How do we successfully boycott Google?

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And, to poke my esteemed colleague in his eye-socket, the right-honorable JazzC (who is an anarchist masquerading as a libertarian),

Poke accepted. I 'll pass over the eloquent tirade of epithets and try answer this without getting the thread locked... :o I won't stop myself from mentioning though that it seems to me that your understanding of classification in terms of political science is lacking.

there really IS such a thing as a monopoly,

No shit Sherlock. Of course there is a monopoly and what defines it in the economic sense isn't the popular belief (# of sellers in a market), but the "no restrictions to entry" requirement.

The confusion about the nature of monopoly comes naturally since the first one is merely counting which is easy for anyone to do while the second one requires some hand holding for people who are not familiar with it.

and the concerns of us dirt-bound mud people are valid because at some point the monopolies' economic power bridges over into political power and they use that power to prevent the competition

It does not bridge. It is merely a natural extension of the one monopolistic source. The only monopoly capable of institutionalizing monopolies all over the place is the one found in the field of power - take a guess as to which one is it.

that the Liberanarchistarians love to get stiffies over. (Talking about economic competion is like watching porn for a Liberararchistarian. It makes their weiners sturdy and their vaginal passages damp. Both, at the same time.)

Seems like you are quite adept in the academic field of fapping. It 's good for any human to have at least one strong point...

And so that's what we have right now, a Statist Corporatocracy where economic power and government power are all one and the same and the funny thing is you have socialists and liberanarchistarians BOTH advocating in favor of maintaining the monopolistic powers of corporations like Google (and Microsoft, etc...)

Instead of drawing a lyrical response to this baffling array of words, I 'll just use someone else 's quote because it fits perfectly: "I can't even begin to understand what kind of confusion of ideas could have led to such a conclusion".

Same goes for the next 2 paragraphs, it even pains intellectually to read them.

Which brings us back to the definition of rights.

Really? What part of the definition of rights is hard to understand, I wonder. Let 's start with the basic natural rights - you own your body and the fruits of your energy. From that simple axiom, everything else springs.
 
What part of the definition of rights is hard to understand, I wonder. Let 's start with the basic natural rights - you own your body and the fruits of your energy. From that simple axiom, everything else springs.

The only word worth thinking about, and possibly using, is the word "rights". Are "corporate rights" the exact same thing as "individual rights", and if so whose rights get adapted in which direction.

And that's the problem with absolutist Liberanarchistarians, they only talk about the extremes, and can't chart a path through the mushy middle. Owning your body is the easy part, as long as you are willing to allow the retarded to breed at a rate that overwhelms the whole Petri dish and all of us bacteriums die, but okay fine, I'll step back from my goose-stepping tendency toward eugenics, just for the sake of getting along, but then what's this notion of "owning the fruits of your energy" ? Do I own the roads that I drive on? The Law Enforcement that keeps me from driving 100 mph in a school zone? The courts that prevent people from refusing to pay after the work has been performed? All these intangibles that allow me to create "fruits from my energy", do I OWN them too?

But that's just a start. What about the air? Who owns the air? What about water? Can I process plutonium in my basement and dump the waste down my toilet? Hell, it's my water, I paid for it, right?

What's missing from the Liberanarchistarian perspective is their inability to admit that there are areas of "human events" that require more thought and more effort than a reflexive reiteration of Liberanarchistarian dogma. The more complex the situations get, the less useful the they become. And the average, well-meaning person that only wants to live out their lives in calm enjoyment are driven to the Statists by these laughable anarchists, who really, if you think about it, aren't all that funny, as they deny any option to socialist corporate statism.
 
they only talk about the extremes, and can't chart a path through the mushy middle.

Your weakness to perceive ideas in their full clarity is what forces you to find refuge in the terms extreme and middle.

Truth and reality are not the outcome some kind of dialectic bastardization process. They transcend any puny efforts of containment in trivial structures simply by virtue of their being. In other words, you don't get wine by mixing piss and champagne - you just get piss with bubbles.

In conclusion, it 's not any battle of wits that determines reality and truth - they simply exist, in detriment of those who can't or are not willing to take the mental effort of approaching them.

Owning your body is the easy part,

Everything is so easy from your couch, isn't it? Too bad all history books don't agree with your Disneyland perception of reality.

what's this notion of "owning the fruits of your energy" ?

For example, if you happen to kill two huge snakes that Hera sent to kill you with your bare hands, while still a baby, they 're yours to skin as you please.

Do I own the roads that I drive on?

Unless you can you sell them, obviously not.

But that's just a start. What about the air? Who owns the air? What about water? Can I process plutonium in my basement and dump the waste down my toilet? Hell, it's my water, I paid for it, right?

All these questions have their definite answer. But don't think you 'll be able to stroll your way out of this by throwing the ball off the field. First you 'll learn how to walk and then you 'll learn how to run.

What's missing [snip]

It 's funny how you try to give opinionated advice on things that you don't even begin to comprehend. All you 've done so far in this thread is to combinewordsintobiggerones in a futile effort to obscure the vacuum of your position. Too bad, I expected more. The last sentences weren't even self-coherent.
 
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