Quoth the poster: Now there is no "small government" party, it seems.
I disagree; the Libertarian party is unequivocally the Small-Government party. Their platform is basically: "Uncle Sam! Get out of my bedroom and keep yer filthy hands off my wallet!"
The biggest problem is, they don't win elections, because they are swamped by the Democrats and Republicans.
The solution? Simple: concentrate on one, specific state. And that's why, two months ago, I moved to New Hampshire.
That may be, but I did move to New Hampshire, and I can honestly say:
a) politics are much more actively discussed here than back in "don't-offend-anybody" California
b) the average person here is way, way more libertarian/small-government oriented than 90% of Californians.
I would prefer that the Free State Project be a huge success, but I am benefitting just from being in a freer state than the one I left behind!
Quoth DarcSeed: High school is one seriously fucked up place. When is this country going to realize that!!??
For the record, I was a picked-on wierdo geek for most of my school years, too. Introverts are definitely not valued in our society. I can relate to these stories more than I feel comfortable saying in a public forum.
In my honest opinion, a lot of the problem here is that schools really are staright out of 1984 -- they're government-run, government-funded, government-controlled down to what cirriculum can be taught. Think about it. The teachers themselves have to go through years of brainwashing to get a Teaching degree.
The entire friggin' United States government has a near-monopoly on education. Of course difference is repressed and conformity is the rule!
I have a 1-year old son, and I do not want him to go through the hell I went through. But how to fight the System?
Well... I tell you, I believe there's only one way to fix this. You can bitch and complain all you like, but it's not getting any better until there are real alternatives. And that's why I moved to New Hampshire.
I agree 100%. Over-regulation and overpowerful law is killing the average tinkerer's innovation.
I truly see only one way to rectify the situation, and that's to get enough people who see the problem to move to one place, where they have a good chance of changing things.
Hence, the average American is currently about 60% enslaved.
Why be average? I've moved to New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state. Free, in this context, means: No State Income Tax, and No State Sales Tax. Ca-Ching!
NH is also a very free state (relative to other U.S. states and certainly most countries) in terms of its minimal interference in people's day to day lives. Here are some more details
I grew up in the Midwest, in a town with a creek running through the middle of it, plenty of trails and undeveloped areas, where virually everyone had a backyard big enough to romp around in.
Now I live in "Silicon Valley", in an apartment complex. It is shocking for me to imagine, all the kids that live around here have no place to play outside. Yeah there are city parks, but that's really not the same.
So, now that I have a 1-year-old son, my wife and I are moving to New Hampshire. Actually, we move in less than 1 week; the truck left a few hours ago, with all our stuff in it:-)
We both have software jobs lined up already in Nashua, NH. Considering that Nashua has a lot of high-tech jobs, is less than an hour from Boston, and has NO STATE INCOME TAX, it's awesome that we can get a house there with a big wooded yard for less than what we were paying for rent in California.
And, the fact that New Hampshire is the designated Free State is a big bonus. Watching California's big-government socialist model is like watching a train wrek -- I prefer not to be on board!
trends in the US government towards a more authoritarian model.
Yes, it's true. The "small-government" movement that found a mainstream presence in the Republican party with Ronald Reagan's presidency is all but dissolved in George W. Bush's administration.
What can you do?
Well, America was founded by people who migrated away from authoritarian control to establish a more Liberty-oriented state.
I, for one, am following in their footsteps, by moving to New Hampshire.
Cap'n K answered:
<< I guess that's because you're looking at a self-serving faq, and not at the law in question.
The emhasis on enough was intentional. I believe a jury of 12 peers would give me the lighest sentence under the law, if they even found me guily. Considering that I have spent less than $10 on the site (ok so maybe $100 if I bought the MP3s retail thru iTunes) it's jut not going to be worth their time to sue me.
Possibly an equally useful quote: "The Internet treats censorship as damage, and routes around it."
- John Gilmore, cyber-libertarian
To that end, I'd like to point anyone to allofmp3.
I discovered them a few days ago, when I was trying to find a copy of one of my favorite albums of all time. My only copy was a worn-out cassette tape; the CD is not available under iTunes nor Amazon nor anywhere else as far as I can tell. I googled, found allofmp3, and $1.75 later, the freely copyable MP3s were mine.
