The core problem with pure communism is that it detaches labor and incentive.
No.
First of all, it does not detach labor and incentive completely, or nobody would work at all. From each according to their ability states that workers find what they can do for the community and then do that. It is often distorted to mean that people sit around doing nothing, which is not the communist ideal at all - nor does capitalism is any way prevent the same from happening.
Second, the biggest problem with pure communism you missed by a mile. The biggest problem is that it doesn't scale, and when people try to scale it they invariably end up with corrupt dictatorships. It is not a perfect system by a long shot, but the problem you cite is not the downfall of it, or even a valid complaint against that system uniquely.
Eastern Germany communism was not that successful either, don't blame it on the country size.
East German "communism" was heavily influenced by the soviets, who had already badly mangled and distorted communism by that point. In other words, it had no chance to survive as true communism because it was never employed as true communism anyways.
Yeah, I didn't say that. All I said was that we knew what downsides there are to our system and society has accepted them. This says nothing about the USSR or communism.
Which is why I said
I'm not sure if you're trying to pat yourself on the back there or not
Because a lot of people would start with what you said, and then immediately segue into declaring a great moral victory over a system that is poorly understood in the US.
Although whether or not society as a whole is accepting of the downsides of capitalism is very much open to discussion. Plenty of people are not satisfied with the end product currently; however they lack the means to do anything about it.
I think everyone knew that even Capitalism has its down sides, we just agreed that they were acceptable. Yeah, he may have been right, but it's nothing we didn't already know.
I'm not sure if you're trying to pat yourself on the back there or not, but any decent student of history would realize that the USSR (which was not a true communist state anyways) collapsed not primarily under the pressure of capitalism, but rather primarily under the weight of its own corruption and internal power struggles.
Actually, as the article shows, he had several. However, the people who most loudly proclaimed to be acting out "Marxist ideals" generally had no idea what his points were. One point that was crucial to Marxism - and not mentioned in the article - is that Marx was specifically laying out the communist manifesto for smaller countries (no larger than Germany or the UK) as he did not expect it to be applicable to larger countries like Russia or China.
While he never outwardly admitted it, he likely realized on some level that an idealistic approach such as his communism would not be able to stand up to the crushing weight of human want and corruption in a large country. Which is, of course, exactly what happened in Russia and China; neither of which ever accomplished true communism on a national scale.
Is T-mobile actually under any threat of going under, or did you just make that up?
The international parent company - Deutsche Telekom - has been distancing themselves from the US T-Mobile and looking to sell them off for some time. There has been no mention of them spinning them off outright, which suggests they need money from someone else to stay afloat as a company independent of the rest of T-Mobile.
In other words, I did not make that up. If you hadn't heard the news of this before, I can't explain why you would not have heard it. This was known well before AT&T submitted their first bid; indeed at one point there was speculation that Sprint would buy them out instead.
I'm on T-Mobile and where I live they are hands down the worst network for cell. I can't drive from home to work without passing through at least one dead spot - and those dead spots are marked as "1-2 bars" on their map. And no, it isn't my phone's fault, I've seen the same dead spots with 4 different phones of my own, as well as 3 different phones belonging to my wife.
There is even a T-Mobile dead spot at my work, which is a spot that no other network has a problem with.
And that is to say nothing of the transient T-Mobile dead spot in my living room.
Either AT&T buys them, or they go under. Apparently Sprint realized they do better if T-Mobile goes under, as they can pick off some of the customers that way. Sprint had no interest in converting T-Mobile's terrible network to their own terrible cellular standard. T-Mobile was a sinking ship by their own incompetence and horrible network prior to now, and prior to the iPhone.
I've seen lots of good titles disappear from instant streaming with little or no advance warning. Now they're dropping all the Starz-provided material? I'll have to - at the very least - go and record all the 30-second-bunnies clips.
On the bright side going too fast over a bump will shoot them off into orbit.
That is assuming the orbit isn't one that puts them on a collision course with you or anything you care about. Imagine the damage that a speeding Honda Civic could do, slamming into the ISS at high speed!
... of having pizza delivery kids handling vehicles at that speed. They drive fast enough as it is on earth. Just wait until their Hondas don't need to battle gravity...
