an analogy. Angry Child A has found a new type of brick he can throw in the face of Angry Child B (after Angry Child B has been napping) Angry Child B responds by saying I still have loads of bricks, and i'll throw them at Napping Child C.
Busy Child D sits quietly in a corner he's making pacifiers for A Angry Child E is finally starting to make amends after his fight with Angry Child F
In 1984, it was argued that you needed 3 superpowers in to keep the people living in them subdued permanently, wonder what happens when there's 4, 5 or 6...
A- U.S.A. B- Russia C- E.U. D- P.R.C E- India F- Pakistan
In world politics, best way to understand what happens, is to compare them to small children... I'm not looking forward for civilization reaching it's teenage years...
an analogy.
Angry Child A has found a new type of brick he can throw in the face of Angry Child B (after Angry Child B has been napping)
Angry Child B responds by saying I still have loads of bricks, and i'll throw them at Napping Child C.
Busy Child D sits quietly in a corner he's making pacifiers for A
Angry Child E is finally starting to make amends after his fight with Angry Child F
In 1984, it was argued that you needed 3 superpowers in to keep the people living in them subdued permanently, wonder what happens when there's 4, 5 or 6...
A- U.S.A.
B- Russia
C- E.U.
D- P.R.C
E- India
F- Pakistan
Actually, the soviet union collapsed when the regions started having enough political power (due to economic development) to demand some sort of autonomy.
There was the occupation of the tv-tower in Vilnius as response, causing the vote on the retention of power to slide.
This in turn led to the august coup Which failed, and forced the supreme soviet to finally give up it's power monopoly.
So I would say, the Soviet Union collapsed, due to economic reform in the vassal states, without political reform to back it.
The funny thing about this way of thinking, is that it fits with the doctrine, that a change in economic power without a change in political influence leads to violent change.
Best way of keeping peace, is by preparing for war, incidentally, best way of preparing for war, is excactly the same. If whatever country you live in, is not doing this, then shame on them.
Actually, the term girlfriend (as in more than just friendly with) is "novia", "amiga" is a friend that happens to be a girl. Of course, this is slashdot, so i guess parent is right..
Do you mean that 800 Tb disk that's lying in the corner, containing everything you've ever done?
Sorry, we're not allowed to return it to you, before it has been fully screened by a miniluv representative =)
First of all, the comment was meant to be humorous, an obvious spoof of the "in soviet russia"-jokes.
However, the only reason it is funny is that there are aspects of it that worries people, the same that gets it to anger You. Second, because people have served to protect certain values, does in no way ensure, the government upholds them. Third, Nope, I'm not a Che shirt type, not a musician, don't have long hair, don't smoke weed all day, and don't believe in socialism. Your presumptions about me are fundamentally wrong, why do you make them? Fourth, i NEVER used the words "Totally screwed", it appears you deliberately misquote me, but i'll bite the flamebait. The "typically american" statement, is because i've only ever been called a dork (for making a joke like that) by Americans.
Fifth, if me calling you typically american is what you consider an insult, then i guess i got my message through. Luckily I've had the experience of meeting people from Kansas state and Boston whom i consider nice people, so no i don't believe that every American is selfcentered. what provoked me to say so was the "two words" to sum up me.. "Left-wing dork. I bet he wears Che shirts too" I summed you up after that, but at least i took the time to argue why.
Sixth, Yes i might've insulted you before you replied, but you called me a dork, before i said you were typically american.
Seventh: COME ON, ARGUE AGAINST THE CONTENT NOT THE FORM!!! respond to the post i made about what i thought was wrong, instead of trying to nitpick all the unimportant sentences i used. As you see i'm perfectly capable of doing the same, to no avail.
ok, i admit, to a large extent, you're right when you say that you the whole world is screwed:P I took America as an example because this article was about an american institution, turned private.
I live in Denmark in the EU. In many ways things are as bad here, the distance between the people and the government is growing, the divide between rich and poor is growing, the invasiveness of the intelligence services is growing, the police is showing more and more force and aggression against the populace, the government is cracking down on non-conformists (who have done nothing illegal). I freely admit and resent this, and I ask you to pause and look at your own political system, see where they are fucked, and try to figure out how it can be fixed.
