Unfortunately, communism has earned a fatally bad reputation after being misused by so many dictators during the 20th century.

The murder part of communism is a necessary component to deal with people who don't want to play along. That's why it happens all the time. If you don't want to play by the rules of a society that has anything resembling a market economy, the outcome is well known: Your standard of living slides down to the lowest your fellow citizens will tolerate seeing.

If you don't want to play by the rules of a society with a Marxist economy, well, abject poverty is always an option there, too. A rather common one. But if you want to work for yourself, and keep a significant portion of the fruits of your labor? Well, sorry, that's where the murder comes in. Against the fundamental rules of the society, you see.

If you disagree, kindly tell me what you do with people in your ideal communist society who want to put in above-average effort, and reap the extra rewards. Besides murdering them. The communist societies that exist within larger market economies can eject slackers, and the motivated can simply leave. The societies that are entirely communist need other options. Exiling the motivated will simply rapidly impoverish those that remain.

Totally agree -- (Members of) The Catholic Church created the first schools, hospitals, etc.

What does 'solvable' mean? Woodstock mean temperature 1968? These hippies don't even know what they're selling. Give subsidies to the politically connected? I'd rather burn by beloved hydrocarbon fuels. In the last 6 years I have made a fortune investing in companies that are out of favor. Big oil, big pharma, genetically modified agribusiness. It look like my run of luck will continue.

Great news for those of us who were distressed when that turd Obama axed Constellation. The future is brighter, although 8 years late.

Clearly, they would know that a Cretan is just a Minoan a large pool.

Seconded.

Mojolicious is an excellent back-end or middle layer (depending on your data needs), mostly because it removes the need for many of Perl's more infamous convolutions and contortions. With a bit of Bootstrap and/or AngularJS on the front end, you can get a useable online service put together in a very limited amount of time.

I pulled this off yesterday, though I was only half-trolling. I was serious about the solvent / bacteria, the crack about panicking hippies was amusing. http://news.slashdot.org/comme...

I give him credit for not reminding you that he never even used the word "government." He said "society." You want rid of that, go live on some forgotten island in Indonesia and see how long you last. Until then, your attitude of "I've got mine, plus all the benefits society gives me as well, so fuck you, Jack" is not just selfish and stupid, it's completely morally bankrupt. You're a turd and you're really not worth anyone's breath.

Not in America twinkle toes.

Who ever told you liberal ghouls that you entitled to take the lives of millions of children, and force those with a conscience pay for it? Keep your perversions to yourself.

If water is that good at dissolving plastic we're all in a lot of trouble. As for a new, plastic-eating bacteria? That's nothing to be concerned about at all!

Seriously, fish eating it terrible. But it is probably the least bad alternative, unless we're going to include "space aliens carefully harvesting it, while leaving sea life alone" on the list of theories.

Hippie doesn't usually extend to "caring at all."

Well, to be fair, climatologists have always been a little dubious about Swedish farmers, too....

With the huge number of windmills the chance of it being a statistical outlier are small. They are a fraud.

Yeah, that's what we need. A weaponized leftist activist bureaucracy to act with even less inhibition for tyranny than they do now. And stop calling it civil service. These creeps are out to make a buck just like everyone else. Indeed, these past 6 years, the creeps have done quite well for themselves.