So your argument is that a right isn't inalienable, but is perfectly squashable, so long as it isn't the government doing it. That sounds like anarcho-capitalism
Not quite. Roman_mir's fantasy world is all about the extreme concentration of power. You don't have to combine terms to make a hybrid description of this idea, as a term already exists for it - fascism. Some people have the mistaken belief that a strong centralized government is required for a fascist state to exist, that is not true. Fascism is just about giving as much of the power as possible to as few of the people as possible, and making sure that the power structure remains that way. This is exactly what roman_mir (aka udachny) wants.
which I always end up confusing with libertarianism.
That is exactly what he wants, is for people to believe that his fascist dream state somehow equates to "liberty".
Nearly any post-apocalyptic dystopia is a libertarian utopia. Non-governmental warlords kiling for power and profit is perfectly fine, so long as they weren't elected.
That pretty well sums it up. Money == power. Buy more, sell less. If you can't afford any, that is your own damned stupid fault, you can go off and die somewhere (at work, if you're lucky).
next you'll tell me murder should be legal because the right to life guarantees the freedom from the death penalty, and not the freedom from being killed by private citizens
Basically, yes. Furthermore as power concentration continues to its extreme, human ownership will be re-instituted. Companies will own people and have the ability to force them to do whatever they want. Sure, we might not see the US government invade Iran under a president Paul, but Coca-Cola, Exxon, and United Defense would be free to force their employees to form an invading army for that function.
would you turn down the assistance of a racist, homophobic doctor
- not if she is cute.
Wow, racist and homophobic? That's right up your alley, roman! You'd probably respond to a racist homophobic doctor by trying to recruit them to your religion (that is, if they aren't already a member).
wow, you still really don't get it, do you? you have brought your sockpuppet back out because people have been rightfully downmodding you for trolling. if you would tone down the religious rhetoric of your posts and focus instead on factual information you would not be moderated down so often.
I thought after we collectively eviscerated Ted Stevens for his "series of tubes" comment that the internet clearly had no tubes at all. This plumbing thing must be a typo.
This is where a currency like Bitcoin can actually be very useful, to make payments across borders without having to go through any official banking methods.
Sure, because obviously anyone doing something like this must be another member of your church, where the dollar is neither accepted for donation nor recognized as valid currency. Hence the need for bitcoin payments instead, right?
After all, you said 10 years ago that the US Dollar would fail completely within 2 years, and it certainly did fail 8 years ago. Just like everyone else I now have a wallet full of Ron Paullors instead. I'm so glad that your lord and savior warned us in time!
We wouldn't have believed that a blabbering cult member such as yourself would manage to get his karma back from terrible to good in less than 24 hours of posting, but yet you did. And now as a result we see you posting your church material here as fast as you can type it. Hence attack dolphins seem pretty plausible; after all they can likely handle math much better than you.
you might or might not be from texas, but you sure as hell are not a libertarian. libertarians are supposed to support liberty for all, not just liberty for those who can afford it. you are supporting liberty and freedom for those who can afford it, and oppression of those who cannot. you are only a libertarian if libertarian is now analogous to fascist.
ron paul was an ultra conservative fascist blowhard who was in love with the sound of his own voice and the notion of crushing the dreams of people who were economically below him. his son is following in his footsteps by talking endlessly while simultaneously doing everything possible to prevent the passage of any legislation that would in any way benefit people who make 5 figures or less per year. in other words, rand paul is just trying to shore up his dad's cult for his own political future.
and to slashdot paullowers; you can't moderate me down any further as i already post at -1 thanks to you. if someone did bump this up by accident and you pushed it back down you would only be spitting into the ocean.
wait a moment, you may want to HIDE that you are a terrible credit risk, but how is that good for the economy and for the potential lenders that also don't want to lose money if they give you credit?
