>> ^blankfist:

I'm pretty sure I'm not confusing free markets with free people. Free market as a colloquial definition is nearing equivalence to capitalism and corporatism, but that doesn't make it the correct meaning. It's a terrible revisionist definition. A market is a trade, not an economic system. A free market is a voluntary trade/exchange that doesn't imply the trade of money, working from capital, or the legitimization of corporations. It's all in the definitions.
So, if we're getting caught up on language, then that's one thing we can get around. But if we're getting caught up on ideological differences, then that's something completely different. When you say things like "free market reforms have been implemented by a government" and "It is obsessed with keeping people from organizing" when speaking of a free market, it tells me we're probably not even close to being on the same page in how we're defining simple terms. Mainly because voluntary exchanges amongst people don't work that way and can not. It sounds like you're angry with corporations (and corporation/government collusion), and in that way your complaints are warranted and supported by me.
I promise to research more about Friedman in regards to your claims below. If there's truth to your claims, and it's not just circumstantial or associated relevances, it would be seriously in dire opposition to ideas of liberty. Claims like this, "hijacked the IMF and World Bank and have been using those institutions to beat down poor nations and force them to sell of their natural resources to multinational corporations."
But I'll look into my own way as I don't want to be spoonfed by a social democrat.
Somewhat surprising, Wikipedia has some good information on the view of free markets as it pertains to faction ideology and history:

In Marxist theory, the idea of the free market simply expresses the underlying long-term transition from feudalism to capitalism.
-cited

Support for the free market as an ordering principle of society is above all associated with liberalism, especially during the 19th century. (In Europe, the term 'liberalism' retains its connotation as the ideology of the free market, but in American and Canadian usage it came to be associated with government intervention, and acquired a pejorative meaning for supporters of the free market.) Later ideological developments, such as minarchism, libertarianism and Objectivism also support the free market, and insist on its pure form. Although the Western world shares a generally similar form of economy, usage in the United States and Canada is to refer to this as capitalism, while in Europe 'free market' is the preferred neutral term. The advocates of modern liberalism (American and Canadian usage), and in Europe those of social democracy, seek ostensibly only to mitigate what they see as the problems of an unrestrained free market, and accept the existence of markets as such.
To most libertarians, there is simply no free market yet, given the degree of state intervention in even the most 'capitalist' of countries. From their perspective, those who say they favor a "free market" are speaking in a relative, rather than an absolute, sense — meaning (in libertarian terms) they wish that coercion be kept to the minimum that is necessary to maximize economic freedom (such necessary coercion would be taxation, for example) and to maximize market efficiency by lowering trade barriers, making the tax system neutral in its influence on important decisions such as how to raise capital, e.g., eliminating the double tax on dividends so that equity financing is not at a disadvantage vis-a-vis debt financing. However, there are some such as anarcho-capitalists who would not even allow for taxation and governments, instead preferring protectors of economic freedom in the form of private contractors.
-cited

