Food aid is a poisonous gift. You might feed a bunch of people, but it undercuts the livelihoods of local farmers, and just creates dependency on handouts. Disaster relief is one thing, but without a transition plan towards self sufficiency it is almost worse than nothing.
I saw a documentary about the aid industry in Haiti, and it was quite disgusting. Local builders and plumbers living in tattered tents without proper sanitation, just living on hand me downs from aid agencies whose interest was already focusing on the next disaster. Real aid would help the locals help themselves, not pay for aid industry fat salaries and materials manufactured in the donor countries.
I don't think people will start fixing things until they've first been made aware of the state of affairs. We need voices like this to make people aware. Call it whining if you like.
Website operators are responsible for moderating user content as you say. If someone posts libelous comments the owner must remove it.
There's no requirement to use real names or for operators to record them, however, which means there are plenty of nasty Slashdot-like cesspools. The trash talk is just between forum names, not real ones.
What puzzles me is how is the NDA supposed to threaten other downloaders. They ought to take lessons from a despot on how to make an example, usually public hangings are public for a reason. The NDA is clearly there to keep a lid on their activities, because drawing the spotlight is bad for them.
You're right. Linguistically Finnish is totally unrelated, for example Swedish and Russian are closer to each other than Finnish is to either of them. However, Finland shares the same mix of politics, economics, culture and religion with other Nordic countries, which is distinct from other parts of Europe and the world.
Iraq did not start a war against the USA. The US invaded Iraq on false pretenses, without a declaration of war. It broke international laws in doing so, and when a western democracy blew the whistle on it we got Freedom Fries. Hamburgers ought to be called gulliburgers in the rest of the world.
Those barriers are called a first past the post electoral system. With proportional representation you'd have a completely different political scene. Same goes for electoral colleges - you should be able to elect your president directly if you want to call yourself a democracy.
I love the obsession with "socialism" in the US. Forget about commies and pinkos, here come muslims and socialists. Oooh, next Hollywood nightmare scenario: Socialist Muslims! That would scare the pants off you.
You know, Switzerland and other "socialist" European countries have strict belief in private property. If you Yanks would be able to handle the thing called nuance, you'd realize there are shades of gray.
Please don't tar us all with the same brush. USA != west, and establishment != the people. The middle east is also not the only region getting US special coup d'état treatment - see Chile, Bay of Pigs etc.
If you follow western media, you do read about Saudi & women. In fact very recently.
Personal experience confirns - almost straight out of uni myself with nontech degree and female colleague with maths degree, doing the same technical work, I got paid better. Could not understand why.
Oleg Kononenko, Don Pettit, Andre Kuipers, Gennady Padalka... Bill Severn and Tracey Morris. Team picked. Plasma rifles and stun rods - check. Auto-cannons and power suits - check. Skyranger fuelled and ready. Time to kick some sectoid ass!
Pretty much what Mikko Hypponen is saying in the article:
The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can’t protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets. They can protect you against run-of-the-mill malware: banking trojans, keystroke loggers and e-mail worms. But targeted attacks like these go to great lengths to avoid antivirus products on purpose. And the zero-day exploits used in these attacks are unknown to antivirus companies by definition. As far as we can tell, before releasing their malicious codes to attack victims, the attackers tested them against all of the relevant antivirus products on the market to make sure that the malware wouldn’t be detected. They have unlimited time to perfect their attacks. It’s not a fair war between the attackers and the defenders when the attackers have access to our weapons.
The article in The Register, also linked in the summary, is a blatant and deliberate misrepresentation of the Nature article. The Reg author quotes the Nature article, but leaves out vital parts to twist its meaning to the exact opposite. The Nature article says you should present the best available science in a value neutral manner, but the Reg is trying to say the authors want to abandon good science and just spew pro-AGW propaganda.
Ironically this just proves the point of the Nature article. If you're a climate change denialist, you're likely to be blinkered and will read anything as supporting your own case.
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This is the point that hasn't sunken into the people who use Google services. You are not the customer.
The advertisers are the customer and you are the product.
Food aid is a poisonous gift. You might feed a bunch of people, but it undercuts the livelihoods of local farmers, and just creates dependency on handouts. Disaster relief is one thing, but without a transition plan towards self sufficiency it is almost worse than nothing.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/rights/commentary-dependency-hinders-development
I saw a documentary about the aid industry in Haiti, and it was quite disgusting. Local builders and plumbers living in tattered tents without proper sanitation, just living on hand me downs from aid agencies whose interest was already focusing on the next disaster. Real aid would help the locals help themselves, not pay for aid industry fat salaries and materials manufactured in the donor countries.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/opinion/where-does-aid-money-really-go/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9545584/Poverty-barons-who-make-a-fortune-from-taxpayer-funded-aid-budget.html
They know, if "they" are LG and your TV is connected to the Internet.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/lg-smarttv-snooping-update,news-17902.html
What has Sweden to with the topic in hand?
