Making sure the Nazi's stayed out of power in Germany doesn't seem as onerous as you make it out.
Not quite, it was more like ensuring we (or better our grandparent) don't swing all the way and vote socialist democratic party or worse communist party of Germany. The "right" party was the christian democratic union.
You see there is a fine line between making sure that evil-party X is not elected again and making sure that our favorite-buddy-party Y and no other is elected.
Yep, the American invasion and occupation of Germany was one of history's great tragedies. It was a dark day indeed when the conquering imperial forces of the American empire came marching through Berlin.
Only I commented on the years which came after conquering forces of the USA came marching through Berlin.
And yes, it could have been worse. And it was for east Germany.
I only commented that the first so called "free election" in Germany was fixed. The USA says they bring democracy and then make sure enough people vote for the "right" party.
And even comparing US "propaganda" with 40 years of communist oppression and total media control in east germany is bending history.
I never did compare. My initial comment was about the USA only. There are a lot of people here who can't consider the possibility of some middle ground.
ait, what? As far as I know my grandpa used his freedom to regulary vote (socialist) SPD, as did 30% of the population in the first elections after the war.
So did my Grandpa - even before the war. And good for them that they withstood the onslaught of CIA designed propaganda.
Oh, and 5,7% voted communist. And you know what: They were not getting any disadvantages for voting KPD.
For the USA and the CIA the SPD and KPD where more or less the same. If you look at some of the other post here you will see that the citizen of the USA still can not distinguish between socialism and communism.
IN A FREE AND EQUAL ELECTION.
If you call it equal when one political party gets huge sums from a foreign country to pay for their propaganda. If they actually get their propaganda designed by a foreign countries intelligence service.
And it just might be that without the USA's influence the SPD might have actually won that election first elections after the war. We never know of course.
But we all know what the Russians did, don't we. My point is that the USA was more subtle but not necessarily nicer.
And thinking on the flame war I kicked loose - there is to much boolean logic here. Like if I don't like USA-capiltalism them I must be a Communist. No middle ground here.
Neither France, nor Italy, nor Britain where told by the CIA to vote CDU / Adenauer. And they did not turn into communist states either.
but I care a lot about freedom
But this is what I am saying: Our parents did not have that freedom. They where either told by the USSR or by the USA what to do. Maybe it was necessary after the war. But it is not necessary to keep it silent. Below an AC speaks about "ostalgie" seeing what happened under USSR occupancy in to bright colours - but what about "westalgie".
I spoke about "uncontrolled capitalism". The kind of capitalism the USA tries to export. You see between black and white there are all sorts of other colours and shades of grey.
History Channel - but that is Pay-TV not anybody can or wants to afford that. I find it interesting that nether Government-TV nor Advertising-TV mentions these thing.
Given the relative wealth and GDP of East and West, I'd say it worked out pretty well for the population at large.
Did it relay? As far as I see it we are in a depression right now created by - guess what - uncontrolled capitalism and the USA. Not to mention that the great depression of the 1930 was of course also created by uncontrolled capitalism and the USA.
Which is why we did not want capitalism after the war and the CIA propaganda specialist had to give there very best.
But be assured: the US spent a lot of money making sure that the Nazis were defeated, and it was going to get its payback.
An so they will get there money back in Afghanistan. To paraphrase an old saying: for USA war is just the continues of trade with other means.
But this is not the point. The question was: Will Afghans love to have been patronized by the United States in 50 years time. I say: NO, no one likes to be patronized by anyone.
argued as benefiting the greater good... in half a century's time.
Or the very opposite. As a German some of those History-Channel post WWII reports make me puke. All those niceties the USA did to us after there war where not that nice at all. Instead the USA fixed our elections, brain washed us with pro-capitalistic propaganda (designed by CIA specialists), made us have an army again (which we did not want at the time) and ignored a chance for re-unification because the USA did not want us to be neutral.
Even worse, in the end the only ones who will benefit are USA corporations.
Fixed that for you. And congratualtions since this will be good news for most/. readers as they live in the USA. Another country to expoilt. Go for it.
