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What makes medicine different from any other trade? They have their own mechanics, IT experts, pilots, etc... Why not their own medical personnel if they need them? Any job can be contracted out. Why not just hire mercenaries? At some point the government needs it's own employees to ensure that it performs its proper functions. Whether something is done internally or on contract is a management decision.

I just signed up for it. This is why I like blizzard; many game companies just don't take the time to get things right and end up releasing unfinished games. I ended up not buying some games I was interested in for that reason. But then the original starcraft, released in 1998, has more people playing it that some 6 month old games. So it works. Valve is very good with this too.

My new job will require me to join a union. Nobody knew how much they take off their paychecks, it's like they don't care. When looking for that info I came across the union's FAQ page. http://ontario.psac.com/organizing/faq.shtml I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read that.

For those of you who make christmas trees what do you use as your tree topper? I always just put a star but I'm looking for an alternative this year. Maybe a glass spire or something.

Don't forget: parks increase the value of the land that surrounds them. People want to live/work close to parks.

google: god site:forum.objectivismonline.net http://www.google.ca/search?q=god+site%3Af...ivismonline.net

I heard about it but never bothered to check it out. I just watched the whole 1h20 demo video. It looks really cool. I signed up for an account. I'd like to play around with the extension api. OO.net on wave anyone?

Please tell me this is an SNL skit.

Have any of you played simcountry? You either play as president of a country or ceo of a company. I played it ages ago and it seemed very detailed. As a ceo you try to find the best place to produce and sell your goods and you have to analyze the market to figure out how best to invest your money. However I seem to remember that being a president was mostly about making enough money to buy stuff to fight wars. The cool thing was that you could make contracts to supply stuff to other players.

There's a party election tomorrow. There's no opposition to the incumbent right now. He won with 23 votes last time. If we get someone in the race and all vote we could take over the party.

I'd say more aspiring O'ist at the moment. I still have quite a way to go before I feel I can deserve to use the term. If you're looking for objectivists in Ottawa I suggest you read David McGruer's monthly column in the Orleans Star. He was the Ottawa-Orleans candidate for the Ontario Freedom party (Paul's party) in the last provincial election. http://eastottawa.ca/rubrique-1009-On-Second-Thought.html Back on topic: I'd like to know where they wanted to put it if the NCC is involved. A monument like that would probably be better placed on private land.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/approves+monu...1324/story.html

I switched to working on my construction skill. I'm building houses now but I can use it to make defense systems and hospitals too.

If you don't exist in a time and at a place then you don't exist. You can't say that nothing can magically appear then right after invent some ghost that magically appeared somehow (without existing because it's outside of an existance that doesn't exist yet(even though there's no time)) as proof that it exists...

Name: jm_r I'm in Svalberg, Norway

I wonder how this would apply to companies like sun that have closed/open hybrid products like opensolaris, java, etc...

*ALL* software comes with this clause. The whole point of this law is to circumvent it. From this article, it seems like they want to dictate what software licenses guarantee. I'm not familiar with EU regulations so I don't know what it means to a company or FOSS project when a user breaks a piece of code.

Where do those robots come from? They also need to be designed, built, installed, maintained and operated. If they aren't paying people to do the robot's job, that means they can afford to pay people to do things they couldn't afford before. BTW, my job of posting information on the internet is paying for my education right now...

There's also the fact that in Canada not giving away taxpayers money to someone is considered the same as muzzling them. I can't count how many times, even in the news, that I heard people say it was "dictatorial" and that he was destroying those with opposing views.

Let's not forget that nobody would do business with someone after it got out that they fired/refused to provide service to someone based on their skin colour, or anyone who made business with the first for that matter. However, if someone did decide to do that it's his choice, and up to him to suffer the consequences.

This quote seems a bit odd. You can't put data "on the internet", the internet is just a means to transport data. You can put it on a server, but everyone does that already. I can connect to my network, my friends', my school's and my work's to access my data from anywhere already.

A few examples of irrationality hardly trumps all the rational actions people make every day. Anyone who goes to school, gets a job, invests, or hell, even looks before crossing the street is acting rationally for future rewards. It's so common and embedded in our mindset that we don't even think about it. EDIT: you beat me to it

You can checkout their comic that explains the design here http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html Its a pretty interesting design, every tab is its own process. The idea is to isolate crashes and stuff to a single tab. However, my friend got the whole thing to crash and screw up his windows session just by going on a site (twice). Can't really judge software in a pre-apha state though. I hope it won't get crippled by feature creep like firefox did.

Frankly, its more mental masturbation than anything else. The only real reason I can see for doing that is if you have some special need or want to learn more about the system. Other than that, there is no reason to not just have some kind of install script. As for having everything built from source, with or without a custom kernel, the difference in speed is negligible. Both my OpenBSD and Arch linux machines (which are binary installs) are lightning fast.

Thats true (although as a customer you only have whatever rights the ISP specified in your contract), but as far as I can tell that's the exact opposite of netneutrality. They're basically trying to nationalize ISPs. Go talk to any proponent of netneutrality, they're all anti-corporate, and anti-capitalists.