Conscious and organized evil triumhs over the passive wishy-washy one-day-on/ one-day-off do nothing wrong that most people calls "Good". It's the kind of people never do anything evil for other people but also never do anything really good for others, and keeps the nose and the eyes meekly down to the grindstone thinking they are being "Good". Conscious "Good" is taking a proactive stance against evil and organizing people to actively fight it. Among other things.
The factories on the Mexican border with the USA have lots of illegal centralamerican immigrants working at them. When detected they have one year to produce a passport from any centralamerican country, with which they can start the process of becoming legal Mexican residents, all that without having to leave their jobs.
I think what happens is that in an office environment you are needed for your capability of interacting with an increasingly educated population. And everybody wants those nice and confortable office jobs. Blue collar is becoming the province of the non-anglosaxon and the non-educated, and who wants to be there?
They used to say the same in Acapulco. Now just ask the hotel managers about ocupancy rates, ask discos personnel about heads being hurled into the dancing floor, ask the teachers about being asked for a 50% of their payroll (they know how much each of them makes) on threat of children being killed, ask...ok, you get the idea. Don't feel so confident about the relative safety of 2 of the 3 big Mexican cities, Mexico City and Guadalajara. Oh, by the way, the 3rd big city is Monterrey, home of the proudest industrial elite, now being overrunned by the organized crime. They used to proudly and despectively boast the same.
Exactly, in their controlled areas they have lots of forced look-outs "halcones" or "hawks", same within the companies. In the state of Tamaulipas for example, any independent contractor doing business with Pemex, the national oil company is threatened for a percentage of their contracts. And they always know exactly how much was the contract for. In the state of Michoacan they know who the avocado producers over a certain limit are, and they're all shaken down. In Acapulco, they threatened all the teachers making over a certain amount for the 50 % of their income, on threat of killing school children. You may be thinking, "where the fuck is your government?" They're an elitist-conservative party, backed up by the USA against popular and leftist candidate Lopez Obrador, and as international investigator Eduardo Buscaglia says, comparing Mexico's mafia against Russian,l Chinese, Colombian, Italia's , etc. they're not likely to take any meaningful action until the organized crime hits politicians or their families at the right level.
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&id_nota=780202 here's another one by a reputed Mexican newspaper. In several others it was also revealed that the released activist carried a message from the Zetas stating that if Anonymous outed any members, they would kill the activist's family plus 10 inocent persons for each Zeta outed to the media.
Legalizing drugs wouldn't fix the problem which has become now a social and economic one. As the video from international investigator Eduardo Buscaglia mentions, the drug cartels have expanded into 18-19 criminal activities as a source of income, one of which is the drug traffic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg20OkOA8Nc If you go to one of the states controlled by the organized crime (as in every business has to pay protection to the OC) you'll see how pervasive they are, thousands of young people are lining up to join them. It's has become a way to escape ever increasing poverty, inequality and marginalization caused by neoliberal economic policies that have made Mexican society implode during current president's Calderon government. Psychological studies of sicarios (hitmen) for the OC show they are relatively normal people reacting to a new economic environment. The new motto for those young people has become: better to live 5 years as a king than 50 as an ox, which rymes in Spanish. Actually, they're more likely to live one or two years. Still, many young people accept this certainty.
In the future there will be docking stations everywhere, and you'll be able to plug your smartphone with all your work/entertainment/educative environment into any one of them.
This is not only about drug traffic anymore. These cartels are expanding into 23 different delictive activities (search for Eduardo Buscaglia's conferences and interviews in Youtube), and are now trying to control and enslave the whole population. At the Mexican/American border on the affected areas. city authorities live and work on the American side. In the big cities of the Northeast there is a stampede of rich people moving to the USA in what is called the "golden migration". This is the class of northern entrepreneurs that helped defeat the leftist candidate in 2006 presidential elections claiming his "little strange ideas were a danger to Mexico" with help from Spanish and American PR advisors. Under the new conservative government the economy imploded, hordes of young people have become part of organized crime, and the people that started the problem are running away from it leaving the underclasses to deal with it any way they can, as long as it doesn't mean electing a leftist government.
It's all a trap! What Nokia really wants is Open Source developers develop the new Nokia platform for free! Then they will come and pick the best. Now, how do you get developers in? Easy, taunt them with throwing Nokia in Microsoft's arms. Clever clever...
