1. People tend to deal with collections in the aggregate far more often than they step through them an item at a time. The example given was "set the nectar of all the flowers to 0." Look past the syntax for a moment and look at how simple that is.
looking past the syntax: (map (lambda (x) (set-nectar x 0)) flowers)
I've been through countless overinflated medical bills. One instance of double billing: they charged 900$ for an ecography and separately $900 for the personel handling the aparat. After months of back and forth figts with the clinic and the insurance company they finally dropped one of the bills. If you ask me, $900 for a 1h examination is way overinflated to start with.
I would have a some suggestions: 1. Pass a law that a company is required to pay back a customer 50% of each 'mistaken' billing they make. The % amount is just a suggestion. 2. Pass a law that a company can't charge 'a posteriori', they have to inform you exactly of what they are going to bill you up front, before doing you any service. Better make them need your signature on it. While at that, limit the depth level of financial obfuscation to a (very) small number, even zero. No more 'mail in rebate 1, 2, 3' + 'bonus points a, b, c' +..., just state the damn final price upfront. If things follow current trend, in 20 years it will take three hours on a Pentium 15 to compute the final price on any service.
I think it is reasonably easy to not make 'mistakes' with todays computerized billing systems.
Well, do you really think that only Sony should push technology forward? Aren't there any companies left to invent themselfes GLV? If they aren't then probably Sony deserves the money...
Just look around, how old is the concept of the very computer you used to write down your anticorporatist remark? Less than 30 years... How old is the concept of the network you used to post your comment? Ancient IP is around 30 years old, the Web it's even younger... How old is the very tool facilitate our comunication,/. ?!
Actually we should have the next big thing on our desktops much sooner. Patents on the old Trinitron just facilitate that. They should encourage competition to come up with the next big thing. Too bad everybody (except Sony) was too lazy to care about that...
Internet communications are so easy to track. A totalitar governement is just dreaming of watching its citizens (slaves) as close as Internet allows.
Just imagine if somebody says (emails) something wrong about them and in three days just dissapears. In short time everybody (out of shere fear) will send just overlaudative messages regarding how wise and inspired is their governement.
If only Salin would live today. Then everybody will have his internet box at home by default. Forget time consumming tasks like tapping phones and reading smails, we have NetRadar those days...
It's hard to find any Jew vilage in Romania history. Cause: (at least in 19th century, when the big Jew migration toward Romania took place) there were a law forbidding them to do agricol works. Consequence: they concentrated into cities.
I can direct you to 2 jewish cemeteries in Bucharest (where I was born). From my window in my adoptive town Timisoara I can see the towers of two jewish temples (sinagogues). Do you want to send you a picture?
If you really insist visiting Romania even once, maybe you will pay a visit to the jewish theatre in Bucharest.
Back to topics:
The French laws against Nazism are very nice, but they fail to answer the real problem. Which is not Nazism, but hatred between groups of people. How can one determined individual (party, secret service, whatever) may create such a state of spirit? In theree steps:
Identify the target population. Find something to differentiate those people from the majority. This may be race (Jews/Germans), ethnic appartenance (Albanians/Serbs), social position (burgeoise/proletar) or even glasswearers/everybody else in communist Cambodgia.
Demonize them. "The jews are enslaving us. They steal our work" or "Albanian are driving us (Serbs) out of Kossovo" or whatever.
Present reality deformed or even invent facts to support your demonizing operation. "Albanians have killed two (serbs) families yesterday". Censor any refference to your own condamnable actions.
The purpose is to create an emmotional state of hatred against your target population. After all, they are demons, so any actions you will take against them, no matter how abbominable, will have at least a silent support from the majority.
The bad news are that Nazis or Milosevici are not the onlyt one practicing the above techniques. You may detect the same pattern even in the above posting (romanians "erradicating" jews during ww2).
You'll detect it even in CNN reports about the war in Jugoslavia. The Serbs were all the time criminals, so we are free to bomb them at will.
