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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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xfm_mime.types

XFM_MIME.TYPES(5)							XFM							 XFM_MIME.TYPES(5)

NAME

       xfm_mime.types - suffix based fall back mime type information

DESCRIPTION

       When  xfm(1)  cannot  determine the type of a file using the values in xfm_magic(5), this file is used to guess a type of a file.  The file
       shipped with xfm by default just tells to include the files ~/.mime.types and /etc/mime.types to get the system wide settings.

FORMAT

       There is one entry per line.  Empty lines and lines starting with a hash (#) are ignored.  Prior entries overwrite later ones.

       If a line starts with !include or include the rest of the line is treated as a filename to process before continuing with the rest  of  the
       file.  (If the filename starts with a tilde followed by a slash, the tilde is replaced by the content of the HOME environment variable.)

       Other lines contain the name of a mime type followed by an arbitrary number of filename suffixes, separated by spaces or tabs.

       A  file	that  got  no other type associated by content and whose name ends with a dot followed by the specified suffix, will be treated as
       type mime type.

       Xfm only recognizes suffixes with at most 7 characters.

EXAMPLES

       Otherwise unidentified files anding in .c are treated as text/x-csrc:
       text/x-csrc				       c
       Same with .c++, cpp, cxx or cc as text/x-c++src:
       text/x-c++src				       c++ cpp cxx cc

FILES

       $HOME/.xfm/xfm_mime.types
	      Unless xfm(1) is told to look at a different place via X resource Xfm.mimeTypesFile, this is the first place xfm looks  for  a  file
	      with the describes format.

       /etc/X11/xfm/xfm_mime.types
	      If  the  first  file  does not exists, xfm(1) (unless it gets told a different place via the X resource Xfm.systemwideMimeTypesFile)
	      looks for this file.

       $HOME/.mime.types
	      General user settings normaly included from /etc/X11/xfm/xfm_mime.types

       /etc/mime.types
	      General system wide settings normaly included from /etc/X11/xfm/xfm_mime.types

SEE ALSO

       xfm(1)

xfm								  20 April, 2006						 XFM_MIME.TYPES(5)