On another note, please compete with other countries that offer much the same, plus quality of life (not in the sprawl of london with overpriced property, for starters. And the weather....).
Added points : Nicely educated and efficient workers tend to come with wife and kids too. One does not relocate his family based on a "work contract" at risk of termination at the slightest whim of an employer.
Slavery is long gone. You will have to provide a far better deal for highly educated specialists.
Also, please remember that your language (well globish really) is the only langage needed to work as a security specialist in most of the world. (But of course a second and a third langage is even better).
I can understand that you want to guard against the unwashed masses (poor uneducated). We can even agree that ethnicity is definitly a factor that should be taken under consideration.
But with your conditions... Well, good luck to attract highly skilled workers in the global competition. It would be easier to emigrate to the U.S. !
Well,
I believe this concept to be outdated. A bit like the "intellectual Property transfer rights".
Nowadays, the paptent holder for IP rights dwelves in tiny european countries. The countries made a business model out of stealing fiscal product of their neighbor.
Nobody complains, because everybody uses them. Hell the president of the european commission was the "tax evader in chief" as head stateman of Luxembourg for the better part of his career.
Honestly, It would be much simpler to tax the benefits of the company based on their profit, country by country. After all, what is the meaning of the location of the headquarter of a multinational in our connected world ?
Nowadays, Apple transfered its headquarter in a tiny british Island known for its very low corporate tax (zero).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...
Oudated context.
You simply don't need to pollute the system files in order to "install an app" on Unix. That is one of it's key strengths.
You mispelled "weakness" somewhere around the end of your sentence.
Informatics is no more a tool made for smart people, but mass of idiots, with an evil smartass among them...
What really scared me is that such an insanity, and inrespectfull change to the 40+ years old Unix security model still made it into production release of the main community effort of the 1st worldwide Linux vendor !!!
Ouch, what a reputation backclash...
A great way to feed microserfs with arguments against Linux, in a 300 000 desktop swithching war, I expect to hear from it tomorrow. Linux more insecure than Activer Directory limited user accounts....
Thanks great "would be god" damnned developper
Where technical details are irrelevant, and corporate politics is paramount, you sure fucked up a big way... Crappy DevBoy
By the way, if you read the fedora bug mailing list, or if you were a security practionner, you would know that nowadays, the/home/$Username is all the worm writers really cares about. That and running an SMTP daemon, over port 1024 need it be.
Basically, the power for a normal unix user to run and install program , even networked daemon, if only given a compiler is my biggest headache now...
I like to challenge Linux lovers, how to you prevent this in a non "I have all the time of the world in my parent's basement" way ?
SELINUX ? MAC security model ? Please I am speaking corporate security, US or fedex postal style, where $$$ is money
Sure thing I just love Linux for central servers without any user interactions. I keep kiling Sun Solaris wherever i see it for Redhat
But Windows, with their "no freaking right to do anything" as a domain limited user, is still easier to secure than a Linux desktop (we tried Novell, what a freaking horrible mistake, only german loved it)
Speaking from a 300 000 people company strategic overview (1st european, 2nd in the world). Yep, it is Windows 7 versus Ubuntu decision strategic thinking time... Sure Windows XP is still the reference around here, Linux (ubuntu really) got a lot a stuff going for it, but security is not one of them as much as you could think
These specific distros can be built now, since 2000 in fact, based upon Debian. And can be sold! I did dosh of cash out of them... Mail server, all included, some web interface. Sell 40 of them, put one guy behind it. Each install provide you 100 euros, put one 2000 euros guy behind... You have made 2000 euros ! (well, far less because of tax and so on but you got the idea). Your added value? you have designed the conf for the SMB, and you maintain it. One product (Mail server) and then you spend your spare time building the net one (Firewall anyone ?). You go back to your mail servers clients and sell thyem your firewall. And it keeps going on... True you will face a growth problem, for this model doesnot scale very well (around 10 persons it becomes messy as hell). But by the time, you have 2 - 3 years experience and can get a bigger job, leaving the place for other young one to take over.
