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Very interesting, Kakugo. I'm pretty sure it's because of posts like the one above that a few of us wanted you to start a blog. Wait, you've got a blog now, right?
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Also Atari and later Sega as video game console makers. Also Wheylous, you should know better than to make 'question' threads, which do not show the proper page number on the forum view once they go up a single page.
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For those talking about 'evidence' for evolutionary theory, I hope you realise that it is a priori in the same way economics is. Assuming variation and heritability of traits existing in a scarce environment, how could natural selection not occur?
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Why not gold?
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Of the ancient Greeks, the most libertarian are the Epicureans, Cyrenaics, and Stoics. Hume, Schopenhauer, Stirner, and Nietzsche are probably the most interesting modern philosophers for the libertarian.
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[quote]And I used to like The Simpsons until I found out it was progressive...and the show started to suck as it's animation grew better.[/quote] Classic Simpsons isn't partisan and there's heaps of libertarian themes in there. The writer of the most Simpsons episodes, John Swartzwelder, is a libertarian. Avoid episodes after season 12,
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Great post Kakugo. Care to turn it into a VR article? It would be most welcome.
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1. All the North had to do was withdraw its troops from the South and recognise the CSA. Why would the CSA invade them? The South only wanted independence, not control of the entire USA. Thus the term 'civil war' is itself incorrectly applied to that conflict.
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I agree with Yeager on this, as much as I like Salerno, Herbener and Hoppe. I'll probably do a post on the Voluntaryist Reader about this eventually.
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I think Hoppe is way off on this. First, as noted above, he doesn't realise that families and firms do have the same problem as socialism since they do not have a common unit of calculation. Has he not heard of diseconomy of scale? Second, I think that Mises' calculation problem is primarily about knowledge, specifically the lack of knowledge