So tired of nationalistic collectivism.

Let's be clear: The a telco in Australia agreed to spy for the *government* of America. They certainly didn't do it for me. I never asked, and I doubt I ever will.

I hate that phrase.

You may feel you have enemies, but don't include me in your paranoid collectivist delusion. Whoever you think your enemies are, they aren't mine.

Lastly, to any thug in a costume who claims to be fighting on behalf of my freedom/safety/whatever: You're not. I didn't ask you to. Please stop being violent and evil in my name.

That's true if you think the government's "space program" is the measure of human progress. That's what you get for pinning your hopes and dreams to a bureaucracy funded by money stolen from people at gun-point.

The private space industry, on the other hand, is growing and succeeding at quite an optimistic rate, relative to what most people though was possible 10-15 years ago.

He established the FTC in 1914 for "antitrust" purposes, and now these assholes are dictating web page design to google? Is there anything the government feels is outside of their absolute power to control?

These are the same guys that operate on the following logic:

* IF you are charging more than your competitors THEN guilty of price-gouging
* IF you are charging less than your competitors THEN guilty of predatory pricing
* IF you are charging the same as your competitors THEN guilty of price collusion

Can we all just succeed already and let the Federal monster die of starvation?

People also want to fine a plausible excuse to hate others and feel superior to them.

Everyone here needs to stop getting distracted by the religion-based parts of their statements and understand that while indiscriminate murder is wrong, these people have legitimate grievances having nothing to do with religion -- like the multi-century rape, enslavement, and occupation (both direct and in the form of aid to local dictators) of most of Africa and the Mid-East by western governments for centuries.

If I lived there, I'd probably be killing the U.N., too.

(Personal disclosure: I'm an atheist. I hate all religions, and find them all repugnant. But that's no excuse for not taking the time to research and comprehend the *full* situation here, including the actions and culpability of all involved parties.)

I can't believe I'm seeing genocide advocated on slashdot... and up-voted.

Do you not understand that western governments, and particularly the U.S. and U.N., have been fucking with the entire african and mid-east region for centuries? Colonization, genocide, propping up dictatorships, mass-depopulation, stealing resources, military occupations, institutionalized rape and slavery...

How the hell do you justify your "fuck these guys, they're annoying me, kill them all" attitude to yourself? You want them to leave you alone? It's really simple. Leave *them* the fuck alone.

I don't know how much more of this world I can stand. The ignorance and stupidity and *immorality* of even the intellectual elites of modern society disgust and frighten me.

I'm tired of the religion of democracy, and the fact that the majority of people in the western world are fanatical devotees to it, despite reason and evidence. People speak of it as if it's magical, instead of the most evil-making mechanism man ever sprung on himself.

Here, have some:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-The-God-That-Failed-Economics/dp/0765808684

The first half is great. (I suggest ignoring the second half.)

I'm a libertarian and Free State Project early mover.

The few friends I have who go to Tea Party events do so while holding their nose for the sole purpose of hopefully spotting/recruiting the 3% of them who have actual potential for rationalism.

I don't know why you equate libertarian with Tea Party. So many of the comments in this thread are tragically ignorant and insulting.

You posted the exact same comment (word-for-word) further up this thread.

This attitude disturbs me. If I wanted to read retarded, barbaric "bomb them all into the stone-age" rhetoric, I'd go to Fox News. I expect better from Slashdot. There are millions of people in Syria. Some are children. Some are atheists. Some probably contribute to open source software and are active in Arab-spring-style activities.

Are you really comfortably advocating that all those human beings should die? Why? Because the actions of the Syrian government that claims ownership over those human beings do things you disagree with? Because I feel the same way about all governments. That's no excuse for cheering on the death/genocide of that government's domestic victims.

Stop that!

You didn't personally create the patent system, and it doesn't even seem like you agree with it, so why apologize for it?

Bugs the crap out of me when people say "we" with regards to/ apologize on behalf of the actions taken by the government that claims ownership of you.

You are an individual. They are a network of thugs. Stop identifying with them, and stop collectivizing all individuals who live within these imaginary lines called the U S of A.

I hate when people say "we" when referring to the actions of the government that claims ownership of them.

Stop that. You didn't personally send anyone to kill/die, and it sounds like you were against it, too.