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• Commented on The prospects of the Space and Freedom Party reconsidered in light of the crisis of 21st century capitalism
  "Wouldn't the atmosphere of Venus be a bit 'windy, for colonization?" Charlie is suggesting balloons. Balloons drift with the wind and those on board experience no air movement, just as when you fall freely in a gravitational field you do...
• Commented on Schadenfreude
  Next you'll be telling us that Homo economicus makes perfect rational decisions all the time when given perfect information about the state of markets. Well no, I won't be telling you anything of the sort since I agree with you...
• Commented on Schadenfreude
  "Goldbugs and bitcoin enthusiasts have a point. They don't want to trust government to manage the money supply, because politicians are often irresponsible. They think it's better to inflate the money supply based on random events that are largely outside...
• Commented on Schadenfreude
  "I understand perfectly well that money is, as you say, "worthless". Regardless, I still think it's a good idea to move control of money from the state, to, well, everywhere." For what reason? "Government is bad"? Government controls all our...
• Commented on Schadenfreude
  On rereading the thread it seems that my opening sentence was too harsh. A few of the other respondents seem to understand as well. My apologies if I offended anyone....
• Commented on Schadenfreude
  Charlie seems to be the only one posting here that understand that money is, by it's mature, worthless, and not only that it is worthless, it must be worthless to work. It is, as he says, a pointer. "Value" exists...
• Commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  Excuse me, where are smokers persecuted?? Indeed, where? I am a non smoker who defends anyone's right to suck burning poison into their lungs so long as they don't force anyone else to do that. Several times a day...
• Commented on Obituaries
  I reiterate that I take no position whatsoever about who "owns" the Malvinas/Falklands. I chimed in only because a poster here made a statement that logically implied a a claim that the British owned archipelago in question. And I pointed...
• Commented on Obituaries
  "I'm going to add to the misery of the pathetically ignorant eseedhouse @ 100" Well, I'm afraid you rather failed in that objective. Interesting though, that the mere expression of a dissenting opinion, leads you to the need of calling...
• Commented on Obituaries
  "As it is, the people who live on the Falkland Islands have made it their opinion perfectly clear, and theirs is the most important voice on this matter." Of course they've been rather careful to not let anyone live there...
• Commented on Obituaries
  "Presumably, to avoid claims of hypocrisy, the Argentinian government will be giving back the territory they stole..." Right after Great Britain gives back Canada and Australia, perhaps? My point was, not to adjudicate ownership, nor to claim that anyone is...
• Commented on Obituaries
  As for ownership, the Argentinians were (and are) certainly under the impression that they owned the Malvinas, the Brits having illegally taken them from their rightful owners in 1883 by force of arms. And as a matter of fact Argentina...
• Commented on Mo' holding pattern
  Two things. Re-entry would be at about the same speed as the Apollo moon shots. There is not much extra acceleration needed to reach Mars - it simply takes longer. So this would not need any technological breakthroughs. Second, a...
• Commented on The ticking clock, stopped
  I don't know what I would plan because it seems to me that the question as asked leaves too much else open. All my income comes from pensions. The largest bit from a municipal pension, which is basically a life...