At least 40 percent of the population in North Korea is now engaged in some form of private enterprise, a level comparable to that of Hungary and Poland shortly after the fall of the Soviet bloc, the director of South Korea’s intelligence service, Lee Byung-ho, told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing in February.

If only we'd leave them the hell alone. Blessed be the fruits of corruption:

“I came to believe I could get away with anything in North Korea with bribes,” he said, “except the crime of criticizing the ruling Kim family.”

Hey, it works in Thailand...

Anyways, the new policy is "byungjin" rather than "songun", which is a huge jump -- Nukes for self defense and Economic growth rather than 'military first'. In the broad strokes, that isn't too different from the libertarian minarchist platform for the USA. Good to see they adopted it after their last attempt at exterminating the market proved they were Canute screaming at the tides.

Proving once more that "journalists" in today's society are dumber than autists.

About time. Be the change you want to see.

He's certainly already campaigning.

Cue Nelson Muntz laugh

They've always gotta change the name lest people figure out what dastardly little shits they are.

Sounds about right.

Shut down foundry27, ended hobbyist licenses and most importantly quit caring about being a realtime OS. SHAME

The Free Shit army gets rowdy.

Moron.

1/5 still held hostage at the NY FED. For very obvious reasons of empire.

There already is a free market - and those who currently dominate human civilization used that freedom to accrue for themselves unwarranted power and influence at the cost of the majority.

We must understand that while the "state" is a human construct, it is backed up by very real physical force, economic monopolies, financial domination, and industrial might. The only way to secure our own place within the existing free market, is to diminish these advantages through establishing an incremental balance of power between blocs, states, within states, and eventually between individuals.

Do this by creating alternatives to the current monopolies of money and industry, redistributing the current concentration of power, wealth, and influence through localized entrepreneurship.

The cost in the free market for organized individuals to impose their will upon others is not only minimal, it is profitable. Remove the profit and increase the cost, and this involuntary imposition of will becomes nearly impossible.

Your freedom is directly proportional to your ability to resist the imposition of tyranny, and your lack of need for .gov.

Using fire as a drill now, his technique is improving

No stop to collection, only alteration of certain "queries" they'll be able to run on the data.

Will be interesting to see the audits.

Lies

Good scoop by Corbett.

This never happens anywhere...

Lots of people are making their jobs easier with VIs.

Linebacker II couldn't stop the VC, no reason to expect these would stop any other insurgency.

Most likely the attempts will become more brazen (and successful) in the future.

If you don’t pay them more, then you as the business owner or middle manager have broken the employment contract. (Remember the part about performance and raise and bonus?) Many middle managers and business owners get amnesia when raise and bonus time comes. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

The beauty of daylighting is it goes back to a meritocracy in its purest form. I serve clients, I smash deadlines, and other people, either customers, or other clients, pay me money. There is no office politics. There are no broken employment contracts. For my side business, every hour I side hustle at my day job translates directly into more money. And the amount of money my side hustle gains me is more than any paltry raise or bonus you middle managers will ever produce.

Daylighting is the natural byproduct of middle managers abandoning the meritocracy due to laziness or greed. I bet middle managers are out there right now saying, “Why should I give a programmer a 20% raise? It’s too much money! No matter how much they pump out.” But these same middle managers never do a dollarization measure of what the extra output gains their company.

I've known more than my share of engineers doing this. Set a high bar for yourself, and then things stagnate after two years. You either leave, daylight or check out mentally.

Coerced women to commit child abuse so that he could get off to it, then made the excuse that "he's addicted to it."

As expected, the USA are not "the good guys."

The state has impoverished its subjects through its ruinous burdens and meddling, and it has used democratic demagoguery to shift the blame and pit its victims against each other. It has divided America up into rival ravenous tribes, and the crowds we see facing off in the streets of Berkeley are the vanguards of those hungry hordes.

Divide et empera.