nobbis writes:
" Desktop Images from Red Star 3.0, the North Korean Operating System, have been made available by Will Scott a US computer scientist who lectured in Pyongyang in 2013.
Red Star 3.0 is a Linux based OS, whose desktop now closely resembles OSX, possibly influenced by Kim Jong-un who has been pictured with an iMac; although how he obtained an iMac is unclear. Screenshots of Red Star 2.0 and a walk through of the installation of Red Star 3.0 are given in an article in North Korean Tech blog. The 8 desktop images include artillery under snow with magpies, a farming scene with 1960s era tractors, and an unconvincing city view. Will Scott has answered questions about his experiences in Pyongyang on a Reddit ask me anything."
(Score: 5, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday March 04 2014, @10:34PM
No one seems to understand that not only does the People's Republic of China not embargo North Korea, it actively assists it.
North Korea is a lot wealthier than most people understand. They sell the products of their manufacturing, natural resources and the like for the most part to China. They also sell missiles to Iran and the like.
The reason that the people are so poor and starving is that it has an enormous military. The Korean War never ended; all we ever really had is a cease-fire.
Much like Mexico, India, Pakistan, Russia and so on, it's not at all that North Korea is not possessed of prodigious wealth, but that that wealth is inequitably distributed.
For example, Mexico's Carlos Slim is one of the richest people in the world as he owns the Mexican phone company.
Go watch some Mexican television sometime - Univision or Telemundo - or have a gander at some Mexican magazines. Lots of Tacquerias carry them.
You will find that the people on Mexican TV and in the magazines do not look at all like your typical immigrant Mexican farmworker.
Much of the Hispanic world is phenomenally racist; the olive skin of what Americans think is your typical Mexican, is due to their native heritage.
Castellanos - the Hispanic people for European Spain - were originally just as white as a loaf of wonderbread.
There are a lot of olive-skinned people in Espagne now, in part due to immigration from Latin America, and in part because Spain was at one time the seat of the Islamic Empire, that is, until the Spanish Inquisition applied the thumbscrews.
Go visit Alhambra sometime, where the Muslim Emperor used to live. Now compare the countryside around there, the abundance of food, drink, water to wash with the pleasant climate, to, say, downtown Baghdad.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04 2014, @10:48PM
Yeah... I wonder why Michael Jackson didn't try the thumbscrews skin-bleaching trick... much cheaper and, as Castellanos pure-bred can attest, has a guaranteed effect.
(Score: 1) by NoMaster on Tuesday March 04 2014, @10:58PM
Kinda makes you long wistfully for the GNAA, doesn't it?
Live free or fuck off and take your naïve Libertarian fantasies with you...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 05 2014, @02:40PM
What fool is modding this excrement up?