Well then it's a good thing we have people like you who can tell poor Indians that they're too stupid to make their own decisions.
Somehow, I think that the person whose life is on the line if they don't spend their money on the right things is probably more qualified than you when it comes to knowing what decisions they have to make to keep them alive.
Chechen rebels are, for the most part, creations of the Russian secret services. If you believe otherwise, you're uninformed. You can correct that misconception by quickly browsing a well-sourced Wikipedia article on the matter. If you're informed and still believe otherwise, you're as crazy as the 9/11 Truthers think that most Americans are.
Blah blah who cares. It's pathetic that people haven't figured out the al-Qaeda enigma yet: it's been an FSB operation since the late '90s, when bin Laden merged with Ayman al-Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bin Laden's the public face, but al-Zawahiri has been the brains of the operation ever since the merger. That's also when al-Qaeda's big string of attacks started, from the embassies to the Cole to 9/11 to 7/7. Right before the merger, al-Zawahiri was clearly trained by the FSB. After the merger, the rein of terror begins. And energy prices go up. And who in the world benefits most from high oil and natural gas prices? Russia.
This is what you call "vulgar libertarianism": defending the status quo, even though it's not actually the libertarian solution. It's the government that's decided that we aren't mature enough to send and receive whatever broadcasts we want over whatever spectrum we want. The spectrum is, in theory, infinitely divisible, and essentially limitless. But of course we can't find the most effective way to limit interference and broadcast over anarchic airwaves unless we're forced to compete - unless it's either find a way to broadcast, or don't. Until the FCC stops regulating the air, you'll never see a true free market in cellular data (and voice, whatever). So, rather than defending capitalism by saying, "So don't buy it!" it would be better to explain why this isn't a failure of capitalism.
This is not a market failure, but rather a government failure. It's the government that's decided that we aren't mature enough to send and receive whatever broadcasts we want over whatever spectrum we want. The spectrum is, in theory, infinitely divisible, and essentially limitless. But of course we can't find the most effective way to limit interference and broadcast over anarchic airwaves unless we're forced to compete - unless it's either find a way to broadcast, or don't. Until the FCC stops regulating the air, you'll never see a true free market in cellular data (and voice, whatever).
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Not to mention heroin overdoses. There is no such thing as an overdose â" opiates are relatively non-lethal â" especially for junkies, who would never be able to afford ten times their normal dose (the minimum it would likely take to kill someone) at prohibition-level prices. In reality, heroin "overdoses" are almost always a result of an addict taking the drug in combination with alcohol, benzodiazepines, or who knows what else, either voluntarily or involuntarily. But even the voluntary ones might not be so voluntary â" addicts might substitute these other far more dangerous drugs because heroin is unavailable, not because they would take it as their first choice. Not to mention that even these deaths by combination of drugs are slow and can be easily reversed with a Naloxone pen.
Do a Google search for "heroin overdose."
Not to mention heroin overdoses. There is no such thing as an overdose - opiates are relatively non-lethal - especially for junkies, who would never be able to afford ten times their normal dose (the minimum it would likely take to kill someone) at prohibition-level prices. In reality, heroin "overdoses" are almost always a result of an addict taking the drug in combination with alcohol, benzodiazepines, or who knows what else, either voluntarily or involuntarily. But even the voluntary ones might not be so voluntary - addicts might substitute these other far more dangerous drugs because heroin is unavailable, not because they would take it as their first choice. Not to mention that even these deaths by combination of drugs are slow and can be easily reversed with a Naloxone pen.
Do a Google search for "heroin overdose."
In order to drink enough to piss 30 liters a day, you'd have to drink way more than 30 liters of water, which would seem to put you at risk for water intoxication. I hope nobody dies trying to do this!
Movies are subtitled not because everyone speaks English, but simply as a matter of economics. There aren't large markets for the different Scandinavian languages. The German, Italian, Spanish, and French languages are the only ones that are really big enough to get dubbed movies. In fact, the Spanish language audience is so large that some producers will dub it in both Iberian Spanish and American Spanish, and some will even separate Mexican Spanish from Argentine Spanish.
The exception is cartoons, with are almost always dubbed.
