Catalog (/ancap/)

Anarchist Activists, Literature, Praxis and Theorization

/ancap/ -operate- thread

Hello, /ancap/. I offer this thread up for all /operate/ topics.

>Changes in effect: no id tags, no national flags, increased max images, page count and bump limit, turned on SWF and pdf uploading, and also enabled optional user-specific flags.

I respect privacy and anonymity, and so ids and nation-flags are a no-go with me. It is my position, given the unity of international surveillance, that mandatory markers are an unnecessary feature for anons seeking alternative, non-corporatist social media. Further ideas which I have are:

1) establish a network of freedom-minded boards

2) alter the css and present an over-all anarcho-capitalist atmosphere

3) add additional banners

4) Build up an anarchist repository, including both left- and right-libertarian activists, literature, and resources

A little about me:

I am a synthesist postanarchist and I have been involved within anarchism for about 15+ years. I am currently involved within light activism. I write on the sidelines, but nothing has been formally released. It is my preference to provide challenging ideas to dominating power-structures. Lately, I resurrected the >>>/anarchism/ board, redesigned its appearance, removed all spam, and built up a library as well. It is my aim to provide honest, impartial moderation upon both boards and to ensure community satisfaction.

Both >>>/ancap/ and >>>/anarchism/ are intended to become bastions of free speech and open inquiry, regardless of the sociopolitical inclinations of its members. No matter what you believe, /ancap/ is open to you.

Any further concerns, ideas, thoughts, and queries which anons may have, please present them within this thread.

tgirls in ancap society

what would happen to tgirls in the perfect ancap society?

When did we libertarians get purged from /pol/ to make way for the authoritarian right?

I've always seen /pol/ as a tenuous alliance of right-wingers, conservatives and libertarians, but it feels like liberty is in decline among the main boards. Probably just the turn out of the election, but still.

do you have same impression that males who have children are less libertarian than males who have no children? is it really the case? what is the reason for it?

What is /ancap/ doing to spread their beliefs?

Some Questions

How is an anarcho-capitalist society supposed to deal with unemployement?

So far the answers I got were either "thanks to the loss of the minimum wage everybody's going to work in sweatshops like g-d intended" or "the poor should just fucking die if they're worthless".

Both of which sound pretty edgy and not really a selling point for such an ideology tbh.

Multiculturalism will FAIL - Europeans are resilient

The Struggle against Genocide accelerated by greedy bureaucrats

Multiculturalism and flood of immigration is accelerated regularly by greedy bureaucrats. Politicians are your enemies.

However Multiculturalism and "Diversity" are only tools to weaken the already diverse European societies.

Arts, sports, sciences, languages, farming, medicine, military, etc. The lists are endless where European societies retain the highest levels of innovation maximizing the diversity enjoyed within European cultures.

The how or why of it is interesting to study but the current state of things is irrefutable. Europeans, as nation groups and countries, retain the best education, highest wealth creation, peak intelligence of all human species.

Multiculturalism is a lie. No one culture is preserved by this multicult. Each is washed down to foods, clothes, and maybe music and religion. Deep aspects of cultures that are rooted in their genetic makeups are ignored or intentionally downplayed. Song and dance, behavior, customs and traditions, reasons for daily life and so forth. There is much in each culture that is unique to the group of people from which it springs forth. Cultures can not actually be practiced by any people simply by fact of being raised in them. The blank slate theory has been refuted many times and it continues to be used as the basis of ideologies that assume we are all the same and people only need to be taught the right ideals to be just the same as people with other cultures.

Humanity is stronger than that. Healthy world, truly rich in diversity, is a world where each nation has its own land and is not subject to foreign rule. Therein people protect their own and work truly in the best interests of their neighbors.

https://archive.is/Oacus

Is capitalism another word for slave trade?

Ayncaps, why is capitalism more preferable than socialism?

Underneath capitalism, you will always have a slave class. No matter what, the market will produce monopolies. Protection rackets will spring up without central planning. In capitalism, you have the slave and the ruling classes in a war of profits: businesses must reach timely benefits and the people suffer.

If capitalism is so great, why does government continually enact regulations to protect it? If it's so good, why hasn't it existed without government?

The local syndicate/commune denies your claim of ownership of resources in your possession, seizes them, and distributes these (or grants right of use) to their members.

What is your reaction?

Good goyim, remember Capitalism is good, get rid of the state and everything will be fine! Don't mind the man behind the curtain

ancap /politics/

Ancap discussion on /politics/

General ancap discussion >>>/politics/7081

Freedom general >>>/politics/6947

/Liberty/ Embassy thread >>>/politics/181

Why should I care about NAP? Is there any logical reasons for that?

