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  1. what philosophers? i don't think the taliban are interested in anarchy. it's nice to see you equate anarchy with freedom
  2. Almost all wars, and certainly all wars today, involve state actors. (to reduce the incidence of war, shouldn't we try to reduce the incidence, or power, of states?)
  3. do they? stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  4. i count war as mass murder so to me your definitions make no sense. you cannot pick out 'economic' anarchy, 'social' anarchy and 'legal' anarchy. anarchy is anarchy. and i think you've just seen the word 'chaos' in mathematics and associated that with 'anarchy'. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  5. you can't just have 'economic' anarchy. your models just about fit together but are very wonky. and chaotic systems arise from simple mathematics - not the other way around. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  6. i don't think the kids will go wild with five hundred dollars
  7. the simplest value of course is free money from parents - if you're lucky. the idea here is to possibly bypass parents who aren't making the effort and introduce the concept of saving to children who otherwise might not ever 'get' it. think of it as seed money from which mighty savings accounts might be grown. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  8. i don't think the kids will be corrupted onto the government teat for a lousy five hundred dollars - what it does is introduce youngsters to the simple value of saving. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  9. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6266147/EU-draws-up-plans-to-establish-itself-as-world-power.html stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  10. Wasn't gonna waist my time posting but you made it worth it!
  11. Jason visibly perked up. ‘You’re sure?’ ‘Yes, it was really just a large doodle pencilled around some of the contract numbers he had printed out.’ ‘Excellent.’ He took off his glasses and passed them to Cedric. ‘I want you to meet something we call the proto-Announcer.’ Cedric put the glasses on. ‘First its home.’ Jason unbuttoned his jacket to reveal, in addition to the utility belt, various odd shaped boxes sewn into his jacket lining with thin plastic ties. ‘It’s a bit of a bodge at the moment.’ He pointed to a small scar on his neck by his collarbone from which a silvery line trailed out. ‘Even got a small box sewn into me.’ He took out a small control ball and fiddled with it for a second. ‘The proto-Announcer is the non dominant strain of the virus,’ Jason explained. ‘We now know that the Announcer was in this state for several years before its final mutation into its current form – the version which the public know and trust, and will by and large, let itself be edicted by. The current bloated monstrosity that is the Announcer needs access to a huge network with a large reservoir of quantum processors to survive and thrive. The proto-Announcer on the other hand can exist in classical systems a fraction of that size.’ Cedric examined Jason closely, perhaps Dancer and Jason were playing a slick game of ‘bad cop, good cop’ to soften him up – but he honestly found himself wanting to trust the geeky agent, though he had no idea what he was blathering on about. Now the agent pointed out a drab grey box on his belt. ‘Isolated within the unique quantum metamaterial processor this box contains we can grow the proto-Announcer to a variety of sizes and strains that we find invaluable in our work. I’m carrying several hundred billion of these proto-Announcers here; all separated into their separate cells of course so there’s no chance of cross contamination and an unexpected metamorphosis. By utilising a set of controlling algorithms we can direct the arrays of proto-Announcer to undertake the tasks we want. Think of this box as a domesticated Announcer.’ He twisted the pressure ball in the palms of his hands. ‘The glasses are composed of the same intimately entangled metamaterial so there is instantaneous feedback, enabling an absolutely perfect visual experience.’ Cedric watched a row of numbers appear along the bottom of the glasses. ‘They’ll take a few moments to individualise,’ Jason said. ‘Do you really think it possible the Announcer is communicating with aliens?’ ‘It’s not as unlikely as it sounds. Though it’s much, much more likely that someone or something has merely convinced the Announcer that that is what is happening. There is the distinct possibility that the Announcer is being hoodwinked by a surviving version of Snowstorm, or some other, competing virus.’ ‘Such as the Barchus?’ ‘Yes.’ The glasses sparked into life, dissolving the reality of the waiting room lift and replacing it with an artificial reality that looked to Cedric, in all its three dimensional detail, as real as its predecessor; apart from the edges of the glasses which to Cedric felt a little small for his head, and which created the slightest peripheral blur. He looked into a pretty walled garden. A smiling, working gardener approached. ‘Hello Cedric.’ Once again the Announcer was talking to him as it did every single day. ‘Hello there, how are you?’ ‘I’m in good health, though somewhat – .’ Jason rotated the control ball, abruptly the Announcer was cut short. The garden dissolved. This time the scene was of a narrow market street with a succession of brightly sunshaded stalls displaying colourful bric-a-brac. Above the street, overseeing its existence, he recognised the grim, rock carved tower from the print Jason had just shown him. The waiting room morphed back into view. ‘Good isn’t it?’ ‘Very impressive,’ Cedric replied. ‘It’s a seamless reality projection Cedric, absolutely convincing.’ Jason rolled up the prints and put them back into their tube. ‘Have a go,’ he said, holding the control ball out to him. Cedric reached to grasp the ball but instead found his hand melting through it. He tried again. The same thing happened, his hand dissolving through both the ball and Jason’s fingers this time. Jason laughed and put the ball back into his pocket. Cedric removed the glasses, to discover that the agent wasn’t sitting next to him, instead had moved to the door. ‘That little deception was brought to you by the power of the Announcer. Remember that when you talk to it again – or you play a game with it, or accept one of its edicts. Remember that it’s creating its own reality, using the human race for its own ends.’ ‘You believe the Announcer to be alive then,’ Cedric said. ‘An interesting departure from the Watch conspiracy theory.’ stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  12. what next... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Industrial_Revolution stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  13. your definitions are wonky to me. 'do whatever you want to make money' implies immediate theft and war. if economics is a science how can anarchy be 'applied to' it (for instance how can anarchy be applied to mathematics or physics). stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  14. Property is an individual right. (or are you saying that individuals shouldn't be allowed to own property--only their corporate masters can do that?)
  15. we have a system like this in the uk introduced about seven years ago - my two kids have accounts and we put in money when we can (and some of their birthday money) for when they are eighteen... stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  16. how so? capitalism is about property rights and anarchism is about individual rights... stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  17. the un go on to say... http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/11session/A.HRC.11.36.Add.3.pdf stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  18. anarchism also is a good foundation... stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  19. your pick seems to be pure capitalism... stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  20. what the un say... http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/11session/A.HRC.11.36.Add.3.pdf stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  21. Israel never signed the NPT. Iran did. Ignoring of course the difference in rhetoric between the two nations. You remember, how one wants the other one obliterated and all. in the same way that israel wants palestine obliterated... stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  22. or... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  23. how about... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakunin stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  24. max stirner isn't the only anarchist philosopher... stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding