IMHO the main issue is that on one hand we have the "PC" team that will say things like:
This is a very interesting idea => Meaning I hate you and am planning your downfall how dare you rock the boat and undermine my hierachical position. Let's agree to disagree => Go fuck yourself, ain't gona happen, you are probably right, but I'm higher in the pecking order and no way am I going to let a good idea that is not mine happen. We need somebody very dynamic => we need somebody younger than I am, preferably of the same gender as me and the same of a similar school. s/he is very technical => I got no clue what s/he's saying and we should not give that person any power of desicion or responsibility... etc..
And the "Non-PC" team that tend to say things like:
I know that this is not a popular opinion to express : but everybody knows (or don't you agree that/I know from sure sources/You just have to look at the statistics/...) that
So I hope that the outcome of any LKML meeting on this subject will be: - It is ok to express your feeling and opinions even with very expressive language, and it is much better than being an hypocrite hiding behind weasel words - it is not ok to do any kind of adhominem attacks so if you actually fear and despise somebody because that sentient being has the combination of qualifier you find the most insufferable, you are not obliged to invide that person to drink tea with your old mum, but you cannot use this as a base for communication. And you should think about escalading, try "I'm slightly irritated", before "your code is bloody shit you fucking moron...".
PC was not invented to make sure people understand each other, but to provide plausible deniability in case of a trial... so "we ain't hight no green polka dottet people cuz their lazy stupid idiots" becomes "we are an equal opportunity employers, and welcome more minority in our familly, and look forward to any minority candidate who is able to meet our very high standards"... it does not make it "polite"...
I looked at the book, immediately got that feeling I got from Computer Science books a couple of decades ago, it goes WTF are they talking about ? hum it seems that if I really read it and try to make the effort of reading it I might even understand it, huummm me wanting this book... And now I'll be spending 127 $ + Shipping + IVA, darn....
So the proposal is to use large scale data mining of "social networks" that actually means the "standard communication methods" of all "gang members". And how do you identify "gang members" ? you got it, you do large scale data mining of everybody's communications to find out who the gang members are.
And since the "experts" are the military, you obviously use the same to do the analysis, and to enforce the "conclusions of the findings".
So the story goes this way: a) make some killjoy conservatives happy by criminalizing drugs (once you found out that on the "dry" run based on alcohol prohibition this has the attractive side effect of creating a large structured criminal class) b) let it simmer c) do some propaganda, mostly with well made, adrenaline filled movies that "demonstrate" that brute force and disregard of such niceties like human rights "gives results" d) use the pretext of the presence of the large scary criminal class to justify "more surveillance & intervention" e) muzzle information in the name of national security forbidding to "aid terrorists" f) finalize the implementation of bertram gross's "friendly fascism", where the disenfranchise "lower class" do not vote nor have any real economical power, and the middle class does as required out of fear of falling into the "lower class pot", and the (very small) rest enjoy the profit of the operation.
It so happens that the patterns of your calls marks you as a member of party FOO, so the nice gerymander agent will put your home location in the FOO zone, so that your BAR congressman will not risk its seat, unfortunately it will mean that your public services will not be managed by your elected FOO representative, since geographically your "city center" is in BAR zone. (and not Bar...).
It also happen that you have two N+1 contacts who happen to be vocally against WHATEVER, you actually do not agree with them, but the company you are applying to is using services, and you resume is directly filed into the trashcan...
The same is also evaluating you as a person who know too many poor persons; so you should probably not be trusted with large loans, which is actually a boon in disguise if you are planning to buy a house, but the company you wanted to create ? forget about it.
And the hassle you have at the airport, no we are not going to tell you why....
Well unless you add greed as a good reason you are quite wrong... And in practice the US started that way, Idian wars ? Mexican war, paraguay expedition, chilean war, philipine war, vietnam war,...
Most organizations spend about 4% of their gross in IT, so most probably the new director think that this division should also spend that much, and has little clue what an Ingeneering company really does.
Now apparently the company is really spending a low less than 1% in "traditional IT", maybe some is hidden in other part of the organizations (things like payroll, accounting, big ugly SAP or Oracle Financials kind of stuff) and the real cost is really higher, or the IT staff has a harder time baboozeling engineers that the average MBA into spending large amount of money into big exchange/sharepoint/AD or similar junk.
