After reading about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2-45 in wikipedia, I can't think how can this be part of the modern, civilized world if that turns out to be a true fact.
FYI: R2-45 is a Scientology auditing process created by L. Ron Hubbard. The process of R2-45 specifically pertains to shooting the target with a Colt.45 pistol, causing the victim's "thetan" to leave the body (exteriorization). In 1952 during a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Hubbard demonstrated the process of R2-45 by firing a shot at the floor.[1][2] In a lecture of 1958, Hubbard comments that "Death is not the same as clearing but there is, remember, R2-45. It's a very valid technique. A lot of people have used it before now." [3]
didn't see it coming, but I'm a bit dissapointed with myself for that.
In hindsight, it's the obvious choice.
Who is Oracle's biggest Competitor? IBM.
What is Oracle lacking when it goes head to head with IBM? Hardware.
When a customer says "we're going with IBM because they can deliver a whole solution" Oracle can now say "So can we!".
Don't treat yourself badly.
IBM does things Oracle still doesn't do, even after buying Sun:
IBM will admin your whole servers *ix servers for you (HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Solaris). Sun/Oracle, afaik, don't do that.
IBM will admin your whole databases for you( Oracle, Informix, MS SQL, MySQL). Sun/Oracle, afaik, they don't do that.
IBM will admin your applications (SAP, Oracle Financials or whatever it is called these days, Webpshere, Tomcat, BEA, I guess even Axapta)
IBM will admin your Windows boxes.
I guess that Oracle/Sun won't be able to deliver a "whole" solution the way IBM/Accenture/EDS do these days. Of course IBM is also in the business of selling you the hardware plus database business, but they have services that reach well beyond that. Maybe Oracle is in the right path, but there's a long way ahead.
>>Your rep sucks, our orders both directly from Cisco and from CDW arrive in a normal timeframe of several days.
Well, I guess the thing is that CDW has its own stock of things they think are selling well, in order to have "happy customers" (c).
I worked in replying RFP's from IT customers, and when replying those, we usually had to add the usual 60-day delivery time by Cisco in our repliess. We are not us-based, tough, YMMV, yadayadayada, but at least here and now, that's the way it works.
There is water ice on Mars within reach of the Mars Phoenix Lander, NASA scientists announced Thursday.
Photographic evidence settles the debate over the nature of the white material seen in photographs sent back by the craft. As seen in lower left of this image, chunks of the ice sublimed (changed directly from solid to gas) over the course of four days, after the lander's digging exposed them.
"It must be ice," said the Phoenix Lander's lead investigator, Peter Smith. "These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it's ice."
The confirmation that water ice exists in the area directly surrounding the lander is big and good news for the Martian mission. NASA's stated goal for the Mars Phoenix was to find exactly this -- water ice -- and then analyze it. With the latest news, the first step is accomplished. All that's left now is to get the water into the Phoenix's instruments, a task which has occasionally proven more difficult than anticipated.
Still, this is the best opportunity that humanity has ever had to analyze extraterrestrial water in any form. That had the Phoenix Lander's persona fired up.
"Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!" the Mars Phoenix Lander tweeted at about 5:15 pm.
Their suspicions about water ice beneath the surface of Mars confirmed, scientists and the world will have renewed interest in the outcome of the soil analyses currently being conducted by the lander.
The samples are being examined for traces of organic molecules, among other substances, but the lander does not have instruments that could directly detect life.
a full-scale global outage would cost Amazon more than $31,000 per minute on average.
I don't trust this; some people may buy later if there is an outage, no?
Stephan
and maybe some others may not. within that hour, some may reconsider, others may go to other website. A two hours outage might mean $80.000 in lost sales, because more people decided to buy will start looking someplace else.
a) Check that your router supports DD-WRT (not a micro o mini version, a good version. Latest WRT54G don't have enough memory. Go to amazon.com and get a WRT54GL)
b) Limit your favorite P2P bandwidth usage using your program's own options to something that makes both your P2P needs and "you browsing" happy. You should repeat this step after considering the other options available below.
c) add QoS rules specific both at using the L7 traffic-identification and also using the specific ports you have configured for your favorite P2P program on the router as lower priority traffic in dd-wrt. Configured things such as DNS queries, HTTP browsing, PING, SSH, VoIP with top priority.
d) start using TCP-vegas on the router: Add the following custom script for boot:
echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_westwood
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_cong_avoid
echo 3 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_alpha
echo 3 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_beta
TCP-vegas is a server side congestion avoindance algorithm which can improve your "upload" behavior , which is usually capped much more than your download bandwidth, so it might give you an overall "snappier" feelings on how things behave.
