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“Squirrel!” /doug
A commitment to customer service excellence is and should be any business’ number one priority.
For a website that constantly points out government/bureaucratic ineptitude and it’s utter lack of concern for solving problems, you sure aren’t setting a sterling example of how private entities do a much better job. Just sayin’.
For a site called “Reason”…
Ha!
Drink?
I’m going to watch USA vs. GER at my local bar at 9AM. I may as well start now. Fuck Reason. Fuck Michigan!
Ann Arbor is a…
Town?
Tree-hugger?
a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there?
den of wolves?
Her?
Absolutely. It’s the only way to deal with the skwerl rampage.
Not a shotgun?
Of course the big difference is this is all voluntary, and if it goes on long enough people will disassociate themselves – voluntarily. With the government, they just dig the gun further into your ribs and take a few more $20’s out of your wallet. And there’s your lesson about the difference between the free market and socialism for the day.
On a post titled “Please Be Patient With Us (and Our Server Squirrels)?” Yeah, you totally have a point. The I R”Fuck you that’s why” S would be doing a much better job. Douchebag.
This.
I say we all start commenting elsewhere!
Now, where do we go?
your house?
Great, I need to fix up the basement.
I will not enter any commentator’s basement.
I live in a split foyer, so the basement could technically be the first floor, depending on your perspective.
You can safely visit CA commenters then. We so rarely have basements.
*Finishes bolting bars on garage windows, strings up blackout curtains*
Or, we could get this Jesse and Nicole divide over with and all of us start congregating at their places based on who chose us.
yikes.
I just found out about that.
Sounds like I’m going to need to make a double batch of artichoke dip and a few loaves of french bread.
Can the LA reasonoids weigh in on this. What are your favorites?
I’ve been to 1, 6 and 9. Most of these aren’t in my normal range. All solid. Yuca is good and conveniently located if you’re doing Griffith Park and the Observatory.
Taco Sinaloa #3 is my go-to authentic Mexican place because it’s where my Mexican coworkers go, their al pastor is delicious and it’s close to work.
I have beer on tap in mine.
for…the…win
Is that like having a puppy in your van?
I Don’t Wanna’ Go Down To The Basement
The lead singer was very restless…he should have gone to the bathroom *before* the concert.
I’ve been trying that since about 10:10 or so. Just got through.
We are aware of the problems and actively trying to fix them. Our efforts so far have not resolved the issues
THAT’S WHAT CUSTER SAID.
Tuccille’s been compromised. Isolate him!
Testing…
Wow, that only took about 20 minutes.
I know who I’d like to grapple with…
Epi’s mom?
Also, if you need something to do today:
http://bitemangame.com/
Pacman Luis Suarez style.
Sign me up for a subscription, and then cancel it immediately.
Have you tried rebooting?
That Indian is racist. WTF, 2Chili’s?
JD-
It was good that you took the time to remember Custer Massacre Day.
In my view, you, and some of the posters, failed to appreciate the reason why it is a day to celebrate. Thomas DiLorenzo tells us why:
“[R]aping, civilian-murdering, house-burning, property-stealing, city-bombing, Indian women-and-children killing General George Custer met his demise at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. What a shame that his pals, Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman were not with him that day”.
Those blue bellied bullies got just what they deserved.
If only Lincoln had known!
Losers gotta lose.
Ethno-masochism is creepy. We get it, you’re weird.
R]aping, civilian-murdering, house-burning, property-stealing, city-bombing, Indian women-and-children killing
Indians did that, too. To each other.
But the Indians didn’t have Privilege.
Dude, they have a caste system = what, that’s not privilege?
http://www.oldindianphotos.in/…..great.html
Tu quoque.
No, they did not engage in total war as practiced by the likes of Lincoln and his generals and all the way down the line to the lowliest private.
I do believe that approximately EVERYBODY alive at that time did that to someone
Your belief is without record support.
There had been no example of a military operating like the Union army during the civil war and then in the plains pacification campaign. Put another way, the Chaldeans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Romans, the Russians, and the Sumerians did not systematically use the rape and murder of children along with destruction of entire villages of civilians a principal part of their military planning while simultaneously claiming to be a force for civilization and decency and liberty.
And?
You like Paul Revere and the Raiders, too?
The US federal government is an iron gauntlet concealed by a silk glove. The revised history of the Civil War, Lincoln and the US federal government in general is pervasively believed. It really teaches us that the propaganda machines of the Nazis, Soviets or China really are not worth a damn in comparison to the US’s ability to turn lies into perceived reality.
Uh, throw out the word liberty and yeah actually they did.
That said your entire last clause reeks of no true scotsman fallacies in which you seek to define the behavior so narrowly that only 1 possible group could qualify.
It does not matter what the armies were claiming, nor does it even matter if the actions were a “principal” part of the strategy. The point is virtually every army in virtually every war engaged in the very acts listed.
Whether it’s a principal part of the strategy is entirely relevant if you believe in any principles concerning matters of ‘right and wrong’.