So the obvious solution to your problem is the following: restructure your division so that IT is sitting on one side with their mail and web and hr etc... servers with a low 3% of all cost. Restructure the "big iron" into a billable commodity, that means that you define a set of "approved vendors" define a cost per "compute unit", a "recommender margin" and add it to any bill or product cost cheat. And split the purchase of any ingeneering work station into : no brand box, big intel CPU, large screens, just make sure that each component is bellow the line where it counts a "investment", so you can hide it into the "pen, pencils and chairs" "consumables costs" linked to a specific project costs.
So you will end up only spending a little bit more than before, while looking at "over performing" at cost cutting. And if you do it right, it'll even make somewhat sense as you'll end up with a closer monitoring of the real costs of each project, and most probably some teams will be somewhat more prudent in purchasing stuff since they will have to balance the hassle of doing the paper work vs using the station they allready have. So unless you'll make the paper work so hard that even legitimate purchase look more trouble than honing one's CV you'll get some performance gain.
Can't you imagine that maybe he actually loves his country and would like it to stop being on a slippery slope ?
You might disagree with his opinions, and believe that his revelations on reveal "normal things", but he does not seems to be doing these for any personal gain, nor out of spite.
Of course if "right or wrong my country" is your motto, then you are in a dangerous place, "following orders" is not an ethical choice, and just put you in the wast camp of the "banal evil".
Of course maybe you where trying to be "funy", but impersonating a moron does not always work
I'm not a citrix user, I was only mildly interested in OS/2, but nevertheless both those things are interesting achievements, and should be recognised as such. And 59 is way to young to die.
Not really, positivo and some others are reasonable competitive and paraguya pirate imports about the same prices as here. in addition people by on "long term credit/rental" wich still makes it "very expensive" but "affordable" (not that it is good for the economy, but people do have computers, but they could have more)...
In practice it would be more like a "cyber café" in each high rise, people would be able to buy about the cheapest PC even second hand possible, and still be able to do something usefull. And the "administrador" would probably want to make sure that even people who do not have a PC can be their client.
So in the specific economical setup of Brazil it does make sense.
JMH is not suggesting that nobody should own a PC or that everybody should be forced to go through a government proxy...
What he is suggesting is that people who prove that they are able to provide some services, and that they are not crazy perverted killers can get support from the government to get a small business loan to open a kind of specialized cyber café.... It might even work...
Taking in account the "solutions" they came up with, it really didn't matter.... Advisher (an online community to help foster women in STEM),: So that middle aged white male can tell women how they should do "STEAM" because the existing online communities of women will never be able to do it themselves... right...
INIT ('nutritional labels' to disclose products' 'STEM ingredients'), : well it could be a good idea, if they could just start by labeling GMO so that I can avoid products having them, ho wait that was not the plan... oups...
DGTL (rewards young women with fashionable clothes for completing coding challenges), : because Young Women would never code if they cannot have branded fiber.... my daughter would rather have a 3D printer... (talk about stereotyping...)
Beacons in a Backpack (solar powered backpacks pre-loaded with videos, multimedia content, and game-powered educational tools that also serve as mobile hotspots for rural/remote areas), : so you can fell "good about helping" and not do anything to fix the corruption issues that makes satelite IP expensive, there is ZERO rural issue, the only issue is that the governments do not want people to access an open Internet and need the payback from their local telco.... So powered store and forward hubs are just "feel good" gadgets that distract for the real issues.
Tech21 (STEM education program aimed at 21-years-and-older post-college grads in the workforce), : that might be the only not totally stupid and arrogant idea, although I think in the US it is called "community colleges"....
Certify.me (allows STEM talent from across the globe to audition for potential employers via standardized-quality assessments), : Oh yes please please do some more outsourcing using uterly idiotic form based certifications so that imbeciles can brag how much they paid to Microsoft (or LPI) to fill MCQ and get a piece of paper related to obsolete products without real understanding of the underliying structure..., that will help....
STEAM Truck (a mobile dance lab where STEM art installations teach kids that science is fun and valuable). : Yet Mobile Dancing, that is the best science can bring.... It at least it would be a STEAMPUNK truck or even better a SteamPunk Airship ! that would be cool....
