First, Cubans are not educated about democracy Are americans taught about marxism? Not as much as they are taught about american history and patriotism, both countries are indoctrinated, not quite as blatently as the Chinese "patriot re-education act", but pretending americans arnt indoctrinated is pretty dumb.
Second issue, wages. Do you want Cuban wages? It is part of the package. Government excise taxes on exports prohibit paying you more. Thats thier economic system completly unrelated to free speach, much more related to this big country next door to them spending 50 years trying to crush them.
and I bet by American standards you would not want their health care. If they have a MRI, it is probably booked up for the elite. Do you think some farmer is getting top of the line treatment? Please get a clue, sure they dont have MRI, but the result of there efforts is pretty much the same as yours, but dont take my word for it, both BBC newsnight (image a faux report but without the bullshit)The report noted that:
"Thanks chiefly to the American economic blockade, but partly also to the web of strange rules and regulations that constrict Cuban life, the economy is in a terrible mess: national income per head is minuscule, and resources are amazingly tight. Healthcare, however, is a top national priority" The report stated that life expectancy and infant mortality rates are pretty much the same as the USA's. Its doctor-to-patient ratios stand comparison to any country in Western Europe. Its annual total health spend per head, however, comes in at $251; just over a tenth of the UK's. So after the american 50 year blockade, they have the same success rate in staying alive (thats the key factor in health care btw), but everything is run to shit, so its all done for just $251 per person.
and a UK parliamentary commitee, went over and made a similar report:
* There appeared to be little evidence of a divide between the prevention/proactive response and the disease management/reactive response within Cuban healthcare.
* In Cuba it was one doctor per 175 people, in the UK the figure was one doctor per 600 people.
* There is a commitment in Cuba to the triple diagnosis (physical/psychological/social) at all levels.
* Extensive involvement of "patient" and the public in decision making at all levels.
* Integration of hospital/community/primary care via polyclinics.
* Team-work that works is much more evident both in the community and the hospital sector and the mental-health and care of the elderly sites visited were very well staffed and supported. Ofc it does have flaws
# Low pay of doctors # Poor facilitiesâ"buildings in poor state of repair and mostly outdated. # Poor provision of equipment. # Frequent absence of essential drugs. # Concern regarding freedom of choice both for patient and doctor. But overall it is as good if not better than the US healthcare system. Sure measure stuff in waiting lines and America might look good, but measure any real factors, $ per head, life expectancy, etc and America is no better than many places and much worse than Europe.
But they're the GOOD GUYS, in your view. Nobody said cuba was perfect, but the idea that you can draw a good guys vs bad guys is pretty dumb tho.
there's no free speech, free thought, free expression Well there would be more free speech if you just gave them an internet cable, sure only for the rich at first, but it would trickely out, people would send EEEs back etc.
No substance, just paranoid, bitter ranting, with goofy moral inversions and willful ignorance. Well until we can get more information all comments on cuba are simply ignorance, either what you call "wilful ignorance" in support of cuba, or bush based bullshit, against cuba. Until we can get more undistorted information out of cuba, all anybody has is an opinion, and that the liberal lefties your accusing of "wilful ignorance" have looked into the issues more than the fox watching right, so if anybody is "wilfully ignorant" its you.
Cuba is a PRISON Shame the biggest prision, is the US one then isn't it.
Maintaining the embargo encourages others to do so, Apart from chavez, hes blatantly doing anything he can to piss off america.
In all honesty I dont think there is any issue, its just childishness and no American politician want to 'look weak'( because we all know talking to your enemies gives you cooties).Thanks to the hilary, Obama bull its getting less and less likely that Obama wins the election, which is a really shame because he seams to be the only person who realises how childish the cuba situation is.
If there is any issue it might be Guantanamo bay, they'll most likely tell you to piss off and draw attention, to the illegal detentions, being done on illegally occupied land. but in the whole Guantanamo bay thing that's the least of its worries.
Last I checked, teaching kids Linux was not the goal of this project either. No but their goal was to empower the countries and not make them dependent on outside help, this simply isn't possible with any proprietary operating system.
An example of why I think the point of allowing the US Prez to allow censorship is, let's say a group in Afghanistan are using the webcams to track US troop movements and MSN messenger to pass data and orders. To find out what they were using webcams for they would have to allow the US prez access to ALL msn traffic, and blocking thier MSN wont stop them being able to SSH into the machine to watch the troops.
Finally, let's say someone stole the plans to the F22 fighter that exposed a way to detect it via radar and wanted to post the information on their MySpace page from an Internet Cafe... Censoring their MySpace page, wont magically fix the F22, it will just lead the pilots into a false sense of security.
