Quote from: holyfuckisuck on September 06, 2012, 03:13 pmYeah, I think the whole thing was blown waaaaay out of proportion by pine. I mean this thread and everything she has said could be condensed into maybe 1 sentence: "Other people haven't audited the program and it isn't freely available to the public and this means that the program could hypothetically contain some sort of exploit, so be very careful downloading and implementing it." This sentence seems true to me, but calling someone LE and saying all the shit that she has said without any evidence is just silly. Ask questions, but don't come to baseless conclusions.And that's something I've got no problem with. Questions are good.Quote from: holyfuckisuck on September 06, 2012, 03:13 pmAnyway, with that being said I still wouldn't take this sort of risk if I were a vendor. Downloading software from an anonymous person online that could, no matter how unlikely, contain some sort of exploits when I could simply do such a task without the software even if it did take a bit longer seems a little unreasonable to me I guess. If other vendors ARE willing to take that risk then that's certainly fine with me though.Which exactly what a free market allows. Those who want it can buy it, those who don't want it don't have to buy it or fund it in any way.Quote from: holyfuckisuck on September 06, 2012, 03:13 pmAlso, try not to shove your libertarian principles down my throat, I don't care and it's completely off topic.That's just my position, you can take or leave it as you see fit. It's not off topic, though, because Silk Road is an agorist market. Understanding agorist principles, whether you share them or not, will help you understand why the market is the way that it is. That is, for example, why Pine couldn't get DPR to terminate my account and started this thread in the first place.Quote from: holyfuckisuck on September 06, 2012, 03:13 pmYour decisions regarding how you would distribute this software had nothing to do with libertarian principlesActually that's not entirely accurate. I've done some work (written the software) and I am now offering that as a product in the market. The market will then decide if it wants it or not. If not then I won't get any sales. I think I will or I wouldn't have done it, but it might take a while.Quote from: holyfuckisuck on September 06, 2012, 03:13 pmand neither does anything that I've posted. You'll start sounding like pine if you start twisting everything into representatives of political theories etc. edit: OK that may have come off as too harsh. Nah, it's just your opinion.Quote from: holyfuckisuck on September 06, 2012, 03:13 pmI don't disagree with libertarians or actually claim to know anything about how to properly govern the human race(personally I doubt you or anyone else does either but please don't consider this an invitation to try and prove me wrong) but your reading list just seemed to come out of nowhere.The whole point of it is not to rule anyone except yourself and not to be ruled by anyone else.This, of course, is precisely where libertarian principles are on topic because my critics to this point can be reduced to stating: "do what we say, give us your work for free and maybe someone might give you a donation." Then they're getting annoyed because I'm saying: "no, I'm in an agorist market and people can choose to buy my product or choose not to."Quote from: holyfuckisuck on September 06, 2012, 03:13 pmOh and yeah, I forgot about shannon. Shannon seems knowledgeable to me and I hope he/she weighs in here too.It would be interesting.