While surfing the news and beyond, faced the Loosing my religion blog post of Chris Messina. Nice post and right to the point. Even more, the same principle is reflected in all other areas, not only Open Source.
Interesting guy: http://www.duesberg.com/
Almost two decades of unprecedented efforts in research costing US taxpayers over $50 billion have failed to defeat Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and have failed to explain the chronology and epidemiology of AIDS in America and Europe. The failure to cure AIDS is so complete that the largest American AIDS foundation is even exploiting it for fundraising: 'Latest AIDS statistics 0,000,000 cured. Support a cure, support AMFAR.' The scientific basis of all these unsuccessful efforts has been the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by a sexually transmitted virus, termed Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and that this viral immunodeficiency manifests in 30 previously known microbial and non-microbial AIDS diseases.In order to develop a hypothesis that explains AIDS we have considered ten relevant facts that American and European AIDS patients have, and do not have, in common:
- AIDS is not contagious. For example, not even one health care worker has contracted AIDS from over 800,000 AIDS patients in America and Europe.
- AIDS is highly non-random with regard to sex (86% male); sexual persuasion (over 60% homosexual); and age (85% are 25-49 years old).
- From its beginning in 1980, the AIDS epidemic progressed non-exponentially, just like lifestyle diseases.
- The epidemic is fragmented into distinct subepidemics with exclusive AIDS-defining diseases. For example, only homosexual males have Kaposi's sarcoma.
- Patients do not have any one of 30 AIDS-defining diseases, nor even immunodeficiency, in common. For example, Kaposi's sarcoma, dementia, and weight loss may occur without immunodeficiency. Thus, there is no AIDS-specific disease.
- AIDS patients have antibody against HIV in common only by definition-not by natural coincidence. AIDS-defining diseases of HIV-free patients are called by their old names.
- Recreational drug use is a common denominator for over 95% of all American and European AIDS patients, including male homosexuals.
- Lifetime prescriptions of inevitably toxic anti-HIV drugs, such as the DNA chain-terminator AZT, are another common denominator of AIDS patients.
- HIV proves to be an ideal surrogate marker for recreational and anti-HIV drug use. Since the virus is very rare (<>
- The huge AIDS literature cannot offer even one statistically significant group of drug-free AIDS patients from America and Europe.
In view of this, we propose that the long-term consumption of recreational drugs (such as cocaine, heroin, nitrite inhalants, and amphetamines) and prescriptions of DNA chain-terminating and other anti-HIV drugs, cause all AIDS diseases in America and Europe that exceed their long-established, national backgrounds, i.e. >95%. Chemically distinct drugs cause distinct AIDS-defining diseases; for example, nitrite inhalants cause Kaposi's sarcoma, cocaine causes weight loss, and AZT causes immunodeficiency, lymphoma, muscle atrophy, and dementia. The drug hypothesis predicts that AIDS:
- is non-contagious;
- is non-random, because 85% of AIDS causing drugs are used by males, particularly sexually active homosexuals between 25 and 49 years of age, and
- would follow the drug epidemics chronologically.
Indeed, AIDS has increased from negligible numbers in the early 1980s to about 80,000 annual cases in the early '90s and has since declined to about 50,000 cases (US figures). In the same period, recreational drug users have increased from negligible numbers to millions by the late 1980s, and have since decreased possibly twofold. However, AIDS has declined less because since 1987 increasing numbers of mostly healthy, HIV-positive people, currently about 200,000, use anti-HIV drugs that cause AIDS and other diseases. At least 64 scientific studies, government legislation, and non-scientific reports document that recreational drugs cause AIDS and other diseases. Likewise, the AIDS literature, the drug manufacturers, and non-scientific reports confirm that anti-HIV drugs cause AIDS and other diseases in humans and animals. In sum, the AIDS dilemma could be solved by banning anti-HIV drugs, and by pointing out that drugs cause AIDS –modeled on the successful anti-smoking campaign.
If they think that vaccination is so necessary and will "save the world", why even medics are scared?
