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  1. Re:this is the result of socialism on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 1

    I've read Locke and he says that censorship is good. Does that make democracy require censorship?

  2. Re:Iain M. Banks' The Culture on Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit · · Score: 1

    Our conception of what a well-lived life is changes with the possibilities that our open to us. In a hunter-gather society where everyone lives to the ripe old age of 40, someone who dies at age 30 died 3/4 of the way through their life. In todays society, with 80 year life expectancy, someone would die at age 60 to be 3/4 of the way through their life. Someone who dies at age 31 died young today. Back then they would be past the prime of their life.

  3. Re:One-armed man on Judge Kimball Strikes SCO's Jury Trial Demand · · Score: 1

    The fugative came out in 1993. I doubt that's all of Judge Kimball's life.

  4. Re:Almost on Anti-Scammers Become Storm Botnet Victims · · Score: 1

    I thought trojans came in through the front gates?

  5. Re:that's ok then... on Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America · · Score: 1

    This particular scenario is lost in the underflow. That's the point GP is making.

  6. Re:We got some flyin' to do on Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America · · Score: 1

    That's where step 5 comes in: Invade immediately. Then when the contradictions come out just relegate it to the conspiracy theory category by not reporting on it.

  7. Re:Where is it coming from. on How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    Yes, we do that, but only if it serves our interests. The only way that would work is if the companies payed a living wage, which by and large they do not.

  8. Re:Lisp, you say? on Programming Erlang · · Score: 1

    Scheme has one namespace, Common Lisp has 2. Scheme has call-with-current-continuation, Common Lisp does not. And the Scheme standard fits in the index of the Common Lisp standard. Scheme is also much cleaner then Common Lisp as (not (eq? nil #f)) for example. Scheme implementations have many different flavors, from category-theoretical, to smalltalk-like. Common Lisp is pretty much Common Lisp.

  9. Re:Selling each other imaginary stuff on After 10,000 Years, Farming No Longer Dominates · · Score: 1

    Additional labor was used. Value is the amount of socially necessary labor contained in an object.

  10. Re:Java popular? on Sun Says OpenSolaris Will Challenge Linux · · Score: 1

    How do you think a JIT works?

  11. Re:Employer of Last Resort on Users Trash Wal-Mart On Its Facebook Site · · Score: 1

    Read the supremacy clause found in Article 1 again.

  12. Re:this is the result of socialism on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 1

    The aid never arrived until after Staligrad. As for size note that Russia is mostly empty space. The fact that the Germans were massacring the Slavs might have something to do with the insane casualty counts. The scale of the Great Patriotic War is many orders of magnitude bigger then any other front in World War II.

  13. Re:this is the result of socialism on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 1

    Please learn what communism actually is before you say it is authoritarian.

  14. In Soviet Russia on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 1

    We can compare the Russian revolution to the Meij restoration in Japan. Both Imperial Russia and the Shogunate were agricultural, with no heavy industry to speak of. Soviet Russia was a superpower by 1945, only 28 years later. Japan only caught up around the same time, and then got bombed back to the beginning. Another fun comparison is Yugoslavia. From Wikipedia we have that Yugoslavia had 6% annual GDP growth during the 1960's and 1970's. The collapse of the economy was brought about by following the advice of the IMF.

  15. Re:this is the result of socialism on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 0, Troll

    At least we don't have people dying in the streets!

  16. Re:this is the result of socialism on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In 1917 Russia was an agricultural nation that lost against Germany which was fighting a two front war. Russia had previously been defeated by Japan overnight in the Russo-Japanese war. In 1850 Japan was also an agricultural nation with no industry to speak of. Japan took 100 years to become a superpower, Russia took 20. Is that enough of a historical comparison? Just remember that Communism won the second world war without help. D-Day was major, but it didn't turn the war around like Staligrad and Kursk did. Oh, and who put the first satellite in space? The first heart-lung machine? The big bang? Explained superfluidity? All that from the USSR. Now, let's look at Israel. The kibbutzim produced most of Israel's elite despite having no more then 7% of the population. So it looks like socialism does work. Now remember the 1930's? The only nations not affected by the Great Depression were the USSR and Nazi Germany. This is the historical record, and what it shows is not what you think it does.

  17. Re:Publsh it on How Do I Secure An IP, While Leaving Options Open? · · Score: 1

    IANAL but I believe that any public mention of the invention is sufficient to count as prior art.

  18. Re:No right to protection from stupidity on LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links · · Score: 1

    Yes it is. This is about livejournal caving in to a private and unaccountable group that has ruined the lives of innocent men and women for having expressed desire to have sex with teenagers. This is legal in some states out west with parental consent. First livejournal, then google, and someday the government. They don't believe in innocent until guilty. They don't believe in the distinction between fantasy and reality. According to some of the logic they employ, a 19-year old having sex with a 17 year old (consentually) is some kind of monster. They don't care about reason, and they are not interested in open debate. Regardless of our feelings about legal expressions of paedophilia, we can agree that no-one should hold debate on the internet hostage by shutting out one of the sides.

  19. Re:bandwidth currency? on Internet Bandwidth to Become a Global Currency? · · Score: 1

    I have a lot of hot air to sell you in the Sahara.

  20. Re:No danger this will be inflationary! on Internet Bandwidth to Become a Global Currency? · · Score: 1

    By having it enter into a commodity relation vis-a-vis food, clothing, and shelter.

  21. Re:hmmm on FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network · · Score: 1

    Think Dresden, not Baghdad.

  22. Re:Sounds a bit too smooth on FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's because we needed to go back before the conservative movement decided to make government fail by underfunding it.

  23. Re:Just following orders is not an excuse. on Yahoo! Asks That Chinese Rights Suit Be Dismissed · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Non-free economies doesn't mean the people aren't free. We gave weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein in the 1980's and got rewarded when he used them to kill the Kurds. If that's having a spine, I wish we had less of one.

  24. Re:They chose to work there. on Users Trash Wal-Mart On Its Facebook Site · · Score: 1

    How do you measure value? I measure it by socially necessary labor time, just like this guy

  25. Re:Not enough workers available on Users Trash Wal-Mart On Its Facebook Site · · Score: 1

    And what drives supply and demand? Why marginal utility. But then, I only use one watch, and for me to have two would not give me anything more then having one. Are you saying that I would not pick a watch off the ground if it was lying there because it has no value?