I have read the same figures elsewhere. It was in a BBC site sometime last month, I think.
But what is not clear to me is the relation between the gun-banning law and this number. You see, if you ban guns doesn't possessing a gun become a "gun related-crime"?
If so, and if gun-possession crimes are included in the mighty 40% increase (making all this wonderfully circular), we are just seeing a FUD campaign, cortesy of our ever present friends, the gun-nuts.
I, for myself, would not really care to attend tech events in the US anymore. Many other fellow developers around the world are probably felling the same.
Because the tool he made was perfectly legal in his country.
Because, you look at the judicial events of the last 12 months in US, US judges will almost always line up with the big corporation WITHOUT EVEN considering the small guy side fairly.
Because, if this case holds water, DMCA can then be construed to arrest any developer of any project that may harm a corporation IP. Doesn't DeCSS runs under Linux? Isn't then Linux a tool propiciating a IP theft? Shouldn't we then arrest this Linus guy and this other Alan guy?
So, let us keep our distance from our american fellows. After all, we have the Internet to exchange ideas while our phisical bodies are safely away from the hands of the FBI.
Wasn't it last week that Napster was officially considered dead and, its "beyond-the-grave" loquacity notwithstanding, unworthy of further notice? Have the nice editor forgot?
The 2-5 Napster users remaining, if consulted, would probably answer that they continue using Napster because "it the greatest music trading service out there and hey, we work here".
The rest of us have already migrated to greener networks.
When was it that the "necessity" of a given piece of free software became something larger than the author's wish do code the said piece of free software?
Or has the bazaar turned into a board-managed IPO-driven shopping mall and someone forgot to tell me?
Obviously it is not necessary (except for those who had fun putting it together) nor called for (who is there to call?). Just take a deep breath, a spare weekend, a spare machine and go have fun.
the non-creative guys at Nintendo and Sony had taken the console scene by storm and were posed to give Microsoft a very hot welcome party to THEIR market.
Specifically, the non-creative guys at Nintendo had been coding classic game upon classic game for what seems to be ages now.
Also, every two years a new japanese idea spreads like fire among the world's children, their parents "cluelessness" notwhitstanding. Yes, I am talking about the Zodiac Knights, Tamagoshi, Pokemon etc.You can argue those are not primarily software, but marketing devices. I would agree they are memes, but except for the first of my examples, the others are mainly software. Very non-creative.
In good old days (note the bellow 10K user id...) the obvious trolls got their -1 quick and painlessly. Now some moderators think the parent troll/flamebait is "Insightful". Go figure.
High-end RDBMs (Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2) are beasts of a whole different nature from your regular, run-of-the-mill MySQL or Posgress installation.
First they have a price tag attached. A very high-end price tag. The figure you give for Oracle is the barely minimum a company would expect to expend at the lowest entry-level.
Second, they all must be baby-sited. You do not install Oracle from a CD, make it run and leave it alone. No, you musrt first pain-stakingly install it, sweat and curse for a couple of hours to make it run and them administer it forever. Leave it in the hands of the users for a couple of weeks and the meaning of the word entropy will soon be known at the upper organization levels.
Allright, these above are a bit dramatic but true. In a sense, RDBMS makers and specialists are fighting hard to defend the last outpost of what Allan Kay once called "the high priesthoood of a low cult" (talking about the computer people of the 60's).
Now, high-end software is for high-end jobs. First, they have a bunch of weird performance marks to show at Transaction Processing Performace Council results for TPC-C, for instance. Carrefully note the kind of hardware they are talking about. They are measuring RDBMS performance in machines costing millions of dollars!!
And then these beasts are capable of performance peaks unheard of in the free packages. Not that I do not like MySQL. I like it a lot and have used it in many enterprise systems I developed. But those were small enterprise systems. They did not had to sustain high transaction periods, nor high connection counts, nor gigabyte sized database tables. And certanly not all three together.
I am currently working in the development of a system for a large laboratory. They process thousands of clinical exams per day, mostly in the morning. The organic material for the exams must usually be processed within two to four hours after it is collected from a patient. We will pay whatever it takes to have peace of mind. And I tell you, those will be some well expend millions of dollars.