Sorry, I meant sharing a room WITH someone else. For example, I live in a two-bedroom dorm that four people live in. We each pay $1000/mo., and this does not include food. Even though I go to school in Georgetown, one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country, it is still very possible to rent houses in the zero- to three-block radius of campus for less than $1000/mo/room. Like I said - the university charges $1000/mo/half-room.
Free market in education is an oxymoron. Through public universities, land grants, tax breaks, tuition breaks, and research funding, the various levels of US government have taken all the market out of education at every level. That's why most top-tier universities charge $1000/mo. for housing, even when you're sharing one room (not one apartment, but one room) without someone else. There is no market when it comes to education.
...oh, not to mention records of your prostitute visits. (Prostitutes were subsidized by the government, as they were useful for gathering information.)
Old news. The Romanian secret service was performing this service for free for most people with a university education. Now, you can apply to see the old secret service files of yourself and any of your close dead family members. Complete with transcripts of every word you utter in your own home (courtesy of bugged telephones), your radio and preferences (to make sure you weren't listening to Western subversive material), and transcripts of the twice in your life that you went out to a restaurant. And there was the added bonus of testimonials from your friends, with a special emphasis on the things that could later be used against you (extramarital affairs, unhealthy sexual preferences, subversive rhetoric, etc.).
Oh, don't worry. Once they discover that they're immune to cocaine, they'll move pretty quickly onto meth, crack, and their best friend's ADD meds. (Remember: Cocaine is not physically addictive. Crack and meth, however, are.)
Oh, great. Cocaine prohibition produced crack cocaine and meth, crackdowns on ingredients to make ecstacy produced PMA, heroin prohibition produces all sorts of gross things, etc., etc. Cocaine is actually one of the safer stimulants out there (compared to its main rivals, crack and meth, which emerged due to cocaine's astronomical price thanks to prohibition). This insane drug whack-a-mole game is producing even more deadly and impure drugs. While we could be ingesting small and known quantities of pure marijuana, MDMA, cocaine, opiates, shrooms, and LSD, we're instead ingesting unknown quantities of who-knows-what. Most drug deaths are caused by adulterants, not the pure drug itself.
...or could this simply be a result of the recent devaluation of the US dollar in comparison to the Canadian one? I assume most artists are based in the US and paid in US dollars.
Of course it sounds ridiculous, but if you think about it, it's actually not a bad idea. For one, if there are these critical bugs being published all the time and big companies are taking the heat for these vulnerabilities, you can bet the companies would either a) pay top dollar to buy the exploit themselves and hopefully patch the hole, or b) encourage them to be more proactive. Rewards for finding holes would mean a reliable stream of money for those who find them, ensuring that there would be plenty of people willing to essentially clean up what the original programmers missed. You'd have to live under a rock to think that vulnerabilities were not already traded in a black market (and this isn't a normal black market -- it's a market of people who, buy their very presence in this market, are very technologically adept and know exactly where to seek out these sorts of things). If they're going to be bought and sold anyway, why not legalize it and have it do some genuine good?
To be honest, I think what we need is a new constitution. Whether you agree or not with the way our government has been federalized -- and actually, I think I do agree for the most part -- you have to accept the fact that key provisions that our founding fathers inserted into the Constitution have been blatantly violated. The 10th Amendment has been trampled on by the Commerce Clause, and so many of the very important rights have been arrogated by the federal government. When you have such blatant hypocrisy, constitutional rights have a tendency to get muddled and could become meaningless. The only check there is, the Supreme Court, has been packed with justices who adhere to the modern torture of our Constitution -- they WOULD have the power to hear a case challenging the Commerce Clause as it is applied to X law, and just by creating a precedent, they could either uphold or tear down the whole system. Like I said, I believe in increased federal powers in this modern era (although not the way they sometimes use them...but I don't think the problem is the federal government as an institution). But it's ridiculous to pretend we're still adhering to our own Constitution.
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An "irresponsible lender" who makes loans nobody can pay back isn't really doing himself any favors, you know.
Well then it's a good thing we have people like you who can tell poor Indians that they're too stupid to make their own decisions.
Somehow, I think that the person whose life is on the line if they don't spend their money on the right things is probably more qualified than you when it comes to knowing what decisions they have to make to keep them alive.