In another news about Kenya's explosion, authorities confirmed that since it is oil there will be no need to evacuate anybody in a 30 km radius like with nuclear. Also, you won't have to worry about increased cancer deaths for the next 20-30 years.
Marx described the mechanical forces driving human social evolution. Production relations are the infrastructure, they create a social superstructure. Each society evolves through a thesis-antithesis-synthesis process very similar to the ying-yang concept of Asia. So, capitalist society creates its own replacement: the industrial revolution that created capitalism has created the information revolution. Old ways of creating wealth are gradually being obsoleted. New ways are taking over. What the future society will look like? No one knows, but it will grow from the current advanced capitalist countries. A surprisingly insightful analysis can be found at Cracked: http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-be-ruled-by-b.s..html
Smartphones will get to be so powerful everybody will carry all their work environment in one of them. Your employer will provide something like a dock with monitor, keyboard, mouse, lan connection, etc which youÂll connect to through a special standardized connector in your phone. All public places will provide such docks.
In the future smartphones will be portable and powerful computers. Everybody will carry a copy of their work environment in them. People will come to work and connect their smartphones through a special connector to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, lan connection, etc. All their files and programs will be on their phones and backed up on the internet. And those phones will use some variant of Linux, some super-Android-like OS.
The problem is not the advancement of technology, the problem is the social structure, the production relationships. Our current capitalistic system is not fit for the information revolution. It was fit for the industrial revolution. Capitalism will start blocking real productivity, as best explained here: http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-be-ruled-by-b.s._p2.html/ As the classics speculated, the new socialist society will emerge from the advanced capitalistic societies.
For a moment I thought I was in reddit. I'm looking for any connection in this article to a technical subject, any, well, I guess I'm losing my sense of humor.
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Conscious and organized evil triumhs over the passive wishy-washy one-day-on/ one-day-off do nothing wrong that most people calls "Good". It's the kind of people never do anything evil for other people but also never do anything really good for others, and keeps the nose and the eyes meekly down to the grindstone thinking they are being "Good". Conscious "Good" is taking a proactive stance against evil and organizing people to actively fight it. Among other things.
The factories on the Mexican border with the USA have lots of illegal centralamerican immigrants working at them. When detected they have one year to produce a passport from any centralamerican country, with which they can start the process of becoming legal Mexican residents, all that without having to leave their jobs.
It will also make outsourcing your department much easier now that they can compare numbers.
I think what happens is that in an office environment you are needed for your capability of interacting with an increasingly educated population. And everybody wants those nice and confortable office jobs. Blue collar is becoming the province of the non-anglosaxon and the non-educated, and who wants to be there?
http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/the-chernobyl-death-toll-1000000-not-4000/
They used to say the same in Acapulco. Now just ask the hotel managers about ocupancy rates, ask discos personnel about heads being hurled into the dancing floor, ask the teachers about being asked for a 50% of their payroll (they know how much each of them makes) on threat of children being killed, ask...ok, you get the idea. Don't feel so confident about the relative safety of 2 of the 3 big Mexican cities, Mexico City and Guadalajara. Oh, by the way, the 3rd big city is Monterrey, home of the proudest industrial elite, now being overrunned by the organized crime. They used to proudly and despectively boast the same.
Exactly, in their controlled areas they have lots of forced look-outs "halcones" or "hawks", same within the companies. In the state of Tamaulipas for example, any independent contractor doing business with Pemex, the national oil company is threatened for a percentage of their contracts. And they always know exactly how much was the contract for. In the state of Michoacan they know who the avocado producers over a certain limit are, and they're all shaken down. In Acapulco, they threatened all the teachers making over a certain amount for the 50 % of their income, on threat of killing school children. You may be thinking, "where the fuck is your government?" They're an elitist-conservative party, backed up by the USA against popular and leftist candidate Lopez Obrador, and as international investigator Eduardo Buscaglia says, comparing Mexico's mafia against Russian,l Chinese, Colombian, Italia's , etc. they're not likely to take any meaningful action until the organized crime hits politicians or their families at the right level.
Very insightful. In fact, when they send a hitman and he misses his target, he has to kill a few bystanders in order to be forgiven.
They threatened to kill 10 innocent persons for every outed Zeta. After the massacre of San Fernando everybody knows they can carry out their threat.
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&id_nota=780202 here's another one by a reputed Mexican newspaper. In several others it was also revealed that the released activist carried a message from the Zetas stating that if Anonymous outed any members, they would kill the activist's family plus 10 inocent persons for each Zeta outed to the media.
