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  • There is. If you read the article these are tickets issued by a speed camera. My understanding is there may be a legal obstacle to taking someone’s license if the ticket is issued by a camera because you can’t prove who was driving the vehicle. The whole point of the article was to promote the “super speeders bill” in New York, which won’t actually take anyone’s license, it will just require that those with 16 tickets in a year have to have a speed limiter installed in the vehicle.



  • I’m a socialist so no big fan of capitalism. That said, I don’t think capitalism is just about selling things for more than they’re worth.

    We add value through our labor. Think of a log, it has some value as raw material. A worker might cut it into planks, and another might make a table out of it. It’s now worth more than when it started. The value came from our labor, and we should be compensated for it.

    The issue with capitalism is that the few benefit off the work of many. Based on the rest of your comment I think we’re pretty much in agreement, but just want to highlight that as a worker-owner (vs robber baron) there’s nothing wrong with charging for what you’re worth.











  • I was at my neighbor’s house and we were just poking around to see what there was to do online. We found a file (what we would now call a supercut but we didn’t have that word then) with a hundred instances of Homer Simpson saying “D’oh”.

    We downloaded it, which took twenty minutes or something like that, and my recollection is when we went to play it there was no software on the computer that could. That doesn’t seem like it could be true, maybe I’m mixing memories up. It wouldn’t have been an mp3 file because it was too early for that, and I’d expect windows to at least be able to play .wav. maybe it was some weird format. So we had to do another search and found a freeware program called Goldwave which we downloaded and were able to listen then. I still used Goldwave for years and even paid for it.






  • Not sure what you’re trying to say specifically, but if it comes to violence then we’ll get to it and we’ll win.

    But there are good strategic reasons to pursue every possible avenue before resorting to violence.

    • War excludes direct participation by a large portion of the population - many women, elderly, disabled.

    • It puts decision making in the hands of a smaller portion of the population, so it’s less democratic.

    • It’s much easier to destroy than it is to build, both in terms of infrastructure but also social structures and organizations.

    • You are more likely to gather support from other parties if you’re seen to have tried every option to deescalate. (In other words, “they started it”)

    When we look at what’s happening in Minneapolis, I think there’s casus belli. It’s more whether it is in our strategic interest to start a shooting war, and I’d say it’s not yet.