Um...I've been to and lived in Ukraine too, and have many relatives there.
And I'm doing a doctoral thesis about it too.
People are smart - they have to be to survive. Have you spent much time outside of Kiev, or more to the point Lvov? Seen people lying drunk as meat puppets on the mud roads of collective farms? (yes, they still call them that).
I'd suggest most US analysis frames Ukraine in Cold War terms, with the explicit aim of separating Ukraine away from Russia.
It's not really a secret the polls were rigged. Equally, there have been allegations of US involvement in trying to bring down Yanukovich.
And, visa regimes to Russia have recently been relaxed, and the cheap oil has started to flow.
Kuchma, Yanukovich and Putin are not nice guys.
But neither is the other side. Yushchenko is playing the democrat card, same as Yeltin's buddies did in Russia mid-90s. As in theat case, the only question is who will let the US priveliged status in buying up local businesses, and who will allow certain Russia mafia gangs priveliged status in buying up local businesses.
If a US dominated market is central to your definition of democracy, that's nice. Don't work in Baghdad. Don't work it Dnipropetrovsk. The brothers will work it out.
I also challenge the accuracy of your Embassy based friends analysis. I'm too lazy to look up recent references, but I know of at least the 4 polls taken wihin the last 12 months that point to about 60% of Ukrainians wanting closer ties with Russia/Belarus and only about 15% wanting closer ties with EU.
From the Western diplomatic staffers I've met, they mainly see themselves as part of a Civilizing Mission. And have little idea of the truly scary stuff happening beyond their secure four walls. Again, as in Baghdad, they don't have to live with the consequences of the crap they bring down on local people.
Only an idiot could believe that two mafia clans fighting for control constitutes democracy in Ukraine. Even if one side mouths the mid-90s US sponsored crap about markets, democracy and a Protestant Jesus.
Same goes for Afghanistan, or Iraq,for that matter.
Ukraine and Russia now have the highest growth rate of HIV in the world, largely from injecting drug use. It is dirt poor in most parts. Like eat-what-you-grow subsistence poor, often with no running water,and horse drawn carriages.It used to be middle class before it became "free".
Western cooperation? I don't think so! Most opinion polls indicate the majority of Ukrainians would like to rejoin with Russia and Belarus - a far greater number than want to join the EU.
Stop reading shitty business magazines and read some reputable opinion polls.
Or watch a film called Lilya 4 Ever. THAT is what Ukraine in like.
At best,Ukraine will one day end up with business running like it does in Italy, IMHO.
All praise to the forces of libertarian freedom unleashed in the xUSSR by Amerika in the early 1990z.
All hail the spirit of capitalism, free to flourish in the manner intended. The top 1% of mafiosi get to eat lobster with cheese, for another 40% nothing changes, and the remaining 49% suffer huge declines in their standard of living to below the poverty line. To the point they can barely afford food and clothes,let alone a full price DVD.
This, dear reader is the best case scenario awaiting Iraq. But I digress.
Cheap CDs, software and DVDs for local and international consumption are wild west capitalism in its purest form.
Thus, there is just no way piracy is going to be stopped. An occassional bulldozer across a pile of CDs for your TV cameras is all you can expect, gringo.
Linking patents to control over essential drugs, agricultural seeds....or software for that matter is real terrorism.
And needs to be actively resisted.
Copy a CD today. Join the fight.
Re:/. athiests don't need to m*nkey sp*nk(as much)
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Yeah, I believe in the word made flesh.
But in a gnostic kinda way.
Everytime I m*nkey sp*nk, I think of Jesus, all naked and well hung.
At the that special moment, I can feel Godz love for me.
Feel Godz love, baby. Feel the flesh!
Aprilia Enjoy ebike - not enjoyable at all
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I was seduced by the idEa of an Ebike about 18 months ago.
I bought an Aprilia enjoy ebike.
This was not a Harley, but was certainly a fat and useless hog.
What a dog!!! about 4 (four!!!) km range going up and down hills here in Sydney.
