- precisely. You want to destroy individual rights, and people that own/run/operate companies are individuals, whose rights you want to destroy, so I understood you quite correct then. No, none of any business, regardless of its size and industry should be regulated, quite the opposite. There should be 0 regulations, 0 licenses, 0 income related taxes, 0 government intrusion into our individual lives, only that prevents corruption that is inherent in systems that attempt to regulate for the 'good of the society'. Everything and anything that starts 'for the good of the society' ends up being for the destruction of the individual and as I said earlier, society that is willing to sacrifice individual rights has 0 entitlement to exist, it has no purpose, there is no purpose for us, individuals to create societies and civilizations that destroy our own individual rights.

Society is only a concept, individuals are actually living breathing creatures and as living breathing creatures we need to prevent collectivist concepts from destroying our rights to be free people.

As to nuclear power being anathema: that's the problem with government regulating business, including regulations of nuclear power in the first place. The collective is using government supplied violence to prevent individuals from their own attempts at nuclear power plants and that is what should be stopped - government and the mob should be stopped, not individuals.

- as long as it's not money printed by the Fed and handed out to a bunch of so called 'investors' that have access to the Fed, then it's real investors that are spending their own resources to build these server farms and it has nothing to do with you or society, it's none of your business how people spend their own money, Mr. Stalin.

- this of-course. Quite the opposite is true, we must stop talking about public interest and collectivism, we must stop everything that has to do with government controlling our lives and allow individuals do what is best for them and if individuals decide to combine some of their efforts voluntarily, that's fine. If that is your call, call to VOLUNTARISM then I am on board. But that was my question: who are you talking to, what are you talking about? Force of government? A call to more violence based on government 'solutions'?

I do not know who you are talking to, but I assure you that civilization derived from injustice of destruction of individual freedoms has no entitlement to exist at all.

there is no god.
there is no magic.
there are no souls.

we are it, there is nothing beyond the material existence that we know of and there is no need to come up with constructs that are more complex than necessary to explain our existence. Epicycles were not necessary to explain planetary motion, neither are gods necessary to explain our lives.

Thus the statement "god bless Linus" should be rephrased as:

Blessed be Rationality and Self Interest, the One True Engine of Progress!

I've been purely on Ubuntu and now Mint, since 2006 and I switched a number of clients to Mint as well (a retail chain even).

In my company I set everybody up with a Mint system, I only allowed one person to have 2 (two) Windows machines at the same time, but his job requires this, we have to make sure our products are tested on Windows as well of-course.

- oh yeah, fresh ideas like: "you didn't build that".
Fresh ideas like: "the consumer created those jobs".
Fresh ideas like: "all responsibility is shared".

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I think Linus is 100% spot on with his comment:

- as a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, objectivist, I applaud your principled views. No person should be forced to associate with anybody they do not like, no person should be forced to provide access to his or her private property to anybody they do not like, this includes individuals and their businesses, the only exception is the government.

Everybody has the right to discriminate against anybody else based on any grounds at all, only government must not be allowed to discriminate.

This of-course means that anybody should be able to prevent people that they disagree with from using their private property, this of-course means that government must not be allowed to force businesses not to discriminate against anybody based on any grounds.

Payroll taxes for foreign workers that are living in other countries? Are you going to add them to your so called Social Security ponzi scam then too?

I fully support ideas of Marx where it concerns the abolition of the State and income tax resistance.

Given the nature of today's date, let's go further.

Marx insisted that the bourgeois exploits the proletariat through the "constant revolutionising of production and uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions". So let's declare revolutionizing of production to be illegal and prohibit any form of non-incremental but sudden advances where it concerns production, manufacturing and technology. Introduction of personal computers was not an incremental step, introduction of the Internet itself, the combustion engine, powered flight, nuclear power, molecular biology and DNA based technology, and more, none of these are evolutionary, these are revolutionary technologies and must be abolished, prohibited and abandoned in favor of more evolutionary technologies and production techniques, which do not serve to undermine the status quo of the every day lives of the proletariat.

Of-course all private property must be abolished, inequality must be squashed, this has to start with the 1% but it cannot stop there, it must be taken to its logical conclusion. As long as we have inequality there can be no true Marxism / communism, so we have to find the lowest common denominator, which everybody must agree, is the ultimate goal that provides the conformity necessary to prevent rise of capital formation. Let's find that lowest common denominator taking into account that private property starts with our own bodies, let's look beyond the obvious, such as land, factories, cars, houses, and such, let's look at the root of this evil, the moment of conception itself. Nobody can be allowed to utilize naturally occurring DNA based advantages, which are also manifestation of private property and thus capital formation, we must eradicate this inequality at the moment of formation. This requires that all sperm and eggs used in conception are equalized, there can be no deviation from the standards and norms in order to achieve maximum parity.

