In the USSR, there was a thing called "exit visa." Moreover, you would only receive your passport just before you leave the country (and after one or more interviews with a KGB agent who gets to decide whether you're worthy) and surrender it back after you return.
Just to inform you of your future. Nothing's new on this earth.
Not at all. This is 21st century justice in the hands of American "liberators."
Milosevic has received the same treatment. Welcome to the brave new world, about 15 years late.
Not at all. This is 21st century justice in the hand of American "liberators."
Milosevic has received the same treatment. Welcome to the brave new world, about 15 years late.
I hope you realise that the idea is to actually use these laptops as eBook-readers for cheap and updated school books, including lots of free material from sources such as Wikipedia.
e-books? Who's going to produce and distribute them (Village, no electricity. Remember?)
Updated books? How often do you need to update a book on language? School-level math?
Granted, you need to change the history books quite often, especially in the third-world countries - about every time the government changes.
Wikipedia? In Ethiopean or Somali?
Obviously, to succeed, even modestly, in the global trade system, one needs education. LOTS of it. And it takes equipment and it takes capital.
No, it does not need either. All it generally needs is a teacher, a shack and some processed trees. That's all. Not that your Edison used a wind-up laptop for his education, you know. Or even your average 35-year-old during his school years.
Sounds a lot like "let them eat cake." Brazil, Nigeria, etc. "lining up for the laptops"? Ever heard of the word "kickback"? Or of the governmentes stealing and then selling humanitarian aid?
An African child from a family going hungry day to day "learning" something on a free laptop instead of selling it on a market for their year's household income?
You Americans obviously are totally disconnected from reality.
And school textbooks (you know, "treeware") do not cost $60 each to print - they cost that much because the publishers want this much money. And then there are writers with their "intellectual property rights."
Want to help out? Fine, do it. But do it realistically. This whole "one 3rd-world child per laptop" looks like scam in order to shake up the (1-st world) taxpayer money, not like any real "help."
Notice in the latter: In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org.
How's that for a (supposedly) Free, Capitalist and Everything country? The similar result would happen on google.de, etc.
To this date, there have been no communist countries anywhere in the world. Communism was always seen as a thing that will happen in the (more or less near) future. The countries you're referring to were called socialist or people democracies - it's your US propaganda that called them communist.
In a communist society, there's no money by definition.
Since your communist society provides me everything I need, and money has no use, what is my incentive to work? How will society know what I need? What if my needs change?
Your incentive to work is knowing that you (and everyone) must work for things to be there. Bees work and don't earn money.
Tonight I'm making cookies. I need some chocolate chips for my cookies. Where do I go to get it in your society? Does everyone get the same amount? My lazy brother-in-law doesn't work - why should he have any? My Dad doesn't like chocolate - why does society waste effort giving him his?
You pop into a shop and get them for free. You (and everybody else) take the amount you really need - there's no point of taking more as there's no money to exchange the excess for. Your lazy brother would work - there are no lazy people in a communist society.
If your dad doesn't like chocolate, he doesn't go to a shop to get it. He goes there to get something you like.
Look, you have pretty vague idea what the communism (as an idealistic idea) is. Basically, communism is: Everyone does their best working, the products of work are plentiful, there's no scarcity of resources anymore, so everyone has everything he really needs. - No, you don't really need a Rolls-Royce or 5000 pairs of shoes.
Pity it doesn't work without creating a better type of man.
Instead we should continue to bring over Chinese nationals to the United States as students so that when (if) they go back to China and there is a revolution, these issues will be addressed.
Yep. And hope the "revolution" reduces China from one of the biggest economies in the world to a torn apart number of banana republics, just like USSR. "Regime change", "democracy", no competition to the US hegemony. How beautiful.
Would that be emigration or immigration?
Your population continues to grow from the latter, mostly from the failed place of earth like Africa, Latin America, Middle East, the Balkans, etc. Many of those places have become failed due to your intervention.
Do you know the chinese are hauling ethnic chinese by the trainload into tibet to overrun the place?
I know that they are not.
the fucking chinese have clubbed to death the entire population of tibet's beautiful native dogs
Not the entire population but 50 thousand, not beautiful but any, not native, but regular pet dogs, not Tibet's but Yunnan's...
You, sir, are a hateful lemming vaguely recalling something overheard on CNN, but unsure what exactly.
See, this is how the US media propaganda works. They phrase their "news" so that the lemmings like this one will believe something that wasn't actually said but what they were led to believe.
More dangerous to their own people - maybe, but certainly not China.
