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HauntedRobot posted:The state I'm advocating for is actually the littlest  e; Sigh. 23 is the highest known prime number.
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toaster license man is my new favourite person https://twitter.com/LizardRumsfeld/status/1155888383190872066
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I hope yall have seen this loving amazing thread in LP. It's pretty close to what I imagine the UKMT would be like if you turned it into an RPGmaker game and replaced polls with baseball.
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AceOfFlames posted:No they don't! Every single time I even obliquely mention current events they immediately go "I don't watch the news" news websites? they're poo poo but they exist
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Bardeh posted:toaster license man is my new favourite person "NOBODY HAS ALL THE ANSWERS ABOUT HOW FREEDOM WORKS! THAT'S WHY FREEDOM IS SO IMPORTANT!" I'm dying
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Beefeater1980 posted:It’s astonishing that any foreigners talk to British people, ever. We have an amazingly consistent track record of loving over everyone who has anything to do with us. Qwertycoatl posted:Given up on TVs in general I think. Half my friends don't have a TV and the other half only do so they can hook up a games console and/or netflix Gorn Myson posted:He looks like Jason Watkins' evil brother Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, broadcast tv is in its final generation. I don't know anyone under the age of 50 who actually watches the broadcast channels as they happen. AceOfFlames posted:But then what if you pick one that turns out to be wrong?
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So, my ISP is Talktalk, and for about a week I’d had problems with intermittent sync, so on Wednesday I rang up tech support and sorted it out. (Amusingly they decided the problem was the router, which it obviously wasn’t as there had also been problems with the phone line, and the issue resolved itself immediately after they ran their tests, but I guess I have a spare Talktalk router now.) Anyway, the very next day I get a phone call from someone claiming to be from Openreach, and it seemed plausible considering what had happened the night before. He had an extremely thick accent though, and very loud noise behind him and a poor connection so I could barely understand him. I went along with it though, since it seemed appropriate. Thankfully I’m not a total rube though, and when they painstakingly spelled out a URL to go to I searched for it on Google instead. And yep, it was a scam. He squawked incomprehensibly when I accused him, and then I hung up. Then they called back twice! The second time they just hung up when I said the word “scam”, but the first one got indignant and insisted that it couldn’t be a scam since they hadn’t charged me for this call - I pointed out that of course I wasn’t being charged as it was them who called me. He pretty much said “Yes. Well, nevertheless...” and I hung up. So it seems like Talktalk somehow immediately leaked my interaction with them to scammers. So they can get hosed. I wanted to upgrade to fibre anyway, so I’m getting a new ISP. Cursory research suggests Vodafone might be a good idea, especially since they are my mobile provider too. Anyone had trouble with them?
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winegums posted:Bit of a yes, and ho! post, but.... That's actually my dream man, OP.
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AceOfFlames posted:"NOBODY HAS ALL THE ANSWERS ABOUT HOW FREEDOM WORKS! THAT'S WHY FREEDOM IS SO IMPORTANT!" Absolutely mental, I love this crazy
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I've got a Beko fridge box and some white paint in the shed.
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If only there was a word for what happens when competing agencies had a dispute about whose notion of land ownership was the correct one 
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OwlFancier posted:If only there was a word for what happens when competing agencies had a dispute about whose notion of land ownership was the correct one I'm pretty sure it's war.
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NO! wars happen between STATES and an AGENCY is not a STATE therefore it can't be war it's dispute resolution.
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p. sure even states weasel around calling it 'police action' and 'emergency' to avoid legalities or appease insurance companies now.
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So Syria recently had a years long... ...Dispute resolution?
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Azza Bamboo posted:So Syria recently had a years long... https://libertarianism.fandom.com/wiki/Dispute_resolution_organization I'm literally not even kidding, you might call it an army for hire, we call it a DRO. The concept is that instead of having a "state" with "laws" you instead have a variety of DROs you can "subscribe" to which offer any variety of laws you like, and if you and another guy's DRO disagree on whether you did something wrong when you seized his land, they go and settle it via a form of arbitration that is amenable to both organizations, which definitely won't be a shooting match. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Azza Bamboo posted:So Syria recently had a years long... Civil disturbance. A very long one.
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Regarding tea... As a lurking Norwegian, I realize this is the worst possible thing to weigh in on, but I go milk first because that forms an emulsion instead of a mixture. Because Guy Martin said so and he can't possibly be wrong. https://youtu.be/a0845Vgy99E (Skip 1 min in)
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Comrade Fakename posted:So, my ISP is Talktalk, and for about a week I’d had problems with intermittent sync, so on Wednesday I rang up tech support and sorted it out. (Amusingly they decided the problem was the router, which it obviously wasn’t as there had also been problems with the phone line, and the issue resolved itself immediately after they ran their tests, but I guess I have a spare Talktalk router now.) This is pretty suss. Given how quickly that happened the most likely explanation that springs to mind is that someone dodgy has access to their customer support system. Given Talk Talk's previous form for security matters I wouldn't rule out it being compromised.
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Azza Bamboo posted:These DROs sound a lot like bailiffs. They're literally organizations you sign up to in order to have your rights (as granted under that DRO) enforced. It's literally privatizing the government and opening it up to free market competition and it's loving amazing.
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Oh wait I think I get it. It's like they want your nationality and society to be based on which brand you've subscribed to instead of where you were born or who issued your passport.
