sillygeese

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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Scandinavia has very free market open economies coupled with extensive welfare states financed by high taxes. That's a contradictory statement. High taxes represent a high level of intervention in the economy/market, whic
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> If we take Venezuela we need to make sure that we don't isolate the rest of the continent. So you don't see a problem with "you" "taking" Venezuela, as long as the consequences aren't too bad for &q
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Brink , you say?
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by sillygeese 11y ago
You may not be seeing the big picture here. Censorship is about rulers cementing their rule, and may well ultimately lead to complete tyranny. There's no guarantee that "the censorship arms race" will continue, even in your s
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by sillygeese 11y ago
They might want to pivot into something that's going to be needed in ten years.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> There are relatively few countries in which the government both could and would interfere with someone's publication of code It's not about interfering with someone's publication of code. It's about neutralizing
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Oh right, because laws are ironclad codifications of pure, unadulterated Justice , and that's exactly why you can be imprisoned for collecting rainwater on your property: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/orego
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by sillygeese 11y ago
I bet they don't even need to ask..
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by sillygeese 11y ago
So let's see.. Governments are passing increasingly Orwellian laws, obviously against our wishes . They clearly don't want us to have any privacy whatsoever, and are basically just making that a legal reality too. Hello police st
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Nope, I just didn't see how you reached the conclusion that I needed to be told to treat my employees well. I still don't :p But nevermind.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
.. As if you couldn't see that I'm making sense and speaking the truth. In fact, that's probably why you're "silencing" me. Did you shadowban me already too? :P That's fine, I'll have a new IP soon.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
So you think big corporations control the government, but you want the government to tax them so hard that they won't have the money to control the government anymore? Don't you think they'd bribe politicians not to tax them
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by sillygeese 11y ago
You didn't actually address any of my questions, so I'll just refrain from addressing yours.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Here's just one difference: we can vote for the government. So what? Go ahead and tell me how and why that matters with regard to taxation itself. Again, if a mafia let you vote for the new mafia boss, would that make extortion
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by sillygeese 11y ago
I'm saying taxation is extortion, and just as immoral as when a mafia does it. You're trying to justify extortion with things that are built with extorted money, but could be built without extorting people too. > You can'
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Size? I'd agree with that. The belief in political authority really is like a religion.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> You can't negotiate with the mafia, they do not represent your will and they offer no services. Oh, right. Kind of like how SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, TPP, TPPIP and so on ad infinitum represent your will? They know people don't wa
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Do Apple employees not drive cars on roads (paid for by the taxpayer)? If a mafia built roads, would that make its extortion alright? > Of course Apple avoid taxes - anyone who can do so without fear of getting significantly puni
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by sillygeese 11y ago
What exactly prompted you to give me that advice? I'm planning to treat my employees very well, if I ever have some.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> It's worth treating them well. Again, I agree. > Without them, you're nothing. Plenty of lifestyle business owners would beg to differ. > If a company wants loyalty from their employees, they have to demonstrate th
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> I also found it weird when businesses identified employees as a significant and therefore negative cost center But they are pretty much the biggest cost center for any employer? I'm not saying employees should not be valued an
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> minicabs are not allowed to hang around outside clubs and pubs looking for business. Therefore drunk women are less likely to just stumble into any old car outside the venue If you're going to rape someone, do you want to wait f
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Great news! Now San Antonians can have everything they do online data-mined by Google! I'm being snarky, but does anyone doubt Google will snoop the shit out of you once you're on a connection of theirs? That's the main rea
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Well there was, for instance, the rule brought in a few years ago in London that minicabs have to be called from a registered business, they can't just hang around soliciting for business. This was in direct response to women bei
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> if there are rules that prevent an Uber-like service from starting up then there was probably a bloody good reason they were put in place That's quite an assumption. Care to back that up somehow? Consider that free(er) competiti
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by sillygeese 11y ago
It's interesting how we normal people discuss and debate the merits and justifications for various policies that we have no say in. We automatically assume that our Dear Leaders are doing the same, weighing the pros and cons of whateve
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by sillygeese 11y ago
That was such a ridiculous load of nonsense that I'll go ahead and have some fun with it. > Complaining about the existence of a power structure and the extortion of the common man is akin to complaining about entropy Complaining
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Come on. It's more like: "I took some of your money for myself, gave some to my cronies so that I'll get their bribes in the future too, and a part of it was used to run all kinds of pointless bureauracy. Oh, and we provided
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> It's not extortion because I have the ability to (1) leave the country for one where the taxes are more to my liking So I guess a mafia's extortion is not actually extortion either, because you can leave one mafia and go ge
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by sillygeese 11y ago
What is?

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