[geeks] KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed May 6 10:30:57 CDT 2009


Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Communism in Russia existed before the revolution in the villages,  
> where it mostly worked, and afterward what they had was not the same,  
> no matter what governments and historians call it.

"Stalinist"  ;)

> Maybe you could call it what happens when communism tries to go big,  
> but I have never thought of them as communist.
> 
> It seemed to be a socialist system run by an elite and violent  
> aristocracy.

Pretty much, yes.  Someone made the observation some time back that what
invariably happens in communist revolutions is that after the glorious
revolution, the revolutionary committee somehow never actually gets
around to the step of phasing itself out and handing the reins of power
over to the proletariat.


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