If you want terrorism to stop, then just don't participate in it.
WOW, your solutions are SO SIMPLE they must be flawless! We should implement this immediately! Clearly, the only victims of terrorism are terrorists themselves, right? Surely you have a reputable news source that places every single occupant of the WTC on terrorist training lists, right?
Yes, if you just openly condemn terrorism, you will never, ever, be effected by it. Get out and find the largest damned soapbox around and yell until you can yell no more that you hate terrorism. That will be guaranteed to prevent terrorists from ever attacking you; after all if there is anything we know about terrorist attacks it is that they are specifically directed and never result in collateral damage.
This is just like your solution to everything else - not paying taxes and immediately reversing all pro-worker regulations that have passed since (and including) the emancipation proclamation. As you have stated before, life is really that simple, right?
we must at some point get over this very idea that central governments are even necessary at all and shut them down entirely
hmmm... guess not.
A thinking person can realize that your plan is explicitly designed to just further accelerate the economic gap that already exists in this country at the largest level ever seen. A thinking person realizes that you want to produce more power for the powerful, and fascism for the people.
Roman, you get moderated down because you are trolling. Of course if there were moderations for getting your facts wrong, you would be moderated down for that, as well. However you get moderated down for trolling because you are so angry at the world that you post here seeking to piss people off. If you were just honest with your writing and your ideas you would fare a lot better - or as they say, you attract more flies with honey (honesty) than with shit (bullshit and lies).
So there is a new weird name for an OS, but how is it really different from any other OS in that every other modern OS can do the same and will be doing the same: allow many input devices and it is up to drivers to take care of what type of device is allowed.
Wow, Roman, just wow. We knew you failed math, physics, chemistry, biology, and (your favorite lecture subject) economics while taking courses at one of the largest publicly funded research universities in the western hemisphere. But apparently you failed operating systems as well? What you just stated describes quite nearly every operating system ever made and would suggest that every OS is the same regardless of its lineage. I have never met a reasonable person who would suggest, for example, that DOS, Mac OS, Mac OS X, BSD, QNIX, Solaris, and BeOS are all exactly the same, yet you just did exactly that.
Of course, you are not a reasonable person. Is a bizarre statement such as what you just made just another step in your goal of establishing a fascist government in the united states (and of course eventually the world)?
You were on-topic for a short while, roman, but now you have gone back to your religious mantras. You deserve to be modded down for that, and to show you it isn't me doing that I will post here.
if he is forced to then he is in captivity, relative slavery
This is a very strange new kind of slavery you describe. You advocate people to move away from countries where they oppose the tax; slaves have historically been forbidden from doing such things. You also advocate people just simply not pay taxes; this is also not a choice that a slave could make on their own.
However, even more so, you openly advocate for actual slavery. True slavery includes people owning other people and people being forced to do work for no pay. You have on many occasions voiced open support for both of those to be restored to American society. Slavery also includes the repression of individual freedoms based on socioeconomic class, you have supported that innumerable times.
In other words, your fantasy world will make people into slaves, by bringing more wealth and power to the powerful and wealthy while bringing more fascism for the people.
... to the end of your comment without contradicting your own mantras.
Using government force to destroy individual freedoms (like in this case - right to own and operate private property and right to a trial before being found guilty of some crime, etc.) is the exact opposite of the free market.
You have, on many occasions, advocated for the complete abolition of the criminal justice system, to be replaced by one run by the infinite beauty and wisdom of the free market and the corporate players that drive it. So I ask you then, what in such a system would guarantee the right to a trial before being found guilty of a crime?
The answer is obvious, of course. Nothing would guarantee a trial at all in such a system. A trial would be an impediment to profit and hence would not happen. There is no profit motive for equal justice, as we have seen many times throughout history. Your corporate overlords would be judge, jury, and executioner at their own discretion with nobody allowed to question their judgment.
But this of course is just part of your standard M.O. You want more power and wealth for the powerful and wealthy, and you want to deliver fascism for the people.
So says the man who comes here to repeat his religious mantras. But what have you taught anyone with your actions? Only that repetition does not make fact.