With "luminaries" like this, we are curred all is well....
One of the main issue with "consoles" is that it really is controled by a bunch of sociopath focusing on how to put the maximum of toll boths to efficiently bleed the marcs..
Under the pretext of make the experience "safe", you need the get some sort of "authorisations" from the console makers, and now it seems that Microsoft feels strong (or is weak) enough to add an additional hurdle to avoid "wasting their time" with the unwashed masses.
I hope that "android" consoles become popular (and that it will not end up with Google doing exactly the same thing M$ is doing....
Although I do suspect that a flying Electrical Assisteb Bicycle could be a very interesting compromise enabling people "aircycle" withouth being bicycle champions... A 400W electrical motor added to a 200W of human energy (from somebody in ok shape but very far from being a champion) might be enough to overcome a) the not so lightweight human weight b) the weight of the electical motor and battery c) the additional weight needed to make it reasonable solid and usable in non perfect situations... (the VAE + Pilot combo should give about twice the power ot the pilot only energy in the two existing long distance human powered flights Of course I doubt that twice the power really translate into twice the possible weight.... But if it would yield 50% more, then it should be worth while investigating...)
Most people are weak and prefer not to think about "bad things", and prefer security with freedom, they would not know what to do with it if they would have some...
This said it would be interesting to ask the same questions in the following way:
Assuming that of the two leading parties the one you like least has the majority in senat and house of representative, and presidential powers.
Would you agree to warrent-less investigations of phones calls, emails, instant messages, social network posting, microblogging posting, private forum messages in order to fight terrorism is: - a good thing - necessary - undecided - useless - bad for the society - where is my second amendment demonstrator !
Patents kill the flexibility enabling companies to create new drugs without spending inate amount of money in order to avoid the pitholes left by the competition.
And Marketing works better on "illnesses" bought be people in good health and with enough money, so Attention disorder medication (paid by young parents) E.. disorder payd by the midlife crisis, etc... it also works better on variations of existing medications that are going out of patent protection...
Assume Pharma X makes 50% of it's income with Y it will get the most "powerful" manager to handle this business line, so even if Z is mutch more interesting, has future potential, the "Power Manager" will do everything he or she can to make sure the Z stays "small" and Y wich is their fiefdoom stays "big".
Additionally once you cure a couple of illnesses you have to way for the germs to mutate away and then they typically become harder to manage, or you do not really need a new medication, and what is left is "harder"...
So although the main reasons are "evil", part of it is just nature....
-
Their claim for health benefits depends on focusing on Balenine and ignoring the high level of polutions the whale process.
"Unfortunatelly" Balenine is also present in Chicken (and humans, but that might need "a lot" of advertizing to convince people...)
So the "smart" action would be to really think about how to retrain the people involved into something that is not threatening a specie that is in danger of extinction, and that just might be sentient...
Let's assume the infrastructure for online voting is "perfect", open source, reviewed code, yada yada...
Now how do you garanty that there will be no interference from familly members, particularly from conservative families...
How do you fight vote buying when it is easy to put a screen copy tool at work to ensure "correct" voting...
How do you fight disenfranchising when a well aimed pickaxe can cut off a couple of high rises long enough to lower their vote and short enough to make it difficult for the oposition to protest.
And then assuming that you succeeded in getting an open source solution (any other solution is just a way to give the vote to the software editor, of course the current electronic vote solutions do exactly that) how do you protect tampering at the data transmission point, since you do not need, and actually cannot really use teams of supervisers from oponing parties, it is enough to corrupt a small group of officials so that they ignore the real vote and send what ever is convenient...
The core issue of "modern voting" is that most important votes end up being between two very close candidates, and in most cases the differences between the number of voters is smaller than the margin of errors in the pre-election pools.
Additionally we let the cost of election run amock so unless the "winner" is proven to actually eat little babies for breakfast, even if nobody in his or her right mind can believe that the vote is "correct" redoing the whole shebang seems too expensive.
So "online voting" cannot work, moreover it "solves" a problem that does not exist, if not enough people can be bothered to show up to do a manual count, you got a problem that no voting technology can ever solve, and if they do come, then you do not need electronic voting systems.
The only way Internet voting can work is if you launch a brand of transparent urns called "internet" and use them for manual voting.
No amount of biometrics will ensure that a vote is not a "family vote".
And that is before you factor in the fraud issues.
I really do not like Nicolas Sarkozy and his politics, but calling him "the worst criminal..." is the kind of hyperbole that discredit the rest of your message.
It can be unethical when the manufacturer or a group of manufacturer makes sure that the products you can buy are only available with certain limitations and at a fixed price.
You would still want "that product", it would do "exactly what you want because you do no know better" and at a price you are "happy to pay" since you need it and there is no alternative.
The benefit for the monopolist or the oligopolist is that they can maximise the cash they remove from your pocket, and make sure it's very hard for disruptive technologies to enter the market.
in the ex: DDR many people where very happy to buy a "Trabant" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Trabi_Go to get an idea of the attachment people had for their car, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant to have an idea of what you could get after 5 to 25 waiting time and a large part of your "extra cash"...
So it's not because you are too dumb to understand that you've been conned that it's not an unethical con.
And of course "non free software" is a "cheap" way to make sure that your hardware is controlled by the seller and not you, whether it's a computer, a phone, a tablet, a camera, or even a car... (non free software in the car systems enables the manufacturer to force you to use the garage they choose (by forcing them to buy their diagnostic tools and only authorize them to use their spare parts at their prices)
You can complain about the high price of energy while drinking a beer, but complaining about the lack of decent beer while driving around in a car fueled by cheap energy is so uncultured it's almost american....
Of course we could just learn to love Beer with a sweetish petroleum after taste
or love to pay more to have "really pure water" where all the minerals wich where part of the specific caracter of your local beer have been removed, alongside the various chemicals that creaped in and gave a bad taste....
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IMHO the main issue is that on one hand we have the "PC" team that will say things like:
This is a very interesting idea => Meaning I hate you and am planning your downfall how dare you rock the boat and undermine my hierachical position.
Let's agree to disagree => Go fuck yourself, ain't gona happen, you are probably right, but I'm higher in the pecking order and no way am I going to let a good idea that is not mine happen.
We need somebody very dynamic => we need somebody younger than I am, preferably of the same gender as me and the same of a similar school.
s/he is very technical => I got no clue what s/he's saying and we should not give that person any power of desicion or responsibility...
etc..
And the "Non-PC" team that tend to say things like:
I know that this is not a popular opinion to express : but everybody knows (or don't you agree that/I know from sure sources/You just have to look at the statistics/...) that
So I hope that the outcome of any LKML meeting on this subject will be:
- It is ok to express your feeling and opinions even with very expressive language, and it is much better than being an hypocrite hiding behind weasel words
- it is not ok to do any kind of adhominem attacks so if you actually fear and despise somebody because that sentient being has the combination of qualifier you find the most insufferable, you are not obliged to invide that person to drink tea with your old mum, but you cannot use this as a base for communication.
And you should think about escalading, try "I'm slightly irritated", before "your code is bloody shit you fucking moron...".
PC was not invented to make sure people understand each other, but to provide plausible deniability in case of a trial... ... it does not make it "polite"...
so "we ain't hight no green polka dottet people cuz their lazy stupid idiots" becomes "we are an equal opportunity employers, and welcome more minority in our familly, and look forward to any minority candidate who is able to meet our very high standards"
I looked at the book, immediately got that feeling I got from Computer Science books a couple of decades ago, it goes WTF are they talking about ? hum it seems that if I really read it and try to make the effort of reading it I might even understand it, huummm me wanting this book... ....
And now I'll be spending 127 $ + Shipping + IVA, darn
Well played ...
So the proposal is to use large scale data mining of "social networks" that actually means the "standard communication methods" of all "gang members".
And how do you identify "gang members" ? you got it, you do large scale data mining of everybody's communications to find out who the gang members are.
And since the "experts" are the military, you obviously use the same to do the analysis, and to enforce the "conclusions of the findings".
