It was a thing on 7 as well.

Hundreds of miles of them? Forget cost, the wiring wouldn’t hold up under all the power that would need to flow through it.

While that sounds like a wonderful idea in terms of getting people to the speed you want them, it also sounds way more expensive than anyone would think is ever worth it.

“You wouldn’t download a car”

To answer the fifth point, evangelicals aren’t Catholics, they either don’t care about or actively dislike the pope.

Oh I totally get it, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is currently the official stance of the Taiwanese government that they are not a distinct nation from the rest of China. Who knows though, that might change in five to ten years.

Isn’t the reason that just about nobody officially recognizes Taiwan as an independent county is that Taiwan themselves don’t recognize themselves as independent? Last I heard both mainland China and Taiwan officially consider there to be just one country, with there simply being a dispute over which government is the rightful one.

To be fair to them these things take some time, especially when their legislature isn’t in session and so can’t pass laws.

Chitin.

(kai-tin)

ANCAP is not just “no more taxes”. They specifically advocate against any sort of regulation on business and commerce, thinking that “the free market” will self regulate all the bad stuff away. Regulations such as bans on asbestos, or making sure that developers build structurally sound houses, or even just “you have to actually do business with someone before they can charge you money”.

https://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries

24: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun

Basically that yeah, combined with the fact that the stupidity required to not realize than an ancap society would lead to them personally being significantly harmed offends me on an intellectual level.

Of all the descriptors you gave that acquaintance, ANCAP is the one that marks them as an asshole the most.

As has long been said, if you want to get away with murder use a car to do it.

Maxim 24.

Hello!

Who says the pedestrian survived?

That sounds awful socialist to me.

Something being a joke means it’s [insert negative attribute] enough to be laughable, but it being a bad joke mean it’s [insert negative attribute] but not enough to be funny.

Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.