What a let down.

on Mars. Slashdot is trying to compete with The Onion it seems.

The Government. :)

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If they could, they would be government. The only organization with the power to imprison you for not spending your money on their "services" is government. No other group of people has this power.

Somalia is not libertarian or anarchistic. It is recovering from a civil war brought on by 30 years of dictatorship.

I don't take services from the government. In a case where I may incidentally have a service provided by government it is because they have outlawed competition and/or force me to use the "service." Non-government companies enter into voluntary transactions with their customers. If I voluntarily choose to transact, of course I should pay. There's a fundamental difference.

Yes, no government at all. How about you point to a government anywhere in the world that doesn't operated based on a first principle of stealing from the inhabitants of a given geography.

Except that the money to pay for those public "servants" is first taken under the threat of violence and imprisonment from people. My company doesn't send people to jail for not spending their money with us.

I'm betting your company doesn't send people to jail for not spending their money there.

No. I'll use my own money. Oh wait. He'll use my money too.

If you read Slashdot, you are too old.

How about we go back to the "we don't need to police the world" paradigm.

You have no idea how true that is.

He'll have a printer botnet running in no time!