I have a habit of playing with my mouse buttons when I'm reading and this is a source of endless annoyance for me.
Same here, I always underline the text I read and this was the biggest annoyance for me untill I found out how to remove it : add this line to your pref.js
The US spreads its message of globalisation and international cooperation, but they still want to have the cherry on top of the cake for themselves.
Nope. They want to be able to get the flour in Brazil, the milk in Canada, the eggs in France, and the topping in China and then eat the cake themselves. All of it. That's what globalisation is all about.
One of the big problem with those international organisations processes is that decisions are taken by members of the executive branch of governments, while the decisions taken are legislative in nature. For example, preliminary arrangements for the FTAA were agreed by a conference of the Minister of Economy (or equivalent) from each state, and this was a binding basis for the actual Agreement. Also, (I am from Quebec, Canada) "specialists" in the economy fields made all the negociations, and the House of Commons of each province didn't have a say in this. They still critiqued it, but were shut up by the Prime Minister of Quebec, which was appointed by the last Prime Minister and not elected (he is the old Minister of the Economy). By some strange twist in legislation, he uses the fact that he was not elected to extend his mandate in order to "prove himself" or something like that. In other words, only a small part of government gets a say in those international legislations, but all must obey it. It is centralization of power, and that is mostly never democratic, especially when decided by a very tiny percentage of the population. The local representatives that globalization take power from don't get a part in the process. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I think you will have a hard time saying Bush is democratically elected and accountable, too. What about the dictators the U.S. instituted in the south? Well... too bad. And take Mexico. NAFTA ruined their economy and is very unpopular there. I really doubt the population is in favour of FTAA. In fact, I know otherwise for having talked to many Mexicans. And don't tell me we have no alternative, that's a plain lie. Take the People's Submit (I'll agree there name is pretentious, but they were much more representative of the population, and the process was open and anyone could not only attend the conferences, but also talk there) provided tons of different political and economical alternatives to capitalist liberalism.
There was no public debate and no real information for a radical change in legislation that goes against what the public wants in many issues (privatization of healthcare, of water, government control or privatization of community services to people in need (housing for women victim of conjugal violence, teens addicted to drugs that want help, support for teens that want to go back to school, ect.)
And it's quite hard to read what we are protesting about when the texts are kept secret, no? They said the week before the Summit of the Americas that the texts would be made public after the Summit, to make people think they were making the process more transparent and so there would be less protesters. They did make the test public after they Summit, but it was already signed and by then it was too late. But this is not over. We are not going to sell our health to American corporations who have interest to keep us sick so they can sell medicine to us. We are not going to sell the last resources of clean and potable water in the world to Americans because they don't know how to effectively use water for irrigation and already wasted all of theirs. We are going to keep fighting. But thanks to American pressure, we will now be called "terrorists" and get shoot. But we are still not going to let them get away with it.
I'll agree that some protesters are clueless about what WTO is and what they are protesting for, and that the medias will only interview those, but it doesn't change the fact that they are not majority. And some protest only because they are in poverty and don't see the end of it while their 'leaders' attend meetings with the world's richest and don't care about them. Taking into account that those people often do not have the chance to get a good education, that's a very good reason to protest.
Well, were does banning the point of view of someone your ready to bomb a whole country to get without having any proof he did anything come in for validity?
And I have to agree, CNN should be banned.
Face it, control of the media by corporations who in turn control the government is no better than government controling the media.
This list is nothing but karma whoring. It is the list of official mirrors linked from the article. He said we need more mirrors because those are overloaded (they're awfully slow). So we need MORE mirrors. Please mod the parent down and post OTHER mirrors!
I never paid for Windows. I build my own Pcs to avoid the MS tax. I bought a couple Linux distros, once to get a book and a couple other distros to compare. You know why? Because I had the choice to. I first downloaded it to be sure I could and this was no rip off. Then I wanted to encourage the programers.
"He was arrested IN the US. Therefore, as long as the company stays in Europe there is no problem."
Right. If you don't want to go to jail, just don't go to the 'land of the free', the whole wide world knows that. You know, that place where a dictator gives others readings on 'democracy'. I'm planning a trip to China. You'll never see me in the U.S.;-) I went twice, once for 15 minutes, and it's enough for a couple lifetimes.
