Let's try it again with proper quotes. Amazing how often people get this wrong. It looks like some school in India has recently started using this term,
Insane is the state of a society that makes such measures a requirement for safety. In a society that isn't completely fucked you don't even actually need to lock the doors. Don't laugh, this was the normal state of affairs as recent as 20-30 years ago in Vienna, Austria, a normal middle-european city with a population of 2 million.
You are at home and the doorbell rings. You open and see your neighbor from across the hall whom you know only by sight. He is in a robe, looks terrible and sneezes a lot. He says that he is very sick, cannot leave the house, and would like to ask you to bring him groceries the next time you go shopping. He hands you a list and some money. What do you do?
[ ] You tell him to fuck off and die. How dare he interrupt your Halo session! [ ] You reluctantly agree although you just came back from Walmart and won't have to go again for a week [ ] You say "sure, dude" and ask if he needs anything else [ ] You offer to change your shopping plans, drive out right now, and get him anything he needs
To me it sounds like the chance of a kid getting hit by a car or killed by a gun is magnitudes higher than actually being molested by someone they met online
And if we want to compare who actually abuses children, we find that the chance to be sexually abused by a stranger is magnitudes smaller than by a family member or family friend:
Most children are abused by someone they know and trust, although boys are more likely than girls to be abused outside of the family. A study in three states found 96 percent of reported rape survivors under age 12 knew the attacker. Four percent of the offenders were strangers, 20 percent were fathers, 16 percent were relatives and 50 percent were acquaintances or friends. Among women 18 or older, 12 percent were raped by a family member, 33 percent by a stranger and 55 percent by an acquaintance.
Yeah, I have read this at the page you kindly linked to. Sounds rather like moving from one point GNOME release to the next (GNOME 2.17), if that even. Oh, and "AppleScript" not really as such, the page just says "a scriptable Finder".
I appreciate the link and I see now that there were certainly big technical changes ("nanokernel", whatever that is) but from a user's perspective... not so much. Certainly, given that 7.1 crashed a lot for me (and not only for me), I found it very annoying that a fix would cost extra. And 7.5.0 was not that stable either. Granted, for various reasons I had one of the dreaded Performas, that might have contributed a lot.
I see, thanks. Still true. I can acknowledge that OSX updates (from one cat to another) are more than point releases, put IIRC I paid MacOS 7.2 -> 7.3 and that was surely not more than a service pack
What? The odds are zero, plain and simple.Justification: everyone has been burned by Windows/Office, and consequently nobody trusts them with a just-work product. I don't know about US and rest of Europe, but in Germany the _best_ attitude they get from consumers is respect for the ruthlessness with which they won the OS market.
I wouldn't say that it's my ideal -- unfortunately my belief in humanity is not that great:) Still, as I said, I find it pretty realistic to not assume that the ruling power would give up voluntarily.
Ok, I see your point now, but I still disagree:) It's been a long time since I read the Manifesto, but I skimmed it right now (thanks for the link) and I cannot find language that mandates a violent overthrow to reach "communicsm". The Manifesto is just very realistic in acknowledging that the bourgeoisie will not give up power without violence, thus forcing the revolutionary class to use force.
Also note that the Manifesto uses the word revolution a lot, and in very different contexts, because the word had at the time not yet acquired the near-exclusive connotation of "violent overthrow". Instead it is used in the more literal interpretation of "turning the wheel". E.g.,
We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange.
What is with the brainwashing baloney?... My main point is that, de facto, using the term communism implies much of what Kerala is NOT.
You have been brainwashed* into believing that communism == Leninism and Maoism and therefore Kerala cannot be communist. In fact however the Leninist and Maoist systems as they have developed historically are misguided aberrations and not at all the only possible communist systems. Many European countries have had communist parties for a long time, and their political programs have little to do with the Soviet Union and China (although it must be said that from 1950 - ca. 1980 the fact that those systems existed at all had a lot of influence on parts of those parties). E.g., several Italian cities. e.g., Rome, have a communist party majority in the city council.
As far as Cuba goes: the Cuban revolution was started by a bunch of intelligent guys with the best intentions, and few would deny that overthrowing the Batista regime was wrong. There are very strong indications that Cuba would have developed nicely if the US hadn't inflicted a continuous state of war on it.
* To deny that the US citizens have been brainwashed about communism since the 1920ies and particularly during the cold war is silly. I won't do your research for you, but look into the development of the socialist/communist parties in the US. I don't have my copy at hand but for example (and IIRC) City of Quartz describes a utopian communist community outside of LA at the beginning of the century.
Sorry but many currently existing democracies came into being by overthrowing an oppressive regime. The model for all modern civil states needed the violent French Revolution to bring the new system to light.
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A DOS program knows about the NT kernel name? Amazing!
