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Which is the sollutuin, Misj'? Paying him in order of how many "Communist party" assholes he licked? Because that is the "communist" system. The higher you are in the "party" ladder, the better paid. The son of the town warlord becomes "commisioner" and his life is solluted.

Same in "softer left" countries. Incentives for "being someone" are obviated, and the one escalating into bureauracy gets paid better, no matter if he is "good" or just a lazy ass with good links.

Trust me. I lived for 20 years under PSOE government.

RickJ, I am going to reply for Andail, because I know what he is going to reply (Specially to the last point: "How many millions communism killed?")

He will reply that he is not communist, he is a socialdemocrat.

And I must tell that many of my arguments against Andail were driven because I had the false impression that he was a die-hard communist. He is not. He just preffers 18:30 in spite of 17:30. He is a great moderate guy!

Now, let' s stop putting words in Andail' s mouth, and try to reply to what I think of "modetate lefts". IMHO, and matching with what you said, RickJ:

"Socialism is just a slower ride to the same destination as communism.   Sooner or later slackers will begin to accumulate and the producers will slowly get less productive.  Wealth derived from natural resource royalties can slow the process but the end is inevtiable."

I think it's true. Socialism is like a homeopatic version of a poison. It will never be so harmless as the poison itself, but worst than nothing, that's for sure.

That' s why I allways like to post the world maps of "economycal freedom" compared with the "Average GDP per habitant index". They match almost perfectly. I don' t personally need another evidence than that; the lefter you go, the worst it goes (economically). As for morale, that' s another history.

A history that doesn't finish well for left either...

My two cents, but, to anyone involved, pleaaaase... No hard feelings.

Edit: Hehehe... as for "corruption", socialist contries don' t have a good scoreboard, either:

http://www.transparencia.org.es/MapaMundialdelaCorrupcion.jpg

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagen:GDP_PPP_per_capita_IMF.png

http://www.heritage.org/Index/downloads/Index2008_EconFreedomMAP.jpg

There lots of interesting theories against capitalism... Hundreds, Thousands, I could say... And all those theories crash against just one little thing: Reality. 

I want to see it asap, I loved Casino Royale... I think it' s the most realistic Bond ever, with the permission of charismatic Connery. (The mythbusters proved that a 9mm can't make a gas tank explode, though...)

As soon as I see it I will comment it here. I just wanted to say how good IMO Casino Royale was, specially after all the attacks Craig suffered for being: "Too ugly, too blonde, too strong, too blue-eyed, too un-Bondish", etc, etc...

A video is worth a thousand pictures.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d0UY_qR-p4k

Im singing 

I think "singing" is being too optimistic! ^_^

J/K, I sing 10X worse.

I will do my best!

Is it true that the correct way to wear kilt is without underpants?

Yes, I am sure.

As I said two posts before, my ear is not trained for listening and appreciate different music to the one I am used for... It' s a pitty, I know.

I don't  think so. "The other systems" do not work because "there are not enough selflessnness people".

The other systems do not work because communism is an absurd theory.

It was not true that the doctrine was beautiful and its execution failed. The doctrine was based on a serious error in an intellectual and moral breakdown that will inevitably lead to disaster and terror.

Communist governments, without exception, built some very poor and brutal societies which invariably desperate people trying to flee. All experiments communists failed, regardless of the substrate on which they were trying to build. The system failed the Germans, Slavs, Latin Americans (Cuba and Nicaragua), Asians, black Africans. It' s not about people.

It does not work basically because saying "everybody is equal" is stupid.

I have the idea of making a game of a commputist system. It' s like communist, but effective because the decissions are taken by a computer, not the flawable men.

Of course, live in that society is boring and sooner or later there will be a revolution! 

EDIT: Damn Babar, I was quite sure my idea was quite original

well... Remembering some Asimov' s stories (I remember a short one when the vote of ONE mas was the one deciding the president of the USA, because a computer decided he was the most representative) it' s not a big surprise.

My condolences to anyonoe who liked him. Allow me to kidnapp this thread and use it for another necrologycal: Michael Crichton, my favourite writer, died 3 or 4 days ago by cancer. R.I.P.  for both.

Heheeee... Imagine how valid is my opinion as a musical critic if I can't distinguish a synth guitarr from a real one ^_^

I am not able to open the two last songs... I will download it again, though, seems it is a problem with my pc, since now I can' t open songs I heard before either.

Anyway, the two first are tunes that would maybe need "too many opportunities" for me to LOVE them... I like the melodies when the singer enters, but those parts are lost in a very plain and long tune that does not make me feel anything. It's a pitty. Is it you the singer, Vel? Nice work, then...

I really like the third one. Nice guitar, congrats Tuomas, I guess it' s your performance. Again, nice voice. I think I am going to hear it again, something I didn' t with the first two ones.

This album is probably one of the bests we can find at this "level". Congrats!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1954933468700958565

Hehehe... Conspiranoids... Stupot will love this! 

Maybe it' s a coincidence, but I in some forums the other day they were discussing that the "sollution" for some countries (USA, specifically) was to come back to the gold pattern and take some european countries (Greece, Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Italy, I think) out of Euro.  I think that the "November 15th" thingie is an internet urban legend, but sounds interesting... As Snarky said, Prog, sources, please?

Maybe downloading pro-motion 4.0 is an option... It' s a clone of the old deluxe paint, but moden, and it supports that nice gradients. I am not an expert of this program, but ProgZMax, moderator of Critics Lounge, is, i think. You can PM him if he does not reply here.

Quick reply! Thanks. 

EDIT: Well, as I assumed that "Obama" was going to be the topic in this email list, I must confess that I browsed for information better than blindly believing you, matti. (Guilty!) And you are not totally correct. Obama suport some kind of death penalties and dissaproves homosexual marriage (But is opposed also to a constitutional ban) apparently.

Wow! In my skeptics e-mail list there is someone that is already bashing him! Soooo quick! The guy hasn't even started! Hahahaha! 

But that makes me think... He has been so "messiahnised" that everything he does but being "perfect" could result into a big state of desillution... What is said in the US about that? Is it true that he approves death penalty and dissapproves homosexual marriage?

Yeah, I agree... I was thinking a little bit in the Western countries when I said "The rest of the World"... A little bit shellfishy, my fault.