Comment Lyndon B. Johnson (Score 3, Insightful) 27
“It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
“It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
Look what happened to the banks. Do business with a country the US has decided to dislike? Have some American's money in your vaults and not reported it to the IRS, in compliance with your own country's laws? The US government will find ways to make things very painful for you.
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Intel, Dell, HP, Cisco, IBM, Amazon need to band together and say to the US, "If you don't stop this douchebaggery, we are pulling the plug. The short-term damage to the economy will be huge, but a lot less than the long-term damage you are causing."
"There has not been a tradeoff between liberty and security..."
We have no way of validating this. So, based on previous experience, it is a lie.
It's called "Fair Trade".
I have the same attitude about government. The leviathan is just an organization with perfect DRM (and ARM).
The whole of the USA has turned into a gigantic SPE.
Some people used to think that some of them were idiots., on occasion.
With this bylaw we know for sure that all of them are assholes and idiots, all the time.
Think of all the data Google must have about you in order to provide the free service you receive from them - you emails, your photos, your location, you ED searches, etc., etc.
Well, because you have shared that with Google, you have no expectation of privacy, so the government can take it whenever they want.
If the data belong to the cell company, then why is a warrant not required to get them from that company?
Seems that would be hard to do, demonstrating probable cause that the company plans to shoot Charlie H, using the alias Mohammed.
You are forgetting another factor in the equation, which is the velocity of money. Compared to other currencies, bitcoin is almost frictionless. This means it can sustain a high velocity compared to dollars and pesos, which counters its deflationary structure.
The same bitcoin can make the peso-BTC-$-BTC-peso roundtrip a hundred times a day while the credit card transaction $ is stuck in the bank for at least a day, even with fractional reserve banking.
Expect to see every Barney Fife explaining the unfortunate collateral damage on the 6pm news.
Maybe the brakes were too good, resulting in all the rear-endings?
Seriously, our scientifically-illiterate society is rife with unintended consequences and cures that are worse than the disease.
Yes, those too!
You are wasting your time arguing against government meddling in markets. This
The same applies to the healthcare business, where we have reached to point that going to a doctor's office is no different to going to the DMV.
"Floggings will continue until morale improves." -- anonymous flyer being distributed at Exxon USA
