I'm also on my second job doing work for the government during my lifetime.
The only reason I don't work for myself is I would have to hire another person just to take care of the government. I may be able to do that after I've built a foundation, or I may even be able to hit a stride where I can do it myself, but while I'm first starting out I can't do that. Too busy with the other job I have to keep until I get stable and other obligations that are non-negotiable.
Government corruption makes sure our gas prices are high and it's difficult to drill at home. Government corruption is part of what keeps us on gas to begin with. Government corruption means you have to seek licenses and permission to do many, many things that you shouldn't need it for, but it sure does make sure you don't compete with anyone else. Government corruption is why the super rich are super rich and the gap between them and the common guy keeps growing - inflation shoots right into their bank accounts and they trickle out what they want. If we stopped printing money they may have to spend what they have.
No. Shut it down and leave it down - mostly.
Social Security - we need that back. It should have never been established to begin with, but now that we've got it there's lots of people who paid into it all their lives that rely on it, se we need to start it back up.
The military - we need to keep that. We don't need to be the world police, but we need a military. My vision of the military is elite, well equiped, best of the best soldiers in the core military who keep militias and state forces trained and work with them, but not as part of them so that if we do need the miltitary our elite soliders have people they can work with. These militias and states forces will like have quite a few former US soliders in them. Dump shit tons of money into military R&D, give us awesome tech to rely on. You cut the military budget to 1/10th of what it is now, keep our forces at home and stop policing the world, keep them elite, trained and with cutting edge equipment. Money saved, nation protected, world does what the world does, it doesn't concern us unless they try to bring it here. (BTW - make NASA the official R&D branch of all military forces and you justify NASA)
Shut down most national programs and agencies. I mean most of them. Most national agencies serve functions once served by the states, stop taxing the citizens of states so damned much so that instead of "federal funding" fueling everything the states can get their own funding without all the federal middle-man fees between having it extracted from their citizens and getting their sliver back. The states can run their own programs. Powerball exist as a non-federal inter-state program. Why can't there be an inter-state education board? Why settle for one? Why not have two or three competing or "coopeting" with one another? Why not build a high speed rail system where the citizens get to vote on where the train stops go by buying the most train lottery tickets? (radio announcement in Austin) "Looks like San Antonio bought more train lottery tickets than Austin, so the station is going to be a little further south than any of us want to go to pick up our kids from college - how about it Austin? Go out there and buy some train lotto tickets and show San Antonio what's up. Don't forget about Dallas anymore, we don't want just a connecting line to them, we want the main stop, now go buy them! Last weeks winner in El Paso took home a cool twelve million dollars, not like they have too many cities to compete with for a stop out there!"
We don't need to be on the government teet. A graceful shutdown of most programs would be nice.
Article 2 of the constitution pretty much tells us what the feds should be doing and amendments 9&10 back that up. Anything else should be 9&10'ed to the states.
If they actually stay shut down, as in no longer having a fear of being arrested for not paying a fee for growing organic food, no longer worried about being arrested for working without hiring designated bureaucrats, there will be plenty of jobs, rather it's getting hired somewhere else because the costs overhead of supporting the government is gone, or the regulations keeping them from working for themselves are gone.
Now I would rather get something new and low power. The money you save by running a Raspberry Pie, an Atom, or some other lower power processor to do an "old system" task in electricity alone vs. an old P4 or Athlon will pay for the hardware in a year or so, Raspberry pie probably less.
Not quite reasonable here, but I see the point. I've had windsheild mount before, it doesn't work out in Texas on every model of vehicle due to the sheer amount of solar energy that comes through the windsheild. I've had phones shut off from heat before while driving towards the sun or having it overhead, eight months out of the year. When the sunds behind me it's fine.
It's why I switched to a CD Slot mount holder, it works great and I don't have to trust a suction cuff, which tends to have issues when you have the kinds of temperature ranges we do.
You have shoulders? Lucky. In Texas they have a "Farm to Market Road" concept which is basically "just like a highway, only we're calling it a Farm to Market road so we don't have to put shoulders on it or provide other expensive highway luxuries. The worst part of my drive is down FM 518, when I get to State Highway 3 I have a shoulder nearly the whole distance and State Highway NASA Road 1 actually has a rarity in the Houston area, a bike lane. All the people of questionable immigration status that bike up and down it still ride on the sidewalk because they're terrified of the traffic.