What he said:
"Regarding humans, I wonder if it is possible that this process is happening to us, if true? Africans and Asians suffer greatly from parasites, much more than we in the west do, & it may be possible that this is causing them to speciate very gradually. Something to think about, anyway."
What I said:
"I will refrain from commenting on your last paragraph. But be careful with this line of reasoning. You are on the very edge of racism there."
I deny I am using social criteria to judge the hypothesis above. Quite the contrary. I am accusing the very hypothesis of being impregnated with social and cultural prejudice. And it is not very sound also.
First, unless we equate "west" with "USA, Canada and parts of the Western Europe", the inference is false. We also have to exclude large portions of Asia and Africa, where sannitation and health care is equal or almost equal to what you have in "western countries" (think Japan. last time I checked, continent drifting notwithstanding, it was still in Asia)
Second, one case of bacterial caused speciation doesn't make a very solid ground for a theory.
Third, the bacteria here is clearly NOT acting as a parasite. It shows a behavior much more akin to symbiont relations. I fail to see what kind of benefit a human host would attain in such a relation.
Fourth, the global transportation facilities existing in human society today simply deny us the separation necessary for speciation. Also, modern medicine would quickly detect and destroy such a bacteria in humans.
Or, yo express it even better, your view of the evolution is a little too naive.
First, nobody is out there "judging" creatures to see if they pass some kind of evolutive finals.
There are probably uncountable instances of parasitic relations where the existence or absence of the parasite has absolutely no influence in the creature survival capacity.
In this particular case, the bacteria probably installed itself by sexual transmission and probably gave some benefits to the host. Some hosts would not be afected. From there on the host population would be forever separated, even before any other speciation occurrred.
I will refrain from commenting on your last paragraph. But be careful with this line of reasoning. You are on the very edge of racism there.
There is no place in the Quran or any other religious text that I'm aware of that recommends killing busloads of innocent children to complain about political acts halfway around the world.
There is also no place in the Christian Bible recommending the burning of witches, the killing of infidels, priesthood celibacy, drug banishment and many other things righteous christians do or have done in the name of their God. It is mostly a question of late interpretation.
The Islam deals explicitly the religious war problem, and the Jihad concept is fully developed. It was a necessary concept by the time Mohammed bought the main text to light and many islamic religious leaders think it remains necessary to this day, to face the western menace
While I agree with you that most of the conceptual knowledge will be concetrated at the top, as in any army, a practical encryption knowledge is needed throughout the organization. As Bruce Schneier always says, an encryption process is as strong as its weakest link. There is no point in the leaders using NSA-proof encryption to plan their acts and then communicating these plan to those who will carry them out in plaintext!
I think that my main point, since the first post, is that a western-centric view of the Middle East leads to grave distortions. Either we understand the historical and cultural background of the terrorists or we will never be able to deal with it
I think you are mostly right. I am not, I think, defending the Islam (or any other religion, for that matter), acts of terror in the name of a god or any kind of fanatism. If my post made you think otherwise it was my fault.
But I believe you are wrong in thinking that the religious rethoric is not sincerely acted by many, specially by those that will take their rethoric to its logical and ultimate consequences.
People who suicide-bomb school buses are usually very righteous, "pure" fanatics, the same kind of fanatic that bomb abortion clinics in the west.
These people will not only follow all their religious beliefs, they will follow those beliefs to the exact letter.
I really do not think these people will use porn pictures to communicate, specially when millions of perfect harmless pictures can be used.
USA Today article is so filled with garbage and gaps, so clearly following an (no-very-well) hidden agenda that I don't even have the energy to debunk it all. So, just a few commented hightlights:
a) "Hidden in the X-rated pictures on several pornographic Web sites". The article starts with this major culturally ignorant phrase. All "bad men" quoted afterwards are fundamentalist muslins. These guys are as likely to found in pornographic sites as Mrs. Barbara Bush is likely to be photographed burning the flag.
b) "Uncrackable encryption is allowing terrorists ? Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaida and others ? to communicate about their criminal intentions without fear of outside intrusion," FBI Director Louis Freeh said last March during closed-door testimony on terrorism before a Senate panel. "They're thwarting the efforts of law enforcement to detect, prevent and investigate illegal activities." Please notice the "last March" expression. This panel was reported and fully discussed (See the news here. I believe it was even discussed in Slashdot, but I couldn't find the article)
c)"encryption has become the everyday tool of Muslim extremists in Afghanistan, Albania, Britain, Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Syria, the USA, the West Bank and Gaza and Yemen, U.S. officials say." I guess they also have radios, all forms of guns, phones, cameras. They also use cars, trains, buses. Let us ban all of those.