How can we protect against this? Censorship is not the way to go. I think the only way to dismantle such a scheme is to be extremely accurate on facts. We should try give anyone the exact facts and all the facts, from both sides.
I suggest to that Frenchs not to try to censor Yahoo, but to build a comprehensive web site with informations on what really happened during ww2. And not only concentrated on Jews fate, but on each european people which suffered in the conflict.
I really do not know what the statistics of jew population were in Romania just after ww2. I suppose you don't have evidence of the fact that there were no jews after the war. If you do, please point me to your sources, I am quite interested in the matter.
What I know as a fact is that Ceausescu's regime (1965-1989) had a "nice" policy of selling emigration visas for Jews. If they would been eradicated 20 yers before, how could this been possible?
The story about Germans in Romania is relevant for countering your opinions: you seem to beleive that jews were forced en masse outside the border, I tend to believe (at least a significant part of them) just left out of good will.
Please ask any romanian originating Jew if s/he wishes to come back. Or any romanian originating German. Do you want to live in Romania? I suppose they just WANT to live outside Romania, and not because of today persecutions...
The German example is also a relevant on what happens when a populations migrates: other people start coming in their place. It's not about razing villages or cemeteries, is about using them. You seem to want people to keep untouched the past relicves. Well, that is just not heppening: nor in Romania, not in every place on Earth. Today generations just want ot live their lives.
I am 100% romanian and still I want to leave this country (Romania) for good. But I won't start crying "i'm forced out of the country". Half of my ethnic romanians friends live now in Canada, French or Sweden.
About loosing roots: I don't really understand your point. Romania is a very young country. Even younger than USA. I myself - 100% romanian ethnic living in Romania right now - cannot trace my ancestors before my grandparents. All I know are general regions of where they originated, and two of their families crossed border in order to live in Romania. Why? Because of ethnical persecutions. Yet I don't start whining that I can't find their cemeteries near lake Ohrida or near Brasov.
It's as simple as that: this century had witnessed great migrations and that's a fact not only for Jews, but for the majority of (Eastern) European peoples.
Oh, yes, there is still a small jewish comunity in Romania too. And it's continuing to diminish because most youngsters just emigrate. I personally know a jewish originating young woman which emigrated a few years ago in Germany.
I found your argument very thin. You say: today there are in Romania no Jews, before the war were around 1.000.000 so they all get killed in the war. You fail to take account the 55 years that passed from the war.
FYI, before ww2 there were in Romania around the same number of Germans as Jews (around 1.000.000) Today they are (almost) all gone. Does this means they have been all killed in the Holocaust?!
The answer is more simple: the economical conditions in Romania were so bad that Germans emigrated in Germany. And you may say they were forced by the communist regime. Well, the sad truth is that most of them left just after the communist regime felt (i.e. after 1989). By their own will.
Turning back to Jews fate in ww2. You may not speak of Romania as a whole in ww2 for the simple fact that Romania has lost a third of its population just at the beginning of ww2. The North Transylvania was under Hungarian regime. Maybe it's worth mentioning that Jews in that part of the country were sent to german concentrations camps. What fate they had there, it's horrifing to mention. On the contrary, Jews in the Southern Transylvania, under Romanian regime were not. That's true also for Jew population in the southern romanian province Muntenia and in the eastern Moldavia.
On the contrary, the fate of Jews in Bassarabia (extreme east province of Romania, today independent state Republic of Moldova) was terrible. For that, the ww2 Romanian regime is to blame. Basically they were deported over the Nistru river (eastern natural border of Bassarabia). Where they faced famine and persecutions, most of them perishing in terrible conditions.
Why Bassarabia had a different status from the rest of Romania? Because it was lost by Romania in 1939 to the URSS and in 1941 occupied by romanian troops and hence it had an occupied teritory status.
