Your assuming that the money was'nt meant for the thugs to begin with. So I'll choose option 4: Elect a United States Government that cares more about people than the profits of corporation.
You need to do a better job of following the money.
It's imperial because while the food aid that is sent goes into the hands of the few who run the country, American corporations get sweet contracts to exploit the natural resources of said country.
Thats the modern imperial tactic. It's hard to ignore the facts on this, but keep trying.
I'm curious what you have to say about this story stating that we did, in fact, sell those materials to Iraq. Just a quick Google but I'm sure there is more where it came from.
Lets kick the list off with one your sure to recognise:
1. Saddam Hussein, Iraq 2. The current government in Iraq 3. The current government in Afghanistan 4. Rafael Trujillo, Dominican Republic 5. The South Korean government 6. South Vietnam's Government (defunct) 7. The Shah of Iran, Iran 8. Anastasio Somoza, Nicaragua 9. Manuel Noriega, Panama
The list goes on and on, into the hundreds. But that should be enough to get you started.
"(if it looks like they have more than one agenda, it's because they do)"
If it looks this way to you it's because the "environmental movement" is filled with a wide range of people and opinions. It's not like all the capitalist pigs opinions are in goosestepping unison... oh wait.
He is speaking like a true economist. Econ 101 is that if you have a resource and an infrastructure for utilizing that resource you should continue to use that resource until it is compleatly depleated. This is because economists have such tiny brains that they can only hold the simple arithmatic for their own specialization in their head. They then make long winded and solomn pronouncements about how things _are_ and make fanciful predictions about how things will turn out, which are rarely true.
No. It's limited to people who care to make a real investment.
From the FAQ (if you want more info, you can ask them):
Parts of daily kos
This section of the FAQ gives an overview of the different components of the dkos environment. More detailed information on these components is given in the next section on Contributing to daily kos. [edit] The front page
The first thing that you see when loading Daily Kos is the front page. Most of the stories on the front page are written either by kos or by a small set of people designated by kos as front page posters. Currently, there are approximately half a dozen front page posters at any given time, serving one-year terms.
Diaries
Most of the action takes place inside of diaries. These are written by users, and then read and commented on by other users. Diaries can be found in three places. Most diaries appear in the Recent Diary list on the right-hand side of the screen. By default, this shows the last 20 diaries that have been posted; this can be reset as high as 50 diaries using the field at the bottom of the list. People reading diaries can recommend them (see below). If a diary receives enough recommendations, it will automatically be promoted to the Recommended Diary list, which sits above the Recent Diary list. Recommended diaries tend to attract a wider audience and more comments than most diaries. The length of time that a diary spends on the Recommended list depends on how many users recommend it; it can vary from a few minutes to more than one full day. Diaries moving to the Recommended list is a democratic process; the diaries on the list are the ones that received the most "votes" to be there. The third, and most prominent, place to find diaries is the front page of the site. These are the articles that are seen when going to www.dailykos.com. Front-page stories have two sources. First are diary entries written by kos, or by one of the half-dozen or so people that kos has given front-page privileges to. In addition to writing their own diaries, kos and the other front-pagers often promote interesting diaries from the Recent list to the front page. These promotions are at the discretion of the front-pagers, unlike the voting process which governs promotion to the Recommended list.
Comments
Inside diaries and front page posts, users can post comments. Generally, these comments are in response to something in the diary, or are responding to other comments. Next to the title of each comment are two numbers inside a set of parentheses. These numbers are the number of people who have recommended and troll-rated the comment respectively (see #Rating_comments).
Comments can be shown in expanded form (showing subject, author and text) or shrunken form (just the subject and author); clicking the small triangle to the left of the subject line toggles between the two forms. An useful shortcut is the ability to expand or shrink an entire subthread at once. Simply hold down the control key (on Windows/Linux, or the Command key on Mac) while you click on a triangle. The comment and all its replies will be expanded or shrunk. In between the diary text and the comments, there are a set of buttons which will Expand, Shrink, or Hide (completely hide) all of the comments in the diary. If you select the 'Always' checkbox after clicking one of these buttons, your user preferences will be set to default to that comment display type.
With AutoRefresh selected, the comments list periodically refreshes (without having to manually hit the 'Reload' button). When new comments come in, a little panel slides up in the lower right-hand corner offering links that scroll to view them. Comments that are marked as 'new replies' are replies to comments that you have made; all other comments are marked 'new comments'
User Pages
Every user has a User Page. There is a link to this page in the menu sidebar. The User Page contains a collection of links gathering all of the diaries and all of the comments written by that user. The 'My Profile' tab on that page is the place to change all of your preferences.
