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Why Taxes?
by xorcist at sigaint.org 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

> Jim Bell: > taxes should be proportional to income. Why? Why not? Why support a use tax? Please explain yourself, sir

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Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is DEAD!!!
by xorcist at sigaint.org 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

> Shawn K. Quinn: > Honestly, if you're going to vote exclusively for candidates with no > realistic chance of being elected... you may as well just not vote. But your stupid argument says these two options have the same effect =D > In Texas, if you voted for Stein, Johnson, McMullin, or Mickey > Mouse... you effectively voted for Trump and made it that much more > difficult to turn Texas blue. The outcome can be twisted that way, sure, but then it defends the idea that if the majority of a state votes for a candidate the entire state voted for that candidate, which is dishonest You are being dishonest here, 'memba? Yeah, I 'memba! You proly believe that satuated fat and cholesterol are bad for you, too And that "organic" food is more expensive And that it is healthier, because "organic pesticides"

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Parallella Epiphany-V 1024-core 64-bit RISC
by grarpamp 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

https://www.parallella.org/2016/10/05/epiphany-v-a-1024-core-64-bit-risc-pr… I am happy to report that we have successfully taped out a 1024-core Epiphany-V RISC processor chip at 16nm. The chip has 4.5 Billion transistors, which is 36% more transistors than Apple’s latest 4 core A10 processor at roughly the same die size. Compared to leading HPC processors, the chip demonstrates an 80x advantage in processor density and a 3.6x advantage in memory density. Epiphany-V Summary: 1024 64-bit RISC processors 64-bit memory architecture 64-bit and 32-bit IEEE floating point support 64 MB of distributed on-chip SRAM 1024 programmable I/O signals Three 136-bit wide 2D mesh NOCs 2052 separate power domains Support for up to One Billion shared memory processors Support for up to One Petabyte of shared memory Binary compatibility with Epiphany III/IV chips Custom ISA extensions for deep learning, communication, and cryptography TSMC 16FF process 4.56 Billion transistors, 117mm^2 silicon area DARPA funded

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the West today - "individual caprice and equalizing victimhood" vs. the foundations of Prussia
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

Extensive discourse on the heart of the foundations of the rise of Prussia. The Willful State: Frederick the Great’s Report on the Prussian Government Guillaume Durocher http://www.counter-currents.com/2016/11/the-willful-state/ Just one brief quote: " but never will we find with the other powers the equivalent of the advantages that we find with Russia. The French troops are worth nothing, and the French are used to only feebly assisting their allies; and the English, made for paying subsidies, sacrifice their allies, to the peace, to favor their own interests. I do not speak of the house of Austria, with which it seems almost impossible to form solid bonds. "

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Not the Onion: Twitter CEO's account suspended
by Razer 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

> The Twitter account of the social media platform's CEO Jack Dorsey > appears to have been briefly suspended. > > Visitor's to @Jack's Twitter page were told Tuesday night that the > account had been suspended. > > His account was quickly reactivated. > > The Hill has reached out to Twitter for comment > http://thehill.com/policy/technology/307319-twitter-ceos-account-briefly-su…

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Hampshire College Bans American Flag as Symbol of Hatred
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

Well, differing views is certainly considered micro-aggression by snowflake lefty protestors, so the logical conclusion is removing all symbols of everything from the environment to try to minimize those triggers. This brings new meaning to "getting a Lashing" :) Humans. In desperate need of safe, and I mean, safe safe, spaces! Trigger warning to snowflakes, comes from dailystormer.com, -and- links to RT.com ! University Bans American Flag as Symbol of Hatred http://www.dailystormer.com/university-bans-american-flag-as-symbol-of-hatr… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVcKsecg2Uk

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What % of the so-called alt-right were just plain ol' libertarians before?
by Razer 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

> Robert Taylor, 29, described the conference as a “victory party.” Mr. > Taylor was a committed libertarian, he said, working for Ron Paul’s > presidential campaigns and even moving to New Hampshire for a project > organized by the like-minded. If Hillary Clinton had won the election, > he said, he would have advocated secession. > > “I thought I had all the right answers and had read all the right > books,” he said. “I heard about the alt-right movement, and it just > lit a fire in me.” > > Mr. Taylor said that with Mr. Trump, “we have breathing room; we have > a little time.” > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/politics/white-nationalists-celebrate-…

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CNN - asking the right questions
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Folks, this is hard to believe, but hey, the world seems a bit topsy turvy right now. Amazing. I'm -pretty- sure we're not descending into 1939, but hey, please holler if I'm missing something... Zen http://www.dailystormer.com/cnn-asks-are-jews-people/ My favourite Tweet response: " I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say "yes" https://t.co/1ZwbFJO7po "