Not cited to refute or embolden either of our claims.
In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
You confuse free markets with free people. Where free market reforms have been put into place in Chile, Argentina, Russia, Bolivia and here at home in the states, you see a pattern of hyper-inflation, massive unemployment, low wages, massive income inequality, the gutting of the middle class, labor exploitation, abuse and attacks (physical or economic) on unions and the diminishing of civil rights. I know that your free market intentions are pure, but as Milton Friedman himself said "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."
Free markets provide liberty to employers at the expense of employee liberty; they provide liberty to the wealthy at the expense of the poor. It's the Soviet communism of the rich.
I know you draw a big distinction between free markets and corporatism in your mind, but historically, free markets always lead to corporatism and generally require violence and authoritarianism to implement and sustain.
Corporations latched on to Milton Friedman, because he was able to make a persuasive moral argument in favor plutocracy that could be embraced by people who do not benefit from corporatism (like you). Rather than say the rich should be free to dominate, he makes it an issue of 'individual liberty'. If "individual liberty" just so happens to lead plutocracy, it's not Uncle Miltie's fault, because "Freedom is dangerous" as you have said many times.
I know I sound like a broken record, but you need to read that book. Friedman and his Chicago school of economics cronies repeatedly worked closely with despotic governments (including our own) and despotic businesses. You'll be "shocked". He and his colleagues hijacked the IMF and World Bank and have been using those institutions to beat down poor nations and force them to sell of their natural resources to multinational corporations.
I don't have a problem with capitalism, just so long as it does not have a monopoly over the system. I think capitalism has many good traits, but that it is not capable of performing tasks in which value cannot be measured in dollars, like health, education, infrastructure and other social programs. I want a system where government is free to do what it does best, and where business if free to do what it does best. Balance > Ideological monopolies.
Top ten clues that the Free Market movement is a racket.
1. It states that altruism and empathy are bad; greed and selfishness are good.
2. It claims to be anti-corporate, yet is completely funded by corporations from the ground up.
3. It claims to be about liberty, volunteerism and non-aggression, but can only be implemented through force and terror.
4. It promotes irrational/anti-scientific thinking when science gets in the way of business. (read: Global Climate Change).
5. It is largely embraced by Republicans, whom are easily manipulated into believing corporatist falsehoods on a regular basis.
6. It is obsessed with keeping people from organizing, under the guise of 'individualism'. Corporatists know that we are much easier to dominate as separate individuals.
7. In cases where free market reforms have been implemented by a government, it has resulted in plutocracy.
8. In failed states where no government or taxes exist, chaos reigns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmn9asN-8AE
9. There is no empirical evidence to prove the merit of Free Market doctrine, and plenty of evidence against.
10. It is embraced by the biggest propagandists of our times, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Ayn Rand, etc.

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>> ^MrFisk:

Levels of Speech/Expression
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a. public speech
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You forgot intellectual property and trademarks, and "top secret" and restricted information.

I thought about saying that too, but I didn't want to infringe on your trademark.

Net neutrality® >> ^blankfist:

@kronosposeidon, this is the part where I say, "Haha! Way to go statist idiots!"

heh, those are just his trademark nervous ticks - i don't think he's on cocain although he did marry an argentinian supermodel

I think it upsets people to be reminded that Fox News is unabashedly politically biased while repeating the 'Fair and Balanced' trademark. On the other hand, if the next joke was at Boehner's expense...
>> ^ipfreely:

Why get yourself all workup about it? Think about what you are getting upset about.
That is why you liberals are so easy to rile up... This is exactly what Fox wants you to feel... They want to piss you off and get you upset. They are laughing at you for getting so upset.
Ignore it.

apparently they're full-on re-branding. http://www.comedycentral.com/
looks like a sloppily drawn copyright symbol,... which, I guess is appropriate in the age of Viacom vs. Youtube

... also, the irony of trademarking what is basically the copyright symbol... thats pretty good


>> ^GDGD:

Holy shit, they (CC) finally play a new into

So could it be that his trademark long pauses are him trying to read the queue cards? Maybe he needs glasses. Either way I seriously must be daft because I never noticed.

>> ^BoneRemake:

