if we delude ourselves in thinking the other side of the iron curtain is any better.
to the bitter surprise of the inhabitants of the Central Europe - it isn't (if the politicians "fair play" is regarded). However, at least life is more colorful after the change, and one can freely travel without passport not only to another town, but also within EU(Schengen) borders:-) One could even move to any other place in the world without begging the passport office to issue document for you.
please note, that as a foreigner/stranger you may have been treated with caution and suspicion. Not every society is used to being straight-forward and truth-speaking:-)
I'm not saying that citizens of Venezueal are liars.
I'm just saying, that when you live in more and more controlled state (perhaps not yet totalitarian, but on the way), you may not want to criticize the goverment and your belived great leader, because God knows if what you reveal to the stranger won't reach the officials. He might be a spy, or a state security service agent.
ok, if you're keeping to the literal meaning of communism, then probably no state has even implemented it. On the other hand if you read Marx, you may find that besides describing ideal 'utopia' society, he also gave hints on the how leaders may rule masses, which had nothing to do with "communism, as advertised":-)
having lived behind the iron courtain, I could say that socialism or communism leaders never really cared about own ideology. What was important was that the masses should believe in ideology and obey. Have you read the G. Orwell's "Animal Farm" ? Shows nicely how this happened.
Some parts of the world ARE ALREADY doing things to reduce energy efficiency. And USA did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
In the EU things are already happening: - emission rights are distributed, producers have to buy expensive credits if they are not able to reduce emissions. - buildings in most of the EU countries have to obtain energy efficiency certificates, so the buyer of home/office/warehouse knows what estimated heating/chilling costs are and how much energy is wasted due to poor insulation - oil/gasoline is heavily taxed in EU. Usually gasoline costs ca 0.8-1.1 euro, that is roughly $5 per gallon. As this is regular good, not a Veblen good, higher price reduces the demand. - traditional bulbs are phased out from distribution, and promoting CFLs and LED lighting. Since last September bulbs of 100W or over can not be legally distributed in EU "for home use". By 2012 this will also apply to bulbs with lower wattage.
Pressing for energy efficiency is happening. While EU does plenty of crazy things, sometimes it gets things right.
Ever tried to purchase electronics on Amazon with shipment to central Europe (EU members)? Ever tried to configure Paypal to order gift shipped to the other coutry?
I tried even this month and got refused. So I feel more like 2nd category Earth citizen. Some solutions are just "global" not global.
Slashdot Mirror
It seems that photo/movie trips to Chernobyl were fashionable in recent years. .... and so on.
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
(I know they are mostly not in English, but I think that most /. readers have IQ high enough to find consecutive subpages with pictures.)
SARAH PALIN WILL NOT HAVE SEX WITH YOU.
How about virtual sex? It seems she's got the thing for itvirtual sex???
As far as legalities; allowing crawlers via robots.txt is an open invitation to crawl, index, and publish results.
It would be shocking news for Rupert Murdoch (if only he'd understood that).
It bugs me when people reduce the whole universe of thought that is socialism to the small minded authoritarianism of Stalinist Marxism.
Well, it was communism "flagship" after all.
did you meta-moderate today?
there was joke told in central Europe (formet soviet satellites):
introduce socialism in countries in the Sahara desert area, and in 3 years they will be shortages of sand.
if we delude ourselves in thinking the other side of the iron curtain is any better.
to the bitter surprise of the inhabitants of the Central Europe - it isn't (if the politicians "fair play" is regarded). :-) One could even move to any other place in the world without begging the passport office to issue document for you.
However, at least life is more colorful after the change, and one can freely travel without passport not only to another town, but also within EU(Schengen) borders
please note, that as a foreigner/stranger you may have been treated with caution and suspicion. :-)
Not every society is used to being straight-forward and truth-speaking
I'm not saying that citizens of Venezueal are liars.
I'm just saying, that when you live in more and more controlled state (perhaps not yet totalitarian, but on the way), you may not want to criticize the goverment and your belived great leader, because God knows if what you reveal to the stranger won't reach the officials. He might be a spy, or a state security service agent.
ok, if you're keeping to the literal meaning of communism, then probably no state has even implemented it. :-)
On the other hand if you read Marx, you may find that besides describing ideal 'utopia' society, he also gave hints on the how leaders may rule masses, which had nothing to do with "communism, as advertised"
It should work well.
having lived behind the iron courtain, I could say that socialism or communism leaders never really cared about own ideology. What was important was that the masses should believe in ideology and obey. Have you read the G. Orwell's "Animal Farm" ? Shows nicely how this happened.
this only makes Hugo a step closer to his role model - president Lukaszenko of Belarus. He also closed all independent media - few years ago.
ok, then there is m-audio transit, which is available.
Stop looking for USB devices with a line-in. I've already looked, there are none.
oh, really?
Next time try harder.
in soviet russia you've got nuclear waste in every swimming pool
oh dear.
Some parts of the world ARE ALREADY doing things to reduce energy efficiency.
And USA did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
In the EU things are already happening:
- emission rights are distributed, producers have to buy expensive credits if they are not able to reduce emissions.
- buildings in most of the EU countries have to obtain energy efficiency certificates, so the buyer of home/office/warehouse knows what estimated heating/chilling costs are and how much energy is wasted due to poor insulation
- oil/gasoline is heavily taxed in EU. Usually gasoline costs ca 0.8-1.1 euro, that is roughly $5 per gallon. As this is regular good, not a Veblen good, higher price reduces the demand.
- traditional bulbs are phased out from distribution, and promoting CFLs and LED lighting. Since last September bulbs of 100W or over can not be legally distributed in EU "for home use". By 2012 this will also apply to bulbs with lower wattage.
Pressing for energy efficiency is happening.
While EU does plenty of crazy things, sometimes it gets things right.
Thanks! I'm goint to submit a patent for:
BUSINESS METHOD: Shooting at people first, then charging survivors for energy
that's beacause they are not funded by China (unlike US)
Ignorance is blessed, so knowledge must be evil
You could still run notepad.exe and cal.exe from Windows 1.0, sir!
Also, why have you switched off your iphone citizen 533448?
And you have not called your mother for 8 days now, citizen 29821274!
Globalisation - shmobalisation.
Ever tried to purchase electronics on Amazon with shipment to central Europe (EU members)? Ever tried to configure Paypal to order gift shipped to the other coutry?
I tried even this month and got refused. So I feel more like 2nd category Earth citizen. Some solutions are just "global" not global.
You don't need so many crosses; usually you could reuse one after just a few hours.
... and read results in bits not bytes
Remember those "shotgun" modems? Worst idea ever.
Apparently, you were not around, when win-modems appeared.