Let's try it again with proper quotes. Amazing how often people get this wrong. It looks like some school in India has recently started using this term,
which country would that be?
Germany? Not walking around shopping of course, but in inner-city parks it does happen.
Theater ;)
And if the military is willing to try it out on news reporters (volunteers all), as they did in the breaking story, they're pretty confident.
Yes, sure.
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Insane is the state of a society that makes such measures a requirement for safety. In a society that isn't completely fucked you don't even actually need to lock the doors. Don't laugh, this was the normal state of affairs as recent as 20-30 years ago in Vienna, Austria, a normal middle-european city with a population of 2 million.
Poll:
You are at home and the doorbell rings. You open and see your neighbor from across the hall whom you know only by sight. He is in a robe, looks terrible and sneezes a lot. He says that he is very sick, cannot leave the house, and would like to ask you to bring him groceries the next time you go shopping. He hands you a list and some money. What do you do?
[ ] You tell him to fuck off and die. How dare he interrupt your Halo session!
[ ] You reluctantly agree although you just came back from Walmart and won't have to go again for a week
[ ] You say "sure, dude" and ask if he needs anything else
[ ] You offer to change your shopping plans, drive out right now, and get him anything he needs
proximity becomes irrelevant: neighbours become irrelevant.
Right, I will make sure to email you when I'm sick and need groceries, or to look after my kid when I need to go out a bit.
Schadenfreude
And if we want to compare who actually abuses children, we find that the chance to be sexually abused by a stranger is magnitudes smaller than by a family member or family friend:
Source
Yeah, I have read this at the page you kindly linked to. Sounds rather like moving from one point GNOME release to the next (GNOME 2.17), if that even. Oh, and "AppleScript" not really as such, the page just says "a scriptable Finder".
I appreciate the link and I see now that there were certainly big technical changes ("nanokernel", whatever that is) but from a user's perspective ... not so much. Certainly, given that 7.1 crashed a lot for me (and not only for me), I found it very annoying that a fix would cost extra. And 7.5.0 was not that stable either. Granted, for various reasons I had one of the dreaded Performas, that might have contributed a lot.
Oh spun, I'd make you a friend 5 times if I could. Thanks for bringing light into my dreary slashdot days.
+5 finallysomeonesaidit
Right, 7.1 to 7.5. Nothing much changed
I see, thanks. Still true. I can acknowledge that OSX updates (from one cat to another) are more than point releases, put IIRC I paid MacOS 7.2 -> 7.3 and that was surely not more than a service pack
What? The odds are zero, plain and simple.Justification: everyone has been burned by Windows/Office, and consequently nobody trusts them with a just-work product. I don't know about US and rest of Europe, but in Germany the _best_ attitude they get from consumers is respect for the ruthlessness with which they won the OS market.
How is this a troll? It#s the simple truth, easy to see even if you like Apple
Do the same people complain to you that they think they live on a huge ball of shit? You know, soil is often brown too.
I wouldn't say that it's my ideal -- unfortunately my belief in humanity is not that great :) Still, as I said, I find it pretty realistic to not assume that the ruling power would give up voluntarily.
Also note that the Manifesto uses the word revolution a lot, and in very different contexts, because the word had at the time not yet acquired the near-exclusive connotation of "violent overthrow". Instead it is used in the more literal interpretation of "turning the wheel". E.g.,
few would deny that overthrowing the Batista regime was wrong.
Sorry, it's early. Few would deny that overthrowing the Batista regime was legitimate.
What is with the brainwashing baloney? ... My main point is that, de facto, using the term communism implies much of what Kerala is NOT.
You have been brainwashed* into believing that communism == Leninism and Maoism and therefore Kerala cannot be communist. In fact however the Leninist and Maoist systems as they have developed historically are misguided aberrations and not at all the only possible communist systems. Many European countries have had communist parties for a long time, and their political programs have little to do with the Soviet Union and China (although it must be said that from 1950 - ca. 1980 the fact that those systems existed at all had a lot of influence on parts of those parties). E.g., several Italian cities. e.g., Rome, have a communist party majority in the city council.
As far as Cuba goes: the Cuban revolution was started by a bunch of intelligent guys with the best intentions, and few would deny that overthrowing the Batista regime was wrong. There are very strong indications that Cuba would have developed nicely if the US hadn't inflicted a continuous state of war on it.
* To deny that the US citizens have been brainwashed about communism since the 1920ies and particularly during the cold war is silly. I won't do your research for you, but look into the development of the socialist/communist parties in the US. I don't have my copy at hand but for example (and IIRC) City of Quartz describes a utopian communist community outside of LA at the beginning of the century.
Sorry but many currently existing democracies came into being by overthrowing an oppressive regime. The model for all modern civil states needed the violent French Revolution to bring the new system to light.