'Down by the River' and 'Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields' by Charles Bowden are good starting books on the topic. Journalist, Bowden has illuminating things to say about the topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
He researched this topic for years, interviewing both the DEA and cartels.
Haha, silly children. The Mexican army is in on it too. So is the government. Drugs bring in more money than tourism, crops, and oil combined. So is the US government and a lot of civil servants. This is business. American style.
Are you kidding me? Seriously? You have no idea that this peanut butter is only a drop in the bucket, right? THAT A LOT OF FOOD IS WASTED DAILY. Like, A LOT. Perfectly good food gets destroyed to artificially inflate prices ALL THE TIME. This really is the dark ages because we have a lot of the world's problems (if not all) perfectly solveable, but very little is done about it. So this million jars of peanut butter, it is like whisps of smoke from a RAGING FIRE. So yeah, not badge of shame, but full on branding.
Be it future generations on archeological digs or some other entity examing our time, doubtless the future will see this as one of the dark ages. The waste alone is shamefull. I understand Costco's move, if they are worried about litigation, but wasted food always makes me feel bad. I wish there was a better way to dispose of this, or perhaps avoid disposal altogether. If we had more local businesses, food producers, and farms--then perhaps mega-food production would not be needed. The place I go to for peanut butter, crushes the penuts in a machine right in front of me. About as fresh as it gets with no added salts, oils or preservatives. An independnt shop run by an old lady that sells dried foods, nuts, olives, spices, and such. No waste in this sort of place. We need more of this and less of Costco.
I prefer to post on Archive.org. The site can support different resolutions and can even run on Libre-based operating systems. Also, you don't have to worry about regional restrictions. For example, I may send someone a Youtube link to a friend in Germany, but she cannot view it due to region restrictions. However, an Archive.org link will work. I would prefer Archive.org as the place for original, independent video content. No ads, no stress.
This is a tough one. I had the privilege to work for exceptional men and women in male-dominated industries, such as finance. Yes, there is sexism. Women are propositioned, stared at, condescended to, recipients of sexist comments and so on. I have seen some women capitalize on this and turn it to their advantage. I also observe other women who obsess over the power dynamic to the point where they are always checking, verifying and asserting their power. This usually causes resentment. A leader is not effective if s/he keeps asserting 'I am in charge'. Then there are some women who 'just get on with it'. They are there to do business and get the job done effectively. Politics, stares, sexism are like water off a duck's back. They are focussed on their work and getting the job done. Now this is in an arena among the 'captains of industry' types. Imagine an arena of shy and awkward geek boys who obsess on code? No everyone has the strength to get past such environs and 'just get on with the job'. Horvath tweeting about office politics is a bad move. You cannot express much in a tweet. It is a poor way to explain situations. I feel bad for the next woman, who will probably be treated like a vial of nytroglycerine.
Apple does a lot of stuff that ruin OS'. Musicians spend years tweaking their Mac to make a certain sound, only for Apple to release an update that renders all their audio patches and plugins null and void. This does not sound like a company that has their excrement together. Apple owes their existence to marketing and stupid people.
Apple could care less about 'making the world a better place'. If a few deaths and suffering of people helped pad the bottom line, they would go for it without hesitation. So would Apple buyers. People who buy Apple products just want their I-things, no matter what suffering is behind it, sort of like the way some women obsess over diamonds. African blood on it? No problem, as long as it sparkles. I have shown and explained Apple exploitation to Apple buyers directly, the answer was, 'so what if they exploit Chinese, there are just so many of them!'. Forget about the front line workers at Apple shops who get paid a pitance, or the ultra-poor who gather coltan in Africa for all our devices--give those shiny devices. Now Apple is already sitting on a lot of money, giving all their workers, their fair share will not even scratch theor money pile. Now spme will say, 'Apple contracts their manufacturing to other companies, they have no idea what is going on'. Do you really think a company like Apple will hand over their proprorietary means of production blindly? Just give away their secrets and say, 'we trust you'. Now, some idiots say that Apple exploitation was discredited because some playwright in the US spoke about and then retracted stories of Apple exploitation. They say, Apple does not exploit because that play has been discredited'. I am not talking about the play, I would like to go here, for starters: http://www.aljazeera.com/progr... and this as well http://www.aljazeera.com/progr... and this http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol... And let us not forget that Intel bases a lot of their factories on occupied Palestine, land mandated as belonging to Palestinians by the UN. Intel, who provide CPU's to Apple. Now you will say, 'oh come on, it is totally fine that exploitation occur because all companies do it anyway'. I am saying, these companies make oodles of money, if the buyers get concerned they can ask the manufacturer, 'we helped you become rich, please give a tiny amount to those you hurt and change enough not to hurt others again--it wil not really affect your vast sums of wealth'.
