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My name is George Angel Marselis or Γεώργιος Άγγελος Μαρσέλης (in Greek) or Anjin (あんじん) (in Japanese) or Dmi (In EFnet#C speak) :)
Music plays a very important part in my life. I'm always listening to some music, either to get into the zone, either to cover up the noise from the fans or simply feel a void or two I feel every now and then *cough*cough* ;)
Nina Simone It's nobody's fault but mine..../ Pirate Jenny
Gil Scott-HeronAnd women will not care if Dick got finally down with Jane on Search for Tommorow because black people will be in the street looking for a brighter day
Saul Williams Cuz the beat don't stop... even when you're rhyming off-track
The Doors They got the guns, but we got the numbers...
John Lee Hooker - "You got to worry about the money now, man. Nothing left later but for the garbage"
Muddy Waters - ooooooooooooooh chiiiild... Everything's gonna be alright! Everything's gonna be alright, this morning!
"Impossible is nothing. Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world that they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a decleration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing" from an ad, staring World Championship Boxer Muhammad Ali.
"When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child. Now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways and I can speak my mind in my own voice..."
Major Motoko Kusanagi, from my favorite movie of all times: Ghost In the Shell (Kôkaku kidôtai - 攻殻機動隊).
Military Messaging Handling System NATO STANAG 4406: Military messaging handling system: Email Software for military use. It’s purpose is to delegate messages between NATO members.
User interface engineering standards I haven't been able to find a good description of what a good gui should consist of, or how data maps into a GUI. Personally, I think of GUI programming/design as meta-programming/design, because to me, it doesn't have to do with programming (as in the algorithmic solution to a problem) as much as it has to do with the pictorisation(sp?)/visualisation of data (how data is re/presented). So, I am looking to put together a guide that explains the basic features of a modern gui and their functions, (command buttons, checkboxes, radio boxes, textboxes, etc, etc), how to use them and how to deliver (within a rule of thumb) a consistent interface. I will acknowledge that Microsoft and Apple have gone a long way into researching User interface engineering (i should place the URLs to the apple gui standards). but more needs to be out in the open. I haven't found any good books on the topic, either. Most of the literature I have gone over assumes the user is a moron and is programming in MS Windblows... :)
Articles applying specifically to Greece
Guard Duty. So, what's a (very) bored software engineer going to do, while on tour in the Greek Armed Forces, running the teletype software and with tons of time in his hands, a intel P90 laptop running Debian, is going to do? Why, copy the functions of the software, make an exact duplicate that works like the original one, add extra functionality with Perl on it, so the incomming mail gets distributed automatically, then, watch his CO give him a lecture about how you're not supposed to innitiate change in the greek armed forces... See, the greek armed forces are like the Church of Greece: Neither likes change.
Apology of an anti-Greek (Απολογία ενώς Ανθέλληνα), an other essay by Nikos Dimou. After the publication of his "Misfortune of being Greek", the author faced heavy critisism and opposition by book critics, opinion collumnists and other Greek intellectuals because his views on the current state of events in Greece were not "aligned" with those of the mainstream culture. In this essay he lays down his responce, point-for-point, to those who characterized him as being anti-Greek.
180 draftee soldiers have died in the past 10 years in the Greek Armed forces. The Greek goverment enforces mandatory draft service, in a time of peace, claiming that Greece is threatened by the enemy from the east (Read: Turkey) continuing an enduring and FUBARed situation ever since the 1950s. Draft soldiers are innadequetly trained, innadequetly paid ( €8.7/month for grunts, €11/month for draft saergents), innadequetly fed and housed.
Those deaths were due to gross negligence/ignorance/disregard of common safety rules, by COs and NCOs alike, plain gross indifference on the part of the draftees, due to the mandatory/non-proffesional nature of the service (read: non-paying), all in the service of special and local interests in Greece. Please help us end mandatory draft service in Greece.
"Όμηροι" (en)(el) means "hostages" in Greek. The banner above reads that "We are hostages of the draft, the past and of military expenditures". Greece spends USD$6.12 billion (FY99/00 est.) per year on military expenditures, 4.91% percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product. We spend more money per capita than any other country in the EU. In the Middle East, we are second only to Israel, in military spending.
"The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country. Not so long ago this used to be freely said in parliament, even about the educational system of the black people. It is still said even today, although in a much more sophisticated language. To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.”
"The Quest for a True Humanity"
"The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit."
