Josh F

dude great comic, excellent use of perspective on that church scene, too!

Cool man! =)

yeah the top one with be a shirt, the bottom maybe a poster. Thanks!

been working on these for an upcoming project (TBA) as a tshirt or poster. Had you guys in mind the whole time... feel free to use the graphics for anything you want.

There are countries with a history of peace, as well as minarchist. Chile has a standing army and has gone to war. Switzerland on the other hand is very peaceful but the state is armed, but lightly, and inter-meshed with a militia. Costa Rica has no standing army, and hasn't had one for more than half a century. Panama and Iceland barely have militaries. In our modern society many governments benefit strictly from the extra wealth of a peaceful country.

I have some friends, the Dad is Italian and the Mom is Dutch, and they both speak Spanish with their child. They also both speak English, with me, but not as much with their kid because they're less versatile. I started talking to this kid in English, it is one of the most amazing things to see as he just casually picks up English. He knew a few nouns and pronouns initially, and now it is interesting watching him think through and then make complete sentences. My parents put me in a daycare as a child with a latina woman and I came home speaking some Spanish (I've been told). It is sad they didn't encourage it more, I remember them complimenting my ability to learn new languages often, but now as an adult trying to finally learn a second language I suck!! Thankfully I learned some programming languages back when my brain was more pliable.

And Martin's family, too. Therapy not trials. Also, what efforts are being made to prevent this from happening again? Like hands across America and everything, but what are they doing to reduce violent in their lives? Have they accepted the NAP?

what happens when their is cheap but available labor? Business moves in. The result: the competition over the labor increases its value.

Threatening someone is not UPB. I think the point about the video wasn't to claim Zimmerman was any kind of moral agent or good person, just that the evidence corroborates the witness accounts that Martin was shot in self defense after initiating an assault. Forget the violent encounter for a second though, because admittedly what happened between these two men was tragic, even in its isolation. The other part of the story is about the relationship between two other groups of people. The media and the public. The media showed that it could edit information to sound incriminating, publish it, create a public outcry, which in tern motivates politicians to reopen the case. Thankfully mob rule didn't make its way inside the courtroom as well. Where is the media when we need to vilify the murders caused by the state? Only the individual can be made to seem so sinister.

plato was right about matt damon.

its like the scarecrow vs the tin-man, brainless vs heartless.

Just some basic economics though, there is no such thing as intrinsic value. So, gold doesn't have intrinsic value. This is why, famously, gold from Africa was worth its weight in salt. Like all things, its value is subjective. Additionally, the idea that gold was used for jewelry and then became money is false. The entire function of jewlery beyond a tribal society is the storage of wealth in the first place. That is to say, jewlery WAS money, and still is money! BitCoin might be in a bubble, I don't know. I personally think that speculators are going to drive a market incentive to improve upon services. The high prices have people like Pepin above, who don't have the money to invest but would likely be willing to provide a product or service in exchange for those bitcoins. It is only a matter of time before we have fivvers, ebays, kickstarters, etc all in bitcoin. oh and just to point out the most obvious thing here, Peter Schiff sells GOLD.

The speculative value of bitcoin drives a massive market demand to utilize it. When it was worth next to nothing, only a few fringe devotees were interested in buying or selling consumer products with it, now millions more people are coming up with ways to develop the utility of their investment. And some of those plans are bigger than you can imagine. For the average consumer security is incredibly easy. Copy files to a thumbdrive, put thumbdrive in a safe. To save digitally and maintain access, send via email to yourself, and delete the hard copy. I agree. The biggest obstacle to this issue is that buying bitcoin requires a lot of work, and mining it requires a lot of work. People need to get bitcoin as easy as they got money, from working their normal jobs. I'd like to see some sites like fivver run off bitcoin and for that matter, an ebay for bitcoin that doesnt sell illegal shit and people arent anonymous

I think it is more accurate to say you learn everything about yourself by looking outside. Without external influence we wouldn't speak a language, let a lone be able to enjoy debating the finer parts of theology.

To me PUA is about imitating empathy and confidence. The big thing they encourage is teasing, or playful joking. Teasing is a sign you're paying attention to her, which is empathy. But it also shows that you're confident enough to have your own ideas and point out when she is wrong. Being fake empathetic and fake confident might work for casual sex on a surface level at best, but ultimately will only produce bad relationships and potentially bad marriages or households. Because learning to appear confident or empathetic is easier for most people than actually earning your confidence and having genuine empathy. And this fakery will only work on people sufficiently devoid of those qualities as well. PUA is emotional welfare for people not willing to work on themselves, so they can feel loved without actually being lovable.

