And instead of posting as an AC, you can post as a Pendejo Sin Nombre.
It should be noted, for non-Spanish speakers, that Pendejo Sin Nombre, translates roughly as Nameless Asshole. I think Slashdot would profit a great deal from a similar terminology.
I am always intrigued when I see this line coming from non-US posters (and I've seen it from Nowegians, Swedish etc). Do you live in Peru or are you a Peruvian?
Number 1: Upwards of 90 percent of the population are almost completely native. As you probably know, the nations that colonized South America were not very nice to the natives.
Now, I realize it wasn't probably your intention to say so, but I don't see how the population being majoritarily native is a problem. Furthermore, I don't think the Spanish were as bad as, say the English in North America, seing as most of South American are to this day of native ancestry.
There have to be more Slashdotters in South America out there.... their opinions will be the most constructive. So, if you're out there, say something!!!
"Providing net cafes may help communities far more than, for example, providing electricity to every home."
I think this is absurd. Of course, you said "may help," so its ok.:)
I'm not the poster you replied to, but I'll take on that challenge: take the Old City district in Salvador, Brazil, for instance, an area already bustling with tourist activity; set up a few cybercafés so that said tourists can email their folks back home and hang around and exchange experiences with other tourists; net result: more tourists are attracted to the place, which in turn gets Maria a better income by selling local cuisine specialties to tourists; which in turn gets her son, José, a better education because he can now attend school and not be forced into menial jobs that would compromise his school attendance; this will, in the future, enhance his chances of landing a well-paid job (or even better, starting an enterprise of his own) improving his socio-economic conditions and those of his relatives.
Q.E.D
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As I mentioned earlier, "liberal" used to mean what "libertarian" does today. This stuff happens all the time.
I wont't delve into the rest of your post, because I simply don't have the time, but you are being terribly myopic in your political definitions here. Liberal still means one who advocates laissez-faire Adam Smith style market economy; it's just in the USA that it is used (mostly) as a means for conservative Republicans to deride their political opponents. Libertarian still means, im most of the world, someone who champions personal freedom (not just market freedom) above all, specially those that do it in a vocal, rebellious manner.
As a side note, the ideology you attribute to American liberals, a soft version of socialism, is what's called elsewhere social-democrat politics. But the Democrats are far from being social-democrats in the European sense. In fact, most Europeans would classify both the Democrats and the Republicans as right wing, only of a different shade of blue.
Nah, be a man (oops, be a person), and admit you were aiming for first post (which, incidentally you didn't get) and tried to disguise it with humor just so it would not be obvious.
Making money in IT is based on people buying stuff (the various.com's on the internet), or serving as part of the infrastructure of business/industry.
You are missing the point too. Making money in the net is more about selling a service (or advertising services) than about selling stuff (loosely speaking). Now the transition from an industrial economy to a service economy is what we've been witnessing throughout the Western world world, and is a highly desirable one for Third World countries even if they do not have a first-class industrial economy to begin with (which is not the case in most countries in LA: the industry may suck, but it is the basis of the economy.
The assumption that all developing countries have an agrarian based economy is one of the most widespread and silly misconceptions you see when slashdotter pontificate about this subject.
The flaws in his argument notwithstanding, I'm increasingly becoming a fan of this guy. BTW, why VeryAngryGuy and not Very Angry Guy? Are you new to/.?
It's people like him, or our old friend OOG, that add colour to/., even if of a weird shade.
I don't mean to be rude, but whoever moderated you up, has a lot of the same deluded naivety that you show. Let's see:
At a start, look at chldren in the US versus other countries. In france or other European countries a 5 year old kid can sit through a formal diner. How many 5 year olds in the US can do the same?
You really think five year old children are that much different, be they European, American, Indian, Japanese or whatever? Do you really think the notion of proper behavior (which varies with the different cultures) has sulked in by that age? Or did you just have a bad experience with your table neighbour's children yesterday night?
We have stopped teaching our children responsibility and discipline.
