- or as they said in 1984: war is peace. "To be free of payment for a service" is not at all the same thing as to be free from government oppression. "To be free of payment for a service" = provide government with tools of oppression to take from somebody else to pay for my service, to allow government to steal, imprison and murder people so that I can have the service I feel entitled to.

"To be free" does not mean not to have to pay for your own life's needs and choices, it means not to have other people dictate to you how you live, but clearly you don't know that.

- the only reason to not burn all of your savings by the life end is to pass it to your own children and survivors, not to some unknown to you people, that makes no sense at all. I am going to argue that anybody who owns any property should be able to exercise complete control over that property without having any taxes charged by any government whatsoever and this means they must be able to pass that property to anybody whatsoever of their choosing and it is none of government's or the mob's business. But of-course the mob uses the oppression of the government to do their dirty work for them, to steal from a minority to subsidise themselves. It's is immoral and economically unsound behaviour and it is 'legalized' by the corrupt system that exists.

I bought a Thinkpad W540 in January, and I love it. Hasn't crashed once, battery life is ample. My biggest problem is lack of HDD light (I want to see drive status, but can't) and the fact that the plastic bezel around the monitor pops loose occasionally (annoying, but doesn't stop me from using it, and not a big enough deal for me to act on it). They've got a winning idea here -- appeal to a sense of nostalgia among a demographic that won't mind paying a little extra for something "collectable" that's also functional.

I feel the need. The need to provide a competing to Google play store site where any and all activities will be allowed.

Google has their right to control their private property, which is what their site is. Other people may have different opinions on their own sites. Of course the phone or tablet has to be unjailed from Google prison.

Communism has been tried on a large scale - see Mao's Great Leap Forward.

Nope. That was a totalitarian socialist program pushing a collectivism that didn't work. Communism is a post-scarcity society and obviously scarcity was the thing Mao produced best.

Ok, if you want to defend your idea of what people should be doing with their own health and money based on some socialist ideology that's one thing, but stop fucking lying, unless you are so misinformed that you don't know that the way this wording in this 'law' was drafted was to ensure that the individual States fall in line by promising to use their money to subsidise other States if they themselves didn't participate in what the Feds wanted.

This fucking illegal piece of shit law passed ONLY due to the language that you now call 'poorly drafted', if that language wasn't there this piece of shit illegal law could not pass.

USA should be known as Illegal States of America specifically because it is not a nation of laws but a nation of men.

The 3 judges who went against the ILLEGAL law were trying to preserve the nation of laws, the people on the bench who for political reasons upheld the illegal law have crossed the t and dotted the i for you.

USA doesn't exist, now it's ISA.

How are financial transactions not free speech? If I want to be able to BUY A PRODUCT or to DONATE MONEY I should not be forced to disclose any of that information to a government agency just because they want to know what I like to buy, read, use, whatever.

That is absolutely free speech, ultimately all of the freedoms that people think are important are completely useless and fall flat on their face if the most important freedom - freedom to earn money, freedom to spend money is not actually protected from government oppression.

You think being able to spend or earn money without being oppressed is somehow outside of individual freedom protections because it's money? Money, time, any possessions are worth nothing if you do not have protections against government oppression, which means you cannot be protected from government taking anything it wants away from you, preventing you from doing stuff to earn a living (and I am not talking about harming others while earning a living, that's the purview of criminal justice system).

Being able to stop you from advertising your services because some government official wants to own that piece of business for himself or for a donor... THAT is what individual rights are - protection against government oppression. A right is protection against government oppression and only government oppression. A right has nothing to do with transactions and dealings between individuals and / or companies.

Why is that? Because government is an institution that has supposedly legal and legitimate power to oppress you! No corporation, no other individual has legal and legitimate power to oppress you. A private individual (or a company) oppressing you is a matter for courts and justice systems, but a government oppressing you is a matter of policy and governance and nobody in government will ever be punished for oppressing you, so you have to prevent the oppression from happening, you cannot rely or expect retribution after the fact.

The only meaningful individual rights have to do with preventing government oppression against taking your stuff and your freedom and your life.

Any move to deanonymize any activity that has nothing to do with harming others is a move towards government oppression.

Whatever it has been used for subsequently, A113 is a classroom at Cal Arts.

I didn't actually work on GPUs very much at Pixar, the image computer I worked on was the grandfather of the SIMD image processing instructions on modern CPUs. What would become a GPU later on was a very expensive box from Silicon Graphics, I had one that cost at least a quarter Million dollars.

Governments and any other powerful entities of the world: fuck you all, go fuck yourselves .com

People must be able to exercise free speech and that is that.

This: pope is a paedophile .com - this may be libel, if there is an actual lawful reason to disclose the contact for a site a that would be between a judge and a registrar.

If they actually told us how to program their microengines, something good might come of it. But they'll probably just BSD-license a list of numbers, as others have.

I liked writing bit-slice microcode at Pixar. I really could get every last bit of power out of the hardware.

Maybe you should learn what communism is before calling anyone "commiefriend". (Which I have to say, is really repulsive. It's sort of like picking your nose over the internet.) I think you are discussing the difference between lasiez-faire ecomomics and regulated markets. Communism is a very great difference in scale from that. And it's never been tried on a national scale just as "free market" has never been tried because there are always economic biases that make it impossible. What there has been so far is socialism.

I think you're missing the fundamental economic issue that drives all of this. It's the provision of essentially infinite amounts of credit. This is done by government, not banks. Essentially all home loans come from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, banks and finance companies are really just front-ends for them and sell their loans to the government once financed.

Given infinite credit, any scarce but necessary resource is going to be bid to absurd values.

It is by no means being a hippie to assert that government should not distort the market for credit, and to expect that urban and suburban land values would return to more realistic rates once the distortion was removed. Too bad that lots of people have already invested in unrealistic land values. They would have to lose.

Superconductors just exclude magnetic flux. I am not getting how it matters what produces the magnetic flux - be it ferromagnetic or electromagnetic. My only Meissner effect demo used a permanent magnet.