All I can say to your post... is that you should check my .sig

The unicorns are definitely in Central Square, generally around 4:20

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We provide what helpful info we can: http://www.freestateproject.org/jobs

Of course, entrepreneurs and self-starters are always welcome. The Project seems to have self-selected to create a skew towards IT folks who can pretty much work from anywhere.

I'd say if you're in Missouri, you should get the hell out while you still can.

End the wars? Privatize social programs? Divest the US of its holdings? Looks to me like you should consider a move to New Hampshire

Accuseth locopuyo:
Oracle is an evil corporation bent on world domination.

Well, I work there, and speaking strictly for myself: No on 1, Yes on 2

20, 50, and 100 years ago, Scientific American would have been the obvious choice. Now, unfortunately, SciAm is the "no-brainer" choice :P

Wars on poverty, social diseases, immigration, and hunger, however....

This is not a fixable problem. Governments are simply not properly incentivized to be able to cope efficiently with large, complex projects. This is part of David Friedman's Machinery of Freedom, essentially an argument for stateless anarco-capitalism. The full text of the book is available as a link off the wikipedia article. Worth a read.

This story reminded my wife of some Soviet propaganda she heard when she was growing up in (what was then) Czechoslovakia, and always stuck with her:
"In United States, the spent millions of dollars to design ball-point pen usable in zero gravity. In Soviet Union, we simply used pencil."

democratically elected Government is easier to overthrow without force. If the voters vote differently, the Government is "overthrown".

How's that working out for you?

Google "voluntaryism", "stateless society". Or read some of this.

Who said anything about voting? Not me.

And yes, if you're not a member of any org, you can infringe all you like. Problem is, nobody is defending you from infringement.

This is the basis that American governments were founded on, but those principles have been totally lost. "When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in order to ensure the protection of others; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void."

You do understand that the US federal government has strict rules and regulations around credit ratings agencies, yes? So much so that we have a nice cosy oligopoly: Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investor Service, and Fitch. In the absence of government hindrance, we'd have a true market with many agencies seeking to differentiate themselves. And the Big Three would have lost nearly all their market share for being so famously wrong.