The 'White Man' feedling the third world is part of the problem. When the UN air drops in tons of free grain, it completely decimates any motivation on the part of the local population to grow their own grain, because it drops the price of the grain to near zero. It wipes out local producers completely.
The solution is technology transfer: help the local producers obtain the means to locally grow the food the local people need.
This, however, does not give the large Agribusinesses in the first world tons of money from the government buying their grain and/or collecting it in exchange for price-support subsidies. In fact, it enables the people in other parts of the world with the ability to complete with said large Agribusinesses.
The Khmer Rouge were doctrinaire Stalinists. With an Asian twist, of course. And they were acting in an environment where the entire rural population of their country had evacuated into the cities because of US bombing of the countryside. The people were being fed by US Aid until the communists came to power and the aid was cut off. Mother Theresa could have been put in charge and thousands still would have starved.
The K.R. didn't act stupidly. They acted the way any loony cadre-style organization would after achieving political power when a situation like that was dumped in their lap. Which doesn't change the fact that they were ruthless evil people. But it explains things a lot better than 'they did stupid shit.'
There was a well known case of an innocent Canadian who was on a flight connecting through New York City who was seized at the airport and rendered to Syria where he was tortured. He was apparently targetted because he was mentioned as a refernce on an apartment application of someone under suspicion. No one really knows how many other people have been rendered out of the U.S., you only know if they are released at some point and speak out.
You'd lend strength to your argument if you'd provide citations and links to what you typed.
No, I'm not saying what you claims are untrue. I'm just asking you to provide more than your anecdotal mentions.
Personally, I think we should stop doing that shit.
Likewise, then, Slashdot isn't electronic-file-clerk news, so IT stories should be omitted. Unless there's something interesting and technological involved. Which there usually isn't.
Sure, if you want to read a failed 19th century book on Political Economy. There are countless other pipe-dream books on Political Economy you could sample from, too, though.
There's no reason to only focus on obsolete economic theories like classical Marxism. For dabblers, there are other ideas that haven't been given the chance to be the gargantuan failure that Marxism has been.
Actually, regardless of the subject, YOUR response means "I can't bother to say anything meaningful to disagree, so I'll just type something clever and meta."
Perhaps the 'fix' for the problem, then, is for there to be less public land. Clearly the private landholders take better care and the trees in better condition than some paid bureaucrat in an office in the state Capital.
Everybody was busy reading the source code. It's elite and all that stuff. Nobody bothered to read the plaintext files in/etc. That would be beneath them.
So you wheel along the big rack with the SAN storage along with you to the location? Or do you have your staff wheel that in while you mince along with your cute little can?
The point of the article is to make fun of a bunch of Zealots. Who have even joined in the fun.
And, uh... it's blog-level nonsense because you're reading it on this here blog thingie.
Read Salus' 'A Quarter Century of UNIX' if you want something more interesting than the fact-deficient comments here. It's not free, in fact it's kind of expensive for a paperback. (Hurry, Amazon says they only have five copies left.)
Minix is an ensigns training ship. The Navy doesn't put the latest guns on an ensigns training ship, because it's purpose is not to sail out into battle.
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Tune those food reactions to resonance, man.
Don't let your kid outta the glass bubble, he would develop antibodies.
Did your cousin ever play out-of-doors to get exposed to nature? Does your aunt have a peculiar fascination with lysol, perchance?
The 'White Man' feedling the third world is part of the problem. When the UN air drops in tons of free grain, it completely decimates any motivation on the part of the local population to grow their own grain, because it drops the price of the grain to near zero. It wipes out local producers completely.
The solution is technology transfer: help the local producers obtain the means to locally grow the food the local people need.
This, however, does not give the large Agribusinesses in the first world tons of money from the government buying their grain and/or collecting it in exchange for price-support subsidies. In fact, it enables the people in other parts of the world with the ability to complete with said large Agribusinesses.
The Khmer Rouge were doctrinaire Stalinists. With an Asian twist, of course. And they were acting in an environment where the entire rural population of their country had evacuated into the cities because of US bombing of the countryside. The people were being fed by US Aid until the communists came to power and the aid was cut off. Mother Theresa could have been put in charge and thousands still would have starved.
The K.R. didn't act stupidly. They acted the way any loony cadre-style organization would after achieving political power when a situation like that was dumped in their lap. Which doesn't change the fact that they were ruthless evil people. But it explains things a lot better than 'they did stupid shit.'
Thirty-three and a third revolutions per minute.
Yeah! Spin, baby, spin.
Again, a lengthy story with no references provided. Please back it up somehow. You'd do your cause a favor by not just saying stuff without citations.
You'd lend strength to your argument if you'd provide citations and links to what you typed.
No, I'm not saying what you claims are untrue. I'm just asking you to provide more than your anecdotal mentions.
Personally, I think we should stop doing that shit.
GP commenter said 'in the US.' Renditions are happening outside of the country. It's sort of a technicality, but it makes their comment correct.
You need to stop, because you're making all the Anonymous Cowards look ignorant.
Likewise, then, Slashdot isn't electronic-file-clerk news, so IT stories should be omitted. Unless there's something interesting and technological involved. Which there usually isn't.
We were all about to respond "aren't you supposed to be on DotSlash?"
Naw. Everybody is entitled to make mistakes without being totally disregarded.
Looking at that domain, I take it History is a weapon for class warfare, eh?
Many historians might disagree.
Sure, if you want to read a failed 19th century book on Political Economy. There are countless other pipe-dream books on Political Economy you could sample from, too, though.
Maybe Henry George's Single Tax theories, for instance.
There's no reason to only focus on obsolete economic theories like classical Marxism. For dabblers, there are other ideas that haven't been given the chance to be the gargantuan failure that Marxism has been.
Actually, regardless of the subject, YOUR response means "I can't bother to say anything meaningful to disagree, so I'll just type something clever and meta."
It's the precipitate that we should be concerned about.
There are a number of failed societies: The USSR and North Korea come to mind. Also the PRC.
If they'd just made the rails out of Rearden metal....
Perhaps the 'fix' for the problem, then, is for there to be less public land. Clearly the private landholders take better care and the trees in better condition than some paid bureaucrat in an office in the state Capital.
Everybody was busy reading the source code. It's elite and all that stuff. Nobody bothered to read the plaintext files in /etc. That would be beneath them.
Certified Unix? That means it has the same certification as Windows NT 4.0 with Interix installed, correct?
So you wheel along the big rack with the SAN storage along with you to the location? Or do you have your staff wheel that in while you mince along with your cute little can?
This whole thing is more 'Think Different' bullshit. It's SCSI all over again. Where's the Altivec?
Pentiums Suck. You can fry an egg on it.
And various other Apple fanboy bullshit from the past.
The point of the article is to make fun of a bunch of Zealots. Who have even joined in the fun.
And, uh... it's blog-level nonsense because you're reading it on this here blog thingie.
Read Salus' 'A Quarter Century of UNIX' if you want something more interesting than the fact-deficient comments here. It's not free, in fact it's kind of expensive for a paperback. (Hurry, Amazon says they only have five copies left.)
Actually, no. It isn't true. I'm not religious, but I'm not sophomorically opposed to religions. Try harder.
Minix is an ensigns training ship. The Navy doesn't put the latest guns on an ensigns training ship, because it's purpose is not to sail out into battle.