That's all I know of Jews fate in Romania during ww2. I may be very well a victim of Romanian propaganda (after all I live in Romania) but before accusing me of that try to find out the facts before making any affirmations.
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lisp is the oldest :-) reinventing 40 years old constructs 40 does not strike me as particularly innovative.
1. People tend to deal with collections in the aggregate far more often than they step through them an item at a time. The example given was "set the nectar of all the flowers to 0." Look past the syntax for a moment and look at how simple that is.
looking past the syntax:
(map (lambda (x) (set-nectar x 0)) flowers)
I've been through countless overinflated medical bills. One instance of double billing: they charged 900$ for an ecography and separately $900 for the personel handling the aparat. After months of back and forth figts with the clinic and the insurance company they finally dropped one of the bills. If you ask me, $900 for a 1h examination is way overinflated to start with.
..., just state the damn final price upfront. If things follow current trend, in 20 years it will take three hours on a Pentium 15 to compute the final price on any service.
I would have a some suggestions:
1. Pass a law that a company is required to pay back a customer 50% of each 'mistaken' billing they make. The % amount is just a suggestion.
2. Pass a law that a company can't charge 'a posteriori', they have to inform you exactly of what they are going to bill you up front, before doing you any service. Better make them need your signature on it. While at that, limit the depth level of financial obfuscation to a (very) small number, even zero. No more 'mail in rebate 1, 2, 3' + 'bonus points a, b, c' +
I think it is reasonably easy to not make 'mistakes' with todays computerized billing systems.
Many of these potential users are illiterate...
Spend the money for a literacy program in the first place.
Just look around, how old is the concept of the very computer you used to write down your anticorporatist remark? Less than 30 years... How old is the concept of the network you used to post your comment? Ancient IP is around 30 years old, the Web it's even younger... How old is the very tool facilitate our comunication, /. ?!
Actually we should have the next big thing on our desktops much sooner. Patents on the old Trinitron just facilitate that. They should encourage competition to come up with the next big thing. Too bad everybody (except Sony) was too lazy to care about that...
Just imagine if somebody says (emails) something wrong about them and in three days just dissapears. In short time everybody (out of shere fear) will send just overlaudative messages regarding how wise and inspired is their governement.
If only Salin would live today. Then everybody will have his internet box at home by default. Forget time consumming tasks like tapping phones and reading smails, we have NetRadar those days...
- It's hard to find any Jew vilage in Romania history. Cause: (at least in 19th century, when the big Jew migration toward Romania took place) there were a law forbidding them to do agricol works. Consequence: they concentrated into cities.
- I can direct you to 2 jewish cemeteries in Bucharest (where I was born). From my window in my adoptive town Timisoara I can see the towers of two jewish temples (sinagogues). Do you want to send you a picture?
- If you really insist visiting Romania even once, maybe you will pay a visit to the jewish theatre in Bucharest.
Back to topics:The French laws against Nazism are very nice, but they fail to answer the real problem. Which is not Nazism, but hatred between groups of people. How can one determined individual (party, secret service, whatever) may create such a state of spirit? In theree steps:
- Identify the target population. Find something to differentiate those people from the majority. This may be race (Jews/Germans), ethnic appartenance (Albanians/Serbs), social position (burgeoise/proletar) or even glasswearers/everybody else in communist Cambodgia.
- Demonize them. "The jews are enslaving us. They steal our work" or "Albanian are driving us (Serbs) out of Kossovo" or whatever.
- Present reality deformed or even invent facts to support your demonizing operation. "Albanians have killed two (serbs) families yesterday". Censor any refference to your own condamnable actions.
The purpose is to create an emmotional state of hatred against your target population. After all, they are demons, so any actions you will take against them, no matter how abbominable, will have at least a silent support from the majority.The bad news are that Nazis or Milosevici are not the onlyt one practicing the above techniques. You may detect the same pattern even in the above posting (romanians "erradicating" jews during ww2).
