How does giving work to someone who wants it make them poorer?
You have to ask yourself how that person lived before
One of the dirty tricks USA and UE have in globalization is to flood southern markets with food so cheap that local farmers cannot compete. I do not know for USA, but the UE even subsidize food production to be exported. At first look it seems nice to have cheap food, but that destroy southern countries food sovereignty, and people that cannot live from agriculture anymore join the pool of the southern poors ready to work for nearly nothing.
There are two ways of being competitive. The first one is to lower all costs, (and especially labor costs) and make a weak product cheaper than competitors. The second one is to make better products with high price.
The cut-all-costs approach has a problem: there is always someone in a poor country ready to work for lower wage. Being competitive this way means making workers poorer and poorer. And there are environmental issues: costs can be cut by wreaking the environment in countries where there is no regulation to protect it. And since the ecosystem is global, environmental issue created in poor countries will bite back rich countries later.
Cutting all costs to be competitive leads to social and environmental destruction. I am glad there are still some success stories of good products with high price. Of course I do not take for granted that the high-price product is driving up wages and environment preservation, but at least it is not incompatible with it.
If we were looking for good reasons to not give Internet governance to ITU, here we are. Of course one could argue that the current Internet steward, USA, is also a spying big player, but at least it does not openly brag about it.
The European Union core value is competition: between nations, regions, persons. This is just the opposite of cooperation, and that explains why we see nations exploding.
If we carry on toward federalism, we will have to give up democracy.
Germany is federal. Spain is, sort of. How about Australia and the USA? Are they not democracies?
I meant UE federalism. The difference with countries you cite is that theses are nations. Each of they have a single people, where wealth transfers between rich and poor regions of the nation are accepted.
UE is a different beast. There is no UE people, and nobody is ready to pay for the others. You can built federalism with democracy if you have a single people. If you do not, you create federal state structure against the will of the peoples, which is exactly what is done in the UE for now.
But let's go back to Spain now. We see that the crisis with UE austerity rules are pushing the regions of existing nations to separate. Not only UE failed to create a UE federal nation, but it is even pushing the existing member nations toward destruction. We are playing a very dangerous game here.
Single currency only works with similar economies which Greece and say Germany are not.
Not quite. Single currency works fine if there is solidarity between rich regions and poor regions. Take two regions of France, for instance : Ile de France and Corsica. They both shared the same currency, and enjoy similar social standards, despite the fact that Ile de France GDP per capita is twice Corsica's one.
It works because of wealth transfers through taxes. And taxes are accepted because Ile de France and Corisa share the same people. Nobody in France political spectrum claims that Ile de France citizen pay too much taxes for lazy people from southern Corsica
Eurozone is built on competition, not solidarity. When we "help" a southern country, we lend money with interests, and we ask for social standards to be lowered.
In a nutshell, you need to choose two items in the three item set: (same currency, competition, different economies). Once you bring the third one, it gets unstable.
The USA manages a single currency across it's 50 states. There's no reason why Europe can't. It's the F word that's required... federalisation.
Exactly, there are two systems that works: one is confederation where each member state keeps budget and money sovereignty, the other is federation, where all member states abandon budget and money sovereignty to a supranational federal state
There is a requirement for federalism and democracy to live together: we would need the peoples of Europe to consider themselves as a single people, the rich regions being ready to pay for the poorest. This is not the case. UE has been built by bureaucrats without the peoples, and now it is built against the will of the peoples.
If we carry on toward federalism, we will have to give up democracy. I would rather prefer dumping federalism, and go back to confederalism, which gave us things nice things like Ariane or Erasmus
It's a global financial crisis, not a euro-zone financial crisis.
Sure, but you should ask you why the crisis moved from subprimes to euro-zone sovereign debts, and why it does not move from there.
The dirty little secret of the euro-zone is that it just cannot work. We have member states that are sovereign on their budgets, but cannot control their money. Usually when your sovereign debt costs too much, you create money, devaluating its value, and therefore lowering the cost of your debt. This stabilization mechanism is not possible in the euro-zone.
