I agree completely. There are some points which you neglected to mention, however.
Who is Thomas Friedman? A "hired prizefighter" for the establishment. With his flowery verbiage and effusive analogies he paints the canvas of human affairs, but distorted as in fun-house mirrors -- a fine article on the varied exploits of our favorite hack can be found on ZNet Do hit that link, it's really well done in my opinion.
It's tough to see through his prose, but Tommy advocates war crimes, assassinations, bombing campaigns, yes even terrorrism in support of "American interests." Internet controls and filters are certainly within the interests of
the establishment, to keep our illustrious sage of globalization in place on his throne as universal
arbiter of truth.
lawrence summers -- current harvard president, past economist with the brookings insitute, past secretary of the us treasury, past chief economist of the world bank -- had this to say when he was with the world bank:
Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [least developed countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.... I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted; their air quality is vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.
that's as quoted by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, two of the most insightful journalists in modern times. you can find the whole story here.
man. this sort of thing makes my blood boil. this is *our* waste, but now it's other people's problem, and their childrens' problem too.
the.NET framework's problem is not that it is 'confused with the ".net" top level domain', it is that it is confused with the web services crap. i am so, so, so tired of having to have up-to-date bindings to c (or c++) libraries in order to create a decent application in any given language that any forward-looking perspective is more than welcome at this time. applications written entirely in guile! applications written in perl, and up-to-date with the newest libraries!
that is a beautiful thing, and it's too bad that you can't see beyond the now to appreciate the worth of the mono project.
i've recently been studying Don Quijote, and where the protagonist gets away with saying very subversive things by guising his statements in a general context of humor. the court jester's criticisms of the king are always welcome, because they amuse and they aren't taken seriously. "oh, dave barry said that, how funny", that sort of thing.
so while his message is subversive, sure, most (non-thinking) folks will read him on the humor level rather than on the idea level. you're right on in your analysis.
btw this is one of the most thought-provoking/. posts i've seen in a while, thanks.
these guys and gals, the yes men, do some seriously, seriously cool stuff. in the november issue of harper's, they print a transcript of a talk that these folks were invited to give at a textiles conference in Tampere, Finland, from folks that thought that they really were the WTO. A few snippets:
... How do we at the WTO fit in? Well, that's easy: We want to help you acieve those dollar results. We want to help make sure that nothing - protectionism, worry, even violence against physical property - stands in the way of your dollar results.
and some more:
... CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR: PROTECTIONISM
[Slide: Freedom]
Why did people fight and die and lose money? It comes down to one word: FREEDOM. [Slide: Southern Happiness]
By the 1860s, the South was utterly flush with cash. It had recently benefited from the cotton gin, an invention that took the seeds out of cotton and the South out of its preindustrial past. Hundreds of thousands of workers, previously unemployed in their countries of origin, were given useful jobs in textiles. Into this rosy picture of freedom and boom stepped... you guessed it: the NORTH.
it goes on, about how the market would have stopped slavery ("Involuntarily Imported Workforce") given time, moving production to the third world where things are cheaper, then it gets wack:
Now, we all known that not even the best workplace design can help even the most astute manage keep track odf hstaff. But our solution inables a lot more rapport with remote workers.
Mike, would you please? [Unruh steps out from behind the podium to a drum roll. An assistant grabs him by the tie and belt and rips off his suit to reveal a golden spandex unitard underneath.]
Ah! That's better! This is the Management Leisure suit. This is the WTO's answer to the problems of maintaining rapport with distant workers and maintaining one's own mental health as a manager with the proper amount of leisure. How does the MLS work, besides being comfortable? Allow me to describe the suit's core features. [Unruh unzips the from of the suit, then pulls on a rip cord that inflates a three-foot-long golden phallus. The audience claps.]
And it goes on.
The presentation, which Harper's describes as "well-received", was subsequently praised by the MC on three seperate occasions that day.
You're claiming that Vorbis has great audio quality. Have you done any listening tests to back this up?
Over the last few public beta releases, we've fixed many of the outstanding bugs that affected audio quality. We're still working on fixing the rest as we move toward a 1.0 release. The beta releases are primarily intended for developers and early adopters to sample our technology.
..and then goes on to explain that while the file format is specified, the encoder is still being worked on and that tests will be performed at the 1.0. The converse of this being that if you had a bad experience in the past, it could have been from a number of bugs that used to exist in the encoder. If it's good enough for you now, that's cool, but no final judgements until the 1.0, please...
Re:Check out the Preemptible Kernel patches...
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The PE kernel work looks pretty good, but it's still got some kinks to work out in order to guarantee sub-5ms latencies. In a recent email to alsa-devel, Takashi Iwai posted the following tests with alsa and low-latency versus preemptible kernel patches. In summary, getting better, but not quite there yet.