So...I did what some other reader here suggested...bought myself a super duper light mountain bike, stuck some thin style phat boy kevlar tyres...pump'D them to 100 psi.
Man! You don't need a motor.
Float like a butterfly instead of riding the Hog.
Get a real bike. Should fuel cells...or flying cars ever emerge..then pigs too might fly.
Far be it from this poster to comment on a future meisters weight challenges.
Judging by his foto tho, it seems like he is having a problem with cheeseburger n friez abundance.
He coulld at least use that photoshop'd skinnistyle photo of himself he uses for dating sites if he's going to write an article like this!
Ah - another groovy marketing book which rips off 70s French theory - Pierre Bourdieu this time.
Got love the post Naomi Klein world:.
Step 1: Find a groovy French theory
Step 2: Find a bunch of anecdotes which even MBA types will recognise
Step 3 : Repackage it with a shiny cover and moral aesthetic suitable for Marketing 101
Step 4: Reap lifes rich rewards and flaunt your good taste
Seems she has um, borrowed from Pierrer Bourdieu's "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste".
It first came out in the 1970s in French.
In his book Bourdieu defines the term to be behavior "which seeks distinction in the crude display of ill-mastered luxury" .
You've gotta love that!
As Bourdieu defines taste people needing taste to ensure that the objects, that is the brands they are consuming, are classifying them to be of the correct social strata.
To be guilty of either crudeness of taste or seeming to be unused to luxury is tantamount to social suicide.
Bourdieu theorizes economic power to be first and foremost the power to keep economic necessity at arm's length. That is why it universally asserts itself by the destruction of riches, conspicuous consumption, squandering, and every other form of gratuitous luxury.
Wait there's more!
Bordieau quotes some guy called M**x (No Brothers)
Bourdieu suggests (quoting M**x) that " man is initially posited as a private property owner i.e. an exclusive owner whose exclusive ownership permits him both to preserve his personality and to distinguish himself from other men, as well as relate to them . . . private property is man's personal, distinguishing and hence material existence".
I agree most clients initially don't care about W3C standards.
But it's part of a developers (or at least a pitcher's) job to point out that certain standards do exist.
Creating a metal-Pr0n flash site with light grey 4 point font on white background might be tres cool, but it is crap for most other users other than those in your immediate monkeyspank circle.
This doesn;t necessarily relate to the IE issue.
But let's use an SUV analogy to bring it back to IE.
Say you're the biggest SUV MoFo on the freeway.
You can pretty much do as I like.
Yr king of the road. You set the standard.
However, if you keep ignoring those crunching sounds under yr phatboy tyres, you're likely to get into trouble.
Same deal if you're giving advice to clients.
It pretty negligent to not point the existence and importance of these standards to clients.
Once you've pointed this stuff out, 95% of the time clients start to care about standards.
This is particularly the case if your doing "boring" sites...like in the areas of say... medicine...or for older people...or say government services.
Clients might not give a shit...but it's up to you to point out issues of usabilty and Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act compliance standards.
Unless you really only care about your magic monkeyspank circle...er...target segment.
Seems like this thread is a real honey pot for mountain militia men.
Based on the responses in this discussion it seems like videogames might be more like a mirror to the soul than anything else.
If yr a gun toting child beatin trailer dwellin kinda guy then VVGz (violent video gamez) are maybe just more furniture in yr WYSIWYG world.
I love shoot em upz. My grrlfren loves crappy StarTrek videos.
Hey! It's a free country!.
Each to their mindless pichinko own.
But if VVGz cause you to start drawlin in some righteously indignant way bout gun raats and the konstushun then well, maybe, just maybe, its time to turn yrself in.
Lighten up. They're only pixels.
If you wanna beat up yr kidz and ole lady, or shoot yr Ak into the night sky, well, we're talking a catalogue of DSM III probs than no online counselling at slashdot.med is gonna fix...
Slashdot Mirror
The swallows are coming in springtime.
I say, The swallows are coming in springtime.
