This is perfectly relevant to Pharo, given we have Grafoscopio http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html and have the tooling necessary to produce the maps with a toolchain owned and made by the people.
That we should move this to Pharo-Users, yep. At the bottom of the Grafoscopio page: lots of cases Phil On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Norbert Hartl <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think this list is the proper place for discussing politics. So > can we please not do it? > > thanks, > > Norbert > > Am 22.12.2016 um 11:20 schrieb Dimitris Chloupis <[email protected]>: > > I completely agree with you Phil, the real tragedy is this Berlin tragedy > will be the excuse to funnel billion of euros into a war that will bring > zero results , billions that could be invested not only to save 30 or even > a thousand lives but millions of lives. > > To talk about regression is to not be aware of how extremely lucky and > privileged we are to live in a time that experts call "the long peace" . > Never in the recorded human history there were so few wars worldwide and as > much poverty and it continuously gets better even in this time of global > economic crisis. > > As a matter of fact the biggest problems we face are the result of this > long peace and prosperity . Top ones being over population and climate > change. > > In both cases of positives and negative we experience the profound effects > of exponential growth. This crazy curve of constant growth that start small > and much later increases in insane rates which has massive positive and > negative effects. Its a crazy ride and will only get massively more crazy > soon enough, especially now with the coming of the AI revolution. > > I wonder the role Pharo will play in all this :) > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:56 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Regression? Consider that 1 human on 5 is under the poverty line vs 1 on >> 2 not so many years ago and that a large percentage of the human population >> has been schooled in elementary matters (again, not the case not so far in >> the past). >> >> That is a massive improvement! >> >> Despite terrorist casualties, which compared to flu or car crashes, or >> even toddlers shooting relatives with guns is two orders of magnitude less, >> we live in the safest environment we have ever had. Not a regression at all. >> >> http://www.fayard.fr/histoire-du-terrorisme-9782213687308 has a pretty >> useful background on their logic. Terrorism is the weapon of the weak in >> terms of fighting force, otherwise they would engage in a full on war to >> conquer the territory. >> >> The psychological impact is just out of proportions vs the number of >> casualties. >> >> I got rammed into by a truck last week and could have been killed. That's >> just a mundane occurence that statistically kills more people than any >> terrorist attack would. >> >> Ref: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_de_la_route_en_France "Et >> depuis 1945, les chiffres sont aussi édifiants, car il faut parler d'au >> moins 500 000 morts, soit l'équivalent d'un grand conflit majeur, ou >> l'équivalent des pertes humaines subies en France lors de la Seconde Guerre >> mondiale." >> >> Not to mention domestic accidents: "Chaque année en France, près de >> 20 000 personnes décèdent dans un accident domestique, c'est trois fois >> plus que sur la route."" Plus de la moitié des accidents de la vie >> courante concerne des enfants de 0 à 16 ans. Et malgré les progrès >> accomplis depuis les années 80, c'est pour eux une des principales causes >> de décès prématurés. Produits ménagers ou médicaments accessibles, chaise >> haute non sanglée, table à langer instable. en quelques minutes, la vie >> peut tourner au drame. Il faut savoir que chez les tout-petits, c'est à >> l'intérieur de la maison que se situe le danger" >> >> Best course of action is to keep on trucking and be a productive element >> of society. No matter what. YOLO after all. >> >> Phil >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:44 PM, stepharong <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Indeed, immensely sad. Humanity is under regression. >> When you see that in Mali they destroyed the oldest world library. >> What sadden me the most is that in case of attacks in France, these >> attacks were made by brainwashed french >> citezen against french citizen contrary to what ugly "politician" would >> like that we think. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Berlin_attack >> >> It is really sad that these things happen, that so many innocent people >> are killed and hurt. It makes me even more sad that I seem to be getting >> used to this, that should not be the case, at all. >> >> Sven >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >> >> >> >