Because the CD is momentary and sort of out of date at that. The phone requires you to hold the phone to your head for the length of the conversation restricting the use of one hand and the use of your head for road scanning purposes. Changing the CD is also illegal in Texas, not that it's enforced. Unless you're a moron you don't need your hands or to restrict the use of your head to talk to your passenger. I consider using a good headset the same as talking to a passenger, as long as you're not one of those people (of a kind I know) who can't talk and drive at the same time I see little difference.
I got ran over a little less than a year ago also, and yes it was somone running a red light in an SUV. I nearly got hit again six months ago, by a guy in a Lincoln also running a red light.
When I can no longer make posts like this one this guy might have some room to say something, until then he can stuff it.
(BTW, when I made that post I had biked to work less than 5 times total, now it's the standard way to travel)
I said the map one was prickish, I didn't actually address the other issues other than to say it wasn't sporting to get them at a light and yes they're bad drivers because I see what they do from my slow moving rolling observation platform. I'm a libertarian, I actually agree with you on a lot of the pre-crime statements you've made, which is why I didn't dig into the specifics. The point I made was more along the lines "agree with the laws or not the stoplight thing was lame".
Up until just a few years ago you almost always got better gas mileage with a stick. Sticks are also superior at pulling trailers/dealing with heavy loads, though some of the newest automatics are contenders. Race performance wise sticks are faster off the line, but they can lose some advantage between shifts over an auto, all other things being equal they tend to top out at a higher speed.
Everything I mentioned was solid up until a few years ago. In just the past few years automatics have caught up to sticks in most categories, and are often more fuel efficient now, but all of this in the past few years. If your stick is about five or more years old (unless it's a Saturn with their shitty sticks) you've probably got a better vehicle than the equivalently spec automatic. If it's less than five years old, maybe.
I might actually buy automatic next time. For me and my history that's saying something, but being an owner of said Saturn and noticing newer automatics often have more speeds than the stick eaquivalent, and things like the Beetle getting better gas milage in auto regardless of town or highway I might just make the switch.
When I drive I leave Waze up and have a Bluetooth earpiece in. I don't place calls, only receive and I'm not that popular. I don't text, or anything else, the only time I touch the phone is to report where a cop is - Waze is great for that......
Good news is I filled up my tank June 28th and didn't fill it up again until August 29th, almost cleared two months. I don't drive unless I have to. Unfortunately it's not fair to keep track right now, my clutch is out and we cracked the radiator tank towing it home so I'm not playing the time between fillup game at the moment. Yes I'm biking, but keeping track right now is cheating.
I'm not going to get into the rest of it, I'm a cyclist and it amazes me how many people I notice have a phone to their ear while driving, especially in the daytime. Those are bad drivers. Texters are worse, so yeah, do it, but it's more sporting to get them in motion instead of at a stoplight, less they can argue against as well. Getting them at stoplights almost seems lazy.
Leave the map app guys alone. If it's displaying a map I don't care if it's dedicated or not, it's displaying a map, infact the phone could be the safer device, it's maps are updated constantly and they're more likely to have correct directions based on that tidbit, at least in cities like I live in where the map is constatly changing.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
Until then you're a freeloader complaining about exactly the system that delivers your high standard of living.
I always get a kick out of it when people who fight to maintain a system that forcibly takes from others to benefit themselves call me the freeloader.
I give you credit, you didn't scream Somalia.
The places you named are not libertarian minded places, one in particular has strongly enforced sharia law which most certainly is not libertarian. The other is not libertarian either, it's waring military states funded and propped up by other states that fund them for their own gain. Your examples suck.
Sadly the best example of a libertarian economy is in Estonia, a country that is far from libertarianism otherwise.
The fact is no place currently exist that us libertarians dream of. Precisely for the freeloader reason you mentioned, any time someone has something someone else wants there will be people who band together to take it by force, either in the Sudan method you mentioned, or more peacefully they'll form a government and claim imminent domain or taxes. There are just so many people who need the warm embrace of compulsory safety nets provided by others. People like you want big government because they are cowards. People like me are happy with city-states, think Indian tribe, Scottish Clan, Viking Village etc... There's no reason why someone in Montana should have to finance the seawall in Galveston that helps to protect my butt, nor should I have to help pay to fix the Golden Gate Bridge no matter how significant of a structure it is.
