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Comment Re:the real threat will be government intervention (Score 0) 388

You're arguing that freedom and capitalism are good. I'm not sure why you're doing that.

Things like capitalism and socialism don't exist in a pure, undistilled form. At least not in our lifetime. Arguably never. Even when the US was run by Ronald Reagan, even when Ayn Rand followers were running the Fed., the US was STILL a mixed economy.

If you want freedom and non-government intervention, you might get it if you move to Somalia. That's your only choice these days.

Comment Re:the real threat will be government intervention (Score 1) 388

That is because he is an idiot who doesn't understand that giving the government control of anything is counter to the foundations of this country and will only serve to further abuse and erode our freedoms.

Anyone who believes that government intervention is always good and justified is an extremist. Anyone who believes that government control is inherently evil is also an extremist. Most reasonable people like having jails, roads and national defense.

I suspect you haven't rationally evaluated your rhetoric. I don't know it, but I'll bet you like roads as much as the rest of us.

Comment Re:About an Autobahn lane projector ? (Score 1) 856

If it upsets you to share the road with cyclists, you are confused. The law is not on your side. From General Statutes of Connecticut Sec. 14-286a

"(a) Every person riding a bicycle, as defined by section 14-286, upon the traveled portion
of a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties
applicable to the driver of any vehicle..."

The statutes of every state in the US say something similar. I understand that people don't like living within the law sometimes. Especially traffic laws. It annoys me to have to drive on roads with slow drivers. Oh well, I just have to deal with it.

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Submission + - IBM and EnterpriseDB Team to Fight Oracle (internetnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: IBM licensed EnterpriseDB's Oracle compatibility technology and put it in DB2 9.7, also announced today. This is the same technology that allows EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server to run applications written for Oracle with little or no modification. The database wars just got more interesting!

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