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- Three Platonic Caves
- If there are 10 political questions and each admits of only 2 answers there are 1024 possible opinion collections. However, in practice there is quite a lot of clustering of opinions, so we can cover a lot of political ground reasonably systematically. I use economic opinion as the basis. ...
- Tags: john.a.wills@..., cave, corporatism, liberalism, socialism, triangle
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- Socialism equals economic catastrophe! Venezuela's about to be flushed away
- Socialism equals economic catastropheby J. Christoph AmbergerThis past February, Venezuela’s “El Commandante” Chavez spent $1.3 billion buying out controlling stakes in Venezuela’s phone company CA Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela and power utility CA Electricidad de Caracas... acquired at a discount in his grand nationalization scheme.Such bountiful state spending has been...
- Tags: Chavez, sleepin'dawg, Socialism, Venezuelan
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- Net Neutrality - A New Synonym for Socialism
- Some Company takes a huge financial risk and spends millions of dollars of its own money to build a network. Then along come some folks who did not spend their money or take any financial risk and they want equal access to that network.That's a good working definition of...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet Service Provider, Socialism, JKMasters, JKMaster, networking, biz, Web site
- Discussion threads 2006-04-06
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- China recruiting U.S. IT grads
- China recruiting U.S. IT gradsChina's rapid economic expansion has allowed Beijing to fund a recruitment drive targeting some of the best and brightest IT graduates from U.S. universities, according to Chinese sources.In turn, this brain trust is being used by China both as a control on its own Internet revolution...
- Tags: china, CHINESE, Communism, cyberwar, it grads, jkameleon@..., north korea, off-topic, recruiting, world population
- Discussion threads 2005-12-26
- [i]I am a socialist who believes in paying taxes for the greater good[/i]
- I received an email from a peer it was a nice email who said that he/she was [i]a socialist who believes in paying taxes for the greater good[/i]. We've all heard this before, of course -- the [i]greater good[/i]. But you people (you [i]greater good[/i] people), you and I both...
- Tags: Taxes, maxwell edison, socialist, tax
- Discussion threads 2007-04-29
- Likening Linux Distributions to US Politics
- This is going to be a stretch but something hit me today when I was taking a look at some posts regarding Ubuntu. You can look at Linux distributions as if they were political parties vying for a spot in the United States political machine. Lets see how this plays...
- Tags: Windows, Ubuntu, Suse, Rpm, Open Source, Linux, Gpl, Get Jacked, General, Fedora
- Blog posts 2007-04-01
- NYC moves closer to broadband plan
- Broadband is a right?I should be used to politicians spouting hyperbole but the claim by councilman deBlasio that broadband is a "fundamental civil right and human right" goes way too far.An appropriate analogy would be a claim that newspapers, the broadband communications means of a bygone era, were a civil...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband
- Discussion threads 2005-12-22
- (NEW) Site Ideas / Feedback
- What are we? Chopped liver? Just kidding. ;)This could be a good place to draft new TRIs, if you are interested in adding new members. That's just my opinion though.ChrisOh no! They're onto us!We just wanted to widen our reach a little bit. We were hoping you wouldn't find...
- Tags: house, Tri
- Discussion threads 2005-02-08
- Geek Trivia: Alien evaders
- Is it all a waste?I must not be the only one who is thinking this (although it is probably heresy to the 'geek elite'). I am curious to see some real numbers showing how much money has been poured into this past twenty-eight years of alien-hunting. I have...
- Tags: GOVERNMENT, slprice
- Discussion threads 2005-08-17
- From a Travesty of Justice to Poetic Justice
- From a Travesty of Justice to Poetic JusticeIn my opinion, one of the biggest travesties of our judicial system, at least among the more recent travesties, is the court support of various jurisdictions concerning their implementation of the states' power of eminent domain. The power of eminent domain is the...
- Tags: domain, eminent domain, legal, maxwell edison, municipality, off-topic, political, revenue, tax, tax revenue
- Discussion threads 2005-06-30
- "Open source sounds like a great idea, in theory. But so does socialism."
