I wonder if the WB has a research paper generator, where you could plug in several topical buzzwords, and the engine will take care of spreading them over the standard thirty pages of neo-liberal drivel about "opening up" the "markets", "liberalizing" the "marketplace", "leveling" the "playing field", and "removing" the "barriers" to "free trade."
One would think that after the debacles in Russia and South East Asia, the WB/IMF duo would have released a new version of the generator, one with a keyword dictionary expanded to use such terms as "social responsibility", "structural reform", "historical and cultural specifics" and a few other variables that would help produce a more accurate output. Instead, as we clearly see with this paper, both the algorithm
if !deregulation statistics = random policy(statistics, buzzwords) print(policy_return) fi
and the dictionary have remained at the version released in the early 90s.
The result? Foreign conglomerate gobbles up former local monopolist with an investment safely backed by the Western taxpayer via their respective country's equivalent of the Export-Import Bank, splits the profits between corrupt local officials and foreign shareholders, acquires unrestrained access to a miserably paid, subservient (no deregulation in the realm of political oppression) workforce and offsets the inevitable downturn in its stockprice and the welfare of the Western state by opening up a new profit lifeline abroad. Tight plan. Not bad for an old app. -- Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie. H. Rap Brown
Cool. With the explosion of the internet and technical knowledge in developing countries, a few years from now, every other company will relocate their tech support call centers down South. Ten times the English proficiency for ten percent of the salary of the burger flippers in Dallas, TX. Not a bad deal for everyone involved, if you ask me. -- Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie. H. Rap Brown
Now, this is completely off-topic, but I might as well stick the thought into this discussion. Have any of you had positive experience running Sybase 11.3 on Linux in a production environment? The DBMS is free (as in beer) for any type of use, as opposed to the free version of 11.9, which you can only use for testing and development purposes. Now, 11.3 is pretty old, but it's still running a lot of mission-critical applications in the real world, and my experience with it (on Solaris, NT is a different story) has been extremely positive. Rock stable, with decent performance and, of course, the power and flexibility of T-SQL to boot.
So would Linux + Sybase 11.3 be a reasonable alternative to Linux + MySQL/PostgreSQL for an organization seeking a cheap and reliable solution? -- Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie. H. Rap Brown
note to story submittors: if video clips aren't viewable under Linux, I can't view them to consider them for posting, so don't bother submitting those quicktime clips
Right, and you've been playing Diablo 2 through WINE. Sad or funny, can't decide. -- Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie. H. Rap Brown
We've seen Microsoft tout Win2k ASE without, it seems, having it available for download on their web site. -- Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie. H. Rap Brown
Running a pretty tight ship there, eh captain? Let's see, 1998? Four service packs and dozens of security patches most of which require a reboot and you've been able to weather two gruelling years as an NT admin with only ten reboots?
Fucking armchair MCSEs.. -- Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie. H. Rap Brown
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I wonder if the WB has a research paper generator, where you could plug in several topical buzzwords, and the engine will take care of spreading them over the standard thirty pages of neo-liberal drivel about "opening up" the "markets", "liberalizing" the "marketplace", "leveling" the "playing field", and "removing" the "barriers" to "free trade."
One would think that after the debacles in Russia and South East Asia, the WB/IMF duo would have released a new version of the generator, one with a keyword dictionary expanded to use such terms as "social responsibility", "structural reform", "historical and cultural specifics" and a few other variables that would help produce a more accurate output. Instead, as we clearly see with this paper, both the algorithm
if !deregulation
statistics = random
policy(statistics, buzzwords)
print(policy_return)
fi
and the dictionary have remained at the version released in the early 90s.
The result? Foreign conglomerate gobbles up former local monopolist with an investment safely backed by the Western taxpayer via their respective country's equivalent of the Export-Import Bank, splits the profits between corrupt local officials and foreign shareholders, acquires unrestrained access to a miserably paid, subservient (no deregulation in the realm of political oppression) workforce and offsets the inevitable downturn in its stockprice and the welfare of the Western state by opening up a new profit lifeline abroad. Tight plan. Not bad for an old app.
--
Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown
Cool. With the explosion of the internet and technical knowledge in developing countries, a few years from now, every other company will relocate their tech support call centers down South. Ten times the English proficiency for ten percent of the salary of the burger flippers in Dallas, TX. Not a bad deal for everyone involved, if you ask me.
--
Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown
Now, this is completely off-topic, but I might as well stick the thought into this discussion. Have any of you had positive experience running Sybase 11.3 on Linux in a production environment? The DBMS is free (as in beer) for any type of use, as opposed to the free version of 11.9, which you can only use for testing and development purposes. Now, 11.3 is pretty old, but it's still running a lot of mission-critical applications in the real world, and my experience with it (on Solaris, NT is a different story) has been extremely positive. Rock stable, with decent performance and, of course, the power and flexibility of T-SQL to boot.
So would Linux + Sybase 11.3 be a reasonable alternative to Linux + MySQL/PostgreSQL for an organization seeking a cheap and reliable solution?
--
Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown
note to story submittors: if video clips aren't viewable under Linux, I can't view them to consider them for posting, so don't bother submitting those quicktime clips
Right, and you've been playing Diablo 2 through WINE. Sad or funny, can't decide.
--
Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown
We've seen Microsoft tout Win2k ASE without, it seems, having it available for download on their web site.
--
Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown
Running a pretty tight ship there, eh captain? Let's see, 1998? Four service packs and dozens of security patches most of which require a reboot and you've been able to weather two gruelling years as an NT admin with only ten reboots?
..
Fucking armchair MCSEs
--
Violence is necessary, it is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown