Watch the trailer and see if the summary makes sense. Read some of the comments with a little bit more salt then you can make a fairly good decision to watch or not to watch a movie.
Your version of the Philippines' history is laughably wrong. We gained ownership of the islands around the turn of the century, not by the war as you imply. It's true that despite initially supporting the Philippines independence movement from Spain, we waged our own war against a rebelling populace after we received the islands in the Treaty of Manila (ending the Spanish-American War). The destroyed infrastructure was of the same pre-Industrial-Revolution kind that was largely being willfully destroyed elsewhere in the world. In the interrim, the Philippines prospered alongside the US - we established a modern health care system rivaling our own at the time, ended slavery, formed a national education system and civil bureaucracy. Throughout the 1930s efforts toward releasing the Philippines as a free and independent nation were well underway, with the first independent government elected in 1935 and the transition to be gradual to full independence a decade later.
In WWII, the Japanese conquered the Philippines despite American and Phillipine attempts to defend it. Philippine and US troops alike died in the Bataan Death March. We of course hosted the legitimate citizen-elected government as a government-in-exile. After the official withdrawal of US troops, the Philippine Army )with large participation from underground movements) waged a guerilla war with support from what US remnants remained - against the unpopular Japanese-puppet regime. When we reinvaded in 1944, the civilian president Osmena literally accompanied MacArthur onto Leyte Island.
We ceded the Philipines as scheduled before the war, in July 1946 - a mere 10 months (nearly to the day) after Japan's formal surrender.
You paint a picture of an invading US army laying waste to the country and then holding onto it during and after WWII, when the exact opposite is far closer to the truth.
As a former Filipino (a national of the Philippines is called that instead of Philippino), I could be considered an expert here. I was also born in Mindanao but I am a Christian. I also consider myself a history buff. Philippine history was mostly told from the eyes of the west who colonized it - both Spain and the USA. The acquisition of the Philippines by USA from Spain was a result of the Spanish-American war because the US supported the Cuban war for independence, for doing so, Spain was also at war with the USA. At the same time, Filipino (for lack of a better term, the country was not yet established then) freedom fighters were trying to gain independence from Spain but for the Spanish government to save face (they were for all intents defeated by the Filipino rebels), they surrendered to Adm. Dewey who was sent there by the US govt. to wage war against Spain. Spain ceded the Philippines in the 1898 Treaty of Paris and they (Adm. Dewey and Spanish Gov. General of Philippines Jaudenes) staged a mock naval battle in Manila Bay thus setting the stage for the surrender to Adm. Dewey. The Filipino fighters felt betrayed because they thought they had won the revolution but now had to contend with another master to govern them.
The revolutionaries then fought a war against the American forces who were superior in weapons and training. It took a while but eventually they were subdued but at a large cost on the number of dead people. Look at "Balangiga bells" as an example. Also look at the reason and history why the cal..45 was developed. The Filipino muslim (for lack of a better term) was also looking for independence from colonial power and never recognized Spain's government in the 380 or so years that the Spaniards were in the Philippines. During the American occupation, there was real change as schools and hospitals were established and the government was modernized and patterned after the USA. During this time, a Christian school was established by American missionaries that is now Silliman University where I finished my engineering degree. Many normal colleges were established to
I was reading slashdot in 1999 if I remember correctly and have been hooked since. I can honestly say that I learned quite a bit of know-how from the posts and discussions not counting the humor that makes the drudgery of work lighter.
Stallmann wants his ideas to be at the forefornt of why he led the development of FSF and its various tools. He did not want free software to be tainted in any way with software that is not free but the way he is doing it sometimes are interpretted in a different light by his detractors.
Comparing his request to change the name of the group to include GNU to Microsoft's monopoly is way to exxtreme because the group can choose not to but they will not be able to hear him speak in their meeting that they invited him to be speaker. His reasons why were quite reasonable from his point of view due to his beliefs. Other members in the SIGLIUNX group were also adamant by his insistence but they will never understand him because for them it is trivial while for him its not.
Stallman's fear is that if Linux is too widespread, the succeeding generations of (GNU)/Linux users and programmers will forget its roots and the core beliefs of the FSF thus negating the freedoms he was espousing. Already he is seeing it with the inclussion of binary device drivers that is a violation of the GNU license.
