That's what it is, an "import tax", the vidéos are "imported" through the Internet.... And BTW the "freemarketer numbskulls" are trying to explain to the world that "import taxes are bad and naughty and should be forbidden...." so it is only because in the 80s Français Mitterand insisted on an "exception culturelle" for cultural content... against of course the outraged protest of the US representatives...
In practice it works this way : the "first world countries" go to poorer countries, and explain that if they ask import taxes for products we want to sell to them, we'll put import taxes on their natural ressources, and since the top dogs are sitting on that well they agree and help us screw their citizens, you do not need that many jobs to export petroleum...
People will whine about how the French government should not tax stuff to support local culture.
But any movie produced in any country larger than France (for instance US, India, China) can be paid for in the local market and then basically given away for free or as close to free as needed to kill the local production.
Add to this that the US is rabidly promoting "patriotism" which is a form of nationalism so that anything "foreign" is automatically suspect. The various programs promoting this are ways to close the US market against "foreign influence". (And BTW US "Patriotism" is being "Proud of being American", and unless you are a wet back Latino who on peril of his or her life crossed the border illegally than worked for many years with fear of deportation in his or her stomach and then finally get citizenship it is being proud of being born and nothing else.)
So the market is "not free and fair", and taxation is one way of offsetting the fact that it is inherently easier to make money when your market starts with 400M citizens instead of 65M. And it is "nicer" than resort to propaganda, like forcing small children to "pledge to the flag", militarization of the society and such things.
And to finish, you can play a "fun game", look at "family oriented" blockbusters and try to read the "sub text" and what it says about your society.
Venezuela has not banned toilet paper ownership, it has nationalized the "means of production" of toilet paper, which is exactly what the previous article was describing. The reason it did this was because the production of paper through capitalistic means did not work...
In practice there are a whole lot of reason for this "shitty" crisis, but anyway a "socialist or communist" regime does not rule out private ownership or "better compensation for good work".... What it does rule out is "creating your own business without asking for permission...." (which I think is wrong, but it's not like it's so much easier to create your own company in our "capitalistic" countries...)
Actually if you look at it from a statistical point of view, nobody is developping software or doing anything creative on the PC. The majority of PC users are just consumers, so using a PC to watch movies and use facebook is not very different from doing the same thing on a mobile phone.
The decline of the PC is coherent with the emergence of the "cloud" and just an additional demonstration that the vast majority of humanity are just not doing anything usefull with a computer. But since they enjoy it and are ready to pay for it....
some where not, so if some is half the "one who where" where more than half ergo more than 33K
but I did make my sentence "weak" since I wrote 33K where it should have been 33K "at least" where (I didn't say at most...)
But isn't that nitpicking around the fact that the "Fine article" wrote that out of untold millions "some where not" which is obviously wishy washy.... The "investigation" should explain why such a large net was necessary to get, what exactly ?
Given that a wonderfully weaselly word like "some" was used by such people, why on Earth would you assume that it was used in a manner at all consistent with the obvious definition?
Because taking what people say at face value is a way to poke fun at them, in this particular case it is also a way to poke fun at people "exposing" the NSA and using the same weasel word they use....
In reality it is very hard to be in IT in some relevant way and not be aware that all governments do spy on about everybody they can... It is also "interesting" to remark that a very large amount of movies and tv series rely on the device of the "good cop/spy/military guy" who "goes against the stupid puny little laws" to "take care of the really bad guy"... so our "minds" are prepared for this... A big part of the issue is that this spying is also fueling a commercial war between developped countries, and the cost of this war is covered by citizens all over the world. So I'm not "surprised" at all, not even that "shocked" (too late for this), but I do hope that a little bit more transparency and oversight will come out of it, that people will protect a little bit better their secrets, even and especially the fact that they actually do not have any secret. (so that thouse who do have some legitimate reason to be discreet to not stick out like a sore thumb)...
And meanwhile I'll go on poking fun at weasels, particularly now that I know that everybody (left) is smarter than I am, and should understand my jokes...
