Yeah I know this is apocryphal conspiracy stuff...but... It just starts sounding more real every day and the scary thing is we accept it, when it is presented to us, out in the open.
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. [...] [T]he capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behavior of the citizen in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
I did some research and there's actually an earlier reference for the "deaf mute blindmen" quote than Radzinsky. I think "deaf mute blindment" is equivalent enough to "useful idiot":
The Capitalists of the world and their governments, in pursuit of conquest of the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the indicated higher reality and thus will turn into deaf mute blindmen. They will extend credits, which will strengthen for us the Communist Party in their countries and giving us the materials and technology we lack, they will restore our military industry, indispensable for our future victorious attacks on our suppliers. In other words, they will labor for the preparation for their own suicide.1
Quoted in Joseph Finder, Red Carpet (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1984), p. 8
Here's some more info on Red Carpet. Apparently its truthfullness has been questioned and subsequently verified.
In "Red Carpet: The Connection Between the Kremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen," Finder reported on a controversial expose about a multi-millionaire, Dr. Armand Hammer, and his relationship to Soviet intelligence.
Hammer threatened Finder with a libel suit, but was found innocent when Finder's accounts were verified with the fall of the Soviet Union.
The book that had the reference to the "Deaf Mutes" quote as being authentic was EDVARD RADZINSKY - Stalin : The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
There is much more evidence that Lenin referred to them instead as "Deaf Mutes" which is much less of a marketable term for the anti-communists to use in describing how communists view their dupes.
"The so-called cultural element of Western Eurpoe and America are incapable of comprehening the present state of affairs and the actual balance of forces; these elements must be regarded as deaf-mutes and treated accordingly....
(The Lufkin News, King Featurers Syndicate, Inc., 31 July 1962, p. 4, as quoted by the Freeman Report, 30 Sept. 1973, p. 8).
GM learned long ago that making physical stuff is a pain in the rear because of unions and pension obligations and became a mortgage lenders (GMAC) that makes cars as a hobby.
GM's total revenues were $185.5 billion with a corresponding net income of $3.8 billion. However, only $1 billion of this net income came from automotive sales. The $2.8 billion balance came from financing and insurance operations (including mortgage lending). In other words, only 26.3% of General Motors' net income came from automotive sales. Clearly, GM has become a financial services company (that happens to also manufacture automobiles) and its future success is directly linked to its ability to compete in the financial services industry. After all, America now has a finance/debt-based economy.
or svn diff|merge|etc "http://linuscorp/trunk" "http://ibmcorp/branch"
and there in lies the problem. Without this inter-repository ability it makes it difficult for IBM or Fujitsu or Redhat to maintain their repository and Linus to maintain his respository and merge and patch between them.
The article was sourced from
Novosti a respected Russian news agency.
Archive articles are subscription only but I found a link in the Google cache to the origional article Here
Here goes the karma sacrifice. The Russians, who are quite clever, have figured out how to use non-embryonic stem cells to cure spinal cord injuries. Article Six spinal patients of one of Russian private clinics agreed to participate in a special experiment, which was based on the above-mentioned method. Patients' own stem cells were injected in the place of spinal cord rupture. A positive result was registered with five of the volunteers: they could feel their legs, even move them a little, pelvic organs retrieved their functions too.
You know that it's interesting that this guy has treated people with stem cells and cured spinal illnesses with the patient's own stem cells! Meanwhile people are talking about embryonic stem cells which haven't yet cured anybody yet. I'm not a doctor but won't these embryonic cells be rejected because they've got different DNA then the person being treated? I don't really care either way on the abortion issue but this whole thing makes me think that the side effect of successful embryonic stem cell research will be to reward people montetarily for having abortions or at least make people feel good about aborting.
I lived in Vancouver, BC for a couple of months a few years ago. I follow politics in the U.S actively and when I was in Canada I read the Globe and Mail everyday. From what I could tell, the government in Canada gets what it wants and the Canadian public rarely engages in succesfull political activism. Quebec is an exception, but as far as I could tell, the whole sucession thing was about language and cultural issues. I can't understand why but the general public in Canada is absolutely docile about all things political. Perhaps it's that the newspapers and the CBC seems to generally ignore, obfuscate and smooth over any internal political controversies.
PostgreSQL is far superior to MySql in it's disaster recovery ability, namely WAL (Write Ahead Logging). I've been using PostgreSQL since version 7.0 came out and I've never had it fail to come back up on me after any power outage or reset.