Dailykos uses Scoop (http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/), which has an open, well defined editorial process.
What google is trying to avoid is individual soap-box reporting. MM hang's herself with:
"Is the presumption that group blogs have a formal editorial review process because they are run by more than one person, but that an individual blog is incapable of satisfactory self-editing?"
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
"Turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! People are running everywhere! It's just terrible." --L. Nessman (To the tune of the Hindenburg)
"You're wrong about the universe, by the way, this is merely the way capitalism works."
You've bumped into one of the many fatalistic wankers in the world. They spend their time and energy trying to convince everyone that the Universe is static, has always been static and will continue to be static.
You need to actually put the alternative in front of them. They eventually come around.
"you still need to be able to understand your problem well enough to cogently explain it to your computer. And that's where most people will fail. They don't understand their problems in the first place, and have no idea how to communicate the solutions they actually need."
I predict that this will give rise to a _new_ profession filled with people that are good at translating other peoples requirements into, lets call them "commands", that the computer than implements. These professionals will create many concise "computer oriented languages" that facilitate the communication between humans and computers by removing ambiguity and defining terms that are relavent to the task at hand. These new professionals will be called "oracles" and will reside in windowless flouresent lit rooms where they stuff their cash into secret removalable floor panels and play Duke Nukem Forever between forraging runs to the vending machines. DNF having been handed to one of the aformentioned computers which wrote it in an afternoon.
Except that the scenario with OSS is a bit different in that the grazing lands of the commons were not covered under the GPL nor was there a vast array of individuals and businesses making boatloads of money off of a common resource that is not depleatable.
"For one, I can hire someone and claim 100% rights over their work."
And not gain any of the benefits of open source. The reason to use open source on a project is to gain the benefits of that approach. If your gaining benefits than it should not be such a stretch for you to pay to maintain those benefits as long as the cost/benefit ratio is in your favor.
You could hire an in house tech to work on some secret version of Debian for you alone or you could just pay the foundation to get things done quicker in the trunk. It should be readily apparent why the latter option would be preferable.
The RIAA's opinion is what is going to get you sued, hardley irrelavent. As to what is actually legal, the resident lawyer has said it's not exactly clear yet. So it is very unwise to discount what one side of the argument believes the law to be.
But no one is going to sue you for printing and distrubuting maps of the flat earth. I think what he is getting at is that his opinion on the matter is not relavent. What is relavent is that the RIAA will sue you for such things as they specifically state they will sue you for. In some ways, this trumps whatever law is on the books because who wants to go to court with the RIAA?
It will enslave nations that are having trouble growing food now, do to social and ecological destruction, by creating a dependency on first world agro-corps to supply something as basic as their everyday food needs.
If you want to see where GM is headed don't look at feeding a starving world, look at the "terminator seed". Thats where this is headed.
Interestingly enough, this is how democracy worked when it was first instituted in ancient Athens. They pulled citizens names from a large pot and those choosen would serve in the senat for the year. It was expected that in a persons lifetime they would eventually be expected to serve.
Maybe they should enjoy it enough to go out and get a degree in it? So many math and computer teachers at the Highschool-- level simply read out of text books, hand out assignments and grade tests. Someone who is "overqualified" can really get a class engaged and expose students who really do have an interest in the subject to more advanced concepts. There is nothing like a teacher that can tantalize you with knowledge.
I would not call that wasting your degree. Not if you enjoy it.
Apple was the first computer to have a "start up" sound other than a beep. Responding to customer demand they added a feature that allowed you to turn it off. Microsoft, on the other hand, is removing a feature that, for the past 20 years, people have stated they want.
"I also like to capitalise HTML tags and SQL reserved words"
Were you an xBASE programmer? So we all have to suffer so you can be lazy and write ugly code blocks? You should at least have to flip a protective plastic plate and turn a key to the "armed" position before the caps lock key will depress.
Actually, he does not have a clue. He has a selective and opinionated rant rife with either ignorance or outright lies. Therefore he would benefit mightely from a clue grape. As would you if you actually believe the bogus nonsense in his post.
Slashdot Mirror
Saul Williams, is that you?
That rant just needs a beat.
-peace
Your assuming that the money was'nt meant for the thugs to begin with. So I'll choose option 4: Elect a United States Government that cares more about people than the profits of corporation.
You need to do a better job of following the money.
Kind Regards
It's imperial because while the food aid that is sent goes into the hands of the few who run the country, American corporations get sweet contracts to exploit the natural resources of said country.
Thats the modern imperial tactic. It's hard to ignore the facts on this, but keep trying.
