Activists say women in many parts of Afghanistan -- including Herat, which is ruled with an iron fist by provincial governor and warlord Ismail Khan -- still face repression and harassment.
Virdee says the continued crackdown on women's rights is contributing to the rise in self-immolation cases.
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Ahmad Bassir is a Herat-based correspondent for Radio Free Afghanistan. He says women see no difference between their lives now and under the Taliban, and that desperation drives them to attempt suicide.
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Bassir adds that the despair is especially strong among women who once lived as refugees in neighboring Iran, where women enjoy far greater rights.
So in summary, for many Afghan women, the situation in Afhanistan today is so bad -- for some it's worse than it was for them in Iran -- with even fewer prospects for improvements in their lives, that they commit suicide by setting fire to themselves.
I'll just repeat your words to give the proper constrast:
Afghanistan today: Most of the people are feeling optimistic about their future after decades of war and oppression.
And ofcourse PostgreSQL, as others have mentioned.
While I don't have evidence on hand that either are a full substitute for SQL Server, they all "kick the price pants off" SQL Server, and with a solid feature set to boot.
Well, their product do cause some diet and healht problems. All the suggar is a problem. This of cause is also a moral question. Is it really coca colas problem how people use their product.
When reasoning along this line Coca-Cola isn't the right organization to focus on. Instead, consider how the sugar-industry has used some pretty heavy-handed tactics when trying to get the WHO to suppress a report which, amongst other things, stated that "sugar should account for no more than 10% of a healthy diet." Keeping information from people of health problems with their products would make one complicit in problems related to how people use their products.
Many of the problems with capitalism seem to be realted to individuals lacking information...
IANAE, but AFAIK: They don't just "seem to be"; in economics this is called "Asymmetric Information", and is one of the four principal causes of market failure.
After all, you speak of the different economic systems but they are really just different points along the spectrum of government control. (...) So, are you planning to just pick different points on the scale until you find a "sweet spot"? Or are you hoping for new scale to appear?
Here's a new scale: www.politicalcompass.org. In short, it separates the economic aspect from the social (or "how-much-control-has-the-government-over-society" ) aspect.
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"Most of the people are feeling optimistic" has a very hollow ring to it when you know how many Afgahn women are committing suicide:
Afghanistan: Self-Immolation Of Women On The Rise In Western Provinces
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Activists say women in many parts of Afghanistan -- including Herat, which is ruled with an iron fist by provincial governor and warlord Ismail Khan -- still face repression and harassment.
Virdee says the continued crackdown on women's rights is contributing to the rise in self-immolation cases.
(...)
Ahmad Bassir is a Herat-based correspondent for Radio Free Afghanistan. He says women see no difference between their lives now and under the Taliban, and that desperation drives them to attempt suicide.
(...)
Bassir adds that the despair is especially strong among women who once lived as refugees in neighboring Iran, where women enjoy far greater rights.
So in summary, for many Afghan women, the situation in Afhanistan today is so bad -- for some it's worse than it was for them in Iran -- with even fewer prospects for improvements in their lives, that they commit suicide by setting fire to themselves.
I'll just repeat your words to give the proper constrast:
Afghanistan today: Most of the people are feeling optimistic about their future after decades of war and oppression.
More:
Death by fire: the agonising way out for trapped Afghan women
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Well, pardon me, but open source databases are more than MySQL. The significant open source databases, in terms of features, not number of users, are:
- MaxDB, formerly SAP DB.
- Firebird, a fork of Interbase 6.0
- And ofcourse PostgreSQL, as others have mentioned.
While I don't have evidence on hand that either are a full substitute for SQL Server, they all "kick the price pants off" SQL Server, and with a solid feature set to boot.Well then, in the words of groundskeeper Willie: Bonjour, you cheese eating surrender monkey!
When reasoning along this line Coca-Cola isn't the right organization to focus on. Instead, consider how the sugar-industry has used some pretty heavy-handed tactics when trying to get the WHO to suppress a report which, amongst other things, stated that "sugar should account for no more than 10% of a healthy diet." Keeping information from people of health problems with their products would make one complicit in problems related to how people use their products.