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"James Randi is awesome!" —Ian Bernard, primary host of Free Talk Live

"It really does take people like Penn & Teller or James Randi to be able to see through these deceptions, and so those are perhaps the people we should be paying the most attention to." —Harry Browne, 4/10/2004

For those wondering, those quotes, URL's included are from Shane's signature from the JREF Forum:  http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=75619

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Have they reversed the idiotic policies they put in with the PS3, though?

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Have they reversed the idiotic policies they put in with the PS3, though?

Which are?

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BlameThe1st's series, "Anti-Libertarians Can't Think" needs a spot in this thread.

Here's two of my faves: 

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A correction to the above video: 
4:20 --ShaneDK about that act (GS): "Glass-Steagall created the FDIC. Separating investment from commercial banks was done to mitigate the moral hazard. The so-called "repeal" of Glass-Steagall was really an extension of FDIC protection to mortgage accounts. That's INCREASED government.

Canada, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and every other country in the world except Belgium have NEVER separated commercial and investment banks, and they've never had this problem." -- from his latest econ video.


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Which are?

Things like claiming they could arbitrarily break your system (by removing functionality) without you having any recourse was the big one for me.  I think the Pentagon wasn't too please about it either, since it effectively destroyed a supercomputer they built out of PS3's.

[VectorM]

I think the Pentagon wasn't too please about it either, since it effectively destroyed a supercomputer they built out of PS3's.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

As originally shipped, the PS3 had the ability to run additional operating systems installable by the user (although one of the processor cores was kept for use by the hypervisor and security system to make it not suitable for running pirated materials).

The US military took advantage of the low cost of the PS3 to build a computing cluster out of them using this feature.  This specific feature was one of those removed that made many people very angry.  When the feature was removed (and was not going to be available on new units and would be removed from old units sent in for warranty repairs) it became impossible to maintain the facility for the medium term.  IIRC, it was even suggested that IBM (the manufacturer of the Cell processor) might have been behind the move, since the PS3 was effectively competing with IBM's own Cell-based cluster hardware.

[ArtemisVale]

BlameThe1st's series, "Anti-Libertarians Can't Think" needs a spot in this thread.

Here's two of my faves: 

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A correction to the above video: 
4:20 --ShaneDK about that act (GS): "Glass-Steagall created the FDIC. Separating investment from commercial banks was done to mitigate the moral hazard. The so-called "repeal" of Glass-Steagall was really an extension of FDIC protection to mortgage accounts. That's INCREASED government.

Canada, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and every other country in the world except Belgium have NEVER separated commercial and investment banks, and they've never had this problem." -- from his latest econ video.


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This shit is going on Anarhco-capitalist bronies fb page

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This shit is going on Anarhco-capitalist bronies fb page

Another small correction, this time on the Zonation refutation video:  There is no left/right libertarianism.  You are either for individual rights or you aren't.
Still good videos overall.   As are the rest imho.

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Another small correction, this time on the Zonation refutation video:  There is no left/right libertarianism.  You are either for individual rights or you aren't.
Still good videos overall.   As are the rest imho.

Actually, historically speaking, libertarianism is a sort of umbrella term which ahs beenused to refer to a wide range of ideologies that can be either propriatarian or non propratairan, consequentailist or deontological, anarchist ic or minarchistic. This includes among other things various schools of anarchism ranging from individualist anarchism, mutualism, anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-communism, or even anarcho-syndicalism. As well as various subdivisions such as paleolibertarianism, agorism, geolibertarianism, et cetera.

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Actually, historically speaking, libertarianism is a sort of umbrella term which ahs beenused to refer to a wide range of ideologies that can be either propriatarian or non propratairan, consequentailist or deontological, anarchist ic or minarchistic. This includes among other things various schools of anarchism ranging from individualist anarchism, mutualism, anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-communism, or even anarcho-syndicalism. As well as various subdivisions such as paleolibertarianism, agorism, geolibertarianism, et cetera.

Um, no.

[tnu]

Um yes

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

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Um yes

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

Sorry, but wikipedia < the authoritive source I just linked, bro.

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You have to recognize that David Nolan's use of the term is not the only meaning that has ever existed Its hardly even the first understanding of the term. in Europe libertarianism  is in fact just another word for anarchism for example with liberalism holding the meaningth at is associated iwth libertarianism int he United States.

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You have to recognize that David Nolan's use of the term is not the only meaning that has ever existed Its hardly even the first understanding of the term. in Europe libertarianism  is in fact just another word for anarchism for example with liberalism holding the meaningth at is associated iwth libertarianism int he United States.

I also included a hyperlink to the online etymology dictionary (the authoritative source, the Nolan chart was more of a visual helper to be honest):  http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=libertarian <-- the link posted in an above post without the code.

The link I posted with the code:

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[url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=libertarian]Um, no.[/url]