I dont think the country will want to destroy their own bitcoin gold mine. It doesn't matter, we just have to try, we can't be frozen in fear.

The NAP isn't only about explicit consent. So, for example, if I am walking across the street and about to get hit by a bus accidentally, and the only way to stop me is to grab me, does that violate the NAP? I did not explicitly consent to this action, but you operate on an implicit consent. You operate under the assumption that once it is possible to explicitly consent Iwill do so....much as you can assume a baby, at least at that age, wants to be alive. Not a lot of 2 year old suicides. Yeah, that would be a violation of the NAP, if they articulated that they didn't want to do something. The onus is on you to explain the dangers and convince your child. The child isn't unowned, it owns itself. So the amount of time it spends with you or the neighbor should be its choice as much as it is yours and your neighbors. I think on a biological level most children raised peacefully will prefer to stay with their parents and likely not consider leaving. In the case of abusive parents, I recommend the kid move in with a non-abusive neighbor!

Are you a property owner? Land is currently owned by the US Government. They sell off land titles (government) to people or companies for money. Most of this land also includes a lean or taxes on the property. Land acquisition in a free market only comes out of laboring on that land. Which system inherently encourages the philosophy that "individuals or organizations can own unlimited amounts of land" and which one discourages it?

In 9th grade my teacher taught us "Only white people can be racist." Our 10th grade final was about Karl Marx. In 11th grade, another teacher said "You kids only use logic and reason to control and dominate each other. You need to think emotionally." I told the teacher he was just using emotions to dominate and control us. He cried, literally, and stopped the class. We studied philosophy, but the choice of philosophers was subject: We started with Thales, moved through Socrates and Plato, Pythagoras and Aristotle, Descartes, then we got into Kant, Hobbs, Nietzsche, and Hegel was the last person we studied in 10th grade. Then in 12th grade the teachers taught Post Modernism, people like Richard Rorty and Wittgenstein. The entire course of philosophy was designed to push us towards Post Modernism, which, to the uninitiated, is just some pragmatic statist crap. Richard Rorty for example is responsible for a lot of the thinking behind political correctness, like calling policeman police person or police woman. He makes a claim that truth is created not discovered, and ultimate objective truth is unknowable.

I went to a prestigious gifted/magnet program in Los Angeles. The favored teacher was an avowed Communist. We studied the history of class conflict. The teachers in my program considered themselves all feminists, and what they called "active anti-racists". Similarly I didn't have to pledge allegiance, but I did have to read the Communist Manifesto. We were subjected to some extreme psychological techniques, like public humiliation. Students, in one example, were forced to stand on a pyramid of tables in front of the entire grade. Teachers ranked them from top to bottom, handsome white male jocks, then attractive white girls, then athletic people of color, followed by attractive women of color, and lastly kids were selected as ugly freaks. One girl selected for the bottom row began to cry. This didn't stop teachers in another setting from stacking children on chairs, white kids standing on chairs, Asians and Latinos sitting on the chair, and black kids forced to lay at our feet. Then students were invited to move if they felt they shouldn't be where they are, afterwards the teachers went person to person ridiculing them until they returned to their positions. The amount of teachers who had sex with students, if even half the rumors and accusations were true, made it a cesspool of under age sex. Many teachers actually shared students as well. They accused students of racism and contributing to rape culture. So yeah... you got lucky. Why do you have a problem with people generalizing? I personally prefer people who don't tip-toeing around statements by saying things like "so often" or "in most cases." This kind of language and your history of mouthing the pledge of allegiance sounds like an attempt to avoid ridicule. This is generally the message of public schools, conform to social ridicule, which was being criticized.

wow i wasted 14 minutes thinking this atheist asshole was going to be cool, and then BOOM fuck you fuck this fuck that. i hate angry atheists

The problem of the commons, no one is responsible for that property because it is unowned, and thus littering isn't a violation of people's property rights. It is rare that someone will litter on someone's actual property, right? Why don't they throw the bottle to the right inside of the left when walking down a street? To the left is the public road, to the right is a private home. The consequences of littering on someone's property could be serious, who would want to deal with that kind of encounter?

I think this community as a whole has done an excellent job of completely obliterating even the fading hope that this socialist nightmare had some economic viability. Intellectually, it is defeated, like slavery and monarchies and fascism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies all the basic rules of logic you need, critical thinking is just using these simple fallacies to determine if something is true or not. Some are pretty obscure, but there are a few which are essential to understanding if someone is making a rational argument or not.