Many very big and successful compnaies made their fortunes selling stuff to the poor and lower middle class. McDonalds is not exactly a luxary restaraunt.
I forgot the word, but there is one for the psychological phenomena when upon failing to obtain something you just say how you never wanted it anyway. Or are you really trying to push an incredible conspiracy that all this e time since the 80s at least, none of Western countries have made money in China?
Thank you, actually I always found it's funny that our supposed sattelite states always had a better standard of living than Mother Russia. Goods from Poland, DDR, Hungary, from Polish vinil records and rock and fashine magazines to electric household eqipment from DDR were wery highly valued in the USSR. I guess we spent most of our industril capacity on weapons.
I hear United States government has recently taken over quite a few large businesses? is it true? Should international investors stay out of the US? And I feel sorry for your aquitance, but at least he was not eaten alive by the bears.
It is not completely clear excatly whast period he is talking about, but in general Hungary was one of the richer Eastern Europe countries, and I am quite certain no one went hungry in the Eastwern Europe, even in the Soviet Union where I grew up which alwayds had the early "struggle for the harvest".
I am not from the US and am not really scared of the 'terrorists' but I still do not understand how this is a valid comparison. Sure X people die every year in auto accidents and Y die of lung cancer but there are real objective ways to greatly reduce those risks, so people for better or worth feel like they are more in control of their lives, the people who died on 9/11 merely went to work, something they had been doing for years and assumed it to be completely safe, it is scary because sudden violent death caught them completely unexpected in the environment assumed to be safe.
I absolutely lover my HP Mini 110 netbook, but since they all pretty much have identical features I would probably love any other netbook. Prior to the netbook revolution if I wanted a light, small notebook that I could caryy for hours in my backpack I would have had to buy a $2000+ Sony Vaio Notebook. Netbooks changed eveything. My netbook perfectly handles the Web, non-HD movies, reading my ebooks, document editing. I have not yet ran into limitation of the N230 single-core Atom.
This is more about nationalism than demand for Western style freedom. Russian people rallied behind their home grown dictator to defeat a foreign dictator during WW2, and I think it was a wise choice.
Rosa parks was a citizen of the USA and she did not have much choice but to fight for her freedom, I respect her courage greatly for that. But coming to another country a foreigner should obey local laws, and if due to ethical dilemmas he is not able to do just that he always has a choice of returning to his own country. Somebody has pointed a great example - if I come to the USA, go to a hospital and start demanding free surgeries just because in my country universal health care is a human right, I'd be probably laughed off and deported.
You don't have freedom, you have an illusion of freedom. I grew up in the late USSR, we also had an illusion of freedom, in fact we as children genuinely felt sorry for the poor American workers who didn't have socialism and freedom and even gathered food and warm clothing for the American homeless who slept in cardboard boxes and phone booths. Your entrenched two party system, where the parties are just two sides of the same coin, one ultra-conservative and the other moderately conservative ruling the country with unbounded sway, what choice and freedom do you really have?
The problem is that the papers on Siberian data were 'peer-reviewed' by the same people who alledgedly falsified it for their own research supporting AGW.
>Russia is being the number one impediment these days to a global climate change accord, and it seems to go to the top. For example, they've been one of the main forces holding up a Copenhagen accord.
Really? Maybe in your fantasies but in reality Russia is actually is in pretty good position right now, the CO2 outout is 34% below 1990 level, simply because this baseline very convinently coincided with the economic slump around the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. So Russia can easily pledge obscene CO2 cuts without actually doing anything AND THEN make some money on top of it trading carbon credit (Ukraine is already making billions on it). The number one impediment is still the USA an China (yes I think they should share the prize).
This is a problem with CRU's process not with climate 'sceptics' and other interested parties wanting to take a look at the data that might lead to decisions that would drastically affect our lifestyle. Imagine if Linus complained that he was overworked becuase he was getting over 50 requests to release the kernel source per week, oh the outrage! What I'm saying is that just make the climate data publically available by default, what is the point of hiding it?
So does it mean you don't know how Mainstream Christianity in the form of Catholicism practically strongarmed Irish government into ignoring decades of child abuse and pedophlia? Or maybe how the same Christian sect still tries to control activities of civilian government in Italy and Poland?
Where I live your 'free' p3 laptops go for the price of a few months salary and 486 and even 286 laptops are valued, maintained and are sought for. Someone pocessing a pile of p3 laptops would be a rich man indeed. The question of installing unix like systems is more than releavant for anyone not belonging to the Golden Billion (thats over 5 billion people).
Because of software bloat. And when the solution to bloated inefficient crap produced by (expensive) programmers is to throw more (cheap) hardware one can argue that the obsolescence is planned.
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Many very big and successful compnaies made their fortunes selling stuff to the poor and lower middle class. McDonalds is not exactly a luxary restaraunt.
I am not ready!
I forgot the word, but there is one for the psychological phenomena when upon failing to obtain something you just say how you never wanted it anyway. Or are you really trying to push an incredible conspiracy that all this e time since the 80s at least, none of Western countries have made money in China?