You normally argue for people to be held responsible for their own risks - whether they are individuals or companies. Yet now you are are arguing for the almighty financial players to be protected from risk. Can't you keep your opinion straight? Or is this the new stance handed down to you by your church?
ron paul has seen himself as an exceptional human being for a long time, seeing himself to be above the law as others see it any time he can find a new way to interpret the law to his own benefit. now he wants to use the law to take property away from others, we should not be surprised to see this behavior from him.
People who care about good policy do not get elected even in primaries (Ron Paul)
Wow, you call extreme fascism good policy? I'd love to know what constitutes bad policy - perhaps anything that actually considers the will of the people?
FYI, douchenozzle - a link to your own blog post does not equate to a valid source citation... unless, that is, you're trying to show how much of an uncompromising douche you are.
In the case of the latter - well played, I guess?
If you read through roman_mir's posts (including posts he writes from his sock puppet udachny) you'll see that he does it all the time.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When discussing fascism, do as roman_mir does.
People who care about good policy do not get elected even in primaries (Ron Paul)
Wow, you call extreme fascism good policy? I'd love to know what constitutes bad policy - perhaps anything that actually considers the will of the people?
After that, the problems with his statement and why it did not deserve to be moderated out of the hole he has dug himself:
While I am no fan of FB
You are, however, a fan of fascism and runaway free-market foolery. In your world the teen never would have faced any repercussions because nobody would have seen it to pursue the matter for themselves. In your world his friends wouldn't have been able to turn him in, either, as the police wouldn't have listened to them - even when presented with the written evidence directly - unless the victim was willing to pay for them to investigate the matter.
not that I condone drunk driving and hit and run
You oppose law enforcement taking action against such acts, though. So you are not really anti drunk-driving either.
Dalai Lama is a political hack, like every politician that aims at the populous, he likes to give meat to the idiots that listen to him.
That tactic is no different from your favorite political hack and religious leader, ron paul. Your leader also gives substance to followers who grab on to his words. The difference though is one group is concerned with the impact of their devotion on the rest of the world - and it is not yours.
That, and one group believes their leader is the latest resurrection in a long line of leaders, while the other openly worships their leader and holds him as the pinnacle of humanity who is the greatest philosopher in the history of mankind.
TFA isn't there to give you any more information about negative temperatures, it's a political hack job.
It takes one to know one, eh? You find a way to squeeze in your religious and political ideology into any argument, regardless of whether or not a rational person would find a way for it to fit in.
While reading TFA I realised that it had nothing to do with temperatures or quantum physics
Do you even know what quantum physics is? You never took physics at the university. I would wager you wouldn't recognize quantum physics if it was presented right in front of you.
it was a socialist propaganda page.
Considering you did not take - or miserably failed - economics, you likely wouldn't be able to correctly recognize socialist propaganda, either.
Patents are none of governments' business, that's the reality and that's the only way actually to fix the real problem.
Patents are to ensure that the proper credit goes to an inventor. Without patents as soon as you start to produce a new invention, anyone who wanted to could copy it with no repercussions, even if they copied your name and sold a terrible product under it.
And since you want the legal system to be sold to the highest bidder, an independent inventor would have no hope of success with any action if a large company decided to rip off their creation.
WHY do you hate inventors? You seem to hate inventors just as much as you hate working people.
if you think that posting with a nick like that will do a better job at getting responses rather than posting as AC, then you are delusional. Here is the first thing I do when I read comments: read who wrote them. If it's an AC, I read the first line and I know whether to skip reading the entire page or not, it's obvious. Your nick is exactly the same thing, except I can skip reading even the first line.
And I was moderated up to 1, while roman_mir has been mostly downmoderated to -1 for trolling. Hence I did not need you to read it, AC; other people already did and realized who was factual versus who was pulling shit out of thin air.
and it gets a big friggin' hard-on from making all the other countries in the world convert their export measurements to our archaic system. those who expect us to change can take their metric rulers and shove 'em 3m up their own asses.
Government isn't authorised to run a highway system
You don't know much about the interstate highway system, do you? The federal government does little to run it. They dole out the money to the states, who are free to do what they want with it within rather broad confines. The federal government suggests speed limits but doesn't actually force them to be at their suggested levels.