Американские ученые обнаружили, что морские свинки размножаются гораздо быстрее если им не мешают американские ученые...
American scientists found that guinea pigs are multiplying much faster if american scientists don't prevent them...
Супер фраза :)
"...советские люди поверили западной пропаганде, продали СССР, собрали вещички едут, значит, в "светлое капиталистическое будущее"; приезжают, - а там везде решётки; возвращаются назад, а там пепелище и надпись на иврите "частная собственность"..."
Last time I face with issue of overpopulation more and more frequently... This leads to some thoughts.. But any how, here are the findings:
1. Georgia Guidestones - Скрижали Джорджии
2. Mikhail Gorbachev: "We should talk more about sexual life, contraception, abortion, the importance of birth control, ecological crisis, shortly about crisis of population. When we will reduce population by 90%, there will be simply not enough people to cause ecological catastrophe"
Comment: What actually is being done. As it is clearly specified by comrade, "When we will reduce population by 90%" what means that they are already busy with that..
Михаил Горбачёв: "Мы должны больше говорить о половой жизни, контрацепции, об абортах, о важности контроля над рождаемостью, об экологическом кризисе, короче, о кризисе популяции. Вот сократим население на 90%, и просто будет недостаточно людей для того, чтобы вызвать экологическую катастрофу"
Коментарий: Что собственно и делается, как подчеркивает товарищь, "Вот сократим население на 90%" они уже занимаются проблемой сокращения...
3. Jacques-Yves Cousteau: "...World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day..."
Жак-Ив Кусто: "...Мировая популяция должна быть стабилизированна и что бы достичь этого нужно каждый день избавляться от 350,000 человек..."
4. Henry Kissinger: "The politics of United States against to countries of thrid world should be only one - depopulation"
Генри Киссинджер: "Политика США в отношении стран третьего мира должна быть одна - депопуляция"
5. William Cohen: "Contemporary forms of biological weapons can be purposefully aimed against to specific genotypes, so that biological war is converted from uncontrolled horror and terror to the highest degree political instrument"
Уильям Коэн: "Современные формы биологического оружия могут целенаправленно быть направлены против специфических генотипов и превратить биологическую войну из неуправляемого ужаса и террора в высшей мере полезный политический инструмент"
6. Ted Turner: "Earth population of 250-300 millions - 95% of current level - would be ideal"
Тед Тёрнер: "Население Земли в 250-300 миллионов человек - 95% снижение от настоящего уровня - было бы идеальным"
7. Margaret Sanger: “The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
Маргарет Зангер: "Наиболее гуманное дело, какое семья могла бы оказать новорождённому - это убить его".
So on... И так далее...
I just wander how does it affect our real life... Просто интиресно на сколько это отражается на нашей повседневной жизни...
Process improvment should be done to help the business - not for its own sake.
"In God we trust, all others bring data." - W. Edwards Deming
I beleive that there is no end either for telecom or information technologies.
There are few root reasons of this:
- economical: since everything is based on money, even if you don't actualy need some sort of technology, you will have to develop it
- cultural and political: the now days culture and polical views are based on "non-stop i want more and more". this principle is also applicable to economy.
Basically, no body knows what to they want realy. They are doing something just to do somethings. There is no any other why. Just imagine, developed and launched GSM. If you would say that it is enough, all telecom experts are not needed any more, money flows stops. But they can't stop, otherwise what they would do? :)
These reasons are root reasons of why we are doing and doing something in the are of telecom, information technology or anything else. Just to keep every body busy, not beacuse it is actually needed by some body.
That were phylosophical aspects.
"Главный инструмент сил ЗЛА, господствующих в этом мире, - это опускать народы и государства, не давать им подняться, держать их в угнетённом состоянии, заставляя их считать себя людьми низшего сорта, неспособными ни на что".
Президент Ирана Ахмади Неджад
P.S. Встретил эту цитату на одном сайте, буду рад если кто знает источник, можно по английски.