I'll be happy if you just say that it's your general feeling that the government is helping you more, than it's helping corporations and the elite that grows around it. I haven't met many people who've said that about their own government though.
I don't, where i live, i'm considered center/conservative (though i think most of our parties are shades of social democrat parties).
but it doesn't take much, to be annoyed by: the amount of survailance that goes on. the encroachment on civil liberties the shady wars that are being engaged the disregard of human rights (torture, indefinate imprisonment without trial) and the disregard for international relations
i'm sure if i lived in USA i'd come up with more, including counterarguments, but from my outside view, the U.S.A is screwed, unless you happen to be in the ruling class. or win the lottery named the american dream (not everyone who works hard win it).
but i guess that's part of the american way. It's not about building a great society, it's about achieving greatness regardles of society and without it being a hindrance to progress.
Don't worry, i'm not gonna call you names, or make presumptious statements about what you wear or what your political views are, just that your reply to me appears typically american (as in usaian).
Ack, i suddenly realize that the above post was karmawhoring.
I now chose to ramble to incoherently to myself..!
As a reply to this post, you can mumble anything you'd like, as long as you do so incoherently =)
(however, even though slashdot is a privately owned site, i think you'll be allowed to use this, even for research purposes)
Still, the rooftops do represent a resource, that we can use. So it won't give us 100% coverage? well, even if all roofs covered in solar panals only covered 10% of our needs, it's still better than those 10% being covered by coal plants.
Yes, we do have to make more energy-efficient appliances and sadly yes, we do face big problems in the future. The problems we face might be solvable by nuclear power, but we also know that this has long term problems we don't want, I think it's best to at least get as much as we can with clean technologies, then cover our asses with nuclear. Then we can use cars with even decent mileage and as the rest of the world gets industrialized all transportation will have to get cleaner.
There are two problems we're facing with this, the industrialization of undeveloped nations, and the idiocy of developed nations. The first one can be alliviated by funding clean energy projects, the second one requires education and political change. It's easier to build good habits from the ground, than to change bad habits around.
Well, it's nice to see that a proper human-computer interface is finally at a stage where it becomes usable.
People will definately get started on the whole "How cool would it be if you did ". And the right minded rational pragmatic people will say no we're not gonna do that.
My prediction is that it's the first people who will be right, once we can properly hook up and control something with our nervous system (instead of by muscle control), It is simply more economical to use this for various tasks where a human needs to be involved, and most current control schemes are poor. Once we start doing things like that, electronic body mods will be acceptable, and if they're accepted, people will also start doing the "cool" stuff.
One thing is for sure though, I pity the beta testers. Nobody in their right mind should do this, until there is a proper framework with clearly seperated modules, so you can replace parts instead of the whole thing.
That being said, nothing springs to mind that i want done to my body, except maybe hook up some nerves to control my mousepointer, without ruining my elbow.
once a successful vasectomy has been in place for a while, you will start creating anti-bodies against your own sperm, from that point on, you're permanently sterile. if you've had one within the last couple of years, and you want kids in the future, i strongly suggest that you get it reversed. Even though it's probably too late.
The Poorest Countries(tm) aren't really paying that much for their software anyway due to vast copyright infringement (CI), so MS doesn't want to care about those. The less than hopelessly poor countries don't get aid in the first place and to please the USA they're trying to do something about CI, those nations will pay the higher price or go FOSS. USA will adopt, EU will retry MS on anti-trust.
One positive aspect I guess is, that this move makes the OLPC programme even more relevant.
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this story is from july LAST year, please apply the tag "oldnews"
telnet is a ripoff, write your own socket-handler.
mod parent up. (possibly gp)
an analogy.
Angry Child A has found a new type of brick he can throw in the face of Angry Child B (after Angry Child B has been napping)
Angry Child B responds by saying I still have loads of bricks, and i'll throw them at Napping Child C.
Busy Child D sits quietly in a corner he's making pacifiers for A
Angry Child E is finally starting to make amends after his fight with Angry Child F
In 1984, it was argued that you needed 3 superpowers in to keep the people living in them subdued permanently, wonder what happens when there's 4, 5 or 6...
