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The real problem here is government and not "private" (corporatist) prisons who would only exist as they are because gov't enabling. Were we to abolish gov't and it's geographic mo…

>Even Ayn Rand said that government should only be in the military and judicial business, how did we end up to the right of her? You didn't overall. The idea of left and right poli…

Could you please elaborate with the language?

I bought one early in the bitcoin era when 1BTC was ~$1, probably spent over $3,000 at least in today's BTC or something.

>The US government is abolished, but the legal system is preserved? Not how it works. I said this was a thought experiment to sort of isolate this one issue. It's how we (praxeolog…

>Are you seriously suggesting that we could duplicate or triplicate all the roads in the country to allow competition between private road companies? If you want to seriously consi…

I said private law, not purely anarchic examples. I could give more anarchic ones if you liked but it's revisionist history so you'd have to do a good bit of reading to really disc…

While states dominate history, private law has proven successful. You could see the Law Merchant throughout Europe as one example or medieval Iceland, where civil order was maintai…

No, and I am not sure why you would say that. Totally irrelevant to what was said.

You get or give funny looks when some one says they are a libertarian? Your post doesn't make sense to me at all. What is this about levels of being an anarchist? I'm an anarcho-ca…

Logically consistent libertarianism requires anarchy. More here if you like to know why: http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/b...

>The Age of the Sturlungs is what Commonwealth devolved into in a relatively short period. The Commonwealth lasted ~290 years. That's all that's relevant is that a polycentric lega…

Failed state? More like failed UN insurgency and failed propping up government the people don't want going on 20+ years. Anarchy reigns outside of the warzone. Past Galkayo there i…

Haha. The Age of the Sturlungs, the "bloody" era is after the early Commonwealth I am talking about. Way to not even read my links or have a remote clue about the topic. Look 2 up …

Qualify "bloody". You can say it all you want, but once the polycentric system fell to the cultural perks and a new monopoly given to the church and chaos ensued, the people begged…

Your summary of medieval Iceland displays your ignorance. Go read the article I linked and see Byock from UCLA if you will only crack open mainstream history. Byock supports the hi…

Just a few hundred more million murders of our own citizens and we'll be more open, honest, transparent and efficient, we promise. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM

>Only _some_ aspects and activities of government are criminal. States do some "good" things like feeding hungry schoolchildren, but never without first committing some "bad". Typi…

>Even though some of the people operating the government are criminals, the function of government is necessary History disproves that a government (geographic monopoly on arbitrat…

"an open, transparent, and efficient government" is a blind alley. While the tasks you will be doing are not criminal, you are working for criminals. You might reject my radical st…

>This is exactly what the patent system was made for; so the little guy could have an incentive to invent I think this is completely false despite it being "common wisdom". I've ch…

>My post boils down to a dirt simple but still basically correct: For banking regulated good, unregulated bad, very bad. For something this important, something dirt simple but sti…

I'll second this even though I only checked out the site once a bit back. I'm still quite the newb at this stuff but it got a great response on the EDM production subreddit.

That's crazy. How did they get the people to go there? Did they trick them somehow?

Many of the things I buy on Amazon I buy because I can't find them at all in local stores. Sometimes they are just cheaper too, but that really is why I would use a local Amazon st…