"The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can; even if it's only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse - or the man who always came to save America at the last moment; someone always came to save America at the last moment; especially in “B” movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the future, they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan – and it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at – like a B movie" -- "B" Movie
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still.
(while Whitey's on the moon)
The man jus' upped my rent las' night.
('cause Whitey's on the moon)
No hot water, no toilets, no lights.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
I wonder why he's uppi' me?
('cause Whitey's on the moon?)
I wuz already payin' 'im fifty a week.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
An' as if all that shit wuzn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face an' arm began to swell.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Was all that money I made las' year
(for Whitey on the moon?)
How come there ain't no money here?
(Hmm! Whitey's on the moon)
Y'know I jus' 'bout had my fill
(of Whitey on the moon)
I think I'll sen' these doctor bills,
Airmail special
(to Whitey on the moon)
"If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism. To understand this, you have to go back to what the young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro back during slavery. There were two kinds of slaves, the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes - they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good because they ate his food - what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved the master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house - quicker than the master would. If the master said, "We got a good house here," the house Negro would say, "Yeah, we got a good house here." Whenever the master said "we," he said "we." That's how you can tell a house Negro.
If the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master, more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, "Let's run away, let's escape, let's separate," the house Negro would look at you and say, "Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?" That was that house Negro. In those days he was called a "house nigger." And that's what we call them today, because we've still got some house niggers running around here.
This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about "I'm the only Negro out here." "I'm the only one on my job." "I'm the only one in this school." You're nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, "Let's separate," you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation. "What you mean, separate? From America, this good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?" I mean, this is what you say. "I ain't left nothing in Africa," that's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa.
On that same plantation, there was the field Negro. The field Negroes - those were the masses. There were always more Negroes in the field than there were Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get anything but what was left of the insides of the hog.
The field Negro was beaten from morning to night; he lived in a shack, in a hut; he wore old, castoff clothes. He hated his master. I say he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house Negro loved his master, but that field Negro - remember, they were in the majority, and they hated the master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try to put it out; that field Negro prayed for a wind, for a breeze. When the master got sick, the field Negro prayed that he'd die. If someone came to the field Negro and said, "Let's separate, let's run," he didn't say, "Where we going?" He'd say, "Any place is better than here.", speech (9th November, 1963)
Now, go ahead and replace every instance of the word "black" or the word "negro" with the word "Greek" and every instance of "Whitey" with "Greek government". You'll soon realize that you got a government that has put you in a hole for 3.6 trillion euros, brother. Or will you? You may start signing your "First of the month" carols, because you're are most likely employed by the same Greek government we're talking about this minute. Or do you think you're cool, brother, because you get a miserable and stable paycheck from The Man but you have a second job just to make ends meet, brother?
We deal in too many internals, brother. Always frappe, Acropolis and souvlaki. Never can a Greek man create something on his own, others will snob him and try to bring him down, just like crabs in a bucket. I think you know Greek nationalism first hand, brother, standing on your soap box, preaching at the 9:45 News Camera, about blowing up and deporting the Albanians, blowing up and deporting the Skopijie-ians, blowing up and deporting the Turks, blowing up and deporting all the Europeans, blowing up and deporting the Americans, when you're eating from those same hands, brother. Calling every other man a malaka and telling everybody off that tells you "You're going about this the wrong way!". It can't be all black and white: "This is what Greece is about, so either deal with it or get the fuck out!", brother. Some of us been checking your act out close and by now it looks kinda shaky. The way you been rushing people with your super Greek bag, jumping after some Greek men because they chose to skip their "obligation", but you're never around when your "obligation" is due, brother - you choose to cohort with Base Commanders and trying to get favors from politicians just so that you will serve only the minimum and then think yourself smart for outsmarting all the other malakes who served their term in full, brother. I think it was not too easy for you to forget that you were a slave 200 years ago, before your "uprising". You kissed your Sultan's ass then, and you kiss your MP's ass now. You never ask for your rights, brother, you always beg for them. Show your politician just where he's wrong and demand he makes it right. Show your fellow Greek that he shouldn't be sucking on the government's tit! Demand that the public sector shrinks down and not feed itself by draining on your blood.
All you need to do is shut up, stand up and BE GREEK, brother!
It's been 200 years ever since the overthrow of the Ottoman occupation. Still, we still got some house negroes running around. The difference is, they have whiteface on, and they work for the Public sector.
^ With many thanks to Mr. Heron's song/spoken word "Brother"
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