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the only time I ever watch the news is lunchtime at work because for some reason people think it's a noncontroversial choice (and to be fair it's a marked improvement on four in a bed or escape to the country) which quite often ends up with me making some pointed comment to our scum gently caress senior managers e.g. when Theresa may was crying about getting kicked out of downing Street and my oval office former boss* walked in and said he felt sorry for her to which I gave a very loud "I don't" and then said she was a horrible person who'd done a terrible job *sometimes I find myself wondering if my hatred of him is slightly overblown and based on petty slights that I'm making a massive deal over, e.g. him talking to me like a 5 year old when he thinks he knows the answer to something I don't (generally he is wrong), but then he does something objectively cunty, e.g. last week he brought foie gras to the work barbecue or when I said £40,000 wasn't a low salary when the news was talking about them moving the upper rate tax band like it was a tax cut for anyone other than high earners and the CFO disagreed and I disagreed back (in hindsight and having looked up the company house info it's probably because the mean salary here is like £50,000) I've stopped eating lunch there when they're likely to be around and am looking for a new job e: although I do sort of want to catch one of them bitching about Boris so I can make an innocent comment about how anyone who voted Tory in 2017 voted for this and trigger a meltdown XMNN fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Azza Bamboo posted:Oh wait I think I get it. It's like they want your nationality and society to be based on which brand you've subscribed to instead of where you were born or who issued your passport. Have you read Snow Crash because it's like that only you thought it was a good idea. But yes, basically, you don't live in America you live in Virgin Multinational Presents: The American Burbclave #239. You subscribe to your preferred highway system that has your preferred speed limits and traffic laws and you aren't allowed to drive on the highways owned by the competitor unless you pay a fee. Your rights only exist while you are in your DRO's owned areas unless you pay for the mobile protection package. This is preferable to the world we live in today 
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Azza Bamboo posted:Oh wait I think I get it. It's like they want your nationality and society to be based on which brand you've subscribed to instead of where you were born or who issued your passport. a) assume that the market will reward merit with riches instead of building intergenerational dynasties as always; or b) assume that they will be one of the rich. DROs exist, they're called Pinkertons and Executive Outcomes etc.
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No I think it's a terrible idea. I don't see how minority issues will be at all supported in this system, or crimes that are hard to enforce. After all why not have a cost cutting DRO that says, idk, enforcing wheelchair access to work environments is too much of a pain in the rear end and if you don't like it subscribe to someone who cares. Except we gunned the company that gives a poo poo about wheelchair access down over this a few months ago. The irony being that some of our workers needed wheelchairs as a result of the gunfire. Lol we just hired new ones.
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Azza Bamboo posted:No I think it's a terrible idea. I don't see how minority issues will be at all supported in this system, or crimes that are hard to enforce. After all why not have a cost cutting DRO that says, idk, enforcing wheelchair access to work environments is too much of a pain in the rear end and if you don't like it subscribe to someone who cares. Except we gunned the company that gives a poo poo about wheelchair access down over this a few months ago. You as in "the libertarian" not you personally. And the answer to the latter question is either 1. That's against the non aggression principle. Or rather more likely: 2. being wheelchair bound isn't marketable therefore it's right that you die. Or 3 I guess everyone will not subscribe to the wheelchair murder company because their ethical principles will cause them to vote with their dollar and they'll go out of business you know like actually happens in real life all the time oh wait.
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We let wheelchair users die but we donated to a charity that has wheelchair in the name so it's okay.
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We're actually a subcontractor with Amazon DRO that handles their standard rate members (prime members are people with working legs who can work in the amazon distributon center) and we offer our customers the option of volunteering for nutrient reprocessing when they get tired of their Safe Space TM containment cubicles in exchange for a donation of £250 to their surviving family members.
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I do like the "ideal" version of libertarianism where the state fucks off and lets people form their own communities and do what they want. I resent the hegemony that comes with national identities and the machinations of the state. However the reality of libertarianism is that the corporation becomes the state and is just as imposing or oppressive as the state if not moreso. Rather than the hippies creating local communities that I'd like to see, it becomes more of a economic and social mosh pit where only the strongest get close to the stage.
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OwlFancier posted:We're actually a subcontractor with Amazon DRO that handles their standard rate members (prime members are people with working legs who can work in the amazon distributon center) and we offer our customers the option of volunteering for nutrient reprocessing when they get tired of their Safe Space TM containment cubicles in exchange for a donation of £250 to their surviving family members. e: ^^^ You'd enjoy libertarian communism, libertarian socialism, municipal libertarianism, and almost every form of libertarianism that existed before Rothbard ruined it.
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Guavanaut posted:The £250 is of course in Amazon vouchers.  Also yeah you're describing ancoms, cos ancaps think the corporate takeover is the point, while ancom understand that's the big danger and therefore want to work really hard to dismantle them and prevent their reformation in order to preserve the freedom from nationalism and capitalism. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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I still can't get over that there are ancaps who love company scrip. At least with the goldbugs and bitcoiners they're just economically illiterate, rather than saying "okay, let's take the paper money out of government hands and instead of putting it in the hands of the community or municipality lets give control entirely to a board of directors."
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But what about BREXIT JERMY what about Brexit whatboutbrext wha'bt'brxit wh'bt'brxt ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!! Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
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But get this In December Liz Truss will visit Beijing, where she will open new Pork Markets. Now that's a policy that involves the gammon.
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I also like the people screeching about how it'll make us go bankrupt, as if taxing the ultra-wealthy is just completely impossible and unacceptable.
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xtothez posted:This is pretty suss. Given how quickly that happened the most likely explanation that springs to mind is that someone dodgy has access to their customer support system. Given Talk Talk's previous form for security matters I wouldn't rule out it being compromised. Yes, it certainly seems like that's the case.
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