Comment Re:my meta-review/review (Score 1) 364
Thank you for this. Given all the haterade flowing around here, I was starting to think I was the only person who thought this was a great movie.
Thank you for this. Given all the haterade flowing around here, I was starting to think I was the only person who thought this was a great movie.
Or, maybe Charles realises how lucky he is to be a 64-year-old whose parents are both alive and well and hopes the day never comes when he takes on that "job". The Windsors may not impress me, but don't strike me as being like the Borgias.
Heh, you're right, that was a pretty big whoosh. On the other hand, it doesn't mean you have to be an asshole.
*Voluntary* charity was not considered a character flaw
Rand seemed to view the world in black and white terms, where, to use her words, selfishness is good and altruism is bad. I applaud her for being a strong voice that what people do should be voluntary, but that doesn't mean we need a moral case against wanting to do things for other people.
No kidding. I always figure these "why don't they just..." suggestions are from people without families. Seriously, that changes everything.
People connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building. The signal bounces from balloon to balloon, then to the global Internet back on Earth.
Interesting, although I wonder what the latency will be like. Although I guess if it's meant for off-the-grid places then better that than nothing?
I know, right? That's teeny tiny sky? They'll fill it in no time!
Not to be pedantic, but the "Ayn Rand mentality" is pretty much the opposite of what you think it is.
I don't think I'd want to live in a world where charity is considered a character flaw, but in fairness I've read her books and c0d3g33k is right.
I do, actually. It's free, runs everywhere, has an equalizer, and doesn't try to do a bunch of cataloguing/internal database shit that I don't want.
No problem, I just asked my Jewish friends to knock it off and they said they were sorry and would stop enslaving us all.
Good luck to them if they think that helps. Me, I'm pretty sure I've been on their enemies list for years.
The Mozilla Science Lab is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which definitely has real money. And three dedicated people who know what they're doing can accomplish a lot.
He's spent years researching the problem in his capacity as a constitutional law professor and he proposes a very specific solution which has been demonstrated to work well in other western democracies.
What, public financing of candidates? Sorry, no sale. And he wants to get there by holding a second constitutional convention, which has the potential to be a complete disaster since too many people naively believe government should do more rather than less.
Because that's not even slightly arrogant.
That suggests you think there can be a system where there is a lot of centralized power, but money doesn't buy access to it because those with power only magnanimously serve the interests of others. Good luck with that.
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