No, Zhao is saying that since government regulation messed it up for some and other governments failed to mess it up, it should be moved to the UN to mess it up for everybody equally.
Given your handle (you have to be in your late 20s to 30s to have watched that show the first time) and your report of a mark after an innoculation, I'd guess that you had a smallpox vaccination. They were designed to leave scars so a doctor could tell if someone were vaccinated or not. In the United States, compulsory vaccination ended in 1971 which is why I have a scar and my younger brother does not.
Oh, that and something about ye shall know the followers of the beast by his mark, or something like that.
This has been my gripe about cell phones: we're returning to the days of the 1950s in terms of clarity and reliability. Sure, they're mobile within a very limited space (fortunately for Europe, they've hyperurbanized and reduced mobility means that people stay in cities, and don't go live in a farmhouse with the nearest neighbor two kilometers away), but it's so annoying to talk to people only to have both sides go "what? what?" and then dial back three or four times for a twenty-minute conversation.
And no, Euros, don't say, "This is your inferior American network," as I travel a fair amount to your fair continent and I've seen the same thing there with my very own eyes. Maybe the difference isn't as great for you because you've had crappy state-owned telephone companies for your local and long distance phone service. You should try nine nines reliability sometime, it's great...then maybe you wouldn't have to practice thumbing words at 22 characters per minute.
But the low-level informants, the ones who took a few extra zlotys for passing on a name or a photo? For God's sake, people, it's over. Let it go.
Except the camp guards and Nazi party members who participated in any way in the Holocaust were indeed prosecuted, no matter how low their involvement was. Remember all the cases of American residents being deported for trial in Israel? Demianiuk (sp.?) for example?
They may be low level, but it's that kind of passing the buck "I vas just following ordahs!" that permits these crimes to take place. That used to be a key understanding of the Holocaust, but it seems increasingly lost.
Yes, Rumsfeld should at a minimum resign in disgrace, but Lynndie England had a responsibility to refuse illegal orders that she abandoned with relish. I don't let her or the informants off just because they weren't Jaruzelski or Rumsfeld.
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On the one hand, one suspects they'll just hire a bunch of David Spade "No" Guys...
Actually, given the cost, I suspect they'll hire Davi Singh "No. Thank you comeagain," guys and gals.
"Hello, this is 'Johnny Smith' from...Texas. How may I help you? Really? Well, no. Thankyoucomeagain."
Now substitute "Nazi" or "Apartheid" or "Abu Ghraib" for "Communist", and see if you believe your own argument.
The truth commission in South Africa is there for a reason. The "Communist Era" as you call it is not even as far back as World War Two--it only ended in 1989. There were atrocities committed. In much of Eastern Europe there has been insufficient lustration, and at the very least something like the Truth Commission would help deal with the lingering resentments people feel. If someone does something and seems to have gotten away with it, you are much more likely to bear a grudge than if they do something but are forced to come clean about it.
Let's put it this way--if Guantanamo becomes a camp for political dissenters in the U.S. and you're an American, would you not want to know which of your neighbors were collaborating with the government to send people there? Wouldn't you want the stories out to provide a lesson so history isn't repeated?
In Lithuania I met a Russian who had been in the KGB prison in Vilnius for 11 years. He took us on a tour of the prison and explained how they would be chained to the ground in unheated rooms (it was -20C outside during the tour), showing us a padded room (with blood-stained burlap still on the walls) where they beat people regularly and fired guns over their heads.
There's a weird disconnect in the West that says that, because the goal was social justice, we should overlook the "excesses" of Communism and not regard their crimes the way Naziism or Apartheid or the genocide in Rwanda is regarded. I think it's this willing amnesia that is at the heart of the problem--we can avoid the messy questions that someone in South Africa or Rwanda has to live with on a daily basis if we all pretend it was a gigantic comedy of errors or a period of simply unskillful government.
The same lack of memory, incidentally, can be said for the South's attitude toward the civil rights struggle in the United States, though at least some criminals are being prosecuted--but hardly enough.
How can we argue that the rest of the world should follow our enlightened example if we're unwilling to look carefully at our own past?
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I was on eWorld! I remember it being fairly empty, but the interface was very cool--much like what the Cleveland FreeNet was trying to do, but all GUIlicious. I also had my first experience with live chat, which was some 16-year-old kid who assumed my androgynous name was the opposite sex and wanted me to go into a private room.
I've pretty much hated chat ever since, and from what I can see of IRC and AIM spam, things haven't much improved.
It was eerie, though, how much it felt like AOL, which I was also on (being a refugee from the craptastic Prodigy).
The frightening thing is, I still have an AOL account. Never set your parents' sites up on a non-portable system.