Kind Regards
http://www.sundayherald.com/27572
I'm curious what you have to say about this story stating that we did, in fact, sell those materials to Iraq. Just a quick Google but I'm sure there is more where it came from.
Kind Regards
Lets kick the list off with one your sure to recognise:
1. Saddam Hussein, Iraq
2. The current government in Iraq
3. The current government in Afghanistan
4. Rafael Trujillo, Dominican Republic
5. The South Korean government
6. South Vietnam's Government (defunct)
7. The Shah of Iran, Iran
8. Anastasio Somoza, Nicaragua
9. Manuel Noriega, Panama
The list goes on and on, into the hundreds. But that should be enough to get you started.
Kind Regards
"(if it looks like they have more than one agenda, it's because they do)"
If it looks this way to you it's because the "environmental movement" is filled with a wide range of people and opinions. It's not like all the capitalist pigs opinions are in goosestepping unison... oh wait.
Kind Regards
He is speaking like a true economist. Econ 101 is that if you have a resource and an infrastructure for utilizing that resource you should continue to use that resource until it is compleatly depleated. This is because economists have such tiny brains that they can only hold the simple arithmatic for their own specialization in their head. They then make long winded and solomn pronouncements about how things _are_ and make fanciful predictions about how things will turn out, which are rarely true.
Kind Regards
"Is it limited to subscribers?"
No. It's limited to people who care to make a real investment.
From the FAQ (if you want more info, you can ask them):
Parts of daily kos
This section of the FAQ gives an overview of the different components of the dkos environment. More detailed information on these components is given in the next section on Contributing to daily kos.
[edit]
The front page
The first thing that you see when loading Daily Kos is the front page. Most of the stories on the front page are written either by kos or by a small set of people designated by kos as front page posters. Currently, there are approximately half a dozen front page posters at any given time, serving one-year terms.
Diaries
Most of the action takes place inside of diaries. These are written by users, and then read and commented on by other users. Diaries can be found in three places. Most diaries appear in the Recent Diary list on the right-hand side of the screen. By default, this shows the last 20 diaries that have been posted; this can be reset as high as 50 diaries using the field at the bottom of the list. People reading diaries can recommend them (see below). If a diary receives enough recommendations, it will automatically be promoted to the Recommended Diary list, which sits above the Recent Diary list. Recommended diaries tend to attract a wider audience and more comments than most diaries. The length of time that a diary spends on the Recommended list depends on how many users recommend it; it can vary from a few minutes to more than one full day. Diaries moving to the Recommended list is a democratic process; the diaries on the list are the ones that received the most "votes" to be there. The third, and most prominent, place to find diaries is the front page of the site. These are the articles that are seen when going to www.dailykos.com. Front-page stories have two sources. First are diary entries written by kos, or by one of the half-dozen or so people that kos has given front-page privileges to. In addition to writing their own diaries, kos and the other front-pagers often promote interesting diaries from the Recent list to the front page. These promotions are at the discretion of the front-pagers, unlike the voting process which governs promotion to the Recommended list.
Comments
Inside diaries and front page posts, users can post comments. Generally, these comments are in response to something in the diary, or are responding to other comments. Next to the title of each comment are two numbers inside a set of parentheses. These numbers are the number of people who have recommended and troll-rated the comment respectively (see #Rating_comments).
Comments can be shown in expanded form (showing subject, author and text) or shrunken form (just the subject and author); clicking the small triangle to the left of the subject line toggles between the two forms. An useful shortcut is the ability to expand or shrink an entire subthread at once. Simply hold down the control key (on Windows/Linux, or the Command key on Mac) while you click on a triangle. The comment and all its replies will be expanded or shrunk. In between the diary text and the comments, there are a set of buttons which will Expand, Shrink, or Hide (completely hide) all of the comments in the diary. If you select the 'Always' checkbox after clicking one of these buttons, your user preferences will be set to default to that comment display type.
With AutoRefresh selected, the comments list periodically refreshes (without having to manually hit the 'Reload' button). When new comments come in, a little panel slides up in the lower right-hand corner offering links that scroll to view them. Comments that are marked as 'new replies' are replies to comments that you have made; all other comments are marked 'new comments'
User Pages
Every user has a User Page. There is a link to this page in the menu sidebar. The User Page contains a collection of links gathering all of the diaries and all of the comments written by that user. The 'My Profile' tab on that page is the place to change all of your preferences.
Dailykos uses Scoop (http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/), which has an open, well defined editorial process.
