The network will be paid with municipal bonds ($25M), these bonds will be paid by the tax money of future residents. This lowers the value of the real estate in the municipality. A quarter of the voters rejected the plan, they are being looted. A municipality has no right to exist, much less to pile on debt that it will repay by stealing future residents. This is wrong by practically any standard of morality, expect the one where you grant magical super moral powers to governments.
This isn't about democracy, although many people claim it is.
If Mousavi had won and violent protests had started in the face of electoral fraud, the press would be condemning the protesters as a violent minority clinging to a past order. Similarly, if the protest had started in the middle of Ahmadinejad's term, to oust him out, the press and most people living in the west would side with them. This is good, this is healthy. It'd be healthier if people acknowledged that is has nothing to do with democracy. If Mousavi will be less repressive than Ahmadinejad, then he should take his place, regardless of what the polls say.
I oppose intellectual property, but I am often disappointed that most who do are inconsistent, Many people explained that DMCA makes numbers illegal. Well, so is this. There's nothing wrong with storing IP adresses.
Information about people is information, just because you like privacy doesn't mean there's ethical magic surrounding this kind of information.
The libertarians have been the most rabid opponent of the banking system for decades. The banking system is basically a franchise system by the state controlled central bank. The most important factor in banking, the short term interest rate is set by a group of technocrats and politicians, much like the gosplan. Banking is the least libertarian sector in the economy, it is a pillar of the government.
The other good news is that the court is basing its decision on the fact that a right to communication (speech, really, if you translate into US constitution lingo) includes the right to access the Internet. That's pretty cool potentially!
It's more likely to end up as a nasty positive right than as a defense of free speech.
There are specializations in different areas of thought, it doesn't mean that there isn't a driving underlying factor. Some people are just dumb, face it.
Saying "I'm not a genius because there are 6.5 billion people" is not humility, it's selflessness. He's 11, I don't blame him, but why does the article extol this as some kind of virtue. There's nothing virtuous in making deliberately biased assessments against oneself. Humility is about objectively acknowledging fallibility. Saying "Indeed I am very precocious and I do qualify as a "child prodigy", however, you should refrain from drawing too much conclusions as many geniuses were late bloomers, etc". That's humility. Self-dissing isn't.
Hum, being so precocious, he is probably very intelligent. Why then go to community college? I am not entirely familiar with US education system, but I was under the impression that these places were considered much less challenging.
As a libertarian I'm happy that no one is knocking as Asus door with a ram and a SWAT team because they did that. As a libertarian I'm happy that no the government will not loot a billion from Asus for doing that.
And people ALWAYS shoot you in the face as opposed to SOMETIMES? Way to miss the point.
I didn't advocate that "every asshole" be their own judge, jury and executioner. That is not what I said.
There are many alternative to government enforcement of rights. Every man for himself is merely one of them. You can have militias, private courts and arbitrators, private defense services. There's a plethora of options.
Democracy is generally defined as a political institution characterized by the election of political representatives for a limited term by popular election. This is what people mean when they say democracy, and the US *is* a democracy.
Now you may dispute the wisdom of calling such a system "democracy" but then you're just arguing semantics.
There are plenty of monarchies which were much freer than the current leading social-democracies. It's hard to compare because people were much poorer back then.
And even if you trust Churchill on it, it doesn't mean there are no better form of government to experiment with. It doesn't even mean we should *try*. If you ask me, there's no government like no like no government.
Besides, politically, I'd much rather live in non democratic Dubai than in democratic France.
This *is* democracy. Democracy isn't a synonym of "good" and it doesn't imply a just or free society, it's not a poney filled land. Democracy is a political system and this is the result of such a system.
I value my friend because of who they are. If someone spends *all* his life playing a MMORPG, he is not a friend. If he doesn't quit his playing, I just assume he doesn't value whatever relation there was, why then bother?
So many people are into abusive relationship when they needn't be.
No you can't. You wouldn't be allowed to work without a SSN but you'd still pay taxes on your investments for example.
Amishes don't pay social security and I think therefore they do not have a SSN, they certainly do not drive on the interstate, yet they have to pay federal taxes.
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The network will be paid with municipal bonds ($25M), these bonds will be paid by the tax money of future residents. This lowers the value of the real estate in the municipality. A quarter of the voters rejected the plan, they are being looted. A municipality has no right to exist, much less to pile on debt that it will repay by stealing future residents. This is wrong by practically any standard of morality, expect the one where you grant magical super moral powers to governments.
