PKop

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by PKop 14y ago
Paul's beef with the "we have no intention to " position is that by extension, if there was an intention to, lethal force against a non-imminent threat on an american citizen could be unilaterally carried out by the decree of a president.
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by PKop 14y ago
No. "No intention" does not imply "No constitutional right to". The issue is about due process. Leaving it up to the whims of leaders is not following the rule of law.
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by PKop 14y ago
A instance of your first question by Ted Cruz: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/holder-government-has-no...
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by PKop 14y ago
Aside from gay marriage, I'd say as an individual, economic policies that are very non-libertarian effect me much more than marijuana laws and abortion, which WILL NOT be overturned and is NOT a primary issue for most practical Republican c
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by PKop 14y ago
I think that's a misreading of their principles then. In very large populations with entrenched gov'ts, the individual suffers the most. The smallest minority is the individual, and individual liberties be they economic, social, political,
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by PKop 14y ago
The most important thing to note is that cutting your spending rate is much more powerful than increasing your income. Note to our government, cut spending!
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by PKop 14y ago
Absurd. Imagine they were 100%. You wouldn't start a company there. What if they were 90? You wouldn't start a company there (assuming your compensation is not much much higher than it would be in other areas minus taxes.) Decrease this
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by PKop 14y ago
Should he disregard his observations because it offends your sensibilities?
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by PKop 14y ago
I'm not sure I see how money could be made in the taxi, or any, industry where a business kills and rapes it's customers. Benefits: more choice and competition in the marketplace, lower prices. See: http://www.econ.armstrong.edu/toma/Taxi
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by PKop 14y ago
So please specify how, in this case, what is beneficial about the regulation of the taxi industry for consumers who want choices and lower prices?
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by PKop 14y ago
This sums up very nicely the conundrum that facebook finds itself in. I read somewhere, probably on HN, an analogy that Google is like a phonebook - a place one actively is trying to seek out information and lookup things that may be pur
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Boeing perfects missile that wipes out electronics with microwaves(businessinsider.com)
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by PKop 14y ago
attempting to argue that returning a kidnapped child to their parents may NOT be regarded as a success because of the "cost of the initiative" is morally indefensible. You're saying that any and all possible attempts at finding / returnin
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by PKop 14y ago
You haven't seen much from Thiel it seems. He addresses the lage growth of economies such as China extensively, and identifies that much of their growth is not adding new science or technology to collective knowledge but simply "catching u
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Rand Paul on Internet Freedom (15 minutes in)(heritage.org)
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by PKop 14y ago
I'd say yes it is. I had some annoyance with the characters around season 2, but you do come to see this is intentional and not, what I first feared, was lazy writing. It gets better, and quite good. EDIT: I agree, The Wire is better.
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by PKop 14y ago
Exactly. His surprise seems surprising. That the company with the clear majority in the e-book market would charge more for the service of being published within that market does not seem like earth shattering news.
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by PKop 14y ago
Political cheer-leading in an election year. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/08/obama-im-offended-that...
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by PKop 14y ago
Should one ignore emotions altogether, rule them out of one's life entirely? AYN RAND: Of course not. One should merely keep them in their place. An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, n
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by PKop 15y ago
How is arguing that "free" is too low any different than arguing "X" dollars is too low and should be more? If the marginal product of the interns labor is more than what is offered, then competing companies will bid up the wage rate until
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by PKop 15y ago
That makes the lie even more foolish.
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by PKop 15y ago
One of the best interviews I've seen with Ayn Rand, in her own words if anybody cares to read: http://ellensplace.net/ar_pboy.html
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by PKop 15y ago
Sock money away where, in their mattress? No, in the bank, money market, investments, etc. thereby increases the available funds for others to start businesses, take out loans, provide liquidity to the market. "Take money from people", you
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Vint Cerf attacks European Internet policy(telegraph.co.uk)
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