helping it's citizens, I support that (healthcare, etc) but if it's looking at it's citizens to protect itself, I don't like that at all.
- you, and others like you are the problem.
You gave the government its power to abuse the law, the Constitution, you gave the government ability to go above and beyond what is authorized by the Constitution to the government when you stand for things like 'helping citizens'.
The only way a government can really help citizens is by providing EQUAL TREATMENT UNDER LAW, which is where equal opportunities come from, which is what allows for maximum individual freedom. It is individual freedom that grows the economy by giving people incentives and removing barriers that prevent them from trying to get rich by building a better, cheaper product.
People are served best not by any government with growing powers, people are served best by other people trying to figure out how to serve people in the most efficient way possible by doing what people are actually interested in.
You are the root cause that created this problem, never a solution to anything.
Google chief legal officer David Drummond again insisted that reports of his company freely offering user data to the NSA and other agencies were untrue. 'However,'
- bullshit. Catch 22 in action.
They can't disclose this legally or they will face massive government attack from all fronts, be it IRS or OSHA or EPA or SEC or whatever agency, or however many agencies for however long a stretch of time, maybe even personal threats are used.
You just can't know because in a Police State these things are all catch 22 based. You can't ask and you can say, you just have to do what you are told and if you don't, then you are fucked. That's part of what I am talking about when I speak of individual freedoms being destroyed by the mob that votes for bigger and bigger government on the premise that bigger government is a way for the mob to steal from a minority (businesses) to subsidise themselves, and it doesn't matter to the mob, how these things are done.
Google, Drummond added, 'has nothing to hide.'
- sure sure, Google will not be hiding user information from government, but when it comes to their own money, it's well hidden from that very government.
headlined by Mozilla
- I was and am always suspicious of the way Mozilla handles self-signed certificates.
AFAIC CAs are the real threat when it comes to the man in the middle attacks. Can't CA provide NSA with another valid certificate, which will be placed into your machine silently because of CA, which creates a much simpler MITM attack than actually doing it the way all these people supposedly concerned about such attacks talk about, when it comes to self signed certs? I don't trust CAs at all, says who that NSA is not working with every one of them?
As a side note, Snowden's just may become what Mohamed Bouazizi was for Tunisia, but I wish him to stay alive. Whoever saying that he is a 'traitor' is a fucking snake tongued piece of shit. Giving away government secrets is not treason if it is government that is breaking the law.
Real treason is directed AT THE PEOPLE, not at any government. Government abusing its power to snoop on people is an illegal act of Treason against people and the Constitution, don't be fooled.
Oracle is really getting on my nerves. Of-course this has been the case for the last 5 years or so, but now it's especially egregious.
Obviously they can't handle Java, they just don't know what to do with it. Suggestion: pull your heads out of your asses and if you can't handle this asset, give it up. Sell it or hand it over to Apache foundation, whatever. The more you DO the worse you LOOK because you are dumbshits.
Give me complete power of the entire office all to myself for 6 months.
Once 6 months are over I am gone.
However I promise you this: in 6 months I will disassemble your entire government system and cleanse it from everybody there who shouldn't be there, all departments will be shut down and the buildings they run from will be sold off at auctions.
All government involvement in money and market manipulation will stop, so will all civil liberty abuses. Also all USA troops will be returned home unless a country that has troops in it actually pays for their deployment (hired military is OK with me).
My promise is to strengthen the Constitution against future abuses in that time period by stripping power from the government that it shouldn't have and making it much more strict as to how the system is ran and there will be much less that government will be able to do by the end of that 6 months.
I don't promise it to be a permanent solution though, but it should fix things up for the next 10 decades or so.
The only correct solution to this is abolishment of the central government as a principle by which governments are established.
Unless this is done, the problem will not be fixed though it may be papered over. Bitcoins set the precedent of a distributed electronic currency that can be used as a medium of exchange, so governments go after it because it's the precedent that is damaging to the government's case of monopoly over currency.
