The private part yes, the keep it part is the one that fails. They can simply delete it, and no amount of encryption will protect you from that.

Go is timid update on C/Pascal. My response to it is meh. We can do a lot better than that.

Python has two big problems: (1) no strict type checking/variable declaration and (2) it's interpreted/compiled to byte code.

It also has a small problem: code indentation really doesn't work. Nice idea, but no, didn't work.

Private companies can be incredibly shortsighted too. Around here they built penny-wise pound foolish buildings in the 70s and 80s that are energy inefficient and terrible workspaces but were cheap to build back then. You cannot give that space away.

So again, while I generally agree with the virtues of the private sector, I haven't drank the kool-aid that they are always preferable.

Not so if there is only one privately owned highway coming out of your town.

Yes, generally speaking privately provided services are more efficient, but as I pointed out, there are well known exceptions. Usually they have to do with what are at heart either insurance schemes (defense, healthcare) or natural monopolies (roads, utilities).

Is that how you justify to yourself ignoring indisputable facts from the world over as well as the USA?

Whatever it takes just so you don't pop your ideological bubble that everything private is cheaper even though facts speak to the contrary?

Okaay.

You are now arguing that deficits are bad, which is a different topic.

Presently we are running a deficit, which is the mathematical definition of underpaying, not overpaying.

You are now changing the subject. since you cannot deny that government provided health-care is cheaper, so off you go about the economic crisis, the welfare state and other side issues.

Thanks for participating dude. So much for your (false) assumption that private healthcare is cheaper.

Again, all of the western world provides government healthcare more efficiently than private health care in the US. This is an undisputed fact. By the way, of the public/private portions of healthcare in the US the government ones are the ones that provide the most bang for the buck. This has been confirmed in numerous studies, going all the way from medicare/medicaid/armed services insurance to Obamacare today.

I know you will refuse to believe it. It is clear you care more for ideology than reality.

Sure there is corruption, just like in the private sector. Or do you think an incompetent CEO being fired with a golden parachute is anything but?

Funny you mention healthcare, where we have abundant data from all over the world that conclusively prove government provided healthcare is cheaper than privately provided one.

We have similar data for private energy, highways, and public transportation. For others the private sector is more efficient.

Those are the facts, the rest is foaming-at-the-mouth ideology.

You go to a restaurant and you do not cover the entire dinner bill. I.e you underpaid and ran a deficit. The restaurant then allows you to run a tab and charges you interest over the balance as it is done by any and all financial institutions. Now you are trying to use this as an argument that you "overpaid" the restaurant bill?

Try that in front of the court together with all your "sophistication" and you can write to me from jail telling me what the judge thought about your reasons for not covering the entire restaurant bill because you "overpaid".

You are getting services and you pay for it through taxes. This does not fit any sensible definition of stealing. I can see that you are one of those libertarians that operate under the pretense that we would be better off with highways built by private parties for which you would have to pay a fee just like a tax to the government but with the difference that you have no say where it is built.

Fine, you are welcome to believe that. It still does not make takes theft or slavery. They are democratically agreed to and you get something in return for them. Let me know when a robber gives you back something in return for the stolen goods. That is how false your analogy is.

Right because things such as interstate highways, NIH, NSF, defense. medicare are all "corruption",

Things like the internet, and the web browser were funded by federal money, but we are busy making a partisan argument so lets wrap all of it under "corruption", facts be damned.

Sigh, American really has no hope when (1) that is the level of discussion and (2) it is considered "insightful".

A tax is not stealing. Period. You might be in favor or against it but the present deal is that you do not pay upfront for every consumable, e.g. roads, defense education of your workforce: instead you pay through taxes.

You lack the sophistication to explain why you disagree with taxes and falsely equate a levy with stealing to cover up for this.

Your malicious argument is like raping the readers (see what i did there?). Go back to the drawing board and come back when you can explain why a government that is running a deficit is according to GOP-types overtaxing rather than undertaxing.

He also discovered electron tunneling, though he gave it as evidence of how nonsensical quantum mechanics was. He was correct on the derivation, but wrong on the interpretation.