People try to convince me on a regular basis we need federal funding to do things.
I live in Texas - we give more money to the feds than we get back. Of the money we get back how much was siphoned off on the way? Say the feds pay to fix a water main in my town. I sent $100 to the feds in income tax, the IRS takes $5 for the privilege of having taken my money, who then gives the $95 to the department of the interior that takes out their operating cost of $10. The department of the interior then gives the $85 to some large interior contractor, I'm going to make up a name to keep from singling out the obvious transgressors - Pipeanon. Pipeanon of course is required by federal regulations to have sub-contractors from a "disadvantaged" business do the actual work. Pipeanon calls up Hector & Son's Pipe Layers and sends them $35 of my dollars to fix the water main. Hector & Son's Pipe Layers then hires Juan for $12 to go dig a hole and patch the pipe.
I would have rather given my city $50 so they could pay Hector & Son's Pipe Layers $45 so they could pay Juan $20. Juan is a good guy, my kid and his go to school together and I usually sit next to him at our kid's soccer games and his boss Hector always brings a BBQ grill and makes burgers and hotdogs for everyone now that his business is making more, not to mention now that our money is being used more efficiently we have more bike lanes in town for our kids to safely ride their bikes to the park with and I have a better car since my money goes further locally and I have to pay less in taxes.
Feel the power of the big government, let it flow through you, swear off freedom and personal responsibility, only then can you fully embrace the power of the dark side.
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Butter's? Is that you? You sure do have a lot of faith in your spiritual companion the government.
When calling attention to the constitution is flamebait then we have strayed too far from our principals. Going Galt has appeal.
36 two weeks ago.
I'm also on my second job doing work for the government during my lifetime.
The only reason I don't work for myself is I would have to hire another person just to take care of the government. I may be able to do that after I've built a foundation, or I may even be able to hit a stride where I can do it myself, but while I'm first starting out I can't do that. Too busy with the other job I have to keep until I get stable and other obligations that are non-negotiable.
Government corruption makes sure our gas prices are high and it's difficult to drill at home. Government corruption is part of what keeps us on gas to begin with. Government corruption means you have to seek licenses and permission to do many, many things that you shouldn't need it for, but it sure does make sure you don't compete with anyone else. Government corruption is why the super rich are super rich and the gap between them and the common guy keeps growing - inflation shoots right into their bank accounts and they trickle out what they want. If we stopped printing money they may have to spend what they have.
No. Shut it down and leave it down - mostly.
Social Security - we need that back. It should have never been established to begin with, but now that we've got it there's lots of people who paid into it all their lives that rely on it, se we need to start it back up.
The military - we need to keep that. We don't need to be the world police, but we need a military. My vision of the military is elite, well equiped, best of the best soldiers in the core military who keep militias and state forces trained and work with them, but not as part of them so that if we do need the miltitary our elite soliders have people they can work with. These militias and states forces will like have quite a few former US soliders in them. Dump shit tons of money into military R&D, give us awesome tech to rely on. You cut the military budget to 1/10th of what it is now, keep our forces at home and stop policing the world, keep them elite, trained and with cutting edge equipment. Money saved, nation protected, world does what the world does, it doesn't concern us unless they try to bring it here. (BTW - make NASA the official R&D branch of all military forces and you justify NASA)
Shut down most national programs and agencies. I mean most of them. Most national agencies serve functions once served by the states, stop taxing the citizens of states so damned much so that instead of "federal funding" fueling everything the states can get their own funding without all the federal middle-man fees between having it extracted from their citizens and getting their sliver back. The states can run their own programs. Powerball exist as a non-federal inter-state program. Why can't there be an inter-state education board? Why settle for one? Why not have two or three competing or "coopeting" with one another? Why not build a high speed rail system where the citizens get to vote on where the train stops go by buying the most train lottery tickets? (radio announcement in Austin) "Looks like San Antonio bought more train lottery tickets than Austin, so the station is going to be a little further south than any of us want to go to pick up our kids from college - how about it Austin? Go out there and buy some train lotto tickets and show San Antonio what's up. Don't forget about Dallas anymore, we don't want just a connecting line to them, we want the main stop, now go buy them! Last weeks winner in El Paso took home a cool twelve million dollars, not like they have too many cities to compete with for a stop out there!"