A- U.S.A.
B- Russia
C- E.U.
D- P.R.C
E- India
F- Pakistan
In world politics, best way to understand what happens, is to compare them to small children...
I'm not looking forward for civilization reaching it's teenage years...
an analogy. Angry Child A has found a new type of brick he can throw in the face of Angry Child B (after Angry Child B has been napping) Angry Child B responds by saying I still have loads of bricks, and i'll throw them at Napping Child C. Busy Child D sits quietly in a corner he's making pacifiers for A Angry Child E is finally starting to make amends after his fight with Angry Child F In 1984, it was argued that you needed 3 superpowers in to keep the people living in them subdued permanently, wonder what happens when there's 4, 5 or 6... A- U.S.A. B- Russia C- E.U. D- P.R.C E- India F- Pakistan
Actually, the soviet union collapsed when the regions started having enough political power (due to economic development)
to demand some sort of autonomy.
There was the occupation of the tv-tower in Vilnius as response, causing the vote on the retention of power to slide.
This in turn led to the august coup Which failed,
and forced the supreme soviet to finally give up it's power monopoly.
So I would say, the Soviet Union collapsed, due to economic reform in the vassal states, without political reform to back it.
The funny thing about this way of thinking, is that it fits with the doctrine, that a change in economic power without a change in political influence leads to violent change.
why don't you check out what happened in 56.. If you want us to respect the U.S for it's history, you should at least try to understand it yourself.
Best way of keeping peace, is by preparing for war, incidentally, best way of preparing for war, is excactly the same.
If whatever country you live in, is not doing this, then shame on them.
Actually, the term girlfriend (as in more than just friendly with) is "novia", "amiga" is a friend that happens to be a girl.
Of course, this is slashdot, so i guess parent is right..
to tech professionals, that users need clue distributed by bat
Do you mean that 800 Tb disk that's lying in the corner, containing everything you've ever done? Sorry, we're not allowed to return it to you, before it has been fully screened by a miniluv representative =)
I know, it was meant as a joke on the encroachment of civil rights that's going on in a lot of democracies
First of all, the comment was meant to be humorous, an obvious spoof of the "in soviet russia"-jokes.
:P I took America as an example because this article was about an american institution, turned private.
However, the only reason it is funny is that there are aspects of it that worries people, the same that gets it to anger You.
Second, because people have served to protect certain values, does in no way ensure, the government upholds them.
Third, Nope, I'm not a Che shirt type, not a musician, don't have long hair, don't smoke weed all day, and don't believe in socialism. Your presumptions about me are fundamentally wrong, why do you make them?
Fourth, i NEVER used the words "Totally screwed", it appears you deliberately misquote me, but i'll bite the flamebait.
The "typically american" statement, is because i've only ever been called a dork (for making a joke like that) by Americans.
Fifth, if me calling you typically american is what you consider an insult, then i guess i got my message through.
Luckily I've had the experience of meeting people from Kansas state and Boston whom i consider nice people, so no i don't believe that every American is selfcentered.
what provoked me to say so was the "two words" to sum up me.. "Left-wing dork. I bet he wears Che shirts too" I summed you up after that, but at least i took the time to argue why.
Sixth, Yes i might've insulted you before you replied, but you called me a dork, before i said you were typically american.
Seventh: COME ON, ARGUE AGAINST THE CONTENT NOT THE FORM!!! respond to the post i made about what i thought was wrong, instead of trying to nitpick all the unimportant sentences i used. As you see i'm perfectly capable of doing the same, to no avail.
ok, i admit, to a large extent, you're right when you say that you the whole world is screwed
I live in Denmark in the EU. In many ways things are as bad here, the distance between the people and the government is growing, the divide between rich and poor is growing, the invasiveness of the intelligence services is growing, the police is showing more and more force and aggression against the populace, the government is cracking down on non-conformists (who have done nothing illegal). I freely admit and resent this, and I ask you to pause and look at your own political system, see where they are fucked, and try to figure out how it can be fixed.
I'll be happy if you just say that it's your general feeling that the government is helping you more, than it's helping corporations and the elite that grows around it. I haven't met many people who've said that about their own government though.