Whether it's the WTO, the U.N or the E.U the problem with these international organizations seem to work the same way.
1. Somebody proposes an international organization that will server a higher goal than the interests of member states. For instance, the U.N will be a forum for peace as it has no nationalistic interests. The WTO will enforce free trade rules as it has no nationalistic interests. The EU governments will break down nationalistic barriers.
2. The organization starts working but quickly develops its own interests because it is not an abstract entity but is actually made up of human beings (gasp!).
3. The human beings that make up these international organzations, freed from the direct scrutiny of a more direct democratic process are easily corrupted/bribed/etc. In the case of the U.N this takes the form of the Oil for Food Scandal/ Appointing China, Saudi Arabia and Sudan as the arbiters of human rights/ prostitution scandals in the Congo. Regarding the EU commissions it's these patent directives and other aspects pushed by big business. The common pattern is that there is no accountability. Nobody gets punished for their transgressions because there isn't a disciplinary system in effect and no direct means of applying pressure by the citizenry who are affected by these abuses.
If there's one thing that's convinced me that predicting the future with certainty is REALLY hard and absurdley lucrative it's my experience with options trading. Which is kind of like regular stock trading except the risk/rewards are multiplied many times, sometimes up to an order of magnitude or more. Not something you want to do unless you have money to gamble and can sit there full time with your finger on the mouse ready to hit the sell button at a moments notice.
That's the thing. Anybody who can predict the future with certainty can just go be an options trader and become a multi-millionaire in a matter of weeks.
I am far more convinced that Peak Oil is going to be the next big catastrophe to hit humanity. Peak oil has far more evidence going for it in that oil supply's have followed the Hubbert's peak model in many different areas where oil has been discovered. Of course if world oil consumption falls this means that Global Warming is going to be a non-issue 100 years from now and we are either going to be somewhere in between the scenarios where we'll all be living in a nuclear powered hydrogen economy utopia where fossil fueled powered engines are as common as horse and buggy or living in poverty with 1/5 or less of the world's population due to mass starvation.
The first two chapters cover enough command-line Linux to manage your files and directories, plus the Vi editor to create and edit your programs.
While Carl and Michael focus on NetBeans, SunONE Studio Community Edition and Eclipse are also covered.
Editing Java in vi is one of the biggest waste of time I can imagine. Eclipse and Intellij are far far more productive environments in ways that are too numerous to describe. I think a Java development on Linux book should really ignore vi and just be an Eclipse centered tour at this point with a little bit of documentation on bash usage , scripting, deployment issues and tuning the environment.
These neurologists are going to attemtpt to assign "values" to utility, usually with a arithmetical number that they can plug into a differential equation so they can appear impressive. However ye' old Austrian school realized that attempts to utilize the methods of physics in describing economic behaviour are bound to fail due to the problem that people acting purposefully make purposeful decisions while falling bodies or two chemicals reacting with each other do not make purposeful decisions.
One way that the difference between physics and economics really stands out is how cardinal values play a big role in physics down to the tiniest levels but on the level of the individual economic decision maker, cardinal values do not describe well how decisions are made.
Cardinal values are values that you can perform arithmetic on. Examples are weights of things, for instance one man can carry 25kg, two people can carry 50kg, one man can carry 5 things each weighing 5 kg.
Ordinal values are values that are merely descriptive and cannot be combinded, divided, multiplied,etc or doing so produces a nonsensical result. Examples of ordinal values are People's Names, Zip Codes, etc. You can add two zip codes together but it's not going to MEAN anything.
In the same way economic decisions are made based on ordinal desires that at best are only arrangable on a constantly changing scale of preference of known available goods.
Let me put this in Slashdot terms: Why is a vic 20 worthless today but it was worth $100 twenty years ago? Even though there has been significant inflation since then? Because it provides less "utility" then it did then??? No, according to the classical definition of utility, you can still plug it in and program it in basic, just like you did twenty years ago. You can still load text games and play them like you did 20 years ago. It's got a rip roaring 300 baud modem that you can use.
20 years ago, one could work at a decent job for 10 hours and buy a vic 20. Which you might want to do if you were a geek and into basic programming.
Now if one works at ones job for 1/2 hour you can buy a vic 20 on ebay, but if one works at ones job for 10 hours one can buy a regular modern pc. Why would anyone forgo the vic 20? Doesn't it have the same utility and it's selling for 1/20 the price? Well the effort of 9 1/2 hours of work and forgoing the other things you could buy for the money are enough to make it worth while to not bother with the vic20 and pick up the new pc for most people.