Sony Ericsson did that as well for there Android smart-phone: create a customised experience on top Android 1.6. Probably to create a “unique selling point”. When they where finished with tweaking the Donut everybody already had a 2nd Eclair;-) . Sony at least promised everybody to supply Eclairs later in September:ROFL:
I hope they learn the hard way that the best “unique selling point” is the having the new version ready at max one month after release day. In the mean time I have some Froyo on my Nexus-One.
And funnily enough: GCC Ada is written in Ada. Because the real (not pseudo) high integrity developers won't trust a language which (easily) allows to cast a pointer to an integer.
You use a cross compiler. But it is painful - GNU Ada is self hosted and moving Ada to a new platform is quite painful. But once done it's a lot more fun. Why should Ada, Fortran or C++ advocates be forced to use C to improver their favourite compiler.
And maybe the move to C++ also means better cross compiler support.
In my home country we don't use ASCII any more. We just like our äöü and you need at least ISO_8859-1 for that. And wife would need ISO_8859-5 for her eBooks. You guys from the US are so inconsiderate.
And as for PDF: PDF preserves to much and is therefore unusable for different screen sizes.
PDF is not an eBook format - it's a publishing format. PDF is the total opposite of an eBook format:
1) And eBook format should be light weight, easy to implement on small devices. PDF is the opposite. 2) And eBook format should support re-flow to work on different screen sizes. PDF is specificity designed for support exactly one target size.
Suggesting PDF means you have no idea whatsoever about the issue at hand. Bit like suggesting that Mack should join the formula one.
And living in a country where we don't actually use plain ASCII I find pain text is not all that helpful either.
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Frankfurt. Even with Frankfurt and Dresten being particular bad examples. Frankfurt being the banking capital and Dresten being a national trauma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden#Second_World_War .
Making sure the Nazi's stayed out of power in Germany doesn't seem as onerous as you make it out.
Not quite, it was more like ensuring we (or better our grandparent) don't swing all the way and vote socialist democratic party or worse communist party of Germany. The "right" party was the christian democratic union.
You see there is a fine line between making sure that evil-party X is not elected again and making sure that our favorite-buddy-party Y and no other is elected.
Yep, the American invasion and occupation of Germany was one of history's great tragedies. It was a dark day indeed when the conquering imperial forces of the American empire came marching through Berlin.
Only I commented on the years which came after conquering forces of the USA came marching through Berlin.
And yes, it could have been worse. And it was for east Germany.
I only commented that the first so called "free election" in Germany was fixed. The USA says they bring democracy and then make sure enough people vote for the "right" party.
And even comparing US "propaganda" with 40 years of communist oppression and total media control in east germany is bending history.
I never did compare. My initial comment was about the USA only. There are a lot of people here who can't consider the possibility of some middle ground.
ait, what? As far as I know my grandpa used his freedom to regulary vote (socialist) SPD, as did 30% of the population in the first elections after the war.
So did my Grandpa - even before the war. And good for them that they withstood the onslaught of CIA designed propaganda.
Oh, and 5,7% voted communist. And you know what: They were not getting any disadvantages for voting KPD.
For the USA and the CIA the SPD and KPD where more or less the same. If you look at some of the other post here you will see that the citizen of the USA still can not distinguish between socialism and communism.
IN A FREE AND EQUAL ELECTION.
If you call it equal when one political party gets huge sums from a foreign country to pay for their propaganda. If they actually get their propaganda designed by a foreign countries intelligence service.
And it just might be that without the USA's influence the SPD might have actually won that election first elections after the war. We never know of course.
What do you think the Russians would have done
But we all know what the Russians did, don't we. My point is that the USA was more subtle but not necessarily nicer.
And thinking on the flame war I kicked loose - there is to much boolean logic here. Like if I don't like USA-capiltalism them I must be a Communist. No middle ground here.
It was the British the French and the Soviets who went around carting off everything of value in Germany including entire factories and shipyards.
Actually i think the USA had the most valuable war pillage of them all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Braun and his team.
