Thanks a ton.... I need information regarding the Colombia situation. I had never heard it so clearly as this....
The dangerous thing here in Mexico, is that the government and some intelectuals live under the impression that the "Colombia way" should be our way. Boy, do they need to listen to you....
Thats absolutely true. And even so, ending prohibition would help a lot because kidnapping, extorsion rackets, organ harvesting, product piracy and smuggling all involve coercion. You dont need to coerce a cokehead: he will find a dealer no matter what.
So I propose that prohibiting the victimless crime that is drug consumption and could be drug production, distribution and sales, would hit the cartels hard and would make it harder for them to get money, thus making it easyer for states to aprehend and shoot or incarcerate them.
You really will get it when you see it. The little car you see in the picture is not important. Thease people (this murderous fuckers I wish were dead and six feet under) have a bigger weapon, one to which every single american (or mexican, for that matter) is susceptible to: money. Shitloads of it.
You guys are starting, slowly, to accept that the amount of drugs you guys consume should take a massive distribution effort that is only possible if someone is looking the other way. I'm not saying this guys "will" be going up there to do some bad things. I'm saying they are already there (and in europe and everywhere, like all mafias), doing bad things. I just hope they dont turn to the same tactics they are using here or that you guys see the light and stop imposing a puritan and murderous prohibition to the rest of the world before they do.
They do, obviously, because its close to Mexico and has an open drugs market. But I think that is a moot point.
Now before I explain why, bear in mind I'm a Mexican living in Monterrey. Just yesterday I was caught in traffic because a couple of severed heads were displayed on a bridge I go through every single day. People are curious that way and drive slowly so they can see...
If you could magically stop US->Mexico weapon trafficking, they'd bring them in from all over central america where lots of (US led, incited or provoked) wars have been fought, leaving behind healthy weapons markets. Colombia had a worse problem than us in Mexico and their narcs didn't bring in the guns from the US (or obviously they did, but not as easyly as they can do it in Mexico), and they took half the country for themselves (Colombia is still, to this day, split in two).
Its not about firepower, police, law or drugs. Its about money. This mafias are the same as the italian, russian, american or japaneese mafias, and same as those, they get their money from certain trades more than others. In this case, beingthis close to the US means: 1) Drugs and 2) Slaves and Organs (you call this "illegal inmigration" and "black market" organ "donors"). Their bussiness is the border. They are smugglers.
Of the two, the first gives much more money, att least 20 billion dollars a year (at the very, very least, 10 billion, at the highest count, 60-70 billion). Mexico's oil industry, the third largest state-owned in the world, gives 40 billion at its best. And most of the state money comes from that, not taxes.
So in the end, its about how governments spend their resouces to face this threat: ours focus on drug trafficking to the north. Yes, most of our effort here is tries to make sure that your coke is more expensive. Imagine that. Actually, the President of Mexico in the 2007, as proof that this shit is working, cited that the price of coke in new york went up due to this genius war of his.
Now this was not invented by mexicans. We are catholics but not puritans. We certaintly have never, ever had a prohibition party like you guys did in the XIX century and we do not make international drug policy: that one is imposed by the U S of A. We did not prohibit marihuana until you guys came a knocking demanding we did.
You guys need to change that shit because we are killing people here to make the mafia stronger because this is the result of a policy you impose on other countries. If other countries do not comply with your war-on-drugs discourse, your senate puts them in a list where they face strong trade barriers. are not ellegible for aid, and are strong armed by US government lobbies that do their best, which is a lot, to complicate those countries access to international money lending programmes such as those by the IMF and the WB.
Change that shit man. We down here do not deserve to die, live with fucking murderers, give them a fuckload of money (through prohibition), because you guys cant officially state that your people like to get high, You hold this policy of purity that aspires to a "clean" america, while on the other hand you are the country with the highest per capita consumption of illegal drugs in the world.
Its stupid. Your country is killing mine over a really stupid view of the world. I want drugs to be legal in ALL OF OCCIDENT.