So basically all the numbers you applied to your vic20 demand supply/curve differential utility equation are going to be speculative at best because of alternatives , new technology, fads, trends, etc that constantly change the economic landscape.
WASHINGTON -- A San Diego-based Navy officer whose eyes were damaged by an apparent laser beam from a suspected Russian spy ship said yesterday he was injured by what was an act of war, terrorism or criminal conduct.
Same nonsense different century.
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So observers coming along and looking at the environment in order to get a picture of the world tend to see the same 'preferred' states.
Sounds a lot like Solipsism which is nothing new at all.
Solipsism is the belief that, because we can only verify our own experiences and no-one elses, only the self is real.
or to put that in Layman's terms: "Go away, you don't exist!"
We are more and more giving music, movies and software as gifts. In this age of digital content Santa simply delivers his gifts via Bittorrent. The Redhat ISO downloading tests certainly show that it is possible to deliver his presents to all children of the world who have suitable upstream bandwidth capabilities. Perhaps someone should re-brand Bittorrent as "SantaTorrent" and rename all the internal classes to "reindeer", "sleigh", "chimney", "jolly old elf", etc.
Somebody should spin off bittorrent, make some slight changes to it and call it "I'm a whore and so are you". Then when the MPAA goes and talks to the news media and get interviewed they will say "Yes, Mr. Oreily we here at the MPAA are taking a tough stand against 'I'm a whore and so are you'". The hilarity will make the whole fear of "cookies" debacle seem barely amusing.
Project Entropia's unique selling point is the ability to convert real money into ingame cash and vice versa.
I was talking to a guy who worked at another MMORPG and he said that they couldn't convert cash from the game into real money. According to him, if you take people's money and promise to give it back to them, you're effectively a bank, and setting up a bank is somewhat complicated.
You forget that humans did not land here from outer space. We are a product of the earth too. So how can naked apes like us burning fossil fuels, given that we are part of the earth just like the volcano, be any worse than what the volcano does? In the 19th century there were theories called "vitalism" that said that there was something about human life that was so fantastic that it was not understandable to science. The modern environmentalist movement has this same idea, that somehow humans are different from the rest of nature.
Slashdot Mirror
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. [...] [T]he capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behavior of the citizen in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
-Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Capitalists of the world and their governments, in pursuit of conquest of the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the indicated higher reality and thus will turn into deaf mute blindmen. They will extend credits, which will strengthen for us the Communist Party in their countries and giving us the materials and technology we lack, they will restore our military industry, indispensable for our future victorious attacks on our suppliers. In other words, they will labor for the preparation for their own suicide.1
Quoted in Joseph Finder, Red Carpet (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1984), p. 8
Here's some more info on Red Carpet. Apparently its truthfullness has been questioned and subsequently verified.
http://www.tacomapubliclibrary.org/v2/News/Events/ Finder.htm
In "Red Carpet: The Connection Between the Kremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen," Finder reported on a controversial expose about a multi-millionaire, Dr. Armand Hammer, and his relationship to Soviet intelligence. Hammer threatened Finder with a libel suit, but was found innocent when Finder's accounts were verified with the fall of the Soviet Union.
The book that had the reference to the "Deaf Mutes" quote as being authentic was
EDVARD RADZINSKY - Stalin : The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
It was Lenin who said that and he actually didn't say it. It was invented by the John Birch Society to describe Ronald Regan.
Source
There is much more evidence that Lenin referred to them instead as "Deaf Mutes" which is much less of a marketable term for the anti-communists to use in describing how communists view their dupes.
Article that Makes Reference to the Deaf Mutes Quote. This quote was also referenced by Theodore Radzinsky in his Stalin Biography as being authentic.
"The so-called cultural element of Western Eurpoe and America are incapable of comprehening the present state of affairs and the actual balance of forces; these elements must be regarded as deaf-mutes and treated accordingly....
(The Lufkin News, King Featurers Syndicate, Inc., 31 July 1962, p. 4, as quoted by the Freeman Report, 30 Sept. 1973, p. 8).
http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/reality/2 004/november.html
(Doh! I posted this as anonymous just a sec ago by mistake)
Right now in Subversion you can diff against the trunk like so
svn diff|merge|etc "http://myrepository/trunk"
against a branch
svn diff|merge|etc "http://myrepository/branch"
or between an aribtrary trunk and branch
svn diff|merge|etc "http://myrepository/trunk" "http://myrepository/branch"
but you can't AFAIK do the following
or svn diff|merge|etc "http://linuscorp/trunk" "http://ibmcorp/branch"
and there in lies the problem. Without this inter-repository ability it makes it difficult for IBM or Fujitsu or Redhat to maintain their repository and Linus to maintain his respository and merge and patch between them.
