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It took me two years to have my civil claim heard in the courts, and I won a judgment of nearly $10,000. Three years later, I haven't seen a dime of it. If the government has a claim they don't need a trial, they just empty the bank account. The feds in Canada actually wiped out one of my business accounts without notice for back taxes, luckily there wasn't much in there at the time, but an event like that could be devastating for a small business. It's a risky decision if they expect to get paid in full to cripple the business like that.

When I decided to learn Java a couple years ago, as someone who programmed for a hobby off and on for 15 years, I picked up this book and found it useful:http://www.amazon.com/Core-Java-Volume-I--Fundamentals-Edition/dp/0132354764/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372990647&sr=8-1 Good luck!

I ran a business importing used cars and car parts into Canada, and after numerous arbitrary interferences from all levels of government I had to sell the business and give up importing. I always believed I could make a living with the business connections I had, importing and reselling in Canada. But now I'm too afraid to risk importing something and have the government agents arbitrarily seize my stuff or make it unnecessarily more expensive with their unreliable inefficiencies. From the trauma I suffered as a result of their arbitrary interference, I don't think I'd ever run a small business with a physical premises again. As a consumer, they prevent me from importing tires from overseas, they'll cut em up if I try to import them. They also prevent me from buying affordable and superior used cars from overseas. Taxes, tariffs and other government non-sense prevents me from importing all kinds of cheaper goods. So in other words, I'm prevented from buying things through voluntary exchange from foreign markets and instead forced to buy overpriced crap from the domestic market. Every good anyone buys in a state market is a grossly increased price; the result of compounded taxes and regulatory costs, and the effect of unrealized/restricted competition. I want to pay the real price for things.

I'm surprised you think there is no penalty for not voting and that elections aren't imposed. Isn't being bound to laws that you didn't consent to a penalty? The so-called representatives pass laws, supposedly, on your behalf regardless of whether you vote or not. I'd call that an imposition. I would agree with you if only the people who voted were bound to government laws and "representation", and non-voters were not bound.

I don't think voting in an election is the same thing as a contract. Elections are imposed on voters, no one explicitly consented to have a vote held where they would be bound to the outcome. The election is an aggression against those who do not consent to be bound to it. If a mugger gives you two choices on how he will mug you, and you make a choice, it doesn't mean you consented to be mugged. They say they make laws on my behalf because they claim to have the consent of the people, but they never bother to prove, with the kind of scrutiny one would apply to a contract, that anyone has consented at all. They make laws because no one or group is powerful enough to stop them.

This forum has some interesting related discussion from active prospectors and miners:http://gpex.ca/smf/index.php I've spent a few hours reading the posts there over the years, and there are quite a few members from Alberta, but mostly in Edmonton and Red Deer. Have you done any prospecting? I like to go rockhounding, not looking for anything in particular except for things that catch my eye. I think I found coal once.

Consent of the majority versus consent of each individual.

Stefan, at 9:20 you misquoted by stating 0.08/100,000, which would be nearly 120 times instead of 12. Here's the line from the source: Then you showed the 1983-1986 UK/US statistic, 0.67/7.59, and said that "after 60 years of increasing gun control, UK murder rates got worse". If you plug in the correct 1919 statistic, UK murder rates improved slightly.