...or else the "Those movements will be transmitted onto screens which show in real-time where people go, with whom they associate, for how long and how often" would take the meeting to whole new levels.
Windows competes with Linux in the marketplace, Blender is an application that runs on Windows and Linux, the company that makes Windows reaches out offering to help because they want Blender to run really well on Windows.
I think you are wrong exactly there. They don't care about Blender running on Windows. They ultimately care about Linux not being a choice for you to run Blender on, because the "hype" is that it runs better on Windows (which means $$ for MS, not that it is wrong, but that's is just what they want buy not making Linux a choice). If they want to make Blender run better on Windows, they could simply volunteer M$ developer time to the Blender project, and maybe write some GPLvx/BSD code in the meantime.
Let me show you another examle where I think you are wrong:
I find it unlikely that Microsoft would offer support to the Open Office guys, because OO running better on Windows hurts their market leading Microsoft Office product, but other areas that Microsoft doesn't compete in, they can offer them support.
They could offer OO file compatibility help. It might hurt their MS OO offer. But wait... what if because of MS help to Blender, now OO has plenty of BSD/GPLvx code to deal with "MS file formats"? Haven't MS thought of that, or would they impose some other "licensing" scheme to the code (so that it can not be ported back to Linux sometime down the road?)
The again, as you say, "but other areas that Microsoft doesn't compete in, they can offer them support", or better yet, let me rephrase it for you: "but other areas that Microsoft doesn't compete in directly, M$ can pretend to offer them support to look nice and at the same time the end result is hurting another competing product (Linux?) while we look nice".
The West Bank was captured from Jordan, and the Gaza strip was captured from Egypt, after a pan-Arab attack. Israel subsequently signed peace treaties with both countries, the terms of which included Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza.
Let me see if I got you straight: so if tomorrow country B attacks the West Bank and the Gaza strips, putting Israel to its knees by means of, say, military force, and then subsequently israel has to sign peace treaties in terms of which include sovereignty to this country B of said territories, we can call it square?
Hey, interesting comments. From one of those comments:
Methods used to make the two isotopes (weapons grade Pu239 vs. thermoelectric generator Pu238) are quite different.
Pu239 (evil!) is produced from U238 when it absorbs a neutron and decays to Pu239.
Pu238 (Nice guy) is produced with U235 through a chain of neutron absorptions and decays.
and
U238 is the more common form of uranium and is not the kind used for uranium weapons. Relatively pure U235 is what is frequently called highly-enriched uranium (HEU) and is the kind used for weapons.
We have then:
To create Pu239, used for bombs, you need U238, which is the one used in "normal" nuclear power plants.
To create Pu238, used for electricity/"normal" nuclear power plants, you need more "enriched" U235, which is closer to weapon grade uranium.
Now that's an interesting circle!. Ain't nature funny?
In the late 1970s and early 1980s MicroSoft sold a version of PC-UNIX called Xenix (they didnt write it).
Great old times..!! I remember I had a 80266 machine back then, 10 MHz (way faster than the original IBM PC-AT, but you could always press CTRL-ALT-minus to set it back to normal speed in case of incompatibilities).
Until the mid-1990s PCs were too-weak to effectively run UNIX
Well, on my 80266 10MHz/640kb RAM I used to do the college work (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, documentation) on PC-DOS. When I "discovered" Xenix-286, the same machine could run 4 virtual terminals on the console, I was able to edit, compile, run/test on three different terminals. If I made a mistake on C, I'd get a coredump, but the machine kept running. Also, I was able to enable my modem, so a classmate could also work on what I was doing.
Great times, 80266 machine, 640 KB ram, 40 MB Hard drive.
Then I met a lot of people that were using SCO Xenix/UNIX on 80386 class machines, doing all kind of things from running a BBS with 20+modems, or running the billing system of local companies from multiple RS-232 terminals in the late 80's, early 90's.