Internet sets the precedent of REAL free trade between people around the world. Internet also sets precedent of real open communications between people around the world.
If you don't need central government for money manipulation, trade and communications, because all of this can be handled privately, then all of a sudden central governments have much fewer reasons to exist.
Then we have to look at all the other things that people generally associate with governments, from education to energy and agriculture and pensions and medical insurance, etc.
None of this requires central governments to exist, indeed in the age of much more open communications and freedom of trade even the last and only true reason: protection against foreign invasion and occupation becomes a moot point.
AFAIC there shouldn't even be NATION BORDERS that prevent free movement of people across them. We have information that travels from continent to continent, country to country, city to city, building to building, are we scared of it?
Not unless we are the real terrorists and indiscriminate murderers - the central governments around the world.
We shouldn't be preventing free information exchange and we shouldn't be preventing free individual movement of persons and property. People must be free, people will learn eventually that they indeed need to be free, that they should want that freedom.
We must rethink the way we set SOME people to be ABOVE OTHERS with all these government nonsense schemes, democratic or otherwise. We are creating the problem as long as we allow central governments to exist.
It is time to unsubscribe from these wonderful services that these wonderful companies are providing for a wonderful miserly fee of your soul and private information.
Also I would like to add that at this point all Signing Authorities are suspect, guilty until proven innocent (which is probably impossible to do, to prove them innocent).
AFAIC anybody suggesting that self signing certificates are worse security risk than CAs are agents of the evil empire.
You may be correct that this is 'interpreting' the data, but I don't see how the fifth literally applies here. Nobody is forcing you to 'interpret' the data in a way that would incriminate you. Either you can unlock it into SOME readable form or not, if you can and you do, whatever is found there may or may not be admissible, but this is not the same thing as forcing you to unlock it into a form that would incriminate you.
So if you have an encrypted file that you can unlock and the contents are readable in a way that does not incriminate you in any way, then it's just as valid as if you unlocked it and there was a smoking gun there.
My point is that the fifth does not necessarily apply here literally, not anything else.
Oh really? They are a profitable company, saying that what they are doing 'isn't healthy' is just another way to say that you can't compete.
That's exactly what was done to Standard Oil, Alcoa Aluminium, etc. who were always lowering prices, once they were eliminated, the prices never went down again.
Here is the good thing: if Amazon fails, you don't have to bail them out, if they don't fail, they are providing the consumers with lowest prices available.
The idea that this is 'not healthy for anybody' is something from an alternative universe of the bizarro world, yet it is sold successfully to the public at large by charlatans running the biggest monopoly and ponzi scams on this planet at the time - central banks and governments.
Standard Oil NEVER SOLD AT A LOSS, it's a fairy tale for the ignorant and unintelligent. Standard Oil operated for half a century, lowering prices from about 60 cents to under 6 cents in that time period, the same exact time period that made Rockefeller one of the wealthiest people that ever lived (equivalent of 600,000,000,000 dollars).
Roads and schools are spending that should be only done by private forces, but especially during difficult times (if they should be done at all), and I say that during tough economic times such activities should CEASE and allow REAL economic activities to take place.
You bought a Honda 10 years ago, it still runs, would you be switching parts in it that are still working fine because somebody may ask you this question like in TFS:
Aren't they also losing money by working with inefficient, outdated systems?
Aren't you losing money or performance due to pedals, floor mats, window washers, blinkers, axle, tail pipe, trunk cover, hood, glass, engine parts, cup holder not being the latest?
Let's put it another way: why aren't you all constantly upgrading your table covers? Floor boards?
concept of right does not have anything to do about relationship between 2 individuals or businesses or a business and individual, it only has meaning within the relation between an individual and the state or a business and the state.
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Yes, my point precisely. Ellison invests so that HE can make money.
