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Retired judge Justice Patrick Tabaro writes of a proposed law in Uganda that looks to adversely affect its independence and, specifically, what is starting to be called these days "food security".
[...] science is not a magic wand for solving man's food security concerns, but must be applied in accordance with Ubuntu (humaneness).
[...] Since the advent of civilization, peasants have had capacity to plant their own seeds. With the advent of GMO farming, the peasants who constitute 70 per cent of the population have their fate sealed; they may fall into the debt trap, fail to service bank loans and will be in danger of losing their cherished land holdings to financial institutions – and this may entail food insecurity for everyone.
[...] God forbid that anyone should be targeting our scientists to make us vulnerable for easy domination.
He concludes that [w]ith GMOs, there is no Ubuntu, (human nature, humanness, humanity, virtue, goodness, and kindness).
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 16 2017, @02:54PM (2 children)
Back in the day when you never encountered a display >1920x1080 resolution, I preferred KDE as well. Today, it feels seedy, out of sync with modern equipment. Not sure what's a good alternative really, GNOME reminds me too much of cave dwelling.
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(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday November 17 2017, @07:07PM (1 child)
Man...this is way off-topic...but have you tried Enlightenment at all? I find I don't want any of the traditional window manager crap anymore, I just want something that's easy to configure and otherwise gets out of my way entirely. No taskbars, no menus, no hot corner garbage, just somewhere to place my windows. I've actually discovered I mostly like to tile my desktop, although I place the windows manually as I do *occasionally* want stuff overlapping...and I place everything on a grid of virtual desktops that I can navigate through with CTRL+Arrow which means I can jump directly to whatever window I need on pure muscle memory. Mostly I use the same five or six windows, so those come up and lock in place on boot. And then I use Conky behind a semi-transparent terminal (Tilda) for displaying battery, clock, weather, resource utilization, etc since I've turned off the taskbar...although Enlightenment does have one if you prefer it. Enlightenment strikes a good balance of being extremely flexible without becoming bloated or hard to use. Even when it crashes (which is pretty rare) it's more graceful than something like KDE -- when KDE crashes your whole system dies; when Enlightenment crashes you follow the prompt to press F1 to recover and all your windows pop back up right as you left them.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 17 2017, @09:51PM
Various forces have conspired to have me working in CentOS lately, and my desktop of preference there is to start from Cent minimal and add XFCE - it's just enough desktop for me. I do like my launcher icons, and even a digital clock just so I can get a warm fuzzy that the environment hasn't crashed (not sure if it has ever actually crashed XFCE/Cent, but the warm fuzzy remains.) Matter of taste, as always.
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