This has no logical merit. Paying for something has no inherent quality of making it more secure. If this were true then all MS products would be secure since we pay tons of money for them.
If there were anything to make an issue about here it would be PSN not being forthcoming with information about what is going on and what it is doing to fix and prevent.
I just want to comment to the 'utopia' comment since this seems to be a common accusation at libertarians and confusion.
Unlike other political philosophies which change with the times, Libertarianism isn't about making a promise of utopia. I have never heard a Libertarian promise this.
Libertarianism is about freedom and non aggression. It is up to each individual to work towards their idea of utopia.
So please carry on with your reductio ad absurdum but can we stop saying 'libertarian utopia' since that is not anything that libertarians make claim to? One mans utopia is another mans hell.
And insinuating that it is the best and that it is the only one that can do these things is better?
This is a straw man argument.
If you want to get into the question about government power then start with the question: what is the government supposed to be doing and not what is it doing in spite of not having authority.
Dept of Energy doesn't give out monopolies although it does heavily regulate. The company actually generating the power is a private company usually for profit.
FCC does not regulate channel content as implied. More appropriately it would be better to point out regulation of frequencies. The regulation implied here is censorship which is very much something the FCC should not be doing.
National Weather Service / NOAA would exist in some form without the government. There are private weathermen!
Private firms design and build satellites usually and are launched by NASA due to government regulation of space flight. Private companies have interest in satellites. Implying there would be no helpful satellites now without these organizations is absurd.
USDA has helped aggri-businness corps more than its original intent of crop variety. We still have food problems with this in place. They usually come in after a problem is happened even though most people assume there are inspectors everywhere checking out everything to protect us.
FDA holds back and keep drugs from being more beneficial by creating cost hurdles for companies. There are drugs out there that have known beneficial effects for diseases they were not designed for. Due to cost hurdles and regulation by the FDA people do not have access to them as they should. It has created an environment in which giant drug companies produce tailored drugs by playing politics instead of allowing good research. Safety has lost way to control and power. And the FDA certainly has no power when congress writes stupid policies that increase the price of corn and waste resources.
Is the US a sovereign nation when we have sold so much debt to China. A communist nation that 50 years ago we were putting people on trial just for the thought of being associated with? Invasions and the break down of counties happen in more ways than foreign troops on our soil. The 'tireless vigilance' of the armed forces is being wasted on undeclared wars for personal policies of the republican and democrat parties. We are dumping money and lives into things that hurt our country in the long term. We are wasting our volunteer military on politics and special interest gain. We still cannot learn the lessons from the mistakes that have been happening for decades.
Clean water is provided by private businesses in some municipalities. Again, the implication that government is the only one that can do this and is best is absurd.
And now we can't keep time without the government? You also get in an automobile that you assume is better because of the increase cost burden put on manufacturers from regulation but you have never actually bothered to look into it. I am pretty sure all those families and helicopter mothers would put enough pressure on automobile makers to build safer cars if the industry wasn't regulated. Where I live the federal government hands transportation money down to the state and it gets diverted to other programs or misused. TXDoT is a corrupt and wasteful government organization that lost a billion dollars and uses taxpayer money to pay lobbyist to tell taxpayers that we need tollroads because they don't have the money anymore to pay for public roads. And then they want to sell them to private companies after the public money is used to back the bonds.
The EPA is an agency that has absolutely no teeth and is routinely ignored by politicians. The government itself is one of the largest polluters and rights itself exemptions. The Federal Reserve should not exist. It is complicit in helping the government carry so much debt. Its policies help inflation which is a hidden tax. The USPS
who the hell cares?
Are you saying losing half our rights will be ok because china is worse? what kind of illogical argument is that? how is this 'insightful'? haha absurdity is the norm I guess.
unfortunately most Americans are busy giving their freedoms away over hereh, and you've seen what happens when we 'help' other places. I am sure if we want some uranium we will just find a way to take it anyway. Good luck over there:) hehe
I always hated that kind of statement even as a joke. I think Intelligence follows a bell type curve of some sort I am sure with the bulk of the at the tip being the majority of the population. I just think its goofy to say it that way.
bleh: (thought terminating cliche)
um no. all things are not equal. I do not spend that much time on slashdot and it is not COMPLETELY FORBIDDEN for me to go to the website. Its ok to take breaks and do something. It is not ok to circumvent rules that will get you fired to waste massive amounts of time doing something on property that does not belong to you. It is silly to compare reading a slashdot article to making porn dvds at work with a work computer.
