And then the "Laws" turn out to be more like suggestions. Fluctuation theorem...

Remember the assumptions of Thermodynamics?

The System is continuous. There are no scale, quantum, or relativistic effects.

The laws of thermodynamics are relevant only within a narrow range of physical phenomena, which we have gotten out of.

At some point, having a server (like Linode) becomes well worth it. As long as you have a network connection, you can connect to your one development box.

So you welcome .overlord ?

"Unless they ask the IRS to make you accountable to them"

There is a better way: make taxes voluntary, fund the government at zero cost through the Fed. The private sector creates at least an order of magnitude more money than government, so there is plenty of room to expand the public money supply.

Indexation of everything (including savings, salaries, transfer payments) eliminates any potential "inflation tax".

Then let's fix society. Start with a basic income, so that no one has to worry about being on the streets if they lose a job (but you could still live on the streets if you wanted, the basic income should be opt-in). We produce enough surplus to support everyone at a certain minimum standard of living.

Then when people are freed from the fear of starving if they lose their job, they can work on changing societal attitudes, about naked pictures for example. Screw the hypocritical prudes who think the naked body is something shameful, to ridicule. Societal attitudes can turn on a dime; consider that Kerry lost the 2004 election because of anti-gay marriage sentiment. Things have changed.

Solution: use the technology of money creation to fund a basic income, so people can pursue their happiness, and explore their natural creativity and wonder.

Why are ppl so afraid of being seen naked? This is some kind of weird social hysteria.

Yes of course you should have the choice to take a Basic Income. We produce so much surplus, we can guarantee everyone a decent minimum standard of living.

Your economics are feudal and obsolete. There is no production capacity shortage; there is an artificial, imposed scarcity of money. Technology means we need far fewer production workers. Take ships: when Columbus came to America how many men did he need to sail his ships? Today the new supertankers can transport many, many orders of magnitude more cargo than Columbus could carry, with a crew of 13.

So instead of producing things, we employ people to watch over the huge surpluses accumulated, and to create liquidity via sketchy financial schemes such as toxic assets.

Basic Income frees individuals to be individually creative, without having to get some dumb boss to sign off on it first.

No, leave the current system alone, so you can still choose to play in its game. Basic income provides a choice for those who want to play in games other than those dominated by economic motivations. I may have betrayed my own artistic preferences; but I would neither require anyone to take a basic income, nor restrict the market's desire to pay anyone what it can bear.

Fuck those money-grubbing artists. Tell them to vote for a basic income, funded the same way the private sector funds itself, through money creation. Then let ppl make music because they love it, not to get paid.

Give the artists a basic income, if they want it. Then they can free themselves from the money jungle.

Funny, I just watched a lecture on quantum physics that uses the Jain analogy of the blind men and the elephant in treating wave-particle duality. So physicists have learned from Jainism's theory of knowledge. Maybe you can too. May nonviolence grow on you.

You're just a mediocre adherent of the "business as usual" view, but your ilk control the destinies of so many.