The Cuban embargo and travel restriction is an injustice. The fact is, there are people FAR more oppressed than the Cubans who have not been blessed with the criminalization of Americans traveling to and trading with their countries.
So then, why worry! They are better then with the embargo!, or what, how could the end of the embargo benefit them?
The fact is, there are people FAR more oppressed
As you put it: "Does it outweigh whatever perceived oppression you feel the average *insert oppresed people here* suffers?".
The fact that they have been needesly oppressed by the same dictator for almost 50 years in my own continent does ring me a bell. So you mean that by looking and grasping another form of suffering I'll let it go?
From other point of view: these people might have a chance of changing something now that a (can we agree on? ) a dictator and assassin is actually going away of power, which those "FAR more oppressed" countries do not have. So what are we going to tell them? Since they are FAR less oppressed, in terms of whatever scale, they should bag it? Won't be more inspiring if they actually change something for the better? Or the goal is for we all to reach an arranged and pre-stablished level of oppression considered "ok" so we can not look how other ideas are working, or put ours on the table without fear, and see what happens?
There's a nice book about these issues: "El manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano" (I don't mean that personally). Don't know if it is available in english.
What's so disturbing about all the various atrocities that have been committed by dozens of countries that are apparently a-okay, even while at the height of executing said atrocities, yet when performed on a far lesser scale (and often factually questionable to any degree) make Cuba supremely evil and worthy of banning American citizens effectively from so much as setting foot there? You could travel to and spend money in the Soviet Union during the cold war, we had full diplomatic relations the entire time, and they were "the Evil Empire" supposedly hell-bent on the complete annihilation of our entire way of life under hair-trigger threat of nuclear hellfire sufficient to wipe out every city with a population exceeding fifty, yet some old coot with a cigar and a fleet of '56 Chevys is worthy of total blockade? Hell, the worst he's done is let the Russians plant three nukes on his island. For godssakes, FRANCE has more firepower pointed at us than every commie in the Western Hemisphere combined.
Come on...
In the same line of reasoning, what's so disturbing about the fact that they can't do business with the US? (I'm not an american, I don't live there). They do business with Europe, they do business with Latin American countries. The fact that they have those european-hotels has not facilitated in any means that a normal cuban can spend the night there, let alone have the money to do so (unless of course, you are in touch with the right people). I was reading another/. article about how 1/3 or something of iPhones are smuggled in again into China. Last time I checked, cuba does not allow cubans to have cell phones !
Also, when the sugar price went thru the roof, they sold it in the new price to the old-good friend the-red-bear. What's that's with hating capitalism and stand for price fixation?
Come on.
he is stealing the life out of the people, while using politics as an excuse (one that serves other people in the continent an abroad to re-use the same excuse so creating sinergy), and allowing us to discuss those facts while we are maybe a few thousand km away, probably on different continents, sitting confortably on our offices, or in hour house, or while studing and on a computer connected to an uncesored internet. I don't fear anyone will come home knocking because of what I wrote here.
Mass political murder was good enough for Pinochet, the PRI and Noriega -- and they were all good enough for us...and only one of those three was even vaguely socialist.
Nice that you brought that up. So is not the killing part that disturbs you, is the "reason" part. So, if the "excuse" is just right, then is ok.
Cuban's Michael Moore's or Michael Savage's would have a much harder time, anytime, than the real ones. It amuses me, in a very sad way, that some "human rights" defenders forget the share for this individuals, when they charge against the "terror de estado" (state-backed terroris) of death or imprisonment of people because of ideas.
It's like that's "totally wrong", *EXCEPT* if it is in agreement with this other group of ideas. Then, imprisioning people, not letting them leave their country, move around, choose religion (or lack thereof), invest money, get together and talk, or write about whatever they want, is suddenly great and we can safely ignore all that and look at a "broader" picture!?
Sorry, Castro, el "Che", Videla, Pinochet did mass murdering (Castro has the luxury to still do, or to imprision people for not being in tune with his ideas) because of political differences, and should be swiftly charged because of that. If we choose to charge some, but not others, looks like it's not the means we have a problem with, but with the excuse being used to kill/slaughter.
