Many of those would gladly take you out and put a bullet in your head for your beliefs and speech.
That's like being thankful you have a "better" cancer, cause there are worse cancers out there.
Sure, I want the least-bad strain, but I still strongly prefer no cancer at all, and you bet your ass I'm exploring every option to cut the damn thing out, irradiate it, and make it GO AWAY
Many of us, myself included, fought against the smoking ban HARD. When the masses elected Democrats in Nov 2006, they got a fascist smoking ban -- a government control over ostensibly private property.
I'm pissed about that smoking ban and I hope a lot of other people are, too.
Quoth the parent: I, for one, am glad the government is using modern technology to improve efficiency
Clearly you have not learned from history nor have you given a good read to much of what the American Founders wrote. An "efficient" government is exactly what I don't want.
The Free State Project has a "what's your trigger point?" page, that lets people who join the Project, specify an event that would trigger their moving to New Hampshire. Basically, "What's the straw that would break the camel's back for you?"
For what's it's worth... by a long shot, the most common answer is, "If Hillary Clinton is elected to the office of President of the United States"
Those things in which government has a virtual monopoly, such as roads, are stuck in technology from 40 years ago.
Those things which are highly regulated, but for which there is at least some competition - such as automobiles - have enjoyed technological improvements, and could certainly meet the specs laid out in the article if the market were to demand them.
Those things which are virtually unregulated, such as computing power and network technology, have expanded beyond the widest dreams of sci-fi authors 40 years ago.
You clearly do not know what capitalism is.
Nobody forces you to buy a product or service at the point of a gun under capitalism.
Under socialism... you pay for the government-given products and services. Or else.
Socialism is flat-out better than capitalism when it comes to certain areas of the economy, most notably health care, and that's just a fact you're going to have to deal with. ... at the point of a gun, 'cause that's how Socialism operates.
Parent post hit the nail on the head. Montana and New Hampshire did not ask for extensions. That would implicitly mean they want to comply but just need more time.
Because oppressive socialism is worse in other countries, I should feel just GREAT about the level of socialism in the USA?
Screw that. This country was founded by people who were willing to put everything on the line for liberty. Enjoy your chains, citizen!
It's so sad that the USA has nationalized so much of the economy, and people just take it as good and proper and normal. Now we have Bernanke & the Fed talking about "nationalizing" certain lenders... I suppose that's not Socialism to you, either, since it's not the ENTIRE INDUSTRY?
Please. Take your failed system somewhere else.
There's a market for tourism, yes, but there's also a market for pure research. Or at least, there would be if the tax-funded ventures of the central planners didn't crowd out everyone else.
There's a market whenever different people offer a product or service that people can freely choose to give miney to, or not. There is, for example, a market for charitable giving: my Salvation Army, United Way, my local soup kitchen,... (and that market, too, is massively distorted by the 800-lb gorilla called "government", that cannot go bust and get out of the way, because it's funded by tax dollars taken by force. The bastards!)
Hear, hear to the parent. "Conservative" and "Liberal" have come more and more to mean two sides of the same Remocrat/Depublican coin. They're both wealth-destroying Socialists. They're both warmongering Fascists.
And leave it to Microsoft to place a flawed concept at the very center of the design. "Click the Red Elephant of you listen to Rush, or the Blue Donkey if you listen to Air America"
'Artificial Intelligence' will have about as much relationship to 'Natural Intelligence' as airplane flight does with eagle flight. Sure, both fly, but nobody is worried that a massive 747 is going to swoop out of the sky and eat you.
(source unknown)
From TFA: "How do you prepare for negotiating with a terrorist holding a hostage? Now, it's textbook and playacting. But what if you could enter the holodeck and match wits with a synthetic character that has the ability to reason in earnest about your mind, and about what you're trying to do? "
Erm... what do you think an improv actor does? Would you believe, humans are actually pretty good at getting into the character of a terrorist, matching wits with you, and having the ability to reason in earnest about your mind?
Is someone spending MONEY to develop this crap?! I'll bet any amount that the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute gets government grants for this. Governments are so amazingly adept at spending Other Peoples' Money.
(Not that there aren't stupid private investors out there, too, but at least the money they spend is given voluntarily -- unlike taxes, which you pay *or else*)
I love space exploration. That's why I want NASA and the ESA to close up shop.
By using tax money taken from entire populations to fund their work, they totally distort the market for competitive, market-based space exploration.
If multiple teams were competing against each other, I strongly suspect the quality of all subsystems -- including software -- would vastly improve.
Equally important, when there is a foobar like this one, the money lost would only be that of people who had VOLUNTARILY DONATED IT, not the money of every man, woman, and child in the taxed population.
The reason those kinds of political promises are vaporware is that both the politicians, and the voting masses, think that *government* can solve problems.
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... what can be safely explained by bumbling bureaucratic government incompetence.
no matter what you do, you cannot change your species.
Tell that to Michael JacksonThat's like being thankful you have a "better" cancer, cause there are worse cancers out there.
Sure, I want the least-bad strain, but I still strongly prefer no cancer at all, and you bet your ass I'm exploring every option to cut the damn thing out, irradiate it, and make it GO AWAY
(unless I ask them to give me guidence); I don't get to tell anyone else (except as guidance, not as law-enforced diktat)
At least, that's how things will be if we succeed.mmmmm... Jaspers. Could be a little trippy. How about Soul Catcher. Very new-agey. And the kid dies at the end. Cool.