Windows has multiple versions of their OS, from low-end, to 'pro', to 'ultimate'. Windows deliberately makes lesser versions inferior in the hope users will pay for a better version. It is a pity they do not bother to make and offer the best version. One of the many reasons proprietary OS' must be done away with.
Dear RMS,
Assange was quoted as saying 'banish all Stallmanist thought' while developing for NetBSD, yet according to your website, you remain one of his defenders. Do you not find that a little ironic? Good sportsmanship!
That's the book 1984 is based off of. Project Itoh's "Genocidal Organ" is also an interesting read. Essays by Sven Birkerts, who tends to be skeptical about how we use technology to cultivate ideas as opposed to traditional means like the pen and paper. Interestingly, I am taking courses on interface design and my instructors continuously tell us to sketch ideas on paper FIRST before running to the software. Some in class have no idea what a pen and paper is. Stallman's 'Free Software Free Society' essays are very important, as is some of his cautionary sci-fi stories. Orwell wrote some essays about possible futures (not 1984), suggesting that humans in the future might be little more than brains in bottles. Stanislav's Lem, 'His Masters Voice' is a masterpiece, says a lot about humanity. I'd start there abouts...
"Folks collectively spend billions getting the degrees and experience, only to get jobs at Walmart; where they can't even pay their student loans. To top it, we continue to support FB, Google, M$ and others who continue to push for underpaid H1V1 visas..." Not to contradict you, I am very interested in this, especially the last part. A lot of these monster companies thrive on unpaid work, more detail on this would be valued. I agree, we support too many monsters, like Apple. http://www.aljazeera.com/progr...
Notwithstanding all these racist anti-Jew/Arab remarks (remember, both Jews and Arabs, as well as Palestinains and other desert-dwelling races--please look up 'semite' in an etymology book--are semites), Israel must be boycotted. The land was Palestine pre-1949, until it was taken from Palestinians at gun and bomb point. Noam Chomsky has an excellent book on this called 'Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians'. Amnesty International has a long list of Israeli state-backed brutality against Palestinians and their continuing theft of Palestinian land. Currently, no such Palestinian state can exist as Israel seeded too many setters in the region. No peace can exist this way. The state of Israel is backed by the North American tax payer, thus backing oppression. If you believe in human rights, please ask your representative not to support Israel. Please read up on this, journalists like Amira Haas, Robert Fisk, Joe Sacco have written a lot about this. I am appalled at a lot of these 'Anti-Jew' (and anti-Arab) comments as being anti-Israel has nothing to do with Anti-Jewish. There is a clear distinction, and in fact, many Jews who care about justice are also anti-Israel. Israel expelled Palestinians from their homeland while turning the remainder into interned slaves until they did a revolt with the first and second Intifadas. Much like the Warsaw ghetto uprisings.
Too much time and effort is spent on verifying whether the user is a paying customer rather than making their software work. It crashes frequently, freezes up, the 'tech support' is useless, installing and updating is a nightmare. Furthermore, if you are a Adobe cloud user and not near an internet connection (to verify you are a paying user, even though you paid and installed everything) it will not work until you get near a hotspot to sign in and then you can use it. Somehow, we are forced to use this crap in the industry. Even if they open a linux port, I am not sure that will make Adobe less glitch-ridden.
Beta overall is slick, but comments section does not scale well on mobile. I was scrolling through comments on a pretty wide screen phone and the scale of all the connected responses felt awkward. I liked to see larger images on story postings.
