Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:20:53 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <390c2666-2e52-ffa0-e392-0128aca658d9@example.net> References: <5f26b99d-cefb-9b85-1296-0be9aff25a7d@example.net> <50cec39d-ebcd-d9fd-d288-64af77f90bc2@example.net> <04b08dd5-cce3-58d0-39c4-a3fdc28defb2@example.net> <9f9f1b3b-7142-749e-4761-aed0b29fa5bb@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="532075"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63082 On Wed, 25 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > On 12/25/24 4:55 PM, D wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 25 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:27:27 +0100, D wrote: >>> >>>> As a libertarian, my favourite argument against libertarianism, is that >>>> it is very unstable, and very likely to be attacked from without, or >>>> over time, to be converted into kingdoms with serfs. >>> >>> Libertarians have a lot of faith in mankind that I don't share. Then there >>> is the problem that many of the libertarians I've know IRL tend to be >>> nutters. >> >> This is interesting! I am very much in favour of libertarian, and by >> extension _decentralization_ because of a lack of faith in mankind! > > Decentralization CAN be useful, but without some kind > of 'center' it seems to go very bad. Then we're back > to the old city-state wars again ... You are talking about external countries and parties attacking, and the decentralized libertarian community not being able to defend itself? >> I often criticize socialists for their unreasonable trust in some 100% fair >> human being, not being corrupted and turning their socialist utopia into an >> authoritarian nightmare. > > 'Socialism' requires a lot of denial ... This is the truth! >> Please tell me more about libertarians faith in man kind since that is so >> opposite my own position, yet, I do call myself a libertarian. >> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Jones_(Libertarian_politician) >>> >>> At least he stood out and became a little less blueish over the years. The >>> Libertarian Party typically gets 3% of the vote but outdid itself this >>> year with 0.42% after nominating a pro-choice gay. The LP in this state >>> ignored him completely. >> >> I think as a libertarian, I cannot participate in political parties. >> Nietzsche warned against parties and saw them as a threat against >> democracy. I agree with him completely. I think libertarianism is not >> compatible with parties and trying to change the system from within. That >> will just lead to them becoming corrupted over time and diluted to some >> other form of ism. > > 'Parties' suck - but I think *that* kind of civil war > still beats the real kind. You are a very mature man. People call me immature for not voting, I call myself principled. ;) My hope is that once I've convinced the world of not voting, the state will disintegrate naturally as people lose interest in it, and just plain stop paying their taxes. ;) Jokes aside, I do not vote because I do not want to use violence or threat of violence to impose my will on others. If I want a change in the rules, I prefer to use lawyers and carve out the changes I want (ideally). The established parties offer me nothing I want, regardless of color, so why should I waste my time and also, by accident, serve to legitimize them?