Obviously driving licenses are a private matter between private road operators and the drivers
And you are free to drive on private land as much as you like, provided you have permission from the land owner. Government has no say on that matter.
Actually nobody needs to be forced to own a license
And nobody is "forced to own a license". If you don't want to drive on public roads, you don't need a driver's license. Amazing how that works, isn't it?
government is not supposed to be able to use it as identification either
The federal government does not recognize a driver's license as identification as they are issued by states. States have the freedom to use them for what they want.
Actually 911 shouldn't be federal issue at all
The only thing federal about 911 is the number itself. If you would prefer that every state or county have its own emergency number, you can make that argument, but the federal government doesn't do squat with the 911 system.
There is plenty of business opportunity there as well.
You mean like the large number of private ambulance companies in this country? Indeed lots of people are making money off of 911. There are also companies like ADT and lifeline that are making money by sending automated requests to 911.
just let every paid passenger have a chance to fly the plane. the benevolent and invisible hand of the free market will sort out the rest. after all, the wright brothers weren't licensed pilots and they did just fine.
There is no black hole destroying a star system, that is for-sure. Black holes are just something fabricated by government employees (physicists) to distract you from the truth. The star system is being destroyed by the government itself, make no mistake of it. Only through the power of the free market could it ever be restored, as the free market is itself perfect.
The same will play out in the united stated without a doubt, unless ron paul is elected.
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this looks like the same CDE i used on a sun workstation a couple decades ago. it was a nice gui, though; perhaps it will be touched up to modern standards?
greenland is about to actually become green, with the ice breaking away. they should have named their country iceland instead and they wouldn't have this problem.
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So your argument is that a right isn't inalienable, but is perfectly squashable, so long as it isn't the government doing it. That sounds like anarcho-capitalism
Not quite. Roman_mir's fantasy world is all about the extreme concentration of power. You don't have to combine terms to make a hybrid description of this idea, as a term already exists for it - fascism. Some people have the mistaken belief that a strong centralized government is required for a fascist state to exist, that is not true. Fascism is just about giving as much of the power as possible to as few of the people as possible, and making sure that the power structure remains that way. This is exactly what roman_mir (aka udachny) wants.
which I always end up confusing with libertarianism.
That is exactly what he wants, is for people to believe that his fascist dream state somehow equates to "liberty".
Nearly any post-apocalyptic dystopia is a libertarian utopia. Non-governmental warlords kiling for power and profit is perfectly fine, so long as they weren't elected.
That pretty well sums it up. Money == power. Buy more, sell less. If you can't afford any, that is your own damned stupid fault, you can go off and die somewhere (at work, if you're lucky).
next you'll tell me murder should be legal because the right to life guarantees the freedom from the death penalty, and not the freedom from being killed by private citizens
Basically, yes. Furthermore as power concentration continues to its extreme, human ownership will be re-instituted. Companies will own people and have the ability to force them to do whatever they want. Sure, we might not see the US government invade Iran under a president Paul, but Coca-Cola, Exxon, and United Defense would be free to force their employees to form an invading army for that function.
would you turn down the assistance of a racist, homophobic doctor
- not if she is cute.
Wow, racist and homophobic? That's right up your alley, roman! You'd probably respond to a racist homophobic doctor by trying to recruit them to your religion (that is, if they aren't already a member).
wow, you still really don't get it, do you? you have brought your sockpuppet back out because people have been rightfully downmodding you for trolling. if you would tone down the religious rhetoric of your posts and focus instead on factual information you would not be moderated down so often.
I thought after we collectively eviscerated Ted Stevens for his "series of tubes" comment that the internet clearly had no tubes at all. This plumbing thing must be a typo.
This is where a currency like Bitcoin can actually be very useful, to make payments across borders without having to go through any official banking methods.
