Through better education a society will gain individuals who will generally be able to earn more money and therefore consume more products and allow for a diversity in competing genres of products. What the hell is wrong with you, American people?!!!
Money are not a resource. Money are only meaningful when they represent something of value, and unless the society developed a magical way of producing consumer products, "earning more money" will do nothing to the society as a whole except causing more and more inflation. Please refer to your economy's recent massive failure in real estate speculation that your corporate-friendly media presents as "subprime loans crisis".
Education is valuable for the economy because IT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO PRODUCE MORE AND BETTER PRODUCTS. Any increased consumption is merely a consequence of this -- in some cases completely irrelevant and optional because many educated and productive people choose ascetic lifestyle while still providing great contribution to society. Specifically for Americans I have to clarify that by "contribution" I mean actual work and not meaningless shuffling money around -- if someone wants to provide true charity, all he has to do is stop maximizing his profit and do something useful for fellow humans.
I'm inclined to agree, but that wasn't what you said. You said no one outside of Novell/Microsoft cares, and I was addressing that ludicrous claim. That would like saying that I care about Britney Spears because it would be nice if she was a talented, well-adjusted person with great taste.
Nice... not only are you implying my programming skills suck (for no reason), but working under some false assumption that choice of language is in any way related to how much of a bad programmer you are! What a gem. If you are so tied to a particular language/infrastructure that you can't use anything else even if your goal requires it, you can't possibly be a good programmer.
Someone had read a very creative interpretation of Marx.
Laborer has no control over the market, he only has control over labor that he can perform. A car made of toothpicks would indeed be very expensive, however a market for it is very small (probably one crazy/eccentric guy -- but he WILL pay millions for it), so most would-be-toothpick-car-makers are out of luck, and have to produce cars that can be sold in large quantities. Nevertheless a labor placed into production of a car is the only source of car being different from pieces of ore and oil that were used to create materials and components for that car.
XO screen is often poorly used by software, especially when displaying thin lines at an angle and colored text, so it may not be the best for perfect viewing conditions. However it's far superior to most small laptops when those conditions are bad (ambient light from sun or close sources and such).
If you want to use Linux, don't plan to develop for it in a Windows-bound way, and don't expect Linux developers to support Windows infrastructure on their system.
Mono is Miguel's pet project, and no one outside Novell and Microsoft cares about it.
Actually I lived in US for the last 14 years, and have rather negative impression about all involved countries' propaganda.
Estonia is still a small, weak and insignificant country that exists entirely as a result of its neighbors' decisions and therefore is at their mercy, Estonian government's anti-Russian policy is still ethnic discrimination that is unheard of in post-WWII Europe, and its behavior in EU is still whoring to US influence.
Estonian (and other non-German) Waffen SS were volunteer forces.
It's also absolutely normal for a country under attack by a foreign aggressor to issue a draft, however I don't expect Americans to know anything about that -- the last war you, guys, had on your territory was your Civil War.
No European country except former USSR, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Yugoslavian states, recently faced the situation when they had to "grandfather" citizenship of former larger country.
Of them three Baltic states alone have the distinction of refusing to do so. Think of it -- they managed to outdo Baltic states, the showcase of ethnic conflict in Europe.
That applies to people who IMMIGRATE into the country, not ones who lived there for generations -- those get citizenship at birth when they can't possibly speak any language beyond "Waaa!". Estonia refused to convert former USSR citizenship into Estonian citizenship, thus forcing those people into having no citizenship at all.
The funny part in this is the perseverance with which USA and US military specialists insist on it being a full scale cyber war attack, and the fault of Russian government, without any actual hard proof of it that I am aware of. Not to mention basic logic. They have spent half a century accusing Russians and USSR in everything imaginable, so they had plenty of practice.