Guaranteed Income - Switzerland

Every Swiss adult resident would have the right to guaranteed basic monthly income of 2,500 francs a month, if a proposal to be submitted to voters this summer is accepted.

Swiss to vote on guaranteed income for all

In this small country that has avoided most of the massive immigrant movements they want to provide universal welfare to all citizens.

The initiative, proposed by a group of intellectuals, was one of five subjects approved by the federal government on Wednesday for the ballot box on June 5th.

Switzerland will become the first country in the world to vote on the introduction of unconditional income' at the national level.

But it has not won much support from traditional politicians, even those on the left.

The initiative’s backers say it aims to break the link between employment and income, with people entitled to guaranteed income regardless of whether they work.

Each child would receive 625 francs a month.

The federal government estimates the cost of the proposal at 208 billion francs a year.

Around 153 billion taxes would have to be levied from taxes, while 55 billion francs would be transferred from social insurance and social assistance spending.

The action committee pushing the initiative consists of artists, writers and intellectuals, including publicist Daniel Straub, former federal government spokesman Oswald Sigg and Zurich rapper Franziska Schläpfer (known as “Big Zis”), the SDA news agency reported.

Personalities supporting the bid include writers Adolf Muschg and Ruth Schweikert, philosopher Hans Saner and communications expert Beatrice Tschanz.

The group said a new survey showed that the majority of Swiss residents would continue working if the guaranteed income proposal was approved.

Only two percent would stop working, while eight percent said they could envisage this possibility depending on circumstances.

“The argument of opponents that a guaranteed income would reduce the incentive of people to work is by this is largely contradicted,” the initiative’s committee said in a statement.

However, a third of the 1,076 people interviewed for the survey by the Demoscope Institute believed that “others would stop working”.

And more than half of those surveyed (56 percent) believe the guaranteed income proposal will never see the light of day.

http://archive.is/u8dE3

Courts

Protester catches state police on video discussing how they should charge and arrest him to "cover their asses" since they couldn't find an actual crime had occurred

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-michael-picard-dui-protest-arrest-20160128-story.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

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how nice :D

Apple Store

http://zp56uns4n3puk5zx.onion/

New / European Store / DHL Ship

/ancap/

What would you say is your favorite philosopher? Why?

kelthuz

i thought he would interest you, this is info about him from his yt chanel

>Kelthuz - Polish musician, economist, Zionist, follower of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, freedom activist and renaissance man

in the past he was an ancap and he created some nice, radical freedom-oriented music in a band "Biała Pięść" meaning "white fist" for what (alleged hate speech) he was sentenced for community work but later in court of appeal he was let free

below i paste his vlogs in english language

Life in communist Poland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLPCdvM4oFE

Mr. Janusz Korwin-Mikke, free market legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90DJFsH1-3o

Incredible quotes by Janusz Korwin-Mikke, MEP from Poland! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHrd5-xSxlw

Polish political scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbtXLqKrt_w

"Polish Ayn Rand", Jan Stachniuk, man-worship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_0kx13tp14

Ayn Rand, Stachniuk & capitalism (+ Stalin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL3FLHQZ6zI

So how low is low? How about robbing and beating up a man with cerebral palsy, stealing his cellphone, using the phone to film yourself beating him up, then posting the video on the victim's Facebook page

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2015/12/01/pontiac-men-charged-videotaping-beating-disabled-man/76627032/

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anarchocapitalistic music

power of freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfpo7jQiCG0

anarchocapitalists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nToKJRcfnLg

you are a leftist whore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK5OKVOg_IA

Waffen˗$$ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A5ekqY1xj4

Traditional Left-Right Paradigm

Weekly Tom Woods and/or S. Molyneux vid?

Pic dump thread

Gonna dump some ancap related shit that is probably useful for something idk

>mfw nobody understands the social contract

General Advice for Beginners

I don't have any ideas about the demographics here but i'm sort of new to this. I'm eager to read and learn, so if somebody experienced in this sort of thing could point to a direction, i'd much appreciate it. Could be advice on books, documentaries, anything. Thanks.

Why not /pol/?

Why do you use a board dedicated to a particular political orientation when you can use the general politics board?

>>>/pol/

I've created /objectivism/.

Post if you wish.

A new approach to the first appropriation question.

I've been thinking about Anarcho-Capitalism and its philosophical underpinnings.

Basically, as long as property has been justly acquired in accordance with the NAP, then it's yours. The first way to acquire property is usually taken as being mixing your labor with the land to create something new, and then you can sell it off or whatever, and so long as new owners engaged in voluntary trade, then it's okay and just.

