Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 1/25/25 5:38 PM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:44:53 +0100, D wrote:
 

Very interesting. There is a libertarian party in sweden. I voted for
them once or twice in my youth, I think they got 3000 and 3800 votes or
so in those elections, and then I never bothered since they never showed
much interest in actually growing, but was more a kind of discussion
club.

 The LP in the US tends to be a mixed bag of nuts that are extremely naive
about their fellow Amurricans. They manage to maintain ballot access in
this state.
 That's another impediment to third parties. Ballot access is determined
state by state and often is a Catch 22. If you received a certain number
of votes you will be on the next ballot. If you have never been on the
ballot, start collecting signatures and hope for the best.
 

 There is some obscure rule in sweden that in theory would allow 10 000 coordinated people to move to the same region and get a seat in the parliament. I always wonder why no one ever tried it.

>
 It can be done in the USA as well, indeed the rapid
 rise of the 'southern red states' is a more general
 example. As to why it's rarely so deliberate, well,
 people don't like to pull up stakes and move.

This is the truth! Such an initiatiev would need a magnetic personality in order to direct the group and make them pull up their stakes and move.
I thought of starting a libertarian community with the idea of everyone inside the community working on the black market, and crypto markets etc. and externally maintaining a nominally "normal" behaviour. But most likely it is just one of those fun theoretical ideas it is so fun to think about from time to time. ;)