throwaway1967

The problems with LSD:

1 - it's incredibly hard to produce.

2 - it's incredibly hard to ensure something is pure LSD.

Those problems are not there for psilocybe mushrooms, for which the LD50 has never been found (read: it's totally safe).

Yes, and if the police won't actively police every square foot where there are people, they could at least let citizens do so through concealed carry of a weapon.

And yet, somehow, there's a large group of people that is always for people meddling in other people's business by telling on them (including calling the police when they see a citizen legally open-carrying!).

It must be because laissez faire is not easy to spell.

It seems that clock only took him 20 minutes to make, the night before.

He's made other things as well that are impressive. He makes his own radios and fixes his go-kart. Lots of potential there.

As for me, if flushing the toilet doesn't help, I need to call someone.

They were enlightened enough to separate State from Church but not State from Market.

They do it without asking (the Federal Reserve Act was passed Christmas Eve 1913 - around the same time the IRS came into being, what a coincidence) and most people do not understand the harm in it (even here on HN).

CP will only be remotely a good excuse to not do something once we have made spanking children illegal and punishable as assault. It's unbelievable the assault laws discriminate by age and don't protect the weakest. Spanking occurs MUCH more often than CP (there's no comparison) and the damages are enormous and long-lasting (including a lower IQ). So if you care about kids, help spread the word and hopefully more people will come to their senses and understand that assault should not be legal just because the victim is underage.

That's a great idea, get it started and the kid will have $100 from me.

JoeAltmaier you are breaching the negativity rules.

You're just being negative here by willfully ignoring that said doctor is giving the drug away for free, which is not the usual modus operandi of quack doctors.

The US Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, does not answer to a body of citizens, unless by that you mean its shareholders.

> Banks don't operate on trust

Can you spell LIBOR? Banks do operate on trust, which is what allowed the LIBOR conspiracy to take place.

Unless you can list here the "checks and balances and intermediaries" that failed during all that fake setting of LIBOR rates.

> run by private companies that sell their services to the government

If a company's sole paying client is the government (i.e. the public at large through government coercion) then that isn't a private company.

A private company is one where if all the potential voluntary clients give up on, it goes under.

Is a spy a (foreign) private company since it also sells its services to the government? Is a saboteur a private company? Is a privateer?

This service (keeping prisoners) only exists for one type of client, clients that have a monopoly on force, also known as governments. A private business may indeed sell solely to the government, but it can only be private if the service it offers exists for more than that one type of client. Failing that, such "company" is a Government Agency, whether the government admits and/or makes it official or not.

In days of yore the UK would also call privateers private. Do you see the pattern of governments trying to distance themselves from the evil they're doing by labeling unofficial government agencies "private companies"?

This is not about a person's preference for calling things a certain way. In a proper discussion we have to settle the meaning of words and phrases. And the phrase "private company" in no way encompass the work of government agencies whose product could not be sold to the general public directly.

Sorry DennisP, you're just wrong. "Call it what you want" is not an argument, much less a counter-argument to my arguments. You could have taken the normal route and just said "you're right", but instead you're choosing to keep pushing the "call it whatever" non-argument button. Be a good loser and admit you're wrong, or refute my arguments.

I can also tell you went through all my recent past comments and voted them all down, as I went from 0 to -10 immediately after our interaction. Very childish of you, but not surprising.

How do you hope to solve problems and disagreements if you're not willing to abide by the code of conduct that those who argue seeking to learn follow?

If you believe what Socialist Bernie Sanders thinks is "private" then you'll believe anything.