What if you move to America halfway through the year? (And you're a citizen, so you don't necessarily have company insurance).

Why is there a deadline at all to sign up for insurance?

I must be a total loser because I just play GTA for the great atmosphere, soak up the music, the world design and the commentary, play the campaign and then never play it again.

Drew is writing his novels, but he still consults on SW:TOR. It would be great to have him back, but he wasn't fired- he left on his own accord.

Very few people criticise Communism as an economic ideal, they criticise its viability in reality. That's not to say there *aren't* arguments against Marxism from a moral standpoint (his beliefs on the treatment of animals, for example, can be built into a wider thesis that attack the core of Marxism's philosophical…

I absolutely agree. The connection between Capitalism and Protestantism comes from a bizarre, backwards-engineered form of pseudo-academia that says that 'Marx was an atheist, and as such we need to link the origin of capitalism to religion' or something like that. Of course, Marx himself never made that comparison-…

I got your joke. I'm part-Jewish myself (ethnically, I don't practice) and I hardly found it offensive. I agree in fact, that Capitalism has been linked (at least in Europe) to Jews for many centuries. Jews were often the only people allowed to be moneylenders or bankers, and banks are of course the financing…

I was being a bit facetious. The reality is that the starting point for capitalism depends on what you consider capitalism. Economic trade for profit has arguably existed since the dawn of civilization. What 'we' consider capitalism is generally considered to be Classical Liberalism, and government support for open…

I'm happy to discuss, so I'll tackle your points in order:

Neither Cuba or NK are, of course, Communist, though their founders were for the most part intellectuals who truly believed they were attempting the ideology. I object to your analysis of Left vs. Right. To me, left vs. right is about Collectivism vs. Individualism. To others, it is about Internationalism vs.…

I take deep issue with your defence of the USSR. You say the Soviet experiment yielded a lot of successes. I assume you count rapid industrialisation among them, but that had a terrible cost, millions of lives being a rather conservative estimate. Lenin was not a peaceful man. He dissolved the constitutional…

The OP wasn't defending Marx, he was defending the USSR pre-Stalin, which is a very different can of beans.

It's hard to say the Soviets ever had the stateless objective. Even in the ideal society, the (small-s) soviet councils in the community would still form a type of government.

I've always thought of video games as inherently capitalist in nature, especially RPGs. MMORPGs are essentially capitalism simulators, though depending on whether they're theme park or sandbox they have state sectors of varying sizes. I'm surprised there isn't a school of Marxist thought analysing video games as a…

Unless you've lived in Cuba or North Korea, you haven't ever lived in a country that even pretends to call itself Socialist. European countries are socially democratic Capitalist, nothing more and nothing less. They all have free markets, private property, banking and so on.

Hardly, Lenin founded the KGB (or Cheka) within 2 weeks of the revolution. The idea that the USSR was headed on the right path until Stalin came along and ruined everything is a revisionist fantasy spouted (strangely enough) by both Trots and Leninists.

Actually Capitalism began in Holland in the 17th century.

Funnily enough, Games Developers are paid far more in the US, than in say, Sweden or Finland, which, while not socialist, are certainly more left wing.,

Exactly. And let's not pretend that Gawker or even Kotaku are exempt from that sort of thing- the internet is simply conducive to juicy rumours spreading very, very quickly.

Yeah, official clips are hosted at onedrive iirc.