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    http://www.panarchy.org/kohr/1941.eng.html


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 15:28:00 UTC

  • COMMON (CIVIC) PROPERTY VS SHAREHOLDER (PRIVATE) PROPERTY Ownership of property

    COMMON (CIVIC) PROPERTY VS SHAREHOLDER (PRIVATE) PROPERTY

    Ownership of property consists of the following permissions:

    Usus: the use of it but not consumption, the fruits, transfer or damage to it. ex: a park.

    Fructus: the right to the fruits of it. ex: a common grazing area.

    Mancipio: the right to transfer (sell). ex: farm land

    Abusus : the right to consume or destroy. ex: a mine.

    Common Property in property in which one is a shareholder, with limited shareholder rights. Generally you can use (usus) but not privatize or damage (fructus, mancipio, abusus).

    The difference between common property and shareholder property is that your ownership of commons is determined by citizenship in a polity and your ownership of shareholder property by citizenship in a private corporation consisting of private capital.

    Curt.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 13:13:00 UTC

  • (worth repeating) Ukraine does not need a big mechanized military, but universal

    (worth repeating)

    Ukraine does not need a big mechanized military, but universal training on the swiss model; near universal small arms; to fill the armories with RPGs, and to focus on training soldiers with mobile artillery, including air defense, and to keep the army limited to very good special forces that rotate training of the civilians. If ukraine has this and six nuclear weapons they will be a free people. Russia is a one-city country. The centrality is its weakness. Nuclear arms guarantee Ukrainian sovereignty. special forces and a militia (which ukrainians are culturally disposed to anyway) will make occupation of the country literally impossible.

    The central point being that large mechanized infantry is not necessary for the defense of ukraine. Large vehicles and concentrated forces are just targets.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 10:00:00 UTC

  • “The cost of bread and circuses tends only to increase.”-Eli Harman

    –“The cost of bread and circuses tends only to increase.”-Eli Harman


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 09:49:00 UTC

  • SWITZERLAND IS THE ONLY REMAINING EUROPEAN COUNTRY (worth repeating) Switzerland

    SWITZERLAND IS THE ONLY REMAINING EUROPEAN COUNTRY

    (worth repeating)

    Switzerland is the only country that evaded the post-Napoleonic statist phase, because they never had the need or opportunity to construct a bureaucracy capable of total war. As such Switzerland is the only surviving ‘European’ country.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 08:54:00 UTC

  • EVIL IS NOT STUPID (movies) The Butcher (2014) is a pretty good innovation on Se

    EVIL IS NOT STUPID

    (movies)

    The Butcher (2014) is a pretty good innovation on Seven. Pretty impressed. Hadn’t seen it. Just got it over here where the only way to see English movies is by downloading them.

    I had this discussion with Steven J. Woron back in the early 80’s, I think, when he was working on a script. And of course, I hadn’t grown up in comic-culture so I didn’t understand Steve’s mythos. I grew up in a world where evil was a real thing I had to deal with: stronger, smarter, faster and more powerful in every respect.

    And as I read it I kept saying to myself that “evil isn’t stupid and brutal”. Just the opposite. Any evil to be feared is cunning. And you can see that in the economic failure of scripts that don’t follow that, and the overwhelming success of scripts where evil humiliates us with its genius. The great villains are not stupid, they are brilliant.

    I always think it is a childish disservice, and completely counter to the western mythological tradition, to position villains as impulsive brutes with childlike self interest. I can’t really ever enjoy pop villains brought to screen for this reason. They are paper maché masks worn by bunny rabbits, at a victorian costume party.

    The western aristocratic tradition is quite simple: be wary of hubris, for there are gods. They are evil. And that are cunning.

    There is evil in the world and it is not defeated by deus ex machina. It is not defeated my supermen. It is defeated by the swallowing of terror by men of courage; the use of their wit; and the bearing of great costs, at great personal risk, to defeat it, for the common good.

    The devil is not obvious. There is more evil in as mundane a criminal as Nancy Pelosi than in all the demons of literature. There is more brutality in a Barak Obama’s creation of a power vacuum that can only be filled by world war. There is more immorality in a Google algorithm to suppress dissent than in the arguments of any violence.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 08:50:00 UTC

  • THE ONLY MEANS OF ELIMINATING THE STATE (north sea libertarian liberty) The only

    THE ONLY MEANS OF ELIMINATING THE STATE

    (north sea libertarian liberty)

    The only way to eliminate the state, is to eliminate demand for the state. To eliminate demand for the state, we must construct institutions that provide the services of the state, without the free riding endemic to the state.

    The state provides just these services:

    …1) an allocation of property and property rights, and means of transfer.

    …2) a means of resolving all differences that lead to conflict.

    …3) a means of constructing and protecting commons from free riding.

    …4) a means of exclusion of competing allocations, means of resolution, means of construction.

    The only means of providing these services without the state, is to construct institutions that do not require a state.

    …1) the law of non-parasitism positively expressed as Property-en-Toto, the common organic law, an independent professional judiciary RATHER THAN an independent professional bureaucracy. ie: the fourth wave.

    …2) a market for commons consisting of houses of common interest in the commons, in which non-monopoly contracts are negotiated for the construction of commons.

