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True.
They have a really good geography, that really help defense.
you can enter the country only through a couple of place, the rest are hard to pass mountains.
And yes, all adult male own a firearm, with a seal on it, to be broken only in case of invasion.
They have some high tech universities, are very carefull of their environment. They go voting some law most sunday. (citizens can directly propose a law. Many cities are souveraign states). Taxes and bureaucratie are very low yet the healthcare system is very good, for most of them are always in perfect health, for they care themself for it, through perfect nutrition. (Damn, I am french and I admire their bread and cheese ! ).
Swiss are... the most clever and lucky people on earth.
For them, France is a brutal third world country dictatorship:-)
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On unemployment beneficit, and of social wealth.
Like you, it seem, I am european. I disagree with you.
Unemployment benefits give more freedom to people. You can have these people employed to be free of searching what they want, building human "social network", or employed to go to war, build useless polluting crap, sold with awfull agressive marketing or do posturing in academic, doing pseudo science under orders.
We have already too much highway, too much fabrics, too much obedient people. We need real *innovation*, and lucidity, which can only be done by totally free thinkers.
The other day, an unemployed ex student of sociologie, came to my door, just to chat, to know my opinion, and give me the opinion he heared from others. Isn't it interesting ?
What are "lazy radicals the way of the middle east" ? Religious Zelot with an extrem right Agenda ??? For your informatin, the middle east is doing it's best, using it's poor geographical ressources. (oil is *not* a richess. Try eating it. Easy agriculture in a good climat is fondamentally what made us rich, and allowed industrial and cultural developpment. Historically, Irak, Egypte, Greece, were in the old time, with the same favorable climat.
Some time you should disconnect your computer and look at what you eat. And think about it.
As you seem to be very intelligent, clever, and good willing, and seem to have a lot of experience dealing with the writing of OS, GUI, and generally big software that are used by millions of persons, you shall stop ranting about the use of higher level language (HLL) and actually demonstrate their power by actually writing cool software using it.
I am waiting for you ueber LISP or Java Operating System. Or perhaps Perl:-) Or perhaps you should evangelize MS into doing full C#.
Then you may discover that security pbs does not consist just into checking null pointers, and that you can still write insecure software using very HLL. I also wait for maximum performance and security of your magic compiler translating very complex HLL algorithms into efficient MMX-Altivec- asembly langyuage, and automagic correct management of interlangugage linking.
Hint : these pbs have very complex theorical developments, including checking of complex properties of complex programs written using complex language. Program carrying proof, model checking, temporal logic...
Bad programs can be written in any language.
Bro, its not US against EU. It's the lobby of EU and USA slashdot users against the lobby of EU and USA slashdot non users;-) lol.
"Hard drive manufacters lobbyes for total recording of all communications, including the sex videochatrooms, to fight terrorism, and gay infidelities."
"European manufacturers of chocolates lobbyes for bombarding terrorists states with chocolates".
"European manufacturers of teddy bears lobbys for mandatory wearing of teddy bears at schools, to fight terrorism."
"The french compagny l'Oreal negociates distributions of beauty creams and parfums to middle west dictators, for oil contracts." Very serious stuff.
Most PDA are Useless.
I just want a Dimension Flux Agitator.
Also, an embedded fridge for my dietetic vegans foods would be cool, too.
I have a palm, and yet I am gone back to taking notes on a small basic paper notepad with a pen.
I can throw it against a wall, or walk on it, without problems. I usually back report at hand interesting notes in my elites databases. And I print them out, with very tiny font, on a big A4 sheet.
>if they dont have the time to put towards >understanding them because they have to work 40-60 >hour work weeks with a family just to feed >themselves, put a roof over their head and put >junior through college?
Also, they just don't feel the need the knowledge.
Here in France,
I know a lot of unemployed people with a lot of free time, free internet access, no family to support, and absolutely no interest in unfinited knowledge, much more interested by videogaming and sex... But then, they are voting for the left of the left, wanting total economical transparency through the net;-)
I like them;-) They are so right with so little efforts:-)
Beware, american geeks : this is not slacking...
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Beware american geeks. This is not just "lazy slacking." This something much more complexe:-)
According to the french comments on amazon, this book is targeted only to the "cadres", the managers, in big "obsolete" "undead" corporations. The french public service for electricity (EDF) is taken as an example.
