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Con man would be more fitting. How many of his "hacks" involved social engineering?

I doubt he's above entrapping innocent people either, if he thinks it will get him less time.

I actually meant wireless so that you wouldn't have to be present inside the tank, you would control the gun remotely.

You would still use wired controllers, but you would use wireless networking to control the tank close by. As long as you maintain a connection with the tank, you are safe from enemy fire, and the enemy would be shooting at an empty tank, with no way of telling what your physical location is.

If they can use video and controllers like that to control the gun, what would stop them from making it wireless?

I would imagine the benefit of using something like that remotely would be worth the risk of possible signal interception.

That's cute. :-)

Complexity is like beauty though. A programmer can turn something as trivial as a command line calculator into one of the worlds greatest feats of engineering.

Where you are mistaken is your assumption that given enough time, every programmer will follow a predetermined structure.

Our tools may require logic, but that doesn't mean we must behave logically.

> Isn't the game 11 years old? What is a reasonable amount of time to spend before moving to stage 2?

I'm guessing you don't program?

What's the difference between a micro continent and an island?

It looks like you didn't get the memo.

Those of us who embrace this magical nocturnal world don't praise it to the day walkers. It gives them the terrible idea that it may be good for them to try. If this pattern were to continue, our reign over the darkness would surely end.

Do be more careful in the future. Thanks.

Another point to add is the worst case scenario is hardly ever as bad as you think its going to be. Its very easy to over-estimate the amount of work it will take to recover from a setback.

Sometimes it takes experiencing a setback before you learn this. The confidence you gain from the experience can sometimes be worth more than the gain from everything going as planned.

The non-sharia controlled parts have been better off than they were with their previous government. Their air travel industry is even profitable, more than we can say.

I'd say that's a lot more than you could ask for considering the exploitation of the region.

> What these government-haters don't understand is that government IS the community. It's how a community comes together to get things done.

Government is the monopoly on force used to enforce a communities policies.

You do not need to threaten people with violence to get things done.

If you are not threatening people with violence to get things done, if all participation is voluntary, then you are not using a government to get things done.

> Yes, because big business doesn't have enough power yet already. > That's who would step in. You would reduce the size of government and corporations would just fill the power vacuum.

Because that hasn't happened already, even with a huge government.

> But we all know who funds the Libertarian party anyway - corporations or billionaires (who own corporations).

Corporations are actually government entities. One of those handy things that help businesses get big enough to manipulate governments.

A business doesn't just apply as a corporation for tax benefits, it also does so for the limited liability. So when they unwittingly contaminate your property, or accidentally poison you with rancid meat, the owner of the corporation won't have to sell their house to settle the lawsuits that follow their companies negligence.

So that government you think protects you from big business, passes the risks that business owner would normally have to take upon himself, onto you.

Hi. Anarchist here, I do hate government. Government in my opinion is an unnecessary tragedy that has befallen humanity and murdered close to 1 billion people.

This is by far the most intelligent community I have come across in all my internet travels, and if there is any group of people who can think of a way for society to run peacefully, it is this community.

Any problem we have as a society that people currently point to government as a solution, can be solved without resorting to threatening everyone with police action.

Well on the bright side, this would still close the gap between artificial intelligence and human intelligence a little more.

> and eventually My Little Pony toys

You were right to replace the pony. http://lesswrong.com/lw/efi/friendship_is_optimal_a_my_littl...

The Milgram Experiment does happen to shine a bright light on collectivism (it only takes one person to do the right thing, for everyone else to follow their example), while the Stanford Prison Experiment shines a darker light (or violet i guess?) on collectivism.

Maybe it could have been omitted due to a bias, or the editors just didn't think to add it?

Do not let this man fool you. Our president has every intention of developing a My Little Pony MMORPG once research is finished.

Well that's a relief.

A door to hell is a lot less scary than a meteor crater.

The meteor must have exploded 20 miles high, wouldn't a nuclear warhead cause an EMP at that altitude? Or would a lower yield lack that?

It's turned into a bit of a fad.

Saw the same thing.

Thought it had more to do with a childhood experience of tracing scissors on paper.

You don't realize how important the scissors are for context until you remove them from the paper, just as someone else peeks over at what you were drawing. :/

Do you think its reasonable that government takes less from you if you commit suicide than if you renounce your citizenship?

I never agreed to be a citizen in the first place. Why should anyone have to give up everything they have just because the government decided to auto enroll them into a system without their consent?

Selling gold and silver in this way would probably be a lucrative business, actually I would be surprised if somebody wasn't doing that in large volume already.

I'm guessing he was just trying to explain the overall concept, that or he moonlights at New York or California's tax departments.

That DEC-20 offer was hot though.

That would be fine if it were voluntary. But you cannot opt out. If you try to opt out, you go to jail.

I didn't ask the government to do any of that for me, and I would prefer they didn't. I can't fix someones car without telling them, and then demand payment.

Our government has done a terrible job at infrastructure and I hardly find it unreasonable to believe that I should be allowed to hire people I choose for my needs.

If I wanted an exciting life full of collapsing bridges, sinkholes, and trigger happy police, I would gladly hire government. I'm dull though. I prefer things to work the way I expect them to, no surprises for me please.

> because if the White House petition system actually changed anything, it wouldn't exist.

Reminds me the saying "If voting made a difference, it would be illegal".

> If you want to change the system, don't ask the system to change. Change it yourself.

I'm a fan of Bucky too.

> This is not in any meaningful sense "paying for pizza with bitcoins" anymore that hauling your TV to a pawnshop, they buying pizza with the proceed is "paying for pizza with TVs"

Thanks for outing my startup idea. :-(

If you really really want to connect with the user, go with "Our".

> Yes, that's called taxes. There's nothing wrong with that.

Of course there is.

> It's really hard to take you seriously when you pretend that taxes are theft, and that the IRS is stealing.

It's hard to take me seriously because I assert that its theft when one group of people threatens another with violence unless they give them their money?

What gives governments the right to take whatever they want from anybody?

> His money hasn't been taken; they just won't disburse it until he does his free paperwork, as required by the US Government. That's entirely legitimate.

Half of it will be taken by the U.S government, that's likely the reason his paypal account got locked.

There is nothing legitimate about theft, whether its paypal or the IRS stealing his money.

> Yeah, they did. Maybe you should read the user agreement of a system before using it to collect nearly a quarter million dollars internationally. It's only three pages. There is a point at which OP had a responsibility, too.

He earned that quarter million dollars providing a service other people found useful. There is no justification for any organization or government to take any of it away from him.