Psychoak you are a fool. It's a basic, and obvious syllogism. Government control of a means of production = Socialism Reference: Wikipedia:Socialism [quote]Socialism in political thought refers to economic theories of social organization advocating collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods[/qu
[quote who="Ellestar" reply="14" id="2205083"] Quoting b0rsuk, reply 19 Linux doesn't have viruses thanks to a couple of factors. LOLN00B Linux malware This statement is even more fun than another one of yours "Starcraft is not a strategy game"[/quote] Did you serously type LOLN00B, and then bring up a Wikipedia page in which the list of Linux Malware is only about twice the size of the list of Linux anti-virus software? New Rule: If (List of vi
[quote who="psychoak" reply="10" id="2202850"]Like I said, stop butchering the english language and stick to just lying about what socialism is. Pretending that a public fire department means you're a socialist should be stupid enough, you don't need to call it a factory. A road is not production, it is infrastructure. Means of production and production itself are two entirely different things. You're morons, accept it and move on. If you can do that, perhaps then
Which brings up something I *would* like - a built in ability to configure screen information via xml. The system used in Galactic Civilizations II is great in that it's very customizable, and frustrating, in that it . . . . almost . . . . brings customizable screens within reach of an end user. but, for me at least, not quite within reach. Which is frustrating because there are a lot of understandable decisions that aren't quite right for me. There are screen
[quote]I understand and in fact sympathize with what you’re trying to accomplish and in fact have no wish to come off as lecturing or telling you what to do.[/quote] With all due respect to a member who could kill me just by dropping his Karma on me - {G} Mumblefratz, I dare you to read your own quote, look at your avatar, and *not* fall off your chair laughing. Jonnan
[quote who="Star Adder" reply="24" id="2199071"]Actually it's all instances of Communism that ended in kind of a corrupt dictatorship (East Block States, Cuba, North Korea, China, German "Democratic" Republik, Venezuela...). And yes, the price of freedom is constant vigilance.[/quote] Umm. You would appear to be picking names rather carefully - let's not forget the 30,000 people that died at the hand of Augusto Pinochets Right Wing Coup, the Sandanista's i
[quote who="Xira" reply="20" id="2198948"] Now it's no longer refrenceless:D That paper says is about something else, but fully supports my notion that IQ is inherited. (It actually shows that the heritibality of IQ is around 85% in ultra rich families, while it's near 0% in poor families. That means you can ruin the wine with mud, but you can't make wine out of mud.) [/quote] Just for clarification, that actually says the exact opposite - that poor families may well p
Psychoak - your posts are always like a guided tour of logical fallacies, but this one is new and special. Although you give a a reasonably accurate definition of Fractional Reserve, and it's is obviously heavily intertwined with economics, it has been since at least the era of the Borgia's and de Medici's. Despite various texts on economics over the years, I have never seen anyone outside the Ayn Rand/Ron Paul crowd try to posit that the Great depression was somehow
[quote who="Bubb9" reply="25" id="2194398"]People who argue for socialism are either whiners that just want to feel all warm and fuzzy inside or are using it as a means to rally the whiners into putting him/them in power(that isn't a good thing necessarily).[/quote] To debunk an accusation that was made. There is this wonderful popular conservative myth that says that people that think socialism is worthwhile are either - A: Lazy people that live off of welfare and
Nine deal if you can get it - Jonnan
[quote who="psychoak" reply="21" id="2192553"]Did you happen to attend an education system worth it's salt?( . . . and so on) [/quote] Psychoak - that post ignored so much economic history it's pointless to try and unravel it. There is a great conservative mantra that merely gaining an education doesn't a person smart, which is rather like saying that using a ladder doesn't make a person tall. Technically true, but has no practical application to the fact that, regardless of h
I find the 'Me versus We', in the context of "How will that Benifit My family, My city, My state, My country" a bit confusing as a premise - the moment you've said 'My Family' you're no longer talking about 'Me' - that *is* a 'We'. The question is how many levels does a person associate 'Helping this person also helps me' versus 'helping this other person does not help me' Frogboy - I would be interested in where you got the demographic information re: "One of the interesting things I
