On Oct 28, 3:21 pm, traci.manico...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Now if Linux users could only get China to stop their campaign of
> human rights violations.
> Stuff like killing babies when a mother/family go over quota.
So much worse than the solutions taken by other countries who can't
feed their populations. Like the countries in Africa that just chop
off the arms of children so they starve to death. Or the refugee
camps where they can die of Cholera, Dysintary, starvation, or
exposure. In Iran they had teenagers run into the machine guns of
Saddam's imperial guard. Eventually Saddam had to turn to lethal gas
to secure their borders against Iranian attacks, because they never
knew which group was just a bunch of kids, and which group was a group
preparing to blow up oil pipelines and derricks.
Or India where, 20 years ago, the country had to determine which areas
would have to die of starvation, because they couldn't reliably or
safely feed the exploding population, because they couldn't sell
export products to "developed" countries like the United States,
Euroupe, and Japan.
Sure, there were "charities" which would donate modest amounts of food
and water to those who were most desparately in need, if they were
willing to convert to Christianity.
China had a population of over 1 billion people in the early 1970s,
and desparately needed to stop an exponential growth curve. Failure
to do so would have had global implications.
The study authors determined the top 10 global killers to be:
heart attack (6.3 million deaths);
stroke (4.4 million); pneumonia (4.3 million);
Lucky Americans - die of obesity.
People in China, India, Malasia, and Africa aren't so lucky:
diarrhea (2.9 million);
birth-related illnesses (2.4 million);
bronchitis/emphysema (2.2 million);
tuberculosis (2 million);
measles (1.1 million);
By the way, I deeply respect the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation for
their remarkably successful efforts in combatting these diseases.
Malaria - the Mesquito - has killed more people globally than any
shark, bear, lion, or snake.
Another bunch for the lucky Americans and Westerners.
road accidents (1 million);
and cancers of the lung, bronchus, and trachea (900,000).
In 1990 25 people died of war and violence.
http://www.safecarguide.com/exp/statistics/statistics.htm
Even sadder than the girls who were killed by abortion or killed ad
birth are the girls who were "sent down" - placed in orphanages, with
primary purpose of being raised as marital slaves. In China, there is
no social security. The only chance a woman has after her husband
dies, is to live in the house of her son, and have here daughter-in-
law take care of them. The mother of the girl simply dies of
starvation, exposure, or disease, often within months after the death
of her husband..
> You Linux freaks are so desperate for support of your lame ass,
> ignored by the masses operating system that you'll even accept support
> from China.
What would really be great is if people in china didn't have to die of
starvation, because they could sell products to the United States,
Europe, and other countries, so that they could buy the food and
materials required to feed, clothe, and house their entire population.
If Linux means that governments don't have to decide "who should live"
and "who should die today", then Linus should be awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Linux, OSS, and the Internet have created economic opportunity for
billions of people. Not just the IT geeks who provide off-shore
information services or answer help desk calls, but for the people who
provided goods and services to those geeks, and the people who
provided food and clothing to those providers.
> Sick.
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