Well sure, if governments bought products like regular buyers do then it wouldn't be a problem. But governments are not subject to any of the same constraints that standard citizens do (i.e. essentially unlimited budgets, no market feedback, can increase income without any change in output or behaviour) so given that, you undermined your own argument.

It's not free market capitalism when the government's doing the buying.

Privatisation isn't privatisation when your primary customers and sources of funding come from the government. There is in fact no difference, just an illusion of competition. What is needed is for them to remove the regulations that exist against private space travel. Remove the monopolistic government funded NASA entirely, leaving the playing field completely open for private firms to build a true spot in the marketplace. That is the only way space exploration, tourism and travel will be able to survive.

Ah ninja'd with a much superior sibling post.

Its actually not as hard as you might think.

The easiest way to do this is to write an app that intercepts connections to the server and just responds to them the same as the server does. I expect they will be using encryption and things(but the encryption can be figured out through disassembly) but it's certainly not as hard as finding unused areas of the PE and compiling in these features directly into the executable.

Oops, you're right about the contract killing part. I guess in my mind the right to life comes before anything else and is an assumption I make without noticing. My error.

I have no problem with prostitution or drug dealing though.

I don't see patents as capital. They are restriction, essentially, having a patent is like "owning" a law restricting other people. The cost of gaining a patent is minimal and has no relation to the cost(or lack of cost) of producing the original item or idea.

Yes, that's correct. And that's a good thing in my opinion. What's the point of a weapon if the opponent you need it to defend yourself from is able to get a more powerful weapon illegally?

Unsafe toys and spoiled food don't get discovered until they are already out in the wild, even under your system of laws and restrictions. Any response to that is basically going to be the same whether you then "Ban" the sale of that item or not. Media is interested in these stories and so people will find out. It's very likely that in order to keep customers, the companies responsible will withdraw the products and if they don't then the company will fail.

Can I make an attempt?

No laws shall be made nor enforced that restrict trade, in any way, of any good or service that can be offered.

Simple as that... it solves everything, does away with patents and copyrights and allows anyone to work their way from nothing, selling whatever there is demand for.

that's different. Having money to purchase some capital, that money (presumably) came from production at some point, so assuming value for value, you could say they have contributed the same amount that the capital is "worth".

And a rather similar single strip from Casey and Andy

I'm not in America. but if I was, that wouldn't work either: http://www.escapeartist.com/efam5/expat_tax_2.html

Enjoy your unlimited servitude.

Which you are forced to pay for whether you want them or not.

Which you can choose to purchase or not.

See the difference here?

Hah. If it's just based on selection then they are going to get some really shoddy results from me. I appear to have selectitis... while reading text on a page I randomly select and deselect parts of the page. I'm not sure why, it's just like a nervous tick in my hand and I can't help it. It's not related to the part I'm reading.. normally the selection is above or below where I'm reading.

Congrats. I didn't manage it: http://twitpic.com/tydxw