Thank you, actually I always found it's funny that our supposed sattelite states always had a better standard of living than Mother Russia. Goods from Poland, DDR, Hungary, from Polish vinil records and rock and fashine magazines to electric household eqipment from DDR were wery highly valued in the USSR. I guess we spent most of our industril capacity on weapons.
I hear United States government has recently taken over quite a few large businesses? is it true? Should international investors stay out of the US? And I feel sorry for your aquitance, but at least he was not eaten alive by the bears.
But do you believe that People and Bugs can coexist peacefully?
It is not completely clear excatly whast period he is talking about, but in general Hungary was one of the richer Eastern Europe countries, and I am quite certain no one went hungry in the Eastwern Europe, even in the Soviet Union where I grew up which alwayds had the early "struggle for the harvest".
What next? Plant some heroin on unsuspecting passengers and send them to Turkey?
He would have probably bought a book on blowing up airliners before that!
I am not from the US and am not really scared of the 'terrorists' but I still do not understand how this is a valid comparison. Sure X people die every year in auto accidents and Y die of lung cancer but there are real objective ways to greatly reduce those risks, so people for better or worth feel like they are more in control of their lives, the people who died on 9/11 merely went to work, something they had been doing for years and assumed it to be completely safe, it is scary because sudden violent death caught them completely unexpected in the environment assumed to be safe.
I absolutely lover my HP Mini 110 netbook, but since they all pretty much have identical features I would probably love any other netbook. Prior to the netbook revolution if I wanted a light, small notebook that I could caryy for hours in my backpack I would have had to buy a $2000+ Sony Vaio Notebook. Netbooks changed eveything. My netbook perfectly handles the Web, non-HD movies, reading my ebooks, document editing. I have not yet ran into limitation of the N230 single-core Atom.
This is more about nationalism than demand for Western style freedom. Russian people rallied behind their home grown dictator to defeat a foreign dictator during WW2, and I think it was a wise choice.
Well, Wikipedia states that the overwhelmingly vast majority return to the Amish lifestyle having tasted the modern Western culture.
Rosa parks was a citizen of the USA and she did not have much choice but to fight for her freedom, I respect her courage greatly for that. But coming to another country a foreigner should obey local laws, and if due to ethical dilemmas he is not able to do just that he always has a choice of returning to his own country. Somebody has pointed a great example - if I come to the USA, go to a hospital and start demanding free surgeries just because in my country universal health care is a human right, I'd be probably laughed off and deported.
You don't have freedom, you have an illusion of freedom. I grew up in the late USSR, we also had an illusion of freedom, in fact we as children genuinely felt sorry for the poor American workers who didn't have socialism and freedom and even gathered food and warm clothing for the American homeless who slept in cardboard boxes and phone booths. Your entrenched two party system, where the parties are just two sides of the same coin, one ultra-conservative and the other moderately conservative ruling the country with unbounded sway, what choice and freedom do you really have?
Didn't the US still send thousands of it's citizens of Japanese origin into concentration camps?
You forgot to add WINE!!!
The problem is that the papers on Siberian data were 'peer-reviewed' by the same people who alledgedly falsified it for their own research supporting AGW.
>Russia is being the number one impediment these days to a global climate change accord, and it seems to go to the top. For example, they've been one of the main forces holding up a Copenhagen accord.
Really? Maybe in your fantasies but in reality Russia is actually is in pretty good position right now, the CO2 outout is 34% below 1990 level, simply because this baseline very convinently coincided with the economic slump around the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. So Russia can easily pledge obscene CO2 cuts without actually doing anything AND THEN make some money on top of it trading carbon credit (Ukraine is already making billions on it). The number one impediment is still the USA an China (yes I think they should share the prize).
This is a problem with CRU's process not with climate 'sceptics' and other interested parties wanting to take a look at the data that might lead to decisions that would drastically affect our lifestyle. Imagine if Linus complained that he was overworked becuase he was getting over 50 requests to release the kernel source per week, oh the outrage! What I'm saying is that just make the climate data publically available by default, what is the point of hiding it?
So does it mean you don't know how Mainstream Christianity in the form of Catholicism practically strongarmed Irish government into ignoring decades of child abuse and pedophlia? Or maybe how the same Christian sect still tries to control activities of civilian government in Italy and Poland?
According to Intel you can compile Linux kernel with their own free as in beer c compiler.
So basically you're saying that if you have money to pay for a commercial OS then stay away from Ubuntu and CO?
Where I live your 'free' p3 laptops go for the price of a few months salary and 486 and even 286 laptops are valued, maintained and are sought for. Someone pocessing a pile of p3 laptops would be a rich man indeed. The question of installing unix like systems is more than releavant for anyone not belonging to the Golden Billion (thats over 5 billion people).
Because of software bloat. And when the solution to bloated inefficient crap produced by (expensive) programmers is to throw more (cheap) hardware one can argue that the obsolescence is planned.