Used to be everyone had to slave in the hot sun for fourteen hours a day just to scrape by with enough food to live on. Now all those jobs are gone! They were stolen by fancy tech-nol-o-gie!
The world would be a much better place if we could all just stop from being so damn efficient and productive!
Stopped reading after "Republicans". If you can still cling to your petty partisan bullshit after everything we seen go down in the last 50 years, then nothing you write is worth spending the time to read.
Business is trade, a function of private property. If you believe business exists only because the state permits it, then you must also believe that you exist only because the state permits it.
What a sad little slave is OOTB, throwing himself on the mercy of his masters in government.
Combined with the fact 1/13th of all your currency in existence could be jacked by a single entity, is in my opinion quite an implementation flaw.
First of all, that's not an "implementation flaw" of Bitcoins. There's nothing that stops everyone in the US from depositing their money in a single bank, but that isn't a flaw with the US dollar. Second, given the current state banks in the US and the EU, I think you just might get a chance to see what the "implementation flaw" with paper money actually is. :)
And "most" people understand that it's wrong to get something of value without compensating its rightful owner.
You may as well accuse people of "oxygen piracy" because they don't compensate tree farm companies, and therefore "get something of value without compensating its rightful owner". For that train of logic to go anywhere, you would first have to convince them that the air they breathe is "rightfully owned" by the company in question.
Likewise, before you can claim that downloading a song is wrong, you'd first have to convince people that a songwriter is the "rightful owner" of a pattern of bits on their hard drive. Good luck with that.
Mentioning something bad that Obama did makes me a "teabagger", who "takes sides"? Under your theory, no one would ever be able to criticize the president.
Here's a hint, moron: Obama is just the latest in a long line of shitty authoritarian presidents that stretches back as far as the eye can see.
First of all "I'm just doing my job" doesn't cut it as an argument.
Second of all, they don't have to stretch laws to cover things well beyond the original intent, merely because they don't have a legitimate reason to arrest somebody. That's not justice, and it's not their job.
Thirdly, they don't enforce the law equally. Officers routinely let other officers (and other "important" people) off the hook for crimes that would land a normal person in jail.
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Used to be everyone had to slave in the hot sun for fourteen hours a day just to scrape by with enough food to live on. Now all those jobs are gone! They were stolen by fancy tech-nol-o-gie!
The world would be a much better place if we could all just stop from being so damn efficient and productive!
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More like an Acme portable hole that contains your entire life history.
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Might be funny, actually!
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Get a grip.
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If China stopped pegging the yuan to the dollar tomorrow, what do you think would happen to the values of the yuan and dollar?
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Re: Reverse psychology...
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What a sad little slave is OOTB, throwing himself on the mercy of his masters in government.
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That's like saying the US dollar is worthless because Paypal got hacked.
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You may as well accuse people of "oxygen piracy" because they don't compensate tree farm companies, and therefore "get something of value without compensating its rightful owner". For that train of logic to go anywhere, you would first have to convince them that the air they breathe is "rightfully owned" by the company in question.
Likewise, before you can claim that downloading a song is wrong, you'd first have to convince people that a songwriter is the "rightful owner" of a pattern of bits on their hard drive. Good luck with that.
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Here's a hint, moron: Obama is just the latest in a long line of shitty authoritarian presidents that stretches back as far as the eye can see.
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What?!
Next thing you know, he'll be claiming he can bomb anyone in the world for as long as he likes without any congressional oversight!
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Second of all, they don't have to stretch laws to cover things well beyond the original intent, merely because they don't have a legitimate reason to arrest somebody. That's not justice, and it's not their job.
Thirdly, they don't enforce the law equally. Officers routinely let other officers (and other "important" people) off the hook for crimes that would land a normal person in jail.
Time to re-think your position.
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What?
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