listed as terrorists by the US and Iraq and Iran and Syria - that are killing their soldiers. Has nothing to do with anything else going on, although it will screw up Iraq more than it is already. This incursion has the possibility of becoming a full scale war between Turkey and the Kurds
Yea, Iran Iraq, Syria, and Turkey all consider Kurd as terrorists because Kurds make up large populations in all these countries and they want what they were promised by the Allies during WWI, their own homeland. But instead of fulfilling a promise the Allies including the US allowed Kurds to be persecuted. If a people is persecuted long enough they will fight back, or do you think they should roll over and die? Maybe the world will do something when what happened in Rwanda happens to the Kurds.
Why should it? If you're making a profit based on a technology someone else poured millions on R&D into, why should you be able to use that technology without contributing back to the company that paid millions to invent it?
Why should it? Because it creates it's own way to interoperate and tries to prevent vender lockin.
I think you're mixed up. If Turkey is a member of the EU it will much easier for the rest of Europe to control Turkey. Otherwise the EU has no control over what Turkey does.
A country, especially a large country which would have lot of voting power and economic influence (good and bad) can't be so unstable that it could change into a dictatorship.
What exactly is it the US produces now, other than food? Knowledge? With both China and India graduating more and more engineers and scientists the US's lead may not last long. One thing they both need are accountants and US accountants can make a boat load of money showing Chinese and Indian companies how to setup an accounting system. Actually as my sister is a CPA, Certified Public Accountant, and runs her own business, I've thought of suggesting she learn Mandarin Chinese then go to China.
in a sense, it is already narrowly defined and practiced. A developer who writes FLOSS code may be paid for his work. However, an employee is not in "business", but is making a living. There is a difference between a company making money and a person being paid wages.
And who's going to pay the developer? A business? The business would still have to pay the royalties.
Don't know about you, but this does make Mono attractive on Linux. Mono on Linux is pretty good, and on Windows.NET is the way to go. So once your company makes a million bucks you need to start forking 3900 total (not per developer) over some money to Microsoft. Fair deal actually...
I don't see or know what good.net is over other technologies such as Ruby on Rails, I'm not a developer now though I want to learn.
That is where Europeans are messing up. Turkey has elected politicians who toned down the rhetoric in the hopes of joining the EU. However if Turkey isn't allowed to join hardliners could gain control of the government. Possibly it could form a Caliphate. Turkey is already about to enter northern Iraq to fight Kurds who they've repressed since WWI.
Open source can still be commercial. All open source is is a business model, there's closed source proprietary and open source business models, along with others.
only eu bureaucrats could pull such 2 stunts in just one gig. when a bureaucracy works, it really shines.
While better than nothing, this settlement doesn't go far enough as open source projects that are profitable still has to pay MS royalties, only.4 percent but they still have to pay them.
1) Change the Oil
Get under the car, find the oil drain plug. (Make sure it's not the transmission drain plug) Your manual can help here if it was written well. Find a ratchet and match the right sized socket.
I've rebuilt car engines, disassembled it all the way down to the engine block then reassembled it. The only thing I couldn't do was bore out the cylinders so I took it down to a machine shop. I've rebuilt transmissions and replaced the braking system as well. However when I wanted to change the oil in my Saturn I found out it required a special tool which cost an arm and a leg and only had one use. I wouldn't even try to tuneup my Saturn now.
the mortality rate in the Rwandan genocide remained constant even in areas where there were no people of a separate ethnicity to "cleanse".
Of course the mortality rate would remain the same where there was no "Others". Without others being slaughtered the mortality rate would remain the same.
Efforts to domesticate native animals have not been particularly successful. What if geneticists could lift the resistance of the local water buffalo and give it to domestic cattle?
A meat based diet isn't needed. Actually raising animals for meat causes more damage to the environment. In the US most of the corn grown is used as feed, mostly to cattle which is a ruminate and doesn't naturally eat corn. It takes something like 100 lbs of corn, and thousands of gallons of water, for each pound of meat. That corn could of been served to many more people. Don't get me wrong and think I'm a vegetarian, I'm not. I love to hunt, my favorite meats are wild boar and gator tail. Of course since moving across the country 9 years ago I haven't had either in a long tyme. But the fact is is animals and meat aren't needed as a basis of a human diet.
Yes, I said that. However I didn' say that you said it was easy.
... and I disagree, because I've seen otherwise when people are committed to the work, as I explained.
