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"Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less."   7 Habbits of highly successful pirates - Taken from Schlock Mercenary by Howard Taylor.

"Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness." --XKCD #169

"Comuniwire Cattaping"    The original Bionic Commando for the NES   

Quote from: MrBogosity on December 31, 2009, 05:04:06 PM"Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness." --XKCD #169

"That just about sums up guys like Harry Felker on the Mises Institute forum." --Me in response to the above quote.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

January 01, 2010, 06:02:58 PM #139 Last Edit: February 05, 2011, 11:28:17 PM by surhotchaperchlorome
"And THIS is the contradiction of the Statist. People are evil so they need to be ruled over by a Government.

But who’s going to make up that Government aside from those same evil people; who, of course, will likely end up being even more evil, because they will have control over a monopoly of the initiation of force?" --Me modifying something Shane once said.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

"Beware those who have taken authority as the truth rather than the truth as authority"
I recently heard that the word heretic is derived from the greek work heriticos which means "able to choose"
The more you know...

"If something's of supreme importance, then it's all the more necessary to keep politicians away from it." --nonantianarchist on YouTube

Quote from: MrBogosity on January 02, 2010, 05:45:56 PM"If something's of supreme importance, then it's all the more necessary to keep politicians away from it." --nonantianarchist on YouTube
"That includes such extremely important things like the police, courts, defense, prisons and the law." --Me, in response to the above quote
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

"Snooping as usual, I see."  --Dr. Robotnik, in The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

"Just because the World descends into madness you are not allowed to indulge in your personal delusions."
What do you think, does this belong here?

"Are you children here to act like the U.N. or to squabble and waste time?"
--Principal Skinner addressing the junior U.N. club, The Simpsons
"Did you know that the hole's only natural enemy is the pile?"
"Dead Poets Society has destroyed a generation of educators."
  --The Simpsons, "Special Edna"

The irony!
It burns! lol!

"Those who think that the destruction of war increases total 'demand' forget that demand and supply are merely two sides of the same coin.  They are the same thing looked at from different directions.  Supply creates demand because at bottom it is demand.  The supply of the thing they make is all that people have, in fact, to offer in exchange for the things they want.  In this sense the farmers’ supply of wheat constitutes their demand for automobiles and other goods.  All this is inherent in the modern division of labor and in an exchange economy." --Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

What about undertakers, don't they profit?

January 03, 2010, 06:45:49 PM #148 Last Edit: January 04, 2010, 12:09:37 AM by surhotchaperchlorome
Quote from: Gumba Masta on January 03, 2010, 06:43:16 PMWhat about undertakers, don't they profit?
Yes, but Hazlitt is talking about the economy when taken as a whole.

"This fundamental fact, it is true, is obscured for most people (including some reputedly brilliant economists) through such complications as wage payments and the indirect form in which virtually all modern exchanges are made through the medium of money. John Stuart Mill and other classical writers, though they sometimes failed to take sufficient account of the complex consequences resulting from the use of money, at least saw through 'the monetary veil' to the underlying realities. To that extent they were in advance of many of their present-day critics, who are befuddled by money rather than instructed by it. Mere inflation—that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real things it is not." --Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

Of course his arguments are only viable if you actually want to preserve a functioning human society.