You can do the same thing without all the hubub by simply making it possible to switch the ALT out of circuit. a decent ALt will simply freewheel and act like a idler pully when disengaged.
Yes. When I said "remove my alternator", I meant remove it electrically. I unplugged it, but did not physically remove it. It is still mounted in and connected to my serpentine belt. Since it is electrically disconnected, there is no load on it and it should present little more resistance that a wheel with a small fan on it. This is simpler because I don't need to shorten my belt and I can hook it back up easily if necessary.
Problem with your setup. 3 hour drive in the dark = dead battery and car. you HAVE to power that 110 watts of headlights and 25 watts of marker lights some how.
My car is two decades old. It's a commuter car, an automotive appliance, something to get me to work and back, not for night time road trips. I only need to drive it for a hour at a time.
What a stupid idea. ..You'd also have to put a spare battery in, in case you flatten the one that's used to start the engine and power the electrics.
That's what I did. I left the starter battery in and added a high amp hour, deep cycle battery, one that actually has high cold cranking amps. So it can function as a deep cycle or a starter. Neither battery should flatten on a reasonable length trip, since I am drawing power from both while running.
I converted my POS gas car to a "mild" plug in hybrid: removed the alternator and added a deep cycle battery. I reduce the mechanical load on the engine by removing the alt. I have more power available for speed and acceleration and I get better mpg. I recharge the battery using solar and since I park outside at home and work, it gets plenty of time to charge. All the parts were originally for a full home solar system that I have yet to make space for, so there isn't any additional cost for the car conversion. Some data shows that you can get up to a 10% increase in efficiency by going alternatorless.
Looks like these are just pro-e files of the case design. When I can get gerber files for the motherboard and VHDL files of the ASICS, I'll be impressed.
For decades, corporations and government have had the technology to watch us. Google has allowed normal people to see that kind of data. We can now not only see personal details about each other, but also spy on our bosses and "leaders". Google (and search/database technology in general) has an amazing democratic potential.
I live in a rural (slowly becoming suburban) new development that doesn't have any PSTN (Phone)lines nor cable installed yet. Fortunately, my local ISP offers a wireless solution. It works well, although unfortunately it's based on proprietary Motorola technology. For around $60 a month I get 4Mbit down and 1Mbit up. I have a static IP, and they let my run my web/ssh server from home. I have no formal bandwidth cap, although I was told that if I exceeded 75Gigs a month they might want to talk about upgrading to a more expensive business class connection. The ISP will sell you up to 6Mbit (symmetric) connection per antenna/subscription.
If you want to avoid the DRM laden crap pushed by Microsoft and Apple, I recommend buying a Sandisk Sansa and installing rockbox on it. I can play ogg, flac, and mp3 music and even doom on mine.
Just set up a cron job to periodically connect to any server that you have access to. Make it connect to an obscure port or just request a non-public file (not indexed nor linked and with a long obscure name to keep crawlers/bots off it). Check your logs and you have the IP address that your thief is using.
If you want top be super paranoid, install a keylogger and set up a cron job to periodically scp the files to an ssh account you own. You would have every password, url, word processor document, etc typed by your attacker.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech*, or of the press*; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
*Except regarding terrorism, national security**, imminent death and trade secret leaks.
**"National security" never means the safety of the people living in a nation. If it did, perusing national security would mean working for a sustainable economy, a non-agressive (defensive only) military policy, or perhaps health care and highway safety. "National security" must actually mean something like, "actions taken to further enrich the military industrial complex" or "the right to invade other nations to control their resources".
Most comments so far have dismissed the short battery-only range as mediocre; this article was even tagged "toy". The Toyota Plug-in HV isn't an electric only car. It's a hybrid. It can still go hundreds of miles a day like a regular car. Most of the miles on American's cars are from short day to day trips, not vacations. A plug in hybrid would mean that all those trips wouldn't require drivers to burn any gas (but would still allow them to take the occasional interstate drive).
Even if your daily commute is too significant to be made in electric-only mode (mine totals 40 miles and my employer won't let me recharge an EV at work), cutting some portion of the gas burning miles is still a major breakthrough. Running few power plants is more efficient than running millions of small engines to generate the same amount of energy. They physics of scale makes ICE cars look insanely wasteful. Electric cars aren't tied to any single fuel source--energy can come from coal, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. This makes EVs a great way to transition from a fossil fuel economy to any future power source. An all-electric car with lithium ion batteries and a several hundred mile range (at working class prices) would blow my mind. But I'm not going to complain if I can't have one yet. Plug-in hybrids may not be ideal, but they're a step in the right direction.
tor may make it easier for "child pornographers" to distribute their wares...but I think that's a good thing!