d)"All the Islamists and terrorist groups are now using the Internet to spread their messages," says Reuven Paz, academic director of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, an independent Israeli think tank." This has absolutely nothing to do with encryption. Notice the equality achieved in the sentence between Islamist and terrorist. Rephrase to "All Southern Baptists and racists groups are now using the Internet". Think about it.
e)"They're hidden using free encryption Internet programs set up by privacy advocacy groups. The programs scramble the messages or pictures into existing images. The images can only be unlocked using a "private key," or code, selected by the recipient, experts add. Otherwise, they're impossible to see or read." We should throw all these "privacy advocacy groups" in jail and lose the key, shouldn't we?
f)"It's no wonder the FBI wants all encryption programs to file what amounts to a "master key" with a federal authority that would allow them, with a judge's permission, to decrypt a code in a case of national security. But civil liberties groups, which offer encryption programs on the Web to further privacy, have vowed to fight it." Of course, as we already know that all the enemies of the United States are a bunch dumb arabs, they obviously cannot develop their own software. So they will be forced use US-made software that automatically deposits their private keys with the FBI.
g)"Who ever thought that sending encrypted streams of data across the Internet could produce a map on the other end saying 'this is where your target is' or 'here's how to kill them'?" says Paul Beaver, spokesman for Jane's Defense Weekly in London, which reports on defense and cyberterrorism issues. "And who ever thought it could be done with near perfect security? The Internet has proven to be a boon for terrorists." Who ever thought a spokesman for a defense and cyberterrorism publication could be so dumb? To discover how does Mr. Beaver manages to keep his job, that would amaze me.
The discussion about the racist bias of the article is left as an exercise to the reader.
Redmond, WA - Graphics guru and senior XBox developer Michael Abrash announced this afternoon that he was able to install and run a modified version of the Linux kernel in the XBox specification documents.
"Look" said a grinning Abrash, "this thing here is still basically vapour. We have plans, we have specs and we have lots of Powerpoint presentations. So it was pretty easy to tweak the specs until there was enough degrees of freedom to aloow a theoretical kernel to compile in a theorical port of gcc and run. Piece of cake".
Abrash is now said to working on a port of the XBox specs that will run MacOS X.
I have been using only M18 for a month (.06 is downloading while I type). Except for some problems with dialog boxes that won't go away, I have had no major problems. Sometimes it will crash and burn (twice when trying to render/., probably caused by a rogue banner), but it mostly works well.
It is also quick enough, at least. I have a list of behaviors that I am still deciding about. I do not know if they are bugs, if they bother me because they are different from IE or if I just find them wrong. The velocity problem applies here too. I am not yet sure if mozilla is slightly slower than IE or if it just renders HTML differently.
I do not remember having any show-stopper problem in ANY site (besides not having plugins I didn't bother to install).
Bees actually have UV photoreceptors in their eyes. That answers for a part of their ability to guide themselves by the sun. If I remember well, a bee eye has receptor for red, blue and ultra-violet.
Kill them all! Mutants are bad, they are a menace to the very human existence in planet Earth. We let the tetrachromats live now, the next thing we will know is that invisible mutants are hiding in our daughters bedrooms, telepath mutants are reading our dirty secrets out of our minds and little green man from Betelgeuse are cropping in the garden.
So I repeat, kill the mutants now while there is still time!
Animal Farm is actually a very critical, very harsh satire of communism , specially Soviet Union under Stalin. The book was written just after Orwell broke away from the Communist Party (after he realized the real political situation of Soviet Union under Stalin).
If you get familiar the rising of communist ideology since Marx, you can identify one to one relationships between book characters and historical characters. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, the whole gangy is there.
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I have read the same figures elsewhere. It was in a BBC site sometime last month, I think.
But what is not clear to me is the relation between the gun-banning law and this number. You see, if you ban guns doesn't possessing a gun become a "gun related-crime"?
If so, and if gun-possession crimes are included in the mighty 40% increase (making all this wonderfully circular), we are just seeing a FUD campaign, cortesy of our ever present friends, the gun-nuts.
and I do not know if it exists in United States law.