- isn't that funny, how the official inflation (666 becomes 2700) is so far off the actual bubbles forming in various asset classes, that reflect the actual rate of inflation (666 becomes 641K) and almost none the wiser
The $641k number is not, in any meaningful way, a result of inflation. The product did not gain value due to the loss of value of the currency, it gained value because of its own diminishing supply and its associated historic value. The difference between its price in 1976 dollars ($666.66) and the value of that much money today ($2,700) is inflationary; you could describe it accurately as an inflationary difference of roughly four-fold. However the remaining difference between the $2,700 of today's dollars and the auction price ($641k) - I'll do the math for you since you failed math - is roughly $638k. That $638k is not driven by inflation. If it were driven by inflation then everything that sold in 1976 would be worth almost 1,000 times its 1976 price - and anyone with a car from the 1970s can tell you that is simply not the case.
But of course you want to sell this as inflation as it is part of your religious mantra. You lie to people repeatedly like this to further your church's agenda, which is to get people to hand over what little power and resources they have to those who already hold the vast majority of the world's power and resources. You want to produce more power for the wealthy, and fascism for the people.
you are mistaking inflation for the economy. Fake economy based on inflation (theft) and borrowing money from the productive people (debt) can seem like an economy based on consumption, but the truth is that the economy is only about production. Consumption is secondary and trivial consequence of production.
It seems your church has taught you only (a very little) about the supply side of the economy. Those of us who even took high school economics know the importance of supply and demand, and that where the two intersect is where the price point ought to be for maximum profitability. Instead you are completely ignoring the demand side of economics.
Here's a question for you - what is the value of supply when demand is zero?
Answer - the supply is then worthless. And demand is driven by consumption. Consumption is not a "trivial consequence" as you try to claim, it is actually the driving force of production. There is no reason to produce anything if it has no demand.
But of course, your church tells you otherwise, because your church wants you to believe that if you hand over what little remains of the world's power and resources that are not already in the hands of the top power holders to those top power holders that great things will happen. We have seen this experiment tried before, where power and wealth are even more severely concentrated than they are currently. This experiment is called FASCISM, and it never works out well.
In other words, as usual, you are trying to make power for the powerful and fascism for the people.
Certainly a deeply religious man such as yourself would know how to recognize cult behavior. You have your cult, they have theirs. The only difference is that they don't call yours as wrong, even though you say that of theirs.
You are missing a big part of the point here. Internet retailers based in the US were often collecting no sales tax whatsoever. Not for the state the customer was in, not for the state their business was in, not for the state their warehouse was in, etc. If the retailers even started charging only the required sales tax for the state they operate in, that would make a big difference and the states could sort out the rest.
But of course, you seek an opportunity to oppress small businesses and - more importantly - their employees. You have openly endorsed a higher unemployment rate as a goal worth pursuing. You oppose the collection of this tax because the wealthiest people are able to most easily avoid its collection. You want to bring more power and wealth for those who already have more than 90% of the country's power and wealth, and you want to bring fascism for the people.
so what about my own home made 3D printer that I put together back in 2005-6 from parts I salvaged from other printers and fax machines and some steel pieces and electrical motors? Will I now have to register my own concoction with the Mr. police state there?
As usual, you missed completely what is going on here. The story mentions a politician who proposed legislation. In a democracy, laws come about by discussion and legislation. Of course, we all know that you openly hate democracy. You want swift concentration of power to bring about prompt laws. You want more power for those who already hold most of the power, and you want fascism for the people.
I, for one, am glad I do not live in the state that you want to see created.
I would not have taken that job unless I was given a green light to cut all government spending close to 0.
By which, of course, you mean the salaries of all the employees other than yourself. You would cut (most || all) of the government employees, and in the process your salary would (grow a lot || grow ridiculously) while you would force people to do (all || more than all) of the work that the fired people were doing for free. Meanwhile you would be doing (less work than before || no work at all) while celebrating your achievements.
And of course, in the process your power would have increased (incalculably || beyond your wildest dreams || beyond everyone else's nightmares) while you strip away all the rights of everyone else that allows society to exist and people to live. But this is just how your strategy works, you bring power for the wealthy and fascism for the people.
No succession allowed. Try and we'll nuke your new capital.
That strategy might work if Hawaii wanted to secede, but anywhere else and the radiation fallout would end up having detrimental effects on the rest of the country.
Too bad 3D printers can't print missiles and nuclear bombs though (for now), so those will remain tools of oppression in the foreseeable future.
How exactly does a government oppress its own people with a nuclear bomb? If the government nuked its own people it wouldn't have people left to collect taxes from - and the land would be worthless as well.
