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by CleanedStar 13y ago
You couldn't have hit the nail more on the head.
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Of course you're right. There's no debate over this question, like say, physicists getting together to debate quantum mechanics, in a desire to all get to the truth together. This is a fight, a struggle over how the pie gets divided up. A
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
"the growth of Silicon Valley" - real meaning, "the growth of the profits of the heirs who own the majority of tech company stocks, are the VC limited partner financiers etc." "There are no unemployed competent programmers". This has two m
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Grenada was a "major conflict"? Only if the entire US military versus a bunch of infighting leftists on a 344 square kilometer island with a population of less than 100,000 counts as a major conflict.
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
In the opening issue of the National Review, William F. Buckley said the magazine "stands athwart history, yelling Stop". When their political antithesis ended in the early 1990s, the book that probably best summed up the establishment int
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
FIOS means fiber optic which means the speed of light. Recent breakthroughs allow multiple signals down one fiber cable, which means multiple times the speed of light. Yes, the fault for slow service in the US, as compared to the rest of t
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Yes, the Democratic party is not left wing on either a global scale, as you say, or even on a historical scale. The Democrats used to support the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps to put people to work. Mas
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
"build...data centers...millons of dollars of inventory" All of which are irrelevant in this case, of course. Which just means the case of Tumblr provides more clarity into the reality of these processes. The case holds for the data cente
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
The truth is that the VCs have created absolutely none, zero of the wealth in Silicon Valley. All of the wealth was created by the workers who built these companies. If there is anyone other than workers at these companies who create w
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
In Bill Ayers book "Fugitive Days", he says during the Days of Rage, some of the people marching were a little apprehensive, but then someone broke a window and the riot he desired ensued. Social research has shown this beyond that case -
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
"The occupy movement rallied against what they perceived to be a rigged game: a financial system that required their participation but did not offer them a seat at the table. Then they went home - maybe because the weather got bad" Occupy W
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
I realize it sounds hyperbolic to call some of your terminology Orwellian, especially since it is so commonplace in the US media, but it's kind of amusing how corporations took a look at citizen-voted, government-financed public broadcastin
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Obviously this is something good for the millionaires and billionaires and heirs in the US, and bad for workers. Workers are in an economy which is still at a historically high unemployment rate that has not been seen since the summer of 1
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
I'm afraid your analogy is stretched a little too far for me - that your open door leading to someone physically wandering into your personal living space is the same as some corporation with tens of millions of revenue a year that has some
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Of course I agree, but there's an extra reason why this is the case on Wikipedia. Let's take a look at "History of Iraq" on Wikipedia back in 2002 - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Iraq&#3... "Once known as Mesopotam
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Well start with Wikipedia's head, Wales. Where does he come from, how does he think? We know he ran an Ayn Rand mailing list before becoming involved with Wikipedia, but how does his personal, political thinking influence Wikipedia? Well
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
"Investors have won" Congratulations, after ten thousand years of struggle, the ruling class has finally won for good, permanent victory has been declared by - Venkatesh Rao. Marx says in the Communist Manifesto - "The history of all hither
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
There is nothing to argue here really. The two little Wall Street Journal drawn bobble heads of two billionaires borne of the professional class can tell you that. They, the 1%, have their interests, and people such as myself, who work an
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
And what was Drogheda, when the English massacred an entire town? Or shooting up the crowd in Croke Park? Or Bloody Sunday? The English have carried out terrorism against the Irish for centuries. It's an English war of choice. The Engl
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
As I said, nothing was done without warning. PIRA gave more then a half hour warning before bombing Harrod's despite three civilians killed. Enniskillen was aimed at a patrol of troops. As I said, the Volunteers did not set bombs to kill
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
This idea is completely inane. The Volunteers declared war against the England that was on their soil in 1916, that they would shift suddenly to a war against the U.S. is ridiculous. Also, purposefully killing civilians gathered en masse
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> extremely insane cruel anti-woman Islamist totalitarian regime Afghanistan was under the secular, socialist leadership of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan until the CIA launched Operation Cyclone and began funding Osama bi
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
I won't even say that they do, as it is obvious on the face of it. There's really no debate about this issue, like scientists debating some aspect of quantum mechanics seeking to get to the truth. This is a fight over how the pie gets divi
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
"There are human beings..." Please, what are we the biggest fools on the planet? This sounds like the people who'd get on the news and play some liberal middle class melodrama about why the U.S. needs to free the Iraqis. This is a naked po
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
From fwd.us: "program must also include an increase in the number of H-1B visas" There's no debate about this, like some theory of quantum mechanics. These are a bunch of people, many billionaires, who have banded together to push forward
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Karl Marx said the process of value creation is thus: a carpenter goes into a woodshop and bangs on wood for eight hours a day. The raw materials (wood, nails) plus partially used and worn down materials (saw blade etc.) are transformed in
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
The economy is already centrally controlled. A few centuries ago, much of the world, even the outer reaches of Europe, had mostly independent, semi-nomadic people living on it - including the land the USA is on. Now the vast majority of pe
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
You say that the modern economic system as it runs has large oscillations and busts, and you are perturbed that Marxists say "I told you so" when a bust happens. But US mainstream economists through the twentieth century did not say that t
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
I have no clue how people who don't understand Marxian political economy can understand things like the huge dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, and then the crash. Or the (sub-prime) real estate bubble. Or how the finance sector is growing
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
The comments on this article is that it is: "without...a thesis or a point", "hadn't...anything substantive", "stylish", "smooth-talking" This is exactly what the author is saying about the Silicon Valley hype machine, with notable commissa

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