http://home.eyesonff.com/blog.php/549-Peegee The Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums are the premier place for Final Fantasy fans to meet and discuss this classic video game series. Join our community today. en Sat, 09 May 2026 20:13:15 GMT vBulletin 60 http://home.eyesonff.com/images/images_neoclassic/misc/rss.jpg http://home.eyesonff.com/blog.php/549-Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1426-But-the-roads Mon, 01 Jul 2013 05:12:25 GMT :D
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My current fb profile pic that I whipped up this morning:

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Actually - It's impossible to operate under one banner (which is why the black market and criminals exist regardless of the amount of laws) - the various branches of Christianity simply illustrate that people will want to leave and set up their own systems when they have evaluated the existing one as undesired.

I could make a similar image for any group - for 'Atheists', not everybody believes in science, some of them are statists, subscribe to superstitions, conspiracy theories. Some of them subscribe to big bang / steady state. Not everybody believes in evolution.

Multiple sects of Christianity would persist even in a free market.

Silly Statheists. ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1420-quot-Personal-Jesus-quot http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1419-quot-Freedom-quot Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:16:50 GMT :D
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[url]http://governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=1[/url]

[I]6:30 a.m. You are awakened by your clock radio. You know it is actually 6:30 because the National Institute of Standards and Technology keeps the official time. And you can listen to your favorite radio station only because the Federal Communications Commission brings organization and coherence to our vast telecommunications system. It ensures, for example, that radio stations do not overlap and that stations signals are not interfered with by the numerous other devices – cell phones, satellite television, wireless computers, etc. – whose signals crowd our nation’s airwaves.[/I]

Hmm... It's 6:30 because the government says so. If it wasn't for government it would be 3:15. Makes perfect sense.

The rest of the article...nay, the webpage is a complete joke as well. ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1408-A-Day-in-Your-Life http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1397-A-defense-of-child-labour Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:42:44 GMT [url]http://speaklibertynow.com/2013/03/20/defense-child-labour/[/url]

Nowadays, the idea of child labour is viewed as an abhorrent relic of a bygone era – one of an unregulated, free market, dangerous factory environment, where children suffered at the hands of slave drivers. We look at countries lacking the same amenities we enjoy, particularly those still employing child labour, with shock. Surely such lifestyles need not persist today! And so we pressure those countries into banning child labour. What can this act of kindness bring?

It is perhaps necessary to scrutinize the dawn of the industrial era more closely. Something is missing, and Murray Rothbard gives some insight. Along with further insight, these words will illustrate the predicament in which we find society.

Prior to the industrial revolution, the capital available to society was severely limited. Many necessities were produced locally, and trade was hampered by transportation options. What we take for granted nowadays is often forgotten when reviewing history: the industrial revolution allowed society to vastly increase its capital acquisition.

As historian Joel Mokyr puts it, “The years 1760-1815 witnessed more than just some lucky breaks in a handful of industries: it was also the period in which people defied gravity through hot-air balloons, began the conquest of smallpox, learned to can food, to use binary codes for manufacturing purposes, to infer geological strata from fossil evidence, and to burn gas for lighting” [1]

It should not be understated that child labour is largely a stressful economic system for society. During a person’s initial formative period, the ideal is to pursue educational or social experience in a carefree environment, not to spend it toiling in hard labour. However, that is precisely what such an expectation is: ideal. Our current practice of permitting children access to full time education from age four to twenty-one (and sometimes over) is a product of our current level of economic success. At the dawn of the industrial revolution, the vast majority of Western society was living in squalor – as capitalism requires a period of deferred consumption in order to save for investments before leisure can be enjoyed. Without savings, we must forage for necessities – food, shelter, warmth. A lack of technology limits our productivity. It is as Peter Schiff explains in the first chapter of How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes

However, the industrial revolution brought with it prosperity, and society had actually heralded its coming. Murray Rothbard writes, “Capitalism took the outcasts of society: the beggars, the highwaymen, the rural over-populated, the Irish immigrants, and gave them the jobs and wages which moved them from destitution to a far higher standard of living and of work. It is easy enough to wring one’s hands at the child labor in the new British factories; it is, apparently, even easier to forget what the child population of rural England was doing before the Industrial Revolution—and during the Revolution, in those numerous areas of England where the I.R. and the new capitalism had not yet penetrated: these children were dying like flies, and living in infinitely more miserable conditions. This is why we read nowadays, when it seems inexplicable to us, British and American writings of the period which praise the new factories for giving work to women and children!” [2]

The disparity in investment and responsibility are often neglected when discussing waged labour. Entrepreneurs invest a great deal of capital in a particularly risky environment. The free market cares nothing for one’s preference or circumstance – it cares only for what it values, and it rewards those it values handsomely, and ruthlessly smites those that fail. A wage earner is paid in advance of sale for time and labour, and the entrepreneur is paid only if profit is gained at the time of sale. Wages are also a secure means of revenue – recurring wages permit long term planning and have the benefit of stability. An entrepreneur has no such guarantee of stability.