I disagree. I read Dosadi before whipping star or the short story, and it made sense. A little background would be pretty straightforward.
yeah, I love the whole idea of the Bureau of Sabotage... I think Herbert must have been a closet Anarcocapitalist >:)
I wish someone would pick up on Herbert's other work. The Dosadi Experiment, for example, is IMO a much better story than anything in the Dune saga.
Many of us, myself included, fought against the smoking ban HARD. When the masses elected Democrats in Nov 2006, they got a fascist smoking ban -- a government control over ostensibly private property.
I'm pissed about that smoking ban and I hope a lot of other people are, too.
Stuff like this is just one more reason I moved to New Hampshire
Quoth the parent: I, for one, am glad the government is using modern technology to improve efficiency
Clearly you have not learned from history nor have you given a good read to much of what the American Founders wrote. An "efficient" government is exactly what I don't want.The Free State Project has a "what's your trigger point?" page, that lets people who join the Project, specify an event that would trigger their moving to New Hampshire. Basically, "What's the straw that would break the camel's back for you?"
For what's it's worth... by a long shot, the most common answer is, "If Hillary Clinton is elected to the office of President of the United States"
Go, Hillary, go!!Those things in which government has a virtual monopoly, such as roads, are stuck in technology from 40 years ago.
Those things which are highly regulated, but for which there is at least some competition - such as automobiles - have enjoyed technological improvements, and could certainly meet the specs laid out in the article if the market were to demand them.
Those things which are virtually unregulated, such as computing power and network technology, have expanded beyond the widest dreams of sci-fi authors 40 years ago.
You clearly do not know what capitalism is. Nobody forces you to buy a product or service at the point of a gun under capitalism. Under socialism... you pay for the government-given products and services. Or else.
Socialism is flat-out better than capitalism when it comes to certain areas of the economy, most notably health care, and that's just a fact you're going to have to deal with.
... at the point of a gun, 'cause that's how Socialism operates.
Parent post hit the nail on the head. Montana and New Hampshire did not ask for extensions. That would implicitly mean they want to comply but just need more time.
NH will not comply with the Feds, period. On Real-ID. Or on mandatory seat belts. LIVE FREE OR DIE. Capiche?Because oppressive socialism is worse in other countries, I should feel just GREAT about the level of socialism in the USA? Screw that. This country was founded by people who were willing to put everything on the line for liberty. Enjoy your chains, citizen!
It's so sad that the USA has nationalized so much of the economy, and people just take it as good and proper and normal. Now we have Bernanke & the Fed talking about "nationalizing" certain lenders... I suppose that's not Socialism to you, either, since it's not the ENTIRE INDUSTRY? Please. Take your failed system somewhere else.
Mandatory insurance. Government-backed drug prescription programs. State-run schools. There, 3 off the top of my head.
There's a market for tourism, yes, but there's also a market for pure research. Or at least, there would be if the tax-funded ventures of the central planners didn't crowd out everyone else.
...
There's a market whenever different people offer a product or service that people can freely choose to give miney to, or not. There is, for example, a market for charitable giving: my Salvation Army, United Way, my local soup kitchen,
(and that market, too, is massively distorted by the 800-lb gorilla called "government", that cannot go bust and get out of the way, because it's funded by tax dollars taken by force. The bastards!)
Hear, hear to the parent. "Conservative" and "Liberal" have come more and more to mean two sides of the same Remocrat/Depublican coin.
They're both wealth-destroying Socialists. They're both warmongering Fascists.
And leave it to Microsoft to place a flawed concept at the very center of the design. "Click the Red Elephant of you listen to Rush, or the Blue Donkey if you listen to Air America"
Yes... just one more reason I'm an anarcocapitalist.'Artificial Intelligence' will have about as much relationship to 'Natural Intelligence' as airplane flight does with eagle flight. Sure, both fly, but nobody is worried that a massive 747 is going to swoop out of the sky and eat you. (source unknown)
From TFA:
"How do you prepare for negotiating with a terrorist holding a hostage? Now, it's textbook and playacting. But what if you could enter the holodeck and match wits with a synthetic character that has the ability to reason in earnest about your mind, and about what you're trying to do? "
Erm... what do you think an improv actor does? Would you believe, humans are actually pretty good at getting into the character of a terrorist, matching wits with you, and having the ability to reason in earnest about your mind?
Is someone spending MONEY to develop this crap?! I'll bet any amount that the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute gets government grants for this. Governments are so amazingly adept at spending Other Peoples' Money.
(Not that there aren't stupid private investors out there, too, but at least the money they spend is given voluntarily -- unlike taxes, which you pay *or else*)I love space exploration. That's why I want NASA and the ESA to close up shop.
By using tax money taken from entire populations to fund their work, they totally distort the market for competitive, market-based space exploration.
If multiple teams were competing against each other, I strongly suspect the quality of all subsystems -- including software -- would vastly improve.
Equally important, when there is a foobar like this one, the money lost would only be that of people who had VOLUNTARILY DONATED IT, not the money of every man, woman, and child in the taxed population.
The reason those kinds of political promises are vaporware is that both the politicians, and the voting masses, think that *government* can solve problems.
It can't. Never has, never will.