corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:26 AM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: I also think that some cypherpunks mistake the Corporate State for what has been described as Crypto-Anarchy. Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one

RE: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Ah Variola...do I detect a wee bit of Knee-jerk in your otherwise consistently iconoclastic views? Let's take a looksee... Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one is coercing you at gunpoint.

Re: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 02:02:25PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one is coercing you at gunpoint. Think I'm gonna have to disagree with ya' hear partner.

Re: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread mfidelman
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Harmon Seaver wrote: Nonsense -- corporations are not humans, they have zero rights. Unfortunately, there are a whole slew of Supreme Court decisions that say otherwise - mostly applying the 14th amendment (you know, freeing the slaves) to grant free speech and other

Re: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:27:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Harmon Seaver wrote: Nonsense -- corporations are not humans, they have zero rights. Unfortunately, there are a whole slew of Supreme Court decisions that say otherwise - mostly applying the 14th

Re: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Justin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-03-25 22:27Z) wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Harmon Seaver wrote: Nonsense -- corporations are not humans, they have zero rights. Unfortunately, there are a whole slew of Supreme Court decisions that say otherwise - mostly applying the 14th amendment (you know,

Re: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Justin
Harmon Seaver (2004-03-25 23:06Z) wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:27:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Harmon Seaver wrote: Nonsense -- corporations are not humans, they have zero rights. Unfortunately, there are a whole slew of Supreme Court

Re: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:46:29PM +, Justin wrote: Why should it be impermissible for corporations to be persons under the law when parents can be persons on behalf of their minor children? Why should they be? In both situations, one or more people are persons only to represent

Re: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Bob Jonkman
This is what Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said about corporate vs. state, TD's education on 25 Mar 2004 at 9:16 Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one is coercing you at gunpoint

corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:26 AM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: I also think that some cypherpunks mistake the Corporate State for what has been described as Crypto-Anarchy. Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one

RE: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Ah Variola...do I detect a wee bit of Knee-jerk in your otherwise consistently iconoclastic views? Let's take a looksee... Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one is coercing you at gunpoint.