Comment All authoritarian regimes do this (Score 1) 420
Repress the fuckin' - Repress the people.
Comment Re:Taxation is Theft (Score 2, Interesting) 762
Taxes paid for the DARPA-funded research you use everyday, grandparent.
The Internet could be different if DARPA didn't do what it did, but neither the concept of networking systems together nor the means of achieving it were by some "divine inspiration" only accessible to those who use coercion to achieve it. Besides, pointing to a "good" done by government doesn't invalidate my point, young pup.
Comment Re:Taxation is Theft (Score 1) 762
... Abortion is Murder, and flag burning is Treason?
As an amoralist, I couldn't care less about abortion, and as a libertarian I wouldn't stop you or anyone else from having one.
Regarding the flag. If you happen to have an emotional feeling for a piece of cloth, knock yourself out. Such tribalism is below me.
Comment Taxation is Theft (Score 1, Funny) 762
Taxation is Theft. Pure and simple.
http://mises.org/etexts/taxrob.asp
I'll leave the statists here to justify their servitude.
Comment Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut (Score 1) 1127
Electrical and fire regulations are found at the local level, not Congress. That's why people who are inclined to build things generally choose to do so in the rural areas, since there are very few or no zoning laws.
Comment Re:None of the Asian Tigers Replaced US innovation (Score 1) 257
Luckily there are libertarians who are not in support of the bullshit concept of Imanginary Property.
There's also the story of how Watts sat on the patent for the steam engine, keeping innovation hindered until the patent ran out. Only then did he begin producing steam engines on a large scale.
Comment Re:And per capita? (Score 1) 388
Whenever I see such posts by those in the 'Old World' I rack them up as more examples of "Euro-Penis Envy".
I would seem that those who judge us over here in the 'New World' are by stereotypes provided by their media. It would be like me, a Texan, to believe that all British are like the characters portrayed by the show "Little Britain".
Comment Re:Makes you wonder (Score 1) 388
U.S. businesses don't provide health care because the government doesn't subsidize it. U.S. businesses provide health care because the government requires it, and subsidizes it. It isn't anything close to a free market.
That's not correct, business' are not require to provide health insurance for their employees. Employer provided health insurance was born as a reaction against wage controls enacted by FDR. Since employers couldn't pay more to attract employees, they got around it by providing other incentives for people to work for them. Before then, "insurance" was a community based function (e.g. churches pooling resources together for the congregation).
Submission + - Nuclear Fusion-Fission Hybrid Could Destroy Waste (utexas.edu)
MrSnivvel writes: "Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants. The invention could help combat global warming by making nuclear power cleaner and thus a more viable replacement of carbon-heavy energy sources, such as coal. "We have created a way to use fusion to relatively inexpensively destroy the waste from nuclear fission," says Mike Kotschenreuther, senior research scientist with the Institute for Fusion Studies (IFS) and Department of Physics. "Our waste destruction system, we believe, will allow nuclear power--a low carbon source of energy--to take its place in helping us combat global warming."" More good news on getting more non-fossil fuel based energy production online.
Comment O3 Spaces - Sharepoint Alt Re:Here we go again.. (Score 1) 249
I would agree that Exchange and Active Directory are two very important reasons why Microsoft will remain dominant. The third MS technology that the Open Source community could really compete in, but appears to be sleeping is SharePoint.
There is O3 Spaces that works with MS Office and OpenOffice.org/Star Office, and has a Free Community edition available.
Comment Why does this have to be asked in the first place? (Score 1) 931
First off, to answer your question: No Motherfucker, she has no right (ethical or legal) to do this. You created those notes, so their your property. Hell, copyright law would even apply here.
Second, it's a sad state of affairs when these sorts of incidents beg the question if they can be done. Society is becoming a bunch of pussies when so-called authority figures stomp all over ("walk" doesn't convey enough malice) people who then ask timidly, "Was I wrong???" God damn, people need to grow some balls and tell these narcissistic meatheads to go Fuck Themselves 8 Ways to Next Sunday. This goes for everybody with some bullshit title; lawyer, judge, cop, president, teacher, etc.
The pussification of Humanity continues uncontested...
