Everyone is throwing around the idea of "embrace and convert", that is, by doing business with Americans the Chinese will become more like us and get political freedom.
Leaving aside the current state of American political freedom and the respect Americans have for true freedom, to my knowledge the only ex-totalitarian regimes that are "ex" are the result of those countries faulty economic systems eroding the totalitarian regimes from within.
What you say is true, but the way you say it is not useful.
I have been in similar situations where the only time I could get to work on improving my life was the time I had to regenerate from the life I currently had.
It was rough and it was worth it.
It helps if you can learn to like those tasks or associate with people engaged (successfully) in similar pursuits. The second one will generate momentum.
Once you have a resume done, job hunting is not so bad as it is mostly reading a few sites and sending emails out each week. 2-3 hours per weekend is plenty with lots of time left over to have a real weekend.
A few years back I read an article in a head hunter's/HR magazine that warned about using the threat of leaving your current job as getting something you wanted from your current employer.
The article said such tactics work. However, such tactics often result in getting fired or taken out of cool jobs later because your employer no longer sees you as a stable proposition. Your old employer will basically give you what you want so they can be the ones who choose when you leave.
A few days ago someone started a thread about Google News coming out of beta. I referred to an earlier slashdot article describing how the algorithm for Google News had a bias toward right wing sources.
A comment about Google News, in a thread about Google News, based on a slashdot article about Google News was marked as "flame bait" by several mods.
That is the same thing people are criticizing China for in this thread which is getting hostile over what people have to say instead of dealing with the truth.
Don't get me wrong. What the government of the PRC does sucks and Google is wrong in enabling them, but before slashdotters get on their high horses they ( at least those mods ) should ask themselves if they are any better.
On one hand, I'm happy to see that rampant idiocy isn't a uniquely American trait.
Ditto.
There are some things which seem will always be true. The rest of the world may hate ( justifiably ) my country, but Britian will be a true friend through thick and thin.
As an American I felt alone in a country where the christian taliban reelected George Bush and brought back creationism from its death at the Scopes Monkey trial from the 20s.
Never fear, the UK reelected Tony Blair and now this survey.
George Orwell got it right. The U.K., US, & Canada are the defacto unit of the future ( he called it "Oceania"). Heck Britian has that new system that will track the movements of ordin ary citizens. We have the NSA and wiretapping shamelessly authorized by the president.
Throw in the outsourcing and it looks like the people who control Oceania are converting it to a 3rd world country. Religion, Walmart jobs, and a fascist government. Just like 1984.
I think the implicitly stiff fee is to slow down OSS developers from discovering the undocumented hooks in windows so they can make better windwos emulations.
It is "flame bait" to mention a slashdot article about Google in another slashdot article about Google?
I'm sorry, the people who modded my post down need to grow up.
I didn't think it was political bias even then, just thought the algorithm needed a kick to get a greater spread of sources. I suspect the same algorithm would have been used for both the US and UK sites, and so I imagine in the US by chance the appearance of bias fell to the right, rather than to the left as it did in the UK.
There is no reason to think that the same algorithm for choosing sources would be used in the US and the UK. There was yet another slashdot article that revealed that Google willingly censored content for the People's Republic Of China at the request of that government.
If anyone here is interested in improving their time management or boosting their personal growth...such as "doing what you love" as Mr. Grahm wrote I highly recommend stevepalina.com
Steve Pavlina is games programmer turned personal growth export. In addition to having a variety of inspirational articles on his site he also has a (mostly) daily blog.
I often take brakes from my work by going to the web. I also end up wasting a lot of time there. Now, I have been going to Steve Pavlina's site, reading a short, online, inspirational article about productivity/personal growth, and getting off the web faster, inspired to do better.
Several months ago there was an article on slashdot claiming that the algorithm for google news had a built in bias to favor politically conservative/right wing news sources?
Is this still true?
Translation
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IE7 Leaked
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· Score: 2, Insightful
"IE7 has been leaked according to pcpro. From the article: '...last Friday it was revealed that a build of the new browser - version 5299 - along with numerous screenshots, was available online.' "
Translation:
Companies pretend to have details about a new or upgraded product "leaked" to generate anticipation/excitement for the release of the aforementioned product. Somebody in Microsoft's marketing department is not aware that most people have caught on this.
You could just do the radical thing. Educate people to turn off lights when they leave, turn off computer monitors, drive cars instead of SUVS, turn things off when they don't use them.
Why would Bush target Google? What's his (or his administration's) benefit?
