Trying to use technology to solve a non-technical problem?
Hey, newspapers: Stop lying to your readers, stop trying to brainwash the public according to the tastes of the big corporations that own you. Get back to being journalists.
Examples from my country: Almost all the articles in newspapers show the EU Constitution as being the best thing since sliced bread, yet polls show that most people reject it vehemently. Other examples: the invasion of Iraq, the free market. If you come from another country, reading the opinions in the newspapers will give you the exact opposite impression about the public opinion on some subject.
In these situations, the attempt to manipulate the public is so blatant that I hate the idea of wasting my money in a newspaper. And TV is even worse.
What's the use of having so many (pseudo) different newspapers, TV and radio stations? It seems like behind all of them it's the same bunch of monkeys trying to feed you the exact same bullshit with slight variations.
Labour-intensive may be a good thing in the future. The future agriculture should be labour-intensive again and the use of chemicals should be abandoned. The environment and many millions of unemployed people would be thankful.
I saw a documentary about this being done in Vietnam. Every family is given a little land. They grow their own crops without any chemicals. They get enough food for themselves and sell the remaining. The country can then feed millions that would otherwise be unemployed crowding up the cities. But this is the exact opposite of modern agriculture, so until the planet collapses most people will laugh and say "not a chance!".
Oh, my god! You are right, medical records should be carved in slate stones and carried by mules. That's the only way to be secure.
Isn't all this FUD just an organised campaign from the ones who have something to lose if the USA institute universal socialised health care? Because having a normalised electronic health record format may just be the first step...
Yes, because everyone should stop everything that we're doing in this exact moment. Why should we be growing crops when we have the global warming to fight against? Let's fight global warming, when we are finished we can think about all the other pesky things, like food.
I wouldn't root for the pirates, they're just armed thieves, not liberation heroes.
But what is causing piracy is extreme poverty and a shattered Somalia. Before reaching for the gun think how this situation can be changed.
Fighting poverty would be a lot cheaper and better for everyone than fighting its causes. You can get all the sophisticated guns you want, if there's extreme poverty you'll never be safe. And I'm not only talking about Somalia. Look at your neighborhood.
Exactly the same thing in Europe. Trucking only "appears" to be competitive because the infrastructure is assumed to be free. So we have to put up with dangerous and highly polluting (and highly uncomfortable) road transportation for everything.
Talking only for my country (Portugal) the railroad system is victim of decades of incompetent management of unprecedented proportions. It wouldn't be worse if they got a bunch of retarded apes to manage our rail system. I'm sure there's a deliberate strategy of the government to kick people away from the trains to guarantee the profit of the most powerful economic lobbies (road construction, trucking, automobile and, last but not least, oil).
Only public powers regulation can shift the odds to the rail side again. A railway system has to be thought out, designed, built and explored with the common good as its goal. This is something the private sector will neither want or be able to do.
This is an incredibly stupid problem. But it should be over when all bank cards are smart cards. With smart cards, the PIN is required to make the card work, and a secure (encrypted and MACed) session is established between the card and the Visa (or whatever) server using session keys. No PIN is in transit ever.
Just ditch the old magnetic stripe cards and get yourself smart cards.
Both my debit and credit cards are smart cards. So, no problem for me.
Easy. While the good students are trying to win engineering positions based on knowledge and hard work the others are on Facebook creating a social network that will grant them a nice management position in the future. They couldn't care less about their grades.
Congratulations, you're the master of Simpleton Economy!
Money is nothing but another commodity. Economy is about money as much as Astronomy is about telescopes. What is important is value.
First, let's look at the inflation. When the FED takes money out of its ass, there is more money in circulation, so it's worth less. It means that, if you had €100 and you could buy 100Kg of potatoes, now you need €105 to buy the same potatoes. No value was created.
Another thing to look at is the increase of the product. You used your €100 to buy 100Kg of potatoes that you planted. The yield is 1000Kg that you sell by €1000. Voilà! You have just created €900 from thin air! You can pay your loan and still pocket a big sum of money.