Just because you want wealthy people to be able to purchase nuclear weapons on the open market so they can threaten overseas nations that they don't like, doesn't mean that lies about government oppression will be a useful tactic to push your church's agenda. As usual, you are looking to create more power for the wealthy, and more fascism for the people.
First of all, US currency is not issued by the government. Pull out a dollar bill and look at it, read the markings. Dollars come from the Federal Reserve, which is not actually part of the government but rather a consortium of banks. If you knew half as much about economics, finance, money, math, or government as you claim, you would know this. Why on earth you were moderated up for that kind of outright lie is anyone's guess.
It likely just shows that either you still have active fellow cult members here, or you have a sock puppet with moderator points. Either way it's the same game from you, you seek to increase power for the wealthy and deliver fascism for the people.
Why do you care? You said there should be no public property, and in your fantasy fascist world there would be no private property, either. Property would only be corporate or soon-to-be-corporate. Private property would be a thing of the past in your fantasy world. Your world would do that to further produce wealth and excess for the wealthy, and fascism for the people.
Now that you've delivered your pseudeponymous line, as you planning to retire this account?
I will retire this account when fascism is no longer broadly endorsed by slashdot readers. An especially loud fascist here was recently promoted to the point where he can - using his regular account at at least one of his sock puppets - write as often as he wishes. That came about because his comments were endorsed by other facsists here. When the fascists are properly recognized as such, and not taken in as deliverypeople of a brilliant idea, I will stop including my line as often.
Because there's only so many ways for you to twist a topic to ensure that you can end up with some sort of tagline.
When fascism comes up this often in discussion - particularly when fascists work their political ideology into discussions that were otherwise not political - it is not hard. We have a fair number of people here on slashdot who want to empower the rich, and bring fascism for the people.
We have hardly any left in this country as it is. Every year we strip away further at what used to be worker's rights. Every year we get closer to them having none left at all.
As we continue to empower the wealthiest at the expense of the least fortunate, we continue to step closer to delivering fascism for the people.
As usual, you are selling fascism under the guise of "libertarianism", and as usual you are getting moderated up by your fellow cult members. No surprise there, but still worth pointing out how many places you lied or got it wrong:
People are envious, jealous and the ruling class (politicians) are capitalising on class war-fare-mongering (that word is likely not in a dictionary).
Wow, you were even disingenuous in your first line. You sir, are actively involved in class warfare, even though you try to bury it in nonsense. You are actively engaged in warfare on behalf of the wealthiest, as your church has led you to believe that those people will - even though you give them no incentive to - come to your aid after you complete rigging the world for them.
There is a legitimate problem with some people getting artificial advantage from the money that is created out of thin air by the Fed, money which shouldn't exist and it's given to the banks that shouldn't exist anymore. That money props up the Treasury (which doesn't exist, there is no treasure, only debt).
Actually, very few people receive money "created out of thin air by the Fed", as much as you claim otherwise. Money that is collected in taxes is still money, it is not "created out of thin air". Expenditures that are reduced by tax clauses still are savings, not "money created out of thin air". In other words, your premise is beyond flawed, it is utter bullshit.
This story is on Electrical Engineers unemployment and simultaneously there are complains that there is no talent among EEs. It's obvious to me that the inflation and all the taxes and regulations have crushed investment opportunities in USA (at the least since 1971) and that's why manufacturing was and is leaving, because investment was leaving, running away from the anti-business, anti-saver, anti-investor climate.
What you are conveniently overlooking here is that if a country focuses on getting its people only into manufacturing - and not engineering - you actually end up stifling innovation. You are proposing a situation where fewer people will go into engineering or get any kind of education beyond 6th grade. While such a scenario helps the bottom line of the wealthiest - who don't need to give a flying fuck about how the rest of the country gets by economically - it is devastating towards the actual growth and progress of the nation.
The fall of the manufacturing sector eventually causes the fall of the employment among EEs and other professionals needed for manufacturing and eventually this causes reduction in quality of the available professionals.
Unsurprisingly you don't seem to understand how design, prototyping, and production work.
At the same time the inflation, taxes (income and especially death tax) and regulations make it impossible for the companies that are still in USA to think long term. They are forced to find ways to beat inflation and to make 5-6% return on the investment and that's hard, try to make a return of 11-21% a year, you are going to fail, so MOST companies will fail in this environment.
