skippydumptruck wrote:

some HD channels have way clearer feeds than others

Thomamelas wrote:

Cass! Come play CoX!

Thomamelas wrote:

skippydumptruck wrote:

some HD channels have way clearer feeds than others

Some companies are more aggressive about compression then others.

Abdhyius wrote:

Real warhammers are cool. Huge lumps of metal are just silly.

Three conditions are necessary for anarcho-capitalism to be a stable and attractive system; two of them may already be satisfied:

1. There must be no public good problems whose private solution is catastrophically inadequate. The obvious candidate for such a problem is national defense. Unlike some anarchists (and Objectivists), I don't think there is a clear argument that shows one can always get adequate defense without coercing people into paying for it. When I wrote _Machinery of Freedom_, I thought that was the hardest problem, and was uncertain whether or not an anarcho-capitalist America in the setting of the U.S. c. 1970 could defend itself adequately. Since then the Soviet Union has conveniently collapsed, making national defense a much easier problem.

2. Economies of scale in law enforcement have to be small enough so that the market equilibrium produces enough enforcement agencies so that an enforcement agency cartel designed to reinvent government for its members' profit is unstable. My guess is that this condition is already met.

3. One has to have a set of working anarcho-capitalist institutions that people are used to.

Sarksus wrote:

For the backswing, of course.

MyDcmbr wrote:

Skippy!

http://budk.com/Medieval-Arms/Medieval-War-Club-Woven-With-Spikes

MyDcmbr wrote:

Oh snap!

http://budk.com/Medieval-Arms/Spiked-Mace-Club-35-inch-Overall

OnTheLastCastle wrote:

life would be better if we could enchant our gear. y'know, our clothes.

ronya wrote:

Apropos of nothing.

As per the conservative-libertarian David Friedman:

Three conditions are necessary for anarcho-capitalism to be a stable and attractive system; two of them may already be satisfied:

1. There must be no public good problems whose private solution is catastrophically inadequate. The obvious candidate for such a problem is national defense. Unlike some anarchists (and Objectivists), I don't think there is a clear argument that shows one can always get adequate defense without coercing people into paying for it. When I wrote _Machinery of Freedom_, I thought that was the hardest problem, and was uncertain whether or not an anarcho-capitalist America in the setting of the U.S. c. 1970 could defend itself adequately. Since then the Soviet Union has conveniently collapsed, making national defense a much easier problem.

2. Economies of scale in law enforcement have to be small enough so that the market equilibrium produces enough enforcement agencies so that an enforcement agency cartel designed to reinvent government for its members' profit is unstable. My guess is that this condition is already met.

3. One has to have a set of working anarcho-capitalist institutions that people are used to.

Quite true, but #1 and #2 seem as false to me as they seem true to him (i.e., by our semi-educated guesses).

Interestingly it seems that there was a lot of writing about #2 back in the late 80s and early 90s, e.g., Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution used to write extensively about it (back when he was, it seems, more anarchist in belief).