Comment Re:The final step. (Score 1) 248
It is socialists who insist on saying the former National Socialist Party of Germany was right wing.
It is socialists who insist on saying the former National Socialist Party of Germany was right wing.
Statoil is not the only player in the Norwegian oil industry. And you can buy Statoil shares whenever you want (NYSE: STO).
And what's your point?
And Chavez is not a dictator - yet. He's pushing in that direction, but he was popularly elected, and is still operating under a constitutional framework. He's done quite a few good things for Venezuela, but he's started turning down the dark path of too much power.
Can you elaborate on the quite a few good things?
Government is only following the corporate masters, moving us not in the direction of socialism but in the direction of fascism.
That is not fascism. That is called mercantilism or reverse-mercantilism by some, which has many similarities to socialism as corporations and the government look like a larger colluding entity similar to what government is in regular socialism.
Americans often misunderstand fascism because it used the term corporatism, but what Mussolini called corporations have nothing to do with what Americans call corporations. Fascism was another form of socialism in the sense that it implied state control of the economy, but unlike traditional socialists it did not promote class struggle.
When you read the details on what is proposed by the Venezuelan government, it doesn't sound that unreasonable.
Makes you wonder why it's being spun as totalitarian and evil.
Can you elaborate on what you consider reasonable about the people being to use a single government-supervised Internet access point, where the only content that can be accessed is what is approved by the government and where you can be sent to prison for posting things that offend the government?
The bill also proposes allowing the government to restrict access to websites if they are found to be distributing messages or information that incite violence against the president. Chavez frequently accuses the opposition of plotting to kill him."
You find this reasonable?
Norway is not a socialist country. Private property of means of production is strongly protected.
The Venezuelan government, on the other hand, is seeking to abolish such private property through nationalizations, confiscations and even political persecution. They are pretty advanced.
You can't call them socialist because private property is strongly protected. Socialism, on the other hand, seeks to abolish private property of the means of production, which is what is happening in Venezuela.
Scandinavian countries are largely capitalist welfare states. Most means of production are in private hands, although governments usually have partial or total ownership of some industries, so you can call them mixed economies, but almost every country in the world is a mixed economy.
Under Chavez, Venezuela can be considered a socialist country as most means of productions are owned by the government. This trend was not started by Chavez, but by previous socialist parties that took control of the country in 1958 and nationalized many industries. Chavez just expanded the already extensive government ownership of means of production.
Your remark doesn't follow from the parent's. It is clear practically by inspection that most Americans (most people in general) are not able to consistently understand what's best for them.€
By inspection? That's anecdotical. Give scientific evidence that this is the case.
If most of us did know what was best for us most of the time and consistently acted upon it intelligently, this would be a vastly different world.
What's best for you? Do you know? Do you think it is possible to know? Do you think everyone judges things with the same scale when deciding what is best for them?
And give us something less shallow than "by inspection"
The majority of Americans don't know what's good for them
Right, you're the one who knows what's best for everyone
Wikipedia editions are not anonymous
Bamboo and OpenDHT are the same.
Bamboo is the software/algorithm/protocol and OpenDHT is a specific deployment of it on the PlanetLab research network.
There is no such thing as a standards-based cloud computing solution. The best you can get is some middleware layers that try to abstract the APIs for a few different providers.
Since these APIs are a moving target, these middleware solutions are not very effective.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.