So the story goes this way:
a) make some killjoy conservatives happy by criminalizing drugs (once you found out that on the "dry" run based on alcohol prohibition this has the attractive side effect of creating a large structured criminal class)
b) let it simmer
c) do some propaganda, mostly with well made, adrenaline filled movies that "demonstrate" that brute force and disregard of such niceties like human rights "gives results"
d) use the pretext of the presence of the large scary criminal class to justify "more surveillance & intervention"
e) muzzle information in the name of national security forbidding to "aid terrorists"
f) finalize the implementation of bertram gross's "friendly fascism", where the disenfranchise "lower class" do not vote nor have any real economical power, and the middle class does as required out of fear of falling into the "lower class pot", and the (very small) rest enjoy the profit of the operation.
It so happens that the patterns of your calls marks you as a member of party FOO, so the nice gerymander agent will put your home location in the FOO zone, so that your BAR congressman will not risk its seat, unfortunately it will mean that your public services will not be managed by your elected FOO representative, since geographically your "city center" is in BAR zone. (and not Bar ...).
It also happen that you have two N+1 contacts who happen to be vocally against WHATEVER, you actually do not agree with them, but the company you are applying to is using services, and you resume is directly filed into the trashcan...
The same is also evaluating you as a person who know too many poor persons; so you should probably not be trusted with large loans, which is actually a boon in disguise if you are planning to buy a house, but the company you wanted to create ? forget about it.
And the hassle you have at the airport, no we are not going to tell you why ....
Who calls who is "very interesting"....
Well unless you add greed as a good reason you are quite wrong... ...
And in practice the US started that way, Idian wars ? Mexican war, paraguay expedition, chilean war, philipine war, vietnam war,
Nothing new ...
Most organizations spend about 4% of their gross in IT, so most probably the new director think that this division should also spend that much,
and has little clue what an Ingeneering company really does.
Now apparently the company is really spending a low less than 1% in "traditional IT", maybe some is hidden in other part of the organizations (things like payroll, accounting, big ugly SAP or Oracle Financials kind of stuff) and the real cost is really higher, or the IT staff has a harder time baboozeling engineers that the average MBA into spending large amount of money into big exchange/sharepoint/AD or similar junk.
So the obvious solution to your problem is the following: restructure your division so that IT is sitting on one side with their mail and web and hr etc... servers with a low 3% of all cost.
Restructure the "big iron" into a billable commodity, that means that you define a set of "approved vendors" define a cost per "compute unit", a "recommender margin" and add it to any bill or product cost cheat.
And split the purchase of any ingeneering work station into : no brand box, big intel CPU, large screens, just make sure that each component is bellow the line where it counts a "investment", so you can hide it into the "pen, pencils and chairs" "consumables costs" linked to a specific project costs.
So you will end up only spending a little bit more than before, while looking at "over performing" at cost cutting.
And if you do it right, it'll even make somewhat sense as you'll end up with a closer monitoring of the real costs of each project, and most probably some teams will be somewhat more prudent in purchasing stuff since they will have to balance the hassle of doing the paper work vs using the station they allready have.
So unless you'll make the paper work so hard that even legitimate purchase look more trouble than honing one's CV you'll get some performance gain.
Good luck
Can't you imagine that maybe he actually loves his country and would like it to stop being on a slippery slope ?
You might disagree with his opinions, and believe that his revelations on reveal "normal things", but he does not seems to be doing these for any personal gain, nor out of spite.
Of course if "right or wrong my country" is your motto, then you are in a dangerous place, "following orders" is not an ethical choice, and just put you in the wast camp of the "banal evil".
Of course maybe you where trying to be "funy", but impersonating a moron does not always work
I'm not a citrix user, I was only mildly interested in OS/2, but nevertheless both those things are interesting achievements, and should be recognised as such.
And 59 is way to young to die.
RIP
yep, but a terminal can be a crappy second hand PC or a cheap chrome book and still be able to run an office suite and some reasonable browser...
Not really, positivo and some others are reasonable competitive and paraguya pirate imports about the same prices as here.
in addition people by on "long term credit/rental" wich still makes it "very expensive" but "affordable" (not that it is good for the economy, but people do have computers, but they could have more)...
In practice it would be more like a "cyber café" in each high rise, people would be able to buy about the cheapest PC even second hand possible, and still be able to do something usefull.
And the "administrador" would probably want to make sure that even people who do not have a PC can be their client.