UE politician rushed to introduce UE control over member state budgets. They did it without involving member state people agreement, and with a bias toward austerity. That will not work for a long time, except if we remove democracy from the equation.
lots of EU countries completely changed their currencies and things kept working etc.
Well, actually, we managed to build an uncontrollable monetary system that ultimately led to our own economy destruction, but this is not a problem with coins.
DMA will not solve all your problems. If you use the POSIX API, for instance, you will call read(2) or recv(2) to get data in a buffer you provide. You do not know in advance the size of the data chunk, and if your buffer is to small, data ought to be waiting in kernel for you to retrieve it. Same problem if you call read(2) after the data arrived.
In both cases you must have a copy between kernel and userland, regardless of how smart the implementation is with DMA
Do we know anything about OS and application setup? Achieving such speed is not obvious, and OS may kill performances.by copying data between user and kernel space.
That's why i support the ITU to take control on the master DNS. If the ITU announce their agreement for a new root server, i will pointing my DNS server to them.
I do not think this will help you: I understand ICE request TLD registries to remove the site from the TLD zone (e.g.:.com). DNS root control is only about deciding what TLD exist and who manage them.
If your married and don't want to cheat you should avoid spending a lot of time alone with members of the opposite sex. Period...
Some marriages have been ruined because the husband got bisexual or gay. Just to make sure everything is safe, I think you should recommend the married people abstain spending time with anyone. Mmmmh... pets may be a problem too, you have to address that.
Why is France running Windows at that level on the 'net'?
Change is always seen as annoying by users, and top level executive users have power to resist change, if they are stupid enough to not understand why they need it. I am not sure french military security experts would have been able to impose something to Sarkozy and its counselors
L'Express have been quick to point US responsability. While we could imagine that a third party got Flame sources, it would still have required top skills to use it. The best suspects are therefore the original authors. But US did not produce Flame alone, they did it with Israel. Why not suspect Israel?
It's the result of french nuclears tests in the Pacific
TFA says the sea is 1400 m deep at the place the island should be. If that figure is correct, it rules out island suppression caused by nuclear tests IMO. I am not sure one could have wiped out that amount of land with a nuclear nuke without causing a tsunami on australian beaches.
many people will go ahead and assume that the people in authority have empathy.
Speaking about democracy, leaders job's is not to make empathetic decisions, but to seek the general interest. Many factor may trouble their judgement: their empathy, psycopathy, moral and religious opinions, personal experience... This is why nobody should be in charge alone, and this is why separation of powers is important.
So there's this ugly realization that if you embrace the concept that all cultures are equal you must stand by and helplessly watch as little girls have their clitoris mutilated
I have no sympathy for theocracies like Saudi Arabia, but note that at least, they are not involved in that kind of practice
I understand it is just a report, which does not means it will become a UE directive. Remember the UE parliament is not a real parliament: it cannot initiate the legislative process. They will have to convince the European Commission to start a directive draft, and the Commission can just ignore them (and there are precedents).
IMO nothing will happen. UE has nothing to do with a democracy where member of parliament have some power.
Given that one earth is not enough to raise cattle for 7 billions of meat-eaters, the one that want to keep eating meat should warmly welcome such propaganda. Anything that increase the amount of veggies increase the chances that non-veggies can get meat.
More likely, "almost infinite" means that obviously they know it's not actually infinite, but there are more than they'll ever get to analyse in their lifetimes so the difference doesn't have any meaning.
Lifetime is the key word here: almost infinite means that we can screw the ecosystem and we will not face the consequences. Our children will, but we do not care
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Corporation do not vote (but they bribe, which is more efficient)
Take it from someone born and raised under "developed socialism"
It seems you fail to imagine there could be choices outside of soviet socialism and globalized capitalism.
How does giving work to someone who wants it make them poorer?