The following is IMHO: Producing actual stuff is the only valid way to increase wealth. The whole financial merry-go-round where money grows out of nothing is just a bunch of bullshit and relates pretty well to a Ponzi scheme. When the real economy can't hold the speculation anymore (like people massively failing to pay their houses) the whole castle of lies comes crumbling down.
I think you mean fundamentalist Muslims, not the community as a whole. Anyway, replace Muslims by Evangelist Christians, Orthodox Jews, whatever. The same sentences are true.
It is still fueled by the same stupid lack of critical thinking that fuels religion.
Couldn't agree more.
FGM is also carried out mostly by Muslims
Not sure about this one.
it will continue while Muslims continue to believe that women are second rate humans.
I live in a catholic country. In the time of my grandparents, women had to wear long skirts and their hair tied and covered. It was commonly accepted that men could have mistresses, get drunk and beat up their wives. A single mother would be cast out from society, so they had to resort to the "old hag" that made abortions. Women were not allowed to have jobs, drive a car, be alone with a man, smoke or drink, or simply leave the house in extreme cases.
It has changed a lot, but some of these things still happen, mainly in the countryside. The Muslim societies will also evolve, just give them time. Hostility against Muslims as a whole will only make the fanatic nutjobs stronger.
I think this discussion was hijacked by a bunch of Libertarian nutjobs. "Give people freedom to educate themselves"? Give me a break! Where do you get these ideas from? What does it have to do with the story? What you guys want is to go back to the Stone Age and start from scratch.
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Trying to use technology to solve a non-technical problem?
Hey, newspapers: Stop lying to your readers, stop trying to brainwash the public according to the tastes of the big corporations that own you. Get back to being journalists.
Examples from my country: Almost all the articles in newspapers show the EU Constitution as being the best thing since sliced bread, yet polls show that most people reject it vehemently. Other examples: the invasion of Iraq, the free market. If you come from another country, reading the opinions in the newspapers will give you the exact opposite impression about the public opinion on some subject.
In these situations, the attempt to manipulate the public is so blatant that I hate the idea of wasting my money in a newspaper. And TV is even worse.
What's the use of having so many (pseudo) different newspapers, TV and radio stations? It seems like behind all of them it's the same bunch of monkeys trying to feed you the exact same bullshit with slight variations.
Labour-intensive may be a good thing in the future. The future agriculture should be labour-intensive again and the use of chemicals should be abandoned. The environment and many millions of unemployed people would be thankful.
I saw a documentary about this being done in Vietnam. Every family is given a little land. They grow their own crops without any chemicals. They get enough food for themselves and sell the remaining. The country can then feed millions that would otherwise be unemployed crowding up the cities. But this is the exact opposite of modern agriculture, so until the planet collapses most people will laugh and say "not a chance!".
I see a fashion trend coming up...
People fertilise crops with cow and pig manure for millennia. How come no one never thought of that?
No, they've all gone bald by now.
New model? Assuming it was true, what would be new about that?
Oh, my god! You are right, medical records should be carved in slate stones and carried by mules. That's the only way to be secure.
Isn't all this FUD just an organised campaign from the ones who have something to lose if the USA institute universal socialised health care? Because having a normalised electronic health record format may just be the first step...
Well, at least you know where those were, it's not like someone writing to Elbonia.
Yes, because everyone should stop everything that we're doing in this exact moment. Why should we be growing crops when we have the global warming to fight against? Let's fight global warming, when we are finished we can think about all the other pesky things, like food.
West Germany, hum? Do you see many addressed to Soviet Russia?
Finally, RMS and Bill Gates agree on something!
I wouldn't root for the pirates, they're just armed thieves, not liberation heroes.
But what is causing piracy is extreme poverty and a shattered Somalia. Before reaching for the gun think how this situation can be changed.
