{"id":175485,"date":"2021-02-06T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/06\/16-tons\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T00:15:00","slug":"16-tons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/06\/16-tons\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Tons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E5VMZqgVzRo\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Musical Accompaniment<\/i><\/div>\n<p>  Legislators in Nevada are proposing legislation to   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/politics-and-government\/2021-legislature\/bill-would-allow-tech-companies-to-create-local-governments-2272887\/\">allow tech companies to create their own company owned towns<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  Needless to say, the morons suggesting this needs to read up the history, or   at least listen to the damned song.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like they looked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/159662\/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project\">New Hampshire Town that went libertarian and was infested by bears,<\/a> and said, &#8220;Here, hold my beer&#8221;. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">If you\u2019ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an     \u201cinnovative technology,\u201d you soon could form a new local government in     Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>According to a draft of the proposed     legislation, obtained by the Review-Journal but not yet introduced in the     Legislature, Innovation Zones would allow tech companies like Blockchains,     LLC to effectively form separate local governments in Nevada, governments     that would carry the same authority as a county, including the ability to     impose taxes, form school districts and justice courts and provide     government services, to name a few duties.<\/p>\n<p>Sisolak pitched the     concept in his State of the State address as his plan to bring in new     companies that are at the forefront of \u201cgroundbreaking technologies,\u201d all     without the use of tax abatements or other publicly funded incentive     packages that had previously helped Nevada bring companies like Tesla to the     state.<\/p>\n<p>During his speech last month, Sisolak specifically named     Blockchains, LLC as a company that had committed to developing a \u201csmart     city\u201d in the area east of Reno that would run entirely on blockchain     technology, once the legislation passes.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>Run a f%$#ing city on blockchain? <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, like that is going to end well.<\/p>\n<p>Even without the dubious history of the company town.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The     draft language of the proposal says that the traditional local government     model is \u201cinadequate alone to provide the flexibility and resources     conducive to making the State a leader in attracting and retaining new forms     and types of businesses and fostering economic development in emerging     technologies and innovative industries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It adds that this     \u201calternative form of local government\u201d is needed to aid economic development     within the state.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, by all means, let the grifters from block chain and the like dictate the form of government.<\/p>\n<p>Given the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Company_town#Pullman_lesson\">dubious history<\/a> of company towns, and the fact that their test case is for a company that doesn&#8217;t actually make anything (blockchain, seriously), does not bode well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical Accompaniment Legislators in Nevada are proposing legislation to allow tech companies to create their own company owned towns.&nbsp; Needless to say, the morons suggesting this needs to read up the history, or at least listen to the damned song. It&#8217;s like they looked at the New Hampshire Town that went libertarian and was infested &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-175485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}