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Politiikkaa – Ksylitol-taistelu päiväkodeissa

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Tällainen tuli äsken sähköpostilaatikkoon:

“21.11.2012 on päivähoidon johtajan toimesta annettu ohje ksylitolipastillien jakamisesta päivähoidossa. Ksylitolin käytöstä lasten varhaiskasvatuksessa ei ole valtakunnallisia suosituksia, jolla perusteella ksylitolin tarjoaminen kuuluisi varhaiskasvatukseen. Toimintatavat eri toimipisteissä ovat olleet erilaisia ja nyt ne on linjattu samanlaisiksi. Helsingin kaupunki hankkii kaikille esiopetusikäisille lapsille päivähoidossa jaettavan ksylitolivalmisteen 1.1.2013 lähtien. Muun ikäisille ei päivähoidossa jaeta ksylitolia. Vanhempien hankkimat ksylitolit jaetaan loppuun.

Meille XXX:ään on vanhempaintoimikunnan toimesta hankittu ksylitolipastilleja ja nämä pastillit saamme siis jakaa loppuun. Käytännössä tämä ohje ei siis vielä koske XXX:län lapsia. Kun vanhempaintoimikunnan hankkimat pastillit loppuvat, jaetaan XXX:ssä pastilleja siis vain eskari-ikäisille.”

Vihaksi pistää! Tässä mennään jälleen kerran logiikalla, että kenenkään ei pidä saada nauttia tietystä edusta, jos sitä ei voida tarjota kaikille. Tämä periaate on jotain, joka toki sopii hyvin suomalaiseen kateusyhteiskuntaan. Tasapäistäminen alaspäin on maan tapa – ei se, että pyrittäisiin käyttämään resurssit maksimaalimaalisesti hyvinvoinnin luomiseen.

KRP käynnistää esitutkinnan Muhammedin kuvista

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From STT’s feed, via Verkkouutiset:

KRP käynnistää esitutkinnan Muhammedin kuvista

Jeezus! (pun intented). This will just meant that Suomen Sisu will get more attention and popularity. The Internet is already saturated with the pictures and nobody would really have cared about one more obscure page. Now this will be in the International media and it will become yet another “cause célèbre” for fundamentalist in both sides. Besides, it’s not really pictures which have caused the riots. A very good summary can be found from “Rantings of Sandmonkey”:

Now while the arab islamic population was going crazy over the outrage created by their government’s media over these cartoons, their governments was benifitting from its people’s distraction. The Saudi royal Family used it to distract its people from the outrage over the Hajj stampede. The Jordanian government used it to distract its people from their new minimum wage law demanded by their labor unions. The Syrian Government used it to create secterian division in Lebanon and change the focus on the Harriri murder. And, finally, the Egyptian government is using it to distract us while it passes through the new Judiciary reforms and Social Security Bill- which will cut over $300 million dollars in benefits to some of Egypt’s poorest families.

Too much going on..

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Uuuf.

This week will be rather awful. The main reason is that EFFI is currently too popular i.e. different govermental actors want our opinions from various topics – this week’s saldo is 2 position papers (for LVM and OPM), one parliamentary hearing (TaV) and discussion event (SuV) and KTM’s hearing on patenting in EU. And, I have to take care of working normal work days at the same time…

I’d really like to participate also to the acute discussion about the Islam and freedom of speech. Unfortunately, a decently detailed post about this topic would take right now too much time to write. The very short version: The Islamic countries are free to get offended but as should we, too – next time somebody is stoned to death or arrested for criticizing the goverments , let’s arrange some riots in Helsinki (figuratively speaking).

I guess I have new favourite minister to dislike: Susanna Huovinen. She seems to follow SDP’s “legislation does not need to be reasonable or effective as long as it appears to make things safer” mantra a bit too well. Well, her position on copyright is good but that’s the case for most of the ministers from LVM.

Torvalds hasn’t ruled out GPL 3 for Linux

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Hmm,

it seems that Linus is backing from his previous hard line position. From Linux-Watch: 

…the specific section that Torvalds has trouble with reads:

“Complete Corresponding Source Code also includes any encryption or authorization codes necessary to install and/or execute the source code of the work, perhaps modified by you, in the recommended or principal context of use, such that its functioning in all circumstances is identical to that of the work, except as altered by your modifications. …”

According to Torvalds, this “is the one that seems to disallow digitally signed binaries (or rather: you can sign the binaries any way you want, but you have to make your private keys available).”

If this section is removed, then Torvalds believes that, while practically speaking it may be difficult to bring Linux under GPL 3 due to the sheer number of copyright owners, the kernel might yet be moved to the new GPL.

Full story:

Torvalds hasn’t ruled out GPL 3 for Linux