No it was not.

No, my argument is that since the very principle of property ownership is a state sponsored right, the difference between a government and no government is just a layer of abstraction.

Abolishment of the government in favor of voluntary contracts, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/agorism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_watchman_state or any other hardcore libertarian solution would just create a private corporation that takes on every and all aspects of the government (including forced "taxation" for all its members). Making it a de facto government.

By not doing that and actually leveraging the principles by which our governments (since we are probably not sharing our governments) work we can use a democratic institution where we actually have a say.

Wouldn't you prefer that to having to live on the whim of your local mafia^W feudal^W corporate overlord paying them taxes^W fees to live on their tithe^W property with their protection?

And if the answer to that is no, then I suppose that for you, there would be no difference between the government and the mafia.

Ah yes, if you are being a moral relativist there is no difference between a democratic government and the mafia. There is also no problem with killing and eating babies.

If you want a libertarian reasoning for why the government is legitimate replace government with corporation, taxes with income dependent rent and ownership with lease. The legitimacy of the government comes from the willingness of the people being governed trying to fit everything into a tiny model is just mental masturbation.

Hope that clears everything up for you. HTH HAND.

That's not the definition of terrorists that's a silly definition. The definition of terrorist is: using terror to accomplish ones political goals.

You're not naive, you're wrong.

I know this is slashdot but if you read the fine article...

Or more likely just making shit up on the internet. Oh btw, I'm 195 cm and bench 250 kg so if you disagree with me you're getting your ass kicked.

Just because oil is a cheap source of polymers doesn't make it the only source of polymer. I'm afraid you're a bit deluded if you think it's impossible to create plastics and rubber without oil.

Anyone contributing something to wikipedia is bound to get disrespected by the moderators with obvious personal causes.

Being overwhelmed by reverts by random internet zealot while having a degree in the field you are trying to work in can be infuriating and pretty hard to live with.

Yes, because that's how it works. When you "hack" someone it's a fight between the pure intellectual, the one who concentrates the hardest manages to infest the other persons computer through use of pixies and fairy dust.

The moment anonymous attacks slashdot will gain the great super brain power of all it's members and lash out and counterstrike against a distributed network of millions of individual nodes.

It's not like slashdot is a message board riddled with bugs. Hell even if the backend has ten times less bugs it would still be a bug-riddled nightmare.

Let's face it, even if anonymous had the ability to ddos slashdot it would be incredibly boring and nobody would participate.

No country does that, pretty much all countries do what Iran does for turbine production ie. buy them from Siemens, develop using windows workstations (because Siemens development environment is windows based).

It's not an ad hominem, he called your definition loony, not you.

I, on the other hand, am not afraid of calling you a loon, you're saying that because ipv6 solves an annoying routing problem (same host might not have the same ip from time to time) that it introduces a privacy problem (everyone might know who I am if I don't conceal it) and then immediately dismiss concealing it as an option.

Since it's already been deployed in Europe with great success (although the silence when you stand still at a red light is ominous) Mythbusters seems redundant.

Well we've been using it for a while in Sweden and it's pretty cold up here. No problems so far.