Yes it is! By saying ram is cheap all the time, programmers don't care anymore and every tiny programs take up much ram. Result is I have 320mb and run out before I even start loading my big appz!! Sow the ram use down people!!
Cool! I didn't know you could buy an AC and break it down: I want one! "You bastard are gunna pay for all those Anonymous Cowards that have been mocking me over the years!!".
"English is a Germanic language, with the influences of: Latin, French and Scandinavian dialects. French is a Romantic language with far less influences."
It is harder to learn than english only because of the exceptions. And it's the language of poetry. And has even more vocabulary than english (tons of beautiful synonyms...)
US's net isn't growing much anymore. The rest of the world's net use is growing exponentially.
Everyone wants to keep their languages. English is not a good standard for communication. And the world is getting pissed of US imperialism. So we're going to push a new standard (such as Interlingua) and there is going to be only one border: surrounding the US. You in your hole and the rest communicating.
Is that what you want? I'm starting to believe it's what I want.
Corruption isn't a hindrance to the system. It is the result of the way the system works. The only way to stop this is to abolish exploitation, and thus everything that creates it: government, capitalism, imperialism, ect.
Great. But what do we replace it with? Simple. Participative democracy as a political system (i.e. people voting not on who will decide for us but voting the decisions themselves. Everything that concerns only me is decided only by me. Everything that concerns everyone is decided by everyone.). The only way people can be liable to law under a democracy is if people wrote said law. Communism as an economic system. I know you've all heard communism is evil, but the evil they talked about as nothing to do with communism. It is about collective property. The goal of a communist economy is to provide for everyone.
Do your own research on this. You'll be surprised to see there are alternative to Big Business or Big Government control.
You might want to start by Anarchy and NEFAC. Sociology is the key, as you can't build a better world without understanding what is wrong with the current one and what can be done to prevent the same mistakes humans have been doing since the first societies.
"If there is hope, it lies in the proles." -George Orwell
Why do you think they preach individualist values? To keep people divided. They act like they are divided to enforce the feeling that they succeeded this way and that it's the way to your own success. But they keep the power by sticking together and keeping people in a state of competition. And no, I'm not suggesting we should give up individual freedom for collective power. I'm saying that collective power is the only way to protect individual freedom. Humans are SOCIAL animals. As such, an individual can only be free by developing free (equal to equal) relationships with other free individuals. Life is a paradox. Life's goal is to find happiness by harmonizing those paradoxes, i.e. by finding a balance between them.
They say you are free because you can make your own choices. And it's somewhat true. But what does freedom of choice mean if they decide what options you get to chose from? Nothing.
Pathetic compared to what it could easily be. Earth has way enough resources for every living being to live by much better standards. And stop that crappy "it used to be even worst so shut up and kiss your master's boots". The fact is we have enough for everyone so there is no reason half of the world should be very poor, another third poor, some living as we all could (should) be and the rest owning our asses. We are the ones who produce their wealth. Why should they be the ones benefiting from it?
mediocre high-school education
Whose fault is it if high-school education is mediocre? The students? Right... Why can't most people afford better education? Don't have money. But we have way enough resources to teach them and provide for them while they study. But no, all those resources belong to 2% of the populace who will never use them but like the power they get from controlling who will be able to.
No motivation? I don't know who in their right mind would be motivated by a slave life cleaning dishes and such.
And the worst in all this is that they find a way to consume more than earth can give while keeping everyone in shitty conditions. Posterity? Who gives a fuck what will be left for them?? I DO!!!
The goal of a capitalist economy is to maximize individual profit.
The goal of a communist economy is to provide for everyone.
State communism is an oxymoron. Capitalist democracy is an oxymoron.
State and capitalism need each other. Democracy and communism need each other.
AFAIK, when you use a Perl program, it gets compiled and the resulting byte code is runned. You may call this a 'runtime' compilation, it is still compiled before it is executed. Probably the same for other languages.
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HeHeHe.
History happened as the History Book said it happened, huh???