HP has always been bigger than Compaq by looking at their revenues. HP is into more markets - large Unix systems and Workstations with their PA-RISC architecture while Compaq does not have such until their aquisition of DEC. HP has always been second to IBM revenue-wise and competes with them in many markets unlike Compaq who is very strong only on the Intel-based PC market.
Its printing business is just a shadow of HP's while they are strongest in servers and PCs, HP is not far behind.
I didasgree on the last one being safe having come from that country.
Since my boyhood, war has been an on-going event between government and communists/muslim secessionists only that they are not reported in the mainstream media in the western world.
And then usually the information about casualties in wars are often biased towards the victors as they get to write history. Case in point, when the US colonised the Philippines after the US-Spanish war, they called that war an insurrection while our patriots called it a real war but since they were the victors not many in the western world know that. Then, the deaths were estimated to be around 750,000. I doubt if this was ever included in the statistics.
Read about the Bells of Balangiga that are now considered as war booty and enshrined at FE Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.
These were thought to be "wonder" products when they were introduced. Thalidomide was a medicine used as sleeping pill and Freon used to be the fluid inside refrigerator/freezer tubes. Then it was found after more than 20 years of research that Thalidomide caused birth defects and Freon caused the Earth's Ozone layer to thin out.
I'm not saying cell phones will have some detriemental effects but that people should be prepared to live with the consequences of their actions. Who knows, cell phone radiation may cause yet another malady still undiscovered.
Maybe geeks should be more activists in elections and campaign vigorously for politicians who have positive views about rights in the digital age.
We cannot expect to have them all but doing our share would give them a better chance of being elected. We can whine but unless we do our share in getting them elected we will will always be on the losing end.
Or is it the other way around when us humans get to incorporate computers into our minds, this subject area will be kept on being researched but not by many because of the dearth of knowledge yet available.
BTW, where is the mind located? I seem to remember in Philosophy we had a long discussion on this question.
From the infoworld article: Deutsche Bahn recently sent letters to all three U.S. search engine operators asking them to remove the hyperlinks to the online copies of two articles from the German-language left-wing extremist publication, XXXXXX (I deleted them or I might be next), which has been outlawed in Germany. The articles detail how to cut power on parts of the railway system.
This was a very counter-productive way of making the information available by suing Google so now the cat is out of the bag.
OTOH, these are very legal concerns that the linked pages contain information that, in the hands of the wrong party could be dangerous to their operations, and being a public utility, they have to be concerned.
This is iteresting because it has dire implications on page linking in general.
One of the issue that I think the record labels are hesitant to move into this model is equitable pricing. I'm not sure if they go with the model, they can still make a profit. The reason is that economies are different in many part of the world so that it would be difficult to create this model.
In first world countries like the US, Europe and Japan, $0.25 is practically small change even for a minimum wage earner and is not a big dent on one's income even it they buy 50 songs a month or even more.
Compare this from a viewpoint of someone buying the song in a third-world country. The $0.25 cost is now probably equivalent to an hour's salary for a minimum wage earner, consenquently enabling people there to buy only a few songs.
Now, if the labels will charge for less for songs bought in a third-world country, there currently is no mechanism that will prevent someone from a first world country to buy songs from them if say, they only would charge $0.05 per downloaded song. With credit cards, this is not a big issue since servers can be located in high-bandwidth points.
Changing their business model is anathema to them as this will lessen their profits so no more executive bonuses. Who, in his right mind, as PHB would want to do that?
Some new entrants will have to come in and develop this new model. I don't know if there are some venture capitalists out there thinking of how to exploit the new model. I believe the barrier to entry is quite big or else some should have done this before. Well, there is always a first time.
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It took 50 million deaths last time those fucks got power, this time we need to kill them all a lot sooner.
Let's put this in a perspective:
communism: 180M
christianity: 100M
islam: 75M
national socialism: 21M
Leopold II (no ideology): 10M
I wonder where you got your data.
Watch the trailer and see if the summary makes sense. Read some of the comments with a little bit more salt then you can make a fairly good decision to watch or not to watch a movie.
Regardless... Happy Birthday Slashdot!
