About a month ago I spend time in Indonesia and I can tell you you're, as most Islamophobes, way off the mark.
Islam has it's above average share of nuts but Indonesia being the largest Islamic population in the world has an under average share of these murderous crackpots.
Besides, the all but democratic government and military will assure your and their own peace.
Western megacorps could really do a lot of good for the food production of Africa.
The problem is the local governments that with few exceptions are only interested in lining their private pockets.
As with this map institutions like the EU would be very happy to help local groups set up larger scale farming initiatives like corporations.
But because of a lack of law supporting and protecting such investments hardly anyone except the Chinese will succeed, the Chinese don't hesitate to buy the protection.
I have very recently visited a West African country with a great climate for agriculture.
Quite incredibly they import foodstuff, in the colonial years they exported plus the local market was much better served.
Their biggest problem is the size of the subsistence plots and the lack of proper registration of land owner ship, present governments in the area are as a rule not exactly efficient on such subjects.
But maybe the Chinese can use this map to buy some national and local politicians in areas with a good prospect for large scale farming, something western companies are reluctant to do.
With proper management Africa can increase it's present food production at least five-fold, a win for the local people and the whole world.
Indonesia (Pop. 240 M.) shares it's language with Malaysia (Pop. 30 M.) , though there are local differences the countries do have a joint language commission. For westerners it's easy to get a basic grasp of the language.
Both countries have a rapid economic growth and especially Malaysia has a reasonable average level of income.
Indonesia is in size the worlds fourth largest country, all reasons to keep good neighbourly contacts with them and if the economy isn't interesting then it is at least because half of Australia goes on holidays in Kuta.
Indeed, English has since a couple of centuries a very odd pronunciation of what looks like the original Latin alphabet.
All living languages will see shifts in pronunciation but where others adapted spelling accordingly the English have largely retained the original spelling.
As a Dutchman I am rather fluent in Dutch, German, French and English and get along in Danish/Norwegian, Italian and Spanish.
For work I travel a lot and I can assure you in business some other language than English can often be the difference between success and failure.
And as someone else here already stated overhearing the off-line chatter between business partners can be quite revealing, even when your command of the language is not so very good.
Judging by the ideas of these same religious quacks Europe should have been leveled years ago:)
I feel with the people in the affected areas and wish the religious intolerant (or is it intolerable?) would no longer be allowed to use others' misery for their own sick agenda.
That's the remarkable part in this story, these soaps are outside of the US generally only used in the medical profession.
What is it Americans are so much more adverse to bacteria than at least as healthy Europeans, Japanese or Australians?
I know part of it is our European laws are very much for the protection of the consumer, not to advance the income of manufacturers.
Working in an international industry I've seen how US companies set up a canteen here in Europe and hung up anti-bacteriological soaps and lotions, the majority of Europeans will refuse to use them as they overwhelmingly consider it unnatural and thus unhealthy.
Because, as others already explained, the NWS is already using the EU generated data and vice versa.
Much more important is for something this important you'd like to have more than one model, if only to check against.
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Kubuntu works fine, sure there are always wishes for improvement but to claim it's 'exceptionally broken' is utter drivel and an insult to the developers.
Especially now some core KDE development is paid for by Blue Shell in stead of Canonical things are even better.
Knowledge and competency are the values an employee brings to the company and in return gets paid for.
Because these values need constant attention a company is well advised to have a system to both develop and check progress of them.
This will obviously involve participation of the employees and I can tell you from first hand experience it pays for both parties to foster such a system of training and competency development.
Where I work it is mandatory to take part, although it's the only way to ever get a pay rise all the engineers I know are especially motivated because it's nice to be part of a system that constantly develops.
When the system was originally rolled out we've seen some old timers leave for companies that did not bother them about development, good for them and us:)
Have a look at the German system where the President is largely a-political, a bit like a NW-European monarch. Even that system has had its problems but it is largely functional.
I can think of various arguments to get rid of Monarchs but cost is most certainly not one of them.
