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by mathieuh 13y ago
Well, in 1980 Pyongyang was one of the most efficient cities in SE Asia while according to US officials Seoul was a heaving mess of "sweatshops to make Dante or Engels faint", and in 1948 ~100,000 Koreans sympathetic to the North were round
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by mathieuh 13y ago
Please please please don't tell me people actually believe this. Some of the things you are saying here are laughable. I'm pretty sure people in Palestine, Korea, Chile, Cuba, Syria, Iran, Guatemala, and any other states where the USA has d
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by mathieuh 13y ago
Socialism would be conditional income, Full Communism would be unconditional.
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by mathieuh 13y ago
Silly poor people thinking they can both survive and enjoy themselves a little, what nerve!
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by mathieuh 14y ago
And there are some adjectives which change meaning depending on whether they are after or before the noun. However, I have noticed that when these adjectives change meaning, often it the meaning that it has when before the noun has some deg
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by mathieuh 14y ago
It doesn't take a propagandised population to hate Western people, it takes a propagandised population to be surprised at that hatred.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
Prescriptivists would say it should be "one [..] upon his", but the author may wish to avoid using gender specific pronouns and is thus using the singular "their" instead.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
I say this as a Maoist: Nikita Khrushchev was a revisionist striving for "peaceful coexistence with capitalism". I would also include countries who are striving to attain Full Communism in the definition of communism.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
Denying communism and introducing capitalist reforms was kind of Nikita Khrushchev's thing to be fair.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
Exactly. It really is something else seeing North Korean propaganda on the news being followed immediately by Western propaganda showing how the West is unequivocally correct.
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ARM CEO Warren East retires(arm.com)
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by mathieuh 14y ago
What points did you make? You said you wouldn't continue with the lack of NATO-backing because you have more karma than me or whatever you meant by that. I don't ignore nor support the things that go on in the current regimes ceteris paribu
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by mathieuh 14y ago
A comment I made almost two months ago is relevant here... how? And not refuted either, just pointed out? I quite support North Korea on the grounds of their anti-imperialism. That doesn't mean I support the regime (hyperbolised Western med
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by mathieuh 14y ago
As opposed to the NATO-backed terrorists known as the FSA? The same ones who shot down a civilan aeroplane?
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by mathieuh 14y ago
I also just find it plain weird talking to inanimate objects. I can't bring myself to use Google Now in public because I have this irrational fear of people thinking I'm a weirdo.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
'Bad guys' is very subjective. I would argue that anyone who wants a flying death machine capable of killing people with a button-push from thousands of miles away is a 'bad guy'.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
Until eventually, Full Communism.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
North Korea is starving because the UN impose food sanctions every time NK do any thing which threatens UN imperialism.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
He's saying he doesn't think Google Now uses much power because it doesn't shown up in the battery statistics, but he also says that GPS shows high usage. I was saying that Android doesn't report an app's usage of GPS etc. as battery usage
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by mathieuh 14y ago
An app itself doesn't use much battery unless it's doing something CPU intensive. Android reports the actual thing that was using the battery. For example, if I watch YouTube until my battery's dead, it won't say YouTube used the battery, i
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by mathieuh 14y ago
Norway is not socialist and North Korea is not communist. Norway is social democratic and North Korea is juche.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
Your comparison of North Korea with Marx shows unequivocally that you don't have any clue what you're talking about. It is actually laughable how wrong you are. Maybe you should read some Marx before dismissing something you don't know the
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by mathieuh 14y ago
Is it that rare for it to be possible for ISPs to update their provided routers? My ISP (O2) has the ability to forcefully update firmware at any time.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
If Obama is what leftist means in the USA (I still don't believe this), then what would you call a communist? I don't know if there is anywhere else where the political compass is so skewed. To most people I talked to when the US elections
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by mathieuh 14y ago
I have a first batch phone without any problems. I think they were just churning them out so quickly that QC was a bit lax. 'Fixing' the problems probably just involves more stringent checks.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
Does no one remember when iOS had a zero day exploit which allowed root access when visiting a site with a PDF using a certain font? The one that took Apple five months to fix?
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by mathieuh 14y ago
If anyone else has this problem, check out http://www.unlockit.co.nz/ from your iPhone. It creates APN settings profiles which can be installed even if your carrier has disabled them.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
There was an article on Techradar which said that Google had confirmed with them that it was set for a 08:00 GMT release.
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by mathieuh 14y ago
What A levels did you get? I'm doing them now. It's looking like I'm going to end up with AAB, kind of disheartening seeing people around me with A*AA though...
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by mathieuh 14y ago
This is why neo-liberalism and social democracy do not work. You can reform capitalism all you like, right up until the upper class decides they'd quite like to go back to being many times richer than the working class.

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