The Wayland architecture integrates the display server, window manager and compositor into one process. You can think of Wayland as a toolkit for creating clients and compositors. It is not a specific single compositor or window manager. If you want a different window manager, you can write a new one.
I don’t know much about Wayland but the immediate question is: Why would you want to do that? If Wayland has it’s own window manager built in why do you need another one? It’s like support for Windows or OS X. Not needed as those systems have their own window managers and not really support replacing it. This is contrary to X which has no window manager by default and allows and encourages others to implement it. Window Maker is a window manager for X (as stated in the info box) and Wayland aims to be an incompatible replacement of X. So they are not really a good match at first sight.
now, they say - use wayland, it’s a new and good thing. this is a dealbreaker for me. i can’t live without windowmaker.
also, says
If Wayland has it’s own window manager built in why do you need another one?
wait, how? seriously? if there’s a one brand of bread, why would you need another one?
this is centralization again.
#quote #technology #wayland #xorg #linux #unix #windowmaker #design
the important part here is their awareness of cher’s armenian ancestry. that was irony, as many other things i write, in case you wonder.
#armenian #quote #cher #book
The M-3 could have also remained a one-of-a-kind machine (its development was not officially sanctioned by the government), had it not been for the academician Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian. Upon his arrival in Moscow in 1954, he asked his friend Andronick Gevondovich Iosifian, Director of the All-Union Soviet Scientific Research Institute of Electro-mechanics [today the Vserossiskii nauchno-isledovatel’skii institut elektromekhaniki, or VNIIEM], to help him obtain a computer for the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Iosifian turned to Brook, and the two of them agreed to manufacture three M-3s at the Institute of Electro-mechanics, which had its own manufacturing facility. One computer was to be built for the Institute of Electro Mechanics, one for the Yerevan Institute of Mathematics of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, and another for Korolev’s space program. They formed a joint group of specialists: Matyuhin (from Brook’s laboratory), Boris Moiseevich Kagan, George Petrovich Lopato (from Iosifian’s Institute), and others. In 1956, the first of the M-3’s was fine-tuned and presented to the State Commission, together with technical documentation required for industrial mass- production.
…Because the M-3 was actually a self-initiated project, independent of any state plans, the State Commission headed by Bruevich and assisted by Shura-Bura showed its true character by not wanting to acknowledge this computer, claiming that it was “born illegitimately.” Although they did eventually accept it, two years went by without it’s going into mass production. During this time, the Yerevan Institute of Mathematical Machines was founded and began producing its own computers using our documentation for the M-3. 27 At the same time, the first industrial computer factory in Minsk, Belarus, was built, but had nothing to produce. The factory managers learned that Iosifian had a model of a computer but nobody had given him permission to make it. Only then were the M-3’s documents transferred from the Institute of Electro Mechanics to the factory in Minsk and the M-3 computer became the basis for computer manufacturing in Yerevan and Minsk.
#book #quote #computing #yerevan
When you stand in front of someone (with your car) and you horn at that person, … In my opinion, it’s like pointing a loaded gun. It is a threat. One you probably wouldn’t execute, but that is also one of the biggest uses op weapons: threaten. The victim never knows for sure what you are going to do…
from comment by @{Eddie G ; eddygz@pod.disroot.org} under this post. #quote #threaten #weapon
From a software engineering point of view, of course, a program must “work” according to its specifications. But this is not sufficient. The manner in which it is designed and written is as important as whether the program works. The ease with which the software can be changed to upgrade performance, meet additional specifications, or rectify errors that are later discovered is directly related to the quality of design and implementation. The “hot-shot” programmer who can quickly throw together cryptic lines of code that only he or she can understand is of questionable value. The programmer who boasts of using clever tricks to reduce the total number of lines of code has probably missed the point. Computer memory is relatively cheap, whereas the modification of software (a process greatly enhanced by program clarity) is generally expensive. Thus, given a choice between a little less economy of code or greater program clarity, the latter is often preferred.