That is a thieves mentality. I am not arguing that thieves don't steal. I am arguing for them to stop hindering people that are perfectly willing to pay. I like purchasing movies and supporting stuff I like with my money. My money is a vote for the world I want. When I purchase movies and music then it is a vote for what I want to exist. So I pay and get what I want and you don't pay and have to deal with what I like.
Don't use DRM and and other mechanisms (outdated CD sales) to make stuff I want to purchase not easily to get. I buy my movies and mp3s as long as they are easy to buy. I watch most of my movies by 'renting' them on netflix. This is all legal and easy to get for me and doesn't cost much.
If you want to steal then go ahead. You will rationalize it no matter what happens. But, don't put a bunch of laws up that get in my way and don't affect you at all. Thieves steal and they always will. it is what they do. A reasonable education program (that doesn't treat people like pieces of crap) would do more than all the lawsuits that companies use.
I think 30 years from now there will still be 'big name' bands because that is how society works. The easy path is supporting a structure that feeds people stuff to consume. There are already 'small and free' bands out there for people that want to look for them. Infinite diversity with infinite combination. There is no 'one way'.
On a personal note, I do not make a lot of money. My media consumption is not very costly. I would suggest you stop consuming and focus on education if you are so poor that you have to steal stuff that is pretty cheap.
It doesn't matter what the court 'thinks'. The issue is (no matter how it is stated) that this is an attack on 3rd parties instead of the people 'responsible'.
Either:
Go after distributors (insanely difficult = costly) which do something 'bad'
Go after the thieves (people at home = costly) which do something 'bad'
Go after the ISPs (easy to shut off the 'valve') which do absolutely nothing wrong.
I don't want to know what the court is a 'fan' of. This is in italy so they can set up whatever asinine freedom destroying laws they want, but its obviously idiotic to go after people and cost them money that have nothing to do with the problem.
I wish the commercial organization would realize people love to buy their products.... if only they would make it more easy to access.
not enough citizens care. to have proper citizens people need to be educated on civics, logic, and management. The government(s) are in charge of our schools. This is the foundation on which all problems rest.
separation refers to the creation of law. Just because the house passes a bill it does not make it a law. The white house has the power to veto. If the white house signs this then it agrees to it. The executive can be overridden of course but that just means the senate and house believe the bill is to important for the executive to have judgement.
that puts to much burden on the public. If someone makes something and its been in common use for 20 years who is responsible for continuously monitoring the requests to make sure it isn't patented later when it makes no sense?
I think all that would really do it give companies a change to cause trouble.. the ones that can afford to anyway. Prior art does need to be researched more but this has more to with patent office having time to deal with stuff than competence.
I don't understand patenting software binaries in your post. Are you basically advocating copy writing? That would make more sense.
As for 2, I don't think that would be good because physical objects could be quite costly and some guy in a basement might have an innovative idea, but not have the resources to produce it. He needs the patent to protect his great idea (reward) while he can sell royalties for production or sell the patent.
I think with 3 you will just end up with company wars. All the companies that care will be the only ones watching for the patent scrutiny period and they will spend lots of money to debunk it while stealing the idea or trying to steal the patent. And the guy in his basement inventing something already pays a lot for a patent. I don't want to add the fear of getting sued to that.
One of the problems is the patent office makes money for the government. That money does not go into making the patent office better. Underpaid patent clerks learnt he system and get hired away for high salaries at companies to make patents which means you have new people at the patent office a lot and the senior people are overworked.
Next time you complain that something is bad in the world remember that:P Most problems are caused by people wanting quick money without consideration for long term value.
I am just this was a joke post, but just pointing the obvious out:D
I find it odd that only a government can guarantee these things. The same government that can't balance a ledger. I simply will never agree with someone that think 600+ people playing politics in washington know what is best for 307,765,999 people by writing a law. Despite your sarcasm, if someone did want to get their brain-ass transplant in your unclean apartment (go clean it you dirty person) then they will do it despite the government.
I am not going to to pretend that the government has magical power to fly around protecting us.
yes, this is exactly why I am for -regulating the network providers- that have taken subsidies and used government power to get what they want. If they want to have complete control over THEIR property then they need to make sure they don't make it partially public.
