an unregulated economy will end up with results any different than melamine in baby formula
Very few people argue for an unregulated economy. Some argue for government regulation, some argue for market regulation. I sure wouldn't buy baby formula that wasn't certified as safe by a reputable third-party - why would you?
if the choice is free banking [wikipedia.org] or anarcho capitalism [wikipedia.org], well, that's what got us into the recent financial mess
You've got to be kidding - hundreds of thousands of regulations that stifle competition and concentrate banking in the hands of lawyered mega-corporations, and you describe that as either a free market or anarchocapitalist?
The government regulatory cost in the US exceeds the total income tax cost by over 30%. It's perhaps the highest in the world, yet SARBOX was going to protect us from another Enron and all it probably did was contribute to the second Great Depression.
That's easy - just go into solitary confinement. Even inside the prison walls you can trade freedom for safety.
But seriously, Eisenhower was before the War on Drugs. The level of criminal gang networks has skyrocketed since that time, making prisons ever more dangerous.
Each facet of government represents, at its core, a fundamental need of society. Usually the government solutions spiral out of control, but that doesn't mean there wasn't originally a need there.
So, identify these needs, and build non-violent replacements for each of them. When they're all complete, government will be merely an expensive alternate implementation.
I do hope this letter arrives safely at your home by Spring. The postal system is such a wonderful modern convenience.
Nobody is claiming you should loose your individual rights when you join a corporation, its just that you shouldn't gain additional rights by virtue of controlling an organisation.
He's talking about responsibility, not gaining extra rights.
People who go to work for a corporation shouldn't become immune to the bad acts they commit there. In theory they do retain some responsibility, but in practice they really don't.
Show me the Wall Street tycoons who went to prison for the 2008 crash or the people at Sony who went to jail for their little rootkit adventure. Maybe the corporation pays some big fine, but the individuals usually get off scot-free.
Libertarians have a fantasy model of how economics works, which has absolutely no bearing on reality
Are you even familiar with organic (Austrian) economics? Are you aware of the predictive value it has?
Or, do you suggest that the government, following the industrial (Keynesian) economic model really did predict the crash and then let it happen without telling anybody it was coming?
So instead we get politicians who will stick to their beliefs despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
There are politicians who will say one thing to one crowd, and then say the opposite thing to another crowd. All they care about is votes.
So, as a defense mechanism, people have taken to labeling politicians who say different things as 'flip-floppers' because they usually are just doing the nasty politician thing. They go too far and then demand life-long consistency.
They seem to be OK with a guy like Ron Paul saying that he changed his view on the death penalty in the 80's after learning about its racist implementation and wrongful executions. I guess if it's not seen as a recreational sport, they're OK with it, once in a while.
âZ"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
IF you wait till the Senate is done debating, and they take a vote, it is too late
Try reading more carefully. They're planning to black it out/during/ the debate. So people get pissed off and call shortly before the vote, when it really matters.
I believe Americans are capable of implementing a better set of guards to protect their freedom and prosperity than the system that's currently implemented.
And in the early days, it truly helped disseminate important knowledge that arguably led to major historical advances.
The ends might have been useful, but as long as the means are unjust any such system will end up in a state of harmful corruption. That's just what happens when a group of men assumes unjust powers.
Copyright is unjust because it infringes on the real property rights of the many (arranging your property, say ink and pen, in a way you want) to protect the imaginary property rights of the one (or few).
With the Berne Convention, seven billion people are harmed by the government apparatus to ostensibly protect one person's idea, even if he doesn't desire such protection.
Proponents will argue that the benefits of protecting the one are beneficial. Yet, they never seem to mention the loss that is caused by restraining the free expression of ideas by the other seven billion.
There may be some better ways to accomplish the ends, but as long as the means are unjust, moral people should not support them.
Just to disambiguate: he's probably talking about the NeXT implementation of OpenStep (NeXTStep) and you're probably talking about the GNUStep implementation, which was never as good. Well, at least since I used it last.
I did prefer it to the other alternatives on Linux in the 90's though.
I sat in on a talk at WWDC '98 about resolution-independent GUI's by the NeXT guys and it was going into OSX in the next release as far as they were concerned.
