What naysayers forget is that with Wikipedia's model, if it can be vandalized by anyone it can also be corrected by anyone. You don't have to eliminate vandals to develop massive amounts of accurate content this way, you just have to have the constructive participants be more dedicated than the disruptive ones.
“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” --- Mark Twain
“If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.” – Henry Ford
As flawed as we are, it's probably a good thing that we won't survive long enough to leave our solar system and populate the cosmos. We don't deserve it. We're just too *dumb* as a species.
How is anyone supposed to take a person like this seriously?
China has the US by the balls via debt
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." -- J. Paul Getty
If that means their own codes of behavior, and those codes don't involve violence or property crime against others, yes, why not?
Very well, but that raises the question why all that land has to be public, especially when it's been okay for it to be used for decades by someone in particular.
Maybe he did mean that, but I responded to what he actually said. It's not like "society" and "country" are the same thing or are spelled similarly, or anything like that.
The lesson of Nevada is that there are self entitled people who don't realize that they belong to a country.
You're right, we crazy anarchists don't think people belong to a country. In fact, we're so bonkers we think that the country should belong to the people.
Stop stereotyping -- there are reasons to use Bitcoin other than just to be anti-establishment. It's an inexpensive and instantaneous way to transfer value internationally, for example.
Besides, Bitcoin isn't untraceable. The blockchain means it's rather the opposite, and thus is much less suitable for crime or tax avoidance than its detractors say.
If we allow retribution to be a part of the sentence we have a problem since the victims will have vastly different ideas of what an appropriate sentence is. The punishment will then no longer be able to fit the crime, some victims will ask for execution while others will be able to forgive and forget.
You seem to be assuming that people are only imprisoned for actions that have a victim. Unfortunately, all too often the only victim is the one who's being incarcerated, e.g., for drug possession, etc.
Wouldn't the prime directive of a Klingon beer be to not drink it with one's enemies?
we could in principle build something for which the Earth is an incredibly hostile hot environment
Like, anything with superconductors?
How many times do I have to show everyone you're a worthless piece of crap troll?
Zero more times.
Thank you, you beat me to it. It's disgraceful how much taxpayer money gets spent on those things.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
