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>who gets to determine what is a "fictional character." Japan turns out tens of thousands of comics containing this material every year. Although I think it may be impossible to determine whether the subject is a fictional char
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Yet there are much "worse" articles posted here, or at least there have been. There was an article about Falkvinge arguing to legalise photographic child pornography, which was posted here. It got a large number of upvotes. This a
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If it's a background virtue, as it was made to be on Reddit (users had to dig up the commments by admins saying it would be a 'bastion of free speech'), does that not lead to the principles being forgotten, and a revolution t
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This is rather tangentially related, and may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it is silly that drawings of fictional characters who appear to be under the age of 18, nude or engaged in sexual activity, is posing such a legal issue. It&#
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>learn some odd language like vimscript or emacs LISP But Emacs Lisp is more powerful and in some cases nicer to use than Python. How old it is doesn't matter. And Guile is even better. I don't understand why I'd want to u
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This is quite an uncharitable view of those who are against restricting immigration as much as Le Pen would have wanted to. Although I am no proponent of neo-liberalism, I am a proponent of multiculturalism. And that doesn't necessaril
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The neo-liberal wave also didn't flip France, it was always there.
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There are a variety of silly things under Irish law, not least of which is that a pornographic film/image may be classed as 'child pornography' (and prosecuted the same) even if the participants are aged over 18, but one or m
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Me too, I was advised by my host family in 2014 and 2015 not to tip, either. Though we may have all been wrong :)
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>I do not consider capitalism a "thing". Free Markets generate winners and losers. Markets are different from capitalism. The fact that you don't consider it a stage of human history is strange, as capitalism has origins i
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>Telling them they can't is not freedom. There are different concepts and types of freedom; collapsing them all into one singular concept is incredibly reductive and misleading. There is also the freedom of the users to take into ac
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>Capitalist means absolutely nothing in terms of philosophy. Its just a word used by marxists to express their annoyance with a vague concept This is patently (excuse the pun) false. One of the largest economic texts it Capital by Karl
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I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Marx was describing a reproducible commodity economy, i.e most of what we have within capitalism, with his theory. Besides this, Russia is a capitalist country. My apologies if you weren&
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Yet nevertheless the engineer and programmers are for the most part paid wage for labour power, measured in hours.
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>but if people will pay higher, then there is value. It's important to note that this is a particular kind of value, a neo-classical definition. The Marxian one is independent of what people will pay for an item; for example, land,
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For anyone wondering whether this work is worth reading, I must recommend The Origin of the Family, along with the other works of Marx and Engels. Engels has a wonderfully written The Principles of Communism which was the precursor to the
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>respecting the wishes of the authors of a work? How do you know it is the wishes of the authors? Blizzard didn't write the software, individual programmers (labourers) did, working as a team. Though I'd be interested to know i
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>but morally as well. If you believe in private property rights, then sure. If not, then no. Some such as Max Stirner, 19th century philosopher, would disagree with your assertion that it is a moral issue.
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>See how far you're going to get with your startup by offering to pay software engineers "enough to sustain them". This is not a refutation. Just like the raw materials used for production, the means of production, land re
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If you don't already know, you should be really careful about this. It's something which scammers do once they've got hold of your card; websites often require you to purchase something shipped to the billing address already
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I apologise, I was more aiming to bring to light a particular alternative for wage labour, rather than trying to bring to attention that there are alternative theories in general. I didn't mean to imply that you are ignorant.
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What is a mixed economy? The definition of capitalism I use is based on the capitalist mode of production, that is, how goods are made within a capitalist economy, viz. production to maximise exchange value over use value, the primacy of wa
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Marx was describing capitalism in his critique of political economy, Capital. Puerto Ricans definitely live in capitalism. A Marxist society (or, Communist) does not have wage labour at all.
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>If they can't produce enough value to justify minimum wages There are alternative views on this. Marx's theory for example says that workers are not paid according to the value they create, or what their labour creates, rather
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Unfortunately, even Japanese children are native speakers. I wouldn't recommend going into native material unless one has grammar points and some vocab nailed down, even if the kanji is easy or rare.
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Pardon my ignorance, but why drink if not to get 'drunk'? Alcohol doesn't taste very nice, so the only advantage I get out of it is that I feel more of a 'buzz'. Is it common just to drink as if it were something th
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I've heard about it before, though I haven't checked it out. I'll take a look, thanks.
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>Keen points out that Marx later realized that objects have a "use value" as well as an "exchange value". This use value can be greater than the exchange value---a worker using a drill press is much more productive th
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>far more than the exact amount required to sustain the worker This would appear true, if it weren't for the fact that the capitalist would be losing out if it wasn't the case; the price of labour power is indeed governed and f
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Perhaps I shouldn't have said it so strongly. I will elaborate on my meaning. Within capitalism, the labour of a working-class man is dictated usually by the capitalist; the hours he works, what he works with, when he works, and what q

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