I can't believe such a blatant troll would be modded up to a fucking 4...
Maglev? That's so 20th century. Wake me up when they're building a vactrain across the Pacific.
Chechen rebels are, for the most part, creations of the Russian secret services. If you believe otherwise, you're uninformed. You can correct that misconception by quickly browsing a well-sourced Wikipedia article on the matter. If you're informed and still believe otherwise, you're as crazy as the 9/11 Truthers think that most Americans are.
Step 2: x = x+1
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!!!
What do YOU think Ayman al-Zawahiri was doing in Russia in 1996-97?
Blah blah who cares. It's pathetic that people haven't figured out the al-Qaeda enigma yet: it's been an FSB operation since the late '90s, when bin Laden merged with Ayman al-Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bin Laden's the public face, but al-Zawahiri has been the brains of the operation ever since the merger. That's also when al-Qaeda's big string of attacks started, from the embassies to the Cole to 9/11 to 7/7. Right before the merger, al-Zawahiri was clearly trained by the FSB. After the merger, the rein of terror begins. And energy prices go up. And who in the world benefits most from high oil and natural gas prices? Russia.
(It sure wouldn't be the first time the Russia's backed false flag Islamic terrorism operations).
This is what you call "vulgar libertarianism": defending the status quo, even though it's not actually the libertarian solution. It's the government that's decided that we aren't mature enough to send and receive whatever broadcasts we want over whatever spectrum we want. The spectrum is, in theory, infinitely divisible, and essentially limitless. But of course we can't find the most effective way to limit interference and broadcast over anarchic airwaves unless we're forced to compete - unless it's either find a way to broadcast, or don't. Until the FCC stops regulating the air, you'll never see a true free market in cellular data (and voice, whatever). So, rather than defending capitalism by saying, "So don't buy it!" it would be better to explain why this isn't a failure of capitalism.
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This is not a market failure, but rather a government failure. It's the government that's decided that we aren't mature enough to send and receive whatever broadcasts we want over whatever spectrum we want. The spectrum is, in theory, infinitely divisible, and essentially limitless. But of course we can't find the most effective way to limit interference and broadcast over anarchic airwaves unless we're forced to compete - unless it's either find a way to broadcast, or don't. Until the FCC stops regulating the air, you'll never see a true free market in cellular data (and voice, whatever). Rationalitate
Not to mention heroin overdoses. There is no such thing as an overdose â" opiates are relatively non-lethal â" especially for junkies, who would never be able to afford ten times their normal dose (the minimum it would likely take to kill someone) at prohibition-level prices. In reality, heroin "overdoses" are almost always a result of an addict taking the drug in combination with alcohol, benzodiazepines, or who knows what else, either voluntarily or involuntarily. But even the voluntary ones might not be so voluntary â" addicts might substitute these other far more dangerous drugs because heroin is unavailable, not because they would take it as their first choice. Not to mention that even these deaths by combination of drugs are slow and can be easily reversed with a Naloxone pen. Do a Google search for "heroin overdose."
Not to mention heroin overdoses. There is no such thing as an overdose - opiates are relatively non-lethal - especially for junkies, who would never be able to afford ten times their normal dose (the minimum it would likely take to kill someone) at prohibition-level prices. In reality, heroin "overdoses" are almost always a result of an addict taking the drug in combination with alcohol, benzodiazepines, or who knows what else, either voluntarily or involuntarily. But even the voluntary ones might not be so voluntary - addicts might substitute these other far more dangerous drugs because heroin is unavailable, not because they would take it as their first choice. Not to mention that even these deaths by combination of drugs are slow and can be easily reversed with a Naloxone pen. Do a Google search for "heroin overdose."
Uh, actually, you get about 50 hours of free work out of lawyers each year, if they abide by the ABA's ethical standards. It's called "pro bono" work.
In order to drink enough to piss 30 liters a day, you'd have to drink way more than 30 liters of water, which would seem to put you at risk for water intoxication. I hope nobody dies trying to do this!
Movies are subtitled not because everyone speaks English, but simply as a matter of economics. There aren't large markets for the different Scandinavian languages. The German, Italian, Spanish, and French languages are the only ones that are really big enough to get dubbed movies. In fact, the Spanish language audience is so large that some producers will dub it in both Iberian Spanish and American Spanish, and some will even separate Mexican Spanish from Argentine Spanish. The exception is cartoons, with are almost always dubbed.