    …3) a universal (or near universal ) militia, caretaking, emergency and rescue, in order to participate in the market for commons – participation must be earned, even if protection from parasitism need not be.

    A bureaucratic state then, is an evidence of the failure to construct institutions necessary for the provision of services that allow groups to compete against other groups.

    Fukuyama has not identified the alternative to social democracy, nor has he identified the transitory nature of monopoly institutions, as necessary for the construction of a commons prior to the development of a competing market for the provision of those commons. He failed to grasp the difference between research and development of expensive common institutions, and the conversion of those monopoly institutions to non-monopoly institutions that exclude conflicting institutions, while competing on the efficient provision of services.

    The end of history is quite different from that which Fukuyama imagines, and what the academy (as a profiteering church) advocates and desires. There is an alternative to monopoly government, if not an alternative to a monopoly of property rights articulated as property-en-toto. He is a product of the academy and history despite his honest intellectual interests – because he is not a product of economics and law: political economy. He is forgivable as are most students of history, of looking backward at patterns, without understanding the causal properties of human cooperation and the necessity of increasingly complex means of calculation.

    As advocates for liberty, it is our function, our mission, to provide these superior solutions to the problem of cooperation at scale that we call “government” by the invention of, advocacy of, demand for, and rebellion in pursuit of, formal institutions that prohibit tyranny, and preserve our unique western rate of innovation, by prohibiting all parasitism (rent seeking) in all walks of life, at all times.

    …1) The universal requirement for productivity and it’s obverse, the prohibition on parasitism.

    …2) The institutionalization of that rule as property rights encompassing property-en-toto.

    …3) The common organic law, the independent professional judiciary, universal standing, the jury, truth telling, restitution, multiples of restitution, punishment and ostracization (imprisonment).

    …4) The nuclear family (and perhaps not the absolute nuclear) as the first commons in which gender competition is resolved outside of the production of commons.

    …5) An hereditary monarch (a head of state) with veto power, but without positive power.

    …6) A set of houses representing the classes, populated by random selection, who act as a jury, in the selection of contracts proposed for the annum and specific prohibition from the construction of law.

    …7) The inclusion of the informational commons in property rights and therefore (a) the requirement for truthful (‘scientific and Propertarian’) speech in matters of the commons.(b) the requirement for operational language, (c) the prohibition on pooling and laundering (d) the prohibition on intertemporal and transferred commitment, and (e) the liability of jurors (representatives and voters) for their actions on behalf of others.

    The only defense is requirement for production, the common law, the jury, the truth, universal standing, universal liability, and competitive markets. This produces the least opportunity for rent seeking and privatization and forces all into the market for the production of goods and services in order to survive and reproduce.

    Insurance of one another and a limit of one child to those who are unproductive solves the problem of charity without the problem of eugenic immorality.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    www.propertarianism.com


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 06:31:00 UTC

  • MORAL EUGENICS The only means of decreasing progressive “taxation” must be provi

    MORAL EUGENICS

    The only means of decreasing progressive “taxation” must be provided by increases in reproduction. The only means of preserving redistribution is to constrain your reproduction.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 06:17:00 UTC

  • NO HE DIDN”T LIE. NOT HIS CHARACTER. BUT WHAT DOES THAT TELL US? This frustrates

    NO HE DIDN”T LIE. NOT HIS CHARACTER. BUT WHAT DOES THAT TELL US?

    This frustrates the heck out of me. I know these people. There is no way these people lied. They believed it, just as surely as you believe what you know very little about but are threatened by, and assume you understand. Based upon Iraqi propaganda meant to intimidate the Iranians, based upon fragmentary information, based upon limited on-the-ground intel, and self-interested informants, both historical evidence, rational motives, limited intel, and informants agreed. These are normal conservatives, with high sensitivity to threats, interpreting information within their own system of cognitive biases. They are moral men who were tragically mistaken, and worse, misunderstood the culture they were dealing with: lying, deception, fraud, boisterous nonsensical empty words of a competing tribal people. Caught with a catastrophic error they justified it to themselves and us. What we have since learned is that much of the world is not ready for democracy, and in fact, democracy as we know it, may be a temporary luxury unique to western people in periods of extraordinary prosperity that occur only once every millennium.

    Does Nancy Pelosi believe her daily lies? I suspect she does in her own twisted way. Does Barak Obama understand that in his effort to reverse US interference in the world, that he is creating the power vacuum that world wars and falls of civilisations are caused by? I think not. We are all fools, constantly the subject of the pretense of knowledge, the pretense of understanding, fitfully trying to justify our priors.

    Of course people had to lie if they made such a ridiculous mistake. But then, everyone who calls them a liar makes the same mistake: propositions made in ignorance in light of hindsight.

    Bush may have been many things, but dishonesty is not part of his character. He believes with full and certain faith that history will vindicate him. I suspect he errs. He errs in that there was any possible solution except punishment. Correction and modernization were beyond our abilities, because they were beyond Muslim capabilities.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-22 07:19:00 UTC

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    http://www.quora.com/What-dictionary-does-OS-Xs-built-in-dictionary-get-words-from-and-how-can-I-report-errors-in-it/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1


    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-22 04:21:00 UTC