But I don't blame them, Germany lost the war after all. And I never said that the East-Germans had it better.
the alternative had been communism
Neither France, nor Italy, nor Britain where told by the CIA to vote CDU / Adenauer. And they did not turn into communist states either.
but I care a lot about freedom
But this is what I am saying: Our parents did not have that freedom. They where either told by the USSR or by the USA what to do. Maybe it was necessary after the war. But it is not necessary to keep it silent. Below an AC speaks about "ostalgie" seeing what happened under USSR occupancy in to bright colours - but what about "westalgie".
I take it you don't have History Channel or Spiegel TV.
I spoke about "uncontrolled capitalism". The kind of capitalism the USA tries to export. You see between black and white there are all sorts of other colours and shades of grey.
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History Channel - but that is Pay-TV not anybody can or wants to afford that. I find it interesting that nether Government-TV nor Advertising-TV mentions these thing.
PS: Did I burn some Karma today...
Given the relative wealth and GDP of East and West, I'd say it worked out pretty well for the population at large.
Did it relay? As far as I see it we are in a depression right now created by - guess what - uncontrolled capitalism and the USA. Not to mention that the great depression of the 1930 was of course also created by uncontrolled capitalism and the USA.
Which is why we did not want capitalism after the war and the CIA propaganda specialist had to give there very best.
But be assured: the US spent a lot of money making sure that the Nazis were defeated, and it was going to get its payback.
An so they will get there money back in Afghanistan. To paraphrase an old saying: for USA war is just the continues of trade with other means.
But this is not the point. The question was: Will Afghans love to have been patronized by the United States in 50 years time. I say: NO, no one likes to be patronized by anyone.
argued as benefiting the greater good... in half a century's time.
Or the very opposite. As a German some of those History-Channel post WWII reports make me puke. All those niceties the USA did to us after there war where not that nice at all. Instead the USA fixed our elections, brain washed us with pro-capitalistic propaganda (designed by CIA specialists), made us have an army again (which we did not want at the time) and ignored a chance for re-unification because the USA did not want us to be neutral.
Martin
Even worse, in the end the only ones who will benefit are USA corporations.
Fixed that for you. And congratualtions since this will be good news for most /. readers as they live in the USA. Another country to expoilt. Go for it.
I guess you meant gratis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis .
Repeat after me: Not having a monopoly is illegal, using it to gain a 2nd is.
You would need an execute file attribute first of course
Sony Ericsson did that as well for there Android smart-phone: create a customised experience on top Android 1.6. Probably to create a “unique selling point”. When they where finished with tweaking the Donut everybody already had a 2nd Eclair ;-) . Sony at least promised everybody to supply Eclairs later in September :ROFL:
I hope they learn the hard way that the best “unique selling point” is the having the new version ready at max one month after release day. In the mean time I have some Froyo on my Nexus-One.
Martin
rockets and reactor software should neither be written in C nor in C++. For those you should use SPARK Ada:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
And funnily enough: GCC Ada is written in Ada. Because the real (not pseudo) high integrity developers won't trust a language which (easily) allows to cast a pointer to an integer.
Actually not all gcc is written in C. The Ada front-end is written in Ada. I think it is the way to go, all language front-ends should be self hosted.
You use a cross compiler. But it is painful - GNU Ada is self hosted and moving Ada to a new platform is quite painful. But once done it's a lot more fun. Why should Ada, Fortran or C++ advocates be forced to use C to improver their favourite compiler.
And maybe the move to C++ also means better cross compiler support.
Anyway: self hosted Fortran next!
In my home country we don't use ASCII any more. We just like our äöü and you need at least ISO_8859-1 for that. And wife would need ISO_8859-5 for her eBooks. You guys from the US are so inconsiderate.
And as for PDF: PDF preserves to much and is therefore unusable for different screen sizes.
PDF is not an eBook format - it's a publishing format. PDF is the total opposite of an eBook format:
1) And eBook format should be light weight, easy to implement on small devices. PDF is the opposite.
2) And eBook format should support re-flow to work on different screen sizes. PDF is specificity designed for support exactly one target size.
Suggesting PDF means you have no idea whatsoever about the issue at hand. Bit like suggesting that Mack should join the formula one.
And living in a country where we don't actually use plain ASCII I find pain text is not all that helpful either.
So how is that different from the suggestion from the first post?
Not modified HTML, just plain XHTML.