nika

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by nika 15y ago
I like how you just assert-- sans any evidence or argument-- that they are trying to "get around things intentionally". You don't even say what things. Don't bother, I don't care. I'm just amazed at the BS this topic has elicited from peo
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by nika 15y ago
One of the signs you're dealing with a troll is that their ignorance is all the justification they need to make personal attacks, and they stay relentlessly focused on such attacks while failing to provide any substantive argument for their
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by nika 15y ago
Says the college student who, let me guess, never worked at microsoft. As someone who has, PMs are not technical people, at least not in that company at the time I worked there. I think ignorant college students who are not smart enough to
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by nika 15y ago
You called him misguided and childish. You lose the argument.
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by nika 15y ago
That is the first definition from the dictionary definition. It is very difficult to debate an issue with people who are not aware of the basic definitions of the terms, and, despite their ignorance, make snide characterizations like "your
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by nika 15y ago
I have looked at the relevant laws, an the liberty dollar does not violate either. They never passed it off as government money, nor did they mint any coins. (Coins are government only, so to have minted them they would have had to pass t
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by nika 15y ago
There is no law prohibiting private currency. Disney Dollars: http://www.disneydollars.net/ BerkShares: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jul2007/sb20070... . Buy Local—With Town Currency Dollar alternatives, such as BerkShare
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by nika 15y ago
No, you're rewriting it by omitting the relevant clause. The race discrimination is one of the clauses that can invoke it, not the only one. Let me quote it with line breaks for readability: "Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordin
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by nika 15y ago
"They were minting physical coins." No, they were not: "a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as mony" "They called them dollars." So does disney: http://www.disneydollars.net/ "Just because they dec
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by nika 15y ago
The first definition of coin: "a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as mony" These were not coins. They were not issued under government authority, nor were they represented as such.
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by nika 15y ago
I don't think anyone denies that there are areas where the constitution is not sufficiently detailed. However, the constitution still says what it says, and many actions that are considered "legal" today do not fall into the areas of const
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by nika 15y ago
I won't attempt to argue that the Liberty Dollar wasn't a misguided enterprise. Even when the law is on your side, the fact that the government controls the courts assures that you'll never get a fair trial. You're misunderstanding the con
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by nika 15y ago
Alas, the wayback machine won't let me see the video, but even the name of it is bad since it contains the word "coin". Most may assume that "dollar" means USD, but that is not the legal meaning. Dollar is a generic term, as Canadians use
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by nika 15y ago
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/currency 1. something that is used as a medium of exchange; money. 2.general acceptance; prevalence; vogue. 3. a time or period during which something is widely accepted and circulated. 4. the fact o
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by nika 15y ago
After the fact you are able to try and prove that the money or assets were not used in the commission of a crime. How one could ever prove a negative is beyond me, and the burden of proof is higher than that required by the constitution wh
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by nika 15y ago
It would be cut and dry if you could show any "utterances" from the Liberty Dollar / NORFED, where they represented their products as US government money. They did not, and further, they were careful to put disclaimers on their warehouse re
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by nika 15y ago
My understanding of economics is sufficient that I understood we'd be having a housing bubble in 2001, and by 2007, I'd profited massively from it and gotten out, well before the crash of 2008. All of that came from my application of econ
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by nika 15y ago
Actually, the document was written with the intention that anyone could read it and easily tell if their government was violating it or not. There have been a lot of people making up a body of work commonly called "Constitutional law" but
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by nika 15y ago
I think Blogger Bob is the TSA? But the DHS is the ones that were behind the seizure of "torrent" domains, without any kind of court ruling or trial. I wish we had access to the proposed legislation. I find the idea of the white house writ
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by nika 15y ago
You're misremembering. The primary educational effort of the Liberty Dollar focused on, whenever someone asked what it was, or you offered it, making clear that it wasn't US currency. Nobody associated with the Liberty Dollar in any offic
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by nika 15y ago
Visa is a currency. So are travellers checks and regular old checking checks and coupons. All of these are also denominated in dollars. If you were to take some time and study the actual laws, and also check out the legal opinions, from
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by nika 15y ago
Here it is: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000242----... USC 18-242 I called it a felony though the law only makes it one if a "dangerous weapon" is involved.
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White House crafting legislation to give DHS more control over the internet.(federalnewsradio.com)
2 points by nika 15y ago|2 comments
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by nika 15y ago
I had the opportunity to see Pastor Niemoller's cell once. Out back, behind the building, they had the execution wall. Your reference to Bitcoin is apt, as the government siezed $7M in gold, silver and platinum from a political organizatio
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by nika 15y ago
The DHS (and now FBI) believes that all .com domain names are "located in the USA". It is not hard to get a judge (generally they are pretty ignorant of technology) to go along with this. Therefore, even if the registrar and the company a
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by nika 15y ago
Reagan is the one who signed "asset forfeiture" into law. I remember at the time reading newspaper articles claiming this was "just going to be used to keep drugs off the streets" and how "law enforcement are outgunned and now can defend th
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by nika 15y ago
I've been investing for a long time. I've lived thru two bubbles already- the dotcom bubble and the housing bubble. I lost money in the first and made a killing in the second. I won't say whether this is a bubble or not, but the number on
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by nika 15y ago
How many reading this article, and are disgusted by these clearly unconstitutional actions, are still living in the USA? How many of you are paying taxes to the very government that is using this money to fund this harassment, among other
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by nika 16y ago
Maybe they were thinking they could buy the name from cisco, which is what happened pretty soon after. Have you considered the possibility that Apple had talked to cisco quite a bit prior to announcing the iPhone, and knew they were going
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by nika 16y ago
Not just a library, and something that really makes development for iOS easier is Unity. http://unity3d.com It may not be free, but it is well worth the money. I use it for non-game apps because development is so rapid.

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