In the process he builds infrastructure and makes other people more productive by investing his capital into all of these projects. ALL private enterprises can be compared to 'developing a plantation', that's what we all do when we build our businesses: we develop our plantations, so to speak.
Which is exactly how all infrastructure should be built, with private individuals working to make a buck 'developing plantations'. The economies are built around biggest private plantations that the most successful are able to develop.
BS., that productivity did not exist until Ellison created that productivity, created the very idea behind his products, sold them as a concept.
The people he hires are not on their own able to deliver any of the products that Ellison creates and sells.
Your comment makes as much sense as 'the house steals productivity of nails that are part of the structure'.
I suggest you read TFA (I know, I know, a taboo around here)
some of the more relevant parts to your comment:
For now, locals appear guardedly optimistic. "Not everyone will agree with what Ellison does, and you run into opposition from a few, but how can you argue with jobs and improving infrastructure? How do you disagree with things like the reopening of the community pool?" asked Phoenix Dupree, who runs the Blue Ginger Café and has been a resident of Lanai for 22 years.
Reynold Gima, a social worker for adult mental health who started the watchdog organization Lanaians for Sensible Growth to challenge some of Mr. Murdock's efforts, said he finds Mr. Ellison's management style "refreshing." It also helps that he knows and trusts Mr. Matsumoto, as many on the island seem to; the two men were in Little League and Boy Scouts together.
"They've been promised things before, but it wasn't fulfilled," Mr. Matsumoto said. So people are saying, 'I love the vision, but is it for real?' That's fair."
Diane Preza, a kindergarten teacher who was born and raised on the island and is a member of a group called Kupaa No Lanai, founded to fight wind development, appreciates the improvements on Lanai under Mr. Ellison, but she wants to make sure new developments are done right. "We love it and feel it needs to be protected," she said. "There are sacred sites, archeological sites. There is a way of life that we love."
In January, Mr. Ellison met with Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie. "As far as I'm concerned, he has not made a single misstep," said Gov. Abercrombie, a Democrat. "Unemployment on Lanai has just about disappeared. Traffic to the island is up. If nothing more than the economy, I would say he is the best thing that's happened to the island in 50 years."
But why doesn't that apply to business as well?
- there is a crucial difference, eventually a business will run out of its own money.
The difference between an inefficient business and government is that government has captive audience that it forces to pay taxes and a business doesn't (unless it uses the unauthorized power that government stole from individuals when the mob voted for that type of power and the business has special privileges granted to it by government, which is the case with military contracts, utilities, education, health insurance now, etc.etc.)
When a business loses its money, it doesn't affect the larger economy, if you didn't buy from the business you are not affected. If you didn't invest in it, you are not losing anything.
The bond holders may lose, the stockholders may lose, customers may lose, but eventually that business will stop because it will run out of ITS OWN money. Government doesn't stop until it runs out of other people's money and that's how you get these economic disasters nowadays).
This is what drives prices down, prices for everything: freedom.
Freedom to try and freedom to fail, freedom to innovate, freedom to try and make your life better by providing an excellent product or services to a large subset of the population.
Freedom is what government takes away every day. Freedom is what various professional unions also try to take away, but they succeed when they get government on their side. Government protects the buggy and whip makers in every industry.
Relative freedom allows computers and electronics to fall in price or at least not to go up in price as the rest of the consumer products to with inflation going up (so in real terms the prices are still falling).
Freedom used provide Americans with best CHEAPEST health care in the world, where they paid very little money for routine things out of pocket and the rest they could insure against for 2 bucks a month. How was that a problem that needed to be 'solved' by government?
Freedom used to provide Americans arguably with best and cheapest education in the world as well, but then again, they had to pay for it out of pocket and if they did take loans, those were tiny compared to what happened once the government stuck its nose into that.
Medical care would be falling in price (in real terms, I am not talking about the inflation that gov't also causes because of destruction of real money by stealing people's freedoms to deal in real money) with more and more innovation coming on line.