Because they still are Doom clones. I haven't seen anything meaningful introduced in the last decade+ worth of Doom clones that wasn't already done in Doom.
Well, why not call them Wolf3D clones? Wolf3D introduced the genre.
The last meaningful thing added to the FPS genre was multiplayer, which Doom had and Wolf3d did not. Everything added since Doom was just window dressing.
Because they still are Doom clones. I haven't seen anything meaningful introduced in the last decade+ worth of Doom clones that wasn't already done in Doom.
Being as a pawn shop or other used hardware store would likely pay the owner of a laptop about that much for a used machine, it isn't necessarily odd that a private seller would ask that of a possible private buyer.
If people were serious about stopping cybercrime, they'd blackhole nations that couldn't control their cybercrime problem.
You are conveniently overlooking the fact that there is no universal, international definition of "cybercrime". Some countries have no problem with spam, or kiddie porn, or selling drugs online. You can't just run around imposing your own notion of justice on other countries.
I just spent a week running from earthquakes and hurricanes, then got home to feel like... black death. Convenient that the sequence is now complete so I can confirm my suspicion of the most interesting vacation ever.
I actually bothered to watch the video. She said "imagine this as 2tb", amongst other things. She finished with "the usb association hasn't finished 3.0 so we haven't released this product yet".
So really she was just selling what could happen, some day. She could have just as well promised 2pb or 2eb instead, and promised it inside a postage stamp.
So in summary:
It isn't 2tb
It isn't usb 3.0
You can't buy it
However
They managed to fool the slashdot editors and get on to the front page
The i810 was used in systems and cards much more recently than the 3dfx cards mentioned, for that matter 3dfx ceased to exist prior to many of the cards and systems that came out with i810 chips.
It seems the Model S just gets better looking with each iteration as it comes closer to production. Now it looks a lot like the last Maserati sedan I saw. That said I still can't afford one and the closest dealer is not even remotely close to where I live.
Telling people who have a high probability of being killed by a large storm with a moderately predictable trajectory to get out. How dare the government interfere with their right to die of their own free will.
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The core problem with pure communism is that it detaches labor and incentive.
No.
First of all, it does not detach labor and incentive completely, or nobody would work at all. From each according to their ability states that workers find what they can do for the community and then do that. It is often distorted to mean that people sit around doing nothing, which is not the communist ideal at all - nor does capitalism is any way prevent the same from happening.
Second, the biggest problem with pure communism you missed by a mile. The biggest problem is that it doesn't scale, and when people try to scale it they invariably end up with corrupt dictatorships. It is not a perfect system by a long shot, but the problem you cite is not the downfall of it, or even a valid complaint against that system uniquely.
Eastern Germany communism was not that successful either, don't blame it on the country size.
East German "communism" was heavily influenced by the soviets, who had already badly mangled and distorted communism by that point. In other words, it had no chance to survive as true communism because it was never employed as true communism anyways.
This was most famously stated in The Communist Manifesto: "Working men of all countries, unite!"
That is uniting with each other to control the means of production. It says nothing of uniting to form a large government or multinational alliance.
Yeah, I didn't say that. All I said was that we knew what downsides there are to our system and society has accepted them. This says nothing about the USSR or communism.
Which is why I said
I'm not sure if you're trying to pat yourself on the back there or not
Because a lot of people would start with what you said, and then immediately segue into declaring a great moral victory over a system that is poorly understood in the US.
Although whether or not society as a whole is accepting of the downsides of capitalism is very much open to discussion. Plenty of people are not satisfied with the end product currently; however they lack the means to do anything about it.
I think everyone knew that even Capitalism has its down sides, we just agreed that they were acceptable. Yeah, he may have been right, but it's nothing we didn't already know.
I'm not sure if you're trying to pat yourself on the back there or not, but any decent student of history would realize that the USSR (which was not a true communist state anyways) collapsed not primarily under the pressure of capitalism, but rather primarily under the weight of its own corruption and internal power struggles.
Actually, as the article shows, he had several. However, the people who most loudly proclaimed to be acting out "Marxist ideals" generally had no idea what his points were. One point that was crucial to Marxism - and not mentioned in the article - is that Marx was specifically laying out the communist manifesto for smaller countries (no larger than Germany or the UK) as he did not expect it to be applicable to larger countries like Russia or China.