And we have our own brainwashing to content with. I mean, really, blue pill or red pill? Most want to taste that juicy steak, even if it does not really exist. I applaud them for at least trying to develop their own OS. I could say, 'life is shit in North Korea', if not for the fact that the so-called dear leaders in my corner of the globe seem to be taking diligent notes on how things are run in North Korea and then applying it here. Sure not all at once, but bit by bit, we're getting there.
So ronerrryyyyyyyyyyy
I am a follower of Robert Fisk, Charles Bowden, Michael Pollan and other excellent writers. I want these writers to keep doing what they do. Publications, by nature, only care about sales. It is necessary for their survival, so it is understandable. However, as rich corporate entities like Murdoch take over publications, they reshape the news to suit their agendas. That was why Fisk left The Times to join the Independent. The Independent is not great, but they at least do not censor Fisk. The journalism landscape is changed rapidly in the advent of the internet, so perhaps the best thing to do at the moment is find a writer/researcher and support him/her until a worthy publication arises. For what its worth, I like to support Harpers Magazine...and 2600 Magazine is quite good as well...
I have an NVIDIA graphic card that goes back a few years, and NVIDIA still supports it and updates the drivers. I have an AMD/ATI graphics card that is significantly less old, and they do not support it, as the drivers are dated. I have called AMD a few times about this and wrote to them, but they brush it off. I want to see AMD/ATI pick up the slack and support their products. Then I will keep buying them.
When I had machines with a more modest CPU and less RAM, I used low-overhead GUI's like DWM, LXDE, Fluxbox and XFCE. Now, RAM is plentiful, and these days KDE is tweaked to operate quite efficiently. It certainly is cool to use command line terminals as a GUI, if you are nimble enough to move stuff around via command line. On the other hand, it is also a pain to set up stuff like the battery/weather/cpu/RAM/monitor on Xmonad or via conky, rss feeds and the like. With KDE, all that stuff is just there, and it is kind of pretty.
If the OS is not Libre, as in Free Speech, not interested. Please refer to a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone called 'The Lonely'.
If a libre version of OS1 came out, I would make it sound like Hal, or Tiggy from Buck Rogers.
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'Down by the River' and 'Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields' by Charles Bowden are good starting books on the topic. Journalist, Bowden has illuminating things to say about the topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... He researched this topic for years, interviewing both the DEA and cartels.
Haha, silly children. The Mexican army is in on it too. So is the government. Drugs bring in more money than tourism, crops, and oil combined. So is the US government and a lot of civil servants. This is business. American style.
Are you kidding me? Seriously? You have no idea that this peanut butter is only a drop in the bucket, right? THAT A LOT OF FOOD IS WASTED DAILY. Like, A LOT. Perfectly good food gets destroyed to artificially inflate prices ALL THE TIME. This really is the dark ages because we have a lot of the world's problems (if not all) perfectly solveable, but very little is done about it. So this million jars of peanut butter, it is like whisps of smoke from a RAGING FIRE. So yeah, not badge of shame, but full on branding.
Be it future generations on archeological digs or some other entity examing our time, doubtless the future will see this as one of the dark ages. The waste alone is shamefull. I understand Costco's move, if they are worried about litigation, but wasted food always makes me feel bad. I wish there was a better way to dispose of this, or perhaps avoid disposal altogether. If we had more local businesses, food producers, and farms--then perhaps mega-food production would not be needed. The place I go to for peanut butter, crushes the penuts in a machine right in front of me. About as fresh as it gets with no added salts, oils or preservatives. An independnt shop run by an old lady that sells dried foods, nuts, olives, spices, and such. No waste in this sort of place. We need more of this and less of Costco.
I prefer to post on Archive.org. The site can support different resolutions and can even run on Libre-based operating systems. Also, you don't have to worry about regional restrictions. For example, I may send someone a Youtube link to a friend in Germany, but she cannot view it due to region restrictions. However, an Archive.org link will work. I would prefer Archive.org as the place for original, independent video content. No ads, no stress.
http://www.aljazeera.com/progr...