Finnally some good sense. There is a true business model for adoption of Linux in SMB:
- Ask for a specification of the network service they want (Firewall, File server, Mail, Whatever)
- Ask for the money you will spend in hardware + a one time installation cost...
- Install the stuff in a smart way (automatic update, security and SSH, plus the functionality required)
- Ask for a small fee montly for keeping an eye on the stuff you installed. Make trivial modifications for free. If someting big is to be done, they will come back to you. You are so cheap (of course it woks so easily, one guy can look after 40 servers under linux, but only 10 under winwin!) and it just works for them (My cutomers like Linux, since it works like a black box, reliable, stable etc, etc...They doint have to care and it is cheap)...
This is a good side job, and pays well enough if you are not greedy (otherwise go and get this Phd in Information system management with a major in HR Outsourcing. Yes I'am a btrayer of my kind). It provide local jobs, local expertise being needed. The only problem is : Know how to talk to others. A lot of geeks are simply pathetic when it comes to business relationship. You are a "not so good" geek but know how to speak? Great, get three "hardcore geeks" friends, build a company (almost no entry costs really), get a few clients (while you are still finishing your studies...) and see your business grow. Dont give back to the community at first, but build your set of solutions by sticking to a few Open source products. When you will be bigger, add quality to your products (your Samba based PDC is now tied to a central LDAP and so on...) and leave the basic installs (Firewall) to other crappy students (you once were one). Product with better quality? More money to you. And then you can start giving back to the community in the form of tutorials, adaptations and so on... Follow your clients as they evolve. Really a truly simple and profitable business model. To start, It only requires a few slashdotters as "consultants", or if you are good enough, only yourself. Bingo, you have money. I'm amaze there is so few businesses like mine back in the time I started (2000). And there is a real need ! I suspect that the only reason why these "local Linux services providers for SMB" are so few is slashdot... Too much lazy geeks around here. They prefer to bitch at Microsoft rather than bringing linux in the SMBs...
PS: I sold the business, since I needed to move to Japan. I cant run this company anymore since I'm no more "local". This testifies of the fact that those jobs cant be "outsourced", as long as you play with SMBs...One more time, I now spend my day outsourcing IT, and no SMBs can do this, the scale factor is just too important for Outsourcing schemes to become relevant
You could make more money out of Linux, while improving linux adoption in SMBs...instead of waiting to be laid off by BigEvil.con and complaining about it
Just my too cents of euros or yens, as you wish...
Just an opinion to inform how internet in its current state is perceived as a US hegemony vessel
The american "free speach" concept is good, to some extends. It is difficult to argue that free speach is not one core component of democracy. However it is only one component, that should be balanced with other concerns (in our opinion).
Just an example: Remember the Yahoo "nazi auctions"? Many americans argued that it was perfectly legitimate since opposing Yahoo "nazi auctions" would be restricting free speach, and therefore democracy. They missed one point: "free speach" is only one component of democraty. From where I am, an equally important point is "brotherhood". Therefore we balance "brotherhood" core value with "free speach" core value. As a result, we ban "hate speach". This is ridiculous from an american outlook, but I never found somebody able to explain me how balancing "free speach" with "brotherhood" was "undemocratic". It is our perception of democracy, as we want it. Now why, by accepting the Internet as a communication tool, should we bow to the american conception of democracy (uniquely based on "free speach") ? Now I hope you now understand why Internet is perceived sometimes as American Imperialism. Internt is a tool, and this tool should be used to express ourselves and communicate with others. Communication means respect. In this continent, home of the worst thing that have ever happenned to the humanity (Including everything you want, Vichy France, Nazi etc, etc...), some topics are not to be treated lightly. If lying is a crime for financial result of a corporation, lying on the subject of the worse mass murder ever should be also. Why the hell cant we apply our laws, expressions of our morality, history, ethics to the Internet? Because of american "free speach"? Sure China will abuse it, hell let them do what they want, they are sovereign in their country. So do we. We dont need americans and their uniform view of the world for deciding what is right or wrong...