You have to ask yourself how that person lived before
One of the dirty tricks USA and UE have in globalization is to flood southern markets with food so cheap that local farmers cannot compete. I do not know for USA, but the UE even subsidize food production to be exported. At first look it seems nice to have cheap food, but that destroy southern countries food sovereignty, and people that cannot live from agriculture anymore join the pool of the southern poors ready to work for nearly nothing.
There are two ways of being competitive. The first one is to lower all costs, (and especially labor costs) and make a weak product cheaper than competitors. The second one is to make better products with high price.
The cut-all-costs approach has a problem: there is always someone in a poor country ready to work for lower wage. Being competitive this way means making workers poorer and poorer. And there are environmental issues: costs can be cut by wreaking the environment in countries where there is no regulation to protect it. And since the ecosystem is global, environmental issue created in poor countries will bite back rich countries later.
Cutting all costs to be competitive leads to social and environmental destruction. I am glad there are still some success stories of good products with high price. Of course I do not take for granted that the high-price product is driving up wages and environment preservation, but at least it is not incompatible with it.
If we were looking for good reasons to not give Internet governance to ITU, here we are. Of course one could argue that the current Internet steward, USA, is also a spying big player, but at least it does not openly brag about it.
The European Union core value is competition: between nations, regions, persons. This is just the opposite of cooperation, and that explains why we see nations exploding.
Germany is federal. Spain is, sort of. How about Australia and the USA? Are they not democracies?
I meant UE federalism. The difference with countries you cite is that theses are nations. Each of they have a single people, where wealth transfers between rich and poor regions of the nation are accepted.
UE is a different beast. There is no UE people, and nobody is ready to pay for the others. You can built federalism with democracy if you have a single people. If you do not, you create federal state structure against the will of the peoples, which is exactly what is done in the UE for now.
But let's go back to Spain now. We see that the crisis with UE austerity rules are pushing the regions of existing nations to separate. Not only UE failed to create a UE federal nation, but it is even pushing the existing member nations toward destruction. We are playing a very dangerous game here.
Single currency only works with similar economies which Greece and say Germany are not.
Not quite. Single currency works fine if there is solidarity between rich regions and poor regions. Take two regions of France, for instance : Ile de France and Corsica. They both shared the same currency, and enjoy similar social standards, despite the fact that Ile de France GDP per capita is twice Corsica's one.
It works because of wealth transfers through taxes. And taxes are accepted because Ile de France and Corisa share the same people. Nobody in France political spectrum claims that Ile de France citizen pay too much taxes for lazy people from southern Corsica
Eurozone is built on competition, not solidarity. When we "help" a southern country, we lend money with interests, and we ask for social standards to be lowered.
In a nutshell, you need to choose two items in the three item set: (same currency, competition, different economies). Once you bring the third one, it gets unstable.
The USA manages a single currency across it's 50 states. There's no reason why Europe can't. It's the F word that's required... federalisation.
Exactly, there are two systems that works: one is confederation where each member state keeps budget and money sovereignty, the other is federation, where all member states abandon budget and money sovereignty to a supranational federal state
There is a requirement for federalism and democracy to live together: we would need the peoples of Europe to consider themselves as a single people, the rich regions being ready to pay for the poorest. This is not the case. UE has been built by bureaucrats without the peoples, and now it is built against the will of the peoples.
If we carry on toward federalism, we will have to give up democracy. I would rather prefer dumping federalism, and go back to confederalism, which gave us things nice things like Ariane or Erasmus
It's a global financial crisis, not a euro-zone financial crisis.
Sure, but you should ask you why the crisis moved from subprimes to euro-zone sovereign debts, and why it does not move from there.
The dirty little secret of the euro-zone is that it just cannot work. We have member states that are sovereign on their budgets, but cannot control their money. Usually when your sovereign debt costs too much, you create money, devaluating its value, and therefore lowering the cost of your debt. This stabilization mechanism is not possible in the euro-zone.