EDF, like the "education national", the railroad, and the army, are places of intense socialism. These places do not run on market economy, or money meritocracy, but on social power to raise taxes, and on an initial very strict hierarchy based on school grade. The grade you got at school determine in France your ability to get to some management level in public "services". Slacking here is unionizing, building social recognition, vision, and is a very hard job. To put it simply, you can go up only through a mini local mao-like cultural revolution:-) And the best thing to do is to share knowledge and good ideas to build social demand for it rather than realising them and asking credit for them.
For example, simple digital counting technologies may allow to put ten of thousands of electrical workers out of jobs... So you first have to build a solution to change with dignity, the social role of these people, before suppressing their jobs with the technology. And the people are logically right in wanting to keep the obsolete job which allows them to be in control of the system/capital ! Better than a share or option, an essential job !
I am french, have correct diplomas, and worked in public services;-) (and may go again:-) And I am still learning the complexity of french social-liberalism;-). I used to be promoting liberalism and innovation : I didn't get fired, but feel alienated and finished to feel totally worthless and quit. So now I am much more mitigated. My guess is that it's the same in some USA states services.
Dear slashdotters,
at 50 km of were I live there is Verdun.
Here, there are militaries cimetaries with 600000 little white crosses. German and French sometime mixed.
In 1914 we fought over coal and iron mines.
Alsace and Lorraine.
Then in 1930 Hitler had this fantastic idea of building weapons and massives armies to employ the overpopulation, while we were engaged into softer socialism. (1936 : payed hollydays.)
As Hitler invaded Pologne, France declared war with Germany. Germany invaded France and win the war in no time.
Some french collaborated with the germans, saying they were of better moral, some get out in the south of France (free France), some resisted (and get sometimes tortured then killed), and some get to work for free in Germany as slaves.
Many people of this time were racists, xenophobes, egoists, rancunniers. They didn't saw the big picture, and they pay the big price for it.
Both France and Germany had colonial empires.
At this time socialist were integrists that destroyed the christian religion which united europeans. Nationalist were here to defends their "race". Owners wanted to defend their possession. Everyone wanted a farm and ten childs to exploit.
social research, artists, intellectuel, were regarded as inefficient, a cost to the system.
Useless. Young were to be trained to obey.
People took proud in obeying the system and sacrifying themself for "the good of the nation".
They believed than their god was better, bigger, than the one of the other nation of sinners who would go to hell afterdeath.
I pray for you. Pray for all of us !
If you want to make a better place of this world, go, travel, talk with everybody, everywhere.
Publish. Create communication systems. And places for tired and angry people to rest. Organise feast for people to talk together. Work less for material. Study art, science, history, religions, medicines, ecology.
Doubt of everything.
Breed less, educate more, not only your children, but all children and adults.
Let's pray/think all for all the poor guys that don't have enough to get housing, to eat, are sick, angry, or without hope.
Practically anything can be considered as contribution to the field.
A PhD means that you are socially apt enough to play the scientific toastmaster game.
(reviewing, citing, publishing.)
You can be very "hot", technically, and yet not able to work in scientific groups for many raisons. (for example if you spend all your time doubting the value of the work of your colleagues.)
Everything is art.
Even your post.
Even the interpretation you are making of my post.
And God looking at you doing so.
Here is mine : their project is poor, not original, not nice, doesn't interest anyone.
I wouldn't dare to publish such a piece of shit.
Which means that I am to anal-retentive.
Here is my shitty art : shit shit shit and shit
merde de merde de merde.
with a blue flower, and a black box.
a white monolithe, and a fractal world.
hundred billions of stars.
and lot of semen, of tears, and of blood spilled
on it.
I am sorry, but I feel that I may have hurt
you more using just these beautifully shitty words than by just
showing a couple of slowly moving green polygons.
Please help these guy to get fucked. (and me too.)
I must contribute that "Mais oui" is frequently
used with the meaning : "No ways".
As for smell, it cannot be decomposed in just
a small dimension vector. You may need literrally
thousands of basic smells, some of them very costly and unstable.
France Telecom has once again wasted our precious
socialist budget in pointless pseudo-public-serving R&D. They should have given this money
to me. I would have done research in geographic
database with it.