He wasn't. Google was just one of a crowd that said "no" to his administration.
Now his administration might target Google as they are a prominent organization and they told his administration "no", creating an example for others to follow.
The kind of McCarthyesque trend that the bush administration has been promoting tends to fall apart when the people get tired of it and someone very publicly stands up against it.
Gonzales might have gotten away with this in the post 9/11 hysteria.
Now, years and broken promises later people are tired of it all.
Gonzales already lost it for the bush administration by having Google tell him "No".
If he pursues them in court he will just draw more public attention and outrage to the situation, worsening the bush administration image with every public word that is spoken about it.
Maybe bacteria laden keyboards are a blessing in disguise.
A few weeks ago I was at a party listening in on some cocktail talk between some doctors and health researchers. They were commenting about how some water borne bacteria was being (they think successfully ) experimented with to boost human immunity. This bacteria is cleaned out water by public sanitation systems.
A few weeks before that my local news had a piece about a girl with a peanut allergy who died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich earlier in the day.
The after story commentary mentioned how the number of allergies among teens is on the rise and how some ( only some ) experts were looking at the theory that middle class US life is too clean. Antibacterial this and antibacterial that do not allow young immune systems to get stimulated/strengthened.
I'm not an expert and these things are saw are not hard science.
Just introducing a thought, that as with everything else in life you can have too much of a good thing....even cleanliness.
Re:Why this is important
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by Chrononium (925164) Alter Relationship on Tuesday January 10, @05:21PM (#14440675)
Just an observation: science usually relies upon some sense of causality in order to establish relationships between events. Causality is a belief and cannot be proven to exist.
Religion is about causality too. Explanations abound in religion. See my original post for the difference between science and religion. The post someone marked as "troll" in a thread about science and religion.
Oy. People should think about that the next time they laugh at Kansas, Pennsilvania, another ID state, or the taliban.
The narrow minded bigots who get offended by truth and who react to that offense by trying to stamp it out are not all "out there". Some of them are here and they have mod points.
Slashdot Mirror
Everyone is throwing around the idea of "embrace and convert", that is, by doing business with Americans the Chinese will become more like us and get political freedom.
Leaving aside the current state of American political freedom and the respect Americans have for true freedom, to my knowledge the only ex-totalitarian regimes that are "ex" are the result of those countries faulty economic systems eroding the totalitarian regimes from within.
I have heard the idea that embracing China with western values will eventually melt that totalitarian elements in their government.
Well, one question is, "how". How, if they don't get exposed to those values if they are censored out?
Freedom to do business leading to political freedom is a big assumption.
Somebody will tell me to give it time. Well, that is what the communists said. Give it time and give it the right conditions.
I'm open minded, but I would like to hear some details for how is it going to work and forecasts for how long( however inflated for safety margins ).
I'm like many people who think this is just about money and the "embrace em to convert em" rationale is just that.
I think your post was the most powerful statement I have seen in a long time.
If I was part of google and I read your post I would be doing a microsoft right about now ( throwing office furniture out the window ).
What you say is true, but the way you say it is not useful.
I have been in similar situations where the only time I could get to work on improving my life was the time I had to regenerate from the life I currently had.
It was rough and it was worth it.
It helps if you can learn to like those tasks or associate with people engaged (successfully) in similar pursuits. The second one will generate momentum.
Once you have a resume done, job hunting is not so bad as it is mostly reading a few sites and sending emails out each week. 2-3 hours per weekend is plenty with lots of time left over to have a real weekend.
A few years back I read an article in a head hunter's/HR magazine that warned about using the threat of leaving your current job as getting something you wanted from your current employer.
The article said such tactics work. However, such tactics often result in getting fired or taken out of cool jobs later because your employer no longer sees you as a stable proposition. Your old employer will basically give you what you want so they can be the ones who choose when you leave.
A few days ago someone started a thread about Google News coming out of beta. I referred to an earlier slashdot article describing how the algorithm for Google News had a bias toward right wing sources.
A comment about Google News, in a thread about Google News, based on a slashdot article about Google News was marked as "flame bait" by several mods.
That is the same thing people are criticizing China for in this thread which is getting hostile over what people have to say instead of dealing with the truth.
Don't get me wrong. What the government of the PRC does sucks and Google is wrong in enabling them, but before slashdotters get on their high horses they ( at least those mods ) should ask themselves if they are any better.
Ditto.
There are some things which seem will always be true. The rest of the world may hate ( justifiably ) my country, but Britian will be a true friend through thick and thin.
