A better place?

At a special meeting in Bern, World Bank President Robert Zoellic, said that in the past two years 100 million people are estimated to have been pushed into poverty.

Are we supposed to be making a better world? is free trade, globalization, privatization, etc. really working?

We cannot rejoice.

Creative nightmares

Yesterday I read a bit about the different levels of protein structure, and I had this really interesting dream. I typed a long long string of characters which consisted solely of repetitions of the phrase "I am angry at you" and then I begun bending the string in very interesting manners, ending up with a very complicated pattern. A protein made of anger.

Then, somehow, I emailed it. Maybe as a sort of vrml or pov or something file. I don't really know how, but it was attached to an email message.

Finally, I was worried that the structure was too complicated and that the recipient would not zoom in to see the letters composing the neat molecule and would simply focus on the three dimensional beauty. It would had been, however, more likely that the message got filtered straight into the trash.

Dicotomy

There are happy people
Who laugh, succeed and fuck quite very often
Who are always beautiful, who are always ready, who are sometimes late but never fail to get there.
There are happy people
Who grow and learn and smile and flirt.
They aren't hurt for long
they aren't sad for long
they are, after all, quite happy people.

Pregunta I

En el espiritú de las preguntas talmúdicas, e inspirado por una analogía de Toño hace rato, me permito poner lo siguiente a consideración:

Supongan que tienen a su disposición el número que ustedes deseen de piezas de LEGO (tentes) que tengan la propiedad especial de poder unirse a otras piezas por cualquiera de sus caras (no como en los LEGOS tradicionales, que solo lo pueden hacer por dos de ellas).

Supongan que además tienen la propiedad de que la unión entre dos piezas se deshace instantáneamente después de un cierto tiempo de estar unidas, dónde este tiempo es proporcional al número de puntos (muescas, protuberancias, como quieran llamarle a los puntitos de los LEGOs) por los que están unidas. Una vez deshecha una unión las piezas se rigen por la fuerza de gravedad.

Elijan un organismo vivo cualquiera.

Sin restricciones de tiempo ni espacio (pero siempre finitos) ¿Es posible reproducirlo a cabalidad, en estructura y procesos, usando las piezas de LEGO con este propiedad de que las uniones se deshacen en en tiempo?

*Nota, pueden suponer que las piezas son tan pequeñas como quieran, sin que esto merme su capacidad de armar las configuraciones que deseen. Ingnoremos las fuerzas nucleares debiles y fuertes, aunque no creo que las piezas tuvieran que ser tan pequeñas como para que éstas fueran importantes.

*Una persona ha venido con el siguiente comentario:
Una cuestion interesante es la posibilidad de crear gradientes de concentración y la subsecuente fuerza de difusión, que juegan un papel importante en la vida. ¿Cómo podría lograrse esto?

Fotos

( Brianrio )

Antes no me gustaba ver fotos, sobretodo de los viajes de las personas, solo pensarlo me daba una hueva increible.

Pero ahora me gusta, sobretodo de lugares y cosas interesantes, fuera de mi mundo... me causa muchas sensaciones agradables, que duran solo una fracción de segundo pero que me recuerdan que el mundo que está afuera puede hacerme sentir y recordar cosas.

Era un mundo lleno de colores, lo recuerdo.
Era un mundo falto de dolores, lo recuerdo.

Lets talk

Ok ok ok... so I go around the web searching for porn, for interesting "game of life" configurations, for blogs of people who have a life that I wish I did and over and over I find people, sites, news, speaking of PRC's involvement in Tibet. And people go around saying that Tibetan people are little less than gods all pure, and should be allowed to have their own state and bla bla bla bla...

well, I'm pretty pissed off about all that so let me tell you a couple of interesting facts about those facists.

When revolution came to China, Tibet, like other regions had a feudal system were serfdom prevailed, people were traded along with land, land owned by noblemen and clergymen. They had an army which fought, quite unsuccessfully, the communist forces.

On May 1951 the head of state of the Tibet people, the Dalai Lama, signed the Seventeen Point Agreement which gave China the sovereignty over the lands in exchange for a certain amount of autonomy which included the compromise for the improvement of the quality of life and the expulsion of imperialist agents.

The Tibetian goverment failed to fulfill its parts of the agreement, most notably by receiving support in form of arms, money and training from the United States' Central Intelligence Agency, for a rebellion led by noblemen of neighboring Qinghai in response to the distribution of the land to the former serfs.

So I ask all of you who scream "Free Tibet", who are you screaming for? who's movement is this you belong to? Peace loving people? or the United States' anti communist efforts?