I am not in favor of the government saying every network must be neutral. I am not interested in the government having power to tell networks what to do, but I am interested in the public telling companies that took public money what to do.
ok, this is not related but little phrases like 'funny how' are annoying. What is funny about it? Are you trying to make a real point through sarcasm. bleh... I just hate those
You seem to believe that a company, interested in making money, is supposed to spend time figuring out what the cheapest price it can sell something at is. Do you spend your time figuring out the cheapest salary that you will work for. When a raise comes your way do you say, 'no no, that is to much. My income is sufficient right now'? The figure out the price that people are willing to pay and that they can sell lots of units. They want to make money. It is very simple. And people are buying it so they are basically voting for that to happen with their money. Each dollar is a vote saying, 'this is a good thing to do'.
You seem to blame corporations here for everything. Where is the onus on the people/consumers to be responsible? No one is forced to buy this stuff. They could learn a free OS and build their own computer, but they think its worth it to just pay the money. It confuses me how so many people expect a company to be so righteous but leaves out all responsibility for the consumer. It is all very simple. A company makes something to get money. A consumer wants something and gives money. Both sides of that are equally important. They are bound together. A free market does not mean a company can do what it wants. A free market means a company will do what the consumer allows. The freedom is actually yours. Abuses by companies are most often tied to law and government power.
So a "free market" (your quotes) is free. It is a puppet and YOU are holding the reins. So next time you buy that cheap piece of crap item you don't really need for the lowest possible price you can find that was made in china by some poor child then don't blame McEvil Corp. Blame yourself.
I am libertarian. I believe in freedom. freedom is hard because it allow some people/business to do thing you do not like, but that is being free. All you do by making rules is giving the government power.
How about YOU making an organization that helps those 'plebeians' not spend their freely earned money on something they are willingly buying? Instead you rather use the force of government to enact your will because you don't want to have to worry about it yourself? I am sorry if you want to give up more of your power to the government to have a little less responsibility, but I do not. I find the 'wants the big bad business to have power over everything' silly. I rather just not spend my money somewhere than to give up power to the government which has proven for decades that it does things far worse than any private organization. Money will keep businesses in line more than politicians with to much power worried about their election campaigns.
Personally I am for network neutrality, but not because I just want it an think its a 'good' thing to do. I think the government has given subsidies to those company and they should have to pay a price for that government money. They should have open networks. If they had paid entirely for the system themselves, thus it belonging entirely to them, then they could do whatever they wanted. I am also not sure why someone would compare open source to network neutrality. I am perfectly fine with open source. I love it, I use it. It is people exercising freedom. I also think most standard people have no clue what it is and neither do most libertarians.
Corporations only have power then 1) we give power to the government such that corporations can use lobbyist to manipulate government (don't give them the power in the first place, and 2) when you vote for that corporation to do what it is doing with every dollar you spend. If millions of these people are spending their money on an 'evil' corporation that you hate then that corporation must be providing some service they desire over its supposed evilness.
I know it is easier to blame a big bad corporation instead of millions of nameless people who don't want to be personally responsible, but that is what the issue is really about. I am not going to sacrifice my power to the government because others are so willing to not be responsible.
As far as unions, I do support them. That is what people are free to do. But that doesn't mean I have to like all unions. I think a giant union that has become a bloated political machine (like the teachers union in california) no longer serves the will of that group, but I am not going to try to use government force to break them up. I will try to discuss it and deal with it through social channels.
So please refrain from your absolute statements. I am a libertarian and I am fine with unions and do not think I am better than anyone. I am not the one that is trying to push my ideas onto others through government force. I encourage everyone to learn more about what libertarianism really is. Freedom and responsibility is the heart of it and that is not the easy path but it gives people the most power.
I don't think they made sense even right after the war. Repressing speech does not solve problems.
Running away or hiding problems doesn't work. Although we have been trying for thousands of years.
If someone is an intolerant bastard they should be able to stand up and proclaim it so society can mock and shun them. We don't need laws to make everyone feel that the problem is dealt with appropriately.
He already has ballot access.. they others didn't follow the rules they set up. So it is a publicity stunt when the two main parties kick out third parties for not following the rules?.. its happened.
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This has no logical merit. Paying for something has no inherent quality of making it more secure. If this were true then all MS products would be secure since we pay tons of money for them. If there were anything to make an issue about here it would be PSN not being forthcoming with information about what is going on and what it is doing to fix and prevent.