If that were true then there would be no production of anything in this country. There are millions of employed people in this country who will tell you that you are, as usual, dead fucking wrong.
the companies no longer have real owners, the kids of the original founders are not there
So you want wealth to just be passed down through rich families. Not a surprise coming from a fascist like you with no understanding of math, science, or economics. Suppressing the middle class has been a clear objective of yours for some time.
So this entire system is set to destroy private business, private property while doing it with spectacular amounts of fake money and in that climate average people are getting poorer and easier
Standard Oil managed to be competitive enough consistently lowering prices from 1969 all the way until it was broken up
That is a terrible excuse for a metric, there. Standard Oil wasn't competing, they were just seeing reducing costs because they were tapping in to new oil fields all the time. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but this planet we live on has a limited total volume, and eventually a point was reached where the amount of oil that was being tapped easily was starting to decrease while the more difficult-to-reach oil was the source of new reserves. Standard Oil just happened to be broken up very near that tipping point.
Besides, you free market fascists are supposed to be telling us that competition is good for the market, right? Half of the messages you have posted lately have been about how government is "choosing winners" and needs to let all the players run unobstructed. Here the government was lowering barriers to entry for new companies and you are attacking it. Of course this kind of hypocrisy is hardly new for you.
in the meanwhile it managed to turn Rockefeller into one of the richest people in history, making modern time billionaires look like poor children.
How is that good for anyone? What is the benefit to society when one person is unimaginably rich?
I don't know what you mean by innovation, but clearly that company was able to innovate better than anybody else
Holy unsubstantiated claim, batman! I can think of a large number of innovations that have come from the petroleum industry since the break-up of Standard Oil.
once Standard was broken up prices for their product have never gone down again, only up.
Depending on what you call "their product", one could say that it has indeed gone down on many occasions. Even more so, you are making an incredibly stupid assumption that the cost of a product with limited supply could somehow be prevented from eventually going up. Anyone who passed Econ 101 knows that as demand goes up - or as supply goes down - the meeting point of the two curves is one of higher price. I'm sorry you cannot grasp even this very simple economic concept.
I am also sorry that you still yearn for the times when giant companies like Standard Oil could hold a complete monopoly on a product and its production. You clearly endorse a company having unlimited power over the market and its employees. You clearly want to deliver more power to fewer people. You clearly want to bring fascism for the people.
An employer SHOULD be able to discriminate against any employee
Just as you want an employer to be able to discriminate with their pay - or absence of pay - to employees at their own will and whim. You want employers to be able to force employees to work for no pay at all, as it is a gift in and of itself for an employer to allow an employee to work for them. You want to ensure that the power remains exactly where you want it - in the hands of those with the most wealth. Of course, in that state you would also end up powerless as your wealth is dwarfed by those who would gain the most from your dream faith-driven policies.
You want to concentrate power, and give power to the wealthy. You want to oppress the rest, delivering fascism for the people.
I'll ignore the stupidity of your seat/sit mishap, and focus on your inability to present elementary-level math.
Actually 2 economy sits cost less than 1 business class (and definitely more than 1 first class)
Everyone knows that economy is the least expensive seat on the plane, we'll represent it as X. Business is the next most expensive, we'll represent it as Y. First class is the most, we'll call it Z. Hopefully, I haven't completely blown your mind yet.
We can then say that X
You stated
2 economy sits cost less than 1 business class
So we can say 2X
You then also said
and definitely more than 1 first class
Which would mean 2X>Z
Hence this means Y>2X>Z, or Y>Z. Except everyone who has ever flown on any plane, ever, knows that Z>Y.
Why is math so hard for you? And why on earth do people pay you to write code when you can't handle simple math? There can't possibly be that many people looking for code that discards logic and substitutes in religious scripture, can there?
"Free"? As in: somebody else picks up the tab, even if that somebody never actually has gone to a university himself?
And now roman_mir bring us more fascist hypocrisy. Roman, we all know that you went to the University of Toronto, which is one of the largest state-run universities in the western hemisphere. You benefited greatly from the taxpayers paying to fund your educational pursuits (even though you failed all your science courses, and never took economics, history, or math).
But now, you are trying desperately to ensure that nobody else can claim the same benefit you pursued earlier. You want to make sure that others cannot access education, health care, housing, fair wages, clean air and water, reasonable living conditions, and legal protection unless they have sufficient stockpiles of pure gold to pay for those things with.
You are, of course, trying to ensure that power is held only by the wealthy - even though you provide no explanation for why such people would give a shit about someone like you. You want to see that benefits are only for the wealthy. Your dream state of hyper-concentrated power is known as fascism, you want to bring fascism for the people.