You have no idea what anarchy is. The base principle of freedom (My freedom ends where yours begin) holds in anarchy. More than under other political systems, because it is the ONLY limit to freedom. And that is total freedom. Not wandering around killing people.
Ah, and in anarchy, my freedom to live and eat to this end is more important than your "right to propertah", and that's why anarchism isn't popular amongst elitists capitalists imperialists liberals (hehehe).
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Same here, I always underline the text I read and this was the biggest annoyance for me untill I found out how to remove it : add this line to your pref.js
user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false);
Nope. They want to be able to get the flour in Brazil, the milk in Canada, the eggs in France, and the topping in China and then eat the cake themselves. All of it. That's what globalisation is all about.
There was no public debate and no real information for a radical change in legislation that goes against what the public wants in many issues (privatization of healthcare, of water, government control or privatization of community services to people in need (housing for women victim of conjugal violence, teens addicted to drugs that want help, support for teens that want to go back to school, ect.)
And it's quite hard to read what we are protesting about when the texts are kept secret, no? They said the week before the Summit of the Americas that the texts would be made public after the Summit, to make people think they were making the process more transparent and so there would be less protesters. They did make the test public after they Summit, but it was already signed and by then it was too late. But this is not over. We are not going to sell our health to American corporations who have interest to keep us sick so they can sell medicine to us. We are not going to sell the last resources of clean and potable water in the world to Americans because they don't know how to effectively use water for irrigation and already wasted all of theirs. We are going to keep fighting. But thanks to American pressure, we will now be called "terrorists" and get shoot. But we are still not going to let them get away with it.
I'll agree that some protesters are clueless about what WTO is and what they are protesting for, and that the medias will only interview those, but it doesn't change the fact that they are not majority. And some protest only because they are in poverty and don't see the end of it while their 'leaders' attend meetings with the world's richest and don't care about them. Taking into account that those people often do not have the chance to get a good education, that's a very good reason to protest.
Eye for an eye, and the world is blind.
As a Quebecer, I find your .sig interesting. Please put links to it, and the correct adress is fairvotecanada.ORG
"Comme s'est toi qui compte les bultins, y'a pas d'erreure possible."
Well, were does banning the point of view of someone your ready to bomb a whole country to get without having any proof he did anything come in for validity?
And I have to agree, CNN should be banned.
Face it, control of the media by corporations who in turn control the government is no better than government controling the media.
This list is nothing but karma whoring. It is the list of official mirrors linked from the article. He said we need more mirrors because those are overloaded (they're awfully slow). So we need MORE mirrors. Please mod the parent down and post OTHER mirrors!
"the gov is funding our research in the feasiblity of using [...] Military Area Networks"
That sounds logical, indeed. NOT.
I never paid for Windows. I build my own Pcs to avoid the MS tax. I bought a couple Linux distros, once to get a book and a couple other distros to compare. You know why? Because I had the choice to. I first downloaded it to be sure I could and this was no rip off. Then I wanted to encourage the programers.
HehE. The two libraries you named are proprietary (3DFX's Glide and M$'s DirectX)... the standard is OpenGL.
"Why is it that Code Red gets the trumpets and klaxons, while Sircam continues to spread private documents(!) with considerably less attention?"
Simple: code red is more propaganda agains't the Chinese.
"He was arrested IN the US. Therefore, as long as the company stays in Europe there is no problem."
;-) I went twice, once for 15 minutes, and it's enough for a couple lifetimes.
Right. If you don't want to go to jail, just don't go to the 'land of the free', the whole wide world knows that. You know, that place where a dictator gives others readings on 'democracy'. I'm planning a trip to China. You'll never see me in the U.S.
All your base are belong to U.S. -George W. Bush
But of course! When he says 'standard menus', he refers to Microsoft(R) StandardMenu(TM), what do you think? --grin--
"All your base are belong to U.S." -George W. Bush
Yes it is! By saying ram is cheap all the time, programmers don't care anymore and every tiny programs take up much ram. Result is I have 320mb and run out before I even start loading my big appz!! Sow the ram use down people!!
Cool! I didn't know you could buy an AC and break it down: I want one! "You bastard are gunna pay for all those Anonymous Cowards that have been mocking me over the years!!".