I definitely agree with you though, the PE people's work is exciting, and much less of a hack than the low-latency patches. Way to go hackers!
Your comments are insightful. I would like to, however, draw attention to the popular rhetoric that 'innocent civilians might get hurt' -- whatever second-order effects that might occut as a result of an military action we might take will be just that, secondary. The very fact that the US government would not be in Afghanistan were it not a mission of vengeance (or of cold-war supremacy, or of economic supremacy, or...) shows the lack of concern for the 'common man', wherever he or she might live.
I went to listen (by copying link location and heading over the realplayer because my web browser does not work properly) but then realized that alsa's on the blink ever since debian upgraded to 0.9, so I couldn't actually hear my fearless leader on his own operating system (yeah, I know...). Does anyone else see the humor in this?
I chuckled and went to log in and share this, but realized I forgot my password, had it emailed to me, but then realized again that I had left mutt in a state of half-compilation (lack of libssl-dev) and so had to compile my damn mail program before being able to post. Yeah, thanks a lot Linus;)
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I hear they have interesting things to say about the space program.
Since Fortran 90, "Fortran" is accepted.
;)
Sheesh, of all the useless shit my nuclear engineering degree taught me
Who is Thomas Friedman? A "hired prizefighter" for the establishment. With his flowery verbiage and effusive analogies he paints the canvas of human affairs, but distorted as in fun-house mirrors -- a fine article on the varied exploits of our favorite hack can be found on ZNet Do hit that link, it's really well done in my opinion.
It's tough to see through his prose, but Tommy advocates war crimes, assassinations, bombing campaigns, yes even terrorrism in support of "American interests." Internet controls and filters are certainly within the interests of the establishment, to keep our illustrious sage of globalization in place on his throne as universal arbiter of truth.
What a hack.
and don't let anyone ver tell you that sourceforge never gave anything to the free software community :-)))
man. this sort of thing makes my blood boil. this is *our* waste, but now it's other people's problem, and their childrens' problem too.
the .NET framework's problem is not that it is 'confused with the ".net" top level domain', it is that it is confused with the web services crap. i am so, so, so tired of having to have up-to-date bindings to c (or c++) libraries in order to create a decent application in any given language that any forward-looking perspective is more than welcome at this time. applications written entirely in guile! applications written in perl, and up-to-date with the newest libraries!
that is a beautiful thing, and it's too bad that you can't see beyond the now to appreciate the worth of the mono project.
i've recently been studying Don Quijote, and where the protagonist gets away with saying very subversive things by guising his statements in a general context of humor. the court jester's criticisms of the king are always welcome, because they amuse and they aren't taken seriously. "oh, dave barry said that, how funny", that sort of thing.
/. posts i've seen in a while, thanks.
so while his message is subversive, sure, most (non-thinking) folks will read him on the humor level rather than on the idea level. you're right on in your analysis.
btw this is one of the most thought-provoking
The presentation, which Harper's describes as "well-received", was subsequently praised by the MC on three seperate occasions that day.
(I want to be a yes man :)
You're claiming that Vorbis has great audio quality. Have you done any listening tests to back this up?
Over the last few public beta releases, we've fixed many of the outstanding bugs that affected audio quality. We're still working on fixing the rest as we move toward a 1.0 release. The beta releases are primarily intended for developers and early adopters to sample our technology.
I definitely agree with you though, the PE people's work is exciting, and much less of a hack than the low-latency patches. Way to go hackers!
Your comments are insightful. I would like to, however, draw attention to the popular rhetoric that 'innocent civilians might get hurt' -- whatever second-order effects that might occut as a result of an military action we might take will be just that, secondary. The very fact that the US government would not be in Afghanistan were it not a mission of vengeance (or of cold-war supremacy, or of economic supremacy, or...) shows the lack of concern for the 'common man', wherever he or she might live.
Regards.
wingo
just think if he paired this with a robotic exoskeleton....
is that they keep referring to linux as a 'mainstream opreating system'. how sweet it is.
I went to listen (by copying link location and heading over the realplayer because my web browser does not work properly) but then realized that alsa's on the blink ever since debian upgraded to 0.9, so I couldn't actually hear my fearless leader on his own operating system (yeah, I know...). Does anyone else see the humor in this?
I chuckled and went to log in and share this, but realized I forgot my password, had it emailed to me, but then realized again that I had left mutt in a state of half-compilation (lack of libssl-dev) and so had to compile my damn mail program before being able to post. Yeah, thanks a lot Linus ;)
flames to /dev/null...
are you sure you didn't mean 'baaaaaaaaad?'