Friend, the rest of the world has been commodities of global capital for years. That it is happening to people from the source of neoliberalism, the US, is merely ironic. Personally, I would like to live in Kerala: a nice socialist run state with great food and beaches. See you there!
Tell your friends, FOFs, random people on the street to vote Democrat. They stink in various other ways, but the last 3 years have confirmed that the Green "there is no difference btw the two parties" bullshit is clear: Republicans RULE. The Democrats GOVERN. If you want a theocracy lead by the mediocre vote for Boy Genius, else lets get America back.
If we allow that puppet and his masters another four years (they stole the fucking election anyway), the fix is in. Prepare to see an attempt to can the constitutional amendment banning more than 2 presidential terms. It might not help Bush as it couldn't make it through ratification in time, but if they can fully dominate the unthinking middle class and put a second puppet in power in 2008: watch and learn.
When they kick down your front door, how you gonna come?
Again, it's a matter of percentages. I'm not saying that China has no creative free-thinking independant people. I'm saying the percentage seems to be a lot smaller and giving a reason why. I'm not even saying that's bad, one way or the other.
"seems" is a weak position on face. Often what seems to be the case is not or is very different upon second analysis.
You are missing the very real power that scale has in this matter. I guess you could come up with some sort of creativity/innovation/individuality test, compare the distributions and infer, but you'll always have to address the test's precision, cultural difference, etc.
All and all, it is much more difficult than just looking at the percentages. You have to look at the significance. I think you would find that there are relatively few innovative people in America depending on how you define innovation, etc.
I agree it's not exclusive to western culture, but it is encouraged more the western cultures.
How so? In 12th Century CE training manuals for Chinese children, innovative thinking and using continuing education to promote such thinking were common and, in the case of Yuan Ts'ai, considered classics. Contrary to popular belief in the West, creative thinking goes on all over the place, that it does not produce iPods is irrelevant. In the case of world culture in general, it may just be aberrant.
The article's defintion of culture is a good one, but there are others that are broader and others more narrow. But it does the job.
But nationality is an administrative designation. I am a US national because I carry such documentation (ID, Passport, and, most importantly, voter's registration). National identity is a different thing. I would define it (ex Benedict Anderson/Eric Hobsbawm)/Richard Jenkins) as personal duty and subservience to an imagined, but not imaginary, community.
In Western societies, decisions are made on the basis of input from those involved. In cultures with greater hierarchies, group members assume an authority will decide and they are only to enact the decision."
The "West" is a complex, stratified society with more hierarchies than Chinese society for example, and these tend to be much more arbtrary -- 'race' for example. Caste and such in India are misunderstood as being the result of oppression, not differentiation of the means of production in agrarian societies. That oppression exists in caste-based societies is a fact. That it is the result of the very caste structure itself not the means of its control and manisfestation is what you can't get through to people. Anyhow, creative thinking is not the exclusive domain of "Western" culture. And assuming that it occurs on an individual level ignores socialization as a culural force.
De Honnecourt did technical drawings and gave instructions on the use and repair of various machines in the 13th Century (1225 to 1255 or so). See Jean Gimpel's "The Medieval Machine."
I guess you could equivocate in that Honnecourt's notebooks were not *published*, just passed around from interested party to interested party.
Look, I do my field research in the Balkans. There are still swathes of ground you'd better not fucking walk unless you are absolutely sure there are no mines. Even near Plitvice Park in Croatia, there are still quarantined areas within 150 meters of the 'main' road to Gracac. If you need to stop and take a dump in nature (few places to do it otherwise there), you better know the words for "Danger Mines."
Give me a break. As a native Vehjenyan I'll say it, if it ain't UVa, W&M or one of the private schools, it is rapidly approaching Radford U. C'mon, it's a straight up engineering drunken jockocracy. Besides, everyone knows a Hokie is a queer chicken.;-)
Way to go, you 14-year-old jackoff. Now I have to field queries from PHBs on why Linux isn't a liability since it is responsible for the MyDoom worm. D'oh.
I would love to think this is a frame up of the OSS community, but most likely it is some pimply faced virgin cocksucker who thinks that bullshit like this helps. You do realize we are winning, don't you, asshole? Rant over....