We don't need to be on the government teet. A graceful shutdown of most programs would be nice.
Article 2 of the constitution pretty much tells us what the feds should be doing and amendments 9&10 back that up. Anything else should be 9&10'ed to the states.
If they actually stay shut down, as in no longer having a fear of being arrested for not paying a fee for growing organic food, no longer worried about being arrested for working without hiring designated bureaucrats, there will be plenty of jobs, rather it's getting hired somewhere else because the costs overhead of supporting the government is gone, or the regulations keeping them from working for themselves are gone.
Hey, those Fortune 100 companies paid good money for those laws and regulations!
You mean, rallying behind wedge issues during elections instead of paying attention to what matters has consequences!?!?
Shutting down was a good thing.
Let's see if they can stay shut down.
Wow, a school with a billion outbound routers. What a school!
Are you a moron full time?
Considering they're using iProducts instead of something better and more affordable you have a point.
You mean just like this?
There's no reason they can't block everything from the network end. Host.deny
There's no reason to police what the students do at home either. That's just big brother and between the parents and students.
I used to be like that.
Now I would rather get something new and low power. The money you save by running a Raspberry Pie, an Atom, or some other lower power processor to do an "old system" task in electricity alone vs. an old P4 or Athlon will pay for the hardware in a year or so, Raspberry pie probably less.
Not quite reasonable here, but I see the point. I've had windsheild mount before, it doesn't work out in Texas on every model of vehicle due to the sheer amount of solar energy that comes through the windsheild. I've had phones shut off from heat before while driving towards the sun or having it overhead, eight months out of the year. When the sunds behind me it's fine.
It's why I switched to a CD Slot mount holder, it works great and I don't have to trust a suction cuff, which tends to have issues when you have the kinds of temperature ranges we do.
You have shoulders? Lucky. In Texas they have a "Farm to Market Road" concept which is basically "just like a highway, only we're calling it a Farm to Market road so we don't have to put shoulders on it or provide other expensive highway luxuries. The worst part of my drive is down FM 518, when I get to State Highway 3 I have a shoulder nearly the whole distance and State Highway NASA Road 1 actually has a rarity in the Houston area, a bike lane. All the people of questionable immigration status that bike up and down it still ride on the sidewalk because they're terrified of the traffic.
Because the CD is momentary and sort of out of date at that. The phone requires you to hold the phone to your head for the length of the conversation restricting the use of one hand and the use of your head for road scanning purposes. Changing the CD is also illegal in Texas, not that it's enforced. Unless you're a moron you don't need your hands or to restrict the use of your head to talk to your passenger. I consider using a good headset the same as talking to a passenger, as long as you're not one of those people (of a kind I know) who can't talk and drive at the same time I see little difference.
I got ran over a little less than a year ago also, and yes it was somone running a red light in an SUV. I nearly got hit again six months ago, by a guy in a Lincoln also running a red light.
When I can no longer make posts like this one this guy might have some room to say something, until then he can stuff it.
(BTW, when I made that post I had biked to work less than 5 times total, now it's the standard way to travel)
I said the map one was prickish, I didn't actually address the other issues other than to say it wasn't sporting to get them at a light and yes they're bad drivers because I see what they do from my slow moving rolling observation platform. I'm a libertarian, I actually agree with you on a lot of the pre-crime statements you've made, which is why I didn't dig into the specifics. The point I made was more along the lines "agree with the laws or not the stoplight thing was lame".
Up until just a few years ago you almost always got better gas mileage with a stick. Sticks are also superior at pulling trailers/dealing with heavy loads, though some of the newest automatics are contenders. Race performance wise sticks are faster off the line, but they can lose some advantage between shifts over an auto, all other things being equal they tend to top out at a higher speed.
Everything I mentioned was solid up until a few years ago. In just the past few years automatics have caught up to sticks in most categories, and are often more fuel efficient now, but all of this in the past few years. If your stick is about five or more years old (unless it's a Saturn with their shitty sticks) you've probably got a better vehicle than the equivalently spec automatic. If it's less than five years old, maybe.