Your version of the Philippines' history is laughably wrong. We gained ownership of the islands around the turn of the century, not by the war as you imply. It's true that despite initially supporting the Philippines independence movement from Spain, we waged our own war against a rebelling populace after we received the islands in the Treaty of Manila (ending the Spanish-American War). The destroyed infrastructure was of the same pre-Industrial-Revolution kind that was largely being willfully destroyed elsewhere in the world. In the interrim, the Philippines prospered alongside the US - we established a modern health care system rivaling our own at the time, ended slavery, formed a national education system and civil bureaucracy. Throughout the 1930s efforts toward releasing the Philippines as a free and independent nation were well underway, with the first independent government elected in 1935 and the transition to be gradual to full independence a decade later.
In WWII, the Japanese conquered the Philippines despite American and Phillipine attempts to defend it. Philippine and US troops alike died in the Bataan Death March. We of course hosted the legitimate citizen-elected government as a government-in-exile. After the official withdrawal of US troops, the Philippine Army )with large participation from underground movements) waged a guerilla war with support from what US remnants remained - against the unpopular Japanese-puppet regime. When we reinvaded in 1944, the civilian president Osmena literally accompanied MacArthur onto Leyte Island.
We ceded the Philipines as scheduled before the war, in July 1946 - a mere 10 months (nearly to the day) after Japan's formal surrender.
You paint a picture of an invading US army laying waste to the country and then holding onto it during and after WWII, when the exact opposite is far closer to the truth.
As a former Filipino (a national of the Philippines is called that instead of Philippino), I could be considered an expert here. I was also born in Mindanao but I am a Christian. I also consider myself a history buff. Philippine history was mostly told from the eyes of the west who colonized it - both Spain and the USA. The acquisition of the Philippines by USA from Spain was a result of the Spanish-American war because the US supported the Cuban war for independence, for doing so, Spain was also at war with the USA. At the same time, Filipino (for lack of a better term, the country was not yet established then) freedom fighters were trying to gain independence from Spain but for the Spanish government to save face (they were for all intents defeated by the Filipino rebels), they surrendered to Adm. Dewey who was sent there by the US govt. to wage war against Spain. Spain ceded the Philippines in the 1898 Treaty of Paris and they (Adm. Dewey and Spanish Gov. General of Philippines Jaudenes) staged a mock naval battle in Manila Bay thus setting the stage for the surrender to Adm. Dewey. The Filipino fighters felt betrayed because they thought they had won the revolution but now had to contend with another master to govern them.
The revolutionaries then fought a war against the American forces who were superior in weapons and training. It took a while but eventually they were subdued but at a large cost on the number of dead people. Look at "Balangiga bells" as an example. Also look at the reason and history why the cal. .45 was developed. The Filipino muslim (for lack of a better term) was also looking for independence from colonial power and never recognized Spain's government in the 380 or so years that the Spaniards were in the Philippines. During the American occupation, there was real change as schools and hospitals were established and the government was modernized and patterned after the USA. During this time, a Christian school was established by American missionaries that is now Silliman University where I finished my engineering degree. Many normal colleges were established to
Maybe a hundred years from now this day will be a holiday.
Oh yeah!
The memories.
I was reading slashdot in 1999 if I remember correctly and have been hooked since. I can honestly say that I learned quite a bit of know-how from the posts and discussions not counting the humor that makes the drudgery of work lighter.
Have a great future Rob Malda!
Make sure you don't tell them about slashdot.
8 years?
I waited 15 years to get m own phone line in the Philippines and it was already quick. Some even waited 20, 25 years to get a line.
I don't mean to be a language nazi here ...
;)
Yes you are, just admit it but you are right.
I vote to send the Survivors teams as they are experienced in survival techniques as shown on TV. ;)
Had they provided good instructions on how to properly install the software, this would not have happened.
Plus machines are being brute-forced so its not only systems without passwords being affected.
Get your clubs - the bigger the better and start clubbing your favorite whipping boy. :P
Seriusly, if they have the offending email account hosted on a free e-mail server, it would be easy to stop the propagation by disabling it.
Stallmann wants his ideas to be at the forefornt of why he led the development of FSF and its various tools. He did not want free software to be tainted in any way with software that is not free but the way he is doing it sometimes are interpretted in a different light by his detractors.
Comparing his request to change the name of the group to include GNU to Microsoft's monopoly is way to exxtreme because the group can choose not to but they will not be able to hear him speak in their meeting that they invited him to be speaker. His reasons why were quite reasonable from his point of view due to his beliefs. Other members in the SIGLIUNX group were also adamant by his insistence but they will never understand him because for them it is trivial while for him its not.