Pills that replace costly surgeries, new types of treatments and diagnostics tools, computerisation... all of this makes things LESS expensive over time, not more expensive.
If government was in charge of building vide cards, well, first of all you wouldn't have any real innovation there, secondly prices would be constantly going up. Why? Because, they would tell you, those things provide you with more computing power.
Same with education. The technology makes education cheaper and more affordable, FREE MARKET DOES THAT, not government, not professional unions, not the whip and buggy makers.
Sure, this guy is complaining, but that's his problem, he IS the whip and buggy maker in the world of Ford and Lamborghini.
By the way, everybody is ignoring yet another problem with this entire NSA wiretapping thing: rogue government agents.
Even if the entire program itself wasn't a violation of the law, the Constitution (and it is), what it also does it provides a motive and an opportunity for government agents to commit crimes. These could be crimes related to stealing private information for the purposes of enriching oneself, it could be stalking of individuals (some love or sex interest for example) it could be just trolling for amusement.
You think nobody wants to approach a government official who has access to this much data and offer him a nice paycheck for providing details on this or that or other? Think again, it can be extremely lucrative just to get data on every 1/100000th person in a country, never mind getting private data on 1/1000th or 1/100th.
Securities fraud, stealing money from bank accounts, credit cards, just plain stealing stuff from homes, etc.etc. Not just millions, this can be a multi-billion dollar business.
Yes, and that is what is called forming a government, the problem is not government itself the problem getting them to keep their eye on that goal
- wrong, that's called building a successful business.
The "profit" from a well run public sewer/water works is that WE don't die,
- wrong, the profit is the reward that the investors get for providing the public with clean water and a working sewer systems.
the profit from a well run UHC
- USA used to have that before the mob broke it. It was cheap health care where people paid for most routine stuff out of pocket and 2 (two) dollars a month was one of the most popular health care insurance plans that provided catastrophic coverage. That's what provided cheap and sustainable health care without growing government in process, it actually was best in the world at the time before gov't cockroaches destroyed while the mob was cheering.
If you're not interested in that then fine but other people are and it has nothing to do with them trampling your rights and everything to do with "serve[ing] people in the most efficient way possible"..
- right, most efficient way possible has nothing to do with government. Fact: efficiency is no priority for governments, only growing power is priority and you don't grow power to reducing costs, you grow power by growing the apparatus around you.
He didn't miss it, read his words carefully once more, he is all for it. He is all for it when it suits his purposes, he is just outraged that it can be also used against him.
He wants the governments to discriminate, he just doesn't like when it's HE who gets the short end of the stick.
You are an NSA or whatever other government agency cockroach, not even a shill, just an dark corner dwelling insect.
The reason people are outraged now is because finally it is NOT ME who says things like that but a guy who actually came out with enough evidence that "MAIN STREAM MEDIA" finally cannot wiggle their way out of this.
Now the MSM cockroaches have the same exact attitude as you, government cockroach: why the outrage now, we 'knew' about it?
Because, government cockroach, they can't pretend it's not real and dismiss it.
I'm usually a big government, bleeding heart liberal, but not in the areas of governmental police powers (monitoring citizens, etc). Basically, if the government is helping it's citizens, I support that (healthcare, etc) but if it's looking at it's citizens to protect itself, I don't like that at all.
- you, and others like you are the problem.
You gave the government its power to abuse the law, the Constitution, you gave the government ability to go above and beyond what is authorized by the Constitution to the government when you stand for things like 'helping citizens'.
The only way a government can really help citizens is by providing EQUAL TREATMENT UNDER LAW, which is where equal opportunities come from, which is what allows for maximum individual freedom. It is individual freedom that grows the economy by giving people incentives and removing barriers that prevent them from trying to get rich by building a better, cheaper product.
People are served best not by any government with growing powers, people are served best by other people trying to figure out how to serve people in the most efficient way possible by doing what people are actually interested in.
