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Comment Re:Sad state of affairs (Score 2) 39

It's a natural consequence of the underlying system.

A slightly better soccer player can add millions of spectators to each match that team plays. So, the player is indeed causing a production that corresponds to his cost. It's not a player's "fault"; they are just a product. Arguing over a professional sports player price is like arguing about the price of a marketing campaign.

A simple marketing campaign can cost more than the life's salary of an university professor, and yet it doesn't add any value to society. But that's a problem of capitalism, not of the marketing industry nor the sports industry.

Services are not too expensive nor too cheap in themselves; they cost as much as the market values them.

Submission + - Schoolboy investigated under sedition act for 'liking' pro-Israel facebook pages (malaysiakini.com) 1

oysterman writes: In the first landmark case of the entire planet, Malaysian police is investigating a schoolboy for 'liking' pro-Israel facebook pages under draconian seditious laws. Whether the schoolboy deliberately liked the page, or was tricked into clicking links which causes the like, or possibly facebook liking the page for him without his knowledge (this has happened many times in other cases), this highlights the asinine policies of the Malaysian authorities that has been hit with a number of controversies and embarrassment this year besides losing 2 boeing 777 planes.

Malay language news at http://www.malaysiakini.com/ne...
subscription only English version. http://www.malaysiakini.com/ne...

Context
http://www.thestar.com.my/News...

Submission + - The IPV4 internet has broken (www.nux.ro) 2

pla writes: Due to a new set of routes published today, the internet has effectively undergone a schism. All routers with a TCAM allocation of 512k (or less), in particular Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 7600's, have started randomly forgetting portions of the internet. Time to switch to all IPV6 yet?

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