Of course it is possible, maybe as I read this everybody who is dumber than I am just died by intervention... You claim that my math is bad, maybe, but millions of call over 30 days do make a lot of calls per day... Now you might have gathered from the tone of the first posting that the exact evaluation was not supposed to be taken too seriously nevertheless 2 000 000 / 30 => 66 666 average number of conversations per day, this means quite a lot of people, and at least some of them should be really suspect of something to justify the program... Unless I missed the point when the NSA published the info "after wasting one month listening to millions of boring conversations from unwashed french people we decided that there is really nothing of interest to listen too, and we left..." So just in case you are not just a random troll, you might want to : a) relax this is./ no need for name calling, b) think about what you understand when somebody tells you that there where "some people".
And if I would be working for Fox News I would avoid trying to get peoples attention about the fine usage of weasel speak.... But since I'm the dumbest person alive, I'll now go get a life and some beer, and will try to hide my low IQ from the surviving smar women...
Nope you need to keep it, all our surveillance hardware in embedded in it, courtesy of Tesla ! The only issue is that the long distance etheric receptor was stolen by Francis Blanche while filming "Signé Furax" and now only French comics get a direct line on the shenanigans happening in the US....
You are technicaly right, but if you use logic in order to tell things that are true but do sound very different from what they actually are you are doing weaseling with weasel word.
As in "our prices are the lowest we ever did* (* on selected products)" sounds cheap but just means that you are offloading some unsaleable junk.. Or "Blue Sky initiative" sounds ecological, it just means that you called some activity "blue sky initiative"
Some... could mean "all of them" but then it would be natural and honest to say "all of them" Some... could mean "the majority" but then you would be invited to use "the majority" Actually the only legitimate reason to use "Some" is that there are no other adequate word, so it should not be "one" or "very few" nor "a significant number" or the majority or all...
Try "tragically some civilian died, but it was unavoidable due to the immediate danger M. EvilGuy posed to humanity"... You might want to avoid having somebody point out that you killed them all, and if you have only 1 out of 10 000 "collateral dammage" you would probably say it too..
Or to take your examples if you tell you child : Some ravens are black... the natural answer will be ? what color are the non black ravens... ? so unless you want to confuse him or her you will probably tell "ravens are almost always black although there are some rare exceptions" : http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_01/ravenNNP_468x311.jpg
Millions of conversations & "some" are not related to terrorists ! Millions is at least 2 millions or 66 666/day... "Some" is at most "half" so there where apparently 33 333 conversations related to terrorist every day... shudder.... So assuming that all these bad guys where plotting like crazy, every day, and always the same, that still means that with 50 conversations per day the NSA should have found out at least 600 "new" terrorist... nb: there are about 60 000 people in jail in France, so at the very least 1% is something like "large"....
So Where are they ??? are they hiding under my table... or in some bush on my way home.... shudder shudder....
Or should it read, some conversations where related to terrorism...
In practice, when the official communication says: we looked at all these people and some where innocent... I find it much more scary than we unfortunately looked at a lot of innocent people but we did find "some" very bad people...
The fact that the communication days "some where innocent" really gives the impression that they are again trying to bamboozle us...
And mostly like other similar "scientific" remarks they usually serve to explain why the speak feels he (mostly) deserve respect, power and free rides... So if population "x" really is less "something" than population "y" does not mean that no member of "y" is inferior in "this something" than any particular member of "x", so it's better to live and let live and try to keep an open mind just in case a member of "x" ends up being really good at "something"....
And to go back to the AC GP most artists are "not very good" no matter what gender, a slightly higher percentage of woman artist end up being able to go on being an artist without being very good by getting married, this is just a symptom of the economic imbalance of our society and has nothing to do with "gender related natural talent" or some such crap...
In practice from personal and family experience I can certify, anybody can become a resonably good artist, unfortunately there is a nasty little secret that few people will tell you, it's a lot of hard work.... And then being "good" is not necessarely enough to become "confortable" first of all artists are suffering under the legend of the "starving genuis artist" (an invention of the "good" society to justify underpaying artists), and our modern society places more value to the newsworthiness of artists than to the intrinsic value of art, so it's more efficient to dance naked in public waving russian train certificates than doing good art, at least when it comes to be in the "news" and therefore "interesting"...