I think there are scores of laptops out there that would spank it.
I dunno. I just saw the thing in person today for the first time. It's small, and its internal space would be about the same as a small notebook (not a subnotebook, as they usually rely on external CD-ROMs). And the smaller notebooks have not been speed demons, even in raw MHz.
Certainly none of the desktop-replacement Wintel laptops I've seen have that little volume--they're gargantuan. In fact, the only thing that would equal it is, well, a Mac laptop.
There may exist a faster laptop out there that comes with all the stuff the Mac Mini does but faster, but they're hardly ubiquitous.
Ditto--they've been great to me. They really seem to care about good, conservative sysadmining (from a technical, not political, point of view). They managed to transition me from an old box to a new one seamlessly, and they really seem to have customized the Slackware distro to make things work and work well.
I like how they treat me--intelligent enough to get some good tools, but the flip side is they expect me to understand about secure, conservative environments for a shared box. Yet they never come across as arrogant or unhelpful, just realistic and looking out for my site's long-term wellbeing.
While forecasting microevents like whether you get rain or sun 7 days in advance has not improved so much, there's one HUGE advantage we have now that folks then didn't:
Gigantic storms like hurricanes and large hurricane-like winter storms can now be spotted and residents warned with fair accuracy 24 hours in advance. That may not seem like much, but it literally is the difference between life and death for thousands of people.
Let's not totally diss technology just because your suede shoes got wet, m'kay? Get some galoshes and a mini-umbrella, and have another drink.
Nobody uses GNP anymore, it's GDP (Gross Domestic Product, if you're wondering).
Outer Slobovia is a fairly common joke name for a mythical/generic small Eastern European/Slavic country, not a misspelling of...whatever you think it was a misspelling of (Slovakia? Slovenia? Outer Mongolia?).
You might have gotten a bit more mileage from a quick Google search to compare salaries to back up your claim? Here's a hint: rather than share of GDP, use PPP when comparing salaries. The meaning and definition of PPP are left as an exercise for the reader.
There's a reason for government relations to PREVENT this sort of thing
The Indian government owned 51% of the plant. Dunno what more power they needed, but as they were a nuclear power at the time and Dow Chemical wasn't, they had a standing army and Dow didn't, I'm going to say they could make Dow do anything they wanted at the plant.
The fact that they would rather take bribes, including grafting all of the compensation money that Dow did pay, is pretty much evidence that governments don't give a shit about you either, and looking to them for help is like asking the Jeffrey Dahmer to protect you from your alcoholic father's drunken rage.
Well, he has writing abilities that would fit right in here:
("warning! you're in danger! all you do with computer is stored forever in your hard disk... still there and could broke your life!" (s.i.c.))
OK, if you're going to make fun of someone's English, don't turn the Latin word sic into an acronym. Super Intelligent Comment? Sick Internet Creep? Silly Immature Cretin? Sadly Impoverished Credibility?
That being said, the way the research is reported is inflammatory: just because you're 87% (or whatever) more likely to get something doesn't mean that 87% of people will get it. I'm not sure what glaucoma rates are, but assuming it's 1 in 1000 adults, this still means that less than 2 in 1000 heavy computer users will get it.
Sure, the Slashdot crowd will realize that if they stop to think, but I'm thinking the average public won't.
The First World would be much better off if such studies were reported as "2 in 1000 computer users get glaucoma versus 1 in 1000".
Hmmm...quick Googling reveals the actual number for Caucasians is 0.145 per 1000. So I overstated the risk severely in my hypothetical.
Naw, I think you mean "neighbor". I been studyin' up on mah geawgraphy for this here election thingy, and it turns out that the fifty-first don't have too much ol.
Meheeco, boy, they got plentya ol. Whah duya think ah learned me Hispanic?
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No, it should be a series of CV gate voltages and timings.
The fears you highlight are not uncommon, but they are unfounded. Companies from Japan are not making very good cars.
1975:
Of course, now we make crap, too, but as long as we are protected from competition, you'll HAVE to buy our overpriced underperforming crap.
"I don't like the buttons" is not a bug.
I should have you talk to my managers...
No, Zhao is saying that since government regulation messed it up for some and other governments failed to mess it up, it should be moved to the UN to mess it up for everybody equally.
What, don't you believe in democracy?
Given your handle (you have to be in your late 20s to 30s to have watched that show the first time) and your report of a mark after an innoculation, I'd guess that you had a smallpox vaccination. They were designed to leave scars so a doctor could tell if someone were vaccinated or not. In the United States, compulsory vaccination ended in 1971 which is why I have a scar and my younger brother does not.
Oh, that and something about ye shall know the followers of the beast by his mark, or something like that.
But no worries.
Where have our boobies gone?