That 'Chess Game' really doesn't seem like a good analogy to me. The 'white' team does not vote on things on a move by move basis, nor does the 'black' player get pulled from the pool of professional chess players. Just building a better analogy, imagine instead a chess game where white is played by six guys that campaigned to get the job one expert each in the use of each piece, from pawn to king. No one of them may be the best chess player, but each of them had to convince p
[quote who="psychoak" reply="15" id="2188756"]Brilliant Jonnan, show a table of less than thirty years that ends before democrats take back the house and senate. The democrats have only had eight years in there. Compare them year by year with seniority and power balance if you have nothing to do with your time. Get rid of the military spending too, that will solve some of the oddities like Hawaii. The largest naval base in the pacific in a relatively small state t
No offense, but I linked directly to a right of center think tank that has data going back to 1981, individually segregated out by state. If you can crunch those numbers and show my first impression based on a cursory review of that data is wrong, by all means. If you can show that the data itself is inaccurate, then I happily concede that I will put the Tax Foundation on my lists of 'Data Sources I cannot assume are accurate' (Well, it already is, but in general, I've found their data
Psychoak, sorry, on this you are wrong on the facts. The vast majority of the 'redistribution of wealth' under federal taxes is from the 'Blue' to the 'Red' - this is easily documented, but probably the best source is the " Tax Foundation "; they're a right of center think tank, but although some of their studies have been challenged (The ever popular "The rich are being wiped out by high taxes" while ignoring the regre
[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="18" id="2186890"] Crisis Prevention is putting a good regulatory structure in place to handle foreseeable risks. Do you include the 2nd amendment provision in that risk? And if so, should US military force be used against any American citizens responsible for a crisis situation?[/quote] Without some context, I'm not sure what you mean here - unfortunately a great deal of second amendment discussion involves assumptions not everyone sh
There is something inherently incorrect in the premise - Capitalism and Communism (Complete individuality and Complete ownership by the state) are the extremes - Socialism is, by definition, any compromise between the two extremes. So the premise is like asking "White (Or Black) versus Gray" as if there was only one shade of Gray. That said - I certainly prefer some level of compromise between those extremes: A: Capitalism has the inherent advantage that working to imp
Best free bitmap package you can get is probably Gimp - It's about 98% on par with Photoshop for 0% of the price and will save in any format you want. jonnan
Agreed - just can't stand blithe assertions. I'm better now.
[quote who="galacticdoom" reply="22" id="2086688"] Quoting Extant Faora, reply 19And you're trying to tell us that the US isn't invading Iraq!!! And AGAIN, invade implies to conquer / pillage a nation. Germany and Russia during WW2 "invaded" Poland. What the US did is nothing similar. Bush Senior sent troops to Iraq due to the fact that Iraq invaded Kuwait (Iraq planned on taking over Kuwait, hence invasion), with the purpose of liberating Kuwait.&
[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="2" id="2080948"] Defense, Commerce, State, & PR. Why on earth do we call our diplomacy secretary the secretary of STATE???? That position has absolutely nothing to do with states! What's wrong with Secretary of Diplomacy. Oh, and while we're changing things, rename the Department of Homeland Security something that doesn't sound like one of the evil Communist spy organizations in Mission Impossible. My suggestion is Secretary Of Counterterrorism, but
That's in that range of, having played D&D a lot, I have seen extraordinary rolls too often to presume cheating - I've never had the "all 18's" I've heard some people claim they got (albeit, never seen). but I have had 17 17 17 16 15 15. On the other hand - I've also caught people cheating at penny ante poker. Since the odds on that set of rolls is (going by http://www.fnordistan.com/smallroller.html using 'x' or better) (1/54^3)*(5/108)*(5/54^2) = 125/49589822592 or abou
Mmmm. Shucks and other comments. Ah Well, thanks anyway - Jonnan
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