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I think I agree with the degradation...
Follow by a painful readjustment phase...
We can see it in effect in the US already from manufacturing and science super power in the beginning of the century to over indebted, aging infrastructure, weakened economy now...
Thankfully we got global competition and awareness now to speed up things. I just hope a renewal will come without war and not too painfully...
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Your love for law seem rather strange and displaced judging by your inability to follow one simple rule of this board and then you dare to judge other's people opinions. 
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You might enjoy Charles Dicken's endictment of the flow of time T0 through T10000 entitled "Great Expectations".
I'll certainly take exception to the term "fallacy" too while I'm on point. Except for this satirically subjective slant on communism you provide in it's primitive clay state, not yet seen through the plastic bag in which you've exposed it in the box, it smells like clay, yes. Not capitalism, right. And THAT doesn't smell like clay.
So here's the problem. I've got to click on this link. And I'm not going to do that. Because I think you're drunk. But I do think some bug has crawled up your yinyang and you're hopping mad about it. So, Pip, this is a morality play. The whole big life thing.
Spoiler alert: the guy who asked you for the file is your father!
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The most successful system is the one where corruption has the least effect, because the one thing you will never get rid of is corruption.
And note that it's not bad people who are corrupt, most of the time; it's normal people, behaving like humans.
Communism and socialism try to minimise the effect by getting everyone to work toward a greater good (but the greater good will always be perverted by corruption, so it's tough to make it work).
Capitalism tries to minimise the effect by taking a lot of what other systems would call corruption, and making them the norm (but no matter how "corrupt" you allow people to be, they will always push the envelope until the balloon bursts).
The solution
There ain't one.
Corruption will eventually destroy any system, so the trick is to quit when it becomes obvious that the system is going to fail, and follow one of the other systems for a while.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The problem with capitalism is that it is dependent upon consumption.
We've gone from just producing what we need to marketing which actually produces need.
It is ultimately unsustainable and creates a slave labor class.
For the developed world the slave labor is off shore and the slave owners are the governments that enslave their own people.
It is a sick system but no less so than socialism, communism or whatever else we've tried.
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Super Lloyd wrote: Anyhow while I wanted to rename my political affiliation as "socialist capitalist" I think I would have to change (to avoid confusion) into "free entrepreneur rules of law socialist" less ambiguous!
I think that I agree with you.
Capitalism is so dynamic. That is why it is so successful. It will adapt and then re-adapt as required.
It just needs some social and moral rules to control the greed ( and greed is good) and keep a fair go for all as attainable and at the same time look after us all.
I enjoyed the CP sub heading on the link to your post: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
There must be a midpoint where we can both share a bit more and profit hugely as well.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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'is there a name for the political system favouring the rule of law '.
Yes there is. This is a constitutional republic.
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Capitalism is a term some douche politician came up with. You are talking about Free Market Economics. Every economy is partially free market and partially socialism.
You sited a progressive website. Progressive means they want to progress past the Constitution. The Constitution is in place to keep the people in power instead of someone like a king or a absolute ruler.
The only people that is talking about anarchy is the big government people as an argument to the small government people. It's not true. They want to keep their power and control. If you think of this as a number line with Free Market on one side and Socialism on the other side. The small government people only want to slide it to the right to give the people back the power. No one wants a complete Free Market and no one wants anarchy.
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When government revenues subsidize business and when most industries are dominated by oligopolies and when some businesses (e.g. NFL are considered non-profit/not-for-profit) is there really capitalism? Or something else? That is the more important question. 
David
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Super Lloyd wrote: Yet anarchy has never happened
I question the truth of that statement.
Super Lloyd wrote: and it has never been validated by past success
I also question that. Certainly without a specific definition of "success".
For example one might hypothesize that say 60,000 years ago that either anarchy existed or it was far closer to that than to any other system. And one might further suggest that since humans are still around that at that time it was a 'success'.
Super Lloyd wrote: this article made everything clear! 
http://progressiveliving.org/economics/capitalism_socialism_communism.htm[^]
Of course some of it is nonsensical such as the following..."Beginning with Reagan, and accelerating under the Bush administrations, the US has been lapsing back into the worst of its excesses."
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Off to The Beer Factory[^] in 15 minutes for a Club Members only Oktoberfest.
Will be back in 5 hours or so and will try to post an update. The Missus is coming along too, so won't be able to get her to help me drive the keyboard later on.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Excellent, I've got plenty time to get the popcorn in.
Enjoy!
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Currently drinking beer number 2.
Great thing is it's here's your glass and there's the 5 beers on tap. Help yourself.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: here's your glass and there's the 5 beers on tap. Help yourself.