- The title of this post is a quote from sci-fi scribe and Infoquake author David Louis Edelman. he elborates:So why am I down on open source's prospects for the long term? A few reasons: 1. Open source hasn't proven it can produce better products, just comparable ones.The reality...
- Tags: Software, Theory, Open-source Software, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Shared source: Get a limited piece of Microsoft source code
- Network security has two sides: While you need to keep the wrong people out, you also have to let the right people in. To facilitate this, Microsoft has introduced the Shared Source Licensing Programs. These programs are designed to provide qualified organizations access to the Windows source code, while ensuring...
- Tags: Operating systems, MSDN Code Center Premium, Sanders Kaufman, Jr., network security, Microsoft Corp., open source, Microsoft Windows
- Technical articles 2003-05-27
- [i]We are hard wired to [u]BELIEVE[/u] whatever is stamped into our minds.
- [i]We are hard wired to [u]BELIEVE[/u] whatever is stamped into our minds.A few months back I argued the case for value investment and asset protection. I referenced scientific studies that didn't support...
- Tags: Emory University
- Discussion threads 2006-06-18
- Technology and the new class divide
- Be careful how you define the "classes."The most important nutritional problem among the poorest Americans today is obesity! You have to delve down into the absolute lowest income percentiles of the population to find people who don't have telephones, TVs, microwave ovens, and automobiles.America's "working poor" and even its welfare...
- Tags: DC Guy, security, internet, marketing, reliability, quality, computer literacy, it management, computer
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- TR's Hot Topics: Control of the Net, AD administration
- TECHREPUBLIC COMMUNITY NETNOTE NEWSLETTER for October 11, 2005TR'S HOT TOPICS: CONTROL OF THE NET, AD ADMINISTRATION This week's TechRepublic community keyword is politics, as in the politics behind who should control the root servers of the Internet, the United States or the United Nations? This topic roused the ire...
- Tags: active directory, advertisement, community netnote, domain, feedback, Internet, law, marriage, newsletter, politics, Sonja Thompson, spam, spyware, TechRepublic Inc., The Trivia Geek, TR
- Discussion threads 2005-10-10
- Teen Protests his school saying PoA in Foreign Lang.
- Teen Protests his school saying PoA in Foreign Lang.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7146982[i]MILLERSVILLE, Md. - A ninth-grader is protesting his school’s decision to broadcast the Pledge of Allegiance in foreign languages as part of National Foreign Language Week.Patrick Linton said he and other students at Old Mill High School sat down rather than stand...
- Tags: Jessie, off-topic, pledge
- Discussion threads 2005-03-11
- Most Social Programs in the United States should be phased out
- Most Social Programs in the United States should be phased out.Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, most Welfare programs, etc., should all be phased out over a period of time that ranges anywhere from five years to fifty years. The federal government should gradually cut its budget by at least fifty...
- Tags: self-responsibility, CHRISTIAN, health care, global warming, maxwell edison, off-topic, government, health, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security
- Discussion threads 2006-08-14
- Who do you think were some of the best world leaders in the past 50 years?
- Who do you think were some of the best world leaders in the past 50 years?And PLEASE I am sick of hearing about US Democratic presidents versus US Republican presidents.As most of the input to these discussions comes from the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia, perhaps it would be...
- Tags: best, jardinier, leader, Nelson Mandela, off-topic, presidents, world leader, world leaders
- Discussion threads 2005-11-09
- What we take for granted -- Freedom of the Press
- What we take for granted -- Freedom of the Press[This article appeared in "The Walkley," a publication of the Australian Journalists' Association.]Google executives have given in to pressure and resigned themselves to the fact that if they are going to compete in the Chinese market, they too will have to...
- Tags: government, google, media, china, censorship, CHINESE, jardinier, off-topic, Google Inc., Chinese Market
- Discussion threads 2006-02-21
- Iraqis are not Terrorists
- Iraqis are not Terroristsre:it has been a huge problem for 30 years and the Bush "regime" is finally fighting backTechRepublic member "Scott Edstrom" claims, as do many NeoCons, that the Iraqis are terrorists.This, of course, is not true - but it speaks to the hatred many in America's small towns...
- Tags: Bucky Kaufman (MCSD), Iraqi people, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2004-11-23
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