Bert,
That's fake.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/samsung.asp
From the article:
The group demands $1 million worth of the online currency Bitcoins. It also says that people who want the documents released can send money as well, and whichever side sends $1 million first will win. Bitcoin is a digital currency not overseen by any government or bank. Various merchants accept the currency for goods and services.
Bitcoin is a digital currency not overseen by any government or bank. Various merchants accept the currency for goods and services.
Who wants to bet that the real point of this is to go after Bitcoin? /Clayton
The keyboard is mightier than the gun.
Non parit potestas ipsius auctoritatem.
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lol nice one, Autolykos.
@Autolykos: Much to learn you still have, my young padawan. The rabbit hole goes much deeper. Bitcoin is a Proof-of-Concept for a global cashless virtual "money" like that shown in the movie In Time. The author of Bitcoin is actually Nick Szabo of George Washington University (a known haunt of CIA)... the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto contains the hint... initials are SN... backwards of NS. The mysterious "SN" has since bowed out after Gavin Andersen (who has actually visited CIA to give a talk about Bitcoin) took over active maintenance of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is every bit as grassroots as Wikileaks (an obvious honeypot operation) is.
This is just a publicity stunt. Whoever is behind this is doing it at the behest of the Establishment!
Clayton -
Cliff's Notes:
German construction workers were demolishing a nightclub when they ran across a strange-looking object. It turned out to be a 550lb. bomb from World War II....that was still "live" and armed.
Democrat Debt Solutions: Tax the Rich, Spend More Money
my favorite part is at the very end.
A good Birchy song: From My Cold Dead Hands
For all his faults, I will say Molyneux is quite elegant and articulate in making the case for freedom.
@JJ: I listened to the first 5 minutes. I think that Molyneux unnecessarily drifts off into developmental theory: how much of the net outcome of individual behavior can be attributed to genetics and how much to the developmental environment? We don't need to answer this question in order to understand that adult behavior is profoundly affected both by genes (heredity) - what he is calling nature - and by the developmental environment - what he is calling nurture.
The question that remains unanswered is why so few rise to the top. If it is so easy to set up shop as your own slaveholder/king/whatever, why is the top of the pyramid so narrow? Why isn't there a great deal more competition? After all, the very attributes he mentions (amplification of the fight-or-flight response) are characteristic of those at the top of the pyramid, so the social process he describes should be making the competition for the top spot much more intense. This should result in a much flatter pyramid with many, many people breaking away from existing pyramids and starting their own slave/tax colonies. We observe exactly the opposite.
The fact is that human social behavior is not a blank slate. We do have innate dispositions and those dispositions include alpha-like behavior (dominance-submission). The environment in which this particular behavior evolved was not one of imperial kings and queens. The lead hunter in a hunting party was the alpha, or the tribal elder in a small tribe was the alpha. The intensification of population and capital made possible by the Agricultural Revolution also created an intensification in this hierarchical behavior. The alpha male no longer led a Wooly Mammoth hunting expedition, he led an entire army of men numbering in the hundreds of thousands. He was no longer merely head of a small tribe, he was head of an expansive nation-state.
This is not the only maladaptive behavior that humans exhibit. There are many behaviors that are now curbed by the law (even customary law) and we are much better off without them. Unfortuantely, the State creates an inversion of the law by virtue of privilege and this is how such maladapted behavior can persist. In modern law, dominance is not punished, it is refusal to be dominated - that is, failure to submit - that is punished.
Neither the inevitability argument nor the blank slate argument is persuasive. The correct answer lies somewhere between these extremes. The State is not inevitable but neither is it wholly contrary to human nature. Rather, it has hijacked a portion of human nature (alpha dominance/submission) that evolved for other purposes and has turned it to use in creating and sustaining the system of parasitism that has dominated human society for the last 6,000 years or so.
Clayton:@JJ: I listened to the first 5 minutes.
Well fuck. Start it at 4:35 and try again.
