Actually, most of what I've read has come from Cubans and other Latin Americans. He is the opposite of the great intellectual statesman painted by his own propaganda. He is instead a brutal dictator who has used his political power to enrich himself (he personally owns 10% of Cuba's economy). He has tortured and killed dissidents. He was too reckless even for the Soviets, who Castro considered cutting off relations with after they refused to make a nuclear first strike on the United States during the missile crisis. Furthermore:
1. For all his flaws, Bush is not a totalitarian dictator. Hitler and Castro both are. Hitler and Castro both govern based on their own ideologies, which both state that it's the function of government to force everyone else to live by their ideology. Now, of course, Hitler wanted to force everyone else to live to serve the State and maintain racial purity, while Castro wants to force everyone to live to implement his communist utopia. But that's rather incidental--both of them dictate over near-omnipotent governments that seek to centrally control every aspect of the lives of their subjects.
2. You're doing a decent job yourself. Simply pretending that Castro's brand of totalitarianism is a decent form of government that deserves recognition is more than Castro deserves. But no, Castro wants to convince the world that his brand of dictatorship is a proper form of government that should be emulated by the rest of the world. He would use the Olympics to push this message, just as Hitler tried to use the 1936 Olympics to promote his own brand of totalitarianism.
3. The Soviet Union in 1980 and Castro's Cuba are very dissimilar. Castro's Cuba is more comparable to North Korea or even Nazi Germany than it is to the Soviet Union during that late point in their history.
So, in effect, I'm showing how it's a bad idea for totalitarian dictatorships to host the Olympic Games, and you're pretending that Castro's a good guy.
Non-sequitur. I said, "Besides, both Castro and Hitler were dictators, and there's no reason not to believe that Castro, like Hitler, would use the Olympics as an opportunity to use propaganda for his own totalitarian ideology."
Castro's ideological approach to dictatorship is more similar to Hitler than it is to the circa-1980 Soviets, because the Soviets at that time were more pragmatic anyway. So no, I'm not saying the Moscow Olympics promoted communism. I'm saying that the Berlin Olympics promoted Nazism and was a propaganda coup for the Nazis. Further, I'm saying that Castro would use a Havana Olympics for the same thing. The Moscow Olympics are your red herring, not mine.
The US and several allies boycotted the 1980 Moscow games because the Soviet Union was at the time waging a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan to prop up a failing communist dictatorship. Besides, both Castro and Hitler were dictators, and there's no reason not to believe that Castro, like Hitler, would use the Olympics as an opportunity to use propaganda for his own totalitarian ideology.
If you ask me, I think it's better to advertise athletic shoes and soft drinks than to advertise totalitarianism.
If there are so many insurance companies to choose from, and each of these companies tries to attract safe drivers, because they won't cost them much, why does the system not work things out by itself? Competition should drive the rates down naturally!?
But insurance isn't a free and perfectly competitive market. In fact, it's heavily related and has only a few competing firms. It is an oligopoly, and the insurance companies use government regulation as a barrier to entry to prevent competition from arising. So free-market reasoning doesn't always work when figuring out the insurance industry.
The comma choices are one example, as many periodicals choose to list things in an "A, B and C" format, whereas traditional periodicals still prefer the traditional "A,B, and C."
Which of course can lead to ambiguity, the classic example of which is: I would like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God.
"At least close to perfect competition since in perfect competition, the profitsare zero."
Actually, the profits are zero, accounting for opportunity costs. From, say, a pure accounting standpoint, the profits could be pretty high in pure dollars in that condition. However, if the Chinese could manufacture, say, hard drives instead of DVD players and make $10 per unit, then the $10 per unit they're not earning as a result of not manufacturing hard drives is considered opportunity cost. If they're making $1 profit per unit on DVD players, factoring in a $10 opportunity cost per unit on hard drives, they're really losing $9 per unit in economic terms.
In perfect competition, profits are zero because you're making just as much money manufacturing DVD players as you could make if you manufactured hard drives instead--or, in other words, the raw profit you make from DVD players is exactly equal to the opportunity cost of not making hard drives.
I say this to explain the concepts involved, and not as a representation of this or any other actual situation.
I think apple has included a DRM Encoding package with their software
No. They didn't.
from appple.com/ipod website:
You can import music in a variety of formats (such as MP3 or AAC) and at whatever quality level you'd prefer. You can even choose the new Apple Lossless encoder
I don't have a ipod to know if those new files are encoded, but I would almost gurantee they are (why would you need a encoder to go from AAC to AAC?)
The iPod doesn't encode them, iTunes does. And iTunes encodes them from the original CD. It doesn't allow you to trans-encode AAC.
I've read someplace that Microsoft makes more money on Office:mac per unit anyway. If that's true, if Apple's market share grows and the same proportion of Mac users use MS Office, Microsoft will make more money.