Whatever form of government you have, some sort of Head of State representing ALL people, not just the party that won the last elections, is going to be a good thing.
The recurring cost of election or appointment of such a Head of State are going to be significant.
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But at the same time don't forget the present and Africa is not exactly the place with leaking reactors.
We seem to live in different worlds.
Islam has it's above average share of nuts but Indonesia being the largest Islamic population in the world has an under average share of these murderous crackpots.
Besides, the all but democratic government and military will assure your and their own peace.
There might and will be benefits for society at large, people get jobs, knowledge is gained and other new ventures can develop.
Those benefits don't show up in the books of investment bankers but are still very real.
You American!
This map and it's resources are publicly available, any one can use it, to start with the local governments of Africa.
The problem is the local governments that with few exceptions are only interested in lining their private pockets.
As with this map institutions like the EU would be very happy to help local groups set up larger scale farming initiatives like corporations.
But because of a lack of law supporting and protecting such investments hardly anyone except the Chinese will succeed, the Chinese don't hesitate to buy the protection.
Quite incredibly they import foodstuff, in the colonial years they exported plus the local market was much better served.
Their biggest problem is the size of the subsistence plots and the lack of proper registration of land owner ship, present governments in the area are as a rule not exactly efficient on such subjects.
But maybe the Chinese can use this map to buy some national and local politicians in areas with a good prospect for large scale farming, something western companies are reluctant to do.
With proper management Africa can increase it's present food production at least five-fold, a win for the local people and the whole world.
However small, the government of Singapore is a total control freak.
Both countries have a rapid economic growth and especially Malaysia has a reasonable average level of income.
Indonesia is in size the worlds fourth largest country, all reasons to keep good neighbourly contacts with them and if the economy isn't interesting then it is at least because half of Australia goes on holidays in Kuta.
All living languages will see shifts in pronunciation but where others adapted spelling accordingly the English have largely retained the original spelling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
For work I travel a lot and I can assure you in business some other language than English can often be the difference between success and failure.
And as someone else here already stated overhearing the off-line chatter between business partners can be quite revealing, even when your command of the language is not so very good.
This system is designed for last mile use, not long distance.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/jollas-other-half/
Thanks for the interesting link!
I feel with the people in the affected areas and wish the religious intolerant (or is it intolerable?) would no longer be allowed to use others' misery for their own sick agenda.
What is it Americans are so much more adverse to bacteria than at least as healthy Europeans, Japanese or Australians?
I know part of it is our European laws are very much for the protection of the consumer, not to advance the income of manufacturers.
Working in an international industry I've seen how US companies set up a canteen here in Europe and hung up anti-bacteriological soaps and lotions, the majority of Europeans will refuse to use them as they overwhelmingly consider it unnatural and thus unhealthy.
http://www.ecmwf.int/about/overview/
The population of the EU is some 500 million.
Besides, when it comes to science it wouldn't surprise me they use an absolute scale like Kelvin.
Much more important is for something this important you'd like to have more than one model, if only to check against.
Especially now some core KDE development is paid for by Blue Shell in stead of Canonical things are even better.
Because these values need constant attention a company is well advised to have a system to both develop and check progress of them.
This will obviously involve participation of the employees and I can tell you from first hand experience it pays for both parties to foster such a system of training and competency development.
Where I work it is mandatory to take part, although it's the only way to ever get a pay rise all the engineers I know are especially motivated because it's nice to be part of a system that constantly develops.
When the system was originally rolled out we've seen some old timers leave for companies that did not bother them about development, good for them and us :)
The only one named but not confirmed is about FAT, something easily avoided by using Ext3 or 4.
Have a look at the German system where the President is largely a-political, a bit like a NW-European monarch. Even that system has had its problems but it is largely functional.
Whatever form of government you have, some sort of Head of State representing ALL people, not just the party that won the last elections, is going to be a good thing.
The recurring cost of election or appointment of such a Head of State are going to be significant.