Jesus did not have the last dinner with a mountain dew and did not turn water into coca cola. He very well damned had a glass of wine and in that particular wedding he brought more booze for everyone to party the fuck on. I sure do hope you guys get that through your thick heads before the cartels find out that they have to force american authorities on their soil to fuck off so they can continue doing bussiness.
I disagree. I think that his ideas were never attempted in the first place, exept for the worse one: that fast return traders and big banks deserve huge utilities. We have seen they dont: they suck at what they are supposed to do for society. He messed that one up for sure.
But not on the war on drugs. If we had listened to him, economic growth wouldve probably offset the bubble bursting a few years.
This is not true. The sad reality is that any market obeys the Bell Curve: good contractors/consultants are harder to find than mediocre ones.
And then, if your fucking boss thinks that 80 bucks an hour is too much for some very high-end tech work, then your really can't even reach the good ones.
Im gonna tell you why it isn't fair to anyone, and it doesn't seem (nor isn't) fair to you americans anyhow: the United States of America spends more in defense contracts and high tech shit for killing people than the next twenty countries combined.
Wikipedia lists many, many vessels of the US Navy and equivalent in other countries navy with operational numbers: go look at it. Tell me how many high tech tomahawk delivery destroyer does the US have. You will find that if you add up all of the next twenty countrie's similar vessels, that number is still smaller than what the US Army has now.
Now you tell me why shit isn't fair: did the rest of the world decide how your government should spend its money?
"RH is a hell of a lot worse off than they should be..."
What an interesting choice of words. Had you said "not as rich as it could", your argument might have been welcome, but then again that would show a bit of flawed logic: Red Hat would not exist at all if it wasnt a free software company. It is what it is, not what you wish it was.
Now its a billion dollar company with a huge income growth year to year albeit its coming from a small number. Revise your logic sir: you are advocating that people steal what others gave for free under the conditions of the GPL.
I wasnt clear enough then: it has been brought to my attention that the owners of the nuclear facility failed to properly report its state and give it proper maintenance. Whoever is responsible for that, should do the honor full thing.
Yes and no. I agree, but not with all you are saying. Sure, their leadership system is odd enough to not even call it a democracy, but its part of their culture and so is discipline and a strong sense of mutual help. You'll see japaneese people working for free to clean up all the rubble, well coordinated with their government. Something that we so seldom see in the american continent or even all of occident. Theyll rise up from this one. Its horrible, but they've risen up from much worse.
Oh man... do you ring a bell with me here.... Im a mexican blessed to have known a japaneese family for a long time. This happened and I emailed them and thankfully most of them live in mexico so they are ok, but some relatives in Japan are still lost. I have the most faith in japaneese culture, i know them, i know they will rise up to this challenge. But death is death and that is one huge ass tsunami. I was so impressed that one of the worst earthquakes ever recorded actually didnt damage much, but the sea.... man, thats huge. Best of luck to you and your acquaintances.
I have all the faith in people like you. Not everyone knows the japaneese enough to understand that, like you, so many will go and help the worst-hit at the first oporunity.
I know that there is no other culture in the world that can actually recover from something so horrible as fast as you guys certaintly will. To quote a classic: I bow in signal of respect.
Ill say webmin is very much acceptable for most things because it has a very good philosophy of being able to "speak" the language of config files if it provides an admin module for the service in question. Webmin administers apache, DNS and samba in a hell of a great way (ldap, for example, not so much).
There is good use for webmin, but still its nowhere near to a good visual unix config tool because nothing ever should be done for that. I picked linuxconf because it was cited in the original, but for example yast from suse is yet another thing that should die a horrible death.
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Thanks a ton....
I need information regarding the Colombia situation. I had never heard it so clearly as this....
The dangerous thing here in Mexico, is that the government and some intelectuals live under the impression that the "Colombia way" should be our way. Boy, do they need to listen to you....
Thats absolutely true. And even so, ending prohibition would help a lot because kidnapping, extorsion rackets, organ harvesting, product piracy and smuggling all involve coercion. You dont need to coerce a cokehead: he will find a dealer no matter what.