Fighting poverty would be a lot cheaper and better for everyone than fighting its causes. You can get all the sophisticated guns you want, if there's extreme poverty you'll never be safe. And I'm not only talking about Somalia. Look at your neighborhood.
Rough translation:
One defense is the Force 80 squirt gun with a 8 cm nozzle that can send 5300 litres a minute 100 metres in any direction.
Coca Cola?
Exactly the same thing in Europe. Trucking only "appears" to be competitive because the infrastructure is assumed to be free. So we have to put up with dangerous and highly polluting (and highly uncomfortable) road transportation for everything.
Talking only for my country (Portugal) the railroad system is victim of decades of incompetent management of unprecedented proportions. It wouldn't be worse if they got a bunch of retarded apes to manage our rail system. I'm sure there's a deliberate strategy of the government to kick people away from the trains to guarantee the profit of the most powerful economic lobbies (road construction, trucking, automobile and, last but not least, oil).
Only public powers regulation can shift the odds to the rail side again. A railway system has to be thought out, designed, built and explored with the common good as its goal. This is something the private sector will neither want or be able to do.
That would be roughly 9 meters.
Wrong. To do that they would have to have certificates for every possible domain and spoof the domains.
This is an incredibly stupid problem. But it should be over when all bank cards are smart cards. With smart cards, the PIN is required to make the card work, and a secure (encrypted and MACed) session is established between the card and the Visa (or whatever) server using session keys. No PIN is in transit ever.
Just ditch the old magnetic stripe cards and get yourself smart cards.
Both my debit and credit cards are smart cards. So, no problem for me.
Humans are a skin disease of Mother Earth.
Easy. While the good students are trying to win engineering positions based on knowledge and hard work the others are on Facebook creating a social network that will grant them a nice management position in the future. They couldn't care less about their grades.
I fail to see how this comment is troll or flamebait. Guess "moderation" means more like "censorship" to some. Please read the moderation guidelines.
Congratulations, you're the master of Simpleton Economy!
Money is nothing but another commodity. Economy is about money as much as Astronomy is about telescopes. What is important is value.
First, let's look at the inflation. When the FED takes money out of its ass, there is more money in circulation, so it's worth less. It means that, if you had €100 and you could buy 100Kg of potatoes, now you need €105 to buy the same potatoes. No value was created.
Another thing to look at is the increase of the product. You used your €100 to buy 100Kg of potatoes that you planted. The yield is 1000Kg that you sell by €1000. Voilà! You have just created €900 from thin air! You can pay your loan and still pocket a big sum of money.
The following is IMHO: Producing actual stuff is the only valid way to increase wealth. The whole financial merry-go-round where money grows out of nothing is just a bunch of bullshit and relates pretty well to a Ponzi scheme. When the real economy can't hold the speculation anymore (like people massively failing to pay their houses) the whole castle of lies comes crumbling down.
I think you mean fundamentalist Muslims, not the community as a whole. Anyway, replace Muslims by Evangelist Christians, Orthodox Jews, whatever. The same sentences are true.
It is still fueled by the same stupid lack of critical thinking that fuels religion.
Couldn't agree more.
FGM is also carried out mostly by Muslims
Not sure about this one.
it will continue while Muslims continue to believe that women are second rate humans.
I live in a catholic country. In the time of my grandparents, women had to wear long skirts and their hair tied and covered. It was commonly accepted that men could have mistresses, get drunk and beat up their wives. A single mother would be cast out from society, so they had to resort to the "old hag" that made abortions. Women were not allowed to have jobs, drive a car, be alone with a man, smoke or drink, or simply leave the house in extreme cases.
It has changed a lot, but some of these things still happen, mainly in the countryside. The Muslim societies will also evolve, just give them time. Hostility against Muslims as a whole will only make the fanatic nutjobs stronger.
I think this discussion was hijacked by a bunch of Libertarian nutjobs. "Give people freedom to educate themselves"? Give me a break! Where do you get these ideas from? What does it have to do with the story? What you guys want is to go back to the Stone Age and start from scratch.