I just want to comment to the 'utopia' comment since this seems to be a common accusation at libertarians and confusion.
Unlike other political philosophies which change with the times, Libertarianism isn't about making a promise of utopia. I have never heard a Libertarian promise this.
Libertarianism is about freedom and non aggression. It is up to each individual to work towards their idea of utopia.
So please carry on with your reductio ad absurdum but can we stop saying 'libertarian utopia' since that is not anything that libertarians make claim to? One mans utopia is another mans hell.
And insinuating that it is the best and that it is the only one that can do these things is better?
This is a straw man argument.
If you want to get into the question about government power then start with the question: what is the government supposed to be doing and not what is it doing in spite of not having authority.
Dept of Energy doesn't give out monopolies although it does heavily regulate. The company actually generating the power is a private company usually for profit. FCC does not regulate channel content as implied. More appropriately it would be better to point out regulation of frequencies. The regulation implied here is censorship which is very much something the FCC should not be doing. National Weather Service / NOAA would exist in some form without the government. There are private weathermen! Private firms design and build satellites usually and are launched by NASA due to government regulation of space flight. Private companies have interest in satellites. Implying there would be no helpful satellites now without these organizations is absurd.
USDA has helped aggri-businness corps more than its original intent of crop variety. We still have food problems with this in place. They usually come in after a problem is happened even though most people assume there are inspectors everywhere checking out everything to protect us. FDA holds back and keep drugs from being more beneficial by creating cost hurdles for companies. There are drugs out there that have known beneficial effects for diseases they were not designed for. Due to cost hurdles and regulation by the FDA people do not have access to them as they should. It has created an environment in which giant drug companies produce tailored drugs by playing politics instead of allowing good research. Safety has lost way to control and power. And the FDA certainly has no power when congress writes stupid policies that increase the price of corn and waste resources.
Is the US a sovereign nation when we have sold so much debt to China. A communist nation that 50 years ago we were putting people on trial just for the thought of being associated with? Invasions and the break down of counties happen in more ways than foreign troops on our soil. The 'tireless vigilance' of the armed forces is being wasted on undeclared wars for personal policies of the republican and democrat parties. We are dumping money and lives into things that hurt our country in the long term. We are wasting our volunteer military on politics and special interest gain. We still cannot learn the lessons from the mistakes that have been happening for decades.
Clean water is provided by private businesses in some municipalities. Again, the implication that government is the only one that can do this and is best is absurd. And now we can't keep time without the government? You also get in an automobile that you assume is better because of the increase cost burden put on manufacturers from regulation but you have never actually bothered to look into it. I am pretty sure all those families and helicopter mothers would put enough pressure on automobile makers to build safer cars if the industry wasn't regulated. Where I live the federal government hands transportation money down to the state and it gets diverted to other programs or misused. TXDoT is a corrupt and wasteful government organization that lost a billion dollars and uses taxpayer money to pay lobbyist to tell taxpayers that we need tollroads because they don't have the money anymore to pay for public roads. And then they want to sell them to private companies after the public money is used to back the bonds.
The EPA is an agency that has absolutely no teeth and is routinely ignored by politicians. The government itself is one of the largest polluters and rights itself exemptions. The Federal Reserve should not exist. It is complicit in helping the government carry so much debt. Its policies help inflation which is a hidden tax. The USPS
who the hell cares? Are you saying losing half our rights will be ok because china is worse? what kind of illogical argument is that? how is this 'insightful'? haha absurdity is the norm I guess.
unfortunately most Americans are busy giving their freedoms away over hereh, and you've seen what happens when we 'help' other places. I am sure if we want some uranium we will just find a way to take it anyway. Good luck over there :) hehe
I always hated that kind of statement even as a joke. I think Intelligence follows a bell type curve of some sort I am sure with the bulk of the at the tip being the majority of the population. I just think its goofy to say it that way.
bleh: (thought terminating cliche)
um no. all things are not equal. I do not spend that much time on slashdot and it is not COMPLETELY FORBIDDEN for me to go to the website. Its ok to take breaks and do something. It is not ok to circumvent rules that will get you fired to waste massive amounts of time doing something on property that does not belong to you. It is silly to compare reading a slashdot article to making porn dvds at work with a work computer.
