Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa is a group of big and small cooperatives in Spain. It includes many types of heavy and light industries, banks, travel agencies, hypermarkets, a university and schools. The region where they are concentrated has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Spain.
Some of the cooperatives are "pure" and others are "second-level", the members are other cooperatives.
Some of them were previously capitalistic small firms that couldn't stand the crisis. The workers got help from MCC and rescued the business.
If you are concerned about competitiveness, think who will be more dedicated to the work, a wage slave or one of the coowners of the business. __
I have checked and I was wrong. From Byte (with typos) and Fred Langa:
Some of the things we found about Soviet technology were astonishing: For example, in 1990, most US computer chip leads were spaced 1/10 of an inch apart. The Soviet Ministry in charge of cloning western chips had mandated metric spacing, but one-tenth of an inch works out to be about 2.54 mm.; an odd metric size.
The Soviet solution? A "metric inch" with 2.5 mm spacing. This means that Soviet clone chips could be an exact electrical and functional equivalent of their Western counterparts, and even look exactly the same--- until you tried to plug them into a western socket. The Soviet chips would almost fit--- but not quite.
There are more impressions of glasnost-era computing in the rest of the article. __
As in "I am Lex Luthor and I can destroy Metropolis unless you dye your hair blue"?
A ridiculous example, but yes.
I couldn't find any better at the moment. But yesterday's news brought that the US have unclassified documents that acknowledge that the US helped the social unrest before the Chilean military killed the democratically elected president Salvador Allende to install a long-term dictatorship.
such investments can support economic development, democracy, and human rights.
I doubt it. The usual example is that Japan and Germany after the WW II show that there better ways to imporve a country than investing in the military. And lots of countries have invested a lot in weapons and armies without much economic or democratic success.
In an ideal world, military power would be unnecessary. In case you haven't looked around recently, this is not an ideal world.
And I think that armies are not part of the solution and probably part of the problem. __
I would prefer a situation of bad legislation being ignored to bad legislation wreaking havoc by enforcing it.
There is the possibility of selective enforcement. Nobody is getting punished so everybody does it. But if the State, the judge or the local boss dislikes you, they can use the law against you. __
According to NATO, initially aircraft were restricted to flying above 15,000 feet to protect their aircraft and pilots from the FRY air defences. This ceiling was relaxed during the second half of the air campaign, with some planes flying as low as 6,000 feet. Officials have conceded that high-altitude bombing reduced the overall effectiveness of the air campaign, but have denied that it resulted in increased civilian casualties. They said that many attacks were aborted if a target could not be positively identified so as to spare civilians.
So these devices, will
increase the number of civilians killed because of the lack of compassion of the algorithm?
or
diminish it because of more selective bombing (so that they can die of hunger or cold)?
the dominant characteristic of which is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of a sexual organ or the anal region of a person under the age of eighteen years;
That would except abuse documentation and medical teaching, in my understanding. __
I don't know whether this is apocryphal: I heard that the Soviets built some computers according to American plans. But the plans were in the Imperial system (like in Burma?) and the Soviets were metric. So they decided that 1 in = 2.54 cm exactly.
They built computer parts that worked but were not interoperable with Western equipment. __
A convincing and overwhelming threat of force can prevent wars from starting or avert human rights abuses.
As in "I am Lex Luthor and I can destroy Metropolis unless you dye your hair blue"?
a nation that wants to secure a good and peaceful tomorrow had best be investing in these technologies today.
A nation that want to secure a good and peaceful tomorrow had best be investing a bit less in economical development, democracy, human rights and the environment both at home and abroad.
Investing in these technologies is for those who want world domination and a healthy military-industrial complex. __
Granted, images of child pornography have always been illegal, but the difference is that in the past it was impossible to create such images without actually abusing children.
I just bought a book "Traditional Popular Delusions" or something similar, written in the XIX century, about how masses of people can believe things that make them act madly. From memory, the index include witch hunts, the Crusades, tulipomania in the Netherlands, animal magnetism, alchemy and others.
The idea I got about the Natural Law Party (truly international) is that they (he?) really are a religion based around Transcendental Meditation trying to get some publicity.
Slashdot Mirror
As they used to say during the Counterreformation,
Kill them all, and let God sort them out.
According to some discussions, it was during the , a (now) Southern French fortress of the Albigensians, 13th century, I think.
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America,Asia, Africa and Europe are isolated now.
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Has anoybody checked the possibility of a radioactive dinosaur tripping on the wire on its way to Darwin?