You'll detect it even in CNN reports about the war in Jugoslavia. The Serbs were all the time criminals, so we are free to bomb them at will.
How can we protect against this? Censorship is not the way to go. I think the only way to dismantle such a scheme is to be extremely accurate on facts. We should try give anyone the exact facts and all the facts, from both sides.
I suggest to that Frenchs not to try to censor Yahoo, but to build a comprehensive web site with informations on what really happened during ww2. And not only concentrated on Jews fate, but on each european people which suffered in the conflict.
What I know as a fact is that Ceausescu's regime (1965-1989) had a "nice" policy of selling emigration visas for Jews. If they would been eradicated 20 yers before, how could this been possible?
The story about Germans in Romania is relevant for countering your opinions: you seem to beleive that jews were forced en masse outside the border, I tend to believe (at least a significant part of them) just left out of good will.
Please ask any romanian originating Jew if s/he wishes to come back. Or any romanian originating German. Do you want to live in Romania? I suppose they just WANT to live outside Romania, and not because of today persecutions...
The German example is also a relevant on what happens when a populations migrates: other people start coming in their place. It's not about razing villages or cemeteries, is about using them. You seem to want people to keep untouched the past relicves. Well, that is just not heppening: nor in Romania, not in every place on Earth. Today generations just want ot live their lives.
I am 100% romanian and still I want to leave this country (Romania) for good. But I won't start crying "i'm forced out of the country". Half of my ethnic romanians friends live now in Canada, French or Sweden.
About loosing roots: I don't really understand your point. Romania is a very young country. Even younger than USA. I myself - 100% romanian ethnic living in Romania right now - cannot trace my ancestors before my grandparents. All I know are general regions of where they originated, and two of their families crossed border in order to live in Romania. Why? Because of ethnical persecutions. Yet I don't start whining that I can't find their cemeteries near lake Ohrida or near Brasov.
It's as simple as that: this century had witnessed great migrations and that's a fact not only for Jews, but for the majority of (Eastern) European peoples.
Oh, yes, there is still a small jewish comunity in Romania too. And it's continuing to diminish because most youngsters just emigrate. I personally know a jewish originating young woman which emigrated a few years ago in Germany.
I found your argument very thin. You say: today there are in Romania no Jews, before the war were around 1.000.000 so they all get killed in the war. You fail to take account the 55 years that passed from the war.
FYI, before ww2 there were in Romania around the same number of Germans as Jews (around 1.000.000) Today they are (almost) all gone. Does this means they have been all killed in the Holocaust?!
The answer is more simple: the economical conditions in Romania were so bad that Germans emigrated in Germany. And you may say they were forced by the communist regime. Well, the sad truth is that most of them left just after the communist regime felt (i.e. after 1989). By their own will.
Turning back to Jews fate in ww2. You may not speak of Romania as a whole in ww2 for the simple fact that Romania has lost a third of its population just at the beginning of ww2. The North Transylvania was under Hungarian regime. Maybe it's worth mentioning that Jews in that part of the country were sent to german concentrations camps. What fate they had there, it's horrifing to mention. On the contrary, Jews in the Southern Transylvania, under Romanian regime were not. That's true also for Jew population in the southern romanian province Muntenia and in the eastern Moldavia.
On the contrary, the fate of Jews in Bassarabia (extreme east province of Romania, today independent state Republic of Moldova) was terrible. For that, the ww2 Romanian regime is to blame. Basically they were deported over the Nistru river (eastern natural border of Bassarabia). Where they faced famine and persecutions, most of them perishing in terrible conditions.
Why Bassarabia had a different status from the rest of Romania? Because it was lost by Romania in 1939 to the URSS and in 1941 occupied by romanian troops and hence it had an occupied teritory status.
That's all I know of Jews fate in Romania during ww2. I may be very well a victim of Romanian propaganda (after all I live in Romania) but before accusing me of that try to find out the facts before making any affirmations.