That is a thieves mentality. I am not arguing that thieves don't steal. I am arguing for them to stop hindering people that are perfectly willing to pay. I like purchasing movies and supporting stuff I like with my money. My money is a vote for the world I want. When I purchase movies and music then it is a vote for what I want to exist. So I pay and get what I want and you don't pay and have to deal with what I like.
Don't use DRM and and other mechanisms (outdated CD sales) to make stuff I want to purchase not easily to get. I buy my movies and mp3s as long as they are easy to buy. I watch most of my movies by 'renting' them on netflix. This is all legal and easy to get for me and doesn't cost much.
If you want to steal then go ahead. You will rationalize it no matter what happens. But, don't put a bunch of laws up that get in my way and don't affect you at all. Thieves steal and they always will. it is what they do. A reasonable education program (that doesn't treat people like pieces of crap) would do more than all the lawsuits that companies use.
I think 30 years from now there will still be 'big name' bands because that is how society works. The easy path is supporting a structure that feeds people stuff to consume. There are already 'small and free' bands out there for people that want to look for them. Infinite diversity with infinite combination. There is no 'one way'.
On a personal note, I do not make a lot of money. My media consumption is not very costly. I would suggest you stop consuming and focus on education if you are so poor that you have to steal stuff that is pretty cheap.
It doesn't matter what the court 'thinks'. The issue is (no matter how it is stated) that this is an attack on 3rd parties instead of the people 'responsible'. Either:
Go after distributors (insanely difficult = costly) which do something 'bad'
Go after the thieves (people at home = costly) which do something 'bad'
Go after the ISPs (easy to shut off the 'valve') which do absolutely nothing wrong.
I don't want to know what the court is a 'fan' of. This is in italy so they can set up whatever asinine freedom destroying laws they want, but its obviously idiotic to go after people and cost them money that have nothing to do with the problem.
I wish the commercial organization would realize people love to buy their products.... if only they would make it more easy to access.
not enough citizens care. to have proper citizens people need to be educated on civics, logic, and management. The government(s) are in charge of our schools. This is the foundation on which all problems rest.
separation refers to the creation of law. Just because the house passes a bill it does not make it a law. The white house has the power to veto. If the white house signs this then it agrees to it. The executive can be overridden of course but that just means the senate and house believe the bill is to important for the executive to have judgement.
that puts to much burden on the public. If someone makes something and its been in common use for 20 years who is responsible for continuously monitoring the requests to make sure it isn't patented later when it makes no sense?
I think all that would really do it give companies a change to cause trouble.. the ones that can afford to anyway. Prior art does need to be researched more but this has more to with patent office having time to deal with stuff than competence.
I think the main people here will be companies clogging the system with more junk to delay and manipulate.
I don't understand patenting software binaries in your post. Are you basically advocating copy writing? That would make more sense.
As for 2, I don't think that would be good because physical objects could be quite costly and some guy in a basement might have an innovative idea, but not have the resources to produce it. He needs the patent to protect his great idea (reward) while he can sell royalties for production or sell the patent.
I think with 3 you will just end up with company wars. All the companies that care will be the only ones watching for the patent scrutiny period and they will spend lots of money to debunk it while stealing the idea or trying to steal the patent. And the guy in his basement inventing something already pays a lot for a patent. I don't want to add the fear of getting sued to that.
One of the problems is the patent office makes money for the government. That money does not go into making the patent office better. Underpaid patent clerks learnt he system and get hired away for high salaries at companies to make patents which means you have new people at the patent office a lot and the senior people are overworked.
Next time you complain that something is bad in the world remember that :P Most problems are caused by people wanting quick money without consideration for long term value.
I am just this was a joke post, but just pointing the obvious out :D
I think Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It is a good book on the patent system and its problems.
haha, that does happen though.... when the government is involved.
sarcasm isn't a substitute for an argument.
I find it odd that only a government can guarantee these things. The same government that can't balance a ledger. I simply will never agree with someone that think 600+ people playing politics in washington know what is best for 307,765,999 people by writing a law. Despite your sarcasm, if someone did want to get their brain-ass transplant in your unclean apartment (go clean it you dirty person) then they will do it despite the government.
I am not going to to pretend that the government has magical power to fly around protecting us.
what is the difference?
