After all, you start trying to give people a better education, but in the process, transform them in aliens, individuals separated from them own reality, and context (i think their context is being abused, since centuries, and robed, and being utilized, and being the last defecating end of giga-planet monopolies-mafias).
Well, I am from Austria.
In 1908 it was governed by an emperor that valued military virtues above everything else. Enter WWI.
Between 1919 and 1934 there was some kind of democracy (the opposition never came to rule).
Anyway, in 1934, after a brief civil war, a dictator took power.
In 1938 the German army marched in, with an awful lot of cheers. During WWII Austrians fight in the Wehrmacht.
So in hind sight I am extremely glad that my ancestors got a better education, alienated themselves from their authoritarian, militaristic roots, and stopped the abuse, robbery and misuse going one for centuries.
They need peace.
They need the time and space to learn from their elders, to heal, and to cultivate the land. to learn from it, to recall what is which this land produces, and how you should take care of it.
As long as every generation has more children than the land can feed, every generation will have poverty and war.
Any culture that values a high number of children more than high education for children will permanently have poverty and war.
If you consider the culture of sub-Saharan Africa worth preserving as it is, then you want to preserve poverty and war.
Africa needs to change. Africans need to change. A lot.
Well, to me a place without Internet is sub standard. Like a shack with an outhouse. I won't go there. And I guess most people that ever enjoyed the comfort of cilization will neither.
Old-school mathematicians uses Fortran 77 because they can't be bothered to learn the overhead of a fashion language, e.g. C.
Avantgarde mathematicians use Lisp or some other functional language because it heightens the mind. If it's to slow then it's all the IT crowd's fault. If machines report something about insufficient memory then it's all the hardware crowd's fault. And if marketing says that it's so damn tough to sell an application whose complete user interface consists of definitions in source code, well that's the fault of modern day teachers.
By the way, modern day mathematician use Mathematica and have no fucking clue what they are doing.
Computers are very simple machines providing only simple building blocks. To get anything useful done you need to combine an awful lot of building blocks.
In comparison mathematicians and physicians torture their minds with mindboggingly complicated stuff. But when they are pressed to explain it, write a book about it, or code some program then all you get is incomprehensible spaghetti FORTRAN.
The mathematician's answer to memory management is garbage collection, i.e. it's left as an exercise to everyone else. The mathematician's answer to optimizing run-time complexity is even worse; with functional languages the problem is simply defined away.
If you don't care to respect the life-risking hard work of others, if you prefer to cheerlead a large corporation because it holds more clout, whose main contribution to the world is realising that 1995-era web pages look better than cluttered 2000-era web pages, then you deserve exactly the America you're getting.
I can certainly agree with this paragraph. Only that I'm thinking of Fox News, CNN and all the other "respectable" media that had nothing more to offer than cheerleading when GWB invaded Iraq. Propably people deserve nothing better when they put up with this pulp. But then I also see no reason to pay premium prices for that.
The problem is not that it removes those who complain, the problem is that it dares use their work in the first place, instead of employing an explicit opt-in method [...]
If you don't care to learn the ways of the new age then you should rightfully go extinct.
- but that, like Wikipedia originally planning to have a "peer reviewed"
rather than "anyone can write shit" method, would create quality, consensus
and fairness, rather than easy content and easy profit.
Well, your comment is a just a piece of uninformed, biased drivel.
Perhaps some uninformed and ignorant readers will fall for it.
Though I don't think that anybody ever succesfully using Google
or Wikipedia will like being insulted by the established media.
This is not about Islam vs. Christianity. For one thing Europe is today dominated by liberal socialism. And Islam is definitely not about autocratic nationalism.
Your remark about a union with other turkic countries highlights the problem: 90 years after the fall of the empire the Islamic neighbours still hate Turkey for it's imperialism, ruling out any real union with real countries.
I'm saying that we as scientists need to start paying as much attention to how we get out message across as what that message is. We like to believe that the truth will be so amazing that the public will accept it, no matter how terribly it's delivered. That's just not realistic.
The strange thing is that you are not the first people to
have this kind of problem. Yet nobody seems to look for historic
or foreign examples. So I'll have to agree that elitism of US
scientists is a huge part of the problem.
On the other hand Europeans stopped being regligious nuts only after a few centuries of wars. Only to become rabid nationalists, fighting even bigger wars.
And probably only the lose-lose-situation of nuclear weapons avoided the next war.
Anyway, today religious leaders in Western Europe are either humble and wise
or they are ridiculed.
