Directional antennas ...

Nope, circular argument ... to trade it you have to own it. You can't use that line of reasoning to justify owning it in the first place.

Even considerably more detail won't save Rothbard&co's arguments either, they can try to bury Locke's Proviso beneath a mountain of detail ... but it won't fool anyone but the naive and the stupid.

There's no such thing as a natural right to enclosure either ... but the concept of rightful land ownership is convenient, as is the concept of a social contract.

This isn't really trying the opposite, it's just a gated community.

It's no more or less voluntary than agreeing to the social contract of any other sovereign nation ... and you will be held to your contract with violence too.

The only difference is that the contract is explicit instead of implicit.

They'll import everything, this isn't going galt ... this is putting your throne outside the country your ruling. I doubt too many other 0.001%'ers will want to paint a target on themselves as much as he does though, so this will go nowhere.

It would be even safer to drive the speed limit (or even below it if you have a heavy load) and not trying to change lanes near the point of no return.

Never ran a red light where it wasn't my own fault.

That's silly. Progressives and classical liberals nearly don't exist as a political force and socialists only exist in name only, but they mostly just hand out bread and circuses.

Oops, I meant lawn trimmer.

If a smooth contact could clear the rails the breaking wheels would do it. Rotating bristles will wear an awful lot faster.

You'd need something akin to an assembly of hedge trimmers, so you can just keep spooling thread.

Oops, meant to say

"The google guys said PV/wind and grid storage couldn't economically make coal and gas superfluous in the near future"

That's fine and well, but if you give up the economic argument then Google's surrender becomes irrelevant.

The google guys never said PV/wind and grid storage couldn't economically make coal and gas superfluous in the near future, they didn't say Nuclear could ... or even if Nuclear could do it cheaper than PV/wind/grid-storage.

That's non sequitur.

"In short then, I think that most of those who support the argument from consciousness could be persuaded to abandon it rather than be forced into the solipsist position."

If someone creates a human level AI no one will give a rats fucking ass about Searle's semantic wanking ... like all philosophy after Hume his was just a complete waste of time.

I don't really like Samsung phones (I tend to go for low end phones, LG and Sony tend to have better offers) but I don't get the Knox thing. It's a security feature which requires system integrity, and after a platform has been compromised they flat out don't trust it any more ... seems sensible to me.