Anarcho-communists would just build roundabouts. If the area is a capitalist holdout, they will build Magic Roundabouts.
Magic Hamburger Roundabouts!
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Well, the Brits are the the world champions at queuing. Put that thing here and there’d be a daily gun battle. On each side.
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Mutual co-operation.
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The Invisible Hand of the market directs us all.
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As many problems as there were with the HHGG movie, that was a great line.
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Tom, you asked for this two years ago, at EMF 2014! I really wish that the people running EMF had recorded that talk.
Can this generation infiltrate politics and hijack it for the benefit of a more open, outward-looking world? “Get 200 people to join their local parties and take them over,” Watson suggested.
I’m still waiting to find out if the Labour party has decided that I’m a trot, and not deserving of a vote.
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No, you see, entryism is bad. But attracting new members is good. You just don’t let them do anything, like say, vote on who the party leader is, even if you specifically advertized that they could.
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I just checked my email for labour stuff and found out I had missed something a couple of days ago (because I had the council round inspecting my house for all the things that hadn’t been repaired in ten years)
I have to agree to the Labour Party terms and conditions. You really want to click on that link, it’s what was in the email.
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and a follow-up
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apparently, it works marvelously. Just follow the arrows and go with the flow.
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I can’t help thinking that the security and privacy communities have a whole lot of “misunderstood geniuses” that you don’t want to piss off.
If you broaden that out to the entire “tech” industry I think it would be more accurate.
A rock star knows when to turn on the charm and vulnerability and share their deeply personal stories of trauma… and when it’s safe to threaten and intimidate. A rock star wrecks hotel rooms, social movements, and lives.
Why are rock stars so common and successful?
Why indeed?
As far as I know, I’m the only Marxist over here… 
But what does it matter. Angry man decides to vent on the internet, paints an entire readership with a broad brush with his own flawed and offensive ideology. Deserves the internet’s reaction.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/this-is-a-treat-don-t-miss-it
[Zorin] believes, or wants us to believe, that American democracy is nothing more than a thin veneer over what is at heart a Game-of-Thrones style battle of corrupt Bourgeois dynasties. In other words, he views US politics through the lens of someone accustomed to living under a corrupt dictatorship and all of the lack of trust that this entails.
The word I keep coming back to in my mind is “civic culture.” For whatever reason the US is blessed with a fundamental faith in our institutions that leads people to do the right thing not out of blind obedience or indoctrination but perhaps out of something akin to teamwork. To be sure, the Soviets attempted to instill a belief in public duty over there, but nothing like that ever actually took root. Everyone saw the system as corrupt, and in a peculiar way that was a self-fulfilling prophecy. And because of this difference, it is difficult for the Russians to really understand the American way of looking at things.
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Replace “Rock Star” with “Celebrities” and you got yourself a critique on the elitism of pop-culture.
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#IT IS WELL KNOWN HOW THE MONKS WROTE SILLY CLASS.
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Its strikes.
It was man.
It last words alive!
It proclaimed the German him.
It laid bare the hypocritical class.
It loses its class has but written.
It has converted the physician, the lawyer, antiquaries.
It has been objected, that upon the abolition society.
It is well known how the monks wrote silly class.
It is only the social character of the property that themselves.
It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population nationalities.
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Trade.
It was just this contact that was needed to centralize the numerous local about.
It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation, and the German petty class.
It has been too long the great second-hand is high time that Communists should us.
It is, perhaps, some sort of balm for their wounds, the admirable past, him.
It laid bare the hypocritical apologies of inculcated universal asceticism and social class.
It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, man.
It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt laborers.
It has been too long the great second-hand was Weitling.
It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections economists.
It loses its class is enough to class-struggles.
It was a sweet finish after itself.
It must nestle everywhere, settle society.
It rose slowly leaving crusades.
It last words calculation.
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Has this been covered yet on the BeeB?
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Can you give us a mean and standard deviation on that plot? <squints/> Oh, sorry. Wasn’t wearing my glasses.