The vast majority of so called "child porn" consists of pictures taken by teens of either themselves or their partners. Pictures take consensually. Pictures taken by minors, not creepy old people. Talk to any socially active high schooler. They'll know people their own age who have sex and will know someone who has pics of the act.
If you want to crack down on rape, go ahead, but stop suppressing the free speech rights of young people! Why should any images be illegal? It's really strange....rape and murder are considered chief crimes, yet no (modern sane liberal) would think about making pictures of (adult) people being raped or murdered illegal. Somehow it's acceptable to make one big exception to the first amendment: images of sexually mature people doing what they do. Teens get charged child porn for taking pictures of themselves! (Don't they see themselves naked every time they bath?) In some states the age of consent is 17 or even 16, so it's perfectly legal for any adult to have sex with youth of those ages...yet since federal law governs porn, they can't look at pictures of the very same people. It's legal to gangbang a 16 year old, but she can't take pics of herself? Fuck the law!
Anyone relying on a one hop proxy to be anonymous is fooling themselves. You need an anonymity network that doesn't rely on trusting any host and that cannot be blocked without finding out who every host is. What if everyone who used anonymity services also provided such service? Think of how much better the whole system would work if it were p2p! Please install your tor server today.
Damnit...it's hard to win a debate in support of alternatives to the education system when you haven't slept for days and can't manage to write a few paragraphs without making so many grammatical mistakes and typos that everyone reading questions your education. I think I'll rest for a bit and resume this discussion later.
You are a fountain of ignorance, at least concerning your diatribe against Duke. Instead of being wealthy and pay tuition, you can also simply be smart and hard working. My daughter just graduated from Duke, from which she had gotten a full scholarship...Most likely, someone like you wouldn't get such a scholarship, especially in view of your ignorant rant.
Did you not read what I wrote? I'll post it again:
. ..only those with wealthy families* *or the obedience necessary to create a squeaky clean scholarship worthy image can get in.
You're right; I wouldn't get much in the way of scholarships. I'm too willing to piss people off. Also, I'm sure there are selective schools that want people more capable than me. That's OK. I don't have a problem with selection based on genuine differences in intelligence or work ethic. This isn't about me though. Plenty of capable and only slightly deviant people don't go to good colleges, or don't go to college at all, because they can't afford it and just weren't straight-laced enough to get aid/scholarships. Even if some students get in on scholarship, why should ANY of the spots go those who are more economically privileged but less intellectually capable? Maybe your daughter is smart and hard working...maybe she isn't the bland conformist that I picture when I hear "scholarship material" (try to get funds if you've had an expulsion or done significant prison time!) If you really respect her, don't you want her to go to school with other people who are at or above her level? Why should some "fountain of ignorance" be able to buy his way in? Isn't it an insult to her to say that all her hard work and talent is only worth as much as being the son of an executive?
I know a Duke student who's extremely intelligent and hard working...but he also has a fairly well off family that supported him through prep school and now through University. Most successful people have a number of advantages in their favor. I understand that not everyone fits into the ugly demographics that we see when we think about social groups abstractly. I don't see have any of these nuances take away from my claim that education should be available to all, and access to an elite education should be based entirely upon mental ability, not on how well your parents managed to exploit the working class.
On a related note, few of the current determining factors for college acceptance should be considered at all. Admissions offices shouldn't look at race, family status as alumni, economic class, or even past academic performance. The last item may strike you as absurd, but think about it! Leadership and project development in hobbies and non-profit work, standardized test scores, work experience, and essays are far better ways of determining ability than grades. You get good grades in K-12 by doing what you're told. If you finish the work each day and turn it in, you get an passing grades whether you understand the concepts involved or not. (In K-12) If you attempt to spend your time learning through practical experience and self study, not matter how intellectually rigorous, you'll probably get expelled. Merely setting foot off the school grounds (without permission) can get you arrested for truancy! Compulsory school is a form on imprisonment or involuntary servitude. If colleges wanted to encourage insight instead of wrote parroting, they would ignore high school grades in their admissions decisions.
The terminal preppies DDoS their own LAN with toys that their rich parents bought them. Boo Hoo!