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If you want terrorism to stop, then just don't participate in it.
WOW, your solutions are SO SIMPLE they must be flawless! We should implement this immediately! Clearly, the only victims of terrorism are terrorists themselves, right? Surely you have a reputable news source that places every single occupant of the WTC on terrorist training lists, right?
Yes, if you just openly condemn terrorism, you will never, ever, be effected by it. Get out and find the largest damned soapbox around and yell until you can yell no more that you hate terrorism. That will be guaranteed to prevent terrorists from ever attacking you; after all if there is anything we know about terrorist attacks it is that they are specifically directed and never result in collateral damage.
This is just like your solution to everything else - not paying taxes and immediately reversing all pro-worker regulations that have passed since (and including) the emancipation proclamation. As you have stated before, life is really that simple, right?
though personally I think
do you?
we must at some point get over this very idea that central governments are even necessary at all and shut them down entirely
hmmm... guess not.
A thinking person can realize that your plan is explicitly designed to just further accelerate the economic gap that already exists in this country at the largest level ever seen. A thinking person realizes that you want to produce more power for the powerful, and fascism for the people.
Bitch, bitch, bitch. You just keep bitching.
Roman, you get moderated down because you are trolling. Of course if there were moderations for getting your facts wrong, you would be moderated down for that, as well. However you get moderated down for trolling because you are so angry at the world that you post here seeking to piss people off. If you were just honest with your writing and your ideas you would fare a lot better - or as they say, you attract more flies with honey (honesty) than with shit (bullshit and lies).
So there is a new weird name for an OS, but how is it really different from any other OS in that every other modern OS can do the same and will be doing the same: allow many input devices and it is up to drivers to take care of what type of device is allowed.
Wow, Roman, just wow. We knew you failed math, physics, chemistry, biology, and (your favorite lecture subject) economics while taking courses at one of the largest publicly funded research universities in the western hemisphere. But apparently you failed operating systems as well? What you just stated describes quite nearly every operating system ever made and would suggest that every OS is the same regardless of its lineage. I have never met a reasonable person who would suggest, for example, that DOS, Mac OS, Mac OS X, BSD, QNIX, Solaris, and BeOS are all exactly the same, yet you just did exactly that.
Of course, you are not a reasonable person. Is a bizarre statement such as what you just made just another step in your goal of establishing a fascist government in the united states (and of course eventually the world)?
if he is forced to then he is in captivity, relative slavery
This is a very strange new kind of slavery you describe. You advocate people to move away from countries where they oppose the tax; slaves have historically been forbidden from doing such things. You also advocate people just simply not pay taxes; this is also not a choice that a slave could make on their own.
However, even more so, you openly advocate for actual slavery. True slavery includes people owning other people and people being forced to do work for no pay. You have on many occasions voiced open support for both of those to be restored to American society. Slavery also includes the repression of individual freedoms based on socioeconomic class, you have supported that innumerable times.
In other words, your fantasy world will make people into slaves, by bringing more wealth and power to the powerful and wealthy while bringing more fascism for the people.
Using government force to destroy individual freedoms (like in this case - right to own and operate private property and right to a trial before being found guilty of some crime, etc.) is the exact opposite of the free market.
You have, on many occasions, advocated for the complete abolition of the criminal justice system, to be replaced by one run by the infinite beauty and wisdom of the free market and the corporate players that drive it. So I ask you then, what in such a system would guarantee the right to a trial before being found guilty of a crime?
The answer is obvious, of course. Nothing would guarantee a trial at all in such a system. A trial would be an impediment to profit and hence would not happen. There is no profit motive for equal justice, as we have seen many times throughout history. Your corporate overlords would be judge, jury, and executioner at their own discretion with nobody allowed to question their judgment.
But this of course is just part of your standard M.O. You want more power and wealth for the powerful and wealthy, and you want to deliver fascism for the people.
Repetition is the mother of learning.
So says the man who comes here to repeat his religious mantras. But what have you taught anyone with your actions? Only that repetition does not make fact.
