Polonia w Turkmenistanie + wolność internetowa

[filipek.us]

Yahoo! Groups : Polonia-w-Turkmenistanie Messages : Message 6 of 10:

"Czesto slysze, ze Internet – to zjawisko jakby stojace nad swiatem: nie
zalezy od rzadow, polityki, kierowania ze strony instytucji, organizacji. Ze
nie mozna znalezc sposobu, zeby ograniczyc wolnosc panujaca w nim.

Nie zawsze I nie wszedzie. Moze gdzies tak jest naprawde, ale u nas w
Turkmenistanie znalazli sposob:

po-pierwsze, poprostu zamknieto wszyscy firmy prywatne pracujace w tej
strefie;
po-drugie, wszyscy uzytkowniki uprzejmie zaproszone sa do podlaczenia do
jednego, panstwowego, serweru, (Nawet na jeden nomer telefoniczny).
Na tym konec, kropka."

W każdym bądź razie www.forgottenpoles.org jakoś zniknęło

how to make eggs out of omelets

[Gość: Лях]

Ciekawe, czy tranzycja takowa jest w ogóle możliwa nawet w Pomrocznej.

how to make eggs out of omelets:

I noted that in any library there were dozens of scholarly books on the
transition from capitalism to socialism.

But a serious discussion on how to transition from socialism to democratic
capitalism? That was as unlikely as a cookbook explaining how to make eggs out
of omelets.

That got a little laugh. So I added how in Africa, where I also had worked for
a number of years, democratic institutions and free markets have mostly failed.
The lessons of those failures, I suggested, were worth examining.

An uncomfortable silence ensued. It was clear I had caused offense. Then, in
tense tones, I was instructed that we were discussing Russia now. We were
talking about sophisticated people who had been kept in chains by Communism,
among the most oppressive ideologies ever conceived. Now that Russians were
finally free, they would know how to defend their freedom. Soon, they would be
living like their neighbors in Western Europe.

I should have nodded and shut up. Instead I said: “But Russia's neighbors are
not all in Europe. Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, China – those are your
neighbors, too.”

This was not the first conference at which I made myself unpopular.