I'm not sure how I really feel about the Declara product, and there are a lot of things that makes me nervous (like anything that is even loosely related to the bill and melinda gate fundation).
But I can't understand the negativity in the comments, I find the story very interesting and inspiring, in one way I guess Ms Pierson was lucky that she had a veteran's insurance plan, probably if she had had just a little bit more money she would have tried to keep here liberty and would not have joined the marines, and would probably have been unable to fight her way into relative health. (she joined more than 10 years before the "don't ask don't tell" policy, so she had to totally hide here sexuality). But apparently the most important part of her recovery was her will to live, and here capacity to use her brain constructivelly even when severely incapacitated. So maybe declara will be an useful tool, or not, but the path to recovery is definitivelly remarkable, and tends to show that it is worthwhile for the society as a whole to "invest" into makeing people get better...
And to be honest she and her girlfriend are kind of hot, and about my age, a pity I've got no chance;-) (wrong gender and wrong continent among other weaknesses...)
Hackers should not call themselves scouts for fear to be seen as a paramilitary org... (disclaimer, I was a "ranger scout" for some time to the great distress of my parents, but really it's antiquated, and sex segregated...
Young Makers or something like this is much better, or maybe "Wizards":-)
The very notion of not equating Jews and Israel is inherently anti-semitic, especially in a world that seems to champion the right of so many other people to have autonomous nation. Israel is the Jewish homeland.
The fact that so many people like the idea of an "homogenous nation" and are ready to do ethnic cleansing (like in ex yougoslavia, Georgia (mostly for the abkhasian part), etc...) is not a justification of anything.
There is as much justification for the Jews to go back to Israel, as there is for the non native US citizens to go back to europa or africa (depending) and the europeans could try to find out where they come from 2000 years ago, probably mostly somewhere in the Balkans, Caucasus, Persia or even Mogolia (ever read about the great invasions in the middle ages, lots of ancestors.....)
You write that there are enough christian and islamic nations, well even one is to much (the Vatican is about the maximum size I can stomac) why should the fact that I'm born in a country have any thing what so ever to do with my religion ?
Any nationalism is rooted in the idea that the fact that through no fault of yours you where born makes you somehow "special" and you should be "proud and patriotic" because you where born in... And then you feel authorized in feeling more or less superior to the others who where not born in... well I'm "ethnic blind" I do not believe this makes me anti-semitic (and no it's not because "some of my best friends are..., it's because for me what ever you where born in is just anecdotic, what you are is what you make out of yourself...)
It is "ok" for the government that "forced" you to buy health insurance to check that you do not buy truckloads of vicodin or similar stuff to resell, but they should need a Warrant signed by a judge who was presented with sufficient reason to believe that indeed you are abusing the system.
The state also forces you to buy car insurance, this does not authorize the state to put tracers on your cars just because it "feels" nice, but it does make sure that if you get rolled over by some drunk driver your familly has some chances to get some cash (withouth you having to fork out a special "being hit by an irresponsible bozo" insurrance)
The is NO fatality in having some sort of community social network and forgetting about privacy and personal freedoms.
So actually it started earlier, but it really heated up in the 20s after the Balfour declaration. This transformed the Sionist "idea" of the 19th century in something that seemed actual and douable and got at the same time the European Jews exited with the idea of a "safe homeland" and the Palestinian "Mandate" Arabs scared that their future autonomy would be empty....
But yes it began before the creation of the state of Israel... of course...
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That's what it is, an "import tax", the vidéos are "imported" through the Internet.... ... against of course the outraged protest of the US representatives...
And BTW the "freemarketer numbskulls" are trying to explain to the world that "import taxes are bad and naughty
and should be forbidden...." so it is only because in the 80s Français Mitterand insisted on an "exception culturelle" for cultural content
In practice it works this way : the "first world countries" go to poorer countries, and explain that if they ask import taxes for products we want to sell to them, we'll put import taxes on their natural ressources, and since the top dogs are sitting on that well they agree and help us screw their citizens, you do not need that many jobs to export petroleum...
People will whine about how the French government should not tax stuff to support local culture.
