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It's been a long time since I've been around, but I guess a lot of old folks will be coming back to say their piece once word continues to get around. I did have some fun here back in the day, and lurking every now and then has been good too. See you all on the outside
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[quote user="Think Blue"] [quote user="Lennow"] Edit: If anyone remembers where the forum explaining nested quotes is, can they please link me to it? Thanks in advance! [/quote] http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/18184.aspx [/quote] Thanks. I still can't get them to work manually, but the JavaScripted link by NigrahamUK gets
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I sheepishly admit that my grounding in mathematical econ is to weak to understand the joke. What is TR, and how does the one-more-unit approach work?
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[quote user="Angurse"] [quote user="Pentahedron"] I read through the whole topic. Good stuff and i'm surprised it's just one minarchists debating with god knows how many anarchists and holding up. I didn't know the forums were so skewed towards AnCap when I joined here. [/quote] What minarchist? [/quote] Rettoper self
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[quote user="pentahedron"] I read through the whole topic. Good stuff and i'm surprised it's just one minarchists debating with god knows how many anarchists and holding up. I didn't know the forums were so skewed towards AnCap when I joined here. [/quote] Welcome to the forum. Do you understand the positive reasons why most people
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[quote user="Rettoper"] You don't have to buy intellectual property to copy it without permission. I could copy the NFL logo and put it on all of my merchandise since I never signed a contract to do otherwise. [/quote] Yes, you could. Is this a problem? Well, maybe. If all you are doing is selling NFL merchandise at a lower price, then
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[quote user="Rettoper"] Do you disagree that the geopolitic is anarchic ? [/quote] It would be different if you didn't understand something I said and asked for clarification... [quote user="Lennow"] Fine then, you can use that definition. But you haven't defined government. One common definition is any entity having a coercive
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What AJ said. There aren't any magical answers to your questions; market participants would decide everything.
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Rettoper, I just realized that I don't even have to prove intellectual property is wrong/bad in order to defend anarchy. On the contrary, you could have intellectual property in an anarchic society. For instance, whenever you buy, say, a painting or a song, the contract could specify that you can't reproduce the work, etc. The only difference
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[quote user="Rettoper"] to debunk the assertion that no empirical "test tube" exists that disproves ancap society. the global geopolitic is an example of what would happen if the United States or anyother large state devolved toward anarchism. it would simply repeat the violence and chaos that exists on the current geopolitic. [