Yeah, I derision is really the key. It does not really matter what
scientists or teachers or politicians do or say. The crucial point is
whether you can lough about them when they act stupid.
Unfortunately you took the alternative road. Instead of secularizing
holy dogmas you invented political correctness to make the mundane a taboo.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria are now part of NATO. The status of Ukraine is in limbo. So Russia is now back to where it was after World War I.
And if you consider the Stans in central Asia to be independent states then Russian imperialism was really set back about two centuries.
Ok, the cold war was won by outspending the enemy through insane amounts of technology. But you have to realize that this really was psychological. And it works both ways. If you have nothing but money to go against will power then you will eventually go broke. Think of a suicide bomber as a very cheap and very smart self guided missile. Compare this to the millions of dollars a single cruise missile costs. If you want to win modern asymetric wars, then you will have to do what is necessary. Not what you fancy.
Software Engineering stopped being all about batch processing in the 1970ies.
Relational databases are sneaking into all areas ever since. In most cases this is just a matter of available speed. As rule of thumb: If your application can deliver sufficient performance written in Java or.NET then you can also use the flexibility of SQL.
Not knowing about relational databases is like not knowing object oriented programming. Some programmers don't need it. But graduates of Computer Science absolutely have to.
A lot of FTP sites use standard logins like ftp/ftp or anonymous/anonymous, and hence are public. On the other side a lot of Websites require a password to login, and hence are private. And some rare cases even use an intermediate scheme: a non-standard, but widely circulated password. You could even publish the HTTP password on the main page. Then every human can read und use that information, but generic robots are locked out.
Existing use of technology gives enough leverage to implement private and semi-private pages. So this whole issue can only be about two things: a) technical incompetence b) extra-ordinary greed
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The kurons might like it. Fits right in with the crazy shit there.
You forgot news.albasani.net, you insensitive clod.
Go die in a flaming jihad.
There is a port running on Linux: http://www.han.de/~werner/ytree.html
BEST BOND YARN EVER!
Only problem with that: secular dictatorships are natural allies against religious fundamentalists.
Hussein's Iraq is no different than Musharraf's Pakistan or Suharto's Indonesia in this regard.
Everything the old and the young Bush did is wrong.
Not to forget Reagan, who started that Mujahedin business.
Programming is pointless without a computer.
Well, I am from Austria. In 1908 it was governed by an emperor that valued military virtues above everything else. Enter WWI.
So in hind sight I am extremely glad that my ancestors got a better education, alienated themselves from their authoritarian, militaristic roots, and stopped the abuse, robbery and misuse going one for centuries.Between 1919 and 1934 there was some kind of democracy (the opposition never came to rule).
Anyway, in 1934, after a brief civil war, a dictator took power.
In 1938 the German army marched in, with an awful lot of cheers. During WWII Austrians fight in the Wehrmacht.
As long as every generation has more children than the land can feed, every generation will have poverty and war.
Any culture that values a high number of children more than high education for children will permanently have poverty and war.
If you consider the culture of sub-Saharan Africa worth preserving as it is, then you want to preserve poverty and war.
Africa needs to change. Africans need to change. A lot.
Imagine Duke Nukem Forever running under Wine 1.0 on GNU Hurd.
In other words: Why do these guys hate us so much?
Well, to me a place without Internet is sub standard.
Like a shack with an outhouse.
I won't go there.
And I guess most people that ever enjoyed the comfort of cilization will neither.
Well, they had working railroad then.
XP was useless IMO and added little to nothing to the OS.
I consider Remote Desktop a killer feature. VNC on Windows is incredibly slow.Old-school mathematicians uses Fortran 77 because they can't
be bothered to learn the overhead of a fashion language, e.g. C.
Avantgarde mathematicians use Lisp or some other functional
language because it heightens the mind. If it's to slow then
it's all the IT crowd's fault. If machines report something
about insufficient memory then it's all the hardware crowd's
fault. And if marketing says that it's so damn tough to sell
an application whose complete user interface consists of
definitions in source code, well that's the fault of modern
day teachers.
By the way, modern day mathematician use Mathematica and have
no fucking clue what they are doing.
Computers are very simple machines providing only simple building blocks.
To get anything useful done you need to combine an awful lot of building blocks.
In comparison mathematicians and physicians torture their minds with
mindboggingly complicated stuff. But when they are pressed to explain it,
write a book about it, or code some program then all you get is
incomprehensible spaghetti FORTRAN.
