I really do not think you are right. But, independently of that, do you seriously believe that anyone will buy into "they should provide resources only but all decisions should be made by the local leaders."?
People bitch at Slashdot variously all the time (and somewhat paradoxically, do so in Slashdot...), and there is certainly much to be bitched for. I do keep coming back, though: there is the occasional reasoned, insightful, coherently written post, which makes up for the rest. Yours numbers among the good ones.
Dude, he was essentially an envoy from Washington. In any case, Washington played the UN like a harp. What's new?
I cannot conclude from this that the UN is worthless, but that it is subobtimal to have some countries run the show. Again: what's new?
There are tons of other bad people, even as we write this, that are playing games not that different from Pinochet's, and if you go look into the transcripts of the sessions in which the UN does not decide to do anything, you'll understand why.
The fact that an institution works very badly when I, who have the power to do so, do my very best to impede its working, is hardly a reasonable argument for me to use to argue that it is worthless.
I don't think anything related to these jobs going out of the US is relevant, either, to this thread. I just did not think the victimization was correct in your statement.
Now, for what you say now: you must clearly agree that while this replacement of machinist positions by industrial engineering positions is not a bad idea, it does not scale very well. And it has not scaled well in the past.
That fact that you seem to think that being able to buy, and in consequence operate, a gun without knowing anything about it is good, but that it is correct to be required to know how traffic law works before operating a car, amazes me.
The fact that he finds abortion of all black babies impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible is not quite the point: his finding that aborting all black babies would eliminate crime is.
My guess is he finds abortion of all white babies equally impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible. His statement makes me wonder if he finds that aborting all white babies would eliminate crime.
we invest in pharmacuticals, chemicals, other technologies to offset the fact that all the other countries are taking our jobs
Please note that no other country is taking jobs out of the US: it is the companies in the United States that are taking them outside. It is a conscious choice made by those companies.
[...] the UN which has it's own problems. [...] lack of action concerning the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile etc etc.
Wow.
Can you possibly be unaware of the fact that the Pinochet coup was organized by the United States? Do yourself a favor, and go read something about what happened in Chile. Just asking Henry Kissinger's travel agent for the list of countries he cannot visit for fear of legal action would be a good start.
Well, some of those countries do use the money they get through taxing to pay for good schools, even better medical service and what not. Other countries which prefer not to "tax the hell out" of their citizens make their citizens pay for that directly and/or increase their national deficit.
An axiom has not been that for a while now---basically, since mathematicians got comfortable with non-euclidean geomtries.
Axioms are just starting points for reasoning. They encode the standing hypotheses.
You can develop theories in which axioms are generally believed to be false (the one big example of this being, of course, the non-euclidean geometries).
gconf is a way to store information, and a way to find out about changes in that information. What you want is apps for presenting and manipulating that information in ways you (and others, including myself) find useful. I can understand your complaining about those apps not existing. But you are barking at the wrong tree if you think that is because of gconf.
I have to say that I really have lost interest in you. In any case, I sincerely hope you find something better than gconf and are able to leave it behind as a bad memory.
I know for a fact that they firmly believe in that. If you know of anything that is not up to date, you should report it, and if you think you can write documentation, well, I know there is lots for you to do.
Things do not improve with time: they improve with work.
I'm quite familiar que gconf. Of course, you have no way of knowing that.;-)
My comment originated from your saying that gconf is a clone of the windows registry, and sort of equating it with a file format. While it is certainly not the perfect solution to all problems, it is not none of those two things, either.
If you look at the way Sabayon works, you'll notice that it is made possible by the rather clever way gconf was designed (which is rather orthogonal to the particular file format it uses), at least in so far as Sabayon deals with gconf changes---it looks at changes in mozilla profiles and other stuff in a different way.
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Care to explain why Math is in a sorry state?
I really do not think you are right. But, independently of that, do you seriously believe that anyone will buy into "they should provide resources only but all decisions should be made by the local leaders."?
Lucky people who live in rich countries get the chance of paying $400 doctor visits. Damn, how I want to move to a rich country!
It is most probable that GIMP will never have a MDI. This is not an oversight, or an accident, or display of laziness: it is a design decision.
The psyche of the standard troll ceases not to amaze me...
