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General / Re: Dllama in the Free State
« on: April 14, 2011, 09:53:59 PM »
By that standard essentially everything is gossip.
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General / Re: I'm out. (EDIT - I'm back)
« on: April 07, 2011, 04:32:05 PM »
What made you change your mind?
Edit: Strike that, what made Ian change his mind?
Edit: Strike that, what made Ian change his mind?
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General / Re: Sweatshop labor, compatible with liberty?
« on: April 07, 2011, 11:53:03 AM »
I theory "sweat shops" might arise in a free market, certainly there would be places in which the pay was considerably lower than that for western factory workers. I don't necessarily think that low pay, even very low pay, deserves a pejorative term like "sweat shop." That requires something more, excessively dangerous conditions, long hours, an element of overt force.
With regard to what has actually happend though.
I agree with the guy, with some reservations.
If both your better and worse alternatives have been made worse by someones aggression, then you aren't making a free choice, even if the party offering you that choice is not the same one who harmed you. Which in the real world is a fairly complicated question.
With regard to what has actually happend though.
I agree with the guy, with some reservations.
If both your better and worse alternatives have been made worse by someones aggression, then you aren't making a free choice, even if the party offering you that choice is not the same one who harmed you. Which in the real world is a fairly complicated question.
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General / Re: Can you believe this crap????
« on: April 01, 2011, 10:55:31 AM »
Ge, that sucks man.
BTW what's the date today?
BTW what's the date today?
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Yes. That is exactly what it means. It's a descriptive term for the post cold war state of affairs. Not the name of an organisation.
That doesn't mean there aren't any nefarious secretive organisations out to do 'x' bad thing. (Or good thing)
But all that phrase proves is the ignorance of people who make a big deal out of it.
That doesn't mean there aren't any nefarious secretive organisations out to do 'x' bad thing. (Or good thing)
But all that phrase proves is the ignorance of people who make a big deal out of it.
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The Show / Re: Mark re: LifeLock
« on: March 19, 2011, 02:57:50 AM »Free is free. Requiring businesses to do anything introduces regulation. You may have a free-ish market, but it wouldn't be free.
Fine. Then a free market is stupid. If someone lies to you in order to make money of you that sure looks like aggression to me, and stopping that is a good thing regardless of who's doing it and how the obtain their own money.
Good doesn't somehow become bad because a bad person is doing it.
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The Show / Re: Mark re: LifeLock
« on: March 18, 2011, 10:45:57 PM »
I'll give you number one. But for all you know that could just be wishful thinking outloud on the part of this fellow.
I don't see why. Anarchists don't have exclusive use of the term and a requirement not to defraud people seems pretty damn reasonable to me.
This statement means nothing to me.
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2) If it were a free market, there would be no force "requiring all businesses" to do anything at all.
I don't see why. Anarchists don't have exclusive use of the term and a requirement not to defraud people seems pretty damn reasonable to me.
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3) "Level playing field" is keywords for "we control the horizontal; we control the vertical..."
This statement means nothing to me.
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The Show / Re: Mark re: LifeLock
« on: March 18, 2011, 11:01:28 AM »http://bizsecurity.about.com/b/2010/03/17/lifelock-settles-lawsuit.htm
I particularly liked this bit of cognitive dissonance on the part of the attorney general (emphasis mine):
"In our free market economy, requiring all businesses to provide truthful and accurate information is necessary for a level-playing field among competitors."
What's wrong with that?
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The Polling Pit / Re: Compulsory clothing
« on: March 06, 2011, 03:31:46 PM »If I'm trolling I'm a really bad troll, because I only seem to be able to irritate wtfk, who has a propensity to be difficult with people that he disagrees with and me in particular. Nobody else made a big deal about anything I said in this thread except him. Am I the troll or is he?
I assumed it was Sam Gunn, for saying you're this ben tucker guy after you said you spent a bunch of time arguing with him.
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General / Re: Vegan Backlash
« on: March 01, 2011, 09:30:46 AM »If global warming actually is human driven it is in fact the vegans fault.
1) Plants sequester carbon. By eating plants not only do you reduce the amount that can be sequestered but the digestion actually releases the carbon in the plant back into the atmosphere.
2) Cow farts produce more green house gases than all the vehicles on the planet. Carnivores remove these vicious polluters.
3) Save the planet - eat meat.
Brought to you by PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals.
I don't have to point out how retarded this is, do I?
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General / Re: Mises' Jeff Riggenbach shreds the Zeitgeist movement (sort of)
« on: February 26, 2011, 12:19:05 PM »
He wasn't praising anything, just giving examples of non-technologically progressive socities to disprove the notion that such progress is inevitable. I don't know if he succeeds or not. Are you contending that technological progress will necessarily lead to social benefits? Or that social improvenment can't occur without technological dynamism? Because the first one is definitely nonsense and the second is unproven.
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General / Re: Dllama in the Free State
« on: February 21, 2011, 10:37:25 PM »
I dunno Dennis, for such a clearly ridiculous tabloid program they did do a pretty good job of not lumping all of you in together.
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General / Re: I'm out.
« on: February 14, 2011, 06:23:04 PM »Will still mod. Don't expect any posts from me anymore.
Later.
Why?
Doesn't look like anyone's going to enforce your actions. If anything I'd quit that.
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General / Re: The Somalia Argument
« on: February 14, 2011, 06:17:10 PM »I'd say Somalias biggest problem right now is religion and religious fanaticism.
Direct result of American military intervention. Of course statists won't believe the US causes extremism in other countries.
Because while it might, sometimes, so do plenty of other things.
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General / Re: Time to introduce myself... I'm a left libertarian
« on: February 12, 2011, 10:37:53 AM »Quote
Andy, property rights and the NAP are the basis of my simple truths of liberty. If someone isn't hurting someone else or me, what they are doing is none of my business.
Probably not exactly relevant, but... what if they're clearly planning to hurt you next week?
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. Stealing is taking the wealth created by someone else and using it for what you believe it should be used for, done by a individual or a group. Stealing is stealing even if me and 10 friends take someones stuff and give it to a puppy orphanage. Or if I take someones dinner and save it for him later, or......
Yeah. No kidding. But how do you know if something belongs to someone? Because they say so? Because someone else said so and sold it to them?