No, I don't get a commission and no, I'm not affiliated with allofmp3 in any way. Sheesh.
I just thought I'd share something with you.
I've used both extensively for years, and I'm hard-pressed to find a difference. RealVNC is a little slower, but is free-as-in-beer if you don't need the fancy bells and whistles like encryption (just use a VPN) or directory integration (I can deal with having separate VNC and OS logins)
Anyone have any idea why one would shell out the $$$ for TTA?
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So... in conclusion. Go to Amsterdam.
I'm sure the poster meant that as a tongue-in-cheek. But there really is a plan to make a single Free state. Moreover, it's a plan with actual results, in which thousands have signed up, and over a hundred free-market, free-speech, "free-Everything" activists have already moved there and are making a difference right now.
El Camino said: My friend, it is time to learn that all types of governments have one thing in common, and that is that they don't care about you in the slightest. They organize to use you for power. [...] Best to find a way make as much freedom, time, happiness, and peace on your own.
Hear, Hear!!
The best way to find freedom and happiness, though, is not on your own -- on your own, you're gonna get run over by the out-of-control machine that is Government. Instead, I strongly suggest joining other people who also believe in Freedom.
And I'm putting my money where my mouth is: I'm an FSP member.
Newest saying - WiFi phonecalls want to be free....which of course they will be once someone captures enough WiFi packets to crack the encyption and clone their own phone to someone elses Vonage account.
Dude, have you actually checked the price list? It's just not worth the trouble!!!
Calls within the US and Canada are unmetered. I call my parents back in Wisconsin and just don't bother hanging up, leave the line open for a few days, it costs ZERO EXTRA. So what, you hijack my account? Have a ball! See if I care!
Now, I have some friends in Australia. I call them all the time. The biggest impediment is the time zone difference, not the cost -- calls to frickin' Australia are $0.04/minute! It's literally cheaper, per-minute, to make a VoIP call to the opposite end of planet Earth than to get a seat at the local movie theater.
Sure, someone could jack my account to call a cellphone in Afghanistan at $1.25/min, but that's the kind of length you'd have to go to....
There simply isn't a large enough network of WiFi connections yet
What about WiMax?
Seriously... suppose it's 18-24 months from now, and many large metropolitan areas have WiMax coverage. Then a VoIP handset like this one, but using WiMax instead of WiFi, would be a shoo-in cell-phone-killer-app. Or am I missing something?
I've been a Vonage user for about a year now. What the hell, I already had broadband, and the flat $25/month for their "Premium Unlimited" is a lot cheaper than I was paying before. Plus, now I have what they call a "virtual number" in my parents' area code, so they can call me and it's a free local call for them, even though they're back in Wisconsin and I'm in California. Cool!
Here's the news, folks: Capitalism is the only system consistent with Freedom. You hate the MPAA/RIAA? Guess what? The antidote to them is more capitalism; they exist only because of government intervention.
Pappy97 wrote: No, it's not a foreign 9/11, it's WORSE.
More lives were lost, yes, and more physical damage done. But this was a natural disaster ("act of god", if you prefer). 9/11 was entirely the work of humans acting intentionally. Quite shameful.
The Green Party is best known for its progressive policies on the environment, however its other policies are often shrouded...
Indeed. I, like many people, would like to think of myself as environmentally concious, or "green" in the sense that it makes sense not to destroy the ecosystem upon which we so clearly depend.
That said, I am also avidly in favor of a Free society. As it turns out, such a philosophy is contradictory with Socialism, and contradictory with State control over my personal lifestyle or fiscal choices.
Would it not be intellectually and morally appropriate for the US Green Party to simply come out and explicitly state that the Party's economic platform is, basically, a Socialist one?
Or do you fear that this would turn off too many voters, like me?
Thanks for the tip. I tried that, and yeah, it makes the semi-lit places REALLY bright. But it doesn't seem to affect the many corners, floors, etc., that are still TOTALLY DARK. It's just unrealistic... look, you can see, at least vaguely, objects in the corner of a semi-dark room or just underneath a desk in such a room, right? In DOOM 3, such spaces are treated like black holes unless you have a flashlight.
Bah.
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Ha! No, New Hampshire is way more amenable than the People's Republic of California, which I left...
Now there is no "small government" party, it seems.
I disagree; the Libertarian party is unequivocally the Small-Government party.
