Like other marxists, you completely ignore the effects of productive effort. If you raise a crop, build a house, paint a picture, or any of the other activities that people do for a living, you create wealth that did not exist before.
concentration of wealth, which is *always* due to becoming a parasite
What utter nonsense. Concentration of wealth in a free market is a result of finding out what your customers want, and supplying it. There's a vast difference between a billionaire entrepreneur like Steve Jobs, and billionaire kleptocrat like Castro.
Express that sort of "opinion" in the US and you'll find yourself in Guantánamo.
Bullshit. My grandfather did time for protesting WW I, and if GWB were as much of an authoritarian as Woodrow Wilson, then all the pinkos walking around with their "bush=hitler" signs would be cooling their heels in a jail cell.
According to polls conducted by his own ministry of propaganda. BTW, did you know that the repugnant little elvis impersonator who rules north korea is worshiped as a god by most of his subjects?
Yes, it's the ideology that racked up the highest body count in the twentieth century. Let us hope that it is swiftly removed from those unfortunate countries that still suffer from it.
I think the best strategy is not trying to stabilize the unstabilizable, but on adaptation and lifting people out of poverty
BINGO!
If it turns out that climate change is indeed happening at a rapid pace, then it's a problem that requires technological, economic, and humanitarian solutions. Commies have a piss-poor record for solving any problems at all (unless you count overpopulation, which they've alleviated temporarily in several countries through horrific mass murders.)
It's the standard pseudo-intellectual put-down. Ridiculing someone who disagrees is always easier than actually supporting a position with a rational argument. These days it's tossed at anyone who doesn't agree 100% with Al Gore. In earlier decades, it was tossed at people who disagreed with the presumed moral superiority of communism.
The way that mobile phone industry works is the network provider is the only innovator
What's your next guess?
I'm planning to use the iPhone for several vertical market apps, and AJAX gives me everything I need to implement a special-purpose video monitoring situation. I might prefer to write it using Cocoa, but that's just a matter of where I divide the app between the AJAX code on the phone and the back-end code I have on our servers.
The difference is that WinFS was touted as a key reason to move to Longhorn. Apple's never promised ZFS at all, let alone claimed it as a competitive advantage.
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Like other marxists, you completely ignore the effects of productive effort. If you raise a crop, build a house, paint a picture, or any of the other activities that people do for a living, you create wealth that did not exist before.
-jcr
concentration of wealth, which is *always* due to becoming a parasite
What utter nonsense. Concentration of wealth in a free market is a result of finding out what your customers want, and supplying it. There's a vast difference between a billionaire entrepreneur like Steve Jobs, and billionaire kleptocrat like Castro.
-jcr
how concentration of wealth and freedom are not compatible.
Yes, that's one of many things that Marx got wrong. He failed to realize that wealth is a consequence of freedom.
-jcr
I never wanted to be rich- I just want to be left the hell alone.
Sounds like something the peasants in Russia or China would have said while their governments were starving them to death.
Are you sure you're a Marxist?
-jcr
Isn't it sad when Ballmer goes off his meds?
-jcr
Being cagey about their pricing only pisses off the customers and makes dell look like a fly-by-night operation.
-jcr
Their estimate is 1% of the smartphone market in the first year.
No, their publicly stated goal is 1%. Their estimate is a closely-guarded trade secret, I'm sure.
-jcr
Warmer sea water will mean more intense hurricanes.
Only if there's a stronger temperature gradient between the tropics and the poles, and the GW models predict a reduction of that gradient.
-jcr
we produce way more CO2 than we ever have.
And yet, CO2 is 0.03% of the atmosphere, and H20 varies between 2 and 4% of the atmosphere.
-jcr
Express that sort of "opinion" in the US and you'll find yourself in Guantánamo.
Bullshit. My grandfather did time for protesting WW I, and if GWB were as much of an authoritarian as Woodrow Wilson, then all the pinkos walking around with their "bush=hitler" signs would be cooling their heels in a jail cell.
-jcr
"the TV station that backed the coup"
They "backed" the coup? Horrors! You mean, they had the affrontery to express an opinion?
-jcr
he isn't a dictator.
tell it to the people who used to watch the TV station he shut down.
-jcr
Chavez has an approval rating over 80%.
According to polls conducted by his own ministry of propaganda. BTW, did you know that the repugnant little elvis impersonator who rules north korea is worshiped as a god by most of his subjects?
-jcr
Somehow, I don't think these computers will go on to become a commercial success after the dictator dies.
-jcr
How does pointing out the tens of millions of people murdered by communist governments have to do with prejudice?
-jcr
A man was libeled, he sued, he won. The defendant appealed and lost. Happens all the time.
-jcr
Do you even know what Communism is?
Yes, it's the ideology that racked up the highest body count in the twentieth century. Let us hope that it is swiftly removed from those unfortunate countries that still suffer from it.
-jcr
If I want them, I'll take them by force,
You can try... Don't be surprised if you win a Darwin award that way.
-jcr
Yeah, I thought he was joking at first too, but he's either a real live commie nutcase or doing an excellent job of staying in character.
-jcr
I think the best strategy is not trying to stabilize the unstabilizable, but on adaptation and lifting people out of poverty
BINGO!
If it turns out that climate change is indeed happening at a rapid pace, then it's a problem that requires technological, economic, and humanitarian solutions. Commies have a piss-poor record for solving any problems at all (unless you count overpopulation, which they've alleviated temporarily in several countries through horrific mass murders.)
-jcr
Exploitative arrangements must be replaced with fair central planning.
Wow, the 1930's called and they want their delusions back.
Capitalists are an affront to life itself on this world and every one of us who lives here on this world.
Too bad that without those of us who save and invest, you pinko dipshits would have all starved to death by now.
-jcr
But cute response
It's the standard pseudo-intellectual put-down. Ridiculing someone who disagrees is always easier than actually supporting a position with a rational argument. These days it's tossed at anyone who doesn't agree 100% with Al Gore. In earlier decades, it was tossed at people who disagreed with the presumed moral superiority of communism.
-jcr
The way that mobile phone industry works is the network provider is the only innovator
What's your next guess?
I'm planning to use the iPhone for several vertical market apps, and AJAX gives me everything I need to implement a special-purpose video monitoring situation. I might prefer to write it using Cocoa, but that's just a matter of where I divide the app between the AJAX code on the phone and the back-end code I have on our servers.
-jcr
The difference is that WinFS was touted as a key reason to move to Longhorn. Apple's never promised ZFS at all, let alone claimed it as a competitive advantage.
-jcr
Ok, so I take this as an admission that they're not willing or able to deliver as advertised. Sounds like a lot of people are owed a refund.
-jcr