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I'm not. Chapter 11 bankruptcy prevents the destruction of an enterprise, while Chapter 7 liquidates it.
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The purpose of bankruptcy protection law is to prevent a race between creditors to seize assets before any others and thus destroy the capital they are owed. If a corporation owes more than it has in assets, it follows that some creditors will not be paid. It is better in that case for a bankruptcy judge to arbitrate between these creditors and settle
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Firstly, attempting to establish a anarchist society on an island has been attempted several times. Werner K Stiefel financed several attempts. Islands are isolated and remote. They are not good locations, unless the island is already densely populated.
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Maybe, but would having a mass-murder machine be a good idea? Might be a better idea to stock up on cheaper anti-military weapons, especially since delivering a nuke without an ICBM is a dicey proposition unless you're installing them preemptively. The military is not the enemy, the state is. In a duel you attack your opponent's body, not his
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As Jorg Guido Hullsmann points out, secession does not mean breaking all relationships with the central power, it means negotiating them on your own terms. The protection and citizenship of France is not free, yet despite paying for this, Monaco has one of the highest GDP per capita in the world.
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Better tell Monaco to accelerate its nuclear armaments program.
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Here is a man without intellectual curiosity whatsoever.
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Diminishing returns means that it is actually to the benefit of a person that owns the entire universe to subdivide it and sell it.
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A revised edition of this essay is now online at my blog: http://strangerousthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/imagining-and-creating-a-free-country-within-an-unfree-world-local-secession-and-urbanization/
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The NEP was explicitly an anti-capitalist policy.