The only guarantee in this world is that there are no guarantees; don't keep your eggs all in one basket

Yes; you'll have to stick around and make a few posts in this section until you're a Jr. member.

Oh, yes; you pay a flat fee of 7.50 a month (I think...) and you can watch all the movies you want.  Hulu might be a little cheaper, but it works the same way, except it has ads so I don't like it much.  I was going to mention Steam but the more I thought on it, the more I figured it was more of an online store than a monthly rental service; still, there's a plethora of indie games on Steam that are well within the normal budget, so I tend not to pirate those games, especially not while being an indie dev   But the blu-ray/DVD thing is probably another factor that led to Netflix, or perhaps what sparked torrenting movies to start with (aside from insane box office prices), since it became a little bit much to buy a DVD for $15 just to watch it in a blue moon, you know?

But perhaps you bring up another good point; I'm positive there are still services around which you can buy digital copies of movies, but it's a pain to store all those movies, and then there's one-time rental services which are also rip-offs since you get the movie for a week and still had to pay quite a bit, it was still easier to torrent and store the movie, if only temporary.

What's really crazy is, I recall a service recently which allowed you to play popular games remotely, on really high-end PCs, and it transferred your mouse and keyboard movements over the web and sent back an image stream from the remote PC; it was a really neat idea, but if you don't have a fast connection, the delay is just too much to bear.

Naw; I'll pay $7 a month for unlimited gaming

You can use a VPN but those can be slow.  Otherwise you're unlikely to get called out on it; I think our ISPs understand that their business is more important than Hollywood's.


The market adapted; it's more of a hassle to torrent now than it is to use Netflix (at least for Joe Average.)  If they do something like this for gaming, piracy will really plummet.

Upon understanding where the vast majority of my tax money actually goes to, i.e. debt interest, SS & welfare, invasions, I really don't see the point in giving them any more money than what I have to; I'm never seeing it again.

Hey, isn't voluntary taxation an oxymoron?

Feed your addiction I say, just not to the point of detriment   I'll check this site every hour or so, I consider it my break from whatever else I do in the day.  I'll stop coming here once it no longer serves my needs, but this so far hasn't happened.

Total time logged in: 38 days, 12 hours and 47 minutes.

I'm still learning new things from this site.  10/10, will read tomorrow.

Just don't use BitCoin and you'll be fine

I think you're right; it's also ingrained into our minds that we can't take a gold coin or a whole dollar and easily divide it into smaller parts (at least, especially not by tearing the dollar); perhaps the public isn't used to highly divisible money; a nickle's a nickle, a dime's a dime, but a bitcoin can be anything you want it to be, up to a hundred million places.

I've found a few newbies thinking it had to be whole for some reason; never thought this would be an issue.

I've already seen the first one; that's the video that pulled me out of the matrix and got me to really question what was happening in the world The second one is very good as well; the truth is painful.


That's what a collapse is; nobody is using Zimbabwean dollars for this reason.

Who's gonna force me to do business with health insurance?

Where are you from that you believe America has no gun control?

The options are a little silly anyway; you must either be in love with it, willing to try it, or so anal about it that you wouldn't want anyone to have it ever.  I'd hardly call that a yes and a no

I'm pretty sure I recall Hearn introducing an idea of "flagging" coins in the case of criminal behavior several months ago, to which there was an equal amount of negativity.

The sun never sets in England America

Yes, you're right, and I understand your frustration; all we can really do is state our case in a way we would understand before we started believing in anarchism.  It wasn't that long ago that I thought anarchists were crazy people myself I think it wasn't until the beginning of this year that I'd been introduced to the viewpoint...  What really draws me to it is how rational anarchists are, and eventually I couldn't call myself rational while fighting them with irrational logic.  I believe it was a gun debate that finally broke me; I tried to make the case that banning guns was a good thing, but after I was explained why it wasn't, I had to roll with what made more sense.

Anyhow, I believe the best approach is to leave anarchism out of the equation, but to instead push for rationalism; find a break in someone's logic and pull the thread, show them why you believe the things that you do, state your intentions, have patience.  Anarchism evolves naturally from secular rationalism; the more rational a society is, the less dependence they have on the state.  Since the state loses all its power if nobody believes in it, it's not a matter of political preference, but a matter of understanding why it's better to have a foundation of reason and ethics; everything flows naturally from these philosophies.