"You made a great comment that reminds me of something I've always been annoyed by as a canadian -- socialism is not contrary to freedom. Socialism is in fact designed to be freedom, freedom from poverty and medical expenses as well as personal freedom."
My problem with socialism is the lack of personal responsibility. Socialism is like having tax sponsored babysitters. People need to grow up and make their own decisions.
There is something to be said for the freedom to make something of or destroy yourself which capitalism provides. It just provides it along a much larger spectrum (see Bill Gates or homeless crack addict) than socialism.
For instance, in Canada, baby walkers are illegal. Are baby walkers inherently dangerous? No more than a bathtub or swimming pool. But you have government people making decisions for you, because apparently they know better. I am not interested in that.
If a homeless person wants to be homeless, let him. I may or may not be inclined The only people who need special care for the government are those who are physically or mentally handicapped and the US does a fine job of providing for most of those.
America is becoming more socialist, thanks to neo-conservatives who want to control everythign and liberals who want to give handouts to everybody. That is why I do my best to remain a libertarian.
No thank you.
It costs $0.20 to make a copy or $180/hour for copy of video footage at the Library of Congress.
I welcome the Google service and I hope they make millions on it.
The situation seems to be just like a cold war between file sharers and RI/MPAA. Luckily the file sharers seem to be winning by evolution of technology.
Maybe I should go make a donation to the Bittorrent site.
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Thank you for the humor slashdot.
NASA developed NASTRAN, one of the most popular and powerful Finite Element Analysis programs, a long time ago and released it to the public. http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/projects/NAST RAN/
Second - Cyber security is about securing information, which the department of homeland security has a lot of and are doing a poor job protecting it.
Third - Iraq was not terrorist free. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/20124. pdf
"You made a great comment that reminds me of something I've always been annoyed by as a canadian -- socialism is not contrary to freedom. Socialism is in fact designed to be freedom, freedom from poverty and medical expenses as well as personal freedom."
My problem with socialism is the lack of personal responsibility. Socialism is like having tax sponsored babysitters. People need to grow up and make their own decisions.
There is something to be said for the freedom to make something of or destroy yourself which capitalism provides. It just provides it along a much larger spectrum (see Bill Gates or homeless crack addict) than socialism.
For instance, in Canada, baby walkers are illegal. Are baby walkers inherently dangerous? No more than a bathtub or swimming pool. But you have government people making decisions for you, because apparently they know better. I am not interested in that.
If a homeless person wants to be homeless, let him. I may or may not be inclined The only people who need special care for the government are those who are physically or mentally handicapped and the US does a fine job of providing for most of those.
America is becoming more socialist, thanks to neo-conservatives who want to control everythign and liberals who want to give handouts to everybody. That is why I do my best to remain a libertarian.
TD
No thank you. It costs $0.20 to make a copy or $180/hour for copy of video footage at the Library of Congress. I welcome the Google service and I hope they make millions on it.
The situation seems to be just like a cold war between file sharers and RI/MPAA. Luckily the file sharers seem to be winning by evolution of technology. Maybe I should go make a donation to the Bittorrent site.