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  1. Re:A good start on SpaceX Intends To Send a Red Dragon To Mars As Early As 2018 (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Landing the second stage will be the most difficult because it will be traveling at orbital speed.

  2. Isn't wikimedia a registered 501(c) corporation on Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, Says Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Parent organization of Wikipedia?

  3. Re:New impact craters on SpaceX Intends To Send a Red Dragon To Mars As Early As 2018 (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    In engineering progress, if you're not breaking something, you're not pushing against the limits hard enough. This is kinda the opposite the mentality of 'failure is not an option'.

  4. Re: It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot Venezuela has already reached the two day workweek. They also have $0.13/gallon gasoline which helps out the poor.

  5. Re:Wait until they start making a bit of money on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    What Comes After Rich Baby Boomers? Kids With a Big Inheritance

    10 percent of the country’s total wealth will change hands every five years
    Households with less than $500,000 in net worth will transfer about $3 trillion to their heirs. Ones with more than $500,000 will transfer four times that much wealth.

  6. Re: Subversion of the West on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    > A truly free market is one with restrictions
    And freedom is slavery.

  7. Re: Subversion of the West on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The median college loan is $13k.
    34.4 percent graduated with no debt.
    12.0 percent graduated with $1-$9,999 in debt.
    18.2 percent graduated with $10,000-$19,999 in debt.
    15.5 percent graduated with $20,000-$29,999 in debt.
    8.9 percent graduated with $30,000-$39,999 in debt.
    5.3 percent graduated with $40,000-$49,999 in debt.
    5.3 percent graduated with $50,000-$99,999 in debt.
    0.5 percent graduated with over $100,000 in debt.

  8. Re:Subversion of the West on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re: It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't they go back then?

  10. a private owner in a capitalist system can have a monopoly on the market and prevent free competition.

    How? Force is not a part of capitalism.

  11. Re:It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Sweden Socialist?
    "Sweden has always been a solid market economy", states the present right-wing government on its website. And that is certainly true. Sweden has never been a socialist society

    http://www.socialistworld.net/...

  12. Re: Subversion of the West on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I was OK, but I wouldn't call it good. You can still get equivalents in the grocery. Get the cheapest processed cheese slices

  13. Re: Subversion of the West on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I have. And I'm not a creative. But hen some people think that spelling her name with an 'i' instead of a 'y' is creative so who knows

  14. Re: It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And how well was China doing 20 years ago under socialism before "supercapitalism"?

  15. Re:It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    I've spent time in Eastern Europe and have traveled through Germany and Britain. I don't think it's any better than most of the US I've seen (smaller, dirtier and more cramped).

    Median college debt is ~$13k.

    34.4 percent graduated with no debt.

    12.0 percent graduated with $1-$9,999 in debt.

    18.2 percent graduated with $10,000-$19,999 in debt.

    15.5 percent graduated with $20,000-$29,999 in debt.

    8.9 percent graduated with $30,000-$39,999 in debt.

    5.3 percent graduated with $40,000-$49,999 in debt.

    5.3 percent graduated with $50,000-$99,999 in debt.

    0.5 percent graduated with over $100,000 in debt.

    Five myths about college debt

  16. Re:It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    For the price of a modern car, almost anyone can buy a factory today. And if not a factory, then for even less money, a PC. The average worker today is heir own factory (or can be if they want). Maybe there's more t it than just ownership of tools.

  17. Re:It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    > they're fine with private industry

    And there are communes in the US too that you are free to join.

    http://www.ic.org/the-fellowsh...

  18. Re: It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If Somalia is anything like the other countries I've been to in Africa, then there's little concept of what a country s beyond some arbitrary European line on a map.

  19. Re: It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't socialism mean state ownership of business?

  20. Re: It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why do they have so many state owned businesses?

  21. Re:It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    None of those countries you listed are socialist. Try Cuba.

  22. Re: Wait until they start making a bit of money on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Student loans are currently at the lowest in history when adjusted for heir corresponding wage premium.

  23. Re:Wait until they start making a bit of money on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    Engineering internships pay very well. Th median is $16/hr.

    http://www.payscale.com/resear...

  24. Re:Wait until they start making a bit of money on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Capitalism is private property and being able to do whatever you want with like trading it with people for their time.

  25. Re: Wait until they start making a bit of money on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought i was 1%. What's next, .001%? And why should I care? I own more than I need, and I'm in the bottom of income.