Only half of my post was pointing out that you are wrong by definition.

I also pointed out that your argument was structurally invalid. Did you miss that bit?

Both of those issues make you wrong and at least the latter involved me "using my head".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
"Capitalism is an economic system..."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism
"an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market"

A capitalist economic system effects the political sphere, of course, but it is not in and of itself a political system.

Re your argument: not all forms of control are politics. I control my dog but that's not a political system. You argument requires that all forms of control are forms of government but this is false therefore your argument is invalid.

Capitalism is NOT a form of government, it is an economic system.

Rubbish. That's idealised Libertarianism, not Capitalism.

I get the vibe that most people commenting don't see the need to be informed by the article before blessing us with their opinion. Your summary is a good TL;DR for those lazy souls, however. :o)

So here's a crazy idea: read the fucking article before adding you ill-informed comments.

Good. You stop taking foreign students - the US too. The rest of the western world will be glad to take all your pesky foreigners.

The real problem is human nature, not that one particular religion. Kill one religious figure, another will fill its place (or the former will be a martyr).

And why not also go back and kill Jesus of Nazareth? Millions have been killed in his name. Do you reckon those wars wouldn't have been waged if this or that particular prophet hadn't have existed?

What I find most disturbing in all of this is the rabid brand loyalty (brainwashing?) on display. I don't get the apple/iPhone fans with their "mine is still better" and "Samsung is just junk" responses - when Samsung supplies the hardware for the iPhone in the first place!

I don't own a smartphone nor any Samsung or Apple computers. I don't care about either of these companies. But I do care about the tech world and I'm very disturbed to see mega corps using patents as a cudgel to prevent competition. Apple's approach is antithetical to a free market and to technological innovation. I find it extremely distasteful and if I ever did want to get a smartphone, this recent episode would be enough to put me off Apple. I like companies that compete by being the best, not by having the most lawyers.

Yeah, I'm sure it's impossible to improve on the situation that the US Patents office has given the world.

I have a d1 but it's a bit of a let down - the result is never all that much of a surprise

So... you agree then that no-one else is using Obj-c?

Obj-C is behind C, C++ (and Java) on the Tiobe index. Javascript, however, ranks way way lower than I believe it should.

Java was a popular programming language before it was chosen for Android, unlike Objective-c. If Apple had chosen C or C++ people wouldn't have made a big deal of it.

It's not an either/or situation - paying for an iPad doesn't mean that Apple stops advertising.