I might actually buy automatic next time. For me and my history that's saying something, but being an owner of said Saturn and noticing newer automatics often have more speeds than the stick eaquivalent, and things like the Beetle getting better gas milage in auto regardless of town or highway I might just make the switch.
When I drive I leave Waze up and have a Bluetooth earpiece in. I don't place calls, only receive and I'm not that popular. I don't text, or anything else, the only time I touch the phone is to report where a cop is - Waze is great for that......
Good news is I filled up my tank June 28th and didn't fill it up again until August 29th, almost cleared two months. I don't drive unless I have to. Unfortunately it's not fair to keep track right now, my clutch is out and we cracked the radiator tank towing it home so I'm not playing the time between fillup game at the moment. Yes I'm biking, but keeping track right now is cheating.
I don't P on my handbrake either
(yeah lame, but I really couldn't help myself)
Uhmmm, I don't have P on my gear shift.
Does having P on your gearshift give you an extra break with the law?
I'm not going to get into the rest of it, I'm a cyclist and it amazes me how many people I notice have a phone to their ear while driving, especially in the daytime. Those are bad drivers. Texters are worse, so yeah, do it, but it's more sporting to get them in motion instead of at a stoplight, less they can argue against as well. Getting them at stoplights almost seems lazy.
Leave the map app guys alone. If it's displaying a map I don't care if it's dedicated or not, it's displaying a map, infact the phone could be the safer device, it's maps are updated constantly and they're more likely to have correct directions based on that tidbit, at least in cities like I live in where the map is constatly changing.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
Until then you're a freeloader complaining about exactly the system that delivers your high standard of living.
I always get a kick out of it when people who fight to maintain a system that forcibly takes from others to benefit themselves call me the freeloader.
I give you credit, you didn't scream Somalia.
The places you named are not libertarian minded places, one in particular has strongly enforced sharia law which most certainly is not libertarian. The other is not libertarian either, it's waring military states funded and propped up by other states that fund them for their own gain. Your examples suck.
Sadly the best example of a libertarian economy is in Estonia, a country that is far from libertarianism otherwise.
The fact is no place currently exist that us libertarians dream of. Precisely for the freeloader reason you mentioned, any time someone has something someone else wants there will be people who band together to take it by force, either in the Sudan method you mentioned, or more peacefully they'll form a government and claim imminent domain or taxes. There are just so many people who need the warm embrace of compulsory safety nets provided by others. People like you want big government because they are cowards. People like me are happy with city-states, think Indian tribe, Scottish Clan, Viking Village etc... There's no reason why someone in Montana should have to finance the seawall in Galveston that helps to protect my butt, nor should I have to help pay to fix the Golden Gate Bridge no matter how significant of a structure it is.
People try to convince me on a regular basis we need federal funding to do things.
I live in Texas - we give more money to the feds than we get back. Of the money we get back how much was siphoned off on the way? Say the feds pay to fix a water main in my town. I sent $100 to the feds in income tax, the IRS takes $5 for the privilege of having taken my money, who then gives the $95 to the department of the interior that takes out their operating cost of $10. The department of the interior then gives the $85 to some large interior contractor, I'm going to make up a name to keep from singling out the obvious transgressors - Pipeanon. Pipeanon of course is required by federal regulations to have sub-contractors from a "disadvantaged" business do the actual work. Pipeanon calls up Hector & Son's Pipe Layers and sends them $35 of my dollars to fix the water main. Hector & Son's Pipe Layers then hires Juan for $12 to go dig a hole and patch the pipe.
I would have rather given my city $50 so they could pay Hector & Son's Pipe Layers $45 so they could pay Juan $20. Juan is a good guy, my kid and his go to school together and I usually sit next to him at our kid's soccer games and his boss Hector always brings a BBQ grill and makes burgers and hotdogs for everyone now that his business is making more, not to mention now that our money is being used more efficiently we have more bike lanes in town for our kids to safely ride their bikes to the park with and I have a better car since my money goes further locally and I have to pay less in taxes.
Feel the power of the big government, let it flow through you, swear off freedom and personal responsibility, only then can you fully embrace the power of the dark side.