I don't think people will start fixing things until they've first been made aware of the state of affairs. We need voices like this to make people aware. Call it whining if you like.
Website operators are responsible for moderating user content as you say. If someone posts libelous comments the owner must remove it.
There's no requirement to use real names or for operators to record them, however, which means there are plenty of nasty Slashdot-like cesspools. The trash talk is just between forum names, not real ones.
Could it be they plan to offer a more expensive service?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's take on it.
What puzzles me is how is the NDA supposed to threaten other downloaders. They ought to take lessons from a despot on how to make an example, usually public hangings are public for a reason. The NDA is clearly there to keep a lid on their activities, because drawing the spotlight is bad for them.
You're right. Linguistically Finnish is totally unrelated, for example Swedish and Russian are closer to each other than Finnish is to either of them. However, Finland shares the same mix of politics, economics, culture and religion with other Nordic countries, which is distinct from other parts of Europe and the world.
With a first past the post electoral system (one representative per constituency) you'll never get a powerful third party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
Iraq did not start a war against the USA. The US invaded Iraq on false pretenses, without a declaration of war. It broke international laws in doing so, and when a western democracy blew the whistle on it we got Freedom Fries. Hamburgers ought to be called gulliburgers in the rest of the world.
"Most westernized democracies" - stop deluding yourself. It's basically the USA, the UK and Canada.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
Those barriers are called a first past the post electoral system. With proportional representation you'd have a completely different political scene. Same goes for electoral colleges - you should be able to elect your president directly if you want to call yourself a democracy.
Then you probably came across the h2ome yacht.
Same old story: find a design, pare it down, make it white, call it your own.
I love the obsession with "socialism" in the US. Forget about commies and pinkos, here come muslims and socialists. Oooh, next Hollywood nightmare scenario: Socialist Muslims! That would scare the pants off you.
You know, Switzerland and other "socialist" European countries have strict belief in private property. If you Yanks would be able to handle the thing called nuance, you'd realize there are shades of gray.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03european-t.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenish_model
What I'm thinking is the cost of lunch vs. an online source control system annual subscription.
"The Slashdot user known as bbn has a /48 block of IPv6 addresses that is unused. An e-petition was created ..."
Please don't tar us all with the same brush. USA != west, and establishment != the people. The middle east is also not the only region getting US special coup d'état treatment - see Chile, Bay of Pigs etc.
If you follow western media, you do read about Saudi & women. In fact very recently.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18422642
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18571193
"Almost never happens ... biology ... blargh ... spew"
On what planet? Numerous studies show women getting paid less doing the same work and having the same training and experience
Personal experience confirns - almost straight out of uni myself with nontech degree and female colleague with maths degree, doing the same technical work, I got paid better. Could not understand why.
Oleg Kononenko, Don Pettit, Andre Kuipers, Gennady Padalka ... Bill Severn and Tracey Morris. Team picked. Plasma rifles and stun rods - check. Auto-cannons and power suits - check. Skyranger fuelled and ready. Time to kick some sectoid ass!
Pretty much what Mikko Hypponen is saying in the article:
The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can’t protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets. They can protect you against run-of-the-mill malware: banking trojans, keystroke loggers and e-mail worms. But targeted attacks like these go to great lengths to avoid antivirus products on purpose. And the zero-day exploits used in these attacks are unknown to antivirus companies by definition. As far as we can tell, before releasing their malicious codes to attack victims, the attackers tested them against all of the relevant antivirus products on the market to make sure that the malware wouldn’t be detected. They have unlimited time to perfect their attacks. It’s not a fair war between the attackers and the defenders when the attackers have access to our weapons.
That's the Nature article.
The article in The Register, also linked in the summary, is a blatant and deliberate misrepresentation of the Nature article. The Reg author quotes the Nature article, but leaves out vital parts to twist its meaning to the exact opposite. The Nature article says you should present the best available science in a value neutral manner, but the Reg is trying to say the authors want to abandon good science and just spew pro-AGW propaganda.
Ironically this just proves the point of the Nature article. If you're a climate change denialist, you're likely to be blinkered and will read anything as supporting your own case.
From highschool: anything in the wrong place, wrong time, in the wrong quantity
This. How about mandating that the customer get to keep his/her number when switching networks? *Boggle*
Competition. The US has heard of it.