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61  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The official "what about the roads?" thread on: November 26, 2014, 04:32:11 AM
If the government wasn't there, there wouldn't be any Federal Aviation Administration. People would develop air cars. Parking at some business and residential would be on roofs. Other could be accessed without roads. Roads would only be for bicycles and walkers, and emergency vehicles... which are often built to travel off-road anyway.

Smiley

When people were contemplating these things long ago, I think most figured flight would play a major role in transportation. But with the government subsidizing the roads, they essentially chose the winning technology to solve the transportation problem. Just like how wireless telephones were starting to come online in the 1930s but the government stepped in granting monopoly status to wired telephone technology (for the good of the people).

flight does play an important role in transportation. I really like the picture because I think the cities could save a ton of money building subways/bullet trains/solar roads on top of buildings like the picture shows.  Furthermore the trains could be perfectly straight and level for a very fast and smooth ride.  Furthermore if you have the station on top of a building, you would save walking time.
62  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why you should be against free education. on: November 25, 2014, 11:40:35 PM
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Basically he is saying he wants to sell off the national forests, blm land, and sell everything to private land owners at high bid. 

Obviously there wouldn't be national parks in a Libertarian system that isn't to say though that people couldn't buy up their own land and let the public use it I don't know where you got that shit from his interview because he just said you could go to court if some company or person is polluting your land it's really amazing seeing Americans try and think about a different viewpoint to theirs because you really do just make shit up and choose to live in your own alternate reality, not wonder nobody halfway decent gets elected as president in your country.

Just consider all the public land, private land that was bought up and set aside by the people for public use.  Thus the national parks are already private land.
63  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why you should be against free education. on: November 25, 2014, 07:52:36 PM
although it is a stretch is makes a lot of sense.  Violence was put agaist Hitler first, he only wanted to paint pictures.  He blew his inheritance on taxes and inflation caused by liberals.  The neocons sent him to WWI.  He came back and they wanted him to live on the streets or submit to a government to feed the state.  He said no.  He picked the wrong shapegoat.

He picked the best possible "scapegoat". Many ppl doesn't seems to realize that Hitler didn't acted because of sheer hatred. He targeted jews because of jews had many small and medium businesses and other easy to grab stuff.
If you want to seize a company with its financial and material assets, large corporations are not a good choice. As soon as they smell trouble they will sell off everything they can and run away with the bag from your country, so you will end up with some half empty factories and a big bunch of angry unemployed blokes and you need to spend a lot on get it back on track.
However there's nowhere to run for small and medium businesses, you can get those companies intact and next day they will carry on with production under a new management. This way you can keep the support of the working class, you can obtain the support of the middle class (the new management) and you can grab a lot of money and other valuables.

No he had a general anti-Semitic platform that was popular at the time by right wingers. Large corporations are easy targets just look at all the corporate income taxes, sales taxes, personal income taxes, dividend taxes, capital gains tax, inflation taxes placed on them.  They are the slaves of society probably with close to 90% tax rate.  The sales tax alone is a good profit for most corporations.  The government has the money before, during, or after Hitler.
64  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why you should be against free education. on: November 25, 2014, 07:46:07 PM
hitler ended unemployment and homelessness in case you didn't know

Possibly by forced labor and concentration camps.  Hitler was just a bigger criminal.  The democratic party wants to end homelessness by taxing rich people and giving themselves a big cut and sending the rest to the unemployed, teachers, and homelessness.  Usually it never gets down that far as I see homelessness everyday.

Libertarians just don't want to worry about the poor.  Ayn Rand basically says the best way not to be poor is not to become one.  Generally I support this view.  Millions of people under the libertarian philosophy only have the legal rights to roam the streets.   There is 2.3 billion acres in the USA.  However, all I say is there are 5 acres per person in the U.S. and everyone is entitle to their 5 acres.  Nobody should be forced to pay someone else's education.  If the tax paying people (government) paid for Hitlers art school, WWII might have been avoided.  However, WWII might have also been avoided if Hitler was given free access to land.  His acre to build his art studio and learn from people surrounding him.  That is how both Germany and the United States generally became superpowers in the 19th century - cheap land and less government.

