Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

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

On 1/25/25 7:00 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:38:42 +0100, D wrote:
 

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.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
 There was much discussion over which state would be the target with New
Hampshire and Wyoming on the short list. I didn't expect success when New
Hampshire was chosen. I lived there until 1988 and while it's the best you
can do on the east coast it's surrounded by a sea of liberals.
 Ken Royce championed Wyoming and wrote a novel, 'Molôn Labé!' about an
attempt to take over Wyoming. I think that scenario would have had more
success but libertarians do like their creature comforts. They want
freedom while retaining the ability to get their soy milk double grande
cappuccino from Starbucks.

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 Wyoming is, alas, land-locked and doesn't even
 border on another country. Even if the WILL is
 there, the reality won't work out. They'd have
 to form an alliance/union with Idaho because at
 least IT borders on Canada (for better or worse).
>
 Anyway, kinda-strict "Libertarianism" can't work
 in the 21st century, really not even in the 20th.
 Things are just WAY too complicated/interconnected
 these days and people are NOT Jefferson's
 "gentleman farmers" despite lots of wishing.

I would argue that it is exactly the complexity that would make the libertarian, decentralized way of structuring society the perfect fit for the 21st century. It never had as good preconditions for working as in this day and age!

 SMALL-'L' libertarianism, that can still kinda work
 and is a good GUIDE regardless. I'd say that's best
 in line with the thinking of The Founders about
 rights and the distribution of political power.

Probably.