And lets not confuse true socialism with the disaster that Stalin made of the USSR. They were actually doing quite well until he came along.
Stalin actually did a good job of industrializing the Soviet Union at a very fast pace. Before that, Russia was poor and destitute. The first time Lenin tried reforming the farms, there was a famine--Lenin was forced to implement the New Economic Policy to return the farms to a market system after that. Stalin did wonders for the Soviet economy, in the short term. In the long term, however, the system couldn't sustain itself.
Besides, Stalin didn't start the purges and massacres, Lenin did. Stalin just extended them.
For the record, Hong Kong has a decent sized middle class that lives and works in much better conditions than you imply. In fact, in the United States, nearly everyone lives and works in much better conditions than you imply.
The term "robot" was created by Karel Capek in his play "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)", which was published in 1921. It was derived from a Slavic term meaning "worker".
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You chose to work there. True - and the parents have to choice to send their children to that particular school or not.
Doesn't Japan have compulsory schooling laws? Can you actually choose which school your kid goes to in Japan?
you can take your badge off after work....You're not tagged with it for life. Are we reading the same article?? The one about Japanese schools was talking about sewing it into the backpack, or school uniform or giving the student a badge (all of these are items the children can remove after school). There not talking about subdermal implants.
Well, that makes it a little better.
It's a (sans french) security system - acutally I agree with you there. They are both security systems. Its just that one is designed to keep unauthorized people out while the other has the added "feature" of keeping authorized people in (at least until school is out).
Thing is, there's a difference between doing classified work for the company that makes stealth fighters, and going to school. Different levels of security might be appropriate.
You chose to work there, and you can take the badge off after work. It's a fucking security system that you're only expected to wear on company grounds. You're not tagged with it for life.
Its hard to grow food for ten billion people on half the land, after all.
With modern agricultural technology, no, it's not. In modern industrialized countries, we're using a fraction of the land used 200 years ago to feed several times more people than before.
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Actually, most of what I've read has come from Cubans and other Latin Americans. He is the opposite of the great intellectual statesman painted by his own propaganda. He is instead a brutal dictator who has used his political power to enrich himself (he personally owns 10% of Cuba's economy). He has tortured and killed dissidents. He was too reckless even for the Soviets, who Castro considered cutting off relations with after they refused to make a nuclear first strike on the United States during the missile crisis. Furthermore:
1. For all his flaws, Bush is not a totalitarian dictator. Hitler and Castro both are. Hitler and Castro both govern based on their own ideologies, which both state that it's the function of government to force everyone else to live by their ideology. Now, of course, Hitler wanted to force everyone else to live to serve the State and maintain racial purity, while Castro wants to force everyone to live to implement his communist utopia. But that's rather incidental--both of them dictate over near-omnipotent governments that seek to centrally control every aspect of the lives of their subjects. 2. You're doing a decent job yourself. Simply pretending that Castro's brand of totalitarianism is a decent form of government that deserves recognition is more than Castro deserves. But no, Castro wants to convince the world that his brand of dictatorship is a proper form of government that should be emulated by the rest of the world. He would use the Olympics to push this message, just as Hitler tried to use the 1936 Olympics to promote his own brand of totalitarianism. 3. The Soviet Union in 1980 and Castro's Cuba are very dissimilar. Castro's Cuba is more comparable to North Korea or even Nazi Germany than it is to the Soviet Union during that late point in their history.
So, in effect, I'm showing how it's a bad idea for totalitarian dictatorships to host the Olympic Games, and you're pretending that Castro's a good guy.
Non-sequitur. I said, "Besides, both Castro and Hitler were dictators, and there's no reason not to believe that Castro, like Hitler, would use the Olympics as an opportunity to use propaganda for his own totalitarian ideology."
Castro's ideological approach to dictatorship is more similar to Hitler than it is to the circa-1980 Soviets, because the Soviets at that time were more pragmatic anyway. So no, I'm not saying the Moscow Olympics promoted communism. I'm saying that the Berlin Olympics promoted Nazism and was a propaganda coup for the Nazis. Further, I'm saying that Castro would use a Havana Olympics for the same thing. The Moscow Olympics are your red herring, not mine.
The US and several allies boycotted the 1980 Moscow games because the Soviet Union was at the time waging a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan to prop up a failing communist dictatorship. Besides, both Castro and Hitler were dictators, and there's no reason not to believe that Castro, like Hitler, would use the Olympics as an opportunity to use propaganda for his own totalitarian ideology.
If you ask me, I think it's better to advertise athletic shoes and soft drinks than to advertise totalitarianism.
He isn't killed in each episode anymore.
Two words: Berlin. 1936.