From the ‘Software Engineering with Modula-2 and Ada’ by Wiener and Sincovec.
#programming #modula-2 #ada #wiener #sincovec #quote
Marx taught that luxury is as much a vice as poverty and that our goal should be to be much, not to have much. (I refer here to the real Marx, the radical humanist, not to the vulgar forgery presented by Soviet communism.) Erich Fromm, “To have or to be” #erich-fromm #fromm #marx #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote #ussr
If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.
― David Foster Wallace, Up, Simba!
#quote #elections
one of the most important phrases from the “philosopher and the wolf” is definition of humans as
humans are creatures that believe stories they tell about themselves.
yesterday i was trying to write an email, and i understood that i doubt most of the things i did write. i did know for sure that only three things are true from what i did write. so i have removed everything and left those three.
#wolf #book #quote
— sorry, i feel a bit good. i have to leave now.
#talk #quote
If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.
Erich Fromm, The art of being
#erich_fromm #psychology #quote #explanation #freedom
What they cannot do is lie. And that is why they have no place in a civilized society. A wolf cannot lie to us; neither can a dog. That is why we think we are better than them.
The Philosopher and the Wolf.
#wolf #dog #philosopher #lie #deception #intelligence #humanity #quote
the moment you realize that you are data
by @{Armin Sommer ; arminsommer@despora.de}
#moment #realization #quote #data #product #freedom
Some people think that training dogs - and, even more so, wolves - is cruel, as if you are going to break their spirit or make them permanently cowed. But far from breaking his spirit, when a dog or wolf knows exactly what is and what is not expected of him his confidence, and as a result his composure, grow immensely. It is a hard truth that, as Friedrich Nietzsche once put it, those who can’t discipline themselves will quickly find somebody else doing it for them. And, for Brenin, it was my responsibility to be that somebody. But the relation between discipline and freedom is a deep and important one: far from being opposed to freedom, discipline is what makes the most worthwhile forms of freedom possible. Without discipline there is no real freedom; there is only license.
#book #quote #people #dogs #wolf #wolves #discipline #training #nietzsche #freedom #license #responsibility
— i am somehow sad, because they did not take my money (bribe) - they respected my age. it’s sad that apparently i am that old, and I would prefer they would take money from me. :/
#bribe #money #respect #quote #talk #age #armenia
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.
– P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983
#expert #plauger #computer_language #quote #programming #computer
Too often people with some talent go where there is some money to be made. They begin to trade a bit of their talent for a bit of money, then a little more, and finally they have nothing left to themselves. In Czechoslovakia we didn’t have many freedoms, and particularly not the freedom to make money. But that led us to choose professions that we really loved. I always photographed with the idea that no one would be interested in my photos, that no one would pay me, that if I did something I only did it for myself.
#koudelka #quote #Czechoslovakia #freedom
To my son Nicola, who I hope will love and respect his native land more than the generations before him did.
#book #quote
— the people in my life didn’t feel that I was invested in them. now, that wasn’t true. but it does not matter. it’s not enough to care about somebody. it’s not enough to understand them. they have to feel understood. they have to feel cared about.
#quote #people
My friend Henry [Wolf] once said that I had a talent for being indifferent to opportunities. He felt that I could have built more of a career, but instead I went home and drank coffee and looked out the window.
#photography #saul_leiter #quote
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.
#photography #saul_leiter #quote
I’m sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.
#photography #saul_leiter #quote
I realize that the search for beauty is not highly popular these days. Agony, misery and wretchedness, now these are worth perusing.
#photography #saul_leiter #quote #beauty
when a few people steal software, everyone looses.
slogan by software publishers association. 1990.
#software #piracy #software_publishers_association #1990 #slogan #quote
I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.
#saul_leiter #life #privilege #art #quote #photographer #photography
I like this quote:
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…
#einstein #quote #life
At a time when staged narratives and rendered images are popular, I am excited by the fact that life itself offers situations far more strange and beautiful than anything I could set up.