"Euler's Disk" is a trademark for a product manufactured and distributed by the "Damert Company" (Toysmith Group), consisting of a metal disk, a base having an upwards-facing concave mirror, and holographic, patterned magnetic stickers. One or more magnetic stickers may be attached to the top surface of the disk. The disk, when spun on the mirror, exhibits a spinning/rolling motion. Euler’s Disk has an optimized aspect ratio and precision polished, rounded edges to maximize the spinning/rolling time. A coin spun on a table, or any disc spun on a relatively flat surface, exhibits essentially the same type of motion.
A spinning/rolling disk ultimately comes to rest; and it does so quite abruptly, the final stage of motion being accompanied by a whirring sound of rapidly increasing frequency. As the disk rolls, the point P of rolling contact describes a circle that oscillates with a constant angular velocity ω. If the motion is non-dissipative, ω is constant and the motion persists forever, contrary to observation (since ω is not constant in real life situations).
In the April 20, 2000 edition of Nature, Keith Moffatt shows that viscous dissipation in the thin layer of air between the disk and the table is sufficient to account for the observed abruptness of the settling process. He also showed that the motion concluded in a finite-time singularity.
Moffatt shows that, as time t approaches a particular time t0 (which is mathematically a constant of integration), the viscous dissipation approaches infinity. The singularity that this implies is not realized in practice because the vertical acceleration cannot exceed the acceleration due to gravity in magnitude. Moffatt goes on to show that the theory breaks down at a time τ before the final settling time t0, given by
\tau\simeq\left(2a/9g\right)^{3/5} \left(2\pi\mu a/M\right)^{1/5}
where a is the radius of the disk, g is the acceleration due to Earth's gravity, μ the dynamic viscosity of air, and M the mass of the disk. For the commercial toy (see link below), τ is about 10 − 2 seconds, at which \alpha\simeq 0.005 and the rolling angular velocity \Omega\simeq 500\rm Hz.
Using the above notation, the total spinning time is
t_0=\left(\frac{\alpha_0^3}{2\pi}\right)\frac{M}{\mu a}
where α0 is the initial inclination of the disk. Moffatt also showed that, if t0 − t > τ, the finite-time singularity in Ω is given by.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_disk


Nerd.

"Euler's Disk" is a trademark for a product manufactured and distributed by the "Damert Company" (Toysmith Group), consisting of a metal disk, a base having an upwards-facing concave mirror, and holographic, patterned magnetic stickers. One or more magnetic stickers may be attached to the top surface of the disk. The disk, when spun on the mirror, exhibits a spinning/rolling motion. Euler’s Disk has an optimized aspect ratio and precision polished, rounded edges to maximize the spinning/rolling time. A coin spun on a table, or any disc spun on a relatively flat surface, exhibits essentially the same type of motion.

A spinning/rolling disk ultimately comes to rest; and it does so quite abruptly, the final stage of motion being accompanied by a whirring sound of rapidly increasing frequency. As the disk rolls, the point P of rolling contact describes a circle that oscillates with a constant angular velocity ω. If the motion is non-dissipative, ω is constant and the motion persists forever, contrary to observation (since ω is not constant in real life situations).

In the April 20, 2000 edition of Nature, Keith Moffatt shows that viscous dissipation in the thin layer of air between the disk and the table is sufficient to account for the observed abruptness of the settling process. He also showed that the motion concluded in a finite-time singularity.

Moffatt shows that, as time t approaches a particular time t0 (which is mathematically a constant of integration), the viscous dissipation approaches infinity. The singularity that this implies is not realized in practice because the vertical acceleration cannot exceed the acceleration due to gravity in magnitude. Moffatt goes on to show that the theory breaks down at a time τ before the final settling time t0, given by

\tau\simeq\left(2a/9g\right)^{3/5} \left(2\pi\mu a/M\right)^{1/5}

where a is the radius of the disk, g is the acceleration due to Earth's gravity, μ the dynamic viscosity of air, and M the mass of the disk. For the commercial toy (see link below), τ is about 10 − 2 seconds, at which \alpha\simeq 0.005 and the rolling angular velocity \Omega\simeq 500\rm Hz.

Using the above notation, the total spinning time is

t_0=\left(\frac{\alpha_0^3}{2\pi}\right)\frac{M}{\mu a}

where α0 is the initial inclination of the disk. Moffatt also showed that, if t0 − t > τ, the finite-time singularity in Ω is given by.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_disk

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This is why open source is the REAL engine to the advancement of the arts, and not copyright and trademark.