Their platform is basically: "Uncle Sam! Get out of my bedroom and keep yer filthy hands off my wallet!"
The biggest problem is, they don't win elections, because they are swamped by the Democrats and Republicans.
The solution? Simple: concentrate on one, specific state. And that's why, two months ago, I moved to New Hampshire.
Oh, and I cannot resist, bringing up the Lost Liberty Hotel. Way Cool!
a) politics are much more actively discussed here than back in "don't-offend-anybody" California
b) the average person here is way, way more libertarian/small-government oriented than 90% of Californians.
I would prefer that the Free State Project be a huge success, but I am benefitting just from being in a freer state than the one I left behind!
High school is one seriously fucked up place. When is this country going to realize that!!??
For the record, I was a picked-on wierdo geek for most of my school years, too. Introverts are definitely not valued in our society. I can relate to these stories more than I feel comfortable saying in a public forum.
In my honest opinion, a lot of the problem here is that schools really are staright out of 1984 -- they're government-run, government-funded, government-controlled down to what cirriculum can be taught. Think about it. The teachers themselves have to go through years of brainwashing to get a Teaching degree.
The entire friggin' United States government has a near-monopoly on education. Of course difference is repressed and conformity is the rule!
I have a 1-year old son, and I do not want him to go through the hell I went through. But how to fight the System?
Well... I tell you, I believe there's only one way to fix this. You can bitch and complain all you like, but it's not getting any better until there are real alternatives. And that's why I moved to New Hampshire.
I truly see only one way to rectify the situation, and that's to get enough people who see the problem to move to one place, where they have a good chance of changing things.
And that's why I moved to New Hampshire last week!
Just one more reason I moved to New Hampshire, where there's at least hope that this kind of Police-State abuse can be rolled back.
Chip... as a longtime Perl user, my deepest thanks for all you've done. Good on you for taking the moral high ground here.
Vox Monitor (a sort of meta-podcast and website) did a segment FTL; there was also a local TV news segment about the show. Cool!
Especially if you love (and/or hate) Rush Limbaugh, you might enjoy Free Talk Live as well.
You're Welcome.
Why be average? I've moved to New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state. Free, in this context, means: No State Income Tax, and No State Sales Tax. Ca-Ching!
NH is also a very free state (relative to other U.S. states and certainly most countries) in terms of its minimal interference in people's day to day lives. Here are some more details
Check out The Free State Project's mainpage
Now I live in "Silicon Valley", in an apartment complex. It is shocking for me to imagine, all the kids that live around here have no place to play outside. Yeah there are city parks, but that's really not the same.
So, now that I have a 1-year-old son, my wife and I are moving to New Hampshire. Actually, we move in less than 1 week; the truck left a few hours ago, with all our stuff in it :-)
We both have software jobs lined up already in Nashua, NH. Considering that Nashua has a lot of high-tech jobs, is less than an hour from Boston, and has NO STATE INCOME TAX, it's awesome that we can get a house there with a big wooded yard for less than what we were paying for rent in California.
And, the fact that New Hampshire is the designated Free State is a big bonus. Watching California's big-government socialist model is like watching a train wrek -- I prefer not to be on board!
Yes, it's true. The "small-government" movement that found a mainstream presence in the Republican party with Ronald Reagan's presidency is all but dissolved in George W. Bush's administration.
What can you do?
Well, America was founded by people who migrated away from authoritarian control to establish a more Liberty-oriented state.
I, for one, am following in their footsteps, by moving to New Hampshire.
Check it out: http://freestateproject.org/index.php
< Looks legit enough to me.
Cap'n K answered:
<< I guess that's because you're looking at a self-serving faq, and not at the law in question.
The emhasis on enough was intentional. I believe a jury of 12 peers would give me the lighest sentence under the law, if they even found me guily. Considering that I have spent less than $10 on the site (ok so maybe $100 if I bought the MP3s retail thru iTunes) it's jut not going to be worth their time to sue me.
Looks legit enough to me.
"The Internet treats censorship as damage, and routes around it."
- John Gilmore, cyber-libertarian
To that end, I'd like to point anyone to allofmp3.
I discovered them a few days ago, when I was trying to find a copy of one of my favorite albums of all time. My only copy was a worn-out cassette tape; the CD is not available under iTunes nor Amazon nor anywhere else as far as I can tell. I googled, found allofmp3, and $1.75 later, the freely copyable MP3s were mine.
No, I don't get a commission and no, I'm not affiliated with allofmp3 in any way. Sheesh. I just thought I'd share something with you.
This might be pretty close to what you're looking for:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ifs/ind
http://www.orafaq.com/faqifs.htm
Anyone have any idea why one would shell out the $$$ for TTA?
I'm sure the poster meant that as a tongue-in-cheek. But there really is a plan to make a single Free state. Moreover, it's a plan with actual results, in which thousands have signed up, and over a hundred free-market, free-speech, "free-Everything" activists have already moved there and are making a difference right now.
It's called the Free State Project, and I myself am a member.
Check this newscast from a local TV station.
My friend, it is time to learn that all types of governments have one thing in common, and that is that they don't care about you in the slightest. They organize to use you for power. [...] Best to find a way make as much freedom, time, happiness, and peace on your own.
Hear, Hear!!
The best way to find freedom and happiness, though, is not on your own -- on your own, you're gonna get run over by the out-of-control machine that is Government. Instead, I strongly suggest joining other people who also believe in Freedom.
And I'm putting my money where my mouth is: I'm an FSP member.
Do yourself a favor. Check out the link.
Fleeing the oppressive Oracle to attain the safety of Microsoft seems to me like fleeing oppressive California for the safety of Stalinist Russia.
Dude, have you actually checked the price list? It's just not worth the trouble!!!
Calls within the US and Canada are unmetered. I call my parents back in Wisconsin and just don't bother hanging up, leave the line open for a few days, it costs ZERO EXTRA. So what, you hijack my account? Have a ball! See if I care!
Now, I have some friends in Australia. I call them all the time. The biggest impediment is the time zone difference, not the cost -- calls to frickin' Australia are $0.04/minute! It's literally cheaper, per-minute, to make a VoIP call to the opposite end of planet Earth than to get a seat at the local movie theater.
Sure, someone could jack my account to call a cellphone in Afghanistan at $1.25/min, but that's the kind of length you'd have to go to....
What about WiMax?
Seriously... suppose it's 18-24 months from now, and many large metropolitan areas have WiMax coverage. Then a VoIP handset like this one, but using WiMax instead of WiFi, would be a shoo-in cell-phone-killer-app. Or am I missing something?
I've been a Vonage user for about a year now. What the hell, I already had broadband, and the flat $25/month for their "Premium Unlimited" is a lot cheaper than I was paying before. Plus, now I have what they call a "virtual number" in my parents' area code, so they can call me and it's a free local call for them, even though they're back in Wisconsin and I'm in California. Cool!
I implore you; spend 5 minutes Learning about Milton Freidman. Try checking out these videos.
No, it's not a foreign 9/11, it's WORSE.
More lives were lost, yes, and more physical damage done. But this was a natural disaster ("act of god", if you prefer). 9/11 was entirely the work of humans acting intentionally. Quite shameful.
Indeed. I, like many people, would like to think of myself as environmentally concious, or "green" in the sense that it makes sense not to destroy the ecosystem upon which we so clearly depend.
That said, I am also avidly in favor of a Free society. As it turns out, such a philosophy is contradictory with Socialism, and contradictory with State control over my personal lifestyle or fiscal choices.
Now, the Green Party in the UK openly asserts that Green economic policies are basically Socialist in nature. Given that the US Green Party has a virtually identical economic platform, calling explicitly for a Welfare state...
Would it not be intellectually and morally appropriate for the US Green Party to simply come out and explicitly state that the Party's economic platform is, basically, a Socialist one?
Or do you fear that this would turn off too many voters, like me?
Nolan Bushnell may be a hugely cool dude who I respect a lot, but he did not invent Pong. That honor goes to Ralph Baer
And the statement "Konrad Zuse, inventor of the computer" isn't exactly accurate either.
Thanks for the tip. I tried that, and yeah, it makes the semi-lit places REALLY bright. But it doesn't seem to affect the many corners, floors, etc., that are still TOTALLY DARK. It's just unrealistic... look, you can see, at least vaguely, objects in the corner of a semi-dark room or just underneath a desk in such a room, right? In DOOM 3, such spaces are treated like black holes unless you have a flashlight. Bah.