You are the root cause that created this problem, never a solution to anything.
Google chief legal officer David Drummond again insisted that reports of his company freely offering user data to the NSA and other agencies were untrue. 'However,'
- bullshit. Catch 22 in action.
They can't disclose this legally or they will face massive government attack from all fronts, be it IRS or OSHA or EPA or SEC or whatever agency, or however many agencies for however long a stretch of time, maybe even personal threats are used.
You just can't know because in a Police State these things are all catch 22 based. You can't ask and you can say, you just have to do what you are told and if you don't, then you are fucked. That's part of what I am talking about when I speak of individual freedoms being destroyed by the mob that votes for bigger and bigger government on the premise that bigger government is a way for the mob to steal from a minority (businesses) to subsidise themselves, and it doesn't matter to the mob, how these things are done.
Google, Drummond added, 'has nothing to hide.'
- sure sure, Google will not be hiding user information from government, but when it comes to their own money, it's well hidden from that very government.
headlined by Mozilla
- I was and am always suspicious of the way Mozilla handles self-signed certificates.
AFAIC CAs are the real threat when it comes to the man in the middle attacks. Can't CA provide NSA with another valid certificate, which will be placed into your machine silently because of CA, which creates a much simpler MITM attack than actually doing it the way all these people supposedly concerned about such attacks talk about, when it comes to self signed certs? I don't trust CAs at all, says who that NSA is not working with every one of them?
As a side note, Snowden's just may become what Mohamed Bouazizi was for Tunisia, but I wish him to stay alive. Whoever saying that he is a 'traitor' is a fucking snake tongued piece of shit. Giving away government secrets is not treason if it is government that is breaking the law.
Real treason is directed AT THE PEOPLE, not at any government. Government abusing its power to snoop on people is an illegal act of Treason against people and the Constitution, don't be fooled.
Most people fear things that are very unlikely to happen:
-Death from terrorism
-Death from oppressive government
- and yet I have had over a dozen family members murdered by oppressive government.
Hundreds of millions of people died since 1900 due to oppressive governments yet you are under the impression that it didn't happen.
Also you probably vote.
Oracle is really getting on my nerves. Of-course this has been the case for the last 5 years or so, but now it's especially egregious.
Obviously they can't handle Java, they just don't know what to do with it. Suggestion: pull your heads out of your asses and if you can't handle this asset, give it up. Sell it or hand it over to Apache foundation, whatever. The more you DO the worse you LOOK because you are dumbshits.
Ha, you want a solution?
Give me complete power of the entire office all to myself for 6 months.
Once 6 months are over I am gone.
However I promise you this: in 6 months I will disassemble your entire government system and cleanse it from everybody there who shouldn't be there, all departments will be shut down and the buildings they run from will be sold off at auctions.
All government involvement in money and market manipulation will stop, so will all civil liberty abuses. Also all USA troops will be returned home unless a country that has troops in it actually pays for their deployment (hired military is OK with me).
My promise is to strengthen the Constitution against future abuses in that time period by stripping power from the government that it shouldn't have and making it much more strict as to how the system is ran and there will be much less that government will be able to do by the end of that 6 months.
I don't promise it to be a permanent solution though, but it should fix things up for the next 10 decades or so.
The only correct solution to this is abolishment of the central government as a principle by which governments are established.
Unless this is done, the problem will not be fixed though it may be papered over. Bitcoins set the precedent of a distributed electronic currency that can be used as a medium of exchange, so governments go after it because it's the precedent that is damaging to the government's case of monopoly over currency.
Internet sets the precedent of REAL free trade between people around the world. Internet also sets precedent of real open communications between people around the world.
If you don't need central government for money manipulation, trade and communications, because all of this can be handled privately, then all of a sudden central governments have much fewer reasons to exist.
Then we have to look at all the other things that people generally associate with governments, from education to energy and agriculture and pensions and medical insurance, etc.