Until recently I thought you'd see boobies at the SuperBowl halftime show, but...
This has been my gripe about cell phones: we're returning to the days of the 1950s in terms of clarity and reliability. Sure, they're mobile within a very limited space (fortunately for Europe, they've hyperurbanized and reduced mobility means that people stay in cities, and don't go live in a farmhouse with the nearest neighbor two kilometers away), but it's so annoying to talk to people only to have both sides go "what? what?" and then dial back three or four times for a twenty-minute conversation.
And no, Euros, don't say, "This is your inferior American network," as I travel a fair amount to your fair continent and I've seen the same thing there with my very own eyes. Maybe the difference isn't as great for you because you've had crappy state-owned telephone companies for your local and long distance phone service. You should try nine nines reliability sometime, it's great...then maybe you wouldn't have to practice thumbing words at 22 characters per minute.
Shouldn't the Viagra ads go on the thrusters?
No, those are where the Beano ads go.
But the low-level informants, the ones who took a few extra zlotys for passing on a name or a photo? For God's sake, people, it's over. Let it go.
Except the camp guards and Nazi party members who participated in any way in the Holocaust were indeed prosecuted, no matter how low their involvement was. Remember all the cases of American residents being deported for trial in Israel? Demianiuk (sp.?) for example?
They may be low level, but it's that kind of passing the buck "I vas just following ordahs!" that permits these crimes to take place. That used to be a key understanding of the Holocaust, but it seems increasingly lost.
Yes, Rumsfeld should at a minimum resign in disgrace, but Lynndie England had a responsibility to refuse illegal orders that she abandoned with relish. I don't let her or the informants off just because they weren't Jaruzelski or Rumsfeld.
On the one hand, one suspects they'll just hire a bunch of David Spade "No" Guys...
Actually, given the cost, I suspect they'll hire Davi Singh "No. Thank you comeagain," guys and gals.
"Hello, this is 'Johnny Smith' from...Texas. How may I help you? Really? Well, no. Thankyoucomeagain."
Now substitute "Nazi" or "Apartheid" or "Abu Ghraib" for "Communist", and see if you believe your own argument.
The truth commission in South Africa is there for a reason. The "Communist Era" as you call it is not even as far back as World War Two--it only ended in 1989. There were atrocities committed. In much of Eastern Europe there has been insufficient lustration, and at the very least something like the Truth Commission would help deal with the lingering resentments people feel. If someone does something and seems to have gotten away with it, you are much more likely to bear a grudge than if they do something but are forced to come clean about it.
Let's put it this way--if Guantanamo becomes a camp for political dissenters in the U.S. and you're an American, would you not want to know which of your neighbors were collaborating with the government to send people there? Wouldn't you want the stories out to provide a lesson so history isn't repeated?
In Lithuania I met a Russian who had been in the KGB prison in Vilnius for 11 years. He took us on a tour of the prison and explained how they would be chained to the ground in unheated rooms (it was -20C outside during the tour), showing us a padded room (with blood-stained burlap still on the walls) where they beat people regularly and fired guns over their heads.
There's a weird disconnect in the West that says that, because the goal was social justice, we should overlook the "excesses" of Communism and not regard their crimes the way Naziism or Apartheid or the genocide in Rwanda is regarded. I think it's this willing amnesia that is at the heart of the problem--we can avoid the messy questions that someone in South Africa or Rwanda has to live with on a daily basis if we all pretend it was a gigantic comedy of errors or a period of simply unskillful government.
The same lack of memory, incidentally, can be said for the South's attitude toward the civil rights struggle in the United States, though at least some criminals are being prosecuted--but hardly enough.
How can we argue that the rest of the world should follow our enlightened example if we're unwilling to look carefully at our own past?
I was on eWorld! I remember it being fairly empty, but the interface was very cool--much like what the Cleveland FreeNet was trying to do, but all GUIlicious. I also had my first experience with live chat, which was some 16-year-old kid who assumed my androgynous name was the opposite sex and wanted me to go into a private room.
I've pretty much hated chat ever since, and from what I can see of IRC and AIM spam, things haven't much improved.
It was eerie, though, how much it felt like AOL, which I was also on (being a refugee from the craptastic Prodigy).
The frightening thing is, I still have an AOL account. Never set your parents' sites up on a non-portable system.
I think there are scores of laptops out there that would spank it.
I dunno. I just saw the thing in person today for the first time. It's small, and its internal space would be about the same as a small notebook (not a subnotebook, as they usually rely on external CD-ROMs). And the smaller notebooks have not been speed demons, even in raw MHz.
Certainly none of the desktop-replacement Wintel laptops I've seen have that little volume--they're gargantuan. In fact, the only thing that would equal it is, well, a Mac laptop.