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Why not try to get out of here and see what else is around?
But if L. Ron said it... then it must be true. ;)
Well, if he said it, certainly he R2-45'ed his cult in the foot with that one.
After reading about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2-45 in wikipedia, I can't think how can this be part of the modern, civilized world if that turns out to be a true fact.
FYI: R2-45 is a Scientology auditing process created by L. Ron Hubbard. The process of R2-45 specifically pertains to shooting the target with a Colt .45 pistol, causing the victim's "thetan" to leave the body (exteriorization). In 1952 during a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Hubbard demonstrated the process of R2-45 by firing a shot at the floor.[1][2] In a lecture of 1958, Hubbard comments that "Death is not the same as clearing but there is, remember, R2-45. It's a very valid technique. A lot of people have used it before now." [3]
didn't see it coming, but I'm a bit dissapointed with myself for that. In hindsight, it's the obvious choice. Who is Oracle's biggest Competitor? IBM. What is Oracle lacking when it goes head to head with IBM? Hardware. When a customer says "we're going with IBM because they can deliver a whole solution" Oracle can now say "So can we!".
Don't treat yourself badly. IBM does things Oracle still doesn't do, even after buying Sun:
IBM will admin your whole servers *ix servers for you (HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Solaris). Sun/Oracle, afaik, don't do that.
IBM will admin your whole databases for you( Oracle, Informix, MS SQL, MySQL). Sun/Oracle, afaik, they don't do that.
IBM will admin your applications (SAP, Oracle Financials or whatever it is called these days, Webpshere, Tomcat, BEA, I guess even Axapta)
IBM will admin your Windows boxes.
I guess that Oracle/Sun won't be able to deliver a "whole" solution the way IBM/Accenture/EDS do these days. Of course IBM is also in the business of selling you the hardware plus database business, but they have services that reach well beyond that. Maybe Oracle is in the right path, but there's a long way ahead.
Maybe HP-EDS should think on a merge with Oracle if they want to compete in the future with a IBM-PWC-Notes-DB2-Informix-Sun kind of company.
Well, I guess the thing is that CDW has its own stock of things they think are selling well, in order to have "happy customers" (c).
I worked in replying RFP's from IT customers, and when replying those, we usually had to add the usual 60-day delivery time by Cisco in our repliess. We are not us-based, tough, YMMV, yadayadayada, but at least here and now, that's the way it works.
Look at this at the Wikipedia. This guy was really something. May he rest in peace, wherever he is. And thank you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_DeBakey
Honors
* Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Academy of Medical Films
* American Heart Association (AHA)
* Children Uniting Nations
* Encyclopaedia Britannica
* Foundation for Biomedical Research
* International College of Angiology
* International Health and Medical Film Festival
* Research! America
* Tulane Medical Alumni Association
* U.S. Army Legion of Merit (1945)
* American Medical Association Hektoen Gold Medal (1954 and 1970)
* Rudolph Matas Award in Vascular Surgery (1954)
* International Society of Surgery Distinguished Service Award (1958)
* Leriche Award (1959)
* American Medical Association Distinguished Service Award (1959)
* Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research (1963)
* American Medical Association Billings Gold Medal Exhibit Award (1967)
* American Heart Association Gold Heart Award (1968)
* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences 50th Anniversary Jubilee Medal (1973)
* Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Foreign Member (1974)
* Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander-in-Chiefâ(TM)s Medal and Citation (1980)
* American Surgical Association Distinguished Service Award (1981)
* Academy of Surgical Research Markowitz Award (1988)
* Association of American Medical Colleges Special Recognition Award (1988)
* American Legion Distinguished Service Award (1990)
* Premio Giuseppe Corradi Award for Surgery and Scientific Research (1997)
* Russian Military Medical Academy, Boris Petrovsky International Surgeons Award and First Laureate of the Boris Petrovsky Gold Medal (1997)
* John P. McGovern Compleat Physician Award (1999)
* Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member (1999)
* Texas Senate and House of Representatives, Adoption of resolutions honoring Dr. DeBakey for 50 years of medical practice in Texas (1999)
* American Medical Association Virtual Mentor Award (2000)
* American Philosophical Society Jonathan Rhoads Medal (2000)
* Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend Award (2000)
* Villanova University Mendel Medal Award (2001)
* Houston Hall of Fame (2001)
* NASA Invention of the Year Award (2001)
* MUSC[1] "Lindbergh-Carrel Prize"[2](2002)
* Congressional Gold Medal (April 23, 2008)
Another article about the same news: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/mars-phoenix-tw.html
There is water ice on Mars within reach of the Mars Phoenix Lander, NASA scientists announced Thursday.