If american, who can be praised for offering the internet to the world, want to turn this fantastic tool into yet another cultural imperialism tool, well, I suppose the author of the refered article will gain more and more support.
I sell linux based server installation, config and maintenance for small and medium businesses as a side job. Debian was great for this. Secure, reliable, free ("gratuit"), long release cycle, supported, painless upgrade. The debian "stable" model is certainly the reason why linux can take a hold in SMB backend server market. No need for somebody babysitting it all the time, it can be done by a remote part time admin more easily than with any other "free" distros. Enough of technology zealotry between distributions, Debian is great because of its stable model alone.
However the client side was more than messy (unstable, testing and all the rest of it...). Well no problem there, there was mandrake for the desktop. Where applicable (in the very tiny SMB) it was a great solution, but when the guy who look after IT in these companies (no real IT staff) was trying to figure out why on the servers you had the great APT-GET stuff and on the client you had the RPM hell, it usually blew their mind. Having a Debian based distro for the desktop, back in that time, would have come handy. But eventually Mandrake did its homework and provided solutions. However my clients still feel that "Linux" is fragmented (And I did not introduce them to the GNOME / KDE battle).
Then came the savior, Ubuntu, MEPIS and so on. I looked like a great attempt. It came close, and as soon as I learned about Kubuntu, I though I had the killer couple.
And then comes the news...
- Debian wants shorter release cycles
WTF? they are killing the great thing about their distro (its "stable" model)?
I dont get why Debian doesnot stay as it is, providing a rock solid distro for servers, and let others use it as a base for a client side distro (Kubuntu or Mepis, as KDE is my choice, for the moment). Shortening the release cycle is detrimental to Debian (Sarge can wait ! Take the time you need to provide the same rock solid quality distros debian is know for!) on the server side, and provide nothing on the client side since Kubuntu is there to fill the gap (or Mandrake or Suse or whatever...)
Shall I start looking at other distros that are reliable for more than 3 years somewhere else? Sad news if true, since Debian was starting to finally enable SMB (no IT money business) with a very workable solution for both desktop and servers.
I just dont understand what is the point of changing the debian "stable" model
Hum... just for reminder, since parent seems not to live in Japan.
There is no country in the world where quality is as important as in Japan. The consumer will immediatly sanction any company that dares to sell something that is somehow crappy. The recent case of Mitsubichi Motors is the best proof of it. Recently, Mitsubichi did not recall a motor with a potential defective behaviour. Eventually some non mortal accident happened. As an immediate consequence, almost all activities of Mitsubichi (the largest bank in the world) have seen their sales revenues fail. Mitsubichi people are living without their bonus, no matter if they are in Mitsubichi Motors, Electric, the bank or wherever.
Ah, by the way, the customer service in Japan is just amazing. You never return things because you never need to. I know it is difficult to understand, but Japanese trust Japanese. As a consequence, when my wife order my French Wine from an internet retail ec site, we get delivered, and we only pay far latter, in a convinient store, when it happens that we can. You only need to bring your bill to Family Mart or something like this. This level of trust is impressive for an european like me.
Anybody that dare to say that Japanese are not quality concious, brand aware, consumer service minded to the utmost is obviously somebody that never left Texas...
I dont understand one more time how this could be modded up??? But well here is Slashdot.
No, seriously, the 'net was founded on principles of consensual anarchy.
By signing onto the Internet, the spamming companies agreed to join a transnational network that was effectively above the laws of any one nation.
My Friend, there is another transnational network that have existed way before Internet. In your country, I think it was AT&T who built it (not sure). This network, even if transnational, was not "lawless". The IP adress is now what was the telephone number, but you are still under the constraints of the law, the law of your country and if you are not american, the law of your country plus the law of the country you communicate with...