Stallman's fear is that if Linux is too widespread, the succeeding generations of (GNU)/Linux users and programmers will forget its roots and the core beliefs of the FSF thus negating the freedoms he was espousing. Already he is seeing it with the inclussion of binary device drivers that is a violation of the GNU license.
Ah a Microsoft apologist....
The French courts have already found them guilty are you saying the court is biased?
Expect a new TV show about Battle-Aibots...
Must be fun to watch them doing tricks..
HP has always been bigger than Compaq by looking at their revenues. HP is into more markets - large Unix systems and Workstations with their PA-RISC architecture while Compaq does not have such until their aquisition of DEC. HP has always been second to IBM revenue-wise and competes with them in many markets unlike Compaq who is very strong only on the Intel-based PC market.
Its printing business is just a shadow of HP's while they are strongest in servers and PCs, HP is not far behind.
I didasgree on the last one being safe having come from that country.
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Since my boyhood, war has been an on-going event between government and communists/muslim secessionists only that they are not reported in the mainstream media in the western world.
And then usually the information about casualties in wars are often biased towards the victors as they get to write history. Case in point, when the US colonised the Philippines after the US-Spanish war, they called that war an insurrection while our patriots called it a real war but since they were the victors not many in the western world know that. Then, the deaths were estimated to be around 750,000. I doubt if this was ever included in the statistics.
Read about the Bells of Balangiga that are now considered as war booty and enshrined at FE Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.
See: http://www.boondocksnet.com/centennial/balangiga.
for additional info or do a Google search.
These were thought to be "wonder" products when they were introduced. Thalidomide was a medicine used as sleeping pill and Freon used to be the fluid inside refrigerator/freezer tubes. Then it was found after more than 20 years of research that Thalidomide caused birth defects and Freon caused the Earth's Ozone layer to thin out.
I'm not saying cell phones will have some detriemental effects but that people should be prepared to live with the consequences of their actions. Who knows, cell phone radiation may cause yet another malady still undiscovered.
Cell phone anyone?
Maybe geeks should be more activists in elections and campaign vigorously for politicians who have positive views about rights in the digital age.
We cannot expect to have them all but doing our share would give them a better chance of being elected. We can whine but unless we do our share in getting them elected we will will always be on the losing end.
Or is it the other way around when us humans get to incorporate computers into our minds, this subject area will be kept on being researched but not by many because of the dearth of knowledge yet available.
BTW, where is the mind located? I seem to remember in Philosophy we had a long discussion on this question.
From the infoworld article:
Deutsche Bahn recently sent letters to all three U.S. search engine operators asking them to remove the hyperlinks to the online copies of two articles from the German-language left-wing extremist publication, XXXXXX (I deleted them or I might be next), which has been outlawed in Germany. The articles detail how to cut power on parts of the railway system.
This was a very counter-productive way of making the information available by suing Google so now the cat is out of the bag.
Are there people related to scientologists? :P
OTOH, these are very legal concerns that the linked pages contain information that, in the hands of the wrong party could be dangerous to their operations, and being a public utility, they have to be concerned.
This is iteresting because it has dire implications on page linking in general.
One of the issue that I think the record labels are hesitant to move into this model is equitable pricing. I'm not sure if they go with the model, they can still make a profit. The reason is that economies are different in many part of the world so that it would be difficult to create this model.
In first world countries like the US, Europe and Japan, $0.25 is practically small change even for a minimum wage earner and is not a big dent on one's income even it they buy 50 songs a month or even more.
Compare this from a viewpoint of someone buying the song in a third-world country. The $0.25 cost is now probably equivalent to an hour's salary for a minimum wage earner, consenquently enabling people there to buy only a few songs.
Now, if the labels will charge for less for songs bought in a third-world country, there currently is no mechanism that will prevent someone from a first world country to buy songs from them if say, they only would charge $0.05 per downloaded song. With credit cards, this is not a big issue since servers can be located in high-bandwidth points.
Changing their business model is anathema to them as this will lessen their profits so no more executive bonuses. Who, in his right mind, as PHB would want to do that?
Some new entrants will have to come in and develop this new model. I don't know if there are some venture capitalists out there thinking of how to exploit the new model. I believe the barrier to entry is quite big or else some should have done this before. Well, there is always a first time.
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Return the bells of Balangiga...