Copyright and patents are both impediments to technological and cultural progress enforced by the barrel of the government gun. Both of these serve to create a government-enforced monopoly.Against intellectual property
We lost the war on exploding craniums, explicit torture, and visible viscera - but as long as penises, vaginas, and boobs are still kept off limits in a game by adults for adults, we can consider this a victory.
Won't you all have egg on your faces when the LHC opens the Abyss from Revelations and the Beast and false prophet are able to materialize on the Earth for the first time in ages? The Nephilim from the Old Testament have been psychically manipulating the power elites of Earth in order to secure funding for this demonic Stargate. Source: Satan's Star Gate
I love all these romantic theories about alien or demonic invasion. Sadly, I think that neither that will happen nor will any new particles be discovered. RE: The Tao of Physics - we find what we're looking for in the act of looking for it. Or to paraphrase Eris - the more attention I pay to the number five the more places I see it!!
Why English? Should everyone in Peurto Rico be forced to learn English, to teach it in their schools as a first language, et c. et c.? The same reason English became the dominant language on the continent, ie: breeding, immigration, and genocide, is the same method that Spanish will become the dominant language on the continent (hopefully without the genocide.)
Turkey has long had prohibitions against Kurdish language and culture, and all they have netted as a reward is domestic terrorism and rebelliousness. America is a country of all heritages.
I think being part of the American Empire is like being married to a crack addict. He makes us go to work while he sits on his ass watching television, and then takes a significant fraction of what we earn and he blows it on crack and PayPerView. He hits us, tells us what friends we can have, what we're allowed to eat and drink and what we aren't. He is always going out and picking fights with the neighbors, then he comes home bloody and expects us to take care of his ass.
And he gets most violent of all when we try to file a divorce.
It's my opinion, which will outrage Lou Dobbs, that everyone who has lived and worked in this country for a period of one year should become a citizen. As of now. Don't like it? Too bad - you shouldn't have bought things from stores that employ illegals, you shouldn't have used illegals to mow your lawn, you shouldn't have rented apartments to illegals. So you bought the problem and punishing the people who came here to make a better life for their families and children is asinine. On the other hand, this amnesty must be matched by a decisive and enforced set of laws with regards to immigration. Maybe open immigration is the best policy; I have some suspicions in that direction. People who want to come here and be successful and add to our GDP ought to be allowed.
As to democracy, I think the history of experiments with democracy have demonstrated it is an unstable, untenable form of government. I really, truly believe in some kind of Constitutional Autocracy. The trouble is finding the correct autocrat, and setting up a line of succession not based on accidents of genetics. But people imagine democracy is the solution to all civic troubles; it's misguided. Better to live in a just monarchy than a corrupt democracy.
I think nothing could be better for the people of California. Tell the Federal Empire which robs us blind, kills our young men, and embroils us in endless overseas conflict to get lost. California would save tens of billions a year not paying taxes to the Empire, which we could turn around and use on our own infrastructure and defense. We have the eighth largest economy on our own, we don't need the American albatross hanging around our neck.
I dunno really. They're scared to death of people having free choices as to what they eat, drink, and smoke. They assume that they own our bodies and minds, and that any rights that belong to us are generously granted by Them. So they go around in armed vehicles looking for hippies with IR cameras that can see through walls, thus, into my privy.
Actually that's not funny. After all, the pigs already use infrared sensors to search homes without a warrant looking to bust up harmless pot farms. Maybe they'll add cool televisions to their targets when they invade our privies.
It's about time the government focuses on real issues, like how big your television screen is. I mean, if California was facing one of the worst financial crises in history or something, it would be totally absurd theater meant to detract from the fact that our legislative body has failed us deplorably. But since California is in fine shape, with no farmers in the Central Valley going without water, without widespread corruption, brutality, and incarceration - well, there's no reason not to focus on such an important and substantial issue.
Hey Sacramento - if I want a bigger television, I'll drive out of state to get it and you won't get any tax money out of it. Suckas!
Obama would simply declare all information on the subject a National Security Secret and that would be the last it would see the light of day. Don't be so naive. The US government can do anything we can't stop them from doing, and we can't stop them from doing much.