In OZ? 
Do they have bottomless pockets? Or are they underestimating the drinking power of the average Aussie? Because all the ones I've seen go at free beer like sharks in a paddling pool...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Either that, or the beer is cheap.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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We paid $75.00 a head and it's scheduled for 3 hours.
Food is included and I've had a shitload.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: will try to post an update. The Missus is coming along too, so won't be able to get her to help me drive the keyboard later on
Keyboards of the future will automatically sense blood-alcohol level, presence of amphetamines, and other psychotropic drugs, etc., and prevent you from sending e-mail ... unless you have a certain minimum score on an on-line sobriety test.
If you have been remanded by court order to a detox program, trying to write an e-mail when you are intoxicated will take you immediately to an on-line meeting of Whatever-Anonymous, while at the same time sending antidotes directly into your bloodstream, or giving you electro-shock, etc.
Ownership of a keyboard without sobriety features will be a criminal offense for which fingers will be surgically removed, the number removed depending on offender status, and number of repeat incidents.
So, enjoy tonight, and post frequently, Michael, for ye shalt not have such freedom hence.
bill
p.s. does October come early in Oz ? Is there more than one Halloween ?
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Im sure Dalek Dave, Nagy V, MM will all find a way to circumvent such technology - else its going to be very quiet here in the lounge 
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You have been here for eight years - surely you know better than to post spam? 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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I am caught up in PayPal hell and want to warn others.
Our website has been merrily accepting PayPal payments for about a year - no problem. Recently PayPal sent me an email about PayPal Here and I thought I would take a quick look at it even though it probably did not suit our business.
BIG mistake.
This has triggered an "Information Request" for our business and the last two weeks have been a spiral into hell. What started out as a small request has led to a series of about 10 requests and a progressive limiting of our account (I now cannot withdraw or spend money) even though every request has been responded to quickly and correctly. We currently have about $1000 stuck in the account that we cannot access.
I have had to remove PayPal as a payment option (which isn't popular with our customers) as we can't get the money. Luckily I got to this fairly early otherwise it could have been a lot more money locked up.
It has now descended into farce with the latest request for information being for information already requested and is clearly sitting on THEIR server with a big green "Accepted" next to it.
More frighteningly, they have also insisted that a certificate have a registration number on it that DIDN'T EXIST when the certificate was created (here the company is being penalized for being 25 years old!) They want the number to be on the certificate... I tell them that that numbering system didn't exist then... they want the number to be on the certificate... I tell them that I can provide other documentation showing the number issued after the number was actually created (2 years after the certificate)... they want the number to be on the certificate... I rant and ask for escalation... they want the number to be on the certificate.
You have been warned. Be VERY careful with PayPal.
Paul Hooper
If you spend your whole life looking over your shoulder, they will get you from the front instead.
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Interesting, I signed up for PayPal Here about 4 months ago and I don't have any limitations or information requests.
Maybe because you are not US-based they are making you jump through more hoops...
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Paul Hooper wrote: This has triggered an "Information Request" for our business
May I ask what exactly an "information request" is, and what it's for?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Basically they are trying to determine if we really are who we say we are. The root cause is an Australian Government law to prevent criminals using things like PayPal for money laundering. I actually don't disagree with the concept, just the execution by PayPal.
1. If the law is so important, why was I able to do business for so long without providing this identification to PayPal? Why has asking to look at PayPal Here suddenly prompted this review? I would have MUCH preferred having to provide all this information up front, before PayPal was backed into our processes. This has come out of nowhere and is causing havoc with established processes.
2. Most importantly, be reasonable about things and only lock up money if they have a suspicion that something wrong is happening. In our case, they asked for identifying information (copies of Certificates of Incorporation etc) and locked our account so we couldn't close it. After three request rounds (including things like a "Mission Statement" for the company) where we had provided everything they had asked for, they suddenly increased our limitation to prevent us moving money out of the account and started the farce discussed earlier.
Worst of all, it is like fighting the Hydra. I have never had two communications from the same person.
Grrrrr.
Paul Hooper
If you spend your whole life looking over your shoulder, they will get you from the front instead.
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If you have the stamina it may be worth following this through with your government - on a slightly separate note I have followed some of Senator Nick Xenophon's campaigning and have been very impressed with what he has achieved with regards to a certain money making religion.
I have had a bad experience with paypal where they allowed someone to pay for my software then withdraw the payment claiming it was fraudulent hence gaining the key to my software and distributing it online.
Anything that can help clean up their act is a good thing in my opinion - they have a huge amount of power and need to learn to be responsible with this power.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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