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Comment Re:Can't eat what you don't grow (Score 2) 690

How many failed neoclasical economics experiments do we need to see before it's written off as a failure?

This isn't about outright communism, it's about fixing the capitalist mistakes of the last 50 years quickly. Mistakes made by ignoring the role of private debt in the economy. Allowing the financial sector and bad economic beliefs to control the money supply.

Greece's government is insolvent. They can't honour their debts, so how are we going to deal with them? Lend them more money so they can pay the interest and delay the inevitable?

Their population is unemployed. How are they going to earn enough to pay their personal debts? Slavery? How does taking more money from the poor through austerity measures help them?

The system has already failed. The people have cast their vote for change. Be thankful they haven't elected a fascist, power hungry government like the last time we saw this level of unrest in Europe.

Comment Re:So to cicumvent the screen locker... (Score 1) 375

I also had a script that would tweak the beep pitch and duration and play the close encounters theme. With the option of using a different xserver for each beep. Combined with a script that would use finger to display a map of the terminals people were connected from, and terminals that were xhost+ when noone was logged in ....

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