Sorry to spoil it for all you guys Read the thread for fun. They found a bug with large trees and fixed it.
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-02/1054.shtml
Pravada.ru is a mix of tabloid and legit news. I referenced the original newswire source over
in this post.
The article was sourced from Novosti a respected Russian news agency. Archive articles are subscription only but I found a link in the Google cache to the origional article Here
Here goes the karma sacrifice.
The Russians, who are quite clever, have figured out how to use non-embryonic stem cells to cure spinal cord injuries.
Article
Six spinal patients of one of Russian private clinics agreed to participate in a special experiment, which was based on the above-mentioned method. Patients' own stem cells were injected in the place of spinal cord rupture. A positive result was registered with five of the volunteers: they could feel their legs, even move them a little, pelvic organs retrieved their functions too.
You know that it's interesting that this guy has treated people with stem cells and cured spinal illnesses with the patient's own stem cells! Meanwhile people are talking about embryonic stem cells which haven't yet cured anybody yet. I'm not a doctor but won't these embryonic cells be rejected because they've got different DNA then the person being treated?
I don't really care either way on the abortion issue but this whole thing makes me think that the side effect of successful embryonic stem cell research will be to reward people montetarily for having abortions or at least make people feel good about aborting.
I lived in Vancouver, BC for a couple of months a few years ago. I follow politics in the U.S actively and when I was in Canada I read the Globe and Mail everyday. From what I could tell, the government in Canada gets what it wants and the Canadian public rarely engages in succesfull political activism. Quebec is an exception, but as far as I could tell, the whole sucession thing was about language and cultural issues. I can't understand why but the general public in Canada is absolutely docile about all things political. Perhaps it's that the newspapers and the CBC seems to generally ignore, obfuscate and smooth over any internal political controversies.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/wal .html
Not really a equal oppurtunity destroyer. The unlucky ones are on the side of the planet facing the explosion when it happens.
Whether it's the WTO, the U.N or the E.U the problem with these international organizations seem to work the same way.
1. Somebody proposes an international organization that will server a higher goal than the interests of member states. For instance, the U.N will be a forum for peace as it has no nationalistic interests. The WTO will enforce free trade rules as it has no nationalistic interests. The EU governments will break down nationalistic barriers.
2. The organization starts working but quickly develops its own interests because it is not an abstract entity but is actually made up of human beings (gasp!).
3. The human beings that make up these international organzations, freed from the direct scrutiny of a more direct democratic process are easily corrupted/bribed/etc. In the case of the U.N this takes the form of the Oil for Food Scandal/ Appointing China, Saudi Arabia and Sudan as the arbiters of human rights/ prostitution scandals in the Congo. Regarding the EU commissions it's these patent directives and other aspects pushed by big business. The common pattern is that there is no accountability. Nobody gets punished for their transgressions because there isn't a disciplinary system in effect and no direct means of applying pressure by the citizenry who are affected by these abuses.
If there's one thing that's convinced me that predicting the future with certainty is REALLY hard and absurdley lucrative it's my experience with options trading. Which is kind of like regular stock trading except the risk/rewards are multiplied many times, sometimes up to an order of magnitude or more. Not something you want to do unless you have money to gamble and can sit there full time with your finger on the mouse ready to hit the sell button at a moments notice.
That's the thing. Anybody who can predict the future with certainty can just go be an options trader and become a multi-millionaire in a matter of weeks.
camcorder the size of a pack of cards that also works as a portable MP3 player, webcam, voice recorder, storage device, and more
Now if only this thing was a phone, a GPS and a PDA with 802.11 and GPRS internet access. Then maybe I'd consider buying it.
I am far more convinced that Peak Oil is going to be the next big catastrophe to hit humanity. Peak oil has far more evidence going for it in that oil supply's have followed the Hubbert's peak model in many different areas where oil has been discovered. Of course if world oil consumption falls this means that Global Warming is going to be a non-issue 100 years from now and we are either going to be somewhere in between the scenarios where we'll all be living in a nuclear powered hydrogen economy utopia where fossil fueled powered engines are as common as horse and buggy or living in poverty with 1/5 or less of the world's population due to mass starvation.
While Carl and Michael focus on NetBeans, SunONE Studio Community Edition and Eclipse are also covered.