Photographic evidence settles the debate over the nature of the white material seen in photographs sent back by the craft. As seen in lower left of this image, chunks of the ice sublimed (changed directly from solid to gas) over the course of four days, after the lander's digging exposed them.
"It must be ice," said the Phoenix Lander's lead investigator, Peter Smith. "These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it's ice."
The confirmation that water ice exists in the area directly surrounding the lander is big and good news for the Martian mission. NASA's stated goal for the Mars Phoenix was to find exactly this -- water ice -- and then analyze it. With the latest news, the first step is accomplished. All that's left now is to get the water into the Phoenix's instruments, a task which has occasionally proven more difficult than anticipated.
Still, this is the best opportunity that humanity has ever had to analyze extraterrestrial water in any form. That had the Phoenix Lander's persona fired up.
"Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!" the Mars Phoenix Lander tweeted at about 5:15 pm.
Their suspicions about water ice beneath the surface of Mars confirmed, scientists and the world will have renewed interest in the outcome of the soil analyses currently being conducted by the lander.
The samples are being examined for traces of organic molecules, among other substances, but the lander does not have instruments that could directly detect life.
See the full announcement from NASA.
Stephan
and maybe some others may not. within that hour, some may reconsider, others may go to other website. A two hours outage might mean $80.000 in lost sales, because more people decided to buy will start looking someplace else.Because a communication disruption could only mean one thing: invasion.
I's say the following is in order:
a) Check that your router supports DD-WRT (not a micro o mini version, a good version. Latest WRT54G don't have enough memory. Go to amazon.com and get a WRT54GL)
b) Limit your favorite P2P bandwidth usage using your program's own options to something that makes both your P2P needs and "you browsing" happy. You should repeat this step after considering the other options available below.
c) add QoS rules specific both at using the L7 traffic-identification and also using the specific ports you have configured for your favorite P2P program on the router as lower priority traffic in dd-wrt. Configured things such as DNS queries, HTTP browsing, PING, SSH, VoIP with top priority.
d) start using TCP-vegas on the router: Add the following custom script for boot:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_westwood
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_cong_avoid
echo 3 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_alpha
echo 3 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_beta
TCP-vegas is a server side congestion avoindance algorithm which can improve your "upload" behavior , which is usually capped much more than your download bandwidth, so it might give you an overall "snappier" feelings on how things behave.
...or else the "Those movements will be transmitted onto screens which show in real-time where people go, with whom they associate, for how long and how often" would take the meeting to whole new levels.
I think you are wrong exactly there. They don't care about Blender running on Windows. They ultimately care about Linux not being a choice for you to run Blender on, because the "hype" is that it runs better on Windows (which means $$ for MS, not that it is wrong, but that's is just what they want buy not making Linux a choice). If they want to make Blender run better on Windows, they could simply volunteer M$ developer time to the Blender project, and maybe write some GPLvx/BSD code in the meantime.
Let me show you another examle where I think you are wrong:
They could offer OO file compatibility help. It might hurt their MS OO offer. But wait... what if because of MS help to Blender, now OO has plenty of BSD/GPLvx code to deal with "MS file formats"? Haven't MS thought of that, or would they impose some other "licensing" scheme to the code (so that it can not be ported back to Linux sometime down the road?)The again, as you say, "but other areas that Microsoft doesn't compete in, they can offer them support", or better yet, let me rephrase it for you: "but other areas that Microsoft doesn't compete in directly, M$ can pretend to offer them support to look nice and at the same time the end result is hurting another competing product (Linux?) while we look nice".
I'm using spamassassin + exim on mail relay gateways of a 2000+ email installation. It works great.
