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Belinda wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:53 pm
henry quirk wrote: Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:38 pm That'll be the new 5G weaponry. It's clever stuff. Makes you boil where you stand. There's a military demo somewhere on YT.

sound like microwaves: cook you from the inside out

I can't have a bazooka, but they can cook folks... 🤔
Obscenity for the sake of obscenity. Okay you have shocked me.Pleased?
wasn't lookin' to shock anyone...it's a legit observation...I'll rephrase it as a question: why can the state cook people with microwaves, but I can't own a bazooka? Now, as an assertion: if the state can cook a man with microwaves, I should be able to own a bazooka

my employees shouldn't have better toys than me
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henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:35 pmmy employees shouldn't have better toys than me
Yeah, but what toys have you made for yourself? Should the United States be restricted to fighting wars with the things you can put together in your garden shed?
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uwot wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:48 pm
henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:35 pmmy employees shouldn't have better toys than me
Yeah, but what toys have you made for yourself? Should the United States be restricted to fighting wars with the things you can put together in your garden shed?
if that's the standard then no gov ought to play with anything better than staffs and bows and arrows

no gov builds weapons: they buy 'em
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there was a site -- improv weapons or somesuch -- that highlighted homemade and makeshift firearms (pipe shotguns, zip guns, that sorta thing)...I could do that, so -- usin' uwot's standard -- I graciously license my employees to do the same

get crackin', bureaucrats! bet my potato gun beats yours
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the anarchist's cookbook is available

homemade napalm is fun

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henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:52 pmno gov builds weapons: they buy 'em
So in your minarchist utopia, how big a weapon is affordable?
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uwot wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:05 pm
henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:52 pmno gov builds weapons: they buy 'em
So in your minarchist utopia, how big a weapon is affordable?
you mean how destructive, yeah?

what's the most bad ass thing right now?

that's your startin' point...supply & demand...fission & fusion bombs, antimatter bombs, singularity generators, psychotronic disruptors, old-fashioned disintegrators, rail guns, and on and on


and: while it's not original to him, advocate (re)introduced free zone to my personal lexicon, so, henceforth I shall refer to the natural rights libertarian minarchy I favor as free zone or the 'murican free zone

thanks, advocate, old buddy... :thumbsup:
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henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:31 pm
uwot wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:05 pm... how big a weapon is affordable?
you mean how destructive, yeah?

what's the most bad ass thing right now?
No. I mean how bad ass a weapon could your happy-clappy minarchy afford?
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uwot wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:39 pm
henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:31 pm
uwot wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:05 pm... how big a weapon is affordable?
you mean how destructive, yeah?

what's the most bad ass thing right now?
No. I mean how bad ass a weapon could your happy-clappy minarchy afford?
oh, I see...

well, since the free zone ain't a state it can't afford nuthin'

what any of the residents can afford is the question...I imagine that'll run the gamut
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henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:06 pm...what any of the residents can afford is the question...I imagine that'll run the gamut
How do you decide who can afford what in the first place?
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uwot wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:21 pm
henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:06 pm...what any of the residents can afford is the question...I imagine that'll run the gamut
How do you decide who can afford what in the first place?
I don't get the question: rephrase pleez, señor
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henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:35 pm
Belinda wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:53 pm
henry quirk wrote: Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:38 pm That'll be the new 5G weaponry. It's clever stuff. Makes you boil where you stand. There's a military demo somewhere on YT.

sound like microwaves: cook you from the inside out

I can't have a bazooka, but they can cook folks... 🤔
Obscenity for the sake of obscenity. Okay you have shocked me.Pleased?
wasn't lookin' to shock anyone...it's a legit observation...I'll rephrase it as a question: why can the state cook people with microwaves, but I can't own a bazooka? Now, as an assertion: if the state can cook a man with microwaves, I should be able to own a bazooka

my employees shouldn't have better toys than me
Because defence against common enemies is most efficient when it's a communal effort.
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Belinda wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:17 am
henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:35 pm
Belinda wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:53 pm
Obscenity for the sake of obscenity. Okay you have shocked me.Pleased?
wasn't lookin' to shock anyone...it's a legit observation...I'll rephrase it as a question: why can the state cook people with microwaves, but I can't own a bazooka? Now, as an assertion: if the state can cook a man with microwaves, I should be able to own a bazooka

my employees shouldn't have better toys than me
Because defence against common enemies is most efficient when it's a communal effort.
mebbe so...don't know what that has to do with me not havin' a bazooka
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henry quirk wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 1:19 pm
Belinda wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:17 am
henry quirk wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:35 pm

wasn't lookin' to shock anyone...it's a legit observation...I'll rephrase it as a question: why can the state cook people with microwaves, but I can't own a bazooka? Now, as an assertion: if the state can cook a man with microwaves, I should be able to own a bazooka

my employees shouldn't have better toys than me
Because defence against common enemies is most efficient when it's a communal effort.
mebbe so...don't know what that has to do with me not havin' a bazooka
Breonna Taylor had nothing to protect her from being murdered in her sleep.
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Belinda wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:23 pm
henry quirk wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 1:19 pm
Belinda wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:17 am
Because defence against common enemies is most efficient when it's a communal effort.
mebbe so...don't know what that has to do with me not havin' a bazooka
Breonna Taylor had nothing to protect her from being murdered in her sleep.
she shoulda got herself a bazooka...and a better class of boyfriend
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