None of this requires central governments to exist, indeed in the age of much more open communications and freedom of trade even the last and only true reason: protection against foreign invasion and occupation becomes a moot point.
AFAIC there shouldn't even be NATION BORDERS that prevent free movement of people across them. We have information that travels from continent to continent, country to country, city to city, building to building, are we scared of it?
Not unless we are the real terrorists and indiscriminate murderers - the central governments around the world.
We shouldn't be preventing free information exchange and we shouldn't be preventing free individual movement of persons and property. People must be free, people will learn eventually that they indeed need to be free, that they should want that freedom.
We must rethink the way we set SOME people to be ABOVE OTHERS with all these government nonsense schemes, democratic or otherwise. We are creating the problem as long as we allow central governments to exist.
It is time to unsubscribe from these wonderful services that these wonderful companies are providing for a wonderful miserly fee of your soul and private information.
Absolutely.
Also I would like to add that at this point all Signing Authorities are suspect, guilty until proven innocent (which is probably impossible to do, to prove them innocent).
AFAIC anybody suggesting that self signing certificates are worse security risk than CAs are agents of the evil empire.
Do you really want to be seen as aiding and abetting the enemy?
- there is only one real enemy, and it's the government. This guy is no longer part of any government, thus he is not an enemy.
(same user, different account)
You may be correct that this is 'interpreting' the data, but I don't see how the fifth literally applies here. Nobody is forcing you to 'interpret' the data in a way that would incriminate you. Either you can unlock it into SOME readable form or not, if you can and you do, whatever is found there may or may not be admissible, but this is not the same thing as forcing you to unlock it into a form that would incriminate you.
So if you have an encrypted file that you can unlock and the contents are readable in a way that does not incriminate you in any way, then it's just as valid as if you unlocked it and there was a smoking gun there.
My point is that the fifth does not necessarily apply here literally, not anything else.
Oh really? They are a profitable company, saying that what they are doing 'isn't healthy' is just another way to say that you can't compete.
That's exactly what was done to Standard Oil, Alcoa Aluminium, etc. who were always lowering prices, once they were eliminated, the prices never went down again.
Here is the good thing: if Amazon fails, you don't have to bail them out, if they don't fail, they are providing the consumers with lowest prices available.
The idea that this is 'not healthy for anybody' is something from an alternative universe of the bizarro world, yet it is sold successfully to the public at large by charlatans running the biggest monopoly and ponzi scams on this planet at the time - central banks and governments.
Standard Oil NEVER SOLD AT A LOSS, it's a fairy tale for the ignorant and unintelligent. Standard Oil operated for half a century, lowering prices from about 60 cents to under 6 cents in that time period, the same exact time period that made Rockefeller one of the wealthiest people that ever lived (equivalent of 600,000,000,000 dollars).
I comment on this site that government is the only entity that truly creates monopolies and all of its activities aimed at supposedly 'making market fair' are just corruption and racketeering.
I get moderated 'off-topic', that to me is fascinating.
I am quite certain that an old adage is applicable here, so here it goes: he who lols last lols best.
(same person, backup account)
Roads and schools are spending that should be only done by private forces, but especially during difficult times (if they should be done at all), and I say that during tough economic times such activities should CEASE and allow REAL economic activities to take place.
Let me add by making a car analogy:
You bought a Honda 10 years ago, it still runs, would you be switching parts in it that are still working fine because somebody may ask you this question like in TFS:
Aren't they also losing money by working with inefficient, outdated systems?
Aren't you losing money or performance due to pedals, floor mats, window washers, blinkers, axle, tail pipe, trunk cover, hood, glass, engine parts, cup holder not being the latest?
Let's put it another way: why aren't you all constantly upgrading your table covers? Floor boards?
concept of right does not have anything to do about relationship between 2 individuals or businesses or a business and individual, it only has meaning within the relation between an individual and the state or a business and the state.