What happens when we enforce child labour laws in today’s less economically successful countries? Firstly, such individuals find themselves more-or-less in the same situation as those who bore witness to the dawn of the industrial revolution: their countries are only starting to catch up. Children need to be fed, and there are too many children for the adults to properly care for. A society that lacks child labour is a privileged one – one that has earned such a carefree childhood through years of profitable investment from the generations before. Without the ability to procure savings, each mouth to feed adds to the workload of the adults. The end result is an economic pressure to find employment by any means necessary. UNICEF found that even the threat of boycotting child-labour-produced goods caused factories in Bangladesh [3] to dismiss their children from work, leading to child employment in other, unsafe work conditions, including sometimes prostitution.

Often, the solutions suggested involve foreign aid, or simply subsidizing impoverished countries. This often has entirely ineffectual results. Ron Paul once said of foreign aid, “Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.” This is not to be understood to mean that the poor in rich countries like USA pay taxes that go to poorer countries – the majority of taxes in USA are paid by the top 10%. What Ron Paul means, rightly, is that federal taxes that pay for foreign aid end up inflating the money supply and devaluing the dollar. The poor in America suffer because of this. And truly, the foreign aid goes to the ruling elite in poorer countries. This effectively disenfranchises the poor in those countries, as they continue to be prevented from earning increasing wages, and the ruling elite are now motivated to curry the favour of the countries that provide foreign aid.

In order to allow citizens from poorer nations to be afforded a chance to save and to improve their position, what we should do is allow those countries to supply cheaply produced goods, and to divert the saved capital into other markets, thus allowing us freedom from producing the same goods locally for much higher production costs (our minimum wage is not helping). This advice seems counter-intuitive, but we have been bamboozled by years of economic mistruths told by industry leaders through mercantilist economic policies that help not the consumer or the country’s economic health, but their own pockets.

[1] [URL="http://www.deirdremccloskey.org/articles/floud.php"]Review of The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain[/URL]

[2] [URL="http://www.mises.org/daily/1607"]Down With Primitivism: A Thorough Critique of Polanyi[/URL]

[3] [URL="http://www.unicef.org/sowc97/download/sow1of2.pdf"]The State of the World’s Children 1997[/URL] pp 23 ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1397-A-defense-of-child-labour http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1099-One-Night-Stands Wed, 12 Dec 2012 04:23:09 GMT :D

[QUOTE=Jiro;3180973]smurf you guys, I don't rep everybody who says my name. I'm not some kind of narcissistic wankjob. If you make a goddamn good post I will rep it, as it should be. Don't let me catch you derailing threads again or I'll slap you round the face with a smurfing salmon.

EDIT: needs moar :greenie:[/QUOTE] ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1099-One-Night-Stands http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1091-4th-Amendment-5th-Amendment-(-maybe-)-nonsense Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:21:00 GMT I'm asking the person to give me an online source so I can edit it in - but this story is probably all over USA In various fashion:

"In the US, there is a case in the courts right now. A border agent observed a US citizen viewing CP on his laptop. The cop took his computer and arrested him. But, he shut down the computer. When the cops restarted it, they learned that the files were PGP encrypted. Now, prosecutors want to force the defendant to turn over his passphrase."

Confiscating property is something the police often does, but self incriminating acts like giving away your password or encryption keys / algorithms is another thing altogether. I strongly believe that such actions should be protected by 'the constitution' (whatever that is) and that Police cannot force a person (by threatening punishment for non compliance) to incriminate themselves.

You got the hard drive. You can't prove anything. Let him go.

U mad?

