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by ue_ 9y ago
I'm against free speech in certain circumstances; free speech is idealistic, for it assumes Bad Ideas will be shot down in fair public debate, and people are rational. When people say things along the lines of "I don't like w
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Perhaps the internet connection could be funded in a similar way to libraries, then.
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by ue_ 9y ago
As it turns out, the only website found to have a sense of humour is Reddit. There are no other websites on the Internet on which humour is found in the wild /s
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by ue_ 9y ago
One might consider domains to be personal property, in that they exist only as a mapping on servers owned by people. On the other hand, registrars collect rent from them, so one could consider them private property. So I am not sure if I am
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by ue_ 9y ago
Does one actually own a domain name? I thought one owns a license to a domain name, which can be revoked at any time by the issuer, and that if it is seized, then it is the license that is seized. Interesting.
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by ue_ 9y ago
>That's pretty much the definition of the worst people you can find. However, much like I believe they deserve rights It's possible to "deserve" some rights and not others on a case-by-case basis. >Still, they appe
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by ue_ 9y ago
I'd say the UK legal system (well, the legislation) isn't in great condition either. Currently you can be imprisoned for possessing certain pornographic drawings of fictional characters in England, Wales and NI. The Republic of Ir
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Interesting, I missed that part. In this case I would say he is incorrect, then. Having a Communist party in power does not make a Communist society.
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I have a .moe domain, partly because of my hobbies and also beacuse it was surprisingly cheap. Unfortunately szyslak.moe was taken :)
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I'd wager a variety of factors, including post-collapse suppression of Communist ideas, the legacy of the Soviet Union which is regarded poorly in many eastern European countries, and disillusionment with Marxism-Leninism, or at least,
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by ue_ 9y ago
GP is probably noting that Communism is a classless, stateless, moneyless society in which the Law of Value has been abolished; "Communist state" is an oxymoron.
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>Democracy is seen as a slightly longer but sure road towards communism Not really. I can't remember Marx, but Marxists after him have made the distinction between what they call 'bourgeois democracy' and proletarian democ
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I assume the reason why GP is asking is beacuse they want to be able to distribute a repository, i.e have people know where it is. Without a git host then you need to run a http/ssh server from your computer, which isn't an option
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>Oh because the solution friends of Chomsky don't involve violence ? It probably does, just as capitalism was borne into this world with violence, "soaked in blood" as Marx put it. The point however is that it does not rel
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by ue_ 9y ago
>at the time I was still buying into his B.S. Why do you think it's BS, out of interest? I'm not too familiar with the man himself, though I am familiar with main social anarchist and Communist thought. >Here's an inter
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>Libertarians don't advocate "concentrated" powers or "tyranny" I disagree. Capital has a tendency to accumulate, and in fact, to survive in capitalism is to accumulate capital. The tyranny being spoken of is fou
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>how we could reduce "concentrated powers" The abolition of private property, which as Oscar Wilde and Bookchin have noted is restricting to one's individualism and the freedom of many. It goes beyond being pro or anti-bus
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I suppose I have a different idea of what 'left' means, then. For me, 'left' is at least strong social democracy and preferably [democratic] Socialism, Communism and anarchism. Not the US Democratic Party.
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This is what really gets me and confuses me. Google is accused of a "left wing bias" by many defenders of the manifesto and the writer himself. And yet, they don't want to turn over information that they're fairly hiring
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I have read it, though I can't find where he calls for scientific debate (or any kind of debate) rather than reeling off a list of points with more Wikipedia links and popsci articles than someone with research skills should know not t
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>Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand"--there's no need to worry about economy because it will "regulate itself" because it is predicated on trade a "natural phenomena" The great part about this is that Sm
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>My firing neatly confirms that point. How did Google, the company that hires the smartest people in the world, become so ideologically driven and intolerant of scientific debate and reasoned argument? This statement leaves me divided. O
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I've heard that in most circumstances you can safely use an 'm' rather than the moraic nasal 'm' such that most people may not even recognise it, though I don't have enough experience to confirm that myself.
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>In the 22 years since GIMP started, it hasn't caught Photoshop. I think it's important to look in that quadrant, though. Why does that quadrant exist? In my judgement, it's beacuse such software requires a large amount of
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>to one he wrote that is backed by science and is middle of the road common sense Being a Marxist/anarchist manifesto and being backed by science, economics or political philosophy aren't mutually exclusive. I don't view t
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A left-wing liberal wouldn't describe themselves as a 'conservative'. What are his positions on the State, extraction of surplus value, capital accumulation and democratic management of organisations that makes you so sure he
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How irrelevant.
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The Socialist and Communist parties in the US appear to to me, unless you're calling the Democratic party 'left', though I usually trust people have more knowledge than to do that.
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It would not surprise me if Google would done something similar with a Marxist or anarchist memo, though. I find it hard to call it left wing bias with that in mind.
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Interesting, is there anywhere I can read about this aside from the book you've linked? Although I am a Communist, I am critical of the Bolsheviks and I have an open mind.

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