Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Unfortunately...

....only one downvote is allowed.

Maybe I can buy more at the Moderatrix' emporium.

Read Karl Marx and Gottfried Feder, did we?

"You seem rather confused, inflation is not a tax, it is a debt reduction mechanism."

Best Politically Correct description of "stealing" ever.

If I "reduce my debt" by holding up the neighbor, I go to prison.

If government "reduces its debt" by inflation, pauperizing the taxpayer and anyone who has outstanding debts, commentards come out of the woodwork and defend the practice.

Nice doing.

Keep late-post trolling to a minimum

M'kay?

That's another way of saying...

THEY FAILED.

"Are you Sarah Connor? The name is Watson. IBM Watson."

It's pretty much that.

A shadowy bureaucracy with the name "Homeland" in it, seizes goods under "morally imperative" pretensions pretty much arbitrarily, doesn't care what anyone says or whether anyone is inconvenienced, casts a general chill along the lines of "we are watching you" and will it do it again in a heartbeat?

Yeah, no fascism here, move along. On second thoughts, show me your papers.

[And a "class action suit"? Defended by taxpayer money of course. Suckers.]

[And it's not like child rape is not state sanctioned anyway. Yes, they stopped a Lynndie England.]

Hell yeah!

SHADO FTW!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNEy9FpI3Ek

Brain falls on floor, gets squashed

So let's see, the PM of Sweden declaring randomly that some dude who isn't Swede and may or may not have had inappropriate touchings with Swedish ladies is "public enemy number uno" in Sweden can be somehow justified because....

- There is a difference between Sweden and the US

- Nations are interconnected in "some fashion or another"

- Destabilizing political power has consequences on the economy

- Gov's agree that Assange is an ass.

Yes. Brilliant. Paris, please.

Get out of here, Stalker!

That was too easy.

Rent seekers gonna seek rent.

The problem is not "bad patents". The problem is the existence of state-granted market-entry denial thingamabobs like "patents" in the first place.

In the best case, it's a tax that self-proclaimed inventors can pull in from companies that actually make the effort to go to market. In the worst, it's a writ to enable some cretin to keep others in the stone age.

"ZOMG torrent please"

That would be "stuxnet, (c) 2008 Pinky & The Brain"

Give it up, man.

Sappeur won't take over the world even you post in every Reg article.

"someone's hard work *has* been ripped-off"

Someone doesn't understand what a "patent" is all about.

Go educate yourself, greenhorn.

Remember when software patents where still a gleam in lawyers' and other boardroom sociopaths' eyes and bureaucrats from the USPTO as well as politicians hungry for free food and wine were picking up on the idea?

Most sane people though the idea ridiculous.

It's been downhill ever since.

No.

Everyone alive since the 70's "xeroxes". Because the Xerox Copier owned the market at one stage.

Young ones may not be aware that this was the case...

And there is also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RanXerox for those who read 70's Sci-Fi pulp mags.

We have been there before

As Murray Rothbard wrote in 1979:

As the debate intensified, the answer to this puzzle became all too clear: these soothsayers and space cadets don't really care all that much for liberty. They don't in fact, care very much for the real world or reality. What motivates them is not the prospect of liberty but spinning phantom scenarios of the never-never land of Eden. (...)

But this is indeed a religion — it is not a political philosophy, and it sure as hell is not political action. Yet libertarians have not come to promise human beings a technocratic utopia; we have come to bring everyone freedom, the freedom of each individual to pursue whatever his or her dreams of the future may be. Or even to have no vision of the future. Libertarianism is surely not all of life; it brings the gift of political freedom to every person to pursue his own goals. His goals, not ours. To call — as a political party — for a specific vision of the future, the space-cadet vision, implies that that particular goal is going to be imposed on everyone, whether they like it or not.

This is not freedom: it is totalitarianism. Primitivists, after all, have rights too. They too should have the freedom, if they wish, to live unmolested on their own. Thus, neither primitivists nor space cultists should be given a forum within the Libertarian Party to promote and impose their own favorite level of technology.

To put it succinctly: the goal of libertarianism is freedom, period. No more and no less. Anything less is a betrayal; but anything more is equally a betrayal of liberty, because it implies imposing our own goals on others. To be a libertarian must mean that one upholds liberty as the highest political end not necessarily one's highest personal end. To confuse the issue, to mix in any sort of vision — technocratic or futuristic or any other — with politics, is to abandon liberty as that highest political goal, and at the very least to destroy the very meaning of a political movement or organization.

Oddly enough, space and the space program — which the great revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes aptly termed the "moondoggle" and "astrobaloney'! — is precisely the area where the government has exercised total domination. Such futurist heroes of our "libertarian" space cultists as Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill are government-financed scientists and researchers whose projected "space colonies" will not be the "free space colonies" of our space cultists' dreams but projects totally planned and operated by the federal government. Yet instead of engaging in sober critiques of the governmental space program, our space cadets embrace these state futurists as virtually their own.

http://mises.org/daily/4491

In that case...

...you could reverse-filter them.

ISP shall be required to add meta-tags to any outgoing HTTP traffic from mumsnet members.

"Assisted selection"

There's an app for that!