However, almost all property at some point was taken from someone through conquest in the past.

The standard Ancap answer to this is to just say that we can't really sort this out as there are too many claims that can't verified, so we should just assume a statute of limitations and say that all existing property is just.

This is one approach, but I think there's another approach that is totally consistent with Ancap first principles, and that is to say that precisely because none of the existing property claims can be verified to have origins in the NAP, we should act as if every piece of property has not undergone initial appropriation yet. Every piece of property is treat as unowned yet.

Therefore, all existing private property claims are wiped out and the whole thing starts again with claims being valid based on usage, mixing labor, and the NAP.

All absentee claims collapse since they can't be proven to be in accordance with the NAP historically. The property then goes to the occupiers. You can literally construct worker ownership from Ancap first principles depending on how you address the historical question of appropriation.

This is also only an extension of an idea Rothbard (seen as the father of ancap) already played with in a pamphlet "All power to the Soviets". When talking about illegitimate government ownership in the socialist countries, he said that since governments don't have a legitimate claim, they don't even have the right to sell off the property. Rather, their property being illegitimate should be treat as unowned and given to the workers in shares.

Since the definition of the state in Ancap is any body that coercively appropriates outside of accordance with the NAP, then this applies to bodies that would normally be considered private too (consider thiefs).

Taking this further as I have done, if first appropriation back in history cannot be justified as almost all property was taken by force from those who had actually mixed their labor to create it, subsequent generations who traded for that property have been trading in something with no legitimate ethical backing.

Therefore the NAP demands that all absentee claims are nullified, and we reset the market.

This branch off from Anarcho-Capitalism, I have just created would be called "Resetism", and being that it is revolutionary rather than conservative of absentee claims, it can be considered farther to the left than regular Ancap based on statute of limitations/unprincipled exceptions, though at the same time it is still based on the free market and ethically justified private property in accordance with (one interpretation of) the NAP.

You get two results from this.

As in regular Ancap, you get: free markets, private property, NAP.

As in socialist Anarchy, you get: revolutionary redistribution of property to who uses and occupies it.

This is the one and only way that you can have Ancap and redistribution of property in a non-contradicting package.

This may be the "third position" of anarchism. What do you think?

It's pretty clear that "revolutionary Ancap" or "Resetism" is still Ancap, because it just has a more radical answer to a question that is debatable within Ancap. Murray Rothbard himself said that so called private organisations that get at least 50% of their funding from the state should be considered null private property and therefore unowned, since they are being coercively maintained.

This is just an extension of the same logic but back into time. The only question is history. If you consider that there should be a philosophical statute of limitations on property claims then you will be a conservative Ancap, but if you consider that all existing property was originally gained through theft and not mixing with the land or other justifiable NAP compliant Neo-Lockean way, then you can be a revolutionary Ancap and argue that all property is up for claims by those using it now, since the owners on paper can be linked back to an illegitimate claim from when the initial people who peacefully mixed their labor were conquered.

Or is it too late now? Would this create too much chaos? Really, there would be no violent taking as in communism, since the property would just go to the existing users like renters or share owned for workers at a factory and the absentee owners are simply left with useless deeds. Private property is then claimed and everything operates in a free market unlike socialism.

India - Castration for child rapists legalised

Madras High Court says castrating child rapists best solution for sex offences

In india rape is not tolerated. Rapists of grown women are lynched regularly.

If you rape a child in India and there is proof of this. You will be castrated legally now. Is it a better punishment than death? Go hang yourself if you think it is worse.

Castration. This is Madras high court's one-word solution for curbing spiralling sex offences against children.

"Traditional laws are not stringent enough to yield any desired positive result. Suggestion of castration looks barbaric, but barbaric crimes should definitely attract barbaric model of punishment. Many may not agree with this. Still, everyone needs to understand the stark reality in society and appreciate the punishment suggested," said Justice N Kirubakaran, pointing to the fact that the conviction rate in cases of sex offence against children is a mere 2.4% and that between 2008 and 2014, crimes against children had increased by 400%.

"This court is sure that additional punishment of castration of child rapists would fetch magical results in preventing and containing child abuses," said the judge while pointing out that chemical castration had come into force in several countries including the US. The judge was passing orders on a plea from a foreigner facing paedophile charges in TN for quashing the case. Turning down the plea, the judge, however, stayed the red corner notice issued against him making it clear it was being done to facilitate his participation in a criminal trial.