Hmm, so you're saying a nation's right to self-determination and to conduct internal affairs depends on - it's size - it's achievements - perceived humility towards a neighbouring nation so insecure they get aroused by a small gesture That's a part of it. Otherwise every gang will claim its stomping ground to be their "nation". In addition to that claiming that they were oppressed while being a member of large federation (USSR, where small Estonia had 1/15 of votes in Soviet of Nationalities, one of two Supreme Soviet chambers) only to join one large union (EU) and act there in the interests of yet another large country (US) pretty much discredits the whole idea of "freedom-loving Estonian politicians". Estonian independence was a windfall from USSR dissolution. They did nothing to achieve it -- dissolution of USSR was entirely a result of talks between leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, with no other former USSR members involved. They could've used it in a more responsible way.
There are Russians (ethnic Russians, not Russian Federation citizens) in Estonia, and Estonian government from the very beginning established a policy of excluding them from pretty much everything by denying them citizenship on a bogus premise of "not speaking Estonian well enough".
Promoting Nazi organizations and removing the war monument from a public square was seen by them, and Russians outside Estonia, as a continuation of the same policy, revealing its true political goals.
So far the best excuse for siding with Nazi the Estonian nationalists presented was along the lines "but Nazi did not kill ethnic Estonians, so they are alright for us".
A government of a tiny country, that has no achievements other than supporting relatively comfortable life for its microscopic population on subsidies and investments, and acting as US agent in EU (aka member of "New Europe"), imagines itself important and invulnerable, and pisses off hundreds of millions of people.
An extremely small minority of the pissed off hundreds of millions performs otherwise meaningless juvenile prank, that multiplied by the number of participants causes visible problems.
What the Hell did Estonian government expect? That the strength of their self-righteousness, or their American overlords, will protect them?
Learn some international politics beyond "do what sugar daddy says, and everything will be fine".
You, Americans, have a pretty weak claim on your own country's land (Native American genocide and such), and you expect someone to respect your stupid attempts to exclude others from celestial bodies that you can't even reach?
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Money are not a resource. Money are only meaningful when they represent something of value, and unless the society developed a magical way of producing consumer products, "earning more money" will do nothing to the society as a whole except causing more and more inflation. Please refer to your economy's recent massive failure in real estate speculation that your corporate-friendly media presents as "subprime loans crisis".
Education is valuable for the economy because IT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO PRODUCE MORE AND BETTER PRODUCTS. Any increased consumption is merely a consequence of this -- in some cases completely irrelevant and optional because many educated and productive people choose ascetic lifestyle while still providing great contribution to society. Specifically for Americans I have to clarify that by "contribution" I mean actual work and not meaningless shuffling money around -- if someone wants to provide true charity, all he has to do is stop maximizing his profit and do something useful for fellow humans.
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...my productivity on pretty much everything taken a huge nosedive.
Someone had read a very creative interpretation of Marx.
Laborer has no control over the market, he only has control over labor that he can perform. A car made of toothpicks would indeed be very expensive, however a market for it is very small (probably one crazy/eccentric guy -- but he WILL pay millions for it), so most would-be-toothpick-car-makers are out of luck, and have to produce cars that can be sold in large quantities. Nevertheless a labor placed into production of a car is the only source of car being different from pieces of ore and oil that were used to create materials and components for that car.
That will never happen.
.net-only programmers would be a great loss on any platform.
Not that lack of applications made by
You can also bake cookies on a space station, however that would be neither an efficient way to bake cookies, nor a good use for a space station.
VMWare emulates a fixed (and $deity-awful) set of hardware, it's completely unusable for any development targeted at embedded platform.
Actually I am an embedded Linux software developer.
WTF are you talking about?
XO screen is often poorly used by software, especially when displaying thin lines at an angle and colored text, so it may not be the best for perfect viewing conditions. However it's far superior to most small laptops when those conditions are bad (ambient light from sun or close sources and such).
If you want to use Linux, don't plan to develop for it in a Windows-bound way, and don't expect Linux developers to support Windows infrastructure on their system.