Sure, because obviously anyone doing something like this must be another member of your church, where the dollar is neither accepted for donation nor recognized as valid currency. Hence the need for bitcoin payments instead, right?
After all, you said 10 years ago that the US Dollar would fail completely within 2 years, and it certainly did fail 8 years ago. Just like everyone else I now have a wallet full of Ron Paullors instead. I'm so glad that your lord and savior warned us in time!
We wouldn't have believed that a blabbering cult member such as yourself would manage to get his karma back from terrible to good in less than 24 hours of posting, but yet you did. And now as a result we see you posting your church material here as fast as you can type it. Hence attack dolphins seem pretty plausible; after all they can likely handle math much better than you.
as a non-Texan libertarian
you might or might not be from texas, but you sure as hell are not a libertarian. libertarians are supposed to support liberty for all , not just liberty for those who can afford it. you are supporting liberty and freedom for those who can afford it, and oppression of those who cannot. you are only a libertarian if libertarian is now analogous to fascist.
ron paul was an ultra conservative fascist blowhard who was in love with the sound of his own voice and the notion of crushing the dreams of people who were economically below him. his son is following in his footsteps by talking endlessly while simultaneously doing everything possible to prevent the passage of any legislation that would in any way benefit people who make 5 figures or less per year. in other words, rand paul is just trying to shore up his dad's cult for his own political future.
and to slashdot paullowers; you can't moderate me down any further as i already post at -1 thanks to you. if someone did bump this up by accident and you pushed it back down you would only be spitting into the ocean.
You have a funny idea of what constitutes a "thought crime".
Same can be said for what he sees of for constituting a "thought".
wait a moment, you may want to HIDE that you are a terrible credit risk, but how is that good for the economy and for the potential lenders that also don't want to lose money if they give you credit?
You normally argue for people to be held responsible for their own risks - whether they are individuals or companies. Yet now you are are arguing for the almighty financial players to be protected from risk. Can't you keep your opinion straight? Or is this the new stance handed down to you by your church?
The strategic response to this type of stalking initiatives shall be known as the Unified Posting Yield Obfuscating Response System.
U missed one before Response there.
His church told him that vowel was unnecessary, and that he could reduce taxation and help move towards the gold standard by omitting it.
ron paul has seen himself as an exceptional human being for a long time, seeing himself to be above the law as others see it any time he can find a new way to interpret the law to his own benefit. now he wants to use the law to take property away from others, we should not be surprised to see this behavior from him.
People who care about good policy do not get elected even in primaries (Ron Paul)
Wow, you call extreme fascism good policy? I'd love to know what constitutes bad policy - perhaps anything that actually considers the will of the people?
FYI, douchenozzle - a link to your own blog post does not equate to a valid source citation... unless, that is, you're trying to show how much of an uncompromising douche you are. In the case of the latter - well played, I guess?
If you read through roman_mir's posts (including posts he writes from his sock puppet udachny) you'll see that he does it all the time.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When discussing fascism, do as roman_mir does.
People who care about good policy do not get elected even in primaries (Ron Paul)
Wow, you call extreme fascism good policy? I'd love to know what constitutes bad policy - perhaps anything that actually considers the will of the people?
After that, the problems with his statement and why it did not deserve to be moderated out of the hole he has dug himself:
While I am no fan of FB
You are, however, a fan of fascism and runaway free-market foolery. In your world the teen never would have faced any repercussions because nobody would have seen it to pursue the matter for themselves. In your world his friends wouldn't have been able to turn him in, either, as the police wouldn't have listened to them - even when presented with the written evidence directly - unless the victim was willing to pay for them to investigate the matter.
not that I condone drunk driving and hit and run
You oppose law enforcement taking action against such acts, though. So you are not really anti drunk-driving either.
Dalai Lama is a political hack, like every politician that aims at the populous, he likes to give meat to the idiots that listen to him.
That tactic is no different from your favorite political hack and religious leader, ron paul. Your leader also gives substance to followers who grab on to his words. The difference though is one group is concerned with the impact of their devotion on the rest of the world - and it is not yours.