The immediate provocation for the court to make such a drastic suggestion was the brutal gangrape of children in Delhi last week. Calling it a "blood-curdling" and "horrific" incident, Justice Kirubakaran said castration must be an additional punishment for child abusers, especially child rapists. Incidentally in 2013, at the height of the protests in the capital over the Nirbhaya case, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa had similarly called for death or chemical castration for rapists through amendments in Central laws.

Castration is done on child sex offenders in Poland, Russia, Estonia and nine US states including California, Florida, Oregon, Texas and Washington, he said, adding, "South Korea was the first Asian country to make castration a punishment."

"Inspite of many penal laws and the recent POCSO Act, 2012 prescribing severe punishment for crimes against children, the number of such cases has increased from 38,172 in 2012 to 58,224 in 2013 and to 89,423 in 2014. When law is ineffective and incapable of addressing the menace, this court cannot keep its hands folded and remain a silent spectator, unmoved and oblivious to the recent happenings of horrible blood-curdling gang rapes of children in various parts of India. It would not only be injustice done to the child abuse victims, but would also amount to violation of the oath taken by this court," the judge said.

This suggestion of castration would be condemned, censured and criticised as "barbaric, retrograde, stone-aged, cannibalistic and inhuman," Justice Kirubakaran said, adding that human rights activists who oppose castration are concerned mostly about offenders and perpetrators, unmindful of the physical, psychological and the emotional trauma undergone by victims. "Those activists should first exhibit sympathy and support to the victims of such crimes by visiting and consoling them at the hour of crisis instead of having misplaced sympathy on the perpetrators," he said.

Apart from "native monsters," there are foreigners "regularly landing" here to abuse our children, the judge said, adding that the case before him also concerned one such person who allegedly abused a 15-year-old boy. The British national had paid money to the boy's mother and promised to offer quality education to the boy. He took him to Delhi where he stayed with the boy in a room and assaulted him, all in 2011. After a service organization moved court and got the boy rescued, a case was registered and a chargesheet too was filed.

In his present petition, the Briton wanted the case to be quashed on the ground that the boy's mother herself had said it was not kidnap and abuse, but she had sent the Class IX boy voluntarily. The prosecution, however, pointed out that the mother's retraction itself was proof of tampering of evidence by the foreigner, and that the boy himself had stated before the magistrate that he was trafficked and abused by the Briton.

https://archive.is/4KmDx

Breastfeeding is apparently illegal in Maryland

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/maryland-cops-arrest-man-and-threaten-his-girlfriend-over-non-existent-breast-feeding-violation/

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me

Why do you think ancaps are day by day being treated like a fedora meme and taken less and less seriously?

UBF Membership

Hello, I'm the new owner of the United Boards for Freedom ( >>>/ubf/ )

I'm posting this message because in the past this board was accepted into the confederation either by invitation or by request

It is now required that all members have a link to the UBF somewhere on their board to show their membership

Boards without one of the following will be removed October 1st

(You don't have to copy+paste, just have something similar)

In board announcement:

<a(SPACE)href="https://8ch.net/ubf/">Proud member of the UBF</a>

or

In sticky:

This board is a proud member of the United Boards for Freedom

The UBF is a loose confederation of boards centred around the concept of freedom from moderation.

See the full list of members here: >>>/ubf/

Thanks

If you would like to opt out of the UBF, please ignore this message

CEO ROBOTS & EXECUTIVE ROBOTS

Could computers take over the boardroom?

Sure Sure. You want to say that all work that produces physical objects is "easy" and that computers are naturally superior to man at software if they gain any level of "intelligence".

Okay.

Computers from the ground up were originally built as information and control systems. Management.

So why are workers replaceable but management would not be?

Executives, bankers, and "charismatic" CEOs are far more replaceable than skilled workers.

''iCEO, a software prototype designed to test whether high-level management can be automated, was launched recently with encouraging initial results. In a 2015 article in Harvard Business Review, Devin Fidler of the non-profit group Institute for the Future outlined what iCEO can teach us about the future of the job world, and specifically, the future of the management structure in the corporate world.

On a base level, the virtual management system automates complex work by dividing it up and assigning out small individual tasks. The creators of the program decided to run experiments to see how far the software could be pushed into traditionally human territory. In the first real test of the software program’s higher-level abilities, iCEO oversaw the completion of a 124-page report in just weeks, when it would have taken months via a traditional management-employee structure.

The quality of iCEO’s work was as impressive as its speed, and the computer program required little human intervention to get the job done.

READ MORE AT >>>/midpol/

“A truly expressive human face as the new ‘interface’ for technology has a broad range of applications where humans need to or benefit from interacting with technology or other humans currently. The highest benefit will be in applications where understanding authentic human behavior is important for technology to better serve people.