And since virtually every war worth mentioning was a state-sponsored murderfest, you can easily tell whether or not statism itself is a moral thing to support.
So did the Greeks.
So what? And which Indians? The Indians who stopped doing that stuff got fucked over too.
I have no illusion that Indians were all some sort of peaceful hippies who shared everything and were perfectly attuned to nature. But I still think that the shameful treatment by US governments is worth noting. There’s no going back and fixing it (whatever that would entail), but history is what it is.
There is no going back and fixing it. The best we can do is recognize the immorality of such actions to prevent their use as precedent for future atrocities.
We can’t unfirebomb Dresden, but going forward we can at least recognize that it’s a bad thing to burn innocent men, women and children alive under any reasonably conceivable circumstance.
What a shame that his pals, Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman were not with him that day
Sore losers. Cry some more, crybaby.
Ha!
What are you, an apologist for mass murderers? For losers who could not hack it in the private sector?
Let me know when it’s fixed so I can renew my magazine subscription. I’m holding that $$ hostage.
This is the first time in days I’ve been able to even sign in.
Please bear with us as we grapple with the challenges
Sure, the bears may keep the squirrels in line, but what happens when the bears turn on us hmmmmmm?
Pepper spray.
I say we boycott until we get our ampersands back. WHO’S WITH ME?
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Still think that monopolizing the administration of justice is a good idea?
Given that you consider yourself to be a rigorous thinker, why would you think that an entity that you know sucks at just about everything would somehow be good at administering justice?
Why would you think, a priori, that there is something inherently divine about having just one police force in a given geographical area?
Rothbard’s articulation of how protection of person and property would work, in a truly free society, as set forth in Chpater 12 of his seminal work, For a New Liberty, commencing on page 215, is an excellent account.
So you propose setting up a government to replace the government?
Brilliant.
My government is elected, therefor under SOME control of the people. Your government will be whomever has the most guns.
Setting up market-based institutions to deliver services like the protection of property, law and dispute resolution.
Yeah, I know the premise. I simply reject the notion that it will work because there are bad people in the world who won’t play by the rules.
I’d love to have an anarchist actually debate me on this. I find the concept fascinating, but I see two downfalls with it.
1. You cannot (readily) defend against a nation-state that has tanks, ships and aircraft.
2. On a smaller scale, I see the concept devolving into warring tribal factions when one party decides it doesn’t care to respect the rights of others.
Show me where I proposed setting up a government to replace the government.
Your government has the most guns and continues to aggress, assault, brutalize, bully, confiscate, drone, murder, rape, rob, steal and tax.
Brilliant.
The asseveration that anarchy will inevitably lead to despotism, only faster, is fatal to the statist’s argument because it relies upon rank speculation whereas anarchists can point to the several hundred million murdered by the state in the last 150 years.
The fact that states have murdered several hundred million in the last 150 years, lends ZERO support to the efficacy of anarchism.
I see now that you may have been responding to Libertymike, sorry. But to that end, anarchists can point to sum total of people murdered by capitalism, or at point to the number of people who are alive today whom could not be here with out freeish markets. With a bit of basic math I think the body count differential between human freedom and statist coercion is pretty stark.
Me & my comments don’t miss the ampersands & I don’t think they’re a big issue.
No worse than facebook. BTW, Katherine Mangu-ward is my least favorite contributor. Her lauding not voting hurts the chances of libertarians like Justin Amash and Thomas Massie and is a dis-incentive to others who might see education through running for office. Ron Paul running for office is very much to do with why Reason magazine is so popular and why you are on The Independents. I look forward to the day she moves onto a magazine like Slate or Huffington Post where urging folks to not vote will actually be helpful. Can you make this happen soon?
You think your vote really matters? Are you high?
Do you not vote because she tells you it’s OK not to? I assume the answer is no. What makes you think that she has much effect on anyone else’s attitude toward voting? I’m perfectly capable of concluding for myself that voting is pointless (but I still do it anyway).
Just get rid of Flash. It kills Firefox every few minutes.
And don’t allow active ads.
BTW: The site has NEVER been slow to load. Ever. Not once.
This is why I felt it was a back end issue.
Site loads quickly and reliably, then you post a comment and you either get nothing or you get outright server errors.
Hold on a second.
I accept the squirrels as a fact of life. To some degree.
The Nick post last night suggesting the ‘special’ Indepedents episode? HARDCORE TROLLING BY REASON.
Has there been any explanation for that?
You will be trolled by Nick and like it. No explanation necessary or given.
That’s easy for you to say, you know the Safe Word
With The Jacket there is no safe word.
The trolling will continue until the comment system improves.
This is a test of the Hit & Run commenting system. Do not adjust your computer, this is only a test.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
This has been a test of the Hit & Run commenting system. In the event of an actual comment, topical and factual information would have been presented.
maybe ditch amazon ec2? eww
Get off my lawn, sir…good day, sir!
I make no promises. I may be able to distract them while you escape though.