So in the specific economical setup of Brazil it does make sense.
JMH is not suggesting that nobody should own a PC or that everybody should be forced to go through a government proxy...
What he is suggesting is that people who prove that they are able to provide some services, and that they are not crazy perverted killers can get support from the government to get a small business loan to open a kind of specialized cyber café....
It might even work...
Taking in account the "solutions" they came up with, it really didn't matter .... ... right ...
Advisher (an online community to help foster women in STEM),: So that middle aged white male can tell women how they should do "STEAM" because the existing online communities of women will never be able to do it themselves
INIT ('nutritional labels' to disclose products' 'STEM ingredients'), : well it could be a good idea, if they could just start by labeling GMO so that I can avoid products having them, ho wait that was not the plan ... oups...
DGTL (rewards young women with fashionable clothes for completing coding challenges), : because Young Women would never code if they cannot have branded fiber .... my daughter would rather have a 3D printer ... (talk about stereotyping ...)
Beacons in a Backpack (solar powered backpacks pre-loaded with videos, multimedia content, and game-powered educational tools that also serve as mobile hotspots for rural/remote areas), : so you can fell "good about helping" and not do anything to fix the corruption issues that makes satelite IP expensive, there is ZERO rural issue, the only issue is that the governments do not want people to access an open Internet and need the payback from their local telco....
So powered store and forward hubs are just "feel good" gadgets that distract for the real issues.
Tech21 (STEM education program aimed at 21-years-and-older post-college grads in the workforce), : that might be the only not totally stupid and arrogant idea, although I think in the US it is called "community colleges"....
Certify.me (allows STEM talent from across the globe to audition for potential employers via standardized-quality assessments), : Oh yes please please do some more outsourcing using uterly idiotic form based certifications so that imbeciles can brag how much they paid to Microsoft (or LPI) to fill MCQ and get a piece of paper related to obsolete products without real understanding of the underliying structure..., that will help ....
STEAM Truck (a mobile dance lab where STEM art installations teach kids that science is fun and valuable). : Yet Mobile Dancing, that is the best science can bring ....
It at least it would be a STEAMPUNK truck or even better a SteamPunk Airship ! that would be cool....
With "luminaries" like this, we are curred all is well ....
One of the main issue with "consoles" is that it really is controled by a bunch of sociopath focusing on how to put the maximum of toll boths to efficiently bleed the marcs..
Under the pretext of make the experience "safe", you need the get some sort of "authorisations" from the console makers, and now it seems that Microsoft feels strong (or is weak) enough to add an additional hurdle to avoid "wasting their time" with the unwashed masses.
I hope that "android" consoles become popular (and that it will not end up with Google doing exactly the same thing M$ is doing ....
Yep: this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Albatross
or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Daedalus
would have better claim to be flying bicycles...
Although I do suspect that a flying Electrical Assisteb Bicycle could be a very interesting compromise enabling people "aircycle" withouth being bicycle champions... ...)
A 400W electrical motor added to a 200W of human energy (from somebody in ok shape but very far from being a champion) might be enough to overcome
a) the not so lightweight human weight
b) the weight of the electical motor and battery
c) the additional weight needed to make it reasonable solid and usable in non perfect situations...
(the VAE + Pilot combo should give about twice the power ot the pilot only energy in the two existing long distance human powered flights
Of course I doubt that twice the power really translate into twice the possible weight....
But if it would yield 50% more, then it should be worth while investigating
Most people are weak and prefer not to think about "bad things", and prefer security with freedom, they would not know what to do with it if they would have some...
This said it would be interesting to ask the same questions in the following way:
Assuming that of the two leading parties the one you like least has the majority in senat and house of representative, and presidential powers.
Would you agree to warrent-less investigations of phones calls, emails, instant messages, social network posting, microblogging posting, private forum messages in order to fight terrorism is:
- a good thing
- necessary
- undecided
- useless
- bad for the society
- where is my second amendment demonstrator !