Areas where we believe we can make a 100 times impact include healthcare, education and consumer care. Humanoid robots would be ideal for life companions for the elderly, especially those suffering from Alzheimer’s or dementia as well as social training for autistic children. Our robots aim to offer high-fidelity human expression to demonstrate empathy and care while also providing the consistency, repeatability, scalability and reliability necessary satisfy these sorts of necessary services where demand far outstrips qualified human supply and budget today.

Another large opportunity would be in customer/client services such as hotel front desks, bank teller windows, office/airport information desks and government services windows.

To address these opportunities, we are moving forward with two robot ‘classes.’ One is a full-sized human robot production line where very human service robots can be hired to work 24 hours per day, which would be very cost-effective. The other potentially even more exciting product line is our personal robot range which will be sold at exceptionally low prices and powered in whole, or in part, by smartphones.”

https://archive.is/OOLnk

Down with the old order.

Technology can be made useful to our ends. Let every man live from his labour not as a parasite to others.

Kill yourselves

Daily reminder than ayncrapism is a fake ideology that doesn't even make sense.

Daily reminder that ayncraps just want a state with zero accountability which exists solely for profit

Daily reminder that ayncraps would be the first to die in an ayncrap society.

Why Government isn't needed to protect forests.

What is today one of the largest tracts of rainforest in the world was, until little more than 500 years ago, a landscape dominated by human activity, according to a review of the evidence by Charles Clement of Brazil’s National Institute of Amazonian Research in Manaus, and his colleagues.

After Europeans showed up, the inhabitants were decimated by disease and superior weaponry, and retreated into the bush, while the jungle reclaimed their fields and plazas. But, thanks to a combination of deforestation and remote sensing, what’s left of their civilisation is now re-emerging.

They reveal an anthropogenically modified Amazonia before the European conquest. “Few if any pristine landscapes remained in 1492,” says Clement. “Many present Amazon forests, while seemingly natural, are domesticated.”

Amazon domesticity

The evidence for this radical rethink has been stacking up for some time. Archaeologists have uncovered dense urban centres that would have been home to up to 10,000 inhabitants along riverbanks, with fields and cultivated orchards of Brazil nuts, palm and fruit trees stretching for tens of kilometres. Remote sensing has revealed extensive earthworks, including cities, causeways, canals, graveyards and huge areas of ridged fields that kept crops like manioc, maize and squash clear of floods and frosts.

Meanwhile, agriculturalists have discovered that many forest soils have been mulched and composted with waste. These fertile “dark earths”, or terra preta, may cover 150,000 square kilometres, much of it now reclaimed by rainforests. Before the arrival of Europeans, the region’s population may have reached 50 million.

The remains date back 3000 years or more, say the authors, who include geographer William Denevan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and anthropologist Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida at Gainesville – both pioneers of the idea that the Amazon has long been modified by humans.

Not everyone agrees. Dolores Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama recently argued that “recent investigations of soils in parts of the western Amazon… found little vegetation disturbance“.

Clement and his co-authors agree that “the idea of a domesticated Amazonia… contrasts strongly with reports of empty forests, which continue to captivate scientific and popular media”.

But the idea of a domesticated Amazon complements research in other rainforest regions, including the Congo basin and South-East Asia, that also suggest that much of what seems pristine is actually regrowth after dense human occupation. Erle Ellis of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, says such evidence suggests that we should be dating the start of the Anthropocene – the era of human domination of the planet – to thousands of years ago rather than in the middle of 20th century.

https://archive.is/RIWrI

In othe words; in many places of the tropics where forests grow there will be thick dense forests even after complete clearcutting after 500 years of no use. With modern knowledge that means that intelligent use of the forest growth in those areas can be made sustainable indefinitely.

Free market will always fix it.

Hey guys, what businesses are you currently boycotting because they've violated NAP? Are you boycotting businesses that pollute/deforest?

Space Updates

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Nuclear Thermal Rockets

NASA is about to fund renewed research and experimentation into NTRs. Public approval will be hard

With the capability of generating high thrust and 100% more specific impulse than the best chemical rockets, the time and cost-saving potential of nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) for deep-space missions is once again gaining interest at NASA. Although never flown, the NTR concept is relatively simple. The rocket engine is based around a nuclear fission reactor, which heats the liquid hydrogen (LH2) propellant instead of igniting combustible fuel.

https://archive.is/wzK3R

The resulting hot gas is pumped into a separate high-pressure chamber, which, through valve 11 communicates with tube shocks. At the other end of the shock tube we find structed diffuser serves to concentrate the energy of the shock wave, and the valve 12, connecting tube with a nozzle rocket.