What google is trying to avoid is individual soap-box reporting. MM hang's herself with:
"Is the presumption that group blogs have a formal editorial review process because they are run by more than one person, but that an individual blog is incapable of satisfactory self-editing?"
The answer is, yes. Case closed.
-pax
The dailykos and Democratic Underground have a public editorial review process with many authors, meeting googles guidelines.
-pax
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
"Turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! People are running everywhere! It's just terrible."
--L. Nessman (To the tune of the Hindenburg)
"You're wrong about the universe, by the way, this is merely the way capitalism works."
You've bumped into one of the many fatalistic wankers in the world. They spend their time and energy trying to convince everyone that the Universe is static, has always been static and will continue to be static.
You need to actually put the alternative in front of them. They eventually come around.
Kind Regards
"you still need to be able to understand your problem well enough to cogently explain it to your computer. And that's where most people will fail. They don't understand their problems in the first place, and have no idea how to communicate the solutions they actually need."
I predict that this will give rise to a _new_ profession filled with people that are good at translating other peoples requirements into, lets call them "commands", that the computer than implements. These professionals will create many concise "computer oriented languages" that facilitate the communication between humans and computers by removing ambiguity and defining terms that are relavent to the task at hand. These new professionals will be called "oracles" and will reside in windowless flouresent lit rooms where they stuff their cash into secret removalable floor panels and play Duke Nukem Forever between forraging runs to the vending machines. DNF having been handed to one of the aformentioned computers which wrote it in an afternoon.
Kind Regards
"It's called the Tragedy Of The Commons."
Except that the scenario with OSS is a bit different in that the grazing lands of the commons were not covered under the GPL nor was there a vast array of individuals and businesses making boatloads of money off of a common resource that is not depleatable.
"For one, I can hire someone and claim 100% rights over their work."
And not gain any of the benefits of open source. The reason to use open source on a project is to gain the benefits of that approach. If your gaining benefits than it should not be such a stretch for you to pay to maintain those benefits as long as the cost/benefit ratio is in your favor.
You could hire an in house tech to work on some secret version of Debian for you alone or you could just pay the foundation to get things done quicker in the trunk. It should be readily apparent why the latter option would be preferable.
The RIAA's opinion is what is going to get you sued, hardley irrelavent. As to what is actually legal, the resident lawyer has said it's not exactly clear yet. So it is very unwise to discount what one side of the argument believes the law to be.
Kind Regards
But no one is going to sue you for printing and distrubuting maps of the flat earth. I think what he is getting at is that his opinion on the matter is not relavent. What is relavent is that the RIAA will sue you for such things as they specifically state they will sue you for. In some ways, this trumps whatever law is on the books because who wants to go to court with the RIAA?
Kind Regards
It will enslave nations that are having trouble growing food now, do to social and ecological destruction, by creating a dependency on first world agro-corps to supply something as basic as their everyday food needs.
If you want to see where GM is headed don't look at feeding a starving world, look at the "terminator seed". Thats where this is headed.
Kind Regards
Interestingly enough, this is how democracy worked when it was first instituted in ancient Athens. They pulled citizens names from a large pot and those choosen would serve in the senat for the year. It was expected that in a persons lifetime they would eventually be expected to serve.
Kind Regards
So should Iraq monitor the bank accounts of Americans to try and devine where the next attack is going to be?
Kind Regards
Yes, funny that no one has forked the code, isn't it? Probably becasue it's easier to complain about what someone else does than do anything yourself.
Kind Regards
"A teacher has to enjoy what they're teaching."
Maybe they should enjoy it enough to go out and get a degree in it? So many math and computer teachers at the Highschool-- level simply read out of text books, hand out assignments and grade tests. Someone who is "overqualified" can really get a class engaged and expose students who really do have an interest in the subject to more advanced concepts. There is nothing like a teacher that can tantalize you with knowledge.
I would not call that wasting your degree. Not if you enjoy it.
Kind Regards
Apple was the first computer to have a "start up" sound other than a beep. Responding to customer demand they added a feature that allowed you to turn it off. Microsoft, on the other hand, is removing a feature that, for the past 20 years, people have stated they want.
See the difference?
Kind Regards
"I also like to capitalise HTML tags and SQL reserved words"
Were you an xBASE programmer? So we all have to suffer so you can be lazy and write ugly code blocks? You should at least have to flip a protective plastic plate and turn a key to the "armed" position before the caps lock key will depress.
I kid. I kid.
Actually, he does not have a clue. He has a selective and opinionated rant rife with either ignorance or outright lies. Therefore he would benefit mightely from a clue grape. As would you if you actually believe the bogus nonsense in his post.