That, and one group believes their leader is the latest resurrection in a long line of leaders, while the other openly worships their leader and holds him as the pinnacle of humanity who is the greatest philosopher in the history of mankind.
TFA isn't there to give you any more information about negative temperatures, it's a political hack job.
It takes one to know one, eh? You find a way to squeeze in your religious and political ideology into any argument, regardless of whether or not a rational person would find a way for it to fit in.
While reading TFA I realised that it had nothing to do with temperatures or quantum physics
Do you even know what quantum physics is? You never took physics at the university. I would wager you wouldn't recognize quantum physics if it was presented right in front of you.
it was a socialist propaganda page.
Considering you did not take - or miserably failed - economics, you likely wouldn't be able to correctly recognize socialist propaganda, either.
Patents are none of governments' business, that's the reality and that's the only way actually to fix the real problem.
Patents are to ensure that the proper credit goes to an inventor. Without patents as soon as you start to produce a new invention, anyone who wanted to could copy it with no repercussions, even if they copied your name and sold a terrible product under it.
And since you want the legal system to be sold to the highest bidder, an independent inventor would have no hope of success with any action if a large company decided to rip off their creation.
WHY do you hate inventors? You seem to hate inventors just as much as you hate working people.
if you think that posting with a nick like that will do a better job at getting responses rather than posting as AC, then you are delusional. Here is the first thing I do when I read comments: read who wrote them. If it's an AC, I read the first line and I know whether to skip reading the entire page or not, it's obvious. Your nick is exactly the same thing, except I can skip reading even the first line.
And I was moderated up to 1, while roman_mir has been mostly downmoderated to -1 for trolling. Hence I did not need you to read it, AC; other people already did and realized who was factual versus who was pulling shit out of thin air.
But thank you for sharing your opinion.
and it gets a big friggin' hard-on from making all the other countries in the world convert their export measurements to our archaic system. those who expect us to change can take their metric rulers and shove 'em 3m up their own asses.
Government isn't authorised to run a highway system
You don't know much about the interstate highway system, do you? The federal government does little to run it. They dole out the money to the states, who are free to do what they want with it within rather broad confines. The federal government suggests speed limits but doesn't actually force them to be at their suggested levels.
Obviously driving licenses are a private matter between private road operators and the drivers
And you are free to drive on private land as much as you like, provided you have permission from the land owner. Government has no say on that matter.
Actually nobody needs to be forced to own a license
And nobody is "forced to own a license". If you don't want to drive on public roads, you don't need a driver's license. Amazing how that works, isn't it?
government is not supposed to be able to use it as identification either
The federal government does not recognize a driver's license as identification as they are issued by states. States have the freedom to use them for what they want.
Actually 911 shouldn't be federal issue at all
The only thing federal about 911 is the number itself. If you would prefer that every state or county have its own emergency number, you can make that argument, but the federal government doesn't do squat with the 911 system.
There is plenty of business opportunity there as well.
You mean like the large number of private ambulance companies in this country? Indeed lots of people are making money off of 911. There are also companies like ADT and lifeline that are making money by sending automated requests to 911.
Just let the free market sell that job to the highest bidder. Problem solved, you're welcome. I expect a 10% take on this.
just let every paid passenger have a chance to fly the plane. the benevolent and invisible hand of the free market will sort out the rest. after all, the wright brothers weren't licensed pilots and they did just fine.
There is no black hole destroying a star system, that is for-sure. Black holes are just something fabricated by government employees (physicists) to distract you from the truth. The star system is being destroyed by the government itself, make no mistake of it. Only through the power of the free market could it ever be restored, as the free market is itself perfect.
The same will play out in the united stated without a doubt, unless ron paul is elected.
this looks like the same CDE i used on a sun workstation a couple decades ago. it was a nice gui, though; perhaps it will be touched up to modern standards?
greenland is about to actually become green, with the ice breaking away. they should have named their country iceland instead and they wouldn't have this problem.