Duty cycle engine is as follows: pump 5 takes the working fluid from the reservoir and high-pressure pumps it through a reactor, where it evaporates and is heated to about 2500° C — and then injected into the high-pressure chamber. Shock tube at this point is still filled with gas of low pressure left over from the previous cycle. Then the valve 11 to quickly open, compressed gas, bursting into the pipe instantaneously compresses and heats the gas in the tube, causing the appearance in it of a strong shock wave.

https://archive.is/ReYxU

A proposed space elevator stretching 12 miles into the stratosphere could cut out the need for rockets to shuttle astronauts into space, according to a proposal from a Canadian company.

It sounds like an idea out of a science fiction novel, but Thoth Technology has been granted a patent for an inflatable, pneumatically pressured tower stretching 12.5 miles high. The top of the so-called space elevator would serve as a liftoff point to space, potentially saving more than 30 percent of the fuel of a conventional rocket, according to the company.

"From the top of the tower, space planes will launch in a single stage to orbit, returning to the top of the tower for refueling and reflight," Brendan Quine, the inventor of the ThothX Tower, said in a statement.

By removing the need for the vertical launch of a rocket, energy can be saved, allowing space passengers to catch a horizontal flight, much like a passenger plane, from the top of the space elevator.

Aside from being a final stop for astronauts before heading out of this world, Quine wrote in a filing with the United States Patent Office that the tower could help with wind-energy generation, communications, scientific research and tourism.

While it's just an idea for now, the patent moves it one step closer to potentially being another way to revolutionize space travel.

https://archive.is/R2rqr

A potential advancement in the United States’ electric propulsion capability for the future of spaceflight is being underscored by a new NASA contract to support work on the VASIMR project – short for the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket.

VASIMR works with plasma, an electrically charged gas that can be heated to extreme temperatures by radio waves and controlled and guided by strong magnetic fields.

Ad Astra Rocket Company announced today that it has completed contract negotiations with NASA on the group’s Next Space Technology Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) award and are now entering the execution phase of the project.

Long duration, high-power test

Under the award, Ad Astra is to conduct a long duration, high-power test of an upgraded version of the VX-200™ VASIMR prototype, the VX-200SS (“SS” for steady state), for a minimum of 100 hours continuously at a power level of 100 Kilowatts.

Testing will be conducted in Ad Astra’s large, state-of-the-art vacuum chamber in the company’s Webster, Texas facility.

The NASA and Ad Astra executed the contract — a three-year, fixed price agreement — on August 7, 2015 for a total value of just over $9 million.

The agreement is structured as a one-year contract with two additional one-year extensions based on the accomplishment of mutually agreed upon progress milestones, Ad Astra added in their press statement.

NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Program sponsors NextSTEP awards in a 50/50 cost partnership with industry.

Former astronaut, Franklin Chang Díaz, serves as Chairman of the Ad Astra Board and Chief Executive Officer – a space traveler with NASA for 25 years and a veteran of seven space shuttle flights.

https://archive.is/S46q8

Quick question: How many Federal government agencies exist? Don't know? Don't worry; the government doesn't know, either

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feds-lose-count-of-agencies-range-offered-is-60-430/article/2570875

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activities and culture

With Google blocking 8ch, I wonder if there will be a noticeable shift in search engines or if this will quietly go under. Will this make waves?

/russian/

Интересно, есть ли кто из русских, живущих в Нью-Гемпшире нелегалом?

Islam has been an inspiration for many anarchists….. join our board to find out more!

http://8ch.net/modernislam

Former army private and "Wikileaks" leaker Chelsea Manning faces time in solitary confinement after being caught with "contraband" in Leavenworth prison cell. The offending item? A copy of "Vanity Fair" with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/chelsea-manning-faces-solitary-caitlyn-jenner-cover-article-1.2323984

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80% of 500 doctors, nurses, and physicians assistants surveyed admit going to work with communicable diseases because their employers don't provide sick leave

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/07/06/is-your-doctor-making-you-sick/

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How do we get more people to watch free to choose? That's really far and away the most thoroughly redpill well produced ancap series. It's free to watch at Freetochoose.tv

Maybe you'll find this important.

>information

Obama just signed a law allowing him to fast track TPP and other "trade agreements", allowing him to accept it with just a simple majority.

>what is TPP?

Only a small part of TPP is actually about trade, and it will affect every aspect of your life from healthcare to food to chan culture and, of course, videogames.