Of course they built in a backdoor for their own personal uses. Is anyone stupid enough to imagine otherwise? Consider the recent CIA purchase of http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring-firm/ In-Q-Tel. Or the well-known fact that the CIA has its fingers all over Facebook. Do you suckers believe for one instant that everything you do and write isn't being scribbled into some Internal Security goon's harddrive somewhere? I have a friend who worked for Juniper, and he personally knew that AT&T was buying their equipment to route all its traffic through NSA spook territory before hitting the rest of the web. East Germany represent!
Every day the United States comes closer and closer to becoming the USSR. A disaster in Afghanistan, monitoring its citizens without a warrant, attacking Christianity, Islam, and other religions, use of secret prisons and torture, central economic planning, the list goes on and on and on and on.
The only thing required to defend the United States is 300 million RPG-29s and 300 million AK-74s. The idea that the government can protect us is an absurd myth, paid lie by 9/11, Ft. Hood, the Orlando shootings, or any of the other terrorist attacks we have suffered of late. The Supreme Court even stated that the police (government) have absolutely no obligation whatsoever to protect us. Thus, it falls upon us (as it always have, federalist myths or no) to protect ourselves.
the purpose of homework is just like the purpose of school. Neither of these institutions have any educational objective outside to teach a child how to be a radical conformist. I learned very little in all my years in school; in fact, the pressures of punch clock education only provided a distraction from my efforts to read every book ever written and to educate myself. The prison-camp of school, where you have to ask permission to take a piss, exists to train students to swallow the insane ravings of authority mindlessly assuming it's all for their own good. Eventually I just stopped doing any of the work, to my own betterment. I started inventing my own cirriculum and the teachers went along with it just to keep me from disrupting their lessons. I'm sorry I ever went to school in the first place, thankful I got expelled, and ecstatic that outside of the mainstream "education" system I was able to complete my high school studies in a fraction of the time and got into an excellent college despite the obstructionism of those twits on the school board.
If I were to point out the wasteful military spending of China, buying those ridiculous aircraft carriers (in modern parlance: targets) and criticizing their censorship and complete abdication of human decency and their denial of fundamental human rights, everyone would be right behind me and it would be +5's all the way. But because I hit the sacred cow, the Almighty Empire, His Excellency Mr. President Obama, Lord of the United States, protector of American Samoa,. Sovereign of Iraq, Head of Afghanistan, Imperiator of Guam, Lord of Porto Rico, et c. et c. - this gets people out of the woodwork.
I merely say what is already known and broadly publicized. America is a conquering empire which tortures, imprisons without charge, searches without warrant, seizes without trial, commits acts of forcible sodomy against children, plots coups in foreign nations, steals from persons both foreign and domestic, wages aggressive war, and so on and so forth. None of this is any secret. Have you at long last no shame?
Bring back Nixon! At least he had the balls to end a pointless war overseas. I don't care that he was a crook
In the old days, the prophets who pointed out the wickedness of their nation were burned. How impotent the mob of mediocre mendacious malcontented mundanes has become!
The government of the United States robs us blind and produces nothing but corpses and radical conformism amongst its subjects. What use is this idiotic weapon in Iraq or Afghanistan? Or is the US gov't perhaps preparing us for total war against Russia or China? What a smart idea that would be! Perhaps we're going to hunt down French Mirages after we invade the European continent? My mistake - we already occupy Germany and Japan and Korea, shitting tax dollars down an incinerator the entire while.
These projects are nothing but corporate welfare for Boeing and Raytheon. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are homeless and millions of homes sit empty. Projects like these are just mirror images of Star Wars updated for twenty first century idiocity. America will collapse precisely like the Soviet Union. Soon China will get sick of funding your murderous adventurism and you'll be eating leather boots and clay, a fate the US has inflicted on so many others in the past. Perhaps you will find a way to eat your two million dollar Air Force toilets.
Glitch in Central led to Tuttle^w Buttle being injected with Toradol, which resulted in severe gastrointestinal hemorage ultimately leading to death due to his warfarin medication.