Um...I've been to and lived in Ukraine too, and have many relatives there.
And I'm doing a doctoral thesis about it too.
People are smart - they have to be to survive. Have you spent much time outside of Kiev, or more to the point Lvov? Seen people lying drunk as meat puppets on the mud roads of collective farms? (yes, they still call them that).
I'd suggest most US analysis frames Ukraine in Cold War terms, with the explicit aim of separating Ukraine away from Russia.
It's not really a secret the polls were rigged. Equally, there have been allegations of US involvement in trying to bring down Yanukovich. And, visa regimes to Russia have recently been relaxed, and the cheap oil has started to flow. Kuchma, Yanukovich and Putin are not nice guys.
But neither is the other side. Yushchenko is playing the democrat card, same as Yeltin's buddies did in Russia mid-90s. As in theat case, the only question is who will let the US priveliged status in buying up local businesses, and who will allow certain Russia mafia gangs priveliged status in buying up local businesses.
If a US dominated market is central to your definition of democracy, that's nice. Don't work in Baghdad. Don't work it Dnipropetrovsk. The brothers will work it out.
I also challenge the accuracy of your Embassy based friends analysis. I'm too lazy to look up recent references, but I know of at least the 4 polls taken wihin the last 12 months that point to about 60% of Ukrainians wanting closer ties with Russia/Belarus and only about 15% wanting closer ties with EU.
From the Western diplomatic staffers I've met, they mainly see themselves as part of a Civilizing Mission. And have little idea of the truly scary stuff happening beyond their secure four walls. Again, as in Baghdad, they don't have to live with the consequences of the crap they bring down on local people.
As the homiez round Donetsk say...
"Don't y'all come down to Harlem no mo..."
Sounds like you've never actually been there...
It's a tough place. REALLY tough, whitey.
Only an idiot could believe that two mafia clans fighting for control constitutes democracy in Ukraine. Even if one side mouths the mid-90s US sponsored crap about markets, democracy and a Protestant Jesus.
Same goes for Afghanistan, or Iraq,for that matter.
Ukraine and Russia now have the highest growth rate of HIV in the world, largely from injecting drug use. It is dirt poor in most parts. Like eat-what-you-grow subsistence poor, often with no running water,and horse drawn carriages.It used to be middle class before it became "free".
Western cooperation? I don't think so! Most opinion polls indicate the majority of Ukrainians would like to rejoin with Russia and Belarus - a far greater number than want to join the EU.
Stop reading shitty business magazines and read some reputable opinion polls.
Or watch a film called Lilya 4 Ever. THAT is what Ukraine in like.
At best,Ukraine will one day end up with business running like it does in Italy, IMHO.
All praise to the forces of libertarian freedom unleashed in the xUSSR by Amerika in the early 1990z.
....or software for that matter is real terrorism.
All hail the spirit of capitalism, free to flourish in the manner intended. The top 1% of mafiosi get to eat lobster with cheese, for another 40% nothing changes, and the remaining 49% suffer huge declines in their standard of living to below the poverty line. To the point they can barely afford food and clothes,let alone a full price DVD.
This, dear reader is the best case scenario awaiting Iraq. But I digress.
Cheap CDs, software and DVDs for local and international consumption are wild west capitalism in its purest form.
Thus, there is just no way piracy is going to be stopped. An occassional bulldozer across a pile of CDs for your TV cameras is all you can expect, gringo.
I especially love some of the articles linking terrorism to patent law. See this article foran example.
I can only agree.
Linking patents to control over essential drugs, agricultural seeds
And needs to be actively resisted.
Copy a CD today. Join the fight.
Yeah, I believe in the word made flesh.
But in a gnostic kinda way.
Everytime I m*nkey sp*nk, I think of Jesus, all naked and well hung.
At the that special moment, I can feel Godz love for me.
Feel Godz love, baby. Feel the flesh!
I was seduced by the idEa of an Ebike about 18 months ago.
I bought an Aprilia enjoy ebike.
This was not a Harley, but was certainly a fat and useless hog.