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Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa is a group of big and small cooperatives in Spain. It includes many types of heavy and light industries, banks, travel agencies, hypermarkets, a university and schools. The region where they are concentrated has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Spain.
Some of the cooperatives are "pure" and others are "second-level", the members are other cooperatives.
Some of them were previously capitalistic small firms that couldn't stand the crisis. The workers got help from MCC and rescued the business.
If you are concerned about competitiveness, think who will be more dedicated to the work, a wage slave or one of the coowners of the business.
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There are more impressions of glasnost-era computing in the rest of the article.
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As in "I am Lex Luthor and I can destroy Metropolis unless you dye your hair blue"?
A ridiculous example, but yes.
I couldn't find any better at the moment. But yesterday's news brought that the US have unclassified documents that acknowledge that the US helped the social unrest before the Chilean military killed the democratically elected president Salvador Allende to install a long-term dictatorship.
such investments can support economic development, democracy, and human rights.
I doubt it. The usual example is that Japan and Germany after the WW II show that there better ways to imporve a country than investing in the military. And lots of countries have invested a lot in weapons and armies without much economic or democratic success.
In an ideal world, military power would be unnecessary. In case you haven't looked around recently, this is not an ideal world.
And I think that armies are not part of the solution and probably part of the problem.
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And others.
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I would prefer a situation of bad legislation being ignored to bad legislation wreaking havoc by enforcing it.
There is the possibility of selective enforcement. Nobody is getting punished so everybody does it. But if the State, the judge or the local boss dislikes you, they can use the law against you.
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the filter servers will still slow things down.
Or are they going to forgo their censorship?
Actually if they filtered porn, the pipe would be faster. Just like the overhead of filtering advertisements is less that bringing them. YMMV.
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the dominant characteristic of which is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of a sexual organ or the anal region of a person under the age of eighteen years;
That would except abuse documentation and medical teaching, in my understanding.
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I don't know whether this is apocryphal: I heard that the Soviets built some computers according to American plans. But the plans were in the Imperial system (like in Burma?) and the Soviets were metric. So they decided that 1 in = 2.54 cm exactly.
They built computer parts that worked but were not interoperable with Western equipment.
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Wars wouldn't be such a bad thing any more.
Unless you are a civilian. And from WW I to Ruanda, civilians are making more and more of the victims of war.
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Our project is not based on IA-64 architecture. It is protected by our own patents. So, no legal problems.
I hope they are not Russian patents. I was astonished when I read that someone had patented the bottle.
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homed in russia (Dynamo of Kiev
Dinamo Kyiv (I think that's the official name) is based in the capital of Ukraine, not Russia (now, at least).
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A convincing and overwhelming threat of force can prevent wars from starting or avert human rights abuses.
As in "I am Lex Luthor and I can destroy Metropolis unless you dye your hair blue"?
a nation that wants to secure a good and peaceful tomorrow had best be investing in these technologies today.
A nation that want to secure a good and peaceful tomorrow had best be investing a bit less in economical development, democracy, human rights and the environment both at home and abroad.
Investing in these technologies is for those who want world domination and a healthy military-industrial complex.
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It's bad form to point bad spelling, but it's so visible!
Hemos types too fast.
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Pictures of genital or anal region of any person under the age of 18.
It can't be literally so. How does the police document cases of abuse on children if they can not take pictures?
And it was also pointed the case of medical training.
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Granted, images of child pornography have always been illegal, but the difference is that in the past it was impossible to create such images without actually abusing children.
What about drawings and paintings?
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Pity there won't be a .kids.
Internet would be much more secure just by blocking enverything from script.kids.
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Why do you keep sayingthat Microsoft/BillG claimed to have invented DLLs?
Of course, it was Al Gore who claimed the invention.
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He may be claiming to invent DLLs, which may in fact be true.
DLL, or dynamic link library, is a term and concept unique to Windows users.
Mmm, I'm not sure about the cronology but I think that OS/2 1.0 had DLLs and that was before Windows 1.0.
Of course, OS/2 1.0 was a joint product of IBM and Microsoft, so maybe it was Microsoft who called them DLLs.
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I just bought a book "Traditional Popular Delusions" or something similar, written in the XIX century, about how masses of people can believe things that make them act madly. From memory, the index include witch hunts, the Crusades, tulipomania in the Netherlands, animal magnetism, alchemy and others.
And we haven't learned a lot since.
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what will you do with i ?
With you? How individualistic!
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The idea I got about the Natural Law Party (truly international) is that they (he?) really are a religion based around Transcendental Meditation trying to get some publicity.
Do you know otherwise?
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