Gravity lensing and estimates of stellar and galactic age are both based on the idea that redshift is an inherent quality of distance. An alternate interpretation exists, that redshift is a quality of age.http://www.electric-cosmos.org/arp.htm This essay includes an example of a high redshift object that is physically connected to a low redshift object. This is totally impossible within the mainstream interpretation.
I firmly believe that government funding stifles scientific progress. The way the government chooses to allocate funds, is just a stimulus for its friends and an obstacle for its enemies. The government consistently funds scientific programs designed to uphold mainstream scientific interpretations of data, and they rarely fund projects that would challenge or overthrow the mainstream interpretation. Consider how little funding the Plasma Cosmologists have gotten, in comparison to the huge amount of money that has gone to astrophysicists who tell us that the universe is almost entirely invisible and virtually undetectable. This is like the medieval Catholic church funding mathematicians to produce increasingly elegant papers on epicycles while ignoring the research of heliocentrists. I, for one, would like to see the government out of science and Natural Philosophy returned to the realm of dilettantes and other assorted rabble who actually base their theories on observed data instead of mathematical conjecture.
Actually, my parents decided their Consumer Loyalty Oath score was more important than their money (the bank didn't accept my repayment offer, which at the time was every dime not going to rent, food, gas, and other necessity.) I'm a free man now supporting myself in the private sector by my own strength and the grace of God.
New Orleans wasn't profitable to Goldman Sachs to maintain and modernize their anti-flooding infrastructure, nor was Minneapolis profitable enough for the I-35 to be maintained. There are many ways to kill a man for unprofitability; next time you're driving over a bridge, well - ask yourself one question - is my city profitable enough to the various government agencies that they bother to keep this bridge standing?
Empires fall from within first, due to corruption and incomptance. Clinton was selling American missile secrets to the Chinese, that sleazeball, I wouldn't be surprised if America had a long history of trying to get out of its debt obligations to China by providing them with military technology.
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Copyright and patents are both impediments to technological and cultural progress enforced by the barrel of the government gun. Both of these serve to create a government-enforced monopoly.Against intellectual property
We lost the war on exploding craniums, explicit torture, and visible viscera - but as long as penises, vaginas, and boobs are still kept off limits in a game by adults for adults, we can consider this a victory.
Won't you all have egg on your faces when the LHC opens the Abyss from Revelations and the Beast and false prophet are able to materialize on the Earth for the first time in ages? The Nephilim from the Old Testament have been psychically manipulating the power elites of Earth in order to secure funding for this demonic Stargate. Source: Satan's Star Gate
I love all these romantic theories about alien or demonic invasion. Sadly, I think that neither that will happen nor will any new particles be discovered. RE: The Tao of Physics - we find what we're looking for in the act of looking for it. Or to paraphrase Eris - the more attention I pay to the number five the more places I see it!!
Why English? Should everyone in Peurto Rico be forced to learn English, to teach it in their schools as a first language, et c. et c.? The same reason English became the dominant language on the continent, ie: breeding, immigration, and genocide, is the same method that Spanish will become the dominant language on the continent (hopefully without the genocide.)
Turkey has long had prohibitions against Kurdish language and culture, and all they have netted as a reward is domestic terrorism and rebelliousness. America is a country of all heritages.
I think being part of the American Empire is like being married to a crack addict. He makes us go to work while he sits on his ass watching television, and then takes a significant fraction of what we earn and he blows it on crack and PayPerView. He hits us, tells us what friends we can have, what we're allowed to eat and drink and what we aren't. He is always going out and picking fights with the neighbors, then he comes home bloody and expects us to take care of his ass.
And he gets most violent of all when we try to file a divorce.
Cute, really!
It's my opinion, which will outrage Lou Dobbs, that everyone who has lived and worked in this country for a period of one year should become a citizen. As of now. Don't like it? Too bad - you shouldn't have bought things from stores that employ illegals, you shouldn't have used illegals to mow your lawn, you shouldn't have rented apartments to illegals. So you bought the problem and punishing the people who came here to make a better life for their families and children is asinine. On the other hand, this amnesty must be matched by a decisive and enforced set of laws with regards to immigration. Maybe open immigration is the best policy; I have some suspicions in that direction. People who want to come here and be successful and add to our GDP ought to be allowed.
