The purest form of libertarianism is anarchy, so a group of people can form a corporation and protect their collective property and wealth using force, as they see fit.
Let's say we've gone from 5 mph to 500 mph in the last 4 million years (counting ordinary people, not jet fighters or astronauts). In order to reach a galaxy 4.5 billion light years away in the next 4.5 million years, we'll need to increase that to 500 billion mph.
Glad you agree. A good 1909 car could keep up with modern highway speeds, using a 4-stroke internal combustion engine invented in the 19th century. Seatbelts, crumple zones, and a strong metal frame are hardly high-tech inventions. They could have added those in 1909, if they felt it was important. And while safety has improved, automobile accidents are still a significant cause of deaths in modern days.
Yes, of course. The design has been optimized and tweaked, but in essence it's still the same idea. The same applies to rockets. Compared to 50 years ago, we've tweaked and optimized a couple of things, but we haven't made any fundamental changes.
Even if interplanetary colonization ever becomes reality, it is unlikely that more than a few % of the human population ever gets a chance to leave the planet. So your "solution" may save the human genome, but it won't save the majority of the people.
"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced." - Scientific American, January 2, 1909.
You do it just like on a Linux PC/laptop. The OS comes packaged with all the drivers. And if you have a modular system where you can plug and play random hardware components, you'll need to standardize the interfaces anyway. If you have standard interfaces, it's easy to have a default compatibility mode, where a device will work with a basic driver to provide enough functionality so the user can download and install all the driver updates.
You'll still need a way to update the drivers, and if you can update them, you can also use the same mechanism to download them in the first place. No need for extra flash chips in every peripheral.
Even with a nuclear powered rocket, interstellar travel to the nearest neighbour will take more than a century, and that's just for a high speed fly-by. If you actually want to get in orbit, it'll take twice as long.
Unrealistic medical costs, far beyond the actual price of the treatment, are a much bigger problem than the occasional accident as a result of people having fun in their lives.
Are you saying that before governement provided health care, that the people suffering from health issues due to their diet were just left to die on the streets ?
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Whether the two are equal depends on your definition of "minimal".
The only way to uphold the law is by initiating violence.
No current physical law
When was the last time a physical law was broken ?
Participation in government programs isn't voluntary, so that statement is false.
No, it is perfectly possible to voluntary set up a government and agree to follow the laws that it creates.
The purest form of libertarianism is anarchy, so a group of people can form a corporation and protect their collective property and wealth using force, as they see fit.
It's obvious what the intent of "tar cf archive.tar *" is suppose to be, it shouldn't be treating file names as additional arguments
The problem is that the * expansion is done by the shell, and the shell doesn't know the difference between file names and arguments.
No, it also doesn't work. At least not for very long.
With zsh you can type: do_some_stuff /my/files/**/*
a small government that executes a limited number of duties, including police, courts, and military
Don't forget law making. You can't have a court or police force without rules. And taxes to pay them.
In a libertarian society, corporations fuck you!
It is about as entertaining when a member of a group feels compelled to explain how other members of the group think.
The only way to control violence is with violence. So being against it doesn't make any sense.
Yes, I was thinking that hybrid/electric is really the first radical design change compared to last century.
Let's say we've gone from 5 mph to 500 mph in the last 4 million years (counting ordinary people, not jet fighters or astronauts). In order to reach a galaxy 4.5 billion light years away in the next 4.5 million years, we'll need to increase that to 500 billion mph.
Glad you agree. A good 1909 car could keep up with modern highway speeds, using a 4-stroke internal combustion engine invented in the 19th century. Seatbelts, crumple zones, and a strong metal frame are hardly high-tech inventions. They could have added those in 1909, if they felt it was important. And while safety has improved, automobile accidents are still a significant cause of deaths in modern days.
Yes, of course. The design has been optimized and tweaked, but in essence it's still the same idea. The same applies to rockets. Compared to 50 years ago, we've tweaked and optimized a couple of things, but we haven't made any fundamental changes.
Even if interplanetary colonization ever becomes reality, it is unlikely that more than a few % of the human population ever gets a chance to leave the planet. So your "solution" may save the human genome, but it won't save the majority of the people.
"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced." - Scientific American, January 2, 1909.
Pretty much correct up to this day.
You do it just like on a Linux PC/laptop. The OS comes packaged with all the drivers. And if you have a modular system where you can plug and play random hardware components, you'll need to standardize the interfaces anyway. If you have standard interfaces, it's easy to have a default compatibility mode, where a device will work with a basic driver to provide enough functionality so the user can download and install all the driver updates.
You'll still need a way to update the drivers, and if you can update them, you can also use the same mechanism to download them in the first place. No need for extra flash chips in every peripheral.
Even with a nuclear powered rocket, interstellar travel to the nearest neighbour will take more than a century, and that's just for a high speed fly-by. If you actually want to get in orbit, it'll take twice as long.
The tomato hornworm moth is a pest anyway. Good riddance.
Unrealistic medical costs, far beyond the actual price of the treatment, are a much bigger problem than the occasional accident as a result of people having fun in their lives.
Are you saying that before governement provided health care, that the people suffering from health issues due to their diet were just left to die on the streets ?
Except the cars that turn off their engine, of course.