Does anyone else see the fact that so many students at this elite school can afford this expensive luxury an insult to the rest of us? So many capable young adults would love to have the resources available to Duke students (not just iCrap, but genuine empowering technology and knowledge), yet only those with wealthy families* can get in. We need a fair and democratic school system including free universal higher education. Private schools that help perpetuate wealth and power (and, moreover, further class stratification!) should no longer be respected. It's OK to be selective and aim for an intelligent student body, but why should tuition be a barrier for anyone in a society as wealthy as ours?
(*or the obedience necessary to create a squeaky clean scholarship worthy image)
"everybody seems to be waiting patiently for a sign from Microsoft."
This is one of the major problems with proprietary software. You're entirely dependent on the copyright holder and need to wait for them to find and fix any bugs. If you run Windows, you don't even have control over the basic functionality of your software.
Free software empowers users. We all know that if you're a coder, you can fix free software yourself, but more importantly, if you run an organization that depends on the software, you can pay someone to fix it. When university department heads and corporate IT managers start realizing how they can get what they need done, when they need it, they'll make the switch. Waiting for a monopoly to get it's shit together means billions in lost revenue. Letting several companies bid and compete to find the fastest, cheapest, and most effective solutions means a more efficient IT industry as a whole.
0. Obtain a Stunbot3000 (capture it in a box or net and place it in a Faraday cage that provides sufficient electromagnetic shielding to keep it from communicating with it's legal owners wirelessly)
1. Hack Sunbot3000, preferably installing Linux or BSD on it.
2. Program it to shock corrupt cops, Christian fundamentalists, members of the Bush administration, corporate executives, and other undesirable figures. Perhaps speech to text and a bit of grepping could be enough to determine who is/isn't an undesirable figure?
Fucking nazi son of a bitch. I don't plan to be turned into the goatse guy just because you and your jack-booted bastard friends have turned everything, including my paid for by mysekf ISP into your dirty fucking little spies.
Actually, I'm an anarchist. I personally don't want government to have the right to look at private logs or to require schools or shops to keep logs. I don't even want there to BE any government at all! The State shouldn't exist! However, I acknowledge that there IS a government. I think it's up to us to defend our own liberty. Liberals may seriously try to reform the system so that the government isn't allowed to snoop. The liberals will fail. The government will snoop anyways. We should use encryption because it is a real practical way of keeping our free speech rights, not a doomed reformist attempt to make an evil system slightly less evil.
Any Semi-intelligent person will use cleartext for official but non-confidential business at school and work, and encrypt any email or IMs that contain personal information or nefarious plans. If you are stupid enough to send something revealing over a public, corporate, or academic network, you DESERVE to get caught.
Hopefully as more and more people get caught for using cleartext, crypto will be the norm and all these laws requiring logging will become useless for law enforcement purposes.
Democracy Now is pretty much just news and the occasional interview with a politician, activist, or author. If you want a full set of programming I would recommend something like Free Radio Santa Cruz . FRSC is a pirate broadcast station that also offers an Internet stream.
Is he spewing the term "corporatism" without any idea what the word actually means? Or is he deliberately misusing it so that he can pretend stock-corporation capitalism is the same thing as the economic program of fascism under Mussolini?
I meant "stock-corporation capitalism". It's a bit of a mouthful, but perhaps a better and more specific phrase. I'll try to be more explicit next time. There are certain similarities between our system and fascism. In fact, I would say that our system is closer to fascism than to a true free market. However, there are enough key differences that the two shouldn't be given the same name.
Dude, if he likes the station, let him listen to it, ok? I have no problem with anyone listening to or watching anything that they want. I'm totally pro-free speech. Listen to Rush Limbaugh or watch The Triumph of the Will if you want. I was just pointing out an alternative that might be of interest to someone who likes the idea of non-corporate news.
So you think that NPR should only exist if it's a left-wing mouthpiece? I think that a public station should be run in the interests of the public, not in the interests of a wealthy elite. So-called public networks like NPR and the BBC have been in strong support for the interests of the executives, board members, and shareholders of convicted criminal corporations such as Microsoft. A public station should be left wing because the left (anarchists, socialists, progressives, etc) really are concerned with the interests of the working class. The working class is the majority in the USA and most of the world. Why can't we have some media that supports us? Why should the news be monopolized by the elite owners of the means of production?
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You can do the same thing without all the hubub by simply making it possible to switch the ALT out of circuit. a decent ALt will simply freewheel and act like a idler pully when disengaged.