They've had the technology but while Apple was all about killing with the best technology and driving towards openness at that time, by 2004 it was all about glam, fashion, proprietary, and consumer appeal.
It's been good for profits, but if they now find themselves being left behind because they've neglected the technology - well, now at least new leadership has the chance to change course before it's too late.
I wonder how many iPhone patents this provides prior art against?
Actually, I see an on-screen keyboard there. The on-screen keyboard landscape is littered with patent landmines. 1983 should be old enough that maybe a few of these could be dispatched - at least enough to have an unencumbered option.
Indeed. The current rule of law appears to exist only in the minds of the judges / president / congressmen currently in office.
Yeah, that's "The Rule of Man". It's precisely why the US 'Revolutionary' War was fought - to set up a Natural Rights Republic operating under the Rule of Law.
It lasted in its entirety a year or two (or for the majority of issues about 70 years).
The founders never expected anything different - they expected a revolution of some sort every few generations.
There was a time when I would have called this treasonous.
Kids are taught in school that the government is the country. That's not true, and whether the government represents the country has to do with whether it's following the Constitution or not, since that's it job description and contract.
Of course the oath of office seems to mean nothing to any of these scoundrels.
What's Netflix have to do with anything? Their app runs fine on my Evo 4g with Cyanogenmod 7.
Netflix won't stream HD content to devices that don't have a locked bootloader (see the stories about the recent B&N tablet). The HD streams have much fewer blocking artifacts, not just higher resolution. HTC makes some tablets that could use this.
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Keynesian economics is far from perfect, but at least it's science, and it's a solid basis for further improvement on our predictive ability.
It claims to be a science, but it has no predictive value. So, it's at least wrong, even if it's methodological.
Austrian economics does make testable predictions, though clearly running experiments on an economy isn't possible.
an unregulated economy will end up with results any different than melamine in baby formula
Very few people argue for an unregulated economy. Some argue for government regulation, some argue for market regulation. I sure wouldn't buy baby formula that wasn't certified as safe by a reputable third-party - why would you?
if the choice is free banking [wikipedia.org] or anarcho capitalism [wikipedia.org], well, that's what got us into the recent financial mess
You've got to be kidding - hundreds of thousands of regulations that stifle competition and concentrate banking in the hands of lawyered mega-corporations, and you describe that as either a free market or anarchocapitalist?
The government regulatory cost in the US exceeds the total income tax cost by over 30%. It's perhaps the highest in the world, yet SARBOX was going to protect us from another Enron and all it probably did was contribute to the second Great Depression.
Since when are prisons safe?
That's easy - just go into solitary confinement. Even inside the prison walls you can trade freedom for safety.
But seriously, Eisenhower was before the War on Drugs. The level of criminal gang networks has skyrocketed since that time, making prisons ever more dangerous.
So in a truly free market, the one makes the rules who is able to hire the most and the evilst thugs?
Free markets don't forbid police forces. Are you fantasizing about nuclear war between GE and Time-Warner?
So what can be done?
Each facet of government represents, at its core, a fundamental need of society.
Usually the government solutions spiral out of control, but that doesn't mean there wasn't originally a need there.
So, identify these needs, and build non-violent replacements for each of them. When they're all complete, government will be merely an expensive alternate implementation.
I do hope this letter arrives safely at your home by Spring. The postal system is such a wonderful modern convenience.
Don't forget the direct election of Senators, the income tax, and the inability of States to withdraw their consent.
I'm with you on the other two.
Nobody is claiming you should loose your individual rights when you join a corporation, its just that you shouldn't gain additional rights by virtue of controlling an organisation.
He's talking about responsibility, not gaining extra rights.
People who go to work for a corporation shouldn't become immune to the bad acts they commit there. In theory they do retain some responsibility, but in practice they really don't.
Show me the Wall Street tycoons who went to prison for the 2008 crash or the people at Sony who went to jail for their little rootkit adventure. Maybe the corporation pays some big fine, but the individuals usually get off scot-free.
So they have incentive to misbehave.
Libertarians have a fantasy model of how economics works, which has absolutely no bearing on reality
Are you even familiar with organic (Austrian) economics? Are you aware of the predictive value it has?
Or, do you suggest that the government, following the industrial (Keynesian) economic model really did predict the crash and then let it happen without telling anybody it was coming?
