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Comment Re:The next phase of grieving (Score 1) 135

The rule of law is optional everywhere. There are a variety of specific requirements for prosecution to occur that are usually very straight forward to evade if cognizant about one's own activities. Law is mostly a big stick intended to scare the little people who do dumb things on the open public stage. Let's not pretend the "rule of law" is some morally superior code - it's the rules the wealthy apply to the poor to keep themselves wealthy and enable tranquility among the working class, while the wealthy slowly eliminate their worker's usefulness. "You will own nothing and you will be happy."

Comment Re:Is it going to be a real OS, though? (Score 2) 57

This is so silly. There should be a single operating system that offers multiple UIs based on screen size and usage case. I should sit down, place my phone on a charging pad or screen mounted dock, and that should be the only PC I need, with external wired hardware for offering additional computing power. Your laptop and ipad should be dumb screens driven by your iphone wirelessly.

Comment Re: As long as NASA pays at the same rate (Score 1) 222

Libertarians don't believe there are no laws and consequences. If a product harms someone due to neglect on the manufacturer's part there would still be criminal charges brought and civil cases available.

And if it IS your kid or your wife, well shucks, you can just take them to court for damages, right? Because that will bring your wife or child back, right?

For anything to ever change with any government funded body, they need to fail terribly and visibly to the public, in order to cause our representatives to explicitly reform them via bills. Government institutions, like all institutions, inevitably become corrupt, especially so when there are no pressures keeping them honest, which is particularly true for government bureaucracies. Libertarians don't think private regulators are ideal, they just think they are better than government regulators, because government institutions can't fail - they are supported, forcefully, by your tax dollars. When a private regulator loses trust among the public, they also lose their customers. When a government regulator loses trust among the public, their "customers" are still required to continue using them.

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