There may exist a faster laptop out there that comes with all the stuff the Mac Mini does but faster, but they're hardly ubiquitous.
Where'd these religious zealots come from, and when do we start shooting?
You know, it was ironic when conservatives said that kind of stuff about the Middle East in the 90's, too. Be careful what you wish for.
Ditto--they've been great to me. They really seem to care about good, conservative sysadmining (from a technical, not political, point of view). They managed to transition me from an old box to a new one seamlessly, and they really seem to have customized the Slackware distro to make things work and work well.
I like how they treat me--intelligent enough to get some good tools, but the flip side is they expect me to understand about secure, conservative environments for a shared box. Yet they never come across as arrogant or unhelpful, just realistic and looking out for my site's long-term wellbeing.
Well, the one you linked to was $617 with no OS, and half the hard drive space and a CD-ROM only.
When customizing it, I could barely get the processor above HALF the MHz of the Mac, and it was a Pentium III, which I remember comparing to G3s.
Once I gave it a 40GB HD, the still less-than-half-as-fast processor, Windows XP Home, and a combo DVDROM-CDRW, the price was $907.
Even without Windows (assuming you'll install Mandrake or something), you'll only save a little over $100.
For that you could get 802.11g on the Mac and a useable amount of memory, as well as the extended warranty.
You might want to review this page when assembling a comparable PC.
Serious addendum to this--
While forecasting microevents like whether you get rain or sun 7 days in advance has not improved so much, there's one HUGE advantage we have now that folks then didn't:
Gigantic storms like hurricanes and large hurricane-like winter storms can now be spotted and residents warned with fair accuracy 24 hours in advance. That may not seem like much, but it literally is the difference between life and death for thousands of people.
Let's not totally diss technology just because your suede shoes got wet, m'kay? Get some galoshes and a mini-umbrella, and have another drink.
Good points, except:
Nobody uses GNP anymore, it's GDP (Gross Domestic Product, if you're wondering).
Outer Slobovia is a fairly common joke name for a mythical/generic small Eastern European/Slavic country, not a misspelling of...whatever you think it was a misspelling of (Slovakia? Slovenia? Outer Mongolia?).
You might have gotten a bit more mileage from a quick Google search to compare salaries to back up your claim? Here's a hint: rather than share of GDP, use PPP when comparing salaries. The meaning and definition of PPP are left as an exercise for the reader.
Happy posting.
There's a reason for government relations to PREVENT this sort of thing
The Indian government owned 51% of the plant. Dunno what more power they needed, but as they were a nuclear power at the time and Dow Chemical wasn't, they had a standing army and Dow didn't, I'm going to say they could make Dow do anything they wanted at the plant.
The fact that they would rather take bribes, including grafting all of the compensation money that Dow did pay, is pretty much evidence that governments don't give a shit about you either, and looking to them for help is like asking the Jeffrey Dahmer to protect you from your alcoholic father's drunken rage.
Well, he has writing abilities that would fit right in here:
... still there and could broke your life!" (s.i.c.))
("warning! you're in danger! all you do with computer is stored forever in your hard disk
OK, if you're going to make fun of someone's English, don't turn the Latin word sic into an acronym. Super Intelligent Comment? Sick Internet Creep? Silly Immature Cretin? Sadly Impoverished Credibility?
That being said, the way the research is reported is inflammatory: just because you're 87% (or whatever) more likely to get something doesn't mean that 87% of people will get it. I'm not sure what glaucoma rates are, but assuming it's 1 in 1000 adults, this still means that less than 2 in 1000 heavy computer users will get it.
Sure, the Slashdot crowd will realize that if they stop to think, but I'm thinking the average public won't.
The First World would be much better off if such studies were reported as "2 in 1000 computer users get glaucoma versus 1 in 1000".
Hmmm...quick Googling reveals the actual number for Caucasians is 0.145 per 1000. So I overstated the risk severely in my hypothetical.
sell crack [...] and serve far less (or even any) time
Unlike smoking crack, this crime actually had victims. Real, honest to jebus money-losing victims.
(Admittedly, very stupid victims who would probably have given up money for magic beans.)
Naw, I think you mean "neighbor". I been studyin' up on mah geawgraphy for this here election thingy, and it turns out that the fifty-first don't have too much ol.
Meheeco, boy, they got plentya ol. Whah duya think ah learned me Hispanic?
And they said I's dumb.
-GWB
Yes, and the rat you find living inside the case can become a new family pet!
Excuse! Excuse! Dat eees uh, how you say, filigreed Siberian hamster!
I didn't realize the president could simply wipe existing laws out of existance.
If W gets a second term, he probably will get that ability...