World: r3wp

Congratualtions to Maxim -- most prolific poster of 2009 in the [web-public] 
groups of this world. And to BrianH as a close runner up:
  http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-stats.r?world=r3wp&year=2009


Over 36,000 posts from just over 100 people.....It's an indication 
of the size of the active REBOL developers' community.

And of just how active we are - that's a lot of posts.

I'm not bad :-)

Who's Maxim ?

Possible nominee for user.r REBOL of the Year for 2010, if he keeps 
things up the way he's been going lately :)

This is bizarre .. he's hardly ever here.

Sunanda, I think you should exclude all the non-rebol groups ...

He's been posting a lot lately, especially in the R3 groups and his 
project groups.

oh well, I was top poster for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 ... lol

Guess you've been busy this year :)

no stats for 2010

I'm aiming to get out of the top 3 for 2010

Stats start appearing after 500 or so posts.
Good luck, Graham!

Eh? I want out!!  Spend way too much time posting.

yay!!! it actually was a goal of mine for this year  ;-)

well, for the last year I guess.

A better measure might be words [or bytes] posted rather than total 
posts.....Some people post every new line (understandable given AltME's 
post-losing abilities) and that boosts their post count over those 
of us who....


....use multi-paragraph posts. [That's a hint for you and your 2010 
aspirations, Graham ;)]

Still, however it is measured, we have worthy champions.

then I'd have an even higher count  hehehe (I have a reputation for 
long posts ;-)

Is it only me wondering about IT security concepts in banks since 
every week new tax dodger CDs are sold to the government?

They use one fat Oracle server, that has some bugs and is not patched 
correctly so that everyone can grab some data, burn it and sell it.

true but another very interesting theme without any broad public 
notice is SWIFT. 

unbelievable what there is going on if you digg a little bit deeper.

you probably all are aware that there is a way to electronically 
divert funds without the originator or destination being aware of 
it while doing a xfer... the end result being that money has "disapeared" 
from both accounts.


you need to be on location, but still with a bit of access, its very 
easy to break the system.

Condolences to those rebols from Poland.  How do you deal with a 
loss that heavy?  Best of.

Excuse the lack of "and Russian" above, mistake.

Brian, I probably missed somethnig simple, but what happened in Poland?

you didn't hear about the president and top military brass dying 
in the plane crash?

a plane crashed, carrying the president and many top level govt. 
staff:


The fiery crash killed off a wide cross-section of Poland’s most 
important political, military and financial figures, many of them 
heroes of the anti-communist struggle.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/a-dramatic-end-to-a-divided-era-in-modern-polands-history/article1530957/

and reports are that its the president's direct fault, since he ordered 
the pilot to ignore requests by the control tower which told them 
to stop landing and go to another airport, because of heavy fog.

I see it as a security risk, to allow such many important ppl to 
have on one plane. Sad event, I live 5 km from Poland border, we 
have many ppl with polish nationality here, we bear with them. And 
also strange symbol - they travelled to Russia because of past Katyn 
event, where Stalin killed 20 thousands of polish nationality - top 
politicians, military ppl, teachers, etc. - simply they killed polish 
elite of that time ...

Yes, that illustrates, that Hitler was not the only one mass-murdering 
people during WW II.

(I heard, recently, that as far as Katyn goes, there were about 22 
thousands polish elites, and about 500 czechs too)

Yes, they simply eradicated all polish elite. This was an ultra-crime, 
and Poland will not forget it anytime soon. They were also first 
post-communistic country, who sacked russian army from their country 
IIRC.

It makes me sad that even in our days there are places on earth where 
22 thousands of deaths is 'drop in the sea' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide

Over the course of approximately 100 days, or more, from the assassination 
 of Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 through mid-July, at least 800,000 
people were killed, according to the estimate of Human Rights Watch.

that was in 1994 year

They managed such terrible thing mostly only with machetes...at rate 
8000 murders per day...I still can't find any words when thinking 
about that :-/

I think I saw the movie, but dunno if it was related - Hotel Rwanda 
- terrible things ... but you know what? There's no oil, so why send 
a warfare there ...

Sad news indeed. And there are a number of movies about the Rwandan 
genocide. I've watched at least three.

Knowing not being able to change the world, I at least try to help. 
I took over a direct sponsorship for two children.

History shows, that culture is only a very thin layer. And a lot 
of people on this planet seem to have a problem with human rights 
and freedom.

So, Cyphre, yes, I agree. And the worst is, that children are the 
victims without a lobby, without a chance. They were not asked to 
be born and fully depend on the responsibility of others.

wrt Rwanda, imagine being a UN "observer" (military) and not having 
the right to intervene, when people & kids are being hacked to death 
all around you.   A while ago,  I was in the company of such a guy 
who came back from a 3 month mission there.


The only way I can describe him was that he was barely alive.  I 
am only aware of him sleeping 30-60 minutes in the 3 days he was 
with our gang.

(easy to say now) but in such a situation I wouldn't care about "the 
right to intervene" and just do it. In Serbia this could have saved 
8000 people as well.

I bet you would care, there is nothing else you can do in such situations.

As seen in the Hotel Rwanda, we are facing total hypocricy of the 
western world. So we know how to chase Saddam for almost no apparent 
reason (the second attempt), yet we ignore genocide of such an amount 
of victims ...

Robert, I agree... and I am sure many military did what they could... 
a few probably went AWOL, but I am sure the UN peacekeepers (what 
a stupid name) where as affraid of being killed, if they intervened, 
as any.


thing is, if any of the UN military got actively involved, it would 
have made Every other UN unit a target for the mob.  remember, we 
are talking about thousands of armed people running like madmen, 
screaming everywhere and you are right in the swarm...


I don't think four guys in a APC with 200 bullets each are eager 
to intervene in such circumstances.  They could shoot to kill only 
if directly attacked.

still the sheer eeriness of the polish event is mind boggling.

all the parameters are perfect for a conspiracy theory  ;-/

surreal

this is a bit sad ... creating "thumbnails" of an 8kb pdf results 
in 2 x  20 - 40 kb jpgs

changing from vector to raster?