So you're saying that Venezuela struggles to produce 1.75 mbd? Do you realize it's a bit hard to give credit to anything you say after this?

If you read the article you linked, Venezuelan officials say it was sabotage. Of course, maybe they lie, or they're sincere but wrong. All I can see with my own eyes is that the whole western world seems so intent on destroying them that people even post ridiculous numbers to discredit them on slashdot forums. So it could also be that they're right.

Venezuela pushing to lower global production is not new, it dates from the creation of OPEC (more or less at their initiative).

PS: There is a lot of investment in the oil industry in Venezuela (too much according to some), and a lot of cooperation with foreign companies.

Lol, sorry for the mistake. So, I assume you have no source then? You know, whatever you think of the Venezuelan government, it's undeniable that the "western" medias are heavily biased against it. So when you read this kind of insinuations without proof, you can just discard it, it's worth nothing. Even when there are proofs, you should doubt them, actually.

The claim is that they both report false rates and do actual currency exchange.

The chavists do try to modernize the country. The have built houses, schools, hospitals, ... They have tried and still try to "teach people to fish", they even produce some laptops locally (not sure how good they are, I suppose it's more something like OLPC). Their efforts are not enough, but the situation when they arrived wasnt great, and the "capitalists" who still own a good part of the country are indeed not very participative, it's not just paranoia and political scapegoating. "Not participative" can include things like sending sicarios to kill small-scale farmers...

But dolartoday doesnt tell the truth. Ask any Venezuelan, nobody changes at this rate. (not much lower, though)

Source? (btw, I don't believe any military uprising would be necessary to oust Chavez. If he loses the presidential election, he will leave.)

Venezuelan oil production is doing ok. Not great, but ok. What you're saying is more propaganda than truth. The current selling price is a much worse problem than the amount of production.

Don't believe anything you read about Venezuela. There is food, I bet you could more easily find hungry people in Greece than in Venezuela, nowadays. I suppose it's true that there are sporadic shortages of all kinds of things (I have not suffered from any but that doesn't mean much, I arrived recently), but I think mostly what happens is that the lines are for buying at discount prices. People are really poor.

That's an interesting objection. You also need to take into account the ability/willingness to focus, the fact that high IQ people might be more invested in a test like this (they rely more on performing well in this type of situation for their social status). Actually, I suppose all IQ tests also measure some kind of "obedience ability" of your brain... It reminds me of the difference between cats and dogs: you can teach a dog complex tricks, but you can't teach a cat anything. The cat teaches you. Which one is the more intelligent? :)

80+ Years ? Actually there hasn't been that much progress in quantum theory since 1933.

But let's say we go back to 1890. Now, there is a praise for to the first guy to make a patent for a system allowing simultaneous synchronisation of all the clocks of all the train stations of the realm. You can propose any kind of system, which will be reviewed by a clerk in Geneva. Beware: the clerk is intelligent, has read Poincare, and sometimes has mystical visions where he is travelling on a light ray.
(And also, some people would really like to explain why a black body doesn't emit infinite radiation).

He is criticized for speaking bad of Jobs when he wasn't there anymore to defend himself. He just replied to that, saying "that's irrelevant, there was enough people to defend him".
Now, if you think that what he said was "being a jerk" and "slandering a man", then that in himself is bad enough, even if Jobs had still been alive. Personally, I don't think that saying "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone" is being a jerk.
He always hated what Jobs did, and deference for the sadness of others has its limits; when the others are praising him as a hero publicly and loudly they have to accept that some people will disagree.

I dont quite understand you. Would you say "I hate freedom and I like it when proprietary software makes me pay and forbids me to give a copy to my friends" ? I suppose not, so, as a user, there's no drawback to using liberated software, wether you support the concept or not. If everything was GPLed, it wouldn't be a walled garden, it would be a garden without any walls. You might like the concept of walls, but you can't ask anything more to someone else than to keep their garden open without walls. Now, as a programmer, there's a drawback compared to more permissive licenses: you can't turn it proprietary. But again, there's no wall in the GPL garden: just get out of it and write your own software with the walls you like.

Also, do you really not realize how much llvm owes to gcc? I dont see how the fact that it was created by someone or an other changes anything about it.

"Walled garden" ??!! RMS is obsessed by the eradication of anything looking like it could hypothetically be used as a foundation for a wall, and you accuse him of wanting to construct a walled garden ?
Do you realize how much the llvm project owes to the fact that gcc is free ?

That sounds a little disrespectful for them. You probably wanted to say that they didn't build anything with the material that they copied. considering that it would be illegal, it's hard to blame them.

Can't they just make them low-priority? That's a bit worrying: if a disaster in Japan can make the army block some websites just for bandwidth reasons, what would happen if they had to deal with an emergency in the US ? And what if in the middle of this emergency, someone wanted to see a video on Youtube containing info that he needs?