You can't obtain liberty through voting, period. Market(or Capitalist) Anarchy is the only way we'll ever have liberty (both economic and personal). Unfortunatly there is too much of a majority of our people that either need or believe they need this tool (the State) in order to survive or prosper by what amounts to theft/extortion.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" --Benjamin Franklin
I had never 'upgraded' my existing sbcglobal.net account to a 'SBC Yahoo DSL' account, I just always thought it was a waste of time. Then I saw the news article about yahoo going head-to-head with google and offering 2GB to SBC DSL members. Now my previously free Yahoo account has 2GB of space and POP3 access. On top of all that, they still let me keep my old @sbcglobal.net account (which has 10 or 20mb I think).
What is really cool, is that if you have SBC DSL like me, you get 2GB of storage with your 'sbc yahoo' email account and another 760MB of 'briefcase' storage. The bad thing about the briefcase is that you can only upload 15MB at a time.
What? I have to really struggle to think of someone I know who doesn't own a cell phone, male or female. The reason they spend more money in that category is due the fact women just don't know when to shut the hell up. Trust me, it's the reason men are labeled as poor listeners, after thousands of years of evolution we developed this ability to 'tune-out and nod our heads' just to keep our sanity. That and the fact we could no longer just knock them out with our clubs and drag them back to the cave any longer.:-(
While I'd agree with the poster that the cited movie and mini-series are good works (of entertainment), you'd have to be a fool to even think about citing them as historical references. Sadly though, I would be willing to bet that for a high majority of people derive their understanding of history from these works of fiction "based on actual events". Just think about how many blatant statists and nationalists in America view the French surrender during the war as out-right cowardliness, and that if not for GI Joe there would have been no real resistance effort. Not to downplay America's role in the fight, we sacrificed more than our full share of lives in the war. The French took what logical seemed to be best course of action considering the circumstances. They did not have enough resources to win in a tactical fight and would have been slaughtered. So they instead chose to surrender to avoid greater loss of civilian lives and fight an underground or guerrilla war. Just go down to your local library and ask for historical works regarding the French Resistance, a group of freedom-fighters that worked to counter the Germans just as bravely as our soldiers. The population's knowledge of our history is truly pathetic and due to the amount of dilution and propaganda in history taught in the current government-controlled monopoly we call public education. That and general apathy of course.
Hell, the civil war, one of the most bloody and unnecessary wars in our history is portrayed as the great war against slavery. In truth it was a war of oppression against the populace in order to expand the powers of the state. It's funny to think that a blatant racist and fascist (Abraham Lincoln) would even dare to use slavery as an excuse to ignore articles and amendments of the US Constitution and breach that limitation of power to steal from the people to aid big businesses such as the railroad industry. It's often said that history is written by the winners, and how true that is...
>Politicians love to make points by slamming the profession.
That is becuase education is currently a monopoly controled by the state but funded with our tax dollars.
If private schools were able to compete in a free market, without a state ran education system, then teaching would become a more lucrative profession once the market corrected itself.
In the private sector the "incompetent boobs" (as cited in a child post) would be held to their performance, like the rest of us in the private sector.
These private schools would of course have to turn a profit in order to stay in business. Currently we don't see that much competition on price in the private schools becuase it's near impossible to compete with a state that can under-sell you no matter what and at the same time stay in business by stealing money from citizens. This means the only niche current private schools can fill is providing higher quality but at a much higher price due to the reduced demand the current monoploy creates.
If we privatized the whole thing education would become cheaper(you pay in taxes now) and of higher quality than public schools currently are. Teachers would also have to be more competent than now in order to compete for these jobs and that compentancy would be rewarded with pay.
Imagine that, being paid based on your abilities...
Yeah of course I meant 'true free market'. I think the next 4 words in that sentence 'and a true free market' makes that point clear, regardless of the obvious typo. Sorry my anti-state views reduced you to a grammar/spelling attack.
"Then all we will have is monopolies, and that evil "State" is replaced by the corporations."
Wrong, a monopoly CAN NOT exist without the support the state. Sorry break it to you, but you're wasting your time attacking a company's policies and actions if you don't fully understand how a monopoly is obtained. I never stated that the state is evil. Criminal yes, but whether they are evil is really a matter of perception.
"The question isn't "if MS built a universally recognizably stable OS, would it sell?" Because of course it would sell. It sells right now. Because it has a monopoly."
I can't stand it when someone pulls the old monopoly card in a microsoft related discussion. Ok one more time...companies do not become monopolies without the State. So if you don't want a monopoly (ie. you're not a beneficiary) don't direct your energy at the company, instead attack the root cause, which is government. Monopolies simply do not exist in a true market, and a true free market does not either with the presence of the state. Remember that the next time you try to bash microsoft, the RIAA, the MPAA, or any other company/organization for how they utilize the power of the Mafia that we call government. There will always be a company willing to pay for valuable mob protection, that's just the nature of competition. The only solution that will work is to remove the Mob completly and let the free market's 'natural selection' effect restore equilibrium.
