scrod

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by scrod 15y ago
When he posted a comment in which he said essentially that , and in which he referenced a one-sided article that goes to extreme lengths to attack blue collar workers' retirement plans and their own collective efforts at bettering their ec
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by scrod 15y ago
It makes his point irrelevant; those workers' interests pale in comparison to that of the owning interests of those corporations. He presents unions as the sole cause of the problem, which is not only intellectually deceitful, but quite in
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by scrod 15y ago
This article should be accompanied by another New Yorker piece from a couple of years ago: Hellhole: Is long-term solitary confinement torture? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...
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by scrod 15y ago
Private prison companies such as Wackenhut stand to profit in the billions from increased rates of incarceration. There is absolutely no question about who benefits the most. Please take your blatant anti-worker agenda and shove it.
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by scrod 15y ago
> However, they're also adding to the language in ways that makes the code expressed in Objective-C simpler: > Synthesizing properties > Dot-syntax for accessing getters/setters > Garbage Collection > Blocks (closure
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by scrod 15y ago
I sincerely hope you realized that my suggestion was entirely facetious.
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by scrod 15y ago
Don't worry, this problem is easily solved by moving to Google Checkout!
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by scrod 15y ago
You should stick with GPL. It's your software and you get to license it on your terms.
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by scrod 15y ago
It's really not that difficult. Adjust the income tax brackets and raise the rates. Oh yeah, and go flush your disgusting self-serving libertarian/objectivist philosophy down the drain, too.
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by scrod 15y ago
That's great. Now install one of those on Lion. And you can't run anything earlier than Lion on any Mac sold today.
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by scrod 15y ago
Nope, don't try to shift the issue. We're talking about simply allowing others to compile code for PPC — not releasing brand new operating systems. Apple isn't merely ignoring it — they're going out of their way to prevent even third-par
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by scrod 15y ago
I'm not really concerned with Apple's financial interests. I'm concerned with their software tools and their demonstrated willingness to support the hardware they sell.
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by scrod 15y ago
Yes, I'm aware. It's Apple's LLVM that lacks PowerPC code generation: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7137480/how-do-i-add-ppc-... http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/xcode/299924-no-ppc-from...
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by scrod 15y ago
I'll install Apple's LLVM frontend when I can use it to generate ppc object code.
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by scrod 15y ago
> But, that doesn't mean anyone would potentially read your email and they don't. Oh yes it does — they can, and they do. http://gawker.com/5637234/ http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12048
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by scrod 15y ago
How many more lessons do you need that centralization of information leads to centralization of control?
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by scrod 15y ago
And this is the only response in the thread worth discussing.
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by scrod 15y ago
No, as information professionals, we should be building tools that enable users to store and manage their data privately, without asking them to trust some anonymous system administrator. Allowing them to become complacent and implicitly ac
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by scrod 15y ago
You need to go to the press with this conversation ASAP.
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by scrod 15y ago
That actually comes far closer the censorship measures currently being considered across the middle-east, not to mention China's Great Firewall.
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by scrod 15y ago
Imagine how much easier this is when the subjects openly declare their connections on Facebook .
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by scrod 15y ago
I've been using it on my computers as well as with a friend for at least a few months now — it works pretty well. And it uses disk space only to store your own files plus those that others share with you, the same as Dropbox.
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by scrod 15y ago
> The system isn’t up and running yet, but the idea is that users will receive free storage for their files by sharing some hard drive space and bandwidth with other users. This is how Wuala works, if I understand correctly. And let's
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by scrod 15y ago
Neoliberalism is Austrian-school thinking put into practice; it's the best that governments can do given the economic and social realities of the day. People like Milton Friedman and other Chicago school economists drew heavily on the Aust
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by scrod 15y ago
>One half of the country chose the soviet command economy model, the other half chose to pursue an Austrian model. One half did immeasurably better than the other half. Those are the facts. That fact doesn't validate Austrian-school-t
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by scrod 15y ago
In related news, expert violinists can't distinguish between Stradivarius violins and newer ones: http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/1444828...
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by scrod 15y ago
>West Germanys post-war 'economic miracle' was largely guided by Austrian school economic thinking, while East Germany went the other way. One of the most predictable things about Austrian advocates is their inability to conceive of a
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by scrod 15y ago
>I haven't seen a similar corpus of arguments that the freenmarkets haven't worked because they weren't free enough. Well, then I'm glad to find someone else who isn't under the impression that continuing and intensifying de-regulatio
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by scrod 15y ago
It's a type of junk-economics which has been forced into public consciousness over the last 30-40 years, and which originated in the '30s with philosophers such as von Mises and von Hayek. Read David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalis
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by scrod 15y ago
>The problem with Marxism is that whenever it doesn't work, people say it wasn't tried enough. You see, that's funny, because a much more obvious example can be found in free-market austrian-school economic policies.

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