Communism is a classless , stateless , moneyless society so no Cuba isn ' t communist by definition , Fidel Castro himself would tell you Cuba has not yet achieved communism . When a state calls itself communist it is declaring that it is going to build towards communism , that ' s how we have communist states despite it being oxymoron . <| sep |> Thank you so much , this looks like a lot of fun ! <| sep |> It frustrates me when the media marks failure as a bad thing . There are so many technologies that wouldn ' t exist had their inventors stopped after failing once . <| sep |> That is only for chirp radar specifically . Most radars use a short burst 1 us of fixed frequency , fixed amplitude sinewaves . <| sep |> I understand the point but I think it ' s a little misdirected . While the consumer is the root cause for the store being open , it ' s the decision of the store to open . I think that if stores had decided to stay open years ago , people would have still shopped , maybe to a lesser degree , but there would have been business and money would have been made . Ultimately stores saw money laying on the table and got greedy enough to sacrifice your holiday to get it .