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841.
by ionised 8y ago
The workers didn't own the means of production in Venezuela either. Businesses there are 90% privately or publicly owned.
842.
by ionised 8y ago
> No, he or she wants to heal you and be paid well. That first part isn't guaranteed in a for-profit system.
843.
by ionised 8y ago
The US healthcare industry is more expensive simply because it is run for profit. There are plenty of other developed nations with regulation that manage to grant healthcare to all their citizens without the cluster-fuck the US makes out of
844.
by ionised 8y ago
How?
845.
by ionised 8y ago
You didn't answer his question.
846.
by ionised 8y ago
> No bakeries This is just totally false.
847.
by ionised 8y ago
You can find good bread in the UK, but not in a supermarket. Same with most food actually.
848.
by ionised 8y ago
There are 3 bakeries within half a mile of me here in Liverpool. And I'm not talking about Gregg's or Sayer's. I mean real, independent bread, cake and pastry makers.
849.
by ionised 8y ago
Some of them simply reactivate/redownload themselves every time you do this. You basically have to root the phone to remove a lot of the Google/vendor bloatware.
850.
by ionised 8y ago
Android is 'free' in much the same way other Google services are 'free'. As in, they're not because you are giving a lot in return for its use. So fuck it. I'd rather pay more for an Android phones that give me
851.
by ionised 8y ago
You can make anyone sound like a paragon of virtue if you deliberately ignore the shitty things they do.
852.
by ionised 8y ago
Because a monopoly is a special status that infers special powers and special responsibilities. I'm not sure what is so hard to understand in that.
853.
by ionised 8y ago
They only care that their darling tech firms get to keep making money and 'making the world a better place'. Fuck the laws and regulations in the countries in which they do business apparently.
854.
by ionised 8y ago
Exactly, they have to be punitive otherwise they are just absorbed as a cost of doing business.
855.
by ionised 8y ago
Be nice if those foreign companies followed the rules. As it is they seem to make very rude guests.
856.
by ionised 8y ago
Really? You don't see any difference between a banana and an anti-depressant for example?
857.
by ionised 8y ago
In the history of the galaxy? You've visited it all have you?
858.
by ionised 8y ago
What point would you say was too far?
859.
by ionised 8y ago
Ajit Pai has 'concerns' with this? I'm guessing his concerns are pure theatrics.
860.
by ionised 8y ago
I tried Formula Fusion on Steam (made by former WipeOut devs) but it just wasn't the same. The tracks were boring and the music may as well have been non-existent. I'll give BaseNG a try though!
861.
by ionised 8y ago
So, lies and deceit to increase investor confidence? Wasn't this a big factor in the financial crash? Doesn't seem like a good plan at all.
862.
by ionised 8y ago
Capitalism is not the default state of humans. Trade and markets might be, absent of all outside interference (I don't think this is even possible), but capitalism has definitions that go well beyond that.
863.
by ionised 8y ago
> Since when? How would that even work? The president orders the NSA to generate a list of disagreeable film makers and journalists and passes it to the TSA and customs? Do you have any evidence for that claim at all? Actually yes. Just
864.
by ionised 8y ago
They're always better/smoother/more responsive/customisable on PC.
865.
by ionised 8y ago
Or maybe you should stop posting the same comment multiple times.
866.
by ionised 8y ago
I believe everybody part of a society has a responsibility minimise or prevent the harm they do, and this idea that corporations should not have any form of social conscience is actually a fairly recent one. The idea that they are legally o
867.
by ionised 8y ago
Intelligence is apparently correlated with depression and anxiety, as the more intelligent one is the more likely they are to question themselves and their world.
868.
by ionised 8y ago
> They don't owe any social good Where is this written?
869.
by ionised 8y ago
How does that change anything whatsoever?
870.
by ionised 8y ago
Both of which mean they have grown too powerful.

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