But any movie produced in any country larger than France (for instance US, India, China) can be paid for in the local market and then basically given away for free or as close to free as needed to kill the local production.
Add to this that the US is rabidly promoting "patriotism" which is a form of nationalism so that anything "foreign" is automatically suspect.
The various programs promoting this are ways to close the US market against "foreign influence".
(And BTW US "Patriotism" is being "Proud of being American", and unless you are a wet back Latino who on peril of his or her life crossed the border illegally than worked for many years with fear of deportation in his or her stomach and then finally get citizenship it is being proud of being born and nothing else.)
So the market is "not free and fair", and taxation is one way of offsetting the fact that it is inherently easier to make money when your market starts with 400M citizens instead of 65M.
And it is "nicer" than resort to propaganda, like forcing small children to "pledge to the flag", militarization of the society and such things.
And to finish, you can play a "fun game", look at "family oriented" blockbusters and try to read the "sub text" and what it says about your society.
The right question would be : when will a major Open Source DB be released with a GPU accelerator...
The issue is that it is quite hard to do, and it's harder to do it in a way that is sufficiently generic and elegant to deserve public dissemination.
Venezuela has not banned toilet paper ownership, it has nationalized the "means of production" of toilet paper, which is exactly what the previous article was describing.
The reason it did this was because the production of paper through capitalistic means did not work...
In practice there are a whole lot of reason for this "shitty" crisis, but anyway a "socialist or communist" regime does not rule out private ownership or "better compensation for good work".... ...." (which I think is wrong, but it's not like it's so much easier to create your own company in our "capitalistic" countries ...)
What it does rule out is "creating your own business without asking for permission
Fair enough
2007 : http://archive09.linux.com/feature/119109
2013 : http://davelargo.blogspot.fr/
http://www.largo.com/egov/apps/document/center.egov?view=item;id=1793
Actually if you look at it from a statistical point of view, nobody is developping software or doing anything creative on the PC.
The majority of PC users are just consumers, so using a PC to watch movies and use facebook is not very different from doing the same thing on a mobile phone.
The decline of the PC is coherent with the emergence of the "cloud" and just an additional demonstration that the vast majority of humanity are just not doing anything usefull with a computer. ....
But since they enjoy it and are ready to pay for it
some where not, so if some is half the "one who where" where more than half ergo more than 33K
but I did make my sentence "weak" since I wrote 33K where it should have been 33K "at least" where ...)
(I didn't say at most
But isn't that nitpicking around the fact that the "Fine article" wrote that out of untold millions "some where not" ....
which is obviously wishy washy
The "investigation" should explain why such a large net was necessary to get, what exactly ?
Given that a wonderfully weaselly word like "some" was used by such people, why on Earth would you assume that it was used in a manner at all consistent with the obvious definition?
Because taking what people say at face value is a way to poke fun at them, in this particular case it is also a way to poke fun at people "exposing" the NSA and using the same weasel word they use....
In reality it is very hard to be in IT in some relevant way and not be aware that all governments do spy on about everybody they can... ...
It is also "interesting" to remark that a very large amount of movies and tv series rely on the device of the "good cop/spy/military guy" who "goes against the stupid puny little laws" to "take care of the really bad guy"... so our "minds" are prepared for this
A big part of the issue is that this spying is also fueling a commercial war between developped countries, and the cost of this war is covered by citizens all over the world.
So I'm not "surprised" at all, not even that "shocked" (too late for this), but I do hope that a little bit more transparency and oversight will come out of it, that people will protect a little bit better their secrets, even and especially the fact that they actually do not have any secret. (so that thouse who do have some legitimate reason to be discreet to not stick out like a sore thumb)...
And meanwhile I'll go on poking fun at weasels, particularly now that I know that everybody (left) is smarter than I am, and should understand my jokes ...
Of course it is possible, maybe as I read this everybody who is dumber than I am just died by intervention... ..." ./ no need for name calling, b) think about what you understand when somebody tells you that there where "some people".
You claim that my math is bad, maybe, but millions of call over 30 days do make a lot of calls per day...