I, for myself, would not really care to attend tech events in the US anymore. Many other fellow developers around the world are probably felling the same.
Because the tool he made was perfectly legal in his country.
Because, you look at the judicial events of the last 12 months in US, US judges will almost always line up with the big corporation WITHOUT EVEN considering the small guy side fairly.
Because, if this case holds water, DMCA can then be construed to arrest any developer of any project that may harm a corporation IP. Doesn't DeCSS runs under Linux? Isn't then Linux a tool propiciating a IP theft? Shouldn't we then arrest this Linus guy and this other Alan guy?
So, let us keep our distance from our american fellows. After all, we have the Internet to exchange ideas while our phisical bodies are safely away from the hands of the FBI.
One gigabyte would allow for around 200 average-size(128K - 5 MB/file) MP3 files. I bet that can be a huge selling point for the 15-30 demography.
Wasn't it last week that Napster was officially considered dead and, its "beyond-the-grave" loquacity notwithstanding, unworthy of further notice? Have the nice editor forgot?
The 2-5 Napster users remaining, if consulted, would probably answer that they continue using Napster because "it the greatest music trading service out there and hey, we work here".
The rest of us have already migrated to greener networks.
as in KIllustrator is Not Illustrator.
When was it that the "necessity" of a given piece of free software became something larger than the author's wish do code the said piece of free software?
Or has the bazaar turned into a board-managed IPO-driven shopping mall and someone forgot to tell me?
Obviously it is not necessary (except for those who had fun putting it together) nor called for (who is there to call?). Just take a deep breath, a spare weekend, a spare machine and go have fun.
the non-creative guys at Nintendo and Sony had taken the console scene by storm and were posed to give Microsoft a very hot welcome party to THEIR market.
Specifically, the non-creative guys at Nintendo had been coding classic game upon classic game for what seems to be ages now.
Also, every two years a new japanese idea spreads like fire among the world's children, their parents "cluelessness" notwhitstanding. Yes, I am talking about the Zodiac Knights, Tamagoshi, Pokemon etc.You can argue those are not primarily software, but marketing devices. I would agree they are memes, but except for the first of my examples, the others are mainly software. Very non-creative.
In good old days (note the bellow 10K user id...) the obvious trolls got their -1 quick and painlessly. Now some moderators think the parent troll/flamebait is "Insightful". Go figure.
In addition to this, they are Brazilian, meaning this distribution supports quite a few South American languages as well as the standard US/English.
And that is quite an acomplishment, considering the fact that only two major western languages are spoken in South America, Portuguese and Spanish.
Also, last time I checked Connectiva, support for Tupi-Guarani, Ancient Inca and Traditional Ianomani was still lacking.
Will someone moderate the parent post up as Very Funny Indeed? Please?
High-end RDBMs (Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2) are beasts of a whole different nature from your regular, run-of-the-mill MySQL or Posgress installation.
First they have a price tag attached. A very high-end price tag. The figure you give for Oracle is the barely minimum a company would expect to expend at the lowest entry-level.
Second, they all must be baby-sited. You do not install Oracle from a CD, make it run and leave it alone. No, you musrt first pain-stakingly install it, sweat and curse for a couple of hours to make it run and them administer it forever. Leave it in the hands of the users for a couple of weeks and the meaning of the word entropy will soon be known at the upper organization levels.
Allright, these above are a bit dramatic but true. In a sense, RDBMS makers and specialists are fighting hard to defend the last outpost of what Allan Kay once called "the high priesthoood of a low cult" (talking about the computer people of the 60's).
Now, high-end software is for high-end jobs. First, they have a bunch of weird performance marks to show at Transaction Processing Performace Council results for TPC-C, for instance. Carrefully note the kind of hardware they are talking about. They are measuring RDBMS performance in machines costing millions of dollars!!
And then these beasts are capable of performance peaks unheard of in the free packages. Not that I do not like MySQL. I like it a lot and have used it in many enterprise systems I developed. But those were small enterprise systems. They did not had to sustain high transaction periods, nor high connection counts, nor gigabyte sized database tables. And certanly not all three together.
