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Bring in a serious art director with gaming experience or something similar and I will certainly get 200 BTC going your way.
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In a free state economy, the mess of a road system we have today would be radically changed over time. You most likely would not find a no parking zone but something a bit more profitable for both parties.
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I just want to say I have respect for the idea of a resource-based economy. If it can be achieved without coercion or at all is my main question.
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Happiness and perception can only occur on an individual level and what makes an individual happy can only be determined by said individual.
This is where we disagree though. You seem to assume that people live in a vacuum, being fully capable of deciding for themselves what affects their emotions and state of mind. In fact, we are heavily influenced by our environment, and the society we develop in. Certainly, the things that make you happy are not at all the things that make an Eskimo happy, nor a man who lived 10,000 years ago. You are conditioned to feel, believe and behave in the manner that you were brought up in. No one can choose what makes them happy, they are conditioned to be happy. I would like to think I have the ability to think through my emotions. Sure their are triggers in my environment but I still maintain my stasis and control of my actions. I feel I have an adequate amount of control over my perception and happiness. No other man should be obligated to them nor be held accountable for the possible actions that may derive from them for I am in control. My environment may have shaped me but I owe nothing to it. ...and, believe it or not, I have some say in what makes me happy. I have gone through major depression and near suicide. I have successfully modified my perception. You cannot speak for every individual. Challenge your assumptions. I think you will be surprised by what you learn. Get off your high horse. Anyways, I always will. |
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Nonsense. You benefit some how.
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Happiness and perception can only occur on an individual level and what makes an individual happy can only be determined by said individual.
This is where we disagree though. You seem to assume that people live in a vacuum, being fully capable of deciding for themselves what affects their emotions and state of mind. In fact, we are heavily influenced by our environment, and the society we develop in. Certainly, the things that make you happy are not at all the things that make an Eskimo happy, nor a man who lived 10,000 years ago. You are conditioned to feel, believe and behave in the manner that you were brought up in. No one can choose what makes them happy, they are conditioned to be happy. I would like to think I have the ability to think through my emotions. Sure their are triggers in my environment but I still maintain my stasis and control of my actions. I feel I have an adequate amount of control over my perception and happiness. No other man should be obligated to them nor be held accountable for the possible actions that may derive from them for I am in control. My environment may have shaped me but I owe nothing to it. ...and, believe it or not, I have some say in what makes me happy. I have gone through major depression and near suicide. I have successfully modified my perception. You cannot speak for every individual. |
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Prosperity should be able to occur through individual voluntary consent if there is any hope for the species.
I'm glad we agree. I think we all agree on that here. The details and the means to this end is a different story. Personally, I don't think it's relevant. I believe through gradual failures and lots of rubble we'll figure it out. It might be a decade or a millenia from now but things will just have to get better one Winter at a time. |
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We can choose to build and maintain a safe transportation system that removes human error and therefor be safer and more efficient. We don't because the established interests would lose money if this were the case. That is why a change in values is necessary if we are going to ever become civilized.
I disagree. The desire to build is innate. Profits, whether it be for money or the love of man, fuels this desire. The fact is the desire is there. When we degrade man to just another gear in a whole machine, that is purported as an entire living organism, is when we have a problem. This only suppresses any natural desire to care or build for man in the first place. The only change in values we need is the destruction of the desire to control man on an individual level. You couldn't function as an individual. We are a social animal, and require social stimulus in order to live, grow and develop. The illusion of individuality is perpetuated in order for you to consume at a greater level than you would otherwise. Happiness and perception can only occur on an individual level and what makes an individual happy can only be determined by said individual. Other beings may be required for an adequate survival; however, that doesn't mean their cooperation has to be acquired by force. In the end, it is in everybody's best interest to voluntary cooperate with one another in the first place. Prosperity should be able to occur through individual voluntary consent if there is any hope for the species. |
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does not make sense. take a loan and use it if you are so sure about 400% annual return.
I'm interested in a response. |
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The same people usally call you a nutbar for asking where Obama's birth certificate is... I defy you to point me to a single Bitcoin conspiracy theorist who has done this. My father. ;_; |
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We can choose to build and maintain a safe transportation system that removes human error and therefor be safer and more efficient. We don't because the established interests would lose money if this were the case. That is why a change in values is necessary if we are going to ever become civilized.
I disagree. The desire to build is innate. Profits, whether it be for money or the love of man, fuels this desire. The fact is the desire is there. When we degrade man to just another gear in a whole machine, that is purported as an entire living organism, is when we have a problem. This only suppresses any natural desire to care or build for man in the first place. The only change in values we need is the destruction of the desire to control man on an individual level. |
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He gives the NSA too much credit. They're just another inefficient government bureaucracy. To exalt it or any other government head to the status of a driven organization that has surpassed all the world's private incentive is ludicrous, if not comedy. Of course, unless it's ran by some impassioned madman intent on reigning all of society in the state's hands -- hardly likely.
Killing people is something they do much better than private indusries.  Although Blackwater (XE) is gaining ground on that front it seems. Heh. The good thing about private industry is that they have more incentive to keep people alive, well, in most cases. |
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To be honest, everyone who wants to make one global system scares the hell out of me. Especially if it's mixed with some algorithms will decide what's the best for you mumbo-jumbo. Go ahead and build your futuristic city, but I will opt-out from living there, sorry dude.
They shouldn't scare you because they are only going to fall flat on their faces in their attempts to construct such a system. The massive amount of overhead that would be generated from a global system is unimaginable. It simply wouldn't work. There is no reason why people should want it to either. |
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Well, the answer to that is very plain: very few people outside those jurisdictions want Bitcoin.
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Oh how the statists and central planning whackjobs rage........
 He's just critiquing the man's proposed "solutions" of currency management. |
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He gives the NSA too much credit. They're just another inefficient government bureaucracy. To exalt it or any other government head to the status of a driven organization that has surpassed all the world's private incentive is ludicrous, if not comedy. Of course, unless it's ran by some impassioned madman intent on reigning all of society in the state's hands -- hardly likely.
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Oh no.
I would have expected your response to be one of apathy.  Bitcoin is in a league above Rand. I don't particularly prefer this. It was just a joke. Atlas... shrugged? ...I'll see myself out. *ba dum tish* |
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What is it with people offering free loans lol
usury is a sin luke-jr, get back on the IRC. |
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Oh no.
I would have expected your response to be one of apathy. Bitcoin is in a league above Rand. I don't particularly prefer this. |
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