--
The scientists are your friends. Trust the scientists.
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True. They have a really good geography, that really help defense. you can enter the country only through a couple of place, the rest are hard to pass mountains. And yes, all adult male own a firearm, with a seal on it, to be broken only in case of invasion. They have some high tech universities, are very carefull of their environment. They go voting some law most sunday. (citizens can directly propose a law. Many cities are souveraign states). Taxes and bureaucratie are very low yet the healthcare system is very good, for most of them are always in perfect health, for they care themself for it, through perfect nutrition. (Damn, I am french and I admire their bread and cheese ! ). Swiss are... the most clever and lucky people on earth. For them, France is a brutal third world country dictatorship :-)
On unemployment beneficit, and of social wealth.
Like you, it seem, I am european. I disagree with you.
Unemployment benefits give more freedom to people. You can have these people employed to be free of searching what they want, building human "social network", or employed to go to war, build useless polluting crap, sold with awfull agressive marketing or do posturing in academic, doing pseudo science under orders.
We have already too much highway, too much fabrics, too much obedient people. We need real *innovation*, and lucidity, which can only be done by totally free thinkers.
The other day, an unemployed ex student of sociologie, came to my door, just to chat, to know my opinion, and give me the opinion he heared from others. Isn't it interesting ?
What are "lazy radicals the way of the middle east" ? Religious Zelot with an extrem right Agenda ??? For your informatin, the middle east is doing it's best, using it's poor geographical ressources. (oil is *not* a richess. Try eating it. Easy agriculture in a good climat is fondamentally what made us rich, and allowed industrial and cultural developpment. Historically, Irak, Egypte, Greece, were in the old time, with the same favorable climat.
Some time you should disconnect your computer and look at what you eat. And think about it.
As you seem to be very intelligent, clever, and good willing, and seem to have a lot of experience dealing with the writing of OS, GUI, and generally big software that are used by millions of persons, you shall stop ranting about the use of higher level language (HLL) and actually demonstrate their power by actually writing cool software using it. I am waiting for you ueber LISP or Java Operating System. Or perhaps Perl :-) Or perhaps you should evangelize MS into doing full C#.
Then you may discover that security pbs does not consist just into checking null pointers, and that you can still write insecure software using very HLL. I also wait for maximum performance and security of your magic compiler translating very complex HLL algorithms into efficient MMX-Altivec- asembly langyuage, and automagic correct management of interlangugage linking.
Hint : these pbs have very complex theorical developments, including checking of complex properties of complex programs written using complex language. Program carrying proof, model checking, temporal logic...
Bad programs can be written in any language.
Bro, its not US against EU. It's the lobby of EU and USA slashdot users against the lobby of EU and USA slashdot non users ;-)
lol.
"Hard drive manufacters lobbyes for total recording of all communications, including the sex videochatrooms, to fight terrorism, and gay infidelities."
"European manufacturers of chocolates lobbyes for bombarding terrorists states with chocolates".
"European manufacturers of teddy bears lobbys for mandatory wearing of teddy bears at schools, to fight terrorism."
"The french compagny l'Oreal negociates distributions of beauty creams and parfums to middle west dictators, for oil contracts."
Very serious stuff.
Most PDA are Useless. I just want a Dimension Flux Agitator. Also, an embedded fridge for my dietetic vegans foods would be cool, too. I have a palm, and yet I am gone back to taking notes on a small basic paper notepad with a pen. I can throw it against a wall, or walk on it, without problems. I usually back report at hand interesting notes in my elites databases. And I print them out, with very tiny font, on a big A4 sheet.
you are right. normal people just don't understand how much we use these computers things ;-)
>if they dont have the time to put towards >understanding them because they have to work 40-60 >hour work weeks with a family just to feed >themselves, put a roof over their head and put >junior through college? Also, they just don't feel the need the knowledge. Here in France, I know a lot of unemployed people with a lot of free time, free internet access, no family to support, and absolutely no interest in unfinited knowledge, much more interested by videogaming and sex... But then, they are voting for the left of the left, wanting total economical transparency through the net ;-)
I like them ;-) They are so right with so little efforts :-)
Beware american geeks. This is not just "lazy slacking." This something much more complexe :-)
:-) And the best thing to do is to share knowledge and good ideas to build social demand for it rather than realising them and asking credit for them.