Recently I registered to Facebook (www.facebook.com). There are a number of customizable applications (actually it is large number, but you are using a number of them). Since I'm traveling, I found one which is for me :)
Here is its result:
I hope I will not forget to follow up this map... :)
Source with article: http://snarfd.com/2007/12/07/stonehenge-the-incredibly-simple-secret-of-how-it-was-built/
Одна из интереснейших возможностей человека - память. Судя по всему, память, так же один из важнейших механизмов. Имея свойство "записывать", человек так же имеет и возможность "читать" записанное в памяти. Более того, человек почти одновременно "записывает" и "читает". Грубо говоря, у человека на входе есть "входная информация", то, что воспринимается из внешнего мира и то что "считывается" из памяти. В результате получается то, что "записывается" в память.
Recently, I had been to Balkhash lake with my collegues from K'cell. Balkhas lake is about 350-400 km away from Almaty (Kazakhstan).
We had nice time there... And very nice photos...
Sunset sky:
Some house on sunset:
P.S.: Photos are low quality for blogger only... :) Real ones are high resolution and 4-5 Mb each... :)
When I first arrived to India and left the airport in New Delhi, I was going by car to the hotel. It was late night about 2-3 am. Dark roads, and trucks on highway. I read on back side of one of the trucks the following:
"Blow horn"
"Use dipper at night"
First time I saw it, it was very funny. I thought that it is a joke :) But then there were second, third, tenth trucks... And all of them had the same writing on the back. I didn't ask the driver about it at that night, because we both were very tired.
On the next day I moved to Chandigarh. Same writings... :) I was always smiling when I see this writings :)
At the end of 3rd week in Chandigarh, we got an idea to go to Shimla. Idea came on saturday evening at 5 pm. At 5:05 pm, we were on the road to Shimla :) 5-6 hours way to Shimla was full with trucks... and these writings... And now I started to understand that it is not a joke... I would say it like a part of driving culture in India :) If you are slow write it :) Something like that. In any case, such writing in any other european country would be a joke, but not in India... :)
At the end of 4th week I moved to Chennai and I was expecting that I will see same writings here... But I saw different:
"Sound horn"
It was very impressive... :)))
Very interesting air lines I used to fly today... :)
First impression was when I got boarding pass... There was no seat number... I though that it will be some very domestic flight... In some very old plane with chickens in the cabin :)))
But plane was big AirBus 320... :) After I enter the plane I though 2 things, where to seat, and when will be something to eat availale... :)
For the first one I got answer like, where ever you want... :) That is very good I though after I found plane full only for 20% persent. It means I can sleep easily on my personal row of seats... :)))
For the second one, I found an answer in the air line journal... :))) This was most impressive thing :))) It is very interesting feeling, when you want to eat, but you are reading something where it is written, that there will be nothing to eat :))) Yeah, thats right, this Air Deccan airlines doesn't serve meal in the plane... :)
So I continue reading an article about the company. It was saying that they provide very cheap tickets... How:
- plane parked in the airport eats money
- too much staff eat money
- meal: their statement: Who cares about a meal in the plane... :)))
- no tickets sale points, commonly internet
- etc.
So this guys cut their expences, provided cheap flights, generated 270 flights per day with limited staff and services... :)
Great I like good ideas.. :)
Today I moved from Chandigarh to Chennai... Flight was through New Delhi. I spent 11 hours to reach it from the moment I checked out from Hotel in Chandigarh... :) Both flights were delayed. I would say like always, because I used indian domestic airlines 3 times so far, and all flights were delayed for 2 hours at least...
Next time before flying with domestic airlines, I should take something to eat and to drink :) because domestic airports don't have any duty free or cafes after check in...
One of my friends asked to help in writing a small program in Haskell... I'm not saying that I'm master in programming... But such... I don't know how to call this language... I saw first time... I spent 5 hours to understand its syntax and create two dimensional array...
I wonder if there any practical task which can be solved better using Haskell than any other language?...
I just wonder why in almost all languages hindi, russian, turkish group and others tea is "chay", but only english calls chay "tea"... :)
Is there any other language which is not using "chay"?...