This isn't about democracy, although many people claim it is.
If Mousavi had won and violent protests had started in the face of electoral fraud, the press would be condemning the protesters as a violent minority clinging to a past order. Similarly, if the protest had started in the middle of Ahmadinejad's term, to oust him out, the press and most people living in the west would side with them. This is good, this is healthy. It'd be healthier if people acknowledged that is has nothing to do with democracy. If Mousavi will be less repressive than Ahmadinejad, then he should take his place, regardless of what the polls say.
I oppose intellectual property, but I am often disappointed that most who do are inconsistent,
Many people explained that DMCA makes numbers illegal. Well, so is this. There's nothing wrong with storing IP adresses.
Information about people is information, just because you like privacy doesn't mean there's ethical magic surrounding this kind of information.
Pants. My favorite example is pants. Many crimes are very hard to commit without pants.
Communist China, communist Russia ?
When the government provides food, million starve. When it provides roads, well...
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Digg is Slashdot
Libertarian shift in the banking industry o_O ?
The libertarians have been the most rabid opponent of the banking system for decades. The banking system is basically a franchise system by the state controlled central bank. The most important factor in banking, the short term interest rate is set by a group of technocrats and politicians, much like the gosplan. Banking is the least libertarian sector in the economy, it is a pillar of the government.
It's more likely to end up as a nasty positive right than as a defense of free speech.
There are specializations in different areas of thought, it doesn't mean that there isn't a driving underlying factor. Some people are just dumb, face it.
Sorry this is off-topic but this makes me boil:
Saying "I'm not a genius because there are 6.5 billion people" is not humility, it's selflessness. He's 11, I don't blame him, but why does the article extol this as some kind of virtue. There's nothing virtuous in making deliberately biased assessments against oneself. Humility is about objectively acknowledging fallibility. Saying "Indeed I am very precocious and I do qualify as a "child prodigy", however, you should refrain from drawing too much conclusions as many geniuses were late bloomers, etc". That's humility. Self-dissing isn't.
Hum, being so precocious, he is probably very intelligent. Why then go to community college? I am not entirely familiar with US education system, but I was under the impression that these places were considered much less challenging.
More precisely, the politically influential.
Yes, how about you don't tax the internet and let obsolete business model die?
Oh yeah, you should come to the ultrasound imaging fridays, I'm the life of the party.
No. They may still be audible, but ultrasound will appear to go through them as if they were water.
As a libertarian I'm happy that no one is knocking as Asus door with a ram and a SWAT team because they did that.
As a libertarian I'm happy that no the government will not loot a billion from Asus for doing that.
It doesn't mean what they did isn't distateful.
And people ALWAYS shoot you in the face as opposed to SOMETIMES? Way to miss the point.
I didn't advocate that "every asshole" be their own judge, jury and executioner. That is not what I said.
There are many alternative to government enforcement of rights. Every man for himself is merely one of them. You can have militias, private courts and arbitrators, private defense services. There's a plethora of options.
Democracy is generally defined as a political institution characterized by the election of political representatives for a limited term by popular election. This is what people mean when they say democracy, and the US *is* a democracy.
Now you may dispute the wisdom of calling such a system "democracy" but then you're just arguing semantics.
Well I could punish you or I could pay people in advance to punish you in case you shoot me.
Now suppose the government shoots you in the face, who's to punish the government?
Why would you take Churchill's word on it anyway?
There are plenty of monarchies which were much freer than the current leading social-democracies. It's hard to compare because people were much poorer back then.
And even if you trust Churchill on it, it doesn't mean there are no better form of government to experiment with. It doesn't even mean we should *try*. If you ask me, there's no government like no like no government.
Besides, politically, I'd much rather live in non democratic Dubai than in democratic France.
This *is* democracy. Democracy isn't a synonym of "good" and it doesn't imply a just or free society, it's not a poney filled land. Democracy is a political system and this is the result of such a system.
I value my friend because of who they are. If someone spends *all* his life playing a MMORPG, he is not a friend. If he doesn't quit his playing, I just assume he doesn't value whatever relation there was, why then bother?
So many people are into abusive relationship when they needn't be.
Quite the opposite, our society is fucked up by people who mind other people's business.
No you can't. You wouldn't be allowed to work without a SSN but you'd still pay taxes on your investments for example.
Amishes don't pay social security and I think therefore they do not have a SSN, they certainly do not drive on the interstate, yet they have to pay federal taxes.