Over an entire generation of people raised in an open air prison. Fighting the predictable consequences of this fact is not "self defense" -- its something quite evil.

Imagine living your whole life in an open air concentration camp from birth to death, and your children subject to the same thing. Or imagine being one of those children from birth, and your parents were subject to the same thing from birth to death.

Yeah... "self defense" with tanks, jets, and nukes, vs a people in concentration camps.

That doesnt make it inefficient in the performance sense. Your argument is born from knowing just enough to be terribly wrong, probably because the RISC fanboys convinced you to stop considering relevant details

If two designs can fetch N bytes of instructions per cycle then the design that packs more relevant operations into that N-bytes wins on performance. The relevant detail you missed is this exact bottleneck. Intel's design ultimately fetches more micro-ops per cycle than is possible with a more RISCy design, which is why even ARM is doing it now.

$160/household/year isnt small no matter how many times the Statists claim it.

It is only small relative to the total federal budget, but that being way out of control isnt the justification needed to call NASA's budget small.

So about half the projects come under budget and the other half over budget? no? they all go over budget? yeah... proof that the problem isnt how hard it is to quote for, but instead how easy it is to get more than you quoted.

Lucas and Spielberg made the decision to use non-union actors in the first movie because the union demanded certain types of intro-credits which was believed would spoil the feel of the movie.

So the rest of the industry informally blacklisted the actors. The only actor to survive the blacklist was Harrison Ford because Spielberg also used him in Indiana Jones, and the industry wasn't going to balk at a guy that could bring in hundreds of millions for every movie he was involved in. Even Billy Dee Williams, who already had made a rather big name for himself, couldn't survive the blacklist.

I think Mozilla needs to rewrite the browser from scratch....

*ducks*

Would you argue the same about a fucking tabloid newspaper?

The same way its always been... PUT EFFORT INTO DECISIONS

"How was I supposed to know it was just snake oil?"

No, it fucking wasn't. Are you fucking retarded? Information only comes on cell phones now? Really? idiot.

Its very easy to understand when you realize that its an obvious lie.

The very situation you describe here is in fact post-fraud as in already committed instead of as you so dishonestly claim "harder to commit."

So go after them for that... instead of an excuse that literally supports evil.

Its as if you are saying "Uber is unethical, therefore I want the very things that makes the existing system evil to triumph over Uber! Go evil!"

The high price is the price all medallions go for, so what you are saying is that the only folks that can have a cab license are those that run them 24/7.

You seemed to have been hinting that less than 100% of taxi's have medallions.

Why not come out and make a direct statement about what you seem to think is wrong with my statements, instead of the bullshit hinting shit you are doing now so that people cant just label you a dishonest fuck and be done with you.

At least the medallion system, as abhorrent as it is, allows the licenses to be transfered to other individuals. In most other places its even worse than the medallion system where there not only is an artificially limited supply, you've got to also be on the good graces of the local bureaucrat gatekeeper when there is an opening.

The fact that you start throwing around crap ("inflammatory rhetoric!!!!") instead of arguments ("here is some logic...") means that its YOU thats throwing around inflammatory rhetoric. The post with the statement you are calling inflammatory rhetoric what loaded with detailed logic about the viewpoint, while you just spout fucknothings.

..such as the requirement of obtaining the $1,000,000 medallions required to operate a cab in Manhattan.

Yep, Statists (like you) dont see this as a problem. The proof is that Statists like you can be quoted as saying "they should have no problems complying."

You just defended evil.

One of the things I have learned over the years is that Californians don't worry about silly things like budgets and how to pay for things, and even less so the consequences involved in budgeting and paying for things.

This is the State that has repeatedly fucked up its energy industry to the point of severe crisis. Seems to be planning to do it yet again.