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POPSWhen will they ever Learn, when will they ever learn, when will they ever learn
Previously, I've offered the Bush gang some undeserved advice. It was simple and even more obvious with time. Whatever instinct they have to do something, then don't. Do the opposite or do nothing. Everything they touch turns to dust. Just a few: Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Iran, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, waterboarding, rendition, POWs, Dollar, Oil, Economy, Hamas, Gaza, West Bank, Katrina, civil rights, prisons, racism, FEAR. Only one state has prospered and at the US expense. It's economy roars ahead based on false security and terrorism. Iraq's government partly rules Baghdad's Green Zone. Now Lebanon's government may in time rule a Beirut Green Zone. Only Israel benefits. Bush ignored the democratically elected Hamas in Gaza. Then the US provoked a Hamas military takeover. Why? So Israel could practice judicial assassination and Hamas wouldn't talk peace? Never. And when Hamas through Carter offered the peace to the Zionists? The lamest excuse ever?
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POPSDispute at Wikipedia; political conflict between Japan and Korea
This case clearly tells us wiki needs a government due to these conditions: 1) direct democracy Wiki is indeed "of the people, by the people, and for the people". But Lincoln definitely didn't mean the direct democracy should be established. The type of democracy is different between wiki and national governments. And the characteristics of wiki leads these two issues; 2) unclosed discussion; anyone may join the discussion suddenly, and also observers can interfere it. This often breaks a consensus if exist, and results in the instability of the wiki regime. 3) non-authority; unlike the international regime, who've written a page can be hardly specified. Anonymousness prevents the people from having their own visible/specifiable characteristics and authority. Therefore, 4) Impossibility of diplomacy; there's no room of negotiation. Direct democracy is indeed good at making each thoughts clear, but it isn't suitable to make a decision of the large community like wik
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POPSProgrammers say the craziest things in their code With the new Google Code Search tool suddenly exposing millions of lines of previously obscure code to the public, I decided to try to find the most embarrassing comments possible that are now out in the open for all to see. Even knowing what types of comments developers leave in their code, I was still a bit mortified to find out just what shameful secrets Google has exposed overnight. (And you should see the R-rated examples.) One blogger compared Google Code Search to reading the great "bathroom wall" of programming. Feel dirty? embryo-0.9.0/src/bin/embryo_main.c 3: /* This is ugly code! don't look at it please! i am embarrassed! i need to */ /* cleanit up! */
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