Because it hasn't been made illegal. Things are legal by default.
More to the point, in order to understand the complex decisions required to be a regulator, you need to be intimately familiar with what you are regulating in order to make good decisions. These people are so specialized that, if they leave their regulating positions, there's not anywhere they'd be more qualified to work for than the companies they're regulating. If they couldn't, it would severely hamper the future employability of the regulators. That would make it career suicide, and we'd end up with far less-knowledgeable people people making important decisions. That's the argument, anyway.
Agreed. Based on everything I've heard, and the as-of-yesterday fact that the official versions were still up, this guy was just violating the licensing terms of the emulator programs he repackaged and sold as his own.
Nope. Nobody owes anybody anything, unless they enter into an agreement of their own free will for their mutual benefit. Enough of this protectionism where other people make promises and commitments on my behalf.
I would, but I don't consider this at all surprising. I think we'll need a revolution to sort all this out; maybe it will come sooner than I'd expected.
"If it's such a competitive advantage, the state is free to lower or even drop state sales tax and find other ways and means to generate income. Several states, in fact, have no state sales tax."
No kidding. It's still down.
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"And second part is that liberals have a history of advocating various demographic counting, districting, and voting changes that change the setup in their favor, ofteh in fairly shady ways."
That's sort of the point of this. Older people can affect our lives in a way that we can't affect their pasts. Do you really think that, for example, young people would have raised the drinking age? Or that old people would have raised it when they were below that age? People are voting things that don't affect them, and they have that power because they're "old enough".
What would you do if the country raised the voting age to 21? There aren't enough people under the age to block it by themselves. Conceivably, they could keep doing it. That hardly seems just, since they don't lose that ability they had when they were young.
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Public domain
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More to the point, in order to understand the complex decisions required to be a regulator, you need to be intimately familiar with what you are regulating in order to make good decisions. These people are so specialized that, if they leave their regulating positions, there's not anywhere they'd be more qualified to work for than the companies they're regulating. If they couldn't, it would severely hamper the future employability of the regulators. That would make it career suicide, and we'd end up with far less-knowledgeable people people making important decisions. That's the argument, anyway.
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That's the whole reason behind using our system instead of a parliament, isn't it? It's a pity it hasn't gone as intended.
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Support reference
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Are you chicken?
That sounds like a challenge.
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Go NH! No state income tax, either!
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That's true of both our political parties.
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Do you have any empirical evidence?
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What would you do if the country raised the voting age to 21? There aren't enough people under the age to block it by themselves. Conceivably, they could keep doing it. That hardly seems just, since they don't lose that ability they had when they were young.
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I wish there were a way to delete your comment (say, within 5 seconds) if you reply to the wrong post.
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