Melanie Einzig
#quote #photography #street_photography #art
Before I was a street photographer, or even a photographer, I was a walker - most native New Yorkers are. I would (and still do) choose to walk the long way home. At some point the camera became a part of the warking.
Gus Powell.
#quote #photography
You only have one life and so many minutes in your day — in your life — to accomplish things and to focus on things that matter
#chess #life #quote
The biggest impediment of rPi is that it is available from only one place due to Broadcomm hold on the processor and the personal union between Broadcom and the rPi Foundation (both run by the same person). Broadcomm has killed the competing rPi clones by simply refusing to sell the CPUs to the independent developers. Even if Broadcomm changed this policy (which I have not heard of), you simply cannot trust the chip vendor with this track record.
IMHO, investing any effort into rPi is a dead alley if you have any plans of “selling these boards to rural Africa”. Simply put, you are at the mercy of a single source who has a track record of using dirty practices against the competition. This is contrary to the idea of open design.
I am currently working on a BeagleBone which I selected precisely because I can buy the processor chips from Texas Instruments who has never refused to sell their chips to anyone. I am not impressed with performance, quad core or whatever. My only concern is whether I can build what I design, and then “sell to rural Africa”. Therefore, the rPi is completely ruled out forever.
#raspberrypi #raspberry-pi #raspberry_pi #broadcom #rpi #beaglebone #texas_instruments #ti #oberon #quote #freedom
Editorial imagery must be factual and represent the scene as truthfully as possible. Basic file adjustments are acceptable, but images that have been creatively manipulated lose their truthfulness making them unsuitable. Please re-upload your photo without artistic filters or creative techniques that greatly alter the scene.
interesting, that i’ve got this from 500px regarding the photo i didn’t even touch. just made it with b/w film, scanned in the lab, and uploaded.
#photography #500px #photo #quote
Burgomaster. All right. What’s the mood around town? Warden. Quiet. But they are still writing. Burgomaster. Writing what? Warden. Letter “L” on the walls. That means Lancelot. Burgomaster. Nonsense! “L” means - “Love the president”. Warden. I see. So, we don’t detain those who are writing? Burgomaster. Are you kidding? Of course we do. What else do they write? Warden. Embarrassing to say. The president is scum. His son is a crook. The president… (giggles) Can’t really repeat the expression, sir. But mostly they write the “L”. Burgomaster. Morons. What do they want with that Lancelot anyway? Any news about him, while we’re on the subject? Warden. Not a word. Burgomaster. Did you interrogate the birds? Warden. Uh-huh. Burgomaster. All of them? Warden. Uh-huh. See this mark? That’s eagle’s present. Got me right in the ear. Burgomaster. And what are they saying? Warden. They say they didn’t see Lancelot. Only the parrot agrees. You’re like: “Have you seen him?” And he’s like: “Seen him”. You’re like: “You saw Lancelot?” And he’s like: “Saw Lancelot.” Well, you know what kind of bird the parrot is. Burgomaster. What about the snakes? Warden. Those would have slithered in themselves if they smelled anything. They’re on our side. And relatives to the deceased to boot. But they don’t. Burgomaster. The fish? Warden. Not a peep. Burgomaster. Maybe they know something? Warden. Nope. We had our scientists look into their eyes, and they confirm - those guys know nothing. In short Lancelot, also known as St. George, also known as Perseus, named differently in each country, has yet to be located. Burgomaster. Screw him, then.
Dragon by Evgeny Shvarts.
#dragon #anti-utopia #book #literature #quote #talk #surveillance #tale #life
The speed increase of hardware is slower than the speed loss of software
Die Hardware wird langsamer schneller als die Software langsamer.
Martin Reiser
#reiser #reisers_law #quote #martin_reiser #hardware #software #speed
quote of the day:
#programming #race_condition #quote #question #talk
there is no good in arguing with the inevitable. the only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
james russel lowell
#quote #inevitable #argument #wind #overcoat
Minkin’s article was the best.
