Wow, this is a doozy…
Haha, classic:
(watch this embed, or go here for a much better unembeddable version)
*SNL’*s Obama Admits He Has ‘No Idea How Money Works,’ Tries To Explain Cuts Anyway
Liberty walled in with debt–wow
You’ve got to see this! Swedish ad depicting what life would be like without taxation!
Wow. Even the young people playing ball can’t even clear the field they’re playing in, because only tax-funded government workers are able to do that challenging task.
I think there’s actually truth to the Swedish ad - taxation is precisely the condition for the creation of these large, well-maintained public spaces. Where I think we go wrong is attributing positive value to such public spaces as if a) without them, there would be no well-maintained spaces, and b) that these public spaces represent the actually most highly valued uses of the resources that go into producing and maintaining them.
In a lot of what we call “the third world”, there are very beautiful villas, etc. but you’ll never see them from the street precisely because they’re tucked away where you cannot tell they are even there. Wealth avoids ostentation. And public spaces are left… to the public. Which means they are not well cared for. This is one reason why I think that the European conception of a city (in turn, influenced by the Greco/Roman conception) is actually the Goldilocksean “right-size” for government. The efficiency benefits of a certain amount of well-maintained public space are so obvious and the evidence shows that private arrangements not specifically organized to the purpose of creating such spaces - roads, parks, etc. - will generally not do so.
Call me a citysteader. LOL.
Clayton -
It’s extremely old, but here’s another reason to hate anything that comes out of Los Angeles:
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-05/news/mn-198_1_h-l-mencken
First the best CMS, now the best registrar…
Pretty soon you’ll be able to startup and maintain a website completely anonymously.
completely anonymously
“if any of the addresses in a transaction’s past or future can be tied to an actual identity, it might be possible to work from that point and figure out who owns all of the other addresses.”
Doesn’t exactly sound like something people who are actually trying to be completely anonymous couldnt avoid.
And the example they give is ludicrous. It literally describes you having to purchase bitcoins on an exchange run by a malicious owner, and then having to use the same wallet to use those bitcoins to buy something from the same malicioius person’s “trap” site.
Cuz when I’m concerned about anonymity I’m totally gonna go buy on some random exchange, and then go off and use the same wallet to spend those coins to some unknown merchant. What a crock.
And the rest is just as lame. They seriously describe Internet forum users somehow being able to “bully” other forum users into giving up transaction information, and then somehow spending all the time necessary to try and trace back and confirm what they know for sure and connect potentially hundreds, if not millions of dots…and for what? The chance they might be able to find out that some person held some bitcoins at some point? Even if they could prove that an account was owned by a certain person (i assume froma paypal exchange), they can’t prove he was in control of the account after that. That’s like the morons trying to sue the person who pays the ISP bill for copyright infringing behavior on his network. You can’t prove who was on the computer.
“Oh that account? Yeah I had the code on a piece of paper in my wallet and I got mugged. That account’s been out of my hands for a while.”
This is my favorite part:
You might be thinking that this attack is not feasible. But consider this case:
- You live in China and want to buy a “real” newspaper for Bitcoins.
- You join the Bitcoin forum and use your address as a signature. Since you are very helpful, you manage to get 30 BTC after a few months.
- Unfortunately, you choose poorly in who you buy the newspaper from: you’ve chosen a government agent! Maybe you are under the mistaken impression that Bitcoin is perfectly anonymous.
- The government agent looks at the block chain and Googles (or Baidus) every address in it. He finds your address in your signature on the Bitcoin forum. You’ve left enough personal information in your posts to be identified, so you are now scheduled to be “reeducated”.
You might as well have responded “completely anonymous? BAHAHAHAHA. What rubbish! What if you post your name and physical address right next to the single bitcoin address you use for every single transaction you make?! NOT so ‘anonymous’ is it, mister anonymous?”
Rush Limbaugh endorses bitcoin.
*truancy
so…capitalism
[Trigger Warning] RAPE CULTURE: Teaching Men Not to Rape: Survivor Zerlina Maxwell Defies Threats After Speaking Out on Fox News
And I think the most important thing is that people understand that rape happens in this way, and not in the jump-out-of-the-bushes stranger rape type of way, the majority of times. That, of course, happens, but the majority of rapes are this other way, this acquaintance, date-rape type of way. And we have to acknowledge that this is a real thing. This is not—this is not something that we can pretend doesn’t exist.
she should know better, after all the man who was responsible for not raping her clearly abdicated that responsibility.
so am I to believe she didnt tell her rapist “no” or “stop” or “dont”? or what?