As to democracy, I think the history of experiments with democracy have demonstrated it is an unstable, untenable form of government. I really, truly believe in some kind of Constitutional Autocracy. The trouble is finding the correct autocrat, and setting up a line of succession not based on accidents of genetics. But people imagine democracy is the solution to all civic troubles; it's misguided. Better to live in a just monarchy than a corrupt democracy.
I think nothing could be better for the people of California. Tell the Federal Empire which robs us blind, kills our young men, and embroils us in endless overseas conflict to get lost. California would save tens of billions a year not paying taxes to the Empire, which we could turn around and use on our own infrastructure and defense. We have the eighth largest economy on our own, we don't need the American albatross hanging around our neck.
I dunno really. They're scared to death of people having free choices as to what they eat, drink, and smoke. They assume that they own our bodies and minds, and that any rights that belong to us are generously granted by Them. So they go around in armed vehicles looking for hippies with IR cameras that can see through walls, thus, into my privy.
Actually that's not funny. After all, the pigs already use infrared sensors to search homes without a warrant looking to bust up harmless pot farms. Maybe they'll add cool televisions to their targets when they invade our privies.
It's about time the government focuses on real issues, like how big your television screen is. I mean, if California was facing one of the worst financial crises in history or something, it would be totally absurd theater meant to detract from the fact that our legislative body has failed us deplorably. But since California is in fine shape, with no farmers in the Central Valley going without water, without widespread corruption, brutality, and incarceration - well, there's no reason not to focus on such an important and substantial issue.
Hey Sacramento - if I want a bigger television, I'll drive out of state to get it and you won't get any tax money out of it. Suckas!
Obama would simply declare all information on the subject a National Security Secret and that would be the last it would see the light of day. Don't be so naive. The US government can do anything we can't stop them from doing, and we can't stop them from doing much.
Of course they built in a backdoor for their own personal uses. Is anyone stupid enough to imagine otherwise? Consider the recent CIA purchase of http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring-firm/ In-Q-Tel. Or the well-known fact that the CIA has its fingers all over Facebook. Do you suckers believe for one instant that everything you do and write isn't being scribbled into some Internal Security goon's harddrive somewhere? I have a friend who worked for Juniper, and he personally knew that AT&T was buying their equipment to route all its traffic through NSA spook territory before hitting the rest of the web. East Germany represent!
Every day the United States comes closer and closer to becoming the USSR. A disaster in Afghanistan, monitoring its citizens without a warrant, attacking Christianity, Islam, and other religions, use of secret prisons and torture, central economic planning, the list goes on and on and on and on.
And still the rabid conformists, http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090624/full/news.2009.593.html murderers of civilization, take out their Two Minutes Hate on the messenger.
Such churlish behavior merely convinces me that I'm barking up the right tree.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people take precious time out of their lives to gripe about the things I say.
The only thing required to defend the United States is 300 million RPG-29s and 300 million AK-74s. The idea that the government can protect us is an absurd myth, paid lie by 9/11, Ft. Hood, the Orlando shootings, or any of the other terrorist attacks we have suffered of late. The Supreme Court even stated that the police (government) have absolutely no obligation whatsoever to protect us. Thus, it falls upon us (as it always have, federalist myths or no) to protect ourselves.
the purpose of homework is just like the purpose of school. Neither of these institutions have any educational objective outside to teach a child how to be a radical conformist. I learned very little in all my years in school; in fact, the pressures of punch clock education only provided a distraction from my efforts to read every book ever written and to educate myself. The prison-camp of school, where you have to ask permission to take a piss, exists to train students to swallow the insane ravings of authority mindlessly assuming it's all for their own good. Eventually I just stopped doing any of the work, to my own betterment. I started inventing my own cirriculum and the teachers went along with it just to keep me from disrupting their lessons. I'm sorry I ever went to school in the first place, thankful I got expelled, and ecstatic that outside of the mainstream "education" system I was able to complete my high school studies in a fraction of the time and got into an excellent college despite the obstructionism of those twits on the school board.