Editing Java in vi is one of the biggest waste of time I can imagine. Eclipse and Intellij are far far more productive environments in ways that are too numerous to describe. I think a Java development on Linux book should really ignore vi and just be an Eclipse centered tour at this point with a little bit of documentation on bash usage , scripting, deployment issues and tuning the environment.
These neurologists are going to attemtpt to assign "values" to utility, usually with a arithmetical number that they can plug into a differential equation so they can appear impressive. However ye' old Austrian school realized that attempts to utilize the methods of physics in describing economic behaviour are bound to fail due to the problem that people acting purposefully make purposeful decisions while falling bodies or two chemicals reacting with each other do not make purposeful decisions.
One way that the difference between physics and economics really stands out is how cardinal values play a big role in physics down to the tiniest levels but on the level of the individual economic decision maker, cardinal values do not describe well how decisions are made.
Cardinal values are values that you can perform arithmetic on. Examples are weights of things, for instance one man can carry 25kg, two people can carry 50kg, one man can carry 5 things each weighing 5 kg.
Ordinal values are values that are merely descriptive and cannot be combinded, divided, multiplied,etc or doing so produces a nonsensical result. Examples of ordinal values are People's Names, Zip Codes, etc. You can add two zip codes together but it's not going to MEAN anything.
In the same way economic decisions are made based on ordinal desires that at best are only arrangable on a constantly changing scale of preference of known available goods.
Let me put this in Slashdot terms: Why is a vic 20 worthless today but it was worth $100 twenty years ago? Even though there has been significant inflation since then? Because it provides less "utility" then it did then??? No, according to the classical definition of utility, you can still plug it in and program it in basic, just like you did twenty years ago. You can still load text games and play them like you did 20 years ago. It's got a rip roaring 300 baud modem that you can use.
20 years ago, one could work at a decent job for 10 hours and buy a vic 20. Which you might want to do if you were a geek and into basic programming.
Now if one works at ones job for 1/2 hour you can buy a vic 20 on ebay, but if one works at ones job for 10 hours one can buy a regular modern pc. Why would anyone forgo the vic 20? Doesn't it have the same utility and it's selling for 1/20 the price? Well the effort of 9 1/2 hours of work and forgoing the other things you could buy for the money are enough to make it worth while to not bother with the vic20 and pick up the new pc for most people.
So basically all the numbers you applied to your vic20 demand supply/curve differential utility equation are going to be speculative at best because of alternatives , new technology, fads, trends, etc that constantly change the economic landscape.
WASHINGTON -- A San Diego-based Navy officer whose eyes were damaged by an apparent laser beam from a suspected Russian spy ship said yesterday he was injured by what was an act of war, terrorism or criminal conduct.
So observers coming along and looking at the environment in order to get a picture of the world tend to see the same 'preferred' states.
Sounds a lot like Solipsism which is nothing new at all.
Solipsism is the belief that, because we can only verify our own experiences and no-one elses, only the self is real.
or to put that in Layman's terms: "Go away, you don't exist!"
We are more and more giving music, movies and software as gifts. In this age of digital content Santa simply delivers his gifts via Bittorrent. The Redhat ISO downloading tests certainly show that it is possible to deliver his presents to all children of the world who have suitable upstream bandwidth capabilities. Perhaps someone should re-brand Bittorrent as "SantaTorrent" and rename all the internal classes to "reindeer", "sleigh", "chimney", "jolly old elf", etc.
Somebody should spin off bittorrent, make some slight changes to it and call it "I'm a whore and so are you". Then when the MPAA goes and talks to the news media and get interviewed they will say "Yes, Mr. Oreily we here at the MPAA are taking a tough stand against 'I'm a whore and so are you'". The hilarity will make the whole fear of "cookies" debacle seem barely amusing.
Project Entropia's unique selling point is the ability to convert real money into ingame cash and vice versa.
I was talking to a guy who worked at another MMORPG and he said that they couldn't convert cash from the game into real money. According to him, if you take people's money and promise to give it back to them, you're effectively a bank, and setting up a bank is somewhat complicated.
You forget that humans did not land here from outer space. We are a product of the earth too. So how can naked apes like us burning fossil fuels, given that we are part of the earth just like the volcano, be any worse than what the volcano does? In the 19th century there were theories called "vitalism" that said that there was something about human life that was so fantastic that it was not understandable to science. The modern environmentalist movement has this same idea, that somehow humans are different from the rest of nature.