The mathematician's answer to memory management is garbage collection,
i.e. it's left as an exercise to everyone else. The mathematician's answer
to optimizing run-time complexity is even worse; with functional languages
the problem is simply defined away.
If you don't care to respect the life-risking hard work of others, if you prefer to cheerlead a large corporation because it holds more clout, whose main contribution to the world is realising that 1995-era web pages look better than cluttered 2000-era web pages, then you deserve exactly the America you're getting.
I can certainly agree with this paragraph. Only that I'm thinking of Fox News, CNN and all the other "respectable" media that had nothing more to offer than cheerleading when GWB invaded Iraq. Propably people deserve nothing better when they put up with this pulp. But then I also see no reason to pay premium prices for that.
The problem is not that it removes those who complain, the problem is that it dares use their work in the first place, instead of employing an explicit opt-in method [...]
Ever heard of the Robots Exclusion Standard colloquially called robots.txt?
If you don't care to learn the ways of the new age then you should rightfully go extinct.
- but that, like Wikipedia originally planning to have a "peer reviewed" rather than "anyone can write shit" method, would create quality, consensus and fairness, rather than easy content and easy profit.
Well, your comment is a just a piece of uninformed, biased drivel. Perhaps some uninformed and ignorant readers will fall for it. Though I don't think that anybody ever succesfully using Google or Wikipedia will like being insulted by the established media.
:omg
It's a Soviet Russia joke turning reality.
This is not about Islam vs. Christianity.
For one thing Europe is today dominated by liberal socialism.
And Islam is definitely not about autocratic nationalism.
Your remark about a union with other turkic countries highlights the problem: 90 years after the fall of the empire the Islamic neighbours still hate Turkey for it's imperialism, ruling out any real union with real countries.
I'm saying that we as scientists need to start paying as much attention to how we get out message across as what that message is. We like to believe that the truth will be so amazing that the public will accept it, no matter how terribly it's delivered. That's just not realistic.
The strange thing is that you are not the first people to have this kind of problem. Yet nobody seems to look for historic or foreign examples. So I'll have to agree that elitism of US scientists is a huge part of the problem.
On the other hand Europeans stopped being regligious nuts only after a few centuries of wars. Only to become rabid nationalists, fighting even bigger wars. And probably only the lose-lose-situation of nuclear weapons avoided the next war. Anyway, today religious leaders in Western Europe are either humble and wise or they are ridiculed.
Yeah, I derision is really the key. It does not really matter what scientists or teachers or politicians do or say. The crucial point is whether you can lough about them when they act stupid.
Unfortunately you took the alternative road. Instead of secularizing holy dogmas you invented political correctness to make the mundane a taboo.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia,
Romania and Bulgaria are now part of NATO. The status of Ukraine is in limbo.
So Russia is now back to where it was after World War I.
And if you consider the Stans in central Asia to be independent states
then Russian imperialism was really set back about two centuries.
They did lose. Heavily.
Ok, the cold war was won by outspending the enemy through insane amounts of technology.
n _iraq.html
But you have to realize that this really was psychological.
And it works both ways.
If you have nothing but money to go against will power then you will eventually go broke.
Think of a suicide bomber as a very cheap and very smart self guided missile.
Compare this to the millions of dollars a single cruise missile costs.
If you want to win modern asymetric wars, then you will have to do what is necessary.
Not what you fancy.
http://www.exile.ru/2006-November-17/how_to_win_i
Software Engineering stopped being all about batch processing in the 1970ies.
.NET then you can also use the flexibility of SQL.
Relational databases are sneaking into all areas ever since.
In most cases this is just a matter of available speed.
As rule of thumb: If your application can deliver sufficient performance written in Java or
Not knowing about relational databases is like not knowing object oriented programming.
Some programmers don't need it.
But graduates of Computer Science absolutely have to.
If you don't know what you are doing, you should stick with the default "distro".
And Microsoft recommends NTFS.
A lot of FTP sites use standard logins like ftp/ftp or anonymous/anonymous, and hence are public.
On the other side a lot of Websites require a password to login, and hence are private.
And some rare cases even use an intermediate scheme: a non-standard, but widely circulated password.
You could even publish the HTTP password on the main page.
Then every human can read und use that information, but generic robots are locked out.
Existing use of technology gives enough leverage to implement private and semi-private pages.
So this whole issue can only be about two things:
a) technical incompetence
b) extra-ordinary greed