I don't, where i live, i'm considered center/conservative (though i think most of our parties are shades of social democrat parties).
but it doesn't take much, to be annoyed by:
the amount of survailance that goes on.
the encroachment on civil liberties
the shady wars that are being engaged
the disregard of human rights (torture, indefinate imprisonment without trial)
and the disregard for international relations
i'm sure if i lived in USA i'd come up with more, including counterarguments, but from my outside view, the U.S.A is screwed, unless you happen to be in the ruling class.
or win the lottery named the american dream (not everyone who works hard win it).
but i guess that's part of the american way. It's not about building a great society, it's about achieving greatness regardles of society and without it being a hindrance to progress.
Don't worry, i'm not gonna call you names, or make presumptious statements about what you wear or what your political views are, just that your reply to me appears typically american (as in usaian).
Ack, i suddenly realize that the above post was karmawhoring.
I now chose to ramble to incoherently to myself..!
As a reply to this post, you can mumble anything you'd like, as long as you do so incoherently =)
(however, even though slashdot is a privately owned site, i think you'll be allowed to use this, even for research purposes)
Ack, i lowered myself into groupthink mode, and forgot to post as AC.
oh well, karmawhoring is for gutless punks anyway.
In fascist America, the company owns you (and your government)
Still, the rooftops do represent a resource, that we can use.
So it won't give us 100% coverage? well, even if all roofs covered in solar panals only covered 10% of our needs, it's still better than those 10% being covered by coal plants.
Yes, we do have to make more energy-efficient appliances and sadly yes, we do face big problems in the future.
The problems we face might be solvable by nuclear power, but we also know that this has long term problems we don't want,
I think it's best to at least get as much as we can with clean technologies, then cover our asses with nuclear.
Then we can use cars with even decent mileage and as the rest of the world gets industrialized all transportation will have to get cleaner.
There are two problems we're facing with this, the industrialization of undeveloped nations, and the idiocy of developed nations.
The first one can be alliviated by funding clean energy projects, the second one requires education and political change.
It's easier to build good habits from the ground, than to change bad habits around.
mod parent up tag: itstrapped
Well, it's nice to see that a proper human-computer interface is finally at a stage where it becomes usable.
People will definately get started on the whole "How cool would it be if you did ".
And the right minded rational pragmatic people will say no we're not gonna do that.
My prediction is that it's the first people who will be right,
once we can properly hook up and control something with our nervous system (instead of by muscle control),
It is simply more economical to use this for various tasks where a human needs to be involved, and most current control schemes are poor.
Once we start doing things like that, electronic body mods will be acceptable, and if they're accepted, people will also start doing the "cool" stuff.
One thing is for sure though, I pity the beta testers. Nobody in their right mind should do this,
until there is a proper framework with clearly seperated modules,
so you can replace parts instead of the whole thing.
That being said, nothing springs to mind that i want done to my body,
except maybe hook up some nerves to control my mousepointer, without ruining my elbow.
once a successful vasectomy has been in place for a while, you will start creating anti-bodies against your own sperm, from that point on, you're permanently sterile.
if you've had one within the last couple of years, and you want kids in the future, i strongly suggest that you get it reversed. Even though it's probably too late.
Happy Experimental Medicine
yay minix 3. I know it's not mature yet, but it's what i use at home for all but wingaming.
The Poorest Countries(tm) aren't really paying that much for their software anyway due to vast copyright infringement (CI), so MS doesn't want to care about those.
The less than hopelessly poor countries don't get aid in the first place and to please the USA they're trying to do something about CI, those nations will pay the higher price or go FOSS.
USA will adopt, EU will retry MS on anti-trust.
One positive aspect I guess is, that this move makes the OLPC programme even more relevant.
Are geeks really that easy to dupe with advertisement?
:D
Dyson, loved by geeks everywhere, for their tornado ads.
1. Britain is launching SkyNet
2. Dyson is building a (Roomba)terminator
3. ?
4. Apocalypse/Ragnarok/Doom
ps. My captcha was "shelters" I WILL SURVIVE
mod parent up, gotta love tron references.
captcha: presence