I am currently working in the development of a system for a large laboratory. They process thousands of clinical exams per day, mostly in the morning. The organic material for the exams must usually be processed within two to four hours after it is collected from a patient. We will pay whatever it takes to have peace of mind. And I tell you, those will be some well expend millions of dollars.
Almost slashdotted already.I could only see the upper half of the image.
What he said:
"Regarding humans, I wonder if it is possible that this process is happening to us, if true? Africans and Asians suffer greatly from parasites, much more than we in the west do, & it may be possible that this is causing them to speciate very gradually. Something to think about, anyway."
What I said:
"I will refrain from commenting on your last paragraph. But be careful with this line of reasoning. You are on the very edge of racism there."
I deny I am using social criteria to judge the hypothesis above. Quite the contrary. I am accusing the very hypothesis of being impregnated with social and cultural prejudice. And it is not very sound also.
First, unless we equate "west" with "USA, Canada and parts of the Western Europe", the inference is false. We also have to exclude large portions of Asia and Africa, where sannitation and health care is equal or almost equal to what you have in "western countries" (think Japan. last time I checked, continent drifting notwithstanding, it was still in Asia)
Second, one case of bacterial caused speciation doesn't make a very solid ground for a theory.
Third, the bacteria here is clearly NOT acting as a parasite. It shows a behavior much more akin to symbiont relations. I fail to see what kind of benefit a human host would attain in such a relation.
Fourth, the global transportation facilities existing in human society today simply deny us the separation necessary for speciation. Also, modern medicine would quickly detect and destroy such a bacteria in humans.
Or, yo express it even better, your view of the evolution is a little too naive.
First, nobody is out there "judging" creatures to see if they pass some kind of evolutive finals.
There are probably uncountable instances of parasitic relations where the existence or absence of the parasite has absolutely no influence in the creature survival capacity.
In this particular case, the bacteria probably installed itself by sexual transmission and probably gave some benefits to the host. Some hosts would not be afected. From there on the host population would be forever separated, even before any other speciation occurrred.
I will refrain from commenting on your last paragraph. But be careful with this line of reasoning. You are on the very edge of racism there.
There is no place in the Quran or any other religious text that I'm aware of that recommends killing busloads of innocent children to complain about political acts halfway around the world.
There is also no place in the Christian Bible recommending the burning of witches, the killing of infidels, priesthood celibacy, drug banishment and many other things righteous christians do or have done in the name of their God. It is mostly a question of late interpretation.
The Islam deals explicitly the religious war problem, and the Jihad concept is fully developed. It was a necessary concept by the time Mohammed bought the main text to light and many islamic religious leaders think it remains necessary to this day, to face the western menace
While I agree with you that most of the conceptual knowledge will be concetrated at the top, as in any army, a practical encryption knowledge is needed throughout the organization. As Bruce Schneier always says, an encryption process is as strong as its weakest link. There is no point in the leaders using NSA-proof encryption to plan their acts and then communicating these plan to those who will carry them out in plaintext!
I think that my main point, since the first post, is that a western-centric view of the Middle East leads to grave distortions. Either we understand the historical and cultural background of the terrorists or we will never be able to deal with it
I think you are mostly right. I am not, I think, defending the Islam (or any other religion, for that matter), acts of terror in the name of a god or any kind of fanatism. If my post made you think otherwise it was my fault.
But I believe you are wrong in thinking that the religious rethoric is not sincerely acted by many, specially by those that will take their rethoric to its logical and ultimate consequences.
People who suicide-bomb school buses are usually very righteous, "pure" fanatics, the same kind of fanatic that bomb abortion clinics in the west.
These people will not only follow all their religious beliefs, they will follow those beliefs to the exact letter.
I really do not think these people will use porn pictures to communicate, specially when millions of perfect harmless pictures can be used.