Don't be scared by demagogues, reject all education spending for college.
65  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why you should be against free education. on: November 25, 2014, 07:27:32 PM
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I always laugh (cry) when libertarian talk about how private land ownership is good for the environment because as soon as the duck lands on their property they can shoot it, causing them to go extinct.  It was only game laws that applied to both public and private lands did the wildlife like the bison and rocky mountain elk rebound.

Where the fuck did you hear this? If someone is saying that kind of crap and calling themselves Libertarian they aren't Libertarian, one thing that pisses me off is when psychopaths or religious psychopaths hijack political ideologies and attention focuses on them and not what the ideology actually stands for.


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Just listen to what they say.  Look at Ron Paul,

"Do you think it should be illegal to emit harmful pollutants?

You should be held responsible in a court of law and you should be able to be closed down if you’re damaging your neighbor’s property in any way whatsoever.

Who would set the law about what pollutants could and couldn’t be emitted? Congress?

Not under my presidency — the Congress wouldn’t do it. The people who claim damage would have to say, look, I’m sitting here, and these poisons are coming over, and I can prove it, and I want it stopped, and I want compensation." - Ron Paul interview http://grist.org/article/paul1/

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Basically he says you can emit whatever you want, and if you get lung cancer you can sue them.  Even if you lived next door how can you prove you got the lung cancer from the plant or your smoking habits.  What about a mile a way.  Would it not make better sense to put limits on pollution as it leaves the property?  What if you put the property in the name of someone 70 years old, thus if they get sued, you can delay it up in the courts and when they die nobody is left to sue.


Now for  Rothbard (1992),

"Another serendipity out of this process would be a massive privatization of the socialized land of the western United States and of the rest of America as well. This combination of repudiation and privatization would go a long way to reducing the tax burden, establishing fiscal soundness, and desocializing the United States." http://mises.org/library/repudiating-national-debt

Basically he is saying he wants to sell off the national forests, blm land, and sell everything to private land owners at high bid. 


66  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The official "what about the roads?" thread on: November 25, 2014, 07:58:45 AM
All the roads of a 1 square mile geographic area should be administered by an elected road minister.  That way you elect someone with a degree or experience on roads not some liberal mayor.  There should never be employees of the city maintaining roads and all workers should be non-union.  Tax the cars for a permit to use the roads maybe $1000 a year to keep out the riff raff.  Limit the population of a city to prevent it from getting too big. Toll roads are too costly.  The payment for roads should never come from property taxes.

During the election the road minister might campaign on price or quality.  One candidate might say he can maintain all the roads for $444.  Another might say he can have solar roads for $2211 for 5 years, then $1000 after that.  A third might want to end roads $0.  You would give the people a choice in a geographic area.  
67  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why you should be against free education. on: November 25, 2014, 06:41:18 AM
Is there land for everyone? Most of it already is or would go into private hands without governments, so you would still have rent/tax whatever you want to call it.

In the United Sates there are about 3 acres of land for everyone.  This land should be common, thus everyone should have equal right to it. Thus to build a house on a 1/2 a acre lot leaves a lot of land for other people and wildlife. The only reason it is not is by silly evil ideas of Austrians and libertarians that actually believe all land should be private.  I don't believe in slavery or private property.

I always laugh (cry) when libertarian talk about how private land ownership is good for the environment because as soon as the duck lands on their property they can shoot it, causing them to go extinct.  It was only game laws that applied to both public and private lands did the wildlife like the bison and rocky mountain elk rebound.
68  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why you should be against free education. on: November 25, 2014, 06:39:22 AM
I'm going to say this as respectfully as I can: I have no idea what I just read or if there was a cohesive point to it.

pigs, hitler, and art school.

although it is a stretch is makes a lot of sense.  Violence was put agaist Hitler first, he only wanted to paint pictures.  He blew his inheritance on taxes and inflation caused by liberals.  The neocons sent him to WWI.  He came back and they wanted him to live on the streets or submit to a government to feed the state.  He said no.  He picked the wrong shapegoat.
69  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why you should be against free education. on: November 25, 2014, 03:41:03 AM
I'm going to say this as respectfully as I can: I have no idea what I just read or if there was a cohesive point to it.

I'm also not sure, but I think he is saying that free education led to Hitler and World War 2. I think he missed a couple of things in history class. Grin


Homelessness is 100% caused by liberals.  Otherwise everyone would have a free lot and pay no property tax or the permits on it.

