planfaster

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by planfaster 11y ago
I don't know, you tell me. If you receive a plot of farmland that you can live off of without any other citizen's help, and you don't owe anyone anything for having received that plot of farmland, then are you a serf? Plus, a
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by planfaster 11y ago
> The idea that the poor are just too stupid to know how to work is insulting. If you think that is insulting, try getting your ideas attacked through a straw-man argument - that's even worse. What most poor people do not understand
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by planfaster 11y ago
Forgive me for being a little skeptical but can you show us a screenshot of the "toast shape" done in Adobe Illustrator (showing the guide lines, please)? (I'm changing the challenge a bit because just dragging the top line i
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by planfaster 11y ago
The way I see it (my background is Austrian economics), the poor and the homeless are people who cannot afford to live in a city. City-living isn't a right, it's for those who can afford it. No one is owed anything for not having
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by planfaster 11y ago
> It's really hard to argue with the track-record of those politicians, pharma companies, and bought scientists. As a lawyer, you should know it's pretty easy: "Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future resu
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by planfaster 11y ago
Look at what I managed to do with this tool: http://imgur.com/hRJIKBW You know what that means? That this tool understands Bezier curves better than Adobe Illustrator. Why? Because Adobe has never heard of the phrase "
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by planfaster 11y ago
Speaking as a self-taught programmer since I was in my early teens: I have nothing against it, some of my coworkers are bootcamp grads and I make sure they know I am available to help them. I also pull them aside to show some tricks or thin
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by planfaster 11y ago
First of all, it is initiation of violence since the government has to threaten the bank in order to seize assets which the company had already contracted with the bank to keep safe and the company has not given the bank any power of attorn
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by planfaster 11y ago
Alternatively, why would you not be OK with a system where the rule that everyone must abide by is "do not initiate force"? I wonder what problems you have with it. Is there something you'd like to do, that would be impossibl
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by planfaster 11y ago
Violence, noun. Tertiary meaning, under the rubric of Law: The unlawful exercise of physical force or intimidation by the exhibition of such force . (Emphasis mine.) http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition&#x2F
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by planfaster 11y ago
> (also note that we have a name for cells that refuse to coordinate with the rest of the organism and instead decide to grow as much as they like - they're called cancer). Right, like the government, which is always growing (like c
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by planfaster 11y ago
> Maybe the legal system is structured such that all 20 million citizens can band together and sue all 10,000 factories simultaneously. Yes, this is the scenario that would occur. It's obvious, in retrospect, you've debated thi
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by planfaster 11y ago
I'm one of those "some people" you mentioned. It is indeed about morals. Violence, in my view, is definitely a character trait inextricable from genetic makeup and early upbringing (which sets significant epigenetic markers).
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by planfaster 11y ago
And yet it seems resilient enough that European countries are importing low-skilled third-world people without any concern for the frafile framework of mutual trust and playing by the rules you speak of. Not to mention your argument sounds
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by planfaster 11y ago
> I'm curious as to why you think completely unregulated industry would result in the most reduction in pollution, when industries with no pollution regulations (but with other regulations) have repeatedly shown to pollute enormousl
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by planfaster 11y ago
Here's some criticism for you: if this is not a cult, why did they lie about the "97% of scientists" consensus? http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023034803045795784... "Yet the assertion tha
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by planfaster 11y ago
> I was talking about pollution in particular, not every possible conceivable action. Can you point out in your original post ("We already saw what happens") the wording you used to constrain the actions you are talking about
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by planfaster 11y ago
> We already saw what happens when the government doesn't take control and lets industry do what they will. Where? What's that place where the industry (short for "all private companies") can do what they will (your w
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by planfaster 11y ago
The Tragedy of the Commons illustrates precisely the opposite: that if other people are messing up a common good (the world, or the atmosphere, in this case), that means you should mess up as well, or you lose (in every sense: productivity,
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by planfaster 11y ago
Cartoons use a myriad of figures of speech in order to build a setup-punchline structure that is actually funny. One of the tricks of the trade is to use logical fallacies, as they are mechanisms for hiding premises or faulty logic, which i
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by planfaster 11y ago
Smarter than 90% of the population would be an IQ of 120 (s.d. 15) which is pretty high. You can test yourself here: http://www.iqtest.dk/ . Let us know if you got your 120. :)
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by planfaster 11y ago
You're missing key elements of History, which is skewing your perception of what motivated the events around the gold standard. I suggest you read about the crash of 1921.
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by planfaster 11y ago
Perhaps you are failing to appreciate all the human suffering that occurred for these Enlightenment ideas to come into being and shape the thoughts of the first American legislators. To think that governments can't become oppressive at
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by planfaster 11y ago
I don't believe that kids should be in school before 7 or 8 years of age.
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by planfaster 11y ago
Having perused the literature it seems that everything you said of LSD is also true of psilocybin.
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by planfaster 11y ago
This is so true. We have two very recent examples of this, first the US presence in Afghanistan and second the DEA having just left Bolivia. But the media dare not touch this level of analysis.
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by planfaster 11y ago
Wen u sa u wont too improov thee Englush orthografee doo u meen speling foneticulee? Beecuz ay think that wood bee silee. Instead, why not teach the English language properly to students? You know, where the words came from, what changes th
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by planfaster 11y ago
First you should ask the presidents and politicians of the world to give up their guns and their security guards' guns. Then you might have a case to be made to the citizens. While attempting to do that you might realize that you in
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by planfaster 11y ago
What are the "conspiracy theories" surrounding this? And can we please stop using this CIA slur around here? CIA Memo #1035-960 for those unfamiliar.
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by planfaster 11y ago
> I wonder what activity it was. I'm going to guess: tilling land, carrying stuff (like their equipment) everywhere, and soldier training drills. First guess could be off, I'm unable to read the article from where I am.

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