Mono is Miguel's pet project, and no one outside Novell and Microsoft cares about it.
Actually I lived in US for the last 14 years, and have rather negative impression about all involved countries' propaganda.
Estonia is still a small, weak and insignificant country that exists entirely as a result of its neighbors' decisions and therefore is at their mercy, Estonian government's anti-Russian policy is still ethnic discrimination that is unheard of in post-WWII Europe, and its behavior in EU is still whoring to US influence.
No.
Estonian (and other non-German) Waffen SS were volunteer forces.
It's also absolutely normal for a country under attack by a foreign aggressor to issue a draft, however I don't expect Americans to know anything about that -- the last war you, guys, had on your territory was your Civil War.
No, I am saying that if you join Nazi to fight Stalin, you are still a Nazi. Isn't it obvious?
And since copyright infringement isn't theft, it does not apply.
There is no law against owning a product that was ever touched by a criminal, it only applies specifically to stolen property.
It's not like you don't have a valid cause for a protest ;-P
...meant "outdo Balkan states, formerly parts of Yugoslavia".
No European country except former USSR, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Yugoslavian states, recently faced the situation when they had to "grandfather" citizenship of former larger country.
Of them three Baltic states alone have the distinction of refusing to do so. Think of it -- they managed to outdo Baltic states, the showcase of ethnic conflict in Europe.
And nevertheless all those people are traitors, and deserve all derision they got.
Glorifying the WWII version of "welcoming the overlords" is something that only people completely blinded by their hatred of Russia and USSR could do.
If someone forgot:
Confirmed victims of Stalin: about 2 millions.
Confirmed victims of Nazi: >50 millions.
That applies to people who IMMIGRATE into the country, not ones who lived there for generations -- those get citizenship at birth when they can't possibly speak any language beyond "Waaa!". Estonia refused to convert former USSR citizenship into Estonian citizenship, thus forcing those people into having no citizenship at all.
- it's size
- it's achievements
- perceived humility towards a neighbouring nation so insecure they get aroused by a small gesture That's a part of it. Otherwise every gang will claim its stomping ground to be their "nation". In addition to that claiming that they were oppressed while being a member of large federation (USSR, where small Estonia had 1/15 of votes in Soviet of Nationalities, one of two Supreme Soviet chambers) only to join one large union (EU) and act there in the interests of yet another large country (US) pretty much discredits the whole idea of "freedom-loving Estonian politicians". Estonian independence was a windfall from USSR dissolution. They did nothing to achieve it -- dissolution of USSR was entirely a result of talks between leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, with no other former USSR members involved. They could've used it in a more responsible way.
There are Russians (ethnic Russians, not Russian Federation citizens) in Estonia, and Estonian government from the very beginning established a policy of excluding them from pretty much everything by denying them citizenship on a bogus premise of "not speaking Estonian well enough".
Promoting Nazi organizations and removing the war monument from a public square was seen by them, and Russians outside Estonia, as a continuation of the same policy, revealing its true political goals.
So far the best excuse for siding with Nazi the Estonian nationalists presented was along the lines "but Nazi did not kill ethnic Estonians, so they are alright for us".
A government of a tiny country, that has no achievements other than supporting relatively comfortable life for its microscopic population on subsidies and investments, and acting as US agent in EU (aka member of "New Europe"), imagines itself important and invulnerable, and pisses off hundreds of millions of people.
An extremely small minority of the pissed off hundreds of millions performs otherwise meaningless juvenile prank, that multiplied by the number of participants causes visible problems.
What the Hell did Estonian government expect? That the strength of their self-righteousness, or their American overlords, will protect them?
Learn some international politics beyond "do what sugar daddy says, and everything will be fine".
You, Americans, have a pretty weak claim on your own country's land (Native American genocide and such), and you expect someone to respect your stupid attempts to exclude others from celestial bodies that you can't even reach?
Seriously, WTF?