I just love the way you avoid writing the word god while you don't seem to have any problem with writing the rest of what you wrote. Cute.
Thanks for the post.
People bitch at Slashdot variously all the time (and somewhat paradoxically, do so in Slashdot...), and there is certainly much to be bitched for. I do keep coming back, though: there is the occasional reasoned, insightful, coherently written post, which makes up for the rest. Yours numbers among the good ones.
Dude, he was essentially an envoy from Washington. In any case, Washington played the UN like a harp. What's new?
I cannot conclude from this that the UN is worthless, but that it is subobtimal to have some countries run the show. Again: what's new?
There are tons of other bad people, even as we write this, that are playing games not that different from Pinochet's, and if you go look into the transcripts of the sessions in which the UN does not decide to do anything, you'll understand why.
The fact that an institution works very badly when I, who have the power to do so, do my very best to impede its working, is hardly a reasonable argument for me to use to argue that it is worthless.
You do understand, then, that any imaginable iniciative from the UN to do anything about Chile encountered essentially unsurmountable difficulties...
I don't think anything related to these jobs going out of the US is relevant, either, to this thread. I just did not think the victimization was correct in your statement.
Now, for what you say now: you must clearly agree that while this replacement of machinist positions by industrial engineering positions is not a bad idea, it does not scale very well. And it has not scaled well in the past.
That fact that you seem to think that being able to buy, and in consequence operate, a gun without knowing anything about it is good, but that it is correct to be required to know how traffic law works before operating a car, amazes me.
The fact that he finds abortion of all black babies impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible is not quite the point: his finding that aborting all black babies would eliminate crime is.
My guess is he finds abortion of all white babies equally impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible. His statement makes me wonder if he finds that aborting all white babies would eliminate crime.
Please note that no other country is taking jobs out of the US: it is the companies in the United States that are taking them outside. It is a conscious choice made by those companies.
Wow.
Can you possibly be unaware of the fact that the Pinochet coup was organized by the United States? Do yourself a favor, and go read something about what happened in Chile. Just asking Henry Kissinger's travel agent for the list of countries he cannot visit for fear of legal action would be a good start.
Well, some of those countries do use the money they get through taxing to pay for good schools, even better medical service and what not. Other countries which prefer not to "tax the hell out" of their citizens make their citizens pay for that directly and/or increase their national deficit.
Look up the meaning of the word abdicate.
An axiom has not been that for a while now---basically, since mathematicians got comfortable with non-euclidean geomtries.
Axioms are just starting points for reasoning. They encode the standing hypotheses.
You can develop theories in which axioms are generally believed to be false (the one big example of this being, of course, the non-euclidean geometries).
Trigonometry is not Old School. The way it is taught might be, though.
That may be so...
I do tend to get incredibly bored by people who know exactly what they need, though
gconf is a way to store information, and a way to find out about changes in that information. What you want is apps for presenting and manipulating that information in ways you (and others, including myself) find useful. I can understand your complaining about those apps not existing. But you are barking at the wrong tree if you think that is because of gconf.
I have to say that I really have lost interest in you. In any case, I sincerely hope you find something better than gconf and are able to leave it behind as a bad memory.
I know for a fact that they firmly believe in that. If you know of anything that is not up to date, you should report it, and if you think you can write documentation, well, I know there is lots for you to do.
Things do not improve with time: they improve with work.
Do you usually include SAT scores in messages you write?
Oh well. I will not insist.
(Btw, you can render the docbook pages that the gnome project does believe in writing into man pages if you like manpages)
I'm quite familiar que gconf. Of course, you have no way of knowing that. ;-)
My comment originated from your saying that gconf is a clone of the windows registry, and sort of equating it with a file format. While it is certainly not the perfect solution to all problems, it is not none of those two things, either.
If you look at the way Sabayon works, you'll notice that it is made possible by the rather clever way gconf was designed (which is rather orthogonal to the particular file format it uses), at least in so far as Sabayon deals with gconf changes---it looks at changes in mozilla profiles and other stuff in a different way.
Clearly you have not bothered to look up details of what you can do with gconf and/or what it is...
Note that, even assuming that what you say is true, it is completely irrelevant to the content of the article.