>TPP threatens fair use

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/new-leaked-tpp-puts-fair-use-risk

From chan culture to youtubers, this could make bethesda's paid mods something you'd call "good old times".

>TPP will allow a corporation to sue a state over potential losses caused by its legislation

This won't happen in a court of your own country, this will place an international court above your laws. Consumer rights, from food to your favourite hobby, will be raped mercilessly. Think it's bad now? You haven't seen anything.

>TPP will make it easier to outsource labor in asia

From governmental contracts to code monkeys trough services, you will be competing with third-world slave labor and buying its products. Should you be able to afford it and have some free time as your working hours get closer to those of Vietnam

>AHAHAH I will still be pirating stuff anyway

No you won't. TPP can force your ISP to monitor your activity, and fine you or even send you to jail. It will be possibile to fine you even just for copying a DVD you own to your hard drive. It's SOPA and all that shit right back from the dead.

>I don't believe you OP, I want to read what it says!

Well too fucking bad, because it isn't just secret, it will remain secret for four years after it's accepted. Talk about transparency. However a small part has been leaked, you can read more here:

https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter/page-1.html

https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPIsjH25GHo

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/tpp-trade-deal-will-be-devastating-access-affordable-medicines

https://wikileaks.org/US-Australia-isolated-in-TPP.html

https://wikileaks.org/tppa-environment-chapter.html

https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/attack-on-affordable-cancer-treatments.html

https://wikileaks.org/tpp/healthcare/Analysis-Dr-Deborah-Gleeson/page-1.html

https://wikileaks.org/tpp/healthcare/Analysis-Professor-Jane-Kelsey/page-1.html

https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/TPP-Investment-Chapter-Analysis/page-1.html

http://keionline.org/tpp

And some articles:

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/the-trans-pacific-trade-tpp-agreement-must-be-defeated?inline=file

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/07/only-two-republicans-admit-they-actually-read-secret-obama-trade-deal-both-unsupportive/

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/22/sessions-tpp-nascent-european-union-tpa-surrender-of-congressional-power/

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/what-law-says-the-text-of-the-tpp-must-remain-secret/

>I'm in EU, who gives a shit!

TTIP is the same shit EU-flavoured and it's going to hurt you. It will be negotiated by that most democratic institution called the european commission, so you know you're fucked.

What you can do

Next post I'll be posting the names of the senators that voted for this. Beside bothering them, you can get #TPP trending and start making some noise. Don't go down without a fight.

>b-but muh free trade

No.

It isn't about free trade, the whole "Free trade" shit is a farce to push anti-freedom agenda on us. Don't get fooled by it, this is NOT Free market.

Planned Parenthood president, "We would like to apologize for our tone deaf official in the video. And for you idiots misunderstanding it"

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/16/politics/planned-parenthood-president-criticizes-gop-candidates/index.html

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Good Listenings

I think you guys might enjoy this podcast episode from Libertarianism.org/Cato. Touches on interesting developments in the early individualist movement, including anarchist strains.

Pretty valuable to us since it offers the insight that 'the word 'socialist' was a word usurped just like liberalism which, to me, means of course that ancomms/libertarian socialists are completely bullshitting on their claim that anarchism has always been "socialist."

Give this a listen. And of course link some more quality gems.

http://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/radical-notion-individualism

Direction of /ancap/

I'm just here to say that I got here by clicking random board and I will always be an anarchist.

THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES

Written in one go so sorry if flawed.

As has doubtless become apparent to the handful of people who still try and check out this board, it's withered away and is at the verge of not even being checked out anyone. This is a said state of affairs. Much can be said about why perhaps the board never really took off to begin with, including structural flaws in how its presented, previous board management (and I believe its safe to say that our current board owner has left town) , and the lack of interest generally on this website to the topic ( and the fact that those who may be interested are turned off by the neglected state of affairs and unappealing structure).

None of this should be the case. Anyone who looks at the /anarcho/ board can see that, while some parts are distasteful, their board is conducive towards a growing and enjoyable community. Ours is nothing like that. Elsewhere on the site as well you will find that libertarian ideas are not present or represented to any degree comparable to what may be called broadly 'leftist,' anti-capitalist, left-anarchist collections of boards. And indeed on the right as well, a home for fascism, nazism, monarchism, and other rightist, reactionary groups have found their place for community and learning. All we have to offer our heaps of boards, collecting dust and decay.

Really I see only to paths open to us. To begin to make the changes to become what we have always intended, or for the idea to be disappear.

