Except that people do it all the time here, not just in this particular thread. "Why, I remember when Slashdot was great, and no one had a six digit ID, and people wore onions on their belts, and blah blah blah." Just shut up and leave already.
Maybe it's entrepreneurs you should be consulting. From the article: "One of the more interesting concepts from this period did not come from NASA but from a model company called MPC."
Interesting. I had been thinking of him as the Bradley Manning of the free culture movement. It would be better for those he leaves behind if he ends up being its Mohamed Bouazizi. Either way, RIP.
Maybe, but still... citation needed.
Running would suck, but it would suck less than thirty years in a medieval federal prison. It probably wouldn't suck less than six months or a year, though, which is what he was realistically looking at. And it would suck a lot less than being dead.
But that's just my opinion, and it was his call. RIP.
If everyone here thinks Slashdot is so awful, then what are you all still doing here?
Teach a man to fish etc
"Teach a man to teach others to fish, and you feed the world." -- Charles W. Evans
It is a lot harder to oppress people that are educated and informed.
Not when you control the education and the information.
I figured the hyphen had stealth technology, just like a badass X-301!
I've had couple of generations, and our current model for my wife's use is an X301.
Your wife flies an X-301? That is totally badass!
That's interesting, because I was guessing you would say one of the 'Stans or something like that. English language media make it sound like Slovenians are much better off today than under Tito, even that Slovenia has its act together relatively speaking, which is why it was the first of the former Yugoslavian countries to accede to the EU. Would you say they're wildly off base?
Which country?
I suppose if you're in a country that moved from communism to a different kind of top down system where government is powerful enough to control everything and bestow favors on friends of policy makers, then yeah, things would still suck. But that sort of cronyism isn't laissez faire capitalism and it certainly hasn't been every society's postcommunist experience.
Anyway, joking aside, social democracies as seen in i.e. northern Europe and perhaps Canada are hardly bastions of slavery.
They're also not socialist per se, since, generally, the means of production are still more or less privately owned.
I don't think of Canada's system as all that different from that in the U.S. Taxes are a bit higher and they have a single payer healthcare system. Are there any other major differences?
In fact, slavery was mostly practised by capitalists, as it was the ultimate low cost labour and desired by large scale land owners and maybe industrialists, not by communist collectives.
I have friends who grew up under communism. From their descriptions, I don't think they'd appreciate the distinction.
And the USA was rather guilty of using it, yet I don't think anyone is looking back to pre-civil war USA and thinking, "socialism!"
Fair enough, but that's because socialism (and I mean full frontal socialism, not a welfare state) is a subset of slavery, not a synonym for it.
The BBC gives a tailored page depending on where you're connecting from.
In the U.S. You get the U.S. front page. That's what americans want.
I'm American, and I don't want that. But they let me switch to the international front page, so it's all good.
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