Of-course among the already living there are other forms of inequalities that can also be addressed immediately. There are, after all, people who through no fault of their own lost limbs, eyesight, normal functioning of their natural bodies, which is where the problem of inequality is very sharply observed. Nobody should be in a position to utilize his or her property to rise above the normal, thus normal must be understood to be the poorest in all properties, including body functions and capabilities. This means that upon reaching a certain age, all people must undergo a mandatory equalization procedure, consisting of the following elements:
* Removal of limbs
* Lobotomy
* Removal of other discriminating organs, such as eyes, tongue, nose, external genitalia.

Only by ensuring that no person can reasonably elevate his or her worldly status via acquiring possessions, especially if starting from an unequal playing field, which includes having more in terms of body capabilities than anybody else.

In the spirit of Marxism / Communism access to all valuables must be open to all international claimants, so for example an American peasant must be sharing fruits of his labor with anybody in the world, including any Indian or Chinese or middle-eastern comrade and while taxes must be resisted by the majority, a minority must be forced to pay them anyway, and while the State must be abolished, taxes still must be collected on behalf of the.... State?

We must all subscribe to these notions or we must at the very least admit that Marx was one of the biggest jokers of them all and as such he firmly asserted his position in the OMG Pink Pony movement.

- FFS, have you read TFA? I know it's anathema in this forum, but I suggest you go through the hoops and READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE FOR ONCE.

There is no need for any regulation, there is no need for anything that government does, in fact HFT is very much legal within the current government set of laws. However if you actually spent the 30 minutes to read the story (and it's a good read) you would learn something, that something being exactly what I was suggesting years ago, that if HFT is bothering somebody enough, then there will be new exchanges built, where HFT will be strictly prevented and market would flow through those and this is exactly what TFA describes happend, no need for any regulations, the market has found an issue and fixed it itself.

Sure, money is a social construct, however real money, as in money that is not fiat, money that is not declared by the government to be legal tender, namely gold stood in the way of governments destroying value of money by creating inflation (printing money, expanding monetary supply) and stood in the way of government from stealing more and more, since with real money, the innovation always led to higher productivity and lower prices (in the 19th century prices were falling, while money was gaining value, which is in stark contrast with the today's world of huge inflation and very low productivity and extremely high unemployment, all leading to rising prices). Of-course governments hate real money, as it prevents governments from expanding beyond their role of a LUXURY GOOD. Government is a luxury good that needs to be cut first when times are difficult, thus allowing the people to start rebuilding their savings and restructuring the economy, all of this on the backdrop of falling productivity, lost jobs and thus falling prices is what is necessary to fix the problems created by preceding round of inflation and expansion. In a market not controlled by government intervention, these are local phenomena, short-lived, and they allow scarce resources to be reallocated from inefficient uses to more efficient ones.

Governments controlling currency, printing money, taxing income are the reason for deep lived recessions and depressions that eventually worsen, as more and more resource misallocation is accumulated in the system. 2008 recession was caused by the Federal reserve and Treasury, which worked together to monetize USA debt (that Clinton and Rubin managed to push into short term category out of long term bonds). The reason governments are able to rack up the debt that can never be repaid is because they can print money literally, once they default on the honest money, whatever was known as currency (legal tender) becomes money in itself, its only role to be true money place holder is lost and the paper becomes money itself, no longer currency, no longer bank notes, but actual money backed by the con game that the governments run.

In any case, governments have no legitimate role in money manipulation, but this never stops them, because of-course it is so lucrative, to seize power from the people, to destroy the money by declaring paper to be it and then to buy political influence with this new concept - paper money, that can never be backed up by any amount of production. All of this of-course leads to bigger and bigger government, fewer and fewer individual freedoms, more and more oppression, which forces businesses to leave, eventually the money becomes the only product of that system, inflation becomes the only export.

Keynes was not an economist, he was a charlatan. To economics Keynes is what an astrologist is to an astrophysicist.

Yes, you do need to understand what money is, no you will not build any understanding of it from this nonsensical piece of crap of a book, whose author should be ashamed of himself, either for this complete lack of understanding or for the politics he is playing by selling this piece of shit.

Nonsense, people have the right to enter private agreements. If this is classified as illegal, then the problem is the unjust law, not people entering the agreements.

Just did it in my shining brand new mail forwarding (shipping/logistics) system that's coming out in a few weeks (almost 7 months in development :)

There is a simple solution to all of these problems, just declare anybody with a foreign sounding name to be a terrorist and be done with it. For the French, just rename them all with one name: Freedom. Monsieur Freedom Freedom at your service.