What a dog!!! about 4 (four!!!) km range going up and down hills here in Sydney.
So...I did what some other reader here suggested...bought myself a super duper light mountain bike, stuck some thin style phat boy kevlar tyres...pump'D them to 100 psi.
Man! You don't need a motor.
Float like a butterfly instead of riding the Hog.
Get a real bike. Should fuel cells...or flying cars ever emerge..then pigs too might fly.
Far be it from this poster to comment on a future meisters weight challenges. Judging by his foto tho, it seems like he is having a problem with cheeseburger n friez abundance. He coulld at least use that photoshop'd skinnistyle photo of himself he uses for dating sites if he's going to write an article like this!
Ah - another groovy marketing book which rips off 70s French theory - Pierre Bourdieu this time.
Got love the post Naomi Klein world:.
Step 1: Find a groovy French theory
Step 2: Find a bunch of anecdotes which even MBA types will recognise
Step 3 : Repackage it with a shiny cover and moral aesthetic suitable for Marketing 101
Step 4: Reap lifes rich rewards and flaunt your good taste
Seems she has um, borrowed from Pierrer Bourdieu's "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste".
It first came out in the 1970s in French.
In his book Bourdieu defines the term to be behavior "which seeks distinction in the crude display of ill-mastered luxury" .
You've gotta love that!
As Bourdieu defines taste people needing taste to ensure that the objects, that is the brands they are consuming, are classifying them to be of the correct social strata.
To be guilty of either crudeness of taste or seeming to be unused to luxury is tantamount to social suicide.
Bourdieu theorizes economic power to be first and foremost the power to keep economic necessity at arm's length. That is why it universally asserts itself by the destruction of riches, conspicuous consumption, squandering, and every other form of gratuitous luxury.
Wait there's more!
Bordieau quotes some guy called M**x (No Brothers)
Bourdieu suggests (quoting M**x) that " man is initially posited as a private property owner i.e. an exclusive owner whose exclusive ownership permits him both to preserve his personality and to distinguish himself from other men, as well as relate to them . . . private property is man's personal, distinguishing and hence material existence".
I agree most clients initially don't care about W3C standards.
But it's part of a developers (or at least a pitcher's) job to point out that certain standards do exist.
Creating a metal-Pr0n flash site with light grey 4 point font on white background might be tres cool, but it is crap for most other users other than those in your immediate monkeyspank circle.
This doesn;t necessarily relate to the IE issue.
But let's use an SUV analogy to bring it back to IE.
Say you're the biggest SUV MoFo on the freeway. You can pretty much do as I like.
Yr king of the road. You set the standard.
However, if you keep ignoring those crunching sounds under yr phatboy tyres, you're likely to get into trouble.
Same deal if you're giving advice to clients.
It pretty negligent to not point the existence and importance of these standards to clients.
Once you've pointed this stuff out, 95% of the time clients start to care about standards.
This is particularly the case if your doing "boring" sites...like in the areas of say... medicine...or for older people...or say government services.
Clients might not give a shit...but it's up to you to point out issues of usabilty and Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act compliance standards.
Unless you really only care about your magic monkeyspank circle...er...target segment.
Seems like this thread is a real honey pot for mountain militia men.
Based on the responses in this discussion it seems like videogames might be more like a mirror to the soul than anything else.
If yr a gun toting child beatin trailer dwellin kinda guy then VVGz (violent video gamez) are maybe just more furniture in yr WYSIWYG world.
I love shoot em upz. My grrlfren loves crappy StarTrek videos.
Hey! It's a free country!.
Each to their mindless pichinko own.
But if VVGz cause you to start drawlin in some righteously indignant way bout gun raats and the konstushun then well, maybe, just maybe, its time to turn yrself in.
Lighten up. They're only pixels.
If you wanna beat up yr kidz and ole lady, or shoot yr Ak into the night sky, well, we're talking a catalogue of DSM III probs than no online counselling at slashdot.med is gonna fix...
You need to get your mind rite elsewhere.