They were simply authorization for privately owned warships to engage in piracy against weakly armed merchant shipping.
The British crown used them to commission privateers, but the US Congress used letters of marque to authorize the US navy to fight the barbary pirates (no country to declare war on, so they issue letters of marque.)
It also pains me intellectually and emotionally - it's boring.
I'm the same age as you, and it sounds to me like you're working on things that don't interest you. I like coding, as long as what I'm writing is solving an interesting problem.
I don't believe you know what any of those words mean.
Their beliefs are based entirely on the doctrine of "If only..."
Our principles are eminently practical. Other people are not your property: don't rob them, kill them, or attempt to force them to obey you. Violate those principles, and violence ensues.
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So why is it that the DHS can treat us any old way they want to,
Because we fail to resist. That's the long and short of it.
-jcr
Doesn't that state also have a bunch of local ordinances that prohibit working on your car in your driveway or parked on the street?
-jcr
renegotiating my pay rarely (at best, once a year) puts me at a disadvantage to my employer who hires someone who focuses on negotiation nonstop.
This is an argument for employing an agent, not a union.
-jcr
Force individuals to negotiate one by one with large employers.
I think you don't understand what "force" means.
I've negotiated for myself for my entire career, and I sure as hell don't need the fucking mafia to get between me and my customers.
-jcr
They were simply authorization for privately owned warships to engage in piracy against weakly armed merchant shipping.
The British crown used them to commission privateers, but the US Congress used letters of marque to authorize the US navy to fight the barbary pirates (no country to declare war on, so they issue letters of marque.)
-jcr
if you consider piracy an analogous situation to what we face with corporation,
There's a world of difference between keeping their own earnings, and capturing ships on the high seas.
-jcr
Is it against the public interest? Absolutely!
Bullshit.
Every dollar kept out of government hands is a dollar that won't be spent on bloody mayhem.
-jcr
If I understand it correctly it would mean that Apple (as a company) won't pay any taxes at all.
No, Apple would pay the same sales taxes on goods and services that the company uses that anyone else does.
-jcr
There is no precedent for using a Letter of Marque for tax enforcement. It's a legal instrument to authorize armed force against armed aggressors.
-jcr
It also pains me intellectually and emotionally - it's boring.
I'm the same age as you, and it sounds to me like you're working on things that don't interest you. I like coding, as long as what I'm writing is solving an interesting problem.
-jcr
And put a lot of people out of a job, don't forget that.
That's a good thing. Any job that can be eliminated through technological advancement makes people available for more important work.
-jcr
>Ah, but they were spying on a self-declared "foreign nation",
They didn't limit these activities to the south.
-jcr
It started under Lincoln. The feds didn't bother with any legalities when snooping on telegraph communications.
-jcr
No, the point was that the government decided there would be less hardship to innocent people by not letting the banks fail.
That's the propaganda line. It's bullshit.
-jcr
Sure, they blocked thalidomide. They also block drugs that we know are saving lives every day in other countries.
-jcr
Libertarians believe that bankers will behave when they're accountable to their customers
Well, to be more precise: there's no better regulation than profit and loss, and government shelters incompetent bankers from their losses.
-jcr
Libertarians are childish and dangerous.
I don't believe you know what any of those words mean.
Their beliefs are based entirely on the doctrine of "If only..."
Our principles are eminently practical. Other people are not your property: don't rob them, kill them, or attempt to force them to obey you. Violate those principles, and violence ensues.
-jcr
I also hope that he doesn't accept any settlement that fails to include his attackers being prosecuted.
-jcr
To put it a little more succinctly: there is nothing that is wrong for an individual to do, that becomes right when a group does it.
-jcr
Technically, it's an oligarchy, not a dictatorship.
-jcr
>Well argued.
I'm not arguing with you, I'm telling you to fuck off, you chickenshit anonymous nazi shithead.
-jcr
Fuck off, Adolph.
-jcr
Look into the work that Jon Shapiro et al did on EROS and COYOTOS when he was at Johns Hopkins.
-jcr
So, some Dutch bureaucrats want to give their cops the authority to commit acts of war? Who do they think they are, the USA?
-jcr
See the first amendment and the commerce clause. A state has no legal power to stop someone from offering free education online.
-jcr