This is a favourite of conservatives, people who long for the "golden days" and suchlike fools. Responsability is a word much used by them, but seldom understood. You're aware that it is more easily taught by example than by indoctrination, right? And discipline is worth nothing if not rationally accepted, and pondered about. Otherwise it is no different than dog training.
It is much harder to aquire discipline later in life than early. Hell I am 22 and just now starting to learn to discipline myself. Its NOT easy. Its a skill that needs to be taught young.
There we go again with the discipline harangue. Discipline is highly overvalued. It is not always necessary, because it restrains leisure, imagination and all easy going things that make life worth living. Sometimes it is crucial, but only if you conscientiously accept it with your intellect. Perhaps you'll understand it when you're thirty.
All in all, the problems you seem to attribute to society's unwillingness to inflict responsibility and discipline on the young, are actually IMHO, the consequence of people not using rational thought enough in their lifes. Like: buying a cheaper product, even though its production endangers the environment or the local economy.
Then again, could it be that society implicity tells boys that they need to be "macho and manly"? Sort of how society tells girls they need to be "skinny and beautiful"?
I'd have to agree with you on that, but notice that the latter is much less harmful when taken to extremes (except for girls who go anorexic or bulimic, but then again, it only harms the individual concerned) that the former. Also notice, that there are generally accepted forms of showing your manlihood (excelling at sports, e.g.), that are much more palatable to society at large than vandalism and badass acting, which are generally frowned upon.
On another note though, I personally don't view guns as a buzz enhancer. That's stupid... comes from people who either have no experience with firearms or have never been properly trained.
I would like to agree with you on this also, dear AC, but IMHO, proper training in firearms is what you get from military service, not by hangin' out with the other rednecks from the trailer park, shooting beer cans in the fields.
I think her being in the mid 80s disqualifies her from being called a girl.... Wait, you meant you met her in the 80s (Ronald Reagan, Madonna's early videos and all that)? Oops, sorry...
You nailed it on the head, me friend. This is really not much different than all the other phenomena associated with annoying male adolescents, and whose root is the need of said individuals to constantly prove their manhood, or their ability at something (whatever that may be), at the cost of everybody else's patience if needs be. Perhaps that makes even more fun for them.
Problem is, some people never grow out of their teenage days...
Unless you're being ironic (and there are no signs of it, even if people modded you 'Funny') I am really disturbed by the fact that you think this is disturbing. No, serious.
Think about it for a moment: the use of attractive women to catch your attention is more than natural. From a marketing POV is just as effective as (or even more than) the use of flashy displays, light effects etc that people also use at trade shows. It caters to a very natural human impulse, which is the attraction to beauty, especially of the opposite sex. What's wrong with that? It's just a way to catch attention.
Now, it would be really a sad thing if you bought their stuff just because of the booth babes. But I don't think even the most sex-starved, hormone-laden teenage geek would waste his meager pennies on a Super Bogotifier 2000 just because of a pair of pretty legs.
That's why you should definitely become a Libiterian. Thus you can have your own individual spelling and not care a damn what the grammar police thinks about.
And always remember: freedom and linguistic inventiveness grow out the barrel of a gun.
Where are you getting all this "info" about French "government sponsored" industrial espionage, that surely sounds like it is taken verbatim from a Tom Clancy novel with the evil Russians replaced by the evil French. AFAIK, France is far from being a police state, much further than the good ole' USofA.
Kudos to timothy for the Dreyfus reference, though I'm afraid it will be lost on the/. crowd...
They're not giant mice, they're actually kangaroos, damn it. You think people would suspect, these news coming from Australia. Don't you people pay attention to Daffy Duck cartoons anymore?
let me tell you a little more about Bangalore a small city (by western standards !)
With over 4 million people, I can hardly see how Bangalore can be classified as a small city. And what's with the "Western standards"? It's not like India (of all places) is short of crowded metropolitan areas comapred to the West.
OTOH, I would tend to agree that Bangalore is the best place to work in India. Nice climate, highly qualified workers, and a lot wealthier than most places in India.
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And instead of posting as an AC, you can post as a Pendejo Sin Nombre.