- isn't that funny, how the official inflation (666 becomes 2700) is so far off the actual bubbles forming in various asset classes, that reflect the actual rate of inflation (666 becomes 641K) and almost none the wiser
The $641k number is not, in any meaningful way, a result of inflation. The product did not gain value due to the loss of value of the currency, it gained value because of its own diminishing supply and its associated historic value. The difference between its price in 1976 dollars ($666.66) and the value of that much money today ($2,700) is inflationary; you could describe it accurately as an inflationary difference of roughly four-fold. However the remaining difference between the $2,700 of today's dollars and the auction price ($641k) - I'll do the math for you since you failed math - is roughly $638k. That $638k is not driven by inflation. If it were driven by inflation then everything that sold in 1976 would be worth almost 1,000 times its 1976 price - and anyone with a car from the 1970s can tell you that is simply not the case.
But of course you want to sell this as inflation as it is part of your religious mantra. You lie to people repeatedly like this to further your church's agenda, which is to get people to hand over what little power and resources they have to those who already hold the vast majority of the world's power and resources. You want to produce more power for the wealthy, and fascism for the people.
you are mistaking inflation for the economy. Fake economy based on inflation (theft) and borrowing money from the productive people (debt) can seem like an economy based on consumption, but the truth is that the economy is only about production. Consumption is secondary and trivial consequence of production.
It seems your church has taught you only (a very little) about the supply side of the economy. Those of us who even took high school economics know the importance of supply and demand, and that where the two intersect is where the price point ought to be for maximum profitability. Instead you are completely ignoring the demand side of economics.
Here's a question for you - what is the value of supply when demand is zero?
Answer - the supply is then worthless. And demand is driven by consumption. Consumption is not a "trivial consequence" as you try to claim, it is actually the driving force of production. There is no reason to produce anything if it has no demand.
But of course, your church tells you otherwise, because your church wants you to believe that if you hand over what little remains of the world's power and resources that are not already in the hands of the top power holders to those top power holders that great things will happen. We have seen this experiment tried before, where power and wealth are even more severely concentrated than they are currently. This experiment is called FASCISM , and it never works out well.
In other words, as usual, you are trying to make power for the powerful and fascism for the people.
Certainly a deeply religious man such as yourself would know how to recognize cult behavior. You have your cult, they have theirs. The only difference is that they don't call yours as wrong, even though you say that of theirs.
You are missing a big part of the point here. Internet retailers based in the US were often collecting no sales tax whatsoever. Not for the state the customer was in, not for the state their business was in, not for the state their warehouse was in, etc. If the retailers even started charging only the required sales tax for the state they operate in, that would make a big difference and the states could sort out the rest.
But of course, you seek an opportunity to oppress small businesses and - more importantly - their employees. You have openly endorsed a higher unemployment rate as a goal worth pursuing. You oppose the collection of this tax because the wealthiest people are able to most easily avoid its collection. You want to bring more power and wealth for those who already have more than 90% of the country's power and wealth, and you want to bring fascism for the people.
so what about my own home made 3D printer that I put together back in 2005-6 from parts I salvaged from other printers and fax machines and some steel pieces and electrical motors? Will I now have to register my own concoction with the Mr. police state there?
As usual, you missed completely what is going on here. The story mentions a politician who proposed legislation. In a democracy, laws come about by discussion and legislation. Of course, we all know that you openly hate democracy. You want swift concentration of power to bring about prompt laws. You want more power for those who already hold most of the power, and you want fascism for the people.
I, for one, am glad I do not live in the state that you want to see created.
I would not have taken that job unless I was given a green light to cut all government spending close to 0.
By which, of course, you mean the salaries of all the employees other than yourself. You would cut (most || all) of the government employees, and in the process your salary would (grow a lot || grow ridiculously) while you would force people to do (all || more than all) of the work that the fired people were doing for free. Meanwhile you would be doing (less work than before || no work at all) while celebrating your achievements.
And of course, in the process your power would have increased (incalculably || beyond your wildest dreams || beyond everyone else's nightmares) while you strip away all the rights of everyone else that allows society to exist and people to live. But this is just how your strategy works, you bring power for the wealthy and fascism for the people.
No succession allowed. Try and we'll nuke your new capital.
That strategy might work if Hawaii wanted to secede, but anywhere else and the radiation fallout would end up having detrimental effects on the rest of the country.
Too bad 3D printers can't print missiles and nuclear bombs though (for now), so those will remain tools of oppression in the foreseeable future.
How exactly does a government oppress its own people with a nuclear bomb? If the government nuked its own people it wouldn't have people left to collect taxes from - and the land would be worthless as well.