Patents kill the flexibility enabling companies to create new drugs without spending inate amount of money in order to avoid the pitholes left by the competition. And Marketing works better on "illnesses" bought be people in good health and with enough money, so Attention disorder medication (paid by young parents) E.. disorder payd by the midlife crisis, etc... it also works better on variations of existing medications that are going out of patent protection... Assume Pharma X makes 50% of it's income with Y it will get the most "powerful" manager to handle this business line, so even if Z is mutch more interesting, has future potential, the "Power Manager" will do everything he or she can to make sure the Z stays "small" and Y wich is their fiefdoom stays "big". Additionally once you cure a couple of illnesses you have to way for the germs to mutate away and then they typically become harder to manage, or you do not really need a new medication, and what is left is "harder"... So although the main reasons are "evil", part of it is just nature.... -
Their claim for health benefits depends on focusing on Balenine and ignoring the high level of polutions the whale process. "Unfortunatelly" Balenine is also present in Chicken (and humans, but that might need "a lot" of advertizing to convince people...) So the "smart" action would be to really think about how to retrain the people involved into something that is not threatening a specie that is in danger of extinction, and that just might be sentient...
Let's assume the infrastructure for online voting is "perfect", open source, reviewed code, yada yada ...
Now how do you garanty that there will be no interference from familly members, particularly from conservative families...
How do you fight vote buying when it is easy to put a screen copy tool at work to ensure "correct" voting...
How do you fight disenfranchising when a well aimed pickaxe can cut off a couple of high rises long enough to lower their vote and short enough to make it difficult for the oposition to protest.
And then assuming that you succeeded in getting an open source solution (any other solution is just a way to give the vote to the software editor, of course the current electronic vote solutions do exactly that) how do you protect tampering at the data transmission point, since you do not need, and actually cannot really use teams of supervisers from oponing parties, it is enough to corrupt a small group of officials so that they ignore the real vote and send what ever is convenient...
The core issue of "modern voting" is that most important votes end up being between two very close candidates, and in most cases the differences between the number of voters is smaller than the margin of errors in the pre-election pools.
Additionally we let the cost of election run amock so unless the "winner" is proven to actually eat little babies for breakfast, even if nobody in his or her right mind can believe that the vote is "correct" redoing the whole shebang seems too expensive.
So "online voting" cannot work, moreover it "solves" a problem that does not exist, if not enough people can be bothered to show up to do a manual count, you got a problem that no voting technology can ever solve, and if they do come, then you do not need electronic voting systems.
The only way Internet voting can work is if you launch a brand of transparent urns called "internet" and use them for manual voting. No amount of biometrics will ensure that a vote is not a "family vote". And that is before you factor in the fraud issues.
I really do not like Nicolas Sarkozy and his politics, but calling him "the worst criminal ..." is the kind of hyperbole that discredit the rest of your message.
Are you sure this is the official point of view of the Eastern Orthodox Church ? or does it has something to do with Epithelial Ovarian Cancer ?
It can be unethical when the manufacturer or a group of manufacturer makes sure that the products you can buy are only available with certain limitations and at a fixed price. You would still want "that product", it would do "exactly what you want because you do no know better" and at a price you are "happy to pay" since you need it and there is no alternative. The benefit for the monopolist or the oligopolist is that they can maximise the cash they remove from your pocket, and make sure it's very hard for disruptive technologies to enter the market. in the ex: DDR many people where very happy to buy a "Trabant" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Trabi_Go to get an idea of the attachment people had for their car, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant to have an idea of what you could get after 5 to 25 waiting time and a large part of your "extra cash"... So it's not because you are too dumb to understand that you've been conned that it's not an unethical con. And of course "non free software" is a "cheap" way to make sure that your hardware is controlled by the seller and not you, whether it's a computer, a phone, a tablet, a camera, or even a car... (non free software in the car systems enables the manufacturer to force you to use the garage they choose (by forcing them to buy their diagnostic tools and only authorize them to use their spare parts at their prices)
http://www.absurdia.com/cuisine/flaming-beer.html Allready done, and you do not need fracking :-)
You can complain about the high price of energy while drinking a beer, but complaining about the lack of decent beer while driving around in a car fueled by cheap energy is so uncultured it's almost american....
Of course we could just learn to love Beer with a sweetish petroleum after taste or love to pay more to have "really pure water" where all the minerals wich where part of the specific caracter of your local beer have been removed, alongside the various chemicals that creaped in and gave a bad taste ....