Ron Paul's FSP Endorsement on Wikipedia

[MobileDigit]

Someone should add Ron Paul's endorsement of the Free State Project to his main Wikipedia page so that more people will learn of it.

[Alex Libman]

Don't look at me, I'm banned for calling global warming a hoax...

(And, no, I will not edit anonymously.  I'll wait until the weight of missing out on countless 1000s of things I could have contributed to Wikipedia overwhelms them and they publicly apologize.  Yes sir, any day now...)

[MobileDigit]

(And, no, I will not edit anonymously.  I'll wait until the weight of missing out on countless 1000s of things I could have contributed to Wikipedia overwhelms them and they publicly apologize.  Yes sir, any day now...)

Ah, come on. You know you want to.

[Harry Tuttle]

Don't look at me, I'm banned for calling global warming a hoax...

(And, no, I will not edit anonymously.  I'll wait until the weight of missing out on countless 1000s of things I could have contributed to Wikipedia overwhelms them and they publicly apologize.  Yes sir, any day now...)

Seriously? Banned for that? Or is there more to the story?

Sounds like they need competition. How about "Truthepedia". Or - if one is lazy like me - H2G2.com (The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy)?

[Alex Libman]

There's more to the story - after failing to win the argument that "List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming" is a biased article title, I've maliciously renamed it to "List of scientists opposing the Global Warming hoax".  Twice.

Well, anyway, their loss.  And my gain, because I would have wasted a lot of time over the years fixing vandalism, typos, and errors I encounter pretty much daily on my Watchlist.  The "let someone else do it" philosophy is very important when dealing with open source projects - why waste your own time when someone can waste theirs instead? 

I like just being a lurker in some things...  I've been a lurker on this BBS for a while before signing up a year and a half ago too...

[MobileDigit]

I like just being a lurker in some things...  I've been a lurker on this BBS for a while before signing up a year and a half ago too...

How long were you a lurker?

I registered just a few days after subscribing to Free Talk Live. I thought it was a good show. I didn't post or go back until after listening to FTL for a few months though.

[Alex Libman]

Hard to say, because my interest has accelerated gradually.  Not more than a year, with regular lurking period of a few weeks.  Then I decided to engage myself to the FSP and started AMP`ing FTL.  The engagement has been called off though... 

[MobileDigit]

When are you going to start AMPing again?

[Alex Libman]

I can't stand mediocrity or centrism.  Either I love something or I don't.  I can't just AMP a small amount like normal people, and I just don't feel the same way about FSP / FTL as I used to...

[MobileDigit]

I can't stand mediocrity or centrism.  Either I love something or I don't.  I can't just AMP a small amount like normal people, and I just don't feel the same way about FSP / FTL as I used to...

Come on, FTL is a great investment for liberty!

[jimmed]

Come on, FTL is a great investment for liberty!

Sakal/CAI certainly thinks so.

[MobileDigit]

Come on, FTL is a great investment for liberty!

Sakal/CAI certainly thinks so.

Do you?

[sillyperson]

[jimmed]

Come on, FTL is a great investment for liberty!

Sakal/CAI certainly thinks so.

Do you?

I think using government airwaves to spread your message is a bit hypocritical.

[MobileDigit]

Why do you say that?

Come on, FTL is a great investment for liberty!

Sakal/CAI certainly thinks so.

Do you?

I think using government airwaves to spread your message is a bit hypocritical.

Consider this:

The airwaves should be treated like any other finite resource that has a definable area of influence. Radio really is just an extradimensional resource supply. And because property rights are based on improvements, changes, and exclamation of ownership, if you are the first to put up a radio station you own the right to stop others from destroying your signal inside your range. That means that just like how grocery stores are competitive, along with every other type of business, radio stations could be the same way. They would be able to legitimately shut down any violators of their radio property rights.

Another view that opposes my argument of radio as an extradimensional resource supply is to look at this like shutting down people's pirate stations is itself aggressive, and is a violation of physical property rights. However, my sophistication allows for an increase of technological development that inevitably occurs whenever rational yet evolving minds collate together and advance toward the future. The technological development that is our society occurs whenever property rights based on original appropriation are followed. In other words, if you disagree with my sophistication, society will pass you by anyway, obey my correct objective morality, and realize that original appropriation of radio is legitimate. Your morality will be outdated, and will fade away as believers pass on, just as it has done again and again, from Zeus to Thor.

Thus, because of being seen as aggressive action, violations of radio property rights would be handled by private dispute resolution organizations, and we would be a lot better off.

I don't know how difficult it would be to get rid of the FCC, but as far as I know they don't do that much in the way of helping the medium of radio.