Just because you want wealthy people to be able to purchase nuclear weapons on the open market so they can threaten overseas nations that they don't like, doesn't mean that lies about government oppression will be a useful tactic to push your church's agenda. As usual, you are looking to create more power for the wealthy, and more fascism for the people.
Well you wouldn't, would you. Being in one of the groups that's likely to be watched.
Doubly so, since he is a fascist extremist and a devout cult member.
First of all, US currency is not issued by the government. Pull out a dollar bill and look at it, read the markings. Dollars come from the Federal Reserve, which is not actually part of the government but rather a consortium of banks. If you knew half as much about economics, finance, money, math, or government as you claim, you would know this. Why on earth you were moderated up for that kind of outright lie is anyone's guess.
It likely just shows that either you still have active fellow cult members here, or you have a sock puppet with moderator points. Either way it's the same game from you, you seek to increase power for the wealthy and deliver fascism for the people.
Why do you care? You said there should be no public property, and in your fantasy fascist world there would be no private property, either. Property would only be corporate or soon-to-be-corporate. Private property would be a thing of the past in your fantasy world. Your world would do that to further produce wealth and excess for the wealthy, and fascism for the people.
Now that you've delivered your pseudeponymous line, as you planning to retire this account?
I will retire this account when fascism is no longer broadly endorsed by slashdot readers. An especially loud fascist here was recently promoted to the point where he can - using his regular account at at least one of his sock puppets - write as often as he wishes. That came about because his comments were endorsed by other facsists here. When the fascists are properly recognized as such, and not taken in as deliverypeople of a brilliant idea, I will stop including my line as often.
Because there's only so many ways for you to twist a topic to ensure that you can end up with some sort of tagline.
When fascism comes up this often in discussion - particularly when fascists work their political ideology into discussions that were otherwise not political - it is not hard. We have a fair number of people here on slashdot who want to empower the rich, and bring fascism for the people.
We have hardly any left in this country as it is. Every year we strip away further at what used to be worker's rights. Every year we get closer to them having none left at all.
As we continue to empower the wealthiest at the expense of the least fortunate, we continue to step closer to delivering fascism for the people.
People are envious, jealous and the ruling class (politicians) are capitalising on class war-fare-mongering (that word is likely not in a dictionary).
Wow, you were even disingenuous in your first line. You sir, are actively involved in class warfare, even though you try to bury it in nonsense. You are actively engaged in warfare on behalf of the wealthiest, as your church has led you to believe that those people will - even though you give them no incentive to - come to your aid after you complete rigging the world for them.
There is a legitimate problem with some people getting artificial advantage from the money that is created out of thin air by the Fed, money which shouldn't exist and it's given to the banks that shouldn't exist anymore. That money props up the Treasury (which doesn't exist, there is no treasure, only debt).
Actually, very few people receive money "created out of thin air by the Fed", as much as you claim otherwise. Money that is collected in taxes is still money, it is not "created out of thin air". Expenditures that are reduced by tax clauses still are savings, not "money created out of thin air". In other words, your premise is beyond flawed, it is utter bullshit.
This story is on Electrical Engineers unemployment and simultaneously there are complains that there is no talent among EEs. It's obvious to me that the inflation and all the taxes and regulations have crushed investment opportunities in USA (at the least since 1971) and that's why manufacturing was and is leaving, because investment was leaving, running away from the anti-business, anti-saver, anti-investor climate.
What you are conveniently overlooking here is that if a country focuses on getting its people only into manufacturing - and not engineering - you actually end up stifling innovation. You are proposing a situation where fewer people will go into engineering or get any kind of education beyond 6th grade. While such a scenario helps the bottom line of the wealthiest - who don't need to give a flying fuck about how the rest of the country gets by economically - it is devastating towards the actual growth and progress of the nation.
The fall of the manufacturing sector eventually causes the fall of the employment among EEs and other professionals needed for manufacturing and eventually this causes reduction in quality of the available professionals.
Unsurprisingly you don't seem to understand how design, prototyping, and production work.
At the same time the inflation, taxes (income and especially death tax) and regulations make it impossible for the companies that are still in USA to think long term. They are forced to find ways to beat inflation and to make 5-6% return on the investment and that's hard, try to make a return of 11-21% a year, you are going to fail, so MOST companies will fail in this environment.