While he never outwardly admitted it, he likely realized on some level that an idealistic approach such as his communism would not be able to stand up to the crushing weight of human want and corruption in a large country. Which is, of course, exactly what happened in Russia and China; neither of which ever accomplished true communism on a national scale.
When they can find that golf ball, then you can color me impressed.
Is T-mobile actually under any threat of going under, or did you just make that up?
The international parent company - Deutsche Telekom - has been distancing themselves from the US T-Mobile and looking to sell them off for some time. There has been no mention of them spinning them off outright, which suggests they need money from someone else to stay afloat as a company independent of the rest of T-Mobile.
In other words, I did not make that up. If you hadn't heard the news of this before, I can't explain why you would not have heard it. This was known well before AT&T submitted their first bid; indeed at one point there was speculation that Sprint would buy them out instead.
I'm on T-Mobile and where I live they are hands down the worst network for cell. I can't drive from home to work without passing through at least one dead spot - and those dead spots are marked as "1-2 bars" on their map. And no, it isn't my phone's fault, I've seen the same dead spots with 4 different phones of my own, as well as 3 different phones belonging to my wife.
There is even a T-Mobile dead spot at my work, which is a spot that no other network has a problem with.
And that is to say nothing of the transient T-Mobile dead spot in my living room.
Either AT&T buys them, or they go under. Apparently Sprint realized they do better if T-Mobile goes under, as they can pick off some of the customers that way. Sprint had no interest in converting T-Mobile's terrible network to their own terrible cellular standard. T-Mobile was a sinking ship by their own incompetence and horrible network prior to now, and prior to the iPhone.
The good clips are more than worth the wait. Of course, some of them are mediocre, but there are plenty of gems in the collection.
I've seen lots of good titles disappear from instant streaming with little or no advance warning. Now they're dropping all the Starz-provided material? I'll have to - at the very least - go and record all the 30-second-bunnies clips.
On the bright side going too fast over a bump will shoot them off into orbit.
That is assuming the orbit isn't one that puts them on a collision course with you or anything you care about. Imagine the damage that a speeding Honda Civic could do, slamming into the ISS at high speed!
... of having pizza delivery kids handling vehicles at that speed. They drive fast enough as it is on earth. Just wait until their Hondas don't need to battle gravity...
Because they still are Doom clones. I haven't seen anything meaningful introduced in the last decade+ worth of Doom clones that wasn't already done in Doom.
Well, why not call them Wolf3D clones? Wolf3D introduced the genre.
The last meaningful thing added to the FPS genre was multiplayer, which Doom had and Wolf3d did not. Everything added since Doom was just window dressing.
Because they still are Doom clones. I haven't seen anything meaningful introduced in the last decade+ worth of Doom clones that wasn't already done in Doom.
Being as a pawn shop or other used hardware store would likely pay the owner of a laptop about that much for a used machine, it isn't necessarily odd that a private seller would ask that of a possible private buyer.
I was looking forward to seeing legal arguments presented by Jazz Jackrabbit and Jill of the Jungle.
Especially Jill of the Jungle...
If people were serious about stopping cybercrime, they'd blackhole nations that couldn't control their cybercrime problem.
You are conveniently overlooking the fact that there is no universal, international definition of "cybercrime". Some countries have no problem with spam, or kiddie porn, or selling drugs online. You can't just run around imposing your own notion of justice on other countries.
I just spent a week running from earthquakes and hurricanes, then got home to feel like ... black death. Convenient that the sequence is now complete so I can confirm my suspicion of the most interesting vacation ever.
So really she was just selling what could happen, some day. She could have just as well promised 2pb or 2eb instead, and promised it inside a postage stamp.
So in summary:
However
... don't make your own go away. Slashdot code is still broken in several important places currently...
The i810 was used in systems and cards much more recently than the 3dfx cards mentioned, for that matter 3dfx ceased to exist prior to many of the cards and systems that came out with i810 chips.
It seems the Model S just gets better looking with each iteration as it comes closer to production. Now it looks a lot like the last Maserati sedan I saw. That said I still can't afford one and the closest dealer is not even remotely close to where I live.
Telling people who have a high probability of being killed by a large storm with a moderately predictable trajectory to get out. How dare the government interfere with their right to die of their own free will.