This is a tough one. I had the privilege to work for exceptional men and women in male-dominated industries, such as finance. Yes, there is sexism. Women are propositioned, stared at, condescended to, recipients of sexist comments and so on. I have seen some women capitalize on this and turn it to their advantage. I also observe other women who obsess over the power dynamic to the point where they are always checking, verifying and asserting their power. This usually causes resentment. A leader is not effective if s/he keeps asserting 'I am in charge'. Then there are some women who 'just get on with it'. They are there to do business and get the job done effectively. Politics, stares, sexism are like water off a duck's back. They are focussed on their work and getting the job done. Now this is in an arena among the 'captains of industry' types. Imagine an arena of shy and awkward geek boys who obsess on code? No everyone has the strength to get past such environs and 'just get on with the job'. Horvath tweeting about office politics is a bad move. You cannot express much in a tweet. It is a poor way to explain situations. I feel bad for the next woman, who will probably be treated like a vial of nytroglycerine.
Use other search engines, other social media (like GNU Social), and let us take the hegemony out of the 'net.
Apple does a lot of stuff that ruin OS'. Musicians spend years tweaking their Mac to make a certain sound, only for Apple to release an update that renders all their audio patches and plugins null and void. This does not sound like a company that has their excrement together. Apple owes their existence to marketing and stupid people.
Look up something called "netbsd' and you will find Assange's comments on the Stallman.
Apple could care less about 'making the world a better place'. If a few deaths and suffering of people helped pad the bottom line, they would go for it without hesitation. So would Apple buyers. People who buy Apple products just want their I-things, no matter what suffering is behind it, sort of like the way some women obsess over diamonds. African blood on it? No problem, as long as it sparkles. I have shown and explained Apple exploitation to Apple buyers directly, the answer was, 'so what if they exploit Chinese, there are just so many of them!'. Forget about the front line workers at Apple shops who get paid a pitance, or the ultra-poor who gather coltan in Africa for all our devices--give those shiny devices. Now Apple is already sitting on a lot of money, giving all their workers, their fair share will not even scratch theor money pile. Now spme will say, 'Apple contracts their manufacturing to other companies, they have no idea what is going on'. Do you really think a company like Apple will hand over their proprorietary means of production blindly? Just give away their secrets and say, 'we trust you'. Now, some idiots say that Apple exploitation was discredited because some playwright in the US spoke about and then retracted stories of Apple exploitation. They say, Apple does not exploit because that play has been discredited'. I am not talking about the play, I would like to go here, for starters: http://www.aljazeera.com/progr... and this as well http://www.aljazeera.com/progr... and this http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol... And let us not forget that Intel bases a lot of their factories on occupied Palestine, land mandated as belonging to Palestinians by the UN. Intel, who provide CPU's to Apple. Now you will say, 'oh come on, it is totally fine that exploitation occur because all companies do it anyway'. I am saying, these companies make oodles of money, if the buyers get concerned they can ask the manufacturer, 'we helped you become rich, please give a tiny amount to those you hurt and change enough not to hurt others again--it wil not really affect your vast sums of wealth'.
Windows has multiple versions of their OS, from low-end, to 'pro', to 'ultimate'. Windows deliberately makes lesser versions inferior in the hope users will pay for a better version. It is a pity they do not bother to make and offer the best version. One of the many reasons proprietary OS' must be done away with.
Dear RMS, Assange was quoted as saying 'banish all Stallmanist thought' while developing for NetBSD, yet according to your website, you remain one of his defenders. Do you not find that a little ironic? Good sportsmanship!
That's the book 1984 is based off of. Project Itoh's "Genocidal Organ" is also an interesting read. Essays by Sven Birkerts, who tends to be skeptical about how we use technology to cultivate ideas as opposed to traditional means like the pen and paper. Interestingly, I am taking courses on interface design and my instructors continuously tell us to sketch ideas on paper FIRST before running to the software. Some in class have no idea what a pen and paper is. Stallman's 'Free Software Free Society' essays are very important, as is some of his cautionary sci-fi stories. Orwell wrote some essays about possible futures (not 1984), suggesting that humans in the future might be little more than brains in bottles. Stanislav's Lem, 'His Masters Voice' is a masterpiece, says a lot about humanity. I'd start there abouts...
"Folks collectively spend billions getting the degrees and experience, only to get jobs at Walmart; where they can't even pay their student loans. To top it, we continue to support FB, Google, M$ and others who continue to push for underpaid H1V1 visas..." Not to contradict you, I am very interested in this, especially the last part. A lot of these monster companies thrive on unpaid work, more detail on this would be valued. I agree, we support too many monsters, like Apple. http://www.aljazeera.com/progr...