If I were to point out the wasteful military spending of China, buying those ridiculous aircraft carriers (in modern parlance: targets) and criticizing their censorship and complete abdication of human decency and their denial of fundamental human rights, everyone would be right behind me and it would be +5's all the way. But because I hit the sacred cow, the Almighty Empire, His Excellency Mr. President Obama, Lord of the United States, protector of American Samoa,. Sovereign of Iraq, Head of Afghanistan, Imperiator of Guam, Lord of Porto Rico, et c. et c. - this gets people out of the woodwork.
I merely say what is already known and broadly publicized. America is a conquering empire which tortures, imprisons without charge, searches without warrant, seizes without trial, commits acts of forcible sodomy against children, plots coups in foreign nations, steals from persons both foreign and domestic, wages aggressive war, and so on and so forth. None of this is any secret. Have you at long last no shame? Bring back Nixon! At least he had the balls to end a pointless war overseas. I don't care that he was a crook
In the old days, the prophets who pointed out the wickedness of their nation were burned. How impotent the mob of mediocre mendacious malcontented mundanes has become!
The government of the United States robs us blind and produces nothing but corpses and radical conformism amongst its subjects. What use is this idiotic weapon in Iraq or Afghanistan? Or is the US gov't perhaps preparing us for total war against Russia or China? What a smart idea that would be! Perhaps we're going to hunt down French Mirages after we invade the European continent? My mistake - we already occupy Germany and Japan and Korea, shitting tax dollars down an incinerator the entire while.
These projects are nothing but corporate welfare for Boeing and Raytheon. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are homeless and millions of homes sit empty. Projects like these are just mirror images of Star Wars updated for twenty first century idiocity. America will collapse precisely like the Soviet Union. Soon China will get sick of funding your murderous adventurism and you'll be eating leather boots and clay, a fate the US has inflicted on so many others in the past. Perhaps you will find a way to eat your two million dollar Air Force toilets.
Glitch in Central led to Tuttle^w Buttle being injected with Toradol, which resulted in severe gastrointestinal hemorage ultimately leading to death due to his warfarin medication.
Hooray for more Imperial competence!
Gravity lensing and estimates of stellar and galactic age are both based on the idea that redshift is an inherent quality of distance. An alternate interpretation exists, that redshift is a quality of age.http://www.electric-cosmos.org/arp.htm This essay includes an example of a high redshift object that is physically connected to a low redshift object. This is totally impossible within the mainstream interpretation.
I firmly believe that government funding stifles scientific progress. The way the government chooses to allocate funds, is just a stimulus for its friends and an obstacle for its enemies. The government consistently funds scientific programs designed to uphold mainstream scientific interpretations of data, and they rarely fund projects that would challenge or overthrow the mainstream interpretation. Consider how little funding the Plasma Cosmologists have gotten, in comparison to the huge amount of money that has gone to astrophysicists who tell us that the universe is almost entirely invisible and virtually undetectable. This is like the medieval Catholic church funding mathematicians to produce increasingly elegant papers on epicycles while ignoring the research of heliocentrists. I, for one, would like to see the government out of science and Natural Philosophy returned to the realm of dilettantes and other assorted rabble who actually base their theories on observed data instead of mathematical conjecture.
Actually, my parents decided their Consumer Loyalty Oath score was more important than their money (the bank didn't accept my repayment offer, which at the time was every dime not going to rent, food, gas, and other necessity.) I'm a free man now supporting myself in the private sector by my own strength and the grace of God.
New Orleans wasn't profitable to Goldman Sachs to maintain and modernize their anti-flooding infrastructure, nor was Minneapolis profitable enough for the I-35 to be maintained. There are many ways to kill a man for unprofitability; next time you're driving over a bridge, well - ask yourself one question - is my city profitable enough to the various government agencies that they bother to keep this bridge standing?
Empires fall from within first, due to corruption and incomptance. Clinton was selling American missile secrets to the Chinese, that sleazeball, I wouldn't be surprised if America had a long history of trying to get out of its debt obligations to China by providing them with military technology.