If we are equal and I am free to do something then so are you? Its odd that you think that the pronoun matters.
yes, this is exactly why I am for -regulating the network providers- that have taken subsidies and used government power to get what they want. If they want to have complete control over THEIR property then they need to make sure they don't make it partially public. I am not in favor of the government saying every network must be neutral. I am not interested in the government having power to tell networks what to do, but I am interested in the public telling companies that took public money what to do.
ok, this is not related but little phrases like 'funny how' are annoying. What is funny about it? Are you trying to make a real point through sarcasm. bleh... I just hate those
You seem to believe that a company, interested in making money, is supposed to spend time figuring out what the cheapest price it can sell something at is. Do you spend your time figuring out the cheapest salary that you will work for. When a raise comes your way do you say, 'no no, that is to much. My income is sufficient right now'? The figure out the price that people are willing to pay and that they can sell lots of units. They want to make money. It is very simple. And people are buying it so they are basically voting for that to happen with their money. Each dollar is a vote saying, 'this is a good thing to do'.
You seem to blame corporations here for everything. Where is the onus on the people/consumers to be responsible? No one is forced to buy this stuff. They could learn a free OS and build their own computer, but they think its worth it to just pay the money. It confuses me how so many people expect a company to be so righteous but leaves out all responsibility for the consumer. It is all very simple. A company makes something to get money. A consumer wants something and gives money. Both sides of that are equally important. They are bound together. A free market does not mean a company can do what it wants. A free market means a company will do what the consumer allows. The freedom is actually yours. Abuses by companies are most often tied to law and government power.
So a "free market" (your quotes) is free. It is a puppet and YOU are holding the reins. So next time you buy that cheap piece of crap item you don't really need for the lowest possible price you can find that was made in china by some poor child then don't blame McEvil Corp. Blame yourself.
I am libertarian. I believe in freedom. freedom is hard because it allow some people/business to do thing you do not like, but that is being free. All you do by making rules is giving the government power.
How about YOU making an organization that helps those 'plebeians' not spend their freely earned money on something they are willingly buying? Instead you rather use the force of government to enact your will because you don't want to have to worry about it yourself? I am sorry if you want to give up more of your power to the government to have a little less responsibility, but I do not. I find the 'wants the big bad business to have power over everything' silly. I rather just not spend my money somewhere than to give up power to the government which has proven for decades that it does things far worse than any private organization. Money will keep businesses in line more than politicians with to much power worried about their election campaigns.
Personally I am for network neutrality, but not because I just want it an think its a 'good' thing to do. I think the government has given subsidies to those company and they should have to pay a price for that government money. They should have open networks. If they had paid entirely for the system themselves, thus it belonging entirely to them, then they could do whatever they wanted. I am also not sure why someone would compare open source to network neutrality. I am perfectly fine with open source. I love it, I use it. It is people exercising freedom. I also think most standard people have no clue what it is and neither do most libertarians.
Corporations only have power then 1) we give power to the government such that corporations can use lobbyist to manipulate government (don't give them the power in the first place, and 2) when you vote for that corporation to do what it is doing with every dollar you spend. If millions of these people are spending their money on an 'evil' corporation that you hate then that corporation must be providing some service they desire over its supposed evilness.
I know it is easier to blame a big bad corporation instead of millions of nameless people who don't want to be personally responsible, but that is what the issue is really about. I am not going to sacrifice my power to the government because others are so willing to not be responsible.
As far as unions, I do support them. That is what people are free to do. But that doesn't mean I have to like all unions. I think a giant union that has become a bloated political machine (like the teachers union in california) no longer serves the will of that group, but I am not going to try to use government force to break them up. I will try to discuss it and deal with it through social channels.
So please refrain from your absolute statements. I am a libertarian and I am fine with unions and do not think I am better than anyone. I am not the one that is trying to push my ideas onto others through government force. I encourage everyone to learn more about what libertarianism really is. Freedom and responsibility is the heart of it and that is not the easy path but it gives people the most power.
I don't think they made sense even right after the war. Repressing speech does not solve problems. Running away or hiding problems doesn't work. Although we have been trying for thousands of years. If someone is an intolerant bastard they should be able to stand up and proclaim it so society can mock and shun them. We don't need laws to make everyone feel that the problem is dealt with appropriately.
"forced"? there was a person threatening your life to be unethical and perhaps immoral?
He already has ballot access.. they others didn't follow the rules they set up. So it is a publicity stunt when the two main parties kick out third parties for not following the rules?.. its happened.