Yes. When I said "remove my alternator", I meant remove it electrically. I unplugged it, but did not physically remove it. It is still mounted in and connected to my serpentine belt. Since it is electrically disconnected, there is no load on it and it should present little more resistance that a wheel with a small fan on it. This is simpler because I don't need to shorten my belt and I can hook it back up easily if necessary.
Problem with your setup. 3 hour drive in the dark = dead battery and car. you HAVE to power that 110 watts of headlights and 25 watts of marker lights some how.
My car is two decades old. It's a commuter car, an automotive appliance, something to get me to work and back, not for night time road trips. I only need to drive it for a hour at a time.
What a stupid idea. . .You'd also have to put a spare battery in, in case you flatten the one that's used to start the engine and power the electrics.
That's what I did. I left the starter battery in and added a high amp hour, deep cycle battery, one that actually has high cold cranking amps. So it can function as a deep cycle or a starter. Neither battery should flatten on a reasonable length trip, since I am drawing power from both while running.
I converted my POS gas car to a "mild" plug in hybrid: removed the alternator and added a deep cycle battery. I reduce the mechanical load on the engine by removing the alt. I have more power available for speed and acceleration and I get better mpg. I recharge the battery using solar and since I park outside at home and work, it gets plenty of time to charge. All the parts were originally for a full home solar system that I have yet to make space for, so there isn't any additional cost for the car conversion. Some data shows that you can get up to a 10% increase in efficiency by going alternatorless.
Looks like these are just pro-e files of the case design. When I can get gerber files for the motherboard and VHDL files of the ASICS, I'll be impressed.
For decades, corporations and government have had the technology to watch us. Google has allowed normal people to see that kind of data. We can now not only see personal details about each other, but also spy on our bosses and "leaders". Google (and search/database technology in general) has an amazing democratic potential.
I live in a rural (slowly becoming suburban) new development that doesn't have any PSTN (Phone)lines nor cable installed yet. Fortunately, my local ISP offers a wireless solution. It works well, although unfortunately it's based on proprietary Motorola technology. For around $60 a month I get 4Mbit down and 1Mbit up. I have a static IP, and they let my run my web/ssh server from home. I have no formal bandwidth cap, although I was told that if I exceeded 75Gigs a month they might want to talk about upgrading to a more expensive business class connection. The ISP will sell you up to 6Mbit (symmetric) connection per antenna/subscription.
If you want to avoid the DRM laden crap pushed by Microsoft and Apple, I recommend buying a Sandisk Sansa and installing rockbox on it. I can play ogg, flac, and mp3 music and even doom on mine.
Just set up a cron job to periodically connect to any server that you have access to. Make it connect to an obscure port or just request a non-public file (not indexed nor linked and with a long obscure name to keep crawlers/bots off it). Check your logs and you have the IP address that your thief is using.
If you want top be super paranoid, install a keylogger and set up a cron job to periodically scp the files to an ssh account you own. You would have every password, url, word processor document, etc typed by your attacker.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech*, or of the press*; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
*Except regarding terrorism, national security**, imminent death and trade secret leaks.
**"National security" never means the safety of the people living in a nation. If it did, perusing national security would mean working for a sustainable economy, a non-agressive (defensive only) military policy, or perhaps health care and highway safety. "National security" must actually mean something like, "actions taken to further enrich the military industrial complex" or "the right to invade other nations to control their resources".
Here is the google video link.
Most comments so far have dismissed the short battery-only range as mediocre; this article was even tagged "toy". The Toyota Plug-in HV isn't an electric only car. It's a hybrid. It can still go hundreds of miles a day like a regular car. Most of the miles on American's cars are from short day to day trips, not vacations. A plug in hybrid would mean that all those trips wouldn't require drivers to burn any gas (but would still allow them to take the occasional interstate drive).
Even if your daily commute is too significant to be made in electric-only mode (mine totals 40 miles and my employer won't let me recharge an EV at work), cutting some portion of the gas burning miles is still a major breakthrough. Running few power plants is more efficient than running millions of small engines to generate the same amount of energy. They physics of scale makes ICE cars look insanely wasteful. Electric cars aren't tied to any single fuel source--energy can come from coal, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. This makes EVs a great way to transition from a fossil fuel economy to any future power source. An all-electric car with lithium ion batteries and a several hundred mile range (at working class prices) would blow my mind. But I'm not going to complain if I can't have one yet. Plug-in hybrids may not be ideal, but they're a step in the right direction.
you can't really get anything other than Vista on a new PC
Maybe you just aren't looking hard enough.
tor may make it easier for "child pornographers" to distribute their wares...but I think that's a good thing!