"You're killing 'real mail'"... Ummm last time I checked Outlook/Outlook Express/[insert win32/MacOS mail client here] doesn't send 'real mail'. I do however send 'real mail' with my shell account on a Solaris machine on a public domain...
Opps, The last client in that list should have been:
Orion Power - New York
Sorry 'bout that. The point is all of those are players in the NY area black-outs. ( Brooklyn Navy Yard, at least the non-critical areas, was affected and they run their own grid.)
While they market mostly monitoring tools that run on client-side Wintel machines, it still makes you wonder. I admit that I laughed when I first heard of people trying to make this connection, now it seems slightly less improbable.
It looks like XP does prompt you with 'tasks' when inserting a blank CD. (see the screenshot and caption on page 61 of the english usability pdf report).
Well if your asleep in your house (if you keep your gun under your matress like me or in near reach) and an intruder breaks in awakening you then I'd say those statistics of preventing harm (assualt,battery,etc. - a crime) to me would be looking very favorable. Of course if you are a nija of some sorts I guess the gun wouldn't be a requirement for defense.
That kind of sounds like an answer the RIAA would come up with...maybe CDR's should be taxed in the range of 10000%, that will stop those pirates! Hell you probably are an undercover RIAA thug, well I'm running the new undetectable P2P client @ 127.0.0.1, I'll be keeping a close eye on my packet logs just in case...:-)
You could just setup an HTTP server on your home machine with SSL, a properly configured firewall/webserve configuration, etc. Then just write a simple script in the language of your choice that contains an html form with enctype set to "multipart/form-data" and the code to write form field contents to your disk, very simple. Oh yeah, and of course encrypt all your data you send over using PGP, only store the encrypted uploaded data on that machine, only keep it online when you have to (if possible), and isolate that machine from the rest of your network. Hell, you could even just run OpenSSH setup to listen on a port your schools firewall allows and use SCP, Zmodem, or an FTP tunnel through SSH.
Actually Bic lighters are still allowed on airplanes even after the shoe-bomber incident. The tobacco companies lobbied the Bush adminstration to remove them from the 'restricted items list' citing that it would hurt their addicts...I mean customers.
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You can't obtain liberty through voting, period. Market(or Capitalist) Anarchy is the only way we'll ever have liberty (both economic and personal). Unfortunatly there is too much of a majority of our people that either need or believe they need this tool (the State) in order to survive or prosper by what amounts to theft/extortion.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
--Benjamin Franklin
I had never 'upgraded' my existing sbcglobal.net account to a 'SBC Yahoo DSL' account, I just always thought it was a waste of time. Then I saw the news article about yahoo going head-to-head with google and offering 2GB to SBC DSL members. Now my previously free Yahoo account has 2GB of space and POP3 access. On top of all that, they still let me keep my old @sbcglobal.net account (which has 10 or 20mb I think).
What is really cool, is that if you have SBC DSL like me, you get 2GB of storage with your 'sbc yahoo' email account and another 760MB of 'briefcase' storage. The bad thing about the briefcase is that you can only upload 15MB at a time.
Actually NTT DoCoMo makes phones and runs the wireless network, in fact parent company NTT is also one of the worlds largest telco companies as well.
<cfloop>Well, what about it??</cfloop>
Hey there fruitcake. The Cheesy Canned Insult Slewing Prick Without a Sense of Humor Store called today, and they're all out of you...
What? I have to really struggle to think of someone I know who doesn't own a cell phone, male or female. The reason they spend more money in that category is due the fact women just don't know when to shut the hell up. Trust me, it's the reason men are labeled as poor listeners, after thousands of years of evolution we developed this ability to 'tune-out and nod our heads' just to keep our sanity. That and the fact we could no longer just knock them out with our clubs and drag them back to the cave any longer. :-(
While I'd agree with the poster that the cited movie and mini-series are good works (of entertainment), you'd have to be a fool to even think about citing them as historical references. Sadly though, I would be willing to bet that for a high majority of people derive their understanding of history from these works of fiction "based on actual events".
Just think about how many blatant statists and nationalists in America view the French surrender during the war as out-right cowardliness, and that if not for GI Joe there would have been no real resistance effort. Not to downplay America's role in the fight, we sacrificed more than our full share of lives in the war. The French took what logical seemed to be best course of action considering the circumstances. They did not have enough resources to win in a tactical fight and would have been slaughtered. So they instead chose to surrender to avoid greater loss of civilian lives and fight an underground or guerrilla war. Just go down to your local library and ask for historical works regarding the French Resistance, a group of freedom-fighters that worked to counter the Germans just as bravely as our soldiers.
The population's knowledge of our history is truly pathetic and due to the amount of dilution and propaganda in history taught in the current government-controlled monopoly we call public education. That and general apathy of course.
