Wow, its a fast language to code in alright. I can find 51,500,000 programs already!!1

You, as an individual, do not. Society as a whole? Of course it does.

Why?

One of those people who sees free markets everywhere, then blames any problem on them.

The problem is that one person's choice may cause other people fail. This is the point which usually is forgotten.

Isn't that a problem with any system?

So what's the answer? :)

A few thoughts on the matter: Weren't telephones around the world linked up privately? If they were subsidized, how much?

Also a global internet is going to be more profitable than closed networks, wasn't AOL a closed network at one point? And I think I've heard of other ones that completely failed.

To be quite frank, I really don't care about mind games about how stuff might have happened, or how stuff might happen in an alternate universe :D Especially if something like the internet is a logical conclusion of having computers that connect to each other.

(Btw, when people say big-L Libertarians, they 99% of the time mean people from the Libertarian party. Though, I have seen even people like Jesse Ventura think that means anarcho-libertarian, or anarcho-captalist.)

So yea yea you won't take me seriously (which accounts for the tone of my comment) but no one can prove either way if the internet would exist if there just so happened to be some libertarian society so I would advocate voluntarism rather than coercion (anyone can test out for themselves if something is coercive or not, e.g. trying to not pay taxes).

I think I've heard of that organization before, they send their employees off around the world to rape...and stuff?

25.3% aren't

When people had such a low opinion of their fellow man that they essentially thought he was a retard, incapable of surviving without the wise overlords in government.

Countries like Portugal have decriminalised drugs but I think they are still illegal. I am guessing it is something to do with the enforcement. Though, I don't really know so perhaps I shouldn't have replied :)

Government is a large monopoly that happens to own the court system and gets its money through taxation.

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Maybe he lives in this cave and Donny Rumsfeld couldn't find it :D

Off topic but I nearly puked when I read your sig.

The people in Iraq sure love what taxes enable, they are getting civilisation good and hard!

It is quite necessary for government to steal ~50% of peoples' income so they can bomb other countries into civilisation.

You got rid of one idiot only for him to be replaced by another idiot, King Bush III. Is that what you call change?

- Ballmer sounds like an unpatriotic ass. Perhaps /I'm wrong and he's a really nice guy, but not in this article. He's turning his back on the country that gave Ballmer opportunity to be where he is today. Industrialist Carnegie came from Scotland and loved the U.S., and maintained loyalty until his death. He would have never entertained the idea of moving factories to China for cheap labor.

- Raising corporat taxes doesn't affect the consumer as badly as you believe. Yes some prices get raised, but increased taxation also leads to more cuts internally like plastic desks instead of mahogany, fewer free trips to Vegas, snd so on.

Ahh patriotism, socialism, and economic ignorance. These great ideas could come together to form a new poltical party. Perhaps it could be called the National Socialist party!!