So, everyone can do the accounting, make sure all the bills are paid and collect all the money owned? How about running a business? Many can't do that either. Nor does everyone have the ability to find new clients. Sure, you may be able to do these things but most people can't. Many people can't even balance their checkbooks. Others aren't managers, leaders, but are followers. Still others don't have good people skills. Some of these can be learned but others people either can do naturally or can't do at all.
Back in the 50s, most men knew how to fix their car, not just drive it. now most people take their car to a mechanic to fix when it breaks, sure they're more complex now
I ran into this myself. Years ago I rebuilt the 350ci engine in my '76 Monte Carlo, the only thing I couldn't do was bore out the cylinders so I took it into a machine shop. When I got my Saturn several years ago I also bought a repair manual for it, then when it came to changing the oil I found out it needed a special tool, which as far as I could find only had one use, and it cost an arm and a leg. I eventually took it down to the shop to have the oil changed.
However, like great music of other eras, its greatness won't be recognized until the creator is long dead.
Some great music now is being recognized. I don't listen to music much anymore but one performer I love is Norah Jones, who has performed with Willie Nelson and others. She released her debut album in 2002. In 2007 she released her third album, "Not Too Late" "which debuted at number one on the world charts."
Isn't this the perfect case of being proactive? A possible danger existed, was looked for, and when found was avoided without incident. This is no scarier than some Toyoda designers thinking about a modification to improve mileage and discarding it when simulations showed that it would lower passenger safety.
It wasn't particularly proactive when, because of Roundup Ready seeds from Monsanto, farmers were able to drown crops in Roundup leading to superweeds that Roundup wasn't able to kill. Now there's even a Roundup Ready coca, the same plant used to make cocaine. Now instead of spraying Colombian villages and crops with Roundup they'll be using even more poisonous or toxic chemicals on villages.
Actually, as you go back you see the model was completely different. Think Little house on the prairie. A teacher taught a small community of children from 5 to ~16 years of age. The teacher would basically teach the older children more advanced topics and those teens would teach the next younger group slightly less advanced topics that they had learned from the last group of teens. The teaching "trickled" down to the youngest children. So not only did you learn the material you also got to learn how to teach the material. It also had the side effect of promoting communication and a sense of community.
That's how my Second grade teacher was in a way, and she had just graduated from college. What she did was that in some subjects such as math, reading, and vocabulary she had a lot of learning aids, flash cards and such. She let us use them and learn on our own, then she encouraged the students who were ahead of the class to help those who were behind. By the end of the year two friends and I were at the 6th grade level on those subject that were self-paced. Unfortunately the following year we were stuck back in regular classes with regular teachers.
I would even argue that subsistence farming is the root of a lot of African conflict.
Here is where I disagree. I don't see subsidence farming as so much a problem as is the ethnic differences. For instance in Nigeria, the Niger Delta is multi-ethnic but government policies favor some ethnic groups over others: Nigeria: Characterising the Niger Delta Struggle. In Botswana the San or Bushmen were being forced off their ancestral lands so mining companies can get at the diamonds there: Bushmen Driven From Ancestral Lands in Botswana. Luckily the Kalahari Bushmen win ancestral land case in court in Botswana. Now the question is is will the government follow the ruling. In the Congo the fighting was partially about it's natural resources of Coltan, gold, and timber among several other natural resources.
It's funny, because I'm a free-market guy in general - but not when it comes to food. One of the hallmarks of a free market is cycles. The price of goods goes up and down as supply and demand are constantly in flux.
I don't want my food to be in a market cycle.
Food should be a secure resource. If this means subsidizing farmers in order to keep some excess capacity, so be it - I'd rather have an inefficient system than to have shortages.
I too lean more towards the freemarket but like you not when it comes to food. I believe each country or region should be food independent and not be dependent on trading with others for foods stables. Most places can have food security however farm subsidies interfere with this. It's one thing for a country, the US for instance, to store excess produce for rainy days, it's compleatly different though for the US to give agribusinesses billions of US taxpayer dollars so these companies can export food to Mexico, Brazil, or India where they can sell the food for less than local farmers can grow food. Instead of handing over billions of dollars what the government can do instead is buy and store enough surplus produce in case of emergencies, much the same as the strategic reserves of petroleum. As it is now though agribusiness is paid to export food not to stock emergency rations.
But all of that is beside the point - even the point about the Indian farmers committing suicide. I'm talking about the millions of subsistence farmers - most in Africa - who live on a plot of land that barely provides for them and their family.
