Do they? More than the property rights of British Londoners to have sold their part of their homeland to someone with enough money? Even foreigners?
We're talking about a small part of the country that's disproportionately expensive that has tried to attract those with money and the side effect of this is natives have chosen to sell up. There might be too much immigration, there might be too much external competition driving house prices up, but I think it's weird to talk about native rights. None of us is truly native here.
I have a Lexus LX, one of the most expensive Lexus vehicles ever made. I love it. It was made in Japan.
Tesla panel gaps and quality are fine. They had some early issues, but the damn things are basically body panels hung off of almost entirely cast chunks of metal. There is not a lot of room for wiggle. If anything, they're so we'll integrated that they're hard to repair after a crash.
I'm not the person you replied to, but in a 110 km/h (70 mph) zone you'd get away with just a fine in Australia if caught/pulled over. To lose your license for six months, you'd need to be doing 130+ km/h in an 80 km/h (50 mph) zone.
Yep, I was referring to the license suspension for 6 months though, which is what the earlier post was talking about. What you’re referring to is a license suspension for 3 months.
Australia's road laws tend to be strictly applied. Large fines and demerit points that can lead to loss of licence. We also have random breath tests.
We have much lower road fatalities than the USA per 100,000 people and per billion km traveled though the rates in remote areas are considerably higher.
Yeah, we also have many highways with a speed limit of 80 and one with speed limit up to 85mph (~137kmh), so you wouldn't necessarily even be speeding.
But Starlink needs to get the traffic to/from the ground eventually, right? And those ground links having their capacity. So I think it is nice to have laser crosslinks, but they will not eliminate the base stations capacity requirements.
If anything, such an extensive system should have better controls than a small business. Given that, there are trillions of dollars flowing around of other people's money.
This is committing the classic mistake of forgetting that a government is just a corporation with an army behind it. "The government" isn't going away; just the one where you had any semblance of say in its operation.
This is exactly the insight that shifted me from being libertarian to progressive. Humans create organizations to coordinate behavior. Corporations are good for risk taking ventures, governments are good for social cooperation and coordination. Different purposes, time scales and objectives. Both are important and necessary. We should make them the best they can be.
Government ultimately is power over the citizenry -- it will always exist in one form or another whether it's the Church, the Mob, Warlords, etc. I believe our existing government is the least-worst option.
The goal is literally the end of democracy and a king reigning over techno-feudalist "states". They make no secret of this.
I would like to see the IRS take my income when it's disbanded.
> a government is just a corporation with an army behind it
This is a bad analogy. A corporation, and a corporation that can use force, have completely different properties. Walmart cannot hold a gun to my head and force me to pay for illegal alien's hotels. They can only get by if they sell products worth buying, and in a free and fair market, they can flourish only based on merit. They must cut the fat and make better deals and better products if they want to grow. The government does not have the pressures of a free and fair market. If the government needs more money, they print it, or they take it from me. Both are a form of tax. They don't cut their own fat. They have no incentive. They only grow. I may get downvoted for this, but I think Elon is doing good work. He managed to get twitter running on about 20% of the employees and I think he can do the same with government. From my perspective, the only people who complain about this are those that want to see a perpetually growing central government who don't see the danger of having a centralized power encroaching and taxing every aspect of our lives, and those who are in on it themselves.
Natives have rights to their homeland.