Summon Raistlin. He'll agree with me (but say it more coherently)

edit: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Boucher[/url]

it looks like he gave his key away. Bah. I'm upset now. And the rest, as I am not a lawyer, is layperson babbling:

[q]Boucher accessed the Z drive of his laptop at the ICE agent's request. The ICE agent viewed the contents of some of the Z drive's files, and ascertained that they may consist of images or videos of child pornography. The Government thus knows of the existence and location of the Z drive and its files. Again providing access to the unencrypted Z drive 'adds little or nothing to the sum total of the Government's information about the existence and location of files that may contain incriminating information. Fisher, 425 U.S. at 411. Boucher's act of producing an unencrypted version of the Z drive likewise is not necessary to authenticate it. He has already admitted to possession of the computer, and provided the Government with access to the Z drive. The Government has submitted that it can link Boucher with the files on his computer without making use of his production of an unencrypted version of the Z drive, and that it will not use his act of production as evidence of authentication.[8][/q]

This seems like nonsense to me: [i]He has already admitted to possession of the computer, and provided the Government with access to the Z drive. The Government has submitted that it can link Boucher with the files on his computer without making use of his production of an unencrypted version of the Z drive, and that it will not use his act of production as evidence of authentication.[/i]

The government has gibberish data. They cannot confirm this (hence they need the decryption keys). What could the government actually punish the defendant with? ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1091-4th-Amendment-5th-Amendment-(-maybe-)-nonsense http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1082-Lincoln Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:30:08 GMT President Abraham Lincoln, known as the “Great Emancipator,” is widely regarded as a defender of black freedom who supported social equality of the races and led us into the American Civil War to free the slaves. According to Lincoln, “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Lincoln did,in... President Abraham Lincoln, known as the “Great Emancipator,” is widely regarded as a defender of black freedom who supported social equality of the races and led us into the American Civil War to free the slaves. According to Lincoln, “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Lincoln did,in fact, view slavery as an evil institution, but did not seek to abolish slavery because it was morally despicable. Rather, he only supported an end to slavery when he felt it became necessary to win the war.

Lincoln’s first action as President was to persuade the States to ratify a constitutional amendment that would have legalized and preserved the institution of slavery. The proposed amendment, “The Corwin Amendment,” stated the following: “No Amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of the State.” Slavery, to Lincoln, was a “domestic institution” under this Amendment. The Amendment,of course, was never formally adopted, as Southern legislatures were already prepared to secede from the Union to express their discontent with federal dominion over their interests.Lincoln opposed slavery’s expansion into America’s new territories not based on any moral duty to uphold the Natural Law, or the need to right inherent wrongs. Instead, Lincoln simply wanted to keep African-Americans out of the West and keep the white and black races separate. In 1857,prior to becoming President, Lincoln expressed his opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would have admitted Kansas into the Union as a slave state: “There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races . . .

A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together”. Lincoln went on to state that “if white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas.” Moreover, to alleviate racial tension in the United States, Lincoln favored the deportation of the African-American population to settlements in either Africa or Central America. According to Lincoln:

"Racial separation must be effected by colonization of the country’s blacks to foreign land. The enterprise is a difficult one, but where there is a will there is a way . . . Let us be brought to believe it is morally right and, at the same time, favorable to, or, at least, not against, our interests, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be.

When the South began seceding from the Union, Lincoln met with leaders from Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware, using slavery as a bargaining device. Lincoln promised that the federal government would not interfere with slavery in those states as long as they remained in the Union. Some border states, albeit temporarily, agreed to remain in the Union. Therefore, it is quite clear that Lincoln was willing to support the existence of slavery so long as his federal government stayed intact.

Lincoln was reluctant to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. He feared that it would conflict with his goal of “saving the Union,” or rather,expanding the size of the federal government. In fact, Lincoln actually issued a “Preliminary Proclamation” to the Confederacy on September 22nd 1862, warning the Confederate States that if they continued in rebellion, he would end slavery in the South on January 1st 1863 (the date on which the Emancipation Proclamation was issued). Therefore, if the slave states had rejoined the Union, Lincoln would have permitted them to keep their slaves. After issuing the Proclamation, Lincoln declared:

"My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union."

Furthermore, Lincoln saw the Proclamation as a wartime measure to weaken the South, not as a step toward the abolition of involuntary servitude. If the slaves were freed, Lincoln believed that they would revolt against their masters and bolster the Union Army. Lincoln publicly announced that the Emancipation Proclamation was “sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity”.

Moreover, the Emancipation Proclamation was rather limited in its scope, and had very little effect by itself. The Proclamation applied only in the Confederacy, and had no legal justification, as the Confederate states had already seceded. Even after the Proclamation, eight hundred thousand African-Americans were still enslaved in the border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia, as well as in the North,with the blessings of the Great Emancipator. In essence, the Proclamation supported slavery after its issuance.