I'll refer to read more about what Robert Mugabe did in Zimbabwe, which is in Africa and shares it's southern border with South Africa. allAfrica.com has some other good examples. For instance "With an upsurge in interethnic violence in eastern Chad, record numbers of people may soon be unable to find food for themselves, food aid analysts warn." Here's a good article on the relationship of food and conflict in Africa: Africa: Many Modern Conflicts Are Food Wars, Say Experts" Specifically it states "In a 2003 study, they found that more than 56 million people living in 27 countries face 'food insecurity,' such as supply disruptions, shortages and malnutrition due to conflicts".
The only way to break this cycle is to give the subsistence farmers some method of increasing their productivity such that they become capable of growing some excess to sell. Once they have food to sell, BOOM, you have an economy. This is exactly what happened in Asia during the Green Revolution.
AH, but they have to have a market they can sell excess food in, and when a US agriculture business can import food into that nation and sell food cheaper than a farmer can grow food who's going to by from the farmer? People in Third World nations will do the same as people do in the US, they buy from someplace, like Walmart, that sells food the cheapest. A farmer who can't make a living on the farm has no reason to stay on the farm. Allow the farmer to make a living on the farm though then they can afford to buy other things from others living in the area, who because they also have an income can do the same. Demand creates more demand. But subsidies interfere with this.
Indeed. School used to be filled with logic and reasoning -- kids had to learn to think. Now schools are more interested in childrens' self-esteem and socialization.
Schools are also more interested in turning out good consumers.
Frankly, part of the problem is that the newest crop of teachers don't know logic or have excellent critical reasoning skills.
New teachers may be part of the problem but I don't really think they can compleatly be held accountable. In "To Kill Mockingbird", published in 1960, Harper Lee wrote something that pertains to this. In it the the lawyer's daughter's new teacher tells her it's was wrong that she learned to read as she did. First her father read the newspaper to her but he encouraged her to read as well. Because she learned to read like this she was way ahead of the rest of her class in reading.
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listed as terrorists by the US and Iraq and Iran and Syria - that are killing their soldiers. Has nothing to do with anything else going on, although it will screw up Iraq more than it is already. This incursion has the possibility of becoming a full scale war between Turkey and the Kurds
Yea, Iran Iraq, Syria, and Turkey all consider Kurd as terrorists because Kurds make up large populations in all these countries and they want what they were promised by the Allies during WWI, their own homeland. But instead of fulfilling a promise the Allies including the US allowed Kurds to be persecuted. If a people is persecuted long enough they will fight back, or do you think they should roll over and die? Maybe the world will do something when what happened in Rwanda happens to the Kurds.
FalconWhy should it? If you're making a profit based on a technology someone else poured millions on R&D into, why should you be able to use that technology without contributing back to the company that paid millions to invent it?
Why should it? Because it creates it's own way to interoperate and tries to prevent vender lockin.
FalconI think you're mixed up. If Turkey is a member of the EU it will much easier for the rest of Europe to control Turkey. Otherwise the EU has no control over what Turkey does.
A country, especially a large country which would have lot of voting power and economic influence (good and bad) can't be so unstable that it could change into a dictatorship.
Check out Augusto Pinochet in Chile, the Shah or Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran, or Saddam excepting the Ayatollah all of whom the US supported.
Falconlunch
What exactly is it the US produces now, other than food? Knowledge? With both China and India graduating more and more engineers and scientists the US's lead may not last long. One thing they both need are accountants and US accountants can make a boat load of money showing Chinese and Indian companies how to setup an accounting system. Actually as my sister is a CPA, Certified Public Accountant, and runs her own business, I've thought of suggesting she learn Mandarin Chinese then go to China.
Falconin a sense, it is already narrowly defined and practiced. A developer who writes FLOSS code may be paid for his work. However, an employee is not in "business", but is making a living. There is a difference between a company making money and a person being paid wages.
And who's going to pay the developer? A business? The business would still have to pay the royalties.
FalconDon't know about you, but this does make Mono attractive on Linux. Mono on Linux is pretty good, and on Windows .NET is the way to go. So once your company makes a million bucks you need to start forking 3900 total (not per developer) over some money to Microsoft. Fair deal actually...
I don't see or know what good .net is over other technologies such as Ruby on Rails, I'm not a developer now though I want to learn.
FalconRight, but MS have only said they wouldn't hassle non-commercial OSS developers. That set doesn't contain OSS users, nor commercial OSS developers.
That's why it is bad, it doesn't shield OSS projects that are for profit, ie commercial.
FalconTurkey is having a hard time getting membership
That is where Europeans are messing up. Turkey has elected politicians who toned down the rhetoric in the hopes of joining the EU. However if Turkey isn't allowed to join hardliners could gain control of the government. Possibly it could form a Caliphate. Turkey is already about to enter northern Iraq to fight Kurds who they've repressed since WWI.