When your ally fully depends on you; when he has nowhere else to go; when not only his well-being is in your hands, but also his life… Then the ally like that is called hostage. And if he supports you in anything, that’s very similar to “Stockholm Syndrome”. http://echo.msk.ru/blog/minkin/1535456-echo/
#russian #minkin #echo #article #armenia #russia #hostage #ally #1915 #genocide #politics #quote
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It’s got no place here. Better get used to the idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDGNsbLayJw
#shawshank #quote #music #freedom
This is why we’re attracted to people who don’t want us. We know they’re not into it from the gate. We pretend to be surprised later when we find ourselves betrayed and they leave after an intense but fairly short stay. They fit perfectly into our ego’s plan: I will not be loved. The reason that nice, available people seem boring to us is because they bust us. The ego equates emotional danger with excitement, and claims that the nice, available person isn’t dangerous enough. The irony is that the opposite is true: available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. They might actually hang around long enough to get to know us. They could melt our defenses, not through violence but through love. This is what the ego doesn’t want us to see. Available people are frightening. They threaten the ego’s citadel. The reason we’re not attracted to them is because we’re not available ourselves.
“A Return to Love”, Marianne Williamson
#love #relationships #ego #people #a-return-to-love #marianne-williamson #quote
did some “drawing” today.
#dragon #optics #johann-zahn #magic-lantern #gravure #athanasius-kircher #art #science #history #mark-zakharov #movie #fantasy #vishap #quote
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այսօր մի քիչ «նկարչութիւն» եմ արել այս կայքերի՝ http://oberon.vishap.am http://wiki.oberon.vishap.am համար։
#վիշապ #վիշապներ #աթանաս֊քիրխեր #անդերգրաունդ#վիշապ #վիշապներ #աթանաս֊քիրխեր #անդերգրաունդ #վօկ #վիշապ֊օբերոն #վիշապ #օպտիկա #ֆենթեզի #յոհան֊ցահն #արվեստ #գիտություն #կինո #մարկ֊զախարով #հեքիաթ #մէջբերում #քաղուածք
The system was called Demon, so dubbed because file names in the computer language he used (APL) could not handle a word as long as his unimaginative choice for the first version, “Demonstration”. Later, in a burst of inspiration, an IBM colleague would change the name, carrying over the satanic theme from Demon to “Lucifer”, thus containing a cryptographic pun.
#crypto #steven-levy #quote #book #feistel #demon #demonstration #lucifer #cifer
Using animals as an example (OO people love animals), define mammal and derive giraffe from mammal. Then define a member function mate, where animal mates with animal and returns an animal. Then you derive giraffe from animal and, of course, it has a function mate where giraffe mates with animal and returns an animal. It’s definitely not what you want. While mating may not be very important for C++ programmers, equality is.
https://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/drdobbs-interview.html
#programming #oop #quote
The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
#programming #oop #erlang #joe-armstrong #quote #coders-at-work #book
I’ve read an interesting paper.
The idea that the market is about fair competition is increasingly negated by the facts of extraordinary monopoly, centralization, and internationalization on the part of corporate and financial powers. The startling increase in class and regional inequalities both within states (such as China, Russia, India, Mexico, and in Southern Africa) as well as internationally poses a serious political problem that can no longer be swept under the rug as something transitional on the way to a perfected neoliberal world. The neoliberal emphasis upon individual rights and the increasingly authoritarian use of state power to sustain the system become a flashpoint of contentiousness. The more neoliberalism is recognized as a failed if not disingenuous and utopian project masking the restoration of class power, the more it lays the basis for a resurgence of mass movements voicing egalitarian political demands, seeking economic justice, fair trade, and greater economic security and democratization.
source: Neoliberalism as creative destruction by David Harvey.
You may know him from this RSA video.
#neoliberalism #quote #david-harvey #market #competition #trade #economics #democracy
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we’ll talk.’ All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don’t want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.
