Comment Re:What does the voter have to do with this? (Score 1) 33
Karl Marx is sort of an unintentional proto-Monty Python.
Comment Help me please (Score 1) 37
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.
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The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralised the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this was political centralisation.
Are the bourgeoisie scattered, or concentrated? Are they a gaseous solid? Are they all over the room, or piled in the corner?
Communism seems to want a Rousseauian melding of everything into One Honking State, while somehow bemoaning the loss of a proper Lockean notion of the individual.
Either the jape is eluding me, or Marx just seems contradictory.
I'll see if I can get the next chunk of the C.M. out tonight.
Comment Re:At first glance, I liked the first response... (Score 1) 24
I sense we may not be using "prove" in the same sense.
Journal Journal: Since /. seems to be working again 2
Here's a Burma Shave FP for your delectation.
Comment As Though The GOP (Score 0) 155
As though the GOP,
Bugbears as they be,
Through that Galifianakis beard
Even shag-all could see.
Burma Shave
Bugbears as they be,
Through that Galifianakis beard
Even shag-all could see.
Burma Shave
Comment Re:What does the voter have to do with this? (Score 1) 33
Why don't you just go ahead and, you know, push out the next C.M. installment, now that they seem to have fixed the notifications?
Actions are so much louder than words.
Actions are so much louder than words.
Comment It's back (Score 1) 2
And like the guy in the Green Day tune, so am I.
Comment My interpretation (Score 1) 36
Walker read the WSJ http://online.wsj.com/articles/kimberley-strassel-scott-walkers-2016-challenge-1415923731.
This is basically an open letter from Rove telling Walker that if he has any ambitions, he'd better prick a finger and sign on the goatskin.
Walker, sanely, is gauging whether his soul is worth wading through the wreckage in the wake of #OccupyResoluteDesk.
This is basically an open letter from Rove telling Walker that if he has any ambitions, he'd better prick a finger and sign on the goatskin.
Walker, sanely, is gauging whether his soul is worth wading through the wreckage in the wake of #OccupyResoluteDesk.
Comment Re:What's the deal with the message notifications? (Score 1) 116
I am a subscriber.
Comment Re:At first glance, I liked the first response... (Score 1) 24
Your non-grasp of Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life belies my teaching skill and your protestations of gratitude.
Comment Re:Concur (Score 1) 12
I hadn't thought of http://www.kuro5hin.org/ in a while. Apparently everyone else, too. Is it all Reddit these days?
Comment I just want you to know (Score 1) 39
My commitment to your hydration ain't flagon.
Comment Re:What's old is new again (Score 1) 39
How about the Slashdot error where http://slashdot.org/messages.pl doesn't seem to have anything, even new JEs?
What: are they trying to force people to read the front page? That's like RTFA, or something.
What: are they trying to force people to read the front page? That's like RTFA, or something.
Comment What's the deal with the message notifications? (Score 1) 116
It's almost as though Slashdot is trying to lure me out to the front page, or something, by not showing responses to the JE messages.
Comment Concur (Score 1) 12
I blame the obstinance of House Republicans.
