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tcpipLast Tuesday night was the Linux Users of Victoria meeting which looked at two ends of development; Martin Paulo gave another excellent talk on the OpenStack free software cloud project, this time in a more tutorial framework, followed by Aryan Ameri (G+) on Ubuntu phones - more on how they don't quite work yet, but do show a roadmap of where they're going. The meeting also formally announed our Librarything, for our Library of LUV (LoL). Next Saturday I'll be presenting at the Beginners Workshop, An Introduction to Supercomputing. Further, as I've been working on another training manual I've had the opportunity to develop a few interesting scripts and posts over the past week; Backups and Synchronisations, Deleting Many Files, and Searching for Emails.
Earlier this week started writing about the decline of the socialist left in Japan. I am hoping that knowledgable people (e.g.,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aske) might suggest a few reasons. A pleasant surprise was the discovery that Matt Bush and I had been published in the latest issue of The Freethinker for our article on Islamofascism: A Real Term for A Real Problem, which argues that Islamic fascism really does exist and that the principles of secularism must be universalised. Finally, next Saturday the Isocracy Network is hosting a meeting (FB events) with Louis Byrne from West Papua Melbourne speaking. It remains an interesting question why West Papuan solidarity has never reached the mass appeal to that of East Timor, when both are of equal importance.
Earlier this week started writing about the decline of the socialist left in Japan. I am hoping that knowledgable people (e.g.,
aske) might suggest a few reasons. A pleasant surprise was the discovery that Matt Bush and I had been published in the latest issue of The Freethinker for our article on Islamofascism: A Real Term for A Real Problem, which argues that Islamic fascism really does exist and that the principles of secularism must be universalised. Finally, next Saturday the Isocracy Network is hosting a meeting (FB events) with Louis Byrne from West Papua Melbourne speaking. It remains an interesting question why West Papuan solidarity has never reached the mass appeal to that of East Timor, when both are of equal importance.
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Date: 2013-05-17 01:59 am (UTC)I am not so sure that the track record of direct humanitarian intervention (as distinct from invasions) is that bad however, particularly if they have troops on the ground (unlike Libya) and it's actually a genuinely UN supported intervention (unlike Korea in the 50s). So I am thinking more recent missions like Timor-Leste, Kosovo, Haiti, and perhaps even several of the African missions. None of these were perfect or a cakewalk either, but they've certainly been successful in reducing the probably death-toll (with reference to the grim calculus mentioned).
There two places in the world which I seriously think could do with a large influx of blue helmets; Syria and West Papua.... which I suppose so much of my current interest on international affairs is orientated towards those places.