If that were true then there would be no production of anything in this country. There are millions of employed people in this country who will tell you that you are, as usual, dead fucking wrong.
the companies no longer have real owners, the kids of the original founders are not there
So you want wealth to just be passed down through rich families. Not a surprise coming from a fascist like you with no understanding of math, science, or economics. Suppressing the middle class has been a clear objective of yours for some time.
So this entire system is set to destroy private business, private property while doing it with spectacular amounts of fake money and in that climate average people are getting poorer and easier
Standard Oil managed to be competitive enough consistently lowering prices from 1969 all the way until it was broken up
That is a terrible excuse for a metric, there. Standard Oil wasn't competing, they were just seeing reducing costs because they were tapping in to new oil fields all the time. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but this planet we live on has a limited total volume, and eventually a point was reached where the amount of oil that was being tapped easily was starting to decrease while the more difficult-to-reach oil was the source of new reserves. Standard Oil just happened to be broken up very near that tipping point.
Besides, you free market fascists are supposed to be telling us that competition is good for the market, right? Half of the messages you have posted lately have been about how government is "choosing winners" and needs to let all the players run unobstructed. Here the government was lowering barriers to entry for new companies and you are attacking it. Of course this kind of hypocrisy is hardly new for you.
in the meanwhile it managed to turn Rockefeller into one of the richest people in history, making modern time billionaires look like poor children.
How is that good for anyone? What is the benefit to society when one person is unimaginably rich?
I don't know what you mean by innovation, but clearly that company was able to innovate better than anybody else
Holy unsubstantiated claim, batman! I can think of a large number of innovations that have come from the petroleum industry since the break-up of Standard Oil.
once Standard was broken up prices for their product have never gone down again, only up.
Depending on what you call "their product", one could say that it has indeed gone down on many occasions. Even more so, you are making an incredibly stupid assumption that the cost of a product with limited supply could somehow be prevented from eventually going up. Anyone who passed Econ 101 knows that as demand goes up - or as supply goes down - the meeting point of the two curves is one of higher price. I'm sorry you cannot grasp even this very simple economic concept.
I am also sorry that you still yearn for the times when giant companies like Standard Oil could hold a complete monopoly on a product and its production. You clearly endorse a company having unlimited power over the market and its employees. You clearly want to deliver more power to fewer people. You clearly want to bring fascism for the people.
An employer SHOULD be able to discriminate against any employee
Just as you want an employer to be able to discriminate with their pay - or absence of pay - to employees at their own will and whim. You want employers to be able to force employees to work for no pay at all, as it is a gift in and of itself for an employer to allow an employee to work for them. You want to ensure that the power remains exactly where you want it - in the hands of those with the most wealth. Of course, in that state you would also end up powerless as your wealth is dwarfed by those who would gain the most from your dream faith-driven policies.
You want to concentrate power, and give power to the wealthy. You want to oppress the rest, delivering fascism for the people.
Actually 2 economy sits cost less than 1 business class (and definitely more than 1 first class)
Everyone knows that economy is the least expensive seat on the plane, we'll represent it as X. Business is the next most expensive, we'll represent it as Y. First class is the most, we'll call it Z. Hopefully, I haven't completely blown your mind yet.
We can then say that X
You stated
2 economy sits cost less than 1 business class
So we can say 2X
You then also said
and definitely more than 1 first class
Which would mean 2X>Z
Hence this means Y>2X>Z, or Y>Z. Except everyone who has ever flown on any plane, ever, knows that Z>Y.
Why is math so hard for you? And why on earth do people pay you to write code when you can't handle simple math? There can't possibly be that many people looking for code that discards logic and substitutes in religious scripture, can there?
"Free"? As in: somebody else picks up the tab, even if that somebody never actually has gone to a university himself?
And now roman_mir bring us more fascist hypocrisy. Roman, we all know that you went to the University of Toronto, which is one of the largest state-run universities in the western hemisphere. You benefited greatly from the taxpayers paying to fund your educational pursuits (even though you failed all your science courses, and never took economics, history, or math).
But now, you are trying desperately to ensure that nobody else can claim the same benefit you pursued earlier. You want to make sure that others cannot access education, health care, housing, fair wages, clean air and water, reasonable living conditions, and legal protection unless they have sufficient stockpiles of pure gold to pay for those things with.
You are, of course, trying to ensure that power is held only by the wealthy - even though you provide no explanation for why such people would give a shit about someone like you. You want to see that benefits are only for the wealthy. Your dream state of hyper-concentrated power is known as fascism, you want to bring fascism for the people.