It should be noted, for non-Spanish speakers, that Pendejo Sin Nombre, translates roughly as Nameless Asshole. I think Slashdot would profit a great deal from a similar terminology.I live in Peru.
I am always intrigued when I see this line coming from non-US posters (and I've seen it from Nowegians, Swedish etc). Do you live in Peru or are you a Peruvian?
Number 1: Upwards of 90 percent of the population are almost completely native. As you probably know, the nations that colonized South America were not very nice to the natives.
Now, I realize it wasn't probably your intention to say so, but I don't see how the population being majoritarily native is a problem. Furthermore, I don't think the Spanish were as bad as, say the English in North America, seing as most of South American are to this day of native ancestry.There have to be more Slashdotters in South America out there.... their opinions will be the most constructive. So, if you're out there, say something!!!
SomthingGee, if you had to clarify that how do you picture the average /. reader in your scenario?
"Providing net cafes may help communities far more than, for example, providing electricity to every home."
I think this is absurd. Of course, you said "may help," so its ok. :)
I'm not the poster you replied to, but I'll take on that challenge: take the Old City district in Salvador, Brazil, for instance, an area already bustling with tourist activity; set up a few cybercafés so that said tourists can email their folks back home and hang around and exchange experiences with other tourists; net result: more tourists are attracted to the place, which in turn gets Maria a better income by selling local cuisine specialties to tourists; which in turn gets her son, José, a better education because he can now attend school and not be forced into menial jobs that would compromise his school attendance; this will, in the future, enhance his chances of landing a well-paid job (or even better, starting an enterprise of his own) improving his socio-economic conditions and those of his relatives.Q.E.D
As I mentioned earlier, "liberal" used to mean what "libertarian" does today. This stuff happens all the time.
I wont't delve into the rest of your post, because I simply don't have the time, but you are being terribly myopic in your political definitions here. Liberal still means one who advocates laissez-faire Adam Smith style market economy; it's just in the USA that it is used (mostly) as a means for conservative Republicans to deride their political opponents. Libertarian still means, im most of the world, someone who champions personal freedom (not just market freedom) above all, specially those that do it in a vocal, rebellious manner.
As a side note, the ideology you attribute to American liberals, a soft version of socialism, is what's called elsewhere social-democrat politics. But the Democrats are far from being social-democrats in the European sense. In fact, most Europeans would classify both the Democrats and the Republicans as right wing, only of a different shade of blue.
Nah, be a man (oops, be a person), and admit you were aiming for first post (which, incidentally you didn't get) and tried to disguise it with humor just so it would not be obvious.
Yes, but you're missing the point.
Making money in IT is based on people buying stuff (the various .com's on the internet), or serving as part of the infrastructure of business/industry.
You are missing the point too. Making money in the net is more about selling a service (or advertising services) than about selling stuff (loosely speaking). Now the transition from an industrial economy to a service economy is what we've been witnessing throughout the Western world world, and is a highly desirable one for Third World countries even if they do not have a first-class industrial economy to begin with (which is not the case in most countries in LA: the industry may suck, but it is the basis of the economy.
The assumption that all developing countries have an agrarian based economy is one of the most widespread and silly misconceptions you see when slashdotter pontificate about this subject.
That isn't really German, dude. Your fellow AC is a Pentecostal Fundamentalist and was having a "tongues speaking" fit^Wsession...
It's people like him, or our old friend OOG, that add colour to /., even if of a weird shade.
Wonder how long this guy will remain visible at threshold 0...
At a start, look at chldren in the US versus other countries. In france or other European countries a 5 year old kid can sit through a formal diner. How many 5 year olds in the US can do the same?
You really think five year old children are that much different, be they European, American, Indian, Japanese or whatever? Do you really think the notion of proper behavior (which varies with the different cultures) has sulked in by that age? Or did you just have a bad experience with your table neighbour's children yesterday night?
We have stopped teaching our children responsibility and discipline.