So I propose that prohibiting the victimless crime that is drug consumption and could be drug production, distribution and sales, would hit the cartels hard and would make it harder for them to get money, thus making it easyer for states to aprehend and shoot or incarcerate them.
And BTW, I am glad we are not as fucked up as any arab country: you actually pay for our oil....
You really will get it when you see it. The little car you see in the picture is not important. Thease people (this murderous fuckers I wish were dead and six feet under) have a bigger weapon, one to which every single american (or mexican, for that matter) is susceptible to: money. Shitloads of it.
You guys are starting, slowly, to accept that the amount of drugs you guys consume should take a massive distribution effort that is only possible if someone is looking the other way. I'm not saying this guys "will" be going up there to do some bad things. I'm saying they are already there (and in europe and everywhere, like all mafias), doing bad things. I just hope they dont turn to the same tactics they are using here or that you guys see the light and stop imposing a puritan and murderous prohibition to the rest of the world before they do.
They do, obviously, because its close to Mexico and has an open drugs market. But I think that is a moot point.
Now before I explain why, bear in mind I'm a Mexican living in Monterrey. Just yesterday I was caught in traffic because a couple of severed heads were displayed on a bridge I go through every single day. People are curious that way and drive slowly so they can see...
If you could magically stop US->Mexico weapon trafficking, they'd bring them in from all over central america where lots of (US led, incited or provoked) wars have been fought, leaving behind healthy weapons markets. Colombia had a worse problem than us in Mexico and their narcs didn't bring in the guns from the US (or obviously they did, but not as easyly as they can do it in Mexico), and they took half the country for themselves (Colombia is still, to this day, split in two).
Its not about firepower, police, law or drugs. Its about money. This mafias are the same as the italian, russian, american or japaneese mafias, and same as those, they get their money from certain trades more than others. In this case, beingthis close to the US means: 1) Drugs and 2) Slaves and Organs (you call this "illegal inmigration" and "black market" organ "donors"). Their bussiness is the border. They are smugglers.
Of the two, the first gives much more money, att least 20 billion dollars a year (at the very, very least, 10 billion, at the highest count, 60-70 billion). Mexico's oil industry, the third largest state-owned in the world, gives 40 billion at its best. And most of the state money comes from that, not taxes.
So in the end, its about how governments spend their resouces to face this threat: ours focus on drug trafficking to the north. Yes, most of our effort here is tries to make sure that your coke is more expensive. Imagine that. Actually, the President of Mexico in the 2007, as proof that this shit is working, cited that the price of coke in new york went up due to this genius war of his.
Now this was not invented by mexicans. We are catholics but not puritans. We certaintly have never, ever had a prohibition party like you guys did in the XIX century and we do not make international drug policy: that one is imposed by the U S of A. We did not prohibit marihuana until you guys came a knocking demanding we did.
You guys need to change that shit because we are killing people here to make the mafia stronger because this is the result of a policy you impose on other countries. If other countries do not comply with your war-on-drugs discourse, your senate puts them in a list where they face strong trade barriers. are not ellegible for aid, and are strong armed by US government lobbies that do their best, which is a lot, to complicate those countries access to international money lending programmes such as those by the IMF and the WB.
Change that shit man. We down here do not deserve to die, live with fucking murderers, give them a fuckload of money (through prohibition), because you guys cant officially state that your people like to get high, You hold this policy of purity that aspires to a "clean" america, while on the other hand you are the country with the highest per capita consumption of illegal drugs in the world.
Its stupid. Your country is killing mine over a really stupid view of the world. I want drugs to be legal in ALL OF OCCIDENT.
Jesus did not have the last dinner with a mountain dew and did not turn water into coca cola. He very well damned had a glass of wine and in that particular wedding he brought more booze for everyone to party the fuck on. I sure do hope you guys get that through your thick heads before the cartels find out that they have to force american authorities on their soil to fuck off so they can continue doing bussiness.
I disagree. I think that his ideas were never attempted in the first place, exept for the worse one: that fast return traders and big banks deserve huge utilities. We have seen they dont: they suck at what they are supposed to do for society. He messed that one up for sure.
But not on the war on drugs. If we had listened to him, economic growth wouldve probably offset the bubble bursting a few years.
