Wave goodbye to Internet freedom

[elbe]

Talk about Big Brother redux.

I'm not familiar with that Big Brother, when did it air?

 

[TFian]

I'm not familiar with that Big Brother, when did it air?

Har dee har har har.

 

[mike3]

I have. I agree with Ayn Rand's assessment, they're some of the greatest humanitarians mankind has known.

So you agree with absolute free capitalism, the thing that has ruined the "Natural world" you like so much?

 

[TFian]

So you agree with absolute free capitalism, the thing that has ruined the "Natural world" you like so much?

The thing is though, it hasn't. Pure free market captialism would cherish the natural world, it's been the government that's been wrecking it.

 

[TFian]

Do you seriously think you know what you're talking about better than Alexis de Tocqueville?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America

Early 1800s, talk about WAY out of date.

 

[A Laughing Baby]

Talk about Big Brother redux.

Redux? I don't remember when the first time was.

 

[TFian]

Redux? I don't remember when the first time was.

Read : Soviet Union

 

[DavidJames]

The thing is though, it hasn't. Pure free market captialism would cherish the natural world, it's been the government that's been wrecking it.

Ah yes, the old "the government made me do it" argument.

They made me pollute the air
They made me pollute the water
They made me pollute the ground


Tell me TFian.

Who is this government?
Where do they people come from?
Where do they go when they leave the government?

 

[A Laughing Baby]

Read : Soviet Union

They got about as close as anyone, but they weren't really to big brother levels. More like "tattletale neighbor kid" or "that one jerky cousin who likes getting you in trouble" status.

 

[TFian]

Tell me TFian.

Who is this government?
Where do they people come from?
Where do they go when they leave the government?

From the fallacy of democracy.

 

[TFian]

They got about as close as anyone, but they weren't really to big brother levels. More like "tattletale neighbor kid" or "that one jerky cousin who likes getting you in trouble" status.

Democracy pretty much fits the mark though.

 

[A Laughing Baby]

Keep soldiering on. You're pretty transparent, but you're nothing if not persistent (AND consistent), and I can appreciate that in a troll. It's something a lot of them lack.

 

[WildCat]

Hmmm... Who owns the upper atmosphere?

Legally, your property extends from the center of the earth to the boundary of outer space.

 

[WildCat]

Har dee har har har.

Hey TFian, are you ever going to offer a free market solution to the problem I identified? Or shall we just assume you were talking nonsense?

 

[Thunder]

Legally, your property extends from the center of the earth to the boundary of outer space.

source?

 

[leftysergeant]

The thing is though, it hasn't. Pure free market captialism would cherish the natural world, it's been the government that's been wrecking it.

Ttotal crap. On that very basis, the fishing industry was allowed primary input intoo fisheries management, almost to the point that they wrote all the regs. They wouldn't want to harm the resource that they depend on, would they?

They sure as hell did.

Atlantic cod may be, for all practical purposes, extinct.

 

[WildCat]

source?

Just my recollection from a real estate class I took over 20 years ago.

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

Early 1800s, talk about WAY out of date.

I have no idea what this means in the context of our exchanges thus far.

The thing is though, it hasn't. Pure free market captialism would cherish the natural world, it's been the government that's been wrecking it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining

 

[WildCat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining

So the mining companies remove warts from the beautiful smooth face of Mother Earth, and still you complain! There's just no pleasing some people.

 

[I Am The Scum]

Legally, your property extends from the center of the earth to the boundary of outer space.

Sweet!

Down with satellites! NIMUA! (not in my upper atmosphere)

I'll bet that damn hunk of metal is part of the Free Satellite On The Air movement.