FalconAll will depend on the correct split between the "non-profit project" and the "for-profit service".
There should be no need for any split, unfortunately this ruling almost makes it mandatory.
FalconOpen source can still be commercial. All open source is is a business model, there's closed source proprietary and open source business models, along with others.
Falcononly eu bureaucrats could pull such 2 stunts in just one gig. when a bureaucracy works, it really shines.
While better than nothing, this settlement doesn't go far enough as open source projects that are profitable still has to pay MS royalties, only .4 percent but they still have to pay them.
Falcon1) Change the Oil
Get under the car, find the oil drain plug. (Make sure it's not the transmission drain plug) Your manual can help here if it was written well. Find a ratchet and match the right sized socket.
I've rebuilt car engines, disassembled it all the way down to the engine block then reassembled it. The only thing I couldn't do was bore out the cylinders so I took it down to a machine shop. I've rebuilt transmissions and replaced the braking system as well. However when I wanted to change the oil in my Saturn I found out it required a special tool which cost an arm and a leg and only had one use. I wouldn't even try to tuneup my Saturn now.
the mortality rate in the Rwandan genocide remained constant even in areas where there were no people of a separate ethnicity to "cleanse".
Of course the mortality rate would remain the same where there was no "Others". Without others being slaughtered the mortality rate would remain the same.
Efforts to domesticate native animals have not been particularly successful. What if geneticists could lift the resistance of the local water buffalo and give it to domestic cattle?
A meat based diet isn't needed. Actually raising animals for meat causes more damage to the environment. In the US most of the corn grown is used as feed, mostly to cattle which is a ruminate and doesn't naturally eat corn. It takes something like 100 lbs of corn, and thousands of gallons of water, for each pound of meat. That corn could of been served to many more people. Don't get me wrong and think I'm a vegetarian, I'm not. I love to hunt, my favorite meats are wild boar and gator tail. Of course since moving across the country 9 years ago I haven't had either in a long tyme. But the fact is is animals and meat aren't needed as a basis of a human diet.
FalconYou said that it is easier to say than do.
Yes, I said that. However I didn' say that you said it was easy.
So, everyone can do the accounting, make sure all the bills are paid and collect all the money owned? How about running a business? Many can't do that either. Nor does everyone have the ability to find new clients. Sure, you may be able to do these things but most people can't. Many people can't even balance their checkbooks. Others aren't managers, leaders, but are followers. Still others don't have good people skills. Some of these can be learned but others people either can do naturally or can't do at all.
FalconBack in the 50s, most men knew how to fix their car, not just drive it. now most people take their car to a mechanic to fix when it breaks, sure they're more complex now
I ran into this myself. Years ago I rebuilt the 350ci engine in my '76 Monte Carlo, the only thing I couldn't do was bore out the cylinders so I took it into a machine shop. When I got my Saturn several years ago I also bought a repair manual for it, then when it came to changing the oil I found out it needed a special tool, which as far as I could find only had one use, and it cost an arm and a leg. I eventually took it down to the shop to have the oil changed.
FalconI have a theory that only when there is an odd number in the 10's place of the year is there a good music era.
Some great stuff came out in both the '80s and in the '00.
FalconHowever, like great music of other eras, its greatness won't be recognized until the creator is long dead.
Some great music now is being recognized. I don't listen to music much anymore but one performer I love is Norah Jones, who has performed with Willie Nelson and others. She released her debut album in 2002. In 2007 she released her third album, "Not Too Late" "which debuted at number one on the world charts."
FalconThere is, of course, Ron Paul who has Jefferson's insight and yet pounds it with Hemingway's simple clarity.
Ron Paul is the first, and only, person who came to my mind.
FalconIsn't this the perfect case of being proactive? A possible danger existed, was looked for, and when found was avoided without incident. This is no scarier than some Toyoda designers thinking about a modification to improve mileage and discarding it when simulations showed that it would lower passenger safety.
It wasn't particularly proactive when, because of Roundup Ready seeds from Monsanto, farmers were able to drown crops in Roundup leading to superweeds that Roundup wasn't able to kill. Now there's even a Roundup Ready coca, the same plant used to make cocaine. Now instead of spraying Colombian villages and crops with Roundup they'll be using even more poisonous or toxic chemicals on villages.
FalconActually, as you go back you see the model was completely different. Think Little house on the prairie. A teacher taught a small community of children from 5 to ~16 years of age. The teacher would basically teach the older children more advanced topics and those teens would teach the next younger group slightly less advanced topics that they had learned from the last group of teens. The teaching "trickled" down to the youngest children. So not only did you learn the material you also got to learn how to teach the material. It also had the side effect of promoting communication and a sense of community.