Interresting reading to finally iron this perception that there is a "cyberspace", different from the "meatspace".
I think most geeks that can't get a girlfriend would love to have a different world, where they can do all those wonderfull things that could finally impress some girls... Sorry my friend, there is no such world.
I don't get how you could get rated Insightful... The Internet might have been wild in his early age, but as he goes mainstream, the legal crowd will order rules, with time passing, until it is fully ruled under national laws...
Interresting reading for you my friend (In english, I'm not too cruel with you, you see !): HERE
Note : I'm not against US, like the author, but his point is still valid. Meatspace rules, Cyberspace is an illusion...
China is an amalgam that has been held together by force rather than by desire. Like the former Soviet Empire, Communist Yugoslavia, British India, et. al., the Chinese "nation" will disintegrate into smaller parts once a central government becomes unable to control the provinces by brute force. I doubt if a break-up would be amiable.
Seems that there is no history class in America...
The "empire of the middle" have been this size for something like 5000 years... In fact since they have civilized most of the countries around them, they fill as the "center of the world", since the 20 century prove their undoing...
In this scope of time (back to the pharaons guys, something that existed before Christ ! unbelievable no ???) a TRUE chinese identity have been develloped, even if many chinese don't really speak the same language they do feel as belonging to the same nation, because of this long history.
It might be an easy mistake for an american, since their country does not share such a huge history, I agree.
But saying that China will disintegrate is pure stupidity (wet dream of an american who which not to see the rising of the one you will eventually make them look less big)
Just a question, my american friend ? Why is there everywhere in the world, in each major city I visit (Paris, NY, Boston, Bonn, Berlin, Tokyo, Bangalore and so on) a CHINATOWN ???
I suppose the one you modded you up never attend history class either...
Oh by the way, I apologizes, I'm French, living in Tokyo.
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On another note, please compete with other countries that offer much the same, plus quality of life (not in the sprawl of london with overpriced property, for starters. And the weather....). Added points : Nicely educated and efficient workers tend to come with wife and kids too. One does not relocate his family based on a "work contract" at risk of termination at the slightest whim of an employer. Slavery is long gone. You will have to provide a far better deal for highly educated specialists. Also, please remember that your language (well globish really) is the only langage needed to work as a security specialist in most of the world. (But of course a second and a third langage is even better). I can understand that you want to guard against the unwashed masses (poor uneducated). We can even agree that ethnicity is definitly a factor that should be taken under consideration. But with your conditions... Well, good luck to attract highly skilled workers in the global competition. It would be easier to emigrate to the U.S. !
Well, I believe this concept to be outdated. A bit like the "intellectual Property transfer rights". Nowadays, the paptent holder for IP rights dwelves in tiny european countries. The countries made a business model out of stealing fiscal product of their neighbor. Nobody complains, because everybody uses them. Hell the president of the european commission was the "tax evader in chief" as head stateman of Luxembourg for the better part of his career. Honestly, It would be much simpler to tax the benefits of the company based on their profit, country by country. After all, what is the meaning of the location of the headquarter of a multinational in our connected world ? Nowadays, Apple transfered its headquarter in a tiny british Island known for its very low corporate tax (zero). https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1... Oudated context.
You simply don't need to pollute the system files in order to "install an app" on Unix. That is one of it's key strengths.
You mispelled "weakness" somewhere around the end of your sentence.
Informatics is no more a tool made for smart people, but mass of idiots, with an evil smartass among them...
What really scared me is that such an insanity, and inrespectfull change to the 40+ years old Unix security model still made it into production release of the main community effort of the 1st worldwide Linux vendor !!! Ouch, what a reputation backclash... A great way to feed microserfs with arguments against Linux, in a 300 000 desktop swithching war, I expect to hear from it tomorrow. Linux more insecure than Activer Directory limited user accounts.... Thanks great "would be god" damnned developper Where technical details are irrelevant, and corporate politics is paramount, you sure fucked up a big way... Crappy DevBoy
By the way, if you read the fedora bug mailing list, or if you were a security practionner, you would know that nowadays, the /home/$Username is all the worm writers really cares about. That and running an SMTP daemon, over port 1024 need it be.
