Recent content by Montana

You've got it all wrong. You don't ban the trolls. You mock them. I find that sarcasm works best, because you can get the point across to anyone with two brain cells to rub together but in many cases the troll will then scamper off thinking he's won because people are "agreeing" with him.

The simplest thing to do here is to convince them that he can win. Show them the straw polls where he comes in first or second. The video from the rally where he attracted >1000 people and the entire candidates forum only attracted 600. Remind them that there are a lot of neocons to split the...

He has stated that it isn't the president's role to decide such things. If we want to go to war then Congress has to declare it, and if Congress declares war then he would execute the war.

This is all nonsense fear mongering. Coal kills more people every year than have died from American civilian nuclear energy in its entire history. The uranium shells we use in Iraq each contain more energy than an oil tanker. The 45 years figure comes from using just Uranium-235, which comprises...

I can't let this one go, because it's just pure propaganda. When they say "zip codes", they don't mean the entire zip code, or even the majority of it, but merely anyone at all in that zip code. Just because there are four providers in the same zip code doesn't mean that they all overlap, and...

In my opinion the most damage the government has caused is in the subsidies they provided. Their intent was to provide these corporations with billions of dollars to build a state of the art network -- which they still haven't built, by the way -- and then regulate fair access to it. We already...

So do that then. But until you do and competitors exist, we have government-created monopolies. Until that changes, it isn't a question of regulating the market or not, it's a question of telling the criminals how much they can steal or allowing them to steal as much as they like. This is why...

And that's what would happen in a competitive market. Unfortunately, in the government-corrupted market we have, it's more profitable to ration scarcity than to expand capacity and eliminate it. The reason why it's a problem with the mainstream news sources is that they were allocated pieces of...

Of course it's government interference. The telecommunications industry is one of the most regulated industries in this country. It has an entire agency -- the FCC -- that exists solely to regulate it. The problem is that we have regulated ourselves into a corner. I would also like to point...

Network neutrality is the rare and elusive creature known as "good regulation". Libertarians don't like it because it's regulation, and regulation, in general, is bad. The fact is, it's regulation to mitigate the negative effects of other regulation. It should be unnecessary, and people oppose...

I keep getting the impression that people here don't know what net neutrality actually is. Yes, it's regulation, and it is a solution to a problem that only exists because there is insufficient competition in the market for internet access to avoid abusive monopolistic behavior on behalf of the...

Basically, the problem is this: Network providers like AT&T don't like to build more network capacity, because it costs them money. So lets say they have a 45MBit T3 line to the internet and on that line they have, I don't know, 200 customers with 1.5MBit DSL lines. So obviously these customers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYya6QV0trs Video pretty much says it all. It's not really Ron Paul related, but honestly, that kind of behavior is just not cool. And I think the people around here have a pretty good idea how to...ahem...exert some pressure and maybe help out these kids. What do...

The problem with socialized medicine (and socialism in general) is that it separates the person who pays from the person who needs the service. The result of this is two things: First, prices skyrocket. Two surgeons of equal skill may be capable of doing an operation, and the patient will choose...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl1VIhdpl4c The only people who don't know that this country is in trouble have been living under a rock and watching Faux News for the past decade or more. I can't imagine who the person was who said he learned about Ron Paul first. Maybe he just learned about Ron...