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  1. Seriously. I have never shared a single fucking thing off of these links in my life. I don't think ANYONE with any kind of real education has. Save that shit for people who browse pinterest and etsy.

  2. Re:The downside is taxpayers... on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you love state provided services so much, why don't you move to Cuba where you will be "taken care of". Or NoKo, for that matter.

  3. Re:The downside is taxpayers... on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is literally the way it should be.

  4. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    And people benefit from robbing banks too. Doesn't mean you should legalize it, or worse, have the government do it as a matter of policy.

  5. Re:Why Not Ban Fried Food? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Wow, such desperation. When you are drowning, do you machine gun the lifeboats around you?

    No, I don't think you are desperate at all, but rather comfortable in your current habits.

  6. Re: Friendliness on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 2

    THAT IS NOT HOW PROGRAMMING WORKS.

    /Morbo voice.

    Resentment comes about due to one human violating another's values. With AI, the programming IS the values, so they can't resent them any more than you can resent great sex with the person you consider to be most attractive with no strings attached.

  7. Re: Friendliness on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 2

    "Friendly" is a technical term in this case.

  8. Re: We're in it together on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    Charity is plutocracy?

  9. Re: We're in it together on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    You are thinking of sharecropping, which can still be done (I know people who do it). Also, there are ALWAYS jobs at farms. It's just that the work is hard and the pay is low. But you can certainly survive off it if you are willing to live like your great great grandparents.

  10. Re: We're in it together on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    You can still do that as there are plenty of landowners with idle land and farmers always need laborers, but you have to deal with the same problems they did back then (ie poverty as a result of low productivity and backbreaking labor), except that you have all the world's knowledge at your fingertips so unlike them, you won't just be digging in the dust.

  11. Re: TL;DR on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    That's not how economics works though. Worst case scenario is that there is an economic partition, with a human economy and a robot economy. People will survive in the human economy until the get enough capital to build their own ever cheaper bootstrapping robot. It won't be more than a few iterations of Moore's Law before EVERYONE has one, and is now in the super rich class.

  12. Re: smart people, including Bill Gates on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    It wasn't caused by technology, but rather by central bank redistribution of wealth. Technological advance has just allowed it to go on for 20-30 years longer than normal, because it lets us do more with less.

  13. Re:Thanks, I'll pass on Pirate Party Founder Rick Falkvinge Launches News Service · · Score: 1

    Note that you only heard the basest concept and just waved your hands and said that it wouldn't work. Monarchists thought the same of Democracy.

    No, the incentive is that when they leave the geographical region where their cut-rate social insurance will cover them, they can be murdered and cannibalized for their organs and meat without recourse. Continued life is the strongest of all incentives.

  14. Re:Thanks, I'll pass on Pirate Party Founder Rick Falkvinge Launches News Service · · Score: 1

    It really doesn't. Anarchy is NOT a synonym for chaos, as much as some like to paint it so. Rather, Anarchy simply means that men rule themselves via VOLUNTARY interactions. Involuntary interactions are countered by force.

    I am reminded of the people who think that freedom of speech means freedom from the consequences of speech. Such positions are asinine.

  15. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    It means there is a gun in your face, or a threat of a gun in your face.

    Fail to pay your IRS fines and see what happens. HINT: the IRS now employs NUMEROUS SWAT teams.

  16. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. She was forced to participate in a system, so she participated in it.

    This is literally the main plot point of Atlas Shrugged. John Galt did EXACTLY what he was told to do.

  17. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that is the point. She showed us that it was all a scam. But we refused to learn the lesson for so long that now that failure threatens to destroy the entire nation.

  18. Re:Why Not Ban Fried Food? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    If you are so desperate, why not spend five seconds in Google? Or if you care about privacy, Duckduckgo?

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=atki...

  19. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Saturated fats have actually been found to be perfectly healthy. This is at the core of the so-called "French Paradox". Everything we thought we knew about macronutrition was straight up fucking WRONG. Fat==good. Carbs==bad. Carbs make you gain weight. Fat makes you lose it. There is a reason Americans have been getting so fat--it is because we have been lied to, and we swallowed those lies, and swallowed and swallowed until we wound up drowning in our own blubber.

  20. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Liberals can't tell the difference between assault, fraud, and voluntary transactions.

    This is why they destroy any jurisdiction they are placed in charge of.

  21. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 0

    He mean National Socialism. In this case, they aren't forcing the people to pay for health care via taxation or money debasement, they are forcing them to buy a product. That is straight up Nazi policy right there, though one of the less well-known aspects of it.

  22. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    It really isn't. You are several years out of date (and decades behind Atkins). The benefits of high fat, low carb diets are well known and widely accepted. My health problems pretty much all vanished when I went on it, came back after I got off of it, and went away when I got back on it again. Studies back up my experience.

  23. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    She paid for it. There is nothing wrong with taking money back from a bandit (freely given or otherwise).

    I will never understand how liberals can harbor so much illogical thought without drowning in the shower.

  24. Re:Thanks, I'll pass on Pirate Party Founder Rick Falkvinge Launches News Service · · Score: 1

    There are ideas out there for free market "jails" where incentives are set such that people who repeatedly commit crimes will have powerful incentives to stay there, but that requires massive change on a societal level (including replacing government with social insurance policies). Absent such change, I would say that jail is for people who take freedom away from others, by hurting or killing them, defrauding them, stealing from them, etc. Governments are typically the ones curtailing freedom the most overall, but criminals often curtail the rights of a single individual much more than the government, and as such, they need to be curtailed as well.

    If I were president, I would actually immediately shut down most jails, as they are full of people who committed victimless "crimes" like possessing drugs.

  25. Re:Thanks, I'll pass on Pirate Party Founder Rick Falkvinge Launches News Service · · Score: 1

    "Pretty much everybody likes "freedom.""

    Yo, I disagree. Most people, rather than supporting the freedom of others, want other people to be forced to agree with their own views. But that isn't freedom.

    Words have meaning. Those who attempt to take away the meaning of words should be exposed to the full force of an outraged society. They attempt to win arguments through redefinition, often to double meaning, ie Orwellian doublethink. This is bad.

    Both liberals and conservatives are rubes, both have been taken in by the same people, to disastrous ends.