Man dies after doc takes lunch during kidney op
Someone on facebook posted favorably about Obama's character and questions how anyone could vote for Romney over him. This is what came to mind. One can never have too much Farage:
If I had a cake and ate it, it can be concluded that I do not have it anymore. HHH
One of the better parts of the movie:
Mr. Farage, tell us how you really feel!
You guys never saw my thread?
Nigel Farage explains what's up with the European Union
Scarlett Johansson to Youth: I'm Not Gonna Tell You Who You Vote For--Just Commit To Vote At BarackObama.com
Libertarians often refer to the customary law of peoples such as the Somalians and Pashtuns and of medieval Ireland and Iceland, but the Chechens also live by custom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechens#Culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teip
http://mashar.free.fr/conduct.htm
Interestingly there is a strong emphasis on freedom and self-defence, and there is opportunity (and historical examples) of new clans being formed out of immigrants.
Government: Prepare for zombie apocalypse
On Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152075483775471
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=381428975260908
As discussed earlier, the MSM may actually be losing their fever...
Typical journalist hack and progressive statist Joe Klein is not pleased with his messiah. Reading this it's like watching a cartoon character start to figure out the attractive girl who distracts him in the middle of his pursuit and tells him which way the guy went, looks a lot like the character he's pursuing...
It's like getting to see this guy start to realize..."hey wait a minute...that politician gave a whole speech and didn't really even say anything. What is this? I mean, of course he's great, here's a bunch of reasons why, but...what the hell? How long has this been going on?"
John James:
Funny- I thought the Democrats were the "YES WE CAN" types. Now the Republicans are, in essence, the party of "YES WE CAN-BUT BETTER" The parties are hardly trying to differentiate themselves this time around.
The elections are beginning to look a lot like a f*&%ed up version of an old Gatorade commercial. Okay so I can't find the gatorade commercial I had in mind. So here are the Manning brothers:
[The Circle Bastiat] Bernanke as a wee lad?
ThatOldGuy:Funny- I thought the Democrats were the "YES WE CAN" types. Now the Republicans are, in essence, the party of "YES WE CAN-BUT BETTER" The parties are hardly trying to differentiate themselves this time around.
Not unlike the news networks...
HAHAHA
That was the funniest thing I've seen today. The title and description on the vid:
The Best F#@king News Team Won't Stop Ever While other news networks claim to move or lean forward, no one is as relentless as the Best F#@king News Team on TV.
Essentially saying We tha best! reminded me of the first few lines of this song from a while back.
Just for good measure, his initial analysis of the campaign shouldn't be missed either...
Michael Moynihan on the Politics of Travel Guides
I just realized the Republicans had CLINT Eastwood speak for them while the Democrats had Bill CLINTon.
They are the same people!
Wheylous,
You forget your /Clayton tag.
Wheylous:I just realized the Republicans had CLINT Eastwood speak for them while the Democrats had Bill CLINTon. They are the same people!
Yeah! We got 'em NOW!
QED
Bill Clinton is related to the British royal family and most of the British aristocracy... I wouldn't be surprised if Clint Eastwood is, too.
Edited to add:
Interesting... not sure what to make of it, but here it is FWIW: http://www.seastwood.com/backup310/Eastwood/clintgenealogy.asp
^^that's so rich^^
the GooPhone i5...
The only one worth following is the one who leads... not the one who pulls; for it is not the direction that condemns the puller, it is the rope that he holds.
Wheylous: I just realized the Republicans had CLINT Eastwood speak for them while the Democrats had Bill CLINTon. They are the same people!
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
From Tom Woods:
This company is pledging $5 toward the Murphy-Krugman debate for every T-shirt they sell this month. The shirts are very nice, so you are now morally obligated to do this. Click here, right now!
Thomas DiLorenzo explains how not to deal with depression. In the video preview it looks like he's holding a styrofoam cup about to drink and he's chewing something:
gotlucky -
Youre not the first one.
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http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/30444.aspx
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