Basically, the power for a normal unix user to run and install program , even networked daemon, if only given a compiler is my biggest headache now...
I like to challenge Linux lovers, how to you prevent this in a non "I have all the time of the world in my parent's basement" way ?
SELINUX ? MAC security model ? Please I am speaking corporate security, US or fedex postal style, where $$$ is money
Sure thing I just love Linux for central servers without any user interactions. I keep kiling Sun Solaris wherever i see it for Redhat
But Windows, with their "no freaking right to do anything" as a domain limited user, is still easier to secure than a Linux desktop (we tried Novell, what a freaking horrible mistake, only german loved it)
Speaking from a 300 000 people company strategic overview (1st european, 2nd in the world). Yep, it is Windows 7 versus Ubuntu decision strategic thinking time... Sure Windows XP is still the reference around here, Linux (ubuntu really) got a lot a stuff going for it, but security is not one of them as much as you could think
Oh my god!
Why can we mod you +1789 Revolutionnary !
These specific distros can be built now, since 2000 in fact, based upon Debian. And can be sold! I did dosh of cash out of them... Mail server, all included, some web interface. Sell 40 of them, put one guy behind it. Each install provide you 100 euros, put one 2000 euros guy behind... You have made 2000 euros ! (well, far less because of tax and so on but you got the idea). Your added value? you have designed the conf for the SMB, and you maintain it. One product (Mail server) and then you spend your spare time building the net one (Firewall anyone ?). You go back to your mail servers clients and sell thyem your firewall. And it keeps going on... True you will face a growth problem, for this model doesnot scale very well (around 10 persons it becomes messy as hell). But by the time, you have 2 - 3 years experience and can get a bigger job, leaving the place for other young one to take over.
Finnally some good sense. There is a true business model for adoption of Linux in SMB: - Ask for a specification of the network service they want (Firewall, File server, Mail, Whatever) - Ask for the money you will spend in hardware + a one time installation cost... - Install the stuff in a smart way (automatic update, security and SSH, plus the functionality required) - Ask for a small fee montly for keeping an eye on the stuff you installed. Make trivial modifications for free. If someting big is to be done, they will come back to you. You are so cheap (of course it woks so easily, one guy can look after 40 servers under linux, but only 10 under winwin!) and it just works for them (My cutomers like Linux, since it works like a black box, reliable, stable etc, etc...They doint have to care and it is cheap)...
This is a good side job, and pays well enough if you are not greedy (otherwise go and get this Phd in Information system management with a major in HR Outsourcing. Yes I'am a btrayer of my kind). It provide local jobs, local expertise being needed. The only problem is : Know how to talk to others. A lot of geeks are simply pathetic when it comes to business relationship. You are a "not so good" geek but know how to speak? Great, get three "hardcore geeks" friends, build a company (almost no entry costs really), get a few clients (while you are still finishing your studies...) and see your business grow. Dont give back to the community at first, but build your set of solutions by sticking to a few Open source products. When you will be bigger, add quality to your products (your Samba based PDC is now tied to a central LDAP and so on...) and leave the basic installs (Firewall) to other crappy students (you once were one). Product with better quality? More money to you. And then you can start giving back to the community in the form of tutorials, adaptations and so on... Follow your clients as they evolve. Really a truly simple and profitable business model. To start, It only requires a few slashdotters as "consultants", or if you are good enough, only yourself. Bingo, you have money. I'm amaze there is so few businesses like mine back in the time I started (2000). And there is a real need ! I suspect that the only reason why these "local Linux services providers for SMB" are so few is slashdot... Too much lazy geeks around here. They prefer to bitch at Microsoft rather than bringing linux in the SMBs...