The vast majority of so called "child porn" consists of pictures taken by teens of either themselves or their partners. Pictures take consensually. Pictures taken by minors, not creepy old people. Talk to any socially active high schooler. They'll know people their own age who have sex and will know someone who has pics of the act.
If you want to crack down on rape, go ahead, but stop suppressing the free speech rights of young people! Why should any images be illegal? It's really strange....rape and murder are considered chief crimes, yet no (modern sane liberal) would think about making pictures of (adult) people being raped or murdered illegal. Somehow it's acceptable to make one big exception to the first amendment: images of sexually mature people doing what they do. Teens get charged child porn for taking pictures of themselves! (Don't they see themselves naked every time they bath?) In some states the age of consent is 17 or even 16, so it's perfectly legal for any adult to have sex with youth of those ages...yet since federal law governs porn, they can't look at pictures of the very same people. It's legal to gangbang a 16 year old, but she can't take pics of herself? Fuck the law!
Anyone relying on a one hop proxy to be anonymous is fooling themselves. You need an anonymity network that doesn't rely on trusting any host and that cannot be blocked without finding out who every host is. What if everyone who used anonymity services also provided such service? Think of how much better the whole system would work if it were p2p! Please install your tor server today.
Damnit...it's hard to win a debate in support of alternatives to the education system when you haven't slept for days and can't manage to write a few paragraphs without making so many grammatical mistakes and typos that everyone reading questions your education. I think I'll rest for a bit and resume this discussion later.
You are a fountain of ignorance, at least concerning your diatribe against Duke. Instead of being wealthy and pay tuition, you can also simply be smart and hard working. My daughter just graduated from Duke, from which she had gotten a full scholarship...Most likely, someone like you wouldn't get such a scholarship, especially in view of your ignorant rant.
.only those with wealthy families* *or the obedience necessary to create a squeaky clean scholarship worthy image can get in.
Did you not read what I wrote? I'll post it again:
. .
You're right; I wouldn't get much in the way of scholarships. I'm too willing to piss people off. Also, I'm sure there are selective schools that want people more capable than me. That's OK. I don't have a problem with selection based on genuine differences in intelligence or work ethic. This isn't about me though. Plenty of capable and only slightly deviant people don't go to good colleges, or don't go to college at all, because they can't afford it and just weren't straight-laced enough to get aid/scholarships. Even if some students get in on scholarship, why should ANY of the spots go those who are more economically privileged but less intellectually capable? Maybe your daughter is smart and hard working...maybe she isn't the bland conformist that I picture when I hear "scholarship material" (try to get funds if you've had an expulsion or done significant prison time!) If you really respect her, don't you want her to go to school with other people who are at or above her level? Why should some "fountain of ignorance" be able to buy his way in? Isn't it an insult to her to say that all her hard work and talent is only worth as much as being the son of an executive?
I know a Duke student who's extremely intelligent and hard working...but he also has a fairly well off family that supported him through prep school and now through University. Most successful people have a number of advantages in their favor. I understand that not everyone fits into the ugly demographics that we see when we think about social groups abstractly. I don't see have any of these nuances take away from my claim that education should be available to all, and access to an elite education should be based entirely upon mental ability, not on how well your parents managed to exploit the working class.
On a related note, few of the current determining factors for college acceptance should be considered at all. Admissions offices shouldn't look at race, family status as alumni, economic class, or even past academic performance. The last item may strike you as absurd, but think about it! Leadership and project development in hobbies and non-profit work, standardized test scores, work experience, and essays are far better ways of determining ability than grades. You get good grades in K-12 by doing what you're told. If you finish the work each day and turn it in, you get an passing grades whether you understand the concepts involved or not. (In K-12) If you attempt to spend your time learning through practical experience and self study, not matter how intellectually rigorous, you'll probably get expelled. Merely setting foot off the school grounds (without permission) can get you arrested for truancy! Compulsory school is a form on imprisonment or involuntary servitude. If colleges wanted to encourage insight instead of wrote parroting, they would ignore high school grades in their admissions decisions.
The terminal preppies DDoS their own LAN with toys that their rich parents bought them. Boo Hoo!