UE politician rushed to introduce UE control over member state budgets. They did it without involving member state people agreement, and with a bias toward austerity. That will not work for a long time, except if we remove democracy from the equation.
lots of EU countries completely changed their currencies and things kept working etc.
Well, actually, we managed to build an uncontrollable monetary system that ultimately led to our own economy destruction, but this is not a problem with coins.
DMA will not solve all your problems. If you use the POSIX API, for instance, you will call read(2) or recv(2) to get data in a buffer you provide. You do not know in advance the size of the data chunk, and if your buffer is to small, data ought to be waiting in kernel for you to retrieve it. Same problem if you call read(2) after the data arrived.
In both cases you must have a copy between kernel and userland, regardless of how smart the implementation is with DMA
Do we know anything about OS and application setup? Achieving such speed is not obvious, and OS may kill performances.by copying data between user and kernel space.
That's why i support the ITU to take control on the master DNS. If the ITU announce their agreement for a new root server, i will pointing my DNS server to them.
I do not think this will help you: I understand ICE request TLD registries to remove the site from the TLD zone (e.g.: .com). DNS root control is only about deciding what TLD exist and who manage them.
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If your married and don't want to cheat you should avoid spending a lot of time alone with members of the opposite sex. Period...
Some marriages have been ruined because the husband got bisexual or gay. Just to make sure everything is safe, I think you should recommend the married people abstain spending time with anyone. Mmmmh... pets may be a problem too, you have to address that.
Why is France running Windows at that level on the 'net'?
Change is always seen as annoying by users, and top level executive users have power to resist change, if they are stupid enough to not understand why they need it. I am not sure french military security experts would have been able to impose something to Sarkozy and its counselors
L'Express have been quick to point US responsability. While we could imagine that a third party got Flame sources, it would still have required top skills to use it. The best suspects are therefore the original authors. But US did not produce Flame alone, they did it with Israel. Why not suspect Israel?
Perhaps you are mistaken?
Indeed I was. I was convinced (by what source of information?) it was mostly practiced in non-muslism african countries. You deserve to be mod'ed up
It's the result of french nuclears tests in the Pacific
TFA says the sea is 1400 m deep at the place the island should be. If that figure is correct, it rules out island suppression caused by nuclear tests IMO. I am not sure one could have wiped out that amount of land with a nuclear nuke without causing a tsunami on australian beaches.
many people will go ahead and assume that the people in authority have empathy.
Speaking about democracy, leaders job's is not to make empathetic decisions, but to seek the general interest. Many factor may trouble their judgement: their empathy, psycopathy, moral and religious opinions, personal experience... This is why nobody should be in charge alone, and this is why separation of powers is important.
So there's this ugly realization that if you embrace the concept that all cultures are equal you must stand by and helplessly watch as little girls have their clitoris mutilated
I have no sympathy for theocracies like Saudi Arabia, but note that at least, they are not involved in that kind of practice
I understand it is just a report, which does not means it will become a UE directive. Remember the UE parliament is not a real parliament: it cannot initiate the legislative process. They will have to convince the European Commission to start a directive draft, and the Commission can just ignore them (and there are precedents).
IMO nothing will happen. UE has nothing to do with a democracy where member of parliament have some power.
This is good news for meat eaters.
Given that one earth is not enough to raise cattle for 7 billions of meat-eaters, the one that want to keep eating meat should warmly welcome such propaganda. Anything that increase the amount of veggies increase the chances that non-veggies can get meat.
The CIA has a budget estimated at 10's of billions dollars per year. The Military intelligence agencies probably at least that much as well.
What other military agencies? I though the CIA was a military agency itself
More likely, "almost infinite" means that obviously they know it's not actually infinite, but there are more than they'll ever get to analyse in their lifetimes so the difference doesn't have any meaning.
Lifetime is the key word here: almost infinite means that we can screw the ecosystem and we will not face the consequences. Our children will, but we do not care