None of your examples require censorship, i cant think of any example where censorship is needed, and if it is needed then it should come from a court not the president
Why not just hook up a 4 diode converter to change AC to DC, they would still strobe but no longer flicker. But the strobing would still occur in your solution, the only solution is to attach a small capacitor. Which solution is more practical depends if non emiting diodes are cheaper than LEDs
The problem is that there are only 5 pictures, one in every 5 guesses will pass. If you expanded it as far as 10 pictures and then your down to 1 in 1024, but thats still less than a 2 letter capacha
Sure you could block any system that is wrong more than x times, but they have networks of drones and can get round the blocks in otherways ( proxies, forged IPs, etc)
After market firewire cards come in at about $20, plus id assume this thing supports extra SATA drives. This is a desktop if your using wireless on a desktop you sir are an idiot!
Stop being such a fan boy and accept that apple arse rape you on price for everything other than high end systems.
If something "just works", your not trying to do anything cool enough on it e.g install MacOS on non apple hardware convert a 5 y/o box into a PVR mount your HDD through a loop over a coat-hanger.
True its just a shame, that 1) i cant use it on linux 2) its google earth that is linked into otherwebsites
it looks to me like google have the technical know how but like me, once you've sorted out the problem, who can be arsed with the details (e.g pictures). Solution, hire in outsiders to do the booring bits.
Probably, if i know anything about chemistry its that its rarley absolute, it quite likely that statistical OCR will always be able to read what was printed on the paper.
OFC if your printing secrets on reusable paper your then given to your enemies, you probably have other problems.
If they can extend the lifetime of the pages to month or maybe even years, this would really help academic institudes and the such, where lots of stuff gets printed but is rarely needed for more than a couple of weeks.
I always found pidgin's options are bad attitude was abit too much, to an extent they are right but they go too far, but hey thats why im using kde, i just wish kopete had some pidgin features.
But i use KDE so i have both options and i like it that way, the solution to this problem is simple, dont let individual programs make WM level decisions,
Now as long as both of these options are in a single application, you might be able to catch that, but what if they are in different application? One application choses 'Mac menus' by default and your window manager uses focus follows mouse by default. The user will have good fun trying to figure out why the menu always disappears when he tries to reach it. Mac style menus are to do with window management so while the option for programs to use it should be there the choice should be made by the WM Putting the right options in the right places is the way to do it.
Who cares about the mainstream, i want my non/compulsory resizing text box. Seriously if people would stop worrying about the masses and just make the best damn webbrowser, IM client, kernel, etc then theyll have the best damn *, who cares what others use.
Communism never meant free in the monetary sense either, giving the workers the tools to produce their own system will probably allow your country to pass as communist, probably not traditional military totalitarian style but some sort of anarchocommunist (a.k.a libertarian in Europe) one at least.
But thanks to centos you can download the binaries anyway, the key difference is that companies want companies supporting them. Whens the last time your average desktop user (mac boys excluded because they cant shutup about support from apple), phoned up their vendor for support, its a lot more common to just goggle it
Either that or they respect their user privacy to at least some extent, if it didn't require a court order, it would be far to easy to fake somebody's death to get their details.
Too far, We cant even get proportional representation (in the UK not sure how it would work in the US, perhaps proportional per state) Hell even 2nd preference is key, as otherwise no matter what happens your vote is wasted.
I think if governments were not so self serving a good first step in symbolic giving back of power, (i cant picture it having much practical effect) would be to setup a secure voting system that allows an area to veto thier representative vote on any issue, if more than 50% of registered voters disagree.
Its not exactly what your suggesting but the system as it is now 1) Doesn't give you any power with your vote (only the people that go round preaching vote * are really the only people that can have any effect) 2) discriminates against smaller parties, nobody even bothers voting green if their vote doesn't count 3) Doesn't let you have your say on individual issues (I mean if you have to choose between somebody who sucks on environmental policies and one that sucks on economics, your going to have to vote for the wrong candidate in one of those fields)
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and a UK parliamentary commitee, went over and made a similar report: * There appeared to be little evidence of a divide between the prevention/proactive response and the disease management/reactive response within Cuban healthcare.
* In Cuba it was one doctor per 175 people, in the UK the figure was one doctor per 600 people.
* There is a commitment in Cuba to the triple diagnosis (physical/psychological/social) at all levels.
* Extensive involvement of "patient" and the public in decision making at all levels.
* Integration of hospital/community/primary care via polyclinics.
* Team-work that works is much more evident both in the community and the hospital sector and the mental-health and care of the elderly sites visited were very well staffed and supported. Ofc it does have flaws # Low pay of doctors
# Poor facilitiesâ"buildings in poor state of repair and mostly outdated.
# Poor provision of equipment.
# Frequent absence of essential drugs.
# Concern regarding freedom of choice both for patient and doctor. But overall it is as good if not better than the US healthcare system. Sure measure stuff in waiting lines and America might look good, but measure any real factors, $ per head, life expectancy, etc and America is no better than many places and much worse than Europe.