OK. I agree that is more clear in readablity. But it just renames $_ to $file and shifts $_ to undef, so in the background there is something extra going on. For n00b, I'll I agree with you that this is a better thing. For me, yuck.;-)
It is part of the language. Why define a variable, then simple copy the implicit's value to that variable. Wasteful. The while() { print; } is elegant, but it is more nebulous to n00bs in that there is a real WTF factor involved. At least showing $_ will get someone to crack the Camel book to see WTF that is rather than try to understand how and why Perl tries to do it all for you if you want/let it.
This has been a war since the mid-90s. At some point, you just give up. There are people, bless them, who are trusting by their nature. She knows to NOT click on things sent to her, but when her friends send her a joke program and she doesn't click on it then she has to field the "Didn't you see the funny thing I sent you?" questions. People don't like to be left out. Call it gullibility, but there are people in the world who will ALWAYS do what the script kiddies and worm writers want just on default behavior alone.
Dude, I would like you to meet my mom... Tomorrow at this time, I will be rebuilding her machine. No matter what. She WILL click on it. Even if I tell her not too. She will.:-(
P.S. Trolls: get off my momma, cuz I just got off yours.
Look Yugos in the States blew chunks, but in general the Zastava was a good car. Another Yugoslav car was the Katra - a Renault 4 - built in Slovenia (Novo Mesto). Now that is a awesome car. You cannot fucking kill them. Not exactly crashworthy but for busting a move in traffic in Zagreb, they are awesome.
Well, the discussion was about good coding practices of which strict pragma and -w are two examples. By the way, the above code doesn't run. I left a " out. Whoops.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w #relax I'm just being a picky Perl person #I could be Christiansen and call you a godless moron;-) use strict; open(FILE, "/etc/passwd) or die $!, "\n"; while(<FILE>) {
I am sorry but if you are disciplined enough to write tight code always, it matters shit little what language you use. Yeah, Perl can be a mess, but what it doesn't waste on nonsense like coding style, it makes up for in spades in doing what you want it to do -- friggin time. Now that being said, I don't use Perl for everything. PHP is my web language now, but I'd be damned if I would write do something like SNMP data collection with anything other than Perl. The modules are there to make it easy and if I have to get crazy and parse snmpbulkwalks and such, it can do the job with out me worrying if I put a fucking tab in the right place.
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Friend, the rest of the world has been commodities of global capital for years. That it is happening to people from the source of neoliberalism, the US, is merely ironic. Personally, I would like to live in Kerala: a nice socialist run state with great food and beaches. See you there!
Tell your friends, FOFs, random people on the street to vote Democrat. They stink in various other ways, but the last 3 years have confirmed that the Green "there is no difference btw the two parties" bullshit is clear: Republicans RULE. The Democrats GOVERN. If you want a theocracy lead by the mediocre vote for Boy Genius, else lets get America back.
If we allow that puppet and his masters another four years (they stole the fucking election anyway), the fix is in. Prepare to see an attempt to can the constitutional amendment banning more than 2 presidential terms. It might not help Bush as it couldn't make it through ratification in time, but if they can fully dominate the unthinking middle class and put a second puppet in power in 2008: watch and learn.
When they kick down your front door, how you gonna come?
All and all, it is much more difficult than just looking at the percentages. You have to look at the significance. I think you would find that there are relatively few innovative people in America depending on how you define innovation, etc.
I agree it's not exclusive to western culture, but it is encouraged more the western cultures.
How so? In 12th Century CE training manuals for Chinese children, innovative thinking and using continuing education to promote such thinking were common and, in the case of Yuan Ts'ai, considered classics. Contrary to popular belief in the West, creative thinking goes on all over the place, that it does not produce iPods is irrelevant. In the case of world culture in general, it may just be aberrant.
The article's defintion of culture is a good one, but there are others that are broader and others more narrow. But it does the job.
But nationality is an administrative designation. I am a US national because I carry such documentation (ID, Passport, and, most importantly, voter's registration). National identity is a different thing. I would define it (ex Benedict Anderson/Eric Hobsbawm)/Richard Jenkins) as personal duty and subservience to an imagined, but not imaginary, community.
In Western societies, decisions are made on the basis of input from those involved. In cultures with greater hierarchies, group members assume an authority will decide and they are only to enact the decision."
