You will notice you were the one claiming it was Locke's work, not me. So the fact that Adam Smith lived after Locke doesn't contradict a single line I wrote. I will give I wrote 19th century on my first post when I should have written 18th (Mill and MacCulloch), tho. That was particularly lazy of me.

The fact capitalism existed before Smith is irrelevant, as we both know (interesting to notice since there are other people reading). The point being that the existence of capitalism and one of the economic theories that explain/analyse it was two separate things.

Actually, I think our only point of content is: was Locke the first one to create the labour theory of value? I really don't think so. I checked my notes here (I wrote a paper about it a couple months ago), but I have to confess I don't have my economy books around. My notes point to James MIll and MacCulloch being the first ones to create a pure labour theory of value, after removing capital (David Richard = labour + capital) and land (Adam Smith = labour + capital + land) from the equation.

Saying Locke's theory are the basis is like saying Aristotle's theories are the basis for it all. It is technically correct, but it doesn't mean Aristotle created the labour theory of value either.

But I promise you I will check my reference books again tomorrow, but I do ask you to do the same, since I sincerely believe you are mistaken.

Maybe this is not the best place to talk about this, but...

James MIll and MacCulloch might have had problems with you giving Locke the credit for this theory. Also, it was all an evolution of Adam Smith's work which was, for the time, nothing short of brilliant. That is also not the basis for either capitalism or socialism (which you are incorrectly calling communism). Marx's theory of value is not the labor theory. His theory, Surplus Value or Plus-value, is one of the basis for socialism and, although labor is an integral part of it, it is not the same thing.

Surplus Value would be argued as one of the basis of capitalism, except it is too simplistic. You would have better luck checking (my translation here might be wrong) the theory called Limit-utility or Marginal Value, which is one of the theories that approached the most the capitalist model, since it takes into account marketing fluctuations, offer/demand issues etc.

That is called Labour theory of value, a 19th century theory of value that has been long since disproven.

Things produced by robots might end up being cheaper (mostly because of scale of production), but their price will be far from "close to zero".

http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Cinema-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765329093

Interestingly enough, it also happens in UK...

You know Leland Yee didn't make the gun and publish the plans, right? And it is about him, the lawmaker, California State Senator Leland Yee I'm talking about?

I wonder if anyone is going to tell him there are cheaper and more efficient ways (for larger numbers) to make homemade guns.

His heart is in the right place, it is just his brain that has a problem...

You think that is bad, try a guild with "shared leadership", or "no leader", or "full democracy", or whatever, meaning there isn't someone calling the shots, and we had to "see what everyone thinks" every step of the way.

THAT is painful.

And there is it, my friends. The time investment is just too huge. Ok, I was playing way past 20 hours/week. 40 minimum, sometimes going past that when new content was released.

Now, instead of playing WoW, this is how I'm using that time:
- Went back to school. Law school.
- I'm reading 5-8 books/month

and I still got time to spare.

I am still in touch with the people I've met while playing, and even consider some of them good friends. I don't regret at all having played, or even playing as much as I did. But I'm happy I moved on.

Pfft. We drank Scotch and ate Parma Ham while raiding.

Most of the people I know simply quit and didn't go anywhere else. Mostly, they play some single player games now and again.
We were all hardcore raiders getting some top 10 US marks, in some top 100 US guilds.

It comes a point where you are just tired of playing, and every other game is enough alike to keep us away.

So, in answer to your 'where to' question, I guess the answer would be: back to real life.

Actually, you probably should compare with the $49.99/month subscription, since you are using the full [retail] version above, making it $7,198.56.

Which is a very stupid logic.

Eliminating a pirate doesn't mean you are transforming him into a customer. It almost never happen.

My guess is Adobe is targeting those legitimate customers who buy their software and use the same version, without paying for upgrades, for 4+ years. With the Cloud model, you are forcing them to (re)pay full price every year.

Just read http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Cinema-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765329093

There isn't really much more to say about it...

Executive summary: allowing this is a really bad idea because it sets a legal precedent.

2.4.37.9 on mine. (10.03, r20728).
No complain, really.

You are probably thinking of a home or even a soho environment.

However, using a WRT box (as I call them) has other advantages, including power consumption, it is fanless (less noise and less prone to fail), has 5 programmable ethernet ports (multilink, load balancing etc), is cheap, easy to maintain and fast to replace.

It is choosing the right tool for the right job, mostly. Your ITX box is a good choice sometimes (minus IPCop). Other times, a WRT box is better.