Is there land for everyone? Most of it already is or would go into private hands without governments, so you would still have rent/tax whatever you want to call it.

The only reason there were land laws or private property or slavery was because of laws written by the majority.  One stoke of the pen and slavery could have been ended.  Hitler was a product of debt, war, and private land.  If he died on the streets no one would have cared.  He chose another option.
70  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why you should be against free education. on: November 25, 2014, 01:18:50 AM
Homelessness is 100% caused by liberals.  Otherwise everyone would have a free lot and pay no property tax or the permits on it.  The homeless are actually a means to scare the average citizen to go to school, to pay taxes, and for you to remain poor.  While Obama and company are flying around playing golf and going to Hawaii, they try to scare every last dime out of you look at global warming.  They are so elite they don't even want to finish their short terms and expect you to pay off their bad personal debts.

You are expected to do the hard work, the labor.  They want to give speeches, goto meetings, sleep with interns, push paper, and travel.  If they come from an Ivy league college vote them out.

They talk about inequality, yet their schools practice none of that with their endowments funds.  It was the liberal mayors that kicked the 99% out of the parks.   The electric bills are 40% higher in the blue cities as oppose to the right-to-work states.  You even have Biden bragging he does not own any stocks, because he can tax the hell out of those that do.

The tea party is for the people, the democratic party for economic terror.
71  Other / Politics & Society / Why you should be against free education. on: November 24, 2014, 09:11:59 PM
Consider the story 5 little pigs, it is about the same as the 3 little pigs but the 4th pig is a government worker pig that puts a massive rent (property tax) on the land forcing the two pigs living it up in town to get back to work on their straw and wood houses to pay the tax. The 4th pig also has the best house in town. The 3rd pig can't afford bricks so he starts to use cheaper unreinforced cement. The 5th pig is homeless he gave up paying the property tax he could not afford it or the rent.

Now the story goes to Hitler.  Hitler actually had no interest in government and actually had jews as friends. Hitler was actually a very good painter however he applied to Art school and was denied twice.  He ended spending 5 years either homeless or living in shelters.  He was then sent to war and was actually a war hero in World War I.   He came back an angry man.

Was the violence the fact that he was denied entrance to art school?  The only violence that could occur if the school did not pay property tax or got government funding of any sort or got privy to government jobs.  The only violence that was put on Hitler was that he was forced to live on the streets and pay rent and property tax to the state.  A legitimate school would accept anyone that could pay them to enter and meet the prerequisites of the class.  

Imagine if Hitler had a free piece of land in which to live.  He did sell some paintings and he also was interested in architecture.  He most likely would have found something he could have sold.  From there he could have learned from other artists for free. However, it was the property and inflation taxes to support the schools which he was denied access that hurt him.

In summary end all government funding of schools past 18 years, otherwise imho you support and cause the rise of tyrants.
72  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ixcoin TODO on: November 22, 2014, 09:47:38 AM

now if we can only delete the transaction fee we will be #1.

How is that even a possibility?  How will miners securing the chain be paid?  Would you work for free?
I don't have a single miner so I have nothing to gain from fees but I understand no crypto can ever work without some form of a reward system which for IXC will be fees.

We can fight to keep the fees low while Bitcoin's fees sky rocket higher than the most expensive credit cards.  That's the best we can hope for and I think it's a fair, win-win, solution.

They will work for free to protect their coins or run their business.  vircurex has a ixc exchange because that is how they make money.  IXC, is merged mined thus needs no incentive to mine.  We will see in the next few years.  If you have a large stake in ixc you have an incentive to keep a client open to protect your investment.  It is also a good way to clear out the pump and dumps asap.

If bitcoin had no mining reward and it deleted transactions with pos the long term security would actually be higher than today.
73  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: bitcoin deletion project. 21 million to 20 million. on: November 21, 2014, 11:50:20 AM
Are you really that much of an idiot? I already told you, you just have to look in Japan economic history to see that deflation is a bad thing.

Except in terms of prices of microwave ovens, there is no deflation in Japan.  Show me a decade where money supply went down?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

#1 Japan.
74  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: bitcoin deletion project. 21 million to 20 million. on: November 21, 2014, 11:46:23 AM
Great idea, you first though

Yes I pledged 0.1 btc, however we need a official deletion address where I can gain fame.
75  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ixcoin TODO on: November 21, 2014, 08:22:10 AM



The best update Ixcoin can do is delete all block rewards, yet require a mandatory transaction fee.  deflations and austerity lead to growth, while inflation, and growth of money supply leads to tyranny.