You need to add the dccproc ( http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/dcc-tree/dccproc.html ) and razor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipul's_Razor ) plugins in order to use those "reputation" services, turn on bayes filtering, wait for 200 messages to be "marked" and there you go. If you have enough load, you might need to switch from the DB database backend to mysql. One thing you might be interested in is http://www.untangle.com/ ... looks interesting.
Also, remember there was a format war between DVD and a format supported (IIRC) by CircuitCity called Divx.
And a very interesnting reading also: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/library/vistaexhibitsone.pdf
80266 = 80286, sorry about
Great old times..!! I remember I had a 80266 machine back then, 10 MHz (way faster than the original IBM PC-AT, but you could always press CTRL-ALT-minus to set it back to normal speed in case of incompatibilities).
Well, on my 80266 10MHz/640kb RAM I used to do the college work (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, documentation) on PC-DOS. When I "discovered" Xenix-286, the same machine could run 4 virtual terminals on the console, I was able to edit, compile, run/test on three different terminals. If I made a mistake on C, I'd get a coredump, but the machine kept running. Also, I was able to enable my modem, so a classmate could also work on what I was doing.
Great times, 80266 machine, 640 KB ram, 40 MB Hard drive.
Then I met a lot of people that were using SCO Xenix/UNIX on 80386 class machines, doing all kind of things from running a BBS with 20+modems, or running the billing system of local companies from multiple RS-232 terminals in the late 80's, early 90's.
So then, why worry! They are better then with the embargo!, or what, how could the end of the embargo benefit them?
As you put it: "Does it outweigh whatever perceived oppression you feel the average *insert oppresed people here* suffers?".
The fact that they have been needesly oppressed by the same dictator for almost 50 years in my own continent does ring me a bell. So you mean that by looking and grasping another form of suffering I'll let it go?
From other point of view: these people might have a chance of changing something now that a (can we agree on? ) a dictator and assassin is actually going away of power, which those "FAR more oppressed" countries do not have. So what are we going to tell them? Since they are FAR less oppressed, in terms of whatever scale, they should bag it? Won't be more inspiring if they actually change something for the better? Or the goal is for we all to reach an arranged and pre-stablished level of oppression considered "ok" so we can not look how other ideas are working, or put ours on the table without fear, and see what happens?
There's a nice book about these issues: "El manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano" (I don't mean that personally). Don't know if it is available in english.
In the same line of reasoning, what's so disturbing about the fact that they can't do business with the US? (I'm not an american, I don't live there). They do business with Europe, they do business with Latin American countries. The fact that they have those european-hotels has not facilitated in any means that a normal cuban can spend the night there, let alone have the money to do so (unless of course, you are in touch with the right people). I was reading another /. article about how 1/3 or something of iPhones are smuggled in again into China. Last time I checked, cuba does not allow cubans to have cell phones !
Also, when the sugar price went thru the roof, they sold it in the new price to the old-good friend the-red-bear. What's that's with hating capitalism and stand for price fixation?
Come on.
he is stealing the life out of the people, while using politics as an excuse (one that serves other people in the continent an abroad to re-use the same excuse so creating sinergy), and allowing us to discuss those facts while we are maybe a few thousand km away, probably on different continents, sitting confortably on our offices, or in hour house, or while studing and on a computer connected to an uncesored internet. I don't fear anyone will come home knocking because of what I wrote here.
Nice that you brought that up. So is not the killing part that disturbs you, is the "reason" part. So, if the "excuse" is just right, then is ok.
Cuban's Michael Moore's or Michael Savage's would have a much harder time, anytime, than the real ones. It amuses me, in a very sad way, that some "human rights" defenders forget the share for this individuals, when they charge against the "terror de estado" (state-backed terroris) of death or imprisonment of people because of ideas.
It's like that's "totally wrong", *EXCEPT* if it is in agreement with this other group of ideas. Then, imprisioning people, not letting them leave their country, move around, choose religion (or lack thereof), invest money, get together and talk, or write about whatever they want, is suddenly great and we can safely ignore all that and look at a "broader" picture!?
Sorry, Castro, el "Che", Videla, Pinochet did mass murdering (Castro has the luxury to still do, or to imprision people for not being in tune with his ideas) because of political differences, and should be swiftly charged because of that. If we choose to charge some, but not others, looks like it's not the means we have a problem with, but with the excuse being used to kill/slaughter.