Very insightful. In fact, in the state of Michoacan they've already taken over the production of Avocado.
Legalizing drugs wouldn't fix the problem which has become now a social and economic one. As the video from international investigator Eduardo Buscaglia mentions, the drug cartels have expanded into 18-19 criminal activities as a source of income, one of which is the drug traffic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg20OkOA8Nc If you go to one of the states controlled by the organized crime (as in every business has to pay protection to the OC) you'll see how pervasive they are, thousands of young people are lining up to join them. It's has become a way to escape ever increasing poverty, inequality and marginalization caused by neoliberal economic policies that have made Mexican society implode during current president's Calderon government. Psychological studies of sicarios (hitmen) for the OC show they are relatively normal people reacting to a new economic environment. The new motto for those young people has become: better to live 5 years as a king than 50 as an ox, which rymes in Spanish. Actually, they're more likely to live one or two years. Still, many young people accept this certainty.
It would be interesting to compare high level managerÂs speech patterns against the results of this study...
In the future there will be docking stations everywhere, and you'll be able to plug your smartphone with all your work/entertainment/educative environment into any one of them.
This is not only about drug traffic anymore. These cartels are expanding into 23 different delictive activities (search for Eduardo Buscaglia's conferences and interviews in Youtube), and are now trying to control and enslave the whole population. At the Mexican/American border on the affected areas. city authorities live and work on the American side. In the big cities of the Northeast there is a stampede of rich people moving to the USA in what is called the "golden migration". This is the class of northern entrepreneurs that helped defeat the leftist candidate in 2006 presidential elections claiming his "little strange ideas were a danger to Mexico" with help from Spanish and American PR advisors. Under the new conservative government the economy imploded, hordes of young people have become part of organized crime, and the people that started the problem are running away from it leaving the underclasses to deal with it any way they can, as long as it doesn't mean electing a leftist government.
It's all a trap! What Nokia really wants is Open Source developers develop the new Nokia platform for free! Then they will come and pick the best. Now, how do you get developers in? Easy, taunt them with throwing Nokia in Microsoft's arms. Clever clever...
In another news about Kenya's explosion, authorities confirmed that since it is oil there will be no need to evacuate anybody in a 30 km radius like with nuclear. Also, you won't have to worry about increased cancer deaths for the next 20-30 years.
Marx described the mechanical forces driving human social evolution. Production relations are the infrastructure, they create a social superstructure. Each society evolves through a thesis-antithesis-synthesis process very similar to the ying-yang concept of Asia. So, capitalist society creates its own replacement: the industrial revolution that created capitalism has created the information revolution. Old ways of creating wealth are gradually being obsoleted. New ways are taking over. What the future society will look like? No one knows, but it will grow from the current advanced capitalist countries. A surprisingly insightful analysis can be found at Cracked: http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-be-ruled-by-b.s..html
God makes them, then they find each other...
Smartphones will get to be so powerful everybody will carry all their work environment in one of them. Your employer will provide something like a dock with monitor, keyboard, mouse, lan connection, etc which youÂll connect to through a special standardized connector in your phone. All public places will provide such docks.
In the future smartphones will be portable and powerful computers. Everybody will carry a copy of their work environment in them. People will come to work and connect their smartphones through a special connector to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, lan connection, etc. All their files and programs will be on their phones and backed up on the internet. And those phones will use some variant of Linux, some super-Android-like OS.
The program that decides under the current reshoring initiative if a factory stays in CHina or returns to the USA is an Excel app: http://www.reshoringmfg.com/Reports/TCO%20ESTIMATOR%20VERSION%204.xls
The problem is not the advancement of technology, the problem is the social structure, the production relationships. Our current capitalistic system is not fit for the information revolution. It was fit for the industrial revolution. Capitalism will start blocking real productivity, as best explained here: http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-be-ruled-by-b.s._p2.html/ As the classics speculated, the new socialist society will emerge from the advanced capitalistic societies.
Why should you get to live in the country, pay super low taxes, and have someone else in the city pay super high taxes to subsidize YOUR high speed?
Why indeed? If you can't setup manufacturing faclities in the countryside just move them to China!
For a moment I thought I was in reddit. I'm looking for any connection in this article to a technical subject, any, well, I guess I'm losing my sense of humor.