Does anyone else see the fact that so many students at this elite school can afford this expensive luxury an insult to the rest of us? So many capable young adults would love to have the resources available to Duke students (not just iCrap, but genuine empowering technology and knowledge), yet only those with wealthy families* can get in. We need a fair and democratic school system including free universal higher education. Private schools that help perpetuate wealth and power (and, moreover, further class stratification!) should no longer be respected. It's OK to be selective and aim for an intelligent student body, but why should tuition be a barrier for anyone in a society as wealthy as ours?
(*or the obedience necessary to create a squeaky clean scholarship worthy image)
You can get an o2 or octane2 on ebay for a few hundred bucks. Sgi hardware has a better price/performance ratio than PCs these days!
"everybody seems to be waiting patiently for a sign from Microsoft."
This is one of the major problems with proprietary software. You're entirely dependent on the copyright holder and need to wait for them to find and fix any bugs. If you run Windows, you don't even have control over the basic functionality of your software.
Free software empowers users. We all know that if you're a coder, you can fix free software yourself, but more importantly, if you run an organization that depends on the software, you can pay someone to fix it. When university department heads and corporate IT managers start realizing how they can get what they need done, when they need it, they'll make the switch. Waiting for a monopoly to get it's shit together means billions in lost revenue. Letting several companies bid and compete to find the fastest, cheapest, and most effective solutions means a more efficient IT industry as a whole.
0. Obtain a Stunbot3000 (capture it in a box or net and place it in a Faraday cage that provides sufficient electromagnetic shielding to keep it from communicating with it's legal owners wirelessly)
1. Hack Sunbot3000, preferably installing Linux or BSD on it.
2. Program it to shock corrupt cops, Christian fundamentalists, members of the Bush administration, corporate executives, and other undesirable figures. Perhaps speech to text and a bit of grepping could be enough to determine who is/isn't an undesirable figure?
3. ???
4. Profit! (or at least social progress?)
Fucking nazi son of a bitch. I don't plan to be turned into the goatse guy just because you and your jack-booted bastard friends have turned everything, including my paid for by mysekf ISP into your dirty fucking little spies.
Actually, I'm an anarchist. I personally don't want government to have the right to look at private logs or to require schools or shops to keep logs. I don't even want there to BE any government at all! The State shouldn't exist! However, I acknowledge that there IS a government. I think it's up to us to defend our own liberty. Liberals may seriously try to reform the system so that the government isn't allowed to snoop. The liberals will fail. The government will snoop anyways. We should use encryption because it is a real practical way of keeping our free speech rights, not a doomed reformist attempt to make an evil system slightly less evil.
Any Semi-intelligent person will use cleartext for official but non-confidential business at school and work, and encrypt any email or IMs that contain personal information or nefarious plans. If you are stupid enough to send something revealing over a public, corporate, or academic network, you DESERVE to get caught.
Hopefully as more and more people get caught for using cleartext, crypto will be the norm and all these laws requiring logging will become useless for law enforcement purposes.
Democracy Now is pretty much just news and the occasional interview with a politician, activist, or author. If you want a full set of programming I would recommend something like Free Radio Santa Cruz . FRSC is a pirate broadcast station that also offers an Internet stream.
Is he spewing the term "corporatism" without any idea what the word actually means? Or is he deliberately misusing it so that he can pretend stock-corporation capitalism is the same thing as the economic program of fascism under Mussolini?
I meant "stock-corporation capitalism". It's a bit of a mouthful, but perhaps a better and more specific phrase. I'll try to be more explicit next time. There are certain similarities between our system and fascism. In fact, I would say that our system is closer to fascism than to a true free market. However, there are enough key differences that the two shouldn't be given the same name.
Dude, if he likes the station, let him listen to it, ok?
I have no problem with anyone listening to or watching anything that they want. I'm totally pro-free speech. Listen to Rush Limbaugh or watch The Triumph of the Will if you want. I was just pointing out an alternative that might be of interest to someone who likes the idea of non-corporate news.
So you think that NPR should only exist if it's a left-wing mouthpiece?
I think that a public station should be run in the interests of the public, not in the interests of a wealthy elite. So-called public networks like NPR and the BBC have been in strong support for the interests of the executives, board members, and shareholders of convicted criminal corporations such as Microsoft. A public station should be left wing because the left (anarchists, socialists, progressives, etc) really are concerned with the interests of the working class. The working class is the majority in the USA and most of the world. Why can't we have some media that supports us? Why should the news be monopolized by the elite owners of the means of production?