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I have to say, for an institution that so zealously defends open source software, it is using inexplicably mediocre Microsoft software for its website.
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Economically speaking, the only tax that makes sense is the property tax, since in theory the purpose of government is to protect property, and thus the more property you have the greater the cost to government to protect you.
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Every company and large enough shopping mall has a security guard force. The difference between security guards and a police force is that the police force has special exemption from the laws of common mortals, which they use to abuse you.
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Do you think businesses would have "legal personhood" in a free-market society? Legal personhood is loophole around common law because under common law only persons can own property. There is no reason for it to exist under a more rational legal system.
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Kinsella is simply resorting to fallacy #5 of the fallacies of intellectual communism , combined with fallacy #1 . Your concern for plagiarism is in fact a concern with fallacy #4 .
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I can see no other way to maintain , not achieve, a world of city-states. How to get there is something I do not discuss, how to keep it like that, that’s easy: nukes and only nukes. I see no other way. That is because you cannot imagine any way that the state itself can be hurt. This has obvious historical reasons: every state has cultivated
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Given a fixed supply of capital, capitalists will always hire the most productive laborers at high wages and leave the others unemployed. A minimum wage results in reduced investment in capital over the long run. For this reason "competition" between buyers of labor is irrelevant . Even a single employer benefits from hiring the whole supply
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To repeat myself, tactical nukes are deigned to be used against armies, not cities. To repeat myself, armies are not our enemy, the state is. Armies must be evaded.
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A Chapter 11 bankruptcy makes sense in the following scenario: suppose that mad CEO has decided to make a huge bet on a new venture by borrowing huge amounts of money. Now, it turns out that the ventury is profitable, except the income generated is exceeded by the debt payments. It makes absolutely no sense in this case to liquidate the business, since
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Merlin, your strategy is mad for a very obvious reason: nukes do not target the state.