USA Today article is so filled with garbage and gaps, so clearly following an (no-very-well) hidden agenda that I don't even have the energy to debunk it all. So, just a few commented hightlights:
a) "Hidden in the X-rated pictures on several pornographic Web sites". The article starts with this major culturally ignorant phrase. All "bad men" quoted afterwards are fundamentalist muslins. These guys are as likely to found in pornographic sites as Mrs. Barbara Bush is likely to be photographed burning the flag.
b) "Uncrackable encryption is allowing terrorists ? Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaida and others ? to communicate about their criminal intentions without fear of outside intrusion," FBI Director Louis Freeh said last March during closed-door testimony on terrorism before a Senate panel. "They're thwarting the efforts of law enforcement to detect, prevent and investigate illegal activities." Please notice the "last March" expression. This panel was reported and fully discussed (See the news here. I believe it was even discussed in Slashdot, but I couldn't find the article)
c)"encryption has become the everyday tool of Muslim extremists in Afghanistan, Albania, Britain, Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Syria, the USA, the West Bank and Gaza and Yemen, U.S. officials say." I guess they also have radios, all forms of guns, phones, cameras. They also use cars, trains, buses. Let us ban all of those.
d)"All the Islamists and terrorist groups are now using the Internet to spread their messages," says Reuven Paz, academic director of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, an independent Israeli think tank." This has absolutely nothing to do with encryption. Notice the equality achieved in the sentence between Islamist and terrorist. Rephrase to "All Southern Baptists and racists groups are now using the Internet". Think about it.
e)"They're hidden using free encryption Internet programs set up by privacy advocacy groups. The programs scramble the messages or pictures into existing images. The images can only be unlocked using a "private key," or code, selected by the recipient, experts add. Otherwise, they're impossible to see or read." We should throw all these "privacy advocacy groups" in jail and lose the key, shouldn't we?
f)"It's no wonder the FBI wants all encryption programs to file what amounts to a "master key" with a federal authority that would allow them, with a judge's permission, to decrypt a code in a case of national security. But civil liberties groups, which offer encryption programs on the Web to further privacy, have vowed to fight it." Of course, as we already know that all the enemies of the United States are a bunch dumb arabs, they obviously cannot develop their own software. So they will be forced use US-made software that automatically deposits their private keys with the FBI.
g)"Who ever thought that sending encrypted streams of data across the Internet could produce a map on the other end saying 'this is where your target is' or 'here's how to kill them'?" says Paul Beaver, spokesman for Jane's Defense Weekly in London, which reports on defense and cyberterrorism issues. "And who ever thought it could be done with near perfect security? The Internet has proven to be a boon for terrorists." Who ever thought a spokesman for a defense and cyberterrorism publication could be so dumb? To discover how does Mr. Beaver manages to keep his job, that would amaze me.
The discussion about the racist bias of the article is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Redmond, WA - Graphics guru and senior XBox developer Michael Abrash announced this afternoon that he was able to install and run a modified version of the Linux kernel in the XBox specification documents.
"Look" said a grinning Abrash, "this thing here is still basically vapour. We have plans, we have specs and we have lots of Powerpoint presentations. So it was pretty easy to tweak the specs until there was enough degrees of freedom to aloow a theoretical kernel to compile in a theorical port of gcc and run. Piece of cake".
Abrash is now said to working on a port of the XBox specs that will run MacOS X.
I have been using only M18 for a month (.06 is downloading while I type). Except for some problems with dialog boxes that won't go away, I have had no major problems. Sometimes it will crash and burn (twice when trying to render /., probably caused by a rogue banner), but it mostly works well.
It is also quick enough, at least. I have a list of behaviors that I am still deciding about. I do not know if they are bugs, if they bother me because they are different from IE or if I just find them wrong. The velocity problem applies here too. I am not yet sure if mozilla is slightly slower than IE or if it just renders HTML differently.
I do not remember having any show-stopper problem in ANY site (besides not having plugins I didn't bother to install).
Both at work and at home I mostly forgot IE.
Bees actually have UV photoreceptors in their eyes. That answers for a part of their ability to guide themselves by the sun. If I remember well, a bee eye has receptor for red, blue and ultra-violet.
Kill them all! Mutants are bad, they are a menace to the very human existence in planet Earth. We let the tetrachromats live now, the next thing we will know is that invisible mutants are hiding in our daughters bedrooms, telepath mutants are reading our dirty secrets out of our minds and little green man from Betelgeuse are cropping in the garden.
So I repeat, kill the mutants now while there is still time!
Animal Farm is actually a very critical, very harsh satire of communism , specially Soviet Union under Stalin. The book was written just after Orwell broke away from the Communist Party (after he realized the real political situation of Soviet Union under Stalin).
If you get familiar the rising of communist ideology since Marx, you can identify one to one relationships between book characters and historical characters. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, the whole gangy is there.
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