The Union Army forced emancipated African-Americans to enter into yearly labor contracts with their masters to avoid “vagrancy” and “idleness.”Once they were under contract, the blacks were not allowed to leave their respective plantations without permission. This system of forced free labor spread throughout the parts of the South that were dominated by the American Army, and lasted until the end of the Civil War.

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, therefore, achieved little in terms of African-American freedom. The federal government did not officially recognize emancipation until Congress enacted the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 6th 1865. By that time,slavery had been abolished in Missouri, Maryland, Louisiana, and Arkansas; and Tennessee and Kentucky were both in the process of ending slavery.

- Judge Andrew Napolitano ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1082-Lincoln http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1075-Thanksgiving Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:44:03 GMT :D In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered... :D

In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.

Cheered by their "victory", the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.

Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stamford, Connecticut, the churches announced a second day of "thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the heathen savages. During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts -- where it remained on display for 24 years.

The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1075-Thanksgiving http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1066-Got-Student-Debt Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:40:51 GMT :D Sallie Mae (SLM Corp) was responsible for issuing and collecting student loans. By being perceived as a government backed organisation, loans were granted to students majoring in unprofitable adventures to the point of nonsense. Furthermore due to ease of loans and ability of consumers to... :D

Sallie Mae (SLM Corp) was responsible for issuing and collecting student loans. By being perceived as a government backed organisation, loans were granted to students majoring in unprofitable adventures to the point of nonsense. Furthermore due to ease of loans and ability of consumers to pay, universities and colleges inflated the cost of education and malinvested the money.

Follow me so far? Great. Did you know that Sallie Mae got a bailout of about 100 billion dollars? It's true.

So great - the company that you owe money to got a 100 billion dollar bailout. This means your debt is wiped out, right?

...Right?

Well, no. That didn't happen. IT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. Instead what happened was the government bought all of the student loan debt and continued to demand payment for it. Government backed student loans are supposed to be easier to pay off, with a lower interest rate and longer repayment period - not the best, but better than what the terms were originally.

Except....and this is the best part since this is your loving government...

The government sold your debt. To debt collectors. People who will now chase you for the money and if you can't repay them, they will crush your credit and make being an independent and functional member of society impossible.

Let's wind this back. What did PG say today?

He told you that your student loans did get a bailout.

THEN the government continued to collect on your debt.

THEN the government sold your debt to private debt collectors.

So not only did the government essentially wipe your debt free, by continuing to collect on that debt, it paid Sallie Mae money to do absolutely nothing.

Your collective student debt just made a bunch of CEOs super rich.

We give thanks to the government for the food it stole for us today. Amen. ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1066-Got-Student-Debt http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1062-Trolling-is-against-the-rules-in-Eoeo Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:38:55 GMT :D

[QUOTE=I'm my own MILF;3165308][QUOTE=Peegee;3165150]....what? Do you seriously think EoEo is my facebook wall?

Fine: Read Hazlitt.[/QUOTE]

No, but you appear to.

And no.[/QUOTE]


Therefore I should be Eoeo banned for apparently treating it like my Facebook wall.

Still waiting.... ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1062-Trolling-is-against-the-rules-in-Eoeo http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1058-The-War-on-Kids Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:18:19 GMT In this minute's 'PG criticises america'

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujuDvwSOFto[/url] ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1058-The-War-on-Kids http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1054-As-my-first-act-of-overlord Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:30:21 GMT :D

A man cries out for justice for murdered children, and not only does the perpetrator of those murders taunt him while the murderer's thugs assault and kidnap him, but the whole crowd boos the man and then rejoices and claps when he's kidnapped.

This country gets what it deserves and it can't come soon enough.

[url]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4756544669914[/url] ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1054-As-my-first-act-of-overlord http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1017-A-story-we-can-all-agree-with Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:21:33 GMT :D ...unless you are against the initiation of force for any reason, or believe this to be illegitimate force: Irving Fisher thought credit cycles led to an unhealthy concentration of wealth. He saw it with his own eyes in the early 1930s as creditors foreclosed on destitute farmers, seizing... :D

...unless you are against the initiation of force for any reason, or believe this to be illegitimate force:

Irving Fisher thought credit cycles led to an unhealthy concentration of wealth. He saw it with his own eyes in the early 1930s as creditors foreclosed on destitute farmers, seizing their land or buying it for a pittance at the bottom of the cycle.

The farmers found a way of defending themselves in the end. They muscled together at "one dollar auctions", buying each other's property back for almost nothing. Any carpet-bagger who tried to bid higher was beaten to a pulp. ]]> Peegee http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1017-A-story-we-can-all-agree-with