Delete what block rewards?  Block rewards are now ZERO so there is nothing to delete.

Bitcoin has a minimum transaction fee of .001 so I don't see why IXC can't have one but maybe at first we should not make it mandatory in order to accelerate adoption.

As for deflation; it too, just like inflation, greatly enriches the rich elite at the painful cost of the middle and lower class.

Austerity works but once again, at the pain and suffering of those who have the least to spare.  But given we will soon see massively destructive inflation all accross the world, a deflationary policy [which Bitcoin does not currently have but IXC truly does] could be a very popular feature and a benefit many investors will search out.



The transaction fee is necessary to prevent spamming the chain which has already been done. If there was a 0.1 transaction fee, the block would be small like peercoin.
76  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ixcoin TODO on: November 21, 2014, 08:19:48 AM
Thinking back the whole idea of mining coins is a horrible idea.  Mining rewards do not protect a coin, the community must protect the coin as a choice.  Thus to end mining should win Nasakioto an award.  The 2nd award he should get is the idea of using bounties to attract people to do certain things for the site.  Some of the artwork you can find for IXcoin came from bounties.   Although most have disappeared, that is the way to do it.

now if we can only delete the transaction fee we will be #1.
77  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What Would You Want In A Coin? - 2015 on: November 21, 2014, 08:08:46 AM
1. No mining for profit.  Mining is the biggest scam out there.  There largest owners will protect the coin.  Now that IXC lost its reward, it is still protected!

2. There could be a mining reward to prevent overloading the chain.  I suggest this transaction fee is deleted.

3.  100% premine is the most moral way to run a coin.  The creator owns the coins and distributes them how he sees fit.  Hopefully he might get 10% to the exchanges so they keep his coin on it and also protect it.  They also get a fee for each exchange so they can make money the moral way by offering a service as a choice.
78  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Arrested for feeding homeless people on: November 21, 2014, 07:57:42 AM
lnerable" stuff or even the "tragedy of the commons" really matters as much as the demographics.  If there were more homeless, (and if they voted), the old people would be forced to pay for everything for the homeless and put up with all of the noise and diseases and such without recourse until they left (if they could).  Its less about what's "right", than it is about who is the majority.

Speaking of US demographics, have the babyboomers spent all the social security money yet?  Isn't that set to run out just about the time that demographic bubble pops?  A democratic republic might be the worst system there is, except for all the others.

This is all wrong.  there is no "tragedy of the commons", there is "tragedy of private property".  It was only when the government put hunting regulations on the Rocky Mountain elk that applied to public and private land did the populations rebound!  If people would be allowed to do on private property whatever they want would the Rocky Mountain elk go extinct.

Social Security can never go bankrupt.  As there will always be money coming in from the workers.
79  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Arrested for feeding homeless people on: November 21, 2014, 07:51:18 AM
Looks like compassion is anti-american...

The 'problem' will go away when the homeless people die of starvation, meanwhile the 1%ers will find more loopholes to avoid paying tax.

All, 100%, every homeless person in the United States, is the result of liberal government policy.  In fact homelessness is used by the left to make you walk the line.  To scare you to go to school.  To scare you to pay your property taxes.  It is government and liberals that kicked the 99% out of the parks.  The Koch brothers welcomed the 99% to the parks.
80  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Should we be protected from fraud? on: November 21, 2014, 07:42:56 AM
If you buy a car and say you buy a 5 year warranty from company B.  Suppose the insurance turns out to be a fraud and they just pocket the money.  You want it to end there?  What if you buy a 100K motorhome on credit and you deault on your loan, you want it to end there?  What if you buy a bed and you say you want to load it in your car first, then you take off without paying.  What if you buy an insurance policy and it turns out not to be insurance but just a piece of paper.  What about all the bitcoin sites that defrauded their users.  What if you buy something in a magazine send your money in and get nothing?

No offense but fraud is a pretty simple crime to prosecute.

What if you put your money in Wells Fargo, then one day the CEO decided to take all the money?  Why is reputation important if you can just change your name and location.
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