The "West" is a complex, stratified society with more hierarchies than Chinese society for example, and these tend to be much more arbtrary -- 'race' for example. Caste and such in India are misunderstood as being the result of oppression, not differentiation of the means of production in agrarian societies. That oppression exists in caste-based societies is a fact. That it is the result of the very caste structure itself not the means of its control and manisfestation is what you can't get through to people. Anyhow, creative thinking is not the exclusive domain of "Western" culture. And assuming that it occurs on an individual level ignores socialization as a culural force.
OK. We just ignore the Arabs and Levants....
De Honnecourt did technical drawings and gave instructions on the use and repair of various machines in the 13th Century (1225 to 1255 or so). See Jean Gimpel's "The Medieval Machine."
I guess you could equivocate in that Honnecourt's notebooks were not *published*, just passed around from interested party to interested party.
Look, I do my field research in the Balkans. There are still swathes of ground you'd better not fucking walk unless you are absolutely sure there are no mines. Even near Plitvice Park in Croatia, there are still quarantined areas within 150 meters of the 'main' road to Gracac. If you need to stop and take a dump in nature (few places to do it otherwise there), you better know the words for "Danger Mines."
Give me a break. As a native Vehjenyan I'll say it, if it ain't UVa, W&M or one of the private schools, it is rapidly approaching Radford U. C'mon, it's a straight up engineering drunken jockocracy. Besides, everyone knows a Hokie is a queer chicken. ;-)
I'll be outside at about 1130am tomorrow, looking up at the skies as I do every year, thanking that shuttle crew for their sacrifice.
Now if that isn't karma whoring, then I've got a life. Jes' a sec.... Checking. Checking. Yep, that's good karma whoring.
Way to go, you 14-year-old jackoff. Now I have to field queries from PHBs on why Linux isn't a liability since it is responsible for the MyDoom worm. D'oh.
I would love to think this is a frame up of the OSS community, but most likely it is some pimply faced virgin cocksucker who thinks that bullshit like this helps. You do realize we are winning, don't you, asshole? Rant over....
OK. I agree that is more clear in readablity. But it just renames $_ to $file and shifts $_ to undef, so in the background there is something extra going on. For n00b, I'll I agree with you that this is a better thing. For me, yuck. ;-)
It is part of the language. Why define a variable, then simple copy the implicit's value to that variable. Wasteful. The while() { print; } is elegant, but it is more nebulous to n00bs in that there is a real WTF factor involved. At least showing $_ will get someone to crack the Camel book to see WTF that is rather than try to understand how and why Perl tries to do it all for you if you want/let it.
This has been a war since the mid-90s. At some point, you just give up. There are people, bless them, who are trusting by their nature. She knows to NOT click on things sent to her, but when her friends send her a joke program and she doesn't click on it then she has to field the "Didn't you see the funny thing I sent you?" questions. People don't like to be left out. Call it gullibility, but there are people in the world who will ALWAYS do what the script kiddies and worm writers want just on default behavior alone.
P.S. Trolls: get off my momma, cuz I just got off yours.
Look Yugos in the States blew chunks, but in general the Zastava was a good car. Another Yugoslav car was the Katra - a Renault 4 - built in Slovenia (Novo Mesto). Now that is a awesome car. You cannot fucking kill them. Not exactly crashworthy but for busting a move in traffic in Zagreb, they are awesome.
Well, the discussion was about good coding practices of which strict pragma and -w are two examples. By the way, the above code doesn't run. I left a " out. Whoops.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w ;-)
#relax I'm just being a picky Perl person
#I could be Christiansen and call you a godless moron
use strict;
open(FILE, "/etc/passwd) or die $!, "\n";
while(<FILE>) {
print $_;
}
close(FILE);
exit;
I am sorry but if you are disciplined enough to write tight code always, it matters shit little what language you use. Yeah, Perl can be a mess, but what it doesn't waste on nonsense like coding style, it makes up for in spades in doing what you want it to do -- friggin time. Now that being said, I don't use Perl for everything. PHP is my web language now, but I'd be damned if I would write do something like SNMP data collection with anything other than Perl. The modules are there to make it easy and if I have to get crazy and parse snmpbulkwalks and such, it can do the job with out me worrying if I put a fucking tab in the right place.
a dupe.
It runs VxWorks, you peckerhead. Jesus, do any trolls even try anymore?
Orkut.
That's the plural. You are assuming the Finns are a promiscuous people, you insensitive clod!
I would never join any club that would have me as a member -- to paraphrase Groucho.
Where is this place, outside, that you speak of?
You don't even know how privileged you are to be white.