You do understand that the US federal government has strict rules and regulations around credit ratings agencies, yes? So much so that we have a nice cosy oligopoly: Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investor Service, and Fitch. In the absence of government hindrance, we'd have a true market with many agencies seeking to differentiate themselves. And the Big Three would have lost nearly all their market share for being so famously wrong.
No, as I stated, I'm an anarocapitalist. There's no need to rely on a monopoly government. The question "who has standing" depends on the rules of the specific arbitration organization you're dealing with.
Easier solution: get the government out of it, so that multiple private agencies could compete, both for the registration of their novel ideas, and for adjudication where a party claims damages.
Monopolies generally suck. Governments, by definition, create monopolies of every product or service they touch.
And yes, thinking like this will eventually make you an anarcocapitalist
Cows are property. All human rights are rooted in property rights. Property rights are not the rights of the property itself, but an extension of the rights of the owner of the property. The State of Iowa has not "rejected privacy rights for cows"; it has rejected the property rights of the cows' owners.
I'll check out wordpress next time I need to knock together a website. I haven't looked into it in years. My beef back then was that there was no easy ability for me to customize directly. At least in Drupal I can go and write some PHP, either as a module or by editing a node, and there's plenty of introspection.
I couldn't agree more. I've come to realize, after moving here, that NH is really the only state where this would work. Indeed, the FSP has a great document detailing 101 such reasons.
So many Q's, I only have so much time to futz on/.:)
Might be good to post some of these at the FSP Forum where more eyeballs can help.
Anyway:
12 legislators is nearly all we need. We have an active caucus in the legislature, not of FSP newbies, but of these 12 + some seasoned veteran legislators. If you look at the roll call votes for hot issues, very often the spread is less than 12.
Anti-police state stuff? We got it. NH House passed a "record the cops" bill (now in the Senate), the NH House now passes medical marijuana & MJ decrim bills every session (we need 2 more votes in the Senate to override the Governor's veto). An NH legislator (Dan Itse) informs me he's submitted a 4th amendment assertion bill for the coming session, in response to recent incidents.
Many of the people moving to NH from Mass are doing so to escape "Taxachusetts" and to embrace the NH culture. Look at the towns near the border: some of the most staunch pro-liberty State Reps are from there.
"they" are going to keep trashing the Constitution; and 90%+ of "We The People" are going to continue to just sit there and take it.
Want to join a tireless, irate minority that's actually, measurably turning the tide? We're gathering. We're winning. See my.sig
We clearly have different ideas about what makes identification "strong" or desirable. If you want a super-biometric ID card with all your data in a central government-controlled repository, go right ahead... just don't expect me to go along with your plan. I've read enough history to know that one year's open, benevolent, democratic administration is no guarantor that all future governments will be so desirable.
As it turns out, NH State Law allows you to withold your social security number and home address from your driver's license. In addition, while your picture has to be on the ID card, you can require the State not to keep your image in its centralized records.
New Hampshire was one of the first states to reject "Real-ID", and to hell with the (then-threatened) restrictions on air travel. I was one of the people that campaigned actively for this; one of my friends was a co-sponsor of the bill that did the opt-out, not only from Real-ID, but from "any national identification card system that may follow"
"It's going to be that way until we finally repeal the idiotic War on Drugs and admit that in a so-called "free country" it is wrong to ever tell consenting adults what they may do with their own bodies in their own homes."
Amen, brother. If you're serious about wanting liberty in your lifetime, check my.sig... and join us. Drug policy is important to many of us.
There are many more NHLA members elected to the NH House of Representatives, than NHLA members who regularly upload youtube videos of police interactions
small-l "libertarian", ie, libertarian-leaning, not necessarily Libertarian Party. Example: at present, the organization's Political Director is a former Democratic State Representative. The most recent Chair of the NHLA is now a Republican State Representative. And so on.
A bill is currently being heard in the NH legsilature: HB145, Permitting the audio and video recording of any public official while in the course of his or her official duties
The bill is co-sponsored by at least one Free-Stater >:)
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democratically elected Government is easier to overthrow without force. If the voters vote differently, the Government is "overthrown".
How's that working out for you?
Google "voluntaryism", "stateless society". Or read some of this.
Who said anything about voting? Not me.