Now you might have gathered from the tone of the first posting that the exact evaluation was not supposed to be taken too seriously
nevertheless 2 000 000 / 30 => 66 666 average number of conversations per day, this means quite a lot of people, and at least some of them should be really suspect of something to justify the program...
Unless I missed the point when the NSA published the info "after wasting one month listening to millions of boring conversations from unwashed french people we decided that there is really nothing of interest to listen too, and we left
So just in case you are not just a random troll, you might want to : a) relax this is
And if I would be working for Fox News I would avoid trying to get peoples attention about the fine usage of weasel speak ....
But since I'm the dumbest person alive, I'll now go get a life and some beer, and will try to hide my low IQ from the surviving smar women...
Nope you need to keep it, all our surveillance hardware in embedded in it, courtesy of Tesla ! ....
The only issue is that the long distance etheric receptor was stolen by Francis Blanche while filming "Signé Furax" and now only French comics get a direct line
on the shenanigans happening in the US
You are technicaly right, but if you use logic in order to tell things that are true but do sound very different from what they actually are you are doing weaseling with weasel word.
As in "our prices are the lowest we ever did* (* on selected products)" sounds cheap but just means that you are offloading some unsaleable junk..
Or "Blue Sky initiative" sounds ecological, it just means that you called some activity "blue sky initiative"
Some ... could mean "all of them" but then it would be natural and honest to say "all of them" ... could mean "the majority" but then you would be invited to use "the majority"
Some
Actually the only legitimate reason to use "Some" is that there are no other adequate word, so it should not be "one" or "very few" nor "a significant number" or the majority or all...
Try "tragically some civilian died, but it was unavoidable due to the immediate danger M. EvilGuy posed to humanity" ...
You might want to avoid having somebody point out that you killed them all, and if you have only 1 out of 10 000 "collateral dammage" you would probably say it too..
Or to take your examples if you tell you child : Some ravens are black ... the natural answer will be ? what color are the non black ravens ... ? so unless you want to confuse him or her you will probably tell "ravens are almost always black although there are some rare exceptions" : http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_01/ravenNNP_468x311.jpg
All teenagers are terrorist, just ask the parents of the other teenager :-)
OTH if they keep doing it the country might stop being friendly, so it is a nice self fulfilling prophecy
Millions of conversations & "some" are not related to terrorists ! ... shudder .... ... ....
Millions is at least 2 millions or 66 666/day...
"Some" is at most "half" so there where apparently 33 333 conversations related to terrorist every day
So assuming that all these bad guys where plotting like crazy, every day, and always the same, that still means that with 50 conversations per day the NSA should have found out at least 600 "new" terrorist
nb: there are about 60 000 people in jail in France, so at the very least 1% is something like "large"
So Where are they ??? are they hiding under my table ... or in some bush on my way home .... shudder shudder ....
Or should it read, some conversations where related to terrorism ...
In practice, when the official communication says: we looked at all these people and some where innocent... I find it much more scary than
we unfortunately looked at a lot of innocent people but we did find "some" very bad people...
The fact that the communication days "some where innocent" really gives the impression that they are again trying to bamboozle us ...
And mostly like other similar "scientific" remarks they usually serve to explain why the speak feels he (mostly) deserve respect, power and free rides...
So if population "x" really is less "something" than population "y" does not mean that no member of "y" is inferior in "this something" than any particular member of "x", so it's better to live and let live and try to keep an open mind just in case a member of "x" ends up being really good at "something"....
And to go back to the AC GP most artists are "not very good" no matter what gender, a slightly higher percentage of woman artist end up being able to go on being an artist without being very good by getting married, this is just a symptom of the economic imbalance of our society and has nothing to do with "gender related natural talent" or some such crap...
In practice from personal and family experience I can certify, anybody can become a resonably good artist, unfortunately there is a nasty little secret that few people will tell you, it's a lot of hard work .... ...
And then being "good" is not necessarely enough to become "confortable" first of all artists are suffering under the legend of the "starving genuis artist" (an invention of the "good" society to justify underpaying artists), and our modern society places more value to the newsworthiness of artists than to the intrinsic value of art, so it's more efficient to dance naked in public waving russian train certificates than doing good art, at least when it comes to be in the "news" and therefore "interesting"
Ouinnnnnn,
and the "parents" decide that the power bill is too high,
so who gets to kill the new sentient being ?