#books #quote #bradbury
Putin’s nationalist propaganda resembles the US propaganda used to convince Americans to have faith that the US is the “good guy” in every war, in disregard of all truth. However, Putin’s version is even stronger. https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Russian_writer_Mikhail_Shishkin%29
#putin #russia #usa #propaganda #war #peace #rms #stallman #quote
I say, that may be places like github are something like a beautiful forest for some creatures. And may be our civilization is needed to produce code, so that some creatures get aesthetic pleasure.
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Կեսգիշերային Հրամանատար ; satenik@spyurk.am} 17.09.2014, 12:20:06
#quote #number #numbers #beauty #math #maths #mathematics #Paul-Erdos #Erdos
the surest way to improve programming productivity is so obvious many programmers miss it. simply write less code!
#modula-3 #harbison #programming #quote #book
Alex Balashov:
I’m leaving Armenia for a non-trivial period of time. I’ll be back in a few months, but am seriously reconsidering my previous inertia toward longer-term residence. I haven’t fully made up my mind. There’s some novel personal reasons that enter into the deliberation lately, including a very short-lived and spectacularly failed marriage here, but I’m not letting a bad marriage ruin Armenia for me, and I’m not here to talk about that. I wanted to share some more general parting thoughts and observations.
Leaving Armenia: What I’ll miss, what I won’t
#armenia #yerevan #quote
You’re cursed by all the things you never built, all the girls you never met, all the dreams you cheated on. You gave up amazing things for boring things, difficult things for easy things, sleepless nights for healthy sleep, video games for a weekly soccer match, motorcycles for cars, pain for apathy. You’re such a sad fucking idiot.
http://sssilver.tumblr.com/post/69907132794/disappointment
#areg #sssilver #quote #girls #curse #dreams #idiot #քաղվածք #արեգ #աղջիկներ #անեծք #երազանքներ
being free is like being pregnant - either you are, or you aren’t.
#jim-marrs #freedom #iphone #android #openmoko #gta-02 #gta-04 #quote
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2014-January/069220.html
Marx taught that luxury is as much a vice as poverty and that our goal should be to be much, not to have much. (I refer here to the real Marx, the radical humanist, not to the vulgar forgery presented by Soviet communism.)
Erich Fromm, “To have or to be”
#erich-fromm #fromm #marx #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote #ussr #cccp #ссср #humanism #խսհմ #սովետ #ֆրոմ #մարքս #էրիխ֊ֆրոմ #փիլիսոփայություն #հոգեբանություն #սոցիալիզմ #կոմունիզմ #ապագա #արժեքներ
Socialism and communism quickly changed from a movement whose aim was a new society and a new man into one whose ideal was a bourgeois life for all, the universalized bourgeois as the men and women of the future.
Erich Fromm, “To have or to be”
#erich-fromm #fromm #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote
A translation of the Early Middle High German Poem,
from the edition “Opitz’s Anno” by Graeme Dunphy.
#bavaria #armenia #ararat #german #deutsch #literature #quote
Я был убежден — всегда и до сих пор, — что мощь репрессивных сил во многом объясняется их способностью хранить свою власть в тайне. http://esquire.ru/assange
#assange #quote #цитата #ассанж #ասանժ #քաղվածք
В то время компьютеры продавались «пустыми», на них не устанавливали никакого программного обеспечения. Это одна из тех вещей, которой не понимают дети нового поколения. Когда им покупают их первый компьютер, на нем уже стоит масса всевозможных программ, красивая графика и много чего другого, но в мои годы был лишь один программный слой над железками. Ты мог включить компьютер и начать печатать в этой чудесной пустоте, которая только и ждала, когда ее населят новые разумы. Система была запрограммирована принимать команды — вот и всё, и ты входил в нее словно первооткрыватель, исследующий незнакомую территорию.