;-) (and may go again :-) And I am still learning the complexity of french social-liberalism ;-). I used to be promoting liberalism and innovation : I didn't get fired, but feel alienated and finished to feel totally worthless and quit. So now I am much more mitigated.
According to the french comments on amazon, this book is targeted only to the "cadres", the managers, in big "obsolete" "undead" corporations. The french public service for electricity (EDF) is taken as an example.
EDF, like the "education national", the railroad, and the army, are places of intense socialism. These places do not run on market economy, or money meritocracy, but on social power to raise taxes, and on an initial very strict hierarchy based on school grade. The grade you got at school determine in France your ability to get to some management level in public "services".
Slacking here is unionizing, building social recognition, vision, and is a very hard job.
To put it simply, you can go up only through a mini local mao-like cultural revolution
For example, simple digital counting technologies may allow to put ten of thousands of electrical workers out of jobs... So you first have to build a solution to change with dignity, the social role of these people, before suppressing their jobs with the technology. And the people are logically right in wanting to keep the obsolete job which allows them to be in control of the system/capital ! Better than a share or option, an essential job !
I am french, have correct diplomas, and worked in public services
My guess is that it's the same in some USA states services.
Dear slashdotters, at 50 km of were I live there is Verdun. Here, there are militaries cimetaries with 600000 little white crosses. German and French sometime mixed. In 1914 we fought over coal and iron mines. Alsace and Lorraine. Then in 1930 Hitler had this fantastic idea of building weapons and massives armies to employ the overpopulation, while we were engaged into softer socialism. (1936 : payed hollydays.) As Hitler invaded Pologne, France declared war with Germany. Germany invaded France and win the war in no time. Some french collaborated with the germans, saying they were of better moral, some get out in the south of France (free France), some resisted (and get sometimes tortured then killed), and some get to work for free in Germany as slaves. Many people of this time were racists, xenophobes, egoists, rancunniers. They didn't saw the big picture, and they pay the big price for it. Both France and Germany had colonial empires. At this time socialist were integrists that destroyed the christian religion which united europeans. Nationalist were here to defends their "race". Owners wanted to defend their possession. Everyone wanted a farm and ten childs to exploit. social research, artists, intellectuel, were regarded as inefficient, a cost to the system. Useless. Young were to be trained to obey. People took proud in obeying the system and sacrifying themself for "the good of the nation". They believed than their god was better, bigger, than the one of the other nation of sinners who would go to hell afterdeath. I pray for you. Pray for all of us ! If you want to make a better place of this world, go, travel, talk with everybody, everywhere. Publish. Create communication systems. And places for tired and angry people to rest. Organise feast for people to talk together. Work less for material. Study art, science, history, religions, medicines, ecology. Doubt of everything. Breed less, educate more, not only your children, but all children and adults. Let's pray/think all for all the poor guys that don't have enough to get housing, to eat, are sick, angry, or without hope.
Practically anything can be considered as contribution to the field. A PhD means that you are socially apt enough to play the scientific toastmaster game. (reviewing, citing, publishing.) You can be very "hot", technically, and yet not able to work in scientific groups for many raisons. (for example if you spend all your time doubting the value of the work of your colleagues.)
Everything is art. Even your post. Even the interpretation you are making of my post. And God looking at you doing so. Here is mine : their project is poor, not original, not nice, doesn't interest anyone. I wouldn't dare to publish such a piece of shit. Which means that I am to anal-retentive. Here is my shitty art : shit shit shit and shit merde de merde de merde. with a blue flower, and a black box. a white monolithe, and a fractal world. hundred billions of stars. and lot of semen, of tears, and of blood spilled on it. I am sorry, but I feel that I may have hurt you more using just these beautifully shitty words than by just showing a couple of slowly moving green polygons. Please help these guy to get fucked. (and me too.)
I must contribute that "Mais oui" is frequently used with the meaning : "No ways". As for smell, it cannot be decomposed in just a small dimension vector. You may need literrally thousands of basic smells, some of them very costly and unstable. France Telecom has once again wasted our precious socialist budget in pointless pseudo-public-serving R&D. They should have given this money to me. I would have done research in geographic database with it. -- The scientists are your friends. Trust the scientists.