If we know anything at all, is that patent trolls have a +100 defense against logic.
This is not true. The sad reality is that any market obeys the Bell Curve: good contractors/consultants are harder to find than mediocre ones.
And then, if your fucking boss thinks that 80 bucks an hour is too much for some very high-end tech work, then your really can't even reach the good ones.
"Cluelessnes" is pervasive.
Yes. That is the law of life.
Not bad. Kind of like pork with mouse. Ever had a well cooked mouse?
"The Kinect is a 3D sensor which is used for tracking *articulated* models, such as people."
Big words for a fucking distance sensor.
Im gonna tell you why it isn't fair to anyone, and it doesn't seem (nor isn't) fair to you americans anyhow: the United States of America spends more in defense contracts and high tech shit for killing people than the next twenty countries combined.
Wikipedia lists many, many vessels of the US Navy and equivalent in other countries navy with operational numbers: go look at it. Tell me how many high tech tomahawk delivery destroyer does the US have. You will find that if you add up all of the next twenty countrie's similar vessels, that number is still smaller than what the US Army has now.
Now you tell me why shit isn't fair: did the rest of the world decide how your government should spend its money?
You are supposed to be smart enough to afford buying one.
"usually a nation is born when warring local tribes stop bickering with each other over wifes and cows."
Yes, that happens when one of the tribes finally royally fucks all others and proclaims superiority and ownership over its neighbors.
"RH is a hell of a lot worse off than they should be..."
What an interesting choice of words. Had you said "not as rich as it could", your argument might have been welcome, but then again that would show a bit of flawed logic: Red Hat would not exist at all if it wasnt a free software company. It is what it is, not what you wish it was.
Now its a billion dollar company with a huge income growth year to year albeit its coming from a small number. Revise your logic sir: you are advocating that people steal what others gave for free under the conditions of the GPL.
I wasnt clear enough then: it has been brought to my attention that the owners of the nuclear facility failed to properly report its state and give it proper maintenance. Whoever is responsible for that, should do the honor full thing.
Right now this fucking assholes at Fukushima that messed up on the safety revisions should bring out the wazikashi and do what honor demands.
You make an excellent point. I stand corrected.
cat $GP | sed -r 's/Japanese/American/g' > slashdot.jp.comment
Nothing as universal as small penis panic and its psychic projections thereof..
Its true, but we also should note that their TV is that much more boring as well and hugely underfunded.
Yes and no. I agree, but not with all you are saying. Sure, their leadership system is odd enough to not even call it a democracy, but its part of their culture and so is discipline and a strong sense of mutual help. You'll see japaneese people working for free to clean up all the rubble, well coordinated with their government. Something that we so seldom see in the american continent or even all of occident. Theyll rise up from this one. Its horrible, but they've risen up from much worse.
Oh man... do you ring a bell with me here.... Im a mexican blessed to have known a japaneese family for a long time. This happened and I emailed them and thankfully most of them live in mexico so they are ok, but some relatives in Japan are still lost. I have the most faith in japaneese culture, i know them, i know they will rise up to this challenge. But death is death and that is one huge ass tsunami. I was so impressed that one of the worst earthquakes ever recorded actually didnt damage much, but the sea.... man, thats huge. Best of luck to you and your acquaintances.
BTW: Your signature is canonical truth.
I have all the faith in people like you. Not everyone knows the japaneese enough to understand that, like you, so many will go and help the worst-hit at the first oporunity.
I know that there is no other culture in the world that can actually recover from something so horrible as fast as you guys certaintly will. To quote a classic: I bow in signal of respect.
bad bad hits on the web-o-wonders.... its down baby.
Ill say webmin is very much acceptable for most things because it has a very good philosophy of being able to "speak" the language of config files if it provides an admin module for the service in question. Webmin administers apache, DNS and samba in a hell of a great way (ldap, for example, not so much).
There is good use for webmin, but still its nowhere near to a good visual unix config tool because nothing ever should be done for that. I picked linuxconf because it was cited in the original, but for example yast from suse is yet another thing that should die a horrible death.