A lot of us also think your medical system is a complete disgrace.
Feel free not to use any of the advances we develop, on principle.
So instead we get politicians who will stick to their beliefs despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
There are politicians who will say one thing to one crowd, and then say the opposite thing to another crowd. All they care about is votes.
So, as a defense mechanism, people have taken to labeling politicians who say different things as 'flip-floppers' because they usually are just doing the nasty politician thing. They go too far and then demand life-long consistency.
They seem to be OK with a guy like Ron Paul saying that he changed his view on the death penalty in the 80's after learning about its racist implementation and wrongful executions. I guess if it's not seen as a recreational sport, they're OK with it, once in a while.
âZ"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
IF you wait till the Senate is done debating, and they take a vote, it is too late
Try reading more carefully. They're planning to black it out /during/ the debate. So people get pissed off and call shortly before the vote, when it really matters.
I believe Americans are capable of implementing a better set of guards to protect their freedom and prosperity than the system that's currently implemented.
maybe since they didn't know that they were doing harm, they might stop if we tell them.
Well, of course. They represent our interests, so we can be guaranteed they'll be aligned with us. My teachers in government schools told me so.
And in the early days, it truly helped disseminate important knowledge that arguably led to major historical advances.
The ends might have been useful, but as long as the means are unjust any such system will end up in a state of harmful corruption. That's just what happens when a group of men assumes unjust powers.
Copyright is unjust because it infringes on the real property rights of the many (arranging your property, say ink and pen, in a way you want) to protect the imaginary property rights of the one (or few).
With the Berne Convention, seven billion people are harmed by the government apparatus to ostensibly protect one person's idea, even if he doesn't desire such protection.
Proponents will argue that the benefits of protecting the one are beneficial. Yet, they never seem to mention the loss that is caused by restraining the free expression of ideas by the other seven billion.
There may be some better ways to accomplish the ends, but as long as the means are unjust, moral people should not support them.
Just to disambiguate: he's probably talking about the NeXT implementation of OpenStep (NeXTStep) and you're probably talking about the GNUStep implementation, which was never as good. Well, at least since I used it last.
I did prefer it to the other alternatives on Linux in the 90's though.
I sat in on a talk at WWDC '98 about resolution-independent GUI's by the NeXT guys and it was going into OSX in the next release as far as they were concerned.
They've had the technology but while Apple was all about killing with the best technology and driving towards openness at that time, by 2004 it was all about glam, fashion, proprietary, and consumer appeal.
It's been good for profits, but if they now find themselves being left behind because they've neglected the technology - well, now at least new leadership has the chance to change course before it's too late.
They're talking about doing it during the Senate debates on the bill to maximize effectiveness. Shooting your load early isn't a sign of leadership.
I wonder how many iPhone patents this provides prior art against?
Actually, I see an on-screen keyboard there. The on-screen keyboard landscape is littered with patent landmines. 1983 should be old enough that maybe a few of these could be dispatched - at least enough to have an unencumbered option.
Indeed. The current rule of law appears to exist only in the minds of the judges / president / congressmen currently in office.
Yeah, that's "The Rule of Man". It's precisely why the US 'Revolutionary' War was fought - to set up a Natural Rights Republic operating under the Rule of Law.
It lasted in its entirety a year or two (or for the majority of issues about 70 years).
The founders never expected anything different - they expected a revolution of some sort every few generations.
Somalia is Better off Stateless.
There was a time when I would have called this treasonous.
Kids are taught in school that the government is the country. That's not true, and whether the government represents the country has to do with whether it's following the Constitution or not, since that's it job description and contract.
Of course the oath of office seems to mean nothing to any of these scoundrels.
They don't understand even understand 19th century economics, but you expect them to comprehend the network effect?
Brown sugar has different baking properties than muscovado and much different than sucanant or turbinado.
Depends what you want to do with.
What's Netflix have to do with anything? Their app runs fine on my Evo 4g with Cyanogenmod 7.
Netflix won't stream HD content to devices that don't have a locked bootloader (see the stories about the recent B&N tablet). The HD streams have much fewer blocking artifacts, not just higher resolution. HTC makes some tablets that could use this.