Hell, the civil war, one of the most bloody and unnecessary wars in our history is portrayed as the great war against slavery. In truth it was a war of oppression against the populace in order to expand the powers of the state. It's funny to think that a blatant racist and fascist (Abraham Lincoln) would even dare to use slavery as an excuse to ignore articles and amendments of the US Constitution and breach that limitation of power to steal from the people to aid big businesses such as the railroad industry. It's often said that history is written by the winners, and how true that is...
>Politicians love to make points by slamming the profession.
That is becuase education is currently a monopoly controled by the state but funded with our tax dollars.
If private schools were able to compete in a free market, without a state ran education system, then teaching would become a more lucrative profession once the market corrected itself.
In the private sector the "incompetent boobs" (as cited in a child post) would be held to their performance, like the rest of us in the private sector.
These private schools would of course have to turn a profit in order to stay in business. Currently we don't see that much competition on price in the private schools becuase it's near impossible to compete with a state that can under-sell you no matter what and at the same time stay in business by stealing money from citizens. This means the only niche current private schools can fill is providing higher quality but at a much higher price due to the reduced demand the current monoploy creates.
If we privatized the whole thing education would become cheaper(you pay in taxes now) and of higher quality than public schools currently are. Teachers would also have to be more competent than now in order to compete for these jobs and that compentancy would be rewarded with pay.
Imagine that, being paid based on your abilities...
Yeah of course I meant 'true free market'. I think the next 4 words in that sentence 'and a true free market' makes that point clear, regardless of the obvious typo. Sorry my anti-state views reduced you to a grammar/spelling attack.
"Then all we will have is monopolies, and that evil "State" is replaced by the corporations."
Wrong, a monopoly CAN NOT exist without the support the state. Sorry break it to you, but you're wasting your time attacking a company's policies and actions if you don't fully understand how a monopoly is obtained. I never stated that the state is evil. Criminal yes, but whether they are evil is really a matter of perception.
DF
"The question isn't "if MS built a universally recognizably stable OS, would it sell?" Because of course it would sell. It sells right now. Because it has a monopoly."
I can't stand it when someone pulls the old monopoly card in a microsoft related discussion. Ok one more time...companies do not become monopolies without the State. So if you don't want a monopoly (ie. you're not a beneficiary) don't direct your energy at the company, instead attack the root cause, which is government. Monopolies simply do not exist in a true market, and a true free market does not either with the presence of the state. Remember that the next time you try to bash microsoft, the RIAA, the MPAA, or any other company/organization for how they utilize the power of the Mafia that we call government. There will always be a company willing to pay for valuable mob protection, that's just the nature of competition. The only solution that will work is to remove the Mob completly and let the free market's 'natural selection' effect restore equilibrium.
DF
"You're killing 'real mail'"... Ummm last time I checked Outlook/Outlook Express/[insert win32/MacOS mail client here] doesn't send 'real mail'. I do however send 'real mail' with my shell account on a Solaris machine on a public domain...
-DF
Opps,
The last client in that list should have been:
Orion Power - New York
Sorry 'bout that. The point is all of those are players in the NY area black-outs. ( Brooklyn Navy Yard, at least the non-critical areas, was affected and they run their own grid.)
To further add to the conspiracy take a look at some of the clients on the Power & Utilites - Client List page:
ConEdison.
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
New York Power Authority.
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
matrikon.com
While they market mostly monitoring tools that run on client-side Wintel machines, it still makes you wonder. I admit that I laughed when I first heard of people trying to make this connection, now it seems slightly less improbable.
It looks like XP does prompt you with 'tasks' when inserting a blank CD. (see the screenshot and caption on page 61 of the english usability pdf report).
DF
Well if your asleep in your house (if you keep your gun under your matress like me or in near reach) and an intruder breaks in awakening you then I'd say those statistics of preventing harm (assualt,battery,etc. - a crime) to me would be looking very favorable. Of course if you are a nija of some sorts I guess the gun wouldn't be a requirement for defense.
That kind of sounds like an answer the RIAA would come up with...maybe CDR's should be taxed in the range of 10000%, that will stop those pirates! Hell you probably are an undercover RIAA thug, well I'm running the new undetectable P2P client @ 127.0.0.1, I'll be keeping a close eye on my packet logs just in case... :-)
I'd say in a given week i do about 15 minutes of actualy work. Hell, now I have up to FIVE people working under me!
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You could just setup an HTTP server on your home machine with SSL, a properly configured firewall/webserve configuration, etc. Then just write a simple script in the language of your choice that contains an html form with enctype set to "multipart/form-data" and the code to write form field contents to your disk, very simple. Oh yeah, and of course encrypt all your data you send over using PGP, only store the encrypted uploaded data on that machine, only keep it online when you have to (if possible), and isolate that machine from the rest of your network. Hell, you could even just run OpenSSH setup to listen on a port your schools firewall allows and use SCP, Zmodem, or an FTP tunnel through SSH.
Seth
Actually Bic lighters are still allowed on airplanes even after the shoe-bomber incident. The tobacco companies lobbied the Bush adminstration to remove them from the 'restricted items list' citing that it would hurt their addicts...I mean customers.