This is a favourite of conservatives, people who long for the "golden days" and suchlike fools. Responsability is a word much used by them, but seldom understood. You're aware that it is more easily taught by example than by indoctrination, right? And discipline is worth nothing if not rationally accepted, and pondered about. Otherwise it is no different than dog training.
It is much harder to aquire discipline later in life than early. Hell I am 22 and just now starting to learn to discipline myself. Its NOT easy. Its a skill that needs to be taught young.
There we go again with the discipline harangue. Discipline is highly overvalued. It is not always necessary, because it restrains leisure, imagination and all easy going things that make life worth living. Sometimes it is crucial, but only if you conscientiously accept it with your intellect. Perhaps you'll understand it when you're thirty.
All in all, the problems you seem to attribute to society's unwillingness to inflict responsibility and discipline on the young, are actually IMHO, the consequence of people not using rational thought enough in their lifes. Like: buying a cheaper product, even though its production endangers the environment or the local economy.
I'd have to agree with you on that, but notice that the latter is much less harmful when taken to extremes (except for girls who go anorexic or bulimic, but then again, it only harms the individual concerned) that the former. Also notice, that there are generally accepted forms of showing your manlihood (excelling at sports, e.g.), that are much more palatable to society at large than vandalism and badass acting, which are generally frowned upon.
On another note though, I personally don't view guns as a buzz enhancer. That's stupid... comes from people who either have no experience with firearms or have never been properly trained.
I would like to agree with you on this also, dear AC, but IMHO, proper training in firearms is what you get from military service, not by hangin' out with the other rednecks from the trailer park, shooting beer cans in the fields.
I think her being in the mid 80s disqualifies her from being called a girl.... Wait, you meant you met her in the 80s (Ronald Reagan, Madonna's early videos and all that)? Oops, sorry...
You nailed it on the head, me friend. This is really not much different than all the other phenomena associated with annoying male adolescents, and whose root is the need of said individuals to constantly prove their manhood, or their ability at something (whatever that may be), at the cost of everybody else's patience if needs be. Perhaps that makes even more fun for them.
Problem is, some people never grow out of their teenage days...
A somewhat embarassing confession for someone who lives in Rio, right ;-)?
Think about it for a moment: the use of attractive women to catch your attention is more than natural. From a marketing POV is just as effective as (or even more than) the use of flashy displays, light effects etc that people also use at trade shows. It caters to a very natural human impulse, which is the attraction to beauty, especially of the opposite sex. What's wrong with that? It's just a way to catch attention.
Now, it would be really a sad thing if you bought their stuff just because of the booth babes. But I don't think even the most sex-starved, hormone-laden teenage geek would waste his meager pennies on a Super Bogotifier 2000 just because of a pair of pretty legs.
I believe my command of Mandarin Chinese is getting a little stale.
And always remember: freedom and linguistic inventiveness grow out the barrel of a gun.
Where are you getting all this "info" about French "government sponsored" industrial espionage, that surely sounds like it is taken verbatim from a Tom Clancy novel with the evil Russians replaced by the evil French. AFAIK, France is far from being a police state, much further than the good ole' USofA.
Kudos to timothy for the Dreyfus reference, though I'm afraid it will be lost on the /. crowd...
They're not giant mice, they're actually kangaroos, damn it. You think people would suspect, these news coming from Australia.
Don't you people pay attention to Daffy Duck cartoons anymore?
And the poor general writhes and wrestles in disgust in his tomb as another AC butcher his quotations...
let me tell you a little more about Bangalore a small city (by western standards !)
With over 4 million people, I can hardly see how Bangalore can be classified as a small city. And what's with the "Western standards"? It's not like India (of all places) is short of crowded metropolitan areas comapred to the West.
OTOH, I would tend to agree that Bangalore is the best place to work in India. Nice climate, highly qualified workers, and a lot wealthier than most places in India.
Those shots are great. Let me ask: what day is summer supposed to happen this year in Sweden? yuk, yuk, yuk.
Yeah, yeah, Sweden is great and so on. Too bad it's fucking polar in winter...
He surely meant cheap as in, "worth nothing" (e.g. you cheap bastard ACs!)