The assumption that rebel forces can obtain only that military hardware their previous government allowed them amuses me. Should a popular overthrow of a government become necessary, the criminal element will supply the weapons. Capitalism is interesting like that.

Centrally planned economies are NP-hard. That's the first argument against them. The second is probably the USSR. As you decentralize planning, you break the problem down into smaller and smaller problems, but lose the guarantee of global optimality (except under certain unrealistic conditions - Pareto efficiency, but then you might as well roll free-market anyway).

The justification for private ownership of capital is property rights. Whether you derive those rights from self-ownership or religion is irrelevant. What is lacking is justification for the theft of that private property, which you fail to supply.

Additionally, at the end of the day, social priorities - even if computationally ranked - are defined by the axiomatic system from which we derive our morality. The idea of computing axioms is kind of circular. What mathematical formula would you like to optimize to choose between libertarianism and communitarianism? What isGood() function do you propose?

No. The only person who really 'beat' Turner Whitted to ray tracing was Appel, back in the 1960s. Turner Whitted formulated ray tracing in the 1980s. Ingo Wald's primary contribution to the field has been the development of packet-based ray tracing, which is the technique of exploiting operational coherence exhibited by a group of 'nearby' rays by tracing them together through the acceleration structure. It is especially effective when vector units on the CPU or GPU are used.

Too white and too ugly... I agree.

... instead of, say, the surface-to-air missiles

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