Sorry, I meant sharing a room WITH someone else. For example, I live in a two-bedroom dorm that four people live in. We each pay $1000/mo., and this does not include food. Even though I go to school in Georgetown, one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country, it is still very possible to rent houses in the zero- to three-block radius of campus for less than $1000/mo/room. Like I said - the university charges $1000/mo/half-room.
Free market in education is an oxymoron. Through public universities, land grants, tax breaks, tuition breaks, and research funding, the various levels of US government have taken all the market out of education at every level. That's why most top-tier universities charge $1000/mo. for housing, even when you're sharing one room (not one apartment, but one room) without someone else. There is no market when it comes to education.
...oh, not to mention records of your prostitute visits. (Prostitutes were subsidized by the government, as they were useful for gathering information.)
Old news. The Romanian secret service was performing this service for free for most people with a university education. Now, you can apply to see the old secret service files of yourself and any of your close dead family members. Complete with transcripts of every word you utter in your own home (courtesy of bugged telephones), your radio and preferences (to make sure you weren't listening to Western subversive material), and transcripts of the twice in your life that you went out to a restaurant. And there was the added bonus of testimonials from your friends, with a special emphasis on the things that could later be used against you (extramarital affairs, unhealthy sexual preferences, subversive rhetoric, etc.).
Oh, don't worry. Once they discover that they're immune to cocaine, they'll move pretty quickly onto meth, crack, and their best friend's ADD meds. (Remember: Cocaine is not physically addictive. Crack and meth, however, are.)
Oh, great. Cocaine prohibition produced crack cocaine and meth, crackdowns on ingredients to make ecstacy produced PMA, heroin prohibition produces all sorts of gross things, etc., etc. Cocaine is actually one of the safer stimulants out there (compared to its main rivals, crack and meth, which emerged due to cocaine's astronomical price thanks to prohibition). This insane drug whack-a-mole game is producing even more deadly and impure drugs. While we could be ingesting small and known quantities of pure marijuana, MDMA, cocaine, opiates, shrooms, and LSD, we're instead ingesting unknown quantities of who-knows-what. Most drug deaths are caused by adulterants, not the pure drug itself.
...or could this simply be a result of the recent devaluation of the US dollar in comparison to the Canadian one? I assume most artists are based in the US and paid in US dollars.
Could it be that Firefox users are simply more internet-savvy, and thus realize the futility in clicking on banner ads...?
Of course it sounds ridiculous, but if you think about it, it's actually not a bad idea. For one, if there are these critical bugs being published all the time and big companies are taking the heat for these vulnerabilities, you can bet the companies would either a) pay top dollar to buy the exploit themselves and hopefully patch the hole, or b) encourage them to be more proactive. Rewards for finding holes would mean a reliable stream of money for those who find them, ensuring that there would be plenty of people willing to essentially clean up what the original programmers missed. You'd have to live under a rock to think that vulnerabilities were not already traded in a black market (and this isn't a normal black market -- it's a market of people who, buy their very presence in this market, are very technologically adept and know exactly where to seek out these sorts of things). If they're going to be bought and sold anyway, why not legalize it and have it do some genuine good?
To be honest, I think what we need is a new constitution. Whether you agree or not with the way our government has been federalized -- and actually, I think I do agree for the most part -- you have to accept the fact that key provisions that our founding fathers inserted into the Constitution have been blatantly violated. The 10th Amendment has been trampled on by the Commerce Clause, and so many of the very important rights have been arrogated by the federal government. When you have such blatant hypocrisy, constitutional rights have a tendency to get muddled and could become meaningless. The only check there is, the Supreme Court, has been packed with justices who adhere to the modern torture of our Constitution -- they WOULD have the power to hear a case challenging the Commerce Clause as it is applied to X law, and just by creating a precedent, they could either uphold or tear down the whole system. Like I said, I believe in increased federal powers in this modern era (although not the way they sometimes use them...but I don't think the problem is the federal government as an institution). But it's ridiculous to pretend we're still adhering to our own Constitution.