That's how my Second grade teacher was in a way, and she had just graduated from college. What she did was that in some subjects such as math, reading, and vocabulary she had a lot of learning aids, flash cards and such. She let us use them and learn on our own, then she encouraged the students who were ahead of the class to help those who were behind. By the end of the year two friends and I were at the 6th grade level on those subject that were self-paced. Unfortunately the following year we were stuck back in regular classes with regular teachers.
Falconaction
That might be Neo-liberalism but it is NOT Liberalism, Classical Liberalism!
FalconSo we agree on some things.
I would even argue that subsistence farming is the root of a lot of African conflict.
Here is where I disagree. I don't see subsidence farming as so much a problem as is the ethnic differences. For instance in Nigeria, the Niger Delta is multi-ethnic but government policies favor some ethnic groups over others: Nigeria: Characterising the Niger Delta Struggle . In Botswana the San or Bushmen were being forced off their ancestral lands so mining companies can get at the diamonds there: Bushmen Driven From Ancestral Lands in Botswana . Luckily the Kalahari Bushmen win ancestral land case in court in Botswana. Now the question is is will the government follow the ruling. In the Congo the fighting was partially about it's natural resources of Coltan, gold, and timber among several other natural resources.
FalconI didn't say you said it was easy.
FalconIt's funny, because I'm a free-market guy in general - but not when it comes to food. One of the hallmarks of a free market is cycles. The price of goods goes up and down as supply and demand are constantly in flux.
I don't want my food to be in a market cycle.
Food should be a secure resource. If this means subsidizing farmers in order to keep some excess capacity, so be it - I'd rather have an inefficient system than to have shortages.
I too lean more towards the freemarket but like you not when it comes to food. I believe each country or region should be food independent and not be dependent on trading with others for foods stables. Most places can have food security however farm subsidies interfere with this. It's one thing for a country, the US for instance, to store excess produce for rainy days, it's compleatly different though for the US to give agribusinesses billions of US taxpayer dollars so these companies can export food to Mexico, Brazil, or India where they can sell the food for less than local farmers can grow food. Instead of handing over billions of dollars what the government can do instead is buy and store enough surplus produce in case of emergencies, much the same as the strategic reserves of petroleum. As it is now though agribusiness is paid to export food not to stock emergency rations.
But all of that is beside the point - even the point about the Indian farmers committing suicide. I'm talking about the millions of subsistence farmers - most in Africa - who live on a plot of land that barely provides for them and their family.
I'll refer to read more about what Robert Mugabe did in Zimbabwe, which is in Africa and shares it's southern border with South Africa. allAfrica.com has some other good examples. For instance "With an upsurge in interethnic violence in eastern Chad, record numbers of people may soon be unable to find food for themselves, food aid analysts warn." Here's a good article on the relationship of food and conflict in Africa: Africa: Many Modern Conflicts Are Food Wars, Say Experts" Specifically it states "In a 2003 study, they found that more than 56 million people living in 27 countries face 'food insecurity,' such as supply disruptions, shortages and malnutrition due to conflicts".
The only way to break this cycle is to give the subsistence farmers some method of increasing their productivity such that they become capable of growing some excess to sell. Once they have food to sell, BOOM, you have an economy. This is exactly what happened in Asia during the Green Revolution.
AH, but they have to have a market they can sell excess food in, and when a US agriculture business can import food into that nation and sell food cheaper than a farmer can grow food who's going to by from the farmer? People in Third World nations will do the same as people do in the US, they buy from someplace, like Walmart, that sells food the cheapest. A farmer who can't make a living on the farm has no reason to stay on the farm. Allow the farmer to make a living on the farm though then they can afford to buy other things from others living in the area, who because they also have an income can do the same. Demand creates more demand. But subsidies interfere with this.
FalconIndeed. School used to be filled with logic and reasoning -- kids had to learn to think. Now schools are more interested in childrens' self-esteem and socialization.
Schools are also more interested in turning out good consumers.
Frankly, part of the problem is that the newest crop of teachers don't know logic or have excellent critical reasoning skills.
New teachers may be part of the problem but I don't really think they can compleatly be held accountable. In "To Kill Mockingbird", published in 1960, Harper Lee wrote something that pertains to this. In it the the lawyer's daughter's new teacher tells her it's was wrong that she learned to read as she did. First her father read the newspaper to her but he encouraged her to read as well. Because she learned to read like this she was way ahead of the rest of her class in reading.
Falcon