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Originally posted by 89c51 View Post
Also to all the morons that say capitalism sucks go live in Cuba or north Korea. Then come and repeat these bullshit.
I'm currently living in a capitalistic country as most of the visitors of this websites do and it sucks. It sucks less than the USA but it sucks. In times of robotics people shouldn't be forced to be farmers or work at assembly belts. Instead everyone should satisfy humanities greatest gift: Our curiosity. Instead we've some very few people actually doing something for humanity (research/science) and a lot of people doing tasks that are just not neccessary. The entire banking/insurance system is completely useless if it weren't for this stupid system.Last edited by Detructor; 12 February 2014, 04:06 PM.
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Originally posted by Detructor View Postwhat do Cuba or NK have to do with being anti-capitalism?
Although i suspect most of the posters on here wouldn't like communism either. They're more anti-corporatism than pro-anything. And i further suspect that's mainly just because corporatism dominates the current world. Whatever is used most places is automatically hated by a lot of people. There isn't any magical perfect system that everyone would like.Last edited by smitty3268; 12 February 2014, 04:07 PM.
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People who think switching from Firefox to Chrome is the way to go need to read a little bit about the purpose of Chrome. Every single thing you type into Chrome gets fed back to Google so they can market new ads to you based on what you type (not necessarily just what you search). So, Firefox puts ads on the "new tab" page while Chrome puts ads pretty much everywhere else.
Also to the anti-capitalists, again you need to read a bit more about what capitalism means. Capitalism is about choice. For example, Mozilla is choosing to embed ads in their web browsers and you are choosing to not use their web browser based on that choice. That is Capitalism (free market, actually, but yeah).
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Originally posted by bockscar View PostPeople who think switching from Firefox to Chrome is the way to go need to read a little bit about the purpose of Chrome. Every single thing you type into Chrome gets fed back to Google so they can market new ads to you based on what you type (not necessarily just what you search). So, Firefox puts ads on the "new tab" page while Chrome puts ads pretty much everywhere else.
So really, Chrome is already doing the exact same advertisements that Firefox is adding, the only difference is that they are advertising Google websites only, while Firefox will presumably have some more variety.
I guess i don't really have a problem with this as long as it stays limited, obviously labelled, and non-irritating. It sounds like it will be that way to start. The real concern is if they let things go and treat this as a slippery slope that they can keep making a little worse each release. Hopefully that won't happen.Last edited by smitty3268; 12 February 2014, 04:15 PM.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostWell, they are the last great bastions of communism, now that china is experimenting with capitalism.
Although i suspect most of the posters on here wouldn't like communism either. They're more anti-corporatism than pro-anything. And i further suspect that's mainly just because corporatism dominates the current world. Whatever is used most places is automatically hated by a lot of people. There isn't any magical perfect system that everyone would like.
NK is a dictatorship, that can't be communism by definition.
And Cuba is a mix of socialism and dictatorship
As of now, no country was ever communist driven as it's only possible with robotic technology. As long as even one human has to work to keep the society alive, communism isn't possible. Robotics solve that problem because once they're all set up, you don't need humans anymore for resource harvesting/producing goods.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostSo really, Chrome is already doing the exact same advertisements that Firefox is adding, the only difference is that they are advertising Google websites only, while Firefox will presumably have some more variety.
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Originally posted by Detructor View Posterh that's just wrong.
NK is a dictatorship, that can't be communism by definition.
And Cuba is a mix of socialism and dictatorship
You can't conflate the two - saying NK is a dictatorship instead of communism is nonsense.
Well, ok, communism had a political side to it as well, but that's besides the point here.
As of now, no country was ever communist driven as it's only possible with robotic technology.
Current US system isn't pure capitalism, for example, because that would by definition have no government regulations on anything and there would be no government programs, subsidies, or tax breaks anywhere either.Last edited by smitty3268; 12 February 2014, 04:37 PM.
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Originally posted by Detructor View Posterh that's just wrong.
NK is a dictatorship, that can't be communism by definition.
And Cuba is a mix of socialism and dictatorship
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