Ok, I couldn't help myself and had to come back and learn more about this. Then I realized I didn't have to, since some Digg sleuths were already on it.

First, on Stardust Entertainment LLC's homepage at http://www.stardustentertainmentllc.com/index.html:

There is a you-tube video that show a DJ with a sign that has Stardust Entertainment on it. We need to let you know that the you-tube video is NOT one of our DJ's and is NOT in any way affiliated with us. However our lawyers are conducting an investigation on this video to find out who is using our name. The name is a registered trademark and can not be used by anyone. The name Stardust Entertainment can only be used in certain parts of the country and if anyone knows where the event took place please let us know.
All of our DJ’s are PROFESSIONALS!

Ok, interesting... But then you see the About Us page at http://www.stardustentertainmentllc.com/aboutus.html. The About Us page has a photo of a couple who look similar the two people captured in the video.

Thus, allow me to LOL. LAWL, I say!

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Thanks for that. Sounds good. I'm going to see it.
>> ^therealblankman:
I went to a sneak-preview of the film that they don't bother to promote in the above interview. Really enjoyed it! Below is the review I wrote for Cinemaclock...
Here's the deal with this flick- if you're a fan of 1980s style comedy cop flicks a'la Lethal Weapon and especially Beverly Hills Cop, then you'll really enjoy this lightweight action film from Kevin Smith. Hell, it's even got an 80s Axel Foley synthesizer soundtrack.
Bruce Willis is the grizzled veteran cop, Tracy Morgan (or is it Jordan? I get confused) plays his goofy partner. There's a plot of sorts- revolving around the pair trying to get back a valuable baseball card stolen from Willis' character by a gang of frightening hispanic ethnic stereotypes, the leader of which is a sports memorabilia collector.
There are a bunch of chases- both on foot and in cars- a couple of shootouts, and some minor sub-plots with a few twists. All of which serve solely as situations for Morgan to riff off of Willis' straight-man like a manic comedic madman. These guys have some great chemistry together, in the finest buddy-picture tradition.
A couple of cameos- notably Jason Lee as the slimy step-father of Willis' daughter, and Seann William Scott is hilarious as a strung-out cat burglar.
This movie's quite a change of pace for director Smith- a straight-up mainstream comedy. But it's still got a lot of his trademark clever dialogue and the characters are better fleshed-out and more believable than is usual for this genre. It drags a little bit in the second act, but moves on soon enough and pretty much succeeds in entertaining on every level.

I went to a sneak-preview of the film that they don't bother to promote in the above interview. Really enjoyed it! Below is the review I wrote for Cinemaclock...

Here's the deal with this flick- if you're a fan of 1980s style comedy cop flicks a'la Lethal Weapon and especially Beverly Hills Cop, then you'll really enjoy this lightweight action film from Kevin Smith. Hell, it's even got an 80s Axel Foley synthesizer soundtrack.

Bruce Willis is the grizzled veteran cop, Tracy Morgan (or is it Jordan? I get confused) plays his goofy partner. There's a plot of sorts- revolving around the pair trying to get back a valuable baseball card stolen from Willis' character by a gang of frightening hispanic ethnic stereotypes, the leader of which is a sports memorabilia collector.
There are a bunch of chases- both on foot and in cars- a couple of shootouts, and some minor sub-plots with a few twists. All of which serve solely as situations for Morgan to riff off of Willis' straight-man like a manic comedic madman. These guys have some great chemistry together, in the finest buddy-picture tradition.

A couple of cameos- notably Jason Lee as the slimy step-father of Willis' daughter, and Seann William Scott is hilarious as a strung-out cat burglar.

This movie's quite a change of pace for director Smith- a straight-up mainstream comedy. But it's still got a lot of his trademark clever dialogue and the characters are better fleshed-out and more believable than is usual for this genre. It drags a little bit in the second act, but moves on soon enough and pretty much succeeds in entertaining on every level.

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