What do you mean I don't make sense?
No, the 450lb man will have to eat less, and therefore BE less, um, bloated. Dixi.
Small 'mirco' brasseries in Quebec make good beer.
"English is a Germanic language, with the influences of: Latin, French and Scandinavian dialects. French is a Romantic language with far less influences."
It is harder to learn than english only because of the exceptions. And it's the language of poetry. And has even more vocabulary than english (tons of beautiful synonyms...)
Alors VIVE LE QUÉBEC!!!
There's a few things you are forgetting.
US's net isn't growing much anymore. The rest of the world's net use is growing exponentially.
Everyone wants to keep their languages. English is not a good standard for communication. And the world is getting pissed of US imperialism. So we're going to push a new standard (such as Interlingua) and there is going to be only one border: surrounding the US. You in your hole and the rest communicating.
Is that what you want? I'm starting to believe it's what I want.
There is only one way: revolution.
Corruption isn't a hindrance to the system. It is the result of the way the system works. The only way to stop this is to abolish exploitation, and thus everything that creates it: government, capitalism, imperialism, ect.
Great. But what do we replace it with? Simple. Participative democracy as a political system (i.e. people voting not on who will decide for us but voting the decisions themselves. Everything that concerns only me is decided only by me. Everything that concerns everyone is decided by everyone.). The only way people can be liable to law under a democracy is if people wrote said law. Communism as an economic system. I know you've all heard communism is evil, but the evil they talked about as nothing to do with communism. It is about collective property. The goal of a communist economy is to provide for everyone.
Do your own research on this. You'll be surprised to see there are alternative to Big Business or Big Government control.
You might want to start by Anarchy and NEFAC. Sociology is the key, as you can't build a better world without understanding what is wrong with the current one and what can be done to prevent the same mistakes humans have been doing since the first societies.
"If there is hope, it lies in the proles." -George Orwell
Exactly!
Why do you think they preach individualist values? To keep people divided. They act like they are divided to enforce the feeling that they succeeded this way and that it's the way to your own success. But they keep the power by sticking together and keeping people in a state of competition. And no, I'm not suggesting we should give up individual freedom for collective power. I'm saying that collective power is the only way to protect individual freedom. Humans are SOCIAL animals. As such, an individual can only be free by developing free (equal to equal) relationships with other free individuals. Life is a paradox. Life's goal is to find happiness by harmonizing those paradoxes, i.e. by finding a balance between them.
They say you are free because you can make your own choices. And it's somewhat true. But what does freedom of choice mean if they decide what options you get to chose from? Nothing.
mediocre high-school education
Whose fault is it if high-school education is mediocre? The students? Right... Why can't most people afford better education? Don't have money. But we have way enough resources to teach them and provide for them while they study. But no, all those resources belong to 2% of the populace who will never use them but like the power they get from controlling who will be able to.
No motivation? I don't know who in their right mind would be motivated by a slave life cleaning dishes and such.
And the worst in all this is that they find a way to consume more than earth can give while keeping everyone in shitty conditions. Posterity? Who gives a fuck what will be left for them?? I DO!!!
The goal of a capitalist economy is to maximize individual profit.
The goal of a communist economy is to provide for everyone.
State communism is an oxymoron. Capitalist democracy is an oxymoron.
State and capitalism need each other. Democracy and communism need each other.
This is not what democracy looks like.
AFAIK, when you use a Perl program, it gets compiled and the resulting byte code is runned. You may call this a 'runtime' compilation, it is still compiled before it is executed. Probably the same for other languages.
HeHeHe.
History happened as the History Book said it happened, huh???
Don't think so.
Libertarian001, huh?
I'll show respect to your government when you show respect to my ass.
You have no idea what anarchy is. The base principle of freedom (My freedom ends where yours begin) holds in anarchy. More than under other political systems, because it is the ONLY limit to freedom. And that is total freedom. Not wandering around killing people.
Ah, and in anarchy, my freedom to live and eat to this end is more important than your "right to propertah", and that's why anarchism isn't popular amongst elitists capitalists imperialists liberals (hehehe).