And yes, if you're not a member of any org, you can infringe all you like. Problem is, nobody is defending you from infringement.
This is the basis that American governments were founded on, but those principles have been totally lost. "When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in order to ensure the protection of others; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void."
You do understand that the US federal government has strict rules and regulations around credit ratings agencies, yes? So much so that we have a nice cosy oligopoly: Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investor Service, and Fitch. In the absence of government hindrance, we'd have a true market with many agencies seeking to differentiate themselves. And the Big Three would have lost nearly all their market share for being so famously wrong.
Do you understand the corporations only exist by virtue of government, yes? Businesses are not corporations and vice-versa.
No, as I stated, I'm an anarocapitalist. There's no need to rely on a monopoly government. The question "who has standing" depends on the rules of the specific arbitration organization you're dealing with.
Easier solution: get the government out of it, so that multiple private agencies could compete, both for the registration of their novel ideas, and for adjudication where a party claims damages.
Monopolies generally suck. Governments, by definition, create monopolies of every product or service they touch.
And yes, thinking like this will eventually make you an anarcocapitalist
Cows are property. All human rights are rooted in property rights. Property rights are not the rights of the property itself, but an extension of the rights of the owner of the property. The State of Iowa has not "rejected privacy rights for cows"; it has rejected the property rights of the cows' owners.
I'll check out wordpress next time I need to knock together a website. I haven't looked into it in years. My beef back then was that there was no easy ability for me to customize directly. At least in Drupal I can go and write some PHP, either as a module or by editing a node, and there's plenty of introspection.
Drupal. It sucks less than the other CMS I've played with. I still hate it. Just less.
I couldn't agree more. I've come to realize, after moving here, that NH is really the only state where this would work. Indeed, the FSP has a great document detailing 101 such reasons.
Many of the people moving to NH from Mass are doing so to escape "Taxachusetts" and to embrace the NH culture. Look at the towns near the border: some of the most staunch pro-liberty State Reps are from there.
A lot more are listed over at http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?253-New-Hampshire
"they" are going to keep trashing the Constitution; and 90%+ of "We The People" are going to continue to just sit there and take it. .sig
Want to join a tireless, irate minority that's actually, measurably turning the tide? We're gathering. We're winning. See my
We clearly have different ideas about what makes identification "strong" or desirable. If you want a super-biometric ID card with all your data in a central government-controlled repository, go right ahead... just don't expect me to go along with your plan. I've read enough history to know that one year's open, benevolent, democratic administration is no guarantor that all future governments will be so desirable.
As it turns out, NH State Law allows you to withold your social security number and home address from your driver's license. In addition, while your picture has to be on the ID card, you can require the State not to keep your image in its centralized records.
New Hampshire was one of the first states to reject "Real-ID", and to hell with the (then-threatened) restrictions on air travel. I was one of the people that campaigned actively for this; one of my friends was a co-sponsor of the bill that did the opt-out, not only from Real-ID, but from "any national identification card system that may follow"
If that sounds good to you, you should check us out: http://freestateproject.org//intro/real-id
"It's going to be that way until we finally repeal the idiotic War on Drugs and admit that in a so-called "free country" it is wrong to ever tell consenting adults what they may do with their own bodies in their own homes." .sig... and join us. Drug policy is important to many of us.
Amen, brother. If you're serious about wanting liberty in your lifetime, check my
New Hampshire has no sales tax, no income tax, and thanks to the Free State Project, is unlikely to ever have either. See my sig for details
Keep yer bumbling, ineffective, red-tape hands out of our spacelanes. Thanks.
"You can't take the sky from me...."
The constitution is just an old relic
Some of us are rather actively fixing that
David Ridley is hardly typical ;)
There are many more NHLA members elected to the NH House of Representatives, than NHLA members who regularly upload youtube videos of police interactions
Awesome. Thank you.
small-l "libertarian", ie, libertarian-leaning, not necessarily Libertarian Party. Example: at present, the organization's Political Director is a former Democratic State Representative. The most recent Chair of the NHLA is now a Republican State Representative. And so on.
A bill is currently being heard in the NH legsilature: HB145, Permitting the audio and video recording of any public official while in the course of his or her official duties
The bill is co-sponsored by at least one Free-Stater >:)