PS: I sold the business, since I needed to move to Japan. I cant run this company anymore since I'm no more "local". This testifies of the fact that those jobs cant be "outsourced", as long as you play with SMBs...One more time, I now spend my day outsourcing IT, and no SMBs can do this, the scale factor is just too important for Outsourcing schemes to become relevant
You could make more money out of Linux, while improving linux adoption in SMBs...instead of waiting to be laid off by BigEvil.con and complaining about it
Just my too cents of euros or yens, as you wish...
Just an opinion to inform how internet in its current state is perceived as a US hegemony vessel
The american "free speach" concept is good, to some extends. It is difficult to argue that free speach is not one core component of democracy. However it is only one component, that should be balanced with other concerns (in our opinion).
Just an example: Remember the Yahoo "nazi auctions"? Many americans argued that it was perfectly legitimate since opposing Yahoo "nazi auctions" would be restricting free speach, and therefore democracy. They missed one point: "free speach" is only one component of democraty. From where I am, an equally important point is "brotherhood". Therefore we balance "brotherhood" core value with "free speach" core value. As a result, we ban "hate speach". This is ridiculous from an american outlook, but I never found somebody able to explain me how balancing "free speach" with "brotherhood" was "undemocratic". It is our perception of democracy, as we want it. Now why, by accepting the Internet as a communication tool, should we bow to the american conception of democracy (uniquely based on "free speach") ? Now I hope you now understand why Internet is perceived sometimes as American Imperialism. Internt is a tool, and this tool should be used to express ourselves and communicate with others. Communication means respect. In this continent, home of the worst thing that have ever happenned to the humanity (Including everything you want, Vichy France, Nazi etc, etc...), some topics are not to be treated lightly. If lying is a crime for financial result of a corporation, lying on the subject of the worse mass murder ever should be also. Why the hell cant we apply our laws, expressions of our morality, history, ethics to the Internet? Because of american "free speach"? Sure China will abuse it, hell let them do what they want, they are sovereign in their country. So do we. We dont need americans and their uniform view of the world for deciding what is right or wrong...
If american, who can be praised for offering the internet to the world, want to turn this fantastic tool into yet another cultural imperialism tool, well, I suppose the author of the refered article will gain more and more support.
Now you can start with the French bashing joke...
I cant agree more, for the moment...
I sell linux based server installation, config and maintenance for small and medium businesses as a side job. Debian was great for this. Secure, reliable, free ("gratuit"), long release cycle, supported, painless upgrade. The debian "stable" model is certainly the reason why linux can take a hold in SMB backend server market. No need for somebody babysitting it all the time, it can be done by a remote part time admin more easily than with any other "free" distros. Enough of technology zealotry between distributions, Debian is great because of its stable model alone.
However the client side was more than messy (unstable, testing and all the rest of it...). Well no problem there, there was mandrake for the desktop. Where applicable (in the very tiny SMB) it was a great solution, but when the guy who look after IT in these companies (no real IT staff) was trying to figure out why on the servers you had the great APT-GET stuff and on the client you had the RPM hell, it usually blew their mind. Having a Debian based distro for the desktop, back in that time, would have come handy. But eventually Mandrake did its homework and provided solutions. However my clients still feel that "Linux" is fragmented (And I did not introduce them to the GNOME / KDE battle).
Then came the savior, Ubuntu, MEPIS and so on. I looked like a great attempt. It came close, and as soon as I learned about Kubuntu, I though I had the killer couple.
And then comes the news... - Debian wants shorter release cycles
WTF? they are killing the great thing about their distro (its "stable" model)?
