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[quote]Is there a way around this? Anyone know?[/quote] Moving away from a centralized DNS system to a decentralized one. DNS turns the names into IP addresses. If you type http://174.132.65.90/ into your browser, it'll take you to mises.org! Remembering IPs is a pain in the butt. This is why people use domain names. With no central authority on
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Just wanted to say... Thank you Clayton for starting an excellent thread.
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They use the dialectic. Dialectics is unreason. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism Edit: to be more clear, hegelian dialectics and dialectical materialism are nonsense. Dialactics in the broadest sense isn't unreason.
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[quote]It's a play on your emotions (many people are concerned about the "enviornment" these days) in order to get you to buy a more expensive vehicle in hopes that you won't notice that a reduction of pollution on the front end doesn't necessarily equal less net polution. I wonder how many people truly realize this.[/quote] Aha
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[quote]Let me see, this means that between 38 and 49 per cent of Canadians think that people who do not want to work deserve a helping hand.[/quote] To speak in broader tems, this survey shows that between 38 to 49 per cent of Canadians have major cognitive dissonance issues. Canada is a strange place. I wonder how different those numbers will be two
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I pretty much agree with what you've said, Ricky. I'm just confused by militant anti-theism by some libertarians. Isn't it a bit un-libertarian to be against something that's largely a cultural thing/coping mechanism that people could choose to not be a part of? I just don't see where the NAP or contracts are violated because some
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[quote] Wrong is that set of actions which are discretely anti-society. We have a society (division of production and property rights) because it benefits us.[/quote] So what if it's wrong? I'll do it and get away with it. In this framework, I really don't see why I should serve society if I can be better off by not serving it. What's
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Nielsio, If there are people who need religion as a coping mechanism to have a "near perfectly rational" mind, would you have these people destroyed in order to eliminate religion? I went through an athiest phase and almost went insane when I realized that in that context right and wrong was just a matter of opinion. I don't understand
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If we have inflation of 10% for the next 10 years, $99 trillion ten years from now will be $38 trillion in today's dollars. The budget will be about 3 times bigger, so around $6 trillion... so unfunded liabilities don't look so bad when you inflate them away. :)
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[quote]Waits on austro libertarians/Ancap s to realize the implications 'self ownership' or individual sovereignty ,has on wage labour,labour contracts and the like[/quote] Care to enlighten us?