In all honesty I dont think there is any issue, its just childishness and no American politician want to 'look weak'( because we all know talking to your enemies gives you cooties).Thanks to the hilary, Obama bull its getting less and less likely that Obama wins the election, which is a really shame because he seams to be the only person who realises how childish the cuba situation is.
If there is any issue it might be Guantanamo bay, they'll most likely tell you to piss off and draw attention, to the illegal detentions, being done on illegally occupied land. but in the whole Guantanamo bay thing that's the least of its worries.
None of your examples require censorship, i cant think of any example where censorship is needed, and if it is needed then it should come from a court not the president
Why not just hook up a 4 diode converter to change AC to DC, they would still strobe but no longer flicker. But the strobing would still occur in your solution, the only solution is to attach a small capacitor.
Which solution is more practical depends if non emiting diodes are cheaper than LEDs
The problem is that there are only 5 pictures, one in every 5 guesses will pass. If you expanded it as far as 10 pictures and then your down to 1 in 1024, but thats still less than a 2 letter capacha
Sure you could block any system that is wrong more than x times, but they have networks of drones and can get round the blocks in otherways ( proxies, forged IPs, etc)
After market firewire cards come in at about $20, plus id assume this thing supports extra SATA drives.
This is a desktop if your using wireless on a desktop you sir are an idiot!
Stop being such a fan boy and accept that apple arse rape you on price for everything other than high end systems.
If something "just works", your not trying to do anything cool enough on it
e.g install MacOS on non apple hardware
convert a 5 y/o box into a PVR
mount your HDD through a loop over a coat-hanger.
Get me a factory and deals with suppliers and ill do it for $150
OTOH, the parts are new,
Or the government's said it never happened.
This is slashdot, not enough paranoia and you get kicked out!
True its just a shame, that
1) i cant use it on linux
2) its google earth that is linked into otherwebsites
it looks to me like google have the technical know how but like me, once you've sorted out the problem, who can be arsed with the details (e.g pictures). Solution, hire in outsiders to do the booring bits.
Probably, if i know anything about chemistry its that its rarley absolute, it quite likely that statistical OCR will always be able to read what was printed on the paper.
OFC if your printing secrets on reusable paper your then given to your enemies, you probably have other problems.
If they can extend the lifetime of the pages to month or maybe even years, this would really help academic institudes and the such, where lots of stuff gets printed but is rarely needed for more than a couple of weeks.
I always found pidgin's options are bad attitude was abit too much, to an extent they are right but they go too far, but hey thats why im using kde, i just wish kopete had some pidgin features.
Actually they are arguing about the name so it should be
[X] call "Allow resizing of chat input area" Automatically control chat input window size
[X] Automatically control chat input window size
Putting the right options in the right places is the way to do it.
Do MSN or Trillian support internal message systems?
btw adium is pidgin
Who cares about the mainstream, i want my non/compulsory resizing text box.
Seriously if people would stop worrying about the masses and just make the best damn webbrowser, IM client, kernel, etc then theyll have the best damn *, who cares what others use.
I want free free beer
Communism never meant free in the monetary sense either, giving the workers the tools to produce their own system will probably allow your country to pass as communist, probably not traditional military totalitarian style but some sort of anarchocommunist (a.k.a libertarian in Europe) one at least.
But thanks to centos you can download the binaries anyway, the key difference is that companies want companies supporting them. Whens the last time your average desktop user (mac boys excluded because they cant shutup about support from apple), phoned up their vendor for support, its a lot more common to just goggle it
Either that or they respect their user privacy to at least some extent, if it didn't require a court order, it would be far to easy to fake somebody's death to get their details.
Too far,
We cant even get proportional representation (in the UK not sure how it would work in the US, perhaps proportional per state)
Hell even 2nd preference is key, as otherwise no matter what happens your vote is wasted.
I think if governments were not so self serving a good first step in symbolic giving back of power, (i cant picture it having much practical effect) would be to setup a secure voting system that allows an area to veto thier representative vote on any issue, if more than 50% of registered voters disagree.
Its not exactly what your suggesting but the system as it is now
1) Doesn't give you any power with your vote (only the people that go round preaching vote * are really the only people that can have any effect)
2) discriminates against smaller parties, nobody even bothers voting green if their vote doesn't count
3) Doesn't let you have your say on individual issues (I mean if you have to choose between somebody who sucks on environmental policies and one that sucks on economics, your going to have to vote for the wrong candidate in one of those fields)