Go talk to any Bosnian Croat or Muslim and tell them that there was no genocide.
And your point would be? Conversely, go talk to any Serb (Bosnian, Croatian or, well, Serbian) and tell them there was genocide. Alternatively, Go talk to your beloved Bosnians and Croats (Ustasa) and ask them where has the population of Srpska Krajina gone. Or, again, the Serb (and non-Albanian) population of Kosovo.
I've found it in like 5 minutes. You're not at googling are you?
Here
"Germany's parliament passed legislation in 1985, making it a crime to deny the extermination of the Jews. In 1994, the law was tightened. Now, anyone who publicly endorses, denies or plays down the genocide against the Jews faces a maximum penalty of five years in jail and no less than the imposition of a fine."
- And that is in addition to such countries as France (1990) and Switzerland - both having lost the war, presumably?
Ethnic cleansing, also known as genocide, from a Serb named Slobodan Milosevich.
Yep. So that's why there are no Serbs left in Kosovo (used to be around 700 thousand).
And Milosevic (of course) has died of natural causes.
- Dumb CNN-brainwashed American arsehole.
They even see the German people as discriminated against by the Jews
What makes you think that German people cannot be discriminated by the Jews. Is it like the Jews never discriminate anyone (can you say "Arab Israelis")?
I'm not sure how you can just tar an entire group of people with the same brush like this
That's because the guy, if you haven't noticed, is a racist. A stereotypical, albeit non-white (so that must be all right then, huh?) racist thinking East Asians to be a better race than whites and hence more deserving to take over Australia.
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Iraqi army didn't gas anyone, Iranian army did. Check your sources and try to distinguish them from propaganda. Here and here.
My, they didn't tell you that on Fox did they? I'm so-oo surprised!
In the USSR, there was a thing called "exit visa." Moreover, you would only receive your passport just before you leave the country (and after one or more interviews with a KGB agent who gets to decide whether you're worthy) and surrender it back after you return. Just to inform you of your future. Nothing's new on this earth.
Not at all. This is 21st century justice in the hands of American "liberators." Milosevic has received the same treatment. Welcome to the brave new world, about 15 years late.
Not at all. This is 21st century justice in the hand of American "liberators." Milosevic has received the same treatment. Welcome to the brave new world, about 15 years late.
Updated books? How often do you need to update a book on language? School-level math? Granted, you need to change the history books quite often, especially in the third-world countries - about every time the government changes.
Wikipedia? In Ethiopean or Somali?
Sounds a lot like "let them eat cake." Brazil, Nigeria, etc. "lining up for the laptops"? Ever heard of the word "kickback"? Or of the governmentes stealing and then selling humanitarian aid?
An African child from a family going hungry day to day "learning" something on a free laptop instead of selling it on a market for their year's household income?
You Americans obviously are totally disconnected from reality.
And school textbooks (you know, "treeware") do not cost $60 each to print - they cost that much because the publishers want this much money. And then there are writers with their "intellectual property rights."
Want to help out? Fine, do it. But do it realistically. This whole "one 3rd-world child per laptop" looks like scam in order to shake up the (1-st world) taxpayer money, not like any real "help."
To this date, there have been no communist countries anywhere in the world. Communism was always seen as a thing that will happen in the (more or less near) future. The countries you're referring to were called socialist or people democracies - it's your US propaganda that called them communist. In a communist society, there's no money by definition.
You pop into a shop and get them for free. You (and everybody else) take the amount you really need - there's no point of taking more as there's no money to exchange the excess for. Your lazy brother would work - there are no lazy people in a communist society. If your dad doesn't like chocolate, he doesn't go to a shop to get it. He goes there to get something you like.
Look, you have pretty vague idea what the communism (as an idealistic idea) is. Basically, communism is: Everyone does their best working, the products of work are plentiful, there's no scarcity of resources anymore, so everyone has everything he really needs. - No, you don't really need a Rolls-Royce or 5000 pairs of shoes.
Pity it doesn't work without creating a better type of man.
Yes, I think you are - You've not shown any evidence to the contrary. Fuck yourself. Thank you.
I've found it in like 5 minutes. You're not at googling are you? Here "Germany's parliament passed legislation in 1985, making it a crime to deny the extermination of the Jews. In 1994, the law was tightened. Now, anyone who publicly endorses, denies or plays down the genocide against the Jews faces a maximum penalty of five years in jail and no less than the imposition of a fine." - And that is in addition to such countries as France (1990) and Switzerland - both having lost the war, presumably?