And who goes to jail ?
See, they didn't vote the budget, and shutdown the government, and not the voyager 1 probe can't leave the solar system !
It's a conspiracy !!!
The main issue is that creative people tend to be busy being creative,
wherease non creative people have time for "politics"
And of course there is the problem of some creative people deciding "darn it, lets creativelly fuck'em all"
I'm not sure how I really feel about the Declara product, and there are a lot of things that makes me nervous (like anything that is even loosely related to the bill and melinda gate fundation).
But I can't understand the negativity in the comments, I find the story very interesting and inspiring, in one way I guess Ms Pierson was lucky that she had a veteran's insurance plan, probably if she had had just a little bit more money she would have tried to keep here liberty and would not have joined the marines, and would probably have been unable to fight her way into relative health. (she joined more than 10 years before the "don't ask don't tell" policy, so she had to totally hide here sexuality).
But apparently the most important part of her recovery was her will to live, and here capacity to use her brain constructivelly even when severely incapacitated.
So maybe declara will be an useful tool, or not, but the path to recovery is definitivelly remarkable, and tends to show that it is worthwhile for the society as a whole to "invest" into makeing people get better...
And to be honest she and her girlfriend are kind of hot, and about my age, a pity I've got no chance ;-) (wrong gender and wrong continent among other weaknesses ...)
Hackers should not call themselves scouts for fear to be seen as a paramilitary org... ...
(disclaimer, I was a "ranger scout" for some time to the great distress of my parents, but really it's antiquated, and sex segregated
Young Makers or something like this is much better, or maybe "Wizards" :-)
The very notion of not equating Jews and Israel is inherently anti-semitic, especially in a world that seems to champion the right of so many other people to have autonomous nation. Israel is the Jewish homeland.
The fact that so many people like the idea of an "homogenous nation" and are ready to do ethnic cleansing (like in ex yougoslavia, Georgia (mostly for the abkhasian part), etc ...) is not a justification of anything.
There is as much justification for the Jews to go back to Israel, as there is for the non native US citizens to go back to europa or africa (depending) and the europeans could try to find out where they come from 2000 years ago, probably mostly somewhere in the Balkans, Caucasus, Persia or even Mogolia (ever read about the great invasions in the middle ages, lots of ancestors .....)
You write that there are enough christian and islamic nations, well even one is to much (the Vatican is about the maximum size I can stomac) why should the fact that I'm born in a country have any thing what so ever to do with my religion ?
Any nationalism is rooted in the idea that the fact that through no fault of yours you where born makes you somehow "special" and you should be "proud and patriotic" because you where born in ... ... ..., it's because for me what ever you where born in is just anecdotic, what you are is what you make out of yourself...)
And then you feel authorized in feeling more or less superior to the others who where not born in
well I'm "ethnic blind" I do not believe this makes me anti-semitic (and no it's not because "some of my best friends are
The issue in the initial post is about warrant,
It is "ok" for the government that "forced" you to buy health insurance to check that you do not buy
truckloads of vicodin or similar stuff to resell, but they should need a Warrant signed by a judge who was
presented with sufficient reason to believe that indeed you are abusing the system.
The state also forces you to buy car insurance, this does not authorize the state to put tracers on your cars just because it
"feels" nice, but it does make sure that if you get rolled over by some drunk driver your familly has some chances to get
some cash (withouth you having to fork out a special "being hit by an irresponsible bozo" insurrance)
The is NO fatality in having some sort of community social network and forgetting about privacy and personal freedoms.
Look at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict
So actually it started earlier, but it really heated up in the 20s after the Balfour declaration.
This transformed the Sionist "idea" of the 19th century in something that seemed actual and douable and got at the
same time the European Jews exited with the idea of a "safe homeland" and the Palestinian "Mandate" Arabs scared that their future autonomy would be empty....
But yes it began before the creation of the state of Israel ... of course ...
And do you mean that in a 3M$ money laundering probe the DEA cannot get a warrant ?