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Cuba to switch computers to Linux, dumping Windows | |
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| Time: 00:25 EST/05:25 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Cuba will gradually switch to the open-source Linux operating system for its state computers, eliminating its exclusive use of Microsoft Windows, the government daily Juventud Rebelde reported Tuesday. Roberto del Puerto, director of the state office of information technology, told the daily that Cuba already has about 1,500 computers using the Linux system, a free operating system whose technical data is open for public viewing. | ||
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| #26 By 3746 (71.19.43.237) at 5/19/2006 7:43:36 AM |
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http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060519/gitmo_prison_060518
Do as we say - not as we do. |
| #27 By 47914 (24.225.231.107) at 5/19/2006 10:02:01 AM |
| I feel so bad for those admitted terroists who'd love to slit our throats. I know, they were just "in the wrong place at the wrong time" when they were aprehended! |
| #28 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 5/19/2006 11:26:04 AM |
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#26 The Vice-Chair of that committee is from China - a world leader in human rights abuse.
You keep good company. This post was edited by NotParker on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 11:26. |
| #29 By 3746 (66.46.25.74) at 5/19/2006 12:02:24 PM |
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http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/members.htm
"The Committee Against Torture is composed of 10 independent experts who are persons of high moral character and recognized competence in the field of human rights." Yes and the other Vice Chair is from the US. Just one voice in ten calling for the Gitmo and other secret sites to be closed. |
| #30 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 5/19/2006 2:54:40 PM |
| #25: Sure you do. You ignore the Geneva convention, ignore your own laws on torture and due process, hold people for years without charges, counsel or trial. You kidnap people and dump them in secret prisons around the world. You invade other nations based on total fabrications wrapped in plausible deniability. You lie about spying on your own people, and then claim it's for the fight against terror when exposed. Most of what you said is pointless and irrelevant. I think I am better than the guy down the street, but if I say one thing and do another then I am still a hypocrite, regardless of how much better I am than the guy down the street. The US holds itself as an example of a democracy that adheres to the principles of human rights. Meanwhile, it acts like the Soviet Union from back in the Cold War days. Like most chickenhawks, yuoi're all for war so long as you personally don't have to get involved. |
| #31 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 5/19/2006 2:58:46 PM |
| #27: Well gee, the US just sent back 19 Gitmo "guests" to Saudi Arabia. No trial, no charges, no punishment other than being guests of Dumbya in Gitmo for the past 3-4 years. You'd be right at home in China, where the people are taught not to question their leaders. |
| #32 By 3746 (71.19.43.237) at 5/19/2006 3:47:34 PM |
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#30
That was the point I was trying to make but Notparker was not getting it. Don't make yourself to be some pillar of democracy and freedom as you are eroding those freedoms for your own citizens and those abroad. It is kind of sad really because the US is walking a dangerous path where they might become the thing that they hate. Taking away liberties and freedoms in order to give a false sense of security is just sad and against everything the founding fathers stood for. "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" This post was edited by kaikara on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 17:28. |
| #33 By 3746 (71.19.43.237) at 5/19/2006 3:52:08 PM |
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"I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave."
H. L. Mencken |
| #34 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 5/19/2006 8:28:30 PM |
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China, Cuba , Mencken ...
Do you agree with what he said here: "The educated Negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a Negro. His brain is not fitted for the higher forms of mental effort; his ideals, no matter how laboriously he is trained and sheltered, remain those of a clown." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken |
| #35 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 5/19/2006 8:40:56 PM |
| you cuba and terrorist sympathizers are truly shameful. you are whats wrong with the human race. |
| #36 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 5/19/2006 9:36:00 PM |
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1981207&page=3
"Andreas Mavrommatis, a Cypriot rights expert who chaired the committee's review of the United States, said the report should not be blown out of proportion because the United States has "a very good record of human rights" overall. "Yes, we have identified certain" problems in the war on terrorism, Mavrommatis told reporters. "We are telling them we hope to have a dialogue, and we trust that they might take the necessary measures to improve." And how did they identify "certain problems"? I don't know. "U.N. investigators were invited to inspect the facilities at Guantanamo but chose not to, White House press secretary Tony Snow said." This post was edited by NotParker on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 21:36. |
| #37 By 3746 (71.19.43.237) at 5/20/2006 2:02:08 PM |
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#34
Just because someone said one or more stupid things doesn't mean that something else they said isn't valid. I could point to your own track record. Once and awhile you seem to get things right. Strange your ability not to read the rest of the article that goes on to address his "racist views" "Overall, Mencken engaged the African-American community with a respect, honesty, and lack of condecension absent from the racists of the day and even the progressive white advocates. Hence to call Mencken "racist" is perhaps simplistic— in many respects he was far ahead of his time in expressing an appreciation of African-American culture —in the balance, his writings are thought to have had a positive influence on society rather than a negative one." I have never seen that quote in context so perhaps it was sarcastic or in jest. But as usual instead of focusing on the content you attack something else regardless of how what he is saying reflects what is happening today. You are turning into a country of slaves based on your fear of some big bad terrorists. #35 I am not a terrorist sympatizer in the least. Although I have been to Cuba and the people are fantastic. Communism as a governing system does not work and that has been proven multiple times. But you are seeing everything as black and white but the world isn't that simple. Try and take a step back. Your government has you so focused on things that are really meaningless that you can't see the things that you should really be worried about. |
| #38 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 5/20/2006 5:21:38 PM |
| keep talking linux lovers, about your love for terrorists, etc. the more you talk, the less appealing your "alternative" appears. you're actively driving people away from your cause, because of your movement's overall "let the freaks speak for the movement" attitudes. |
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