The biggest problem in my view is board ownership. Moderation is a related issue but what I can tell there have been no moderators appointed as of yet by any board owner. New board owners have simply arrived to this board hoping to guide in a direction and were replaced by the next one. Little was actually done for developing the board and we are left with a few attempts at spurring board activity which look contrived and did next to nothing in terms of actually encouraging more discussion and viewership. None of the current stickies do anything for the board, the CSS is simply unappealing and it would be better to have plain Futaba (which is really nice anyway) Additionally the board text and subtitle contribute nothing. All we really have are the cycling board banners and many of them aren't good themselves.

As far as concrete reforms for the board besides what I've mentioned I will list some of my thoughts.

Firstly, culture should come from the participants of the board. In my years on chans this has always been the case. The traditions, thread trends, etc. have always come from the people, not mods, not moot, not Frederic Brenan. They also don't need - and can't - come from the dictate of Board Owner #3545. A strong enough culture to sustain this requires more viewers of the site which, in the short term, means dedication by us stragglers who still visit and occasionally post. It also means bring more like-minded people to the board. This could be achieved by mentioning that we exist when involved in discussion of libertarianism/property anarchism on 4chan as well as this site. There is in fact a subculture of ancaps on 4chan's /pol/ (or at least there was; I gave up on /pol/ in 2012 or so).

Second, this ought not be an anarcho-capitalist only board. It ought be a board tolerable to all anarchists and libertarians, as well as minimal state supporters. Emphasis should clearly be on respect of property, libertarianism, anarchism, but no ironclad law is necessary. We ought be a place which tolerates dissent and challenging discussion. This is of course something which would be subject to alteration as the board grows. /anarcho/ for instance was tolerable (until a new board owner arrived) to capitalist discussion and now delegates such conversation to a single thread. Such a measure may be too drastic but it represents flexibility as more users populate the board. I don't think the word voluntarism should be used to replace ancap. Nor would trying to advance voluntarism serve as a unifying banner for all anarchists and libertarians.

Board ownership and moderation policy is the trickiest part in my view. I think to the ability possible, this process should be transparent. All moderation actions should be public and it should be possible to have a moderator contested and ultimately ousted if necessary. The imported goal is maintaining order and rule while not having rulers. I also don't know how moderators could be delegated. Rules would need to be developed by the community.

I don't present myself as a sage, I just want to see this board work. These are some of my thoughts and of course you can criticize them or present your own. God help us.

What is 'anarcho-monarchy' and how does it relate to AnCap?

Debunk this! "Ancaps Are Useful Idiots for SJWs"

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/anarcho-capitalists-useful-idiots-for-social-justice-podcast/ Can anyone here counter this drivel from a supposed lover of liberty? He claims that ancap societies have been created in history and have all failed. No citation given. Also does the guilt by association typical of an SJW by claiming (with no citation or context) Rothbard had associated with David Duke (white nationalist).

Can the board owner please give me an email I can talk to them with?

-the former board owner

Not interested in re-owning the board I just want to talk about the board.

Pat Robertson to mother who lost her three-year-old child: Be happy the child is dead. He could have been the next Hitler

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pat-robertson-tells-grieving-mother-her-dead-baby-couldve-grown-up-to-be-hitler/

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Ancap Jeff Berwick Running for Office

https://www.facebook.com/VoteBerwick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc3hJlYYUGg

Thoughts?

>new board owner appointed

>new one proceeds to make annoying changes and disappear forever

>new board owner appointed

>cycle repeated

might as well post pornography at this point and just piss in the pity

Ride a bicycle? That's an eviction

http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/Bikes-banned-from-apartment-complex-303830731.html

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Not strictly related to anarcho-capitalism, but whatever.

This was just posted on /pol/, and in the thread there are several people who defend the actions of the police. Why? Because he was sitting down when he raised his hands, instead of standing up like they demanded.

Imagine if any private security firm did this; would anybody continue to support them? I wager the answer is no. But for the case of state services, the answer is yes. People are so accustomed to low-quality returns that even when a state works against it's advertised goal (to make society safer in this case), they can come up with a justification for why it is okay. The police in this video could have just came into his house, shot him, left, and the reaction would be the same.

Official Banner and Flag thread

That Guy T: The Next Generation of Anarcho-Capitalists

The Anarchist Meme Thread

The Truth About School: Another Brick in the Wall! - Stefan Molyneux

"Net Neutrality"

Living free in Canada

Why lions will never go exinct

yiff

Aggression Against The Dead

Free Speech Online: Enemy of Liberty?

I Want Out

Libertarian/An-Cap resources

Implementation/Intervention

/ancap/ music

Book of the Week #2: Toward a Libertarian Society

Book of the week

/noose/

Phyles

q's

reality