If there are so many insurance companies to choose from, and each of these companies tries to attract safe drivers, because they won't cost them much, why does the system not work things out by itself? Competition should drive the rates down naturally!?
But insurance isn't a free and perfectly competitive market. In fact, it's heavily related and has only a few competing firms. It is an oligopoly, and the insurance companies use government regulation as a barrier to entry to prevent competition from arising. So free-market reasoning doesn't always work when figuring out the insurance industry.
The comma choices are one example, as many periodicals choose to list things in an "A, B and C" format, whereas traditional periodicals still prefer the traditional "A,B, and C."
Which of course can lead to ambiguity, the classic example of which is: I would like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God.
"At least close to perfect competition since in perfect competition, the profitsare zero."
Actually, the profits are zero, accounting for opportunity costs. From, say, a pure accounting standpoint, the profits could be pretty high in pure dollars in that condition. However, if the Chinese could manufacture, say, hard drives instead of DVD players and make $10 per unit, then the $10 per unit they're not earning as a result of not manufacturing hard drives is considered opportunity cost. If they're making $1 profit per unit on DVD players, factoring in a $10 opportunity cost per unit on hard drives, they're really losing $9 per unit in economic terms.
In perfect competition, profits are zero because you're making just as much money manufacturing DVD players as you could make if you manufactured hard drives instead--or, in other words, the raw profit you make from DVD players is exactly equal to the opportunity cost of not making hard drives.
I say this to explain the concepts involved, and not as a representation of this or any other actual situation.
Somehow I don't think this is an issue among the people who pay hundreds of dollars for hard drive based MP3 players anyway.
Actually, the Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE) encodes as high bit-rate AAC. AAC is an open standard.
How is that more convenient than using iTunes and Airport Express?
I think apple has included a DRM Encoding package with their software
No. They didn't.
from appple.com/ipod website: You can import music in a variety of formats (such as MP3 or AAC) and at whatever quality level you'd prefer. You can even choose the new Apple Lossless encoder
I don't have a ipod to know if those new files are encoded, but I would almost gurantee they are (why would you need a encoder to go from AAC to AAC?)
The iPod doesn't encode them, iTunes does. And iTunes encodes them from the original CD. It doesn't allow you to trans-encode AAC.
When you're running for President, it's usually a waste of time to go vote for bills that will either pass or fail whether you vote or not.
I've read someplace that Microsoft makes more money on Office:mac per unit anyway. If that's true, if Apple's market share grows and the same proportion of Mac users use MS Office, Microsoft will make more money.
What if we like sex? Oh, right...this is Slashdot.
People are still modding this "Funny"? What the hell?
And lets not confuse true socialism with the disaster that Stalin made of the USSR. They were actually doing quite well until he came along.
Stalin actually did a good job of industrializing the Soviet Union at a very fast pace. Before that, Russia was poor and destitute. The first time Lenin tried reforming the farms, there was a famine--Lenin was forced to implement the New Economic Policy to return the farms to a market system after that. Stalin did wonders for the Soviet economy, in the short term. In the long term, however, the system couldn't sustain itself.
Besides, Stalin didn't start the purges and massacres, Lenin did. Stalin just extended them.
For the record, Hong Kong has a decent sized middle class that lives and works in much better conditions than you imply. In fact, in the United States, nearly everyone lives and works in much better conditions than you imply.
The term "robot" was created by Karel Capek in his play "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)", which was published in 1921. It was derived from a Slavic term meaning "worker".
Sorry, here's the source: http://www.asimovonline.com/asimov_FAQ.html#others 11
I hate to burst your bubble, but it ain't so.
He has nothing published under 100--Philosophy.
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He could have been mistaken, asshole.
You chose to work there. True - and the parents have to choice to send their children to that particular school or not.
Doesn't Japan have compulsory schooling laws? Can you actually choose which school your kid goes to in Japan?
you can take your badge off after work....You're not tagged with it for life. Are we reading the same article?? The one about Japanese schools was talking about sewing it into the backpack, or school uniform or giving the student a badge (all of these are items the children can remove after school). There not talking about subdermal implants.
Well, that makes it a little better.
It's a (sans french) security system - acutally I agree with you there. They are both security systems. Its just that one is designed to keep unauthorized people out while the other has the added "feature" of keeping authorized people in (at least until school is out).
Thing is, there's a difference between doing classified work for the company that makes stealth fighters, and going to school. Different levels of security might be appropriate.
I bet you feel so superior spending 3 hours a day reading and posting comments on Slashdot, eh? ;)
You chose to work there, and you can take the badge off after work. It's a fucking security system that you're only expected to wear on company grounds. You're not tagged with it for life.
Its hard to grow food for ten billion people on half the land, after all.
With modern agricultural technology, no, it's not. In modern industrialized countries, we're using a fraction of the land used 200 years ago to feed several times more people than before.