I dont get why Debian doesnot stay as it is, providing a rock solid distro for servers, and let others use it as a base for a client side distro (Kubuntu or Mepis, as KDE is my choice, for the moment). Shortening the release cycle is detrimental to Debian (Sarge can wait ! Take the time you need to provide the same rock solid quality distros debian is know for!) on the server side, and provide nothing on the client side since Kubuntu is there to fill the gap (or Mandrake or Suse or whatever...)
Shall I start looking at other distros that are reliable for more than 3 years somewhere else? Sad news if true, since Debian was starting to finally enable SMB (no IT money business) with a very workable solution for both desktop and servers.
I just dont understand what is the point of changing the debian "stable" model
connard...
Hum... just for reminder, since parent seems not to live in Japan.
There is no country in the world where quality is as important as in Japan. The consumer will immediatly sanction any company that dares to sell something that is somehow crappy. The recent case of Mitsubichi Motors is the best proof of it. Recently, Mitsubichi did not recall a motor with a potential defective behaviour. Eventually some non mortal accident happened. As an immediate consequence, almost all activities of Mitsubichi (the largest bank in the world) have seen their sales revenues fail. Mitsubichi people are living without their bonus, no matter if they are in Mitsubichi Motors, Electric, the bank or wherever.
Ah, by the way, the customer service in Japan is just amazing. You never return things because you never need to. I know it is difficult to understand, but Japanese trust Japanese. As a consequence, when my wife order my French Wine from an internet retail ec site, we get delivered, and we only pay far latter, in a convinient store, when it happens that we can. You only need to bring your bill to Family Mart or something like this. This level of trust is impressive for an european like me.
Anybody that dare to say that Japanese are not quality concious, brand aware, consumer service minded to the utmost is obviously somebody that never left Texas...
I dont understand one more time how this could be modded up??? But well here is Slashdot.
No, seriously, the 'net was founded on principles of consensual anarchy.
:
By signing onto the Internet, the spamming companies agreed to join a transnational network that was effectively above the laws of any one nation.
My Friend, there is another transnational network that have existed way before Internet. In your country, I think it was AT&T who built it (not sure). This network, even if transnational, was not "lawless". The IP adress is now what was the telephone number, but you are still under the constraints of the law, the law of your country and if you are not american, the law of your country plus the law of the country you communicate with...
Interresting reading to finally iron this perception that there is a "cyberspace", different from the "meatspace".
I think most geeks that can't get a girlfriend would love to have a different world, where they can do all those wonderfull things that could finally impress some girls... Sorry my friend, there is no such world.
I don't get how you could get rated Insightful...
The Internet might have been wild in his early age, but as he goes mainstream, the legal crowd will order rules, with time passing, until it is fully ruled under national laws...
Interresting reading for you my friend (In english, I'm not too cruel with you, you see !)
HERE
Note : I'm not against US, like the author, but his point is still valid. Meatspace rules, Cyberspace is an illusion...
China is an amalgam that has been held together by force rather than by desire. Like the former Soviet Empire, Communist Yugoslavia, British India, et. al., the Chinese "nation" will disintegrate into smaller parts once a central government becomes unable to control the provinces by brute force. I doubt if a break-up would be amiable. Seems that there is no history class in America... The "empire of the middle" have been this size for something like 5000 years... In fact since they have civilized most of the countries around them, they fill as the "center of the world", since the 20 century prove their undoing... In this scope of time (back to the pharaons guys, something that existed before Christ ! unbelievable no ???) a TRUE chinese identity have been develloped, even if many chinese don't really speak the same language they do feel as belonging to the same nation, because of this long history. It might be an easy mistake for an american, since their country does not share such a huge history, I agree. But saying that China will disintegrate is pure stupidity (wet dream of an american who which not to see the rising of the one you will eventually make them look less big) Just a question, my american friend ? Why is there everywhere in the world, in each major city I visit (Paris, NY, Boston, Bonn, Berlin, Tokyo, Bangalore and so on) a CHINATOWN ??? I suppose the one you modded you up never attend history class either... Oh by the way, I apologizes, I'm French, living in Tokyo.