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BetterLateThan

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About BetterLateThan

I am that I am.

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    Comment #8071939

    >> finding (and keeping) a profitable niche is hard ...which is why evolution will have to regain control. Governments are antinatural in their obsession with increasing the number…

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    Comment #7939571

    This will be getting worse unless people disconnect themselves from the system that allows things like this to happen. By "disconnect" I mean secessio plebis - either physical with…

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    Comment #7632256

    The problem with the West is that you guys _believe_ the law to be the same for those at the top and at the bottom of the pyramid. Russians, on the contrary, _know_ that equality b…

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    Comment #7566985

    1. Uninstalled. 2. In 2014, every business faces the choice to either quit businessing or collaborate with the government. This choice will soon trickle to individuals, if Rome, Ge…

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    Comment #7551506

    Matthew 19:17 - "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God".

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    Comment #7494431

    Mr Stoyte broke the silence. 'How long do you figure it would take before a person went like that?' he said in a slow, hesitating voice. 'I mean, it wouldn't happen at once ... the…

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    Comment #7325255

    >> the myth you are an individual completely separate from the world outside Aren't you? You were born alone, you will die alone, nobody can live your life for you, nobody can shar…

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    Comment #7303412

    Anyone interested in the mind-bending history of moistening the West in general and California in particular just enough to be advertised as paradise may want to do themselves a fa…

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    Comment #7225318

    >> subvert the free market by manufacturers Whatever people (in this case, manufacturers) do IS free market. Regulation is subversion.

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    Comment #6969320

    Sounds like Canada more than it doesn't.

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    Comment #6844034

    Doesn't measuring BitCoin in dollars kinda beat the purpose of BitCoin?

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    Comment #6757505

    You don't sound like a Russian. You don't think like a Russian. You don't know like a Russian. Russians don't smile because any person who smiles to a stranger either wants to sell…

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    Comment #6726972

    >> so strong that governments will become incapable... Sounds like you expect governments to be ashamed of what they do once the plans become public. It's not about shame. It's abo…

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    Comment #6685820

    Google has been using regular people like you and me as scouts for years. We all have certain patterns and interests and the order of priorities - and Google know them all. They ar…

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    Comment #6680986

    > Well, the taxes/theft thing isn't quite appropriate. True. Taxes are armed robbery with a threat of kidnapping and confinement. They have nothing to do with theft.

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    Comment #6346743

    That's bankerese for "Brace yourself".

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    Comment #6325901

    It is impossible to overmistrust the State. If you could imagine the lows they will go to, you'd be working for them by now.

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    Comment #6265174

    Because intelligence is detrimental to survival: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16297-intelligent-sold...

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    Comment #6253977

    > Americans seriously need to band together Not Americans - individuals. All wars and the state itself, which is war, are various manifestations of the same conflict: individuals v…

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    Comment #6247424

    > It is hard to know where this is leading. Is it? Tacitus, Livy, Suetonius, Marcellinus, Plutarch say otherwise. TLDR: As long as citizens think they have something to lose [1], t…

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    Comment #6134746

    No cowards = no rulers. Move on, citizens, this was an non-existent unauthorized thought that you haven't seen.

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    Comment #6119448

    There are enough people to whom it keeps sounding like "We'll keep enabling you if you keep putting up with the status quo."

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    Comment #5094636

    They all look human on the way up. The moment they are voted into legislative and/or executive branch under current "democracy", they will become a part of the Status Quo. Which op…

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    Comment #5068546

    Cool looking sliders can't be moved in Opera 12.12 / Win7

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    Comment #5062290

    > Let's just ignore the fact that MS has a development centre in Vancouver Wow, MS centre! It will save us all. And they don't have MS centers anywhere else, right? Vancouver here.…