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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Powerhouses and mainstream poll Post 303001001 by bakunin on Tuesday 25th of July 2017 03:39:02 AM

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First off: we haven't replaced the "content industry" by "the community" at all: we have replaced the former content industry by some criminals able to program chat-bots. The internet information highway left truth as roadkill, so to say. To think that these criminals aren't an "industry" in themselves is an illusion. Or do you think the likes of Steve Bannon would be able to spew their hatred without a lot of money behind them?

Second: in general we lack to resources to prove what we are told. If someone tells me that somewhere in Africa X is the case i am in no position to find out if he is telling me the truth or not, because i am far from Africa and have no oportunity to find out for myself.

This is the reason why most of us in most cases have to ultimately believe what we are told. Research no shows that whatever is told is believed more easily the more simplistic it is. Example: the crisis of 1929 and the subsequent depression which is said to have been instrumental in the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Of course their "explanation" of what happened was utter nonsense - "the jews are to blame" - but this "explanation" was 5 words long, whereas any serious explanation of why and how cyclic crises plagued modern capitalism takes a lot more time and effort to explain.

We face basically the same situation now when we try to explain refugees, immigrants, the current crisis, etc.. The "explanations" are believed the more easily the more simplistic they are, regardless of their truth.

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io::poll

IO::Poll(3perl) 					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					   IO::Poll(3perl)

NAME

       IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call

SYNOPSIS

	   use IO::Poll qw(POLLRDNORM POLLWRNORM POLLIN POLLHUP);

	   $poll = IO::Poll->new();

	   $poll->mask($input_handle => POLLIN);
	   $poll->mask($output_handle => POLLOUT);

	   $poll->poll($timeout);

	   $ev = $poll->events($input);

DESCRIPTION

       "IO::Poll" is a simple interface to the system level poll routine.

METHODS

       mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] )
	   If EVENT_MASK is given, then, if EVENT_MASK is non-zero, IO is added to the list of file descriptors and the next call to poll will
	   check for any event specified in EVENT_MASK. If EVENT_MASK is zero then IO will be removed from the list of file descriptors.

	   If EVENT_MASK is not given then the return value will be the current event mask value for IO.

       poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] )
	   Call the system level poll routine. If TIMEOUT is not specified then the call will block. Returns the number of handles which had
	   events happen, or -1 on error.

       events ( IO )
	   Returns the event mask which represents the events that happened on IO during the last call to "poll".

       remove ( IO )
	   Remove IO from the list of file descriptors for the next poll.

       handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
	   Returns a list of handles. If EVENT_MASK is not given then a list of all handles known will be returned. If EVENT_MASK is given then a
	   list of handles will be returned which had one of the events specified by EVENT_MASK happen during the last call ti "poll"

SEE ALSO

       poll(2), IO::Handle, IO::Select

AUTHOR

       Graham Barr. Currently maintained by the Perl Porters.  Please report all bugs to <perl5-porters@perl.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1997-8 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>. All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
       modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-09-19							   IO::Poll(3perl)