Comment Re:Unions are monopolies (Score 1) 113
Under capitalism every economic actor seeks a monopoly. That's the fatal flaw in the system.
Comment Re: indie music (Score 1) 237
You can do better than that: melting icecaps; more forest fires, drought, flooding...
Comment Hmm... (Score 1) 102
all rests on the premise that we know how much information is being conveyed
Comment Re:What is the fascination with UBI? (Score 1) 1022
Supply rises to meet demand. Basic market economics. So no need for inflation. Your suggestions on the other hand would depress the supply side, leading to labour shortages which would be an inflationary pressure.
Comment It must be true! (Score 1) 198
A meat industry spokesman from the U.S. Meat Export Federation tells the Economist...
Comment Re:Vegans should become Africans (Score 1) 198
Yeah, right. That's why vegans are so short.
Comment Re:The methane "is then liquified and used to fuel (Score 1) 142
There are other ways of producing electricity. I think the real benefit of this project is that it *does* make fuel that can be burned in an ICE and can be used to fuel aircraft. The alternative would be to give up air flight, which nobody seems to be keen to do.
Comment Re:They have no beliefs, no consistency (Score 1) 694
Looks like a well organised set of beliefs to me. In fact it looks so well organised that I suspect you of caricaturing it. Just because you disagree with something doesn't make it moronic or incoherent.
Comment Linux Emporium (Score 1) 570
Comment Re:Too much control agenda (Score 1) 606
I then read your next line and must conclude that you are willing to equate desecration of Jewish cemeteries (presumably to incite the Nazi knee-jerk response) with someone REPOSTING SOMETHING THEY FOUND to Facebook
I equate the desecration of Jewish cemeteries with the posting of an offensive remark on a web page dedicated to a young child who has been murdered. They both have the same motivation - to upset the bereaved.
Fortunately, we do not let the people who feel themselves directly harmed decide upon criminal punishments.
The parent was saying that AS A SOCIETY we should ignore it, not that the people directly involved would be able to do so.
I am not suggesting that those directly harmed should decide the punishment, but that in deciding the punishment society should take into account the feelings of those directly harmed.
Comment Re:Yawn... (Score 1) 111
you have to either host a server running a seed or find someone who is to run your stuff through
You obviously lost track... signing up couldn't be simpler: http://podupti.me/
Comment Re:Too much control agenda (Score 1) 606
Do you really think that if the joke had been made about your daughter you would have been able to ignore it? Perhaps you think that the desecration of Jewish cemeteries is also a manifestation of free speech?
Comment Re:context (Score 1) 606
Do you really think that the purpose of the arrest was to suppress the joke? The joke had presumably already been seen by the family of the dead girl, thus, the damage was already done. The purpose of the arrest was surely to punish this callous act.
Submission + - Diaspora is dead! Long live diaspora! (joindiaspora.com)
Jalfro writes: Following premature rumours of it's demise, the Diaspora core team announce the release of 0.0.1.0. "It’s been a couple of exciting months for us as we’ve shifted over to a model of community governance. After switching over to SemVer for our versioning system, and plugging away at fixing code through our new unstable branch, we’re excited to make our first release beyond the Alpha/Beta labels."
Submission + - Unredacted documents in Apple/Samsung case, no evidence of 'copy' instruction (cnet.com)
another random user writes: Previously redacted documents presented in the Apple-Samsung case seem not to offer actual evidence that Samsung told its designers to copy the iPhone.
Documents that have now been unredacted seem to show that there was never any 'copy apple' instruction. There was a push towards things that would be different, such as what is now seen in the Galaxy S3: "Our biggest asset is our screen. It is very important that we make screen size bigger, and in the future mobile phones will absorb even the function of e-books."
Groklaw suggests, rather shockingly, that Apple's lawyers might have been a little selective in how they presented some of this evidence to the court, by picking little parts of it that offered a different shade of nuance.
Documents that have now been unredacted seem to show that there was never any 'copy apple' instruction. There was a push towards things that would be different, such as what is now seen in the Galaxy S3: "Our biggest asset is our screen. It is very important that we make screen size bigger, and in the future mobile phones will absorb even the function of e-books."
Groklaw suggests, rather shockingly, that Apple's lawyers might have been a little selective in how they presented some of this evidence to the court, by picking little parts of it that offered a different shade of nuance.