As an American I felt alone in a country where the christian taliban reelected George Bush and brought back creationism from its death at the Scopes Monkey trial from the 20s.
Never fear, the UK reelected Tony Blair and now this survey.
George Orwell got it right. The U.K., US, & Canada are the defacto unit of the future ( he called it "Oceania"). Heck Britian has that new system that will track the movements of ordin ary citizens. We have the NSA and wiretapping shamelessly authorized by the president.
Throw in the outsourcing and it looks like the people who control Oceania are converting it to a 3rd world country. Religion, Walmart jobs, and a fascist government. Just like 1984.
Dumb, poor, and scared.
I think the implicitly stiff fee is to slow down OSS developers from discovering the undocumented hooks in windows so they can make better windwos emulations.
1. A thread about google news is posted to slashdot
c fm?NewsID=5233&inkc=0
2. I comment about a previous slashdot thread illustrating a algorithmic political bias in google news and how google censors
news in China.
3. My post, an on topic factual comment gets modded as "flamebait"
4. This new article about Google censoring news in China is posted:
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.
5. I repectfully question the integrity and the maturity of the slashdot moderators.
It is "flame bait" to mention a slashdot article about Google in another slashdot article about Google? I'm sorry, the people who modded my post down need to grow up.
If anyone here is interested in improving their time management or boosting their personal growth...such as "doing what you love" as Mr. Grahm wrote I highly recommend stevepalina.com
Steve Pavlina is games programmer turned personal growth export. In addition to having a variety of inspirational articles on his site he also has a (mostly) daily blog.
I often take brakes from my work by going to the web. I also end up wasting a lot of time there. Now, I have been going to Steve Pavlina's site, reading a short, online, inspirational article about productivity/personal growth, and getting off the web faster, inspired to do better.
FWIW...
http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/
Several months ago there was an article on slashdot claiming that the algorithm for google news had a built in bias to favor politically conservative/right wing news sources?
Is this still true?
Translation:
Companies pretend to have details about a new or upgraded product "leaked" to generate anticipation/excitement for the release of the aforementioned product. Somebody in Microsoft's marketing department is not aware that most people have caught on this.
You could just do the radical thing. Educate people to turn off lights when they leave, turn off computer monitors, drive cars instead of SUVS, turn things off when they don't use them.
He wasn't. Google was just one of a crowd that said "no"
to his administration.
Now his administration might target Google as they are a prominent organization and they told his administration "no", creating an example for others to follow.
I think the bush administration has already lost.
The kind of McCarthyesque trend that the bush administration has been promoting tends to fall apart when the people get tired of it and someone very publicly stands up against it.
Gonzales might have gotten away with this in the post 9/11 hysteria.
Now, years and broken promises later people are tired of it all.
Gonzales already lost it for the bush administration by having Google tell him "No".
If he pursues them in court he will just draw more public attention and outrage to the situation, worsening the bush administration image with every public word that is spoken about it.
The fact that the situation exists is your answer. Corporations do not go into these things without thinking them through.
American IT firms have shown they have no problems hiring people of color ( mostly Indians on H1-Bs ) if the price is right.
I see that stuff happen all of the time in my current job among people of the same color. It is about big egos propping up weak self esteem
Maybe bacteria laden keyboards are a blessing in disguise.
A few weeks ago I was at a party listening in on some cocktail talk between some doctors and health researchers. They were commenting about how some water borne bacteria was being (they think successfully ) experimented with to boost human immunity. This bacteria is cleaned out water by public sanitation systems.
A few weeks before that my local news had a piece about a girl with a peanut allergy who died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich earlier in the day.
The after story commentary mentioned how the number of allergies among teens is on the rise and how some ( only some ) experts were looking at the theory that middle class US life is too clean. Antibacterial this and antibacterial that do not allow young immune systems to get stimulated/strengthened.
I'm not an expert and these things are saw are not hard science.
Just introducing a thought, that as with everything else in life you can have too much of a good thing....even cleanliness.
I read an article a few years ago about 5000 year old tomato seeds recovered from a pyramid toumb being sprouted and grown.
Maybe the people working in Norway in 2006 know something better.
Yes, very much so.
Can you filter cross posts in usenet? I ask because the functionality is there in mozilla, it just hasn't been exposed in the UI.
Mozilla also has a bug that if you filter on one author it takes out the entire thread instead of just that author and replies to him/her.
Does Thunderbird go beyond that bug?
The narrow minded bigots who get offended by truth and who react to that offense by trying to stamp it out are not all "out there". Some of them are here and they have mod points.