#assange #quote #цитата #ассанж #ասանժ #քաղվածք
http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/apriscatole/1071368-echo/
Ты знаешь, вот мы говорим о людях, мы говорим обо всяких достопримечательностях, но мне кажется, что самое главное в Тбилиси – это какая-то его совершенно волшебная атмосфера, когда ты весь город ощущаешь как свой собственный дом. Тебе уютно всюду. Даже если ты отошел от своего родного дома, где ты живешь, постоянно в школу ходишь, отошел бог знает на сколько километров. Это поразительно просто. И я очень хорошо помню, что там люди готовы… ну, то есть как вам сказать, там постоянный контакт с окружающими, постоянный! И вот идешь, я помню, маленький по улице, один – кто бы ни шел тебе навстречу: «Мальчик, ты что сделаешь? Почему ты один? Все в порядке? Иди-иди, ты знаешь, куда идешь»
#Թբիլիսի #Թիֆլիս #Տփղիս #քաղաք #քաղվածք #փողոց #կապ #Tbilisi #Tiflis #city #quote #street #contact #Тбилиси #თბილისი #ქუჩის #ქალაქის #შეთავაზება #დაუკავაშირდით
comment from here https://spyurk.am/posts/228436 by @{marc ; exn@joindiaspora.com} :
#comment #media #cite #quote #internet #social #trade #slavery #freedom
#քաղվածք #մեկնաբանություն #մեջբերում #համացանց #առեւտուր #ստրկություն #ազատություն
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We use a sort of tag word #neoliberalism to refer to a kind of hyper capitalism that emphasises privatization, deregulation, short term profits at all cost, sort of an entia tax, entia regulation, sort of a diminishment of public goods provision, social safety net idea. So what we critisizing here is that rather than allowing to market to function on top of negotiated values toward ends that have identified by our society, what we see now with this emphasis on neoliberal policies is that the market principles have become #values and the ends, and so they are used to determine all our social policies.
#quote from the #thinkingallowed #bbc #podcast
the #American and #English #Enlightenment resulted in a massive #destruction of other groups and #cultures, destruction of #African, #Australian, #Asian societies, cultures by the English. Not forgetting the #murder and #colonization of #Irish #people, and #industrial #enslavement of the British working classes.
#quote from the #thinkingallowed #bbc #podcast
“hacking will save the world” (cc) @{David Routh ; dave@free-beer.ch}
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#quote from the #thinkingallowed #bbc #podcast: the #American and #English #Enlightenment resulted in a massive #destruction of other groups and #cultures, destruction of #African, #Australian, #Asian societies, cultures by the English. Not forgetting the #murder and #colonization of #Irish #people, and #industrial #enslavement of the British working classes
#quote from the #thinkingallowed #bbc #podcast: We use a sort of tag word #neoliberalism to refer to a kind of hyper capitalism that emphasises privatization, deregulation, short term profits at all cost, sort of an entia tax, entia regulation, sort of a diminishment of public goods provision, social safety net idea. So what we critisizing here is that rather than allowing to market to function on top of negotiated values toward ends that have identified by our society, what we see now with this emphasis on neoliberal policies is that the market principles have become #values and the ends, and so they are used to determine all our social policies.
This #sci-if was written by #Stanislaw-Lem back in #1971 and it is still actual. I would like to share a #quote from it: ```
The United States ambassador himself was there, and gave a short speech on the need for international cooperation - short, as he was surrounded by six muscular plainclothesmen who kept their guns trained on us all the time. I was rather disconcerted by this, especially when the dark skinned delegate from India standing next to me had to wipe his nose and reached for the handkerchief in his back pocket. The official spokesmen for the Futurological Association assured me afterwards that the measures taken had been both necessary and humane. Bodyguards now employ weapons of high caliber and low penetration, the kind security agents carry on board passenger flights in order that innocent bystanders not be harmed. In the old days it often happened that the bullet which felled the would-be assassin would subsequently pass through five or even six persons who, though minding their own business, where standing directly behind him. Still, the sight of a man at your side crumpling to the floor under heavy fire is not among the most pleasant, even if it is the result of a simple misunderstanding, which ends with an exchange of diplomatic notes and official apologies.
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#Stanislaw-Lem #Lem #sci-fi #USA #US #scifi
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