Thank you, come again.
Notwithstanding all these racist anti-Jew/Arab remarks (remember, both Jews and Arabs, as well as Palestinains and other desert-dwelling races--please look up 'semite' in an etymology book--are semites), Israel must be boycotted. The land was Palestine pre-1949, until it was taken from Palestinians at gun and bomb point. Noam Chomsky has an excellent book on this called 'Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians'. Amnesty International has a long list of Israeli state-backed brutality against Palestinians and their continuing theft of Palestinian land. Currently, no such Palestinian state can exist as Israel seeded too many setters in the region. No peace can exist this way. The state of Israel is backed by the North American tax payer, thus backing oppression. If you believe in human rights, please ask your representative not to support Israel. Please read up on this, journalists like Amira Haas, Robert Fisk, Joe Sacco have written a lot about this. I am appalled at a lot of these 'Anti-Jew' (and anti-Arab) comments as being anti-Israel has nothing to do with Anti-Jewish. There is a clear distinction, and in fact, many Jews who care about justice are also anti-Israel. Israel expelled Palestinians from their homeland while turning the remainder into interned slaves until they did a revolt with the first and second Intifadas. Much like the Warsaw ghetto uprisings.
Too much time and effort is spent on verifying whether the user is a paying customer rather than making their software work. It crashes frequently, freezes up, the 'tech support' is useless, installing and updating is a nightmare. Furthermore, if you are a Adobe cloud user and not near an internet connection (to verify you are a paying user, even though you paid and installed everything) it will not work until you get near a hotspot to sign in and then you can use it. Somehow, we are forced to use this crap in the industry. Even if they open a linux port, I am not sure that will make Adobe less glitch-ridden.
Beta overall is slick, but comments section does not scale well on mobile. I was scrolling through comments on a pretty wide screen phone and the scale of all the connected responses felt awkward. I liked to see larger images on story postings.
It's kind of clean and pretty...
And we have our own brainwashing to content with. I mean, really, blue pill or red pill? Most want to taste that juicy steak, even if it does not really exist. I applaud them for at least trying to develop their own OS. I could say, 'life is shit in North Korea', if not for the fact that the so-called dear leaders in my corner of the globe seem to be taking diligent notes on how things are run in North Korea and then applying it here. Sure not all at once, but bit by bit, we're getting there. So ronerrryyyyyyyyyyy
I am a follower of Robert Fisk, Charles Bowden, Michael Pollan and other excellent writers. I want these writers to keep doing what they do. Publications, by nature, only care about sales. It is necessary for their survival, so it is understandable. However, as rich corporate entities like Murdoch take over publications, they reshape the news to suit their agendas. That was why Fisk left The Times to join the Independent. The Independent is not great, but they at least do not censor Fisk. The journalism landscape is changed rapidly in the advent of the internet, so perhaps the best thing to do at the moment is find a writer/researcher and support him/her until a worthy publication arises. For what its worth, I like to support Harpers Magazine...and 2600 Magazine is quite good as well...
I have an NVIDIA graphic card that goes back a few years, and NVIDIA still supports it and updates the drivers. I have an AMD/ATI graphics card that is significantly less old, and they do not support it, as the drivers are dated. I have called AMD a few times about this and wrote to them, but they brush it off. I want to see AMD/ATI pick up the slack and support their products. Then I will keep buying them.
When I had machines with a more modest CPU and less RAM, I used low-overhead GUI's like DWM, LXDE, Fluxbox and XFCE. Now, RAM is plentiful, and these days KDE is tweaked to operate quite efficiently. It certainly is cool to use command line terminals as a GUI, if you are nimble enough to move stuff around via command line. On the other hand, it is also a pain to set up stuff like the battery/weather/cpu/RAM/monitor on Xmonad or via conky, rss feeds and the like. With KDE, all that stuff is just there, and it is kind of pretty.
If the OS is not Libre, as in Free Speech, not interested. Please refer to a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone called 'The Lonely'. If a libre version of OS1 came out, I would make it sound like Hal, or Tiggy from Buck Rogers.