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badge of honour - Santa evicted from mall for disclosing naughty list
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

There are some punishments which are a veritable feather in your cap, like getting a speeding ticket for riding your bicycle over 60 km/hr in Centennial park Sydney, which was an extremely rare trophy thing for those cycling buffs from UNSW university. Santa getting evicted from a shopping mall for disclosing one very poignant member of his naughty list to a rapt young client, has to be another of those rare, but oh so satisfying feathers in the cap! :D Disclaimer: This is one of those stiff upper lip stories which MUST NOT BE ENJOYED - you there, in the back row? STOP that sniggering! Mall Santa Removed for Telling a Girl Hillary Clinton Is on His ‘Naughty List’ http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/11/20/mall-santa-removed-for-telling-a-… Sounds like these guys really ought be on it - perhaps Santa would still be evicted for being politically incorrect? Migrants Burn Down Hall: ‘There’s Not Enough Nutella and Gummibears!’ http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/21/migrants-burn-hall-candy-fasting…

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Re: What % of the so-called alt-right were just plain ol' libertarians before?
by Steven Schear 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

The U.S. founders were quite clear in prohibiting income-like distributive taxes. The saw the peril for what it was: a means to use to pit one group/clsss against another. Warrant Canary creator On Nov 21, 2016 8:38 AM, "jim bell" <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: *From:* Razer <rayzer(a)riseup.net> On 11/20/2016 09:49 PM, jim bell wrote: >>Oh! I see you are justifying robbing people based on the mere assertion that they can 'afford' it. >No. I justify it on the fact that they're the criminals and taxes appropriately applied are really a form of restitution. If they don't like it they can hire an army. They can afford it. After all that's how they robbed the rest of us in the first place. You have not qualified the term, "they". Are you saying that all income must necessarily be theft? I would have thought people like you would have taken the position, something like "All income over $100,000 per year is theft". Or, you know, limit the number of people who are called thieves to, perhaps, the famous "1%". >Thing is taxes aren't appropriately applied. That 50% tax on the wealthy you speak of doesn't really exist after deductions and writedowns nd donations of high-heeled shoes to the Haiti relief fund. Right? Some wealthy people pay less taxes than that guy living in a box in a field. Actually most wealthy people pay almost nothing percentage-wise after all the bennies their plutocrat friends write into tax codes compared to their UNEARNED (as in they didn't actually work or produce anything useful to society) income. Do you have specific statistics to back up your claims? I have read, elsewhere, that the total Federal government expenditures, as a portion of GDP, tends to remain relatively constant at approximately 20%. Why should there be any tax rate dramatically greater than that? >And then there's sales tax, which rips workers off way out of proportion to the wealthy. What's wrong with what amounts to a flat tax based on what you spend? (arguendo; I'm a libertarian, but I can still argue these issues). A person who makes $1 million per year doesn't use 100x the food, transportation, housing, manufactured goods as a person who makes $10K per year. It sure sounds like you are, at least, assuming that taxes should be proportional to income. Why? Also, you still haven't addressed the issue about the specific person cited in the article, the guy who claimed to have been a libertarian. After all, the thread is titled, "What % of the so-called alt-right were just plain ol' libertarians before?" The entire relevance of your reference is based on what so far is unprovable: Was that guy actually ever a "libertarian" as most other libertarians would recognize. Now, I can't prove that he wasn't a libertarian, but I find your focus on libertarians here to be misleading. The way I see it, "alt-right" (what does that actually mean?!?) people probably 'came from' a lot of different political philosophies. Why do you point solely to libertarians? I should also add that this guy may STILL be libertarian: He may not believe in the "initiation of force or fraud" against his fellow person, the "non-initiation of force or fraud principle". (NIOFF). That he may have other identifiable beliefs might be interesting, but at the same time wouldn't have to be damning of him. For instance, hypothetically an "alt-right" person might believe that American government has been used, for many years, to allow certain groups to sponge off the rest of the population. Merely believing that, or saying that out loud, doesn't make him non-libertarian, does it? In fact, he is objecting to the way the government itself has initiated force, threatening people into paying "taxes", and them disbursing those taxes in order to obtain political advantage. (votes.) If anything, his making this argument would make him a consistent libertarian. Now, you may object to libertarians for precisely this reason: You may believe that it's okey-dokey for government to threaten people to pay "taxes", so the government can use that money for political-benefit reasons. But taking that position merely identifies you as being non-libertarian. Jim Bell

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